April 24, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The many weaknesses of the NY trial against Trump...
- The Mt. Rushmore of action movie stars...
- The Anti-Israel protesters mindset...
- Cows are on the offensive!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center is Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Becker told the jury he was convinced women would come
forward with salacious stories to sell because Trump was the
most eligible bachelor and dated the most beautiful women. Pecker
started to detail one example, the story of former Playboy
model Karen McDougall, who claims to have had a year
long affair with Trump, which he denies. Pecker said he
immediately called Cohen. Finally, Pecker testified he and Trump got
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on the phone. He said he told Trump to buy
the rights to McDougall's story. Trump's response, I don't buy stories.
Anytime you do anything like this, it always gets out. Ultimately,
Pecker's company paid Karen McDougall one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the rights to her story, but never published it,
all to protect Trump. Becker's testimony resumes Thursday, Yeah, none
of that's a crime.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That just I don't understand that report it at all.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And then Bill Clinton's wife called the woman a crazy
slot and nobody believed her. Yeah, not a crime either,
just the way they covered their situation with the president
having affairs.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Just what are we talking about here?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And why does that reporter keep calling the witness a pecker?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's just rude and.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man if when when Stormy Daniels gets on the stand,
if she doesn't at some point say which pecker are
we referring to?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
To get a lot of zoo exactly zoom zammo.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So I'm looking at the law fair of now our
politics that are accusing your opponent of something, whether you know,
totally illegitimate or semi legitimate or whatever. I look at
the rampant crazy illegal immigration, the Marxist it's demonstrating on
college campuses, all of it, what it all crumbles. I'm
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not gonna say, oh my god, how did it crumble?
I'm going to say, well, of course it crumbled. It
does not feel and listen. I'm not prone to doom
saying or depressing people or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's not the way I'm made. But I've been a
part of.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Companies, rock and roll, bands, relationships, organizations right that every
sign was there, Yes, this is crumbling, it's crumbling, and
then it crumbles. I feel like American society is there.
I will say this.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It's been there many times before, quite a few times before,
and we've salvaged it. On the other hand, we had
a great, great deal more unity on the basics of
what people believe about this country.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think the base level agreement was just different than
what we got going on now.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, I think the diversity, which is our greatest strength,
will be our undoing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We do not have unity.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But anyway, I'm going to see if I can profit
mightily then buy an island and move there.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You know, where our boss was for the last two weeks.
We're wondering where our boss was for the last two weeks.
Found out yesterday when I saw him in the hallway.
He's been in China for two weeks. He's on vacation
in China, and he said he's willing to come on
the air and talk a little bit about it. But
he was talking about how fantastic that place is. And
we got into a conversation about the younger generation in
this country is going to be perfectly willing to trade
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the not being you know, scrutinized, followed lack of freedom,
all these different sorts of things for the sort of
comfortable life you get middle class China, clean, no crime,
don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You don't.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You're never gonna be rich. You're going to live in
a small place. They're going to tell you what to drive.
But you got plenty of entertainment in the intersafe. Yeah great,
and it's just that's that's it's gonna work. Yeah, there
are signs that it might be about to collapse that
I was going to get to later as they have
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some serious, serious internal problems, well rapidly. And I understand
the appeal. It's the appeal of Satan. Satan is the
great tempter. But a lot of their collapsing the problem
is is that that that ridiculous one child policy, which
might have been the biggest mistake in the history of
human organization.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
If you didn't do that, you could probably keep it going.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
People just to live kind of moderately okay lives, but
no fear, no fear getting fired or how am I
going to make it or competition or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, that's an interesting thought experiment if they had not
had the one child policy.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But I'll just stuck on that.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Control your soul's desire for.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Freedom, exactly, control yourself desire for freedom, shut up if
it's sole. So back to the Trump trial briefly, and
I haven't read the text yet, but I'm sure there
are plenty say Jack, the crime is not that, it's
the filing of the.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
FEC blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, but the media is treating it like the Karen
McDougall and they killed the story, paying.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Her one hundred thousand. Who cares?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And so the media treating like that like it's just groundbreaking, awful, abhorrent,
obviously illegal stuff is driving me nuts.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh yeah, it's utterly irrelevant and they're completely dishonest and
they know it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
They're smart people. Aaron Katurski knows precisely what's going on.
So I'm reading Mark, the reporter of for ABC. I'm
reading Mark Alprin's analysis today of the trial so far,
and he said it isn't just Jonathan Turley who's regularly
on Fox who thinks the Brag case is weaker than
the seven worst tracks on the Tortured Poets Department, which
is new line Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
One nice Taylor Swift reference.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Check out the essential reading New York Times op ed
piece by Boston University law professor Jed Handelsman which I'm
going to read from in just a second. Who's gone
from thinking the case is a legal embarrassment to thinking
it's a historic mistake.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Bad prosecutions make for bad politics.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Those with Trump derangement syndrome don't seem to realize that
Trump could still avoid a conviction which might win him
the election. But by all means, enjoy your daily surge
of schadenfreud, which is exactly what's going on on CNN
and MSNBC, acting like we finally got him.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Isn't this fantastic? Smiles all around.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Finally he's in a courtroom, Finally he's getting his come
up and okay.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And they're delighted.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It is schadenfreud because they're delighted that he is bored
and angry and unable to campaign because of an abuse
of the legal system, which is just, I mean, is
unprecedented and scary because it will go both ways.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It has to go both ways. That's just the law
of the jungle.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
If one side uses a weapon, the other side will
use that weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And if I'm a Democrat, I'm furious that this is
the case. In getting all this attention, how about we
didn't do this, and we focused on the classified documents
or his role in January sixth, something where he at
least got some argument. This allows so many people to say,
including me, it's you're just trying to get him for anything.
It's just politics.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Anyway, So this law professor for Boston University, who in
no way is a Trump supporter. The headline in his
opinion guessessay printed in the New York Times today is
I thought the brad case against Trump was a legal embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Now I think it's a historic mistake.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
After listening to Monday's opening statement by prosecutors, I still
think the Manhattan DA has made a historic mistake. They're
vague allegation about a criminal scheme to corrupt the twenty
sixteen presidential election has me more concerned than ever about
how their unprecedented use of state law and the persistent
avoidance of specifying an election crime or a valid theory
of fraud. And he goes through a recap of explaining
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what's going on right there looking at the case, Well, well,
let me skip down to this. Instead of a theory
of defrauding state regulars regulators, mister Bragg has adopted a
weak theory of election interference, and the justice described the
case in as a summary of it during the jury
selection is an allegation of falsifying business records to conceal
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an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the twenty sixteen election.
