November 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- College trio of stories
- The football book
- How far will Mamdani go with his rhetoric & government cheese
- Neanderthals
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal title of
Prince due to his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. And Andrew
says he can only become prince again if he gets
a kiss from a young princess.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Wow, so now he's completely out of the royal family.
I guess so you gonna have to like get a job.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I think he's got all sorts of weird royal guy wealth.
He's just been stripped of his titles. But I'm sure
they bought him off, so he doesn't like become some
sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You know, ho for the tabloids.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Right, he'd have a lot of making money bad mouth
in the royal Yeah, he'd have a lot of things
he could say.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm sure that NDA, which was on very fancy parchment
paper with gold calligraphy, is quite throw here's your Prince Andrew.
Headline of the week. Ex Prince Andrew allegedly had forty
prostitutes brought to a Thailand hotel on a five day
taxpayer funded trip.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That seems like enough.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That seems like a lot of prostitutes. Yeah, forty in
the course of a five days.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Three dozen prostitutes plus four right eight a day, if
assuming he distributed them evenly over the course of his
five ways. God, that is some Louis the sixteenth sort
of behavior. I mean, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, for all I know, it was kind of a
cattle call, if you will, where he selected his favorites.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Out of that taxpayers paying I've never understood why Englanders
put up with the whole royal family bs anyway, I
hate everything about it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But ties them to their history.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, it does in the way that kings have always
acted that sort of way. I'm going to get forty
women that will have sex with me, whether they like
it or not, and I'm going to choose my favorites.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So we'll touch on that, perhaps no pun intended, and
also should we clone Neanderthals? But first, a trio of
stories have found fascinating about the world of college in
the modern day. The first was in the Journal about
Pallanteer technologies.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Are you familiar with them at all?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
They are a really innovative, interesting tech company that works
with the government a lot of the US military, intelligence agencies,
immigrations and border enforcement, and that's gotten them a lot
of attention on the left. They're kind of becoming something
close to old what was it, blacks black Stone black Ops,
(03:01):
the contracting company during the Iraq War.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's flitted out of my head because I'm old, all right,
I know it's a really big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Blackwater Blackwater, that's it? Who Blackwater? Keep on rolling anyway,
So the story about Pollenteer has nothing to do with that.
The headline is Palateer thinks college might be a waste,
so it's hiring high school grads. The tech company is
offering twenty two teams a chance to skip college for
its fellowships, which includes a four week seminar on Western civilization.
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They're identifying bright, achieving kids, some of whom have applied,
excuse me, to elite universities and saying, hey, look, here's
a different alternative. Why don't you come to our meritocracy Fellowship,
an experiment launched under Palateer CEO Alex Karp's thesis that
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existing American universities are no longer reliable or necessary training
good workers.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The whole college thing, now that we're on the other
side of it, seems so ridiculous. And it had been
getting ridiculous little by little over the decades and then
reached its ultimate point of ridiculousness.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, I'd agree, I think it's past its peak of ridiculousness,
but we're still close to it. But so Karp, who
was a college graduate and got a lot degree from Stanford,
the CEO said in an August earnings call that hiring
university students these days has meant hiring people who have
just been engaged in platitudes. And so they go into
this program and it sounds great. It kicks off with
(04:35):
a four week seminar with more than two dozen speakers.
Each week had a theme the foundations of the West,
US history and its unique cultural culture movements within America,
and case studies of leaders from Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That sounds great, it does. It sounds absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And you know, I learned a lot in college in
the eighties, a lot. I've learned much much more after college,
but even in the eighties, And stay tuned for a great,
funny story about great inflation. I remember distinctly as it
was time to graduate Gladys. I did very well, all modesty,
(05:19):
you know, in a program called political science. And when
I got my degree, it wasn't that not a bachelor's
of science, it was a Bachelor of Arts. I thought,
wait a minute, science is writing the name of my degree,
but I got a Bachelor of Arts degree. What's going
on here? It's like it's a fake science. And it's
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just gotten more and more silly since that day. I mean,
I'll put my education up against a modern college education anytime.
But it's all this soft, ridiculous learning theory, including radical
gender theory and the rest of it crap, and very
very little hard knowledge. But they go into the description
of the program and sounds really really cool, and they
(06:02):
get these kids into actual projects with clients quick and
have learned on their feet. And if you've got somebody
who's curious and ambitious, they will learn plenty. And I'm
a fan of liberal arts education, but it's become so
silly and softies.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, most of the liberal arts education now, and at
least the curriculums I will look at, has got so much.
This is why you should hate Western civilization as you
know in every course.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think it kind of became clear from the text.
But that was one thing I had meant to emphasize
is that the CEO and the leadership team Pallenteer is
squarely enthusiastically militantly pro Western civilization, pro voting rights, freedom
of speech, democracy, that sort of thing, and militantly against
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socialist communism islemism the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Love them for that. So I love this story. This
is great.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So Harvard just put out a report that argued it's
given out way too many a's and it needs to
enact grading reforms to avoid damaging the academic culture at Harvard.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Too late.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, yeah, too late. This is absolutely fantastic. Here the
percentage of A grades by academic year. Okay, back way back, jack,
we're going way the way way back machine. Back in
two thousand and five, two thousand and six, twenty five
and a half percent of grades were ays. Okay, here
(07:41):
we are not even twenty years later, it's gone from
twenty five and a half percent to fifty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Look how much smarter people are.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Sixty percent of people get an A, or sixty percent
of the grades are as well.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Evidently they were ashamed of themselves because four or five
years ago was sixty three percent.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Although we climbing its.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Way back to that man, two thirds of grades should
not be a's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I know, it's just it's absolutely laughable. So anyway, Harvard,
So you.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Got to come out of Harvard saying you were a
straight A student at Harvard, right, and then you find
out you got in because you were white and rich
or pretended to be a rower and to give it
ace to two thirds of students.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
So right, show up and fog this marror. Oh well,
we didn't need the mirror fog. They didn't give him
an A. I mean, just continue breathing. They'll give you
an A. Anyway, So they put out that report saying,
all right, we're becoming a joke. One student, and I'm
quoting now from the Harvard Crimson is summarizing from the
actual student newspaper. One college was so just One college
(08:42):
student was so distraught she quote skipped classes and was
just sobbing in bed the whole entire day. I was
just crying, said freshman Sofika unpronounceable on economics, environmental science,
and public policy major who says she believes the fields
are quote essential to building a more equitable, sustainable world.
