Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: The shooter evidently raises chickens, and the conversation was about
Speaker 1: how many eggs a chicken can lay. One victim ran
Speaker 1: out into the roadway trying to get away from the shooter.
Speaker 1: The other two victims head. We had several phone calls.
Speaker 1: The shooter himself called nine to one one. Arming yourself
Speaker 1: with a handgun when you're under the influence is not.
Speaker 2: A good idea.
Speaker 1: There's never going to be a good outcome with that.
Speaker 2: Oh, under the influence, Well, that's explained some of it.
Speaker 2: I guess how you got into a to the death
Speaker 2: argument about how many eggs a chicken can lay? Under
Speaker 2: the influence played a role. Yeah, I think if I'm
Speaker 2: sober and arguing bitterly over the.
Speaker 3: Capacity of chickens to lay eggs, I'm probably gonna keep
Speaker 3: it cool.
Speaker 2: Well, any of you have rock, some people should make rock.
Speaker 2: How many eggs can it the average hen lay? She
Speaker 2: was dead by about two hundred and fifty to three
Speaker 2: hundred a year five to six per week. Well roughly, yeah, clearly,
Speaker 2: we just have a couple of chickens. You get overwhelmed
Speaker 2: by eggs really really fast, like more eggs than you
Speaker 2: can eat. Yeah. Yeah, I wish I had a neighbor
Speaker 2: with chickens because I love eggs.
Speaker 3: Uh. You know, it's not made clear in this account,
Speaker 3: and I find this highly dissatisfying. Is who is claiming
Speaker 3: what reed chicken egg laying? How far apart were they?
Speaker 3: My chicken can lay one hundred eggs a day? No
Speaker 3: it can't, Blue, blue blue, It's lucky if it lays
Speaker 3: one a day. Guy ought to shoot you in your belly?
Speaker 3: Who was on which side of the argument? What were
Speaker 3: the claims and counterclaims here? What was the evidence presented?
Speaker 3: All had been drinking and none were hit. Well that's
Speaker 3: that's at least that's probably good anyway. Wow, Okay, so
Speaker 3: this is interesting. Using your credit card at the checkout
Speaker 3: line is about to get a lot more complicated now. Now,
Speaker 3: Visa and MasterCards settled a long running legal battle that
Speaker 3: gives merchants more flexibility on card acceptance. So your favorite
Speaker 3: latte at your local coffee shop could soon cost you
Speaker 3: five dollars or five dollars and ten cents or five
Speaker 3: dollars in twenty five cents, depending on how you pay.
Speaker 2: So, first of all, when did we completely abandon having
Speaker 2: to show an ID with a credit card? Remember that
Speaker 2: was a thing for many, many years because we're sign
Speaker 2: anything here. What if this wasn't your credit card? But
Speaker 2: now I use my watch. I tap with my watch
Speaker 2: all the time. Nobody's ever asked me for an ID.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, settlement between Visa MasterCard and some US merchants
Speaker 3: US merchants announced this week usher in a new era
Speaker 3: of tiered pricing at the register, giving businesses more power
Speaker 3: to charge fees depending on the credit card you use.
Speaker 2: I like it when I'm behind some old lady who's
Speaker 2: got a combination of a check and some EBT card
Speaker 2: and like some coupons, and I don't know, I've been
Speaker 2: a gift card. You're combining like five different things. Can
Speaker 2: I just pay for it all and then you get
Speaker 2: the hell out of my way?
Speaker 3: Trying to trade in some shiny shells, a little farger,
Speaker 3: a little wamp them.
Speaker 2: Maybe I can come clean up on Saturday. And now
Speaker 2: would not pay for the milk.
Speaker 3: So this anti trust battle over interchange fees has been
Speaker 3: going on for two decades, and I can't decide whether
Speaker 3: that makes me wish I had become a lawyer, because
Speaker 3: oh my god, you talk about you know, two farmers
Speaker 3: claim they owned the cow. One farmer pulled on the head,
Speaker 3: the other pulled on the tail, and the lawyer milked
Speaker 3: the cow. They milking this cow for two decades. Settlement
Speaker 3: still needs CORD approval, likely to be contested by some
Speaker 3: merchant groups.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Merchants have always had the right to refuse to do
Speaker 3: business with a payment network entirely, like Costco only takes
Speaker 3: Visa cards yep, but current network rules say if a
Speaker 3: store accepts one Visa credit card, it has to accept
Speaker 3: all Visa credit cards. Well, the settlement could change that
Speaker 3: practice by allowing merchants to pick and choose which categories
Speaker 3: of cards to accept within network.
