Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: For the first time, Iran is getting specific about what's
Speaker 1: in a deal to reopen the Straight of Four Moves.
Speaker 3: Almost all the topics are under discussion, the map, the
Speaker 3: transit routes, the entering and exiting of maritime traffic.
Speaker 2: This progress is on the verge of being finalized.
Speaker 1: So I think this is the first time that Trump,
Speaker 1: Iran and axios are all saying there is a deal
Speaker 1: to open the street today. That's what they're all saying today.
Speaker 1: Here is the Associated Press version of the story.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Iran said it is in the final stage today of
Speaker 1: drafting and agreement with a man oh Man over the
Speaker 1: Straight of Horror Moves and that Donald Trump has said
Speaker 1: a deal could be announced today also which could potentially
Speaker 1: reopen the critical waterway and would that put an end
Speaker 1: of the war.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 1: The agreement is likely to be contingent on the US
Speaker 1: lifting its blockade of Iran's ports. Trump has previously ruled
Speaker 1: out any deal that would cement Iran's grip over the Strait,
Speaker 1: which of course would amount to a major loss for
Speaker 1: the United States and a break with global norms.
Speaker 2: Because all States.
Speaker 1: Straits around the world have been open since the end
Speaker 1: of World War II to maritime traffic, this would be
Speaker 1: the first time that that hasn't happened in eighty years.
Speaker 2: Iran has insisted.
Speaker 1: On some measure of control over the Strait, saying it
Speaker 1: will not go back to being an open international waterway
Speaker 1: as it was before the war.
Speaker 2: Now I'm no.
Speaker 1: Geopolitical genius, but to have both sides saying it's going
Speaker 1: to be open today and Trump say, by the way,
Speaker 1: no tolls on the street, and Ran saying it'll never
Speaker 1: be opened again and Free.
Speaker 2: Seems to me to blow up the deal before it
Speaker 2: even starts.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask you one hundred dollars, will
Speaker 1: a significant number of ships pass through the strait today
Speaker 1: or tomorrow? Well. Mark Alprin's analysis in his newsletter today was,
Speaker 1: if you think there's a deal that will happen and
Speaker 1: hold for more than a week, than I've got some.
Speaker 2: Saudi sheep I'd like to sell you. That's an odd joke.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the whole uh, complicated, opaque
Speaker 1: world of Saudi sheep, but it must be something. I
Speaker 1: think I'm missing the joke anyway. I don't think they
Speaker 1: have a lot of grazing land in Saudi Arabia. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the key, not a lot of livestyle. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that is the joke. Yeah, sure, yeah, Anyway, I came
Speaker 1: across some learned analysis by a trio of alleged experts
Speaker 1: who made clear something that I've been telling you for
Speaker 1: a while. But the Iron wants the big deterrent, and
Speaker 1: for the longest time it was the bomb. They wanted
Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb so nobody could mess with them and
Speaker 1: interfere with their plans to take over the globe in
Speaker 1: the name of radical Islam or threaten their supremacy in
Speaker 1: their country, partly for ideological reasons and partly because they're
Speaker 1: all getting crazy, crazy rich, so they want a deterrent.
Speaker 1: They've been set back over and over and over again
Speaker 1: in their nuclear ambitions, and they realize that we're going
Speaker 1: to keep trying on that.
Speaker 2: But it's shaky.
Speaker 1: But look what we've figured out closing the straits. That's
Speaker 1: our deterrence, especially working with the Hooti's over there on
Speaker 1: the other side of Saudi, we can close the straits.
Speaker 1: That's anybody messes with us, will threaten them with that.
Speaker 2: That's our new deterrent.
Speaker 1: And they are one hundred percent, not ninety eight percent,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent determined to keep that power somehow or other.
Speaker 1: So you gotta look at this through that lens. I think, well,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I think Trump's willing to let the straight
Speaker 1: open up with a toll.
Speaker 2: Yes he is. I agree to get out of the war. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, though, as this back and forth practically non existent
Speaker 1: negotiation goes on, the world is getting better and better
Speaker 1: at bypassing.
Speaker 2: The strengths we're talking could be moved.
Speaker 1: So the longer they they play the tough guy and
Speaker 1: they're smart and calculating, they're evil as hell. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they're dumb. They probably realize that in or on
Speaker 1: and so they think, oh, man, okay, now let's get
Speaker 1: the best deal we can before our leverage is undermined
Speaker 1: by our very intransigence.
Speaker 2: Where this goes who knows.
