October 3, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Port strike union boss Harold Daggett & his $millions$
- CA bans "sell by" & "best before" labels...
- A Campus Madness Update!
- The mini "moon"
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong in shoe Dy arm Strong
and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
People never gave it out us until now when they
finally realize that the chain is being broke. Now cars
won't come in, food won't come in, clothing won't come in.
You know how many people depend on our jobs.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Half the world.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And it's time for them and time for Washington to
put so much pressure on them to take care.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Of us, because we took.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Care of them, and we're here one hundred and thirty
five years and brought tom where they are today.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
And they don't want to share.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
They don't want to share, says the guy who rides
around in a Bentley and has a seventy foot yacht,
lives in a two movie house, makes about a million
dollars a year, and so does his son. We're loving us.
Some herald j Daggett around here. The guys that's run
how much money he makes on the books? Yeah, that's
an excellent point. That's an excellent point. Why are they
(01:15):
why what would his entire package be, you know, on
paper for everyone to read. He's the president of the
International Longshoreman Association. Got the big strike going on tens
of thousands of workers the Gulf Coast and the East Coast,
costing our economy about five million dollars a day, but
it's going to grow over time. There are now sixty
(01:38):
some ships parked offshore like happened back during COVID, not
able to unload their Their main thing is all the
talk in the media is about the salary, because the
media is too stupid to ever look into anything. But
it's really about the automation. They're trying to fight the
ports from modernizing and coming up to speed with all
(01:59):
the other major reorts in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Because exactly, it's not like we're leading the way. It's
like we're years behind, which.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
A wildly inefficient I guess we got another clip of
our friend Daggett here in what he sounds like.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Sisters and brothers of the ISLA. I am disgusted to
hear the comment South Carolina Governor Henry mcmastus made in
his State of the State address in late January attacking
labor union in Ila and particularly who the hell does
(02:35):
he think he is? He is a disgrace to be
representing the citizens of South Carolina, especially my members from
the ISLA living and working there. His attacks on the
ISLA will not be ignored. ISLA members in the Port
of Jarson are among the best compensated workers in the
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state of South Carolina, and that brins the hell out
of the governor. He sits in his all white private
country club, surrounded by his cronies, saying he'll go to
the gates of Hell to keep unions out. Well, let
me tell you he's gonna go to Hell. That's where
(03:19):
he's heading.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Wow. Wow, there's a lot there. I can't believe there
are whispers about mob ties with this guy. He doesn't
sound like a mobster in particularly.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Right, And a guy driving a Bentley worth many, many
millions of dollars with a seventy six foot yacht bitching
about a guy in a country club.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I mean, right, right, that's too much. It is something. Although,
as I mentioned, I noticed they made the turn on
Fox from being kind of where we are right now.
Yesterday when I was watching Fox, he got a modern
I mean, the technology exists to do this faster and cheaper.
Of course, the companies are going to do it, just
(04:05):
like they have everywhere else in the world. We can't
fall behind China hanging on to, you know, outdated manpower
just because it's good for the worker. They made the
switch somehow. I don't know who complained or what, or
they noticed Trump's language or whatever, but today it was
way more. These are hard working people who deserve their
cut of the all the gazillions of dollars of these
shipping companies are making.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's an interesting theory of labor. It doesn't square with
like all known economic truth. I mean, look, there's a
lot here. Number one, the economics of it. Your labor
is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If you want to unionize, that's fine, that's legal. But
the idea that if you are a say you know,
(04:47):
a paper pusher for some company that makes enormous profits,
you therefore, as somebody with sixty thousand dollars worth of skills,
how to be making four hundred thousand dollars a year
just because your company is profitable, is it?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It ignores the realities of economics.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Your labor is worth what it's worth the point at
which somebody is willing to pay for your skills and
you are willing to sell your skills.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's what your labor is worth. It just has always
been true, always will be true.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And so the union boss there is making some pretty,
you know, just silly arguments.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well that's what doesn't work that way. Yeah, and that's great,
and on an individual basis, of course, that makes perfectly
good sense. I'm worried about the United States competing against
China and the rest of the world and being like
every uh, fading empire has been in history, where they
(05:40):
just try to hang on to the past and get
eclipsed by hungry or smarter, more nimble countries out there. Correct.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, what's interesting, Getting back to your observation that Fox
News has changed its tune in the last twenty four hours,
that is really interesting. Predictably, old Joe Biden says now
is not the time for ocean carriers or refuse to
negotiate a fair wage for these essential workers while ranking
in record profits. So I guess a fifty percent wage
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increase over the next six years is not a fair wage.
And a lot of these guys make a lot of
money for not even showing up. They get money whether
they work or not. And all the union bosses make
money for doing nothing or whatever. So yeah, the idea
that somehow a moral issue is hilarious to me. Now,
Don Trump interestingly saying American workers should be able to
(06:32):
negotiate for better wages, especially since the shipping companies are
mostly foreign flag vessels.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's the he's the Republican candidate for president. He is.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Indeed, Yes, the reason most ocean carriers are foreign is
because union work rules haveered have rendered the US shipbuilding
and shipping industries uncompetitive globally. It's killed the American shipping
and shipbuilding industry, which is going to which is a
serious danger for our military preparedness. I would say as
an aside, but Jack and I were chatting during the
(07:03):
break about what is this? Is this the populisms, you know,
siding with the workers or what. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It might be siding with.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The working man over the big corporation, or it might
be that Donald J. Trump, for the entirety of his career,
has been dealing with mob connected unions in New York City.
You can't get cement poured in New York City without
brushing up against somebody who knows somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Forget about it, mob connected. How's the heck of a
thing to throw around? Are you saying, my man Daggett
might be tied into organized crime?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, the federal government certainly thinks so, and he's been acquitted.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What did he say there? And particularly in particularly? I
got some friends in particularly. How do you spell that anyway?
So I will you, I will cripple you. And you
have no idea what that means. Nobody does, he said
in an interview a couple of weeks ago, according to
The Wall Street Journal, I will cripple you. And oh yeah,
(08:00):
Taft Hartley. That's where the President could step in and
use the Taft Hartly Act and say he got to
go back to work. There's a national economies at stake,
national securities at stake, So you got to go back
to work while we try to, you know, come to
an agreement. But Biden said he's not gonna do it.
But old Daggett said the other day, I'm putting Taft
Hardly on you. Go ahead. You know what Taft Hartly means.
I gotta go back to work. Oh yeah, you know
(08:21):
what's gonna happen. My guys who used to move thirty
Krate's gonna move eight crates, so they're gonna be like, oh,
and then he grabs his neck. They're gonna be like, oh,
my neck, hoots, I can't grab a crate now. So
he's just saying they're all gonna pretend to be hurt
if they do, if they enact the taft hard.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
We're just a slow down a tome honored technique, we
will cripple you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So this guy's been accused by the authorities of mob
ties several times, you know five. He stood trial in
Brooklyn on fraud charges alongside another ILA official and an
alleged mobster who is accused of steering union benefit contracts
to firms that paid kickbackstore crime witnessed. His witnesses testified
under oath that Daggett was elevated through the ILA because
(09:06):
the MO by the mob because he was an associate
of one of the big crime families. Daggett denied it.
