Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: And if I may say so, it is a particular
Speaker 3: person to be back in this wonderful building, the heart
Speaker 3: of your democracy, on this occasion. I cannot help noticing
Speaker 3: the readjustments to the east wings to President following your
Speaker 3: visit to Windsor Castle last year. And I'm sorry to
Speaker 3: say that we British, of course made our own small
Speaker 3: attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in
Speaker 3: eighteen fourteen.
Speaker 2: Boo, never forget flat room temperature, water under the bridge.
Speaker 4: That's what I say, bygones, a special relationship, etc.
Speaker 1: You're gonna let a king come to our country and
Speaker 1: joke about trying to burn down the White House.
Speaker 2: A bugger about and find out King Chuck. That's what I.
Speaker 1: Say, Katie. I need King's protesters right now. That's a
Speaker 1: good point. You got a damn king in the White House.
Speaker 1: That's what you warned us about, Katie. I need an
Speaker 1: age in King Charles. I'm guessing seventy eight, Hell, seventy
Speaker 1: eight is.
Speaker 2: What I'm going with. Maybe he's older than that. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Oh seventy seven. There you go.
Speaker 1: Wait, he looks older than that.
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 1: Wow, he could pass for eighty five heavy rests the
Speaker 1: crown on the head of that fella or something Shakespeare said.
Speaker 1: So he gave pretty good speech yesterday, and the Congress
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. And I thought it was all very,
Speaker 1: very nice. And if you're gonna try to show the
Speaker 1: world that we're still close, you gotta have King Charles here,
Speaker 1: because their actual prime minister, the actual power of their politics,
Speaker 1: is a thirteen percent approval reigning in his own country.
Speaker 1: So nobody gives a crap what he thinks about anything.
Speaker 1: Here's a little montage of various things King Charles said yesterday, Missus.
Speaker 5: Speaker, this is by no means my first visit to Washington, DC,
Speaker 5: the capital of this great Republic. It is, in fact
Speaker 5: my twentieth visit to the United States, and my first
Speaker 5: as king and head of the Commonwealth. This is a
Speaker 5: city which symbolizes a period in our shared history, or
Speaker 5: what Charles Dickens might have called a tale of two Georges.
Speaker 2: Trying to have at the appoller sign good on, I
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 5: The first President George Washington, and my five times great
Speaker 5: grandfather can do. The third King George as your name
Speaker 5: never set foot in America, and please rest assured when
Speaker 5: I am not here as part of some cunning rear
Speaker 5: God action.
Speaker 2: That's that's funny. Yeah, yeah, but that's wild that.
Speaker 1: The King George of the American Revolution two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years ago this July is his great great, great
Speaker 1: great great five times grandfather.
Speaker 2: That's just wild, and it's indefensible.
Speaker 1: Yes, by enlightenedment standard, that's quite wild that that's possible
Speaker 1: today that there would still be any line of succession
Speaker 1: like that anywhere on earth.
Speaker 4: God save the Queen, because tourists are money. Johnny Rotten
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is something AnyWho.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I liked your screen earlier, and honestly I appre
Speaker 4: shate the spirit of the visit because we have been
Speaker 4: very close friends and incredibly close allies at extremely important
Speaker 4: times over the last one hundred years, especially one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty five years, and sometimes you have rough patches
Speaker 4: with a friend. But it's helpful to be reminded, Hey,
Speaker 4: we're old friends. Let's not do too much damage here.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, as you pointed out, our old
Speaker 4: friend is not our old friend anymore. We remember him
Speaker 4: when he was a friend and ally now he's well,
Speaker 4: I'll let you take over.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The media portraying it as an attempt to re establish
Speaker 1: our close relationship as it's frayed because of Trump and
Speaker 1: how awful Trump is and this and that.
Speaker 2: I think it's more Great Britain coming.
Speaker 1: Great Britain's worried about the frayed relationship more than we are.
Speaker 2: They're incredibly weak.
Speaker 1: Great Britain is the weakest they've ever been, maybe ever,
Speaker 1: certainly in like a thousand years, relative to other world powers.
Speaker 1: And they need us more than they have ever needed ever.
