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March 21, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Stuck on the Ice With a Maniac

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey worry about a South African Antarctic research team marooned with a violent nut. They also discuss Cybertrucks, Steve Jobs, Shakespeare, and the Lambrini Girls.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
And with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
And this podcast will be going up on March 21st, year of our Lord, 2025.
And Mr. Kersey, as usual, we will begin with comments from listeners, of which there are several.
The first commenter writes to say, I understand Jared Taylor will be speaking at Colorado Mesa University, or CMU.
Well, I went to the real CMU, Carnegie Mellon University, which was always a communist school, as my dad would say, but used to be rather good before it decided to DEI die.
It's still a Tier 1 school and regularly ranked among the best in the country, despite the DEIBS.
No one in America thinks of Colorado Mesa University as CMU, except for maybe some Colorado hicks.
There is only one CMU in America, and I have named it.
All the rest are pretending.
Well, well, I must say, when I first looked up CMU, the only thing I got was Carnegie Mellon.
That's true, and that's what most people think.
However, I have an interesting story to tell in this context, and that is when I was a student at Yale in New Haven, we used to see people walking around with jackets that said in great big letters on the back, CIA.
And you know what that stood for?
What is in New Haven, Connecticut that can be referred to as CIA?
I mean, you know everything, Mr. Curse, but that may be one of the few that you don't know.
I'm actually doing the Great Replacement New Haven in honor of you being an alumnus of Yale.
You are skirting?
You are dancing away from my question?
I am dancing away because I don't know...
It stands for Culinary Institute of America.
These were America's future cooks walking around with jackets that said CIA on them.
So there can be more than one CIA and more than one CMU.
So there you go.
Another commenter writes, As a regular listener of Radio Renaissance, I would like to say it's a joy to hear Mr. Kersey's pithy and witty commentary once again.
Also, I enjoy re-watching old videos of your speaking engagements on college campuses, particularly the Q&A period.
I hope you will have a videographer on site for your upcoming event at CMU.
I hope to hear your back and forth with some agitated moo cows.
Now, when he talks about agitated moo cows, I had a little bit of fun with the fact that the mascot of Colorado Mesa University is the Maverick.
And a maverick, of course, is somebody with an independent thinker, a dissident, a rabble-rouser, somebody that is the opposite of a conformist.
But, of course, everybody there is absolutely towing the line as to how awful and horrible I am.
And so I suggested that they get a new mascot.
And I don't know if you recognize the cow, Elsie.
from the Borden Company's commercials.
She's a cute little lady cow.
And I think the Borden Company would be happy to license Elsie and they could call themselves the herd animal moo cows rather than the mavericks.
So I suspect there will be agitated moo cows in the audience.
Let's see.
Hello there.
Glad that Mr. Kersey's back on the air.
I had a comment regarding the phrase 8M.
Two podcasts ago, you were talking about Carla Sofia Gascon and how he, well, this is a man who is pretending to be a woman, as is the fashion these days, how he mentioned that the Oscars these days felt like a BLM festival or an 8M protest.
Well, Carla Sofia Gascon is Spaniard and speaks French.
Our commenter says, you both expressed confusion about the expression 8M.
Well, that is a Japanese numeronym.
Now, that's a new word for me, a numeronym.
Not an acronym, not a pseudonym, but a numeronym.
That means a word that has composed of numbers.
8M stands for March 8. In other words, 8th of March, M. I guess that's Mars or Marsoli.
Spanish. I can't remember.
Something like Mars, Mars.
And 8th of March is International Women's Day, or more specifically, the Day of the International Working Woman.
So I guess if you are a stay-at-home mom, you are an outcast on March 8th.
And this is a big lefty fiesta in Spain where all the left-leaning labor unions, political parties, and other syndicates and confederations make a huge feminist fuss.
And in Spanish, important dates are expressed this way, so that 9-11 would be 11-S, as in 11-Septiembre, I believe it is.
And 1-O, that means the 1st of October.
Uno-Octobre refers to the failed Catalan independence referendum of October 1st, 2017.
So, AM, that means this loony-lefty festival of women.
So thank you very much.
This is the kind of thing that I wouldn't have known, and I very much appreciate our on-the-ball listeners for keeping us informed.
Here's another comment.
Sorry to catch Mr. Taylor in a pronunciation error, but the author of the Harry Potter series is J.K. Rowling.
It rhymes with bowling.
It's like rolling things downhill.
It's a very common mistake, and yes, I confessed, I called her Rowling.
So, I have been corrected.
By the way, I think I did too.
You may have too.
You don't hear her name used that much anymore because she's persona non grata for her views on certain men who want to dress.
Pretend they're women.
Well, in my case, I don't listen to that much audible media.
I read most of it and I see her name all the time and I was pronouncing it incorrectly.
Thank you very much.
Our quick-witted and on-the-wall listener.
Another error.
Customs and Border Protection is the U.S. government agency within the Department of Homeland Security, and it's abbreviated CBP.
In your podcast, you referred to a Department of Homeland Security app, phone app, as the CPB home application.
It is the CBP home app.
Well, if I said that, I was certainly wrong.
That's the app.
It used to be CPB1, meaning how you could make an appointment to come enter the country illegally.
And now that is C. Let's see.
CBP. Sorry, I keep still getting it wrong.
It is CBP Home, which is the app you can explain that you are going to go off before the feds come after you.
And if you leave voluntarily, then maybe you'll have another chance to come.