He said, yea, he is afraid of the crime families.
He avoids them.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Seem pretty clear to me it's because he's a compelling orator.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Well, let me tell you he's gonna go to hell
Gotsch where he's heading.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The three defendants were acquitted.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oddly, Lawrence Ricci, the defendant alleged to be a Genevie's
crime family member, went missing during the trial, disappeared mid trial,
and was later found partially decomposed in the trunk of
a car outside the Huck Finn Diner in Union, New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That is absolutely unbelievable. And the point you made yesterday,
I think is important that they feel so untouchable. That
he's not trying to hide his wealth. He has a
giant yacht and rides around in a Bentley. That's not
you know, you're trying to hang onto the money and
just come off as a regular working class guy just
trying to make a living. No, you don't think anybody
(10:07):
can touch you when you're being that ostentatious with your lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Guys, maybe we can actually find the audio of this.
This is my favorite Daggett quote. He was leaving the
cargo terminal in New Jersey the other morning and he
suggested that he and the ILA are digging in for
a lengthy showdown, and a reporter said, how.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Long do you think it's likely to last? And he said, I.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Don't have an f in crystal ball between my legs,
but it will last very long.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I would tell you that.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Efen crystal ball between my legs, and particularly not like
on a shelf er back at home, or why would
you keep a crystal ball between your legs? Do you
think Dagget himself has ever thrown a punch or swung
an axe handle in a over the years. He is
(11:02):
a very strong, tough looking old guy. It would not
shock me.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
His language indicates he might be the sort of person
that at least has threatened, if not actually been the
the hammer.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That had had gold Lawrence Ricci, but he was found
partially decomposed in a trunk in particularly in particularly, we
will cripple you.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Oh my neck? You want to do taft hardly? Oh
my neck? This is not gonna help Kamala Harris a bit. Well,
that's that's my big thing is if this grows, and
it's gonna grow fast. I mean you can feel the
heat getting turned up just three days in. What's it
gonna feel like a week or two from now, when
you got hundreds of ships parked off the coast. It's
on the evening news every single night. Candidates are gonna
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have to take a real strong position one way or
the other, and I don't know how the public's gonna
react to it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, just for the record, I got nothing but sympathy
for people whose jobs and careers are vanishing because of
technical logical change. There's a hell of a lot of
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Speaker 1 (13:09):
And once again quickly. One of the things they're arguing
for the Longshorreman is not replacing with modern technology people
that stand there with a clipboard making a lot of
money and writing down the license plates of the trucks
that come in. Right now, they have human beings do
it instead of have just a license plate reader that
you could get for very cheap and it'd be free
(13:31):
after that. Because they don't want to lose the workers. Well,
that's just you're just fighting against the ocean there the tide. Ironically,
they know it's the last deal they're going to get
before things really change, So I guess you swing for
the fences. Speaking of swing for the fences, I want
to mention a thing from the baseball playoffs. No, we
got a whole bunch of other stuff on the ways.
Stay here, you can't see this.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
California just and as that they're banning sell buy and
best before food labels. Yeah, they prefer everyone to use
the more scientific method of going up to your spouse
and saying does this smell right to you?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And that's what I like to do it. So what's
what's the story on that? It seems like California would
be the opposite of that, they'd be more strict as
opposed to get rid of them. What's the story, Katie?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Well, so they're getting rid of the cell buy and
best before because they can be misleading, and they're going
they're going to be replaced by two different labels, one
best if used by, which will show when food is
at its best quality, okay, and then a used by
label to show when food is no longer safe to eat.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, this is a real leaf forward, right, just a
heads up.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It won't apply to eggs, beer and other malt drinks.
Why wouldn't it? Okay? But I well, I don't know
how well you can nail down at what point something
becomes not safe to eat. The companies that make the
food mostly have an interest in making it seem like
(15:02):
you got to buy new all the time because they
stocked shelves. Yeah, and or your fridge. Yeah, so the
whole best buy, Like this cracker will taste better if
you eat it next week, but it's still be fine
in a month. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And if I'm drunk, it'll be even better. I mean
in another month it'll be fine. So sliding scale the goal.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
The goal is to cut down on food waste, and
because it's California, reduce harmful emissions that contribute to climate change.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh jeez, with the climate change. You know, I knew
it would edit through it be ridiculous. Yeah, bringing back
once again, at risk of being punched in the face
the vice presidential debate the other night. Oh, I had
missed this too until I heard smarter commentators commenting on it,
So you got what's going on in North Carolina. And
the day of the debate was a particularly bad day
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when we found out there were hundreds more people dead
than they realized and lots of people missing, and really
good reason to presume that they are dead. Also, I mean,
it's just a horrifying tragedy right in the midst of it,
and they bring it up, and they don't talk about
the government's response or you know, whether it's enough for
all the different things around the immediacy of the tragedy.
(16:16):
They go to global climate change and what you would
do as president. Yeah, that's just freaking nuts. It is nuts,
and it's not the way any normal human beings are,
especially in the midst of the crisis. I think it's
nuts if it were two months later. But the day
that it's happening, you're not talking about federal response and
(16:36):
is it enough or two much, or how we should
deal with it, or what you would do, or what
are your experiences, what had you done in Minnesota dealing
with various disasters or as a vice president Biden administration not.
They go right to climate change, the giant overarching will
unfold over centuries and there's nothing we can do about it.
(16:56):
What are you going to do in your couple of
years as president bs Two interesting things I learned about this,
one political. A lot of those counties that are decimated
are red counties in a purple state in North Carolina,
and if those people don't get out and vote, that
could hurt Republicans and Trump obviously in North Carolina, less
(17:19):
so in some of the other states. But that could
be a big deal because they don't know where their
absentee ballot is. They can't find their house, and you know,
whether they'll be able to organize the election and the
polls and the rest of it in the normal ways
is up in the air. Interesting, you don't think it
would go the other direction where they'd be more motivated
to figure out how to vote. Probably Republican. I don't
(17:43):
know why. Well, if they have no house, so they
might be depends on their view, depends on their view
of the response, if they feel like the response wasn't
good enough.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, I mean that's a factor. But they just they
don't even know if they could administer the elections. Certainly
wouldn't be top of your right now. No, no, And
again it's about just the logistics. These towns don't exist anymore,
so how are they going to hold the vote? That
in the Brown Ocean? I want to talk about that.
Insanity may be prevailing in women's sports.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
At my National Park delay the reveal of its annual
fat Bear Weak Bracket after one bear killed another and
it was live streamed on explored dot org. Well, I'm
not surprised you keep calling them fat on the internet.