I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing
(09:04):
in bed because I felt like I was I try
so hard in my classes and my grades aren't even
the best.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It just felt soul crushing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
A Zara also unpronounceable, a freshman who attended a sixty
five thousand dollars a year all girls' school that does
not rank students and offers an anti racist curriculum before
she came.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
To college sixty five grandy year. Listen to this?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Would you said harsher grading practices would minimize her academic enjoyment? Quote,
I can't reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning
the material because I'm so anxious about the midterm, so
anxious about the papers, and because I know it's so
harshly graded. If that standard is raised even more, it's
unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Don't listen to kids.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I almost can't have fun with that. It's so sad.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And it's the adults making these decisions as the kids reaction.
They didn't raise themselves, as we always say.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the Democrats want sixteen year olds to vote. These
are like twenty year old Harvard students for quoting here.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
The great inflation thing is a real problem all the
way through education.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A freshman, Kaita Aronson, who cried when getting into Harvard
after dreaming of attending the school for nearly a decade,
said the process effect of stricter standards makes her rethink
her decision to attend. The Ivy quote, I killed myself
all throughout high school to try to get into the school.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Being fulfilled by my studies now rather than being killed
by them.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, another freshman.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I said, I got to admit, if you've been doing
great inflation for decades, I'd be pretty unhappy if you're
going to decide to fix it the year I come in.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They switch.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
So I go out there with a you know, a
B minus average when everybody else graduated Harvard with an.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
A average for doing the same and stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
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(12:14):
What makes a Harvard student a Harvard student is their
engagement extra curriculars Now, we have to throw that all
away and just pursue academics.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Wow. Wow, wow you said that out loud. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Interesting, I remember pre MEI becoming a parent, hearing about
from all these people I knew whose kids were straight
A students in high school. It's like, Wow, everybody's just
seems like everybody's kid is a straight A student. Yeah,
that whole great inflation thing is a problem, right, Yeah,
It's just it's perverted incentives and disincentives for the for
the students and the faculty and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Interestingly, the New York Times did a peace on Great
Inflation at Harvard that started all this found and we
talked about this at the time and found a lot
of Harvard students skip classes, don't do the ratings, but
coast throw anyway due to rampant grade inflation. You know,
we didn't get to the third story I wanted to do.
We're out of Time. It's about a guy who in
effect calls the plays for one hundred different college football teams.
(13:16):
Never played it down of competitive football, but he wrote
a book that all the big coaches, or a lot
of the big coaches go with.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, that's interesting. I'd like to hear that.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, I was just thinking how much could I have
skated in high school or college these days? Since I
wouldn't have been shooting for an A so lots of
people getting a's, I'd have been perfectly happy with the B.
So I could really have done practically nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You might not have even had to like show up,
just enroll and then get your diploma at the end.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Polling shows a lot of you are really really worried
about the shutdown? And is that true? Are are you
all that worried about the shutdown? Do you even know
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
We'll get to that and a whole bunch of stuff
on the way. Usually I feel like polling kind of
matches what I assume is going on, at least a
little bit. Is pulling around the shutdown does not at
all when we talk about that coming up next segment.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Admit I'm also somewhat surprised, perplexed, confused by the results.
So stay with us. So do you like the football?
I really like the football. I want to watch a
lot of watch a lot of NFL. I watch some
college football, and at some point every Saturday, there are
critical moments in the game where the coach makes game
changing decisions, and when they do, they often rely on
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a single eighty seven page book. It's practically a booklet
that they all have on their bookshelves. At least at
least one hundred or so fairly prominent college football teams
use this book. It was not authored by Bill Walsh
or Nick Saban or any of college football's greatest minds,
and it's not Sun Sou The Art of War. It
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is a color coded guide written by a suburban dad
from Atlanta who never played it down of competitive football.
Michael McRoberts was a Northwestern grad in biomedical engineering who
spent much of his career designing debt collection strategies for
a credit bureau.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But his most.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Impactful work is a compilation of football strategies that he
assembled into something called The Game Book.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I find myself wondering if he's being compensated in such
a way that he ought to be. That should be
worth many millions of dollars. I don't know if he's
getting paid at all.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, I want that's an interesting thought. I mean, because
it's a limited even if you sold one to every
single college coach in the world. You're not gonna get rich.
These big time coaches make many millions of dollars. Yeah,
and for making these kinds of decisions right, right, And
(15:57):
it's funny having raised three kids and said him off
to school and careers and stuff like that. The fact
that he started in biomedical engineering, then went into debt
collection strategies for credit bureaus, and now he's famous for
writing college football strategy books.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's a good illustration of how life really works.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
But anyway, on every page, McRoberts presents the best course
of action in specific situations, from when to go for
it on fourth down to late game clock management. The
company he founded, Championship Analytics Incorporated, now has a client
list that includes more than one hundred major college football programs,
and it includes some of the most successful coaches in
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the game. Old Mess coach Lane Kiffin has been using
the book for six years, and he says, if you
really follow it, you're going to be much more aggressive
than the old way of thinking, the one where we're
all raised around and watched. So in twenty eleven, he
was staying up with his infant son through the n itis.
Any dad and mom can relate to He began tinkering
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with spreadsheets. He couldn't believe that while the analytics revolution
swept through other sports, football coaches still trusted their gut
over hard data.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay, it was someone the time that they are. You know,
they're making the movie with.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Brad Pitt, Yeah, for Moneyball, Brad Pitt showing it's all
about figuring out the numbers. And he said they're doing
it in baseball, but not doing it in football. That's interesting,
and he says, why isn't.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Someone giving them that information would at least let them
know what the math would recommend. Turned out, the calculations
he used in his day job could also predict prudent
courses of action for football teams. He began building the book,
which grew to have a color coded system, readable at
a glance. Red for punt, yellow for attempted field, gold
and green for go, When to try for a two
point conversion, when to attempt an onside kick, kick deep,
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how to manage two minute warning, everything nearly everything outside
of you know, specific X and o's, and with his advice,
coaches have gotten a lot bolder. Last season, teams faced
with second or fourth down and less than blah blah
blah went for it fifty seven percent of the time,
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up from twenty seven percent just a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Wait till AI get a hold of these numbers and
can factor in a whole bunch of other stuff week
by week. That'll probably be become a big part of
all sports.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I'll be individualized team by team, Yeah, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I want to be mayor so I can deliver a
better New York free healthcare, affordable housing, free Wi Fi
as mayor, Can I make that happen? I'm not sure yet,
but together we're gonna find out that the answer is no.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
That's interesting this Saturday Night Live open pretty honest commentary,
inaccurate commentary there about Zorn Mamdani. That many of the
things he's saying he's gonna do, he doesn't have the
power to do. Although that's where we are with our
politics in general. Now, Biden did it, Trump did it,
Mumdanni's doing it. You claim all sorts of things you're
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gonna do on day one that you don't even close
to have the authority to do. But it shows directionally
the direction you're going. I'm glad I don't live in
New York. So I don't have to suffer on whatever
policies he is able to enact. Me a heck of
an experiment for the United States to have the financial
capital of America run by a freaking socialist. And again,
(19:18):
not like socialists like we all said Barack Obama's a socialist,
comble airs a socialist. This guy actually is a socialist
like member of the party Socialist.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well in the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America have
swung way more radical than they were when they were founded.
