May 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Our air traffic control system
- Trump's speech at Alabama
- Picking the pope, Bezos' wedding & passwords
- Campus Madness!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well listen to this.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
According to a new report, last week, air traffic controllers
at Newark lost all communication with.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Plans for over a minute.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
It's getting to the point where we really should clap
when the plane lands.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Hey, yeah, no kidding. Turns out our air traffic control
system in the United States is horrifically antiquated, as bureaucratically
screwed up, as virtually anything the government does, and probably
not very safe.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Other than that, though, it's just a peach Well statistically
has been very very safe, including up to like write
this moment.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So what until people start dying in droves? You don't
you don't maintain it. What is your point, sir?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Why am I yelling? Yes? That's true air traffic. Air
air travel in the United States is miraculously say yeah,
I just wonder how we pull it off. I mean, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
On the other hand, it is, uh, it is absolutely
in The rack in Washington, d C was a symptom
of this at Reagan National airport between the passenger jet
and the helicopter. The near misses are getting more and more.
The we don't know what's going on, Hey, what's happening
over here? Incidents where it's out of controller happening more
and more in a way that any you know, sane
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people would nip in the bud, although the bud was
like twenty years ago anyway. Sean Duffy is the new
go get them transportation secretary who makes Pete Buddhajic look
like the pleasant faced, do nothing climber that he is.
Sean is making the rounds talking about how we've got
to reform the system.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Michael will start with thirty one.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
This is an infrastructure problem, right, and we've known this
infrastructure problem has existed for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The last administration knew it. No one has done anything.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
So for Newark specifically, we're going to rebuild the communication
system at Newark. I thought it was going to be
eight months, six months. We're pushing to do it faster.
Hopefully this summer we get that done. But the key
is always safety, right. I don't want people to fly.
I'd rather have them delayed or canceled. I'd rather have
it takes six months than two and a half months
to build out the communication system because I want people
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to get from point A to point B safely, and again,
if they have to wait for a flight, I'll prefer
that then something else going wrong with their flight.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So while I did throw in the it's still safe.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean, it's safer to fly than to drive to
the airport. But we all know over the last several years,
the whole delays thing has gotten completely out of control.
You show up at the airport assuming one of your
flights is going to be delayed.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Now, it didn't used to be that, right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Duffy goes on, What.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
We have to do is we're rolling a plan out
on Thursday. We're gonna need a lot of money from
Congress to do this. It's not gonna take ten years
like Pete suggested. It's gonna take three to four years
to get this build out done. You can't snap your
fingers and lay fiber or bring in new radios or
new radar. Those things take time. And we're gonna put
the time in, the money in, and you're gonna start
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to see results sooner than three or four years. As
this buildout happens.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So other countries have private, nonprofit companies doing their air
traffic control because they can adapt, they can innovate, they
can hire people, they can fire people, they can pay
what it takes to get good.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
People, et cetera. Without the incredible bureaucracy. I didn't know.
This chokes everything. Why are other countries more libertarian on
this than we are?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Because they don't have incredibly powerful employee unions government employee
union France is probably all screwed up.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I don't know, but I don't know how they run it.
I know Canada does the tomorrow private full hour on
French air traffic controlling. Oh wow, wouldn't that be fascinating?
In the people?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Alex What is people who have no shame and will
say anything, no matter how dishonest.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Thirty five Michael.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's outrageous and it's because of Trump and doge. FAA
has been cut, employees have been caught, top people have
left in exasperation.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now what Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
If there's any place where Trump chaos, which is so
typical of this administration, can really cause loss of life,
it's at the FAA.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
God, I hate politics. This, Oh my god, honestly the
worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others.
I mean, it's just that's one of the most powerful
people in that party just playing the old game.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh it's so tiring. Absolutely lie.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Not only that, but I was reading an aviation expert
talking about how Chuck Schumer has opposed every single meaningful
update and reform to the FAA through the years, merely
to protect the unions that contribute to his campaigns. He
every time somebody has said, hey, we really ought to
update this, we ought to increase the technology, we ought
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to do this, we ought to hire these people.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Uh give. He has opposed every reform.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
And now now when when the Trump administration is trying
to do something, he says, it's Trump and Doge, good lord,
how does he hide his horns?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What an evil you do?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The game of politics? Just don't. I don't know how
you do it. I guess you just accept that that's
the way we do it.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, so, goodness knows.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I've been more than critical of Donald J when I
think it's appropriate, and will continue to be. And if
you don't like it, I'm sorry to hear that. But
it does what it does. But Matthew countin any of
the free press actually listened to him. I'm not sure
if he was there, but he listened to Trump's entire
address to the University of Alabama's graduating class, and he says,
and Matthew countenend is a very serious journalist. He said,
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he's been amazed that while people were either enjoying or
criticizing his riff on transgender athletes, which was at that speech,
and a couple of other things, he said, there's almost
no coverage of the substance of what he said and.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Continent. He said, he found it really interesting.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Trump summarized ten tips for getting out of college and
having a good life, and I will touch on them briefly.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's a good tease right there. I mean, that would
make me. I'm surprised that hasn't been in the news. War.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, And I don't want to rush like a maniac
through them, so we can do them after the break.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But they it's like reading the Art of the Deal.
It explains a fair amount of what Trump is up to,
not all of it, but some of it. So we'll
get to that after the break.
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up before the end of the show today. So I
mentioned Steph Curry and Big Star for the Golden State
Warriors basketball player hurting his hamstring, and they kept talking
about he's thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
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Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's funny when you get older watching sports and them
talking about thirty seven year olds as old. When you
know you get a little older, you'd give a lot
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Speaker 1 (09:12):
We don't have to sign deals.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
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We don't care about their market. They want a piece
of our market.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
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Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, yeah, and putting aside some of the particulars which
were bs because Trump's a ps or.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That was Donald J and his I'm gonna make a
deal mode. More on the trade talks with China later,
although it's early days of an enormously complex.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And more on what he said with the ceasefire with
the Hoothies, which is kind of interesting too. Yeah. But anyways,
speaking of Donald J, you know, I see him as
like some of.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
My favorite athletes through the years, great strengths and great flaws.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's fine, that's enough set.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
But he He gave an address at Alabama Roll Tide
at their graduation the other day in which he rolled
out ten thoughts about success that I found very, very interesting,
and they explained a fair amount about Trump himself.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The first one.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Success can happen at a young age, he said. In America,
with drive and ambition, young people can do anything. And
he cited some chapters of his own life. And I hear, Yeah,
the dad was rich and gave him money. Yeah, that's true.
But he mentioned other American innovators like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney,
the founders who started off in their twenties.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Don't waste your youth, he said, get after it. By
the way, I can name off the top of my
head five people I've known in my life who dad
gave them a bunch of money and they spent it
all and ruined their lives and are worthless. Yes. Yeah, indeed,
love what you do, he says. I rarely see somebody
that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah, that's a mixed bag. Let me get through it,
then we can discuss. He pointed to his father, Fred Trump,
who died in ninety nine at the age of ninety three.
