May 1, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Mike Waltz is out & campus madness!
- Small booze bottles & AI taking college graduate's jobs
- The economy & memories from the past
- Seagull champion & Kamala speaks in San Francisco
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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 Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is really stunning news coming out of the White House.
It's been confirmed by our own Jackie Heinrich. White House
corresponded that Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, and his deputy,
Alex Wong, have been pushed out of that position by
the President. This comes just after the one hundred day mark.
You'll remember during the first Trump administration, of course, Mike
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Flynn was the shortest serving National Security Advisor. He lasted
twenty four days.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, Mike Flynn, though, was a crackpot. Walls is not.
Why is he out, you suggested, Do you think it's
because of signal Gate? I don't feel like there was
any pressure right now over that was there. I think
that's the answer right there.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I think Trump is so prideful he will not make
a significant move under pressure, but he will say we're
getting rid of this guy as soon as it looks
like it's my decision and I'm not reacting to the pressure.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I guess we've got a little report now on this.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Laura Lumer, who is a conservative activist, went in to
see the President and had a list of people on
the National Security Council that Mike Waltz then had to
turn around and fire. So there has been incredible instability
at the top of the national security team for the president,
and Jackie Heinrich is reporting that there could be more
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shoes to drop.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
See, I think it's directional. I think he didn't dig
Walls's view of the world, which unfortunately I do agree
with Walls's view of the world more than Trump, so
I was happy he was there. Is Tucker Carlson going
to be the new national security guy or that fake
historian said Churchill is the cause of World War Two
or somebody like that. Laura loom As a crackpot.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Sorry if that offends anybody, I'll you know what, we
don't have time now, we have something else to do,
but I'll go through our history.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Someday she's unhinged.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It'd be interesting to see who Trump pigs. Yeah, yeah,
no kidding, all right, More on this to come. It
is a developing story. But first, a campus madness updates.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, most important story in America for reasons. We'll explain,
it's a serious madness. That's madness Jack on campus. What
that is.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's our belief around here that the rot in our
schools k well pre k now through graduate school might
be the most serious challenge facing America right now.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
China is not gonna have to defeat us if we're
rot from.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Within, because we're teaching all of our young people to
despise their own country and Western civilization. Anyway, I wond
to review a couple of stories about the progress and
some progress in turning around this awful problem. The Trump
administration has launched a probe of Harvard's Law Reviews racial preferences.
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Harvard is a leading light in a lot of awful
things right now.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But the long and.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Short of the story is that the Department of Education
and Health and Human Services are conducting separate investigations because,
as the Washington Free Beacon published, the Harvard Law Reviews
article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on
the basis of race. They are extremely activist in picking
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winners and losers based on race and intersectional status in
a way that, given the significance of being published in
the Harvard Law Review, seems to be a blatant violation
of civil rights law. And in fact, if we had
time now, I'd read a note we got from Chris
who's an author and a recognized expert in a particular field,
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who used to do lots of speaking engagements, but now
has been told quite specifically in a couple of different instances,
I think, both in California, that we've got to disinvite
you because you're a white woman. I mean, just telling
her that now we only want speakers of color at
this point. So anyway, moving on to a more significant
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story about Harvard, their own report on anti semitism is unbelievable.
It's scathing. They're in the midst of its funding fight
with Trump administration released their long wait it's anti Semitism
report a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We talked about this.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Briefly, but if you dig into it, it is, as
I said, amazing. It found that politicized instruction in four
of the Harvard schools quote mainstreamed normalized what many Jewish
and Israeli studdents experienced as anti semitism.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Rather a week way to put it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But the Graduate School of Education and all of this
radical stuff started in schools of education folks.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
A number of years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
The School of Public Health, the Divinity School, and the
Medical School blah blah blah. At these schools, Jewish and
Israeli students were routinely ostracized and subject to instruction quote
that effectively made a specific view on the Israel Hamas
conflict a litmus test for full classroom participation. You could
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have only one opinion. In one example, a pyramid of
white supremacy graphic disseminated to students in the required School
of Education course stated that those who opposed the boycott,
divest and sanctions against Israel movement are engaged in quote
coded genocide. Oh my god, this was in a required
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education class that you beckaid whatever you're paying eighty thousand
dollars a year to have your kid go to right
and then you walk around for the rest of your
life humble bragging that you went to Harvard. That portion
of the pyramid was just one step removed from overt genocide.
In this pyramid of white soupran supremacy, one level below
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overt genocide is coded genocide. That portion of the pyramid
was just one removed from the KKK lynching, burning crosses,
in bombing Black churches. When a Jewish student expressed concerns,
the instructor did not remove the graphic from course materials
and instead quote referenced the land acknowledgement made earlier in
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the class, and essentially told the student to shut up.
The report details similar incidents at the School of Public Health,
where Jewish students raise concerns over anti Israel webinars, only
to be asked who is more marginalized, Jews or Palestinians
and shouted down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
At the Divinity School, you're studying.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Religion, Jewish students were subject to quote the embrace of
a pedagogy of Desionization, in which instructors these are all
quotes attribute to Jews two great sins, first in the Levant,
the establishment of the state of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba,
and second in the United States participation in white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
How did this was hot as fact? How'd they work
that stuff into the Divinity School? You know, you go,
you want to study Thomas Aquinas or the New Testament
or whatever it is, and you get this, uh yeah, well,
I am reminded of the fact that any progressive teacher
would tell you we are not only urged, we're now ordered,
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like in the state of California, in writing, you have
to work this stuff into every class. You remember the
various professors we've quoted. You got a guy who's an
astrophysics teacher being told you must incorporate the principles of
DEI and anti racism into your life lessons of astrophysics.
It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
We also had the headline the other day that prosecutors
declined to charge hundreds of UCLA encampment arrest these some
of the prosecutors or the headline in the mainstream media
was because of lack of evidence h ask the newly
reformed LA prosecutors. Of the hundreds arrested, only two counter
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protesters are facing criminal charges, and according to prosecutors, it's
because of the complete well, where's the quote. Almost all
of the cases were thrown out because of quote the
university's failure or inability to assist in the prosecutions quote.
Most of these cases were declined for evidentiary reasons or
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due to a university's failure or inability to assess and
assist in identification and other information needed for prosecution. In
other words, UCLA stonewalled them. H you mentioned this already,
but it's it's amazing. This is Harvard's own report. Okay,
(09:09):
we're on a UCLA, but yeah, right, uh huh yeah yeah.
