1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: and Jetty, and Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 2: There's so much insanity, and not just in politics. Chipotle 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: announced this week they're planning to open a restaurant in Mexico. 6 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: Don't they already have diarrhea in Mexico? Why are they 7 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: doing that? This, to me is just breaks a sacred 8 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: rule when it comes to food. You don't try to 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 2: sell people their own stuff. There are no olive gardens 10 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 2: in Italy, there's no Panda Express in China, there are 11 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 2: no outback steakhouses in the outback, there's no red lobster 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 2: in the ocean. And therefore you can't open a Chipotle 13 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: in Mexico. 14 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 3: The idea of Chipotle Mexico is really interesting. I'll bet 15 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 3: it's in a tourist town where really lame tourists are 16 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 3: going to Mexico on vacation and ed a Chipotle. 17 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, that is really sad. I'd say, please, don't do 18 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 4: like the folks who go to a foreign land and 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 4: eat at the McDonald's. 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: You know, teach your own. But I imagine that there's 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: some interesting aspects to that. 22 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: I've done it, just they have different stuff, right, you know, 23 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 3: Royale with cheese. 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 4: Right, that's a good point. So a number of headlines 25 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 4: worth at least touching on. We've got some big topics 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 4: to get to, including Jack's review of the now famous. 27 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: Book Pride Puppy. 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she is at the center of the Maryland 29 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 4: School opting out of perverse indoctrination case. 30 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: And some marriage therapists did a survey of like. 31 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 3: Many, many, many, many, but many couples who didn't make 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 3: it and what things most cause uh, marriage just to 33 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 3: fall apart completely. And it's actually good. Most of this 34 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 3: stuff is stupid and useless. This is pretty good. Actually, 35 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: fan in with something Joe has said many times. 36 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 4: Okay, and one final thing, why is Trump going after 37 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 4: the accreditation agencies that accredit colleges in your universities as 38 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 4: part of the war against DEI? We will explain it's 39 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 4: actually a really good strategy, which we've been talking about 40 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 4: for a while here on the Armstrong and Getty Show. 41 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 4: A couple of news headlines worth touching on. A new 42 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 4: poll is out. 43 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: It's the CAP's Harris. 44 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 4: Pole and folks are really really not liking the tariff thing. Though, 45 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 4: the public is largely behind Trump, with about forty percent 46 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 4: of voters saying the country is on the right track, 47 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 4: which is an increase of eleven points since January. Trump's 48 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 4: personal job approval has so far peaked at fifty two 49 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 4: percent in February is still at forty eight percent, a 50 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 4: healthy figure in a polarized country. This does differ from 51 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 4: the Gallup poll, which came out fairly recently, but it's 52 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 4: in the same range. 53 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 3: That's that's wild. I mean that he is. He's hanging 54 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: in there with pretty high approval ratings. In the modern sense. 55 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: There aren't going to be any presidents with sixty percent 56 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 3: approvals again, I don't think, not for. 57 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 4: A while, not barring some huge happening, you know, a 58 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 4: war or an attack or something like that. But his 59 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 4: numbers have plenty of room to grow. Blah blah blah. 60 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 4: His greatest political danger is his trade policy. Voters like 61 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 4: mister Trump's immigration policy. Seventy four percent say they favored 62 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 4: deporting illegal aliens who have committed crimes, and you twenty 63 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 4: six percent, why don't you sneak into another country do crimes? 64 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: And then say what you're deporting me out of your minds. 65 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: I know. 66 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 4: There was never significant support for the Biden administration's policy 67 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 4: of open borders, which let ten million people enter the 68 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 4: country illegally, wildly unpopular, in spite of what you'd gather 69 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 4: in the media. 70 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: One of the. 71 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 3: Most huge, unpopular things any administration's ever done in the 72 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 3: history of America, and historians will have to study it. 73 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say it was a miserable failure of democracy. 74 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 4: I suppose you could point out that, well, they got 75 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 4: voted out of office, the Democrats, But in the meantime, 76 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 4: an enormous amount of damage had been done. An enormous 77 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 4: number of criminals and rapists and murders and gang bangers 78 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 4: have been let into the country. And then untangling that 79 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 4: not is going to take many dollars, many years, and 80 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 4: many victims. 81 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: And I'll say this every time because it's extraordinary. 82 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 3: It's the largest peacetime migration of humans and the Earth's history. 