July 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Starvation in Gaza & Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- AI is wrecking the job market for college graduates
- A Miseducation Update!
- Battery flavored chips & the cardboard box
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Kat Katie and He Armstrong and Eddy, various
world organizations, all of whom hate Israel are calling it
a famine now in Gaza. We'll talk more about that
(00:32):
later in some of the proof in various directions, but
President Trump was asked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, some of those kids are that's real starvation stuff.
I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're
going to be even more involved.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's crazy what's going on over there. He mentioned, I
just know what I see on television, but that's horrific.
You can't fake that. Well, you can certainly exaggerate it.
You can miss represented a lot. And they've been doing
it for decades, by the way.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Well and saying, yeah, judging by what I've seen on TV,
it's pretty bad. You have like the greatest intelligence apparatus
on earth. Why are you judging by what you've seen
on TV?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Good point at all?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Orfully selected video snippets from carefully selected biased journalists.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, And I was just looking at a headline. And
then we'll talk about this later, so we'll move on.
But two hundred and sixty humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday.
Two hundred and sixty trucks, twenty pallets of humanitarian aid
were air dropped at various parts of Gaza. As one
of my favorite tweeters said, worst genocide ever. Yeah, yeah,
(01:47):
so coming up as in is in. You can't. It's
not good at being a genocide, is the way his point,
dropping all of this food and bringing in all these trucks,
you're not doing a very good job of a genocide
if that's what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Right, And it's interesting. I had prepared for later a
story about various maidenstream media journalists who are covering the
situation in Gaza, all of whom are tied to Hamas
or Hezballah or have praised Yah Yah Sinoar or a
number of these characters. Anyway, we talked about this actually
(02:20):
yesterday and we can touch on it again. Is there
actually starvation in Gaza? It is very difficult to get
a straight story. It looks selish. Oh my god, it
looks tellish.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I mean, though that's not fake, I mean it's tellish,
no matter what now whether or not there's purposeful starvation
going on, that's a different question.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
On later on the show. There are a number of
significant stories we ought to touch on more thoroughly. The
absolutely shockingly miserable poll numbers of the Democratic Party. Also
a major ruling that is allowing judges to continue to
issue nationwide injunctions against Trump, even those Supreme Court quote
(03:01):
unquote struck down the ability to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We will get into that.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
And also I want to talk about how on the
economic front, AI is already wrecking college graduates job prospects.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, I want to hear that, yeah, like recent college graduates.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And also a great piece from a Trump skeptical, a thinker,
if Trump's tariffs are so bad, where's the recession? So
we'll get to all of that stuff, but first, a
handful of stories that tend to be a little lighter,
but I wanted to touch on them. Michael plays a
little bit of number twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Would you please.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow.
I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak
on behalf of the three hundred plus employees it Astronomer
Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last
few days, and they wanted me to answer the most
common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run
(04:01):
Apache airflow, unifying the experience of running data mL and
AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people
have a newfound interest in data.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So that is an ad for Astronomer, which was the
company run by the dude who was smooching with his
illicit babe at the Coldplay concert, and the companies like, A,
all right, this is bad for our look and b
everybody is curious about our company soon, And so they
(04:32):
hired Ryan Reynolds PR firm, marketing firm, and he hired
Gwyneth Paltrow Chris Martin of Coldplays X to do the commercial.
Thinking there's a little more tie in celebrity that'll get
more attention for us. And my only point in bringing
this up is it's kind of funny in some good pr. Secondly,
(04:53):
in a few years, I think people are going to
say Ryan Reynolds was an actor. I think he's a
really innovative, smart business guy. I was just thinking, man
talk about turning lemons into lemonade nobody'd ever heard of
this astronomer company. When you've got all of that attention,
(05:15):
find a way to get out what you are and
what you do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's a great idea. If you ever have a scandal
come your way, take that opportunity to say, yeah, I'm
the guy from that video, and here's what I can
do for you.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Right that that would be extra bold or hier a
Gwynneth Feltro, But yeah, yeah, I think that's absolutely a
smart take.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And Ryan Reynolds impresses me. Moving along, so.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Speaking of the media, Skydance Media, which is the giant
media conglomerate which is part of the big CBS Paramount merger.
That is that's one of the reasons CBS settled with
Trump over some very questionablelawsuit. The constitution all right anyway,
But so that's the company involves.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Sky Dances made.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
A series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news
and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount CBS.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's the home of sixty minutes Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
When its planned acquisition is complete, Scout Dans is also
confirming the elimination of all diversity, equity and inclusion policies
and initiatives in Paramount, which had been one of the
most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I see, I think sixty minutes is a news program
that still matters, and it'll be interesting to see do
people quit, do they adjust their sales? I wonder what's
going to happen. Uh?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think it matters much, and I
think in five years it will matter much less. But
five years is forever in the modern era, sure, But anyway,
scott Ants laid out the moves in two letters. It's
sent to the FCC Commissioner. The first letter addresses concerns
about media bias at CBS, pledges to ensure that cbs
is reporting is fair and.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
By and fact based.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Second outline in sky Dance's commitments going forward to promote
non discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I don't love how we got there, but end all
DEI programs everywhere they exist in schools, corporations and nonprofits,
and don't let them rename them and keep discriminating.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And we can get to that in a little bit.
This headline just deserves a quick nod.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The Biden administrations seven and a half billion dollar EV
charging port initiative that was going to build allegedly a
half a million by the year twenty thirty has built.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Were these going to be the same ev charging ports
that every city has put like in front of their
public library that do nothing? Why do you bring that up, Jack,
Because they don't do anything. Nobody seems to know that.
But they don't do anything. You can plug in your
car for an hour and get like five miles working.
I mean, they just don't work.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So there are pos's or PSOs anyway. But instead of
half a million, and granted it's just the year twenty
twenty five and allegedly they have time to go, they
have delivered fewer than four hundred charging ports since the
seven and a half billion dollar program began almost four
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Unbelievable and they're worth God we get stolen from and
a lot of it is under the mantle of green
energy and electric cars ain't going anywhere anywhere anyway. It's
just not gonna happen, at least not now unless something
changes major with technology and speaking of media, final note
(08:45):
for this segment, maybe we can break semi in time
for once in our lives. I thought this was a
joke at first. The Atlantic, the great vaunted Atlantic, read
by the same people who run around Manhattan with the
NPR toat bags and tell us all what we ought
to think from the lecterns of universities and the broadcast
(09:05):
TV and radio, et cetera, and Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
The Atlantic with a story about Helen by Helen lewis
finally a Democrat who could shine on Joe Rogan's show,
her point being breakthrough and be the modern go getter
democratic voice and isn't screwed around.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's forceful, that is plane.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Speaking that can reach the common people, bring men back
to the party, bring the working class back to the party.