When they were founded, it was like, we need a
bigger social safety net. Now they are empty, the prisons open,
the borders, abolish, the police, sees the means of production,
you know, borderline communists, oh in flaming anti Semites. So
(19:50):
I was listening to some of the political coverage this
morning on.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
News America. I never can remember the channel of that
one America news network.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I don't know what is it called me.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I don't know if that's right. I don't know, because
I want to know what my news is news Nation?
What is news Nation? News Nation is news Nation Zone channel? Okay,
that's what I watch every That's one of the many
shows I watch every day News Nation. Anyway, their analysis
was the showing the pulling. It's a huge age divide,
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and the younger crowd is entirely for Zoran because he
doesn't dig capitalism and because he's anti Israel to way
more of an extent than the older crowd, given the
fact that New York is four out of five voters
of Democrats already, so it's Democrats who don't believe in capitalism,
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and we got this text. I thought that was really good.
Capitalism is the only real economic system. All other economic
systems and quotes are actually political systems, which of course
is true. Free market is an economic system. All your
other systems are. Yet politics have to be evolved at
such an extent to control who's going to get what
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and what way.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, that's that's a really good point.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I mean, if I was to phrase it a little differently,
I would say the free market is the the greatest
achievement ever wrought in keeping politics.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Out of the economic system. It's your best shot.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Otherwise it's it's just becomes theft. Yeah, theft and game
fixing and some on scaling.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So how far is he going to go with his
rhetoric once he wins. This is the tacking toward the middle. Mum,
Donnie right. We'll see what he has to say once
he wins tomorrow. I can't wait to hear his speech
tomorrow night or in coming days. It's give me something
to watch. He combined his youth and exuberance with crazy,
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crazy ideas I don't know so well. Again, I'm glad
I don't live there and I get to watch them.
The Democrats run their socialist experiment from three thousand miles away.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
It could be a real zoo to wash unfold. I mean,
a great soap opera.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So the other polling that has been getting a lot
of attention is around the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So we're at day thirty four. Tomorrow's day thirty five.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Tomorrow will either tie or set the record for the
longest shutdown ever.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It has had zero effect on my life.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Now, maybe part of that is I'm fortunate enough to
not at this at least at this point beyond any
government programs, so I wouldn't notice the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
We have both known the delicious tangy taste of government
cheese in our lives.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Correct, I never ate it up because I needed it
my roommate went and got government cheese. He was big
on government programs, it still is, and so he went
and got cheese because we qualified for it. I wasn't
gonna go get freaking government cheese.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, I remember at some point we found ourselves in
possession of a giant block of che or government cheese.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That don't remember is a long.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Time about the government gives out so much food that
gets thrown away.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I was talking about the schools a week or so ago.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I heard some teachers complaining that they provide the schools
now provide breakfast and lunch at least locally for every kid,
whether you asked for it or not, and almost all
of it goes in the trash every day.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Taxpayers are paying.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
For it, right, And we could get into someday the
history of the politics around it, where you've got to
have a certain amount of agricultural production. I mean, you
don't want to be dependent on China for your food,
for instance, and so we've subsidized and tried to regulate.
So we've always got good at it, but it's gone crazy.
I have the Department of Agriculture is now just all powerful.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I definitely have been paycheck to paycheck in my life.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
So if I was if I would have missed a
paycheck like a lot of government workers are now, it
would have been brutal at various parts of my life
to I need that paycheck. That's how I make my rent? Now,
what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That have sucked?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So if that's happening to you and you're a government worker,
you definitely be feeling the shutdown. But in general, for
most people, I don't understand how these numbers add up.
So to the poll, over half of Americans are very
concerned about the government shutdown. I would put myself on
a scale of one to ten a zero in terms
(24:21):
of very concerned about the government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I don't know if I have any concern or whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
But over half are very concerned, and thirty two percent
or somewhat concerned. So that gets you to eighty six
percent of Americans are very or somewhat concerned about the shutdown?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Am I that out of touch?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe they need to run it through the media filter,
because again they've been indoctrinated told a million times how
incredibly important this is and about a terrible crisis it is,
and people just they're only sort of half aware of
the reality of it because they're going about their lives,
and they take the.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Media's or for it. The longest that's wildly inflated. Those numbers.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Now, the longest shutdown in American history wasn't very much
many years ago. Do you even remember that it happened?
Just the detail, just you know, stuff around the edge.
You know what, I would argue to mister and missus Americas,
these government shutdowns are so stupid and so often just
posturing that this one is so egregious and embarrassing in
(25:17):
how what a big nothing burger it is. I'm hoping
this might end these idiotic little face.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Offs in the future.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So I'm enthusiastic about the government shutdown. How how many
people are with me? What's our percentage?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
So four out of five Americans are very or somewhat
concerned about the shutdown. And then to the percentage that
say they're being affected by the government shutdown, thirty seven
percent very concerned, thirty five percent somewhat concerned. That gets
you about two thirds? Are two thirds of Americans being
affected by the government shutdown? I just find that hard
to believe. I just I don't think about it at all. Yeah,
(25:54):
I don't know how long it would have to go
on before I would start to be concerned about it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Again, I must ask you'rehere is this poll from?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh, they're all about the same. Everybody had one. Everybody
released poles yesterday, So you had NBC, ABC, CBS, Wall Street,
lots of different poles that came out, and all the
talk shows yesterday and they were all around the same.
This is CBS as I'm reading from, but the other
ones are similar. Yeah, I don't know if I'm missing
something text us or email.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
And if you're in a you know, if you're a
government worker and you're actually having missed your paycheck on
over the weekend, struggling and I would suck.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
But for those of you aren't government workers, where is this?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah? Maybe you applied for a passport and it's running later,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Know, possibly flying.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
There were quite a few delays and cancelations over the weekend.
All of the polling may lead with who's getting blamed?
You talk about a nothing burger, who cares who gets blamed?
When it it's over, it will go away. Nobody will
think about it again. Nobody's going to the polls a
year from tomorrow thinking about the government shutdown and who
to blame noboddy. Yeah, Now, Gavin Newsom is going to
(27:12):
get his big win tomorrow, which I don't look forward
to him crowing about with his slicked back hair, which.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
He's going laugh. I laughed. He's definitely letting it go
more gray lately. Yeah, it looks more uh distinguished.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, he's distinguished himself by pooping on the great state
of California.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Eh wow.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Speaking of which, there's your headline. Drunk judge caught with
her pants down peeing in public? Is cops haul away
interfering husband? This live team cover.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
There's a lot there. I feel like you need to
go slower. Can you say that again?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Drunk judge?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Drunk judge? Could the judge is drunk? It's not against
a law to get drunk. I assume not on the
bench caught correct? Caught with her pants down public?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
To her? Wasn't I was picturing of him? No pants down? Yes?
