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Broadcasting live from the Abraham

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Lincoln Radio Studio at the

2:37

George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack

2:39

Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong

2:41

and Getty.

2:43

And now, here's

2:45

Armstrong and

2:47

Getty. There's

2:54

so much insanity, and not just

2:56

in politics. Chipotle announced this week.

2:58

They're planning to open a restaurant

3:00

in Mexico. Don't

3:04

they already have diarrhea in Mexico? Why

3:06

are they doing this to me? This

3:09

breaks a sacred rule when it comes

3:11

to food. You don't try to sell

3:13

people their own stuff. There are

3:15

no olive gardens in Italy. There's no

3:17

Panda Express in China. There are no

3:19

Outback Steak Houses in the Outback. There's

3:21

no Red Lobster in the ocean. Therefore,

3:24

you can't open a Chipotle

3:26

in Mexico. The idea

3:28

of a Chipotle in Mexico is

3:30

really interesting. I'll bet it's in

3:32

a tourist town where really lame

3:34

tourists are going to go

3:37

to Mexico on vacation and

3:39

eat a Chipotle. Yeah,

3:41

that is really

3:43

sad. I'd say. Please

3:45

don't do that. like the folks who go

3:47

to a foreign land and they eat at

3:50

the McDonald's. I, you know, teach your own.

3:52

But, aye. I can't imagine that. There's some

3:54

interesting aspects to that. I've done it. Just

3:56

what they have different stuff. Right.

3:58

know what I stand corrected. Roy

4:00

Al with cheese. Right. It's a

4:02

good point. So a

4:04

number of headlines worth at least

4:06

touching on. We've got some big

4:08

topics to get to, including Jack's

4:10

review of the now famous book

4:12

Pride Puppy, which is at the

4:15

center of the Maryland school opting

4:17

out of perverse indoctrination case. And

4:19

some marriage therapist did a

4:21

survey of like many many many

4:23

many but many couples who

4:25

didn't make it and what things

4:27

most cause marriages to fall

4:29

apart completely and It's actually good.

4:31

Most of this stuff is

4:34

stupid and useless. This is pretty

4:36

good actually and with something

4:38

Joe has said many times. Okay,

4:40

and one final thing Why

4:42

is Trump going after the accreditation

4:44

agencies? that accredited colleges

4:46

and universities as part of the war

4:48

against DEI. We will explain. It's actually

4:50

a really good strategy, which we've been

4:52

talking about for a while here on

4:54

the Armstrong and Getty show. A couple

4:56

of news headlines worth touching on. A

4:59

new poll is out. It's the

5:01

Caps Harris poll. And

5:03

folks are really, really

5:05

not liking the tariff thing.

5:11

Though the public is

5:13

largely behind Trump, With

5:15

about 40 % of voters saying

5:17

the country is on the right

5:20

track, which is an increase of

5:22

11 points since January Wow, Trump's

5:24

personal job approval has so far

5:26

peaked at 52 % in February is

5:28

still at 48 % a healthy

5:30

figure in a polarized country This

5:32

does differ from the Gallup poll

5:34

which came out fairly recently But

5:37

it's in the same range that

5:39

that's that's wild. I mean that

5:41

he is he's hanging in there

5:43

with Pretty high approval ratings in

5:45

in the modern sense. No, there

5:47

aren't gonna be any presidents with

5:49

60 % approvals Again, I don't think

5:51

not for a while barring some

5:53

huge happening, you know or an

5:56

attack or something like that, but

5:58

That is numbers have plenty room

6:00

to grow Blah blah blah. His

6:02

greatest political danger is his trade

6:04

policy voters like mr. Trump's immigration

6:06

policy 74 % say they favor

6:08

deporting illegal aliens who have committed

6:10

crimes And you 26%, why don't

6:12

you sneak into another country, do

6:15

crimes, and then say, what, you're

6:17

deporting me? You're out of

6:19

your mind. I know. There

6:21

was never significant support for

6:23

the Biden administration's policy of open

6:25

borders, which let 10 million

6:27

people enter the country illegally, wildly

6:29

unpopular in spite of what

6:31

you'd gather from the media. One

6:33

of the most... Unpopular things

6:36

any administration's ever done in the

6:38

history of America? and

6:40

uh... historians will have to study it yeah

6:42

i'd say it was a miserable failure of

6:44

democracy i suppose you could point out that

6:46

well they got voted out of office the

6:48

democrats but in the meantime an enormous amount

6:50

of damage had been done an enormous number

6:52

of criminals and rapists and murders and gangbangers

6:55

have been let into the country and i'm

6:57

tangling that not is going to take many

6:59

dollars, many years, and many

7:01

victims. And I'll say this every

7:03

time, because it's extraordinary. It's

7:05

the largest peacetime migration of humans

7:08

and the Earth's history. Yeah.

