March 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- George Foreman has died & AI therapists
- Polls say...
- Columbia University reversing course after Trump threatens funding
- Tips for eggs!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Jetty and he Armstrong and Yeddy Oh Foreman connected. I
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think he hurt. Joe Fraser down, Goes Frasier, down, Goes
Frasia down, Goes Fraser. Foreman is all over. Joe Fraser,
Frasier is down again. J Dundea is screaming, stopping. It
is over. It is over in the second round.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
George Foreman becoming heavyweight champion of the world back in
what year was that seventy three something like that, something
like that, Yeah, and Howard Cosell making the call. George
Foreman died over the weekend. The reason we're playing that
if you don't know boxing, you know him from the grill.
The George Foreman grill turned it into a gazillion dollar empire.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I was just gonna ask Michael to repeat his touching
and thorough What do you call it biography? No, it's
an autography. No, when you guys ulig, no, that's not
it either. Anyway, you're you're touching. Preview tribute to George Foreman,
Michael Great Boxer and a better grilled salesman. Yeah, he's
looking at me like, what are you talking at? What
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you want to hear? Click twelve? Sure it's really good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
A friend of mine, I said, jeege, you're making all
these other companies wealthy. Why don't you get your own product?
And we looked around and found the grill. No one
wanted to be bothered with it at all. They had
names for it, joked for it, and the grease really
rolled off, and they still tender. I hated it. I said, boy,
let's do it. But I never expected it to be
so successful. And then all of a sudden, the checks
just started rolling in. This thing sold over one hundred million.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He told obituary. That's the world is a hundred million.
George Forman grills.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You know, such an interesting guy making seventy six is
that right? Having made your living getting punched in the
head for a number of years is pretty impressive. But
he had such a cheerful attitude about life once he
made the Christian turn. Before that, he did not.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't know if you've ever watched the documentary When
We Were Kings, which won an Oscar Fantastic Movie. If
you like the whole thing. It's all about Foreman and
Ali and that particular fight. But George Foreman was a
bad person and an angry person with never a smile
on his face up until the point that he found
Jesus in a locker room and became a completely different
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human being, which is its own amazing story.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, indeed. Yeah. Boy, if you're old enough to
remember the heyday of boxing in the early seventies, when
it was Foreman, Nali and Frasier trading the crown back
and forth and just great fights. Remember because when George
Foreman knocked up George Joe Fraser there to become the
heavyweight champion of the world, it was such a big
deal at that time. I remember asking my mom before
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I left the house to get on the bus one
more time, what is the name? Because I needed to
know the name of who the new heavyweight champion of
the world was to be. You know, part of the
cool crowd is like an eight year old or whatever,
because that's just something you had to know. Can you
imagine that these no, no, no, my kids, you got
to know mister Beast's latest count just to giveaway, right,
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A couple of Chris Foreman could have whooped mister Beast's ass, by.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The way, even in his forties, because George Foreman came
back and won the heavyweight title again when he was
forty four or something like fairly.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Sad fight, as I recall, and he took a lot
of punches.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So a couple of things I want to get to
later that have nothing to do with politics before I
launch into this political pulling. I listened to a podcast
about from an astrophysicist about life and space and that
sort of stuff that was so flippant interesting, and I
learned a bunch of things I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I want to talk about that later. And then this.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
A person I know, Boy, I gotta be really vague.
I don't want to get them in trouble because this
is not particularly cool. I got a bunch of screen
captures of a group conversation online from women who are
using AI as therapists, and particularly advice on how to
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talk to their husband about various things like in an
argument like, HEYI my husband said this, what should I say?
And then the AI lays it out for him, and
then they go tell their husband that now is.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Or a weird thing, because to me, obviously the weird
thing is what if your husband's asking AI it's powder
respond of this, and it's really just two computers talking
each other, and you're like barely.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Fall I don't know. It's like you're watching the show
or reading a column, an advice column, and you kind
of recognize yourself. Then it's all about the you know,
the output. How's the advice? Well, who knows? Who knows? Well?
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You look at some of the hallucinations the AI has
these days, or inventing court cases. I guess that is
a hallucination or or my god, some of the stories
we've heard about teenagers who have had quote unquote relationships
with some AI somewhere that's like told them, you know,
some teams your age cut themselves to show people that
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they're not happy. So, I mean the women terrible advice.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
These women are talking about the great comfort they get,
you know, and they have had a rough day to
talk to their AI therapist and it just feels like,
you know, the AI really listens and.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And that's what they like talking.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think we're going down a really weird fricking road. Man, Yeah,
happened to an extent. I didn't realize that's what That's
what I got from reading all these messages. It's already
going on. It's I've been presenting it as you know,
in the future. People might no, no, no, it's already happening
way more than I realized. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, these
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are like very regular assault of the earth, normal people
type people.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Not this isn't yeah weirdos and work at a university
or something. Yeah. I'm fully on board and pretty aware
of how sideways this sort of thing can go these days.
Especially at the same time though, I mean, I'm picturing
like I'll just use my wife, who's who's retired at
this point, but and and living off of my large
ass the way anyway, like a lifestyle to which she's
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become accustomed. Do you think it's okay that she's living
off my large s ai? So anyway, But you know,
there may have been a time or two in her
past where she had a really challenging coworker, for instance,
I mean just kind of a pain in the arse,
and would come home and she'd ask her ai oh
ai advice column thingy counselor deally my coworkers, you know,
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very bitchy and negative all the time, and blah blah blah.
How should I deal with it? I could see getting
some decent advice about how to navigate through that sort
of thing. I am not okay with this at all.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm surprised you are, and maybe you're right, but I
am not okay with this at all. Taking out the
human element. I just think it's awful.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh well, hang on now, hang on. I say, there
are books, there are magazine written by people. Well, AI
is written by people. It's just chaitterizing those people without
paying them. Well it can be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I mean it's it's theoretically synthesizing everything it has read
into a coherent answer.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm not saying it's without danger. I just don't think
it's automatically bad.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So, well, this is what the AI told one person.
For instance, you're used to managing his emotions, and now
that he's upset or at least quiet, it's triggering your guilt.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But you're right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You shouldn't feel guilty. You didn't do anything wrong. You
were thoughtful in your message, and it's okay to want
to date yourself after explaining to the AI what went on.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I just find this very weird. That's getting pretty specific.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
If he chooses to be upset, that's on him. You're
allowed to take care of yourself, even if it doesn't
matches unspoken xps.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh, that's getting very very specific. Okay, it's not you know,
some people have negative energy and it's best to see
her around them. I mean, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's like, in this situation which you have described, you're
the good guy, he's the ahle oh boy, which is well,
it fits in with therapy. That's what therapists do almost always.
That's why, like ninety percent of therapy is worthless. That's
what a therapy does. They co sign your bs a therapist.