Speaker 2: There's also the dollar limit that I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's any legality around it, but like I buy something,
Speaker 2: they say you can only use your card if you
Speaker 2: spent eight dollars or something, and then I got to
Speaker 2: grab something else? What else you got? Okay, a cigarette? Laighter?
Speaker 2: I don't smoke. Is this make it eight dollars? I
Speaker 2: don't have any cash? Wow?
Speaker 3: And the settlement could go further, allowing different search charges
Speaker 3: depending on the category your card falls into, Like if
Speaker 3: you have a basic no frills card, you might get
Speaker 3: charged two and a half percent of the transaction amount.
Speaker 3: It's the reverse of a cash discount, whereas if you
Speaker 3: have a rewards card it's three percent. Really you really
Speaker 3: wouldn't know what you're paying until you're paying it.
Speaker 2: Paying cash just seems so troublesome. Adey change and then
Speaker 2: where am I going to put that? Yeah? Track of that?
Speaker 2: And then this story.
Speaker 3: A man in France was having a swimming pool dug
Speaker 3: in his backyard and they found eight hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: worth of gold bars whoa uh town council confirmed the
Speaker 3: man will be allowed to keep the gold he found,
Speaker 3: according to the French Newsman news agency, five gold bars
Speaker 3: and a large amount of gold coins wrapped in plastic bags.
Speaker 3: The man, who wishes to remain anonymous for reasons that
Speaker 3: ought to be fairly obvious, reported define to the local council.
Speaker 3: French archaeological officials and law enforcement got involved in determined
Speaker 3: if the gold had been if the gold had archaeological significance,
Speaker 3: in which case it could be considered state property, or
Speaker 3: if it was stolen from somewhere and the gold bars
Speaker 3: had unique ID numbers. Law enforcement determined the gold was
Speaker 3: not stolen and the bars were only fifteen to twenty
Speaker 3: years old, and so they had no historical significance, so
Speaker 3: the guy got to keep them money. My daughter, who's
Speaker 3: in law school right now, became at one point fascinated
Speaker 3: by the law of abandoned property, which is fairly complicated
Speaker 3: and convoluted because and I don't remember the details of it,
Speaker 3: but like, if somebody sells you a house and it's
Speaker 3: left on the property, I think they have a claim
Speaker 3: to it still, But if you then sell the he
Speaker 3: and the next guy they don't have a claim against
Speaker 3: him or a certain number of years. Is super convoluted
Speaker 3: and interesting. And anybody who's like a scavenger or what
Speaker 3: do you call when you do that at sea, you
Speaker 3: reclaim rex and stuff like that. There's all sorts of
Speaker 3: laws surrounding that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just thinking we should do away with change
Speaker 2: in general, shouldn't. We did away with the penny, but
Speaker 2: with inflation, change is not worth much so you're down
Speaker 2: less than a dollar, which is like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: forty cents compared to what it was ten years ago.
Speaker 2: And I'd be fine with stores that just don't do change.
Speaker 3: They round up or down for everything. We'll just make
Speaker 3: it even. Yeah, they'd always round up. I think there
Speaker 3: would be an investigation shortly after whatever.
Speaker 2: It's thirty cents. I don't want to carry around some
Speaker 2: nickels and pennies. How about this, Daddy Warbucks.
Speaker 3: Poor people frequently don't have credit cards and need to
Speaker 3: do transactions in cash, and therefore we must have change.
Speaker 2: And that's not what I see at the convenience store.
Speaker 2: Usually have some sort of government card for the scratchers
Speaker 2: vaping and energy drink. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I try to stay away from poor people because I'm
Speaker 3: afraid it might be catching.
Speaker 2: But that was a joke.
Speaker 3: That was a joke, friends, just joke, being silly. These
Speaker 3: are serious times, confusing, dark, threatening times. Just trying to
Speaker 3: have a little fun. You got the AI, you got
Speaker 3: the Divors, Bird treading Card, fees.
Speaker 2: Bird flows Center. Yeah, so enough of that. You have
Speaker 2: a gender bending madness. We're gonna get to at the bottom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little gender bending madness update with some fresh
Speaker 3: new material.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't decide whether to do this today
Speaker 2: or tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Randy Weingarten, one of the most evil people on Earth,
Speaker 3: has a new book out entitled Why Fascists Fear Teachers?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: It is one of the most malignant loads of guana
Speaker 3: I've ever come across.
