Fat Thumbs, or 4-D Chess? | Is the NCAA's Golden Goose Cooked? | 3/25/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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In this episode, Aaron McIntire discusses various current events, including Trump's new CDC director, a quasi-national security breach involving Trump officials, immigration issues, and the challenges parents face with public education. The conversation also touches on corporate struggles, particularly 23andMe's bankruptcy, and the future of the NCAA amidst changing dynamics in college sports.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 on fat thumbs and foreign policy. |
| 0:04.3 | Trump makes his new pick to lead the CDC, and the NCAA's golden goose is cooked. |
| 0:09.8 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:11.7 | From this podium, I'm not going to comment, and never would I comment in any framework, |
| 0:16.7 | the Secretary's deliberative conversations in any regard. |
| 0:20.4 | We're going to keep resting TDA members. We'll keep rest in MS-13 members. We'll keep conversations in any regard. We're going to keep arresting TDA members, |
| 0:22.0 | we're going to keep arresting public safety threats all this nation. |
| 0:25.9 | But like, it's Ted Cruz. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean, like, this dude has to be knocked over the head. |
| 0:30.4 | I have a historic moment like that. |
| 0:31.9 | I mean, that's something I'll remember for the rest of my life. |
| 0:35.4 | Fairfax County has decided to move forward with instituting |
| 0:40.1 | gender studies in elementary school. The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was inadvertently included |
| 0:47.6 | on a messaging chain of senior Trump officials that discussed plans where a forthcoming, then-forthcoming |
| 0:53.0 | strike on the Houthis in Yemen. |
| 0:55.4 | Jeffrey Goldberg penned a first-person account of getting connection requests from what appeared to be |
| 1:00.6 | Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz on March 11th on Signal. That's a popular |
| 1:05.4 | encrypted messaging service used by journalists and government officials. He accepted and then was added to the chat |
| 1:12.1 | group called Houthi PC Small Group, where he proceeded to see a series of top Trump officials |
| 1:17.6 | discuss what turned out to be an upcoming attack on the Houthis and what critics are calling |
| 1:21.3 | a massive breach of national security. Now, these messages, well, concerning. And of course, |
| 1:26.7 | Michael Wals, the National Security Advisor, |
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