WEBVTT - We're In a Fight! 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:06.400 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.000 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:17.520 and Jetty and no He Armstrong and Yahetty. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.880 This I saw that a new study found that dogs 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:28.720 can almost get all the nutrients they. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.720 Need from plant based foods. Yeah. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:33.920 The only downside is once dogs go vegan, they won't 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:40.120 stop barking about I heard, I heard, I heard you possible, Yes, impossibly. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:45.120 I that's pretty funny. Shut up, fid oh, shut up. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:53.000 So this makes my just makes me tired thinking about this. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.600 So my son is taking a class through the local 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:01.400 public school district in American history, and I I knew 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.399 from the get go that there's a chance it was 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:10.760 going to be unpalatable to me. But the idea is 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.399 really the idea is I just got to get through 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.640 one more year of public school. It's off to the 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.240 private school. Variety of reasons I can't explain, but and 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.560 then I don't have to deal with it ever again 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.560 in my life. But public schools are woke across the nation. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.360 They're even more woke in California, and they're even more 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.160 woke than that in the town I live in so 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.240 it's like three levels of woke and American history class 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.680 day one they gave. The only assignments on day one 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.760 was a handout to syllabus. You gave your pronouns and 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.600 had to write a land acknowledgment explaining how we had 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.280 stolen the land from the Indian tribe where the school 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.600 was built and we should feel awful about it. So 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.280 I knew we were off to a rough start. And 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.280 then the teacher also handed out the book and explained 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.840 how the book is full of lies and distortions that 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.520 they will all that they will go through and fix. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.880 And I thought, wow, So the current history books, which 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.120 most normal people feel like are two woke, are not. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:06.640 Two anti American? 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.640 Are not anti American or woke enough for the teacher, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.720 oh boy. And it was explained how we're not going 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.080 to use terms like slaves in this class. We'll call 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.240 enslaved people because slaves is a dehumanizing term. You know, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.200 just when you start down the road of that sort 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.799 of nonsense, I know you know which direction it's gone. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.440 I know, and I just think I think it's headed 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.359 for a crash. I think it's headed for This ain't 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.680 gonna work in the past, I've stayed out of this, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.600 but I no longer give a crap. I don't care 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.440 if the person hears about it, or if it causes 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.000 any problems, or I don't care. I just don't care. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.080 You're a lunatic if you believe that stuff, You're a 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:44.400 freaking lunatic. Yeah, you well, you're an ignoramus, and your 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.160 ideology and your ignorance have led you to saying just 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.760 idiotic things. The lack of perspective is the thing that 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.320 makes me insane. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.840 And gosh, how don't even know which direction to go. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:56.800 I've got so many But. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.640 The idea that that slavery slavery you're supposed to call 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.760 it these days because it makes you sound most sovistigated, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.399 is somehow uniquely American, might be the least accurate thing 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.320 that's ever said. Slavery was everywhere, all the time, for 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.640 all of human history, and it was brutal and dehumanizing 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.919 everywhere it occurred, no exceptions. And then a few societies, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.079 including ours, said, you know, this is ugly and sick. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.320 I don't think we ought to do this anymore, even. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.919 Without all this stuff. So how do we get back 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.160 to a point where we should all learn American history, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.320 how this country is founded. That's not an attempt to 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.680 cover up bad stuff. It's just you've only got time 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.320 for so many things. And if you make the whole 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.880 semester about how the Indians at this land before we 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.160 got here, you don't get to the writing of the 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.400 Constitution and how that came to be, and what the 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.280 Bill of Rights is and how magnificent it is, and 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:54.760 blah blah blah, all that stuff. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:56.880 You don't have time for it. If you focus on. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:02.200 Enslaved people and the name ative Americans, where are you. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.960 Where's a kid supposed to learn about Thomas Jefferson. If 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.839 you spend all your time on Indian tribes and slavery, you're. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:15.040 Making an excellent argument to get parents on our side 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.760 and get pissed off about this. That's a miserably ineffective 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.599 argument against the teachers and administrators, though, because they know 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.039 exactly what they're doing. They think America is an evil 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.920 place Western civilization ought to be torn down, and they 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.040 are actively trying to indoctrinate your kids into their neo 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.000 Marxist thinking. And so they're like, no, no, we're teaching 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.520 them precisely what they need to learn our priorities aren't wrong, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.440 they're precisely right time they would say to you, if 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:44.239 they're going to be honest. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:44.520 I know. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.240 I'm so disgusted by all this. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.400 That's why I've gone completely anti public school. I just 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.560 think it needs to be torn down, start over. Why 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.440 do we even have public schools. It's a bad idea, 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.159 it doesn't work. Get rid of them. And do you 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:58.760 good teachers out there, and I know a bunch of 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.600 them will work your asses off and your miracles. I 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.840 mean just I've done some teachers that are just it's 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.760 like they were said by God, they're so amazing. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.000 Love you people, love you, respect you, cherish you. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.039 And you can do the same. Gig at some sort 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.120 of private school that's not out of its mind. Yeah, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.120 and again I beg government schools. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.719 Yeah, that's the right that's the right term. Yeah. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.120 Anyway, So everybody who listens to the show knows I Joe, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.320 I'm an Orwell freak, and I'm so intrigued by one 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.920 of the major themes of nineteen eighty four, which was, 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.360 and I quote Orwell, the most effective way to destroy 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.520 people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.960 their history. And you know, I've talked about that at 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:47.040 length before, but I came across an absolutely wonderful description 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.520 of why that is. It happens to be Peggy Noonan 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.800 writing about the historian David McCullough, who he's passed away 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.239 now for a few years, but some of his previously 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.320 unpublished work has come out and and she says, this 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.640 does not feel at all like Beryl scraping. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.600 This stuff is great. David. I didn't know there was 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.760 unpublished David McCullough's stuff out. Cool. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.839 Yeah, he had written, He's written all sorts of stuff. Truman, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.279 the Johnstown Flood, John Adams seventeen seventy six, the Wright Brothers, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.960 I mean, wonderful, wonderful. I've read a half does of them. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.719 So why does history matter? I will answer in the 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.360 world's words of David McCullough. History shows us how to behave. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:33.360 History teaches reinforces what we believe in, what we stand for, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.120 and what we ought to be willing to stand up for. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.039 And it's not just the dry recording of facts. It 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:39.880 has a moral quotion. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.560 He says, quote at the core the lessons of history 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.479 are largely lessons in appreciation everything we have. All the 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.560 great institutions, the arts are law exist because those who 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.480 came before us built them. Why did they do that? 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.840 What drove them? What obstacles did they face? How are 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.080 we doing His stores and creators in difference to his 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:07.440 isn't just ignorant, it's rude. And he's absolutely one hundred 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:13.960 percent right. And twisting history is not an accident. That's 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.720 what Marxists do. That's why Orwell wrote nineteen eighty four 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.440 in the twentieth century, because he saw what they were 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.320 doing and why they were doing it. But Jjin Bing's 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:24.760 trying to do it every damn day of the week 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:25.240 right now. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.040 The people on the other side have just such an 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.920 easy argument for people who are just kind of paying 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.640 attention and want to be nice people to grasp onto Well, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.560 people like me just want to cover up slavery and 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.040 how we took the land from the Indians the end wrong. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:47.080 No, you're wrong and ignorant and either wittingly or unwittingly 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.080 a Marxist activist. And I will spend every day I 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:52.160 live opposing you. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.200 I hate you. I'm so hate speech, i hate you, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.520 I'm so frustrated by this. You can't even imagine. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.960 Oh, I can tried to imagine, but it came across 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.360 another great piece of writing by Dan Luherman, who is 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.000 curiously enough a professor of I want to get this right. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.560 He's a professor at Columbia University. He's a professor of 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:18.560 cognitive science and teaches various science and theater, interestingly enough, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:19.320 at various schools. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.640 But woke he ain't. Boy, this guy's got to be 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:23.880 unpopular at Columbia. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.880 He's written a brilliant piece for the Free Press called 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:36.960 the War on Knowledge, and he's talking about how, and 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.640 he gives examples of his kids' schools. In many classrooms today, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.520 the very idea of committing information of memory has become unfashionable. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.720 Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.960 As I toured schools for my daughter, we are often 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.800 assured that facts will not be the focus of education. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.120 We don't do wrote memorization. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.720 Teachers probably declare with a condescending wink, as if memorization 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.480 an outdated relic of a less enlightened era. But without facts, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.000 what are students actually learning? At the progressive Brooklyn private 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.720 school where I once taught spelling wasn't corrected until middle school. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.280 Focusing on spelling, we were told, got in the way 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:18.080 of creativity. I then watched smart curious kids right Massion 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:24.120 macie n for machine at age fourteen than wilt When 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:28.959 people involuntarily gasped at their failed spelling attempts. Their writings 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.439 were often expressive and insightful and incoherent. They probably weren't 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.480 even aware of these sixty thousand dollars per year price tag, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.200 or they might have raged against the massion funny thing 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:40.480 to say. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.960 And then math was treated with the same flippancy. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.680 Curious about the curiously low standardized test scores, I once 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.280 wandered into a math classroom where the teacher was barefoot 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.160 in a faded led Zeppelin T shirt. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.080 It was a really cool shirt, he mentions. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.600 He then drew a circle on the board and announced, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.360 this is not a circle. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.160 That's the representation of a circle, all right. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.600 The lesson, it seemed, was to gain mystique points by 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.040 using a stoner voice to say something quirky. I couldn't 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.680 help but make a connection between that math lesson and 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:18.800 the school's undying demand for expanse expensive private tutors. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:20.840 There's more. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.280 The war on knowledge is not confined to elite on claves. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:25.720 He writes. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:30.080 The Seattle Public school system embraced a Math Ethnic Studies 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.040 framework starting in twenty nineteen. Their teachers were encouraged to 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.800 reflect in their curriculum how can we change mathematics from 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.880 individualists to collectivist thinking? Good lord, and you think I'm 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.160 ranting about Marxism out of line, No, sir. That math 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.160 framework reached more than fifty thousand. Students drew on themes 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.439 like power and oppression and history of resistance in liberation, 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.080 which reminds me of my favorite math joke, who I 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.599 was ten scared of seven because seven, eight, nine and 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:04.200 nine oppressed or something like that. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.000 This is a funny writing, it really is on a 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.360 horrifying topic. Well, like one of the examples apparently this 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.640 teacher said, we're not going to use terms like they 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.080 use a term in the book. We're not going to 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.600 use resourceful people. And I don't know what that's about. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.360 Have you heard that one? You're not supposed to credit 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.719 I could imagine. Yeah, I can imagine too. There's too 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.720 much credit giving given to, you know, people who came 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.520 from England and started building colonies or whatever. The United 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.200 States being resourceful when all they were doing is stealing 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.400 from the endian or something. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.200 Yeah, any positive attribute, it's white supremacy. One more quick 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.640 quote from this in the words a Tracy castro Gill, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.319 the creator of the Math Ethnic Studies framework, And this 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.760 is a quote, folks, decolonial teacher. Education must actively confront 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:57.160 coloniality and create alternative frameworks. In her words, she casts 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.360 education itself as a colonial project to be dismantled, a 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:09.719 fundamental departure from what the word education means. We've got 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:14.600 to tear it down, friends, tear it down. Government schools 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.680 have been taken over by the extremest left period. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:27.040 It's disturbing, man, seriously disturbing. You Wonder where the you know, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.400 you run into a twenty five year old with crazy beliefs. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.679 They got it starting in kindergarten. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.240 Oh yeah, And I've got to at least be somewhat 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.800 forgiving to some of these young teachers who are teaching 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.840 the kids precisely what they were taught their entire careers 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.240 and told was important to teach kids. But we folks 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.760 can no longer sit quietly and idly and quote unquote 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.920 trust our school boards and our teachers and our superintendents. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.600 No, man, we are in a fight, so fight. Hey, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.000 you want to come in on any of that? You 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:55.720 have any example? 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.000 School years up and running text line four one, five, two, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.560 nine fifty. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.920 It was August twenty twelve when the Publisher's clearing House 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.880 prize patrol surprised this othern Oregon man with balloons, flowers, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.160 and an oversized check. You won five thousand dollars a 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.640 week forever, they told him, with TV cameras rolling in. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:22.240 Oh cool. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.960 John Wiley, a white city Oregon thought he was set 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.240 for life. He retired and moved close to his kids, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.640 bought a house on six acres near beautiful Bellingham, Washington, 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.560 and every January for the past twelve years, Publishers Clearinghouse 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.880 deposited that prize money into his bank account. But you 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.679 know the old internet meme of how it started, how 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.640 it's going, Here's how it's going. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.400 I thought, why didn't they give me a heads up? Hey, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.680 we're going out of business, you know that. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.240 No, it's like somebody just cut the cord, sold my jet, ski, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.319 sold portrailer. I had a little bit of money left over, 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.120 and that's what I'm living on right now. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.280 You know, I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose my home. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.240 In of this year, Publisher's Clearinghouse filed for bankruptcy. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.400 Wow, So if you're not old enough. Before there were 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.600 lotteries everywhere. The prize to win was the Publisher's clearing 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.760 House sweepsteak and had big celebrity ads everywhere, and you 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.880 won a big check per week for the rest of 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.400 your life, which is a cool way to get the money, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.120 I always thought, because it keeps you from losing your 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.480 mind and spending it all in a drug addict with 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.600 a young stripper wife, a pregnant stripper wife. But but 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.000 if the company goes out of business, it sucks. If 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.000 you planned your whole life around, I'm gonna get Was 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.080 it five thousand a week for Layah? And they actually 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.200 they said him a check once a year? Sure, but 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.840 still that's fantastic. Yeah, that's fantastic. I mean, and you would, 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.800 you know, you would base your spending around that save 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.720 you the trouble. It's two hundred and seventy six thousand 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:50.200 bucks a year. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.520 Yeah, awesome and so uh and n got a business, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.680 it's just over Well when the annual payment didn't arrive, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.600 he and his wife contacted publisher's clearing house and a 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.360 representative told them the payments would resume on a quarterly schedule. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.360 Then the company filed for bankruptcy, no warning. And this 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.680 guy had built his financial life around this, continuing hones, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.280 this is a fairly reasonable thing to do. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.240 Although I might have, you know, hired a lawyer briefly 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.720 and said, just tell me a little something about bankruptcy law. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.920 If this company, I mean, is there some way I 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.920 get this forever if the company decides to quit or 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:26.280 goes out. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.000 But I might spend two hundred and fifty dollars a 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:31.920 year to have an account and take a quick look 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.400 at their financial statements. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.360 Wow, they didn't give my heads up. You got to 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:43.760 send a letter that says two things, one good news 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.040 and bad news. Good news, your diet is working, great, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.120 you look fantastic. Number two of the bad news, we're 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.040 going out of business, and that whole five thousand a 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.560 week is over starting now bye. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.280 So there's no oof is right? 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.720 Holds a dude, I mean it's so I'm gonna go out? 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.720 Well, yeah, he's I think the guy we're talking about 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:10.040 here is seventy whoa one and he's been out of 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.400 the workforce. Oh, I'm sorry, this guy's sixty one. They 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.840 profile a handful of people. This happened to this guy's 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.960 sixty one, But he's been out of the workforce for 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:17.720 years and years. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.640 You're not getting a job at age sixty one. It's 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.080 pretty well documented that if you lose your job in 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.800 your fifties, especially as a man, you will never work again. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.600 That's just the way. Our current economy is a structured 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.320 so rob a liquor store or what. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.800 Well, plan accordingly, I guess, but you can't blame somebody 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.960 for not planning accordingly when you got this lottery thing. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.000 I think so that poor son of a gun happens 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:45.600 to live in Oregon. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.120 Speaking of Oregon, did you know, as if we need 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.720 to re establish how crappy the mainstream media is, did 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.080 you know there have been violent protests in Portland around 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.400 the whole ice thing for dozens and dozens of nights, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.000 every single night. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:01.880 No, I had no idea. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.800 You got five people in marching for trans rights. ABC 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.000 News will cover it, but no, haven't heard a word 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.040 about this. Well, you're about to stay. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:16.440 With us, Armstrong and Getty. South Park is the most 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.960 current TV show that has ever been Uh, here's the 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.960 latest episode of South Park, which I haven't seen, Butters 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.680 experiences the reality of tariffs when he has to buy 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.960 a labooboo doll for his girlfriend's birthday. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.920 Wow, that's funny. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.480 We just sent ten F thirty five's to Puerto Rico, 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.040 part of the whole Hey, Venezuela, watch your p's and 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.240 q's effort that is going on right now, so stay 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.240 tuned for more infull on that. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:47.359 Wow. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.840 As I've often said, the best way to discredit progressive 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.440 policies is to enact them. Unfortunately, there is an enormous 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.760 cost to that city. San Francisco's really turned itself around, 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.040 making great progress. People are coming back, companies are running space. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:08.159 Well done, Mayor Luri and everybody in San Francisco. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.480 He's got a seventy five percent approval rating. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.720 Meanwhile, some of the other great cities the West continue 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.720 to be completely drowning in their own lefty lunacy. Seattle, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.080 which made a couple of tentative moves towards sanity, but 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.600 they just shut down three of their big parks for 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:32.800 sixty days citing negative activity, which they never describe exactly 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:37.320 but it's junkies stabbing each other and shooting up and 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.520 taking craps in the park and letting their pit bulls 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.440 run around and making the parks utterly unusable for the 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.840 people who live there. And so the city of Seattle 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:46.439 is willing to shut it down and clean it up. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:47.959 They're not willing to say why. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.919 That description doesn't make the parks sound very pleasant. People 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.160 crapping in the park with pitbulls running around. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.560 Oh, telling you that's not a good day. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:02.159 And in down there in beautiful Portland, formerly one of 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.520 the great cities in the western the United States, which 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.080 has gone completely to hell. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.320 As Dan Springer will. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:13.800 Make it clear to you, there have been violent, noisy, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:19.080 crazy Antifa driven protests there every night for dozens and 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.359 dozens of nights, and it is getting zero coverage in 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.960 the mainstream media because it's somewhat inconvenient. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.119 Dan Springer of Fox News. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.879 His audio will play now for the good of the audience. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:36.920 Night after night. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.040 This is the scene just outside the ice facility in Portland. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.239 Hundreds of residents live in apartments just feet away. They 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.160 routinely call police about the noise and crime. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.680 Sit corner two in and out here they need help, but. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:20:01.520 The cops did not come. Residents on their own. This week, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.560 protesters brought what looked like a guillotine. Some confrontations end 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.320 with residents getting assaulted, first a bullhorn, then a fist. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.639 No arrest was made despite the injuries. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.080 Wow, we've been on the air in Portland for what 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.560 fifteen years something like that. First time I ever went 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.639 to Portland thirty years ago, I thought, this is the 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:21.919 greatest city I've ever been to. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.080 It's like a queen San Francisco. It was just it 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.200 was so amazing. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.879 And then you know that I have got my famous 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.240 story of taking Sam there when we went to watch 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.560 the eclipse of the things that we saw on the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:34.879 street that were so disgusting. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:41.199 Yeah, yeah, public various befoulings of the streets. Yeah, so 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.560 eighty two nights, is that what he said? In a 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.840 row i'dvantually catch that number again. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.960 Rolland on this night in late June, federal police used 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:51.520 tear gas and flashbanks. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.000 Again no Portland police in sight. 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.199 It came out later in court that one officer told another, 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.800 if it were not ice, we could assist directly. Julie 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.200 Parrish sued the city to force police to enforce local laws. 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.040 This is a full on abdication of police duty in 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.920 a four block radius that impacts some of the most 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.439 vulnerable Oregonians that we have. Now they've said, We're just 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.280 going to let violent rioters do this for eighty straight 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:18.240 nights and we don't care. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.080 Portland Police responded. We take these concerns seriously. At the 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.280 same time, we are committed to protecting individuals' rights to 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:26.960 express themselves peacefully. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:31.080 The Partland approach is pathetic, shottish, and if you enable 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.800 people to behave the way the protesters have and wreck 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.080 the neighborhood for everyone else, they will come back and 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:37.920 wreck it the next night. 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:42.200 Listen, we're pro cop around here, but that statement by 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.840 some spokeshole is embarrassing. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.480 We take it very seriously. No, you clearly don't. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.280 But we also want to protect people's right to demonstrate peacefully. 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:57.560