Most of the time, you're you're a write and down
trodden and they are awful human beings and need to
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adjust to you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's that's what you get almost always from therapy.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So it's not surprising that AI therapy would be feeding
people that. But it's just I don't know the companionship,
the the the leaning on the chat bought for these conversations,
and at some point you're gonna stop talking to.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Your friends about it. You can only talk to the
computer about it. That's the problem. It's the as opposed
to talking to a friend, calling your mom, you know,
talking it out with your husband, trying to you know. Yeah, yeah,
you're right. I'm on board. It's evil. It's horrifying. We
should be terrified.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I don't know if evil's the right word. But and
like I said, it's already happening. I've got many, many
examples that I was given by someone who just wanted
to let me know, this is how much it's happening,
like in my friend group already.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Wow. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Evil implies intent. I just
think it's corrosive. Oh so corrosive. Yeah, the tentacles of.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Especially if AI is going to lean toward you know,
you're the victim. You definitely want that more than maybe
if you talk to a friend and says, I don't know,
it sounds like he's got a good point.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, I as you know, I think of myself
as an optimistic cynic. I don't I'm a cynical. I'm
a nihilist cynic. Wow. Wow, how pleasant to be around.
I would I need to see a serious inflection point
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or I do believe humanity is on the path to
giant drops in population, huge change in the trajectory of
human occupation of the earth. We are not getting together
with our friends, we are not getting together with lovers,
we are not making babies, we are not forming families.
AI could be about to put a zillion piece a
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lot of work, or reduce, certainly the need for them
to be around. I just it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Feels very, very funky to me. Very many teenage sea changes.
How many teenage girls. Teenage boys too, but girls more
prone to this than boys. I think are gonna type
into the AI chat. Bought it that my mom told
me I can't this, do this and that. What do
you think I think your mom is being overly protective? Yeah, yeah,
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well ye eh. No country for old men, glad. I'm
i I wish I was eighty. I wish I was
on death's door. I don't think I can handle the
modern world.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Michael. When mankind dies out, what do you think I've
always tended to think it'll be a planet of the beavers,
the apes in second place, in spite of their better
pr A planet of the apes and maybe the ants.
What's your your pick? I'm gonna go with the beavers. Well,
you like beavers. They're hardworking, they're industrious.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
A non fun, real life, cynical nihilist answer is who
will take over is the people that populate third world
countries who aren't doing all this crap and are having
kids like crazy and are probably fundamentalist Muslims.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly right. I never prefer the beavers, Frank,
I never got.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The political polling, which is really really good, among other things.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
On the way, stay here art the President of the
United States, Donald Trump in attendance tonight at the Wells
Fargo Center.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So that's at the NCAA wrestling finals that Donald Trump
showed up to watch and uh, crowd.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Pretty excited for him to be there. It would sing,
I would say, you know those those audio tapes you
sometimes hear the president was booed and you hear kind
of said boos and a lot of cheers. Is up.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, that was unequivocal in my lifetime in modern politics.
The only people that have ever gotten chance like that
Barack Obama, Bernie and Trump. No, never anything close to
that from anybody else. Bernie on the concert circuit right
now drawing huge crowds.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
More on that to come for Nard Sanders.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So this guy Bill mcinturf he's the head polster for
NBC in Wall Street Journal, which team up for whatever
reason for polling.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I'm not exactly sure what that's all about. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
This is like his internal on polling that Mark Alprin
put out today. In less than twenty slides, we cover
the following major storylines. Bill mcinturf, Right, you don't see
this every day. What the first slides have in common
is how unique they are with the surgeon right direction.
It's the first time the right direction is over forty
percent and one hundred and forty seven months, So that's
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fourteen one hundred and twenty would be ten years, and
then he got another twenty seven months for a couple
more years. So that's a long long time since right
direction has been over forty percent.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Wowow and.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Historic drop in the ratings of the Democratic Party. So
we had that last week in other polling. But NBC's
polling has the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
As Carl ro pointed out, the Republicans are not exactly
on Super Night ground polling wise either, but you know,
clearly have the edge over the beleaguered, hated Democrats.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The survey finds President Trump matching or exceeding any previous
positive rating for his job approval, personal rating, and the
percentage of voters saying they identify as MAGA supporters.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
He is still the high water mark in all of those. Well, no, no,
I know. I've heard that the tariffs are terrifying everybody,
and he just announced that he's tightened those up. By
the way, they're not going to be as brought. And
everybody's afraid of the economy. And these deportations are crazy,
and the doge is out of control. That's what I heard. Yeah, well,
I'll get to that in just a second.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
These positive changes basically are because Trump enjoys exceptionally strong
ratings among Republicans and his political base. A majority of
voters approve of President Trump's job handling of water, security
and immigration, so he's above water on that. Conversely, President
Trump's job rating on the economy is the lowest he's
ever had, So it's interesting that his economic numbers are
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so low, yet he has his highest approval personal popularity,
et cetera, et cetera he's ever had. It reminds me
of Barack Obama, you know, speaking of crowds cheering. When
you get into the whole culture personality thing. I mean,
after Obama had been president for a while, there were
a number issues that he did not pull very well on,
but his overall number stayed high, and I could see
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Trump being like that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Sure, Yeah, absolutely, And I've long maintained if he can
avoid being too quick and haphazard with the economic stuff,
that gives us a hell of a lot more time
in leeway to do the really important, you know, other
things that our priorities, including cleaning up the universities. More
to come on that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Between a plurality and a majority of voters say President
Trump is making quote the right kind of change rather
than the wrong kind of change on seven different policy areas,
the consistent forty plus saying the right kind of change
once again represents a hardened Trump political base.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I think when you have one hundred and forty seven
consecutive months of wrong track and then somebody offers actual,
substantive change as opposed to lip service and no actual change,
which has made all of us very cynical about those promises, Yeah,
you're going to have a hell of a lot of
people say, hey, let's give it a try, let's see
what happens. That's what these pull numbers feel like to me.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And then on this since it's such a hot topic
and he gets covered negatively in the news all day
every day, a plurality of voters say Doge is a
good idea. More tellingly, more than sixty percent of voters
say Doge should continue either continue as is or slow down,
but continue.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So pretty solid ground on Doge. Still the epicenter of
the woke mind virus. Our universities are finally getting cleaned up.
The details coming up in a moment to stay with us,
Armstrong and Getty ribbling up, big step down the lane
runner for the win back in Maryland is won. Maryland
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is going to the Sweet sixteen. That was an exciting game.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I didn't watch the game, but I just saw the
last three minutes on a YouTube video. It went it
was like the game winning shot like five times.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
In a row is one of those.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It was one of the it makes the three pointer
and you thought the game was over, but then there's
a couple seconds left and the other team makes it,
and then there's a foul on the time out, and
then another one, and it just kept going back and forth,
like five times in the last minute.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Very exciting. It's very gracious of me to call for
that clip. Jack is my fighting in a line. I
lost in a humiliating defeat to the hated Kentuckians last night.