Speaker 1: So similar topic there are There are a number of
Speaker 1: burbling problems in the world right now. There always are
Speaker 1: burbling problems that could blow up into like the sort
Speaker 1: of thing everybody's talking about on the on the planet
Speaker 1: practically at any moment. AI is one of them. Of
Speaker 1: y'all think climate changes, I don't this. This could be
Speaker 1: one that the United ELR parka buy some shorts that
Speaker 1: the United States, which is really the guaranteur of the
Speaker 1: free world's freedom, is out of munitions to fight a
Speaker 1: real war. Could turn into be in like a really
Speaker 1: really big story, depending on how true it is and
Speaker 1: how it turns out. Washington Post version of Day mentioned
Speaker 1: this an hour one. President Donald Trump's frustration over the
Speaker 1: Iran war boiled over at Camp David last week, where
Speaker 1: he demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Heggsath on why
Speaker 1: he had apparently been misled on extreme munition shortages that
Speaker 1: now threaten to limit military options with Iran. Two people
Speaker 1: familiar with the exchange told the Washington Post, now, this
Speaker 1: is the WAPO, and they have lied about things in
Speaker 1: the not too distant past or made things up. The
Speaker 1: White House says this is not true. This is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent fake news. Literally never happened, and President Trump
Speaker 1: has the utmost confidence in Secretary Heggzath said that Carolyn
Speaker 1: lev It in response to questions to the Post. But
Speaker 1: there are lots of There are lots of reports out
Speaker 1: there from various places on where our stockpiles are, for instance,
Speaker 1: the re Reuter's report that got so much attention a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. The US has used more than
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred of the Army's tactical ballistic missiles in the
Speaker 1: initial weeks of fighting, one US official told The Washington Post,
Speaker 1: confirming the Router's story. The attack on stockpile a short
Speaker 1: range missile missile also in demand by Ukraine, which one
Speaker 1: of the reasons they're getting pounded now, is drained to
Speaker 1: the extent that there's basically none left, said one person
Speaker 1: familiar verifying the Router's report, basically none left. The lack
Speaker 1: of interceptor missiles is also altering how the US decides
Speaker 1: whether to employ munitions against an incoming threat, based on
Speaker 1: where it's assessed to be heading and whether or not
Speaker 1: it is a factor. So if somebody shoots something at us,
Speaker 1: we don't just automatically shoot it down. Now, we think, well,
Speaker 1: where's it headed. How much damage is it gonna do
Speaker 1: if we just let it go through? Because we have
Speaker 1: such a limited amount, One US official told the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: which is a change in tactics first reported by NBC News,
Speaker 1: And there's just a bunch of stories out there like that.
Speaker 1: It's probably worth pointing out at this point that it
Speaker 1: was as recently as the nineteen eighties that Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: was mocked and laughed at for even considering a missile
Speaker 1: defense system by the mainstream media that we're all supposed
Speaker 1: to respect so much, And at my point being the
Speaker 1: idea of missile defense of any sort is very very
Speaker 1: new in warfare, and like super effective patriots and attack
Speaker 1: ems and the what's the other one, the thads that
Speaker 1: we have right now are like crazy new in the
Speaker 1: history of warfare. And it's interesting to me that people
Speaker 1: are saying, oh, we can't duel war, we can't do
Speaker 1: a war because we don't have enough of these things,
Speaker 1: when it never existed before. And I understand we don't
Speaker 1: want to. I'm not being casual about spending lives, but
Speaker 1: we just got this tool.
Speaker 2: What do you mean we can't do a war.
Speaker 1: So the analysis in Mark Alprin's newsletter today is the
Speaker 1: munition shortages are a real danger to the United States
Speaker 1: and will not and cannot be fixed easily or quickly.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that, and I have no I don't
Speaker 1: know nothing about nothing. But I just don't understand how
Speaker 1: this is how much war we can fight before we
Speaker 1: run down to a dangerously low level. Was this are
Speaker 1: we were we prepared to take on China or Russia
Speaker 1: or whoever the hell or a two front war? This
Speaker 1: has been discussed on real life or all kinds of
Speaker 1: different things. Sure doesn't look like it if a minor
Speaker 1: war with a ran put us in this position. According
Speaker 1: to the Washington Post, the shortage is particularly in long
Speaker 1: range guided missiles and air defense intersect were part of
Speaker 1: the reason Trump pulled back from launching additional massive strikes
Speaker 1: in recent days. He said as recently as like an
Speaker 1: hour ago, because he was asked about this, that that
Speaker 1: is not it. We got plenty of stuff that has
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it. Of Course, you'd say that,
Speaker 1: what is the president of the United States going to say, yep,
Speaker 1: you're right, I was going to launch an attack, but frankly,
Speaker 1: we just don't have the firepower.