83 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, Joe Biden was not only senile, he was evil, 84 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 4: as was Alijndro mayorchis what an evil man? Anyway, Let 85 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 4: me plunge on with a pole. Huge majorities also support 86 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 4: slimming down the government seventy seven percent support quote a 87 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 4: full examination of all government expenditures. 88 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, that's weird. 89 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 4: I keep hearing from David freaking Mure that Doge is 90 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 4: evil and nice people are being laid off and it's terrible. 91 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: Nobody wants this. 92 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 4: No huge majority support it eighty one percent. Eighty one 93 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 4: percent think the US should move in the next few 94 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 4: years to balance the budget, which has not been achieved 95 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 4: since that shining conservative Bill Clinton was in. 96 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: The White House. You know, the. 97 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 4: Devil in the details is when you talk about what 98 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 4: to cut, and everybody's going to take a bit of 99 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 4: a haircut to get to a balanced budget. 100 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: And that's where it gets a little more complicated. 101 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 3: It's it's good news that we want to I mean, 102 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 3: it would be bad if most people think, nah, this 103 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,119 Speaker 3: is perfectly fine. So it's you know, it's a step 104 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 3: in the right direction. But it is like you know, 105 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 3: many of us, we're overweight. We're nowhere overweight. You would 106 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 3: absolutely tell Gallop, yes, I want to lose weight, but 107 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 3: not change any of your eating habits. 108 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 4: Right, yeah, in the meaning right, that's a good metaphor. 109 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 4: There are deep passions on both sides. They right but 110 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 4: a majority of Americans reject woke ideology. Sixty five percent 111 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: of voters favor the policy of banning males from women's 112 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 4: in girls' sports two thirds of people and again the 113 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 4: supporting number is less than a third. I'll dig into it, 114 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 4: but that you got a lot of people who don't 115 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 4: have an opinion, and you know, please don't vote. 116 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: Not have an opinion on this, you bullron. Yeah, I know, 117 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: I agree completely. 118 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 4: Well, they've been cowed into silence by their neighbors. They're 119 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 4: just seople, they're we killed. I think it's more cowards 120 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 4: than idiots. You think women with penises should compete in 121 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 4: men's sports? No, whoa whoa whoa whoa? 122 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: What that that when phrase you threw at me? Women 123 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: with penises? Wow? I don't know. 124 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 4: Sixty percent support quote eliminating all preference by race and 125 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 4: hiring an awarding of government contracts. 126 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: Folks, we have enormous majorities. 127 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 4: We don't have the media, we don't have Hollywood, we 128 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 4: don't have education, and that is our challenge. But we're 129 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 4: working on it, and I'm sure you are too. 130 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: Let's see, Bobby. 131 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 4: Kennedy Junior has a forty four percent personal favorability rating 132 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 4: second only to Trump. Wow, among the fourteen political figures 133 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 4: included in the poll. 134 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: Wow, maybe we should all get a brain worm. 135 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 4: I uh, that's that's a terrible thing to say. Oh, 136 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 4: I want to get into something you said recently that. 137 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: You know. 138 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 4: And I think Bobby Kennedy just a full disclosure. I 139 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 4: think he's half a crank. I think he's right about 140 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 4: a lot of stuff. I think he's completely full of 141 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 4: beans about a lot of stuff. And by the way, 142 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 4: eat more beans is good for you, make America healthy 143 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 4: again and flagelent. 144 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: But it's good for it. 145 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 4: You got to ease into it. That's the key with beans. 146 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 4: Ease into it anyway, that's the key with beans. Joe says, yes, well, 147 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 4: I right about that. Beans are of fabulous nutritional value. 148 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 4: But you've got to get your gut used to them. 149 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 4: Otherwise you'll be like the Hindenburg. And there's no reason 150 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 4: to you that's right, there's no reason to get. 151 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: Wish wish childish about this. 152 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: We should have a phrase that pays, like old timey 153 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 3: radio contests. If you hear this phrase, call in, you 154 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 3: get dollars. And the phrase today is I don't what 155 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 3: that's the key with beginning. 156 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 4: He's into beans, right, all right, here's the rubs. Here's 157 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 4: the rub, the tariffs, which generally confuse people. According to 158 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 4: this ride Up, eighty four percent of the poll's respondents 159 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 4: say they favor free trade. Our trade is not exactly free, 160 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 4: but they don't want less free trade. Sixty six agree 161 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 4: that quote tariffs are important to protect jobs in our 162 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 4: country today, So obviously there's some tension there. Again, eighty 163 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 4: four percent say yay free trade, sixty six percent say 164 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 4: tariffs are important to protect jobs in our country today. 