Speaker 1: They can't have any sort of daylight between the United
Speaker 1: States and them. They're your old college friend who has
Speaker 1: come back and you're like, hey, I haven't talked to
Speaker 1: you for years. You talk about some old times and
Speaker 1: you kind of laugh, and he makes some judkes. You
Speaker 1: remember the time when and then he hit you. You know,
Speaker 1: if you could help me out, I really could use
Speaker 1: some money. That's I think that's what yesterday is.
Speaker 4: The five grand till the end of the months. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that's what yesterday's visit was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember you kind of need to protect us because
Speaker 1: we don't really have a navy anymore. So those jokes
Speaker 1: about King George, that was funny.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, yeah, I guarantee you they're like, you know,
Speaker 4: even your mid sized tuna companies have more impressive navies
Speaker 4: than the Brits, which is just.
Speaker 2: Shocked with their history.
Speaker 1: I don't like the way Trump has talked about NATO
Speaker 1: necessarily all the time, or our European friends, but.
Speaker 2: They need us more than we need them. By four
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: Even close in terms of a relationship, and I feel
Speaker 1: like mainstream media portrays it all the other way around.
Speaker 4: And we have had a very very toxically helicopter parenty
Speaker 4: relationship with Europe for a very long time, as we've
Speaker 4: talked about on many occasions, but we have allowed them
Speaker 4: to become the most worthless, lazy, lacking in character trust
Speaker 4: fund kid you can imagine, and like, you know, some
Speaker 4: drug addicted, useless, unemployable, rich thirty four year old.
Speaker 2: Is there any fix in them at this point?
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know, and we've you know, we've
Speaker 1: talked about this over and over again, but to say
Speaker 1: it one more time to portray Trump as somebody trying
Speaker 1: to destroy one of the great organizations in world history, NATO,
Speaker 1: and not say NATO, all those other Natal countries not
Speaker 1: honoring their commitment of spending the amount of money that
Speaker 1: they swore legally signed a piece of paper that they
Speaker 1: would do over decades. They're the ones that haven't honored
Speaker 1: the NATO commitment for decades.
Speaker 2: How do you not look at it that way?
Speaker 4: No, I know, because they are so obsessed with Trump.
Speaker 4: Who again, you know, he said some stuff this unhelpful.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the way you described this.
Speaker 1: Is the most full alliance in world history because we
Speaker 1: continued to pay for it all. That's why it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been six If we had done what Germany did
Speaker 1: and only spent the amount of GDP on our military
Speaker 1: they did, the whole thing would be worthless.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and don't get out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, the media are utterly ideological liars.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 4: Give you a couple of pieces of information that are
Speaker 4: so interesting as applies as applied to how people's perceptions
Speaker 4: have been formed in the last to ten, maybe even
Speaker 4: twenty years about a quote unquote bigotry and b left
Speaker 4: wing and right wing violence, and how those numbers and
Speaker 4: perceptions have been so manipulated. I think maybe we'll do
Speaker 4: that at the bottom of the hour in a little bit.
Speaker 4: But I mean, for instance, just to give you a
Speaker 4: little sampling of what we're talking about, mentions of say,
Speaker 4: racism racist racists in the New York Times, Washington Post,
Speaker 4: LA Times, and Wall Street Journal percolated along at more
Speaker 4: or less the same level, with a few ups and
Speaker 4: downs for forty years, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 4: they skyrocketed to triple and quadruple the number of mentions
Speaker 4: that they'd ever had. Is that because America became more
Speaker 4: racist with more racists, or is it the whole critical
Speaker 4: theory crowd taking over the universities in the media who
Speaker 4: want to divide us all by race or sexual minority
Speaker 4: as an excuse to bring down Western civilization. It's so obvious.
Speaker 4: But we'll have those stats where you're coming up.
Speaker 1: So, Katy, I got something I would like you to
Speaker 1: look into, because this seems like the sort of thing
Speaker 1: you'd be good at reporting on.
Speaker 2: Uh oh okay.
Speaker 1: A photo of President Trump is going viral, showing him
Speaker 1: holding a b in his hand alongside an apparently shocked
Speaker 1: first lady yesterday. If you could look into that story
Speaker 1: for me, I would like to know what's going on
Speaker 1: holding a B in his hand?
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll have that among other things on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay here, let's get a couple of things off our plate.
Speaker 1: First of all, did Donald Trump hold a B in
Speaker 1: his hand yesterday?
Speaker 2: Or is that ai? I think it's real.
Speaker 1: It's real. H Okay, just caught a B and decided
Speaker 1: to show up to people.