And you've got to believe Harvard. And they've got a
new president who's a Jewish fella, and some folks are
saying good stuff about him. He's still, you know, a
horror denizen of Harvard. But it's an improvement. But back
to the UCLA thing. The University of California regent and
United Talent Agency Vice president Jay Surrez told the Washington
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Free Beacon quote, it's absolutely pathetic that the school hasn't
punished the encampment activists quote.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Regardless of whether.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
There was enough evidence to criminally prosecute those involved in
the encampment, UCLA had enough evidence to take disciplinary student action.
It's absolutely pathetic that there's been no disciplined UCLA must revamp,
or you think, and retool the way student and faculty
disciplinary processes are handled to ensure swift, in appropriate action
in the future.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And good for him speaking out, but I don't think
they've realize even come close to realizing the harm they've
done to their elite university brands that will last a
generation or more. Yeah, I wonder if Luna is off
that Crose. I mean, the bloom is so off the
rows of I went to UCLA, I went to Harvard whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to see a quick gallup poll
when you see you know phrase, what however you want
when you see someone graduated from Harvard University or maybe
you'd put it an elite university. Do you consider that
a positive, a negative or neither. I'd love to see
those numbers. I bet they have shifted enormously in last decade,
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and well they should. Final note, the University of Pennsylvania
was found to have quote violated Title nine by denying
women equal opportunities by permitting males to compete in women's
intercollegiate athletics and to occupy women only intimate facilities. The
Education Department's Office for Civil Rights announced earlier this week.
(11:04):
It said it will give the university ten days to
be in compliance with Title nine or risk facing a
criminal referral to the Justice Department. This is all about
Leah Thomas and full grown men naked in women's locker
rooms just because they said I'm a girl. And the
utter madness of that and how blatant a violation of
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Title nine that is. And the referral goes on to state,
and I can't wait to follow this coming home to
roost the OCR which stands for what does that stand for?
Office of Civil Rights announcement sad U Penn has a
choice to make do the right thing for its female
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students and come into full compliance with Title nine immediately,
or continue to advance an extremist political project that violates
federal anti discrimination law and puts U Penn's federal funding
at risk. OCR demand did that the school issue a
statement on his intention to follow Title nine and along
with two other key actions, And this is what I love.
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Restore to all female athletes, all individual athletic records, records, titles, honors,
awards are similar recognition for television on swimming competitions misappropriated
by male athletes competing in female category.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I thought that happens in all kinds of stuff, all
those high school track records and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Eventually just a matter of time, I agree and quote
send a letter to each female athlete whose individual recognition
is restored, expressing an apology on behalf of the university
for allowing her educational experience in athletics to be marred
by sex discrimination. Amen to that. I hope it happens.
It's your campus madness update. Wow, some serious madness. That's
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screaming up.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'm telling you over the top. It's like a guy
with an axe and a hockey mask comes in the room,
is expressing her anguish. It's a state of American education.
You can't blame her, right, That's what I'm saying. Now.
If I don't get rid of this cough soon, I'm
hurling myself out of a baseball stadium onto the field
during the game.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's again an odd remedy, but I sent your desperation
my plan.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Trump is expected to speak at some point about firing
Mike Walls or him leaving, and I don't know he's
gonna be anything there there is, Well, we'll you know
about it, and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Instead of full sized booze bottles, the company that makes
Jack Daniels reports that consumers are buying.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
More small bottles lately. Yeah, just small. Could be a
sign of a recession. Could be that it's just Little
League season, all right. Here, we go flay ball. Hey
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Tanner was safe.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
No, this is not like the violin recital.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Give me the bat I'm going in. So I've noticed,
and I'm not in the drinking community much as a
non drinker, but I've noticed that little bottles have become
a thing over in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah. I regular stops at to my local liquid emporium,
and the number of times that I witnessed somebody buying
a bunch of airline bottles is striking.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It means something. Yeah, yeah, Katie. I also didn't realize
how much drinking goes on at little league games. Yeah.
I was talking to a friend of mine who has
a son who's playing Little League, and she told me
that when you see those moms with their Stanley's, that's
not water usually, and it's the little bottles. Probably you're
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getting a little bottles and poured them in here or whatever.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I'm a self confessed cocktail enthusiast and I have never
drank my way through a single.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Child sporting event.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I would consider that a sign that I needed to
take a long look at myself.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But I was talking about a judge, just talking to
some of the other day. I don't remember. It was
as buying the little bottles and something like that. It
wasn't a Little League game, but it's similar sort of thing.
Then that's what the little bottles were for. You throw
them in your your iced tea or your lemonade or whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Handy in the golf bag. I'll say that, gotcha. I
don't actually do that anymore, but it is handy.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So AI is competing with humans for jobs at a
level not seen before. For college graduates, they think, who
are coming out into a rough job market, although they've
said that every year of my life. Unusually high five
point eight percent unemployment for college graduates currently, and they'll
be hold new crop of them here in a couple
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months May in June. Even newly minted MBAs from elite
programs are struggling to find work, it says here in
the Atlantic, while law school applications are surging. I didn't
know this an echo of when young people were using
graduate school to hunker down during the Great Financial Crisis.
I didn't know that if the job market was rough
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for college kids, you decide to go to law school
just to hang out at college for a while longer.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, I'd pick an easier program if I were you,
judging by my daughter's recent experiences. But yeah, I do
remember people just you know, getting more schooling because they
didn't think they could get a job.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Wow, taking on more debt. Maybe it'll work for you. Anyway.
We're gonna learn here this year a lot of which
kind of jobs AI can replace in which ones it can't.
And as we've been hearing, maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
AI's gonna take a lot of jobs that were you know,
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decent paying, you're a smart person that brings something to
the company. Jobs. AI is going to replace those jobs,
not like you know, gardeners and stuff. Those jobs I
can't replace.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, it's going to be devastating to white collar jobs,
middle management in particular, from what I've heard.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We also got this text R two D two doesn't
have arms. Thank you for the text line, which is
four one five two nine five KFTC Armstrong and Getty's
some numbers today, and I have to start off, I say,
that's Biden, that's not Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Because we came in on January just quarterly numbers, and
we came in and.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I was very.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the
economy destroying our country.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
How fair is that to talk about the first negative
quarter in several years being leftover from Biden. I mean,
we all know how this works. I have to assume
if it had been up eight percent, he'd be talking
about how his plan is already working, right. I mean
that's just politics.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Combined with every president gets more credit, more blame that
he reserves for the economy. I actually, you know what's
funny is Trump explained it that way. That's not true exactly,
But this I think you'll find enlightening. I had to
be reminded that GDP, which is what declined I think
it was point three percent annualized to one point two percent,
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is calculated by adding consumption. That's what all of US
spend government expenditures, investments, and exports minus imports. And because
of the anticipation of the big tariffs or trade war
or whatever, especially in the second half of the first quarter,
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imports surged. US imports surged by more than forty percent
on an annualized rate quarter to quarter, you know, comparing
to last year, and so we had monstrous, crazy, unprecedented
levels of imports, which I will remind you you are
subtracted from all these other things to yield to GDP.