As a reality check, it is legal for a candidate
to pay for a non disclosure agreement.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah. I don't know why this needs to be stated
out loud.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
In the New York Times, but it's not getting stated
on the ABC Evening News when they do the story.
It should be stated every single time. Hush money is unseemly,
but it is legal. The election law scholar Ard Hasten
rightly observed calling it election interference actually cheapens the term
and undermines the deadly serious charges in the real election
interference cases.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I would agree completely.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Trying to tamp down a scandal is not election fraud.
That's campaigning and boiled down to its essence, this case
is Trump tried to keep a scandal quiet, and part
of the way he did that was to make recompensating
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Michael Cohen look like legal fees, which is a violation
of state laws.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So he violated state.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Law to perpetrate a different crime, which was federal election fraud,
which consisted of not letting voters know that he stuffed
the porn star allegedly. I'm telling you the word weak
is not weak enough to describe that legal theory.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And so here's the final paragraph from this Boston University
law professor who's no Trump fan in the New York Times.
This case is still an embarrassment of prosecutorial ethics and
apparent selective prosecution.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, I wish the.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Supposedly calling balls and strikes media would just hint at
that a little bit, or at least throw in the
caveat when you do the breathless you know, the thing
we heard from Aaron Katerski portn star playmate, one hundred
thousand dollars affair. At least throw in None of that's illegal,
by the way, it's perfectly It just it's interesting and maybe,
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you know, kind of fun to talk about, but none
of that's illegal.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I would suggest that if you're waiting for the mainstream
media to call balls and strikes, as you put it,
you're also still waiting for Saint Nicholas to penetrate your chimney,
to send it and distribute babbles to the young and
old alike.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Me.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Do they know Does Aaron Kotursky know that what he's
talking about isn't the crime? I think so, okay, I
think so. Yeah. Yeah, he's a smart guy.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Are you ready for the snowfer? Will you embrace the snowfer?
Are you a fan of the snowfer?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Stay with us?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Is this one of those combined words things. It's exactly that.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Okay, I'm trying to figure out what the words are. Okay, yes,
I will give you a hint. The second half is
loafer snow fer, stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Speaking of Trump and the justice system, much more serious
to my mind is the uh, the election, uh, the
January sixth stuff, the insurrection stuff, uh.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
And the question of presidential immunity. The Supreme Court is
actually going to be hearing the arguments on tomorrow. We
can have a preview of that later on putting putting
the Tangerine Tornado aside, Please, for the love of Thomas Jefferson,
can we do that? The question of if a president
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can be prosecuted for things he did while in office
that may appear to have violated the law is an
incredibly important question, and one that it's just well, on
one hand, it's astonishing. On one head, it's not that
we have and haven't ever really considered until now. Okay,
so we can we can talk about that.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I will slip on my snowfers and prepare for all
this upcoming information to double up on the shoe segment.
I'll be wearing my Caitlin Clark nikes. The contract details
are out. Is it misogyny stay tuned? Or racism? Wait
a minute, y racism too, Okay, rasogyny?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Hum hm, oh wow, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I would put Clint on it.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Clint Eastwood was always my hero, my inspiration.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He was one of those guys just a grade park
and bodybuilding to spend time with me and talk to me.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
To come up with I think it goes to proofs
she He's a very multi faceted guy. He can do
drama and comedy whatever and all the same. But he
was in very quite a few seminal action films like
Diehards a classic and those things don't call away.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So that's Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about who
should be on the action star Rushmore always liked that
conversation just because I'm from South Dakota and what to
Mount rushmore every summer and think it's funny that because
some Polish guy decided to carve four presidents in a
mountain in the middle of nowhere, we now use that
as the standard for anything. Yeah, and they can only
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be four and that's where the arguments ensue.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right, So are sliced alone and Arnold on the Mount
Rush That's.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What I'm assuming, And then they're picking two others. Arnold
certainly would beyond a doubt. And then semester saloon, I guess, yeah,
a couple of rambos. Oh many rambos, so many rambos?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, and then Clint is an action star. I'm not sure.
There's a bit of a stretch and so too stop whining. Yeah,
I don't know. Hmm, and I don't care. Are you
are you ready for this? What Broncobilly? We've got to
remember that movie? Do we have to remember that movie?
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What was the fighting Orangutan movie? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Wish?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And then there was a sequel to it, right any
which way you can? Right?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Wow, yeah, I quit the knowledge their son.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I know my orangutang movies, But are you ready for
the snowfer jack. It's not a sneaker, it's not a loafer,
it's a snowfer New Balance has the nineteen oh six
l coming out in August, but.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
It's already been memed into oblivion. We'll post to see
you can see pictures of it. It is a truly
frankinstinion bit of footwear. It's midway between a New Balance
running shoe and a classic loafer.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Is it mostly the idea of having a snow shoe
you can slip into. I don't know if it's our
aging population or because we're so heavy now, or we're
just getting lazier, but shoes that you don't have to
bend over for are very hot right now.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I don't know, but some comments. I can't wait to
mow my lawn in these Bad Boys Ride one comment
on Instagram. Church at nine and dunking on the kids
in the gym at eleven right another it is an
unholy looking shoe anyway. It'll be at Armstrong and Giddy
dot com under hotlinks.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Speaking of Duncan on the kids, maybe you will in
the new Caitlin Clark nikes when they come out. It
looks like she's going to get an eight year, twenty
eight million dollar deal. Most people were thinking it would
be quite a bit larger than that, and you know,
claims of whatever misogyny or unfairness or whatever. I'm surprised
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it's not more. One of your big time sports reporter
guys thought it would be more around the eighty million
dollar range than twenty eight million dollars, because there's going
to be a lot of girls across the country wearing
Caitlyn Clark shoes.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And I mean because I see junior high high school girls.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
They all wear some sort of tennis shoe, lots of
high top tennis shoes. So I'm just surprised it's not
a biggerdoe. Yeah, it's it's complicated. It has to do
with the incentives and the rest of it, and they
could easily renew it in the future and it could
become much much bigger, could she be the of course,
most girls I see are wearing Jordan's of some sort
if they're not wearing Chuck Taylor's. I don't know how
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much how much did Chuck Taylor get back in my
one hundred and fifty bucks right that in nineteen eighteen
for his shoe. That's clearly the most successful endorsement of
a shoe in world history.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, I don't think he got squat. Probably didn't get
a seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Now, Bernie Sanders, who probably were Chuck Taylor's high school
all right, sneaker historian Bernie Sanders there one of the
most surprising voices on the protesters from Democrats that I
heard yesterday, among other things, on the way stay with.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Plead to do whatever you can to not work, not
go to class, not do research, or otherwise the functioning
of this despicable place. Do they meet on the man,
You all are incredibly smart people who are so knowledgeable
about things like postcolonialism and Marxism and other theories. It
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is time for you to get out of your libraries
and labs and put your theories into action and stands.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Tell me about yourself.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Jeffrey Well not much to tell.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Him, was one of the authors of the port Huron
statement that the original port Huron statement, I love you
can compromise second round, and then I you hear of
the Seattle seven That was me six other guys.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
So the cliche of the angry important history making college
radical lampoon there in the great the Big Lebowski. Rather,
I love that you ever hear of the Seattle seven.