In public? Correct?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
As cop haul away interfering husband. The husband is trying
to stop the Hey, he's trying to stop the arrest,
not the peeing.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He appeared to be in favor of the the.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Paintlesssination, public paintlessness of a judge, the nturation. The problem
with that is that's poor judgment to have your pants
down in.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Public exactly, and as often happens in these situations, when
the police interceded and said, I don't care who you are,
you need to be cool about this, they decided not
to be at all, because they were far too important
to have the law imposed upon them.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Get into it with the cops. Don't you know who?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yeah, I know who you are. You're somebody with your
pants down on your ankles in public. That's who you are.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, we're gonna call you a bare ass Jane, that's
who you are. Huh, pull up your pants, Rube. Also,
should we clone the Neanderthals?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Oh cool, that's next. Stay here.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And Paris prosecutors now say amateurs, not professationals carried out
the heist at the Louver. Two more people were arrested
this weekend. Still no sign of any of the missing
royal jewels.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That was a had back of an interesting bit of
bit information we got over the weekend, and France can't
be happy to have that out there. It wasn't some
sort of oceans eleven, super brilliant, highly orchestrated. Now it's
just like a local, regular, run of the mill criminals
that were able to pull that off. Yeah, you know,
(29:29):
I had no I'd forgotten. A friend of mine was
in France and he went to the louver and saw
those jewels three days before they got stolen, and we
were chatting yesterday. He said, oh yeah, he just broken
the glass and grabbed them.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The security was a joke interesting, which.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I thought was interesting. Indeed, so we don't have enough
time to go through this completely. We're going to feature
the discussion of cloning the Anderthals on the Armstrong You
Getting One More Thing podcast, which we will record a
little later today. It never airs on the radio, it's
just to podcast, and sometimes there are swear you can cuss.
(30:03):
But here's the thing. Signists first sequence the Neanderthal genome
in twenty ten, and they absolutely proved that Neanderthals interbred
with human ancestors before mysteriously going extinct, something that had
long been't believe, but they could prove it. And indeed,
when I did I joke at he did my twenty
three and me thing several years ago, I found I
(30:25):
was at the time in the ninety ninth percentile of
the most Neanderthal genes. Because human beings carry up to
four percent of their genetic material is from the Neanderthal genome,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Neanderthals were actually smarter than Homo sapiens.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
That's what a lot of people think.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, do you want to give us the very brief
view of how we came to believe that Neanderthals were
thick headed morons?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I was like one scientist in the eighteen hundreds who
was a racist and attributed because they thought the skull
of a Neanderthal looked like the skull of black people,
and he thought black people were stupid. Because it was
actually a racist, he decided Neanderthals must have been stupid.
(31:15):
Had nothing better than that to go on. Neanderthals had
much bigger brands and almost certainly had more brain power.
The fact that they couldn't taken enough food to power
their brain is one of the reasons they might have
gone away.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Right, So anyway, this is of special interest to me,
being ninety nine percent Neanderthal, as everybody on the show
started to say, which again is a misstatement of the
genetic truth. But I have a very large head, I
have a broad nose, and I definitely have Neanderthal genes
in me. Anyway, So you got this company. You remember
the company that did that claimed to have cloned a
(31:53):
dire wolf. Yes, and the wooly They made a wooly
mouse to prove that they could make a wooly mammoth.
And how that hairy elephants, all right, exactly, And that's
exactly what they did. They just made slightly hairier elephants
and an unusually large wolf and announced quite dishonestly that
they had claimed the or cloned rather a dire wolf. Anyway,
(32:16):
this company is talking making noises about cloning Neanderthals.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
It's not much difference than the Chinese shaven dogs and
call them lions. Yeah, it's well, it's a little more
technically advanced than that, but not very But the guy
who started this company, Colossal Biosciences church by name, he's
a Harvard scientist, was confident a decade ago that Neanderthal
resurrection was a near term possibility. Other scientists are saying,
(32:45):
you're out of your blank in mind. And this guy
an anthropologists biological anthropologists at the University of Kansas, said
Jennifer Raff. I'm sorry that sounds like a lady, not
a dude.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
That is one of the most unethical things I can
possibly think of to attempt full stop. One thing you
would need is and I like this sentence, Oh where
is it? The one thing you would need is an
a quote, extremely adventurous female human to serve as a surrogate.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, nokidding, adventurous is a good word.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And here here's the part that I found really really
interesting to get beyond the the you know, speculative. The
Chinese are probably working on this anyway stuff. Although humans
and Neanderthals did successfully inbreed in the past witness me
their Sun the Great, Great, Great, Great Times Power fifty grandson,
(33:43):
today there's at most four percent Neanderthal DNA in some
human groups, and geneticists say the other day DNA might
not have been beneficial in it, so it was slowly
purged out of the genome.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
But here's the really interesting part.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Experts have discovered that humans why chromosome hello fellas lack
neanderthal DNA. There's none in it, which may point to
a fundamental immune system incompatibility between male neanderthal fetuses and
female Homo sapiens carrying them even in the hazy past.
(34:21):
So you do the math. You got u Homo sapiens
females getting with a hot, hot, big headed Neanderthal dude
like myself, and once you go Neanderthal, you never going
back at all.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
That's what we say. Anyway, God, they.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Couldn't successfully carry a male fetus.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You do the math on that.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
If you've got you know, inter breeding, but you never
reproduce males in the inner breeding, then you know, again,
do the math. And a genetic variant in red blood
cells in Neanderthal human hybrid mothers might have resulted in
high rates of miscarriage according to other research.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, there's something about the way our brains worked as
Homo sapiens versus Neanderthals that is really interesting. If you
haven't read the book or listened to the book Sapiens,
it's so fascinating all of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh, so much of it is new too. There's so much.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
More known now than moon when we were in school
about all of this, Like, nobody even thought Homo sapiens
Andanderthals were on the planet at the same time, right,
not that many years ago. And now we know there's
like six different human species that were on the planet
living at the same time.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Right, I really need to apologize to you good people.
I'm so interested in the science of ancient humans that
i didn't leave time for the peeing judge. So we'll
have to get to that vital story next hour.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Vital all right, if i'd buy.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
That right there to strip mall, Momdani just made a pledge.