That's why the GDP numbers went down. It wasn't because
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of weakness in the economy. It was because of an
enormous surge in imports. I'll bet you didn't hear that yesterday,
and neither did. I took a little digging, but here
we are. Second thing is, let's see, this is Greg
Hip in the Wall Street Journal. Forget the GDP. It's
the jobs report that matters. They first quarter or declined
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and economic output that everybody was talking about yesterday tells
us almost nothing about the economy's actual performance through March,
which was actually fine, he writes. It tells us even
less about the broader impact of President Trump's tariffs, federal cutbacks,
and immigration crackdowns. For that, we have to await the
April data, starting with jobs and unemployment, which are going
to be released Friday of this week, tomorrow, that's correct.
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That'll be the first hard data since Trump's April second
tariffs announcements.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And it may be a little chaotic ish it made that.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
There may be some notable numbers there, but yesterday had
nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
One more thing, Oh, yeah, the other the point of
the whole piece about the surge in imports. There there's
all sorts of weird stuff that's going to happen. Now
you're going to see numbers that leap upward or downward
or what have you, in ways that they normally don't
in a normal economy, as everybody's trying to figure out
what the hell Trump is actually driving at and what
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the end result might be. So yeah, it could be
a bit of a wild ride, and you'll see the
market gyrate and the skyrocket and then drop the next
day and on and on.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Let's hope stability returns at some point. Speaking to the negotiations,
there's Trump on the town hall he did on News
Nation last night that included Cuomo, my weight lifting buddy,
Bill O'Reilly huh, and Steven A. Smith. I'll be darned,
it's quite the trio, I'd say so.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
But here's Trump when negotiated with South Korea, when negotiated
with Japan, when negotiated with a lot of different many many.
India is a very big They want to make a
deal so bad, you're not telling anything out of school.
We're going to make great deals for America. Instead of
bed and if I didn't take this hard line, India
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as an example, had no interest in negotiating with anybody
I saw.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't know why cut off like that. I saw
one of Trump's people on one of the shows yesterday
talking about we're close on the whole India thing. The
anything's going to be announced soon, so that'd be interesting.
I wonder if India, which is a shockingly small economy,
given the fact that it's the biggest country on Earth,
in the way that China used to be, but I
wonder if they come around, if that puts more pressure
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on China.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yes, yeah, I think so. Yeah, it was really interesting.
I don't know if y'all saw a special report with
Prett Behar last night, but he was talking to the
US's what's the official term, the trade negotiator. That's not right,
but it's the head guy who negotiates trade. And he
was showing Brett the book they have, and it's quite
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a thick book. It looks like a you know, a textbook,
so covered textbook of the non tear off trade barriers
that all of our trading partners have, you know, their
protectionist policies, their special fees, their regulations that only their
domestic people can follow. So's it's a barrier that looks like,
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you know, a reasonable regulation. And the guy was making
the point that, yeah, we're trying to entangle a lot
of this stuff in every country is different, but it's
a thicket of really difficult to justify at this point
in the twenty first century, barriers to US companies being
able to sell their goods over seas. I think at
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its heart, a lot of this stuff is really really good.
I might not love the way Trump's going about it,
but I thought that was really interesting and revealing, and
I wish more Americans knew about that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I saw that article you were referencing in the Wall
Street Journal about how China's in trouble and this is
really hurting them. So wouldn't that be something if they like,
are really really getting pinched hard and have to come around. Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, the piece is all about how they're really feeling
the pinch and doing their best to hide it and making,
you know, strong statements about they are willing to fight
till the end.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But they've got.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Millions and millions of jobs at stake or now idled.
They've got factories shutting down, dropping export orders, weakest production
of the country's factories in more than a year.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
A lot of the numbers look like the early.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Days of COVID, So yeah, it may be uh not
more than a couple of minutes before, at least in
the back channels, China's calling old you know, Trumper or
as negotiators and saying, hey, hey, this is so crazy.
I said stuff. I regret you said stuff. I'm sure
you regret. Let's come to a deal.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Parenting question, what's the best way to deal with this?
My kids keep losing our fingernail clippers. Make them buy
another pair. They don't cost much, so I don't know
if it's much of a penalty. But I just keep
getting them and they just disappear, and nobody claims to
have any idea where they are, Like, nobody claims they
used it last or anything. They just disappear. And it
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ain't me because I was able to hang onto the
same fingernail clippers like for decades prior to children. Yeah, yeah,
that's a new one on there.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I'm tempted to say them, are there like ten pairs
of toenail clippers underneath your bed? Somewhere or something whatever
are they going, Yes, it's Michael Well. Hanson has an
interesting idea. He said, every time they lose them, have
them buy you two pairs by two. Yeah. Wow, is
it punished now, that's a disincentive. Yeah. Or put them
on a chain like it's a penn at an old
timey bank, right, and they just hang there on the counter. Yeah,
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to swing your foot up on the sink or something.
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I've never had a great memory of the past. I
have friends who have near photographic memories who remind me
of the high jinks we got into in school and
that sort of thing, and I'm like, that happened, really,
that's crazy. But there are certain memories I have that
just seared themselves into my brain. And one of them
is I was in sixth or seventh grade, which is it?
(25:26):
And I was a typical tussle haired American youth, sweaty
and dirty all day long, playing baseball all day and
my mom would constantly harangue me to clean my finger
under my fingernails and clip my nails now and again
because I didn't give a damn And one.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Day long fingernails are disgusting to me. Oh, they're horrible.
I mentioned that from the Bob Dylan movie because every
every interview I've ever seen with him, if you see
his hands, his long, dirty pig nails. They did a
good job of having Timothy Shallowmey replicate that in the
movie So Gross. He was old enough to know better.