But if we deport you, then you'll never have a chance to come back.
All right, another commenter.
I'm a longtime listener to the program, but I want to correct a few errors that were made in your coverage of the Mahmoud Khalil story.
This is the Columbia student.
If I recall correctly, was he an Iranian?
He has been deported.
And I said that he appeared not to have been doing anything wrong.
He was only protesting against Israeli policy in the Middle East, specifically in Gaza, as I understand it.
But our listener writes in to say, first, he is accused of wrongdoing.
But his wrongdoing is civil, not criminal.
The terms of his visa clearly state he cannot support terrorist organizations.
And by handing out flyers sourced from Hamas with their logo on them, he broke that condition of his visa.
We also mentioned Jewish Voices for Peace.
This is a group that has been demonstrating for his release.
And our listener writes in to say it's a very small fringe group within the Jewish community.
Many of whom are not even Jewish, or they are non-practicing Jews.
Ben Shapiro has covered this group several times, and he has shown them mispronouncing words in Hebrew, I guess they're pretending to be Jews, unable to name even a single Jewish prophet and wearing the talit incorrectly.
The talit is, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right, whether it's talit, talit, or talit.
In any case, that is a fringed prayer shawl that religious Jews sometimes use.
So if he in fact is accused of breaking the terms of his visa, he has committed some kind of infraction, perhaps worthy of deportation.
Another comment.
In reference to a story last week that Disney is beginning to ditch the DEI nonsense, I wanted to let you know something that I found some time ago.
Song of the South.
I know, Mr. Kersey, you hold that.
In high regard, it's really the, it's Uncle Remus and the, oh, what are the tails?
Oh my goodness.
Bear Rabbit.
Bear Rabbit, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris' tails.
And it is actually available at archive.org, and it is taken from a beautiful 35mm print.
He says, Song of the South.
It's there waiting for you.
And our listener sent in the URL.
I don't want to rattle the whole thing off, but it's archive.org slash details and then Song of the South.
Also, along with Song of the South is a print of Fantasia.
That does not censor the young black girl filing the hooves of a blonde female centaur during the Beethoven's Chorale segment.
Now, I never saw Fantasia, so I don't know about that scene.
I didn't know that there was a young black girl filing a horse's hooves.
Did you know that?
I did know that.
Fantasia is actually a great Disney film.
Back when I was in college, all my dope-smoking friends said it was a wonderful thing to get stoned out of their minds and watch Fantasia.
But I never tried that little experience, so my mind remained unexpanded.
Let's see.
Oh, but our listener goes on to say this is a good chance to be able to download both films in their original state.
So that you will have complete copies available if there is a U-turn reverse course at Disney and these suddenly are taken out of circulation and you can hold them for posterity.
All right.
Moving right along.
Another comment.
You mentioned in your last podcast that the British Prime Minister...
Wait a minute.
This person says British Prime Minister.
That's not who she is.
She is the head of the Conservative Party.
The head of the Conservative Party, Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badnock,
Now, doesn't that name just sum up where we are right now?
You said she's of Kenyan descent.
She's actually the progeny of a Nigerian father, a doctor, and a Nigerian mother who was a professor of psychology.
And although young Olukemi only took to living in the UK from the age of 16, Where she has become a member of the Tory establishment, she got her start in politics by winning an ultra-safe Tory seat.
Well, they stick those in when they know that any Tory is going to win, and a black lady makes them look diverse without much of a risk.
Well, Badenock ended up with a British passport, what she calls one of Willy Wonka's golden tickets.
Isn't that something else?
When her mother came to Britain to give birth.
Now, this is what our listener was talking about the last time when this was called to your and my attention, Mr. Kersey, which means she is an anchor baby.
She's also a DEI hire, beating out a rival for the Tory leadership who was, unfortunately for him, in this quite woke Tory party, both male and white.
Gosh, two substantial demerits.
She's weak and ineffective on most policy issues and...
As a Nigerian import, particularly weak and ineffective on non-white immigration to Britain, both legal and illegal.
Now, of course, you and I were just passing on something we'd had from an early listener.
Who explained how she happened to be British.
And you were wondering whether there was still birthright citizenship in Britain, Mr. Kersey.
And we found out that there still is a variant of it.
They've tightened it up a bit over the years.
But it was that listener who had commented to say that she was Kenyan.
And we took our listeners because we admire and respect our listeners what they say at face value.
And I guess we should have checked.
Okay, last comment.
And this one's pretty interesting.
In a recent podcast, you quoted filmmaker Michael Moore talking about Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Now, that's his name, right?
Not Job's Jobs.
It was Jobs.
Yes, it was Jobs.
And his Syrian immigrant father, Abdul Fatah Jandali.
Mr. Moore, Michael Moore, was apparently lamenting President Trump's efforts to deport millions of illegals.
As a multi-millionaire, Mr. Moore is completely insulated from the negative effects of unrestricted illegal immigration.
And he was gushing about Steve Jobs.
He says, I'm grateful for that Muslim migrant baby.
Wasn't he also saying that you never know, the next person who's going to be deported is the person who's going to save us from that asteroid that's going to hit the planet in 2050 or is going to discover the cure for cancer.
We're just eliminating all these wonderful people and ain't it awful?
Well, our listener goes on to say, in a 2017 article in Macworld magazine, a writer by the name of Simon Jerry notes that Abdul Jandali's father That is to say, Steve Jobs' grandfather was a self-made millionaire who owned several entire villages in Syria.
