July 17, 2025 • 36 mins
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- Why did Trump give Russia 50 days to make a deal to end the war?
- Lab grown diamonds are on the rise...
- The breakdown of higher education enrollment...
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jetty
and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff is refusing to answer questions
from Fox News Digital about alleged mortgage fraud. President Trump
says the Fannie May Financial Crimes Division has concluded Schiff
engaged in a sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud. The
senator has called the accusations baseless.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think there's anything to that.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I would be shocked if Adam Schiff wasn't engaged in
something overtly illegal. He's one of the most shameless, flaming
congenital liars I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
He absolutely is and has not been held to account
on any So. He claimed conspiracy with Russia all day,
every day for years and never paid off any of
the stuff he had. He gets a pass and becomes
a US Senator. Dan Bongino does the same sort of
thing around Epstein, and you know, mainstream media acts like
it's a horror. I don't think you should make up
(01:16):
conspiracies and lead along your voters when you know that
there's nothing to it. But Adam Shift did it too. Yeah,
it's not unique to this Epstein thing.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I could also see a shift in his fans and
what's wrong with you if you're a fan of Adam Schiff.
But I could see them saying, yeah, Trump has been
vowing to get him forever. Now he's getting him. This
is a witch hunt.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
A couple of things fallst than his neck I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's an excell one point. A couple of things guilty,
A couple of things before I get to the main thing.
Ukraine related. Remember a week ago they my brother texted
me from the airport, uh, two days ago. He's going
to Australia to see his dog, her who's interning with
a doctor because she's going to be a doctor. And
she got this cool internship with an Australian doctor. I
(02:06):
don't know if they're fixing kangaroos or what they're doing,
but criikey. Anyway, he was getting on a plane to
go to Australia and he didn't have to take his
shoes off, and he was very excited about that, and
nobody was taking their shoes off. That happened a week
ago now, Christy Nome, the overly Graham DHS secretary, said
they're gonna change the limits on carry on liquids. So
(02:28):
the ridiculously small three ounces of mouthwash or whatever that
you're allowed to have, they're gonna they're gonna change that.
So exciting, exciting times to be appiilated those rules thirty times.
Oh yeah, it's completely random, whether they enforced them or not.
You'll you'll fly all over the place with the same
tube of toothpaste, then all of a sudden, somebody are
looking in the face, what do you think you're doing
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with your four ounces of Crest toothpaste.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But I have had three corkscrews confiscated because obviously I
can approach the stornas and put the cork crew in, twist.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It and pull right right out and then take over
the plane. I don't know how many pocket knives I
had to throw away because I get there and I realize, ah, crap,
I got my pocket NYE with me, which I obviously
can't have on a plane. So I started buying really
cheap ones so I can just toss them in the
trash and go through the line buy another one when
I get home. There's one more thing I wanted to
get to that. Maybe I'll do it later.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, speaking of buying things, let me hit you with this.
What's the difference between a natural diamond, a mind diamond,
and the manufactured diamond that look exactly the same to
the naked eye? What's the difference? Many more consumers are answering.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh really, the market for diamonds, real diamonds is plunging.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's interesting. I got a nugget on that, but I'll
save it. So very few people seem to have an
answer as to why Trump decided to do a fifty
day deadline for Russia. Russia has been showing what they are,
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who they are, and what they plan to do every
day for three years. No matter what Trump says to
him on the phone, or threats or whatever, putin just
ups his game of trying to kill civilians and take
over Ukraine. Why the fifty day pause? Nobody really knows.
I've heard lots of guests, but nobody seems to really know.
Zelensky yesterday said the fifty day deadline wastes time and
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lots of human lives, which is clearly true. But this
part I really like.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'm surprised that he said something at forceful that might
offend Trump.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I am too, although he did do an interview with
Newsmax and said Biden couldn't end this war. I do
think Trump can so, which might actually be true. Also,
Trump and Zelensky are discussing a mega deal between the
two countries around drone technology, and our military and military
experts are really excited about this. I heard somebody the
(04:58):
other day saying if this war today, one of the
most powerful militaries on Earth would be the Ukrainians, even
though they're a tiny country, because they have better understanding
of modern warfare and have the infrastructure for fighting it
more than really anybody on Earth. Wow. Which is something
(05:18):
President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine are considering a
mega deal that would see the US buying battlefield tested
Ukrainian drones in exchange for Kiev agreeing to buy a
swath of weapons from America. So we and NATO and
then some of that freed up Russian money would buy
all of our weapons, which would be a good deal
for US. We're going to get a whole bunch of
drone technology and hardware. Speaking exclusively with the New York post. Yesterday,
(05:44):
Zelensky revealed his latest talks with Trump focused on a
breakthrough deal that would see the US and Ukraine prop
each other's arsenal technology up in their area technology, specifically,
with Kiev offering to share everything it's learned about modern
warfare and its three year conflict with Russia, which is
very exciting. The deal could be transformative for the US
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military and national security, with officials and drone experts warning
that America's technology lags way behind Russia and China, and
Ukraine is about as good as anybody on planet Earth
at this and American soldiers are ill equipped to use
drones or defend against the types of devices that are
being used by some of our biggest enemies.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
The people find it surprising that we're that far behind.
But I say that humbly. I'm sure there's plenty I
don't know about this, and I get that Ukraine has
by necessity accelerated their experimentation and their learning curve, I
mean beyond imagination for us in the US.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But anyway, drone warfare has become the standout method of
battle in the Ukraine War and probably the future of warfare.
With Moscow and Kiev trading hundreds of aerial blows every
day using these drones. As we all know, experts have
long worned that many nations are studying the conflict to
understand what I'M modern war would look like with the
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potential devastation highlighted by Russia's ever escalating drone bombardments of Ukraine.