7:11

Joe Biden was not only senile, he

7:13

was evil as was Alejandro Mayorkas.

7:15

What an evil man. Anyway, let me

7:17

plunge on with a poll. Huge

7:19

majorities also support slimming down the government.

7:22

77 % support, quote, a full

7:24

examination of all government expenditures. Oh,

7:26

wait a minute. That's weird.

7:29

I keep hearing from David freaking

7:31

Muir that Doge is evil

7:33

and nice people are being laid

7:35

off and it's terrible. Nobody

7:37

wants this. No huge majority support

7:39

it. 81 % 81

7:42

% think the US should move in

7:44

the next few years to balance the

7:46

budget, which has not been achieved since

7:48

that shining conservative Bill Clinton was in

7:50

the White House. You

7:52

know, the devil in the details is

7:54

when you talk about what to cut,

7:56

and everybody's going to take a bit

7:58

of a haircut to get to a

8:00

balanced budget, and that's where it gets

8:02

a little more complicated. It's

8:04

good news that we want to. I

8:07

mean, it would be bad if most people think, nah. This

8:10

is perfectly fine. So

8:12

it's, you know, it's a step in

8:14

the right direction, but it is like, you

8:16

know, many of us, we're

8:18

overweight, we're nowhere overweight. You

8:21

would absolutely tell Gallup, yes, I

8:23

want to lose weight, but not change

8:25

any of your eating habits. Right.

8:27

Yeah. In the meantime. Right.

8:30

That's a good metaphor. there

8:32

are deep passions on both sides

8:34

they write but a majority of americans

8:36

reject woke ideology sixty five percent

8:38

of voters favor the policy of banning

8:40

males from women's and girls sports

8:42

two -thirds of people and again the

8:44

supporting number is less than a third

8:46

i'll dig into it but that

8:48

you got a lot of uh... people

8:50

who don't have an opinion and

8:52

you know please don't hold on Yeah,

8:57

I know. I agree completely. Well, they've

8:59

been cowed into silence by their neighbors.

9:01

They're just sheeple. They're weak -willed. I

9:03

think it's more cowards than idiots. You

9:06

think women with penises should compete in

9:08

men's sports? No. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

9:10

That went and phrased you throughout me.

9:12

Women with penises. Well, I don't

9:14

know. 60 % support, quote,

9:16

eliminating all preference by race in

9:18

hiring and awarding of government

9:20

contracts. Folks, we have enormous majorities.

9:22

We don't have the media.

9:25

We don't have Hollywood. We don't

9:27

have education. And that is

9:29

our challenge. But we're working on it, and I'm

9:31

sure you are too. Let's

9:33

see. Bobby Kennedy

9:35

Jr. has a 44 % personal

9:37

favorability rating second only to Trump.

9:39

Wow. Among the 14 political figures

9:41

included in the poll. Wow. Maybe

9:43

we should all get a brain worm. That's

9:46

a terrible thing to say. Oh, I want to

9:48

get into something he said recently that You

9:52

know and I think Bobby Kennedy just

9:54

a full disclosure. I think he's half a

9:56

crank. I think he's right

9:58

about a lot of stuff I

10:00

think he's completely full of beans

10:02

about a lot of stuff and

10:04

by the way eat more beans

10:06

good for you make America healthy

10:08

again and flatulent But it's good

10:10

for you gotta ease into it.

10:12

That's the key with beans ease

10:14

into it. Anyway, that's the key

10:17

with beans. Joe says yes Beans

10:19

are a fabulous nutritional value, but

10:21

you've got to get your gut

10:23

used to them Otherwise, you'll be

10:25

like the Hindenburg and there's no

10:27

reason to know that's right there's

10:29

no reason to get wish wish

10:31

childish about this but we should

10:33

have a phrase that pays like

10:35

old -timey radio contest if you

10:37

hear this phrase call in you

10:39

get a hundred dollars and the

10:41

phrase today is i don't what

10:43

that's the key with the guy

10:45

he's into beans right all right

10:48

here's the right friends are phrasing

10:50

here's the rub the tariffs, which

10:52

generally confuse people. According

10:55

to this write -up, 84 % of

10:57

the polls respondents say they favor free

10:59

trade. Our trade

11:01

is not exactly free, but

11:03

they don't want less free trade.