Speaker 2: Aren't that many people I hate? I hate her, I deeply,
Speaker 2: deeply hate her. She is a force of evil on Earth, correct,
Speaker 2: no doubt. Wow. And then the IO ces big new
Speaker 2: announcement about not having dudes and women's sports as part
Speaker 2: of the whole thing we need to talk about today.
Speaker 2: Lots on the way. Stay here. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: send you to another podcast. But Tucker's latest is chemtrails
Speaker 2: are real and it's worse than you even thought with
Speaker 2: some special guest. Good lord, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'll look into that, but right now, it's a gender
Speaker 3: bending madness update.
Speaker 2: So I kept hearing about this thing called the Loco.
Speaker 3: We're a brave world, so they Bloom is definitely off
Speaker 3: the transgender craze, as the number of young people identifying
Speaker 3: as transgender has been cut in half in like two years.
Speaker 3: Just utterly ridiculous. But the hits keep coming. First, some
Speaker 3: encouraging news from the Olympics.
Speaker 4: The IOC will issue the band sometime early next year,
Speaker 4: citing a new scientific review that found evidence men have
Speaker 4: a permanent physical advantage over women athletes even after hormone therapy. However,
Speaker 4: The Guardian newspaper says the band could still be a
Speaker 4: year out and that the IOC is facing pushback to
Speaker 4: a possible ban on athletes who reported female at birth
Speaker 4: but have male chromosomes and the same testosterone level as men,
Speaker 4: also known as differences in sexual development. That would include
Speaker 4: athletes like South Africa's Casser Semenya, who won gold at
Speaker 4: the London and Real Games before Track and Fields governing
Speaker 4: body World Athletics banned DSc athletes from competing as women
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: A new study, you say that shows that men have
Speaker 2: a permanent advantage even if they undergo it the transitioning.
Speaker 2: I'll be darned it says here they're bigger and stronger
Speaker 2: than women. I'll be damned. Good thing they did that
Speaker 2: new study.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the poor cops are still trying to
Speaker 3: figure out what woke, idiot policy they're supposed to be following.
Speaker 5: Sarah Swinson is a regular at the Tucker Reid Kocher Library.
Speaker 5: She says after she used the ladies room on October twentieth,
Speaker 5: a Decab police officer on hand for early voting confronted her.
Speaker 2: He says, excuse me, sir, so misjendering me right away.
Speaker 2: You're not a woman. That's obvious. This is a police matter.
Speaker 2: There are women and little girls in there, and I
Speaker 2: have to protect them. She says.
Speaker 5: It ended up causing a scene in the middle of
Speaker 5: the library, and she tried to de escalate. The next day,
Speaker 5: she emailed library staff, who she says, reached out to
Speaker 5: the Cab County Police, and I asked to Cab County
Speaker 5: CEO Lorrain Cochran Johnson about all of this. She told
Speaker 5: us the county supports the LGBTQ community, calling this a
Speaker 5: teachable moment. The county further clarified their official position is
Speaker 5: for library patrons to use whichever bathroom aligns with their
Speaker 5: gender identity.
Speaker 2: This is well trod ground, I realized, but it just
Speaker 2: scurted me. What is the argument for why if you
Speaker 2: got a penis, but you feel like a girl, you
Speaker 2: should be in the girl's restroom as opposed to in
Speaker 2: the restroom where every trans women are women. That's a
Speaker 2: woman right there. That's an argument, but we all shouldn't
Speaker 2: that man with the low voice, Jack, that was a woman.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite part of the report is just the
Speaker 2: the reporter was so matter of fact. She she was
Speaker 2: in the bathroom, and then Sarah.
Speaker 3: I used the restroom, the woman's restroom, like I've been
Speaker 3: for months. I mean, he says, excuse me, sir. So
Speaker 3: look he misgenders me right away. He says, you're not
Speaker 3: a woman. That's obvious. I said, how dare you? The
Speaker 3: poor little lady was offended.
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem out aligned. Say I believe you're a woman,
Speaker 2: and I'll call you she and call you by your name.
Speaker 2: You're a woman, but you got a penis, so all
Speaker 2: the penises are in one room and all the vaginas
Speaker 2: are in a different room.
Speaker 3: Ye have suggested just have anies and auti's you call
Speaker 3: yourself whatever you want. But that is giving too much
Speaker 3: ground to the transgender radical gender seria crowd. I won't
Speaker 3: do it. It's a decent middle ground, I suppose for
Speaker 3: a place like Atlanta that's trying to be woke, but
Speaker 3: it's still absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, Again, ma'am, I'm sorry you
Speaker 3: were offended. This is offensive.