Hated can't they turned the but oh Kentuckians with their
weird Kentucky ways. You know what turnovers equal? Jack, You
know what they equal? They equal a loss. You protect
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the rock or you lose. They fail to and they
lost some good advice right now, I don't have that
stay up watching games anyway. So speaking of colleges, if
you're familiar with the show, you understand that we believe
firmly because it's one hundred percent correct that the real
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I'm trying to steer clear of my infection metaphor because
it's disgusting. How about we say the where the rebel
alliance is strongest, the and not the good rebel alliance
from Star Wars, the bad ones, the evildoers, Where they're
clustered most densely, Where the power of the woke mind
virus is strongest, and where it radiates outward from is
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education in the country, especially the colleges and universities. But
elementary education is terrible to anyway. So if we are
going to get rid of, or at least weaken the
neo Marxism that the woke thing represents, because remember, friends,
it's all about overthrowing Western civilization. Has a dozen different
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excuses of why you have to because the patriarchy, because
of transphobia, because of you know, racism, systemic racism, blah
blah blah blah blah blah. It's all about overthrowing Western civilization.
But anyway, so the Trump administration is coming hard for
that sort of thing. And you probably heard that they
threatened to yank four hundred million dollars of funding away
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from Columbia, which might be the you know, the the
center of the center of this sort of thing, along
with Coavid.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And the fact that Columbia relented on a couple of things.
The coverage of this over the weekend has been from
like op eds in the New York Times of a
dark day for freedom of speech and universities and how
a hilarious freedom has been attacked and how we all
should shudder of the chill wind that is blowing with
the evil Trump people putting their finger on the scale
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in college kid versus.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Thanks for sharing your opinion, Thanks versus.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
After the Biden administration allowing gazillions of taxpayer dollars to
go to these universities where they have Jews shouldn't be
allowed on campus festivals.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And saying nothing about it. For the preaching hatred of
the United States and its constitution.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
If you can, finally somebody did something. So here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
First, I was going to lead with this the headline
Wall Street Journal University sprint from we will not cower
to appeasing Trump with much of their funding at stake
schools or quietly hiring lobbyists and reaching out to politicians
amid Washington's quest to reign in academia. And they give
a bunch of examples. University of Michigan presidents sat down
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for breakfast with a group of lawmakers from his home state,
and the message was clear. The school was ready to
play ball with Trump's Washington. It's time for universities to
wake up and start addressing the reasons why they've lost
so much trust. President Ono told the bipartisan group at
a hotel conference room. Aha added that universities should listen
to their most vocal critics. Well, that is refreshing. Then
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they mentioned Columbia university they named zech Stanford and Duke
and wake Forest and Harvard and Vanderbilt, who have all
hired lobbyists to put in a good word in Washington,
d C. So yeah, here's why coming up. Yeah, there is.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Some belief some people have written that this gave various
university administrations that covered they needed to do what they
wanted to do and blamed only where I was going,
blamed on Trump so that they don't get attacked by
their own students. I don't know how much I believe
that or not, or if a lot of those universities
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they were in more agreement with the students than Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
So I don't know. I think it probably varies case
by case, president by president. As we were saying last week,
they have created a monster, I'd say universities collectively, they
have created a monster of a faculty and student body
that is so wildly radical left that they are terrified
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of them. University presidents, and I think some of them
are thinking, oh God, yes, thank you, you gave me
covered to ring in these maniacs.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's like if you let your kids run the show
in your house. I mean, at some point when you
put that down, there's gonna be great resistance. They've done that.
It's these college campuses. I mean, just none of us
have been able to understand why you just don't when
the students demand something, say yeah, good for you, get
back to class, get out of my room, my office,
or you're demanding something. You don't demand anything. You pay,
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you come here, you take classes, you leave with the degree.
If you don't like it, go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I don't know right demanding Wow, the Armstrong doctrine. Folks,
you just heard it, simple, effective, love it. So here's
what happened on Friday. And this is no accident that
Columbia made this announcement Friday after noon, where you know,
unpopular news goes to die. Columbia agreed on Friday to
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overhaul its protest policies, its security practices in its Middle
Eastern Studies department, in what The New York Times called
a remarkable concession of the Trump administration, which you refused
to could consider restoring, which has refused to consider restoring
four hundred million dollars in federal funds. Without major changes.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
The agreement would stunned and dismayed many many members of
the faculty.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I'm sure it did. They were running the place could
signal a new stage in the universities, escalating clash with
elite universities and colleges. And they named Jack Harvard, Stanford,
University of Michigan and others facing similar threats and probably
making similar moves. Now, I thought this might be instructive.
Go ahead, got it by way.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I hope they realize that this was so good for
their graduates, who are going to go out into the
world with Columbia University on the resume, and this gives
them some chance that the employer they run into will think, Okay,
it's not as crazy as it used to be, because
otherwise there's no way I would hire somebody from Columbia,
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right who graduated Columbia recently?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh no, I'd run in the other direction. Yeah, unless
they proved that they were not, you know, woke mind
virus captured. I think we're back to the university president's
case by case. I think some of them Jack are
absolutely thinking that, thinking that, Oh thank god. It's because
I tell you what I'm hearing from all of my
friends on Wall Street or you know, in business around
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the country that they're terrified of our graduates, not attracted
to them, but some again are so captured or part
of it that they don't care. So here I want
to illustrate. Here are these shocking, disillusioning concession that Columbia
University made, which has the New York Times all in
a lather. Uh oh, many in academia calling this an
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actor surrender. Many of the steps Colombia is promising should
have been made long ago in its own best interests.
Restricting masks during protests means rule breakers will have to
take responsibility for their actions. Oh no, could disagree with that.
Clear rules clearly enforced about time, place, and manner. Restrictions
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on campus speech will raise the cost for those who
want to block speakers they dislike. Oh no, ending the
Heckler's veto at a college. What a terrible thing to
do at sarcasm for those are just waking up. The
school will also incorporate into the formal policy. Listen to
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this incredible concession Columbia has been beaten into taking. They
will incorporate into formal policy the definition of anti Semitism
recommended by their own Anti Semitism task Force, and it
will adopt the so called institutional neutrality institution wide that
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means the school itself and its departments won't take sides
on political controversies of the day. Now, that principle, which
is associated with the University of Chicago, well, it used
to be associated with universities everywhere all the time, because,
pardon me, that's what they're effing's supposed to be doing,
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teaching kids how to think, not what to think, and
so dragging them back even a couple of feet towards
sanity is seen as outrageous in a lot of the
college campuses. And of course they mentioned in the Wall
Street General the editorial board, and they're quite correct. The
test will be whether it's enforced throughout the institutions or
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all of these reforms will be controversial only among those
who think a university as an ivory foxhole. Oh that's
a great phrase. Who wrote that the board an ivory
fox hole? Love? That is an ivory.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Fox hole from which to launch political movements or indoctrinate students.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
All perfectly reasonable. I love this. I love this.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh one more note, Wow, I hadn't looked into it
this much. That's what they're describing as some sort of
unholy surrender to maga.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yes, wow, those are the main Uh, you know it
changes now they want some sort of audit of the
Middle Eastern Studies Department because it's so flamingly anti Semitic.