We'll have to get to that now or for if
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Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal title of
Prince due to his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. And Andrew
says he can only become prince again if he gets
a kiss from a young princess.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Wow, so now he's completely out of the royal family.
I guess so you gonna have to like get a job.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I think he's got all sorts of weird royal guy wealth.
He's just been stripped of his titles. But I'm sure
they bought him off, so he doesn't like become some
sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You know, ho for the tabloids.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Right, he'd have a lot of making money bad mouth
in the royal Yeah, he'd have a lot of things
he could say.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm sure that NDA, which was on very fancy parchment
paper with gold calligraphy, is quite throw here's your Prince Andrew.
Headline of the week. Ex Prince Andrew allegedly had forty
prostitutes brought to a Thailand hotel on a five day
taxpayer funded trip.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That seems like enough.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That seems like a lot of prostitutes. Yeah, forty in
the course of a five days.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Three dozen prostitutes plus four right eight a day, if
assuming he distributed them evenly over the course of his
five ways. God, that is some Louis the sixteenth sort
of behavior. I mean, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, for all I know, it was kind of a
cattle call, if you will, where he selected his favorites.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Out of that taxpayers paying I've never understood why Englanders
put up with the whole royal family bs anyway, I
hate everything about it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But ties them to their history.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, it does in the way that kings have always
acted that sort of way. I'm going to get forty
women that will have sex with me, whether they like
it or not, and I'm going to choose my favorites.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So we'll touch on that, perhaps no pun intended, and
also should we clone Neanderthals? But first, a trio of
stories have found fascinating about the world of college in
the modern day. The first was in the Journal about
Pallanteer technologies.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Are you familiar with them at all?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
They are a really innovative, interesting tech company that works
with the government a lot of the US military, intelligence agencies,
immigrations and border enforcement, and that's gotten them a lot
of attention on the left. They're kind of becoming something
close to old what was it, blacks black Stone black Ops,
(03:01):
the contracting company during the Iraq War.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's flitted out of my head because I'm old, all right,
I know it's a really big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Blackwater Blackwater, that's it? Who Blackwater? Keep on rolling anyway,
So the story about Pollenteer has nothing to do with that.
The headline is Palateer thinks college might be a waste,
so it's hiring high school grads. The tech company is
offering twenty two teams a chance to skip college for
its fellowships, which includes a four week seminar on Western civilization.
(03:34):
They're identifying bright, achieving kids, some of whom have applied,
excuse me, to elite universities and saying, hey, look, here's
a different alternative. Why don't you come to our meritocracy Fellowship,
an experiment launched under Palateer CEO Alex Karp's thesis that
(03:55):
existing American universities are no longer reliable or necessary training
good workers.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The whole college thing, now that we're on the other
side of it, seems so ridiculous. And it had been
getting ridiculous little by little over the decades and then
reached its ultimate point of ridiculousness.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, I'd agree, I think it's past its peak of ridiculousness,
but we're still close to it. But so Karp, who
was a college graduate and got a lot degree from Stanford,
the CEO said in an August earnings call that hiring
university students these days has meant hiring people who have
just been engaged in platitudes. And so they go into
this program and it sounds great. It kicks off with
(04:35):
a four week seminar with more than two dozen speakers.
Each week had a theme the foundations of the West,
US history and its unique cultural culture movements within America,
and case studies of leaders from Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That sounds great, it does. It sounds absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And you know, I learned a lot in college in
the eighties, a lot. I've learned much much more after college,
but even in the eighties, And stay tuned for a great,
funny story about great inflation. I remember distinctly as it
was time to graduate Gladys. I did very well, all modesty,
(05:19):
you know, in a program called political science. And when
I got my degree, it wasn't that not a bachelor's
of science, it was a Bachelor of Arts. I thought,
wait a minute, science is writing the name of my degree,
but I got a Bachelor of Arts degree. What's going
on here? It's like it's a fake science. And it's
(05:41):
just gotten more and more silly since that day. I mean,
I'll put my education up against a modern college education anytime.
But it's all this soft, ridiculous learning theory, including radical
gender theory and the rest of it crap, and very
very little hard knowledge. But they go into the description
of the program and sounds really really cool, and they
(06:02):
get these kids into actual projects with clients quick and
have learned on their feet. And if you've got somebody
who's curious and ambitious, they will learn plenty. And I'm
a fan of liberal arts education, but it's become so
silly and softies.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, most of the liberal arts education now, and at
least the curriculums I will look at, has got so much.
This is why you should hate Western civilization as you
know in every course.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think it kind of became clear from the text.
But that was one thing I had meant to emphasize
is that the CEO and the leadership team Pallenteer is
squarely enthusiastically militantly pro Western civilization, pro voting rights, freedom
of speech, democracy, that sort of thing, and militantly against
(06:59):
socialist communism islemism the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Love them for that. So I love this story. This
is great.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So Harvard just put out a report that argued it's
given out way too many a's and it needs to
enact grading reforms to avoid damaging the academic culture at Harvard.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Too late.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, yeah, too late. This is absolutely fantastic. Here the
percentage of A grades by academic year. Okay, back way back, jack,
we're going way the way way back machine. Back in
two thousand and five, two thousand and six, twenty five
and a half percent of grades were ays. Okay, here
(07:41):
we are not even twenty years later, it's gone from
twenty five and a half percent to fifty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Look how much smarter people are.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Sixty percent of people get an A, or sixty percent
of the grades are as well.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Evidently they were ashamed of themselves because four or five
years ago was sixty three percent.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Although we climbing its.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Way back to that man, two thirds of grades should
not be a's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I know, it's just it's absolutely laughable. So anyway, Harvard,
So you.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Got to come out of Harvard saying you were a
straight A student at Harvard, right, and then you find
out you got in because you were white and rich
or pretended to be a rower and to give it
ace to two thirds of students.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
So right, show up and fog this marror. Oh well,
we didn't need the mirror fog. They didn't give him
an A. I mean, just continue breathing. They'll give you
an A. Anyway, So they put out that report saying,
all right, we're becoming a joke. One student, and I'm
quoting now from the Harvard Crimson is summarizing from the
actual student newspaper. One college was so just One college
(08:42):
student was so distraught she quote skipped classes and was
just sobbing in bed the whole entire day. I was
just crying, said freshman Sofika unpronounceable on economics, environmental science,
and public policy major who says she believes the fields
are quote essential to building a more equitable, sustainable world.
I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing
(09:04):
in bed because I felt like I was I try
so hard in my classes and my grades aren't even
the best.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It just felt soul crushing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
A Zara also unpronounceable, a freshman who attended a sixty
five thousand dollars a year all girls' school that does
not rank students and offers an anti racist curriculum before
she came.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
To college sixty five grandy year. Listen to this?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Would you said harsher grading practices would minimize her academic enjoyment? Quote,
I can't reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning
the material because I'm so anxious about the midterm, so
anxious about the papers, and because I know it's so
harshly graded. If that standard is raised even more, it's
unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Don't listen to kids.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I almost can't have fun with that. It's so sad.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And it's the adults making these decisions as the kids reaction.