Finally the Democrats have this person, and she is dead
blanking serious hunter Biden Y.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I've heard a couple of people say that that his
frankness was so refreshing, and why can't we get somebody
who speaks that way?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
That reminds me of the same sort of blanking morons
who declared that Tim Walls was teaching American manner new
sort of masculinity.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, I don't I don't want to get off on
this topic, because we got plenty of time but there
were news stories out yesterday that Kamala Harris is contemplating
a presidential run. Please do because that would be hilarious.
How could you be that lacking in self awareness? I
hope I'm not. I mean, because that's embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, that's that isn't that That is actually an interesting
discussion how a Kamala Harris can be that on a
week It's.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Almost to the level of like if I'm walking around
talking about I think I can make the Olympic basketball team.
That's what I'm gonna do. My plan is, it's got
a fitness plan. I'm going to get in the gym
and shoot a lot. I'm gonna try out this summer
because the Olympics are next summer and I've.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Been watching Steph Curry. I've got my elbow in the
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Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm gonna get into the pet psychic business. We talked
about this last week. It's just if the world's go
in this direction, I'm just going to become a pet
psychic and.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Tell stupid people send their money or are getting parted.
Why doesn't land in my pocket. I'm gonna tell stupid
or mentally ill people what they want to hear about
their pet collection money. I'll wear a pointed hat, some beads.
They're happy, you're happy, except everybody's happy. There are no
losers in this hat and beads or whatever you'd wear.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is a pet psyche? What do you wear? I don't
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not appointed that maybe beads, though, I.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Might have to become a pet psychic because AI has
screwed up your prospects as a recent college graduate.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We'll get to that. Also, we've got this hilarious bit
about no wonder young people are a soft today with
what they read in college versus what we read, I mean,
in school. It's pretty funny. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
So that Russia just started direct flight between Moscow and
North Korea.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It's one of those rare trips where the fun part
really is the journey and not the destination of it. Yeah,
no kidding. I'd love to go to North Korea if
I felt like I could be safe. I don't know,
if it was like a real roll of the dice
to me. Yeah, because old what's his name?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean he he he what he did something? He
vandalized and authorities, but they beat him to death. That
ain't cool.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
He just took a poster as a souvenir. Yeah, outo
warm beer, God rest his soul.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah. Ah.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
So this is uh, this is the beginning, I believe.
And I'm neither an alarmist nor a minimizer about AI
and its disruptive powers. I lean more toward alarmist, I think.
But Wall Street Journal with an article today, what do
you uh, Let's see, AI is wrecking an already fragile
job market for college graduates. Companies have long leaned on
(14:03):
entry level workers to do grunt work that doubles is
on the job training. Now Chat, GPT and other bots
can do many of those chores. And they go through
a handful of companies. This is a marketing agency. They've
They're clients have all but stopped requesting entry level staff
young grads once in high demand, whose work is now
(14:26):
what's being called a home run for AI, meaning it's
the sort of thing AI does the best.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Can you give me an example, like what sort of
things are is AI doing? Really? Well?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They go they speak more in generalities. But let me
get through the list dating app grinders hiring more seasoned
engineers for going some junior coders straight out of school.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So the gay hookup app is not hiring young grads
because of AI. That's an interesting that's already got a
lot to it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Here's a Columbus based consulting firm, Futurity, which is pretty
well known, decided not to hire a summer intern this
year instead of opting to run social media copy through
chat GPT instead. And this guy, the CEO, said he's
urging his own kids to focus on jobs that require
people skills and can't be easily automated.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So the tough partics, Yeah, the tough part is, some
people have pointed out is people skills often are a
lot more something you're born with than something you can learn,
as opposed to the other skills that you know, you
could sit down and learn. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, you can improve them or you could let them
kind of atrophy. But you either got it or you don't.
That's absolutely true. So and they go through a bunch
of examples, but a year's long white collar hiring slump
and recessionaries have weakened the.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Show up work hard.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
We'll educate you to become the next generation of leader's relationship.
And the statistics are crazy. Unemployment stats in the last
let's see from the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen statistical year
to the most recent period among high school young high
(16:15):
school grads has ticked up a tenth of a percent, Okay,
barely at all. Some college the unemployment numbers have ticked
up four tenths of a percent, which is quadruple the
previous number, but it's hard to glean much. An associate's
degree is up two tenths of a percent. If you
have a bachelor's degree, the unemployment rate is up one
(16:39):
point one percent, and among grad students it's up one percent.
So the horizon unemployment is steepest among college grads and
grad school students. These sectors where graduate hiring is slowed
the most. Information finance, insurance, technical serches. Those sectors are
(17:02):
still growing well.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The best example out there, as we've mentioned multiple times,
is just a couple of years ago, learn to code
was like the thing you want your kid to be successful.
Learn to code. Now I know people who code who
use AI to do all their coding.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Right and after dancing around the issue. In the two
and a half years since chat GPT's release up into
the way, almost all companies plan for their future. CEOs
are now talking openly about AI's immense capabilities, likely leading
to deep job cuts. Top industry executives, including Amazon JP Morgan,
have said in recent weeks they expect their workforces to
shrink considerably. Ford CEO Jim Farley City expects AI will
(17:46):
replace half of the white collar workforce in the US
half half including the hardworking people at Grinder. You should
have led with that half. Oh my god, you don't
start to show with a show stopper jack.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Half a white collar jobs eliminated by AI. If that's
even close to true, Wow, that will be a revolution.
Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature,
and it shows. Kids today are out here reading The
Magical Bunny and How We Learned to Love Himself or
Sparkle the Dragon's Conflict three Resolution Journey.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And I'm sorry, but that is emotional tofu, just.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Page after page of affirmations and pastel illustrations like a
therapist made it on Canva. Meanwhile, we were out here
getting emotionally demolished by Where the Red Fern Grows.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You want to talk about resilience.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I watched a boy Barry's Two Dead Dogs after one
got ripped apart by a mountain lion and the other
one starved a death out of grief, and I read
that in the fourth grade. I came out of that
book Vietnam VET, and aged ten years and two hundred pages.
Today's kids get talking lamas who validate their feelings, and
we got Old Yeller where the dog gets rabies and
the dad's like, well, son, i think it's time we
shoot your best friend in the face.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's all part of growing up.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
And that was our bedtime story. And you wonder why
millennials cry during commercials?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Did?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I hated ten years reading that book. That is interesting though.
I thought about that that when my kids were young,
which I guess makes means I've become soft like all
of modern society. It's just like, good God, all the
old Disney movies we'd watch and everyone the parents die,
all your old Disney classics, the parents die.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's obligatory. Yeah uh yeah, that's
something else. I'm reminded. It's funny I'm deep in thought
thinking of some of the books I've read and my
kids read in schools, and the concept of trigger warnings,
which is one of the worst things that's ever happened,
and how that's all related to And this might.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Seem like a stretch, but I swear it's not.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It's related to the whole neo Marxist thing, where what
they want to happen is you don't know what to say,
you don't know what you can say. You're afraid of offending,
you're afraid of getting in trouble, you're afraid of losing
your job.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
In short, you're afraid.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And so you got to go through every conceivable trauma
or discomfort there might be in reading a piece of literature.
That's a bizarre notion, and yet it took hold at
most of our universities.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Speaking of which, and Michael, I apologize.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I got a an in urgent communication during the break
and wasn't able to communicate to you. Hansen prepared a
little musical thing for me earlier today. I got that
handy Oh wow, okay, here you go.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes, oh it's not good. But what did they say?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
We're like I was trying to quickly with the of
Hanson and Ai craft a theme song to our miseducation update. Okay,
and our twisted schools break all the rules. They churn
out fools that just ain't cool. And I said, in
the style of nineteen seventies British punk, there you go,
and again it wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Anyway. A couple of stories for you.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Let's start with good news. A victory for our friends
at the Goldwater Institute. Tim Sanderfer's output of Pennsylvania Mom
won a major victory for parental rights and government transparency
last week when ours local school district tried and failed
to withhold Dei materials from parents, claiming they were trade secrets.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Wow. Yeah, can you imagine, man, I would lose my
mind if any school official ever said anything close to
that to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't
get to have any secrets, right do you work for us?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And claiming that it's like the same as the design
for our jet engine here at Lockheed.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Our DEI materials are trade secrets. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
A couple of years ago, she requested assets to our
local schools, materials that were presented to teacher, staff and
students to see whether the school district was indoctrinating students
by teaching racially discrim discriminatory DEI, but the district refused,
calling it trade secrets. I would say, up the Goldener Institutes,
and the judge said, you're out of your mind. Yeah,
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I would say, you're either going to release this to
all his parents right now, or then we'll go through
the whole lawsuit process and then you'll release it to us,
because obviously you have to.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So what are we going to do here?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
In a groundbreaking, an amazing decision, the court correctly held
that the public was entitled to see records created by
a government employee to train other government employees. There was
no trade secret protection for this material ord And by
the way, the school district appealed to the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Because they actually believed they should be able to keep
it asad secret. The way they're crafting their organization to
teach your kid, that's nuts. It is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I think I don't know, but I think you may
be making the mistake of judging their motivations by what
they say. Their motivations are. They don't believe for a
second it's a trade secret. They just want to keep
doing DEI and so they're making any excuse they could find.
Moving along another good positive story.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well, there is the you know, there's the example of
who's that guy around for governor in Virginia, Terry mcculluff. Well, actually,
in one of the debates, got hammered for saying something
along the lines of parents can't be trusted with teaching
their kids. We need to get them to the schools
where they you know, we can count on them getting
the right information so in education can take over. There
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is a certain belief that actually seems to exist along
those lines, which is crazy. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And it's that nexus of like activists, neo Marxist types
and the well meaning fools who get swept up in
their ideas who actually believe this crap that it gets
a little confusing because you know a lot of those
people like Terry mccauiff, I don't think is a neo Marxist,
but he's a progressive and he's been convinced by the
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you know, neo Marxist in the progressive wing of the Democrats.
I guess that they mean it. They really want to
educate the kids better, and PhDs in education, are the
people to do it? Some more good news in a
weird way. It occurred to me as I spoke that phrase,
that undoing something horrible happening, it is good news, but
(24:46):
it's kind of half and half, if you know what
I mean. A school district in North Carolina has been
ordered to admit their mistake and issue an apology and
fork over twenty thousand dollars and some more settlement stuff
after they were sued for suspending a sixteen year old
student who used the term illegal aliens in class.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Suspended for that?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah, the sixteen year old student was in an English
class discussion.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He is the term English.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The teacher said aliens, and the student said, do you
mean space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Wow? And it was just a clarification question, right right.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
The student was later suspended for three days and marks
denoting racially and sensitive behavior were added to his permanent record.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, I realize it's easier said than done. You've got
to pull your kid out of that school. Good lord,
that's a lot of schools around America, I know.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah. So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump,
who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to
the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy. Yeah, yeah, let's see,
I could quote the judge, but they said more or
(26:07):
less what you'd think they would have said. First Amendment,
et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely not racially
insensitive or mean or Yeah, that is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi
alma mater, I.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Went for an entire year courses who graduated there? Wow? Wow,
rock chock jayhawk, I know you're a big fan.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
University of Kansas DO is offering a course in the
fall called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the
rise of the angry white male in the United States.
The course will be offered with the goal of teaching
about the prominent figure that is the angry white male.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's exciting. I got a half of an MBA from there,
so that's probably why I've gone out in the world
and done a half assed job of being a business person.