That was me with six other guys. On the other hand,
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that first clip was a teacher at Columbia.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I love this comment from Noah Pollock.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Conservatives have been warning for fifty years the universities were
being taken over by Marxists, and now they're literally announcing
through bullhorns on the quad that the university has been
taken over by Marxists. And why aren't you activating your
Marxist beliefs. And you're so such smart people.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
You know so much about colonialism and Marxism and other theories,
the critical theory garbage. It's all neo Marxism. It's all
meant to tear down the system and institute a communist utopia.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Seriously, so quite a bit of violence at these rallies.
And as you've heard, the Jewish students at Columbia were
told to stay home. I guess all the classes are
online now. They're going to be hybrid the rest of
the year. The rest of the year. You sent your
kid to this Ivy League school and they're not even
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going to be in school because the school's not willing
to tell the radicals to get off the lawn and
so we can function as a university. That's crazy, but
I thought this somehow I missed this the other day.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Do you know that name? If you
follow politics, you do. She used to be the leader
of the DNC and she is a really annoying lefty
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partisan on all the talk shows, stood up for Hillary
blah blah blah person. Anyway, she tweeted this out over
the weekend. Hamas and Iran want Jews to feel unsafe everywhere.
Till now they couldn't reach US Jews thanks to pro Hamas,
campus rioters and feckless administrators.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Threats to Jews grow. Incitement is not free speech.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
College leaders must stop enabling terror and keep Jewish students safe.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
She actually called.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
The protesters pro Hamas campus rioters as a lefty Democrat
because that's what they are. But often when you say it,
you know you're yelled at for lumping in the extremes
with the people who just care about the babies in
Palestine who weren't getting formula.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Now, the young protesters, that's not it. It's just an excuse.
All of this is just an excuse to tear the
system down. As James Lindsay put it, if you want
to own something, you call it racist until you own it,
until everybody's so afraid to speak out, you bring your
own people on board, like the universities. You're a racist,
you're the patriarchy, you're a misogynist, you're a homill, fall whatever,
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until people are so terrified into silence.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Now true or false? The radical left owns the universities.
Of course they do.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
They're completely in control because they got everybody to back
off by making phony moral arguments. I've got some great
examples of that if you want to hear them.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
But here's one of my favorite tweets I came across
from yesterday the guy that is Iowah hawk blog. Hey,
remember like five years ago when colleges were building safe
spaces full of fainting couches and trauma counselors in cases
students saw somebody wearing a sombrero at a Halloween party.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Good times, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
They had coloring books and puppies in room in case
you's somebody who saw somebody wearing black face at a
party so that you could go on with your life.
And now they're chucking chairs and bottles at cops to
stand up for Hamas.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Right, that's precisely what I'm talking about. That was all pretending. Now,
they actually convinced a lot of kids to become that crazy.
They taught them to be mentally ill. But the idea
was any offense, no matter how tiny. He was so
devastating and hurtful. It was like felony assault. And so
anybody with any decency thought, well, I don't want to
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commit a felony assault. I just won't say what these
people are telling me not to say.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
That's specifically part of the strategy to get you to
shut up. Here's this guy was suspended from Columbia two
weeks ago. He's refusing to leave and I love this
because he's like, he shows all of his cards.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's been leading chance.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
He's still in his apartment tweeting and leading protests on campus.
He's emerged as a ring leader of student activists. His name,
for what it's worth, is Aiden Peresei, leading chants such
as Columbia, we see you. You imprisoned children too. So
wait a minute, the campus scary radical activist would be
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Hamas members with their kafeas and their masks and all
now their children. Okay, he's used as social media account
as solicit supplies for his amazing comrades comrades. Ah, that's
funny that nomenclature should sound familiar to those of us
who are a bit older, including blankets, tarps, and coffees coffee.
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The university's afraid to boot him out of his apartment
and boot him off campus, and then he writes on
his Instagram as I am writing this, I am sitting
in my campus apartment, which Columbia University is attempting to
illegally evict me from. Uh oh, even though he's been
thrown out of the university, leaving me housing, food and
healthcare insecure.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Now that's the victim again. Wait a minute, So that's
a thing. I spent a lot of my life housing
healthcare and what was the other one, uh housing food
and healthcare insecure?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, well I was poor. I weigh all a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
So there he's a victim again. And if you stand
up to him, you're cruel in a brute, which again
makes people think, well, I don't want to be crude
and a brute. So we will resist institutional repression, just
as the Palestinians have resisted occupation. We must remain steadfast
in our commitment to university devestment and to a free Palestine.
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Ka Viva la intifada in Salah, we will rise victorious.
Oh so he's an Islamist as well. How interesting? And
then you have this unintentionally hilarious story. I absolutely love this.
This is from Princeton. The Princeton Young Democratic Socialists of
America released an open letter Monday condemning discriminatory materials in
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the French language program at Princeton University.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You may have caught a whiff of this story. A
grad students teaching this French course, and part of his
teaching is slide shows that asked questions and used French vocabulary.
So anyway, but his position is jeopardized after he raised concerns.
Have the socialists raised concerns that he was causing them
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anxiety and grief and pain? He had all these slides
he used with starting with several silver backed guerrillas and
an image of King Kong, before presenting a picture of
former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama gorillas,
then the Obamas.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
The open letter states.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The letter was sent to the chairman of the French
and Italian Department, as well as the dean of the
graduate school and the dean of the faculty. A photo
included in the open letter show is part of a
slide show from a course in which he uses gorillas
described with such adjectives in French as grand petit gentille,
as the gorillas are described there as a slide with
a photo of the Obamas in question is Saint Maurice.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Are they married?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Except that that was taken completely out of context. Those
are two completely different slides shows. This guy uses all
sorts of slides. They illustrate all sorts of different things
to quiz you on vocabulary, and it was completely faked up.
But then you get to again the terminology, the slogans,
the language that these people used.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
The.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Materials presented without clear educational value, have deeply offended and
caused discomfort among students. Well, blondheaded gorillas certainly caused me
discomfort in an odd way. I find myself attracted yet repulsed.
That's from a letter from the Princeton Young Democratic Socialists.