165 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 4: One way of reconciling the tension between these positions would 166 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 4: be to use US tariff's as an incentive for other 167 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 4: countries to reduce theirs. Obviously and quite correct. So here's 168 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 4: where mister Trump in public opinion diverge. He gets only 169 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 4: forty five percent approval on his tariff plans and forty 170 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 4: one percent on his effort to curb inflation. 171 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: He needs higher numbers. That's higher than I thought. 172 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 4: That's pretty hot. Forty five for tariff. Yeah, you know, 173 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 4: it's really well. I'm statistics. They're difficult to get to 174 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 4: the bottom of sometimes, but I'm surprised by this number. 175 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 4: What percentage of the goods we use in this country 176 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 4: are imported. 177 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal wants to. 178 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 4: Know, asking people are for real, for real eleven percent, 179 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 4: about three trillion dollars a year and a twenty eight 180 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 4: hundred twenty eight trillion dollar economy. 181 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: Boy, I'd have missed that. Yeah, I'd have missed it 182 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: completely too. I would like to know. Oh, I might 183 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: have said eighty five or something. 184 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 4: Well, you get into the complexity of Okay, you've got 185 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 4: a car assembled in America. It's got twelve hundred and 186 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 4: forty parts. Each one of those parts has a different 187 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 4: ratio foreign to domestic manufacturer and assembly. 188 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: So is that car. 189 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 3: You know, domestic are not all right? But yeah, but 190 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 3: you buy one car every three to five years. Everything 191 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 3: on the Walmart shelf is from China. 192 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: So you know. 193 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 4: I'd intended on touching on a number of other headlines 194 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 4: in the segment, but got stuck on the poll, which 195 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 4: is fine. 196 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: It was pretty interesting. 197 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 4: I will just throw in one more note that we'll 198 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 4: take a break because Jack's got some good stuff for us. 199 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 4: But a new study out of a couple of universities 200 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 4: have joined up several French universities and research institutions, and 201 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 4: they think that a combination of the food additives in 202 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 4: our diets, the modern hyper refined diet, might raise the 203 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 4: risk of diabetes. 204 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: They add to the risk of each other. 205 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 4: They snowball in other words, And we don't have time 206 00:10:58,160 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 4: to get into this now. But you know, if you 207 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 4: were a scientist studying whatever elephants, and all of a 208 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 4: sudden elephants were getting much much fatter and dying younger 209 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 4: and having more cancer at all. And somebody said, well, 210 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 4: they're eating a diet unlike they've ever eaten in the 211 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 4: history of elephants, and you said, no, that's not it. 212 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 4: Let's keep looking. I mean, you'd be an idiot, right right, 213 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 4: No kidding, all right, more to come on that topic. 214 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 3: I'm sure how to keep your marriage together are man 215 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 3: signs to look out for that are going to doom 216 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 3: your marriage. And remember the big takeaway from this segment, 217 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 3: ease into your new all bean diet. 218 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: According to you, indeed hard primary, stay tuned. You've said 219 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: this many times. 220 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 3: After your years of trying a number of different kinds 221 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,719 Speaker 3: of therapy for me and my family, kids, marriage, all 222 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 3: kinds of different stuff. I think it's mostly worthless. I 223 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 3: really do, I really do. I think it's mostly a 224 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 3: waste of money, unfortunately, but this was pretty good from 225 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 3: a marriage psychologist who reveals the number one sign of 226 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 3: a future separation. And this stuff is almost always crap, 227 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 3: especially if it's in the New York Post, which is 228 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 3: where I got this. 229 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: But I thought this was really good. 230 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 3: If you want to know if your marriage is heading 231 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 3: to splitsville, don't check your partner's phone, check their face. 232 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: Like any of that. 233 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 5: You know. 234 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 3: Oh, there's so many stupid things out there, you know, 235 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 3: the one sign that he's gonna cheat or whatever the 236 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 3: hell I mean, they're just all dumb but click bait. 237 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 3: The one sided mouth rays the subtle smirk of superiority 238 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 3: is the number one red flag for divorce, according to 239 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 3: this psychologist. 240 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: And they get into why. 241 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 3: Research blah blah blah blah found that four nasty little habits, criticism, contempt, defensiveness, 242 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 3: and stonewalling are the four horsemen of the apocalypse when 243 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 3: it comes to dooming relationships. 244 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: I'll read those four again. 245 00:12:54,200 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 3: Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. But contempt is the kiss 246 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 3: of death. That's the one. And you've said that for years. 247 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 3: That's the one you can't get past done, the largest 248 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 3: marriage experiment ever done. They think of couples that you know, 249 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: survive and don't survive body language experts, which we've mocked 250 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 3: for years and all that sort of thing. 