And I wanted to get this on this guy, who's
one of your experts in studying our defenses. We all
know the same thing. We aren't giving the American warfighter
what they need to survive warfare today. This expert told
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The New York Times, if we had to go to
war tomorrow, do we have what we need know? Which
is a little frightening. The issues were made evident in
a four day testing camp held last month in Alaska
by the Defense Department, which saw saw soldiers and private
contractors repeatingly fail to take down prototype drones of the
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type that are being used by Russian Ukraine. So we
just don't have the expertise in it. Ukraine is maybe
the best in the world, and they're going to give
us all that info in exchange for other stuff, which
is awesome, right. The drones encounter drone. I don't see
how you could be against this at all. I wonder
if one of these days I was listened to the
Telegraphed Ukraine podcast, which I listened to at least part
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of every single day. Russia daily sends drones in slightly
different ways and missiles, and I think they're just trying
to either well, both exhaust Ukraine's defenses. They're gonna have
to hurry because we're getting the Patriot batteries there soon,
but exhaust Ukraine defenses or come up with something that
Ukraine can't handle. And if that ever happens, I'd like
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to we need to get Mike Lines on because I'd
like to ask him this. Like yesterday's attack, Russia sent
drones from many different directions. This is the first time
they've done it this way, Like they came from east, west, north, south,
all at the same time, with the idea that maybe
this will confuse Ukraine's defense systems and then our missiles
will get through. Well, if they have ever had a
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day where they break through, are they going to kill
thousands in one afternoon in Kiev or you know, one
of those bigger cities because they finally figured out the
calculation of what Ukraine's system can handle, and how is
the world going to react, How's NATO going to react,
How's the United States going to react? It'll be interesting
to see. But I think that's Russia's intent that one
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day they foud, Okay, we finally figured it out. Bingo,
we got it. Now we can just lay them low.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I think I mentioned this to you off the air,
came across really really interesting study. The title of this
article is through trial and error, Iran found gaps in
Israel's storied air defenses. And you know, the headline tells
a lot of the story. The interlocking layers of missile
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defense I found fascinating.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'd love to talk about that later on the show.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
But the point is, over twelve days, Iran pierced Israel's
defenses with increasing success, showing that even the world's most
advanced systems can be penetrated.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Okay, well, that's exactly what I was saying then, that
that's obviously what's happening because Russia is using Ukrainian sorry,
Russia is using Iranian drone technology, so obviously they would
be talking to the Iranians. That's what they're trying to do.
They're trying to find the weakness in Ukraine system. What
I'm just wondering is the day that they do that
and are successful in kill thousands.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
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Speaker 1 (11:27):
So the Republican Congress hates ELMO, I know, I do.
Pulling the funding from NPR and PBS finally going to happen.
It looks like a National review weighing in on that
story and how it's a big deal and way too late,
among other things we got on the way. I hope
you can stay here, Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
In honor of National hot Dog Day, the convenience store
Circle K offered two roller real hot dogs for one
dollar because that's what they used to cost back when
they were first placed on the roller.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's a good idea. They charge you based on when
they put them in there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Oh yeah, I like that. Yesterday's spread, you get a
couple of bucks off. Come on, why not last Tuesday's
hot dog? I'm not paying much for it. So, speaking
of paying a great deal for something or not, Jack,
you know this London based de Beers, the corporation almost
(12:36):
single handedly pursued humans that your love isn't genuine unless
it's sealed with a diamond.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
They're the ones that convinced everybody of this. And then
and the various people invented the whole two months of
your salaries traditional What a load of crap.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I'm sure they studied that for a while and realized,
all right, three would be insane. People would jack to
to one. We can get away with more thanet but
it's all made up. And do you know anybody do
they you or anybody you know who got engaged and
it did not include any sort of diamond ring.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It's very rare. Oh yeah. De Beers has like most
of the diamonds in the world, right that one correct? Yeah? Yeah,
And then they dole them out keeping you know, the
scarcity up. There's enough diamonds for everybody to have lots
of diamonds. They just have them make a big pile somewhere.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Well, and that's not even I mean, that's true, but
that's almost irrelevant at this point. And the beer's chief executive,
Al Cook, wants to save you and generation of lovers
and newlyweds from what he's calling a huge con when
it comes to buying diamonds, and that is lab made diamonds.
Diamonds can be made in labs that mimic the Earth's
extreme pressures and temperatures for a fraction of the price.
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A decade ago, buying it was a novelty. Today they
are completely mainstream. Walmart sold its first lab grown diamonds
in twenty twenty two, three years ago. Now the stones
make up half of its diamond jewelry assortment.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Wow. So it's maybe similar to what we were talking
about the other day with dyeing your hair went from
not cool something to mock to everybody does it? Maybe
fake diamonds are that way. Somebody I know quite well
to do where's big diamond ear rings in their ears?
Had lost one the other day. It's like, oh my god,
you must be Oh no, no, it's not real. I
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was shocked that they wore fake diamonds. But maybe that's
because of this trend.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You know, I bought Judy diamond earrings for Christmas last year,
and I'm kicking myself that we didn't go with the
lab grown honestly.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But getting big, big, giant ones just don't look like
a rapper. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Michael. My wife's diamond ring
is a lab grown Yeah, why not? Why not? What
you want?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now? The Beers is joining with Signet Jewelers, which owns
K Jewelers Zales Jared. It's funny how all of these
are near monopolies to say, no.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh, real diamonds are the only good ones because the
markup is so much more. But listen to this another
statistic for you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Synthetic diamonds accounted for one percent of diamond sales in
twenty sixteen, nine years ago. Twenty percent. Now it's more,
I'm sorry, one percent, less than one percent. Now it's
twenty percent, little more than twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
The whole thing has always been nuts, but so is.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
More than half of engagement rings last year lab created diamonds.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow half Wow. Good for you. If you snagged a
woman who says, oh, yeah, go lab grown, let's save
the money for a house or our kids or whatever,
good for you. It's so much smarter. Almost anything that
is fashion related is completely in your mind. Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Speaking of which, think about this, what's the appeal of
diamonds Now? They're shiny and sparkly, which is kind of cool,
especially if you're a tweaker, But no, I mean they're
pretty when they're cut, right, But they're a message I'm wealthy,
I'm successful, or I'm really really in love, and people
want to communicate that through the ring or the size
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of the ring. But now that it's become much much
much more affordable, diamonds lose their cachet among the successful
and wealth to do, or certainly will be soon, right yeah, right,
So if half of engagement rings were not real diamonds
the whole because it works both ways.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Rich guy gives it to her to show you know,
I'm a big deal, and she believes, okay, you care
about me because I know this was expensive. Then she
gets to wear it around which shows her friends I
married a big deal, which is good for her, But
who really cares about me? Who really cares about?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
All?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That goes out the window if half of them are
more fake? Yeah? Right right, that will fall apart very quickly, right?
Interesting and good? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I was just reading the other day about the designer
purses that go for just astronomical sums that I can't
even comprehend. Gals, it's a woman thing. I'll let you
worry about it. But you know your five, six, seven,
eight thousand dollars perse right, And they were talking about
especially the Chinese knockoffs are so good. Now you need
an expert with a magnifying glass to tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Who cares?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Only people who are really I almost said desperate, but
I don't want to come off as judgmental. Wait a minute,
I'm constantly judgmental.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The only people who.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Would care are those who are desperate for the status
brought by the legit, because the legit shows I have
eight thousand dollars to spend on a purse.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Here's a good example. So I needed a big piece
of luggage to come back from New York. We extended
our vacation. We ended up with more stuff. I needed
more luggage. I wanted to buy a really good bag,
and I went to the store and it was pretty pricey,
but it was half priced because it was last year's colors.
And I thought, there are people that care what color
their luggage is. I can't even imagine that I got
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last year's green instead of this year's green. Okay, save
me a lot of money. Yeah, interesting, if you change
your luggage because the that color's last year and good
for you. I guess you have plenty of money to spend.