The student organization calls for the Department of French and
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Italian to quote, acknowledge and resolve the damage done by
the course materials. The letters also been signed by student
organizations such as the Princeton College Democrats, the Black Student Union,
the Alliance of Jewish Progressives, the Princeton Progressive Publication, and
Princeton Students for Prison Education.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Abolition and Reform, among others. Yeah, these are the people
who want to abolish prisons. The open letter alleges grad
the grad student brought the course materials to.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Blah blah huh.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
It's absolutely on display now their tools and how they
use them.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So this guy didn't do anything. Didn't do anything at all.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
His teaching is thoroughly defensible and it sounds kind of
fun honestly. But they feign offense. They feign what they
say serious anxiety and damage and the harm caused. They
feign all of this stuff. They fake it until the
university backs down. Then they own them. Don't fall for
this crap.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So you got the intellectual leaders there, and I believe
all that sort of stuff. I don't think a lot
of the college kids in the odd know this stuff
is going on. They just go along with whatever. All
the other cool people are doing because they want to
be in with the cool crowd. Here's some of them
being interviewed. It's got played on Hannity last night.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
What river?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Okay, that ext question is not noting that.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
No, there's an actual river and an actual sea. Yeah,
I'm aware you don't know, But what river? What sea?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
The river.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
That little.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Is beside Israel and the housing in territories?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
What it's the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Does Israel have a right to defend itself. No one
has the right to kill thirty crowds and people.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
No one has a right to dismember babies and put
them in evans and kill what.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That never happened? What is your solutions?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So I've heard more of that this morning. The that
is a apparently a widespread situation of the kids. Don't
believe any of that Hamas stuff happened on October seventh,
So yeah, I mean that definitely helps your protesting if
you don't believe that story, If you think that's a
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made up story that Hamas went into Israel and slaughtered
all those people in such a brutal way, you know,
if you're not starting with the same even like basic
facts on the on what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's that helps explain a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I mean, it's a lot easier to be pro Hamas
if you're not coming at it from the same place
I am of, you know, reading those accounts and seeing
some of those videos.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
They don't believe any of that happened.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So Hamas is just a liberation organization trying to help
the Bileestinians.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, this is an old, old story.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It reminds me of some of the prominent journalists, American
journalists in the middle part of the twentieth century who
went to the Soviet Union and came back and saying
there's no oppression going on, there are no gulags, there's no.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Pilgrims going on.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
This is a it's an amazing system, and it seems
to be working beautifully. And people thought, wow, okay, so
the ugly stuff we've heard about Soviet Union is false.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
It was one hundred percent true. In fact, it was
far worse than we'd heard. But yeah, just absolutely saying
none of that's happening, that didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I it happens in history. I've never chanted or marched
for any cause. I don't know if that makes me
a good person or bad person, but I've never done that.
But I certainly think if I was ever chanting something,
I would at least wonder what am I chanting?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
What does this mean? That's what's surprising to me.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
That is a measure of how easy it is to
radicalize young people who are desperate to become adults, desperate
to have a purpose in life, desperate to be seen
as important and cool, and probably a little scary. People
like being a little scary, and so you can convince
them that this is the battle for you.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Let me think of Yeah, I'm in that battle.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And they don't even bother learning what they're talking, So
start chanting, Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't worry about it. That's what happens to the
people living there.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Exactly what is supposed to happen to them. Anyway, This
is going to be going on for quite some time.
Is this getting worse? Has it peaked or is it
on the retreat?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
That's that's a complicated question because unlike in the past,
the radical Marxists have control of the universities. They own
them now, and and elementary schools and high schools to
a large extent too, and so they may well headfake
that yeah, we're we're cracking down on this, but that's
another time worn technique of radicals, when you got to
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lay low, you lay low.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I think it's peaked at Columbia, but it's growing nationwide.
It's a whole bunch of other campuses that are on
board now, Berkeley of course, and Surprising along and other
So I think it's growing, not shrinking.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
And we'll be talking about this for a while. Oh sorry,
I didn't give a big enough cue.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Here's my big fingerqueuing you, Michael, Thank you, comrade.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
The FCA has found fragments of the bird flu virus
in some samples of pasteurized milk in the United States.
This comes less than a month after an outbreak of
bird flu is found in dairy cows in several states.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
The FDA says the.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Commercial milk supply is safe, that pasteurization is likely to
activate the virus, but that testing is still going on.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Daring, all I took from that report was that cows
have colonialized the bird's flu.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It's cultural appropriation. Huh.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I always love stories that are something kind of scary
ish sounding. Happened, but there's zero to be worried about. Okay,
so why did you even bring it up?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Would be my question. Yeah, saw this thought it was
kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I haven't been watching the NBA show that I loved
so much during the NBA season, especially the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It's really great with Charles Barkley and Shack and everybody.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Last night they had Charles Barkley forced to work out
surrounded by donuts.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
That's entertainment, that's entertainment.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I have a fat guy with an eating problem working
out surrounded by.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Boxes of donuts. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I joined next door yesterday. Had been encouraged too many
times and I never had been on it before. It's
pretty hilarious.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I suppose it is. I suppose it's roughly the same
in every neighborhood everywhere in America.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
But lots of lost cats, I mean just found slash
lost cats. Tremendous number of those. Yeah, yeah, lots.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Of Does anybody know who drives the red car because
it is beating a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
One of my favorite ones was some poor woman whose
ring was stuck on her finger and she just couldn't
get it off and it was starting to hurt, and
does anybody have any ideas, because that's how I would
solve the problem. I'd certainly go on next door and
ask the question, wait for replies from medical professional. What
are you talking about, you idiot? I'm going to ask
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the internet. There was a follow up later in the
day though, they had her daughter had taken her to
the fire department and apparently they very quickly got the
ring off of her finger, so thank god all was well.
And people selling just garbage, I mean selling stuff. Nobody's
If you get somebody to come pick it up and
not charge you, you will be lucky, right, And I
(34:48):
understand how it's disappointing you paid less furniture. Especially if
you paid money for this, you'd think it'd be worth something,
but shockingly it's not.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
It's not worth anything.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
There's nothing worth worth worth less than used furniture. Yeah,
it's shocking. Last time we moved it was it was crazy.
We gave it away or just brought it to the dump.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
A lot of kids, a lot of kids toys that
you paid good money for are similar. Just you can't
believe that they're just not worth anything. But they aren't
that's disappointing. Next Door is pretty fun though. It's a
good way you want to kill time. It's not doom scrolling.