11:05

66 agree that, quote, tariffs

11:07

are important to protect jobs in

11:09

our country today. So

11:11

obviously there's some tension there. Again,

11:13

84 % say yay -free trade, 66

11:16

% say tariffs are important to

11:18

protect jobs in our country today. One

11:20

way of reconciling the tension between these

11:23

positions would be to use US tariffs as

11:25

an incentive for other countries to reduce

11:27

theirs. Obviously,

11:29

and quite correctly. So,

11:34

uh, here's where mr. Trump and public

11:36

opinion diverge He gets only 45 percent

11:38

approval on his tariff plans and 41

11:40

percent on his effort to curb inflation

11:42

He needs to improve his numbers. That's

11:45

higher than I thought That's pretty

11:47

hot 45 for tariff Yeah, you

11:49

know, it's really well, I'm I'm

11:51

statistics are difficult to get to

11:53

the bottom of sometimes But I

11:56

was surprised by this number. What

11:58

percentage of the goods we use

12:00

in this country are imported? Wall

12:03

Street Journal wants to know asking

12:05

people are for real for real 11

12:07

% About three trillion dollars a year

12:09

in a twenty eight hundred twenty

12:11

eight trillion dollar economy boy. I'd have

12:14

missed that Yeah, I'd have missed

12:16

it completely too. I would like to

12:18

know oh my gosh like 85

12:20

or something Well you get into the

12:22

complexity of okay. You've got a

12:24

car assembled in America It's got twelve

12:26

hundred and forty parts each one

12:29

of those parts has a different ratio

12:31

foreign to domestic

12:33

manufacture and assembly. So

12:35

is that car, you know, domestic

12:37

or not? All right, but you

12:39

buy one car every three, five

12:41

years. But everything on the Walmart

12:43

shelf is from China. So, you

12:46

know, I'd intended on touching on a number of

12:48

other headlines in the segment, but got got stuck

12:50

on the pole, which is fine. It was pretty

12:52

interesting. I

12:55

will just throw in one more note and

12:57

we'll take a break as Jack's got some

12:59

good stuff for us. But A

13:02

new study out of a

13:04

couple of universities have joined up

13:06

several French universities and research

13:08

institutions and they think that a

13:10

combination of the food additives

13:12

in our diets, the modern hyper

13:15

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13:17

risk of diabetes they add to

13:19

the risk of each other

13:21

they snowball in other words And

13:23

we don't have time to

13:25

get into this now, but you

13:28

know if you were a

13:30

scientist studying whatever elephants and all

13:32

of a sudden Elephants were

13:34

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13:36

younger and having more cancer

13:38

and all and somebody said well

13:40

They're eating a diet unlike

13:43

they've ever eaten in the history

13:45

of elephants and you said

13:47

no, that's not it. Let's keep

13:49

looking I mean, you'd be

13:51

an idiot, right? Right. No kidding.

13:54

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13:56

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psychologist who reveals the number one sign of

17:56

a future separation and this stuff is almost

17:58

always crap, especially if it's in the New

18:00

York Post, which is where I got this,

18:02

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18:04

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Check their face like any of that. You

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know, there's so many stupid things out there.

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You know, the one sign that he's going

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to cheat or whatever the hell. I mean,