You know, that's the devil's in the details there. Sure,
of course we'll have to see how that plays out,
but in the main, it's wonderful. One more note, and
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this is the part that you definitely want to know.
What do you and your tax dollars have to do
with all of this? A lot, as it turns out,
speaking a dollars well spent or foolishly spent. I'm sorry, Michael.
Is its simply safe right now? Yes? Yes, simply say
home security. Oh what a great idea and money brilliantly spent. Yeah,
I talk about it all the time. How when I
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drive away from my house, I just feel better. I
look at that little sign I got in front of
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Speaker 2 (29:18):
For some reason, that reminded me, I wanted to talk
about how my neighbors are making me feel bad about
myself unintentionally not but just just like kind of a
comparison between me and my kids and them and their kids.
On a daily basis, I'm falling away shortenings.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Ask your AI counselor for comfort and suckor you know,
we could either rush through this like maniacs, or I
could pay off what do your tax dollars have to
do with all of this college campus madness? After a
quick break, I advocate the latter plan.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And I will pay off. How my neighbors are making
me feel bad about myself, It's got more to do
with me than them. But yeah, maybe I need to
move to a neighborhood everybody's like doing meth and has pitbulls.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Feel better about myself.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know you graded on a curve wise exactly we
got more of the waist theret getty.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
You need fresh eggs straight from the chicken box. Next
you need pickling lime. Next you need a scale in
your jar of choice. You're gonna take an ounce of
pickle lime to one quart of water. You're gonna place
your eggs point down. When you got your jar, pull
your ounce of pickle lime to one quart of water.
(30:34):
Impalled in and make sure they're completely covering the eggs.
We got my liden ring. You're gonna put those on
tight and there y'all have it. You just preserved eggs
for as long as two years.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
There you go with the ongoing tips for eggs, because
apparently all of us eat one hundred eggs per day,
and it's the most important thing in the world of
the cost of eggs.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well in, a rise of thirty percent in the price
of eggs is thirty percent in their cost of living.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Because all I do is eat eggs all the time.
It's my entire bill every month, every credit card bill eggs. Sense,
that is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean, they are very expensive thanks to the inflation Bertsley,
but a have cereal, have like a ham sandwich for breakfast.
That's actually pretty enjoyable anyway, So I wanted to pay
this off for you. We've been talking about how the
a lot of the major universities are actually now bowing
(31:28):
to the pressure from the Trump administration to stop being
Marxist hives of anti American hate and perversion and flamingly
anti Semitic. By the way, even as you swear you're
tolerant and welcome all folks, just not the evil Jews
at Columbia University, for instance, or UCLA, we never forget anyway.
(31:51):
So what does your tax money have to do with this? Now?
You might not need to, you know, consider that angle,
because the way the universities are pumping out America hating
Marxist graduates and many of them are becoming school teachers
and indoctrinating your little kids is horrifying enough. But wait,
there's more so, As Alicia Finley writes, she's a brilliant writer.
(32:15):
Like most colleges, Columbia, who we're just talking about, relies
on federal funds and tax exemptions. These subsidies not only
allow colleges to exist, they fuel campus radicalism by encouraging
the growth of graduate programs and academic departments in social
sciences and humanities whose primary goals are to promote left
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wing political causes rather than like turn loose useful people
to society. It's self serving.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, we gotta break through this because for forever, the
whole idea he's going to graduate school, she's going to
graduate school was such, you know, a good thing obviously.
Oh yeah, gotta break out of that. They're very accomplished.
It's not clearly a good thing at all anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh no, no, I'd say, in the vast majority of cases,
it's a time and wasted time and money. Start with
unlimited federal borrowing for grad students. Here's your tax dollars
at work. The Education Department caps the total amount of
federal loans for undergrads. The loan limit has helped keep
a lid on college costs, as you know, I've said
many times through the years, and people don't get this.
When you flood a market for a particular good or
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service with money or incredibly cheap loans. Say your local
car dealer is offering eighty four month loans at one
point five percent. You look at that payment, you think,
I don't give a crap what the price is. That
payment's too good to pass up. So my weather, my
(33:45):
f one fifty just went from seventy grand to ninety
three grand. I don't care. And universities get that. So
you got this unlimited spigot of federal money. The loans
are backed, and then Joe Biden tries to forgive them
glad that Mummy is out the White House, and so
they just have carte launched to raise tuition or whatever
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they want anyway, So the loan limit has helped keep
a lid on college costs. But that's just for undergrads.
The net cost of attendance at publican nonprofit colleges after
discounts has been flat over the last fifteen years. Partly
because inflation has been so high it's just kind of
kept up. But colleges, being the resourceful for profit businesses
(34:26):
they are, don't tell me, well, no, Joe, they're nonprofits. No,
you've got thousands and thousands and thousands of people profiting
from their business salaries pensions. Anyway, they boosted revenue by
adding pricey graduate programs and enrolling more grad students. Brown
University December warned it has a ninety million dollar budget
(34:48):
hole owing in Part two quote rapid growth in faculty
and staff positions, with staff growth out pacing growth in faculty,
how could it possibly be? So it's probably ei positions
and crapping, right, So it's just bureaucracy. It's not even teachers.
So what are you gonna do at Brown University? One
planned budget solution? Double the number of residential masters students.
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Double it? Wow? And in what jack bioscience? Computer engineering? Huh?
Colleges around exactly. Colleges around the country are adding master's
programs in such fields as social work, humanitarian, community development,
and Middle Eastern studies, often costing six figures to rake
in more federal dollars. I love this. Columbia offers master's
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degrees and negotiating into conflict resolution, sustainability management. You got
a master's in sustainability management, nobody even knows what that is,
and human capital management, the last being a fancy term
for HR. And then Alicia asks, hey, where all those
graduate peacemakers when the protesters were tearing Columbia part and
(35:56):
occupying building. You should have enlisted their help. So most
research universities enrolled two to three times as many grad
students as undergrads. Now you know why, man, And it's
our tax dollars financing that Marxist hell hole boo, I
say boo.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Sixty minutes took a look last night at the Canadian
border and said, yeah, there are people and drugs coming across.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I was surprised by that. We'll get to that now
or three if you miss it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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think he hurt. Joe Fraser down, Goes Frasier, down, Goes
Frasia down, Goes Fraser. Foreman is all over. Joe Fraser,
Frasier is down again. J Dundea is screaming, stopping. It
is over. It is over in the second round.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
George Foreman becoming heavyweight champion of the world back in
what year was that seventy three something like that, something
like that, Yeah, and Howard Cosell making the call. George
Foreman died over the weekend. The reason we're playing that
if you don't know boxing, you know him from the grill.