It's just I don't know what it is, but it's
a it's a it's funny. We need to revisit Joe
Biden at some point when he used to talk about Charlottesville.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I hope you'll stay tuned for that.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Armstrong and
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center is Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Becker told the jury he was convinced women would come
forward with salacious stories to sell because Trump was the
most eligible bachelor and dated the most beautiful women. Pecker
started to detail one example, the story of former Playboy
model Karen McDougall, who claims to have had a year
long affair with Trump, which he denies. Pecker said he
immediately called Cohen. Finally, Pecker testified he and Trump got
(00:35):
on the phone. He said he told Trump to buy
the rights to McDougall's story. Trump's response, I don't buy stories.
Anytime you do anything like this, it always gets out. Ultimately,
Pecker's company paid Karen McDougall one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the rights to her story, but never published it,
all to protect Trump. Becker's testimony resumes Thursday, Yeah, none
of that's a crime.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That just I don't understand that report it at all.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And then Bill Clinton's wife called the woman a crazy
slot and nobody believed her. Yeah, not a crime either,
just the way they covered their situation with the president
having affairs.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Just what are we talking about here?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And why does that reporter keep calling the witness a pecker?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's just rude and.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man if when when Stormy Daniels gets on the stand,
if she doesn't at some point say which pecker are
we referring to?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
To get a lot of zoo exactly zoom zammo.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So I'm looking at the law fair of now our
politics that are accusing your opponent of something, whether you know,
totally illegitimate or semi legitimate or whatever. I look at
the rampant crazy illegal immigration, the Marxist it's demonstrating on
college campuses, all of it, what it all crumbles. I'm
(02:06):
not gonna say, oh my god, how did it crumble?
I'm going to say, well, of course it crumbled. It
does not feel and listen. I'm not prone to doom
saying or depressing people or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's not the way I'm made. But I've been a
part of.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Companies, rock and roll, bands, relationships, organizations right that every
sign was there, Yes, this is crumbling, it's crumbling, and
then it crumbles. I feel like American society is there.
I will say this.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It's been there many times before, quite a few times before,
and we've salvaged it. On the other hand, we had
a great, great deal more unity on the basics of
what people believe about this country.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think the base level agreement was just different than
what we got going on now.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, I think the diversity, which is our greatest strength,
will be our undoing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We do not have unity.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But anyway, I'm going to see if I can profit
mightily then buy an island and move there.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You know, where our boss was for the last two weeks.
We're wondering where our boss was for the last two weeks.
Found out yesterday when I saw him in the hallway.
He's been in China for two weeks. He's on vacation
in China, and he said he's willing to come on
the air and talk a little bit about it. But
he was talking about how fantastic that place is. And
we got into a conversation about the younger generation in
this country is going to be perfectly willing to trade
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the not being you know, scrutinized, followed lack of freedom,
all these different sorts of things for the sort of
comfortable life you get middle class China, clean, no crime,
don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You don't.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You're never gonna be rich. You're going to live in
a small place. They're going to tell you what to drive.
But you got plenty of entertainment in the intersafe. Yeah great,
and it's just that's that's it's gonna work. Yeah, there
are signs that it might be about to collapse that
I was going to get to later as they have
(04:17):
some serious, serious internal problems, well rapidly. And I understand
the appeal. It's the appeal of Satan. Satan is the
great tempter. But a lot of their collapsing the problem
is is that that that ridiculous one child policy, which
might have been the biggest mistake in the history of
human organization.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
If you didn't do that, you could probably keep it going.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
People just to live kind of moderately okay lives, but
no fear, no fear getting fired or how am I
going to make it or competition or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, that's an interesting thought experiment if they had not
had the one child policy.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But I'll just stuck on that.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Control your soul's desire for.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Freedom, exactly, control yourself desire for freedom, shut up if
it's sole. So back to the Trump trial briefly, and
I haven't read the text yet, but I'm sure there
are plenty say Jack, the crime is not that, it's
the filing of the.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
FEC blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, but the media is treating it like the Karen
McDougall and they killed the story, paying.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Her one hundred thousand. Who cares?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And so the media treating like that like it's just groundbreaking, awful, abhorrent,
obviously illegal stuff is driving me nuts.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh yeah, it's utterly irrelevant and they're completely dishonest and
they know it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
They're smart people. Aaron Katurski knows precisely what's going on.
So I'm reading Mark, the reporter of for ABC. I'm
reading Mark Alprin's analysis today of the trial so far,
and he said it isn't just Jonathan Turley who's regularly
on Fox who thinks the Brag case is weaker than
the seven worst tracks on the Tortured Poets Department, which
is new line Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
One nice Taylor Swift reference.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Check out the essential reading New York Times op ed
piece by Boston University law professor Jed Handelsman which I'm
going to read from in just a second. Who's gone
from thinking the case is a legal embarrassment to thinking
it's a historic mistake.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Bad prosecutions make for bad politics.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Those with Trump derangement syndrome don't seem to realize that
Trump could still avoid a conviction which might win him
the election. But by all means, enjoy your daily surge
of schadenfreud, which is exactly what's going on on CNN
and MSNBC, acting like we finally got him.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Isn't this fantastic? Smiles all around.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Finally he's in a courtroom, Finally he's getting his come
up and okay.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And they're delighted.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It is schadenfreud because they're delighted that he is bored
and angry and unable to campaign because of an abuse
of the legal system, which is just, I mean, is
unprecedented and scary because it will go both ways.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It has to go both ways. That's just the law
of the jungle.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
If one side uses a weapon, the other side will
use that weapon.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And if I'm a Democrat, I'm furious that this is
the case. In getting all this attention, how about we
didn't do this, and we focused on the classified documents
or his role in January sixth, something where he at
least got some argument. This allows so many people to say,
including me, it's you're just trying to get him for anything.
It's just politics.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Anyway, So this law professor for Boston University, who in
no way is a Trump supporter. The headline in his
opinion guessessay printed in the New York Times today is
I thought the brad case against Trump was a legal embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Now I think it's a historic mistake.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
After listening to Monday's opening statement by prosecutors, I still
think the Manhattan DA has made a historic mistake. They're
vague allegation about a criminal scheme to corrupt the twenty
sixteen presidential election has me more concerned than ever about
how their unprecedented use of state law and the persistent
avoidance of specifying an election crime or a valid theory
of fraud. And he goes through a recap of explaining
(08:13):
what's going on right there looking at the case, Well, well,
let me skip down to this. Instead of a theory
of defrauding state regulars regulators, mister Bragg has adopted a
weak theory of election interference, and the justice described the
case in as a summary of it during the jury
selection is an allegation of falsifying business records to conceal
(08:36):
an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the twenty sixteen election.
As a reality check, it is legal for a candidate
to pay for a non disclosure agreement.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah. I don't know why this needs to be stated
out loud.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
In the New York Times, but it's not getting stated
on the ABC Evening News when they do the story.