Speaker 6: All right, they're doing that hole adding a beehive to
Speaker 6: the rose garden.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: Oh, a little context there, or it was another assassination attempt.
Speaker 6: We don't know, Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Remember when this happened last year, the California Coastal Commission
Speaker 1: wasn't going to allow SpaceX to launch something because of
Speaker 1: Elon's political views. Well, they issued a formal apology yesterday,
Speaker 1: adding that it will not consider the political views or
Speaker 1: speech in future regulatory decisions whether or not SpaceX can
Speaker 1: launch a rocket or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so enlightened than.
Speaker 1: The Commission admitted some officials made politically biased and improper
Speaker 1: statements about SpaceX.
Speaker 2: That's unbelievable. People aren't so crazy.
Speaker 4: Cal Unicornia is so run on like righteous adolescent emotion,
Speaker 4: including builking the taxpayers. But yeah, you are crazy if
Speaker 4: you did that, I were not really an adult yet.
Speaker 4: I wanted to mention this because it's cold and flu season.
Speaker 4: When is it not cold and flu season? A cold
Speaker 4: is going through the house. And I'm just always amused
Speaker 4: when I when I go.
Speaker 1: To buy some cold medicine at the pharmacy and all
Speaker 1: the stuff that has that fenerin men in it fenyl
Speaker 1: fenorin I don't know how to pronounce it. Starts with
Speaker 1: the pH that does nothing, that was announced a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, does nothing. So I did a little
Speaker 1: deep dive on your AI chatbots about it. Yep, the
Speaker 1: FDA found that it doesn't do anything, but they didn't
Speaker 1: ban it. And it's still like the leading ingredient and
Speaker 1: most cold medicine that's there at your pharmacy when you
Speaker 1: go to buy cold medicine.
Speaker 2: It does nothing. Wow, it's so wild that it's still there.
Speaker 1: Manufacturers started putting it in their product when they made
Speaker 1: pseudo a fedrin go behind the counter, which actually does
Speaker 1: do something. That's a cold medicine that actually has an effect.
Speaker 1: But because people were making meth out of it, they
Speaker 1: had to move it behind the counter, and because they
Speaker 1: wanted to have something out there, they had this thing
Speaker 1: that kind of looks like it and sounds like it,
Speaker 1: and so you kind of think maybe it's similar.
Speaker 2: But all the study show it does zero for you.
Speaker 1: That's why I disagree. It gives you hope that so
Speaker 1: you'll feel better. They're selling hope. Jack, Maybe I'd have
Speaker 1: been better off not knowing it does nothing. But just
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. It's your ear plus.
Speaker 4: CBA, as you often say exactly, Hey, you didn't hear
Speaker 4: this story. We don't need to spend a lot of
Speaker 4: time on it. It's funny how little this was reported.
Speaker 4: Happened several days ago, but a federal jurey on Friday
Speaker 4: in Dallas, not this Friday. Last Friday, convicted eight people
Speaker 4: on terrorism charges over that shooting at the Texas Immigration facility,
Speaker 4: all eight of them tied to Antifa. Eight people convicted
Speaker 4: of terrorism charges tied to Antifa. Funny how all these
Speaker 4: outlets that have been telling us Antifa doesn't.
Speaker 1: Really exist, or the fact that that case, or the
Speaker 1: fact that I just heard this from you and not
Speaker 1: anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You had a right winger that did anything like that,
Speaker 1: I would definitely have heard about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, California's billionaire tax made the or has enough signatures
Speaker 4: to make the ballot officially. According to the backers, they
Speaker 4: got way way more than they need, so even if
Speaker 4: a bunch get tossed out. But I thought it was
Speaker 4: worth mentioning that virtually every non partisan institute to look
Speaker 4: at this has said that it will ultimately cost a
Speaker 4: great deal of money to the state of California. A
Speaker 4: California Tax foundation, which does not take positions on state legislation,
Speaker 4: estimated the billionaire tax would reduce state revenues by three
Speaker 4: point five to three to four point four to nine
Speaker 4: billion dollars a year due to billionaire departures in their
Speaker 4: economic spillover effects.
Speaker 2: California's non partisan.
Speaker 1: Legislative Office, by the way, said the wealth tax would
Speaker 1: probably generate a few tens of billions once while costing
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars or more annually. The backers
Speaker 1: claim it'll immediately raise one hundred billion dollars even if
Speaker 1: billionaires leave California.