18:17

they're just all dumb, but like

18:19

bait. the one -sided

18:21

mouth raise, the

18:23

subtle smirk of superiority is

18:25

the number one red flag

18:27

for divorce, according to this

18:29

psychologist. And they get

18:32

into why. Research, blah,

18:34

blah, blah, blah,

18:36

found that four nasty little

18:38

habits, criticism, contempt,

18:41

defensiveness, and stonewalling are the four horsemen

18:43

of the apocalypse when it comes

18:45

to dooming relationships. I'll read those four

18:47

again. Criticism, contempt,

18:50

defensiveness, and stonewalling. But contempt

18:52

is the kiss of death. That's

18:54

the one, and you've said

18:57

that for years. That's the one

18:59

you can't get past. Done

19:02

the largest marriage experiment ever

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done, they think, of

19:06

couples that, you know, survive and don't

19:09

survive. Body language experts, which we've mocked

19:11

for years and all that sort of

19:13

thing, because they're usually stupid also. Well

19:15

on cable TV there yeah brought

19:18

couples into a lab And if one

19:20

member of the couple shows a

19:22

one -sided mouth raise which I had

19:24

never heard before as like a physical

19:26

Contempt thing, but I guess we're

19:28

just programmed when we're feeling that feeling

19:31

of contempt for something or you

19:33

know the oh, please or get out

19:35

of here with that BS or

19:37

whatever Feeling you raise one side of

19:39

your mouth. It's funny If

19:42

one member of the couple shows a one -sided

19:44

mouth raise towards the other, he can tell you

19:46

if they're going to get divorced because it's contempt. He

19:50

could predict divorce with an astonishing

19:52

94 % accuracy. Fear, now this

19:54

is part I thought was really interesting.

19:56

Fear comes in a burst and then you

19:58

calm down. Happiness comes and

20:00

then you go back to normal. Anger

20:02

comes and then you calm

20:05

down, but not contempt. If

20:07

you feel scorn or disdain for someone

20:09

else, and if it's not addressed, it just

20:11

festers and grows and stays at the

20:13

same level. All those other

20:15

ones fear, anger, and

20:17

then obviously happiness, you get

20:19

back to a normal level.

20:21

Contempt does not go away.

20:26

In a definition of contempt the

20:28

feeling that a person or

20:30

a thing is beneath consideration worthless

20:32

or deserving scorn Yeah coming

20:34

back from that yeah, that's why

20:36

at the end of a

20:38

marriage you often have two people

20:40

who can't even look at

20:42

each other Any you only need

20:44

what contempt on one end

20:46

obviously for the whole thing to

20:49

work I I've

20:51

not felt contempt, but I I

20:53

have been on the wrong end

20:55

of contempt I think and having

20:57

read this I thought yeah, that's

20:59

what was insurmountable I mean cuz

21:01

once you have contempt for someone

21:03

you don't agree. You don't think

21:05

they are worth listening to on

21:07

anything This is how I feel.

21:09

This is my priority. I don't

21:12

care Right. Yeah, that's a tough

21:14

one to get past. So look

21:16

out for contempt And

21:18

and whatever started to bring it

21:20

on deal the point is you start

21:22

to deal with it right away

21:24

Otherwise it does just grow and fester

21:26

and then it gets into a

21:28

situation where it might not might not

21:30

be reversible Mm -hmm They also believe

21:32

that many couples get in and

21:35

stuck in an endless loop of the

21:37

same three arguments Throughout the relationship.

21:39

They just don't realize it and if

21:41

you can nail down what your

21:43

three most common arguments are you and

21:45

your partner you can solve

21:47

a lot of problems and like you

21:49

get into something you say okay here

21:51

we are we're in argument number two

21:53

again we always argue about this and

21:55

you you can you know realize that

21:57

you know you don't see eye to

21:59

eye in this particular thing and how

22:01

you've dealt with it in the past

22:03

which is a pretty good idea actually

22:05

distracted by the details or the uh

22:07

yeah you realize oh this is argument

22:09

b yeah yeah and that interesting uh

22:11

back to the contempt thing discussed and

22:14

contempt are to a relationship with gasoline

22:16

and matches are to a fire. The

22:19

telltale signs are eye

22:21

rolling. Somebody's rolling their

22:23

eyes at you. That's not good. Eye

22:25

rolling, mouth crimping. Then

22:30

subtle fidgeting like picking it

22:32

clothes or cleaning fingers mid conversation

22:34

as signals of disdain This

22:37

person said that they dubbed this

22:39

move the lint picker a

22:41

behavior that he says screams contempt

22:43

louder than words ever could

22:45

if somebody is discreet, you know

22:47

Explaining something very important and

22:50

you're like picking lint off your

22:52

shirt Oh my god Interesting.

22:54

You know, it's probably worth presenting the

22:56

other side of the coin. At some point,

22:58

we don't have time now, but how

23:00

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23:02

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at Thrivent.com. No,

26:25

no Michael. I don't approve of

26:27

that joke. That's just she's not

26:29

an attractive woman Yeah, it's a

26:31

matter of genetics, and I just

26:33

know no. She's all she's cool

26:35

and cruel so you don't find

26:37

old women hot She's totally irrelevant

26:39

Yeah, again, that was just cruelty

26:41

for cruelty's sake. I don't approve.

