Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Law enforcement across the country they're investigating for suspected arson,
Speaker 3: like in the case outside of Boston where seven Tesla
Speaker 3: charging stations caught fire. And then there have been other
Speaker 3: incidents with vandalism, people spray painting on vehicles, spray painting
Speaker 3: the glass of dealerships, or in one case outside of Portland, Oregon,
Speaker 3: shooting at the cars and the glass of the dealership
Speaker 3: in the early morning hours last Thursday. In one incident
Speaker 3: in Colorado, a woman was arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails
Speaker 3: at the dealership and spray painting the word Nazi on
Speaker 3: the cars.
Speaker 2: This is making the news, but not in the same
Speaker 2: way if it were Maga people attacking an electric car
Speaker 2: company because of the politics, because they're attacking Elon because
Speaker 2: of the politics.
Speaker 1: Sure of course, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's amazing that
Speaker 1: conservatives ever win anything because they have the information industry
Speaker 1: on their side.
Speaker 2: But we do got a lot of stuff coming up
Speaker 2: this hour before. But we're going to get into Elon
Speaker 2: and Trump. They're having a car sale on the White
Speaker 2: House lawn yesterday.
Speaker 1: One of the most gratifying stories I've heard in a
Speaker 1: really long time. Columbia University is at warwith itself and
Speaker 1: the forces of reasonableness have been emboldened.
Speaker 2: So those few non.
Speaker 1: Communist academics out there are saying, enough is enough.
Speaker 2: We'll bring you the details later. Cool, So we'll start
Speaker 2: with I don't know if you probably if you watched
Speaker 2: any news yesterday, you saw this. They had a bunch
Speaker 2: of Tesla's parked there at the White House and Trump
Speaker 2: was looking at him, and Elon was showing them to him,
Speaker 2: and they were taking questions from reporters. I've never heard
Speaker 2: anybody mention this other than me, and I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Through the whole Biden Obama times when they were touting
Speaker 2: electric cars and electric cars in the future, and We're
Speaker 2: going to force you into electric cars, and they would
Speaker 2: have all the GM electric cars and the Ford electric
Speaker 2: cars and no Tesla's, even though Tesla was the only
Speaker 2: especially then.
Speaker 1: Electric car company even coming close.
Speaker 2: To making aden I mean, none of them were. They
Speaker 2: were still in like one hundred a year of these
Speaker 2: other electric cars, but they'd have them there at the
Speaker 2: White House and talk about how big was all because
Speaker 2: even though climate change is an existential threat, is more
Speaker 2: important to make sure the auto union workers were happy
Speaker 2: and not Tesla, who doesn't allow the unionization. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so revealed, Yeah, no kidding, Apparently it's not so much
Speaker 2: of an existential threat AnyWho. So he had Tesla's there
Speaker 2: at the White House for the first time yesterday. Here's
Speaker 2: a little elon and I just want to thank the
Speaker 2: President for support Samain's a lot, and also thank everyone
Speaker 2: out there who is supporting Tesla.
Speaker 4: It's really terrible that so much violence being pro traded
Speaker 4: against people at Tesla, Tesla supporters, Tesla owners, Tesla stores.
Speaker 2: These are innocent people who have done nothing wrong. So
Speaker 2: uh yeah, yeah, I am. I have some concern about
Speaker 2: that somebody, that somebody's gonna get hurt. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: you start setting stuff on fire and attacking people's cars
Speaker 2: and traffic and all that sort of stuff. Oh hell yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's inevitable. Yeah, ain't ain't good. And I went to
Speaker 2: my local charging station in my Tesla yesterday and I
Speaker 2: was wondering them anything going on here anybody's painting Nazi
Speaker 2: on the pump or anything, but not yet. Here's Trump
Speaker 2: responding to that.
Speaker 4: There's been some physical damage, a little damage, and we
Speaker 4: want to keep it that way because I don't want
Speaker 4: to say this, it's just not the appropriate but low
Speaker 4: and for out there watching everybody, we don't want this
Speaker 4: to happen, and not to somebody that's been so good
Speaker 4: to our country. He didn't have to do this, he
Speaker 4: didn't have to go through this, and we can't let
Speaker 4: it happen.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, yesterday, I on the air a couple
Speaker 2: of times said I think I'm gonna get a cyber
Speaker 2: truck with a personalized license plate that says doge. I
Speaker 2: think having a cyber truck now is basically like having
Speaker 2: a driving mega hat. Nobody saw coming five years.