It should be stated every single time. Hush money is unseemly,
but it is legal. The election law scholar Ard Hasten
rightly observed calling it election interference actually cheapens the term
and undermines the deadly serious charges in the real election
interference cases.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I would agree completely.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Trying to tamp down a scandal is not election fraud.
That's campaigning and boiled down to its essence, this case
is Trump tried to keep a scandal quiet, and part
of the way he did that was to make recompensating
(09:31):
Michael Cohen look like legal fees, which is a violation
of state laws.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So he violated state.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Law to perpetrate a different crime, which was federal election fraud,
which consisted of not letting voters know that he stuffed
the porn star allegedly. I'm telling you the word weak
is not weak enough to describe that legal theory.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And so here's the final paragraph from this Boston University
law professor who's no Trump fan in the New York Times.
This case is still an embarrassment of prosecutorial ethics and
apparent selective prosecution.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, I wish the.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Supposedly calling balls and strikes media would just hint at
that a little bit, or at least throw in the
caveat when you do the breathless you know, the thing
we heard from Aaron Katerski portn star playmate, one hundred
thousand dollars affair. At least throw in None of that's illegal,
by the way, it's perfectly It just it's interesting and maybe,
(10:37):
you know, kind of fun to talk about, but none
of that's illegal.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I would suggest that if you're waiting for the mainstream
media to call balls and strikes, as you put it,
you're also still waiting for Saint Nicholas to penetrate your chimney,
to send it and distribute babbles to the young and
old alike.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Me.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Do they know Does Aaron Kotursky know that what he's
talking about isn't the crime? I think so, okay, I
think so. Yeah. Yeah, he's a smart guy.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Are you ready for the snowfer? Will you embrace the snowfer?
Are you a fan of the snowfer?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Stay with us?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Is this one of those combined words things. It's exactly that.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Okay, I'm trying to figure out what the words are. Okay, yes,
I will give you a hint. The second half is
loafer snow fer, stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Speaking of Trump and the justice system, much more serious
to my mind is the uh, the election, uh, the
January sixth stuff, the insurrection stuff, uh.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
And the question of presidential immunity. The Supreme Court is
actually going to be hearing the arguments on tomorrow. We
can have a preview of that later on putting putting
the Tangerine Tornado aside, Please, for the love of Thomas Jefferson,
can we do that? The question of if a president
(12:03):
can be prosecuted for things he did while in office
that may appear to have violated the law is an
incredibly important question, and one that it's just well, on
one hand, it's astonishing. On one head, it's not that
we have and haven't ever really considered until now. Okay,
so we can we can talk about that.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I will slip on my snowfers and prepare for all
this upcoming information to double up on the shoe segment.
I'll be wearing my Caitlin Clark nikes. The contract details
are out. Is it misogyny stay tuned? Or racism? Wait
a minute, y racism too, Okay, rasogyny?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Hum hm, oh wow, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I would put Clint on it.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Clint Eastwood was always my hero, my inspiration.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He was one of those guys just a grade park
and bodybuilding to spend time with me and talk to me.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
To come up with I think it goes to proofs
she He's a very multi faceted guy. He can do
drama and comedy whatever and all the same. But he
was in very quite a few seminal action films like
Diehards a classic and those things don't call away.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So that's Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about who
should be on the action star Rushmore always liked that
conversation just because I'm from South Dakota and what to
Mount rushmore every summer and think it's funny that because
some Polish guy decided to carve four presidents in a
mountain in the middle of nowhere, we now use that
as the standard for anything. Yeah, and they can only
(13:47):
be four and that's where the arguments ensue.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right, So are sliced alone and Arnold on the Mount
Rush That's.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What I'm assuming, And then they're picking two others. Arnold
certainly would beyond a doubt. And then semester saloon, I guess, yeah,
a couple of rambos. Oh many rambos, so many rambos?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, and then Clint is an action star. I'm not sure.
There's a bit of a stretch and so too stop whining. Yeah,
I don't know. Hmm, and I don't care. Are you
are you ready for this? What Broncobilly? We've got to
remember that movie? Do we have to remember that movie?
(14:32):
What was the fighting Orangutan movie? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Wish?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And then there was a sequel to it, right any
which way you can? Right?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Wow, yeah, I quit the knowledge their son.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I know my orangutang movies, But are you ready for
the snowfer jack. It's not a sneaker, it's not a loafer,
it's a snowfer New Balance has the nineteen oh six
l coming out in August, but.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
It's already been memed into oblivion. We'll post to see
you can see pictures of it. It is a truly
frankinstinion bit of footwear. It's midway between a New Balance
running shoe and a classic loafer.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Is it mostly the idea of having a snow shoe
you can slip into. I don't know if it's our
aging population or because we're so heavy now, or we're
just getting lazier, but shoes that you don't have to
bend over for are very hot right now.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I don't know, but some comments. I can't wait to
mow my lawn in these Bad Boys Ride one comment
on Instagram. Church at nine and dunking on the kids
in the gym at eleven right another it is an
unholy looking shoe anyway. It'll be at Armstrong and Giddy
dot com under hotlinks.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Speaking of Duncan on the kids, maybe you will in
the new Caitlin Clark nikes when they come out. It
looks like she's going to get an eight year, twenty
eight million dollar deal. Most people were thinking it would
be quite a bit larger than that, and you know,
claims of whatever misogyny or unfairness or whatever. I'm surprised
(16:04):
it's not more. One of your big time sports reporter
guys thought it would be more around the eighty million
dollar range than twenty eight million dollars, because there's going
to be a lot of girls across the country wearing
Caitlyn Clark shoes.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
And I mean because I see junior high high school girls.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
They all wear some sort of tennis shoe, lots of
high top tennis shoes. So I'm just surprised it's not
a biggerdoe. Yeah, it's it's complicated. It has to do
with the incentives and the rest of it, and they
could easily renew it in the future and it could
become much much bigger, could she be the of course,
most girls I see are wearing Jordan's of some sort
if they're not wearing Chuck Taylor's. I don't know how
(16:43):
much how much did Chuck Taylor get back in my
one hundred and fifty bucks right that in nineteen eighteen
for his shoe. That's clearly the most successful endorsement of
a shoe in world history.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, I don't think he got squat. Probably didn't get
a seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Now, Bernie Sanders, who probably were Chuck Taylor's high school
all right, sneaker historian Bernie Sanders there one of the
most surprising voices on the protesters from Democrats that I
heard yesterday, among other things, on the way stay with.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Plead to do whatever you can to not work, not
go to class, not do research, or otherwise the functioning
of this despicable place. Do they meet on the man,
You all are incredibly smart people who are so knowledgeable
about things like postcolonialism and Marxism and other theories. It
(17:43):
is time for you to get out of your libraries
and labs and put your theories into action and stands.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Tell me about yourself.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Jeffrey Well not much to tell.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Him, was one of the authors of the port Huron
statement that the original port Huron statement, I love you
can compromise second round, and then I you hear of
the Seattle seven That was me six other guys.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
So the cliche of the angry important history making college
radical lampoon there in the great the Big Lebowski. Rather,
I love that you ever hear of the Seattle seven.