26:44

We need a woman to stand

26:46

it. Yes. Yes, Katie As the

26:48

woman on the program Michael I

26:50

approve of that joke hmm What?

26:52

No, no, no. I loved

26:54

it. You're overruled! That

26:56

helps. Does

26:59

it? You know, it

27:01

just occurred to me, Jack, on air

27:03

meeting. We've got that Martha McCallum talking

27:05

to the evil Randy Weingarten. That's

27:07

good stuff. Audio. About the

27:09

nature of education. Maybe we go big

27:11

on that hour four of the

27:13

pro hour for my goodness you fellas

27:15

work hard Yes, we do If

27:17

you don't get our for you can

27:19

subscribe to our podcast Armstrong you

27:21

getting on demand It's available later on

27:23

the day if I had to

27:25

describe us in two words. It would

27:27

be put upon Yes, oh, please

27:29

please they forced us to sign the

27:31

contract anyway Perhaps you've heard that

27:33

Donald J recently issued an executive order

27:35

yesterday as a matter of fact to

27:38

shake up the world

27:40

of college accreditation which Trump

27:42

called his secret weapon

27:44

in a bid to remake

27:47

higher education and somehow

27:49

drag our colleges and universities

27:51

away from the neo -Marxist

27:53

woke thing which we

27:55

have identified as maybe the

27:57

biggest challenge this country

27:59

has churning out generation after

28:01

generation of kids who

28:03

are trained to hate their

28:05

own country and hate

28:07

the very foundations of Western

28:09

civilization. It is a

28:11

bizarre experiment in suicide. You

28:14

know, cultural suicide. And

28:16

it needs to end like the

28:18

day before yesterday. But

28:20

it's gonna be a hell of a fight. Anyway.

28:23

The order aims to use the

28:26

accrediting system to combat what

28:28

Trump views as discriminatory practices and

28:30

ideological overreach on college campuses,

28:32

the White House said. And

28:35

it's interesting that this piece in the

28:37

Wall Street Journal, which is written by

28:39

a couple of gals, I believe they're

28:41

both gals, yeah, has

28:44

this sort of cliched phrase

28:46

that you're used to Some

28:48

are Trump and other Republicans have

28:51

long criticized the accreditation process calling

28:53

it a cartel that stifles competition

28:55

and doesn't help police Colleges and

28:57

universities with poor student outcomes and

28:59

indeed some conservatives claim it reinforces

29:01

the woke ideology I'm not I'm

29:03

paraphrasing what they say in the

29:06

article and I'm reading this and

29:08

thinking a

29:10

reporter. Why don't you look into

29:12

whether those claims are true or not?

29:15

Joked he claimed that his

29:17

business partner Jack Armstrong is

29:19

a murderer in other news

29:21

wait a minute This is

29:24

the this is the pivotal

29:26

question before us And your

29:28

journalists allegedly well I says

29:30

to myself I says wait

29:32

a minute didn't the journal

29:34

itself have a really interesting

29:36

piece not long ago about

29:38

these accreditation Agencies and how

29:41

they operate and it took

29:43

Jack God Oh, was it

29:45

three weeks or no? It was

29:47

about two and a half minutes

29:49

to find a great piece by

29:51

Henry Stone how colleges and universities

29:53

get around state DEI bands. They

29:55

hide behind vague demands from accreditors,

29:57

and Congress should deprive them of

30:00

this excuse. You

30:02

know, a brief tangent here. Yeah,

30:04

Congress has got to pass laws.