And finally, this, ah, is this even worth trying? I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It's a think piece, and a really good one written
by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld entitled stoner
logic in academia. And he's talking about in particular Michelle
Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called, but it's
(27:27):
pronounced full call French Bastard, who is one of the
most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids hear his
ideas more than virtually anybody's. He is one of the
founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I know that from listening to James Lindsay go on
and on about this human being.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Indeed, and if you would like, read his in Helen
Pluckrose's brilliant Cynical Theories anyway, So it's all about how
this guy was a bright stoner who liked to read
and learn stuff, but he never really felt like applying
himself at college and that sort of stuff. But he
(28:13):
realized he really needed more formal education and somebody to
help lead him if he was going to get anywhere
in his life. And he went to college and found
that a lot of what they were trying to teach
was stoner logic stone and he explains that one day
(28:37):
a lecturer. This is my favorite example, a highly esteemed
scholar launched into a shallow Fucoyan analysis of something or
other as it applied to the university. He went on
and on with a sort of smug self awareness, like
he thought he was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds.
He says, I should note here that this lecturer is
(28:57):
really likable and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom,
said the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of
this classroom exerts power. You are all on one side,
stepped up in auditorium seating, so I can see all
of you, but you can only see me, not each other.
You are kind of forced to look and listen.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, yeah, con true, But watch, he continued.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
The construction of this lecture theater exerts a system of
power and ensures the self perception of you, the students,
as lacking knowledge, and it sets me up as the
distributor of knowledge, and thus it conveys power.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And for what I'm paying, I hope you're not a
distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us. But you're
absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
These systems of power are everywhere hidden in the architecture
and the systems of our society. Design to maintain and
designed to maintain the continuity of power.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Oh my god, and this guy.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Who's writing of really likes his I remember being thoroughly unimpressed.
This was exactly the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive
analysis than I and other high school graduates had arrived
at many times while sitting around a bong, and it
wasn't even accurate. I remember thinking that since class sizes
tend to be smaller university, ninety percent of the teaching
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rooms were not stepped auditoriums. They were smaller, flat office
like rooms, perfect for egalitarian, discussion oriented classes. The only
rooms with this structure were the few lecture theaters intended
for hosting large audiences, and in any case, they clearly
had that structure for acoustic and a communicative reasons, not
because our neoliberal overlords wanted to inculcate us in some
(30:42):
sort of pliable consciousness lest we threaten their systems of power.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Oh much more.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
That is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was
a knowledge differential between us and him, At least there
was supposed to be. We were there, as young people
with less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledge teacher.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I couldn't see how pointing.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
This out at this obvious fact was some kind of
mind blowing revelation, and then a couple more sentences then
I'll stop.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Crucially, while he had an issue with these systems of
power inherent in the structure of the lecture theater, he
apparently had no objection to the avert power required to
make students pay for a core curriculum of course is
he helped design, then he teaches, and for which they
had to buy the compulsory textbook right that he co
wrote for ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He didn't have any problem with that system of power, right,
and the insane charge for books that whole scamp.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
So his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and
that's what the course was, was just a way to
indoctrinate students into a simplistic worldview.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Your boss has a bigger office, makes more money than you. Yeah,
he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he has
the experience and the expertise to be the boss and
manage us. So the company can what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to
like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power
is always wrong, and the person with less power is
always right.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said more than once.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
If my dog expressed that idea to me, I would
hit him with a rolled up newspaper for being so stupid,
and I do not have Oh my god, the bloom
is really off the roads for climate change and all
kinds of stuff that's green, among other things we can
talk about.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Stay here. Have you ever been tempted to lick a battery? Well,
there's no need.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
You can just buy these nine volt battery flavored tortilla
chips instead. It's been a while since I last licked
a battery. Let's first up, see how that tastes yah
tingly metallic?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
He can't wait to eat these now a lot less
immediate electric. Well, these do have those as a sort
of minerally metallic off to taste, but it does kind
of taste.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Like a battery. Final verdict is that nine vaut.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Battery to chip do beat licking an actual battery.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So there are chips that are supposed to taste like
licking a battery. Yeah, supposed to taste like a nine
vault battery. Okay for people who do that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
As a guy who has touched my tongue to. I
think licked over states what happens. But as somebody who's
touched my tongue to many nine volt batteries, the idea
of designing tortilla chips that way is insane.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Katie just made her what the hell are you talking about? Face?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
This whole segment just shows why women live longer than
you guys all sticking your tongue see nine vaults.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I'll tell you check to see if it's still worth
worth it.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
If there's voltage, it's still like in if you're in
a rock and roll band. Now you know, toward the
end of my career of making mediocre music in front
of drunks. No offense to our audiences who are wonderful,
but stop boxes, your distortion, your tuner. It's just all
your stump boxes were powered by nine volt batteries. Toward
the end, they're powered by cords. I got a better setup.
(34:08):
But so if something in your signal chain wasn't working,
the first thing you'd do is check if the battery
still had juice. You can eliminate that as an issue
you that's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm wondering, what do you what do you do, Like
if your toilet gets clogged, well, shove your arm down
deep in there. You fish around, see what's going on naturally.
So my son, who's a very artistic and art minded,
he heard the story about the guy who had the
(34:38):
banana tape to the wall and sold it for a
couple of million dollars. You remember that story, sure, So
he's trying to get in on that action. So he
crafted something he thought about over the weekend. It's just
a cardboard box and he just says box on it,
and he thinks he can sell it. And so he's
trying to figure out where to get into an art
auction or anything like that. But he wrote the description
for it. He spent some time online going around a
(35:00):
different crap, and he put this together yesterday. He's gonna
he thinks he can make a million dollars. He's already
figured out how he's gonna spend the money. It's just
a cardboard box. This piece symbolizes the struggle of humanity
toward the common era, the unwariness of the unknown, the
common misconception of life as a whole, an illusion of
what can be, toward the unravelment of the mind. Of
(35:22):
a youth. This flat, pure emotion cannot be recreated. It
truly is a piece for the ages. This is a box,
that's his description. He feel it's as good as the
banana tape to the wall.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I feel like, as a fool with more money than sense,
I need some reference to the structure. I mean, just
even the most thin reference to the cube shape.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
That's just something, right, the four corners of humanity or something.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
It's it's literally anything. I'll trust Henry to come up
with that. Look, I got seven hundred K.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
For you, but that's as high as I go. Oh
my god. Consumer confidence is up, at least partially because
we feel like the whole tariff thing worked out. I
guess you got some details on that, the one of
the biggest deals in economic history worldwide that Trump put
together yesterday, among other things. At hour three, Armstrong and
(36:23):
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Kat Katie and He Armstrong and Eddy, various
world organizations, all of whom hate Israel are calling it
a famine now in Gaza. We'll talk more about that
(00:32):
later in some of the proof in various directions, but
President Trump was asked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, some of those kids are that's real starvation stuff.