Send me some of it. We got lots on the
way stay here, Armstrong and Getty, So I suppose we've
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got some more. I'm gonna drop an e bomb. I
don't even know if I can take it myself. Epstein's
stuff we could talk about later. I don't know if
I can make myself do it. Yeah, is this story done?
Is it done? I think it's done. I thought I
thought it was done a week ago, But I think
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I think today might be the last day. In what sense?
It's like a headline grabbing statement was made by Yes, okay, yeah,
it's gotta be what.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It will continue behind and behind the scenes online for
the rest of our lives and beyond.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Sure, but it can't be like the first or first
two or three stories in the evening newscast anymore. Surely not.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
No, No, you wouldn't think so, barring some huge development.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Like PAMBONDI gives up the list. Come on, what is so?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I have all sorts of information compiled about the insidious
state of our national education system in the rotten the
teachers unions, and man, there's some more examples just coming
out today where the big teachers unions now have essentially
banned any use of any up with Israel or that
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doesn't even misstate it, or Holocaust educational materials from the
Anti Defamation League. They have banned any use of those materials,
which have been used in thousands and thousands of schools
to teach about the Holocaust, among other things. They've banned
the use of them now as the raving anti Semitism
continues and grows in the teachers unions, and there are
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all sorts of examples of it. But the one thing
I wanted to touch on, and this from the editorial
board of the Wall Street Journal, but a lot of
the medical schools in America, I mean the colleges and universities,
but medical schools too are full speed ahead with the racism,
with the DEI selective you know, admissions and that sort
of thing based heavily on race.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Well, just because you brought up anti semitism, this headline
out of National Review, did you see this as left
wing Americans flee to Canada. Canadian Jews are heading to
the United States to escape rampant anti Semitism. Yeah, it's
worse in Canada.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, wow, Yeah, we mentioned the other day, Free Press
did some great reporting on at the big NEEA meeting.
That's the nation's largest teachers union, the National Educational Association.
It was all about promoting woke politics, fighting Trump, opposing ice,
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continuing DEI and social justice, continuing LGBTQ plus minus, over
the power of three programs.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
In schools, and how to get away with it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Just it's a Marxist organization that, when they get a chance,
might teach your kid how to add and subtract, but
probably not.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Getting back to the probably not getting back to the
medical school thing, do no harm. A group that studies
preferences in medicine submitted a Freedom of Information Act to
ninety three public medical schools for last year their admissions
for data on race, undergraduate GPA and the MCAT scores
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and whether or not the applicant was admitted. And actually
a couple of dozen schools have responded so far, and
the data suggest us racial preferences are still going strong.
At the responding schools admitted black applicants had lower MCAT
scores than admitted white and Asian applicants. Twenty two out
of the twenty three schools admitted Asian students had a
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mean MCAT of five fourteen.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's in the eighty eighth percentile.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Admitted Black students had a mean score of five zero
eight point three, approximate approximately the seventy third percentile, which
which is not miserable, but it's you know, fifteen points lower.
The delta also existed for comparative GPAs among the groups.
Dishonorable mention goes to the University of Wisconsin Medical School
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and Public Health School of I'm sorry, School of Medicine
and Public Health, where black medical school applicants were ten
times more likely to be admitted than white or Asian
applicants with identical test scores and GPA.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
WOW.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
At Eastern Virginia Medical School, black applicants were about eleven
times were likely to be admitted. There's no way to
explain that multiple without racial preferences, which have been outlawed
by the Supreme Court. Not to mention the Civil Rights
Act in nineteen sixty four in pursuant it's a legislation,
or if.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're like me or you or lots of people listening,
just common decency. I mean, that's just awful.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
That well, it's racist. It's incredibly racist. Yeah, yeah, it
is unbelievable. And how do these other interesting things.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I mean, I don't know how you justified it. I
know how they do justify it, but it doesn't make
any sense. You're not helping some black kid from nineteen
fifty eight by screwing over some Asian kid today.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Right, Well, that's well said. And as I'm always harping at.
Oh one final note, they studied before the Supreme Court
decision and after no change, no change, the colleges are
just doing what they want to do without fear of repercussion.
I think a little repercussion might do them some good.
But to your point, Jack, and I'm always harping on this,
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to fix it at the admission into grad school level
is to do an incredible disservice to the little kids
who are getting crappy, union choked government school miseducations.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You're enabling that to continue.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
And trust me, the unions know that instead of going
with school choice and vouchers and competition and getting rid
of the near monopoly of our crappy government schools, you
paper over it at the end so you can keep
the scam up.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, that's a great point that I wish more people
focused on try to fix it for five year olds
through ten year olds as opposed to high school, college
and beyond. Right.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I mean, if you just said, hey, look, only six
percent or five percent of medical school students are black kids,
doesn't that seem really low given the fact that what's
the current figure, eleven percent of the population is black
or whatever it happens to be.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Seems low? Why do you suppose that is?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Now, if you approached it like that and not well,
let's just push more into medical school, you would be
forced to answer the question, well, right, maybe it has
to do with the graphic schools, Maybe it has to
do with families, family structure, parent, you know, father, absenteeism.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But you'd have to answer those questions. Well, even if
you left it with schools, at least, that would drive
you back to looking at like because we saw the
statistics for Chicago and a Baltimore, number of cities where
the poor schools zero percent and the poor schools were
primarily black, zero percent of the kids could read or
do math at proficiency level zero makes you wonder why
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they're even open, what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But I wish that, Oh, go ahead, But If that's
the case, that's where you start, right And why aren't
there Republicans who are making this point more forcefully and eloquently.
I do not know, But so here just I'll speak
for myself here. I am advocating innovation, competition, school choice
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for parents of little minority kids. We'll just go with
black kids for now and just simplify the verbiage. But
I'm for doing whatever it takes to shake up the
system so that those little black boys and girls get
the education they deserve. The progressive side of the isle
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is in lockstep with.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The teachers' union, screwing those little kids.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You tell me which side of the isle actually cares
about those little kids. I mean, it's so freaking self evident.
I feel like, I'm y'all are too hard. You were
ahead of me two sentences before I finished. It's so obvious.
But nobody's making that point because of the you know,
the monopoly of the mainstream media and a lot of
these discussions and just I don't know, the people's stereotypes
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are preconceptions.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I guess well that Supreme Court ruling is going to
be hard to enforce obviously.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean where there is no
respect for the law, or indeed contempt for the law,
like in our university system.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
How are you going to do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
This sort of thing good for do no harm the
organization that's studying this stuff, good for y'all. I'm gonna
kick him a few bucks or something.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Wanted to mention this, and this kind of fits in
with what we were just talking about, because you get
better coverage on this news story for a lot of
America if you NPR was a little bit different than
they are. Republic television so left leaning, they would never
approach this story the way we just did. After So
(27:56):
I'm reading Rich Lowry of the National Review here, after
several decades of talking about it and trying to do
it with no effect, Republicans are finally cutting off federal
funding for public broadcasting. An extraordinary win, says the National Review.