Speaker 2: Of course he's not going to say that.
Speaker 1: And of course, after a multi generation period of peace
Speaker 1: and prosperity, your military manufacturing base is going to be
Speaker 1: a peace and prosperity military manufacturing base.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A recent truth social post from Trump said, we have
Speaker 1: a massive amounts of munitions. Large amounts are being manufactured
Speaker 1: and shipped to the US as needed. The leakers of
Speaker 1: these treason his statements are being hunted down. And if
Speaker 1: they are trees and his statements, whether accurate or not.
Speaker 1: First of all, why in the hell is somebody leaking
Speaker 1: to our enemy at wartime? How many of various weapons
Speaker 1: systems do we have? What they should be hunted down?
Speaker 1: They should be hunted down.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then especially if you're like, if you're doing it too,
Speaker 1: like you suggested perhaps the last hour that the JD
Speaker 1: vance crowd that doesn't like this war might be leaking
Speaker 1: this stuff, it's possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's very possible.
Speaker 1: Is that's kind of an ugly thing though, That's a
Speaker 1: pretty damn ugly thing. And the ugliest thing is if
Speaker 1: if we did actually call off the major strike against Iran,
Speaker 1: because when it came down to pulling the trigger, Trump
Speaker 1: found out we don't have the stuff necessary to engage
Speaker 1: Iran like this.
Speaker 2: That is highly troubling. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is one of those things that Trump
Speaker 1: does right.
Speaker 2: I think he is absolutely.
Speaker 1: Incorrigible and terrible at some things and absolutely invaluable at others.
Speaker 1: And I think he will reinvigorate the defense industrial base
Speaker 1: in a way that others would not. Certainly the Left
Speaker 1: would never ever do, because they get votes by handing
Speaker 1: out your money and they can't spare it for defending
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 2: I think Trump.
Speaker 1: Could really really push us forward toward a much more
Speaker 1: realistic stance given the challenges military challenges of today's world.
Speaker 2: I hope he does. I hope that's a high priority.
Speaker 1: I'm looking up at cable News. Two of the channels
Speaker 1: are talking about this very topic. I hope it gets
Speaker 1: enough attention that we crank up the arsenal of democracy
Speaker 1: again to where we got plenty of stuff, and everybody
Speaker 1: in the world knows we got plenty of stuff. I
Speaker 1: remember the stories that came out a few months ago
Speaker 1: about Britain. Britain couldn't even push ships at sea. It's
Speaker 1: it's military is so uh what's the what's the term?
Speaker 1: You don't use it. It becomes some well, it's atrophied.
Speaker 1: There are military is so atrophied and so a like
Speaker 1: it's like a Hollywood set. It's got the front of
Speaker 1: a military but it doesn't have the parts. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have the maintenance, it has no manufacturing. It's a theatrical Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's.
Speaker 2: Fake.
Speaker 1: We are nowhere near that bad, but we're not in
Speaker 1: fighting shape.
Speaker 2: Nuff said. I think so.
Speaker 1: Joe and I are both gen X. A lot of
Speaker 1: you probably are too. Gen X is the most economically
Speaker 1: pessimistic generation, maybe of all time, according to a new study. Interesting,
Speaker 1: you know what it is, the hippies. The hippies spent
Speaker 1: us into oblivion. The damned Hippie's gonna take this opportunity
Speaker 1: to complain about hippies at some point, Get a haircut, hippie.
Speaker 2: That's what I say.
Speaker 1: Among other things on the waist, yes, including the scandal
Speaker 1: that's rocking academia. It is the perfect example of how
Speaker 1: insidious DEI is for everyone, especially black folks. I've only
Speaker 1: seen the headlines on this, but it looks really juicy.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear it. So bad cool on
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 4: Eighty five year old actress Donna Mills says she will
Speaker 4: sell pictures of her feet on her new Only Fans account.
Speaker 4: She claims the biggest struggle will be moving her nipples
Speaker 4: out of the photo.
Speaker 1: Gone, oh Cutfeld, Oh come god, come on, that's out
Speaker 1: a line right there. Oh Donna Mills. Is she not
Speaker 1: landing from the eighties? Is that she's eighty five? Time
Speaker 1: marches on?