I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're
going to be even more involved.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's crazy what's going on over there. He mentioned, I
just know what I see on television, but that's horrific.
You can't fake that. Well, you can certainly exaggerate it.
You can miss represented a lot. And they've been doing
it for decades, by the way.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Well and saying, yeah, judging by what I've seen on TV,
it's pretty bad. You have like the greatest intelligence apparatus
on earth. Why are you judging by what you've seen
on TV?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Good point at all?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Orfully selected video snippets from carefully selected biased journalists.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, And I was just looking at a headline. And
then we'll talk about this later, so we'll move on.
But two hundred and sixty humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday.
Two hundred and sixty trucks, twenty pallets of humanitarian aid
were air dropped at various parts of Gaza. As one
of my favorite tweeters said, worst genocide ever. Yeah, yeah,
(01:47):
so coming up as in is in. You can't. It's
not good at being a genocide, is the way his point,
dropping all of this food and bringing in all these trucks,
you're not doing a very good job of a genocide
if that's what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Right, And it's interesting. I had prepared for later a
story about various maidenstream media journalists who are covering the
situation in Gaza, all of whom are tied to Hamas
or Hezballah or have praised Yah Yah Sinoar or a
number of these characters. Anyway, we talked about this actually
(02:20):
yesterday and we can touch on it again. Is there
actually starvation in Gaza? It is very difficult to get
a straight story. It looks selish. Oh my god, it
looks tellish.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And I mean, though that's not fake, I mean it's tellish,
no matter what now whether or not there's purposeful starvation
going on, that's a different question.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
On later on the show. There are a number of
significant stories we ought to touch on more thoroughly. The
absolutely shockingly miserable poll numbers of the Democratic Party. Also
a major ruling that is allowing judges to continue to
issue nationwide injunctions against Trump, even those Supreme Court quote
(03:01):
unquote struck down the ability to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We will get into that.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
And also I want to talk about how on the
economic front, AI is already wrecking college graduates job prospects.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, I want to hear that, yeah, like recent college graduates.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And also a great piece from a Trump skeptical, a thinker,
if Trump's tariffs are so bad, where's the recession? So
we'll get to all of that stuff, but first, a
handful of stories that tend to be a little lighter,
but I wanted to touch on them. Michael plays a
little bit of number twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Would you please.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow.
I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak
on behalf of the three hundred plus employees it Astronomer
Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last
few days, and they wanted me to answer the most
common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run
(04:01):
Apache airflow, unifying the experience of running data mL and
AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people
have a newfound interest in data.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So that is an ad for Astronomer, which was the
company run by the dude who was smooching with his
illicit babe at the Coldplay concert, and the companies like, A,
all right, this is bad for our look and b
everybody is curious about our company soon, And so they
(04:32):
hired Ryan Reynolds PR firm, marketing firm, and he hired
Gwyneth Paltrow Chris Martin of Coldplays X to do the commercial.
Thinking there's a little more tie in celebrity that'll get
more attention for us. And my only point in bringing
this up is it's kind of funny in some good pr. Secondly,
(04:53):
in a few years, I think people are going to
say Ryan Reynolds was an actor. I think he's a
really innovative, smart business guy. I was just thinking, man
talk about turning lemons into lemonade nobody'd ever heard of
this astronomer company. When you've got all of that attention,
(05:15):
find a way to get out what you are and
what you do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's a great idea. If you ever have a scandal
come your way, take that opportunity to say, yeah, I'm
the guy from that video, and here's what I can
do for you.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Right that that would be extra bold or hier a
Gwynneth Feltro, But yeah, yeah, I think that's absolutely a
smart take.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And Ryan Reynolds impresses me. Moving along, so.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Speaking of the media, Skydance Media, which is the giant
media conglomerate which is part of the big CBS Paramount merger.
That is that's one of the reasons CBS settled with
Trump over some very questionablelawsuit. The constitution all right anyway,
But so that's the company involves.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Sky Dances made.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
A series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news
and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount CBS.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's the home of sixty minutes Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
When its planned acquisition is complete, Scout Dans is also
confirming the elimination of all diversity, equity and inclusion policies
and initiatives in Paramount, which had been one of the
most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I see, I think sixty minutes is a news program
that still matters, and it'll be interesting to see do
people quit, do they adjust their sales? I wonder what's
going to happen. Uh?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think it matters much, and I
think in five years it will matter much less. But
five years is forever in the modern era, sure, But anyway,
scott Ants laid out the moves in two letters. It's
sent to the FCC Commissioner. The first letter addresses concerns
about media bias at CBS, pledges to ensure that cbs
is reporting is fair and.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
By and fact based.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Second outline in sky Dance's commitments going forward to promote
non discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That's absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I don't love how we got there, but end all
DEI programs everywhere they exist in schools, corporations and nonprofits,
and don't let them rename them and keep discriminating.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And we can get to that in a little bit.
This headline just deserves a quick nod.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The Biden administrations seven and a half billion dollar EV
charging port initiative that was going to build allegedly a
half a million by the year twenty thirty has built.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Were these going to be the same ev charging ports
that every city has put like in front of their
public library that do nothing? Why do you bring that up, Jack,
Because they don't do anything. Nobody seems to know that.
But they don't do anything. You can plug in your
car for an hour and get like five miles working.
I mean, they just don't work.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So there are pos's or PSOs anyway. But instead of
half a million, and granted it's just the year twenty
twenty five and allegedly they have time to go, they
have delivered fewer than four hundred charging ports since the
seven and a half billion dollar program began almost four
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Unbelievable and they're worth God we get stolen from and
a lot of it is under the mantle of green
energy and electric cars ain't going anywhere anywhere anyway. It's
just not gonna happen, at least not now unless something
changes major with technology and speaking of media, final note
(08:45):
for this segment, maybe we can break semi in time
for once in our lives. I thought this was a
joke at first. The Atlantic, the great vaunted Atlantic, read
by the same people who run around Manhattan with the
NPR toat bags and tell us all what we ought
to think from the lecterns of universities and the broadcast
(09:05):
TV and radio, et cetera, and Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
The Atlantic with a story about Helen by Helen lewis
finally a Democrat who could shine on Joe Rogan's show,
her point being breakthrough and be the modern go getter
democratic voice and isn't screwed around.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's forceful, that is plane.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Speaking that can reach the common people, bring men back
to the party, bring the working class back to the party.