Speaker 2: Faith Blue hears Okay. Faith Smith was.
Speaker 3: A twenty eight year old woman and inmate at the
Speaker 3: Washington Correction Center for Women, viciously attacked a couple of
Speaker 3: months ago by a six foot four inch male child molester.
Speaker 3: Identify identifying as a transgender woman. And of course Washington
Speaker 3: State puts men who claim to be women in women's
Speaker 3: prisons out of some sort of psychosis. And here's a
Speaker 3: gal who spent some time in the Central California Women's
Speaker 3: Facility in Chochilli, California, one of the largest women's prisons
Speaker 3: in the country, and she's writing about how she saw
Speaker 3: firsthand how critical single sex spaces are for the safety
Speaker 3: and dignity of incarcerated women. And she says one case
Speaker 3: still haunts me. A male inmate isolated in a men's
Speaker 3: prison for assaulting bunk mates was moved into a women's
Speaker 3: cell with seven women. These women were trapped, their voices ignored.
Speaker 3: This guy beat them through, her to the ground, punched
Speaker 3: and cooked her, kicked her relentlessly.
Speaker 2: I thought horrible. I thought this aspect of it would
Speaker 2: get taken care of her with a lawsuit. I thought
Speaker 2: that that would happen early on. Somebody would sue a state,
Speaker 2: get like a half a billion dollars because you put
Speaker 2: a dude in prison with me, and that put it
Speaker 2: end to it. But it hasn't yet. Takes a while.
Speaker 3: It takes a while the work its way through the system,
Speaker 3: I would agree. And all the poor kids mutilated, they're
Speaker 3: actually who are caught up in the social contagion. In
Speaker 3: the last several years, there are still a hell of
Speaker 3: a lot of them that are struggling to convince themselves
Speaker 3: they did the right thing, because to admit otherwise would
Speaker 3: be utterly heartbreaking for everybody involved. And so that's part
Speaker 3: of the reason for the delay in that sort of
Speaker 3: suit these and there have been a handful anyway of
Speaker 3: the kids who got whisked along the activist pipeline and
Speaker 3: got their body mutilated and castrated chemically and the rest
Speaker 3: of it, and now will regret it. But those lawsuits
Speaker 3: will come. Got a couple more stories for you. A
Speaker 3: federal judge is ruled that the Bureau of Prisons, oh
Speaker 3: this is a federal judge must provide sex change procedures
Speaker 3: to a convicted pedophile who recently began identifying as transgender.
Speaker 2: Brian Buckingham forty seven, serving Morgan twenty one years forty
Speaker 2: seven just now determined. You know what I think I've
Speaker 2: been chick. I'll down I've been wrong for half a century.
Speaker 2: Brace yourselves, folks.
Speaker 3: He sexually abused his own ten year old son and
Speaker 3: produced child porn with the.
Speaker 2: Boy, murder him or put him to death.
Speaker 3: Shortly before sentencing, Buckingham began identifying as nanny, love them
Speaker 3: to be female and put her to death, and in
Speaker 3: court filings, the judge said they have to provide gender
Speaker 3: affirming treatments like hormone therapy because his sexual dysfunction or
Speaker 3: his dysphoriat worsened his depression in suicidal thoughts, and Magistrate
Speaker 3: Judge David Crystal ruled that yes, that indeed, tax.
Speaker 2: Dole will happily refer to her as her as we
Speaker 2: give her the sodium pentathal. Excellent. I love that idea.
Speaker 3: And finally, in disappointing news for New Hampshiretes, the first
Speaker 3: openly trans lawmaker in the United States who was hailed
Speaker 3: as a trailblazers, admitted to sickening child sex charges involving
Speaker 3: young kids in a daycare. Former Democratic New Hampshire Reps
Speaker 3: Stacy Marie Lawton, a biological male who identifies as female,
Speaker 3: pleaded guilty to charges including child sexual exploitation of children
Speaker 3: in Boston federal court. Faces up to thirty years in
Speaker 3: federal prison. You don't even want to hear what this
Speaker 3: guy did.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 3: He's sexually confused and sick. That's taken a couple of
Speaker 3: different forms, including I'm a girl. Now it's a mental disorder,
Speaker 3: gender bending madness update.