Speaker 2: That's going way back? Wow?
Speaker 3: So good?
Speaker 2: It's so bad, you.
Speaker 1: Know what makes me feel less bad about this? So
Speaker 1: this story is gross, but it's true, and it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm concerned because I work with people who are easily
Speaker 1: baited into lowbrow humor.
Speaker 2: But wow, wow, how unfortunate for you.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So I'm downtown, my little burg in California, where
Speaker 1: California decriminalized crime and all kinds of behavior, and so
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of gross and you know, everything's locked
Speaker 1: up in every store because they don't prosecute you for stealing.
Speaker 1: So if you want deodorant at the CBS, you have
Speaker 1: to have somebody bring a key. We've talked about that
Speaker 1: street people, various places, that.
Speaker 2: Sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So I'm walking down the sidewalk and I'm actually walking
Speaker 1: to a place to get a slice of pizza, which
Speaker 1: this did.
Speaker 2: Not help my appetite.
Speaker 1: I'm walking to a place to get a slice of
Speaker 1: pizza last night after dropping my son off and his
Speaker 1: friends off downtown.
Speaker 2: And there's the fact.
Speaker 1: That you have a pizza by the Slice place College
Speaker 1: Town makes me so jealous.
Speaker 2: I love the pizza by this oh yes.
Speaker 1: Although again America Baby, it was not as appetizing after this.
Speaker 1: So I'm walking down the sidewalk and there are a
Speaker 1: handful of firefighters standing on the sidewalk, and there's a
Speaker 1: fire truck, like the small one like the fire chief,
Speaker 1: red pickup truck, parked in front of this coffee shop.
Speaker 1: And I thought, because we've ridden with the fire department before,
Speaker 1: I thought some had a heart attack or choked or
Speaker 1: something like that, you know, any sort of health problem.
Speaker 2: The people that show up are the fire department, right
Speaker 2: off the bed.
Speaker 1: And then but I'm getting closer, and I'm walking down
Speaker 1: and side watch a step, no look out And I
Speaker 1: looked down and uh, oh boy.
Speaker 2: Had they been eating too much taco bell lettuce? Or
Speaker 2: it was used food?
Speaker 1: I mean it was the it was the byproduct of
Speaker 1: a human after they have taken all the nutrients out
Speaker 1: of their meal. I see and uh and passed it
Speaker 1: apparently onto the sidewalk right there, like right downtown in
Speaker 1: front of all the stores, big pile on the pizza
Speaker 1: full size, oh.
Speaker 2: Lord, Chipotle burrito size pile right there, boy oh gollant.
Speaker 2: And the firefighter was doing this.
Speaker 1: What I found thought was interesting about it is they're
Speaker 1: like four firefighters when.
Speaker 2: I walked up.
Speaker 1: By the end of it, there were maybe eight, and
Speaker 1: then the full fire truck, like the full ladder truck.
Speaker 1: So you had the full giant half block long ladder truck,
Speaker 1: the pickup truck, maybe eight to ten firefighters standing a
Speaker 1: unadder truck. What in case the guy pooped in a
Speaker 1: tree as well? What's going on here? Standing around looking
Speaker 1: at this pile of poo and what? I got a
Speaker 1: kick out of it. This is what I did because
Speaker 1: I just thought this was fantastic in an awful sort
Speaker 1: of way. I stood because everybody's walking by. Nothing draws
Speaker 1: a crowd. Like a crowd, everybody's wondering what that's going
Speaker 1: on around. I stood on the corner. I said, I'll
Speaker 1: bet you wonder what's going on. I did this for
Speaker 1: like a half an hour. You know what's going on
Speaker 1: over here? Yep?
Speaker 2: Somebody pooped on the sidewalk right over there. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And everybody's like, oh my god. I said, yep, yep,
Speaker 2: human pooh.
Speaker 1: Right there, all these firefighters, fire trucks, everything like that
Speaker 1: human pooh because right there on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: But I told fifty people this story.
Speaker 1: I just decided to be the town barker for what
Speaker 1: was happening there on the corner.
Speaker 2: The fire department.
Speaker 1: I know, I guess, because you're worried about hepatitis or something.
Speaker 1: Eventually a bunch of people showed up with chemicals and
Speaker 1: squirt models and.
Speaker 2: It was quite the Golden State in g.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geddy. We'll get into it an hour three.
Speaker 1: This LSI ed guy up in Michigan. He's going to
Speaker 1: be a problem because he's got he's got the Trump thing,
Speaker 1: he's got the Obama thing, he's got the Clinton thing.