251 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: Because they're usually stupid. 252 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 6: Also well on cable TV they are, Yeah, brought couples 253 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 6: into a lab and if one member of the couple 254 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 6: shows a one sided mouth raise, which I had never 255 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 6: heard before as like a physical contempt thing. 256 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: But I guess we're just programmed. When we're feeling that 257 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: feeling of contempt. 258 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 3: For something or you know, the old pleaser get out 259 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 3: of here with that BS or whatever feeling, you raise. 260 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 1: One side of your mouth. 261 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 3: It's funny if one member of the couple shows a 262 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 3: one sided mouth raise towards the other, he can tell 263 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 3: you if they're going to get divorced, because it's contempt. 264 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 3: He could predict divorce with an astonishing ninety four percent 265 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 3: accurate Fear. Now this is part I think. I thought 266 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 3: that was really interesting. Fear comes in a burst, and 267 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 3: then you calm down. Happiness comes and then you go 268 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 3: back to normal. Anger comes and then you calm down, 269 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 3: but not contempt. If you feel scorn or disdain for 270 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 3: someone else, and if it's not addressed, it just festers 271 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 3: and grows and stays at the same level. All that 272 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 3: is true, doesn't it fear anger and then obviously happiness 273 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 3: you get back to a normal level. Contempt, it does 274 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 3: not go away, you know. 275 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 4: In a definition of contempt, the feeling that a person 276 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 4: or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless or deserving scorn. 277 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: Ye, he's coming back from that. 278 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why at the end of a marriage you 279 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 3: often have two people who can't even look at each other. 280 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: You only need what contempt on one end obviously for 281 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 3: the whole thing to work. I I've not felt contempt, 282 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 3: but I have been on the wrong end of contempt, 283 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 3: I think. And having read this, I thought, yeah, that's 284 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 3: what was insurmountable. I mean, because once you have contempt 285 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 3: for someone you don't agree, you don't think they are 286 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 3: worth listening to on anything. 287 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 4: Right, this is how I feel. This is my priority. 288 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 4: I don't care right. Yeah, that's a tough one to 289 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 4: get past. So look out for contempt and whatever started 290 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 4: to bring it on. The point is you start to 291 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 4: deal with it right away, otherwise it does just grow 292 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 4: and fester. And then it gets into a situation where 293 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: it might might not be reversible. They also believe that 294 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 4: many couples get stuck in an endless loop of the 295 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 4: same three arguments throughout the relationship. 296 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: They just don't realize it. And if you can nail down. 297 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 3: What your three most common arguments are you and your partner, 298 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 3: you can solve a lot of problems. Like you get 299 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 3: into something, you say, okay, here we're in argument number 300 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 3: two again. We always argue about this, and you can 301 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 3: you know, realize that you know, you don't see eye 302 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 3: to eye on this particular thing and how you've dealt 303 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: with it. 304 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: In the past, which is a pretty good kid. 305 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 4: Actually distracted by the details or the trivia, you realize, oh, 306 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 4: this is argument B. 307 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that interesting back to the contempt thing. 308 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: Disgust and contempt are to a relationship with gasoline, and 309 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: matches are to a fire. The telltale signs are eye rolling, 310 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 3: somebody's rolling their eyes at you. That's not good, eye rolling, 311 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 3: mouth crimping, and then subtle fidgeting like picking it closed 312 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 3: or cleaning fingers mid conversation as signals of disdain. This 313 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 3: person said that they dubbed this move the lint picker, 314 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 3: a behavior that he says, screams contempt. 315 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: Louder than words ever could. 316 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 3: If somebody is, you know, explaining something very important and 317 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 3: you're like picking lint off your shirt or. 318 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 4: Something, oh my god, interesting, you know, it's probably worth 319 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 4: presenting the other side of the coin at some point. 320 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 4: We don't have time now, but how do you prevent 321 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 4: that sort of thing if it in the bud having 322 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 4: lint on your shirt, No contempt in your marriage, no heart, 323 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 4: Strong and geddy. Rosie o'donald told CNN it's heartbreaking to 324 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 4: watch Donald Trump. 325 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: Destroy the country from her new home of Ireland. 326 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 6: Meanwhile, Ireland told CNN it's heartbreaking that there's not enough 327 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 6: guinness to make Rosie o'donnald look pretty. 