Speaker 2: Oh's rough, yep. Trump speaking at Arlington. We'll have a
Speaker 2: little clip of that for Veterans Day, among other things
Speaker 2: coming up. Armstrong and Getty today, to every veteran, we
Speaker 2: love our veterans. We say the words too often left unsaid.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your service. Thank you very much. President
Speaker 2: Trump at Arlington National Ceremony Cemetery for Veterans Day, talking
Speaker 2: to lots of people, talking about the one million people
Speaker 2: that have given their lives in our nation's history to
Speaker 2: protect this country and our culture. We talked earlier about
Speaker 2: how three quarters of people say they would fight for
Speaker 2: their country. In Asian India, for instance, about a third
Speaker 2: in Europe and Canada would be willing to fight for
Speaker 2: their country. So if you want to hear more of
Speaker 2: that conversation, that was an hour three I think get
Speaker 2: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's a downer.
Speaker 2: That is a dowter. What's your best joke? I need
Speaker 2: something whimsical here, Michael, before I go into something else
Speaker 2: that is depressing but very very interesting, but very interesting.
Speaker 2: What's the best joke we got left? We haven't played
Speaker 2: your favorite one?
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Speaker 2: Wow, that is some meal. Oo. Wow, sounds kind of good.
Speaker 2: I just listening to a podcast yesterday. They got into
Speaker 2: a conversation about sandwiches. I don't know a lot about sandwiches,
Speaker 2: but like this, it's like subway sort of sandwiches. What
Speaker 2: do you call sandwich? Like that? As a subway sandwich,
Speaker 2: there are a number of different regionals hogyes, subway sandwiches,
Speaker 2: grind grinders, whatever, they are right, and I just thought
Speaker 2: somebody mocked Subway. They said, well, one thing I wouldn't
Speaker 2: do is get it at Subway, And my main experience
Speaker 2: with sandwiches like that is from Subway. And I just thought,
Speaker 2: I've got to work at branching out. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I can do that in the town I live in.
Speaker 2: But places that make, you know, real sandwiches with real
Speaker 2: bread and real ingredients to try that out.
Speaker 3: Well, well, Subway does. They're just fairly straightforward. I would
Speaker 3: say that there are sandwich shops that way more adventurous
Speaker 3: in their ingredients and just interesting flavor combinations with Subways. No,
Speaker 3: they were talking about They weren't talking about different stuff.
Speaker 3: They're talking about like, you know, roast beef on bread
Speaker 3: with mayonnaise and mustard being completely different at a non
Speaker 3: Subway place. You tell me, because I don't have the
Speaker 3: I don't have the experience it is, you would say
Speaker 3: that's accurate. Yeah, yeah, just the way the meat is
Speaker 3: seasoned than prepared and all a little more painstaking.
Speaker 2: You can pay more money for it, but right I
Speaker 2: expect that. Yeah, Okay, I need to seek that out
Speaker 2: of my life. Life's too short. Teat you want something depressing, Oh, yes,
Speaker 2: you see. San Diego has released a new report documenting
Speaker 2: a steep decline in the academic preparedness of its freshmen.
Speaker 2: We've been on this story for quite some time.
Speaker 3: The number of entry knock me down with a useless diploma,
Speaker 3: no kidding. The number of entering students needing remedial math
Speaker 3: remedial math as a college kid has exploded from one
Speaker 3: in one hundred back in the early two thousands to
Speaker 3: one in eight whah, some of the numbers around one
Speaker 3: percent to what's one in eight fifteen percent.
Speaker 2: The report also showed that nearly one in five students
Speaker 2: failed to meet entry level writing requirements.
Speaker 3: Fuck, I need remedial math. That's kind of funny. That's ironic.
Speaker 3: From one percent to twelve and a half percent. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: what was that remedial writing? Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2: Very low. Also, the supuriation does coincide with the COVID
Speaker 2: nineteen pandemic, but standardized the elimination of standardized testing because
Speaker 2: that'd be unfair to certain groups and is racist. Great inflation,
Speaker 2: which we all know about. It's been good for the
Speaker 2: teachers to be able to say all of my students
Speaker 2: are now getting bees even though they would have been
Speaker 2: c's twenty years ago, and the expansion of admissions from
Speaker 2: under resourced high schools but forcing colleges to be able
Speaker 2: to allow them in. Here's my favorite part of this
Speaker 2: story though, that the mention the reason that I brought
Speaker 2: it up percentages of students who correctly answered questions at
Speaker 2: each grade level. So they they ask college kids coming
Speaker 2: into college at U SEE San Diego, they had them
Speaker 2: do math for like first grade math, second grade math,
Speaker 2: third grade math up through eighth grade. So the good
Speaker 2: news is people coming into UC San Diego, which is
Speaker 2: an expensive college to go to, eighty seven percent of
Speaker 2: the people going to the university could do first grade math.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't it be higher than that first grade? So you
Speaker 2: got slightly over one out of ten that can't even
Speaker 2: do first grade math? Why are they at your college? Boy?