He was a tough guy, tough as hell, actually, or
he worked seven days a week, not because he had to,
but because he enjoyed it, and Matthew count in any comments, Well,
it's hard for his critics to understand.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Donald Trump and his.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Supporters enjoy politics a sense of fun, improvisation, and risk,
imbuse his rallies and campaigns.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
My you know, I'm not quibbling with any of this
because that's all true, and I'm sure most of this
will be true in general. But man, not everybody has
a motor like Donald Trump does, or are lots of
successful people I've known.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You just either have that motor or you don't. Yeah,
and some people.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I'm thinking of one friend of mine who said to
me not terribly long ago, Look, I hate my job,
but I'm good at it, and I make good money,
and I've got job security, and I do other things
that bring me life satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He says, I can accept the bargain.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
So, I mean, if you want to be like a runaway,
success in your field probably helps to.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Really enjoy what you do.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
But anyway, this is what the Sean Duffy and the
reforming air traffic control thing reminded me of, because instead
of saying, well, we got to protect the unions, and
you know, the head of the fbaa he's got his turf,
and you know, we don't want to rush into this
blah blah blah blah, which has yielded a system that
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still used the technology of the nineteen nineties, even though
it's one of the most important things the government does.
Think Big Trump said, it's just as hard to solve
a small problem as a big problem. He finds the
audacious more enticing than the incremental. He leans toward the
wildest visions, winning the presidency despite no military or government experience,
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for example, or being re elected after impeachment, defeat, embarrassment indictments,
a criminal conviction and two assassination attempts, Oh my god,
rewriting the rules of American government foreign policy or the
global trading system, or turning the Gaza Strip into a
luxury resort, or reopening Alcatraz Prison. Goes on, and some
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of it gets filed away with the under the heading no, but.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Some of it is worth considering. And it's kind of
cool that someone would say it out loud. Yeah, we've
been in these like post WW two trade agreements for
seventy years. Why do we blow them up? What would happen?
How about the crowd that always just wants to keep
things the same so you can stay in your job.
That's a lot of people. Oh, it's huge in government. Huge.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It's like the number one thing to be reckoned with,
work hard, never ever stop.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That explains the two am tweets.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, that's the motor. You just I think he got
that or you don't.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, you can get more disciplined as you go, certainly,
but I hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
He quotes the great Gary player, South African pro golf
for nine major champion chip winner. He was one of
those guys's fond of saying. It's funny. The harder I work,
the luckier I get.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah. True.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Anyway, don't lose your momentum. I thought this was interesting.
The word momentum is very important.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Trump said.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
He brought up William Levitt, real estate developer who pioneered
the post WW two move to the suburbs in nineteen
seventy two. You remember Levitt Towns. That was an expression. Anyway,
Levitt sold his company to a large corporation. He was
never able to recapture his earlier success, and years later
Trump continued to encountered Levitt at a party, referring to
the sale Levitt told Trump, I shouldn't have done it.
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I lost my momentum, and the anecdotes right. The anecdote, rather,
writes Matthew CONTINENTI reveals why Trump operates at such high speeds.
Trump has been liking to the honey badger who doesn't
give up. His tenacity is related to a fear that's
slowing down means a loss of momentum and an end
to his career.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I think someday, long after this period, when you know
people's hatred of Trump, for people who hate him, you
know you can look at him more objectively. They'll pick
up on that because he's obviously got qualities, good qualities
to be able to pull off what he's pulled off
in his life.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And some of them are that I admire.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Are He takes bad breaks better than like anybody ever.
He just he just finds a way around or ignores
it or I don't know, just amazing to something else. Yeah,
I want to get through these if I can. I
love this be an outsider. Progress never comes from those
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satisfied with the failures of a broken system. Trump said, wow,
one more time.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of
a broken system. The contrast with his political antithesis, Barack
Obama is stark write continenty. Obama says progress is achieved
through bottom up community action within institutions. For Trump, progress
is the result of renegade individuals willing to break things.
That Trump approach is more effective, and he goes into
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it a little bit. Trust your instincts. I have a
quibble with this. I won't get into I'd like to
rephrase that is, trust your common sense. And Trump addressed
the kids at Alabama said Trump used the word instinct
as a synonym for common sense. Borders are not racist,
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he said, speech is not violence. America is good and
terrorists are bad. Men can never become women. Police are
not criminals, and criminals are not victims. Police can be criminals.
But that's about as clear as a credo as you
can get.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Wow, how does that get more attention?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Ah? Because it probably makes so much sense in the media.
Hated it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Believe in the American Dream. Last August, Trump declared that
the American Dream was dead. He pledged to bring it back.
Mission accomplished. The American Dream is real, he said to
the Alabamas. It's there, it's right before you. I love
that and fine is that? Finally, oh, two more things positively,
he said to the youngsters and their parents and friends.
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Don't consider yourself a victim, he said, consider yourself a winner.
And he recommended one of his favorite books, a classic,
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peel. The
teaching has your universal application. Whether you're born rich or poort,
black or white, male or female. In America, anyone can
be a winner. And finally, be an original. And his
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list of American trailblazers went from Teddy Roosevelt to Doug MacArthur,
George Patton, Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Muhammad Ali, all men
and women of action, Daredevil's risk takers, outside personalities, He's capone.
You're one of a kind. Trump told the graduates. Don't
try to be someone else, just be yourself. And finally,
and most importantly concluded, never ever give up. Number eleven,
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Have a hot young wife. Number twelve, be like Hitler,
because I'm the new Hitlar, un below evable. So much
good there. For all the legitimate criticisms, those are points
worth considering and teaching your kids.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
When Democrat presidents speak to Harvard with the usual crap
it gets in, it leads every newscast. I didn't hear
a word about Trump's speech to Alabama, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Under this ban, service members who have a current diagnosis,
or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria
will be processed for separation from military service. Now, that
also means that transgender individuals cannot currently join any branch
of the military. No, it's unclear exactly how many people
were talking about, but in twenty eighteen, an independent research
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institute estimated there are about fourteen thousand transgender troops serving
in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's probably closer to six.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah, it's not nearly that that number is way cooked up.
Gender vending update next hour.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm looking at the cardinals, however, many hundreds of them
there are taking their individual out loud oath of silence, ironic.