Speaker 2: He is good. He just some people have that and
Speaker 2: he's got it.
Speaker 1: Do not underestimate the guy. He is formidable. I agree completely.
Speaker 1: So I, Joe Geddy hate DEI for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: It's racist, it's born of neo Marxism. Read cynical theories
Speaker 1: by the great James Lindsay and Helm Pluckrowse, and it
Speaker 1: casts a bad light on the achievement of impressive black people.
Speaker 1: And I want black scholars and doctors and attorneys and
Speaker 1: thinkers and writers to get the full credit for their genius.
Speaker 2: And I want black kids to.
Speaker 1: Grow up in the line of opportunity with dreams of greatness.
Speaker 1: That's what I want. That's why a hate DEI to wit.
Speaker 1: And this is out of England, where they're even more
Speaker 1: screwed up than we are. But Jason our day was
Speaker 1: the toast of academia and really the progressive world. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, became the youngest black professor ever appointed
Speaker 1: by the University of Cambridge and was absolutely lionized in
Speaker 1: the British media for his remarkable backstory and account of
Speaker 1: his achievements. Raised in South London family of Ghanian origin,
Speaker 1: he says he was diagnosed with autism as a child.
Speaker 1: He couldn't speak until he was eleven Wow, then overcame
Speaker 1: illiteray in his teens before becoming a sociology professor. When
Speaker 1: at the age of thirty seventy is appointed as a
Speaker 1: professor at the University Cambridge, the prestigious institution said that
Speaker 1: that would help quote address under representation of people from
Speaker 1: socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Uh oh, Well, turns out not only
Speaker 1: is the guy a plagiarist in the you know, the
Speaker 1: Claudine Gay model, he plagediarizes like crazy all of his
Speaker 1: so called giant work. Interestingly, and you've heard me say
Speaker 1: this before, it's weird to accuse people in the grievance
Speaker 1: studies field of plagiarism because their field isn't about science.
Speaker 1: It's about repeating the party line, saying the right things,
Speaker 1: the right phrases, the right words, pledging your fealty to
Speaker 1: that cult. And so of course you're going to plagiar eyes.
Speaker 1: It's like asking me, you know, when you're walking through
Speaker 1: the Valley of the Shadow of Fear and thinking about God.
Speaker 2: How does God's presence make you feel?
Speaker 1: Well? I may say something about, well, I have no fear. Well,
Speaker 1: you accuse me of plagiarizing the First Amendment the New Testament,
Speaker 1: which I would be because there's.
Speaker 2: No nobody's asking.
Speaker 1: For original thought anyway. Putting that aside, Yeah, he plagiarizes
Speaker 1: like crazy. Plus he made all sorts of wild claims
Speaker 1: that they just accepted at face value. That he raised
Speaker 1: almost seven million dollars for charity. He once ran six
Speaker 1: hundred miles in six days, completing the challenge with airline
Speaker 1: fracture in his leg. Well wait a second, where did
Speaker 1: this whole running feat thing come from out of the
Speaker 1: academic world? So well, because one was such an amazing,
Speaker 1: beautiful human being that Yeah, so he's one of those people.
Speaker 1: He's like Joe Biden. He just did all manners of
Speaker 1: different amazing things have happened. Yeah, he's a fabulous as
Speaker 1: they say. Uh, turns out there's no proof that. And
Speaker 1: he had another one that he claimed he ran thirty
Speaker 1: marris thirty marathons in thirty five days and again raised
Speaker 1: something like seven million dollars. Turns out he raised somewhere
Speaker 1: around nineteen hundred dollars maybe in these two schemes. Then
Speaker 1: there's no proof that ever he finished them or whatever.
Speaker 1: And it's not that important. But here's the part that's
Speaker 1: really insidious. No, yeah, it's interesting as a personality quirk.
Speaker 1: But if you're a scholar in a certain area, whether
Speaker 1: or not you lie about how many marathons you run
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter to me. No, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: character thing. But if you can cure cancer, cure it.
Speaker 1: Please well. On Wednesday, he finally resigned, saying it was
Speaker 1: the only way to move on from the accusation speculation
Speaker 1: in public commentary.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: There comes a point when the personal cost becomes too great,
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 2: But here's what.
Speaker 1: Led up to it, the personal cost of your actions.
Speaker 1: When the allegations of his various confabulations and plagiarism first emerged,
Speaker 1: Cambridge stood by Our Day, saying he was the victim
Speaker 1: of a racially motivated smear. On Wednesday, Cambridge said it
Speaker 1: launched a formal investigation after new information about his qualifications.