Speaker 1: Back, when like the entire constituency other than you, who
Speaker 1: just wanted a rocket ship fast car was look at
Speaker 1: may look how responsible I am? I really that's level
Speaker 1: warmings and existential threat. I mean that was like every customer.
Speaker 1: I eat a huge percentage.
Speaker 2: I eat kale, and I drive a Tesla and I
Speaker 2: do all the good things. My kids are in public
Speaker 2: school and we're looking forward to Pride month. It all
Speaker 2: fit together.
Speaker 1: I have a shrine Degretituneberg living around. We genuflect to
Speaker 1: that brave little girl every day before we leave the house.
Speaker 2: Slip the other direction. I have no idea what this
Speaker 2: is going to do to the car prices or the
Speaker 2: brand or whatever, because all a lot of the mag
Speaker 2: of people live in parts of the country were there
Speaker 2: and drive electric cars. And I know these people, they're
Speaker 2: my relatives, they're my friends. They're not gonna drive electric.
Speaker 2: So it's gone from joy read viewers to kid Rock
Speaker 2: and Susius. That's right there at the Tesla dealer, including Trump.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to make a statement. I'm going
Speaker 2: to buy one. Now here's the bad news.
Speaker 4: I'm not allowed to drive because if I haven't driven
Speaker 4: a car in a long time, and I love to
Speaker 4: drive cars. But I'm going to have it at the
Speaker 4: White House and I'm gonna let my staff use it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to let people at the place use it.
Speaker 4: And they all are all excited about that I'm not
Speaker 4: allowed to use it.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
Speaker 4: I said, one of my great one of my great
Speaker 4: things in life is that I can you know, I
Speaker 4: like to drive cars, but I'm not allowed to. And
Speaker 4: I will say this on the cyber truck. I bought
Speaker 4: for a very special young woman. Do you know. I'm
Speaker 4: sure you've never heard of her Kai and she's great golfers.
Speaker 4: He puts the clubs in the back, and I guess
Speaker 4: it's a very safe deal. She loves it.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's full car salesman mode there selling cars
Speaker 2: in the White House lawn. A little more of that.
Speaker 4: I love Tesla.
Speaker 2: The one I like is that one? How did work?
Speaker 2: I want that same color? Are you gonna put down
Speaker 2: a credit card? Elon? Would you take a personal check
Speaker 2: for the president? I do it the old I give checks.
Speaker 4: I like checks, you know, I like a check better
Speaker 4: than this modern system of all of a sudden there's
Speaker 4: money in your account. Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: I like signing a check. So Trump said I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get one, and Elon said which one you want? And
Speaker 2: Trump said, which one do you drive? And he said, well,
Speaker 2: I drive an ass plaid And he said, well, get
Speaker 2: me that one, get me the red one. I want
Speaker 2: one of those red And then Hannadial announced last night
Speaker 2: and tweeted out I or just ordered my new self
Speaker 2: driving Tesla plaid over one thousand horsepower. So it is
Speaker 2: becoming a Hannity Trump Maga vehicle, which it wasn't when
Speaker 2: I bought one three years ago. But I guess that's
Speaker 2: the direction. It's going, for better or worse. I gotta
Speaker 2: believe it's for worse for the car company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, probably because it was always at least
Speaker 1: in large measure of virtue signal. Now it's a virtue
Speaker 1: signal again, but without the climate chains is an existential
Speaker 1: crisis aspect of it. Yeah, I don't knows. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but this isn't just a minor company. This is one
Speaker 1: of the Magnificent seven companies. This is the most valuable
Speaker 1: car company in the world. Our far is our politics
Speaker 1: now so infiltrated every aspect of our lives. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've talked about this endlessly on how now people. You know,
Speaker 1: the first question you ask on social media if you're
Speaker 1: going to date someone, is you you vote for Trump
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 2: Something unheard of not that many years ago, that it
Speaker 2: would even cross your mind thinking who they voted for
Speaker 2: president when you got down to dating. I don't know
Speaker 2: how long you'd have to be dating before would ever
Speaker 2: come up in my case maybe never.