Finally the Democrats have this person, and she is dead
blanking serious hunter Biden Y.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I've heard a couple of people say that that his
frankness was so refreshing, and why can't we get somebody
who speaks that way?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
That reminds me of the same sort of blanking morons
who declared that Tim Walls was teaching American manner new
sort of masculinity.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, I don't I don't want to get off on
this topic, because we got plenty of time but there
were news stories out yesterday that Kamala Harris is contemplating
a presidential run. Please do because that would be hilarious.
How could you be that lacking in self awareness? I
hope I'm not. I mean, because that's embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, that's that isn't that That is actually an interesting
discussion how a Kamala Harris can be that on a
week It's.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Almost to the level of like if I'm walking around
talking about I think I can make the Olympic basketball team.
That's what I'm gonna do. My plan is, it's got
a fitness plan. I'm going to get in the gym
and shoot a lot. I'm gonna try out this summer
because the Olympics are next summer and I've.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Been watching Steph Curry. I've got my elbow in the
right thing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It's very it's.
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Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm gonna get into the pet psychic business. We talked
about this last week. It's just if the world's go
in this direction, I'm just going to become a pet
psychic and.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Tell stupid people send their money or are getting parted.
Why doesn't land in my pocket. I'm gonna tell stupid
or mentally ill people what they want to hear about
their pet collection money. I'll wear a pointed hat, some beads.
They're happy, you're happy, except everybody's happy. There are no
losers in this hat and beads or whatever you'd wear.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is a pet psyche? What do you wear? I don't
know where you were. You'll look into it. I suppose
not appointed that maybe beads, though, I.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Might have to become a pet psychic because AI has
screwed up your prospects as a recent college graduate.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We'll get to that. Also, we've got this hilarious bit
about no wonder young people are a soft today with
what they read in college versus what we read, I mean,
in school. It's pretty funny. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
So that Russia just started direct flight between Moscow and
North Korea.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It's one of those rare trips where the fun part
really is the journey and not the destination of it. Yeah,
no kidding. I'd love to go to North Korea if
I felt like I could be safe. I don't know,
if it was like a real roll of the dice
to me. Yeah, because old what's his name?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean he he he what he did something? He
vandalized and authorities, but they beat him to death. That
ain't cool.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
He just took a poster as a souvenir. Yeah, outo
warm beer, God rest his soul.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah. Ah.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
So this is uh, this is the beginning, I believe.
And I'm neither an alarmist nor a minimizer about AI
and its disruptive powers. I lean more toward alarmist, I think.
But Wall Street Journal with an article today, what do
you uh, Let's see, AI is wrecking an already fragile
job market for college graduates. Companies have long leaned on
(14:03):
entry level workers to do grunt work that doubles is
on the job training. Now Chat, GPT and other bots
can do many of those chores. And they go through
a handful of companies. This is a marketing agency. They've
They're clients have all but stopped requesting entry level staff
young grads once in high demand, whose work is now
(14:26):
what's being called a home run for AI, meaning it's
the sort of thing AI does the best.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Can you give me an example, like what sort of
things are is AI doing? Really? Well?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They go they speak more in generalities. But let me
get through the list dating app grinders hiring more seasoned
engineers for going some junior coders straight out of school.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So the gay hookup app is not hiring young grads
because of AI. That's an interesting that's already got a
lot to it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Here's a Columbus based consulting firm, Futurity, which is pretty
well known, decided not to hire a summer intern this
year instead of opting to run social media copy through
chat GPT instead. And this guy, the CEO, said he's
urging his own kids to focus on jobs that require
people skills and can't be easily automated.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So the tough partics, Yeah, the tough part is, some
people have pointed out is people skills often are a
lot more something you're born with than something you can learn,
as opposed to the other skills that you know, you
could sit down and learn. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, you can improve them or you could let them
kind of atrophy. But you either got it or you don't.
That's absolutely true. So and they go through a bunch
of examples, but a year's long white collar hiring slump
and recessionaries have weakened the.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Show up work hard.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
We'll educate you to become the next generation of leader's relationship.
And the statistics are crazy. Unemployment stats in the last
let's see from the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen statistical year
to the most recent period among high school young high
(16:15):
school grads has ticked up a tenth of a percent, Okay,
barely at all. Some college the unemployment numbers have ticked
up four tenths of a percent, which is quadruple the
previous number, but it's hard to glean much. An associate's
degree is up two tenths of a percent. If you
have a bachelor's degree, the unemployment rate is up one
(16:39):
point one percent, and among grad students it's up one percent.
So the horizon unemployment is steepest among college grads and
grad school students. These sectors where graduate hiring is slowed
the most. Information finance, insurance, technical serches. Those sectors are
(17:02):
still growing well.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The best example out there, as we've mentioned multiple times,
is just a couple of years ago, learn to code
was like the thing you want your kid to be successful.
Learn to code. Now I know people who code who
use AI to do all their coding.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Right and after dancing around the issue. In the two
and a half years since chat GPT's release up into
the way, almost all companies plan for their future. CEOs
are now talking openly about AI's immense capabilities, likely leading
to deep job cuts. Top industry executives, including Amazon JP Morgan,
have said in recent weeks they expect their workforces to
shrink considerably. Ford CEO Jim Farley City expects AI will
(17:46):
replace half of the white collar workforce in the US
half half including the hardworking people at Grinder. You should
have led with that half. Oh my god, you don't
start to show with a show stopper jack.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Half a white collar jobs eliminated by AI. If that's
even close to true, Wow, that will be a revolution.
Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature,
and it shows. Kids today are out here reading The
Magical Bunny and How We Learned to Love Himself or
Sparkle the Dragon's Conflict three Resolution Journey.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And I'm sorry, but that is emotional tofu, just.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Page after page of affirmations and pastel illustrations like a
therapist made it on Canva. Meanwhile, we were out here
getting emotionally demolished by Where the Red Fern Grows.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You want to talk about resilience.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I watched a boy Barry's Two Dead Dogs after one
got ripped apart by a mountain lion and the other
one starved a death out of grief, and I read
that in the fourth grade. I came out of that
book Vietnam VET, and aged ten years and two hundred pages.
