Protesters close campuses. Donors pull money.

Episode Transcript

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places. And how idea is abad idea? I thought that I thought
this was a safe space. Youknow, we're just a brainstorm in here.
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glass and no real boards around whileon a battleship, so guys could plummet

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off the side of the eyes downforty feet to likely their death, let's
be honest, But then they haveto climb back up to continue to take
part in the hockey game. WhatI what I've always been told is that
if you just pop out the USBwhere your mouse is plugged in, that
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your tower back a little bit,just just get a little little fresca right
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it, but that is how thatworks. You're a weird guy. Thanks.
Four ten is the time news radioeleven ten kfab and we were talking

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earlier in the show about these protestsgoing on around the country at college campuses.
They really started to emanate though inNew York from Columbia. These are
really smart kids at Ivy League schoolsand there are It's not the biggest group
in the world, but it's bigenough to where it's making a lot of

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noise. It's a group of peoplecamping out on the what I would consider
like the quad and the middle ofcampus. And they have actually canceled the
rest of school, at least inperson classes, and now they're doing everything
virtually because they fear that there's asafety issue here on the for not just

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Jewish students, but maybe anybody.Well maybe with a little more insight in
that is Bill. He's on ourphone line at four h two five five
eight eleven ten. Bill, Iunderstand that you actually have a family member
that's at Columbia. I have adaughter at Columbia as we speak. Wow.
She she so far successfully avoided allthe craziness and aspires to do that.

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But yeah, she says it's rathertance and she's got terrible luck,
but she's gonna be graduating here intwo weeks. How's that gonna work.
Well, that's kind of what I'vebeen wondering. She's got bad luck with
graduations, graduation from the University ofNebraska, and everybody got the COVID and
they called it off. So Iwas kind of wondering that myself. But

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yeah, she says, it's alittle tense. So Bill, I guess
what what is the What was theway you found out about this? Did
you see it on the news ordid she say something's happening to you?
Like, how did you find outwhat kind of stuff was going on on
campus? Nope? Saw it,saw it on the news first. She
would talk about it some, butno, she wanted to stay out as

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much of it as you can,you know. And Uh, I gotta
say one other thing here. Icould be fairly brief, but uh,
Washington on the news. You know, I can't help thinking about my dad
and all his buddies, because everybody'sdad was it in either World War Two
or in Korea. Yeah, itmakes me want to lay down on the

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ground and cry, just even saying, but what would you if those guys,
if you'd tell them now that theirgrandkids are going to be in a
pack of four hundred kids on acampus chant and kill the Jew, you
know, and how those dudes handleit? Yeah? No, Uh,
this is why they told you,This is why they told us. Don't
let us ever forget. And hopefullythe greater good will prevail at the end

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of this thing. But yeah,that's heavy stuff, man, that's really
heavy. Yeah, of those guysinvested a lot in me being able to
live like a free wheel in Nebraskain my whole life. Absolutely, that's
great perspective. I send your regardsto your daughter, Bill, and good
luck with her graduation up coming here. Thank you very much. Thanks for
the call. Really really powerful stuffthere got James on the line. James

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has called us at four h twofive five eight eleven ten. James,
You're with Emory on news radio eleventin kfab Hello, thanks for picking up
my phone. As I say,I've said it before, but I enjoy
your show and why you do things. Thanks. And this is something that
actually happened to me when we startedout. I was a Vietnam veteran and

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I went to grad school when Iafter I came back from the service,
and I didn't really know what wasgoing on except some of them were,
as you know, comparing assistant shipsand things like that, and I said
I had what was left of theGI Bill, and the room got very
quiet, and one of them saidto me, you don't belong here,

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you fascist, we'll get rid ofyou. So that was my welcome to
graduate school. And so I gotthrough it all right. And I was
in an accelerated program, and Iwas talked to a job counselor because my
friend of mine was in the sameprogram and he was going to rest for
a while because it was a lotof work. And he said, whatever

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you do, don't let anybody knowthat. Excuse me that you're a bedroom,
tell them that you've been on theroad for four years, or do
something like that, because if youwant a job, a good job up
here, they must never know that. Wow. And that made me so
mad that I came back. Itold my wife that I didn't want any
more of this. I was droppingout, I was quitting, and I

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did, and I started farming.And I promised myself at the time that
in so far as it was possible, I was never going to let anybody
take control of my life again.And it worked out pretty well. But
then along came the kids, andthey were pretty smart, didn't they.

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And I finally told them that Ididn't think that they Luckily, they didn't
want to go to a really majorschool. They wanted to stay near home.
I told him, if this waswhat they wanted, they had better
if and they wanted me to helppay for it. They had better lie
when they got to school, tellpeople what they wanted to hear, and

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just let this go without it thereanybody else knowing about it. And so
they finally thought, yeah, theycould do that. And then somebody at
Morningside he's very smart, and hehad a lot of problems because he was
a conservative up there, and hes woke people. We told him to
do the same thing, lie,And that seems that way you can be

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in the whatever you want to doacademically, nobody's going to do too much
to you because they'll think that you'resomebody you're not. Yeah, and that's
tough, James, and I hatethat people have to do that. But
this kind of harkens me back,and I'm not saying this is the right
way to do things. And obviously, with social media in the way that
our lives are just kind of inthe open for everyone to see these days,