The younger John Daly, that would be Jobs' grandfather.
That was Jobs' grandfather.
The younger John Daly, Jobs' father, was sent to study at the American University in Beirut, but he got involved in radical Arab politics and was forced out of Lebanon.
Well, instead of returning to Syria in 1954, he instead opted to flee legally to New York City, where he moved in with his uncle, who was the Syrian ambassador to the United States.
These were not, you know, ragheads out Bedouin camping in the desert.
These were high-toned Syrians.
And he enrolled in Colombia, and soon after arriving in the U.S., he impregnated his non-Muslim girlfriend.
A daughter of German-Swiss immigrants.
As her parents refused to allow her to marry a non-Catholic, the baby boy was put up for adoption, and that was Steve Jobs himself.
The baby was adopted by a local farmer and his wife, Paul and Clara Jobs, and raised as a Catholic.
Despite Moore's claim that Steve Jobs was a Muslim migrant, baby Jobs was never a Muslim.
Nor was he a migrant.
His father was a legal immigrant.
He was raised with European values, not the precepts of Islam.
One final point.
Steve Jobs' biological parents played no role in his life.
Jobs never even met John Dolly, although it is possible that they briefly crossed paths unknowingly when Jobs shook hands with the manager of a local restaurateur, a manager of a local restaurant later in life.
And that turned out to be John Dolly.
But the article says, of his biological parents, Jobs was dismissive.
They were my sperm and egg bank.
That's not harsh.
That's just the way it was.
A sperm bank thing, nothing more.
It was of his adoptive parents that Jobs said, they were my parents 1,000%.
So, our listener goes on to say, despite Michael Moore's fantasies, Steve Jobs' parents came to America legally.
And his success may have had more to do with his American upbringing than with the genetic contribution of a man he never knew.
But Michael Moore is still lamenting that all these illegals are being booted out because they're going to invent wonderful things.
They're going to save us from high-speed asteroids.
Oh, it's just so awful.
Now, Mr. Kersey, it's at this point that we would like to tell our listeners how much we'd like to hear from you and how appreciative we are of being corrected when we bungle.
And one way to get a message straight to me is to go to the American Renaissance website at amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and go to the Contact Us page.
And the other way to get a message to Mr. Kersey is?
Yeah, I'd love to hear from you.
Send me an email at becausewelivehereatprotonmail.com, or you can do it at becausewelivehereatproton.me.
As you can see, we had a lot to go over this week, so we appreciate each and every one of you listeners, especially on Twitter, where I believe these are uploaded now directly.
So thank you so much.
I would love interacting with you there.
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Once again, that's at BWHL underscore, or Mr. Taylor's is.
That's only if we are mutually following each other.
But if I follow you and you follow me, you can contact me at realjartaylor.
J-A-R-T-A-Y-L-O-R.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe you have the first news item.
So, batter up.
Batter up.
Knock it out of the pile.
I'm going to take a swing for the fences.
This comes to us from one of my favorite websites, Zero Hedge.
Australian politician admits free speech is incompatible with a multicultural society.
The premier of New South Wales tacitly admitted that in order to uphold the myth that diversity is our greatest strength, the freedom to say it isn't must be censored.
I recognize and I fully said from the beginning we don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community and have people live in peace, said Menz.
That is a remarkable admission.
That really is remarkable.
I'm very glad you brought this up because I had just glanced over that headline, but this is very much a story worth emphasizing.
You cannot have free speech and a multi-racial, multi-culti mess.
How many times have we heard when there was the Fort Hood shooting?
I mean, I know we've had, we've quoted that ad nauseum that, you know, diversity can't be the casualty of this Saracen Islamic terror attack back at Fort Hood.
It's like, what are you, what are you talking about?
All these people would have been alive if we didn't have this diversity.
The politician made the comments in the context of new hate speech laws in Australia that were rushed through off the back of a hysterical moral panic based on a completely fraudulent narrative.
Isn't it amazing how often these fraudulent narratives become fact?
We saw of course in Canada where the mass graves.
Caused a number of domestic terror attacks, actually, on churches.
And there was virtually no evidence for any of those.
Well, and of course, the greatest recent case, the one that had the most spectacular effect all across the United States and around the world was the death of George Floyd.
It spawned a bunch of Floydian armies nationwide that ransacked community after community.
But carry on, carry on.
We have a lot to cover.
The new legislation was introduced in response to a supposed terror attack plot on a childcare center near a synagogue on the outskirts of Sydney.
Subsequently, though, it emerged that the attack was actually a criminal con job, according to police, and that it wasn't politically or racially motivated at all.
The entire operation wasn't about mass destruction.
It was a scam, reports reclaimed the net.
The alleged mastermind reportedly a figure nestled deep within Australia's criminal underworld was running a spectacular bluff.
The plan?
Create an artificial crisis, let the media and politicians whip themselves into a frenzy and then swoop in as a hero with inside information, possibly to negotiate a reduced sentence, distract police from other crimes or simply revel in the chaos.
John Ruddick underscored the false pretext of the hate speech laws when he told Parliament...
Parliament was misinformed by the men's government about the urgency of the bills referred to in 1A, B, and C. This House calls on the men's government to repeal the bills, apologize for both misleading this parliament, preventing a parliamentary inquiry,
and further curbing free speech principles by these reactionary bills.