Today's kids get talking lamas who validate their feelings, and
we got Old Yeller where the dog gets rabies and
the dad's like, well, son, i think it's time we
shoot your best friend in the face.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's all part of growing up.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
And that was our bedtime story. And you wonder why
millennials cry during commercials?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Did?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I hated ten years reading that book. That is interesting though.
I thought about that that when my kids were young,
which I guess makes means I've become soft like all
of modern society. It's just like, good God, all the
old Disney movies we'd watch and everyone the parents die,
all your old Disney classics, the parents die.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's obligatory. Yeah uh yeah, that's
something else. I'm reminded. It's funny I'm deep in thought
thinking of some of the books I've read and my
kids read in schools, and the concept of trigger warnings,
which is one of the worst things that's ever happened,
and how that's all related to And this might.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Seem like a stretch, but I swear it's not.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It's related to the whole neo Marxist thing, where what
they want to happen is you don't know what to say,
you don't know what you can say. You're afraid of offending,
you're afraid of getting in trouble, you're afraid of losing
your job.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
In short, you're afraid.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And so you got to go through every conceivable trauma
or discomfort there might be in reading a piece of literature.
That's a bizarre notion, and yet it took hold at
most of our universities.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Speaking of which, and Michael, I apologize.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I got a an in urgent communication during the break
and wasn't able to communicate to you. Hansen prepared a
little musical thing for me earlier today. I got that
handy Oh wow, okay, here you go.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes, oh it's not good. But what did they say?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
We're like I was trying to quickly with the of
Hanson and Ai craft a theme song to our miseducation update. Okay,
and our twisted schools break all the rules. They churn
out fools that just ain't cool. And I said, in
the style of nineteen seventies British punk, there you go,
and again it wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Anyway. A couple of stories for you.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Let's start with good news. A victory for our friends
at the Goldwater Institute. Tim Sanderfer's output of Pennsylvania Mom
won a major victory for parental rights and government transparency
last week when ours local school district tried and failed
to withhold Dei materials from parents, claiming they were trade secrets.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Wow. Yeah, can you imagine, man, I would lose my
mind if any school official ever said anything close to
that to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't
get to have any secrets, right do you work for us?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And claiming that it's like the same as the design
for our jet engine here at Lockheed.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Our DEI materials are trade secrets. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
A couple of years ago, she requested assets to our
local schools, materials that were presented to teacher, staff and
students to see whether the school district was indoctrinating students
by teaching racially discrim discriminatory DEI, but the district refused,
calling it trade secrets. I would say, up the Goldener Institutes,
and the judge said, you're out of your mind. Yeah,
(22:27):
I would say, you're either going to release this to
all his parents right now, or then we'll go through
the whole lawsuit process and then you'll release it to us,
because obviously you have to.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So what are we going to do here?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
In a groundbreaking, an amazing decision, the court correctly held
that the public was entitled to see records created by
a government employee to train other government employees. There was
no trade secret protection for this material ord And by
the way, the school district appealed to the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Because they actually believed they should be able to keep
it asad secret. The way they're crafting their organization to
teach your kid, that's nuts. It is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I think I don't know, but I think you may
be making the mistake of judging their motivations by what
they say. Their motivations are. They don't believe for a
second it's a trade secret. They just want to keep
doing DEI and so they're making any excuse they could find.
Moving along another good positive story.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well, there is the you know, there's the example of
who's that guy around for governor in Virginia, Terry mcculluff. Well, actually,
in one of the debates, got hammered for saying something
along the lines of parents can't be trusted with teaching
their kids. We need to get them to the schools
where they you know, we can count on them getting
the right information so in education can take over. There
(23:55):
is a certain belief that actually seems to exist along
those lines, which is crazy. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And it's that nexus of like activists, neo Marxist types
and the well meaning fools who get swept up in
their ideas who actually believe this crap that it gets
a little confusing because you know a lot of those
people like Terry mccauiff, I don't think is a neo Marxist,
but he's a progressive and he's been convinced by the
(24:24):
you know, neo Marxist in the progressive wing of the Democrats.
I guess that they mean it. They really want to
educate the kids better, and PhDs in education, are the
people to do it? Some more good news in a
weird way. It occurred to me as I spoke that phrase,
that undoing something horrible happening, it is good news, but
(24:46):
it's kind of half and half, if you know what
I mean. A school district in North Carolina has been
ordered to admit their mistake and issue an apology and
fork over twenty thousand dollars and some more settlement stuff
after they were sued for suspending a sixteen year old
student who used the term illegal aliens in class.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Suspended for that?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah, the sixteen year old student was in an English
class discussion.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He is the term English.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The teacher said aliens, and the student said, do you
mean space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Wow? And it was just a clarification question, right right.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
The student was later suspended for three days and marks
denoting racially and sensitive behavior were added to his permanent record.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, I realize it's easier said than done. You've got
to pull your kid out of that school. Good lord,
that's a lot of schools around America, I know.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah. So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump,
who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to
the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy. Yeah, yeah, let's see,
I could quote the judge, but they said more or
(26:07):
less what you'd think they would have said. First Amendment,
et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely not racially
insensitive or mean or Yeah, that is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi
alma mater, I.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Went for an entire year courses who graduated there? Wow? Wow,
rock chock jayhawk, I know you're a big fan.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
University of Kansas DO is offering a course in the
fall called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the
rise of the angry white male in the United States.
The course will be offered with the goal of teaching
about the prominent figure that is the angry white male.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's exciting. I got a half of an MBA from there,
so that's probably why I've gone out in the world
and done a half assed job of being a business person.