They didn't raise themselves, as we always say.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the Democrats want sixteen year olds to vote. These
are like twenty year old Harvard students for quoting here.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
The great inflation thing is a real problem all the
way through education.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A freshman, Kaita Aronson, who cried when getting into Harvard
after dreaming of attending the school for nearly a decade,
said the process effect of stricter standards makes her rethink
her decision to attend. The Ivy quote, I killed myself
all throughout high school to try to get into the school.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Being fulfilled by my studies now rather than being killed
by them.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, another freshman.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I said, I got to admit, if you've been doing
great inflation for decades, I'd be pretty unhappy if you're
going to decide to fix it the year I come in.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They switch.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
So I go out there with a you know, a
B minus average when everybody else graduated Harvard with an.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
A average for doing the same and stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
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(12:14):
What makes a Harvard student a Harvard student is their
engagement extra curriculars Now, we have to throw that all
away and just pursue academics.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Wow. Wow, wow you said that out loud. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Interesting, I remember pre MEI becoming a parent, hearing about
from all these people I knew whose kids were straight
A students in high school. It's like, Wow, everybody's just
seems like everybody's kid is a straight A student. Yeah,
that whole great inflation thing is a problem, right, Yeah,
It's just it's perverted incentives and disincentives for the for
the students and the faculty and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Interestingly, the New York Times did a peace on Great
Inflation at Harvard that started all this found and we
talked about this at the time and found a lot
of Harvard students skip classes, don't do the ratings, but
coast throw anyway due to rampant grade inflation. You know,
we didn't get to the third story I wanted to do.
We're out of Time. It's about a guy who in
effect calls the plays for one hundred different college football teams.
(13:16):
Never played it down of competitive football, but he wrote
a book that all the big coaches, or a lot
of the big coaches go with.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, that's interesting. I'd like to hear that.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, I was just thinking how much could I have
skated in high school or college these days? Since I
wouldn't have been shooting for an A so lots of
people getting a's, I'd have been perfectly happy with the B.
So I could really have done practically nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You might not have even had to like show up,
just enroll and then get your diploma at the end.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Polling shows a lot of you are really really worried
about the shutdown? And is that true? Are are you
all that worried about the shutdown? Do you even know
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
We'll get to that and a whole bunch of stuff
on the way. Usually I feel like polling kind of
matches what I assume is going on, at least a
little bit. Is pulling around the shutdown does not at
all when we talk about that coming up next segment.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Admit I'm also somewhat surprised, perplexed, confused by the results.
So stay with us. So do you like the football?
I really like the football. I want to watch a
lot of watch a lot of NFL. I watch some
college football, and at some point every Saturday, there are
critical moments in the game where the coach makes game
changing decisions, and when they do, they often rely on
(14:39):
a single eighty seven page book. It's practically a booklet
that they all have on their bookshelves. At least at
least one hundred or so fairly prominent college football teams
use this book. It was not authored by Bill Walsh
or Nick Saban or any of college football's greatest minds,
and it's not Sun Sou The Art of War. It
(15:01):
is a color coded guide written by a suburban dad
from Atlanta who never played it down of competitive football.
Michael McRoberts was a Northwestern grad in biomedical engineering who
spent much of his career designing debt collection strategies for
a credit bureau.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But his most.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Impactful work is a compilation of football strategies that he
assembled into something called The Game Book.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I find myself wondering if he's being compensated in such
a way that he ought to be. That should be
worth many millions of dollars. I don't know if he's
getting paid at all.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, I want that's an interesting thought. I mean, because
it's a limited even if you sold one to every
single college coach in the world. You're not gonna get rich.
These big time coaches make many millions of dollars. Yeah,
and for making these kinds of decisions right, right, And
(15:57):
it's funny having raised three kids and said him off
to school and careers and stuff like that. The fact
that he started in biomedical engineering, then went into debt
collection strategies for credit bureaus, and now he's famous for
writing college football strategy books.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's a good illustration of how life really works.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
But anyway, on every page, McRoberts presents the best course
of action in specific situations, from when to go for
it on fourth down to late game clock management. The
company he founded, Championship Analytics Incorporated, now has a client
list that includes more than one hundred major college football programs,
and it includes some of the most successful coaches in
(16:33):
the game. Old Mess coach Lane Kiffin has been using
the book for six years, and he says, if you
really follow it, you're going to be much more aggressive
than the old way of thinking, the one where we're
all raised around and watched. So in twenty eleven, he
was staying up with his infant son through the n itis.
Any dad and mom can relate to He began tinkering
(16:54):
with spreadsheets. He couldn't believe that while the analytics revolution
swept through other sports, football coaches still trusted their gut
over hard data.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay, it was someone the time that they are. You know,
they're making the movie with.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Brad Pitt, Yeah, for Moneyball, Brad Pitt showing it's all
about figuring out the numbers. And he said they're doing
it in baseball, but not doing it in football. That's interesting,
and he says, why isn't.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Someone giving them that information would at least let them
know what the math would recommend. Turned out, the calculations
he used in his day job could also predict prudent
courses of action for football teams. He began building the book,
which grew to have a color coded system, readable at
a glance. Red for punt, yellow for attempted field, gold
and green for go, When to try for a two
point conversion, when to attempt an onside kick, kick deep,
(17:37):
how to manage two minute warning, everything nearly everything outside
of you know, specific X and o's, and with his advice,
coaches have gotten a lot bolder. Last season, teams faced
with second or fourth down and less than blah blah
blah went for it fifty seven percent of the time,
(17:59):
up from twenty seven percent just a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Wait till AI get a hold of these numbers and
can factor in a whole bunch of other stuff week
by week. That'll probably be become a big part of
all sports.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I'll be individualized team by team, Yeah, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I want to be mayor so I can deliver a
better New York free healthcare, affordable housing, free Wi Fi
as mayor, Can I make that happen? I'm not sure yet,
but together we're gonna find out that the answer is no.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
That's interesting this Saturday Night Live open pretty honest commentary,
inaccurate commentary there about Zorn Mamdani. That many of the
things he's saying he's gonna do, he doesn't have the
power to do. Although that's where we are with our
politics in general. Now, Biden did it, Trump did it,
Mumdanni's doing it. You claim all sorts of things you're
(18:58):
gonna do on day one that you don't even close
to have the authority to do. But it shows directionally
the direction you're going. I'm glad I don't live in
New York. So I don't have to suffer on whatever
policies he is able to enact. Me a heck of
an experiment for the United States to have the financial
capital of America run by a freaking socialist. And again,
(19:18):
not like socialists like we all said Barack Obama's a socialist,
comble airs a socialist. This guy actually is a socialist
like member of the party Socialist.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well in the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America have
swung way more radical than they were when they were founded.
