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eight thirty. Yes, the voice is on a wild ride. I thought
I was better. It's arguably harder for me to talk right now than it
was last week. It could have been could have had something to do with
this weekend. I will tell you since I shared a little bit about this
last I think it was last week. I kind of filled you in as
to why my voice was struggling last Monday, which was because we had a
basketball game and I was yelling, not not mad, but yelling at the
at the team, and we had games. We actually had three games over
the weekend, so I am probably three times worse. I guess I don't
know how to say it. The girls actually won the championship. Of course,
it was one hundred percent due to coaching. The girls did a great
job in all seriousness. So anyway, that's the voice is hopefully going to
hang in there with us this week. But again, anything can happen,
as we found out in prior times with this voice situation. But let's let's
get after it. Hit or day. You know, as I was thinking
about how to frame what I want to talk about today, when I thought
about just how I wanted to set it up, I guess, you know,
we don't do themes on here, but as I think, I try
to, you know, figure out what's going on. And there's times,
by the way I shut down, I shut down. I don't you know.
When this program concludes on Friday, I pretty much turn it off.
I mean, this is what I do every day, right, and I
love it, don't get me wrong, but sometimes you just need a mental
break unless something, of course major happens and I'll look into it. Someone
will indefinitely tell me usually OZ. But anyway, the as I was preparing
and as I read the news and was just thinking and looking at what was
going on, and I see Trump now is up in the Wall Street Journal
poll, which is the first time. Again we're still a ways out.
I don't want to put too much into these polls, but just when you
look at a series of things that are happening, and one of the things
that are that's happening is what we're going to talk about today. And there's
a couple of things I want to get to, time permitting, of course,
But as we as we look at it and I try to take a
step back, especially on a Monday, you know how, I don't know,
I just come off of that break, kind of take a deep breath.
We're heading into the holidays. Christmas is what two weeks from today,
so you know, you take a step back and you look at the scheme,
the grand scheme of how things are going, and I have what I
think is good news for you. You know. Let me before I say
that. Before I say that, let me say this. There are four
stages when you start something new. And this is relevant to the point I
want to make here. When there are four stages that happened when you say
you start a new job, or you take up a new hobby or whatever,
just something new. The first phase is, and this is how I
say it. There's actually other people that say it. They have kind of
names for the categories, but I kind of describe the category. And the
first phase is you don't know what you don't know, right, So you
start something. It may seem like, oh, this should be easy,
and you don't realize really what you've gotten yourself into. Whatever it is,
a new job, a new hobby. Typically this is the case, and
it's something that looks it looks interesting, it looks fun. Maybe you've messed
around with it in the past, and you say, hey, I'm going
to do this, whether as a as a job, whether I'm going to
volunteer at my church or whatever. Right, I'm going to take a bigger
step to really embrace this and to kind of sink my roots here and really
become good at this and do this as a hobby. Well, then you
quickly realize there's always more to it than you first kind of suspected. And
then there's that terrifying phase, which is you know what you don't know,
and it's a bit of an overwhelming situation because you think, oh my goodness,
I started this, what did I bite off? I don't understand.
You know, you're just starting to kind of get your feet wet in different
parts of the hobby or the job, and you realize, oh, my
goodness, I don't know much about that. I didn't know it entailed that
there's math involved. What's going on. One of my daughters she crochetes.
She crochetes animals. She's twelve. She's twelve, And I'll tell you I
wasn't her oz. What's the name of the she's on Instagram? What is
it? Yarn Buddies by Evie? Right, Yarn Buddies by Evie. And
she's gotten I'm telling I know she's my daughter. I'm biased, but I
mean she's gotten very, very good at this and no time at all.
But it was kind of like that with her, And as she was doing
the crocheg I don't think she knew that there was math involved. She shared
this with me a couple of times. Dad, there's math involved. I
gotta do math to figure out how many stitches. And I don't even understand
what she's telling me, but I know that she's learning, and she didn't
know that it involved that. So there's that phase when you first realize I've
there's a lot to this right, and gradually you become more adept, you
become more capable of doing the job. And you slowly but kind of methodically,
if you keep working at it, if you have a talent for it
and knack forward, if you just have a work ethic, if you're focused
or whatever, you just keep chipping away and you eventually become you become competent,
and you then reach the phase that you don't know what you've learned.