What the hell would happen if it leaked out who
the pope was? And again, I just want to throw
this in because it's shocking to me. I'm pro Catholic Church,
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I'm pro pope, I'm pro Christianity, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But the fact that.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All this wonderment at their system and secrecy and rules
without throwing in like constantly, the biggest pedophile crisis in
world history, and you knew it, and you've known it
for centuries, and you hit it, and then you would
move a rapist to another little town so we'd rape
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more little kids.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He didn't care about that. I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Bureacracies protect bureaucracies. That's all you need to get.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
That is what you need to know. And it's a
very important thing to know. Not about the Catholic Church,
it's about bureaucracies in general.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
If I might steal twenty seconds, I was reading about
the Vatican's finances. I guess Francis was struggling against this till.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
His dying day. It was like the last days of
his life.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
He was issuing edicts and trying desperately to figure out
how to straighten out the Vatican's finances. That is a
wash in priceless treasures, but tumbling deeper into debt. And
all they could come up with is hit believers up
for more money and maybe raise prices for all the
tickets to get into the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And one more thing in this, and I realize this
makes a lot of people uncomfortable and if you're Catholic,
you hate somebody saying it. But I'm looking at all
these guys. A lot of these guys are like, in
their seventies and eighties, they were involved in the freaking
raping of children.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I guarant freaking.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Tea a bunch of those people up there were so
quit treating them like some sort of I don't know
what this is, but yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I look at every large institution with a squinty, jaundiced eye,
all of them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
AnyWho, here's the most annoying thing that's gonna happen this summer.
I just want you to put it on your calendar
so you can avoid it. Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend
are getting married in June.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
A three day extravaganza, three days in Italy from the
twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty six that I will
get a tremendous amount of media coverage.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So look forward to that.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh my god, who wants to do that, even if
you can afford it? Who wants three days of pageantry
and walking out in different outfits and people ooing and
eyeing and ah? You know who does his wife and
her friends?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, I wonder if she's gonna get her duck lips
puffed up even more for the ceremony. Probably so they're
not getting married on the five hundred million dollar yacht,
which was a rumor originally.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Now it's gonna be in some Italian town. That would
be too showy. That would be too showy. Although he
does have that How big is the ring? I had
that somewhere, It doesn't make it twenty carrot ring on
her finger, twenty carrot diamond ring that she works, so
ring is so big they're having to measure it in
cubic inches. That's the guys, another one of these stories.
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I'm always confused by it, since it's never damaged me
so far. Yet, there's been a major password breach, one
of the biggest yet in the cyber world. Over nineteen
million passwords were leaked. I never know what to do
with this information because my password hygiene is probably ced
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D level.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean, I try a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I don't just do one, two, three, four, but I
don't change them there as much as you want. I've
got the same one across multiple platforms. A lot of
the stuff they tell you not to do. So far,
nothing's ever happened to me, and I drained ten percent
of your bank account every two months. But you know whatever,
so far, nothing's ever happened to me, and nothing really
bad's ever happened to anybody I personally know. So I
don't know what you're supposed to do with this information,
but I thought this article was kind of interesting. About
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the nineteen billion passwords that are circulating online currently, and
six percent of them have been leaked. Ninety four percent
had been reused across accounts and services, which you're never.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Everybody does that. I got to be surprised for you.
Good for you if you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
But the most common passwords are really easy to decode.
Only forty two percent, or eight to ten characters in length,
supposed to be longer. Okay, fine, way too many of
them only have lowercase letters. Okay, good for you. I'm
getting to the part that I really like. The analysis
found that one two three four is used by four
percent of all passwords. Still, there are seven hundred and
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twenty seven million people using one two three four as
their password. Wow, or it might be the same person
over and over again. In some cases, if you go
to one, two, three, four, five six. It's three hundred
and thirty eight million passwords that are that. Wow. Uh,
password is common, admin is common. Some people use not
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nice words. The word ass is one hundred and sixty
five million passwords. I kind of feel like I have
missed an opportunity. I have not used ass in any
of my passwords, and why haven't you? Lack of imagination,
I guess sixteen million passwords that include the F word
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ass is the top entry, and then it goes down
from there with a bunch of other filth. What about
merkin see I think you're safe. You have Merkan dollar
sign dollar sign asterisk. I think you're safe. The Russians
can't get into that, no way. But and then it
has here the usual rules. You know, don't use the
same password across anything. It just to I'd like to
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know the percentage of people that follow all the rules.
It's got to be single digits. How often have.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
You accepted, say, Apple's invitation to create an impenetrable thirty
seven digit password.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Every once in a while the problem is, it seems
to me, if my phone saves it, then fine, I
don't care if it's a bunch of nonsense. You saved
it and then you'll automatically fill it in the next
time I use it.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But then sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And I didn't write down the fifty letters, numbers and
shapes that I've never even seen before and don't know
where to find them on the keyboard. Yeah, and I
go between my phone and my iPad and my MacBook,
and sometimes it doesn't like save it in a way
that's effective, right, and feel free to write your email
what I'm doing wrong. I'd appreciate it. But yeah, so
(25:34):
it doesn't quite well. So I almost never go with it.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I went with it the other day, and I've got
kind of a feeling of foreboding that I've made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I feel like every day of my life I type
in either my email address or my address or something
like that. AI is not going to take over the
world as long as I'm still doing that. I mean,
how is it not just automatic that if I come
to anything on a computer that I'm running, that it's
got my address ready to go on my own device
that I've piped it in eight thousand times this year, So.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Come on, line, I need to talk about this at
some point. I'm using AI a fair amount. Now, Oh really, yeah,
chat GPT for a couple of things, research and cool,
and I've actually created some silly images just to see
how that worked, but mostly some reason to fine things.
(26:24):
I was trying to remember the title of a book
I read years ago about the partition of Pakistan and India,
which was incredibly powerful MOBI moving moby Dick is correct. No,
actually it's not. It has the curious title of Ice
Candy Man. But you were also published in the US
as Cracking India.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
But so you were able to just say, what's the
name of the book about the partition of Indian and Pakistan?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And it gave you some options.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
It gave me a longish list, and one of them
was Ice Candyman, which I thought sounded somewhat familiar. Came
out in nineteen ninety one, and so I asked it
for or more information on that book, and it gave
me a plot summary and the main characters and stuff,
and I said, bingo, that's it. And there were zero
stupid sponsored irrelevant to Google results.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It was really handy.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Huh that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, I really we all should be using AI more,
I think for a variety of things.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I need to get into that.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Everybody I know like, once you dabble in it really
really finds it helpful, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And this is going to shorten the campus Madness update,
but I can't resist. I was reading this piece about
Donald Trump wanting to reopen Alcatraz, and it starts with
kind of a criticism of how silly and impractical that is.