Speaker 2: It's it's frauds. It's ot our fraud. It's gonna happen. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The unions that are backing it, they just want the
Speaker 4: one time cash grab. That's all they care about. And
Speaker 4: so you wake up and figure that out, the better.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be, oh, incredibly short sighted, and we'll pay
Speaker 1: a price for it in California for a long time
Speaker 1: and it won't be a one time thing, which will
Speaker 1: really drive the billionaires out.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, yeah, But again, the union goons are not simpletons.
Speaker 4: They know precisely what they're doing. They just don't care.
Speaker 4: It's the voters who are being duped.
Speaker 1: People don't understand Laffer's curve. But whatever, maybe another day
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that.
Speaker 4: No, and they don't understand. They never ever think about
Speaker 4: second tier effects. What will people do in reaction to
Speaker 4: this must be asked of every single lawn regulations past,
Speaker 4: but people don't for whatever reason, because they're stupid. There's
Speaker 4: a Supreme Court case that's gone more or less unnoticed
Speaker 4: that I'd love to talk about more. It has to
Speaker 4: do with the what's what's the name of this thing?
Speaker 4: Geofence warrants. Cops say, hey, there was a terrible murder,
Speaker 4: maybe like a poor Savannah Guthrie's mom disappearing terrible crime.
Speaker 4: We are going to subpoena all of the cell phone
Speaker 4: carriers data for a you know, size of like a
Speaker 4: large city park around her property.
Speaker 2: We need all the numbers wow that went through there? Wow.
Speaker 4: And whether that's a defensible warrant? Is it a violation
Speaker 4: of the Bill of Rights? The Fourth Amendment? Et cetera,
Speaker 4: et cetera. Is the first blush.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, yeah, first blush. I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't like it. It's really useful to law enforcement,
Speaker 4: but that's sort of gobbling up of huge amounts of
Speaker 4: data involving huge numbers of Americans, each of whom there's
Speaker 4: no reason to suspect whatsoever.
Speaker 1: It'll be happening constantly. It'll be overlapping geofences as you'll
Speaker 1: be having your data grabbed up all the time and
Speaker 1: in various investigations. And you know, similar to the one
Speaker 1: time tax, that will turn into a multi time tax.
Speaker 1: I would guess that it would expand to more and
Speaker 1: more instances where they'd be willing to do that.
Speaker 4: Minute by minute location tracking is based on GPS data
Speaker 4: pings to nearby cell towers, Bluetooth beacons, and Wi Fi
Speaker 4: connections can be remarkably effective at identifying new suspects and
Speaker 4: cold cases, but it can also reveal information about the
Speaker 4: movement of innocent people, including their visits to sensitive places
Speaker 4: like churches, doctors' offices, or political organizations, or their wife
Speaker 4: cross town and their illegitimate kids or whatever.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, you did something that would be really inconvenient
Speaker 1: for you and you're in the other party and somebody's
Speaker 1: running for office.
Speaker 2: I mean, all that stuff could happen. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really uneasy with it. It's super interesting in
Speaker 4: a topic, though, and the soups are going to deal
Speaker 4: with it maybe probably, I hope it's not one of
Speaker 4: the years so called narrow rulings a different topic. Have
Speaker 4: you noticed, I know, you have all of these progressive
Speaker 4: attitudes that you're supposed to mindlessly repeat came out of
Speaker 4: nowhere at more or less the same time.
Speaker 2: Yep, stay with us, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 1: Iranians are undergoing hardships they haven't seen in many, many decades,
Speaker 1: maybe going back to the Iran Iraq War. According to
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal, we'll having a Ran War update
Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to it. Great.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to build a case right now, and
Speaker 4: I feel like it is pretty damn strong about why,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, Like after twenty ten or so,
Speaker 4: all of us started hearing about these radical ideologies about
Speaker 4: systemic racism or transphobia or transgenderism in general, and you know,
Speaker 4: all your gender bending madness and your there are actually
Speaker 4: a number of variations. You should read James Lindsay's in
Speaker 4: Helen Pluckrose's fabulous book Cynical Theories about the critical theory crowd.
Speaker 2: But everybody started.
Speaker 4: Hearing about this all of a sudden, and then it
Speaker 4: like washed across the landscape like a tide, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, if.