You don't know what you currently know. It's like in your mind, you're
still in that phase where it seems so overwhelming, but you've gotten better at
it, and you just haven't completely realized that yet. Now you're still not
a master of the skill, but you've gotten a lot better. What's what's
the I've heard people say if you do just I forget how many minutes a
day. It's not many, it's like fifteen minutes a day. Say,
if you do something for fifteen minutes a day in the course of X amount
of time, X number of months or maybe it's a year. I don't
even think it's that long. You become you're going to become like in the
top I forget a few percent five to ten percent of people doing that in
the world, just because you've invested the time and the energy. But sometimes
it doesn't feel like that right, So sometimes we don't know that we become
competent, that we've kind of gotten good at it, and then finally we
all reach that phase if we stick with it long enough, if it's a
good fit, if we love what we do, if we keep plugging away,
we finally get to that point where we are competent and we know it.
And what's interesting and I find fascinating is that when you get back to
that level, when you've mastered something, it is so interesting to me at
least, this is how it works in my head. Things become as easy
as you thought it was at the beginning, except instead of just being naive
and thinking that it's just that you've understood it well enough to be able to
break it down into its most simple components, into its simplest pieces and steps
and components. Now you can teach it. Now, you can explain it.
Now you can help people troubleshoot who's trying to learn what you've learned.
You can become I'm kind of a master at it. And so it's with
that in mind. It's with that in mind that sometimes I take a step
back, right, I take a step back, and having done this for
eight years, and having followed politics for g whiz probably thirty thirty years roughly
to some degree, I always had an interest. Again I've mentioned before,
even as a kid watching watching Reagan, but I mean really had an interest
in politics and discussing these cultural and political issues in worldview and all that sort
of stuff. Faith having a really sincere interest in this for the past thirty
years or so. And I can take that step back, and I can
say there's something I've observed that I want to share with you, and I'm
going to tell you something. It's going to be interesting. Some of you
may resist this, some of you may already think the same thing. Some
of you may realize with a little bit of discussion, this is really where
we are. But I'm going to tell you this, and I believe that
this is accurate. Now, there's there's layers to this, and we got
to unpack them. And I want to get to this. I want to
get to the SoundBite. I actually want to get as the example or the
story that's kind of I think teaching us this that I want to talk about
today is what's happening with these university presidents who acted like anti Semitism calling for
the genocide of Jewish students was no big deal, didn't put anybody at risk
at their campus, on their campuses, which is preposterous and acidine. But
nonetheless, nonetheless I want to talk about that because I'm telling you my friends,
and I even hesitate to say this because it is it is just something
I've observed. It's you know, I just mentioned that we are team the
girls. They won the championship this week. In so envision this what I'm
about to tell you. Like, we're in the first quarter of a game.
You know, anything can happen in the next quarters. We might be
ahead, we might be behind. In fact, I think we got behind
in the championship game six to zero. It was a shootout. I think
we won nineteen to fourteen, but we got down. I think we were
down six to zero. But the point is we're at the beginning of this
game, and I just want to keep it in mind. I'm not saying
that this this could change today. This could be one hundred percent different,
one one hundred and eighty degrees flipped from what it is right now. But
I'm telling you, my friends, we are winning. We are winning.
I mentioned a few months ago, or maybe I think it was a month
and a half, two months ago, in one of my columns, I
made the observation that we have won, we have won the argument on illegal
immigration. In fact, there's stories in the stack of stuff. Today.
Governor Eric Adams, excuse me, Mayor Eric Adams from the city of New
York headed to DC over the weekend or whatever, came back to his city
and he told them, he told his he had a press conference or he
made an announcement where he said, nobody is going to fix this problem.
No one's coming to help us from the federal government as it pertains to how
illegal immigration is really bankrupting our city. He made that announcement. This is
from a sanctuary city, my friends. We have sanctuary cities and states who
have suddenly realized just how much of a burden an open border is to this
nation, to cities. Now, they still don't say it quite the right
way. They still have some hurdles they got to get passed. They're never
gonna they're always gonna try to demonize Republicans about immigration and all this. But
my friends, we've won the we've won the argument. Now there's a whole
other thing that has to happen. We've got to win the political fight,
which is a whole, like I said, a whole other thing. So
that is that is where we find ourselves. And we found ourselves in this
predicament again. And we found ourselves specifically in the predicament of having a victory,
having a cultural victory here because this university president, a couple of them,
three of them went Mit Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, you pinned.
They went and testified before Congress will play a little bit of this after the
break. I know it's time to take that break. But they went and
testified last week, I think a week ago tomorrow. I think it was
last Tuesday. It was last week sometime. They testified. Representative at least
Stephonic asked them questions about whether or not calls for genocide violated universities, the
university's policies, and none of these folks would say that it did. They
all acted like it was some sort of a you know, like a what
am I trying to hypothetical hypothetical sort of question, some sort of imaginative question.