Someone was bound a snap.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I get it. The dangers of social media, Joe.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
The dangers of being a bear, wild beasts, toothclaw, etc.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So you can go on. I've never done this, So Katie,
you said you did this yesterday. You can go on
and watch just live cameras of fat bears walking around.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Yeah, we actually have it linked at Armstrong and getty
dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And then do people vote or who determines which bear
is the cutest or fattest or.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Yeah, there's a there's a voting. It's all on a website.
So they have the voting and the webcams and.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You get the whole, the whole fat bear package.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
The webcams are actually quite interesting because you see the
bears fishing for salmon and so it's both beautiful and amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh my son would love this. Okay, until there's a
murder that's less beautiful, killing each other. Yeah, well they
are bears.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
The bears are who we thought they were right, So
speaking of unpleasantness and what I.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Say, Oh, but I'd rather run into a bear if
I'm instead of a man exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Speaking of that sort of idiotic notion, that sort of attitude,
It's time for a campus madness update, Campa campus madness.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
There it is right there.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I had forgotten that stupid thing that was born on
the campuses. I'm sure the idea that a woman is
better off running into a bear in the woods than
a man. What what you know?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
What is happening to our culture? As the bear is
gnawing on your liver? If you said you could be
as so kind as to, perhaps in your own blood,
write a note of apology to men everywhere I would appreciate.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Or how stupid that was just stupid, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Let's start the campus mad in this update with some
good news.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Michael, make that music go away. It's so slow and maudlin. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
A fourth school, the second in as many days and
third time in a week, a woman's volleyball team has said,
we're not playing San Jose State. With the dude spiking
the ball at eighty miles per hour, we are out.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The undefeated San Jose State Spartans nine to Oho and
now three teams in a row have forfeited because they
figured out they got a guy on their team, their
female team.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, indeed, and this is a total of four teams.
Now Utah State joined Boise State, Southern Utah in Wyoming
in canceling matches against San Jose and an apparent protest
of NCAA rules allowing transgender women that means dudes to
compete in women's sports.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No men in women's sports period.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I don't care what you dress like, I don't care
what sort of hormones you're take in your dude, you
don't get to play with the girls in sports. So
good for you. Once again that gallery of the courageous.
And you know the gals on the teams are driving
this and they're sticking their necks out. Utah State, Boise State,
Southern Utah, and Wyoming. Way to go, moving along. Another
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victory speaking of the southwest of the United States.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Big victory.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The other day, the University of New Mexico was issued
a preliminary injunction by federal court judge because they'd been
in posing hefty security fees on any events held by
conservative students. Right the university had put a winking, warm
arm around the shoulders of the Heckler's veto crowd and said, yes, yes,
(22:16):
when conservatives speak, things get out of hand, and so yes,
you've got to pay a five thousand dollars feet have
Rightley Gains come and speak to.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You and speak of women's rights. One, it's overblown most
of the time. And then two, if there is a problem,
it's because your site is violent. So why is that
our problem? Yeah, exactly, exactly, and.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
It's it's allowing Nazis to cancel any Jewish event or
you know whatever. You know, rapists to cancel a women's
safety event because they don't appreciate the safety, so they're
gonna riot and break some windows and stuff. So well,
I'm sorry, any women's rights events will have to pay
a hefty fee because you know, the rapists are unhappy
about it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That is sick, it's weird, it's clever, and it has
worked for years. It's evil and it's working for years.
I mean, how many people have been canceled at Berkeley
for instances down the road here over that claim the
security would just be too expensive. We can't, we can't
to ensure their security.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Because your side's nuts.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, cowardly, cowardly Standford the same, moving swiftly here again
or over to California. This is a great piece written
for the Wall Street Journal by a Jewish fellow who
emigrated from the Soviet Union and is a patriotic American,
loves America. And he says, man, a lot of this
(23:41):
anti Israel stuff, anti jew stuff is straight out of
the Soviet Union anti Semitism. He said, it's so recognizable.
The Jews go back to your Israel has been replaced
with Jews go back to Poland, using Zionist as a
derogatory term.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And then he talks.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
About Clairmont Colleges in California, where he teaches the associated
students of Pomona College. The school's student government had on
its table booklets titled mask Up, We Need You, Palestinian
Solidarity COVID nineteen and the Struggle for Liberation.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow, you're like, wait, wait what, Yeah, I'll get to that.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
And this is the whole intersectionality, neo Marxist thing, every
single annoyed person ought to join together in the overthrow
of humanity, even when it doesn't make sense. Queers for Palestine.
You know that sort of thing. But so this group
seven c Staff for Justice and Palestine have a text
(24:39):
pushing a conspiracy theory reminiscent of the Doctor's plot in
the Soviet Union. It's an old thing, look it up,
implying that the US and Israel purposefully see if you
can follow this used COVID nineteen to commit a eugenics
based genocide against Palestinians, minorities, and disabled people. The pamphlets
(25:00):
warned that quote, Zionists and eugenicists rely on you to
be poorly informed to follow for their simplified decontextualized, revisionist,
racist and ablest takes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's what they're teaching on her universities. Money well spent.
There's more.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
The new editor of the Stanford Oh what is the
name of this Stanford Review, which is the dissenting, sane
conservative newspaper on the Stanford campus.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
This woman, this young woman is brilliant and brave. She
is a hero. But she talks.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
About how Stanford Review is founded in the eighties because
their peers demanded the end of the Western civilization program
that taught authors like Aristotle and Dante, and they chanted, hey, hey,
ho ho, Western culture has got to go. Stanford Cancer
canceled Western Civilization, and now it's in its iteration of
(26:02):
a class just called college that is like John Belushi.
That was parody, but now it's Stanford only it only
requires students to read articles instead of books, and is
graded on completion, not hard work, comprehension, or excellence. The
inmates have taken over the asylum. She writes really good stuff.
(26:24):
We'll post links at Armstrong and getty dot com. I
don't know how many years you'd have to go back.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's not very many years, but it would have been
unimaginable that you would cancel Western civ Classes from colleges
because you thought Western civilization was so evil it shouldn't
even be taught. I mean you wouldn't have to go
back many years a decade. Certainly you go back twenty
thirty years ago, it would be just nuts, even on
(26:50):
college campuses, not just seen as incorrect, but as looney
tunes because it is right. Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We talked a little bit about the UH emotion professor
Amy wax at Penn. One of the things she's accused of.
This is hilarious. In the Age of DEI right where
you're entirely defined by your race, the color of your skin.
She was accused of making sweeping generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, immigration status. That is the very thing that
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DEI is based on. They're firing conservative professors for. Here's
another example of what hypocrites and liars these people are.