Speaker 2: You were to say, wait a minute, that's cuckoo nuts.
Speaker 1: I'd never even heard this until a year ago, and
Speaker 1: now you're telling me I have to parrot it or
Speaker 1: I lose my job.
Speaker 4: What the hell are we doing here? Thought many many people.
Speaker 4: Some of us set it out loud, some of you
Speaker 4: weren't in a position to do that. But I've been
Speaker 4: looking at a bunch of different statistics and they all
Speaker 4: kind of come together in my head The first one
Speaker 4: is a set of graphs, and we'll post these at
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Giddy dot com about mentions of terms like racism,
Speaker 4: racist racists in your big four newspapers New York Times,
Speaker 4: Washington Post, LA Times, and Wall Street Journal. Also sexism,
Speaker 4: sexist and misogyny, and homophobia and homophobic, transphobia, transphobic, islamophobia, islamophobic,
Speaker 4: and finally anti semitism and anti Semitic. I will tell
Speaker 4: you in advance that that one's not nearly as notable
Speaker 4: for reasons which.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you could figure out.
Speaker 1: But so these graphs virtually and they all have little variations,
Speaker 1: but the overall shape of them are identical, with the
Speaker 1: exception of the anti semitism one. They kind of burbled
Speaker 1: along with events at a very low rate through and oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I should mention to you that this is
Speaker 1: who did this poll.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't see it. It's half obscured.
Speaker 4: But they've been doing this poll since or the data
Speaker 4: went back to nineteen seventy. So anyway, they burbled along
Speaker 4: with little ups and downs as news occurred in the
Speaker 4: United States. But then all of a sudden, in like
Speaker 4: twenty twelve, racism, racists, racist, all those mentions in the
Speaker 4: Big four newspapers skyrocketed to many multiples of what they've
Speaker 4: been in the past.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 4: Likewise, sexist, sexist, misogyny, as you might guess, transphobic didn't exist.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that one, of course. Yeah, but prior to
Speaker 1: like twenty oh eight. Then in twenty twelve or so,
Speaker 1: it started to skyrocket. Likewise, islamophobian, islamophobic. This has been
Speaker 1: going on for so long now. I didn't note that
Speaker 1: there were much fewer mentions of racist prior to twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: I didn't perceive that it's been going so long. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the whole Well, generally you had to have
Speaker 4: racism to call something racist. And i'll skip to the
Speaker 4: end the conclusion, then i'll back it up. But my
Speaker 4: conclusion is.
Speaker 1: The critical mass of critical theory infecting our schools and universities,
Speaker 1: which started in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2: I'll spare you the whole history of it, but it achieved.
Speaker 4: A real critical mass in around twenty eight twenty ten
Speaker 4: for reasons which we'll get into in a minute. But
Speaker 4: I remember I read a great editorial to y'all several
Speaker 4: weeks ago from a professor who said, Hey, I was
Speaker 4: a professor at that time in the seventies, and we thought, look,
Speaker 4: if we're going to be an institutional vote and inquiry,
Speaker 4: we've got to admit these radical leftist professors in who
Speaker 4: are doing the air anti colonial stuff and critical theory
Speaker 4: and all the crap that you hear all the time.
Speaker 4: Now out of the mouths of your college sophomore just
Speaker 4: came home unrecognizable to the little girl you'd sent away.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: But then once those people got in, they closed the
Speaker 4: door behind them and refused to hire anybody but those people.
Speaker 4: And I just think that critical mass in academia infected
Speaker 4: media and your social type of majors and just people
Speaker 4: who tend to think like that around you know, the
Speaker 4: late two thousands, and then it just exploded because they
Speaker 4: felt like they had the power to advocate for themselves
Speaker 4: around twenty ten or so. And again, these graphs are
Speaker 4: quite striking to look at. I told you i'd back
Speaker 4: it up. You know that's I'm gonna skip over here.
Speaker 1: Back it up, backing it up totally different meaning ah so,
Speaker 1: and this is from the invaluable Chris Rufo.
Speaker 4: But he's been involved in a bit of an online
Speaker 4: debate about taking the middle ground or trying to be
Speaker 4: fair blah blah blah universities and where will they get you?
Speaker 4: And he says, look, there's nothing beautiful about losing in
Speaker 4: this manner. We've been trying to do that and it's
Speaker 4: been a miserable failure. And this is from the Carnegie Foundation.