When they were founded, it was like, we need a
bigger social safety net. Now they are empty, the prisons open,
the borders, abolish, the police, sees the means of production,
you know, borderline communists, oh in flaming anti Semites. So
(19:50):
I was listening to some of the political coverage this
morning on.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
News America. I never can remember the channel of that
one America news network.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I don't know what is it called me.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I don't know if that's right. I don't know, because
I want to know what my news is news Nation?
What is news Nation? News Nation is news Nation Zone channel? Okay,
that's what I watch every That's one of the many
shows I watch every day News Nation. Anyway, their analysis
was the showing the pulling. It's a huge age divide,
(20:25):
and the younger crowd is entirely for Zoran because he
doesn't dig capitalism and because he's anti Israel to way
more of an extent than the older crowd, given the
fact that New York is four out of five voters
of Democrats already, so it's Democrats who don't believe in capitalism,
(20:48):
and we got this text. I thought that was really good.
Capitalism is the only real economic system. All other economic
systems and quotes are actually political systems, which of course
is true. Free market is an economic system. All your
other systems are. Yet politics have to be evolved at
such an extent to control who's going to get what
(21:10):
and what way.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, that's that's a really good point.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I mean, if I was to phrase it a little differently,
I would say the free market is the the greatest
achievement ever wrought in keeping politics.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Out of the economic system. It's your best shot.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Otherwise it's it's just becomes theft. Yeah, theft and game
fixing and some on scaling.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So how far is he going to go with his
rhetoric once he wins. This is the tacking toward the middle. Mum,
Donnie right. We'll see what he has to say once
he wins tomorrow. I can't wait to hear his speech
tomorrow night or in coming days. It's give me something
to watch. He combined his youth and exuberance with crazy,
(21:56):
crazy ideas I don't know so well. Again, I'm glad
I don't live there and I get to watch them.
The Democrats run their socialist experiment from three thousand miles away.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
It could be a real zoo to wash unfold. I mean,
a great soap opera.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So the other polling that has been getting a lot
of attention is around the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So we're at day thirty four. Tomorrow's day thirty five.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Tomorrow will either tie or set the record for the
longest shutdown ever.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It has had zero effect on my life.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Now, maybe part of that is I'm fortunate enough to
not at this at least at this point beyond any
government programs, so I wouldn't notice the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
We have both known the delicious tangy taste of government
cheese in our lives.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Correct, I never ate it up because I needed it
my roommate went and got government cheese. He was big
on government programs, it still is, and so he went
and got cheese because we qualified for it. I wasn't
gonna go get freaking government cheese.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, I remember at some point we found ourselves in
possession of a giant block of che or government cheese.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That don't remember is a long.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Time about the government gives out so much food that
gets thrown away.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I was talking about the schools a week or so ago.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I heard some teachers complaining that they provide the schools
now provide breakfast and lunch at least locally for every kid,
whether you asked for it or not, and almost all
of it goes in the trash every day.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Taxpayers are paying.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
For it, right, And we could get into someday the
history of the politics around it, where you've got to
have a certain amount of agricultural production. I mean, you
don't want to be dependent on China for your food,
for instance, and so we've subsidized and tried to regulate.
So we've always got good at it, but it's gone crazy.
I have the Department of Agriculture is now just all powerful.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I definitely have been paycheck to paycheck in my life.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
So if I was if I would have missed a
paycheck like a lot of government workers are now, it
would have been brutal at various parts of my life
to I need that paycheck. That's how I make my rent? Now,
what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That have sucked?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So if that's happening to you and you're a government worker,
you definitely be feeling the shutdown. But in general, for
most people, I don't understand how these numbers add up.
So to the poll, over half of Americans are very
concerned about the government shutdown. I would put myself on
a scale of one to ten a zero in terms
(24:21):
of very concerned about the government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I don't know if I have any concern or whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
But over half are very concerned, and thirty two percent
or somewhat concerned. So that gets you to eighty six
percent of Americans are very or somewhat concerned about the shutdown?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Am I that out of touch?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe they need to run it through the media filter,
because again they've been indoctrinated told a million times how
incredibly important this is and about a terrible crisis it is,
and people just they're only sort of half aware of
the reality of it because they're going about their lives,
and they take the.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Media's or for it. The longest that's wildly inflated. Those numbers.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Now, the longest shutdown in American history wasn't very much
many years ago. Do you even remember that it happened?
Just the detail, just you know, stuff around the edge.
You know what, I would argue to mister and missus Americas,
these government shutdowns are so stupid and so often just
posturing that this one is so egregious and embarrassing in
(25:17):
how what a big nothing burger it is. I'm hoping
this might end these idiotic little face.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Offs in the future.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So I'm enthusiastic about the government shutdown. How how many
people are with me? What's our percentage?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
So four out of five Americans are very or somewhat
concerned about the shutdown. And then to the percentage that
say they're being affected by the government shutdown, thirty seven
percent very concerned, thirty five percent somewhat concerned. That gets
you about two thirds? Are two thirds of Americans being
affected by the government shutdown? I just find that hard
to believe. I just I don't think about it at all. Yeah,
(25:54):
I don't know how long it would have to go
on before I would start to be concerned about it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Again, I must ask you'rehere is this poll from?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh, they're all about the same. Everybody had one. Everybody
released poles yesterday, So you had NBC, ABC, CBS, Wall Street,
lots of different poles that came out, and all the
talk shows yesterday and they were all around the same.
This is CBS as I'm reading from, but the other
ones are similar. Yeah, I don't know if I'm missing
something text us or email.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
And if you're in a you know, if you're a
government worker and you're actually having missed your paycheck on
over the weekend, struggling and I would suck.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
But for those of you aren't government workers, where is this?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah? Maybe you applied for a passport and it's running later,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Know, possibly flying.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
There were quite a few delays and cancelations over the weekend.
All of the polling may lead with who's getting blamed?
You talk about a nothing burger, who cares who gets blamed?