So Columbia University finally cranked out a report about the
anti Semitism on campus, and a bunch of radical teachers, staffers, professors,
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faculties I'm looking for published an angry response to it,
saying that one of the big flaws was that it
contributes to a hospitle narrative about Columbia. It's marked by conspicuous,
neglectful omissions of context and climate. It conflates feelings with facts,
so it said the idea of your feelings are hurt
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or you feel threatened, that's not a fact. We don't
have to react to that. That's the DEI progressive crowd
saying that, Who've spent the last couple of decades telling
us if you say something completely innocent but somebody thinks
it's racist, you're a racist. People are such hypocrites. And finally,
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a profile and cowardice. For the last seven years, New
York State Writers Institute held an annual book festival at
the University of Albany. Notable authors come together and discuss
big ideas. But this year the festival was disrupted because
two authors refuse to discuss their books with the panels moderator.
Why because she is a Zionist. Alyssa Albert, forty six
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year old progressive feminist author whose novels are dark comedies
about subjects like modern motherhood and fame. She'd agreed to
moderate the panel months earlier, was really looking forward to it,
but then it turns out that she is a Jew,
and so the other panelists or the author said, we
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don't want to be on a panel with a Zionist.
Not to sugarcoat this or taken by surprise. Wow, we
can't appear with a Zionist.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
There's another thing that you wouldn't have to go back
many years where it would have just seemed nuts that
somebody would get canceled from any sort of writer's gathering
because they were Jewish, only because they're Jewish. Yeah, let's
go ahead and state it as it is.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Aisha abdel Gowad, a Muslim writer in her mid thirties,
and Lisa Coe, whose first book was now nomine in
for a National Book Award, wouldn't share the stage with
a Jew who supports Israel. Won't be on stage with
Jews again. That's Ayisha Gwad and Lisa Coe.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Wow, weird times, man. That's troubling. It's extremely troubling, and
that one is not receding anytime soon. I don't think, Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
No, our college campuses are I mean, eighty percent of
the faculty agree with it, or even if it's sixty percent,
twenty five percent are too terrified to say anything, and
fifteen percent disagree with it.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
They're so diseased. Oh, I'm not sure there's any curing. Well,
like your first campus madness story, it would seem that
the tide is turned on the whole women's women men
dominating women's sports thing. It would seem the tide has
turned on that, but not on this whole canceling Jews
thing that has not yet.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
No, No, and anti Zionism as the polite face of
anti Semitism is an old, old dodge.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I need to pick a baseball team to root for
for the playoffs. As we're getting past the wild card rounds.
I think I'm going to go with the Detroit Tigers,
one of the lowest payrolls in all of baseball. Who
knocked off the Houston Astros, who I usually root for
last night? And move on, kindwagon jumper, folks, he's a
fake fan. I love low pay roll teams always have.
That's just that's fun when they when they get they
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get a chance to roll on. And baseball man more
than practically any sport. You just got to make the
playoffs than anything can happen. You get hot and get
on a roll. Doesn't matter if the team you're up
against one hundred games, who cares.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, especially if you have the pitching. You've got a
couple of two tree pitchers who are really hot.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yep. Got some interesting political stuff you might want to
know about. Not boring. Promise you promise you not dull, boring,
normal cable news sort of stuff about the presidential rays
and other things. All the way.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Stay here, meet the mini move right now.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
The Erth's gravitational pull is playing host to something we
traditionally find a little scary.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
An asteroid scientists see it.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Swung by got caught up in our gravity and we'll
spend about the next sixty days orbiting the planet. And no,
there's no need to fear. They're not kidding about the
mini part. The asteroid, affectionately named twenty twenty four PT five,
is literally thirty three feet long, about the size of
your average school bus.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
It's too small and too dark for most of us
to glimbs.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh, so the mini moon is going to be orbiting
the Earth. So I for some reason, I was picturing
it up by the moon, but I don't know how
I got that in my head. So it's completely separate
from the Moon. It's just an asteroid or okay, and
we won't be able to see it. Okay, So it's
really nothing. It's a junior moon. There you go. And
there's no chance it's going to crash into the Earth
(32:34):
and kill us all or anything like that. No, there's
always a chance.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Like one of our emailers said, some DEI hire might
have failed to carry the one. It's in fact headed
directly toward Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Some DEI higher did the math wrong. Hilarious, Yeah, quotas
instead of excellence. Yes, I haven't heard this. I guess
this is a lefty journalists in a Monta having to
admit that Vance beat Walls in the debate the other night.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Vance clearly, I think it needs to be said, clearly,
the more experienced debater, so JD.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Vance, came to this debate to land a bunch of punches,
and he did. And the thing that really stood out
to me was that Tim Walls did not seem prepared
for it.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
I think the lack of interviews that he has done
with national media, with local media, it showed he needed
more racial and two issues driving the campaign right now
are Harris has a big deficit of the economy, Harris
has a big deficit of immigration. And Republicans were happy
tonight and Democrats a little bit nervous that on those
two issues Vance carried it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I mean it's pretty clear Vance outclassed Walls tonight. I
mean I was watching this and all I could think
of was man Walls as so went over his head. Wow,
that's interesting. I hadn't heard all those responses and I
recognized the voice of most of those people, and they're.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Not predisposed to feel that way. Yeah, you've said for
years and it's a truism. At this point, the whole
question of who won the debate is such a dopey
way to look at it. Did either candidate solidify or
grow or support? Did anybody weaken their support? If Vance
quote unquote one for his folks better than Waltz one
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for his folks, well, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Both their approval ratings went up, according to Pole, so
they may have both helped their own positions. I'm confused
as to how Walls's approval rating went up, even among
people who liked him to start with. But anyway, I
wanted to get this confused by that too. From the
Wide World of News newsletter today, there are three post
debate stories on Tim Walls from The Wall Street Journal,
New York Times, and Political, all suggesting the Minnesotan's debate
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performance reflects some previously known flaws that the dominant media
is now more ready to examine about his fish tails
and making up his stories, his skill set, and his
value to the campaign. As he gets ready to do
the sixty minutes interview for this weekend, I think other interviews,
and he's going to do a late night comedy turn,
so he's going to go on all the late night
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shows Walls is so I haven't read these stories in
the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Politico, suggesting that
there's a little nervousness that the guy might not have
the talent to pull all this off, which I'd say
was evident the other night. I don't know how he'll
do on the late night shows. I mean they'll they'll
they'll give him all, they'll give him every you know,
assist they can to try and make it better. Also,
(35:26):
this from Mark Calpern, who's pretty good at this sort
of stuff. He said my spidey sense says that the
stories about the past an alleged past of Doug am Hoff,
Kamala Harris's husband, have a few more chapters to inferral
at least, so he must be hearing some whispers out
there that this him slapping his ex girlfriend. Uh, there's
(35:47):
more of these coming.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, and it's it's not directly relevant to the race,
but it just is an ugly.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Well it's an it's an ugly reality.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And if Kamala Harris is with a guy not only
impregnated his kids nanny and then they didn't keep the baby,
whether it was aborted or whatever, I think most people
think that then he slapped his girlfriend. I just what
sort of great feminist leaders with a guy like that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well, and if there's a couple of more that are
in that realm, yeah, that'd be pretty damaging. I think
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong in shoe Dy arm Strong
and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
People never gave it out us until now when they
finally realize that the chain is being broke. Now cars
won't come in, food won't come in, clothing won't come in.