We've all heard why it'll never happen. I bet he
hasn't thought about it for one second since he said it, right,
(27:49):
it went into some of the history of Alcatraz that's
pretty interesting. It wasn't open for very long, and it
was more or less a publicity stunt because it could
be seen by the people in the press in San Francisco,
and it was, you know, a prohibition and jed Gar
Hoover's cracking down on al Capone and the rest of it,
and it just it was super dramatic.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It only operated for what was it twenty.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Six years or something like that before they said this
is too expensive, this is crazy, we got to stop this,
and so it closed down. But then the Washington Post
had comments, of course, and it gave me the option
for read comments, and I did, and it begins with
an AI summary of the comments on the article, and
(28:35):
I will read that to you now. The comments overwhelmingly
criticized President Donald Trump's idea of reopening Alcatraz as a
modern prison, describing it as an impractical, costly, and influenced
by outdated cultural references idea. Many commenters expressed disdain and
for Trump's leadership, suggesting that his ideas are often impulsive
and lack substance. Hu I had noticed that some humorously
(28:57):
suggested that Trump himself should be the first inmate at
Elcatra as we're to reopen. Overall, the comments reflect a
strong disapproval of the proposal and skepticism about Trump's decision
making abilities. So it's like, well, thank you for summarizing
all those angry keyboard Warrior anonymous trolls.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And of course I left leaning interpretation of it from
my eye, because yeah, it's always going to be that way,
I guess, you know.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Maybe we'll talk more about that in the One More
Thing podcast that we do after the radio show. But
Campus Madness Update is only moments away, friends, stay with us.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I just came across a great new book that's coming
out from Jason Riley. About the black family in America,
and he's a black guy who gets to write it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh, I have to talk about that in an hour four.
Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
It's a very blunt way to assert that, Jack, But
I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
Jason Riley's is brilliant. Love to hear about that. So
it's time for campus Madness Update. Everybody breaks yourselves.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Oh, what's happening.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
There's some serious madness. Oh my god, I'm threatened and disconcerted.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I wanted to start with the curious case of Alan Garber,
the president of Harvard University, the new one who's an
actual scholar and a thoughtful Jewish man, which factors into
the summit. He's done a couple of big time interviews recently.
I'm both in the Wall Street Journal in the New
York Times, and the headline is, really, the president of
(30:33):
Harvard is fighting the Trump administration tooth and nail and
agrees with them. It's interesting stuff. A couple of takeaways
from the Wall Street Journal interview, For instance, Garber is
quite blunt in saying students at Harvard no longer feel
comfortable disagreeing with each other or the professors, they have
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ideological lockstep, and it bothers him a lot. When he
first arrived at Harvard, Is an undergrad in nineteen seventy three,
said he found quote a place where people debated freely.
He and classmates shot the breeze with people of all viewpoints.
We are happy to argue with one another. It was
a time that shaped me and I think everyone else
who was there then, Bob so not what it's like
now or right Upon returning to Harvard is provost. In
(31:19):
twenty eleven, Garber noticed the spirit of healthy disagreement from
his undergrad days had disappeared, and again not diminished somewhat,
or was not as strong as it had No, it
had disappeared. It's something that concerns him in his colleagues.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Students today find it much harder to have conversations with
one another about difficult subjects, particularly with someone they don't
know well, with whom they might disagree. And to me,
that is a big loss. Well that has to do
with I won't use the fancy term, but the constantly
expressed idea that there are only two sides, good and evil.
(31:56):
You pick good, or you are an evil person. And
we will persecute you. That is the spirit on college campuses.
It's not open inquiry and curiosity.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's the opposite of that.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Garber goes on to say he knows the university has
a perception problem with the general public, driven by a
view that Harvard doesn't care about swaths of America and
that is overly liberal. I would call it progressive. We've
had some real problems we should address, he says. He says,
I really understand the resentment that people can feel when
they think the problems are not taken seriously people.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
That's something we absolutely must have dressed you, because I
think it's clearly true. Is why people have that view.
That's most of it.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yes, to diversify the faculty, the university is seeking to
hire people with an intellectual range, even a visiting fellow
company campus for a few weeks, whatever it takes. When
it comes to teaching, quote, part of what we need
to make sure is that in the classroom in other settings,
we promote the idea that it doesn't matter what your
personal views are. You need to teach it in a
way that is fair to multiple points of view. And furthermore,
(32:53):
you need to enable students to speak up when they
have a perspective that is different from the mainstream. Asked
how many faculty voted for Trump, for instance, Garber replied,
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I have an idea. I have our good idea, Allan.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
But again, I'm not gonna attack the guy because he
might be about as good as it gets right now.
He also was.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Quite blunt in saying, yeah, Harvard has and has had
for a long time, a serious anti Semitism problem. Nonetheless,
the other day Harvard put out a report on anti
semitism with a report on anti Muslim bias on campus.
The progressive view that if we're forced into giving you
peanut butter, we're gonna give you jelly, even though there's
(33:36):
very little jelly to worry about and nobody asked for it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
But we've got to We.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Can't talk about anti semitism unless we throw in a
little anti Muslim bias. Anyway, he is an interesting case
and again, probably as good as it gets right now.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
But I've got to throw this in.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
From the New York Times article, Baba Bah in the
eyes of mister Trump and many Republicans.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
It's the classic Republicans pounce It's not that Harvard and
other elite universities have become echo chambers. It's that mister
Trump and many Republicans are saying they become echo chambers
because he can't ever admit conservatives are right in the
liberal press, a place where students develop intolerance for political
perspectives different from their own and shield themselves against any
(34:24):
opposing ideas. University leaders often say that criticism exaggerates the issue.
Your faculties like ninety three percent progressive. So at what
point is it a real problem we should be worried about,
not exaggerated, when it's one hundred percent the rarely seen
(34:45):
one hundred and seven percent.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I don't know how you could exaggerate the current situation exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It's almost everybody right exactly. Well, I won't be labor
the point you made it quite well.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Another headline, racial discrimination persists at UCLA Medical School as
federal investigation is underway. Documents show Department of Health Services
has launched a civil rights investigation into UCLA's medical School,
investigating with the school's admission to office discriminates based on race.
It does, it absolutely does, It does intentionally and out loud.
(35:19):
The medical schools circulated a memo just last month that
outlined quote guiding principles for student representation on the admissions committee.
Those guidelines require the committee to consider race and LGBTQ
at bipock in the rest of it when a weighing admissions.
It's utterly unconstitutional and ridiculous and obvious. Another Campus Madness
(35:40):
headlines slight pivot here you see Berkeley, yet another California
elite institution, received six figure donations from CCP officials.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's your Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
I wish we had more time to flesh this out,
but the American elite universities will take all the money
they can from Cutter, for instance, to push pro Islamist
propaganda and China, including a two hundred and twenty million
dollar government investment in UC Berkeley from a guy banned
because he's a Commie agent.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Didn't even get to the professor at the University of
Chicago who published midterms and instead told students to go
to an anti Trump protest.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Campus Madness got to clean it out. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well listen to this.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
According to a new report, last week, air traffic controllers
at Newark lost all communication with.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Plans for over a minute.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
It's getting to the point where we really should clap
when the plane lands.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Hey, yeah, no kidding. Turns out our air traffic control
system in the United States is horrifically antiquated, as bureaucratically
screwed up, as virtually anything the government does, and probably
not very safe.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Other than that, though, it's just a peach Well statistically
has been very very safe, including up to like write
this moment.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So what until people start dying in droves? You don't
you don't maintain it. What is your point, sir?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Why am I yelling? Yes? That's true air traffic. Air
air travel in the United States is miraculously say yeah,
I just wonder how we pull it off. I mean, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
On the other hand, it is, uh, it is absolutely
in The rack in Washington, d C was a symptom
of this at Reagan National airport between the passenger jet
and the helicopter. The near misses are getting more and more.