Speaker 4: They've been doing this polling since the late nineteen sixties.
Speaker 4: It's the faculty ideology in the United States poll from
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty nine to twenty twenty two. And just for
Speaker 4: the sake of the argument, I'm just going to pick
Speaker 4: out nineteen eighty four, when Reagan was in office, it
Speaker 4: was about forty percent of faculty called themselves far left liberal,
Speaker 4: thirty four percent called themselves conservative, far right, and middle
Speaker 4: of the road was about twenty seven percent. Okay, so
Speaker 4: it was the liberal. Yeah, colleges have always been kind
Speaker 4: of liberal. Now far left liberal is seventy four percent,
Speaker 4: middle of the road is fifteen percent, and conservative or
Speaker 4: far right is just under eleven percent. So again it's
Speaker 4: seventy four to twenty five even including middle of the
Speaker 4: road and scientists who is looking at this commented that
Speaker 4: because they dug into the statistics, American university faculty are
Speaker 4: more likely to identify as socialist than conservative.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: It's more than double. Twenty six percent say I'm a socialist,
Speaker 4: eleven percent say I'm a conservative. Wow, and conservative only
Speaker 4: leads Marxist by three percent.
Speaker 2: That is something. So when I'm ranting.
Speaker 1: About how diseased our education system is, folks, I'm not paranoid. Well,
Speaker 1: the last thing I am is paranoid. I'm an avowed realist.
Speaker 1: Twice as many socialists as conservatives on a college campus
Speaker 1: in the faculty.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: And if you include them at far left liberal, it's
Speaker 4: seven and a half to one for conservatives, and you've
Speaker 4: got a handful of middle of the road.
Speaker 1: And people who are willing to call themselves Marxists. Probably
Speaker 1: a lot of those socialists are, but I mean, you're
Speaker 1: pretty hardcore if you're willing to call yourself a Marxist.
Speaker 1: Is almost as many as conservatives. Yeah, that twenty six
Speaker 1: percent that are socialists. How many of them are actually Marxists?
Speaker 1: They're just not willing to say it. That's actually a
Speaker 1: really good question.
Speaker 2: And then my.
Speaker 4: Final bit of evidence that this is just and again,
Speaker 4: I know you're busy.
Speaker 2: I know people don't like to read books.
Speaker 4: But this is an absolutely well known movement in intellectual circles,
Speaker 4: and it's been an accumulating weight for the very long
Speaker 4: for a very long time. And I would suggest I
Speaker 4: was talking about this yesterday as a guy who studied
Speaker 4: political movements since I was a kid, and certainly a
Speaker 4: college student, look at radical political movements and and whether
Speaker 4: there's something you really need to worry about the same way.
Speaker 4: Relate to it the same way you would if you
Speaker 4: heard somebody say I'll never get cancer, or I don't
Speaker 4: have to worry about my kid being on drugs, or
Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about my marriage falling apart
Speaker 4: because we're solid.
Speaker 2: You would look at that person.
Speaker 4: You'd think, oh, boy, you may be mostly right, but
Speaker 4: you're being very, very cavalier. I would seriously urge you
Speaker 4: to take an attitude more like that when you look
Speaker 4: at radical political movement's ability to really pervert what we
Speaker 4: do here in the United States. Final thing, and this
Speaker 4: is of all things in the Wall Street Journal, which
Speaker 4: is among the best available of the major news websites,
Speaker 4: which is not to say it's great but it's, you know,
Speaker 4: one of the best. They have a graph they published
Speaker 4: this the other day that seems to show near parody
Speaker 4: between left and right wing political violence. It was in
Speaker 4: the Journal. It was sourced to the Center for Strategic
Speaker 4: and International Studies, which by its own admission, reclass all
Speaker 4: pro Palestinian violence not as left wing but as ethno nationalist.
Speaker 4: It classifies all anti Semitism as right wing, and all
Speaker 4: pro Palestinian attacks on Jewish individuals or institutions are ethno nationalist,
Speaker 4: which is left off of the right wing left wing
Speaker 4: little graph. And as this author, who we've quoted many
Speaker 4: times she writes for the Free Press, points out, this
Speaker 4: is just nakedly partisan propaganda presented as data and then
Speaker 4: mainstreamed in the American press. And there's more to her column,
Speaker 4: but we're kind of out of time, maybe for another day.
