April 29, 2024 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're holding an anti demonstration demonstration on the quad at noon.
I hope you can make it. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm strong, and one more thing.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We're going to have an anti demonstration demonstration and chant
no more chanting, no more chanting.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can get behind this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That would be pretty funny, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Speaking of the protests, Bill Maher had something to say
about it on his HBO show Friday Night.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
No, you know Passover It celebrates the exodus of the
Jews in Biblical times from Egypt, and nowadays it celebrates
the exodus of the Jews from Columbia University. Yeah, when
did Columbia become Kanye State? The campuses across the country
(00:50):
or in kash They kids have put up all these
tent encampments on the quads and they won't come out
of their tents. The authorities don't know what to do.
They don't know how to get them out of their fence.
Now where do their phones die? They'll come out, But
(01:11):
ked's little excep. Keep those tents. You're gonna need them
when you graduate.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Wow wow, shot there jokes there.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But Bill Maher goes on to agree with a lot
of punditory across America. If this is how you deal
with it, you tell them you're gonna get kicked out
of college if you don't get off the lawn. And
then if you don't get off the lawn, after you
kicked out of college, you get arrested and you don't
go to school here anymore. So that's how that ends.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Listen, Junior, you spent a great deal of time and governing,
your parents and taxpayer's money on getting your worthless degree.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What if you didn't get your worthless.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Degree at all? Okay, because that's what you're playing with.
But again, as I said on the show many times,
it's you've got to stop thinking about colleges and universities
and the way we used to you got an educational
establishment and students coming eager to learn and get a degree.
Now it's it's just it's a huge amount of money
for a worthless degree, and the purveyors of worthless degrees
(02:04):
are not going to mess with their customer base by
asking them to do anything. It's just not what it's
about anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Bill Maher's a Jew, you know, I do know that.
Actually he's half Jewish, half Catholic.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
It's right. I think I've heard him talk about that.
He's an atheist himself.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, absolutely, and really really hates religion.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So when I was a youngster on the campus of
the University of Illinois at or Bana Champaign, there was
a big divest from South Africa movement, and there is
at one point, I think, some tents on the quater somewhere,
and I was aware of it, and I think I
sniffed around to figure out what they're they're protesting about,
(02:47):
or why they're sleeping in their tents, and I remember
a distinct feeling of that's interesting. But I got to
go to class. Yeah, I want to see my girl friend.
I just good for you. But I don't know whether
I was like shallow and apathetic or wise beyond my years.
(03:09):
But I thought, I'm not gonna spend my time doing that.
I have things that do.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, I had a full time job all through college.
For the idea of it would have been complete nonsense.
But the just the even with free time, the I'm
gonna get involved in how the college spends its money
just seems weird to.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Me, right, And it's not like I was pro apartheid
or or Earth or wanted Nelson Mandela to stay in
jail or anything like that. I just didn't think. I
thought I don't have a role in this. I wouldn't
be doing any good, so I didn't. And again, does
that make me shallow and apathetic or wise beyond my
(03:45):
years or both? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I just I'm reminded of the city councils passing resolutions
condemning something happening sixty five hundred mile or eight thousand
miles away. You're a freaking city council fixed the potholes.
This is not your job. It's so obvious you're doing
this to elevate your own self worth or your own
self importance, or to appear impressive. Everybody knows it. Stop it.
(04:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Some of the college kids are hilariously uninterested in why
they're there to protest, though I saw more of those
over the weekend. I guess it's just, you know, they're
just there to be there. Yeah, nothing draws a crowd
like a crowd, and especially for the guys. That's where
the hot chicks are. Okay, well, I'm going I don't
care what it's for.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
And honestly, I thought that piece that I shared part
of that mentioned the COVID, the COVID lockdowns, and how
lonely these kids are and how desperate they are for
some sort of communal experience. I think that that's probably
that's not the main fuel for the fire, but that's
a factor.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's a hard thing to internalize that you missed out
on several years of that very important part of your
life of being involved in anything that's been very strange.