But there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I am a middle school youth and we were at
some outdoor event and I asked my mom if she
had nail clippers. I said, yeah, I really need to
clip my nails. And she gave me a look and chuckled,
and I knew, and she knew that. I knew that
she knew it was because I had a girlfriend.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Ah, And that exchange of looks and my mom's chuckle,
for some reason, is just seared into my memory because
I was mildly embarrassed and she my mom was a
very kind and loving person, but she.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Made it clear, Okay, now you got a girlfriend, saw
you don't want to look like a HOPEO.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
That has worked. That has helped me with my son,
my high schooler. Oh, the girl's coming into his life.
He definitely, uh, you know, I don't have to bug
him to shower or any that sort of thing. It's
more of a how much cologne is enough? Is bigger problem?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
It's oh lord, yeah, I'm distracted by even the noveled
of the thought of that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Uh yeah. The U a role in the in.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
My life, of the various good women who have common
some gone in getting me to be a non idiot
non slacker cannot be overstated.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Men left to their own devices, if you didn't have
that element to it would be poorly dressed, unkempt, bad smelling,
and in many cases unambitious. True.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
As I've said before, you know, I'll not get specific
into this, but I am willing to be a loser
in my own eyes. I'm not willing to be a.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Loser in her eyes or your kids kids do that
or oh goodness knows. Yeah, right, if you have a suggestion,
I like the idea of making them by two bears.
At some point, I think we're going to figure out
where they go and we're just going to be swimming
and fringing out clippers. Trump fired as National security advisor.
(28:01):
Don't know if this is how big a deal this is,
or if this is for reasons of disagreement or or what,
but we're keeping on our own that among other stories.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Stay here there.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
You have your national champions seagull imitator kid in Britain.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
It's the contest they have every year, and you want
it for the second year in a row because he
sounds exactly like a seagull. Yeah, yes, that's why, and
the crowd went wild. That used to be.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The world's most important empire, Great Britain.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
He's good though, that was a pretty good seagull. He
was beyond good based on my memory. Fantastic. So Kamala
Harris gave a speech last night. It kind of her
comeback speech. I have resigned myself to the fact that
she's going to be the freaking governor of California. No
oh yeah, you want to bet money. The only question
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is whether she want runs or not. Anyway, I haven't
heard this portion of the speech, and then I've got
some uh, some punditry around it. What number was it?
It stand by everyone sixty three who saw.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
That video from a couple of weeks ago, the one
of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake.
Google it if you've not seen it. So that scene
has been on my mind. Everybody's asked me what you've
been thinking about these days? Well so in the video,
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for those who haven't seen it, here those elephants were
and as soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath
their feet, they got in a circle and stood next
to each other to protect the most vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Think about it. What a powerful metaphor. So I'm I'm
predisposed to not like her because she's black and a woman.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
But that was parody, friends, that was parody, sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
But but so yeah, I just I don't like her personality.
And I so I could see how because the crowd
was digging in. I mean, you heard them there. I
don't know who those people are. There was somebody wrote
one of the reviews of the speech, was there is
a clamoring for her voice right now, said a former
Harris senior advisor, to which Charles C. W. Cook responded
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in the National Review. There is not. There has, in fact,
never ever been less of a clamoring for anything that
is on offer. In the history of clamoring, no people
has ever clamored left. The American people are clamoring for
Kamala Harris's voice. She is clamorless she is a hollow clamory,
which is pretty funny. I agree. I don't know who
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are those people that are clamoring for They're people that
are gonna benefit from her being governor. That's who they are.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, her posse, they will benefit financially from her.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Being governor and it'll give them more power. But then
Tim Walls also did a speech recently or did an interview,
and he said, look, we had the most qualified person
who'd ever run for president in the country's history at
the top of the ticket, that in itself should have
got this thing one. That's an absurd assertion. Yeah, I'm
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a number of people who responded to that. Megan mccardial,
now of The Dispatch, formerly of The Washington Post, I think,
or maybe she's still the Washington's Post. I don't know. Anyway,
I like her act. The most qualified people ever have
included Eisenhower, Bush, one Grant, Fdr Herbert Hoover, a list
that suggests, first of all, qualifications don't guarantee results, which
is true, but at any rate, that lesson does not
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by any metric, include Kamala Harris at all, which obviously
is true.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Or are you going to run the Tim Wall's clip
that we have. I wasn't plan but this has gotten
a bit of attention.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, I hit it. What's your Michael sixty five? I
knew I was on the ticket.
Speaker 9 (32:24):
I would argue because we did a lot of amazing
progressive things in Minnesota that improved people's lives. But I
also was on the ticket quite honestly, you know, because
I could code talk to white guys watching football fixing
their truck doing that that I could put them at ease.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I know a lot of guys like that, Tim, and
they all think here of Putts. They all think here
just a ridiculous weak act and a parody of what
you claim to be.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, so you were you were not the guy to
code talk to that crowd. Yeah. The polster for CNN
pointed out to in their own polling. He was on
CNN today on the question of who'd be doing a
better job as president at this point, Trump or Harris.
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Trump wins forty five forty three, and the CNN polster
said these numbers should be a major wake up call
for Democrats. Even now, with Trump's softer numbers and everything
that's happened, Trump still beats Democrats. He beats Harris forty
five forty three. And then on the question who's doing
a better job Trump or Congress Dems in Congress, Trump
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wins forty thirty two. On who can deal better with
the US's problems. Wow, even at this point, I saw
a poll, well, go ahead. I saw a poel yesterday
on Republicans about their own party, Democrats about their own party.
Republicans approval rating of their own party in Congresses in
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the mid forties. For Democrats, it's the lowest number they've
ever had in the low twenties of Democrats, and they're
feeling about their own Congress. Michael, get clip eleven.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Ready, you're saying, people think Trump does a better job
than the Democrats in Congress.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
In spite of this, Yetta.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Die and and Ytta die and eye, you must build
this world from.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
The Democrats singing on the Capitol steps, Yetta Diea.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
This is not slaying your opinion. You're not impressed. I
always so glad that that generation is gone that remembers
the civil rights movement. That's enough, Michael, the whole generation,
more than enough, the whole generation that you know, for
a for a valid cause. And it was very successfu
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marched and sang on the steps and everything like that
for civil rights democrats ever since then tried to do
that with every freaking issue, whether it's DOGE or trans
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Ah enough right, it's it reminds me of like you
go into your your dad's closet and take his Vietnam
War fatigues and put him on to go down to
the Little league meeting to talk about whether you had
to have an outfield fence or not.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No, you're not fighting that war. Quit acting like you are.
It's pathetic, 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 Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is really stunning news coming out of the White House.