The we don't know what's going on, Hey, what's happening
over here? Incidents where it's out of controller happening more
and more in a way that any you know, sane
(01:40):
people would nip in the bud, although the bud was
like twenty years ago anyway. Sean Duffy is the new
go get them transportation secretary who makes Pete Buddhajic look
like the pleasant faced, do nothing climber that he is.
Sean is making the rounds talking about how we've got
to reform the system.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Michael will start with thirty one.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
This is an infrastructure problem, right, and we've known this
infrastructure problem has existed for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The last administration knew it. No one has done anything.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
So for Newark specifically, we're going to rebuild the communication
system at Newark. I thought it was going to be
eight months, six months. We're pushing to do it faster.
Hopefully this summer we get that done. But the key
is always safety, right. I don't want people to fly.
I'd rather have them delayed or canceled. I'd rather have
it takes six months than two and a half months
to build out the communication system because I want people
(02:34):
to get from point A to point B safely, and again,
if they have to wait for a flight, I'll prefer
that then something else going wrong with their flight.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So while I did throw in the it's still safe.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean, it's safer to fly than to drive to
the airport. But we all know over the last several years,
the whole delays thing has gotten completely out of control.
You show up at the airport assuming one of your
flights is going to be delayed.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Now, it didn't used to be that, right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Duffy goes on, What.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
We have to do is we're rolling a plan out
on Thursday. We're gonna need a lot of money from
Congress to do this. It's not gonna take ten years
like Pete suggested. It's gonna take three to four years
to get this build out done. You can't snap your
fingers and lay fiber or bring in new radios or
new radar. Those things take time. And we're gonna put
the time in, the money in, and you're gonna start
(03:25):
to see results sooner than three or four years. As
this buildout happens.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So other countries have private, nonprofit companies doing their air
traffic control because they can adapt, they can innovate, they
can hire people, they can fire people, they can pay
what it takes to get good.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
People, et cetera. Without the incredible bureaucracy. I didn't know.
This chokes everything. Why are other countries more libertarian on
this than we are?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Because they don't have incredibly powerful employee unions government employee
union France is probably all screwed up.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I don't know, but I don't know how they run it.
I know Canada does the tomorrow private full hour on
French air traffic controlling. Oh wow, wouldn't that be fascinating?
In the people?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Alex What is people who have no shame and will
say anything, no matter how dishonest.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Thirty five Michael.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It's outrageous and it's because of Trump and doge. FAA
has been cut, employees have been caught, top people have
left in exasperation.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now what Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
If there's any place where Trump chaos, which is so
typical of this administration, can really cause loss of life,
it's at the FAA.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
God, I hate politics. This, Oh my god, honestly the
worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others.
I mean, it's just that's one of the most powerful
people in that party just playing the old game.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh it's so tiring. Absolutely lie.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Not only that, but I was reading an aviation expert
talking about how Chuck Schumer has opposed every single meaningful
update and reform to the FAA through the years, merely
to protect the unions that contribute to his campaigns. He
every time somebody has said, hey, we really ought to
update this, we ought to increase the technology, we ought
(05:21):
to do this, we ought to hire these people.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Uh give. He has opposed every reform.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
And now now when when the Trump administration is trying
to do something, he says, it's Trump and Doge, good lord,
how does he hide his horns?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What an evil you do?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
The game of politics? Just don't. I don't know how
you do it. I guess you just accept that that's
the way we do it.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, so, goodness knows.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I've been more than critical of Donald J when I
think it's appropriate, and will continue to be. And if
you don't like it, I'm sorry to hear that. But
it does what it does. But Matthew countin any of
the free press actually listened to him. I'm not sure
if he was there, but he listened to Trump's entire
address to the University of Alabama's graduating class, and he says,
and Matthew countenend is a very serious journalist. He said,
(06:13):
he's been amazed that while people were either enjoying or
criticizing his riff on transgender athletes, which was at that speech,
and a couple of other things, he said, there's almost
no coverage of the substance of what he said and.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Continent. He said, he found it really interesting.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Trump summarized ten tips for getting out of college and
having a good life, and I will touch on them briefly.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's a good tease right there. I mean, that would
make me. I'm surprised that hasn't been in the news. War.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, And I don't want to rush like a maniac
through them, so we can do them after the break.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But they it's like reading the Art of the Deal.
It explains a fair amount of what Trump is up to,
not all of it, but some of it. So we'll
get to that after the break.
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Let's see what time is it. I was gonna squeeze
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for once in our lives. And I'll tell you there's
a great gender bending madness and campus madness update coming
up before the end of the show today. So I
mentioned Steph Curry and Big Star for the Golden State
Warriors basketball player hurting his hamstring, and they kept talking
about he's thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's going to be hard to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's funny when you get older watching sports and them
talking about thirty seven year olds as old. When you
know you get a little older, you'd give a lot
of money to be thirty seven again. In there, the
old man trying to shake his old veteran right.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
He limps off the court, perhaps for the last time,
walking into history.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
He's thirty seven, got a recipe for success, and Joe's
gonna tell us I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
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Speaker 3 (09:05):
We also have a situation because Evere says when when,
when are you gonna sign deals?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We don't have to sign deals.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We can sign twenty five deals right now, Howard, if
we wanted, we don't have to sign deal. They have
to sign deals with us. They want a piece of
our market. We don't want a piece of their market.
We don't care about their market. They want a piece
of our market.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
There's the hardball salesman.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, yeah, and putting aside some of the particulars which
were bs because Trump's a ps or.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That was Donald J and his I'm gonna make a
deal mode. More on the trade talks with China later,
although it's early days of an enormously complex.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And more on what he said with the ceasefire with
the Hoothies, which is kind of interesting too. Yeah. But anyways,
speaking of Donald J, you know, I see him as
like some of.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
My favorite athletes through the years, great strengths and great flaws.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's fine, that's enough set.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
But he He gave an address at Alabama Roll Tide
at their graduation the other day in which he rolled
out ten thoughts about success that I found very, very interesting,
and they explained a fair amount about Trump himself.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The first one.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Success can happen at a young age, he said. In America,
with drive and ambition, young people can do anything. And
he cited some chapters of his own life. And I hear, Yeah,
the dad was rich and gave him money. Yeah, that's true.