The George Foreman grill turned it into a gazillion dollar empire.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I was just gonna ask Michael to repeat his touching
and thorough What do you call it biography? No, it's
an autography. No, when you guys ulig, no, that's not
it either. Anyway, you're you're touching. Preview tribute to George Foreman,
Michael Great Boxer and a better grilled salesman. Yeah, he's
looking at me like, what are you talking at? What
(01:25):
you want to hear? Click twelve? Sure it's really good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
A friend of mine, I said, jeege, you're making all
these other companies wealthy. Why don't you get your own product?
And we looked around and found the grill. No one
wanted to be bothered with it at all. They had
names for it, joked for it, and the grease really
rolled off, and they still tender. I hated it. I said, boy,
let's do it. But I never expected it to be
so successful. And then all of a sudden, the checks
just started rolling in. This thing sold over one hundred million.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He told obituary. That's the world is a hundred million.
George Forman grills.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You know, such an interesting guy making seventy six is
that right? Having made your living getting punched in the
head for a number of years is pretty impressive. But
he had such a cheerful attitude about life once he
made the Christian turn. Before that, he did not.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't know if you've ever watched the documentary When
We Were Kings, which won an Oscar Fantastic Movie. If
you like the whole thing. It's all about Foreman and
Ali and that particular fight. But George Foreman was a
bad person and an angry person with never a smile
on his face up until the point that he found
Jesus in a locker room and became a completely different
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human being, which is its own amazing story.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, indeed. Yeah. Boy, if you're old enough to
remember the heyday of boxing in the early seventies, when
it was Foreman, Nali and Frasier trading the crown back
and forth and just great fights. Remember because when George
Foreman knocked up George Joe Fraser there to become the
heavyweight champion of the world, it was such a big
deal at that time. I remember asking my mom before
(03:09):
I left the house to get on the bus one
more time, what is the name? Because I needed to
know the name of who the new heavyweight champion of
the world was to be. You know, part of the
cool crowd is like an eight year old or whatever,
because that's just something you had to know. Can you
imagine that these no, no, no, my kids, you got
to know mister Beast's latest count just to giveaway, right,
(03:30):
A couple of Chris Foreman could have whooped mister Beast's ass, by.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The way, even in his forties, because George Foreman came
back and won the heavyweight title again when he was
forty four or something like fairly.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Sad fight, as I recall, and he took a lot
of punches.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So a couple of things I want to get to
later that have nothing to do with politics before I
launch into this political pulling. I listened to a podcast
about from an astrophysicist about life and space and that
sort of stuff that was so flippant interesting, and I
learned a bunch of things I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I want to talk about that later. And then this.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
A person I know, Boy, I gotta be really vague.
I don't want to get them in trouble because this
is not particularly cool. I got a bunch of screen
captures of a group conversation online from women who are
using AI as therapists, and particularly advice on how to
(04:35):
talk to their husband about various things like in an
argument like, HEYI my husband said this, what should I say?
And then the AI lays it out for him, and
then they go tell their husband that now is.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Or a weird thing, because to me, obviously the weird
thing is what if your husband's asking AI it's powder
respond of this, and it's really just two computers talking
each other, and you're like barely.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Fall I don't know. It's like you're watching the show
or reading a column, an advice column, and you kind
of recognize yourself. Then it's all about the you know,
the output. How's the advice? Well, who knows? Who knows? Well?
(05:19):
You look at some of the hallucinations the AI has
these days, or inventing court cases. I guess that is
a hallucination or or my god, some of the stories
we've heard about teenagers who have had quote unquote relationships
with some AI somewhere that's like told them, you know,
some teams your age cut themselves to show people that
(05:39):
they're not happy. So, I mean the women terrible advice.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
These women are talking about the great comfort they get,
you know, and they have had a rough day to
talk to their AI therapist and it just feels like,
you know, the AI really listens and.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And that's what they like talking.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think we're going down a really weird fricking road. Man, Yeah,
happened to an extent. I didn't realize that's what That's
what I got from reading all these messages. It's already
going on. It's I've been presenting it as you know,
in the future. People might no, no, no, it's already happening
way more than I realized. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, these
(06:15):
are like very regular assault of the earth, normal people
type people.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Not this isn't yeah weirdos and work at a university
or something. Yeah. I'm fully on board and pretty aware
of how sideways this sort of thing can go these days.
Especially at the same time though, I mean, I'm picturing
like I'll just use my wife, who's who's retired at
this point, but and and living off of my large
ass the way anyway, like a lifestyle to which she's
(06:43):
become accustomed. Do you think it's okay that she's living
off my large s ai? So anyway, But you know,
there may have been a time or two in her
past where she had a really challenging coworker, for instance,
I mean just kind of a pain in the arse,
and would come home and she'd ask her ai oh
ai advice column thingy counselor deally my coworkers, you know,
(07:07):
very bitchy and negative all the time, and blah blah blah.
How should I deal with it? I could see getting
some decent advice about how to navigate through that sort
of thing. I am not okay with this at all.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm surprised you are, and maybe you're right, but I
am not okay with this at all. Taking out the
human element. I just think it's awful.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh well, hang on now, hang on. I say, there
are books, there are magazine written by people. Well, AI
is written by people. It's just chaitterizing those people without
paying them. Well it can be.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I mean it's it's theoretically synthesizing everything it has read
into a coherent answer.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm not saying it's without danger. I just don't think
it's automatically bad.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So, well, this is what the AI told one person.
For instance, you're used to managing his emotions, and now
that he's upset or at least quiet, it's triggering your guilt.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
But you're right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You shouldn't feel guilty. You didn't do anything wrong. You
were thoughtful in your message, and it's okay to want
to date yourself after explaining to the AI what went on.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I just find this very weird. That's getting pretty specific.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
If he chooses to be upset, that's on him. You're
allowed to take care of yourself, even if it doesn't
matches unspoken xps.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh, that's getting very very specific. Okay, it's not you know,
some people have negative energy and it's best to see
her around them. I mean, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's like, in this situation which you have described, you're
the good guy, he's the ahle oh boy, which is well,
it fits in with therapy. That's what therapists do almost always.
That's why, like ninety percent of therapy is worthless. That's
what a therapy does. They co sign your bs a therapist.