Speaker 1: Our Day's academic qualifications arose, except none of it was new.
Speaker 1: The tale of our Day's rise and fall, as I said,
Speaker 1: his name is Jason Arday, Yeah, has dominated British headlines
Speaker 1: for weeks and become a lightning rod for debate over
Speaker 1: whether the professor was the victim of a racially motivated
Speaker 1: witch hunt or over promoted by a university eager to
Speaker 1: burnish a reputation for diversity. It's absolutely clearly the second
Speaker 1: one worth mentioning. Probably when he was appointed out of
Speaker 1: twenty three thousand professors in the UK, twenty three thousand,
Speaker 1: there were one hundred and fifty black professors. That's a
Speaker 1: really really low number. What's the percentage of the population.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know that. But this academic who does
Speaker 1: a bunch of looking at plagiarism identified this guy as
Speaker 1: an absolute serial plagiarist. The backlash against him was absolutely
Speaker 1: feverish and severe, and all accused him of quote this
Speaker 1: is from Cambridge. After the allegations were picked up in
Speaker 1: the press, a vile smear campaign to undermine his credibility.
Speaker 1: Journalist at the Times higher education magazine, who probe the
Speaker 1: claims of plagiarism was reported to the police by RDA
Speaker 1: for alleged harassment. The Metropolitan Police investigated but closed the case.
Speaker 2: A petition in his.
Speaker 1: Defense was put together by the progressive campaigning group the
Speaker 1: Good Law Project, signed by sixteen thousand people, including the
Speaker 1: leader of the Green Party. When a distinguished black academic
Speaker 1: is repeatedly subjected to baseless allegations after being fully exonerated, not.
Speaker 2: A single word of that is true.
Speaker 1: Signals are in an attempt to undermine black people who
Speaker 1: hold positions of influence. And there's more to this story,
Speaker 1: and some of the details are almost funny, but the
Speaker 1: takeaway to me is and I hate this, and Thomas
Speaker 1: Sowell has made this point over and over again, as
Speaker 1: have you know, all sorts of you know, my favorite
Speaker 1: thinkers who happen to be black. You walk into a
Speaker 1: young black doctor's office, you've got to think, is here
Speaker 1: because is he here because of excellence? Or DEI a
Speaker 1: black academic? Are they that good? Or was it DEI
Speaker 1: a black? Virtually anything, if there's even a whiff of
Speaker 1: progressivism about, you've got to question their qualifications.
Speaker 2: And that's insidious. And I hate that.
Speaker 1: This is so damaging and the screaming that this is
Speaker 1: vicious racism when it turns out every single allegation was
Speaker 1: true and a lot that you know I haven't even
Speaker 1: mentioned or true too. And the fact that you're screeching
Speaker 1: at people that the only reason you're questioning him is
Speaker 1: or is because you're a racist, That does so much damage.
Speaker 2: Hugh, that's so so ugly.
Speaker 5: So the.
Speaker 1: So he is not an expert or is good in
Speaker 1: the field that he is of a study that he claimed,
Speaker 1: but then he also has all this other external lifestyle
Speaker 1: stuff that's made up. So he's got he's a congenital liar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got something wrong with his brain. He's one of
Speaker 1: those people that apparently get a thrill out of making
Speaker 1: up a story when there's no reason to make up
Speaker 1: a story, which those of us who don't do that
Speaker 1: don't understand.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: I would get no benefit whatsoever out of all of
Speaker 1: a sudden claiming.
Speaker 2: I I don't know would be a good idea. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how was that? Champion Power?
Speaker 1: They're a fantastic swimmer in high school, won many many meets.
Speaker 2: I would get no enjoyment.
Speaker 1: He's got tired of it in college though, a constant practice,
Speaker 1: so I gave it up. But there's some people that
Speaker 1: they're built that way, where they get some sort of
Speaker 1: charge out of making those stories up. Oh oh, and
Speaker 1: he's been dropping l M bombs as well, accusing anybody
Speaker 1: accusing him of being a lynch mob. Oh yeah, ah wow,
Speaker 1: Well you hate to see academics take a blow like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the Wall? Was it the Wall Street?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: The Free Press.