Speaker 2: You know, I think you all know this. We all
Speaker 2: know this. Our perceptions of what is happening in the.
Speaker 4: World are so twisted or misfocused by the lens of
Speaker 4: our mainstream media and education.
Speaker 2: It's funhouse mirror. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to throw it at one point
Speaker 1: that the a lot of the explosion of very things
Speaker 1: we talked about happened at the same time that smartphones
Speaker 1: and the Internet really got going on all that sort
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Speaker 4: You know, I want to duvetail off that point you
Speaker 4: made about the smartphone era because I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: Number one, as we know, smartphones in the internets how
Speaker 4: terrible ideas which were laughed out of every town in America.
Speaker 4: Enough people came together globally to reinforce each other, and
Speaker 4: so those terrible ideas grew. The other thing is the
Speaker 4: smartphone and social media enabled the brutal, hateful policing of
Speaker 4: anybody who went against them, doxing, ruining people's careers, getting
Speaker 4: them fired from their jobs for saying, no, there are
Speaker 4: two sexes, men and women, and you can't change it's impossible,
Speaker 4: which is self evidently true. But yeah, people's careers were
Speaker 4: ruined over that. That was part of the cell phone
Speaker 4: explosion to.
Speaker 1: And smartphone you don't have to, I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: gillotine people in the United States we ruin your life
Speaker 1: through you know, the whole social media thing, and that
Speaker 1: keeps a lot of people quiet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's why all of these crazy.
Speaker 4: Marxist progressive theories all launched when they did so, coming
Speaker 4: together of critical mass in the academy, as they say,
Speaker 4: and technology.
Speaker 1: I've got the very latest news in the world of
Speaker 1: robot dogs coming up. Let me say that again, in
Speaker 1: case you ran over a pothole and thought you heard incorrectly.
Speaker 1: We have the latest news in the world of robot.
Speaker 4: Dogs, the kind with machine guns coming out of their eyes,
Speaker 4: or just the regular kind.
Speaker 1: Just regular kind of robot dogs. And a bunch of
Speaker 1: other stuff on the way. So stay here.
Speaker 7: A Missouri man was recently charged with sexual misconduct after
Speaker 7: allegedly danced naked in the vestibule of an ald storm,
Speaker 7: or more likely, he was just stripping to raise money
Speaker 7: for groceries.
Speaker 1: So I was reading up on the latest in robot
Speaker 1: dogs yesterday and then started asking a couple of my
Speaker 1: favorite AI chatbots to give me more information. And so
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about in the past. Sody's AI
Speaker 1: b o. How do you pronounce that? He I b
Speaker 1: o eyebo.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's their sort of pet version of a robot dog.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about it that in the past.
Speaker 1: It's several thousand dollars. I think I've seen him in
Speaker 1: the store in Vegas. Yeah, pretty sure I have. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a drunken Vegas purchase. Honey yet and uh,
Speaker 1: and it's more pet related. It looks like a dog,
Speaker 1: and and and they've they've tried using them in nursing
Speaker 1: homes and that sort of thing to walk around and
Speaker 1: the patient see him, and with various levels of success.
Speaker 1: I guess, well, Katie, jump in whenever you want as
Speaker 1: a proud dog owner on the whole robot dog topic.
Speaker 2: But then do they poop bitcoin or what? How does
Speaker 2: that work?
Speaker 1: So I was asking about the best ones and there's
Speaker 1: one called the Unitry go To that does that runs
Speaker 1: about seventy five thousand dollars currently, and that's the most
Speaker 1: high high tech robot dog out there. And what people
Speaker 1: are wondering if they're going to combine the pet version
Speaker 1: of the robot dog that looks like a dog with
Speaker 1: the seventy five thousand dollars. It's more of a helper
Speaker 1: security thing, doesn't look as much like a dog in
Speaker 1: all its technology. If you can combine them together, you'd
Speaker 1: really have something. So the one that seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars does all kinds of amazing stuff and autonomous inspection roots,
Speaker 1: it walks the same path daily, photographing gauges, thermal imaging equipment,
Speaker 1: detecting leaks, all the kinds of things that can just
Speaker 1: do walking around your property.
Speaker 2: Try running an oil field in this scenario. Well, I
Speaker 2: could see if like you're you know, your.