Happened last night late nine billion dollars total being cut
out of the government. There's all kinds of different stuff
(28:16):
that I might not agree with of different programs, but
the roughly a billion dollars that goes to NPR on
the radio and PBS on TV absolutely way overdue.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The bigger picture in Michael Longina need fifty five clip
fifty five Senator John Soon. But to me, the bigger
picture is that this recision package of is it eight
billion dollars, it's less than one tenth of one percent
of the federal budget, and just trying to make a
few cuts. People are squealing like we're I don't know,
suspending the Constitution and ending all Social Security.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And here's John thun But.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
What does it tell you about trying to cut spending
in Washington that the House only passes this recisions bill
by one vote? And as you mentioned, you brought Vice
President Fans to get it through. What does it say
about how tough that is considering how big our deficit?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That is? Right?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well, I mean it is, and we're thirty six trillion
dollars in debt and we just don't have any options anymore.
We've run out of options. We've got to start doing
the hard work. And it is it's politically fraud.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You get twenty times the reward for spending money than
you do for responsible cutting is spending. That's just that's
the political dynamic that I think we all just need
to understand, and we will have to hit bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, sorry, that was discouraging. I apologize, Well, it's a
pretty discouraging situation, and bottom is going to be pretty ugly.
Oh yeah, yeah, Well, your kids are gonna like it
if you buy them new bikes and clothes and video
games and fancy vacations endlessly. They're going to really really like,
they're gonna hate it if you tell them, no, no, no,
(30:02):
We're going to really tighten our belt this year. The
problem is you would you run out of money at
some point?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You see exactly, my beloved daughter Delaney, who's living at
home for the summer at least for a couple of months.
We're watching Poop's Creek, the such a good show, the
award winning show, which I am really enjoying.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And the further you go, the better it can. I know,
it becomes just like so.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Brilliant, right right right, And I'm finally getting to the
point where I'm appreciating that. But the United States of
America is going to be the what's their name, the King.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Family or I can't believe I can't Remember's.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Funny, I can't remember the last name of the family.
It doesn't matter. We'll call him the Jones family. The
US of a is going to be the Jones family.
We are going to go from a palatial mansion in
every luxury known to man to living in a crappy
hotel with a weirdo pervo mayor slash hotel manager. The
humiliations are going to be many, and the deprivations on ending.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
How about the sign on the billboard coming into town.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I don't see the problem. Sorry, inside joke. It's a
fine show. It's very quirky. You hope you you David,
You don't worry. It's his sister.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Sorry, all right, now we'll stop. Now, we'll stop stop.
Oh my god, Oh okay, we got a lot more
stay here.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
But the big story today is that Trump lashed out
at his own supporters who are criticizing him over the
Epstein files, calling them weaklings who have bought into bs,
hook line and sinker. Trump hasn't been this mad as
the people he loves since McDonald's introduced salads.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Not my donald. That's funny, big announcement around food and
drink that Trump just made. You know how people like
Mexican coke buying Mexican cokeaus has rocine sugar in it
instead of the fruit toos Coca Cola is going to
have cane sugar in it, hooray, according to Trump. So
(32:13):
I don't quite understand this is a forcing Coke to
switch to sugar. And apparently Coke has put out a
statement saying we don't have hypructose cors So I don't know.
Maybe that battle is not over. But Trump trying to
order Coca Cola to have I do like to taste better,
and I remember when I used to go to Mexico
it was noticeable first sip, incredibly different flavor, much better.
(32:36):
But AnyWho, that's a minor point. That's not what I
was planning to talk about. So the whole Epstein thing
and Trump attacking is most faithful supporters and all that.
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe Today, and I didn't see
this said to some Democrat who was on there calling
out Democrats for their sudden interest in the Epstein files.
It's also staged and in bad faith, right, hey, Democrats,
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the Epstein things the most important thing. I mean, you
had four years and several years of control of all
branches and you weren't interested in it at all, and
now you act like it's such an important topic. Oh,
we do have Scarborough, go ahead. Why is this important?
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Because the sexual abuse of young people and children is
a crisis throughout our society. There's, of course the church
scandal or many church scandals. There's what happened in Michigan State,
there's what happened at Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Congressman could have gotten that from twenty one to twenty
five when Democrats controlled.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The OJ why it was a crisis. Then it's a crisis.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Now why didn't Why didn't Democrats call far from twenty
one to twenty five.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
So, I mean you have to go back and look
specifically at.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Particular that makes a ploy. That's Jamie Raskin, who's as
full of crap as anybody could be. But it's a
very good question. All this is Epstein's hugely important with
child and Okay, you didn't care about before. It's just
as I've been saying all week, it's just a club
to hammer MAGA with or to point out that Pam
Bondi and the FBI director were why into voters when
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they were out of office. That's why you're into it,
the only reason you're into it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I read a piece by Karl Rove which he in
which he was describing the utter disarray of the Democratic
Party and what terrible, terrible trouble they're in. He said, look,
they're smart to latch onto this because it might give
them a momentary opportunity to shake faith in the Trump
administration or Republicans. But he said, this is not the
sort of thing people vote on.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
No, oh, absolutely not. And when it's gone, it will
be gone, and nobody will ever think about it again.
It's one of those things. It's like exciting for a
couple of days. You won't even know. People will say, oh, yeah,
I remember that week. We talked about Epstein every day.
But Trump said this yesterday, which is a heck of
a thing.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I would say that, you know, these files were made
up by Tomy, they were made up by Obama, they
were made up by dividing, you know, and we went
through years of that with the Russia Russia Russia Huax,
with all of the different things.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
That we had to go through.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
We've gone through years of it. But she's handled it
very well, and it's.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Going to be up to her.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I've completely lost the thread of his explanation for what
are we talking about? What files Komy, what Komy, Biden
and Obama are behind the Epstein hoax?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
What or behind the investigation? You know, we got this
note from Edmund, who says he thinks we've been kind
of flippant in dismissing the concerns and interests of so
many good people. You don't have to subscribe to the
extreme theories regarding Masad or to some international child abuse
conspiracy theory to believe that available records will disclose the
(35:50):
identities of many men who took an invitation from Epstein
to enjoy the underage girls that he and his sidekick
captured and exploited. So he is concerned with a much
more narrow focus that there are more pervs. They're probably
rich and powerful, and their names ought to be out.
But see, that's the problem, Edmund, with dealing with this.
You have to almost describe specifically, all right, which level,
(36:12):
which permutation, Which version of this am I arguing against?