I didn't live through that.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah. The only demonstrations I were call attending regularly were
the annual hash Wednesday on the on the Quad, in
which we peacefully advocated for the legalization of marijuana by
getting stoned. I would go to again, entirely peaceful.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I gathered four quarter Fridays at the Golden Queue regularly.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
To protest beer company price gouging, to protest beer costing
more than twenty five cents uh. And because it was
really an anti sobriety protest.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Because I was the morning guy at the radio station,
I got off early, so I would go and I
would get there around noon and I would get a
booth so that everybody else jeez. So I was there
for what four hours before everybody else got there. Good lord,
I would get a booth there at quarter Friday because
it got pretty crowded given the fact that beer's were
a quarter. I mean, and that's I didn't realize I'm
(05:56):
old in inflation, but that's cheap even then. I mean,
that was dirt. That was like free even then. Man
that got placed got rowdy. It was a draft beer,
so you know, it's in a plastic cup, but it's
still twenty five cents of beer. Good lord, you're stealing
it at that point. Oh yeah, yeah. How do you
make any money off of that? I guess I don't
(06:16):
even know how you come out ahead? Why did they
even have you there? Did they make enough money off
the pool tables or maybe buying burgers? Maybe enough people
bought burgers when they got hungry.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, that had to be it. So I'm guessing that
was like nineteen eighty five something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Ish.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, we'll say nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So he's gonna do the inflation and what it would
be now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, eighty five, the good old days.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Long before you were born.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A quarter beer in nineteen eighty five would be a
seventy three cent beer. Yeah, my day's money.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So even in today's money, and it's pretty cheap.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, let's go ahead and round up to seventy five
cents and get our drink.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Call. Oh my god, people be laying on the floor
that you had to step over and nobody even thought
about it, Just like you got to step over that
girl on the way to the bathroom and step over
again on my back. Oh my gosh, she's taking a nap.
She's tired.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, But the difference, or the key point is, Katie,
we had to go to class and learn stuff and
prove we knew it on tests and actually studied a lot.
So that's changed.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
People slumped over with vomita on their shirts.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Good times, and now you learn nothing in chant in
favor of terrorists. The college experience has definitely changed.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, guess that's it.
We're holding an anti demonstration demonstration on the quad at noon.
I hope you can make it. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm strong, and one more thing.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We're going to have an anti demonstration demonstration and chant
no more chanting, no more chanting.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I can get behind this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That would be pretty funny, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Speaking of the protests, Bill Maher had something to say
about it on his HBO show Friday Night.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
No, you know Passover It celebrates the exodus of the
Jews in Biblical times from Egypt, and nowadays it celebrates
the exodus of the Jews from Columbia University. Yeah, when
did Columbia become Kanye State? The campuses across the country
(00:50):
or in kash They kids have put up all these
tent encampments on the quads and they won't come out
of their tents. The authorities don't know what to do.
They don't know how to get them out of their fence.
Now where do their phones die? They'll come out, But
(01:11):
ked's little excep. Keep those tents. You're gonna need them
when you graduate.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Wow wow, shot there jokes there.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But Bill Maher goes on to agree with a lot
of punditory across America. If this is how you deal
with it, you tell them you're gonna get kicked out
of college if you don't get off the lawn. And
then if you don't get off the lawn, after you
kicked out of college, you get arrested and you don't
go to school here anymore. So that's how that ends.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Listen, Junior, you spent a great deal of time and governing,
your parents and taxpayer's money on getting your worthless degree.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What if you didn't get your worthless.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Degree at all? Okay, because that's what you're playing with.
But again, as I said on the show many times,
it's you've got to stop thinking about colleges and universities
and the way we used to you got an educational
establishment and students coming eager to learn and get a degree.
Now it's it's just it's a huge amount of money
for a worthless degree, and the purveyors of worthless degrees
(02:04):
are not going to mess with their customer base by
asking them to do anything. It's just not what it's
about anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Bill Maher's a Jew, you know, I do know that.
Actually he's half Jewish, half Catholic.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
It's right. I think I've heard him talk about that.