Menz refused to respond to Ruddick's argument and doubled down, glibly asserting that anyone who opposes draconian restrictions on free speech is
racist abuse.
We'll see you next time.
As Christina Moss points out, with all these hate speech laws, they will inevitably be abused to silence Native Australians from speaking out about the failure of multiculturalism and diversity.
Quote, these laws will be used against dissenters.
Against people who question government policies, against critics of the ruling ideology, she wrote.
This is all in Australia.
So, wow.
Well, you know, I believe this is the same law according to which if you happen to throw up a stiff arm salute in public or if you wave a swastika, you get a minimum big house.
Residential stay of one year and a maximum of five years.
And it's not just a swastika.
If you wave the flag of Boko Haram or Al-Shabaab or ISIS, maybe not even knowing what it is, you can go into the pokey likewise for a minimum of one year.
No, a mandatory minimum of one year for waving a flag.
This is Australia.
These are our freedom-loving Australian cousins.
Well, let's see.
Well, this is an interesting parallel here.
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mervis, has withdrawn his participation at an Israeli conference on antisemitism.
This is an official conference organized by the Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.
His name is Amichai Chikli, and it's set to host figures from across the political spectrum.
This conference has sparked controversy because politicians such as Jordan Bardella of the National Rally and Marion Maréchal, granddaughter of the National Rally's founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, are going to be there.
Also, there will be Hermann Terch of the Vox Party.
Now, I don't know anything about Hermann Terch, but Vox is a stalwart.
Spain should be for the Spaniards Nationalist Parties.
These figures are part of a broader shift in Israeli policy which has decided to engage with so-called far-right parties in countries like France, Spain and Sweden.
Now, as a result of this, many worry that such alliances may undermine efforts to combat anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Mervis is the sixth important scheduled participant to withdraw from the conference.
Among the other guests who've canceled are Lord John Mann, not sure who he is, Professor David Hirsch, and the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, CEO William Daroff.
Now, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, has also...
Pulled his participation.
He was announced to be a speaker.
Not anymore.
And this is because it is in light of some of the recently announced participants at the Israeli government's anti-Semitism conference.
He's going to boycott it, too.
Well, the Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Ami Chai Chikli sees far-right parties as partners in the shared fight against Muslim influence.
And that is why Israel has recently changed its official policy.
Now, I find it quite interesting that these people are not going to, they can't stand the idea of being in the same room with someone who wants to say that Spain should be for the Spaniards, France should be for the French.
That's no good.
That's absolutely no good.
Even if they share an opposition not only to Arab influence, Muslim immigration, or they share an opposition to anti-Semitism.
These people wouldn't be at an anti-Semitism conference if they didn't think anti-Semitism were a bad thing.
But what a confusing thing it must be for poor Jonathan Greenblatt.
He's fighting anti-Semitism all the time, but oh boy, if these guys are fighting anti-Semitism, gotta worry about that.
It's just so confusing for poor Jonathan.
So he and the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom are going to stay home and cool their heels rather than take part in this important big-wig gathering event of anti-antisemitism.
Oh, these are confusing times, Mr. Kersey.
Let's see.
The Trump administration just sent letters to 20 major law firms saying it has concerns about their diversity programs and employment practices.
The firms have DEI and inclusion practices that could be illegal.
Some of the firms are Kirkland and Ellis, Latham and Watkins, Simpson-Thatcher, Skadden-Arps.
These are all blue-ribbon, top-drawer law firms.
The EEOC sounds like it's finally doing something useful.
It is seeking several years of information about the firm's hiring practices, and it is questioning their programs that they have supported to boost minorities in the legal profession.
Now, I find this is interesting.
The commission who's looking into this, the EEOC has also set up an email address where whistleblowers could send information about potentially unlawful DEI practices at law firms.
I think that's great.
If you're at a law firm and you see anti-white discrimination going on, you can let them know.
The EOC letters to the firms cite specific hiring initiatives, public statements about goals to increase the number of women and people of color and diversity work that their clients touted in previous years.
So they've got them on record saying all these wonderful things about how, boy, gosh, diversity is the latest thing since sliced bread.
We need more of it.
And clearly, it's so important that you can bend the rules to make sure you get the right number.
Blacks and Hispanics and Buddhists and nudists and one-legged lesbian Africans and you name it.
More diversity, the better things will be.
But, you know, this must be such a surprise to these people because...
For four years of Biden and for, oh, decades before that, the whole idea of diversity has been just the greatest thing.
And the Biden administration, I did an in-depth video about this at the time, they sent these orders out to every single piece of the United States federal government.
And every bit of it had to write back some detailed explanation of how they're going to shove...
DEI, diversity to every corner of their operations.
Everything they did had to be drenched with diverse this, diverse that.
And here we've got these law firms, I'm sure they're just proud as can be.
And now all of a sudden, after having bragged about how diverse and super diverse and super duper diverse they were, they're getting these threatening letters from the United States government saying, you could be breaking the law.
And I have an address for OPM.
That's the Office of Program Management, I think.
That's part of the federal government.
This is also a whistleblower email address for if any of you out there know about DEI going on in illegal ways, or DEIA, because A is for...
What is that?
Let's see.
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and what's the A?
Is it ability?
Is it disability?
You know what?
I can't remember.
They change so often.
They add them, subtract them so often.
Ability would be what I would guess.
Yeah, I think because a lot of these people brag about, remember, the FAA.