Right now? I would never argue against your version of it, Edmund. No,
but it's the evil Jews are in an international child
rape cabal thing that no, I'm not buying and never will.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff is refusing to answer questions
from Fox News Digital about alleged mortgage fraud. President Trump
says the Fannie May Financial Crimes Division has concluded Schiff
engaged in a sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud. The
senator has called the accusations baseless.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think there's anything to that.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I would be shocked if Adam Schiff wasn't engaged in
something overtly illegal. He's one of the most shameless, flaming
congenital liars I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
He absolutely is and has not been held to account
on any So. He claimed conspiracy with Russia all day,
every day for years and never paid off any of
the stuff he had. He gets a pass and becomes
a US Senator. Dan Bongino does the same sort of
thing around Epstein, and you know, mainstream media acts like
it's a horror. I don't think you should make up
(01:16):
conspiracies and lead along your voters when you know that
there's nothing to it. But Adam Shift did it too. Yeah,
it's not unique to this Epstein thing.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I could also see a shift in his fans and
what's wrong with you if you're a fan of Adam Schiff.
But I could see them saying, yeah, Trump has been
vowing to get him forever. Now he's getting him. This
is a witch hunt.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
A couple of things fallst than his neck I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's an excell one point. A couple of things guilty,
A couple of things before I get to the main thing.
Ukraine related. Remember a week ago they my brother texted
me from the airport, uh, two days ago. He's going
to Australia to see his dog, her who's interning with
a doctor because she's going to be a doctor. And
she got this cool internship with an Australian doctor. I
(02:06):
don't know if they're fixing kangaroos or what they're doing,
but criikey. Anyway, he was getting on a plane to
go to Australia and he didn't have to take his
shoes off, and he was very excited about that, and
nobody was taking their shoes off. That happened a week
ago now, Christy Nome, the overly Graham DHS secretary, said
they're gonna change the limits on carry on liquids. So
(02:28):
the ridiculously small three ounces of mouthwash or whatever that
you're allowed to have, they're gonna they're gonna change that.
So exciting, exciting times to be appiilated those rules thirty times.
Oh yeah, it's completely random, whether they enforced them or not.
You'll you'll fly all over the place with the same
tube of toothpaste, then all of a sudden, somebody are
looking in the face, what do you think you're doing
(02:48):
with your four ounces of Crest toothpaste.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But I have had three corkscrews confiscated because obviously I
can approach the stornas and put the cork crew in, twist.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It and pull right right out and then take over
the plane. I don't know how many pocket knives I
had to throw away because I get there and I realize, ah, crap,
I got my pocket NYE with me, which I obviously
can't have on a plane. So I started buying really
cheap ones so I can just toss them in the
trash and go through the line buy another one when
I get home. There's one more thing I wanted to
get to that. Maybe I'll do it later.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, speaking of buying things, let me hit you with this.
What's the difference between a natural diamond, a mind diamond,
and the manufactured diamond that look exactly the same to
the naked eye? What's the difference? Many more consumers are answering.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh really, the market for diamonds, real diamonds is plunging.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's interesting. I got a nugget on that, but I'll
save it. So very few people seem to have an
answer as to why Trump decided to do a fifty
day deadline for Russia. Russia has been showing what they are,
(04:04):
who they are, and what they plan to do every
day for three years. No matter what Trump says to
him on the phone, or threats or whatever, putin just
ups his game of trying to kill civilians and take
over Ukraine. Why the fifty day pause? Nobody really knows.
I've heard lots of guests, but nobody seems to really know.
Zelensky yesterday said the fifty day deadline wastes time and
(04:25):
lots of human lives, which is clearly true. But this
part I really like.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'm surprised that he said something at forceful that might
offend Trump.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I am too, although he did do an interview with
Newsmax and said Biden couldn't end this war. I do
think Trump can so, which might actually be true. Also,
Trump and Zelensky are discussing a mega deal between the
two countries around drone technology, and our military and military
experts are really excited about this. I heard somebody the
(04:58):
other day saying if this war today, one of the
most powerful militaries on Earth would be the Ukrainians, even
though they're a tiny country, because they have better understanding
of modern warfare and have the infrastructure for fighting it
more than really anybody on Earth. Wow. Which is something
(05:18):
President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine are considering a
mega deal that would see the US buying battlefield tested
Ukrainian drones in exchange for Kiev agreeing to buy a
swath of weapons from America. So we and NATO and
then some of that freed up Russian money would buy
all of our weapons, which would be a good deal
for US. We're going to get a whole bunch of
drone technology and hardware. Speaking exclusively with the New York post. Yesterday,
(05:44):
Zelensky revealed his latest talks with Trump focused on a
breakthrough deal that would see the US and Ukraine prop
each other's arsenal technology up in their area technology, specifically,
with Kiev offering to share everything it's learned about modern
warfare and its three year conflict with Russia, which is
very exciting. The deal could be transformative for the US
(06:04):
military and national security, with officials and drone experts warning
that America's technology lags way behind Russia and China, and
Ukraine is about as good as anybody on planet Earth
at this and American soldiers are ill equipped to use
drones or defend against the types of devices that are
being used by some of our biggest enemies.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
The people find it surprising that we're that far behind.
But I say that humbly. I'm sure there's plenty I
don't know about this, and I get that Ukraine has
by necessity accelerated their experimentation and their learning curve, I
mean beyond imagination for us in the US.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But anyway, drone warfare has become the standout method of
battle in the Ukraine War and probably the future of warfare.
With Moscow and Kiev trading hundreds of aerial blows every
day using these drones. As we all know, experts have
long worned that many nations are studying the conflict to
understand what I'M modern war would look like with the
(07:01):
potential devastation highlighted by Russia's ever escalating drone bombardments of Ukraine.
And I wanted to get this on this guy, who's
one of your experts in studying our defenses. We all
know the same thing. We aren't giving the American warfighter
what they need to survive warfare today. This expert told
(07:22):
The New York Times, if we had to go to
war tomorrow, do we have what we need know? Which
is a little frightening. The issues were made evident in
a four day testing camp held last month in Alaska
by the Defense Department, which saw saw soldiers and private
contractors repeatingly fail to take down prototype drones of the
(07:44):
type that are being used by Russian Ukraine. So we
just don't have the expertise in it. Ukraine is maybe
the best in the world, and they're going to give
us all that info in exchange for other stuff, which
is awesome, right. The drones encounter drone. I don't see
how you could be against this at all. I wonder
if one of these days I was listened to the
Telegraphed Ukraine podcast, which I listened to at least part
(08:05):
of every single day. Russia daily sends drones in slightly
different ways and missiles, and I think they're just trying
to either well, both exhaust Ukraine's defenses. They're gonna have
to hurry because we're getting the Patriot batteries there soon,
but exhaust Ukraine defenses or come up with something that
Ukraine can't handle. And if that ever happens, I'd like
(08:25):
to we need to get Mike Lines on because I'd
like to ask him this. Like yesterday's attack, Russia sent
drones from many different directions. This is the first time
they've done it this way, Like they came from east, west, north, south,
all at the same time, with the idea that maybe
this will confuse Ukraine's defense systems and then our missiles
will get through. Well, if they have ever had a
(08:46):
day where they break through, are they going to kill
thousands in one afternoon in Kiev or you know, one
of those bigger cities because they finally figured out the
calculation of what Ukraine's system can handle, and how is
the world going to react, How's NATO going to react,
How's the United States going to react? It'll be interesting
to see. But I think that's Russia's intent that one
(09:07):
day they foud, Okay, we finally figured it out. Bingo,
we got it. Now we can just lay them low.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I think I mentioned this to you off the air,
came across really really interesting study. The title of this
article is through trial and error, Iran found gaps in
Israel's storied air defenses. And you know, the headline tells
a lot of the story. The interlocking layers of missile
(09:34):
defense I found fascinating.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'd love to talk about that later on the show.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
But the point is, over twelve days, Iran pierced Israel's
defenses with increasing success, showing that even the world's most
advanced systems can be penetrated.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Okay, well, that's exactly what I was saying then, that
that's obviously what's happening because Russia is using Ukrainian sorry,
Russia is using Iranian drone technology, so obviously they would
be talking to the Iranians. That's what they're trying to do.