That was me with six other guys. On the other hand,
(18:45):
that first clip was a teacher at Columbia.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I love this comment from Noah Pollock.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Conservatives have been warning for fifty years the universities were
being taken over by Marxists, and now they're literally announcing
through bullhorns on the quad that the university has been
taken over by Marxists. And why aren't you activating your
Marxist beliefs. And you're so such smart people.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
You know so much about colonialism and Marxism and other theories,
the critical theory garbage. It's all neo Marxism. It's all
meant to tear down the system and institute a communist utopia.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Seriously, so quite a bit of violence at these rallies.
And as you've heard, the Jewish students at Columbia were
told to stay home. I guess all the classes are
online now. They're going to be hybrid the rest of
the year. The rest of the year. You sent your
kid to this Ivy League school and they're not even
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going to be in school because the school's not willing
to tell the radicals to get off the lawn and
so we can function as a university. That's crazy, but
I thought this somehow I missed this the other day.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Do you know that name? If you
follow politics, you do. She used to be the leader
of the DNC and she is a really annoying lefty
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partisan on all the talk shows, stood up for Hillary
blah blah blah person. Anyway, she tweeted this out over
the weekend. Hamas and Iran want Jews to feel unsafe everywhere.
Till now they couldn't reach US Jews thanks to pro Hamas,
campus rioters and feckless administrators.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Threats to Jews grow. Incitement is not free speech.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
College leaders must stop enabling terror and keep Jewish students safe.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
She actually called.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
The protesters pro Hamas campus rioters as a lefty Democrat
because that's what they are. But often when you say it,
you know you're yelled at for lumping in the extremes
with the people who just care about the babies in
Palestine who weren't getting formula.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Now, the young protesters, that's not it. It's just an excuse.
All of this is just an excuse to tear the
system down. As James Lindsay put it, if you want
to own something, you call it racist until you own it,
until everybody's so afraid to speak out, you bring your
own people on board, like the universities. You're a racist,
you're the patriarchy, you're a misogynist, you're a homill, fall whatever,
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until people are so terrified into silence.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Now true or false? The radical left owns the universities.
Of course they do.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
They're completely in control because they got everybody to back
off by making phony moral arguments. I've got some great
examples of that if you want to hear them.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
But here's one of my favorite tweets I came across
from yesterday the guy that is Iowah hawk blog. Hey,
remember like five years ago when colleges were building safe
spaces full of fainting couches and trauma counselors in cases
students saw somebody wearing a sombrero at a Halloween party.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Good times, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
They had coloring books and puppies in room in case
you's somebody who saw somebody wearing black face at a
party so that you could go on with your life.
And now they're chucking chairs and bottles at cops to
stand up for Hamas.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Right, that's precisely what I'm talking about. That was all pretending. Now,
they actually convinced a lot of kids to become that crazy.
They taught them to be mentally ill. But the idea
was any offense, no matter how tiny. He was so
devastating and hurtful. It was like felony assault. And so
anybody with any decency thought, well, I don't want to
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commit a felony assault. I just won't say what these
people are telling me not to say.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
That's specifically part of the strategy to get you to
shut up. Here's this guy was suspended from Columbia two
weeks ago. He's refusing to leave and I love this
because he's like, he shows all of his cards.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's been leading chance.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
He's still in his apartment tweeting and leading protests on campus.
He's emerged as a ring leader of student activists. His name,
for what it's worth, is Aiden Peresei, leading chants such
as Columbia, we see you. You imprisoned children too. So
wait a minute, the campus scary radical activist would be
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Hamas members with their kafeas and their masks and all
now their children. Okay, he's used as social media account
as solicit supplies for his amazing comrades comrades. Ah, that's
funny that nomenclature should sound familiar to those of us
who are a bit older, including blankets, tarps, and coffees coffee.
(23:39):
The university's afraid to boot him out of his apartment
and boot him off campus, and then he writes on
his Instagram as I am writing this, I am sitting
in my campus apartment, which Columbia University is attempting to
illegally evict me from. Uh oh, even though he's been
thrown out of the university, leaving me housing, food and
healthcare insecure.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Now that's the victim again. Wait a minute, So that's
a thing. I spent a lot of my life housing
healthcare and what was the other one, uh housing food
and healthcare insecure?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, well I was poor. I weigh all a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
So there he's a victim again. And if you stand
up to him, you're cruel in a brute, which again
makes people think, well, I don't want to be crude
and a brute. So we will resist institutional repression, just
as the Palestinians have resisted occupation. We must remain steadfast
in our commitment to university devestment and to a free Palestine.
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Ka Viva la intifada in Salah, we will rise victorious.
Oh so he's an Islamist as well. How interesting? And
then you have this unintentionally hilarious story. I absolutely love this.
This is from Princeton. The Princeton Young Democratic Socialists of
America released an open letter Monday condemning discriminatory materials in
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the French language program at Princeton University.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You may have caught a whiff of this story. A
grad students teaching this French course, and part of his
teaching is slide shows that asked questions and used French vocabulary.
So anyway, but his position is jeopardized after he raised concerns.
Have the socialists raised concerns that he was causing them
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anxiety and grief and pain? He had all these slides
he used with starting with several silver backed guerrillas and
an image of King Kong, before presenting a picture of
former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama gorillas,
then the Obamas.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
The open letter states.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The letter was sent to the chairman of the French
and Italian Department, as well as the dean of the
graduate school and the dean of the faculty. A photo
included in the open letter show is part of a
slide show from a course in which he uses gorillas
described with such adjectives in French as grand petit gentille,
as the gorillas are described there as a slide with
a photo of the Obamas in question is Saint Maurice.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Are they married?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Except that that was taken completely out of context. Those
are two completely different slides shows. This guy uses all
sorts of slides. They illustrate all sorts of different things
to quiz you on vocabulary, and it was completely faked up.
But then you get to again the terminology, the slogans,
the language that these people used.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
The.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Materials presented without clear educational value, have deeply offended and
caused discomfort among students. Well, blondheaded gorillas certainly caused me
discomfort in an odd way. I find myself attracted yet repulsed.
That's from a letter from the Princeton Young Democratic Socialists.