He's an atheist himself.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, absolutely, and really really hates religion.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So when I was a youngster on the campus of
the University of Illinois at or Bana Champaign, there was
a big divest from South Africa movement, and there is
at one point, I think, some tents on the quater somewhere,
and I was aware of it, and I think I
sniffed around to figure out what they're they're protesting about,
(02:47):
or why they're sleeping in their tents, and I remember
a distinct feeling of that's interesting. But I got to
go to class. Yeah, I want to see my girl friend.
I just good for you. But I don't know whether
I was like shallow and apathetic or wise beyond my years.
(03:09):
But I thought, I'm not gonna spend my time doing that.
I have things that do.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, I had a full time job all through college.
For the idea of it would have been complete nonsense.
But the just the even with free time, the I'm
gonna get involved in how the college spends its money
just seems weird to.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Me, right, And it's not like I was pro apartheid
or or Earth or wanted Nelson Mandela to stay in
jail or anything like that. I just didn't think. I
thought I don't have a role in this. I wouldn't
be doing any good, so I didn't. And again, does
that make me shallow and apathetic or wise beyond my
(03:45):
years or both? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I just I'm reminded of the city councils passing resolutions
condemning something happening sixty five hundred mile or eight thousand
miles away. You're a freaking city council fixed the potholes.
This is not your job. It's so obvious you're doing
this to elevate your own self worth or your own
self importance, or to appear impressive. Everybody knows it. Stop it.
(04:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Some of the college kids are hilariously uninterested in why
they're there to protest, though I saw more of those
over the weekend. I guess it's just, you know, they're
just there to be there. Yeah, nothing draws a crowd
like a crowd, and especially for the guys. That's where
the hot chicks are. Okay, well, I'm going I don't
care what it's for.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
And honestly, I thought that piece that I shared part
of that mentioned the COVID, the COVID lockdowns, and how
lonely these kids are and how desperate they are for
some sort of communal experience. I think that that's probably
that's not the main fuel for the fire, but that's
a factor.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's a hard thing to internalize that you missed out
on several years of that very important part of your
life of being involved in anything that's been very strange.
I didn't live through that.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah. The only demonstrations I were call attending regularly were
the annual hash Wednesday on the on the Quad, in
which we peacefully advocated for the legalization of marijuana by
getting stoned. I would go to again, entirely peaceful.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I gathered four quarter Fridays at the Golden Queue regularly.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
To protest beer company price gouging, to protest beer costing
more than twenty five cents uh. And because it was
really an anti sobriety protest.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Because I was the morning guy at the radio station,
I got off early, so I would go and I
would get there around noon and I would get a
booth so that everybody else jeez. So I was there
for what four hours before everybody else got there. Good lord,
I would get a booth there at quarter Friday because
it got pretty crowded given the fact that beer's were
a quarter. I mean, and that's I didn't realize I'm
(05:56):
old in inflation, but that's cheap even then. I mean,
that was dirt. That was like free even then. Man
that got placed got rowdy. It was a draft beer,
so you know, it's in a plastic cup, but it's
still twenty five cents of beer. Good lord, you're stealing
it at that point. Oh yeah, yeah. How do you
make any money off of that? I guess I don't
(06:16):
even know how you come out ahead? Why did they
even have you there? Did they make enough money off
the pool tables or maybe buying burgers? Maybe enough people
bought burgers when they got hungry.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, that had to be it. So I'm guessing that
was like nineteen eighty five something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Ish.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, we'll say nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So he's gonna do the inflation and what it would
be now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, eighty five, the good old days.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Long before you were born.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A quarter beer in nineteen eighty five would be a
seventy three cent beer. Yeah, my day's money.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So even in today's money, and it's pretty cheap.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, let's go ahead and round up to seventy five
cents and get our drink.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Call. Oh my god, people be laying on the floor
that you had to step over and nobody even thought
about it, Just like you got to step over that
girl on the way to the bathroom and step over
again on my back. Oh my gosh, she's taking a nap.
She's tired.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, But the difference, or the key point is, Katie,
we had to go to class and learn stuff and
prove we knew it on tests and actually studied a lot.
So that's changed.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
People slumped over with vomita on their shirts.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Good times, and now you learn nothing in chant in
favor of terrorists. The college experience has definitely changed.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, guess that's it.
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