They're trying to find the weakness in Ukraine system. What
I'm just wondering is the day that they do that
and are successful in kill thousands.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
What the reaction is going to be by Trump specifically
or just in general NATO. Yeah, I wonder quick word
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Speaker 1 (11:27):
So the Republican Congress hates ELMO, I know, I do.
Pulling the funding from NPR and PBS finally going to happen.
It looks like a National review weighing in on that
story and how it's a big deal and way too late,
among other things we got on the way. I hope
you can stay here, Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
In honor of National hot Dog Day, the convenience store
Circle K offered two roller real hot dogs for one
dollar because that's what they used to cost back when
they were first placed on the roller.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's a good idea. They charge you based on when
they put them in there.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Oh yeah, I like that. Yesterday's spread, you get a
couple of bucks off. Come on, why not last Tuesday's
hot dog? I'm not paying much for it. So, speaking
of paying a great deal for something or not, Jack,
you know this London based de Beers, the corporation almost
(12:36):
single handedly pursued humans that your love isn't genuine unless
it's sealed with a diamond.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
They're the ones that convinced everybody of this. And then
and the various people invented the whole two months of
your salaries traditional What a load of crap.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I'm sure they studied that for a while and realized,
all right, three would be insane. People would jack to
to one. We can get away with more thanet but
it's all made up. And do you know anybody do
they you or anybody you know who got engaged and
it did not include any sort of diamond ring.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It's very rare. Oh yeah. De Beers has like most
of the diamonds in the world, right that one correct? Yeah? Yeah,
And then they dole them out keeping you know, the
scarcity up. There's enough diamonds for everybody to have lots
of diamonds. They just have them make a big pile somewhere.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Well, and that's not even I mean, that's true, but
that's almost irrelevant at this point. And the beer's chief executive,
Al Cook, wants to save you and generation of lovers
and newlyweds from what he's calling a huge con when
it comes to buying diamonds, and that is lab made diamonds.
Diamonds can be made in labs that mimic the Earth's
extreme pressures and temperatures for a fraction of the price.
(13:51):
A decade ago, buying it was a novelty. Today they
are completely mainstream. Walmart sold its first lab grown diamonds
in twenty twenty two, three years ago. Now the stones
make up half of its diamond jewelry assortment.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Wow. So it's maybe similar to what we were talking
about the other day with dyeing your hair went from
not cool something to mock to everybody does it? Maybe
fake diamonds are that way. Somebody I know quite well
to do where's big diamond ear rings in their ears?
Had lost one the other day. It's like, oh my god,
you must be Oh no, no, it's not real. I
(14:27):
was shocked that they wore fake diamonds. But maybe that's
because of this trend.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
You know, I bought Judy diamond earrings for Christmas last year,
and I'm kicking myself that we didn't go with the
lab grown honestly.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But getting big, big, giant ones just don't look like
a rapper. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Michael. My wife's diamond ring
is a lab grown Yeah, why not? Why not? What
you want?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now? The Beers is joining with Signet Jewelers, which owns
K Jewelers Zales Jared. It's funny how all of these
are near monopolies to say, no.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh, real diamonds are the only good ones because the
markup is so much more. But listen to this another
statistic for you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Synthetic diamonds accounted for one percent of diamond sales in
twenty sixteen, nine years ago. Twenty percent. Now it's more,
I'm sorry, one percent, less than one percent. Now it's
twenty percent, little more than twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
The whole thing has always been nuts, but so is.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
More than half of engagement rings last year lab created diamonds.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow half Wow. Good for you. If you snagged a
woman who says, oh, yeah, go lab grown, let's save
the money for a house or our kids or whatever,
good for you. It's so much smarter. Almost anything that
is fashion related is completely in your mind. Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Speaking of which, think about this, what's the appeal of
diamonds Now? They're shiny and sparkly, which is kind of cool,
especially if you're a tweaker, But no, I mean they're
pretty when they're cut, right, But they're a message I'm wealthy,
I'm successful, or I'm really really in love, and people
want to communicate that through the ring or the size
(16:09):
of the ring. But now that it's become much much
much more affordable, diamonds lose their cachet among the successful
and wealth to do, or certainly will be soon, right yeah, right,
So if half of engagement rings were not real diamonds
the whole because it works both ways.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Rich guy gives it to her to show you know,
I'm a big deal, and she believes, okay, you care
about me because I know this was expensive. Then she
gets to wear it around which shows her friends I
married a big deal, which is good for her, But
who really cares about me? Who really cares about?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
All?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
That goes out the window if half of them are
more fake? Yeah? Right right, that will fall apart very quickly, right?
Interesting and good? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I was just reading the other day about the designer
purses that go for just astronomical sums that I can't
even comprehend. Gals, it's a woman thing. I'll let you
worry about it. But you know your five, six, seven,
eight thousand dollars perse right, And they were talking about
especially the Chinese knockoffs are so good. Now you need
an expert with a magnifying glass to tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Who cares?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Only people who are really I almost said desperate, but
I don't want to come off as judgmental. Wait a minute,
I'm constantly judgmental.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The only people who.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Would care are those who are desperate for the status
brought by the legit, because the legit shows I have
eight thousand dollars to spend on a purse.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Here's a good example. So I needed a big piece
of luggage to come back from New York. We extended
our vacation. We ended up with more stuff. I needed
more luggage. I wanted to buy a really good bag,
and I went to the store and it was pretty pricey,
but it was half priced because it was last year's colors.
And I thought, there are people that care what color
their luggage is. I can't even imagine that I got
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last year's green instead of this year's green. Okay, save
me a lot of money. Yeah, interesting, if you change
your luggage because the that color's last year and good
for you. I guess you have plenty of money to spend.