You know how many people depend on our jobs.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Half the world.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And it's time for them and time for Washington to
put so much pressure on them to take care.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Of us, because we took.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Care of them, and we're here one hundred and thirty
five years and brought tom where they are today.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
And they don't want to share.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
They don't want to share, says the guy who rides
around in a Bentley and has a seventy foot yacht,
lives in a two movie house, makes about a million
dollars a year, and so does his son. We're loving us.
Some herald j Daggett around here. The guys that's run
how much money he makes on the books? Yeah, that's
an excellent point. That's an excellent point. Why are they
(01:15):
why what would his entire package be, you know, on
paper for everyone to read. He's the president of the
International Longshoreman Association. Got the big strike going on tens
of thousands of workers the Gulf Coast and the East Coast,
costing our economy about five million dollars a day, but
it's going to grow over time. There are now sixty
(01:38):
some ships parked offshore like happened back during COVID, not
able to unload their Their main thing is all the
talk in the media is about the salary, because the
media is too stupid to ever look into anything. But
it's really about the automation. They're trying to fight the
ports from modernizing and coming up to speed with all
(01:59):
the other major reorts in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Because exactly, it's not like we're leading the way. It's
like we're years behind, which.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
A wildly inefficient I guess we got another clip of
our friend Daggett here in what he sounds like.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Sisters and brothers of the ISLA. I am disgusted to
hear the comment South Carolina Governor Henry mcmastus made in
his State of the State address in late January attacking
labor union in Ila and particularly who the hell does
(02:35):
he think he is? He is a disgrace to be
representing the citizens of South Carolina, especially my members from
the ISLA living and working there. His attacks on the
ISLA will not be ignored. ISLA members in the Port
of Jarson are among the best compensated workers in the
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state of South Carolina, and that brins the hell out
of the governor. He sits in his all white private
country club, surrounded by his cronies, saying he'll go to
the gates of Hell to keep unions out. Well, let
me tell you he's gonna go to Hell. That's where
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he's heading.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Wow. Wow, there's a lot there. I can't believe there
are whispers about mob ties with this guy. He doesn't
sound like a mobster in particularly.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Right, And a guy driving a Bentley worth many, many
millions of dollars with a seventy six foot yacht bitching
about a guy in a country club.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I mean, right, right, that's too much. It is something. Although,
as I mentioned, I noticed they made the turn on
Fox from being kind of where we are right now.
Yesterday when I was watching Fox, he got a modern
I mean, the technology exists to do this faster and cheaper.
Of course, the companies are going to do it, just
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like they have everywhere else in the world. We can't
fall behind China hanging on to, you know, outdated manpower
just because it's good for the worker. They made the
switch somehow. I don't know who complained or what, or
they noticed Trump's language or whatever, but today it was
way more. These are hard working people who deserve their
cut of the all the gazillions of dollars of these
shipping companies are making.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's an interesting theory of labor. It doesn't square with
like all known economic truth. I mean, look, there's a
lot here. Number one, the economics of it. Your labor
is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If you want to unionize, that's fine, that's legal. But
the idea that if you are a say you know,
(04:47):
a paper pusher for some company that makes enormous profits,
you therefore, as somebody with sixty thousand dollars worth of skills,
how to be making four hundred thousand dollars a year
just because your company is profitable, is it?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It ignores the realities of economics.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Your labor is worth what it's worth the point at
which somebody is willing to pay for your skills and
you are willing to sell your skills.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's what your labor is worth. It just has always
been true, always will be true.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And so the union boss there is making some pretty,
you know, just silly arguments.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well that's what doesn't work that way. Yeah, and that's great,
and on an individual basis, of course, that makes perfectly
good sense. I'm worried about the United States competing against
China and the rest of the world and being like
every uh, fading empire has been in history, where they
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just try to hang on to the past and get
eclipsed by hungry or smarter, more nimble countries out there. Correct.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, what's interesting, Getting back to your observation that Fox
News has changed its tune in the last twenty four hours,
that is really interesting. Predictably, old Joe Biden says now
is not the time for ocean carriers or refuse to
negotiate a fair wage for these essential workers while ranking
in record profits. So I guess a fifty percent wage
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increase over the next six years is not a fair wage.
And a lot of these guys make a lot of
money for not even showing up. They get money whether
they work or not. And all the union bosses make
money for doing nothing or whatever. So yeah, the idea
that somehow a moral issue is hilarious to me. Now,
Don Trump interestingly saying American workers should be able to
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negotiate for better wages, especially since the shipping companies are
mostly foreign flag vessels.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's the he's the Republican candidate for president. He is.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Indeed, Yes, the reason most ocean carriers are foreign is
because union work rules haveered have rendered the US shipbuilding
and shipping industries uncompetitive globally. It's killed the American shipping
and shipbuilding industry, which is going to which is a
serious danger for our military preparedness. I would say as
an aside, but Jack and I were chatting during the
(07:03):
break about what is this? Is this the populisms, you know,
siding with the workers or what. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It might be siding with.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The working man over the big corporation, or it might
be that Donald J. Trump, for the entirety of his career,
has been dealing with mob connected unions in New York City.
You can't get cement poured in New York City without
brushing up against somebody who knows somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Forget about it, mob connected. How's the heck of a
thing to throw around? Are you saying, my man Daggett
might be tied into organized crime?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Well, the federal government certainly thinks so, and he's been acquitted.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What did he say there? And particularly in particularly? I
got some friends in particularly. How do you spell that anyway?
So I will you, I will cripple you. And you
have no idea what that means. Nobody does, he said
in an interview a couple of weeks ago, according to
The Wall Street Journal, I will cripple you. And oh yeah,
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Taft Hartley. That's where the President could step in and
use the Taft Hartly Act and say he got to
go back to work. There's a national economies at stake,
national securities at stake, So you got to go back
to work while we try to, you know, come to
an agreement. But Biden said he's not gonna do it.
But old Daggett said the other day, I'm putting Taft
Hardly on you. Go ahead. You know what Taft Hartly means.
I gotta go back to work. Oh yeah, you know
(08:21):
what's gonna happen. My guys who used to move thirty
Krate's gonna move eight crates, so they're gonna be like, oh,
and then he grabs his neck. They're gonna be like, oh,
my neck, hoots, I can't grab a crate now. So
he's just saying they're all gonna pretend to be hurt
if they do, if they enact the taft hard.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
We're just a slow down a tome honored technique, we
will cripple you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So this guy's been accused by the authorities of mob
ties several times, you know five. He stood trial in
Brooklyn on fraud charges alongside another ILA official and an
alleged mobster who is accused of steering union benefit contracts
to firms that paid kickbackstore crime witnessed. His witnesses testified
under oath that Daggett was elevated through the ILA because
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the MO by the mob because he was an associate
of one of the big crime families. Daggett denied it.