328 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 4: No, no, Michael, I don't approve of that joke. That's 329 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 4: just she's not an attractive woman. Yeah, it's a matter 330 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 4: of genetics, and I just know. No, she's cruel cruel 331 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 4: See you. 332 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 3: Don't find old women hot unless she's totally irrelevant. 333 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, again, that is just cruelty for cruelty's sake. I 334 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: don't approve. We need a woman to stand it, Yes, yes, 335 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: Katie as the woman on the program, Michael, I approve 336 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 1: of that joke. No, no, no, you're overruled. 337 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 4: That helps, does it? You know it just occurred to 338 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 4: me Jack on air meeting. We've got that Martha McCallum 339 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 4: talking to the evil Randy Winegarten audio about the nature 340 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 4: of education. Maybe we go big on that hour four 341 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 4: of the hour four. My goodness, you fellas work hard, 342 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 4: Yes we do. If you don't get our four, you 343 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 4: can subscribe to our podcast Armstrong you get on demand. 344 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 1: It's available later on the day. If I had to 345 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: describe us in two words, it would be put upon yes, 346 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: oh please please. They forced us to sign the contract. Anyway. 347 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: Perhaps you've heard that Donald J. 348 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 4: Recently issued an executive order yesterday as a matter of fact, 349 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 4: to shake up the world of college accreditation, which Trump 350 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 4: called his secret weapon in a bid to remake higher 351 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 4: education and somehow drag our colleges in universities away from 352 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 4: the neo Marxist woke thing, which we have identified as 353 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 4: maybe the biggest challenge this country has churning out generation 354 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 4: after generation of kids who are trained to hate their 355 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,959 Speaker 4: own country and hate the very foundations of Western civilization. 356 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 4: It is a bizarre experiment in suicide, you know, cultural suicide, 357 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 4: and it needs to end like the day before yesterday. 358 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 4: But it's going to be a hell of a fight anyway. 359 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 4: The order aims to use the accrediting system to combat 360 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 4: with Trump used as a discriminator, as discriminatory practices and 361 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 4: ideological overreach on college campuses, The White House said, And 362 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 4: it's interesting that this piece in the Wall Street Journal. 363 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 1: Which is written by a couple of gals. 364 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 4: I believe they're both gals, you know, has this sort 365 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 4: of cliched phrase that you're used to some or Trump 366 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 4: and other Republicans have long criticized the accreditation problem, says, 367 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 4: calling it a cartel that stifles competition and doesn't help 368 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 4: police colleges and universities with poor student outcomes. And indeed, 369 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 4: some conservatives claim it reinforces the woke ideology. I'm paraphrasing 370 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 4: what they say in the article, and I'm reading this 371 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 4: and thinking, you're a reporter, why don't you look into 372 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 4: whether those claims are true or not. Joe Getty claimed 373 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 4: that his business partner Jack Armstrong, is a murderer in 374 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 4: other news. Wait a minute, this is the pivotal question 375 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 4: before us and your journalists allegedly. 376 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: Well, I says to myself, I says, wait a minute. 377 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 4: Didn't the journal itself have a really interesting piece not 378 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 4: long ago about these accreditation agencies and how they operate. 379 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,719 Speaker 4: And it took jack God, Oh was it three weeks 380 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 4: or no, it was about two and a half minutes 381 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 4: to find a great piece by Henry Stone. How colleges 382 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 4: and universities get around eight DEI bands. They hide behind 383 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 4: vague demands from accreditors, and Congress should deprive them of 384 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 4: this excuse. 385 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: You know, a brief tangent here. Yeah, Congress has got 386 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: to pass laws. Executive orders are good. Laws are great. 387 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 4: Anyway, this gentleman is writing about how incredibly woke these 388 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 4: accreditation agencies are, and they are. Here's here's an example, 389 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 4: des Moines, Iowa. Someone's lying, he writes, that's what I 390 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 4: discovered after trying to free my state's higher education system 391 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 4: from DEI. Instead of complying with a DEI band we 392 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 4: passed into law earlier this year, the University of Iowa, 393 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 4: the College of Medicine, says it's forced to maintain these 394 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 4: programs or it will lose its accreditation, essentially killing the institution. 395 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 4: Yet a creditor say that's not the case, even as 396 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 4: they give quiet cover to universities. If federal reforms don't 397 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 4: stop these shenanigans, virtually every part of higher education may 398 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 4: soon wriggle. 399 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: Free of state DEI bands. 400 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 4: So the states are trying to do the right thing 401 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 4: because they understand that this is perverse, neomarxist, it's racist, 402 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 4: it's anti Title nine, it's all sorts of evil. But 403 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 4: the accreditation agencies are saying, let me find this specific here, okay. 404 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 4: So they had legislation in Iowa that banned public institutions, 405 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 4: including i with three public universities, from having DEI offices, programs, 406 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 4: and staff. And he thought that the law would soon 407 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 4: strive DEI from the campuses in state government. 