Send me some of it. We got lots on the
way stay here, Armstrong and Getty, So I suppose we've
(18:27):
got some more. I'm gonna drop an e bomb. I
don't even know if I can take it myself. Epstein's
stuff we could talk about later. I don't know if
I can make myself do it. Yeah, is this story done?
Is it done? I think it's done. I thought I
thought it was done a week ago, But I think
(18:48):
I think today might be the last day. In what sense?
It's like a headline grabbing statement was made by Yes, okay, yeah,
it's gotta be what.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It will continue behind and behind the scenes online for
the rest of our lives and beyond.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Sure, but it can't be like the first or first
two or three stories in the evening newscast anymore. Surely not.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
No, No, you wouldn't think so, barring some huge development.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Like PAMBONDI gives up the list. Come on, what is so?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I have all sorts of information compiled about the insidious
state of our national education system in the rotten the
teachers unions, and man, there's some more examples just coming
out today where the big teachers unions now have essentially
banned any use of any up with Israel or that
(19:45):
doesn't even misstate it, or Holocaust educational materials from the
Anti Defamation League. They have banned any use of those materials,
which have been used in thousands and thousands of schools
to teach about the Holocaust, among other things. They've banned
the use of them now as the raving anti Semitism
continues and grows in the teachers unions, and there are
(20:10):
all sorts of examples of it. But the one thing
I wanted to touch on, and this from the editorial
board of the Wall Street Journal, but a lot of
the medical schools in America, I mean the colleges and universities,
but medical schools too are full speed ahead with the racism,
with the DEI selective you know, admissions and that sort
of thing based heavily on race.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Well, just because you brought up anti semitism, this headline
out of National Review, did you see this as left
wing Americans flee to Canada. Canadian Jews are heading to
the United States to escape rampant anti Semitism. Yeah, it's
worse in Canada.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, wow, Yeah, we mentioned the other day, Free Press
did some great reporting on at the big NEEA meeting.
That's the nation's largest teachers union, the National Educational Association.
It was all about promoting woke politics, fighting Trump, opposing ice,
(21:10):
continuing DEI and social justice, continuing LGBTQ plus minus, over
the power of three programs.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
In schools, and how to get away with it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Just it's a Marxist organization that, when they get a chance,
might teach your kid how to add and subtract, but
probably not.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Getting back to the probably not getting back to the
medical school thing, do no harm. A group that studies
preferences in medicine submitted a Freedom of Information Act to
ninety three public medical schools for last year their admissions
for data on race, undergraduate GPA and the MCAT scores
(21:52):
and whether or not the applicant was admitted. And actually
a couple of dozen schools have responded so far, and
the data suggest us racial preferences are still going strong.
At the responding schools admitted black applicants had lower MCAT
scores than admitted white and Asian applicants. Twenty two out
of the twenty three schools admitted Asian students had a
(22:13):
mean MCAT of five fourteen.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's in the eighty eighth percentile.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Admitted Black students had a mean score of five zero
eight point three, approximate approximately the seventy third percentile, which
which is not miserable, but it's you know, fifteen points lower.
The delta also existed for comparative GPAs among the groups.
Dishonorable mention goes to the University of Wisconsin Medical School
(22:39):
and Public Health School of I'm sorry, School of Medicine
and Public Health, where black medical school applicants were ten
times more likely to be admitted than white or Asian
applicants with identical test scores and GPA.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
WOW.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
At Eastern Virginia Medical School, black applicants were about eleven
times were likely to be admitted. There's no way to
explain that multiple without racial preferences, which have been outlawed
by the Supreme Court. Not to mention the Civil Rights
Act in nineteen sixty four in pursuant it's a legislation,
or if.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're like me or you or lots of people listening,
just common decency. I mean, that's just awful.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
That well, it's racist. It's incredibly racist. Yeah, yeah, it
is unbelievable. And how do these other interesting things.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I mean, I don't know how you justified it. I
know how they do justify it, but it doesn't make
any sense. You're not helping some black kid from nineteen
fifty eight by screwing over some Asian kid today.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Right, Well, that's well said. And as I'm always harping at.
Oh one final note, they studied before the Supreme Court
decision and after no change, no change, the colleges are
just doing what they want to do without fear of repercussion.
I think a little repercussion might do them some good.
But to your point, Jack, and I'm always harping on this,
(24:07):
to fix it at the admission into grad school level
is to do an incredible disservice to the little kids
who are getting crappy, union choked government school miseducations.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You're enabling that to continue.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
And trust me, the unions know that instead of going
with school choice and vouchers and competition and getting rid
of the near monopoly of our crappy government schools, you
paper over it at the end so you can keep
the scam up.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, that's a great point that I wish more people
focused on try to fix it for five year olds
through ten year olds as opposed to high school, college
and beyond. Right.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I mean, if you just said, hey, look, only six
percent or five percent of medical school students are black kids,
doesn't that seem really low given the fact that what's
the current figure, eleven percent of the population is black
or whatever it happens to be.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Seems low? Why do you suppose that is?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Now, if you approached it like that and not well,
let's just push more into medical school, you would be
forced to answer the question, well, right, maybe it has
to do with the graphic schools, Maybe it has to
do with families, family structure, parent, you know, father, absenteeism.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But you'd have to answer those questions. Well, even if
you left it with schools, at least, that would drive
you back to looking at like because we saw the
statistics for Chicago and a Baltimore, number of cities where
the poor schools zero percent and the poor schools were
primarily black, zero percent of the kids could read or
do math at proficiency level zero makes you wonder why
(25:52):
they're even open, what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But I wish that, Oh, go ahead, But If that's
the case, that's where you start, right And why aren't
there Republicans who are making this point more forcefully and eloquently.
I do not know, But so here just I'll speak
for myself here. I am advocating innovation, competition, school choice
(26:19):
for parents of little minority kids. We'll just go with
black kids for now and just simplify the verbiage. But
I'm for doing whatever it takes to shake up the
system so that those little black boys and girls get
the education they deserve. The progressive side of the isle
(26:39):
is in lockstep with.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The teachers' union, screwing those little kids.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You tell me which side of the isle actually cares
about those little kids. I mean, it's so freaking self evident.
I feel like, I'm y'all are too hard. You were
ahead of me two sentences before I finished. It's so obvious.
But nobody's making that point because of the you know,
the monopoly of the mainstream media and a lot of
these discussions and just I don't know, the people's stereotypes
(27:08):
are preconceptions.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I guess well that Supreme Court ruling is going to
be hard to enforce obviously.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean where there is no
respect for the law, or indeed contempt for the law,
like in our university system.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
How are you going to do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
This sort of thing good for do no harm the
organization that's studying this stuff, good for y'all. I'm gonna
kick him a few bucks or something.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Wanted to mention this, and this kind of fits in
with what we were just talking about, because you get
better coverage on this news story for a lot of
America if you NPR was a little bit different than
they are. Republic television so left leaning, they would never
approach this story the way we just did. After So
(27:56):
I'm reading Rich Lowry of the National Review here, after
several decades of talking about it and trying to do
it with no effect, Republicans are finally cutting off federal
funding for public broadcasting. An extraordinary win, says the National Review.