He said, yea, he is afraid of the crime families.
He avoids them.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Seem pretty clear to me it's because he's a compelling orator.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Well, let me tell you he's gonna go to hell
Gotsch where he's heading.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The three defendants were acquitted.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oddly, Lawrence Ricci, the defendant alleged to be a Genevie's
crime family member, went missing during the trial, disappeared mid trial,
and was later found partially decomposed in the trunk of
a car outside the Huck Finn Diner in Union, New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That is absolutely unbelievable. And the point you made yesterday,
I think is important that they feel so untouchable. That
he's not trying to hide his wealth. He has a
giant yacht and rides around in a Bentley. That's not
you know, you're trying to hang onto the money and
just come off as a regular working class guy just
trying to make a living. No, you don't think anybody
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can touch you when you're being that ostentatious with your lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Guys, maybe we can actually find the audio of this.
This is my favorite Daggett quote. He was leaving the
cargo terminal in New Jersey the other morning and he
suggested that he and the ILA are digging in for
a lengthy showdown, and a reporter said, how.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Long do you think it's likely to last? And he said, I.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Don't have an f in crystal ball between my legs,
but it will last very long.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I would tell you that.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Efen crystal ball between my legs, and particularly not like
on a shelf er back at home, or why would
you keep a crystal ball between your legs? Do you
think Dagget himself has ever thrown a punch or swung
an axe handle in a over the years. He is
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a very strong, tough looking old guy. It would not
shock me.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
His language indicates he might be the sort of person
that at least has threatened, if not actually been the
the hammer.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That had had gold Lawrence Ricci, but he was found
partially decomposed in a trunk in particularly in particularly, we
will cripple you.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Oh my neck? You want to do taft hardly? Oh
my neck? This is not gonna help Kamala Harris a bit. Well,
that's that's my big thing is if this grows, and
it's gonna grow fast. I mean you can feel the
heat getting turned up just three days in. What's it
gonna feel like a week or two from now, when
you got hundreds of ships parked off the coast. It's
on the evening news every single night. Candidates are gonna
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have to take a real strong position one way or
the other, and I don't know how the public's gonna
react to it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
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for people whose jobs and careers are vanishing because of
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Speaker 1 (13:09):
And once again quickly. One of the things they're arguing
for the Longshorreman is not replacing with modern technology people
that stand there with a clipboard making a lot of
money and writing down the license plates of the trucks
that come in. Right now, they have human beings do
it instead of have just a license plate reader that
you could get for very cheap and it'd be free
(13:31):
after that. Because they don't want to lose the workers. Well,
that's just you're just fighting against the ocean there the tide. Ironically,
they know it's the last deal they're going to get
before things really change, So I guess you swing for
the fences. Speaking of swing for the fences, I want
to mention a thing from the baseball playoffs. No, we
got a whole bunch of other stuff on the ways.
Stay here, you can't see this.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
California just and as that they're banning sell buy and
best before food labels. Yeah, they prefer everyone to use
the more scientific method of going up to your spouse
and saying does this smell right to you?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And that's what I like to do it. So what's
what's the story on that? It seems like California would
be the opposite of that, they'd be more strict as
opposed to get rid of them. What's the story, Katie?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Well, so they're getting rid of the cell buy and
best before because they can be misleading, and they're going
they're going to be replaced by two different labels, one
best if used by, which will show when food is
at its best quality, okay, and then a used by
label to show when food is no longer safe to eat.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, this is a real leaf forward, right, just a
heads up.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It won't apply to eggs, beer and other malt drinks.
Why wouldn't it? Okay? But I well, I don't know
how well you can nail down at what point something
becomes not safe to eat. The companies that make the
food mostly have an interest in making it seem like
(15:02):
you got to buy new all the time because they
stocked shelves. Yeah, and or your fridge. Yeah, so the
whole best buy, Like this cracker will taste better if
you eat it next week, but it's still be fine
in a month. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And if I'm drunk, it'll be even better. I mean
in another month it'll be fine. So sliding scale the goal.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
The goal is to cut down on food waste, and
because it's California, reduce harmful emissions that contribute to climate change.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh jeez, with the climate change. You know, I knew
it would edit through it be ridiculous. Yeah, bringing back
once again, at risk of being punched in the face
the vice presidential debate the other night. Oh, I had
missed this too until I heard smarter commentators commenting on it,
So you got what's going on in North Carolina. And
the day of the debate was a particularly bad day
(15:53):
when we found out there were hundreds more people dead
than they realized and lots of people missing, and really
good reason to presume that they are dead. Also, I mean,
it's just a horrifying tragedy right in the midst of it,
and they bring it up, and they don't talk about
the government's response or you know, whether it's enough for
all the different things around the immediacy of the tragedy.
(16:16):
They go to global climate change and what you would
do as president. Yeah, that's just freaking nuts. It is nuts,
and it's not the way any normal human beings are,
especially in the midst of the crisis. I think it's
nuts if it were two months later. But the day
that it's happening, you're not talking about federal response and
(16:36):
is it enough or two much, or how we should
deal with it, or what you would do, or what
are your experiences, what had you done in Minnesota dealing
with various disasters or as a vice president Biden administration not.
They go right to climate change, the giant overarching will
unfold over centuries and there's nothing we can do about it.
(16:56):
What are you going to do in your couple of
years as president bs Two interesting things I learned about this,
one political. A lot of those counties that are decimated
are red counties in a purple state in North Carolina,
and if those people don't get out and vote, that
could hurt Republicans and Trump obviously in North Carolina, less
(17:19):
so in some of the other states. But that could
be a big deal because they don't know where their
absentee ballot is. They can't find their house, and you know,
whether they'll be able to organize the election and the
polls and the rest of it in the normal ways
is up in the air. Interesting, you don't think it
would go the other direction where they'd be more motivated
to figure out how to vote. Probably Republican. I don't
(17:43):
know why. Well, if they have no house, so they
might be depends on their view, depends on their view
of the response, if they feel like the response wasn't
good enough.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, I mean that's a factor. But they just they
don't even know if they could administer the elections. Certainly
wouldn't be top of your right now. No, no, And
again it's about just the logistics. These towns don't exist anymore,
so how are they going to hold the vote? That
in the Brown Ocean? I want to talk about that.
Insanity may be prevailing in women's sports.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
At my National Park delay the reveal of its annual
fat Bear Weak Bracket after one bear killed another and
it was live streamed on explored dot org. Well, I'm
not surprised you keep calling them fat on the internet.
Someone was bound a snap.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I get it. The dangers of social media, Joe.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
The dangers of being a bear, wild beasts, toothclaw, etc.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So you can go on. I've never done this, So Katie,
you said you did this yesterday. You can go on
and watch just live cameras of fat bears walking around.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Yeah, we actually have it linked at Armstrong and getty
dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And then do people vote or who determines which bear
is the cutest or fattest or.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Yeah, there's a there's a voting. It's all on a website.