Most of the time, you're you're a write and down
trodden and they are awful human beings and need to
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adjust to you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's that's what you get almost always from therapy.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So it's not surprising that AI therapy would be feeding
people that. But it's just I don't know the companionship,
the the the leaning on the chat bought for these conversations,
and at some point you're gonna stop talking to.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Your friends about it. You can only talk to the
computer about it. That's the problem. It's the as opposed
to talking to a friend, calling your mom, you know,
talking it out with your husband, trying to you know. Yeah, yeah,
you're right. I'm on board. It's evil. It's horrifying. We
should be terrified.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I don't know if evil's the right word. But and
like I said, it's already happening. I've got many, many
examples that I was given by someone who just wanted
to let me know, this is how much it's happening,
like in my friend group already.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Wow. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Evil implies intent. I just
think it's corrosive. Oh so corrosive. Yeah, the tentacles of.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Especially if AI is going to lean toward you know,
you're the victim. You definitely want that more than maybe
if you talk to a friend and says, I don't know,
it sounds like he's got a good point.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, I as you know, I think of myself
as an optimistic cynic. I don't I'm a cynical. I'm
a nihilist cynic. Wow. Wow, how pleasant to be around.
I would I need to see a serious inflection point
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or I do believe humanity is on the path to
giant drops in population, huge change in the trajectory of
human occupation of the earth. We are not getting together
with our friends, we are not getting together with lovers,
we are not making babies, we are not forming families.
AI could be about to put a zillion piece a
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lot of work, or reduce, certainly the need for them
to be around. I just it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Feels very, very funky to me. Very many teenage sea changes.
How many teenage girls. Teenage boys too, but girls more
prone to this than boys. I think are gonna type
into the AI chat. Bought it that my mom told
me I can't this, do this and that. What do
you think I think your mom is being overly protective? Yeah, yeah,
(11:26):
well ye eh. No country for old men, glad. I'm
i I wish I was eighty. I wish I was
on death's door. I don't think I can handle the
modern world.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Michael. When mankind dies out, what do you think I've
always tended to think it'll be a planet of the beavers,
the apes in second place, in spite of their better
pr A planet of the apes and maybe the ants.
What's your your pick? I'm gonna go with the beavers. Well,
you like beavers. They're hardworking, they're industrious.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
A non fun, real life, cynical nihilist answer is who
will take over is the people that populate third world
countries who aren't doing all this crap and are having
kids like crazy and are probably fundamentalist Muslims.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly right. I never prefer the beavers, Frank,
I never got.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The political polling, which is really really good, among other things.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
On the way, stay here art the President of the
United States, Donald Trump in attendance tonight at the Wells
Fargo Center.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So that's at the NCAA wrestling finals that Donald Trump
showed up to watch and uh, crowd.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Pretty excited for him to be there. It would sing,
I would say, you know those those audio tapes you
sometimes hear the president was booed and you hear kind
of said boos and a lot of cheers. Is up.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, that was unequivocal in my lifetime in modern politics.
The only people that have ever gotten chance like that
Barack Obama, Bernie and Trump. No, never anything close to
that from anybody else. Bernie on the concert circuit right
now drawing huge crowds.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
More on that to come for Nard Sanders.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
So this guy Bill mcinturf he's the head polster for
NBC in Wall Street Journal, which team up for whatever
reason for polling.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I'm not exactly sure what that's all about. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
This is like his internal on polling that Mark Alprin
put out today. In less than twenty slides, we cover
the following major storylines. Bill mcinturf, Right, you don't see
this every day. What the first slides have in common
is how unique they are with the surgeon right direction.
It's the first time the right direction is over forty
percent and one hundred and forty seven months, So that's
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fourteen one hundred and twenty would be ten years, and
then he got another twenty seven months for a couple
more years. So that's a long long time since right
direction has been over forty percent.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Wowow and.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Historic drop in the ratings of the Democratic Party. So
we had that last week in other polling. But NBC's
polling has the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
As Carl ro pointed out, the Republicans are not exactly
on Super Night ground polling wise either, but you know,
clearly have the edge over the beleaguered, hated Democrats.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The survey finds President Trump matching or exceeding any previous
positive rating for his job approval, personal rating, and the
percentage of voters saying they identify as MAGA supporters.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
He is still the high water mark in all of those. Well, no, no,
I know. I've heard that the tariffs are terrifying everybody,
and he just announced that he's tightened those up. By
the way, they're not going to be as brought. And
everybody's afraid of the economy. And these deportations are crazy,
and the doge is out of control. That's what I heard. Yeah, well,
I'll get to that in just a second.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
These positive changes basically are because Trump enjoys exceptionally strong
ratings among Republicans and his political base. A majority of
voters approve of President Trump's job handling of water, security
and immigration, so he's above water on that. Conversely, President
Trump's job rating on the economy is the lowest he's
ever had, So it's interesting that his economic numbers are
(15:23):
so low, yet he has his highest approval personal popularity,
et cetera, et cetera he's ever had. It reminds me
of Barack Obama, you know, speaking of crowds cheering. When
you get into the whole culture personality thing. I mean,
after Obama had been president for a while, there were
a number issues that he did not pull very well on,
but his overall number stayed high, and I could see
(15:45):
Trump being like that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Sure, Yeah, absolutely, And I've long maintained if he can
avoid being too quick and haphazard with the economic stuff,
that gives us a hell of a lot more time
in leeway to do the really important, you know, other
things that our priorities, including cleaning up the universities. More
to come on that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Between a plurality and a majority of voters say President
Trump is making quote the right kind of change rather
than the wrong kind of change on seven different policy areas,
the consistent forty plus saying the right kind of change
once again represents a hardened Trump political base.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I think when you have one hundred and forty seven
consecutive months of wrong track and then somebody offers actual,
substantive change as opposed to lip service and no actual change,
which has made all of us very cynical about those promises, Yeah,
you're going to have a hell of a lot of
people say, hey, let's give it a try, let's see
what happens. That's what these pull numbers feel like to me.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And then on this since it's such a hot topic
and he gets covered negatively in the news all day
every day, a plurality of voters say Doge is a
good idea. More tellingly, more than sixty percent of voters
say Doge should continue either continue as is or slow down,
but continue.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So pretty solid ground on Doge. Still the epicenter of
the woke mind virus. Our universities are finally getting cleaned up.
The details coming up in a moment to stay with us,
Armstrong and Getty ribbling up, big step down the lane
runner for the win back in Maryland is won. Maryland
(17:27):
is going to the Sweet sixteen. That was an exciting game.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I didn't watch the game, but I just saw the
last three minutes on a YouTube video. It went it
was like the game winning shot like five times.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
In a row is one of those.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It was one of the it makes the three pointer
and you thought the game was over, but then there's
a couple seconds left and the other team makes it,
and then there's a foul on the time out, and
then another one, and it just kept going back and forth,
like five times in the last minute.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Very exciting. It's very gracious of me to call for
that clip. Jack is my fighting in a line. I
lost in a humiliating defeat to the hated Kentuckians last night.
