WEBVTT - What Is It With Murderous Idiots?! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.800 Arm Strong and Getty enough he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.680 President Trump forged this moment. Iran begged for this ceasefire, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.479 and we all know it as a president truth this 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.960 morning a big day for world peace. Iran wants it 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.880 to happen. They've had enough. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:44.040 Boy, I hope all that's true. Doesn't seem that it's 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.320 obviously true. So we'll talk more about that later this hour. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.080 What happened last night? What has been agreed to or 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.080 not agreed to so far? It's quite a mystery to 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.600 practically everybody. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:57.640 Stay tuned. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.480 We'll hit it hard maybe the bottom of this hour. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.480 Yesterday, at its height, oil was one hundred and twelve 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:03.200 dollars a barrel. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.920 Right now it's ninety one, So you got that. Stay 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.240 with us. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:13.120 Disruption has its own costs. If you can tweak something 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.959 as opposed to blowing it up, often that's a good deal, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.319 whether a relationship or a job or just how There 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.920 are a thousand examples. Sometimes something needs to be completely disrupted, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.120 and the downside of the disruption just has to be 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.000 dealt with, and I would argue that's where we are 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.560 with America's government schools at this point. And on that topic, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:36.080 a handful of in a piece of information I've come across. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:41.679 San Francisco school officials voted last week to restore eighth 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.680 grade algebra, more than a decade after the district eliminated 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.360 the course in the name of equity, which attracted intense 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.040 criticism as math stores excores declined across the district. So 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:58.040 it's good that they backtracked from a horrifically stupid policy. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.560 But the school board I proved that measure by a 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.440 four to three vote. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.200 Wow, and it lasted ten years. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.480 The district policy, implemented in twenty fourteen of San Francisco 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:16.480 led the charge toward absolutely insane abusive education policies removed 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.640 algebra from middle schools and an attempt to give minority students 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.799 more time to learn basic maths skills. Instead, math proficiency 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:28.120 declined across the district among all cohorts, including among black students. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.639 Eighth grade math proficiency in San Francisco public schools fell 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.240 from fifty one percent to forty percent in the space 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.080 of six years. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:42.320 Well fifty one percent is a horror. Right, that starting 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.400 number is a horror, And how did this program work? 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.320 Equity wise, Jack proficiency among black students fell from eleven 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.160 percent to four percent. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.240 Wow. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.160 Parents who could afford tutors or enrolling their kids in 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.560 summer school often did, paying out a pocket under the 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.000 old policy. San Francisco. This is a quote from a 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.240 Stanford economists. They try to achieve equity not by raising 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.440 the floor, but by lowering the ceiling. It's a problem 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.359 we see nationally. Just horrible. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.120 That's enough of that, though, God dang it. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.440 Even in general, it's really hard to know how much 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.840 your kids are learning at school unless you're like questioning 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.760 them themselves, because they will give your kids good grades 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.200 and just pass them along and you have no idea. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.959 Yes, absolutely now from the right leaning New York Post. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.400 This is an article or an editorial by doctor Kerrie Ingram, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:37.880 who's an education specialist. Schools should educate children, not train activists. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.040 America's public education system is drifted dangerously from its core mission. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.000 Schools exist to educate people. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.360 Children obviously teach them how to read, write, think critically, 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.800 and understand the world around them. But across the country, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.040 many classrooms are increasingly focused on something else. Entirely, they 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.920 are bent on turning students into political activists and man, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.680 she runs through a nationwide checklist of school children, little 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.840 children participating in anti ice drills in protests. It's the 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.800 latest example of political propaganda forced on kids during the 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.120 school day. In New York, footage shows a preschool teacher 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.680 encouraging children to talk about how they feel about ice 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.039 and President Trump, obviously based on the so called education 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.240 they've received from their teacher. In Boston, here's a video 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:27.640 of an elementary school teacher showing her little kids marching 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.800 around the classroom holding signs chanting no Donald Trump, No 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:35.280 Donald Trump. It's full on activist training with taxpayer dollars 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.320 during the school day, and she which. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.720 Would be horrible on its own. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.760 If reading in math were at ninety five percent proficiency, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.680 it would be awful and a danger to society. But 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.880 you got both ends are bad, agreed. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.479 Students are taught to organize demonstrations, participate in protests, and 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.120 adopt ideological positions on complex public issues, things they don't 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.920 have the facts or context for, and often before they've 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.400 even mastered basic academic skills. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:04.640 To Jack's point. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.880 Then she restates your argument more or less alternately, it's 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:14.920 increasingly replaced with lessons instead of reading, math, science, and history, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.160 lessons centered on activism, grievance, and personal political identity. This 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.880 isn't preparing students for success. It's distracting them from the 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.920 very education they desperately need. And she goes into some 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:30.040 of the miserable results and more examples of the activism. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.120 The largest teachers union, the National Education Association, is training 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:39.000 teachers right now. They're growing these programs in advancing LGBTQ 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:44.120 plus justice and transgender advocacy rather than how to teach reading, writing, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:52.680 and math, not like transgender awareness, but advocacy and obviously, 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.520 as she makes the point, kids are not learning to 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.960 think critically and how to think. They're learning what they 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.279 must think. There's only one belief that's allowed. It is 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.359 drilled into them. I wish we had time for this 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.320 whole article, because it is very, very good, but. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.080 I was struck by this. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.520 The left leaning it'll leaning please, it leans so far 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.240 it's going to fall over and crack its head. The 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:18.960 left leaning Atlantic, with their big feature article America is 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:24.600 sliding toward illiteracy declining standards and low expectations are destroying 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:30.120 American education. I would go with have destroyed, but I 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:36.800 would say have perverted and screwed a couple of generations 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.120 of children already. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:39.440 Folks. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.760 I mean, we're all familiar with the oft stated truism 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.400 that we didn't know what was happening in the classrooms 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.080 till COVID and parents looked over their kids' shoulders and 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.200 were like, what the hell, here's the bad news that 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.960 had been going on for some time, and it's still 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.920 going on now. They just know they have to keep 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.560 it a little more cod And I beg you, I 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:03.320 beg you. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:03.880 To believe me. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.240 I'm not a paranoiac with some sort of agenda, just 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:11.160 trying to keep you listening. This is true. Let me 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.720 quote a little from the Atlantic. The past decade may 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.600 rank is one of the worst in the history of 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.000 American education. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.440 So they ease in the least. That doesn't surprise me 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.000 in the least. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.120 It marks a stark reversal from what was once a 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.000 hopeful story at the start of the century. This century, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.559 American students registered steady improvements in math and reading. Around 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.240 twenty thirteen, this progress began to stall out and then 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:39.480 to backslide dramatically. What exactly went wrong? The decline began 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.920 well before the pandemic, so covid era disruptions alone cannot 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.880 explain it. Smartphones in social media probably account for some 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.080 of the drop, but there's another explanation, albeit one that 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.760 progressives in particular seem reluctant to countenance a pervasive refusal 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.360 to hold children to high standards, and I would argue 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:03.120 in progressives are absolutely as unwilling to consider this substituting 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.080 indoctrination for learning. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.840 Oh my god, this is a tough subject for me 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.200 to engage in and not lose my mind because I've 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.280 lived it, because my kids, you know, the last decade 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.440 we've fallen off a cliff. My kids are sixteen and fourteen, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.360 so I've lived this. I've had teachers tell me your 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.720 kid is grade level and then quisdom and found out, no, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.520 he's freaking not not even close, not even close. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.520 What are you doing? 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.319 We are now seeing what the lost decade in American 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.120 education is wrought they rite in the Atlantic. By some measures, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.320 American students have regressed to a level not seen in 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.800 twenty five years or more. Test scores from the National 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.719 Association of Educational Process Progress rather release this year's show 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.120 that thirty three percent of eighth graders are at reading 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.720 at a level that is below basic, a third of 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.120 them meaning that they struggle to follow the order of 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:03.040 events in a passage or even to summarize its main idea. Boy, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.000 but they can tell you that about all the different genders. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.440 That is the highest share of students unable to meaningfully 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.960 read since nineteen ninety two. Among fourth graders, forty percent 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.360 are below basic in reading, the highest share since two thousand. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.880 In twenty twenty four, the average score on the ACT 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.640 the Popular College Admission Standardized Test was nineteen point four, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.720 the worst average performance since the test was redesigned in 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.559 nineteen ninety. American school children have given up almost all 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.880 of the gains they achieved at the start of the century. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.280 And they mentioned that parents with more money have put 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.080 their kids in private schools, hired tutors, et cetera. But 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.720 the masses of people in say, the bottom eighty percent 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.360 of income, who might not have had those opportunities or 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.800 not been aware of how critical it was to exercise them, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:58.880 have seen miserable, miserable results. And this is the progressive 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.480 agenda teachers' unions at work. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.679 Well, for many, you get a major. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.400 Disruption of our government schools. Now, if you grew up 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.640 the way I grew up most of us did, where 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.480 your parents could assume that you're learning to read and write, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.880 and that if you're getting a's and b's or c's 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.480 or whatever, you're roughly doing okay and everything, but that 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.680 those years are I don't know when it ended, but 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.120 those days are over. You cannot at all assume your 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.680 kid is learning basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, or that 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.880 their grade means anything. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.199 I will restate what I've said many times. You may 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.400 be in the ruby reddest town in America. There is 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.960 an island of deep blue in your town. It is 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.360 your government schools. Trust me on this. Here's another great 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:53.240 article point rather from the far left Atlantic. A seemingly 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.880 plausible culprit and a familiar boogeyman for progressives is insufficient spending. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.680 The problem with this tidy explanation is that it's not 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.480 tethered to reality. School spending did not decline from twenty 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.640 twelve to twenty twenty two. In fact, it increased significantly 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.440 even after adjusting for inflation. From fourteen thousand dollars a 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.640 student to more than sixteen thousand, and a great great 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.839 deal more in more expensive places. Oh boy. And they 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.439 go into the financing and more or less, just. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.280 We're spending more than we've ever spent per student adjusted 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.680 for inflation, in getting less. That's the only thing you 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:29.120 need to know. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.839 Besides America recently ran a very large natural experiment and 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.080 dropping money on schools that in a world, in a word, failed. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.679 He goes into the details. Michael Petrelli, the president of 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.760 the Thomas by Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank, said, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.480 and I quote, and I'm going to use the term 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.079 spit for obvious reasons here. The scientific term for this 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.880 is that we didn't get Jack's spit out of that money. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.920 There's some studies that can detect small impacts, but they're small. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.640 I think it's also fair to say that a lot 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:02.320 of the money was wasted. I mean, obviously we could 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.640 go on all day. I will not step even a 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.439 tiny baby step back from my statement that I've made 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.280 more than once. The biggest crisis, the biggest problem the 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.920 United States of America faces right now is the indoctrination 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.440 and lack of education of our children. China as a 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.000 threat pails next to it, as does Iran. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.880 End of screed for now, well, and they'll all fit 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.280 together eventually. Well. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.320 And the fact that all of this, all of this, 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:35.959 the progressivism is being pushed hard by China through TikTok 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.000 among other things, and Russia and all of our adversaries, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.760 they are bankrolling the crap out of it. Who do 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.760 you think George Soross? What do you think he believes? 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.480 Why do you think he's financing what he is to 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.640 bring down the great evil United States? 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.320 All right, that's the end of my screed. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.959 Day one of my son's public school history class, they 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.679 had to write the land acknowledgment. That's what they did 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.520 in history class on day one. He is no longer 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:00.880 in that. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:01.200 Glass, but. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.560 Tear it all down. It's unreal. Any comments text line 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:15.720 four one five two nine five KFTC. So we're going 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.240 to talk about the cease fire and what we know 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:20.959 and what we don't know coming up in just a 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.800 little bit. But we didn't because Trump threatened to end 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.440 to civilization yesterday. We didn't get around to this story. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:27.440 Oh my god. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.280 Yeah, maybe you just heard the broad outlines of it. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.080 Two days ago when it first emerged of dude goes 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.880 out in a boat with his wife. He comes back, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.679 swims back saying wife fell overboard. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.520 He paddled back saying his wife fell overboard with the 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:49.120 boat key in her hand, so he couldn't start the engines. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.960 So it took him a very long time to get 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.120 back to reporter missing. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:53.720 So that was all I heard. Maybe all of you, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:54.600 was there? 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.000 Anybody unless you haven't watched enough twenty twenty your dateline 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.080 in your life, who didn't immediately jumped to the he 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.560 killed her? Yeah, immediately anyways. So here's the latest development 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:06.120 in the story. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.000 The desperate search into Bahamas from Michigan mother Lynette Hooker, 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.040 who went missing during a nighttime boat ride with her husband, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.480 Brian Hooker, has entered day three. Speaking to CBS News 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.720 Carly Ailsworth, Lynette's daughter, says the two had a rocky relationship. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.960 Their relationship has been a lot of fighting and drinking lately, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.200 so I'm just kind of questioning what actually went on 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.520 in the dinghy. Royal Bahamian Police Hey Brilliant told investigators 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.680 Lynette fell over from an eight foot hard bottomed dinghy 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.240 with the keys to the boat and was carried away 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.160 by strong rip currents. Allsworth says her mother is an 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.440 experienced swimmer and boater and doesn't believe his story. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.080 Adds up, Okay, that doesn't include the daughter, also saying 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:54.520 yesterday he had once threatened to drown her. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.560 And I just obviously this is not funny. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.360 It's just it's incredible to me that the idiot murderers, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.440 like the guy on the cliff in Hawaii, took out 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.000 an insurance policy on his wife. Then a week later, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.640 you know, beats tries to beat her to death with 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.080 a rock and throw off a cliff and thinks he's 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:12.960 gonna get away with it. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.880 This guy had been getting into fight, said I'm gonna 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.640 kill you, I'm gonna drown. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.080 You, and then takes her out in a boat and 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.920 she disappears, and he thinks that that's gonna work. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.840 He makes up this elaborate story that conveniently explains like 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.960 every aspect of it, then makes it look like he's 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:28.680 not a murderer. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.800 What is it with the murderous idiots? 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.920 Well in, the guy in Hawaii was a doctor, I mean, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.760 very bright, but some people, some people must have a 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.160 blind spot imagining how their story is going to sound 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.920 to another person. I mean, because that boat story, like 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.480 you said, everybody reacted the same way. Wait a minute, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.080 we all reacted that way before we heard from the 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.480 daughter who said, yeah, he'd been threatening to kill her 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:55.080 for a while. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.280 Oh yeah, that's place. It's over what. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.600 Yeah, it's it's so unfortunate that that so many bad 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.720 things happen at the hands of complete idiots. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:06.960 Yeah. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.920 I hope this is nobody in our audience. But if 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.440 there's somebody vexing you in your life and you're thinking 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.000 about killing him, number one, you will get caught and 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.880 you will be in a cage for the rest of 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.040 your life. Number two, just just go through the other 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.680 choice and no matter how painful it might be, of 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.760 divorce or lawsuit or whatever. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.960 Yeah, she fell overboard with the key and you see, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.520 and yeah, you're right, and you know what's gonna happen. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.400 We're just gonna say, damn, that's a shame. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:36.440 You know. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:37.680 My prayers are with you. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.520 Go and live your life now without your wife burdening 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:41.320 your soul. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.320 Because it's never your angry, drunk spouse who commits that 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.600 sort of crime. So I guess you're free to go 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:56.520 you morewed Oh, unbelievable. Did Iran get everything it wanted 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.680 or close to it, or did Trump get everything he wanted? 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:03.840 We can get into some of the details on that 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.800 coming up. The details that are known, which aren't many. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.439 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.000 The president declaring victory, but so is the Iranian regime 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.120 as it announces that the country is going to temporarily 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.600 halt retaliatory attacks in the region to allow these negotiations 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.800 to take place. It also says it's going to reopen 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.840 the critical Strait of Horne Moose for the next two weeks. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.520 But honestly, there are many unanswered questions about what's actually 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.639 been agreed and achieved. Although the Strait of Horror Moose 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.280 will reopen for now, it'll be controlled by the Iranian military, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.560 whereas before the war there was a free passage for 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:39.400 all vessels. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.400 I'm trying to come up with the most charitable view 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.439 of this I possibly can. Maybe maybe the problem that 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.240 some of us are making is not recognizing that this 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.080 is just a pause for the negotiations. This is not 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:00.600 anything having been accomplished. Just both sides have proposals. Let's 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.320 stop the fighting and then sit down and talk. About 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:04.720 these proposals when. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.920 As I suggested earlier, also get a grip on who 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.280 are the new guys, who's in charge, and what are 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:11.760 their attitudes. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:16.639 With the idea that we could restart the ass kicking 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:18.840 right if they don't agree? 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.400 Got this note just real briefly, Dave from South Carolina, 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.520 loyal day from South Carolina. We assume that Dave here 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.960 you're the loyal start. Can you act a little bit 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.280 happier that we're not at war today? And hell didn't 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.920 break loose the way you thought it was going to yesterday. 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.520 That's why I haven't watched the mainstream meetings. That's twenty twenty. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.359 I swear a lot of people seem bummed out today 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.080 that the war didn't happen like they thought it would. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.120 Market's way up, disaster averted, beautiful, spring weather, life's good. 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.359 Go buy some stocks, boys, Which is funny. I think 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.480 I would describe it, Dave, as there was a giant 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.920 hornet's nest in the attic, and today was the day 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:59.000 that the battle was going to begin, and the exterminator said, Ehna, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.960 it's going to be fine, And I'm like, oh, there's 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:02.439 still a hornet's nest in the attic. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.680 That's where we are. Yeah. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.719 So the problem with my rosi scenario is that not 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.960 what the Trump administration is saying. They're saying that Iran 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.280 has agreed to all this stuff, and there's no indication 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.160 that they actually have right now. Maybe that's just Trump 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.320 being the salesman with the presumptive. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:20.520 Clothes or whatever. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.800 Here's a rosy view before we get to some of 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.880 the less rosy views. Former Ambassador to Oman. His name 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.400 is Mike smart Sievers. He tweeted this out my take 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.160 on the ceasefire. Iran blinked. Just yesterday the regime rejected 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.560 a temporary ceasefire and refused to meet in Islamabad overnight. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.040 They took President Trump's threats seriously. There is no way 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.879 to bridge Iran's ten points with America's fifteen. So the 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.520 outcome of negotiations depends on whether Iran accepts the fundamental 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.280 US demands removal of highly enriched uranium, no further enrichment, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.560 dismantlement of the ballistic missile and drone capacity, and end 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.800 to funding and directing regional proxies, and a full reopening 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:03.280 of the Strait of Horror moves we'll see soon enough. Well, 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.800 there's no indication that they're going to agree to any 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.720 of those things. They have never hinted that they're going 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.080 to do any of those things. And they're claiming to 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.439 their own people and anybody who asks, they haven't agreed 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.200 to those things and they won't. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.160 Yeah, if there is an explanation to square that circle, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.720 whatever that expression means, I don't know what it is, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.880 and I'm working as hard as I can to imagine 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:33.520 it now. The Okay, here's here's one possibility. The shaky 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:40.000 newish leaders of Iran, trying to coalesce their control over 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.640 the military and the country, are anxious not to signal 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:49.680 any sort of weakness less to more militant factions push 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.000 them aside. So they're talking to Washington while claiming to 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:55.040 be hard asses at home. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:56.840 That's a good angle, and that could be one of 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:02.679 those things that you know, with the twenty twenty hindsight, 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.160 twenty years from now, when the details come out, it'll 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.560 all make sense because. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:09.760 This does happen a lot. 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:14.159 Read some history of some major ending of conflicts or 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.800 peace deals or whatever. There's so many things going on 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:18.879 behind the scenes that you don't know about that you 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:19.720 can't know about. 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:21.080 Maybe that's it. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.840 Maybe maybe the people kind of in charge and Iran 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:33.120 have told Trump and Witkough that the only way we're 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.560 holding on is by pretending to be a hard ass. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.720 Otherwise we're dead and then you'll be negotiating with the 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.560 real crazies. And so we've got to at least protect 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.320 that's possible, That is absolutely hundred percent possible. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.399 The businessmen are trying to wrest control away from the 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:50.240 religious fanatics. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.600 Yeah, it's possible. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:58.199