WEBVTT - Well Meaning Softheads 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.760 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:24.240 and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.640 The other day we talked about how America's government schools 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.400 are failing and read a fair amount of an unbelievably good, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:40.040 shockingly good piece from The Atlantic entitled America's sliding toward Illiteracy. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.519 And as Greg Guttfeld points out here, the philosophies that 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:49.120 have ruined American schools are operating above the border as well. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:50.800 It's far worse in schools. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.559 Listen to this Canadian professor. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.560 I have worked with four and five year olds in 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.000 schools who have genders that their parents don't want them 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.240 to have. Parents' rights have suddenly been weaponized against trans 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.800 and non binary and two spirit youth. I want us 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.360 to get really comfortable with challenging right wing Christian patriarchy. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.880 I want to say things like, you can do work 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.240 around sexual orientation and gender diversity with children of all ages, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.440 and so I want us to think about these conversations 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:22.199 in kindergarten. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:34.520 Of course you do you sick, repulsive, repulsive, repulsive, Yeah, 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:39.080 it is absolutely repulsive. That is a dedicated Neomarxist because 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.920 they want to erase all of the. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:43.039 Binaries. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.280 It gets into political theory, but that's somebody wants to 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.320 sexualize children early and then convince them that they are 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:54.120 an oppressed gender. Sexuality because Workers of the World unit 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.400 turned into we actually got an email saying, Joe, what 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.480 do you mean by neo Marxist. I've explained this many times, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.400 but I'm de lighted to explain it many more times. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.280 If that's what it takes. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.000 Workers of the World Unite, and Greg Lukianov actually referred 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.600 to this Last Hour didn't work because the workers of 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.200 the World are like, you know, I'm getting paid okay, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.440 and I'm up for shop foreman next month, and you know, honestly, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.040 I'm starting a side business, so thanks. I'm not going 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.520 to throw off my chains and embrace communism. My life 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.720 isn't that bad. So when that failed in the twentieth century, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.520 the dedicated Marxists thought, okay, what do we do now, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.240 And some of those French guys we were mentioning Last 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:37.799 Hour came up with every minority of the World unite. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.160 Racial minorities weren't quite enough, so they started to invent 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.880 sexual minorities and to spirit and all sorts of queer 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.960 theory and gender theory and all this trying to convince 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.520 everybody that they're an oppressed minority. That was the plan 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.720 of Neo Marxism that came out of the French intellectual 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.359 salons in the twentieth century. Like the sixty I think 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.760 was the real hot time of it, and this seventies, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.160 these guys were celebrated as great thinkers, including by the 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.320 left in the US anyway, So that's what I'm talking about. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.560 We got a hell of a lot of reaction from 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.720 educators to our discussion of the Atlantic piece and some 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.440 of the miserable, miserable stats going on. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.200 In American education right now. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.080 The lead of the Atlantic pieces the past decade may 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:25.600 rank is one of the worst in the history of 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.639 American education. It marks a stark reversal from what was 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.120 once a hopeful story. And if the Atlantic is saying that, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.160 babe whoo, things are bad. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:35.800 So onto the reaction. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.440 I'm going to keep everybody anonymous here, but Aleen Anonymous 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.800 is from a fairly small town in Idaho who says 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:44.720 I'm an avid listener. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:45.480 Thank you very much. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.520 And wanted to share my experience of teaching in a 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.200 small town, very red North Idaho. You are correct in 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.120 saying that education is liberal everywhere. What I said was, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.960 I don't care if your state or your town is 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.600 ruby red. There is a sapphire blue patch. It is 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.440 your local schools anyway. She goes on. The kids in 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.520 my school are allowed to wear tails and ears. They 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.320 identify as animals. Teachers openly discuss their contempt for conservative 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.560 values and traditional families. They mock parents who have chosen 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.000 to pull their children from schools to home school. They 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.320 find it ridiculous that parents are allowed to see the 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.240 curriculum at all, and to see all the curriculum that 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.320 we use. When we moved here six years ago, I 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.720 naively thought I would be entering a place where we 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.640 would encounter like minded educators. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.039 I was sorely mistaken. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.599 I will say that the indoctrination is more subtle than 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.599 the parents are watching for it. But even in a 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.560 county that went seventy six percent for Trump, it is 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.320 alive and well in the schools. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:41.480 Keep that in mind. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.200 It's because the critical theory stuff I've been talking about 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.960 caught hold first in the colleges of education in the 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.279 United States. That's where the infection established itself before it spread. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.279 I won't bore you with the history of it, but 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.400 trust me when I say that it's true. Long note 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.560 from anonymous here. We'll see how much we can get to. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.120 But it's absolutely fantastic, and now we thank you for it. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.880 It's spring break, so I'm listening in real time. Everything 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.120 you too are saying about education is one hundred percent accurate, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.080 and you may even be underplaying it a. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:20.719 Bit aka under egging the pudding. Appreciate this sense humor. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.080 I'm closing in on twenty five years in the classroom, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.200 and I have seen the decline happen in real time. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.479 Most of us could see it coming as policies were 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.680 being implemented but were powerless as the Unions, government and 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.480 education schools have created an unholy alliance of far left 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.560 training grounds in our public charter and in some cases 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.120 private schools. Yeah, we're aware of that. Some of those 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.120 high dollar schools in Manhattan or are as insane as anybody. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.599 These policies were implemented behind the buzzwords equity, inclusion, belonging. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:51.919 We're all aware of that. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.159 Have acted as a trojan horse into the mainstream of 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.839 public education. I can even nail down two points in 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.480 time when the changes started. Older teachers may have conflicting timelines, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.440 but the first was in two thousand and seven when 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.880 our superintendent at the time decraded that there would be 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.520 no more f's as grades and no more suspensions from school. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:14.320 That was prime Obama philosophy time. That's when that philosophy 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:18.000 that he espoused started to take hold in schools, before 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.080 he was pushing it audibly anyway. The next major change 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.839 was spring of twenty sixteen, when our professional development began 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.680 focusing on pronouns and seeing everything through the lens of 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.920 race rather than teaching practices. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.920 That's phenon in FUCO and critical theory. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:39.440 UH do because the way you wake up quote unquote, 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:43.279 as the Marxists would say, the races to unite and 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.919 throw off the change of capitalism in Western civilization is 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.160 you've got to convince them they're oppressed, even if they 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.840 have good lives. Hence seeing everything through the lens of race. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.400 Right back to the email. All of this was set 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.800 up around the goal of no dropouts and one hundred 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.599 percent graduation rate. As you two have pointed out, many 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.880 times bunch of measure becomes a target, it ceases to 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.760 be a good measure. These two major shifts and resulting 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.120 goals have acted under as umbrellas under which a myriad 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.400 of changes have occurred. I'm throwing this together off the cuff, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.320 but I could literally write a book about this topic. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:13.360 Yeah. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.720 Well, and, as he points out, no dropouts, one hundred 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.240 percent graduation sounds wonderful unless you throw away all of 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.240 your standards to get there. Right back to the email, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.400 what happened next was a slow burn, but to no 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.960 one's surprised. Once students figured out there were no consequences 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.600 for anything, behavior gradually became worse in grades plummeted. Once 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.360 the grades plummeted, administrators began pressuring teachers to inflate grades, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.880 not just f's to d's, but fs to at least 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.880 c's are better. If you pushed back, life could get 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.520 real uncomfortable very quickly. If you really dig your heels in, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.960 a counselor or admin will just change the grade, and 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.880 now you're seen as a troublemaker. If building principle went 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.880 against these policies, they were either moved or nudge toward retirement. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.880 District administrators were subject to gatekeeping regarding their beliefs, meeting 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.920 decision makers who matter. We're all soon on the same page. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:08.000 That's the DEI. DEI doesn't mean diversity, equity and inclusion. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.559 All it means is more neomarxists. And do you notice 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.880 how is never a black conservative, for instance, who is 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.280 included in the eye of inclusion? 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.200 Never? Never, never. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.800 Some of my colleagues enthusiastically jumped on board well. Others 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.960 went along just to get along. Some of us complained 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.320 under our breath, but decided to try our best. Is 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.600 still teach our butts off every day and do what's 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.680 best for students. It worked for a while, but it's 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.760 caught up to us now. All the veteran teachers I 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.760 know with more than twenty years of experience are tired, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.959 beaten down, and miserable. Those close enough to retirement are lucky, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.760 but many, like myself, are too far away from the 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.320 end to take solace in knowing we'll just have to 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.880 make it another year or two. It's like swimming across 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.040 a river when you're too far away from shore to 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.200 get to the other side, and too far away to 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.800 go turn back. Here's what I'm seeing every day that 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.800 most people don't understand. I teachap classes with upper grades 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.640 of high school. These are kids who are applying to 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.400 in and often cases getting into good universities. Most of 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.800 my students are nice, polite kids who mean well. In 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.840 some cases, they are eager to learn, but they haven't 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.040 been conditioned how to be students in the sense that 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.600 their attention spans are very short and they don't process 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.319 information well. Some people may take issue with the term conditioning, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.880 but there are parameters of behaviors and skills people are 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.839 expected to work within in any given situation. Some may 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.840 call it professionalism in the workplace, as no job allows 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.920 you to behave like you, do like you and only 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.720 do the tasks you feel like doing. Okay, we don't 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.920 even do that in our own homes, feeding ourselves and 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.800 doing laundry or required. Students are allowed to show up 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.600 to whatever class, whenever, say whatever, and do whatever they please. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.520 The students with self discipline stand out. While most students 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.800 don't complete assignments and have no idea what it looks 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.880 like to study. They fall apart if subjects get difficult 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.920 and it's almost impossible to approach a nuanced discussion around 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.080 a controversial topic. Students no emotion and feeling. But that's 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.120 about it. Education has never been perfect. I didn't get 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.920 the greatest high school education. But kids are getting screwed 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.960 now between low skill level and an increasing inability to think, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.000 we are dooming these young people to a difficult future. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.000 We got here via many of the policies you too 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.960 have talked about on your show. Equitable grading practice is 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.600 requiring a fifty percent grade for a missing assignment rather 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.400 than a zero. Every examine. Assignment is allowed to be 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.040 taken over and over again. Restorative practices and conversations when 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.800 students break the rules. There is a very good chance 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.040 your child is sitting in a classroom with another student 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.480 who everyone knows is committed a violent crime at school, 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.640 and they still get to be in school. Kids will 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.720 sometimes take honors or advanced classes way above their skill 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:35.120 level so they can be in a safe environment. Funding 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.720 is going to administration rather than into the classroom, where 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.360 more staff and materials are needed. Teachers often have to 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.840 spend a ton of time cobbling together material and curriculum 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.320 to survive the disciplinary tasks, writing referrals and calling home 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.360 to an unanswered phone. Those things take a back seat. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.480 This is just scratching the surface of issues. Like I said, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:56.959 I could write a book. Public education is salvageable, but 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.000 it's going to take an army of dedicated parents, teachers, legislation, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.400 and community members, and it's going to be a fight, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.920 requiring years of patients and hard work. First, and most 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.080 immediate for parents, help us out with the phones. No 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.280 kid in elementary school needs a smartphone. I may even 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.800 suggest no kid under the age of sixteen needs one. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.720 It's only necessary now because we've allowed it. And then 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.240 he says, I get it. I understand why people have them, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.719 but we've got to stop. Second, pay attention to who 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.000 is on your school board. This is the most important 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.480 elected position in your life right now. The activist groups 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.600 are pouring truckloads of money into school board races because 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.760 they are vital, and no one pays attention. Go to meetings, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.840 listen to what they say. Your school board member impacts 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.240 your way of life more than Trump or AOC. It's 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.720 not politically sexy, but make it that way. Pay attention 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.160 to who is getting the admin jobs. Never vote for 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.840 a school board candidate who is an activist. Never vote 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.960 for a candidate who is a union member teacher in 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.280 another district. Never vote for someone who has crazy crap 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.839 in their social media. Never vote for a candidate who 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.320 uses any of the DEI buzzwords, even if they don't 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.480 know what they mean. If there is only one candidate 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.679 on the ballot and they fit one of these categories, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.400 run against them yourself and make them publicly take a 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.400 stand on grading behavior and where the money should go. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.920 Also feel free to stay away from crazy people on 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.960 the right as well. And you lists some same ghost 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.120 for a city council, But the school board thing is 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:20.960 incredibly important. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.560 It goes on for several more paragraphs. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.200 It's beautifully written, mister anonymous, thank you so much for 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:25.880 taking the time. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.400 We're going to check in with Jack. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.440 Any reaction to that drop is a note mail bag 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:36.600 at Armstrong gamgetty dot com. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.720 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that prices for nearly 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.080 everything rose by nine tenths of one percent between February 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.839 and March, and three point three percent from last March 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.240 to this with Iran closing down a crucial supply channel 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.360 for oil. Gasoline was a major driver of last month's 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.679 increasing consumer prices. Energy costs are up twelve and a 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.880 half percent in the past thirteen months. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.440 When energy goes up, everything goes up up. Is it 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.760 a trend or a blip? Nobody knows. Please welcome the 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.440 co host of the show to the show live from 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.360 the Heartland, Salana, Kansas, not Selena, not Selena's Salina, Kansas. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:11.840 Jack Armstrong, Hello, Jack. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.559 You know so in places up three point three percent. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.360 What are people saying about that? That's the most in 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.040 a couple of years. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.240 Yeah, yeah, it's all Gulf related. Yeah, I ain't good. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:27.840 That's not good. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.160 I was just reading an interesting thing about, uh, how 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.840 difficult it is for the Secret Service guarantee the security 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.839 of JD vans over there in Pakistan doing negotiating because 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.400 that government is very shaky in terms of their ability 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:46.440 to control things. So, uh, Islam as fundamentalist nut jobs 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.480 could make it very dangerous for our legotiating team to 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:50.800 be there. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.840 And the government plays foot seat with various radical groups 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.600 just to keep them from taking out the government. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:57.920 Boy, that'd be a he kind of thing. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.000 Suddenly, something to keep a person's eye. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.720 Tell you today, it's been great fun. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.840 We had a hell of a nice conversation with Greg 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.480 lukianoff from Fire and I read and I'm sorry you 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.319 missed this. I read a couple of emails from educators 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:18.360 reacting to our segment on America's sliding into illiteracy, worst 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.520 decade in American education from The Atlantic. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.480 Powerful stuff. I will just tell you this. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.600 Everybody said one hundred percent right, and you guys may 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:28.560 have underplayed it. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.600 Wow. Yeah, wow, up. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.880 Against a pretty powerful force. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.000 Yeah, but near once. Yeah. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.800 Well, the teachers' unions and the teachers colleges which are 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.360 radical left and uh and uh and government too. But 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.520 one thing, one thing that several emails had in common, 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.080 including the one I'm holding in my hand, is calling 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:52.880 out the parents. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.600 Where are the parents? 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.160 Know what's being taught, Know your teacher, Go to school 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.600 board meetings, figure out who running, and vote accordingly. 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.280 Don't vote for activists. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.800 They're all crazy, they're well, they're Marxists, or they're well 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.960 meaning softtheads who don't realize. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.000 They're doing the works the work of the Marxists. Anyway. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.400 Yeah, it seems like the whole country, or half the 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.800 country anyway, to sleep the switch on the whole public 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.440 education thing. For many decades now, just assuming that it 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.000 would be, you know, just cruise along the way it 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.440 was years ago. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.240 But clearly enough case. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.320 Are you going to get a cozy berger as a 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.920 gesture and support of free speech? 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.280 We were talking about that yesterday. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.840 Yes, it is gotten national attention and a number of 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.560 major litigation groups who fight for free speech or fighting 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.800 for the freedom of this burger place to have a 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:42.920 mural on its side. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.840 Anyway, you short. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.840 Answer the questions, yes, I'm going to get a cozy Burger? 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.080 Excellent, excellent. What else is on your mind news wise 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.480 this morning? Anything in particular? Are you just doing the 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:55.080 family thing? 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.560 I'm just doing the family thing, really and realizing what 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.880 it's like to live the way most people probably do. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.400 They don't, you know, pay attention to the news on 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.000 a twenty four hour news cycle, and surely not on 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.200 your mind that much. Yeah, in in the airport yesterday 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.680 and hang out on planes and you know, nobody's talking 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.200 about the news of the day at all. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.640 Right, was Traffle not a nightmare? Because if it's not 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.560 a nightmare, you've won the lottery. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:25.320 It was. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.520 It couldn't have been easier. Nothing was crowded anywhere, and 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.560 no delays of any kind or anything like that. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.320 So we're joking that this segment would be a little short, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.840 and I was going to bump you like a guest 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.240 who didn't quite get on the tonight's show. But we'll 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.880 read books, Jack Armstrong, Sorry we couldn't get to you, 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.240 but boy, what a show we had. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:43.640 Blah blah. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.400 Mike Lyons is coming up next segment. We're going to 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.960 figure out what's going on. We're going to figure out 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:49.920 what's going on in the Gulf. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:50.480 No we're not. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.240 We're going to try to figure out any aspect of 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.880 what's going on right now and comprehend it. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.960 So I'm going to figure out how to listen to 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:58.600 that because I'm pretty interested in myself. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.120 All right, go enjoy the family and beautiful Salina and 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.240 tell the town I miss it, and thanks for launching 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:05.800 our careers. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.720 Talk to you like myself to the cozy Berger. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.960 Yeah yeah, ship me a bag of them before you do. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.400 All right, much more to come. If you can't stick around, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.639 grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:21.159 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.239 If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart. In 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.000 a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.680 has nothing to do with them, and which the United 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.520 States never once said was part of the ceasefire. That's 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.080 ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:39.119 that's their choice. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.600 The dizzying situation in the golf and straysa herle mooz, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.480 the US, Iran, Israel, Lebanon and all the players. Let's 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.320 dive right into it with military analyst Mike Lyons. Mike, welcome, how. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:52.760 Are you today? 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:54.520 And Jo Great to be back with you. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.240 Great, always good to have you. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.679 So, you know, I think both of us have probably 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.000 read about studied various peace agreements through history and how 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.040 some of them were a bit rocky or you know, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.080 there are hidden elements that the layman didn't learn about 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.000 until many years later. But I don't recall anything as 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.840 wobbly and complicated as this in recent memory. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.720 Yeah, I've never seen sides so far apart. I mean, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.919 I guess the fifteen points on our side versus the 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.520 ten on their side. They are the most maximalist demands 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.520 you've ever seen coming from Iran or from really any country, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.440 basically saying that they could do whatever they want, whenever 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:35.760 they want to do it, and they'll do whatever they 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.480 want to another country whenever they want to do it 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.080 to them too. So I don't know where this will start, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.320 you know, Trump, I think originally the beginning of the 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.000 week with a lot of his tweets and comments where 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.719 he's just trying to out crazy the crazy people on 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.040 some level talking to the Iranians and language they understand. 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.399 I'm just not sure they understand any language. I'm just 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.760 not sure this is going to go anywhere. They just 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.280 don't have a history of negotiating anything, any you know, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.200 giving in on anything on whatsoever. I think the Obama 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.800 administration was completely you know, taken to the woodshed by 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.320 these guys, and they're going to try. We'll see what happens. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.440 So is that line of thought leading to the conclusion 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.479 that the only thing we can do is so reduce 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:19.399 their capabilities that the intransigent maniacs that run around just 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:20.720 won't be as dangerous. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.040 Yeah, I think that's really where we are. We're back 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.440 to a containment foreign policy. If we can't you get 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.720 some kind of resolution within the next fourteen days, I 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.320 don't think it's going to take fourteen days. I think 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.800 we're going to draw this conclusion that they're not going 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:38.240 to give in on anything before that. The Vice President's 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.879 comment about this being linked to Hezela is exactly the point. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:44.439 I mean, Israel has its own security concerns, and you 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.200 know the fact that the country with nine million people 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.480 still punching up against the country with ninety million and 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.760 doing pretty well. You know, there's a lot of other 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.040