So they have the voting and the webcams and.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You get the whole, the whole fat bear package.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
The webcams are actually quite interesting because you see the
bears fishing for salmon and so it's both beautiful and amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh my son would love this. Okay, until there's a
murder that's less beautiful, killing each other. Yeah, well they
are bears.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
The bears are who we thought they were right, So
speaking of unpleasantness and what I.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Say, Oh, but I'd rather run into a bear if
I'm instead of a man exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Speaking of that sort of idiotic notion, that sort of attitude,
It's time for a campus madness update, Campa campus madness.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
There it is right there.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I had forgotten that stupid thing that was born on
the campuses. I'm sure the idea that a woman is
better off running into a bear in the woods than
a man. What what you know?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
What is happening to our culture? As the bear is
gnawing on your liver? If you said you could be
as so kind as to, perhaps in your own blood,
write a note of apology to men everywhere I would appreciate.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Or how stupid that was just stupid, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Let's start the campus mad in this update with some
good news.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Michael, make that music go away. It's so slow and maudlin. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
A fourth school, the second in as many days and
third time in a week, a woman's volleyball team has said,
we're not playing San Jose State. With the dude spiking
the ball at eighty miles per hour, we are out.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The undefeated San Jose State Spartans nine to Oho and
now three teams in a row have forfeited because they
figured out they got a guy on their team, their
female team.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, indeed, and this is a total of four teams.
Now Utah State joined Boise State, Southern Utah in Wyoming
in canceling matches against San Jose and an apparent protest
of NCAA rules allowing transgender women that means dudes to
compete in women's sports.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No men in women's sports period.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I don't care what you dress like, I don't care
what sort of hormones you're take in your dude, you
don't get to play with the girls in sports. So
good for you. Once again that gallery of the courageous.
And you know the gals on the teams are driving
this and they're sticking their necks out. Utah State, Boise State,
Southern Utah, and Wyoming. Way to go, moving along. Another
(21:46):
victory speaking of the southwest of the United States.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Big victory.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The other day, the University of New Mexico was issued
a preliminary injunction by federal court judge because they'd been
in posing hefty security fees on any events held by
conservative students. Right the university had put a winking, warm
arm around the shoulders of the Heckler's veto crowd and said, yes, yes,
(22:16):
when conservatives speak, things get out of hand, and so yes,
you've got to pay a five thousand dollars feet have
Rightley Gains come and speak to.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You and speak of women's rights. One, it's overblown most
of the time. And then two, if there is a problem,
it's because your site is violent. So why is that
our problem? Yeah, exactly, exactly, and.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
It's it's allowing Nazis to cancel any Jewish event or
you know whatever. You know, rapists to cancel a women's
safety event because they don't appreciate the safety, so they're
gonna riot and break some windows and stuff. So well,
I'm sorry, any women's rights events will have to pay
a hefty fee because you know, the rapists are unhappy
about it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That is sick, it's weird, it's clever, and it has
worked for years. It's evil and it's working for years.
I mean, how many people have been canceled at Berkeley
for instances down the road here over that claim the
security would just be too expensive. We can't, we can't
to ensure their security.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Because your side's nuts.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, cowardly, cowardly Standford the same, moving swiftly here again
or over to California. This is a great piece written
for the Wall Street Journal by a Jewish fellow who
emigrated from the Soviet Union and is a patriotic American,
loves America. And he says, man, a lot of this
(23:41):
anti Israel stuff, anti jew stuff is straight out of
the Soviet Union anti Semitism. He said, it's so recognizable.
The Jews go back to your Israel has been replaced
with Jews go back to Poland, using Zionist as a
derogatory term.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And then he talks.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
About Clairmont Colleges in California, where he teaches the associated
students of Pomona College. The school's student government had on
its table booklets titled mask Up, We Need You, Palestinian
Solidarity COVID nineteen and the Struggle for Liberation.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Wow, you're like, wait, wait what, Yeah, I'll get to that.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
And this is the whole intersectionality, neo Marxist thing, every
single annoyed person ought to join together in the overthrow
of humanity, even when it doesn't make sense. Queers for Palestine.
You know that sort of thing. But so this group
seven c Staff for Justice and Palestine have a text
(24:39):
pushing a conspiracy theory reminiscent of the Doctor's plot in
the Soviet Union. It's an old thing, look it up,
implying that the US and Israel purposefully see if you
can follow this used COVID nineteen to commit a eugenics
based genocide against Palestinians, minorities, and disabled people. The pamphlets
(25:00):
warned that quote, Zionists and eugenicists rely on you to
be poorly informed to follow for their simplified decontextualized, revisionist,
racist and ablest takes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's what they're teaching on her universities. Money well spent.
There's more.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
The new editor of the Stanford Oh what is the
name of this Stanford Review, which is the dissenting, sane
conservative newspaper on the Stanford campus.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
This woman, this young woman is brilliant and brave. She
is a hero. But she talks.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
About how Stanford Review is founded in the eighties because
their peers demanded the end of the Western civilization program
that taught authors like Aristotle and Dante, and they chanted, hey, hey,
ho ho, Western culture has got to go. Stanford Cancer
canceled Western Civilization, and now it's in its iteration of
(26:02):
a class just called college that is like John Belushi.
That was parody, but now it's Stanford only it only
requires students to read articles instead of books, and is
graded on completion, not hard work, comprehension, or excellence. The
inmates have taken over the asylum. She writes really good stuff.
(26:24):
We'll post links at Armstrong and getty dot com. I
don't know how many years you'd have to go back.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's not very many years, but it would have been
unimaginable that you would cancel Western civ Classes from colleges
because you thought Western civilization was so evil it shouldn't
even be taught. I mean you wouldn't have to go
back many years a decade. Certainly you go back twenty
thirty years ago, it would be just nuts, even on
(26:50):
college campuses, not just seen as incorrect, but as looney
tunes because it is right. Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We talked a little bit about the UH emotion professor
Amy wax at Penn. One of the things she's accused of.
This is hilarious. In the Age of DEI right where
you're entirely defined by your race, the color of your skin.
She was accused of making sweeping generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, immigration status. That is the very thing that
(27:20):
DEI is based on. They're firing conservative professors for. Here's
another example of what hypocrites and liars these people are.
So Columbia University finally cranked out a report about the
anti Semitism on campus, and a bunch of radical teachers, staffers, professors,
(27:40):
faculties I'm looking for published an angry response to it,
saying that one of the big flaws was that it
contributes to a hospitle narrative about Columbia. It's marked by conspicuous,
neglectful omissions of context and climate. It conflates feelings with facts,
so it said the idea of your feelings are hurt
(28:02):
or you feel threatened, that's not a fact. We don't
have to react to that. That's the DEI progressive crowd
saying that, Who've spent the last couple of decades telling
us if you say something completely innocent but somebody thinks
it's racist, you're a racist. People are such hypocrites. And finally,
(28:24):
a profile and cowardice. For the last seven years, New
York State Writers Institute held an annual book festival at
the University of Albany. Notable authors come together and discuss
big ideas. But this year the festival was disrupted because
two authors refuse to discuss their books with the panels moderator.