408 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: He writes, I was wrong. 409 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 4: In early November, the Iowa Board of Regents, which oversees 410 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 4: the state's public universities, issued a report on compliance with 411 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 4: the law. It laid out in detail how DEI initiatives 412 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 4: hadn't been shut down statewide, But in fine print, on 413 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 4: page seventy eight, I learned that Carver College, that's the 414 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 4: big medical school, is keeping its Office of Health Parody open. 415 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 4: The office proudly declares on its home page that it 416 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,959 Speaker 4: quote strives to achieve excellence through the advancement of diversity, equity, 417 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 4: and inclusion. The Board of Regents says its hand was 418 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 4: forced by accreditors. These are private institutions that decide whether 419 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 4: universities and graduate schools can grant degrees or not. 420 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: And they are woke af pardon me, as the kids 421 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: say these days. Wow. 422 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 3: So they keep open that office, and the people that 423 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 3: made that decision might not believe in it at all, 424 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 3: but they got to have that to keep their accreditation. 425 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 3: And then the people that work in what was the 426 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 3: name of that Office of Health Equity or whatever. 427 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, it's such an Orwellian office of health parody, 428 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 4: Jack right, the Office. 429 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: Of Health Parity. 430 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 3: The people that work in that office toiling away probably 431 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 3: don't know Your only here is like a token to 432 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 3: the accreditation people. 433 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: Be successful or don't. I don't care. Yeah. 434 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 4: So the accreditors deny pushing the DEI agenda. Last week 435 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 4: last year, rather as The Wall Street Journal reported, the 436 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 4: alleas On Committee on Medical Education, which accredits to US 437 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 4: medical schools, told federal lawmakers, we don't require DEI, but 438 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 4: their charter does demand that all medical schools that get 439 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 4: accredited engage quote in ongoing systematic and focused recruitment and 440 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 4: retention activities to achieve mission appropriate diversity outcomes, or. 441 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: We yank your accreditation and you're not educating anybody. 442 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: Diverse outcome meaning you have to have a certain percentage 443 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 3: of different people graduating. 444 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 5: Wow. 445 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, And you've got to toe the line on health equity, 446 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 4: education programs and just all of this this garbage. 447 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 3: And it's mostly by the way, because it always I'm 448 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 3: always worried to sound like, you know, a white male 449 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 3: standing up for more what it's the Asian kids that 450 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 3: are getting screwed. 451 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 1: In that thing the most. 452 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, yeah, yeah. I mean there are a 453 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 4: hundred problems with that, with this, but that's one of them. 454 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 4: And you know, for what it's worth, I've learned, you know, 455 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 4: thirty five times more after graduating from college than I 456 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 4: did in college. But my educational background is political science 457 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 4: and comparing the political systems and how they function. And 458 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 4: I've got to admit, when I step aside from my 459 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 4: disgust in horror at this unholy experiment in turning our 460 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 4: kids against their own country and Western civilisation in general, 461 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 4: I've got to admire the insidious effectiveness of these people. 462 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding. 463 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 4: They said to themselves, all right, what do we really 464 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 4: need to rot this society from the inside out? You know, 465 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 4: the media was a fairly easy play. But we need education. 466 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 4: We've got to get the kids. We've got to indoctrinate 467 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 4: the kids to hate their country so we can tear 468 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 4: it down. 469 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 3: And the conservative analogy to that would be the decades 470 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 3: long effort to overturn Roe versus Wade and getting various 471 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 3: judges at various levels of federal courts building up to 472 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 3: the Supreme Court. I mean, it's no very long planned 473 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 3: out decades, Yeah, a very strategic effort to do that. 474 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: The liberal end of it is this what you're just 475 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: talking about. 476 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing to get all of these policies 477 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 3: and place at so many different levels of our education system, right, 478 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,360 Speaker 3: and the cleverness to say, well, what if the colleges resist, 479 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 3: what if they still want a diversity of opinions on 480 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 3: their faculty, then we yank their accreditation. 