Hated can't they turned the but oh Kentuckians with their
weird Kentucky ways. You know what turnovers equal? Jack, You
know what they equal? They equal a loss. You protect
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the rock or you lose. They fail to and they
lost some good advice right now, I don't have that
stay up watching games anyway. So speaking of colleges, if
you're familiar with the show, you understand that we believe
firmly because it's one hundred percent correct that the real
(18:37):
I'm trying to steer clear of my infection metaphor because
it's disgusting. How about we say the where the rebel
alliance is strongest, the and not the good rebel alliance
from Star Wars, the bad ones, the evildoers, Where they're
clustered most densely, Where the power of the woke mind
virus is strongest, and where it radiates outward from is
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education in the country, especially the colleges and universities. But
elementary education is terrible to anyway. So if we are
going to get rid of, or at least weaken the
neo Marxism that the woke thing represents, because remember, friends,
it's all about overthrowing Western civilization. Has a dozen different
(19:20):
excuses of why you have to because the patriarchy, because
of transphobia, because of you know, racism, systemic racism, blah
blah blah blah blah blah. It's all about overthrowing Western civilization.
But anyway, so the Trump administration is coming hard for
that sort of thing. And you probably heard that they
threatened to yank four hundred million dollars of funding away
(19:41):
from Columbia, which might be the you know, the the
center of the center of this sort of thing, along
with Coavid.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
And the fact that Columbia relented on a couple of things.
The coverage of this over the weekend has been from
like op eds in the New York Times of a
dark day for freedom of speech and universities and how
a hilarious freedom has been attacked and how we all
should shudder of the chill wind that is blowing with
the evil Trump people putting their finger on the scale
(20:11):
in college kid versus.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Thanks for sharing your opinion, Thanks versus.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
After the Biden administration allowing gazillions of taxpayer dollars to
go to these universities where they have Jews shouldn't be
allowed on campus festivals.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And saying nothing about it. For the preaching hatred of
the United States and its constitution.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
If you can, finally somebody did something. So here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
First, I was going to lead with this the headline
Wall Street Journal University sprint from we will not cower
to appeasing Trump with much of their funding at stake
schools or quietly hiring lobbyists and reaching out to politicians
amid Washington's quest to reign in academia. And they give
a bunch of examples. University of Michigan presidents sat down
(20:56):
for breakfast with a group of lawmakers from his home state,
and the message was clear. The school was ready to
play ball with Trump's Washington. It's time for universities to
wake up and start addressing the reasons why they've lost
so much trust. President Ono told the bipartisan group at
a hotel conference room. Aha added that universities should listen
to their most vocal critics. Well, that is refreshing. Then
(21:19):
they mentioned Columbia university they named zech Stanford and Duke
and wake Forest and Harvard and Vanderbilt, who have all
hired lobbyists to put in a good word in Washington,
d C. So yeah, here's why coming up. Yeah, there is.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Some belief some people have written that this gave various
university administrations that covered they needed to do what they
wanted to do and blamed only where I was going,
blamed on Trump so that they don't get attacked by
their own students. I don't know how much I believe
that or not, or if a lot of those universities
(21:59):
they were in more agreement with the students than Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
So I don't know. I think it probably varies case
by case, president by president. As we were saying last week,
they have created a monster, I'd say universities collectively, they
have created a monster of a faculty and student body
that is so wildly radical left that they are terrified
(22:25):
of them. University presidents, and I think some of them
are thinking, oh God, yes, thank you, you gave me
covered to ring in these maniacs.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's like if you let your kids run the show
in your house. I mean, at some point when you
put that down, there's gonna be great resistance. They've done that.
It's these college campuses. I mean, just none of us
have been able to understand why you just don't when
the students demand something, say yeah, good for you, get
back to class, get out of my room, my office,
or you're demanding something. You don't demand anything. You pay,
(22:55):
you come here, you take classes, you leave with the degree.
If you don't like it, go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I don't know right demanding Wow, the Armstrong doctrine. Folks,
you just heard it, simple, effective, love it. So here's
what happened on Friday. And this is no accident that
Columbia made this announcement Friday after noon, where you know,
unpopular news goes to die. Columbia agreed on Friday to
(23:19):
overhaul its protest policies, its security practices in its Middle
Eastern Studies department, in what The New York Times called
a remarkable concession of the Trump administration, which you refused
to could consider restoring, which has refused to consider restoring
four hundred million dollars in federal funds. Without major changes.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
The agreement would stunned and dismayed many many members of
the faculty.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I'm sure it did. They were running the place could
signal a new stage in the universities, escalating clash with
elite universities and colleges. And they named Jack Harvard, Stanford,
University of Michigan and others facing similar threats and probably
making similar moves. Now, I thought this might be instructive.
Go ahead, got it by way.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I hope they realize that this was so good for
their graduates, who are going to go out into the
world with Columbia University on the resume, and this gives
them some chance that the employer they run into will think, Okay,
it's not as crazy as it used to be, because
otherwise there's no way I would hire somebody from Columbia,
(24:24):
right who graduated Columbia recently?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh no, I'd run in the other direction. Yeah, unless
they proved that they were not, you know, woke mind
virus captured. I think we're back to the university president's
case by case. I think some of them Jack are
absolutely thinking that, thinking that, Oh thank god. It's because
I tell you what I'm hearing from all of my
friends on Wall Street or you know, in business around
(24:46):
the country that they're terrified of our graduates, not attracted
to them, but some again are so captured or part
of it that they don't care. So here I want
to illustrate. Here are these shocking, disillusioning concession that Columbia
University made, which has the New York Times all in
a lather. Uh oh, many in academia calling this an
(25:10):
actor surrender. Many of the steps Colombia is promising should
have been made long ago in its own best interests.
Restricting masks during protests means rule breakers will have to
take responsibility for their actions. Oh no, could disagree with that.