Speaker 3: I knew high school diplomas were worthless and perfunctory. They're
Speaker 3: given out automatically. I had not realized it was that bad. Well,
Speaker 3: I had the experience.
Speaker 2: I've talked about this on the air, and I hate
Speaker 2: talking about it because some of the people involved are very,
Speaker 2: very nice people who worked really hard helping me and
Speaker 2: my kid. But they were so hell bent on getting
Speaker 2: him up to grade level, since he didn't go to
Speaker 2: school until he was in fourth grade, getting him up
Speaker 2: to grade level, and they just exaggerated, would be a
Speaker 2: kind word, misrepresented, He's at grade level. And I remember
Speaker 2: I was all excited because I was following this and
Speaker 2: everything like that. I started asking him some questions and
Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second, why don't you know
Speaker 2: the answer to him? And so I sat down, did
Speaker 2: some mathelm. He wasn't even freaking close. Yeah, but they
Speaker 2: were telling the parent me that he was at grade
Speaker 2: level and was ready to go on to the next grade. No,
Speaker 2: he's not, I said, he's not even close. You're not
Speaker 2: doing anybody any favors by doing that. Maybe you maybe
Speaker 2: the school, but you're certainly not doing me or him
Speaker 2: any favors by claiming he can do at that time
Speaker 2: it was fifth grade bath when he can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the road to hell is paved with good intentions,
Speaker 3: but the road all sorts of places are paved with
Speaker 3: good intentions just everywhere.
Speaker 2: But like success anyway, back to this thing, and I
Speaker 2: think this is how you end up with because you're
Speaker 2: not allowed to fail people anymore, which is nuts, right, sure,
Speaker 2: Getting back to this, so eighty seven percent of the
Speaker 2: kids going into UC San Diego could do first grade math. Congratulations.
Speaker 2: Second grade math drops to eighty two percent. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: third grade math we're down to seventy four percent. So
Speaker 2: you now got a quarter of the people going into
Speaker 2: U SEE San Diego that can't do third grade math.
Speaker 2: My mind is already blown.
Speaker 3: You're gonna need a bucket and a mop by the
Speaker 3: time you get down to you know.
Speaker 2: Fifth grade. Go ahead. Fourth grade math, we're at sixty
Speaker 2: four percent, so you got almost a third. You got
Speaker 2: a little over a third that can't do fourth grade math.
Speaker 2: You're about half at fifth grade. Half the students and
Speaker 2: do fifth grade math. What the hell? Sixth grade it's
Speaker 2: at two thirds. Can't do it. College math, nobody can
Speaker 2: do it. Seventh grade about sixty percent can't do it.
Speaker 2: Eighth grade math. Only nineteen percent of people were proficient
Speaker 2: with eighth grade math. Appreciate out of middle school? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: that is the whole teachers passing them along knowing they
Speaker 2: can actually do it, but you're not allowed to hold
Speaker 2: them back, and it would really lower our scores. If
Speaker 2: we were honest here.
Speaker 3: And great inflation and teaching woke crap instead of math.
Speaker 3: Do you remember over and over again we've read to you.
Speaker 3: I could do probably dig it up again, but I
Speaker 3: don't feel like it. The state wide guidelines. Now, i'd
Speaker 3: imagine the majority of kids going to UC San Diego
Speaker 3: were schooled in California. Maybe not a huge majority, but
Speaker 3: the majority probably Remember the state wide guidelines call for
Speaker 3: students to center anti racism and what's the other DEI in.
Speaker 2: All classes, including math. So you don't think that's a
Speaker 2: factor including math?
Speaker 3: Yeah, two plus two doesn't equal four, It doesn't necessarily
Speaker 3: equal four. That's white supremacy. How could that not have
Speaker 3: a just a cancerous effect?
Speaker 2: I realize on this show we declare six different things
Speaker 2: per day. Is the biggest problem in the country. But
Speaker 2: your regular go to of our education system K through
Speaker 2: graduate school, Yeah, is the biggest problem is probably what
Speaker 2: I would sign on to.