The student organization calls for the Department of French and
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Italian to quote, acknowledge and resolve the damage done by
the course materials. The letters also been signed by student
organizations such as the Princeton College Democrats, the Black Student Union,
the Alliance of Jewish Progressives, the Princeton Progressive Publication, and
Princeton Students for Prison Education.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Abolition and Reform, among others. Yeah, these are the people
who want to abolish prisons. The open letter alleges grad
the grad student brought the course materials to.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Blah blah huh.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
It's absolutely on display now their tools and how they
use them.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So this guy didn't do anything. Didn't do anything at all.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
His teaching is thoroughly defensible and it sounds kind of
fun honestly. But they feign offense. They feign what they
say serious anxiety and damage and the harm caused. They
feign all of this stuff. They fake it until the
university backs down. Then they own them. Don't fall for
this crap.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So you got the intellectual leaders there, and I believe
all that sort of stuff. I don't think a lot
of the college kids in the odd know this stuff
is going on. They just go along with whatever. All
the other cool people are doing because they want to
be in with the cool crowd. Here's some of them
being interviewed. It's got played on Hannity last night.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
What river?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Okay, that ext question is not noting that.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
No, there's an actual river and an actual sea. Yeah,
I'm aware you don't know, But what river? What sea?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
The river.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
That little.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Is beside Israel and the housing in territories?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
What it's the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Does Israel have a right to defend itself. No one
has the right to kill thirty crowds and people.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
No one has a right to dismember babies and put
them in evans and kill what.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That never happened? What is your solutions?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So I've heard more of that this morning. The that
is a apparently a widespread situation of the kids. Don't
believe any of that Hamas stuff happened on October seventh,
So yeah, I mean that definitely helps your protesting if
you don't believe that story, If you think that's a
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made up story that Hamas went into Israel and slaughtered
all those people in such a brutal way, you know,
if you're not starting with the same even like basic
facts on the on what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's that helps explain a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I mean, it's a lot easier to be pro Hamas
if you're not coming at it from the same place
I am of, you know, reading those accounts and seeing
some of those videos.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
They don't believe any of that happened.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So Hamas is just a liberation organization trying to help
the Bileestinians.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, this is an old, old story.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It reminds me of some of the prominent journalists, American
journalists in the middle part of the twentieth century who
went to the Soviet Union and came back and saying
there's no oppression going on, there are no gulags, there's no.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Pilgrims going on.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
This is a it's an amazing system, and it seems
to be working beautifully. And people thought, wow, okay, so
the ugly stuff we've heard about Soviet Union is false.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
It was one hundred percent true. In fact, it was
far worse than we'd heard. But yeah, just absolutely saying
none of that's happening, that didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I it happens in history. I've never chanted or marched
for any cause. I don't know if that makes me
a good person or bad person, but I've never done that.
But I certainly think if I was ever chanting something,
I would at least wonder what am I chanting?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
What does this mean? That's what's surprising to me.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
That is a measure of how easy it is to
radicalize young people who are desperate to become adults, desperate
to have a purpose in life, desperate to be seen
as important and cool, and probably a little scary. People
like being a little scary, and so you can convince
them that this is the battle for you.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Let me think of Yeah, I'm in that battle.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And they don't even bother learning what they're talking, So
start chanting, Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't worry about it. That's what happens to the
people living there.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Exactly what is supposed to happen to them. Anyway, This
is going to be going on for quite some time.
Is this getting worse? Has it peaked or is it
on the retreat?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
That's that's a complicated question because unlike in the past,
the radical Marxists have control of the universities. They own
them now, and and elementary schools and high schools to
a large extent too, and so they may well headfake
that yeah, we're we're cracking down on this, but that's
another time worn technique of radicals, when you got to
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lay low, you lay low.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I think it's peaked at Columbia, but it's growing nationwide.
It's a whole bunch of other campuses that are on
board now, Berkeley of course, and Surprising along and other
So I think it's growing, not shrinking.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
And we'll be talking about this for a while. Oh sorry,
I didn't give a big enough cue.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Here's my big fingerqueuing you, Michael, Thank you, comrade.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
The FCA has found fragments of the bird flu virus
in some samples of pasteurized milk in the United States.
This comes less than a month after an outbreak of
bird flu is found in dairy cows in several states.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
The FDA says the.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
Commercial milk supply is safe, that pasteurization is likely to
activate the virus, but that testing is still going on.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Daring, all I took from that report was that cows
have colonialized the bird's flu.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It's cultural appropriation. Huh.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I always love stories that are something kind of scary
ish sounding. Happened, but there's zero to be worried about. Okay,
so why did you even bring it up?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Would be my question. Yeah, saw this thought it was
kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I haven't been watching the NBA show that I loved
so much during the NBA season, especially the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It's really great with Charles Barkley and Shack and everybody.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Last night they had Charles Barkley forced to work out
surrounded by donuts.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
That's entertainment, that's entertainment.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I have a fat guy with an eating problem working
out surrounded by.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Boxes of donuts. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I joined next door yesterday. Had been encouraged too many
times and I never had been on it before. It's
pretty hilarious.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I suppose it is. I suppose it's roughly the same
in every neighborhood everywhere in America.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
But lots of lost cats, I mean just found slash
lost cats. Tremendous number of those. Yeah, yeah, lots.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Of Does anybody know who drives the red car because
it is beating a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
One of my favorite ones was some poor woman whose
ring was stuck on her finger and she just couldn't
get it off and it was starting to hurt, and
does anybody have any ideas, because that's how I would
solve the problem. I'd certainly go on next door and
ask the question, wait for replies from medical professional. What
are you talking about, you idiot? I'm going to ask
(34:23):
the internet. There was a follow up later in the
day though, they had her daughter had taken her to
the fire department and apparently they very quickly got the
ring off of her finger, so thank god all was well.
And people selling just garbage, I mean selling stuff. Nobody's
If you get somebody to come pick it up and
not charge you, you will be lucky, right, And I
(34:48):
understand how it's disappointing you paid less furniture. Especially if
you paid money for this, you'd think it'd be worth something,
but shockingly it's not.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
It's not worth anything.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
There's nothing worth worth worth less than used furniture. Yeah,
it's shocking. Last time we moved it was it was crazy.
We gave it away or just brought it to the dump.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
A lot of kids, a lot of kids toys that
you paid good money for are similar. Just you can't
believe that they're just not worth anything. But they aren't
that's disappointing. Next Door is pretty fun though. It's a
good way you want to kill time. It's not doom scrolling.
It's just I don't know what it is, but it's
a it's a it's funny. We need to revisit Joe
Biden at some point when he used to talk about Charlottesville.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I hope you'll stay tuned for that.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
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