It's been confirmed by our own Jackie Heinrich. White House
corresponded that Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, and his deputy,
Alex Wong, have been pushed out of that position by
the President. This comes just after the one hundred day mark.
You'll remember during the first Trump administration, of course, Mike
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Flynn was the shortest serving National Security Advisor. He lasted
twenty four days.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, Mike Flynn, though, was a crackpot. Walls is not.
Why is he out, you suggested, Do you think it's
because of signal Gate? I don't feel like there was
any pressure right now over that was there. I think
that's the answer right there.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I think Trump is so prideful he will not make
a significant move under pressure, but he will say we're
getting rid of this guy as soon as it looks
like it's my decision and I'm not reacting to the pressure.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I guess we've got a little report now on this.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Laura Lumer, who is a conservative activist, went in to
see the President and had a list of people on
the National Security Council that Mike Waltz then had to
turn around and fire. So there has been incredible instability
at the top of the national security team for the president,
and Jackie Heinrich is reporting that there could be more
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shoes to drop.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
See, I think it's directional. I think he didn't dig
Walls's view of the world, which unfortunately I do agree
with Walls's view of the world more than Trump, so
I was happy he was there. Is Tucker Carlson going
to be the new national security guy or that fake
historian said Churchill is the cause of World War Two
or somebody like that. Laura loom As a crackpot.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Sorry if that offends anybody, I'll you know what, we
don't have time now, we have something else to do,
but I'll go through our history.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Someday she's unhinged.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
It'd be interesting to see who Trump pigs. Yeah, yeah,
no kidding, all right, More on this to come. It
is a developing story. But first, a campus madness updates.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, most important story in America for reasons. We'll explain,
it's a serious madness. That's madness Jack on campus. What
that is.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It's our belief around here that the rot in our
schools k well pre k now through graduate school might
be the most serious challenge facing America right now.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
China is not gonna have to defeat us if we're
rot from.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Within, because we're teaching all of our young people to
despise their own country and Western civilization. Anyway, I wond
to review a couple of stories about the progress and
some progress in turning around this awful problem. The Trump
administration has launched a probe of Harvard's Law Reviews racial preferences.
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Harvard is a leading light in a lot of awful
things right now.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But the long and.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Short of the story is that the Department of Education
and Health and Human Services are conducting separate investigations because,
as the Washington Free Beacon published, the Harvard Law Reviews
article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on
the basis of race. They are extremely activist in picking
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winners and losers based on race and intersectional status in
a way that, given the significance of being published in
the Harvard Law Review, seems to be a blatant violation
of civil rights law. And in fact, if we had
time now, I'd read a note we got from Chris
who's an author and a recognized expert in a particular field,
(04:06):
who used to do lots of speaking engagements, but now
has been told quite specifically in a couple of different instances,
I think, both in California, that we've got to disinvite
you because you're a white woman. I mean, just telling
her that now we only want speakers of color at
this point. So anyway, moving on to a more significant
(04:27):
story about Harvard, their own report on anti semitism is unbelievable.
It's scathing. They're in the midst of its funding fight
with Trump administration released their long wait it's anti Semitism
report a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We talked about this.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Briefly, but if you dig into it, it is, as
I said, amazing. It found that politicized instruction in four
of the Harvard schools quote mainstreamed normalized what many Jewish
and Israeli studdents experienced as anti semitism.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Rather a week way to put it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But the Graduate School of Education and all of this
radical stuff started in schools of education folks.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
A number of years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
The School of Public Health, the Divinity School, and the
Medical School blah blah blah. At these schools, Jewish and
Israeli students were routinely ostracized and subject to instruction quote
that effectively made a specific view on the Israel Hamas
conflict a litmus test for full classroom participation. You could
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have only one opinion. In one example, a pyramid of
white supremacy graphic disseminated to students in the required School
of Education course stated that those who opposed the boycott,
divest and sanctions against Israel movement are engaged in quote
coded genocide. Oh my god, this was in a required
(05:57):
education class that you beckaid whatever you're paying eighty thousand
dollars a year to have your kid go to right
and then you walk around for the rest of your
life humble bragging that you went to Harvard. That portion
of the pyramid was just one step removed from overt genocide.
In this pyramid of white soupran supremacy, one level below
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overt genocide is coded genocide. That portion of the pyramid
was just one removed from the KKK lynching, burning crosses,
in bombing Black churches. When a Jewish student expressed concerns,
the instructor did not remove the graphic from course materials
and instead quote referenced the land acknowledgement made earlier in
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the class, and essentially told the student to shut up.
The report details similar incidents at the School of Public Health,
where Jewish students raise concerns over anti Israel webinars, only
to be asked who is more marginalized, Jews or Palestinians
and shouted down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
At the Divinity School, you're studying.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Religion, Jewish students were subject to quote the embrace of
a pedagogy of Desionization, in which instructors these are all
quotes attribute to Jews two great sins, first in the Levant,
the establishment of the state of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba,
and second in the United States participation in white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
How did this was hot as fact? How'd they work
that stuff into the Divinity School? You know, you go,
you want to study Thomas Aquinas or the New Testament
or whatever it is, and you get this, uh yeah, well,
I am reminded of the fact that any progressive teacher
would tell you we are not only urged, we're now ordered,
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like in the state of California, in writing, you have
to work this stuff into every class. You remember the
various professors we've quoted. You got a guy who's an
astrophysics teacher being told you must incorporate the principles of
DEI and anti racism into your life lessons of astrophysics.
It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
We also had the headline the other day that prosecutors
declined to charge hundreds of UCLA encampment arrest these some
of the prosecutors or the headline in the mainstream media
was because of lack of evidence h ask the newly
reformed LA prosecutors. Of the hundreds arrested, only two counter
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protesters are facing criminal charges, and according to prosecutors, it's
because of the complete well, where's the quote. Almost all
of the cases were thrown out because of quote the
university's failure or inability to assist in the prosecutions quote.
Most of these cases were declined for evidentiary reasons or
(08:48):
due to a university's failure or inability to assess and
assist in identification and other information needed for prosecution. In
other words, UCLA stonewalled them. H you mentioned this already,
but it's it's amazing. This is Harvard's own report. Okay,
(09:09):
we're on a UCLA, but yeah, right, uh huh yeah yeah.