Speaker 1: What is your water, your lawn, your lawn watering system,
Speaker 1: if you got a leak out there or what just
Speaker 1: anything there's a hole in the fence, could notice anything
Speaker 1: going on around your property and walk the route and
Speaker 1: walk your house and do all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yes, Katie, is this the same type of AI that
Speaker 6: caused that woman to go? But the f kinda is.
Speaker 2: It's a very good point, Very good point, Katie.
Speaker 1: That's what that lady type of that was a robot
Speaker 1: dog right in our apartment complex. There's probably this sort
Speaker 1: of thing. Three D site scanning and mapping with light oar,
Speaker 1: remote inspection and have blah blah blah blah can do
Speaker 1: security patrols. And here's what I thought was even more amazing.
Speaker 1: It can go upstairs and traverse rocky uneven self rights
Speaker 1: if it falls over, avoids obstacles, has five stereo cameras
Speaker 1: in it maps itself, localizes itself within known spaces, knows
Speaker 1: where it is, detects and avoids people, objects and drop offs.
Speaker 1: Returns to doc to recharge on its own. But it
Speaker 1: can open doors. Its arm can open lever doors and
Speaker 1: round door knobs, pick up object objects up to eleven pounds,
Speaker 1: turn valves and flip switches, drag things as heavy as
Speaker 1: fifty five pounds.
Speaker 4: Just just out of curiosity, can that robot arm, I
Speaker 4: don't know, say, grasp a knife in the middle of
Speaker 4: the night because it resents me just asking for a friend.
Speaker 2: Well, what time got new robot dog get hire for right?
Speaker 1: So it seems to me if you can combine the two,
Speaker 1: the one that looks like a dog and is kind
Speaker 1: of designed to wag its tail and be friendly with
Speaker 1: the you know, it listens for sounds that you know,
Speaker 1: like your regular dog does and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and goes outside and patrols the fence and make sure
Speaker 1: there's no holes or nothing has happened and all these different.
Speaker 2: Things that could be quite the little tool.
Speaker 4: And I would imagine, like much security gear, it would
Speaker 4: be graded and priced depending on your needs. You know,
Speaker 4: if you're running some sort of high dollar car showroom
Speaker 4: in the city, you'd a dog than just an average homeowner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe that would be a more functional use
Speaker 1: for it. Instead of your quote Junkyard dog. You have
Speaker 1: one of these robot dogs. It's patroling the fence and everything,
Speaker 1: keeping an eye.
Speaker 4: Although it is certainly part of the Junkyard dog package,
Speaker 4: is it'll bite the hell out of you?
Speaker 2: So true?
Speaker 1: This would have to be more like our simply safe commercials.
Speaker 1: I suppose where it just you know, alerts somebody of
Speaker 1: something they're.
Speaker 2: Not, shoots lasers out its eyes. Might you might like this?
Speaker 1: So then I say to Claude or chat GPT or
Speaker 1: whichever when I'm on, I said, does it shed wondering
Speaker 1: if it would pick up on the fact that obviously
Speaker 1: that is a joke, But it said no, it's metal
Speaker 1: and plastic, no fur involved. Unable to pick up on
Speaker 1: sarcasm of early Claude. The only thing it leaves behind
Speaker 1: is the occasional oil drip if a hydraulic seal go
Speaker 1: and the faint smell of regret when you see the invoice,
Speaker 1: which is actually a pretty good joke, that that is
Speaker 1: pretty good. Seventy five thousand dollars robot dog.
Speaker 2: Huh, now they got a mother robot dog.
Speaker 4: I think that's right right. That is the situation well encapsulated,
Speaker 4: my dear.
Speaker 1: You need to combine all these things well for some
Speaker 1: people that are gonna have, like the romantic companion that
Speaker 1: does the robot dog thing. You're romantic companion who you
Speaker 1: sit on the couch and watch a show with and
Speaker 1: then maybe have sex with you weirdos, and then it
Speaker 1: goes outside and walks the perimeter while you're taking a
Speaker 1: shower to see if anybody's busted in or there's a
Speaker 1: leak in the waters.
Speaker 4: A companion to me, so are you picturing some sort
Speaker 4: of transformer thing that goes from leggy buxom blonde down
Speaker 4: to golden retriever and what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we'll end up with, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll have something like that somewhere between the dog
Speaker 1: and the person that's doing laundry and acting the fence.
Speaker 1: Just all these different things. Hopefully not the romantic part.
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