Speaker 1: There's an article about this by a writer academic who
Speaker 1: talks about a friend they have who's an exceptional scholar
Speaker 1: who can't get a job in academy. He's a white fella,
Speaker 1: and he's got to wonder I just saw somebody post
Speaker 1: this and I didn't fully understand it. Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard this before? There was on this story and they said,
Speaker 1: that's why meritocracy is so important. And I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer in the whole meritocracy thing, especially at the point
Speaker 1: in history. Let's just have Let's have places like that
Speaker 1: high school in the San Francisco Bay area that's always
Speaker 1: a national attention. Let's have some places where the very best,
Speaker 1: only the best, are let in. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's all Asian chicks or black dudes or whatever, just
Speaker 1: someplace where the best to go.
Speaker 2: It's good for all of us.
Speaker 1: Anyway, somebody said a a's higher b's, b's higher c's.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard that before? And what does that mean?
Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out what that meant.
Speaker 1: I could guess that's why I believe in a meritocracy.
Speaker 1: As we all know, a's higher, b's, b's higher c's.
Speaker 1: That is that stating what happens if you don't have
Speaker 1: a meritocracy. No, I think what they're saying is a,
Speaker 1: you know, A students need people who are pretty bright,
Speaker 1: but are are workers and a little more straight smart
Speaker 1: and all just their b students and maybe B students think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what we need are C students who are got to
Speaker 1: where they are because they work hard and they they're
Speaker 1: conscientious and maybe they're not brainy acts.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. That's my best guess. Okay. I've
Speaker 2: also heard that.
Speaker 1: A students end up working for B students at companies
Speaker 1: owned by C students. I don't doubt that a bit.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of truth to that. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: got that of it, because academia and success, sorry, mister
Speaker 1: Obama are not the same thing. So before we take
Speaker 1: a break, just because we have a moment, Michael has
Speaker 1: been trying to get this clip on the show all
Speaker 1: week long and we haven't gotten around to it, and
Speaker 1: he every morning in our meeting before the show. I know,
Speaker 1: it's surprising, do we have a meeting before the show
Speaker 1: and it still turns out like this? But we have
Speaker 1: a meeting every day before the show, and he's been
Speaker 1: pitching this and we haven't gotten around to it. So
Speaker 1: let's finally satisfy Michael. This must be really amazing. Do
Speaker 1: you need to know anything about clip eleven before you
Speaker 1: play it?
Speaker 2: No, I'm just gonna play it. It'll have to be
Speaker 2: explained afterwards. Okay, all right, who does this?
Speaker 3: I just bought in a box of Huggies from Target yesterday.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is Huggies problem or
Speaker 3: a Target problem, but like, there's no type person this.
Speaker 3: It's a blanket and plastic and a shirt. I'm four
Speaker 3: weeks post part of me. Now I have to lug
Speaker 3: my four week old and my twenty four month old
Speaker 3: two Target. My husband's about to go to his night
Speaker 3: shift to party. Anxious about my postpartum anxiety.
Speaker 2: Could not handle this.
Speaker 1: Okay, First of all, when your kid hits two years,
Speaker 1: just say two years, don't say twenty four months. I
Speaker 1: mean when they're seventeen. Are you gonna go with thirty
Speaker 1: five hundred months or what?
Speaker 2: I haven't done that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So apparently she bought a box of diapers from
Speaker 1: the Target and it contained not diapers but other crap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's correct, And what this is is a new
Speaker 5: shoplifting scheme. What they're doing is people are going in
Speaker 5: and they'll buy Pampers or something and they go home
Speaker 5: use them, but they keep the package and they.
Speaker 2: Fill up with old clothes.
Speaker 1: Still waits about run. So they're taking advantage of the
Speaker 1: return policy.
Speaker 5: Correct, and they take it to customer service, some kid
Speaker 5: you know, brings it up and they gets money back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So many return policies have been ruined by scumbags. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to have the Target. My son actually worked
Speaker 1: customer service at Target for a while and it taught
Speaker 1: him more about humanity than any university education ever could.
Speaker 1: But now he understands people and how awful they are.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Target should not have earnest and polite young men, and
Speaker 1: he is one of them. It should have bouncers like
Speaker 1: a CD bar, and if you try to pull that stuff,
Speaker 1: you get hit in the head good and hard and
Speaker 1: hurled out onto the pavement, and take care of.
Speaker 2: A lot of it.
Speaker 1: An hour three, L sayed the guy that's the Democratic
Speaker 1: nominee for Senate up in Michigan. His challenge to the
Speaker 1: Republican Mike Rogers, it's going to be convert to Islam
Speaker 1: or be beheaded, no different challenge. It's going to be
Speaker 1: an a wow, it's going to be an exciting three
Speaker 1: months that race. I think it's going to have all
Speaker 1: the national attention, among other things. On the way, stay here, Michael.