And you've got to believe Harvard. And they've got a
new president who's a Jewish fella, and some folks are
saying good stuff about him. He's still, you know, a
horror denizen of Harvard. But it's an improvement. But back
to the UCLA thing. The University of California regent and
United Talent Agency Vice president Jay Surrez told the Washington
(09:31):
Free Beacon quote, it's absolutely pathetic that the school hasn't
punished the encampment activists quote.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Regardless of whether.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
There was enough evidence to criminally prosecute those involved in
the encampment, UCLA had enough evidence to take disciplinary student action.
It's absolutely pathetic that there's been no disciplined UCLA must revamp,
or you think, and retool the way student and faculty
disciplinary processes are handled to ensure swift, in appropriate action
in the future.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And good for him speaking out, but I don't think
they've realize even come close to realizing the harm they've
done to their elite university brands that will last a
generation or more. Yeah, I wonder if Luna is off
that Crose. I mean, the bloom is so off the
rows of I went to UCLA, I went to Harvard whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to see a quick gallup poll
when you see you know phrase, what however you want
when you see someone graduated from Harvard University or maybe
you'd put it an elite university. Do you consider that
a positive, a negative or neither. I'd love to see
those numbers. I bet they have shifted enormously in last decade,
(10:44):
and well they should. Final note, the University of Pennsylvania
was found to have quote violated Title nine by denying
women equal opportunities by permitting males to compete in women's
intercollegiate athletics and to occupy women only intimate facilities. The
Education Department's Office for Civil Rights announced earlier this week.
(11:04):
It said it will give the university ten days to
be in compliance with Title nine or risk facing a
criminal referral to the Justice Department. This is all about
Leah Thomas and full grown men naked in women's locker
rooms just because they said I'm a girl. And the
utter madness of that and how blatant a violation of
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Title nine that is. And the referral goes on to state,
and I can't wait to follow this coming home to
roost the OCR which stands for what does that stand for?
Office of Civil Rights announcement sad U Penn has a
choice to make do the right thing for its female
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students and come into full compliance with Title nine immediately,
or continue to advance an extremist political project that violates
federal anti discrimination law and puts U Penn's federal funding
at risk. OCR demand did that the school issue a
statement on his intention to follow Title nine and along
with two other key actions, And this is what I love.
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Restore to all female athletes, all individual athletic records, records, titles, honors,
awards are similar recognition for television on swimming competitions misappropriated
by male athletes competing in female category.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I thought that happens in all kinds of stuff, all
those high school track records and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Eventually just a matter of time, I agree and quote
send a letter to each female athlete whose individual recognition
is restored, expressing an apology on behalf of the university
for allowing her educational experience in athletics to be marred
by sex discrimination. Amen to that. I hope it happens.
It's your campus madness update. Wow, some serious madness. That's
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screaming up.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'm telling you over the top. It's like a guy
with an axe and a hockey mask comes in the room,
is expressing her anguish. It's a state of American education.
You can't blame her, right, That's what I'm saying. Now.
If I don't get rid of this cough soon, I'm
hurling myself out of a baseball stadium onto the field
during the game.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's again an odd remedy, but I sent your desperation
my plan.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Trump is expected to speak at some point about firing
Mike Walls or him leaving, and I don't know he's
gonna be anything there there is, Well, we'll you know
about it, and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Instead of full sized booze bottles, the company that makes
Jack Daniels reports that consumers are buying.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
More small bottles lately. Yeah, just small. Could be a
sign of a recession. Could be that it's just Little
League season, all right. Here, we go flay ball. Hey
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Tanner was safe.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
No, this is not like the violin recital.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Give me the bat I'm going in. So I've noticed,
and I'm not in the drinking community much as a
non drinker, but I've noticed that little bottles have become
a thing over in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah. I regular stops at to my local liquid emporium,
and the number of times that I witnessed somebody buying
a bunch of airline bottles is striking.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It means something. Yeah, yeah, Katie. I also didn't realize
how much drinking goes on at little league games. Yeah.
I was talking to a friend of mine who has
a son who's playing Little League, and she told me
that when you see those moms with their Stanley's, that's
not water usually, and it's the little bottles. Probably you're
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getting a little bottles and poured them in here or whatever.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I'm a self confessed cocktail enthusiast and I have never
drank my way through a single.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Child sporting event.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I would consider that a sign that I needed to
take a long look at myself.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But I was talking about a judge, just talking to
some of the other day. I don't remember. It was
as buying the little bottles and something like that. It
wasn't a Little League game, but it's similar sort of thing.
Then that's what the little bottles were for. You throw
them in your your iced tea or your lemonade or whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Handy in the golf bag. I'll say that, gotcha. I
don't actually do that anymore, but it is handy.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So AI is competing with humans for jobs at a
level not seen before. For college graduates, they think, who
are coming out into a rough job market, although they've
said that every year of my life. Unusually high five
point eight percent unemployment for college graduates currently, and they'll
be hold new crop of them here in a couple
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months May in June. Even newly minted MBAs from elite
programs are struggling to find work, it says here in
the Atlantic, while law school applications are surging. I didn't
know this an echo of when young people were using
graduate school to hunker down during the Great Financial Crisis.
I didn't know that if the job market was rough
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for college kids, you decide to go to law school
just to hang out at college for a while longer.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, I'd pick an easier program if I were you,
judging by my daughter's recent experiences. But yeah, I do
remember people just you know, getting more schooling because they
didn't think they could get a job.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Wow, taking on more debt. Maybe it'll work for you. Anyway.
We're gonna learn here this year a lot of which
kind of jobs AI can replace in which ones it can't.
And as we've been hearing, maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
AI's gonna take a lot of jobs that were you know,
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decent paying, you're a smart person that brings something to
the company. Jobs. AI is going to replace those jobs,
not like you know, gardeners and stuff. Those jobs I
can't replace.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, it's going to be devastating to white collar jobs,
middle management in particular, from what I've heard.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We also got this text R two D two doesn't
have arms. Thank you for the text line, which is
four one five two nine five KFTC Armstrong and Getty's
some numbers today, and I have to start off, I say,
that's Biden, that's not Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Because we came in on January just quarterly numbers, and
we came in and.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I was very.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the
economy destroying our country.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
How fair is that to talk about the first negative
quarter in several years being leftover from Biden. I mean,
we all know how this works. I have to assume
if it had been up eight percent, he'd be talking
about how his plan is already working, right. I mean
that's just politics.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Combined with every president gets more credit, more blame that
he reserves for the economy. I actually, you know what's
funny is Trump explained it that way. That's not true exactly,
But this I think you'll find enlightening. I had to
be reminded that GDP, which is what declined I think
it was point three percent annualized to one point two percent,
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is calculated by adding consumption. That's what all of US
spend government expenditures, investments, and exports minus imports. And because
of the anticipation of the big tariffs or trade war
or whatever, especially in the second half of the first quarter,
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imports surged. US imports surged by more than forty percent
on an annualized rate quarter to quarter, you know, comparing
to last year, and so we had monstrous, crazy, unprecedented
levels of imports, which I will remind you you are
subtracted from all these other things to yield to GDP.