Speaker 1: Well right, yeah, you could easily be a year into
Speaker 1: a relationship before something would pop up and you'd be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh really, eh, okay, it just doesn't matter. But anyway,
Speaker 2: has it so infiltrated every aspect of life that companies
Speaker 2: can rise or fall based on whether they're scene as
Speaker 2: woke enough or maga enough or whatever, like seriously rise
Speaker 2: and fall, and then I don't know what that does
Speaker 2: to economic models, throws them all out the window, because
Speaker 2: we all know how quickly that sort of thing can change.
Speaker 2: See bud Light and Dylan Moulbany, see Tesla in the
Speaker 2: last two you know month, Oh yeah, it's the greatest
Speaker 2: whip sawing ever because bud Light went from kind of
Speaker 2: sort of heartland America to allegedly wildly woke. But he's
Speaker 2: gone all the way from the left to the right.
Speaker 2: I think it may continue the trend which in the
Speaker 2: wake of the whole George Floyd Wokes BLM crap where
Speaker 2: all these companies were throwing money at Marxist organizations in
Speaker 2: a desperate attempt not to be targeted by the angry,
Speaker 2: howling mob of lefties. The after effect was that of
Speaker 2: that was that they realized, you know, maybe they ought
Speaker 2: to just you know, I don't know, sell beer or
Speaker 2: hardware or clothes or whatever we sell instay, the hell
Speaker 2: a lot of politics like we used to. Maybe I
Speaker 2: wonder if this will just submit that depends what happens,
Speaker 2: or is it go the other direction where it's that's
Speaker 2: over to Buddy's house the other day to watch a
Speaker 2: football game. You had a Samsung TV. I'll never be
Speaker 2: over there again. I'm a Sony man, Sony's maga, Samsung's
Speaker 2: woke for something happened, you know, my god, you know
Speaker 2: that's a great example. I hope not. I really Can
Speaker 2: we just watch the game? Throw paint on somebody because
Speaker 2: they're wearing Rebox which are the wrong politics. But my
Speaker 2: president wears Nike New Violence.
Speaker 1: Where do you you Rebok wearing Freak?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't. Can we just settle the hell down?
Speaker 2: You know? Will? They can wear fast as they are.
Speaker 1: I do want to clarify one thing talking about how dating,
Speaker 1: you know, the idea of knowing somebody's politics up front.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, it was completely unnecessary to know it,
Speaker 1: and and I didn't care, and most people didn't care now, though,
Speaker 1: if somebody is like super wildly nut job left, I
Speaker 1: think I kind of would like a heads up in advance.
Speaker 2: I mean, because.
Speaker 1: That's that's I'm not sure that isn't a maybe fatal issue. Maybe,
Speaker 1: although we've received emails from folks who have spouses that
Speaker 1: are wildly different politically than they are and they're still
Speaker 1: happy and in love.
Speaker 5: So yes, Katie, I was raised in a world where
Speaker 5: asking about politics, finances, and religion was rude.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, you're right. Uh, I've got
Speaker 2: some persons you wear a doge head around, so you're.
Speaker 5: A well I do now I've been forced.
Speaker 2: Actually today I drove my F two fifty to work
Speaker 2: because I had to put a giant mower in the
Speaker 2: back of it to take to the repair shop. And
Speaker 2: it wouldn't it wouldn't fit in a cyber truck if
Speaker 2: I had one. But oh, and Trump saying he's going
Speaker 2: to give this to his don't give your granddaughter a
Speaker 2: one thousand horsepower car. That just seems like a really
Speaker 2: bad idea for a young woman.
Speaker 1: His ridiculously good looking granddaughter that was raised on the
Speaker 1: same farm of ridiculously good looking woman women that the
Speaker 1: Trump organization cranks out even more fruitfully than golf courses.
Speaker 2: Here's a NASCAR for you and your friends to drive around. Yeah,
Speaker 2: go ahead. Speaking of young people, mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 1: It was kind of an afterthought and an email from
Speaker 1: a beloved listener. But the idea of trend overload and
Speaker 1: how it's affecting gen z, whatever that one is. I
Speaker 1: can't keep track of the generations anymore. Plus Columbia University
Speaker 1: in open civil war and I'm loving it.
Speaker 2: I just want to hear the beginning of this clip again,
Speaker 2: just to hear.
Speaker 4: I love Tesler.
Speaker 2: That's a New York Tesler.