I think you had a story about the FAA was so happy that they were hiring people suffering from dwarfism and deafness and visual impairments and were in wheelchairs and they were so happy that they were making sure that airplanes didn't run into each other.
I think A has to do with disability.
In any case, the address is deiatruth at opm.com.
So if you've got the goods on some outfit that is discriminating against men or white people or heterosexuals in favor of the special pets, then let these folks know.
Okay, Mr. Kersey.
I understand we have a few people who are marooned on the Antarctic continent under awkward circumstances.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, folks.
If you're following at Real Jar Taylor, you can see a photo of the soon-to-be-mentioned Antarctic South African research team.
I think it's important that you take a moment and you take a visual glance at what we're about to talk about, because it's only going to make this story...
Is the right word funnier?
Well, it'll add a certain coloration to the story.
Yes, it will.
Yes, right now it's in black and white.
Let's get some color into this visual.
So we've got an Antarctica research crew trapped with a violent colleague.
A South African research team stuck in the Antarctic region is reportedly feeling intimidated by...
By one of their colleagues.
A team of South African scientists expected to work together for months in a remote Antarctic research station has been left shaken after one of them beat, threatened, and sexually harassed at least two of his colleagues.
The researchers at South Africa's Sene 4 outpost were supposed to spend at least another 10 months in Antarctica, but they're now pleading to be rescued.
The South African crew of three women and six men includes a doctor who has her own skincare brand, a deputy team leader who has assisted in making a short horror movie during a previous
station several engineers and a meteorologist reported the new york post i believe that the john carpenter movie the thing is set in antarctica maybe we'll call this the thang t-h-a-n-g oh my goodness oh you are too sorry sorry sorry while
the crew member who was accused of making death threats and assault attempts was not identified the south african national antarctic
Program's official website lists the researchers' roster of the nine-member team as follows.
I really don't want to read all these names, but I'll just say this.
If you look at the picture of the team members that Mr. Taylor has, it looks like only one is a Caucasian.
There are what appear to be one, two, three, four, five, six black males, and then two colored females, one a lighter-skinned.
Black female.
Would you agree with that assessment?
I would agree.
Yes, yes.
That lighter-skinned one is the lady who's got her own line of cosmetics.
And she poses for boudoir photography.
Well, all right.
Hopefully she's not doing too much of that in Antarctica.
It might be tempting for this molesterer, but anyway.
The said colleague assaulted and sexually harassed his team members, even threatening to kill one of them, creating an environment of fear and intimidation.
His behavior has escalated to a point that is deeply disturbing.
I remain deeply concerned about my own safety, constantly wondering if I might become the next victim.
According to an email the team wrote to authorities, of course, as they begged to be rescued.
Currently, there are no plans to rescue the research team.
They are stuck in the base without any means of communication until December, when a supply ship is scheduled to moor up.
Until December?
Until December?
That's a long time from now, Mr. Kersey.
Yeah, you have to wonder if that individual in question is being sequestered, is being isolated, or if they've all found a way to get over their grievances and remain copacetic with one another.
I don't know.
This sounds like a very unnerving and difficult state of affairs.
If this guy really goes around the bend and has to be restrained, I mean, they've got a limited number of people.
I suspect they don't have any straitjackets.
They don't have a rubber room for this guy.
It sounds pretty awful to me.
Somebody might just decide that he needs to be dispatched.
But wow, what a mess.
What an awful mess.
But it's all in the interest of science because they're down there in the Antarctic gathering wonderful scientific information.
They are, and we were told by the South African Environment Minister, Dion George, that there were no incidents that required any of the nine overwintering team members to be brought back to Cape Town.
All on the base is calm and under control.
I guess it'll be a few more months until we find out if...
He's correct.
Yeah, I don't know.
This sounds pretty awful to me.
I would think certainly if you're going to take a group of people, it's like sending, you know, these two people who went up to the International Space Station.
They were supposed to be up there for just, what is it, seven days?
And they end up being in there for seven months, just recently came back?
You follow this space stuff?
I mean, that would be a heck of a surprise.
You end up with a guy you thought you were going to be spending a week with, you end up seven months with him?
I think there's usually some sort of compatibility search.
You kind of got to assess the mental stability.
It's like people serving on submarines.
They're going to be underwater for months on end.
You can't have people just going around the bend.
And I would think they'd have a similar kind of screening program for these folks that are going to be stuck on South Africa for as long as they're going to be.
But what do I know?
Let's see.
Now, this is an interesting article about American trucking.
The American trucking industry today is in trouble.
Wages have flatlined for decades, while deadly accidents have steadily increased.
Both these trends have the same cause.
The massive influx of cheap, poorly trained, foreign-born drivers.
This goes back to when COVID hit in 2020.
The industry went through a very brief demand collapse because businesses closed and people lost jobs.
However, very shortly after that, people were staying home, they got government checks, and online shopping exploded.
Remember that?
I'm sure you do.
People started buying all kinds of stuff because Uncle Sam wrote them checks, and there they were at home, and this stuff would just show up.
They didn't have to go anywhere.
And all at once, truckers were more in demand than ever.
By 2021, just the next year, this had translated into pay rates, pay hikes, which caused many people who had commercial driver's licenses but who had gotten out of the business, they got back into the business.
This was all fine.
That's the way markets are supposed to operate.
Wages rise and you attract more people who are willing to do the work.
However, Joe Biden, he put out a document called the Biden-Harris Administration Trucking Action Plan.