30:07

Executive orders are good. Laws

30:09

are great. Anyway,

30:12

This gentleman is writing

30:14

about how incredibly

30:16

woke these accreditation agencies

30:18

are. And they are,

30:20

here's an example. Des Moines,

30:23

Iowa. Someone's lying, he writes. That's

30:25

what I discovered after trying to

30:27

free my state's higher education system

30:29

from DEI. Instead of complying with

30:31

the DEI ban, we passed into

30:33

law earlier this year, the University

30:35

of Iowa, the College of Medicine,

30:37

says it's forced to maintain these

30:39

programs or it will lose its

30:42

accreditation, essentially killing the institution. Yet,

30:44

accreditors say that's not the case,

30:46

even as they give quiet cover

30:48

to universities. If federal reforms don't

30:50

stop these shenanigans, virtually every part

30:52

of higher education may soon wriggle

30:54

free of state DEI bans. So

30:57

the states are trying to do

30:59

the right thing, because they understand

31:01

that this is perverse neo -Marxist,

31:03

it's racist, it's anti -Title IX, it's

31:05

all sorts of evil. But

31:08

the accreditation agencies

31:10

are saying Let

31:14

me find the specific here. Okay,

31:16

so they had legislation in Iowa That

31:18

banned public institutions including I was

31:20

three public universities from having DEI offices

31:22

programs and staff and He thought

31:24

that the law would soon strive DEI

31:27

from the campuses and state government

31:29

He writes I was wrong in early

31:31

November the Iowa Board of Regents

31:33

which oversees the state's public universities issued

31:35

a report on compliance with the

31:37

law it laid out in detail how

31:39

DEI initiatives have been shut down

31:42

statewide. But in fine print

31:44

on page 78, I learned that

31:46

Carver College, that's the big medical

31:48

school, is keeping its office of

31:50

health parity open. the office proudly

31:52

declares on its homepage that it

31:55

quote strives to achieve excellence through

31:57

the advancement of diversity equity and

31:59

inclusion the board of regents says

32:01

its hand was forced by accreditors

32:03

these are private institutions that decide

32:05

whether universities and graduate schools can

32:08

grant degrees or not and they

32:10

are woke af pardon me as

32:12

the kids say these days wow

32:14

so they keep open that office

32:16

in the People that made that

32:18

decision might not believe in it

32:21

at all, but they got to

32:23

have that To keep their accreditation

32:25

and then the people that work

32:27

in what was the name of

32:29

that office of health equity or

32:31

whatever Yeah, I know it's it's

32:34

such an Orwellian office of health

32:36

parody Jack the office of health

32:38

parody the people that work in

32:40

that office Toiling away probably don't

32:42

know you're only here is like

32:44

a token to the accreditation people

32:47

Be successful or don't I don't

32:49

care right? Yeah. So the accreditors

32:51

deny pushing the DEI agenda. Last

32:53

week, last year, rather, as the

32:55

Wall Street Journal reported, the Liaison

32:58

Committee on Medical Education, which accredits

33:00

US medical schools, told federal lawmakers,

33:02

we don't require DEI. But their

33:04

charter does demand that all medical

33:06

schools that get accredited engage, quote,

33:08

in ongoing systematic and focused recruitment

33:11

and retention activities to achieve mission -appropriate

33:13

diversity outcomes. Or

33:15

we yank your accreditation and

33:17

you're not educating anybody the verse

33:19

outcome meaning you have to

33:21

have a certain percentage of different

33:23

people graduating Wow Yeah, and

33:25

and you've got to toe the

33:27

line on health equity education

33:29

Programs and just all of this

33:31

this garbage and and it's

33:34

mostly by the way because it

33:36

always I'm always worried to

33:38

sound like you know a white

33:40

male stand up for more

33:42

what it's the asian kids that are getting

33:44

screwed in that thing most oh yeah

33:46

well yeah yeah i mean there are a

33:48

hundred problems with that with this but

33:50

that's one of them and you know for

33:52

what it's worth uh... i've learned you

33:54

know thirty five times more after graduating from

33:57

college than i did in college uh...