Speaker 1: Mike Tesler grew up in New Jersey and went high
Speaker 1: school in the Bronx for a while, and all he
Speaker 1: would he would occasionally let a Soder slip.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea. Love me a Tesler. I love
Speaker 2: Tesler more on the way stay here.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, at last week's World Ski Jump Championships too ski
Speaker 6: jumping Norwegians admitted to cheating by using manipulation jumpsuits with
Speaker 6: a reinforced.
Speaker 2: Thread and.
Speaker 6: Let him who watches a man hurl himself into the
Speaker 6: sky at eighty miles an hour sore three hundred feet
Speaker 6: and stick of perfect landing, and then he goes, wait
Speaker 6: a second, does his jumpsuit have reinforced thread?
Speaker 2: Wonder what advantage that gave them aerodynamic aerodynamics? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like those those swimming suits that came in for
Speaker 1: one Olympics and everybody swam like a motor boat and
Speaker 1: then they banned them. Now he's doing thirty miles per
Speaker 1: hour in the pool, Jim, that's he's going to break
Speaker 1: the world record by well half. So speaking of things
Speaker 1: that come and go, I thought this was interesting. Again,
Speaker 1: one of our beloved listeners made kind of an offhanded
Speaker 1: reference to what's the trend overload, and helpfully it might
Speaker 1: have been Pawlow included a link to an article in
Speaker 1: the New York Times by the pop culture gen Z writer,
Speaker 1: a young gal by the name mckel Halterman, and it's
Speaker 1: the article is trend over loah blah blah blah. Consider
Speaker 1: yourself lucky if you've never heard of the Coastal Grandmother
Speaker 1: esthetic woo I have not, or blueberry milk nails, or
Speaker 1: the mob wife aesthetic, or a hundred other blank and
Speaker 1: you'll miss them. Crazes that cycle online with the ferocity
Speaker 1: of a centrifuge. These micro trends, as they're known, tend
Speaker 1: to be associated with gen Z, but members of that
Speaker 1: generation say they're exhausted by the onslaught of fatish clothes
Speaker 1: and new phrases they encounter every time they pick up
Speaker 1: their phones.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get bogged down. Can you give
Speaker 2: me a rough idea though? Which one is gen Z?
Speaker 2: Is that the current twenty somethings there are uh teens
Speaker 2: and twenty somethings. Okay, yeah, this, You know.
Speaker 1: I hate to jump to the big overarching philosophical question
Speaker 1: before us, but I've wondered this for a long time,
Speaker 1: with the advent of smartphones and people becoming miserable and
Speaker 1: anxious and depressed and suicidal, and nobody has friends anymore,
Speaker 1: and nobody can talk to each other. And I always say,
Speaker 1: on all sorts of different topics, don't engage in static
Speaker 1: analysis and assume that the beast will not adapt or
Speaker 1: the system will not adapt or because for every action
Speaker 1: there's a there's a reaction.
Speaker 2: And I just wonder.
Speaker 1: Whether this is another sign of young people saying this
Speaker 1: is making me miserable. They'll they'll, they'll, they'll start to
Speaker 1: decide not to be miserable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mentioned that he was running around with
Speaker 2: my son and his friends for his birthday weekend the
Speaker 2: other day, and as it was amazed how much time
Speaker 2: they spent staring at their phones, even with each other,
Speaker 2: you know, and I I wasn't going to weigh in,
Speaker 2: because you know, that's their deal. It seemed weird to me.
Speaker 2: And we drove by all these interesting things, and I'd
Speaker 2: say something and they'd kind of look up from their
Speaker 2: phone for a second, but go back to their phone.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm more interested in what was on their
Speaker 2: phone than seeing anything new or whatever. But and it's
Speaker 2: clear other which breaks my heart. Yeah, it's clearly so bad.
Speaker 2: I mean so bad. I got a million examples. On
Speaker 2: the plane two Airline stewardess is sitting in the jump
Speaker 2: seats for takeoff. Pre smartphone, they had to be talking
Speaker 2: to each other unless you brought a book. Now they
Speaker 2: sit there and stare at their phones. Anyway, A wonderful
Speaker 2: look back on this, and it'll be like smoking when
Speaker 2: you look back on the fifties and sixties and think
Speaker 2: doctors used to smoke. I would love that, I hope.
Speaker 2: So I really really really hope so more than anyone trend.