Ah, boy.
Something with a name like that.
The Trucking Action Plan.
It said wages for employed drivers in all trucking segments have increased 7% to 12% in the last year alone.
Well, they couldn't have that.
And I'm sure they had a lot of pressure from the people who employ truck drivers.
The trucking companies themselves don't want to have to be paying that much.
And what was the White House's solution?
Pay people to get commercial driver's licenses.
Also, they lowered the requirements to get one.
You can't have a 12% raise in a job.
You know, that's just no good.
And so they removed the requirement that truckers be fluent in English, Mr. Kersey.
And then, according to this article, it's quite a number of amazing things happened.
Ten states and Puerto Rico somehow managed to issue over three and a half times the number of commercial driver's licenses as all of the other states combined.
Oregon managed to dump 98,000 licensed truck drivers into the system in 2022.
That's 77 times as many as they license in a normal year.
Incredible. South Carolina minted 77,000 new truckers in 2021.
I mean, is it even possible to test and train and quantify 77 times as many of the people you do?
Well, obviously it's not.
So what happened is most of these drivers were insourced from other countries with very little vetting.
And one of the things the Biden administration, in their update on the trucking action plan, Boy, I love that.
Boy, every country needs a trucking action plan.
I think I need one.
It was to increase the training opportunities for candidates from refugee and underserved communities.
Well, underserved communities, in Joe Biden's case, probably included illegal immigrants.
And the accumulation of all this has led to the fact that in the last 12 months, one illegal alien from Mexico who had a trucking license, crashed and killed another trucker on his way from work.
He had been deported from the United States 16 times.
Just the fact you can find somebody in America who's been deported 16 times, that is such a staggering indictment of the way our entire border has worked.
It's embarrassing.
You can't take a country seriously.
It has to deport somebody 16 times.
But this guy, he was driving his truck, properly licensed, and he killed another trucker.
Then there's a man from Uzbekistan.
He has since disappeared.
He killed a tow truck driver in Kentucky while he was watching YouTube while he drove his own truck.
I guess that's the way they do it in Uzbekistan.
Oh dear.
Then there's a man from Central Africa.
He speaks no English and he required an interpreter for his court proceedings.
He drove his...
Semi-trailer, wrong way, on a Nevada highway.
I guess he was unable to read that big red sign that says, wrong way.
You know when you're tempted to go on the wrong side of a divided highway?
It's always a bad look, yeah?
Yes, always a bad look.
Well, he got on the wrong side of the road with an 18-wheeler, and he plowed into three motorcyclists, all of whom he killed instantly.
From Central Africa.
And then there's an Indian.
Not a Sioux or an Apache or a Cherokee or a Navajo.
He was a subcontinental dot Indian driving a truck in West Virginia.
He smashed into a car, pushed it off a bridge, killing the man driving the car.
And he too required an interpreter to communicate with police and investigators.
Now most of those guys speak some form of English, but not this guy.
Well, anyway, on the subject of trucks, you had a story, Mr. Kersey, I found deeply amusing about Elon Musk's Cybertruck.
I actually included this one just because I thought your story would be a fun segue to this one.
Yes. Professors, this is also from Zero Hedge, professors claim Elon Musk's Cybertruck is reminiscent of an apartheid-enforcing vehicle in South Africa.
Kind of makes me want to go get one, actually.
A pair of Rice University professors say Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck, like I said, is reminiscent of a vehicle that patrolled and terrorized black townships in apartheid South Africa.
Professors Vivian Liu and Nana Osei-Operi, they wrote in Slate that the Cybertruck's similarities to the Casper military vehicle, intentional or not, quote, Blur the boundaries between the battlefield and the public street,
end quote.
Wait, the battlefield and the public street?
Yeah, well, if you've ever driven in D.C. or Atlanta.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
But they're talking about the vehicle.
Yes. Wow.
Do you think a Tesla Cybertruck looks like a battlefield vehicle?
I mean, I thought it looked sort of out of spacey.
Have you seen one in person?
Yeah, I've seen them.
As I said, they look kind of like they belong on a different planet, but they don't look like military machinery to me.
Anyway. It's a clunky vehicle.
I like them.
Kind of like them even more now that they've been diagnosed as looking like...
Anyways, I shouldn't say that.
The Cybertruck's harsh, sharp edges remind us of something from the past.
The larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk's youth in apartheid South Africa.
By the 1990s, the Casper had become an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression.
Lou and Ase Aper do their best to link Musk to the Casper, noting he likely would have seen the vehicle in his youth around the time of the Soweto uprising.
However, go ahead.
I heard you breathe.
Well, I breathe.
Yes, I'm allowed to breathe, I guess.
But yeah, I just looked up what a Casper looks like.
It just looks like a standard, fairly sporty-looking armored truck.
It doesn't look like a Cybertruck at all.
Did you see a picture of one of these things?
I did.
It's got a big square grille in the front.
Tesla's truck has nothing like that.
This is just lunatic.
It's what passes for scholarship.
Like I said, University of, what was it?
University of Rice?
Yeah. I'm sorry, Rice University.
Forgive anybody who might be a graduate of Rice University for getting that wrong.
This doesn't look at all like the Cybertruck.
They've got such morbid, sick imaginations, these so-called scholars.
I bet they got federal money to do this research, too.
Musk never had to travel in the Casper as he departed South Africa a year before he could be conscripted into the South African Defense Force.