33:59

but my educational background is political science and

34:01

comparing uh... the political systems and how

34:03

they function I've

34:05

got to admit when I

34:07

step aside from my disgust and

34:09

horror at this unholy experiment

34:11

in turning our kids against their

34:13

own country and Western civilization

34:15

in general I've got to admire

34:17

the insidious effectiveness of these

34:19

people. Yeah, no kidding. They said

34:22

to themselves all right What

34:24

do we really need to rot

34:26

this society from the inside

34:28

out? You know the

34:30

media was a fairly easy play,

34:32

but we need education We've

34:34

got to get the kids. We've

34:36

got to indoctrinate the kids

34:39

to hate their country so we

34:41

can tear it down the

34:43

and The conservative analogy to that

34:45

would be the decades -long effort

34:47

to overturn Roe versus Wade

34:49

and getting various judges at various

34:52

levels of federal courts building

34:54

up to the Supreme Court and

34:56

being I mean it no

34:58

very long planned out Um,

35:01

decades. Yeah, very strategic

35:03

effort to do that. The

35:06

liberal end of it is this, what you're just

35:08

talking about. I mean, it's amazing to get all

35:10

of these policies in place at so many different

35:12

levels of our education system. Right. And

35:14

the cleverness to say, well, what if

35:16

the colleges resist? What if they

35:18

still want a diversity of opinions

35:20

on their faculty? Then we yank their

35:23

accreditation. We've need to

35:25

control the accreditation agencies. How do

35:27

we do that? Through DEI. And

35:29

I'll give you the nickel version

35:31

of this. As

35:33

James Lindsay put it so

35:35

brilliantly, critical race theory is

35:37

calling something racist until you

35:39

control it. So

35:41

you go to the accreditation agency and

35:43

you say, are you an anti -racist? I'm

35:46

against racism. No, you've got to

35:48

be an anti -racist. First of all,

35:50

read this book by Robin D 'Angelo,

35:52

Ibram X. Kendi, and declare that all

35:54

white people are racist and white

35:57

supremacists, including you. And you're like, no,

35:59

I'm not a racist, and they get

36:01

you fired. Because you're not an

36:04

anti -racist. A lot of you, perhaps,

36:06

saw people run out of their careers

36:08

for not towing the post -George Floyd

36:10

Black Lives Matter line. And they

36:12

terrify people into leaving or they run

36:14

them out or they force them

36:16

to their knees like a struggle session

36:18

in Mao's China to declare that,

36:21

yes, I'm evil. Yes, the United States

36:23

was founded on bigotry and slavery. And

36:25

yes, all of Western civilization is white

36:27

supremacy. Don't hurt me. Let me keep

36:30

my job. And then you're under their

36:32

control. and they take over the accreditation

36:34

agencies. That's how they did it. It's

36:36

evil, but it's clever.

36:40

We've got to be every bit as aggressive

36:42

and clever fighting back. So anyway, you

36:45

see that Donald J is

36:47

going after college accreditation agencies? Why?

36:49

That's why. So

36:51

I don't think Trump knew this

36:53

stuff. No, I don't

36:55

think so either. Certainly back in 2015 when

36:57

he ran. I wonder who convinced

36:59

him of all this. I

37:02

think JD Vance has a terrific grasp

37:04

of this stuff. I disagree with JD

37:06

on a handful of things, pretty vehemently,

37:08

but I think he's really, really good

37:10

on this stuff. That'd

37:12

be interesting. I'd like to know more about

37:14

that. Yeah, I disagree with him 100 %

37:16

today on his Ukraine stuff, and we

37:18

got more of that later. But

37:22

if he's driving the bus on

37:24

this, that's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah.

37:26

And like I say, this is so

37:28

critical of fight. I mean, I

37:30

really, really believe it is that when

37:32

I see them do stuff like

37:35

the the whips on on the tariffs

37:37

and some of the trade stuff

37:39

and it's not like, all right, don't

37:41

don't mess up the economy because

37:43

if you do that Republicans are gonna

37:45

get booted out of office and

37:47

we're not gonna get a chance to

37:49

fight this fight. So Proceed

37:51

at least semi Of course, that's not exactly,

37:53

you know, the Donald J. Trump way of

37:56

doing things, which is fine. It is what

37:58

it is. Uh, right. So we got, we

38:00

got to get into the book pride puppy

38:02

an hour, three, um, a

38:04

variety of things. I would definitely want

38:06

to get to that whole Ukraine conversation. We

38:08

know more about that. Maryland

38:12

man, uh, the MS

38:14

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38:16

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38:18

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38:20

and J .Lo and Ben Affleck

38:22

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We have a drunk male truck

42:01

driver. I like the kicking the

42:03

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42:05

Yeah, they'll never notice this. Yeah,

42:09

here's a male truck worker,

42:11

a female mailman who

42:13

was rolling along doing her

42:15

thing, 33 years old.

42:17

They came across. They're

42:20

a female mailman. They're probably they them. Oh

42:25

boy. Anyway, this thoroughly

42:27

woman mailman saw a house party

42:29

and evidently somebody said, hey, come on

42:31

in for a pop or two.

42:33

She thought, why not? And

42:37

indeed, got somewhat, well, unsober

42:39

and has been charged with a

42:41

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42:43

no joke. But I've got

42:45

to admit, it's somewhat amusing, the idea of,

42:47

you know, hey. You

42:50

know, you can't tell you rude as long

42:52

and life is hard. Come on in for a

42:54

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42:56

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43:00

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43:02

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43:04

a drink. Good Lord. Exactly.