Clear rules clearly enforced about time, place, and manner. Restrictions
(25:33):
on campus speech will raise the cost for those who
want to block speakers they dislike. Oh no, ending the
Heckler's veto at a college. What a terrible thing to
do at sarcasm for those are just waking up. The
school will also incorporate into the formal policy. Listen to
(25:54):
this incredible concession Columbia has been beaten into taking. They
will incorporate into formal policy the definition of anti Semitism
recommended by their own Anti Semitism task Force, and it
will adopt the so called institutional neutrality institution wide that
(26:15):
means the school itself and its departments won't take sides
on political controversies of the day. Now, that principle, which
is associated with the University of Chicago, well, it used
to be associated with universities everywhere all the time, because,
pardon me, that's what they're effing's supposed to be doing,
(26:37):
teaching kids how to think, not what to think, and
so dragging them back even a couple of feet towards
sanity is seen as outrageous in a lot of the
college campuses. And of course they mentioned in the Wall
Street General the editorial board, and they're quite correct. The
test will be whether it's enforced throughout the institutions or
(26:57):
all of these reforms will be controversial only among those
who think a university as an ivory foxhole. Oh that's
a great phrase. Who wrote that the board an ivory
fox hole? Love? That is an ivory.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Fox hole from which to launch political movements or indoctrinate students.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
All perfectly reasonable. I love this. I love this.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh one more note, Wow, I hadn't looked into it
this much. That's what they're describing as some sort of
unholy surrender to maga.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yes, wow, those are the main Uh, you know it
changes now they want some sort of audit of the
Middle Eastern Studies Department because it's so flamingly anti Semitic.
You know, that's the devil's in the details there. Sure,
of course we'll have to see how that plays out,
but in the main, it's wonderful. One more note, and
(27:54):
this is the part that you definitely want to know.
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Speaker 2 (29:18):
For some reason, that reminded me, I wanted to talk
about how my neighbors are making me feel bad about
myself unintentionally not but just just like kind of a
comparison between me and my kids and them and their kids.
On a daily basis, I'm falling away shortenings.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Ask your AI counselor for comfort and suckor you know,
we could either rush through this like maniacs, or I
could pay off what do your tax dollars have to
do with all of this college campus madness? After a
quick break, I advocate the latter plan.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And I will pay off. How my neighbors are making
me feel bad about myself, It's got more to do
with me than them. But yeah, maybe I need to
move to a neighborhood everybody's like doing meth and has pitbulls.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Feel better about myself.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know you graded on a curve wise exactly we
got more of the waist theret getty.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
You need fresh eggs straight from the chicken box. Next
you need pickling lime. Next you need a scale in
your jar of choice. You're gonna take an ounce of
pickle lime to one quart of water. You're gonna place
your eggs point down. When you got your jar, pull
your ounce of pickle lime to one quart of water.
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Impalled in and make sure they're completely covering the eggs.
We got my liden ring. You're gonna put those on
tight and there y'all have it. You just preserved eggs
for as long as two years.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
There you go with the ongoing tips for eggs, because
apparently all of us eat one hundred eggs per day,
and it's the most important thing in the world of
the cost of eggs.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well in, a rise of thirty percent in the price
of eggs is thirty percent in their cost of living.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Because all I do is eat eggs all the time.
It's my entire bill every month, every credit card bill eggs. Sense,
that is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I mean, they are very expensive thanks to the inflation Bertsley,
but a have cereal, have like a ham sandwich for breakfast.
That's actually pretty enjoyable anyway, So I wanted to pay
this off for you. We've been talking about how the
a lot of the major universities are actually now bowing
(31:28):
to the pressure from the Trump administration to stop being
Marxist hives of anti American hate and perversion and flamingly
anti Semitic. By the way, even as you swear you're
tolerant and welcome all folks, just not the evil Jews
at Columbia University, for instance, or UCLA, we never forget anyway.
(31:51):
So what does your tax money have to do with this? Now?
You might not need to, you know, consider that angle,
because the way the universities are pumping out America hating
Marxist graduates and many of them are becoming school teachers
and indoctrinating your little kids is horrifying enough. But wait,
there's more so, As Alicia Finley writes, she's a brilliant writer.
(32:15):
Like most colleges, Columbia, who we're just talking about, relies
on federal funds and tax exemptions. These subsidies not only
allow colleges to exist, they fuel campus radicalism by encouraging
the growth of graduate programs and academic departments in social
sciences and humanities whose primary goals are to promote left
(32:35):
wing political causes rather than like turn loose useful people
to society. It's self serving.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, we gotta break through this because for forever, the
whole idea he's going to graduate school, she's going to
graduate school was such, you know, a good thing obviously.
Oh yeah, gotta break out of that. They're very accomplished.
It's not clearly a good thing at all anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh no, no, I'd say, in the vast majority of cases,
it's a time and wasted time and money. Start with
unlimited federal borrowing for grad students. Here's your tax dollars
at work. The Education Department caps the total amount of
federal loans for undergrads. The loan limit has helped keep
a lid on college costs, as you know, I've said
many times through the years, and people don't get this.
When you flood a market for a particular good or
(33:22):
service with money or incredibly cheap loans. Say your local
car dealer is offering eighty four month loans at one
point five percent. You look at that payment, you think,
I don't give a crap what the price is. That
payment's too good to pass up. So my weather, my
(33:45):
f one fifty just went from seventy grand to ninety
three grand. I don't care. And universities get that. So
you got this unlimited spigot of federal money. The loans
are backed, and then Joe Biden tries to forgive them
glad that Mummy is out the White House, and so
they just have carte launched to raise tuition or whatever
(34:06):
they want anyway, So the loan limit has helped keep
a lid on college costs. But that's just for undergrads.
The net cost of attendance at publican nonprofit colleges after
discounts has been flat over the last fifteen years. Partly
because inflation has been so high it's just kind of
kept up. But colleges, being the resourceful for profit businesses
(34:26):
they are, don't tell me, well, no, Joe, they're nonprofits. No,
you've got thousands and thousands and thousands of people profiting
from their business salaries pensions. Anyway, they boosted revenue by
adding pricey graduate programs and enrolling more grad students. Brown
University December warned it has a ninety million dollar budget
(34:48):
hole owing in Part two quote rapid growth in faculty
and staff positions, with staff growth out pacing growth in faculty,
how could it possibly be? So it's probably ei positions
and crapping, right, So it's just bureaucracy. It's not even teachers.
So what are you gonna do at Brown University? One
planned budget solution? Double the number of residential masters students.
(35:13):
Double it? Wow? And in what jack bioscience? Computer engineering? Huh?
Colleges around exactly. Colleges around the country are adding master's
programs in such fields as social work, humanitarian, community development,
and Middle Eastern studies, often costing six figures to rake
in more federal dollars. I love this. Columbia offers master's
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degrees and negotiating into conflict resolution, sustainability management. You got
a master's in sustainability management, nobody even knows what that is,
and human capital management, the last being a fancy term
for HR. And then Alicia asks, hey, where all those
graduate peacemakers when the protesters were tearing Columbia part and
(35:56):
occupying building. You should have enlisted their help. So most
research universities enrolled two to three times as many grad
students as undergrads. Now you know why, man, And it's
our tax dollars financing that Marxist hell hole boo, I
say boo.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Sixty minutes took a look last night at the Canadian
border and said, yeah, there are people and drugs coming across.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I was surprised by that. We'll get to that now
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