Why because she is a Zionist. Alyssa Albert, forty six
(28:47):
year old progressive feminist author whose novels are dark comedies
about subjects like modern motherhood and fame. She'd agreed to
moderate the panel months earlier, was really looking forward to it,
but then it turns out that she is a Jew,
and so the other panelists or the author said, we
(29:09):
don't want to be on a panel with a Zionist.
Not to sugarcoat this or taken by surprise. Wow, we
can't appear with a Zionist.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
There's another thing that you wouldn't have to go back
many years where it would have just seemed nuts that
somebody would get canceled from any sort of writer's gathering
because they were Jewish, only because they're Jewish. Yeah, let's
go ahead and state it as it is.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Aisha abdel Gowad, a Muslim writer in her mid thirties,
and Lisa Coe, whose first book was now nomine in
for a National Book Award, wouldn't share the stage with
a Jew who supports Israel. Won't be on stage with
Jews again. That's Ayisha Gwad and Lisa Coe.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Wow, weird times, man. That's troubling. It's extremely troubling, and
that one is not receding anytime soon. I don't think, Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
No, our college campuses are I mean, eighty percent of
the faculty agree with it, or even if it's sixty percent,
twenty five percent are too terrified to say anything, and
fifteen percent disagree with it.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
They're so diseased. Oh, I'm not sure there's any curing. Well,
like your first campus madness story, it would seem that
the tide is turned on the whole women's women men
dominating women's sports thing. It would seem the tide has
turned on that, but not on this whole canceling Jews
thing that has not yet.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
No, No, and anti Zionism as the polite face of
anti Semitism is an old, old dodge.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I need to pick a baseball team to root for
for the playoffs. As we're getting past the wild card rounds.
I think I'm going to go with the Detroit Tigers,
one of the lowest payrolls in all of baseball. Who
knocked off the Houston Astros, who I usually root for
last night? And move on, kindwagon jumper, folks, he's a
fake fan. I love low pay roll teams always have.
That's just that's fun when they when they get they
(31:09):
get a chance to roll on. And baseball man more
than practically any sport. You just got to make the
playoffs than anything can happen. You get hot and get
on a roll. Doesn't matter if the team you're up
against one hundred games, who cares.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, especially if you have the pitching. You've got a
couple of two tree pitchers who are really hot.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yep. Got some interesting political stuff you might want to
know about. Not boring. Promise you promise you not dull, boring,
normal cable news sort of stuff about the presidential rays
and other things. All the way.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Stay here, meet the mini move right now.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
The Erth's gravitational pull is playing host to something we
traditionally find a little scary.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
An asteroid scientists see it.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Swung by got caught up in our gravity and we'll
spend about the next sixty days orbiting the planet. And no,
there's no need to fear. They're not kidding about the
mini part. The asteroid, affectionately named twenty twenty four PT five,
is literally thirty three feet long, about the size of
your average school bus.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
It's too small and too dark for most of us
to glimbs.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh, so the mini moon is going to be orbiting
the Earth. So I for some reason, I was picturing
it up by the moon, but I don't know how
I got that in my head. So it's completely separate
from the Moon. It's just an asteroid or okay, and
we won't be able to see it. Okay, So it's
really nothing. It's a junior moon. There you go. And
there's no chance it's going to crash into the Earth
(32:34):
and kill us all or anything like that. No, there's
always a chance.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Like one of our emailers said, some DEI hire might
have failed to carry the one. It's in fact headed
directly toward Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Some DEI higher did the math wrong. Hilarious, Yeah, quotas
instead of excellence. Yes, I haven't heard this. I guess
this is a lefty journalists in a Monta having to
admit that Vance beat Walls in the debate the other night.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Vance clearly, I think it needs to be said, clearly,
the more experienced debater, so JD.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Vance, came to this debate to land a bunch of punches,
and he did. And the thing that really stood out
to me was that Tim Walls did not seem prepared
for it.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
I think the lack of interviews that he has done
with national media, with local media, it showed he needed
more racial and two issues driving the campaign right now
are Harris has a big deficit of the economy, Harris
has a big deficit of immigration. And Republicans were happy
tonight and Democrats a little bit nervous that on those
two issues Vance carried it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I mean it's pretty clear Vance outclassed Walls tonight. I
mean I was watching this and all I could think
of was man Walls as so went over his head. Wow,
that's interesting. I hadn't heard all those responses and I
recognized the voice of most of those people, and they're.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Not predisposed to feel that way. Yeah, you've said for
years and it's a truism. At this point, the whole
question of who won the debate is such a dopey
way to look at it. Did either candidate solidify or
grow or support? Did anybody weaken their support? If Vance
quote unquote one for his folks better than Waltz one
(34:17):
for his folks, well, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Both their approval ratings went up, according to Pole, so
they may have both helped their own positions. I'm confused
as to how Walls's approval rating went up, even among
people who liked him to start with. But anyway, I
wanted to get this confused by that too. From the
Wide World of News newsletter today, there are three post
debate stories on Tim Walls from The Wall Street Journal,
New York Times, and Political, all suggesting the Minnesotan's debate
(34:43):
performance reflects some previously known flaws that the dominant media
is now more ready to examine about his fish tails
and making up his stories, his skill set, and his
value to the campaign. As he gets ready to do
the sixty minutes interview for this weekend, I think other interviews,
and he's going to do a late night comedy turn,
so he's going to go on all the late night
(35:04):
shows Walls is so I haven't read these stories in
the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Politico, suggesting that
there's a little nervousness that the guy might not have
the talent to pull all this off, which I'd say
was evident the other night. I don't know how he'll
do on the late night shows. I mean they'll they'll
they'll give him all, they'll give him every you know,
assist they can to try and make it better. Also,
(35:26):
this from Mark Calpern, who's pretty good at this sort
of stuff. He said my spidey sense says that the
stories about the past an alleged past of Doug am Hoff,
Kamala Harris's husband, have a few more chapters to inferral
at least, so he must be hearing some whispers out
there that this him slapping his ex girlfriend. Uh, there's
(35:47):
more of these coming.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, and it's it's not directly relevant to the race,
but it just is an ugly.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Well it's an it's an ugly reality.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And if Kamala Harris is with a guy not only
impregnated his kids nanny and then they didn't keep the baby,
whether it was aborted or whatever, I think most people
think that then he slapped his girlfriend. I just what
sort of great feminist leaders with a guy like that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well, and if there's a couple of more that are
in that realm, yeah, that'd be pretty damaging. I think
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