Speaker 1: The teenagers in twenty somethings she spoke with want to
Speaker 1: talk about just how many trends there were and how
Speaker 1: overwhelming it felt. Others say they can't keep up, they
Speaker 1: can't afford it mentally or financially. Yeah, there's more to
Speaker 1: this and it's pretty interesting. Maybe we can reapproach the topic.
Speaker 2: Well. The only hope is if this current generate gen
Speaker 2: z or whatever they are, they do get miserable enough
Speaker 2: that they don't want to raise their kids doing it,
Speaker 2: that they change the rules for their kids and their kids'
Speaker 2: schools and all that sort of stuff. That's the only hope.
Speaker 2: I think. What the f has the coastal grandmotherist that
Speaker 2: I actually have come across this, that one i'd actually
Speaker 2: heard of. Yeah, Columbia University at war with itself and
Speaker 2: we're loving it text Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: The Trump Administration, at the direction of President Trump's Executive Order,
Speaker 7: has a zero tolerance policy for foreign nationals who are
Speaker 7: given the privilege of getting a visa and going to
Speaker 7: some of our finest universities and colleges and then siding
Speaker 7: with these radical terrorist organizations and So this arrest that
Speaker 7: took place on the campus of Columbia is the first
Speaker 7: of many to come.
Speaker 2: I don't know legally where we are on this whole
Speaker 2: thing and the free speech stuff, but in terms of
Speaker 2: a political issue, this one might be in around eighty twenty,
Speaker 2: certainly seventy thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if you laid it out in neutral verbiage
Speaker 1: about roughly.
Speaker 2: Rough draft here.
Speaker 1: Well, honestly, you could put it as plainly as this,
Speaker 1: are we going to follow the law about if somebody's
Speaker 1: on a visa and they break our laws and get arrested,
Speaker 1: they get booted out or not. And I think most
Speaker 1: people would say, yeah, hell, follow the law, that's why
Speaker 1: it's the law, or change the law.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Columbia University and there will be many more test cases
Speaker 1: for this that will, in a very helpful way, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, run up against the First Amendment and we
Speaker 1: can weigh all and how do we want.
Speaker 2: To approach this stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it, especially because a lot of these
Speaker 1: young college radicals are foreigners. They're on student visas, they're
Speaker 1: working for the violent overthrow the government of the United States.
Speaker 1: Screw them, boot them out anyway. I love this I
Speaker 1: was unaware of this. It makes perfect sense. Columbia University
Speaker 1: is kind of in two battles right now. The one
Speaker 1: we just talked about canceled federal funds to the Ivy
Speaker 1: League school over their anti semitism. They got that, But
Speaker 1: the second one is simmering behind the scenes, a faculty
Speaker 1: civil war that is pitting medical doctors and engineers, actual
Speaker 1: science people against the political scientists and humanities scholars over
Speaker 1: how to handle all the chaos, including the pro Palestinian
Speaker 1: promas demonstrations that have disrupted the campus life. And that's
Speaker 1: understating it. Honestly, if you ask me, it's a piece
Speaker 1: buy Who is this, Douglas Felcan.
Speaker 2: That's pretty interesting. I think the takeover of buildings, the
Speaker 2: occupation of buildings, all that crap, because I know the
Speaker 2: crazy politics has infiltrated every department of these major universities.
Speaker 2: And we've talked about that a lot, how they work
Speaker 2: it into astronomy and obviously the law school and all
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff, but not so much that the
Speaker 2: engineers aren't saying, yo, I'm trying to get a degree
Speaker 2: here so I can go make a living. What the
Speaker 2: hell are you doing over there.
Speaker 1: Well, and this is the faculty we're talking about two Well,
Speaker 1: in particular, it's the faculty. But and this is so
Speaker 1: easy to imagine, the soft sciences lunatics, who are as
Speaker 1: left as can be. They're embracing this stuff enthusiastically. The
Speaker 1: physicists are saying, you want me to incorporate that stuff
Speaker 1: into physics? Holy crap. And they're doing it, maybe just
Speaker 1: enough to stay out of trouble, but they hate it.
Speaker 2: They hate it.
Speaker 1: Because it's perverting the science they've spent their entire lives
Speaker 1: studying and developing.
Speaker 2: So in February, well before Donald J.
Speaker 1: Made Columbia Exhibit A in his effort to reshape elite colleges,
Speaker 1: seven Jewish faculty from the engineering, medical, and business schools,
Speaker 1: along with some prominent deans and representatives for Jewish alumni,
Speaker 1: met with the Columbia interim president, Trina Armstrong. Because every
Speaker 1: university president needs to be a woman, they asked her
Speaker 1: to get ahead of Trump's moves by implementing a series
Speaker 1: of restrictions on protesters, including banning masks on campus, which
Speaker 1: is probably already the law. But they said, look, let's
Speaker 1: do the smart stuff and then you won't have to
Speaker 1: worry about, you know, right wingy Trump and his crazy ideas.
Speaker 1: Her response was to kick the can down the road.
Speaker 1: She gave him a little lip service, and absolutely nothing happened.
Speaker 2: By the fact that you don't have the guts to
Speaker 2: say to your students, all right, you can protest on
Speaker 2: behalf of humas, but you can't cover your face right right.
Speaker 1: Last week, the Trump administration said it's canceling roughly four
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in federal grants and contracts to Columbia.
Speaker 1: On Monday, Notes went out informing the faculty about the
Speaker 1: frozen money, and said Brent Stockwell, chair of the Department
Speaker 1: of Biological Sciences, it feels like you're on a bus
Speaker 1: that's going over the cliff and you're just asking for
Speaker 1: someone to take charge and drive. People are very angry.
Speaker 1: People are in tears. They are so frustrated because these
Speaker 1: people are trying to do hard science and real, you know,
Speaker 1: academic studies, and their school has become so perverse that.
Speaker 2: You know, the stuff that's happening is happening. I've got
Speaker 2: a close relative who got their graduate degree from Columbia
Speaker 2: just a couple of years ago. I should ask them
Speaker 2: if they feel that's damaging its prestige. It's got to be.
Speaker 2: If I'm an employer and I see Columbia University on
Speaker 2: a resume coming through, I'd have to at least want
Speaker 2: to take a you know, have a few conversations with
Speaker 2: the person, sus them out. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At Columbia, the protests last fall led the school to
Speaker 1: move classes online. Last April, I guess the last winter spring. Well,
Speaker 1: a campus rabbi warn't Jewish students against returning to campus
Speaker 1: because it wasn't safe. Columbia canceled its main graduation Saramon,
Speaker 1: and in August, the president resigned thirteen months in the job.
Speaker 1: The rest of it, and you and again your hard science,
Speaker 1: your real academics are saying this is insane. We have
Speaker 1: got to rein this in. So I you know, as
Speaker 1: a political science major, I would be happy to go
Speaker 1: deep undercover on behalf of you scientists. I know how
Speaker 1: to talk to these people. I can speak their language.
Speaker 1: I will be your mole deep within the faculty, although
Speaker 1: I could never get into their faculty.
Speaker 2: So I love this.
Speaker 1: Keep standing up real academics and and folks in those
Speaker 1: you know, like political scientists who actually understand what's wrong
Speaker 1: with the current atmosphere on campus is I love this.
Speaker 2: It's got to come from within.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, we've been saying it's going to
Speaker 1: take women to get rid of the transgender madness where
Speaker 1: fellas are in their locker room showing their wang and
Speaker 1: beating the hell out of women on.
Speaker 2: Sports fields and showing their wang. I mean, that's the
Speaker 2: least of their worries.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just women need to take charge of this,
Speaker 1: and academics have to take charge of the universities.
Speaker 2: Honestly, we need help. We can't do it from without.
Speaker 2: You brought it up last segment. So I did a
Speaker 2: little googling around how to dress like a coastal grandmother?
Speaker 1: Or excuse me, do we've skipped right over why to
Speaker 1: dress like a coastal grandmother?
Speaker 2: How to dress coastal grandmother chic on a budget? So
Speaker 2: I feel like we've done you some good today, particularly
Speaker 2: you women on a fashion trend that is out there
Speaker 2: right now, coastal grandmother chic. We have done nobody a
Speaker 2: favor by bringing that up. We'll see you know it's
Speaker 2: a hot thing for summer.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's a course, well like I know a
Speaker 1: damn thing about this. But according to the New York Times,
Speaker 1: gen Z writer, here you go, here's a sixteen year
Speaker 1: old high school junior New York said she felt constantly
Speaker 1: bombarded by product recommendations. Cheetah print was hot less than
Speaker 1: two months.
Speaker 2: Ago, she said.
Speaker 1: Quote, and now when I go on TikTok, I see
Speaker 1: people saying like, cheetah print is getting sold. I'm right, right,
Speaker 1: get a day gone a day. Chris Rock didn't know
Speaker 1: how right he was.
Speaker 2: My god, Yeah, I just texted you a picture of
Speaker 2: a coastal grandmother cheeks. Is it gonna turn me on? No?
Speaker 2: It's just very kind of loose fitting, comfortable wear. But
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, all right, for the love of heaven.
Speaker 2: Here's another quote.
Speaker 1: Here's a fifteen year old in Indiana watch classmates by
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars Stanley tumblers, only to covet another brand
Speaker 1: of Pastel water bottles shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2: It's wasteful, she said.
Speaker 1: You're wast You're just wasting resources, You're wasting money.
Speaker 2: Will kids adapt to this?
Speaker 1: I mean it was my son. Can't remember what the
Speaker 1: topic was. It might have been about the radio show
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. Quite a few years ago when
Speaker 1: he was a teenager I guess maybe early twenties. He
Speaker 1: introduced me to the phrase dad, hater's gonna hate, the
Speaker 1: idea that online, no, ignore it because that's what they
Speaker 1: do for fun. It has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1: Haters are gonna hate. And so he's adapted to that
Speaker 1: world in a way. Of course, he's not an impressionable
Speaker 1: young teenage girl who will go along with about anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we've talked about how words and phrases come
Speaker 2: and go way faster than they used to, so everything does.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: Here's a college kid in Oregon. He thinks his age
Speaker 1: group has reached saturation.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: The prevalence and pure amount of micro trends has made
Speaker 1: it impossible to understand or participate.
Speaker 2: Well, trying to think of experiencing thing like that. Is
Speaker 2: it like when I don't know, like American idol was
Speaker 2: so dominant and then you had like fifty different singing shows.
Speaker 8: Somebody's like whatever, you just give up on it? Is
Speaker 8: it kind of like that? I don't know, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm interested in the sociologically, and it
Speaker 8: reminds me and this fits in perfectly so I got
Speaker 8: turned on. The New York Times had an article about.
Speaker 2: This book and this author that I got into a
Speaker 2: couple of weekends ago. And he was a great cultural
Speaker 2: critic in New York of the twenties. I don't remember
Speaker 2: his name, but you wouldn't know it anyway, really really
Speaker 2: big deal then, and he wrote a number of novels
Speaker 2: about twenties basically, I mean, it was the most roaring
Speaker 2: there in New York. And it was during Prohibition, and
Speaker 2: everybody was feeling rich. I mean, if any of this
Speaker 2: sounds familiar, everybody was feeling rich and just bored by
Speaker 2: modern life. And there was just a lot of casual
Speaker 2: sex and people not interested in getting married and dating anymore,
Speaker 2: and everybody was just bored with everything and constantly trying
Speaker 2: to find the next new thing, and drunk all the time,
Speaker 2: all the time. Prohibition and this this book. I should
Speaker 2: send you one of them. It's really interesting to read.
Speaker 2: But we all know what ended that. The depression in
Speaker 2: World War Two completely obliterated that, I mean, and it
Speaker 2: was a hard reset, as we all know to you know,
Speaker 2: the way my parents grew up very austere, I mean,
Speaker 2: just the one hundred and eighty degrees from that lifestyle.
Speaker 2: But it took cataclysms to do that, and that's what
Speaker 2: wipe all this up. I think human nature does not change.
Speaker 2: It's a little different now because of the social media,
Speaker 2: and it's not just cultural, it's just, you know, the
Speaker 2: way we do everything, staring at our phones or anything
Speaker 2: has changed. But a cataclysm, you know, a good long
Speaker 2: war with China and a devastating economy for a while,
Speaker 2: sweet medior a death, maybe, honey, I don't want that
Speaker 2: to happen, but that's what reset us last time around.
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Speaker 2: Had never even heard of kretum. That was if you
Speaker 2: had said there's a new drug called kretum. Did I
Speaker 2: just make that up or not? I wouldn't know. No idea.
Speaker 2: Take it easy on the creatim. Everybody ain't good for you, boy.
Speaker 2: A small dose is kind of a stimulant. Large dose
Speaker 2: is a depressant. I get that myself out of a glass.
Speaker 2: So here's something counterintuitive for you. Maybe I'll get into
Speaker 2: this when we have more time, because it's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 2: So Trump mentioned the other day, I think he mentioned
Speaker 2: it is not State of the Union address about making
Speaker 2: English the official language, which in general sounds good to me.