Happened last night late nine billion dollars total being cut
out of the government. There's all kinds of different stuff
(28:16):
that I might not agree with of different programs, but
the roughly a billion dollars that goes to NPR on
the radio and PBS on TV absolutely way overdue.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The bigger picture in Michael Longina need fifty five clip
fifty five Senator John Soon. But to me, the bigger
picture is that this recision package of is it eight
billion dollars, it's less than one tenth of one percent
of the federal budget, and just trying to make a
few cuts. People are squealing like we're I don't know,
suspending the Constitution and ending all Social Security.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And here's John thun But.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
What does it tell you about trying to cut spending
in Washington that the House only passes this recisions bill
by one vote? And as you mentioned, you brought Vice
President Fans to get it through. What does it say
about how tough that is considering how big our deficit?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That is? Right?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well, I mean it is, and we're thirty six trillion
dollars in debt and we just don't have any options anymore.
We've run out of options. We've got to start doing
the hard work. And it is it's politically fraud.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You get twenty times the reward for spending money than
you do for responsible cutting is spending. That's just that's
the political dynamic that I think we all just need
to understand, and we will have to hit bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, sorry, that was discouraging. I apologize, Well, it's a
pretty discouraging situation, and bottom is going to be pretty ugly.
Oh yeah, yeah, Well, your kids are gonna like it
if you buy them new bikes and clothes and video
games and fancy vacations endlessly. They're going to really really like,
they're gonna hate it if you tell them, no, no, no,
(30:02):
We're going to really tighten our belt this year. The
problem is you would you run out of money at
some point?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You see exactly, my beloved daughter Delaney, who's living at
home for the summer at least for a couple of months.
We're watching Poop's Creek, the such a good show, the
award winning show, which I am really enjoying.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And the further you go, the better it can. I know,
it becomes just like so.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Brilliant, right right right, And I'm finally getting to the
point where I'm appreciating that. But the United States of
America is going to be the what's their name, the King.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Family or I can't believe I can't Remember's.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Funny, I can't remember the last name of the family.
It doesn't matter. We'll call him the Jones family. The
US of a is going to be the Jones family.
We are going to go from a palatial mansion in
every luxury known to man to living in a crappy
hotel with a weirdo pervo mayor slash hotel manager. The
humiliations are going to be many, and the deprivations on ending.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
How about the sign on the billboard coming into town.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I don't see the problem. Sorry, inside joke. It's a
fine show. It's very quirky. You hope you you David,
You don't worry. It's his sister.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Sorry, all right, now we'll stop. Now, we'll stop stop.
Oh my god, Oh okay, we got a lot more
stay here.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
But the big story today is that Trump lashed out
at his own supporters who are criticizing him over the
Epstein files, calling them weaklings who have bought into bs,
hook line and sinker. Trump hasn't been this mad as
the people he loves since McDonald's introduced salads.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Not my donald. That's funny, big announcement around food and
drink that Trump just made. You know how people like
Mexican coke buying Mexican cokeaus has rocine sugar in it
instead of the fruit toos Coca Cola is going to
have cane sugar in it, hooray, according to Trump. So
(32:13):
I don't quite understand this is a forcing Coke to
switch to sugar. And apparently Coke has put out a
statement saying we don't have hypructose cors So I don't know.
Maybe that battle is not over. But Trump trying to
order Coca Cola to have I do like to taste better,
and I remember when I used to go to Mexico
it was noticeable first sip, incredibly different flavor, much better.
(32:36):
But AnyWho, that's a minor point. That's not what I
was planning to talk about. So the whole Epstein thing
and Trump attacking is most faithful supporters and all that.
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe Today, and I didn't see
this said to some Democrat who was on there calling
out Democrats for their sudden interest in the Epstein files.
It's also staged and in bad faith, right, hey, Democrats,
(32:59):
the Epstein things the most important thing. I mean, you
had four years and several years of control of all
branches and you weren't interested in it at all, and
now you act like it's such an important topic. Oh,
we do have Scarborough, go ahead. Why is this important?
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Because the sexual abuse of young people and children is
a crisis throughout our society. There's, of course the church
scandal or many church scandals. There's what happened in Michigan State,
there's what happened at Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Congressman could have gotten that from twenty one to twenty
five when Democrats controlled.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The OJ why it was a crisis. Then it's a crisis.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Now why didn't Why didn't Democrats call far from twenty
one to twenty five.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
So, I mean you have to go back and look
specifically at.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Particular that makes a ploy. That's Jamie Raskin, who's as
full of crap as anybody could be. But it's a
very good question. All this is Epstein's hugely important with
child and Okay, you didn't care about before. It's just
as I've been saying all week, it's just a club
to hammer MAGA with or to point out that Pam
Bondi and the FBI director were why into voters when
(34:12):
they were out of office. That's why you're into it,
the only reason you're into it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I read a piece by Karl Rove which he in
which he was describing the utter disarray of the Democratic
Party and what terrible, terrible trouble they're in. He said, look,
they're smart to latch onto this because it might give
them a momentary opportunity to shake faith in the Trump
administration or Republicans. But he said, this is not the
sort of thing people vote on.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
No, oh, absolutely not. And when it's gone, it will
be gone, and nobody will ever think about it again.
It's one of those things. It's like exciting for a
couple of days. You won't even know. People will say, oh, yeah,
I remember that week. We talked about Epstein every day.
But Trump said this yesterday, which is a heck of
a thing.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
I would say that, you know, these files were made
up by Tomy, they were made up by Obama, they
were made up by dividing, you know, and we went
through years of that with the Russia Russia Russia Huax,
with all of the different things.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
That we had to go through.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
We've gone through years of it. But she's handled it
very well, and it's.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Going to be up to her.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I've completely lost the thread of his explanation for what
are we talking about? What files Komy, what Komy, Biden
and Obama are behind the Epstein hoax?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
What or behind the investigation? You know, we got this
note from Edmund, who says he thinks we've been kind
of flippant in dismissing the concerns and interests of so
many good people. You don't have to subscribe to the
extreme theories regarding Masad or to some international child abuse
conspiracy theory to believe that available records will disclose the
(35:50):
identities of many men who took an invitation from Epstein
to enjoy the underage girls that he and his sidekick
captured and exploited. So he is concerned with a much
more narrow focus that there are more pervs. They're probably
rich and powerful, and their names ought to be out.
But see, that's the problem, Edmund, with dealing with this.
You have to almost describe specifically, all right, which level,
(36:12):
which permutation, Which version of this am I arguing against?
Right now? I would never argue against your version of it, Edmund. No,
but it's the evil Jews are in an international child
rape cabal thing that no, I'm not buying and never will.
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