481 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: We need to control the accreditation agencies. How do we 482 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: do that? 483 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 4: Through DEI And I'll give you the nickel version of this, 484 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 4: as James Lindsay put it so brilliantly critical. Race theory 485 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 4: is calling something racist until you control it. So you 486 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 4: go to the accreditation agency and you say, are you 487 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 4: an anti racist? I'm against racism. No, you've got to 488 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 4: be an anti racist first of all, read this book 489 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 4: by Robin DiAngelo ibramex Kindy and declare that all white 490 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 4: people are racist and white supremacists, including you. And you're like, no, 491 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 4: I'm not a racist, and they get you fired because 492 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 4: you're not an anti racist. A lot of you perhaps 493 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 4: saw people run out of their careers for not towing 494 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: the post George Floyd Black Lives Matter line, and they 495 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 4: terrify people into leaving, or they run them out, or 496 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 4: they force them to their knees like a struggle session 497 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 4: in Mao's China, to decline, to declare that, yes, I'm evil. 498 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 4: Yes the United States was founded on a bigotry in slavery, 499 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 4: and yes all of Western civilization is white supremacy. Don't 500 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 4: hurt me, let me keep my job. And then you're 501 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 4: under their control and they take over the accreditation agencies. 502 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: That's how they did it. It's evil, but it's clever. 503 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 4: We've got to be every bit as aggressive and clever 504 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 4: fighting back. So anyway, you see that Donald Jay's going 505 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 4: after college accreditation agencies, why that's why. 506 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 3: So I don't think Trump knew this stuff. No either, 507 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 3: certainly back in twenty fifteen when he ran. I wonder 508 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 3: who convinced him of all this? 509 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: And I think JD. Vance has a terrific grasp of 510 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: this stuff. 511 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 4: I disagree with JD on a handful of things pretty vehemently, 512 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 4: but I think he's really really good on this stuff. 513 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: Hmm, that'd be interesting. I'd like to know more about that. Like, yeah, 514 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: I agree. 515 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 3: I disagree with him one hundred percent today on his 516 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 3: Ukraine stuff, and we got more of that later. But 517 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 3: if he's driving the bus on this, that's fantastic. 518 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And like I say, this is so critical 519 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: a fight. 520 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 4: I mean, I really really believe it is that when 521 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 4: I see them do stuff like the whips on on 522 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 4: the tariffs and some of the trades stuff, and it's 523 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 4: not like, all right, don't mess up the economy because 524 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 4: if you do that, Republicans are going to get booted 525 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 4: out of office and we're not going to get a 526 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 4: chance to fight this fight. So proceed at least Semikar. 527 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 4: Of course that's not exactly. You know, the Donald J. 528 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 4: Trump boy are doing things which is fun. 529 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: It is what it is. 530 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 3: Uh right, So we got we got to get into 531 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 3: the book Pride Puppy an hour three, a variety of things. 532 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 3: I would definitely want to get to that whole Ukraine conversation. 533 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 3: We know no more about that Maryland man, Uh, the 534 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 3: MS thirteen guy. 535 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: The Little League coach Dad, Marylynd father. 536 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 3: Right, we got that, and uh and j Lo and 537 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 3: Ben Affleck are having a hard time selling their house. 538 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 3: That's a oh sorry to hear that their house is 539 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 3: worth mentioning. Wow, but a lot of stuff on the 540 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 3: way to stay. 541 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 5: Here, Armstrong Eddie, we saw a mail truck driving in 542 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 5: the wrong direction in the same lane that we were in. 543 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 5: He proceeded to drive in zigzags all the way down 544 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 5: the road until she got to the stop sign, where 545 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 5: she proceeded to kick a solo cup out of the 546 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 5: side of the mail truck. She was literally off roading 547 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 5: in the mail truck. 548 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: We have a drunk mail truck driver. 549 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 4: I like the kicking the solo cup out gez Yeah, 550 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 4: And they'll never notice this. 551 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: Hey, here's a mail truck worker. 552 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 4: A female Maleman who was rolling along doing her thing 553 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 4: thirty three years old, came across. 554 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: There are a female Maleman. They're probably by them. Oh boy. 555 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 4: Anyway, this thoroughly woman Maleman saw a house party and 556 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,959 Speaker 4: evidently somebody said, hey, come on in for a proper two. 557 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: She thought why not, and indeed got somewhat. 558 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 4: Well unsober and has been charged with a variety of 559 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 4: crimes which are no joke. But I've got to admit 560 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 4: it's somewhat amusing. The idea of hey, you know, you 561 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 4: get your route is long and life is hard, come 562 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 4: on in for a drink. 563 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: And she says, yeah, I know. Some point old lady 564 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: didn't get her TV guide. What are they going to get. 565 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 3: Their safeway flyers fifteen minutes late? Come on in and 566 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 3: have a drink. 567 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: Good lord, exactly. 568 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 4: Evidently she could not hold her liqueur though, and was 569 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 4: swerving in and out of her lane, et cetera, including 570 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 4: into the oncoming traffic. 