When it it's over, it will go away. Nobody will
think about it again. Nobody's going to the polls a
year from tomorrow thinking about the government shutdown and who
to blame noboddy. Yeah, Now, Gavin Newsom is going to
(27:12):
get his big win tomorrow, which I don't look forward
to him crowing about with his slicked back hair, which.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
He's going laugh. I laughed. He's definitely letting it go
more gray lately. Yeah, it looks more uh distinguished.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, he's distinguished himself by pooping on the great state
of California.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Eh wow.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Speaking of which, there's your headline. Drunk judge caught with
her pants down peeing in public? Is cops haul away
interfering husband? This live team cover.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
There's a lot there. I feel like you need to
go slower. Can you say that again?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Drunk judge?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Drunk judge? Could the judge is drunk? It's not against
a law to get drunk. I assume not on the
bench caught correct? Caught with her pants down public?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
To her? Wasn't I was picturing of him? No pants down? Yes?
In public? Correct?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
As cop haul away interfering husband. The husband is trying
to stop the Hey, he's trying to stop the arrest,
not the peeing.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He appeared to be in favor of the the.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Paintlesssination, public paintlessness of a judge, the nturation. The problem
with that is that's poor judgment to have your pants
down in.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Public exactly, and as often happens in these situations, when
the police interceded and said, I don't care who you are,
you need to be cool about this, they decided not
to be at all, because they were far too important
to have the law imposed upon them.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Get into it with the cops. Don't you know who?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yeah, I know who you are. You're somebody with your
pants down on your ankles in public. That's who you are.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, we're gonna call you a bare ass Jane, that's
who you are. Huh, pull up your pants, Rube. Also,
should we clone the Neanderthals?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Oh cool, that's next. Stay here.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And Paris prosecutors now say amateurs, not professationals carried out
the heist at the Louver. Two more people were arrested
this weekend. Still no sign of any of the missing
royal jewels.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That was a had back of an interesting bit of
bit information we got over the weekend, and France can't
be happy to have that out there. It wasn't some
sort of oceans eleven, super brilliant, highly orchestrated. Now it's
just like a local, regular, run of the mill criminals
that were able to pull that off. Yeah, you know,
(29:29):
I had no I'd forgotten. A friend of mine was
in France and he went to the louver and saw
those jewels three days before they got stolen, and we
were chatting yesterday. He said, oh yeah, he just broken
the glass and grabbed them.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The security was a joke interesting, which.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I thought was interesting. Indeed, so we don't have enough
time to go through this completely. We're going to feature
the discussion of cloning the Anderthals on the Armstrong You
Getting One More Thing podcast, which we will record a
little later today. It never airs on the radio, it's
just to podcast, and sometimes there are swear you can cuss.
(30:03):
But here's the thing. Signists first sequence the Neanderthal genome
in twenty ten, and they absolutely proved that Neanderthals interbred
with human ancestors before mysteriously going extinct, something that had
long been't believe, but they could prove it. And indeed,
when I did I joke at he did my twenty
three and me thing several years ago, I found I
(30:25):
was at the time in the ninety ninth percentile of
the most Neanderthal genes. Because human beings carry up to
four percent of their genetic material is from the Neanderthal genome,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Neanderthals were actually smarter than Homo sapiens.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
That's what a lot of people think.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, do you want to give us the very brief
view of how we came to believe that Neanderthals were
thick headed morons?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I was like one scientist in the eighteen hundreds who
was a racist and attributed because they thought the skull
of a Neanderthal looked like the skull of black people,
and he thought black people were stupid. Because it was
actually a racist, he decided Neanderthals must have been stupid.
(31:15):
Had nothing better than that to go on. Neanderthals had
much bigger brands and almost certainly had more brain power.
The fact that they couldn't taken enough food to power
their brain is one of the reasons they might have
gone away.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Right, So anyway, this is of special interest to me,
being ninety nine percent Neanderthal, as everybody on the show
started to say, which again is a misstatement of the
genetic truth. But I have a very large head, I
have a broad nose, and I definitely have Neanderthal genes
in me. Anyway, So you got this company. You remember
the company that did that claimed to have cloned a
(31:53):
dire wolf. Yes, and the wooly They made a wooly
mouse to prove that they could make a wooly mammoth.
And how that hairy elephants, all right, exactly, And that's
exactly what they did. They just made slightly hairier elephants
and an unusually large wolf and announced quite dishonestly that
they had claimed the or cloned rather a dire wolf. Anyway,
(32:16):
this company is talking making noises about cloning Neanderthals.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
It's not much difference than the Chinese shaven dogs and
call them lions. Yeah, it's well, it's a little more
technically advanced than that, but not very But the guy
who started this company, Colossal Biosciences church by name, he's
a Harvard scientist, was confident a decade ago that Neanderthal
resurrection was a near term possibility. Other scientists are saying,
(32:45):
you're out of your blank in mind. And this guy
an anthropologists biological anthropologists at the University of Kansas, said
Jennifer Raff. I'm sorry that sounds like a lady, not
a dude.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
That is one of the most unethical things I can
possibly think of to attempt full stop. One thing you
would need is and I like this sentence, Oh where
is it? The one thing you would need is an
a quote, extremely adventurous female human to serve as a surrogate.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, nokidding, adventurous is a good word.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And here here's the part that I found really really
interesting to get beyond the the you know, speculative. The
Chinese are probably working on this anyway stuff. Although humans
and Neanderthals did successfully inbreed in the past witness me
their Sun the Great, Great, Great, Great Times Power fifty grandson,
(33:43):
today there's at most four percent Neanderthal DNA in some
human groups, and geneticists say the other day DNA might
not have been beneficial in it, so it was slowly
purged out of the genome.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
But here's the really interesting part.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Experts have discovered that humans why chromosome hello fellas lack
neanderthal DNA. There's none in it, which may point to
a fundamental immune system incompatibility between male neanderthal fetuses and
female Homo sapiens carrying them even in the hazy past.
(34:21):
So you do the math. You got u Homo sapiens
females getting with a hot, hot, big headed Neanderthal dude
like myself, and once you go Neanderthal, you never going
back at all.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
That's what we say. Anyway, God, they.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Couldn't successfully carry a male fetus.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You do the math on that.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
If you've got you know, inter breeding, but you never
reproduce males in the inner breeding, then you know, again,
do the math. And a genetic variant in red blood
cells in Neanderthal human hybrid mothers might have resulted in
high rates of miscarriage according to other research.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, there's something about the way our brains worked as
Homo sapiens versus Neanderthals that is really interesting. If you
haven't read the book or listened to the book Sapiens,
it's so fascinating all of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh, so much of it is new too. There's so much.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
More known now than moon when we were in school
about all of this, Like, nobody even thought Homo sapiens
Andanderthals were on the planet at the same time, right,
not that many years ago. And now we know there's
like six different human species that were on the planet
living at the same time.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Right, I really need to apologize to you good people.
I'm so interested in the science of ancient humans that
i didn't leave time for the peeing judge. So we'll
have to get to that vital story next hour.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Vital all right, if i'd buy.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
That right there to strip mall, Momdani just made a pledge.
We'll have to get to that now or for if
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