Still, the Casper was used by the United States military during the Second Gulf War and invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and is now utilized by various police departments in the United States.
Lou and Asi Aper note that the Casper was part of the spectacular use of force shown in Ferguson, Missouri, during the Black Lives Matter.
Terrorism. They call them protests.
That was back in 2014 when we saw Ferguson go up in flames in honor and in memory of Michael Brown.
What was it that Barack Obama said when the decision by the grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson?
The offer acted stupidly and he could understand if people had...
I can't remember exactly.
No, I think that's what he said when Henry Louis Gates was arrested.
Breaking into his own house.
That's when he said the white officer acted stupidly.
You corrected me so succinctly.
That's right.
There were so many interesting little racial anecdotes in the Barack Obama presidency.
That was back in 2009 when they had the Beer Summit.
Right, right, the Beer Summit.
And then, of course, he said that Trayvon Martin could have been his son.
Yeah, I think he said something along the lines of he understood that if people would take the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, I don't remember the exact language, but he said this at the same time that the riots broke out, and it was an amazing juxtaposition to watch the words of the president and then the violence unfold.
Yeah, in effect, he said, I can understand why you'd want to get violent.
But anyway, now looking at pictures, this is quite a sporty little armored truck.
A lot of places use it, but the idea that this looks like Elon Musk's view, what a bunch of...
Overpaid baloney this stuff is.
Well, they go on to talk about how the Cybertruck is not designed for actual combat.
The professors further claim the vehicle capitalizes on the romanticized frontier violence and militarism of American pop culture.
Again, they're selling me on the Cybertruck.
As if Wyatt Earp or, I don't know, John Dillager rode around in a Cybertruck.
It's a shame Custer didn't have one.
It's marketing, for example, explicitly taps into the current apocalyptic visions pervading both far right and left wing political imaginaries from climate disaster to nuclear, civil and class warfare.
Herald it as being built for a new planet.
It showcases a bioweapon defense mode and a built in hospital grade HEPA filter that helps provide protection from 99.9% of airborne particles.
Yeah, the Tesla truck, yeah.
It does?
It's also got AMF and stereo.
I'm joking.
Power windows.
One third-party Tesla modification company aimed at civilian and government clients sells Cybertruck upgrades so it can run on jet fuel, diesel, biodiesel, and electricity.
Obviously, it does run on electricity.
The idea that a cyber truck could become an artillery vehicle is not just hypothetical.
Unsanctioned by Tesla, various users ranging from a YouTuber to Chechen fighters fighting for Russia and Ukraine have modified a cyber truck by mounting machine guns to its bed, turning it into a lightly armored weaponized machine.
I'm sure, Mr. Taylor, you remember when they announced that the cyber truck, that the windows were bulletproof.
I think it was Elon Musk himself who shot.
At the window, and it shattered immediately.
It's actually in the video.
Yes, yes, I remember.
Well, the idea of mounting a machine gun in the bed of a pickup is so old.
I think there's a special name for those things.
They call them mechanicals, and usually they're Japanese pickup trucks.
Just nice flat bed.
You bolt maybe a.50 cal to the back of that, and you've got a pretty impressive-looking piece of equipment.
Aren't there images from the early 90s when the Afrikaners, they would be in the Toyotas and they were considering fighting back against the decision to give the country over to democracy and Mandela?
I don't know if they ever bolted machine guns to the back.
They might have, but yeah, they drove into Bofotatawana.
There was that terrible incident.
They really misjudged the situation.
The local Bufthatswana forces shot them all up, and there was this wounded Afrikaner.
He was bleeding out, and he was begging for water, and a local Bufthatswana policeman came up and just executed him right in front of all the cameras of the Western media.
Do you remember that?
You've told me that's one of the most harrowing photos you've ever seen.
So, yes, I do distinctly remember, and I know that photo, it is chilling and harrowing to see.
Well, you know, there's another version of that.
Now, you can find that photograph of the guy.
I mean, his car is wrecked.
He's in shorts, actually.
He's a bearded guy.
He's been wounded.
And apparently, if you're bleeding, you get very dehydrated.
He's begging for water.
And there's a whole crowd of journalists around him, and nobody quite knows what to do, and a policeman walks up and pulls his pistol, I think it was, I can't remember, pistol or rifle, and just kills him.
By the way, for our listeners who don't know what Mr. Taylor saw, but it was a black police officer, correct?
Yes, it was a black, both Totswana and police officer.
And there is another photograph that I saw once, but I've never been able to find again, and it is a...
It's from a distance, and it shows not only the act of killing, but this enormous group of Western journalists all clustered around, doing nothing, watching this guy being killed in cold blood.
Pretty chilling stuff.
Well, that's a long way from Tesla's Cybertruck.
Yeah, I've got one more quote that I want to read from.
Okay. And then we'll move on to the next story from Lou and Ossie O'Perry.
Whether or not Musk or the Cybertruck's designers made a conscious decision to draw inspiration from the Casper, the vehicle's pseudo-futuristic vision is militaristic, stainless steel fortified, masculinist, individualistic, and unforgiving.
Again, that's something that Musk should just go ahead and use as a marketing ploy.
I'll say, I'll say.
Toxic masculinity, unforgiving.
All right.
Well, I'm afraid I'm picking on the British again.
They have become so easy to pick on.
In fact, it's quite pathetic how easy they are to pick on.
It makes me sad.
The land of my ancestors becoming such a denatured and cowed and bootlicking country.