She's saying, Look, you're having people literally threatened to say they want
to wipe out all Jewish people from the face of the planet, unlive them,
as we have to say for social media purposes now. But you want
to unlive them, and you act as though that's not a threat or a
danger to students on campus. And these professors are excuse me, will they're
professors too, But these university left as presidents were like, no, you
know, it depends on the context and whether or not they can put it
into practice and all this kind of stuff. They do something with their words,
then it might be I've got the SoundBite, but they they all hell
broke loose on these professors, these university presidents, this particular university president,
you pen she and I'll get into it, like I said before or in
the next segment. Her name, by the way, Liz McGill. She
did what it amounts to a Michael Scott apology video for those of you that
have watched The Office, where she basically well, I'll play a bit of
that as well, but it still didn't do the job. People called for
her, for her to be removed from office. She resigned. I think
she resigned. She's not. She's gonna be the interim president as they choose
a new president. She's a We're going to keep her cushy job somewhere on
the faculty. But the point, my friends, is that we're winning these
arguments. Now. We've got to be smacked across the face sometimes because simply
seeing one of these radicals removed from office doesn't mean anything, because they're just
probably gonna plug someone else in. So we have to think two or three
or twenty steps ahead. And I've got another story about that that I'm reminded
of as I say that anyway, But we are winning. We have real
traction, and we are winning in the cultural war, in the worldview battle,
in this battle for truth and decency. I'm not saying we got a
lot of things wrong in this country, but we have victories that are mounting
now. Whether or not that translates politically remains to be seen. Republican Party
somehow always finds a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But
nonetheless that's where we find ourselves here. I need to think a time out
doing Okay, I don't think I sound that great, but I still feel
like I've got a little bit of power here. As we go to the
break, timeouts in order will pick up on the other side of the break.
Wouldn't we get back my friends. You're listening here to conservative not bitter
talk. It's a pleasure to be here this Monday. Be back here in
just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. So, as I mentioned
last segment, I'm going to play a bit of the sound bite, a
bit of the SoundBite that we heard being shared from the president, the former
president of the University of Pennsylvania. She was asked, well, she was
testifying before Congress, and she was speaking with well answering questions from in this
particular example, at least staphonics. She is a representative from She's a Republican
from the state of New York, and I just want you to listen to
this exchange. I want you to listen to this exchange because she is being
asked for the whole purpose of this hearing was to talk about anti Semitism,
hate on campuses, talking about threats and dangers. Of course, in the
wake of what we've seen between Israel and Hamas by the way, did you
see all of the Hamas terrorists that are surrendering net and Yahoo says that they
are close to ending this war? Do you end by the way in the
United States? To the credit to the credit of the United States even under
this administration. I don't want to get into motives or any of that at
the moment. I just want to give credit where credit is due. The
United States vetoed a UN resolution that called for a cease fire. In Gods,
folks, I am not in favor of innocent people getting caught up in
the hell that has been created by Hamas. One by Hamas. The only
way to have a lasting ceasefire is to allow Israel to go in there and
eradicate the problem. Now, there still could be problems, I fully recognize
that, but not allowing them, not allowing them to take care of the
enemy as they should and eliminate the threat. If they're not going to unconditionally
surrender and release all the hostages, then Israel must do whatever it takes to
create that end result, which is the people involved no longer have the capability
ever again of doing what they did so but that's the United States vetoed that
resolution calling for a ceasefire. I'm in favor of a ceasefire, my friends,
but I'm in favor of a real ceasefire, which will happen when the
side that is calling for the death and destruction of Israel, when those jokers
and clowns and evildoers and terrorists are annihilated and not have they don't have the
capability of waging those wars anymore anyway, So this is all tied together.
So of course anti Semitism comes from the amount of hatred that exists on these
radical, woke leftist organizations, these college campuses, and so it's created a
bunch of antisemitism because apparently in the minds of these little radical leftists, they
think that some Jewish kid on campus is responsible for whatever the crap they think
is going on in Gaza in Israel today, and so they get bullied and
threatened and violence perpetrated against them. So they have this hearing and they want
to talk to college university presidents and say, hey, what are you guys
doing about this? This is a problem, whatever the case. Here's a
least dephonic speaking here. In this particular clip, she's speaking with the former
president of university of Pennsylvania, Liz McGill, I want you to listen to
this exchange because this is kind of the starting point of all the things that
have happened since well the past week or so. Here it is Penn.
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct?
Yes? Or no? If the speech turns into conduct, it can be
harassment. I am asking specifically, calling for the genocide of Jews? Does
that constitute bullying harassment? If it is directed and severer pervasive, it is
harassment. So the answer is yes. It is a context dependent decision.
It's a context dependent decision. That's your testimony today. Calling for the genocide
of Jews is, depending upon the context, that is not bullying or harassment.
This is the easiest question to answer, yes, miss McGill. So
is your testimony that you will not answer yes if it is or if the
speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment. Yes, conduct means committing the
act of genocide. The speech is not harassment. This is unacceptable. Mismcgil.
I'm going to give you one more opportunity for the world to see your
answer. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate pens Code of Conduct when
it comes to bullying and harassment, yes or no, it can be harassment.
The answer is yes. She's right. The answer is the answer is
yes. By the way, it's absolutely astonishing. I mean it's not we
know who these people are. We know who these people are. Now,
keep in mind, She's probably pays a lot of respect and attention to some
of these radicals who There is a radical fringe, of course group of Democrats,
and often they have a lot of power in the Democrat Party. But
the Democrats have kept them away, have kept the pro Palestine, anti Israel,
the pro those who chant from the river to the sea Palestine will be
free. These people, these were Shida to Leeb types, AOC types,
the squad, if you will, truly anti Israel, anti Semites. They
are truly the minority fringe in the Democrat Party and in this country on this
issue. Now, there are certainly reasons to be concerned about the amount of
junk being pumped into the minds of college kids around America today. I get
all that, But we've won on this issue because since that point in time,
and by the way, when Miss stephonic Congress willmus the phonic said I'm
gonna give you one more chance. I try my best not to interrupt their
interject I wanted you to hear it. I might have said a couple of
words here and there. But when she said I'm gonna give you one more
chance to answer this question, that moment that miss McGill president, former president
I guess now interim president, outgoing president of University of Pennsylvania, Lisa McGill,
she had an opportunity to save her career there and she didn't. Now,
I don't know if she didn't get the memo. I don't know if
she thought that the Democrat position was truly the position of anti Semitism or what.
But she lost her career over this. And I let me say,
and rightfully so, my friends. She could not say. She could not
say that calling for genocide on the college campus at the University of Pennsylvania constituted,
constituted bullying and harassment of Jewish students, genocide, calling for the complete
and utter wiping off the face of the planet of the people of Jewish faith.
She could not say that that was intimidating and behavior that was against policies
of the University of Pennsylvania. I want to talk about this because I'm a
free speech guy. In fact, I want to get to the old analogy
of yelling fire in a crowded theater, and I want to break that down.
What does that mean? Why does that matter? And this is the
easiest, this is the easiest question that the president of the University of Pennsylvania
should have ever been asked. If someone on your school campus is calling for
the group that another one of your students belongs to, ethnically, religiously,
racially, for the annihilation, the actual destruction of their entire race, of
their entire ethnic group, of their entire religion. If they're calling for that,
does that constitute a threat? Does that constitute bullying and harassment of that
student? Absolutely, and unequivocally, how this only doesn't make sense to a
accmmedition someone who is an intellectual who has no bearing, no footing, no
existence in reality. Is absolutely absurd and outright stupid. And it's candidly why
my father, my father coined the phrase over educated idiots. I think that's
exactly what we've got going here, over educated idiocy running our college campuses around
this country. Timeouts in one of my friends sits back in just a minute.
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Todd. So getting back to what we've been discussing Hill here, which is
Liz McGill former I guess you could say, still current, but now interim
outgoing president of UPenn. She has well, I played you the testimony a
moment ago, but from the time of the testimony there's been a lot of
I mean a lot of people upset for obvious reasons. I mean, she's
literally she can't say. She couldn't say for whatever reason, whether she didn't
get the memo that you know, the Democrats had decided to not be antisemites
for the moment, I don't know, but for whatever reason, she couldn't
bring herself to coming to the conclusion that she needed to be concerned about the
well being of all students in her care at her university. What is so
hard about this? I mean, there's nothing remotely hard about this. If
one group calls for the annihilation of the other group. That's no longer speech.
And I mentioned that's no longer the type of speak. That's just free
speech. There's no idea that's being described or explained there, there's no it's
just pure hatred. In fact, I want to take you to the where
are we here? Let me find where is it here? It is?
Okay, So let's talk about really quickly here Free speech, right, free
speech. So the constitution, most importantly Almighty God has given us the opportunity,
the ability to have the right to our own opinions and viewpoints and beliefs,
and we can say those things. We can say those things, and
we can express those things, and we absolutely should have free speech. But
we've heard everybody's heard the metaphor the analogy that says we don't have the right
to yell fire in a crowded movie theater when they're is no fire. That's
true, But why is it true? That's important If you want to apply
the lesson the analogy of the metaphor whatever, you've got to make sure that
you understand why. I learned years ago. The person who knows how will
always have a job. The person who knows why will always be the boss.
You can be influential. You can if you understand the whys. That's
a critical piece of the puzzle here. And so the reason that we can't
yell fire in a crowded theater, really, I think that there's two components.
But this is actually in a Supreme Court case called the Shank case hs
ch E NK. Shank case. Two reasons. From the way I look
at this one, it doesn't add any value to the discourse. It adds
no idea, there's no there's nothing of value being added, even a even
an idea that I don't agree with. It's just serving to cause panic and
chaos. And it doesn't prevent anything to the discourse but actual harm. And
this is the important thing, and the very thing that the existence of law
is designed to prevent. In fact, if you read a excerpt from the
Shank case, which I've got in our stack of stuff, it says this
the most true this was the justice for it was a blackman who wrote this
opinion. I can't remember the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect
a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. The question
in every case rites this is in the decision, the Supreme Court decision,
the question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and
are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they
will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. So,
if you're calling for the evil that says we want to kill un alive
a group of people because of their religion, their ethnicity, their favorite football
team, their race, whatever, if that's your position, which is what
is happening on college campuses, the Supreme courtas says that that is not something
that is not protected speech because it's calling for substantive evils. I think we
surely, to goodness, in twenty twenty three, we can still agree that
calling for genocide is a substantive evil in anybody's eyes. And Congress, that's
exactly the sort of thing that Congress is designed to prevent. Create law and
order so as to prevent the very things that this speech is calling for.
That is important. These jokers and clowns could not articulate that in front of
Congress. And one of them has had her job taken away, right well,
she's resigned it, but she's under immense pressure, and rightfully so.
There's also now there's billboard trucks driving around Harvard Harvard University calling for the resignation
of the president there who did who had similar confusion in her testimony before Congress
as well. Time out, my friends, is in order to sit tight
back here in merror moments, I'm probably not going to have time to play
the video she did from the time of the testimony last week until the time
of her announcement of her resignation the u University of Pennsylvania president who's now outgoing
interim soon to be former Liz McGill, she did a what I'm comparing to
a Michael Scott video. Do you remember the the Michael Scott episode or the
Office episode, I should say, where they somebody was mad and in production
and they printed a watermark in the back in the background, of course,
on some uh standard paper, and it had some inappropriate things going on in
the watermark, involving cartoon characters. And this went out and you know,
to customers, and they used it for I think one of the high schools
used it as a invitation to a prom. I can't remember exactly, but
there were upset customers. Michael Scott's for those of you who aren't office fans,
you know, I encourage it. That's it's a great, great show.
I know it's it's older, but it's one of the one of the
greats. But anyway, Michael Scott holds a press conference that he of course
calls Michael Scott's Steve Carell arguably, I think possibly the best television character of
all time. Kramer would give him a run for his money, but Michael
Scott is great. Anyway. Bottom line is the he invites a customer in
the customer to demands his resignation. He says, dream on, that's not
happening, and there's a little bit of an argument that happens between him and
the customer. So he goes. He wants to proactively cut this off,
and so he goes and creates a video. He creates a video where he
says, I'm not going to retire. You're gonna have to carry my dead
body out of here. I'm not going anywhere. I will burn this place
to the ground if I'm removed from here. And then he ends ends the
video by saying, you have one hour. It's some sort of a video
where he is holding someone hostage and expecting some sort of a payout to you
know, to do business. I guess anyway, that's what this video felt
like. It's in the stack of stuff if you want to see it tiedefshow
dot com right there on the homepage stack of stuff. You'll see it.
Click on that timeouts in order that my friends sit tight just out of time
here back in a minute, Welcome back my friends, winning moments of the
program. I said this off the top, but I want to say it
at the end as well, because some of you don't hear the beginning.
Shame on you, of course, I'm kidding. But you can always,
of course download the podcast to titofshow dot com, slash listen or wherever you
listen to podcasts. But I want to say this at the end too.
I think that there are many issues, many that we are winning, or
maybe even have one. At least we've won the argument. Now that's where
the interesting part to me begins to fall into place, just because we've won
it culturally, we've won it societally open borders for one of those. As
an example, this radical wokeness on college campuses, anti semitism, this issue
is another example. What happens politically. Maybe a different thing altogether. I
hope not. We're winning these fights, my friends. Gotta go, SDG