That's why the GDP numbers went down. It wasn't because
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of weakness in the economy. It was because of an
enormous surge in imports. I'll bet you didn't hear that yesterday,
and neither did. I took a little digging, but here
we are. Second thing is, let's see, this is Greg
Hip in the Wall Street Journal. Forget the GDP. It's
the jobs report that matters. They first quarter or declined
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and economic output that everybody was talking about yesterday tells
us almost nothing about the economy's actual performance through March,
which was actually fine, he writes. It tells us even
less about the broader impact of President Trump's tariffs, federal cutbacks,
and immigration crackdowns. For that, we have to await the
April data, starting with jobs and unemployment, which are going
to be released Friday of this week, tomorrow, that's correct.
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That'll be the first hard data since Trump's April second
tariffs announcements.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And it may be a little chaotic ish it made that.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
There may be some notable numbers there, but yesterday had
nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
One more thing, Oh, yeah, the other the point of
the whole piece about the surge in imports. There there's
all sorts of weird stuff that's going to happen. Now
you're going to see numbers that leap upward or downward
or what have you, in ways that they normally don't
in a normal economy, as everybody's trying to figure out
what the hell Trump is actually driving at and what
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the end result might be. So yeah, it could be
a bit of a wild ride, and you'll see the
market gyrate and the skyrocket and then drop the next
day and on and on.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Let's hope stability returns at some point. Speaking to the negotiations,
there's Trump on the town hall he did on News
Nation last night that included Cuomo, my weight lifting buddy,
Bill O'Reilly huh, and Steven A. Smith. I'll be darned,
it's quite the trio, I'd say so.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
But here's Trump when negotiated with South Korea, when negotiated
with Japan, when negotiated with a lot of different many many.
India is a very big They want to make a
deal so bad, you're not telling anything out of school.
We're going to make great deals for America. Instead of
bed and if I didn't take this hard line, India
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as an example, had no interest in negotiating with anybody
I saw.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't know why cut off like that. I saw
one of Trump's people on one of the shows yesterday
talking about we're close on the whole India thing. The
anything's going to be announced soon, so that'd be interesting.
I wonder if India, which is a shockingly small economy,
given the fact that it's the biggest country on Earth,
in the way that China used to be, but I
wonder if they come around, if that puts more pressure
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on China.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yes, yeah, I think so. Yeah, it was really interesting.
I don't know if y'all saw a special report with
Prett Behar last night, but he was talking to the
US's what's the official term, the trade negotiator. That's not right,
but it's the head guy who negotiates trade. And he
was showing Brett the book they have, and it's quite
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a thick book. It looks like a you know, a textbook,
so covered textbook of the non tear off trade barriers
that all of our trading partners have, you know, their
protectionist policies, their special fees, their regulations that only their
domestic people can follow. So's it's a barrier that looks like,
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you know, a reasonable regulation. And the guy was making
the point that, yeah, we're trying to entangle a lot
of this stuff in every country is different, but it's
a thicket of really difficult to justify at this point
in the twenty first century, barriers to US companies being
able to sell their goods over seas. I think at
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its heart, a lot of this stuff is really really good.
I might not love the way Trump's going about it,
but I thought that was really interesting and revealing, and
I wish more Americans knew about that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I saw that article you were referencing in the Wall
Street Journal about how China's in trouble and this is
really hurting them. So wouldn't that be something if they like,
are really really getting pinched hard and have to come around. Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, the piece is all about how they're really feeling
the pinch and doing their best to hide it and making,
you know, strong statements about they are willing to fight
till the end.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But they've got.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Millions and millions of jobs at stake or now idled.
They've got factories shutting down, dropping export orders, weakest production
of the country's factories in more than a year.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
A lot of the numbers look like the early.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Days of COVID, So yeah, it may be uh not
more than a couple of minutes before, at least in
the back channels, China's calling old you know, Trumper or
as negotiators and saying, hey, hey, this is so crazy.
I said stuff. I regret you said stuff. I'm sure
you regret. Let's come to a deal.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Parenting question, what's the best way to deal with this?
My kids keep losing our fingernail clippers. Make them buy
another pair. They don't cost much, so I don't know
if it's much of a penalty. But I just keep
getting them and they just disappear, and nobody claims to
have any idea where they are, Like, nobody claims they
used it last or anything. They just disappear. And it
(24:19):
ain't me because I was able to hang onto the
same fingernail clippers like for decades prior to children. Yeah, yeah,
that's a new one on there.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I'm tempted to say them, are there like ten pairs
of toenail clippers underneath your bed? Somewhere or something whatever
are they going, Yes, it's Michael Well. Hanson has an
interesting idea. He said, every time they lose them, have
them buy you two pairs by two. Yeah. Wow, is
it punished now, that's a disincentive. Yeah. Or put them
on a chain like it's a penn at an old
timey bank, right, and they just hang there on the counter. Yeah,
(24:54):
to swing your foot up on the sink or something.
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I've never had a great memory of the past. I
have friends who have near photographic memories who remind me
of the high jinks we got into in school and
that sort of thing, and I'm like, that happened, really,
that's crazy. But there are certain memories I have that
just seared themselves into my brain. And one of them
is I was in sixth or seventh grade, which is it?
(25:26):
And I was a typical tussle haired American youth, sweaty
and dirty all day long, playing baseball all day and
my mom would constantly harangue me to clean my finger
under my fingernails and clip my nails now and again
because I didn't give a damn And one.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Day long fingernails are disgusting to me. Oh, they're horrible.
I mentioned that from the Bob Dylan movie because every
every interview I've ever seen with him, if you see
his hands, his long, dirty pig nails. They did a
good job of having Timothy Shallowmey replicate that in the
movie So Gross. He was old enough to know better.