And finally, this, ah, is this even worth trying? I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It's a think piece, and a really good one written
by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld entitled stoner
logic in academia. And he's talking about in particular Michelle
Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called, but it's
(27:27):
pronounced full call French Bastard, who is one of the
most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids hear his
ideas more than virtually anybody's. He is one of the
founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I know that from listening to James Lindsay go on
and on about this human being.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Indeed, and if you would like, read his in Helen
Pluckrose's brilliant Cynical Theories anyway, So it's all about how
this guy was a bright stoner who liked to read
and learn stuff, but he never really felt like applying
himself at college and that sort of stuff. But he
(28:13):
realized he really needed more formal education and somebody to
help lead him if he was going to get anywhere
in his life. And he went to college and found
that a lot of what they were trying to teach
was stoner logic stone and he explains that one day
(28:37):
a lecturer. This is my favorite example, a highly esteemed
scholar launched into a shallow Fucoyan analysis of something or
other as it applied to the university. He went on
and on with a sort of smug self awareness, like
he thought he was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds.
He says, I should note here that this lecturer is
(28:57):
really likable and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom,
said the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of
this classroom exerts power. You are all on one side,
stepped up in auditorium seating, so I can see all
of you, but you can only see me, not each other.
You are kind of forced to look and listen.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, yeah, con true, But watch, he continued.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
The construction of this lecture theater exerts a system of
power and ensures the self perception of you, the students,
as lacking knowledge, and it sets me up as the
distributor of knowledge, and thus it conveys power.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And for what I'm paying, I hope you're not a
distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us. But you're
absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
These systems of power are everywhere hidden in the architecture
and the systems of our society. Design to maintain and
designed to maintain the continuity of power.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Oh my god, and this guy.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Who's writing of really likes his I remember being thoroughly unimpressed.
This was exactly the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive
analysis than I and other high school graduates had arrived
at many times while sitting around a bong, and it
wasn't even accurate. I remember thinking that since class sizes
tend to be smaller university, ninety percent of the teaching
(30:21):
rooms were not stepped auditoriums. They were smaller, flat office
like rooms, perfect for egalitarian, discussion oriented classes. The only
rooms with this structure were the few lecture theaters intended
for hosting large audiences, and in any case, they clearly
had that structure for acoustic and a communicative reasons, not
because our neoliberal overlords wanted to inculcate us in some
(30:42):
sort of pliable consciousness lest we threaten their systems of power.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Oh much more.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
That is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was
a knowledge differential between us and him, At least there
was supposed to be. We were there, as young people
with less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledge teacher.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I couldn't see how pointing.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
This out at this obvious fact was some kind of
mind blowing revelation, and then a couple more sentences then
I'll stop.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Crucially, while he had an issue with these systems of
power inherent in the structure of the lecture theater, he
apparently had no objection to the avert power required to
make students pay for a core curriculum of course is
he helped design, then he teaches, and for which they
had to buy the compulsory textbook right that he co
wrote for ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He didn't have any problem with that system of power, right,
and the insane charge for books that whole scamp.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
So his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and
that's what the course was, was just a way to
indoctrinate students into a simplistic worldview.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Your boss has a bigger office, makes more money than you. Yeah,
he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he has
the experience and the expertise to be the boss and
manage us. So the company can what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to
like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power
is always wrong, and the person with less power is
always right.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said more than once.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
If my dog expressed that idea to me, I would
hit him with a rolled up newspaper for being so stupid,
and I do not have Oh my god, the bloom
is really off the roads for climate change and all
kinds of stuff that's green, among other things we can
talk about.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Stay here. Have you ever been tempted to lick a battery? Well,
there's no need.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
You can just buy these nine volt battery flavored tortilla
chips instead. It's been a while since I last licked
a battery. Let's first up, see how that tastes yah
tingly metallic?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
He can't wait to eat these now a lot less
immediate electric. Well, these do have those as a sort
of minerally metallic off to taste, but it does kind
of taste.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Like a battery. Final verdict is that nine vaut.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Battery to chip do beat licking an actual battery.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So there are chips that are supposed to taste like
licking a battery. Yeah, supposed to taste like a nine
vault battery. Okay for people who do that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
As a guy who has touched my tongue to. I
think licked over states what happens. But as somebody who's
touched my tongue to many nine volt batteries, the idea
of designing tortilla chips that way is insane.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Katie just made her what the hell are you talking about? Face?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
This whole segment just shows why women live longer than
you guys all sticking your tongue see nine vaults.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I'll tell you check to see if it's still worth
worth it.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
If there's voltage, it's still like in if you're in
a rock and roll band. Now you know, toward the
end of my career of making mediocre music in front
of drunks. No offense to our audiences who are wonderful,
but stop boxes, your distortion, your tuner. It's just all
your stump boxes were powered by nine volt batteries. Toward
the end, they're powered by cords. I got a better setup.
(34:08):
But so if something in your signal chain wasn't working,
the first thing you'd do is check if the battery
still had juice. You can eliminate that as an issue
you that's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm wondering, what do you what do you do, Like
if your toilet gets clogged, well, shove your arm down
deep in there. You fish around, see what's going on naturally.
So my son, who's a very artistic and art minded,
he heard the story about the guy who had the
(34:38):
banana tape to the wall and sold it for a
couple of million dollars. You remember that story, sure, So
he's trying to get in on that action. So he
crafted something he thought about over the weekend. It's just
a cardboard box and he just says box on it,
and he thinks he can sell it. And so he's
trying to figure out where to get into an art
auction or anything like that. But he wrote the description
for it. He spent some time online going around a
(35:00):
different crap, and he put this together yesterday. He's gonna
he thinks he can make a million dollars. He's already
figured out how he's gonna spend the money. It's just
a cardboard box. This piece symbolizes the struggle of humanity
toward the common era, the unwariness of the unknown, the
common misconception of life as a whole, an illusion of
what can be, toward the unravelment of the mind. Of
(35:22):
a youth. This flat, pure emotion cannot be recreated. It
truly is a piece for the ages. This is a box,
that's his description. He feel it's as good as the
banana tape to the wall.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I feel like, as a fool with more money than sense,
I need some reference to the structure. I mean, just
even the most thin reference to the cube shape.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
That's just something, right, the four corners of humanity or something.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
It's it's literally anything. I'll trust Henry to come up
with that. Look, I got seven hundred K.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
For you, but that's as high as I go. Oh
my god. Consumer confidence is up, at least partially because
we feel like the whole tariff thing worked out. I
guess you got some details on that, the one of
the biggest deals in economic history worldwide that Trump put
together yesterday, among other things. At hour three, Armstrong and
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