But he mentioned other American innovators like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney,
the founders who started off in their twenties.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Don't waste your youth, he said, get after it. By
the way, I can name off the top of my
head five people I've known in my life who dad
gave them a bunch of money and they spent it
all and ruined their lives and are worthless. Yes. Yeah, indeed,
love what you do, he says. I rarely see somebody
that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah, that's a mixed bag. Let me get through it,
then we can discuss. He pointed to his father, Fred Trump,
who died in ninety nine at the age of ninety three.
He was a tough guy, tough as hell, actually, or
he worked seven days a week, not because he had to,
but because he enjoyed it, and Matthew count in any comments, Well,
it's hard for his critics to understand.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Donald Trump and his.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Supporters enjoy politics a sense of fun, improvisation, and risk,
imbuse his rallies and campaigns.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
My you know, I'm not quibbling with any of this
because that's all true, and I'm sure most of this
will be true in general. But man, not everybody has
a motor like Donald Trump does, or are lots of
successful people I've known.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You just either have that motor or you don't. Yeah,
and some people.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I'm thinking of one friend of mine who said to
me not terribly long ago, Look, I hate my job,
but I'm good at it, and I make good money,
and I've got job security, and I do other things
that bring me life satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He says, I can accept the bargain.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
So, I mean, if you want to be like a runaway,
success in your field probably helps to.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Really enjoy what you do.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
But anyway, this is what the Sean Duffy and the
reforming air traffic control thing reminded me of, because instead
of saying, well, we got to protect the unions, and
you know, the head of the fbaa he's got his turf,
and you know, we don't want to rush into this
blah blah blah blah, which has yielded a system that
(12:21):
still used the technology of the nineteen nineties, even though
it's one of the most important things the government does.
Think Big Trump said, it's just as hard to solve
a small problem as a big problem. He finds the
audacious more enticing than the incremental. He leans toward the
wildest visions, winning the presidency despite no military or government experience,
(12:42):
for example, or being re elected after impeachment, defeat, embarrassment indictments,
a criminal conviction and two assassination attempts, Oh my god,
rewriting the rules of American government foreign policy or the
global trading system, or turning the Gaza Strip into a
luxury resort, or reopening Alcatraz Prison. Goes on, and some
(13:02):
of it gets filed away with the under the heading no, but.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Some of it is worth considering. And it's kind of
cool that someone would say it out loud. Yeah, we've
been in these like post WW two trade agreements for
seventy years. Why do we blow them up? What would happen?
How about the crowd that always just wants to keep
things the same so you can stay in your job.
That's a lot of people. Oh, it's huge in government. Huge.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It's like the number one thing to be reckoned with,
work hard, never ever stop.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That explains the two am tweets.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, that's the motor. You just I think he got
that or you don't.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, you can get more disciplined as you go, certainly,
but I hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
He quotes the great Gary player, South African pro golf
for nine major champion chip winner. He was one of
those guys's fond of saying. It's funny. The harder I work,
the luckier I get.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah. True.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Anyway, don't lose your momentum. I thought this was interesting.
The word momentum is very important.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Trump said.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
He brought up William Levitt, real estate developer who pioneered
the post WW two move to the suburbs in nineteen
seventy two. You remember Levitt Towns. That was an expression. Anyway,
Levitt sold his company to a large corporation. He was
never able to recapture his earlier success, and years later
Trump continued to encountered Levitt at a party, referring to
the sale Levitt told Trump, I shouldn't have done it.
(14:29):
I lost my momentum, and the anecdotes right. The anecdote, rather,
writes Matthew CONTINENTI reveals why Trump operates at such high speeds.
Trump has been liking to the honey badger who doesn't
give up. His tenacity is related to a fear that's
slowing down means a loss of momentum and an end
to his career.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I think someday, long after this period, when you know
people's hatred of Trump, for people who hate him, you
know you can look at him more objectively. They'll pick
up on that because he's obviously got qualities, good qualities
to be able to pull off what he's pulled off
in his life.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And some of them are that I admire.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Are He takes bad breaks better than like anybody ever.
He just he just finds a way around or ignores
it or I don't know, just amazing to something else. Yeah,
I want to get through these if I can. I
love this be an outsider. Progress never comes from those
(15:29):
satisfied with the failures of a broken system. Trump said, wow,
one more time.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of
a broken system. The contrast with his political antithesis, Barack
Obama is stark write continenty. Obama says progress is achieved
through bottom up community action within institutions. For Trump, progress
is the result of renegade individuals willing to break things.
That Trump approach is more effective, and he goes into
(15:58):
it a little bit. Trust your instincts. I have a
quibble with this. I won't get into I'd like to
rephrase that is, trust your common sense. And Trump addressed
the kids at Alabama said Trump used the word instinct
as a synonym for common sense. Borders are not racist,
(16:20):
he said, speech is not violence. America is good and
terrorists are bad. Men can never become women. Police are
not criminals, and criminals are not victims. Police can be criminals.
But that's about as clear as a credo as you
can get.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Wow, how does that get more attention?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Ah? Because it probably makes so much sense in the media.
Hated it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Believe in the American Dream. Last August, Trump declared that
the American Dream was dead. He pledged to bring it back.
Mission accomplished. The American Dream is real, he said to
the Alabamas. It's there, it's right before you. I love
that and fine is that? Finally, oh, two more things positively,
he said to the youngsters and their parents and friends.
(17:05):
Don't consider yourself a victim, he said, consider yourself a winner.
And he recommended one of his favorite books, a classic,
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peel. The
teaching has your universal application. Whether you're born rich or poort,
black or white, male or female. In America, anyone can
be a winner. And finally, be an original. And his
(17:26):
list of American trailblazers went from Teddy Roosevelt to Doug MacArthur,
George Patton, Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Muhammad Ali, all men
and women of action, Daredevil's risk takers, outside personalities, He's capone.
You're one of a kind. Trump told the graduates. Don't
try to be someone else, just be yourself. And finally,
and most importantly concluded, never ever give up. Number eleven,
(17:52):
Have a hot young wife. Number twelve, be like Hitler,
because I'm the new Hitlar, un below evable. So much
good there. For all the legitimate criticisms, those are points
worth considering and teaching your kids.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
When Democrat presidents speak to Harvard with the usual crap
it gets in, it leads every newscast. I didn't hear
a word about Trump's speech to Alabama, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Under this ban, service members who have a current diagnosis,
or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria
will be processed for separation from military service. Now, that
also means that transgender individuals cannot currently join any branch
of the military. No, it's unclear exactly how many people
were talking about, but in twenty eighteen, an independent research
(18:42):
institute estimated there are about fourteen thousand transgender troops serving
in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's probably closer to six.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah, it's not nearly that that number is way cooked up.
Gender vending update next hour.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm looking at the cardinals, however, many hundreds of them
there are taking their individual out loud oath of silence, ironic.