Speaker 2: Moore told CNN.
Speaker 4: He's so disgusted by Democratic politicians he's willing to get
Speaker 4: down on his knees and beg for DSA candidates to win.
Speaker 1: However, first he has to find his knees.
Speaker 2: That's fat joke.
Speaker 1: There, before I get to this interesting political commentary. I
Speaker 1: have two boys, so I don't know near as much,
Speaker 1: hardly anything actually about raising girls. I know nothing about it.
Speaker 1: Why would I even pretend I know anything. I know
Speaker 1: nothing about raising girls, but i've teenage boys and has
Speaker 1: taken my he's going to be a junior in high
Speaker 1: school here in like a week, and him and his
Speaker 1: friends downtown last night, and just riding in the truck
Speaker 1: with them, driving him downtown, listening to them talk. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, like straight out of a movie or a song.
Speaker 1: I mean, they all, the three of them. The effort
Speaker 1: you have to go to to be to show you're
Speaker 1: a cool part of the tribe. Person at that age
Speaker 1: is once you're old and out of it, almost humorous.
Speaker 1: But I like job one, right, it is job one.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. I mean it is the way they talk
Speaker 1: to each other. I mean I don't hear him talk.
Speaker 1: He doesn't talk that way to me, but listening to
Speaker 1: them talk to each other the way they talk to
Speaker 1: each other using their teenager lingo and having to be
Speaker 1: so cool about everything all the time. What I was wondering,
Speaker 1: because I haven't had the experience, is there a female
Speaker 1: equivalent to that? Or do teenage girls do exactly the
Speaker 1: same thing with just slightly different verbiage.
Speaker 2: It is different.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of Born to Run the Springsteen song and
Speaker 1: the boys try to look so hard. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's what was going on there. Yeah, the desperation to
Speaker 1: belong has a different sound and feel to it, but
Speaker 1: it's absolutely there. It's just conformity and never ending compliments
Speaker 1: and you know then you say what you really think,
Speaker 1: you know behind closed doors.
Speaker 2: But it's like.
Speaker 1: Practically obsessive pleasantness in some social circles, or cynicism in others.
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, it's it's a different flavor, all perfectly natural.
Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing any of this, it's just part of it.
Speaker 1: Did I did the same thing, And I was also
Speaker 1: thinking about just they were so excited. All they were
Speaker 1: doing is going downtown and they're gonna walk around and
Speaker 1: like grab a piece of pizza at some point and
Speaker 1: then come home and they were so happy and so excited.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just it's is it ever like that
Speaker 2: in your life?
Speaker 1: Again, maybe when you're eighty, but I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: the their level of being in the moment, for one thing,
Speaker 1: because you don't have the worries of being older and
Speaker 1: adulthood and everything like that. But it's just I just
Speaker 1: I was like, I remember that. Just everything is right now.
Speaker 1: It's just a random Wednesday night. The three of us
Speaker 1: are going to hang out and eat some cheap, crappy
Speaker 1: food together, and it is gonna be awesome, speaking of
Speaker 1: being into the moment. Unbelievable story about a guy who
Speaker 1: had to give up his cell phone habit because he
Speaker 1: went to prison. But there are all sorts of twists
Speaker 1: to the story. Super interesting. That's coming up. Stay with us,
Speaker 1: won't you.
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Was that the same trip with the poop on sidewalk?
Speaker 1: It was they didn't see that I was. I dropped
Speaker 1: them off, and then I went to a little different
Speaker 1: time of my part of my town and I was
Speaker 1: walking down the sidewalk and saw the firefighters standing around
Speaker 1: a pile of human pooh. I told that story an
Speaker 1: hour two. If you missed it. Get the podcast Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getting on demand. It's sort of thing that happened
Speaker 1: all California towns pretty much. Oh yeah, much more human
Speaker 1: feces about than in those fascist red states.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: Mike Rodgers, who's the Republican running for the Senate in Michigan,
Speaker 1: is hunkered down with a lot of advisors trying to
Speaker 1: figure out exactly how to handle this. Elsayaed dude in
Speaker 1: his various challenges that he's put out in the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: We'll play some of those for you. He's good. He's good.
Speaker 2: That alsayed.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be fun to watch. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be like a masterclass in politics on both sides.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like a master villain to me. He's brilliant
Speaker 1: but evil. If you miss a segment of the podcast
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