Speaker 2: It just drives me nuts when I am trying to
Speaker 2: function in the world and in dealing with somebody doesn't
Speaker 2: speak English, drives me crazy. That's in a store the
Speaker 2: other day and ask a question. The person just said,
Speaker 2: no know English, then why are you here? I would
Speaker 2: have said in their language if I knew how, But
Speaker 2: so U. I saw this from Stephen Pinker, who sometimes
Speaker 2: I agree with sometimes I don't, in his Twitter feed,
Speaker 2: but he pointed out John mccorter's piece in the New
Speaker 2: York Times about this, and we often agree with him.
Speaker 2: English is the official US angliage is an unkind policy
Speaker 2: for a non existent problem, says John mccorter. Right wingers
Speaker 2: take note, libertarianism has worked perfectly were here, Well here,
Speaker 2: spontaneous order emerging from everyone wanting to learn the predominant
Speaker 2: language has resulted in English becoming the de facto official
Speaker 2: language of our country without government regulation. It has also
Speaker 2: become the world's de facto official second language, again without
Speaker 2: government regulation. And how it it pulls people together better
Speaker 2: just because it's an easier way to make a go
Speaker 2: of it in this country than would if we tried
Speaker 2: to force people into it, that's macuarter's argument.
Speaker 1: Well, and if we were to make it legally so
Speaker 1: and force people into it, what would the resistance or
Speaker 1: backlash look like. And I'm not advocating one side of
Speaker 1: this or the other. I'm just curious how it would
Speaker 1: actually play out in real life. I mean, because the
Speaker 1: official state language of California is English.
Speaker 2: And it's a joke, Yeah, well then there's no enforcement
Speaker 2: of that whatsoever. But it's not hard to imagine an
Speaker 2: immigrant family from wherever and you hear this all the
Speaker 2: time people who grew up in a house where their
Speaker 2: parents were going to make them learn English. You're going
Speaker 2: to speak English because that's how you're going to make
Speaker 2: it go up in this country, right, maybe being resistant
Speaker 2: to that if it were forced.
Speaker 1: Apartment asked a girl on a train platform in Munich,
Speaker 1: excuse me, do you speak English? And see she said yes,
Speaker 1: as if it was a ridiculous question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and she was German. I got to comment
Speaker 2: on that. I'll do it for my final.
Speaker 10: Point, I'm strong, get ready with Katie Green and.
Speaker 6: Strong.
Speaker 2: Here's yours for final thoughts, Joe Getty, let's get a
Speaker 2: final thought from everybody on the crew. Michaelangelo lead us off,
Speaker 2: would you please Well?
Speaker 1: I got exactly one month till I turned fifty, and uh,
Speaker 1: I know that I can't keep up with the trends
Speaker 1: like coastal grandmother.
Speaker 2: I just don't know. I think you should start dressing
Speaker 2: like a coastal grandmother.
Speaker 1: Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, well.
Speaker 5: Since Jack is thinking about getting a cyber truck, I
Speaker 5: was looking at raps and they have a McDonald's burger rap.
Speaker 2: Oh cool for the cyber truck. There you go. So
Speaker 2: your truck looks like a burger. I don't dream come true. Jack.
Speaker 2: A final thought for us. So, I was good friends
Speaker 2: with this guy named Giuseppe is from Italy, and he's
Speaker 2: a PhD at the university. And he spoke decent English,
Speaker 2: not great, but decent English. And I remember telling him
Speaker 2: one time I was thinking of learning Spanish or a
Speaker 2: second language. I thought it'd be cool, and he said,
Speaker 2: why would you care. You already know the most important
Speaker 2: language on earth. And he was a very well world traveled,
Speaker 2: world traveler, And that's just stuck in my mind. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I already know the important language.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will be online all afternoon promoting the coastal
Speaker 1: middle aged dipstick who doesn't give a crap anymore esthetic.
Speaker 1: If you'd like some pictures of that, well, I'll send
Speaker 1: you pictures of me.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've got the guy who shops at tractor supply
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Speaker 2: Green drops keep falling on your hand? Are you familiar
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Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: It's not that's not the point of the conversation. Who's
Speaker 2: who's the eight is getting rain on it? It's not
Speaker 2: the point. That's not the key question, right.
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