What the hell would happen if it leaked out who
the pope was? And again, I just want to throw
this in because it's shocking to me. I'm pro Catholic Church,
(19:17):
I'm pro pope, I'm pro Christianity, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But the fact that.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All this wonderment at their system and secrecy and rules
without throwing in like constantly, the biggest pedophile crisis in
world history, and you knew it, and you've known it
for centuries, and you hit it, and then you would
move a rapist to another little town so we'd rape
(19:43):
more little kids.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
He didn't care about that. I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Bureacracies protect bureaucracies. That's all you need to get.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
That is what you need to know. And it's a
very important thing to know. Not about the Catholic Church,
it's about bureaucracies in general.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
If I might steal twenty seconds, I was reading about
the Vatican's finances. I guess Francis was struggling against this till.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
His dying day. It was like the last days of
his life.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
He was issuing edicts and trying desperately to figure out
how to straighten out the Vatican's finances. That is a
wash in priceless treasures, but tumbling deeper into debt. And
all they could come up with is hit believers up
for more money and maybe raise prices for all the
tickets to get into the Vatican.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And one more thing in this, and I realize this
makes a lot of people uncomfortable and if you're Catholic,
you hate somebody saying it. But I'm looking at all
these guys. A lot of these guys are like, in
their seventies and eighties, they were involved in the freaking
raping of children.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I guarant freaking.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Tea a bunch of those people up there were so
quit treating them like some sort of I don't know
what this is, but yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I look at every large institution with a squinty, jaundiced eye,
all of them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
AnyWho, here's the most annoying thing that's gonna happen this summer.
I just want you to put it on your calendar
so you can avoid it. Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend
are getting married in June.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
A three day extravaganza, three days in Italy from the
twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty six that I will
get a tremendous amount of media coverage.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So look forward to that.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh my god, who wants to do that, even if
you can afford it? Who wants three days of pageantry
and walking out in different outfits and people ooing and
eyeing and ah? You know who does his wife and
her friends?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, I wonder if she's gonna get her duck lips
puffed up even more for the ceremony. Probably so they're
not getting married on the five hundred million dollar yacht,
which was a rumor originally.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Now it's gonna be in some Italian town. That would
be too showy. That would be too showy. Although he
does have that How big is the ring? I had
that somewhere, It doesn't make it twenty carrot ring on
her finger, twenty carrot diamond ring that she works, so
ring is so big they're having to measure it in
cubic inches. That's the guys, another one of these stories.
(22:11):
I'm always confused by it, since it's never damaged me
so far. Yet, there's been a major password breach, one
of the biggest yet in the cyber world. Over nineteen
million passwords were leaked. I never know what to do
with this information because my password hygiene is probably ced
(22:32):
D level.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean, I try a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I don't just do one, two, three, four, but I
don't change them there as much as you want. I've
got the same one across multiple platforms. A lot of
the stuff they tell you not to do. So far,
nothing's ever happened to me, and I drained ten percent
of your bank account every two months. But you know whatever,
so far, nothing's ever happened to me, and nothing really
bad's ever happened to anybody I personally know. So I
don't know what you're supposed to do with this information,
but I thought this article was kind of interesting. About
(22:57):
the nineteen billion passwords that are circulating online currently, and
six percent of them have been leaked. Ninety four percent
had been reused across accounts and services, which you're never.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Everybody does that. I got to be surprised for you.
Good for you if you don't.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
But the most common passwords are really easy to decode.
Only forty two percent, or eight to ten characters in length,
supposed to be longer. Okay, fine, way too many of
them only have lowercase letters. Okay, good for you. I'm
getting to the part that I really like. The analysis
found that one two three four is used by four
percent of all passwords. Still, there are seven hundred and
(23:38):
twenty seven million people using one two three four as
their password. Wow, or it might be the same person
over and over again. In some cases, if you go
to one, two, three, four, five six. It's three hundred
and thirty eight million passwords that are that. Wow. Uh,
password is common, admin is common. Some people use not
(24:01):
nice words. The word ass is one hundred and sixty
five million passwords. I kind of feel like I have
missed an opportunity. I have not used ass in any
of my passwords, and why haven't you? Lack of imagination,
I guess sixteen million passwords that include the F word
(24:24):
ass is the top entry, and then it goes down
from there with a bunch of other filth. What about
merkin see I think you're safe. You have Merkan dollar
sign dollar sign asterisk. I think you're safe. The Russians
can't get into that, no way. But and then it
has here the usual rules. You know, don't use the
same password across anything. It just to I'd like to
(24:45):
know the percentage of people that follow all the rules.
It's got to be single digits. How often have.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
You accepted, say, Apple's invitation to create an impenetrable thirty
seven digit password.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Every once in a while the problem is, it seems
to me, if my phone saves it, then fine, I
don't care if it's a bunch of nonsense. You saved
it and then you'll automatically fill it in the next
time I use it.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But then sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And I didn't write down the fifty letters, numbers and
shapes that I've never even seen before and don't know
where to find them on the keyboard. Yeah, and I
go between my phone and my iPad and my MacBook,
and sometimes it doesn't like save it in a way
that's effective, right, and feel free to write your email
what I'm doing wrong. I'd appreciate it. But yeah, so
(25:34):
it doesn't quite well. So I almost never go with it.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I went with it the other day, and I've got
kind of a feeling of foreboding that I've made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I feel like every day of my life I type
in either my email address or my address or something
like that. AI is not going to take over the
world as long as I'm still doing that. I mean,
how is it not just automatic that if I come
to anything on a computer that I'm running, that it's
got my address ready to go on my own device
that I've piped it in eight thousand times this year, So.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Come on, line, I need to talk about this at
some point. I'm using AI a fair amount. Now, Oh really, yeah,
chat GPT for a couple of things, research and cool,
and I've actually created some silly images just to see
how that worked, but mostly some reason to fine things.
(26:24):
I was trying to remember the title of a book
I read years ago about the partition of Pakistan and India,
which was incredibly powerful MOBI moving moby Dick is correct. No,
actually it's not. It has the curious title of Ice
Candy Man. But you were also published in the US
as Cracking India.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
But so you were able to just say, what's the
name of the book about the partition of Indian and Pakistan?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And it gave you some options.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
It gave me a longish list, and one of them
was Ice Candyman, which I thought sounded somewhat familiar. Came
out in nineteen ninety one, and so I asked it
for or more information on that book, and it gave
me a plot summary and the main characters and stuff,
and I said, bingo, that's it. And there were zero
stupid sponsored irrelevant to Google results.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It was really handy.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Huh that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, I really we all should be using AI more,
I think for a variety of things.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I need to get into that.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Everybody I know like, once you dabble in it really
really finds it helpful, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And this is going to shorten the campus Madness update,
but I can't resist. I was reading this piece about
Donald Trump wanting to reopen Alcatraz, and it starts with
kind of a criticism of how silly and impractical that is.
We've all heard why it'll never happen. I bet he
hasn't thought about it for one second since he said it, right,
(27:49):
it went into some of the history of Alcatraz that's
pretty interesting. It wasn't open for very long, and it
was more or less a publicity stunt because it could
be seen by the people in the press in San Francisco,
and it was, you know, a prohibition and jed Gar
Hoover's cracking down on al Capone and the rest of it,
and it just it was super dramatic.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It only operated for what was it twenty.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Six years or something like that before they said this
is too expensive, this is crazy, we got to stop this,
and so it closed down. But then the Washington Post
had comments, of course, and it gave me the option
for read comments, and I did, and it begins with
an AI summary of the comments on the article, and
(28:35):
I will read that to you now. The comments overwhelmingly
criticized President Donald Trump's idea of reopening Alcatraz as a
modern prison, describing it as an impractical, costly, and influenced
by outdated cultural references idea. Many commenters expressed disdain and
for Trump's leadership, suggesting that his ideas are often impulsive
and lack substance. Hu I had noticed that some humorously
(28:57):
suggested that Trump himself should be the first inmate at
Elcatra as we're to reopen. Overall, the comments reflect a
strong disapproval of the proposal and skepticism about Trump's decision
making abilities. So it's like, well, thank you for summarizing
all those angry keyboard Warrior anonymous trolls.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And of course I left leaning interpretation of it from
my eye, because yeah, it's always going to be that way,
I guess, you know.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Maybe we'll talk more about that in the One More
Thing podcast that we do after the radio show. But
Campus Madness Update is only moments away, friends, stay with us.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I just came across a great new book that's coming
out from Jason Riley. About the black family in America,
and he's a black guy who gets to write it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh, I have to talk about that in an hour four.
Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
It's a very blunt way to assert that, Jack, But
I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
Jason Riley's is brilliant. Love to hear about that. So
it's time for campus Madness Update. Everybody breaks yourselves.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Oh, what's happening.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
There's some serious madness. Oh my god, I'm threatened and disconcerted.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I wanted to start with the curious case of Alan Garber,
the president of Harvard University, the new one who's an
actual scholar and a thoughtful Jewish man, which factors into
the summit. He's done a couple of big time interviews recently.
I'm both in the Wall Street Journal in the New
York Times, and the headline is, really, the president of
(30:33):
Harvard is fighting the Trump administration tooth and nail and
agrees with them. It's interesting stuff. A couple of takeaways
from the Wall Street Journal interview, For instance, Garber is
quite blunt in saying students at Harvard no longer feel
comfortable disagreeing with each other or the professors, they have
(30:55):
ideological lockstep, and it bothers him a lot. When he
first arrived at Harvard, Is an undergrad in nineteen seventy three,
said he found quote a place where people debated freely.
He and classmates shot the breeze with people of all viewpoints.
We are happy to argue with one another. It was
a time that shaped me and I think everyone else
who was there then, Bob so not what it's like
now or right Upon returning to Harvard is provost. In
(31:19):
twenty eleven, Garber noticed the spirit of healthy disagreement from
his undergrad days had disappeared, and again not diminished somewhat,
or was not as strong as it had No, it
had disappeared. It's something that concerns him in his colleagues.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Students today find it much harder to have conversations with
one another about difficult subjects, particularly with someone they don't
know well, with whom they might disagree. And to me,
that is a big loss. Well that has to do
with I won't use the fancy term, but the constantly
expressed idea that there are only two sides, good and evil.
(31:56):
You pick good, or you are an evil person. And
we will persecute you. That is the spirit on college campuses.
It's not open inquiry and curiosity.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's the opposite of that.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Garber goes on to say he knows the university has
a perception problem with the general public, driven by a
view that Harvard doesn't care about swaths of America and
that is overly liberal. I would call it progressive. We've
had some real problems we should address, he says. He says,
I really understand the resentment that people can feel when
they think the problems are not taken seriously people.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
That's something we absolutely must have dressed you, because I
think it's clearly true. Is why people have that view.
That's most of it.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yes, to diversify the faculty, the university is seeking to
hire people with an intellectual range, even a visiting fellow
company campus for a few weeks, whatever it takes. When
it comes to teaching, quote, part of what we need
to make sure is that in the classroom in other settings,
we promote the idea that it doesn't matter what your
personal views are. You need to teach it in a
way that is fair to multiple points of view. And furthermore,
(32:53):
you need to enable students to speak up when they
have a perspective that is different from the mainstream. Asked
how many faculty voted for Trump, for instance, Garber replied,
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I have an idea. I have our good idea, Allan.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
But again, I'm not gonna attack the guy because he
might be about as good as it gets right now.
He also was.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Quite blunt in saying, yeah, Harvard has and has had
for a long time, a serious anti Semitism problem. Nonetheless,
the other day Harvard put out a report on anti
semitism with a report on anti Muslim bias on campus.
The progressive view that if we're forced into giving you
peanut butter, we're gonna give you jelly, even though there's
(33:36):
very little jelly to worry about and nobody asked for it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
But we've got to We.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Can't talk about anti semitism unless we throw in a
little anti Muslim bias. Anyway, he is an interesting case
and again, probably as good as it gets right now.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
But I've got to throw this in.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
From the New York Times article, Baba Bah in the
eyes of mister Trump and many Republicans.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
It's the classic Republicans pounce It's not that Harvard and
other elite universities have become echo chambers. It's that mister
Trump and many Republicans are saying they become echo chambers
because he can't ever admit conservatives are right in the
liberal press, a place where students develop intolerance for political
perspectives different from their own and shield themselves against any
(34:24):
opposing ideas. University leaders often say that criticism exaggerates the issue.
Your faculties like ninety three percent progressive. So at what
point is it a real problem we should be worried about,
not exaggerated, when it's one hundred percent the rarely seen
(34:45):
one hundred and seven percent.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I don't know how you could exaggerate the current situation exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
It's almost everybody right exactly. Well, I won't be labor
the point you made it quite well.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Another headline, racial discrimination persists at UCLA Medical School as
federal investigation is underway. Documents show Department of Health Services
has launched a civil rights investigation into UCLA's medical School,
investigating with the school's admission to office discriminates based on race.
It does, it absolutely does, It does intentionally and out loud.
(35:19):
The medical schools circulated a memo just last month that
outlined quote guiding principles for student representation on the admissions committee.
Those guidelines require the committee to consider race and LGBTQ
at bipock in the rest of it when a weighing admissions.
It's utterly unconstitutional and ridiculous and obvious. Another Campus Madness
(35:40):
headlines slight pivot here you see Berkeley, yet another California
elite institution, received six figure donations from CCP officials.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's your Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
I wish we had more time to flesh this out,
but the American elite universities will take all the money
they can from Cutter, for instance, to push pro Islamist
propaganda and China, including a two hundred and twenty million
dollar government investment in UC Berkeley from a guy banned
because he's a Commie agent.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Didn't even get to the professor at the University of
Chicago who published midterms and instead told students to go
to an anti Trump protest.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
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