Speaker 3: The spring of poison that's pouring into so many of
Speaker 3: our other institutions.
Speaker 2: The reason I elevated to the biggest problem is because
Speaker 2: of the tentacles it has going forward. People that either
Speaker 2: are under educated, trying to make a living, in the
Speaker 2: world or born to all kinds of crazy s that
Speaker 2: they're going to believe the rest of their lives. That's
Speaker 2: anness problem.
Speaker 3: I was gonna save this, and I probably still will
Speaker 3: for a campus madness update coming up at some point.
Speaker 3: But I've just been aware of this book The Breakdown
Speaker 3: of Higher Education, how it happened, the damage it does,
Speaker 3: and what can be done by a guy who is
Speaker 3: a actually, interestingly enough, a University of California professor. He
Speaker 3: wrote a piece that they published in the Journal Today.
Speaker 3: Higher ed needs receivership, not reform, meaning receivership means you're
Speaker 3: bankrupt in you're owned by somebody else, or somebody else
Speaker 3: runs you. The radicals who hollowed out America's universities can't
Speaker 3: be trusted to restore their proper purpose. And his point is,
Speaker 3: you know he makes it quite briefly, is that Point
Speaker 3: two of Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence and Higher Education
Speaker 3: is the key to reform. It asks that schools cultivate
Speaker 3: a virant marketplace of ideas on campus, which is exactly
Speaker 3: what the campus radicals have destroyed, and appealing to them
Speaker 3: to reinstate it is crazy. They're not going to number one,
Speaker 3: they don't want to, and number two, even if they did,
Speaker 3: they wouldn't be able to because they don't believe in it.
Speaker 3: So you got the kids, and we'll get more into
Speaker 3: that another time. But you got the kids getting to
Speaker 3: college with only twenty one or twenty percent of them
Speaker 3: could get out of eighth grade math, and then they
Speaker 3: don't learn anything at the college. But in doctrination, walk indoctrination,
Speaker 3: I mean, it does need to go into receivership. Oh
Speaker 3: and then on the other side of the aisle, you
Speaker 3: got Randy Winingarten ahead of the Big teachers Union, coming
Speaker 3: out with a book that says, anybody who challenges the
Speaker 3: teachers Union is a fascist. Given the state of government education,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard to imagine a less functional, more
Speaker 3: diseased institution than government schools in the United States.
Speaker 2: I know it's depressing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm more energized, but it is depressing. It absolutely is.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's that my kids are out of school, but
Speaker 3: I got one in law school, and law schools have
Speaker 3: strong swung wildly left in the last twenty years too.
Speaker 3: But I don't it's a clear objective, it's a clear
Speaker 3: thing that needs to be done. I'm not sure it
Speaker 3: can be done, but it needs to be done.
Speaker 2: We will finish strong next. We got some interesting stuff
Speaker 2: for his stay here. One of the most famous scientists
Speaker 2: in human history died just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: That would be James Watson. If you remember from grade
Speaker 2: school and you had to learn this sort of thing.
Speaker 2: He was, along with doctor Crick, discovered DNA and the
Speaker 2: way the body is made, and the developments that have
Speaker 2: come out of that are just endless. One double of
Speaker 2: helicks was there. Double Helix was also the name of
Speaker 2: his memoir, which is one of the most famous scientific
Speaker 2: books ever written in supposed to be really good and
Speaker 2: very accessible, and I actually should give it a read.
Speaker 2: One of the interesting things about this he died at
Speaker 2: age ninety seven, I think the other day, so he's
Speaker 2: been alive a very long time. He was twenty five
Speaker 2: when they made their giant one of the biggest discoveries
Speaker 2: in human history breakthrough. He was twenty five years old.
Speaker 2: That would be something to have the highlight of your
Speaker 2: career that everybody references the rest of your life, especially
Speaker 2: as you get older. Be something you did when you
Speaker 2: were twenty five. I'm working on something new too. Yeah, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 2: get back to us if you figured out, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: loved your first album, oh twenty five. And then you
Speaker 2: might remember this because we talked about it quite a
Speaker 2: bit at the time. In two thousand and seven, he
Speaker 2: did an interview where he said some fairly racist stuff
Speaker 2: and then, as I remember, we were on the air
Speaker 2: talking about it as one of the most famous scientists
Speaker 2: of all time and hailed by everybody around the world,
Speaker 2: and you want to know, prize and blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and taught at Harvard and he could fill lecture halls
Speaker 2: everywhere he went. All of a sudden, he couldn't. For instance,
Speaker 2: he said this to the London Sunday Times, I'm inherently
Speaker 2: gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social
Speaker 2: policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is
Speaker 2: the same as ours, whereas all testing says not really.