But there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I am a middle school youth and we were at
some outdoor event and I asked my mom if she
had nail clippers. I said, yeah, I really need to
clip my nails. And she gave me a look and chuckled,
and I knew, and she knew that. I knew that
she knew it was because I had a girlfriend.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Ah, And that exchange of looks and my mom's chuckle,
for some reason, is just seared into my memory because
I was mildly embarrassed and she my mom was a
very kind and loving person, but she.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Made it clear, Okay, now you got a girlfriend, saw
you don't want to look like a HOPEO.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
That has worked. That has helped me with my son,
my high schooler. Oh, the girl's coming into his life.
He definitely, uh, you know, I don't have to bug
him to shower or any that sort of thing. It's
more of a how much cologne is enough? Is bigger problem?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
It's oh lord, yeah, I'm distracted by even the noveled
of the thought of that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Uh yeah. The U a role in the in.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
My life, of the various good women who have common
some gone in getting me to be a non idiot
non slacker cannot be overstated.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Men left to their own devices, if you didn't have
that element to it would be poorly dressed, unkempt, bad smelling,
and in many cases unambitious. True.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
As I've said before, you know, I'll not get specific
into this, but I am willing to be a loser
in my own eyes. I'm not willing to be a.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Loser in her eyes or your kids kids do that
or oh goodness knows. Yeah, right, if you have a suggestion,
I like the idea of making them by two bears.
At some point, I think we're going to figure out
where they go and we're just going to be swimming
and fringing out clippers. Trump fired as National security advisor.
(28:01):
Don't know if this is how big a deal this is,
or if this is for reasons of disagreement or or what,
but we're keeping on our own that among other stories.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Stay here there.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
You have your national champions seagull imitator kid in Britain.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
It's the contest they have every year, and you want
it for the second year in a row because he
sounds exactly like a seagull. Yeah, yes, that's why, and
the crowd went wild. That used to be.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The world's most important empire, Great Britain.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
He's good though, that was a pretty good seagull. He
was beyond good based on my memory. Fantastic. So Kamala
Harris gave a speech last night. It kind of her
comeback speech. I have resigned myself to the fact that
she's going to be the freaking governor of California. No
oh yeah, you want to bet money. The only question
(29:10):
is whether she want runs or not. Anyway, I haven't
heard this portion of the speech, and then I've got
some uh, some punditry around it. What number was it?
It stand by everyone sixty three who saw.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
That video from a couple of weeks ago, the one
of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake.
Google it if you've not seen it. So that scene
has been on my mind. Everybody's asked me what you've
been thinking about these days? Well so in the video,
(29:52):
for those who haven't seen it, here those elephants were
and as soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath
their feet, they got in a circle and stood next
to each other to protect the most vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Think about it. What a powerful metaphor. So I'm I'm
predisposed to not like her because she's black and a woman.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
But that was parody, friends, that was parody, sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
But but so yeah, I just I don't like her personality.
And I so I could see how because the crowd
was digging in. I mean, you heard them there. I
don't know who those people are. There was somebody wrote
one of the reviews of the speech, was there is
a clamoring for her voice right now, said a former
Harris senior advisor, to which Charles C. W. Cook responded
(30:50):
in the National Review. There is not. There has, in fact,
never ever been less of a clamoring for anything that
is on offer. In the history of clamoring, no people
has ever clamored left. The American people are clamoring for
Kamala Harris's voice. She is clamorless she is a hollow clamory,
which is pretty funny. I agree. I don't know who
(31:11):
are those people that are clamoring for They're people that
are gonna benefit from her being governor. That's who they are.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Yeah, her posse, they will benefit financially from her.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Being governor and it'll give them more power. But then
Tim Walls also did a speech recently or did an interview,
and he said, look, we had the most qualified person
who'd ever run for president in the country's history at
the top of the ticket, that in itself should have
got this thing one. That's an absurd assertion. Yeah, I'm
(31:44):
a number of people who responded to that. Megan mccardial,
now of The Dispatch, formerly of The Washington Post, I think,
or maybe she's still the Washington's Post. I don't know. Anyway,
I like her act. The most qualified people ever have
included Eisenhower, Bush, one Grant, Fdr Herbert Hoover, a list
that suggests, first of all, qualifications don't guarantee results, which
is true, but at any rate, that lesson does not
(32:06):
by any metric, include Kamala Harris at all, which obviously
is true.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Or are you going to run the Tim Wall's clip
that we have. I wasn't plan but this has gotten
a bit of attention.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, I hit it. What's your Michael sixty five? I
knew I was on the ticket.
Speaker 9 (32:24):
I would argue because we did a lot of amazing
progressive things in Minnesota that improved people's lives. But I
also was on the ticket quite honestly, you know, because
I could code talk to white guys watching football fixing
their truck doing that that I could put them at ease.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I know a lot of guys like that, Tim, and
they all think here of Putts. They all think here
just a ridiculous weak act and a parody of what
you claim to be.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, so you were you were not the guy to
code talk to that crowd. Yeah. The polster for CNN
pointed out to in their own polling. He was on
CNN today on the question of who'd be doing a
better job as president at this point, Trump or Harris.
(33:11):
Trump wins forty five forty three, and the CNN polster
said these numbers should be a major wake up call
for Democrats. Even now, with Trump's softer numbers and everything
that's happened, Trump still beats Democrats. He beats Harris forty
five forty three. And then on the question who's doing
a better job Trump or Congress Dems in Congress, Trump
(33:36):
wins forty thirty two. On who can deal better with
the US's problems. Wow, even at this point, I saw
a poll, well, go ahead. I saw a poel yesterday
on Republicans about their own party, Democrats about their own party.
Republicans approval rating of their own party in Congresses in
(33:58):
the mid forties. For Democrats, it's the lowest number they've
ever had in the low twenties of Democrats, and they're
feeling about their own Congress. Michael, get clip eleven.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Ready, you're saying, people think Trump does a better job
than the Democrats in Congress.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
In spite of this, Yetta.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Die and and Ytta die and eye, you must build
this world from.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
The Democrats singing on the Capitol steps, Yetta Diea.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
This is not slaying your opinion. You're not impressed. I
always so glad that that generation is gone that remembers
the civil rights movement. That's enough, Michael, the whole generation,
more than enough, the whole generation that you know, for
a for a valid cause. And it was very successfu
(35:00):
marched and sang on the steps and everything like that
for civil rights democrats ever since then tried to do
that with every freaking issue, whether it's DOGE or trans
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Ah enough right, it's it reminds me of like you
go into your your dad's closet and take his Vietnam
War fatigues and put him on to go down to
the Little league meeting to talk about whether you had
to have an outfield fence or not.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No, you're not fighting that war. Quit acting like you are.
It's pathetic, armstrong and getty.
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