43:08

Yeah, evidently, she could not hold her

43:10

liqueur though and was swerving in

43:12

and out of her lane, etc. Including

43:14

into the oncoming traffic. Yeah, which,

43:16

yeah. Terrible. Oh,

43:18

yeah. Yeah. Start

43:22

with the least important stupidest thing

43:24

first. J. Lo and

43:26

Ben Affleck, who got divorced again after

43:28

getting married for the second time, their

43:31

divorce is being held up by they're trying

43:33

to figure out how to deal with their

43:35

home. It hasn't been selling and then splitting

43:37

the money. 68

43:40

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43:42

Hills home. That's expensive

43:44

even by, you know,

43:46

rich people's standards. 68

43:48

million dollar home,

43:50

Beverly Hills, California. It

43:52

is a 38 ,000 square foot. Man, you

43:54

just get done with dusting and you'd have

43:56

to start over on the other end again.

43:58

That'd be, oh yeah. 38 ,000

44:00

square feet. square feet home. And I'm

44:02

looking at this. Compound it looks like

44:04

it's a community college or something, but

44:07

it's their home in Beverly Hills and

44:09

I just You know most of us

44:11

will never know but that that's it's

44:13

beyond buying a home I don't even

44:15

I don't even know what it really

44:17

is when you look at a place

44:19

I get and how do you compare

44:21

one to another if When you're looking

44:23

at something that large and what do

44:25

you plan to do there a compound

44:27

is a much better way to look

44:29

at yeah You you own why would

44:31

you restrict yourself to your home? You

44:33

have like one or two guest homes

44:35

of significant size that are bigger than

44:37

most americans homes right for you know

44:39

friends and relatives and partiers and and

44:42

the rest of it you have a

44:44

bar with the dance floor use twice

44:46

a year but who cares in a

44:48

basketball court right exactly a big jim

44:50

as well equipped as your your local

44:52

jim and you know An

44:55

enormous dining room that you

44:57

probably use again three four times

44:59

a year. Otherwise you're eating

45:01

in the kitchen like normal people

45:03

Yeah, I don't know and

45:05

some some incredible beautiful outdoor pool

45:07

with patio set and obviously

45:10

you're not cleaning it yourself. I

45:12

wish somebody would put out

45:14

the The side costs on a

45:16

home like that one time. Oh, you

45:18

never hear those I'd like to hear

45:20

what what's your what property tax is

45:22

easy to figure out because it's uh,

45:25

you know, roughly 10 in California So

45:27

that's what you got to pay in

45:29

property tax every single year But that

45:31

that's a lot so you'd pay six

45:33

point eight million dollars in property tax

45:35

every year No, no ten percent a

45:37

year. I think somebody's stealing from you

45:40

It's like you and the county I

45:42

lived one and a quarter I

45:46

think you may have moved a decimal point.

45:48

But anyway, it's exhausting and big houses equal

45:50

big bills. I learned that early on in

45:52

life. Somebody told me that and it's, it's

45:54

quite true. Oh yeah, I'm sure. But like,

45:56

I'd love to know what's their energy bill?

45:58

What's it cost to clean it? How much

46:00

do they spend on gardeners? Sure.

46:04

I mean, it would be, no,

46:06

you, if, obviously,

46:08

if somebody gave you that home, even without

46:10

property tax, you couldn't afford to live there.

46:12

It'd be impossible. No. Unless

46:14

you're going to let it fall apart. It's completely

46:17

out of the question, yeah. It'd

46:19

be funny just to present the idea

46:21

that JLo finally got tired of cleaning.

46:24

She would vacuum and vacuum and vacuum and

46:26

dust and dust and clean the toilets

46:28

and then there's Ben sitting on the table

46:30

watching football and then it was time

46:32

to start cleaning again. right right she's jenny

46:35

from the block trying to get the

46:37

cobwebs down in bedroom number forty seven and

46:39

uh... it hasn't been in it in

46:41

six months and all of these cobwebs I

46:43

didn't get to the fact that Trump,

46:45

speaking to Holmes, he's putting up flag poles

46:47

on the White House grounds. He's paying

46:49

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46:51

each side of the White House. They

46:53

have big American flags and he's paying for

46:55

it. And he's a, you know, he's

46:57

a builder. So he had contractors out there

46:59

yesterday. You could see pictures of him

47:01

like pointing up in the sky and at

47:03

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47:06

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