Speaker 2: He elaborated that while he hoped for equality, people who
Speaker 2: have to deal with black employees find that it's just
Speaker 2: not true. Oh oh my god. And I remember at
Speaker 2: the time, so two thousand and seven, he was already old.
Speaker 2: He just died almost one hundred, so he was already
Speaker 2: old and there was some speculation that was kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, you get old and you'd lose your filter
Speaker 2: and don't really think straight and you know whatever. Yeh,
Speaker 2: he was at that point in his life. But anyway,
Speaker 2: Bloom was off the rows. He no longer would get hot,
Speaker 2: he'd never no longer spoke at any lectures anywhere. He
Speaker 2: lost all his honorary degrees from all the universities around
Speaker 2: the world, all these different sorts of things, and now
Speaker 2: is all it is. Uh. New York Times, for instance,
Speaker 2: their their big Ulgi section had to include in the
Speaker 2: first paragraph that he was also a racist.
Speaker 3: Interesting that reminds me of a similar story, which I
Speaker 3: will save from my final thought.
Speaker 2: Cool, I'm strong, I'm strong. You're ready, Katie Green And yeah,
Speaker 2: here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 3: To wrap up today. There is Michael Angelo pressing the buttons.
Speaker 3: Michael watch final thought.
Speaker 7: You know, the most impressing story for me today was
Speaker 7: that Ai country song Yeah be at top of the
Speaker 7: charts if you can. Nobody's gonna make any money in
Speaker 7: music at all anymore.
Speaker 2: It's done. Yeah, damn, Katie green are esteemed to Newswoman
Speaker 2: As a final thought, Katie, just thank you to all
Speaker 2: of our veterans today for their service and their sacrifice.
Speaker 2: Jack final thought for us, Yeah, it's also thank you
Speaker 2: to all the veterans on this Veterans Day, including my
Speaker 2: brother and dad. I guess how the lesson is you
Speaker 2: might have had a really good life, but you could
Speaker 2: say something, write something really awful when you're almost dead,
Speaker 2: and then that's not going to be what people remember
Speaker 2: you for. Oh no, I try every day.
Speaker 3: My final thought, in addition to thanks to all of
Speaker 3: the veterans, is that, speaking of canceled things, I've been
Speaker 3: trying desperately to find Faulty Towers after Prunenla's Scales died.
Speaker 3: Greatest sitcom of all time, voted over and over again,
Speaker 3: absolutely brilliant, hilarious. You can't find it, partly because it
Speaker 3: used some politically incorrect terms. I've even used AI to
Speaker 3: say where can I find this? And they tell me
Speaker 3: Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV.
Speaker 2: You can search and search and search, you can't find it.
Speaker 2: I really want to show my friend's Faulty Towers who've
Speaker 2: never seen it. Was it racial stuff or they?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one racial term I guess in one episode,
Speaker 3: and god knows what else the know the woke police
Speaker 3: in Britain especially, I have decided it's no good wow.
Speaker 3: But if anybody has a line on where you can
Speaker 3: rent it or buy it, stream it whatever, let me know.
Speaker 3: Mail Bag at Armstrong Yeddy dot com.
Speaker 2: Armstrong you Getty wrapping. I'm another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: So many people thank so the little time. Yeah, drop
Speaker 2: us note mail bag at Armstrong you getdy dot com.
Speaker 2: How do we get young women back to the Republican Party?
Speaker 2: Anybody got any ideas? Plus the ang swag store, Holy Cow,
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Speaker 2: shirt an age conscience to the nation hoodie. So many
Speaker 2: great choices starve the lazy. We will see tomorrow. God
Speaker 2: bless America. It's the Armstrong and Getty show. I like this.
Speaker 2: Ye I think I might come back and do it again.
Speaker 2: That's what I was told. Okay, fair enough, so let's
Speaker 2: go with it. Buying. Do you flush things out or
Speaker 2: flush things out? It depends what you're doing. If you
Speaker 2: got birds in a in a in a thicket and
Speaker 2: you're trying to shoot them, you flush them out.
Speaker 3: You give absolutely flush them out, yeah okay, and then
Speaker 3: shoot them dead yes, because or evil and.
Speaker 2: That high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty