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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2 of A&G features...

  • Benjamin Carlson on life in a totalitarian society...
  • more Benjamin Carlson...
  • The 9-1-1 calls from the fighter jet crash..
  • A NY Democrat congressman indicted!

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0:00.0

From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gettie, Armstrong and Gettie Show.

0:17.0

So have you been following the whole?

0:20.0

Now who's the racist dust up around Ibrahim X Kennedy? Have you been following that story? It's a pretty good one.

0:26.0

I'm familiar with the fact that his institute doesn't do anything except enrich him.

0:33.0

Or is that related to it?

0:35.0

Not really, no. It's what related to it is is he's trying to put together an institute or whatever.

0:41.0

No, so he set up a bunch of rules that if you can't follow a mere racist, well it's impossible to follow his rules.

0:47.0

Of course, of course, of saying everybody's a racist all the time, which was the point.

0:51.0

Well, now he's got this institute or whatever. He's violating some of the rules because, you know, by definition, he set it up to where you can't operate anything without being a racist.

0:59.0

So are you a racist now? Ibrahim X Kennedy, we can get into more of that coming up later.

1:04.0

I absolutely love that because I think this is an insidious force in America and a racist.

1:10.0

As James Lindsay put it so brilliantly, the idea of critical race theory is you call something racist until you control it.

1:19.0

Speaking of that sort of thing, this is so good and so interesting.

1:23.0

A gent by the name of Ben Carlson lived and worked in China as a journalist for more than six years.

1:29.0

And he says, I was informed on, spied on and tailed while traveling.

1:34.0

And this is nothing compared to what Chinese go through if targeted Chinese citizens themselves.

1:40.0

And his headline is, what can an unfree society teach you about freedom?

1:44.0

And it occurred to me while I was thinking about this, that if you grow up with liberty, you don't know you have it.

1:54.0

There's a famous thought experiment. I can't remember. It's one of the like gravity or sunlight or something.

2:01.0

They're utterly unaware of it because it's always been there.

2:04.0

Yeah, it's like the fish don't know they're wet theory.

2:07.0

Yeah, they're brilliant. Yeah, perfect.

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