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I feel like there's a it's harderto do it this way. But
it didn't always used to be likeidentify us just our political affiliation, and
people didn't make media assumptions about thecontent of our character based solely on the
policies or the principles or the politicsthat we tend to lean towards and we
didn't feel like it was such abig identifier for us that they went we

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would go out of our way totell everybody, yeah, I'm a hardcore
conservative, or yeah I'm a hardcoreliberal, and I don't have time for
anybody who disagrees with my policies orprinciples. And I just think that's been
completely exacerbated now with the power ofsocial media, because now you don't even
have to be next to people thatagree with you to find an echo chamber.
You can just throw it on theinternet and you're gonna find a ton
of people that completely agree with you. But James really appreciate the call today,

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Thanks so much for listening to theshow. It's yeah, it's a
different conversation for sure, that's withouta doubt. And I don't know what
they want, like with this specificprotest and the fear for safety for some
people, like not just Jewish people, because obviously this is feeling targeted directly
at them. If you were aJewish student at one of these campuses,

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I mean, how do you evenstay there right now? It's too volatile.
But what I do also know isthat if I was just an outside
person that had a little bit ofpower or at least could get their ear
and like talk to them. Ithink my question would be, what do
you want? What needs to happenfor you to stop this? Is there

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anything that will get you to stopthis? Or you're just doing this for
the demonstration purposes? And I'm notsaying that they don't believe what they're saying,
but it just feels like this isthe thing right now that if you
want to be allowed protester, youwant to act like you know what you're
doing when you're at one of theseschools, or you're in one of these
groups, or you're nearby somebody.Every you know, a few years there's
something else, and this is thatthing for these people. Oh, I'm

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gonna mix it up because this isthis is what I want to do.
I want to be a I wantto be a disruptor in society. Okay,
well, here's this thing that youcan be angry about. I guess
we'll keep talking about this. Ifyou want to talk to us, you
can four oh two five five eightto eleven Ten's a number. Four oh
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These are the colleges that we weretold when we were kids that you want
to get into Columbia and Yelle andHarvard and cal Poly or whatever these are.
You know, it takes a lotof work when you're in high school.
You gotta be really smart. Youwant to be got to be able
to apply yourself. And for somereason, all these protests usually emanate from
all these smarty pants who want totell the rest of the world how they
should be living. We're talking aboutthat. Four oh two, five,
five, eight, eleven ten isthe phone number for you to be a

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part of the conversation. Jim's onthe line. Jim, thank you for
the call today. What do youthink about this? Yeah, I want
to echo previous caller about our dadshaving served in World War Two, et
cetera. My father was part ofPatton's Third Army, and they stayed out
after V Day and traveled through Czechoslovakiaand some of the other countries, cleaning

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up the mess, so to speak, of some of the death camps.
He saw many live prisoners still andalso the deceased prisoners, break your heart.
My dad would roll over in hisgrave. I can't imagine what that
conversation would be like if you know, we had a chance to talk to

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you know, for for your fathers, for me, it would be my
granddad, my great grandfather's. Thesethese guys fought for something right and now
here we are, you know,several decades later, in are still fighting
over the same things. It's prettyincredible, Jim. After World War Two,
my dad was a cop. Iknow exactly what he would say,

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right now, put them all injail and get him out of the country.
Yeah, well, I mean,certainly a sentiment that's being shared by
a lot of people, Jim.I really appreciate that, the phone call
and the sentiments there. I don'tknow the legality of all that, right,
you know, obviously it'd be easyif they're going to continue to trespass,
like the NYU students who were arrested, one hundred and thirty three of
them last night. When you're toldto disperse, you're supposed to disperse.

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They did not. They locked arms, and they tried to make it as
difficult as possible. But that's justthe nature of the beast here. This
is not as peaceful a protest asthey'd like to make you think about,
especially with the rhetoric that's being shoutedat people who are of Jewish background.
Mark's on the line, Mark,thank you for the call. Today.
You're with Emory on news Radio elevento ten kfab Hey, hey, rhetoric.

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It is well to get some justa different world. It is tough.
I do not have grandchildren. Ihad a father that served. He
he worked in New Orleans for thearmy and took bodies, sent them back.

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These people don't understand. These kidsdon't understand what sacrifices have been made.
That's all I got. I appreciatethe call. Mark, thank you
for being a part of our showtoday. Yeah, it's tough to think
about. I don't want us tolose the plot here, though. I

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know that the protests and what they'reprotesting, that's one thing, right,
and that's kind of what the lastfew calls have been about. I want
us to keep in mind though protestingisn't illegal per se. But like Mark
said, the rhetoric is the dangerouspart of this and trying to figure out

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why because you're protesting something that's happeningsix seven thousand miles away from here or
from where you live. You'll neversee anything like that in your entire life
unless you voluntarily decide to go lookfor it. And you're going to be
fighting our government in your school andthe place that you live because you are.

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You don't want that kind of conversationto be had from where you're sitting
in the cheap seats. I don'twant to lose the plot though, of
like, hey, I don't thinkprotesting in general is bad, but the
rhetoric for this one doesn't make sense. I don't even know what these people
want. You want our government todo something about something seven thousand miles away.
I don't understand that. And whyare you doing this to people that

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are trying to exist in your ownculture. You're supposed to be the inclusive
people. Remember, these are thepeople that say, oh, well,
we're the inclusive type of people.Is that the case? Is that?
What's going on here? We aregoing to talk about this continuing. If
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