But William Shakespeare's birthplace will be decolonized.
I'm not sure who colonized it, but it's going to be decolonized.
Over the fears that portraying him as the greatest playwright in the world benefits the ideology of white European supremacy.
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns the buildings in Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
It wants to create a more inclusive museum experience and announced it will move away from Western perspectives after concerns because Shakespeare's ideas
Well, neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan off loose both friend and self.
That really promotes white supremacy, doesn't it?
Nice job there, Polonius, but I would say to be or not to be, white people in the eyes of the current leadership of that city are not to be.
I guess not.
The Trust also said some of the items in the collection could contain language or depictions that are racist, sexist, or homophobic.
Now, I don't recall any homosexuals popping up in Shakespeare's plays, but if you're looking for homophobia, you can find it just about anywhere.
It comes amidst an ongoing backlash against Shakespeare.
Some productions of his works have been slapped with trigger warnings, misogyny, racism.
And problematic radicalized dynamics.
I don't know what a problematic radicalized dynamic is, but look out for them when you read Shakespeare.
The idea of Shakespeare's universal genius benefits the ideology of white European supremacy.
This is because European culture is portrayed as the standard for high art.
And this narrative has caused harm.
And a study group has advised that the Trust stop saying Shakespeare was the greatest, but merely part of a community of equal and different writers globally.
Got that?
Equal and different writers.
Well, Mr. Kersey, show me the Shakespeare of the Bantus, or of the Indians, or the Muslims, or even the Chinese or the Japanese.
Show me their Shakespeare.
They're equal but different.
They're just as good.
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust has received funding from the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, which finances projects that boost diversity and inclusion.
You know, some money really is tainted.
You shouldn't have taken that, huh?
Now, some of its organized events celebrated Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and a Romeo and Juliet-inspired Bollywood dance workshop.
Right there.
In Shakespeare's birthplace.
Now, that really promotes the poet, doesn't it?
The Trust also promised to remove offensive language from objects on display in its collections.
I wonder what they are.
I'd love to hear this offensive language.
And in 2021, the Globe Theatre, that is the model theatre.
It's made to be just like the Globe Theatre that was used at the time of Shakespeare.
It launched a project to decolonize his plays while experts claimed they were problematic for linking whiteness to beauty.
In other words, if you say, oh, fair Madeline, oh, that's no good, that's no good, that suggests she's light-skinned, can't have that.
They are full of problematic, outdated ideas with misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, antisemitism, and misogynoir.
Now, I bet, Mr. Kersey, you are smart enough to know what misogynoir is.
I think I do.
Obviously, misogyny.
Yes. And what else?
Come on.
The other shoe must drop.
Misogyny. You know what?
Misogynoir. Misogynoir.
Noir. I'll give you hair black, right?
Yes. Yes.
So that means special, extra special, bad thoughts about black women.
I've never actually heard that term before, so I never want to hear it again.
I like it.
I kind of like it.
Misogynoir. That makes you sound so avant-garde.
It sounds like there might be some misogynoir going on in the Antarctic with the South African team, but I'll leave.
Well, could be.
Could be.
Well, and at the same time, there's yet more embarrassment amongst our British cousins.
In Britain, there's a singing group called the Band Lambrini Girls.
It has a lead singer named Phoebe Lunny.
L-U-N-N-Y.
I'm probably pronouncing that right.
And she says it's embarrassing to be from England because the English are extremely racist.
And I don't understand why anyone would be proud of that.
They released a song.
Entitled God's Country.
This was pure sarcasm.
And they declared that Britain is full of racist uncles and flag shaggers.
Now, there's another test of your sophisticated spirit.
Do you know what a flag shagger is?
A flag shagger.
Yes. Somebody who's over-patriotic, exuberantly patriotic.
I would guess so.
I would guess so.
Because for those of you who are not up on British slang, to shag is a vulgar term meaning to have sexual intercourse.
So these are flag shaggers.
So, well...
Now, otherwise, we would have no interest whatsoever in banned Lambrini Girls, but the British government has just awarded them a fat chunk of taxpayer money.
It got a considerable share of a £1.6 million grant from the government-run Music Export Growth Scheme.
They're going to export these people's music.
Music in quotation marks, I might add.
And Labour's Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, Praised all of the group's recipients, including the Lambrini girls, as the best of British culture.
So, they are so proud of Phoebe Lunny and...
What she says about flag shaggers, that they're giving the group money so that this just astonishing cultural achievement can be exported all around the world.
Now, to me, it's utterly cuckoo to give money to a pop group at all.
If you're good, you're not going to need any government support.
But clearly, these people are no good, and that's why they need to be boosted.
Okay, one last story about the British.
Oh, we're running out of time.
You're just piling on our poor British cousins.
I am pining.
You know, I think I will spare our British cousins.
This has to do with really a very sad story about Britain.
I will save it for tomorrow.
I'm just getting too sad about Britain.
I guess maybe I'm feeling vindictive because the British are so virtuous and they are so such...
Toadies to all this DEI and woke nonsense, they won't even allow me to visit them, so I'm picking on them.
But these are my people, and I wish they would improve.
Well, Mr. Kersey, we've come to the end of our program.
We've run out of time, as we always do.
It's such a disappointment.
And thank you for being my co-host, and I wish to thank all of our listeners, because it is a pleasure and an honor and a joy to spend this time with you, and we look forward to doing the same next week.
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