571 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, which, yeah, terrible. Oh yeah yeah. Start with the 572 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: least important stupidest thing first. 573 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 3: J Lo and ben Aflack, who got divorced again after 574 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,239 Speaker 3: getting married for the second time. Their divorce is being 575 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 3: held up by they're trying to figure out how to 576 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 3: deal with their home it hasn't been selling, and then 577 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 3: split in the money. Sixty eight million dollar Beverly Hills 578 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 3: home that's expensive even by you know, rich people standards. 579 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 3: Sixty eight million dollar home, Beverly Hills, calip It is 580 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 3: a thirty eight thousand square foot man, you just get 581 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 3: done with dusting and you'd have to start over on 582 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 3: the other end again, that'd be oh yeah, yeah, thirty 583 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 3: thousand square foot home. 584 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: And I'm looking at this compound. 585 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 3: It looks like it's a community college or something, but 586 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 3: it's their home in Beverly Hills. And I just. 587 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: You know, most of us will never know but that 588 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: that's beyond buying a home. I don't even I don't 589 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: even know what. 590 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 3: It really is when you look at a place like that, 591 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 3: And how do you compare one to another? If when 592 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 3: you're looking at something. 593 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: That large, and what do you play? I think you 594 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: do there? 595 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 4: A compound is a much better way to look at it. Yeah, 596 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 4: you own, Why would you restrict yourself to your home? 597 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 4: You have like one or two guest homes of significant 598 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 4: size that are bigger than most Americans homes. For you know, 599 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 4: friends and relatives and partiers and the rest of it. 600 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 4: You have a bar with the dance floor used twice 601 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 4: a year, but who came to the theater in a 602 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 4: basketball court right exactly, a big gym as well equipped 603 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 4: as your local gym. 604 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: And you know. 605 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 4: The enormous dining room that you probably used again three 606 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 4: four times a year. Otherwise you're eating in the kitchen 607 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 4: like normal people. 608 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. 609 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 4: And some some incredible beautiful outdoor pool with the patio. 610 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 3: Set, and obviously you're not cleaning it yourself. I wish 611 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 3: somebody would put out the side costs on a home 612 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 3: like that one time. Oh you never hear those. I'd 613 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 3: like to hear what what's your property tax? Is easy 614 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 3: to figure out because it's roughly ten percent in California. 615 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 3: So that's what you got to pay in property tax 616 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 3: every single year. That's a lot. So you'd pay six 617 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 3: point eight million dollars in property tax every year. 618 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 4: No, no, ten percent a year. I think somebody's stealing 619 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 4: from you. It's like and the county I lived one 620 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 4: in a quarter. I think you may have moved a 621 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 4: decimal point, but anyway, it's exhausted and big houses equal 622 00:33:59,120 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 4: big bills. 623 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: I learned that early on in life. Somebody told me that, 624 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: and it's it's quite true. 625 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm sure, But like I'd love to know 626 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 3: what's their energy bill, what's it cost to clean it? 627 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: How much did they spend on gardeners? 628 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 3: Sure, I mean it would be no you if, obviously, 629 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 3: if somebody gave you that home, even without property tax, 630 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 3: you couldn't afford to live there. 631 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 4: It'd be impossible unless you're gonna get tax it. It's 632 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,800 Speaker 4: completely out of the question. Yeah, it'd be funny just 633 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 4: to present the idea that j Lo finally got tired 634 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,800 Speaker 4: of cleaning. She just she would vacuum and vacuum and 635 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 4: vacuum and dust and dust and clean the toilets, and 636 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,400 Speaker 4: then you know, there's Ben sitting on table watching football, 637 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 4: and then it was time to start cleaning again, right. 638 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 3: Let Jenny from the block trying to get the cobwebs 639 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 3: down in bedroom number forty. 640 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 4: Seven, and she had it hasn't been in it in 641 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 4: six months, and look at these cobwebs. 642 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't get to the fact that Trump speaking 643 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 3: to homes. He's putting up flagpoles on the White House grounds. 644 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 3: He's paying for him himself. Two one hundred foot flagpoles 645 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 3: on each side of the White House will have big 646 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 3: American flags, and he's paying for it. And he's a 647 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,839 Speaker 3: you know, he's a builder. So he had contractors out 648 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 3: there yesterday. You could see pictures of him like pointing 649 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 3: up in the sky and at trees. 650 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: And stuff like that. Wow, Okay, I'm in favor of that. 651 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 3: He's footing the bill because he didn't want it to 652 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 3: become a problem. 653 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, huh, good for him. The book Tried Puppy in 654 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 1: the News will tell you about it.