Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty enough he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: President Trump forged this moment. Iran begged for this ceasefire,
Speaker 3: and we all know it as a president truth this
Speaker 3: morning a big day for world peace. Iran wants it
Speaker 3: to happen. They've had enough.
Speaker 4: Boy, I hope all that's true. Doesn't seem that it's
Speaker 4: obviously true. So we'll talk more about that later this hour.
Speaker 4: What happened last night? What has been agreed to or
Speaker 4: not agreed to so far? It's quite a mystery to
Speaker 4: practically everybody.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We'll hit it hard maybe the bottom of this hour.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, at its height, oil was one hundred and twelve
Speaker 4: dollars a barrel.
Speaker 2: Right now it's ninety one, So you got that. Stay
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 1: Disruption has its own costs. If you can tweak something
Speaker 1: as opposed to blowing it up, often that's a good deal,
Speaker 1: whether a relationship or a job or just how There
Speaker 1: are a thousand examples. Sometimes something needs to be completely disrupted,
Speaker 1: and the downside of the disruption just has to be
Speaker 1: dealt with, and I would argue that's where we are
Speaker 1: with America's government schools at this point. And on that topic,
Speaker 1: a handful of in a piece of information I've come across.
Speaker 1: San Francisco school officials voted last week to restore eighth
Speaker 1: grade algebra, more than a decade after the district eliminated
Speaker 1: the course in the name of equity, which attracted intense
Speaker 1: criticism as math stores excores declined across the district. So
Speaker 1: it's good that they backtracked from a horrifically stupid policy.
Speaker 1: But the school board I proved that measure by a
Speaker 1: four to three vote.
Speaker 2: Wow, and it lasted ten years.
Speaker 1: The district policy, implemented in twenty fourteen of San Francisco
Speaker 1: led the charge toward absolutely insane abusive education policies removed
Speaker 1: algebra from middle schools and an attempt to give minority students
Speaker 1: more time to learn basic maths skills. Instead, math proficiency
Speaker 1: declined across the district among all cohorts, including among black students.
Speaker 1: Eighth grade math proficiency in San Francisco public schools fell
Speaker 1: from fifty one percent to forty percent in the space
Speaker 1: of six years.
Speaker 4: Well fifty one percent is a horror. Right, that starting
Speaker 4: number is a horror, And how did this program work?
Speaker 1: Equity wise, Jack proficiency among black students fell from eleven
Speaker 1: percent to four percent.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Parents who could afford tutors or enrolling their kids in
Speaker 1: summer school often did, paying out a pocket under the
Speaker 1: old policy. San Francisco. This is a quote from a
Speaker 1: Stanford economists. They try to achieve equity not by raising
Speaker 1: the floor, but by lowering the ceiling. It's a problem
Speaker 1: we see nationally. Just horrible.
Speaker 2: That's enough of that, though, God dang it.
Speaker 4: Even in general, it's really hard to know how much
Speaker 4: your kids are learning at school unless you're like questioning
Speaker 4: them themselves, because they will give your kids good grades
Speaker 4: and just pass them along and you have no idea.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely now from the right leaning New York Post.
Speaker 1: This is an article or an editorial by doctor Kerrie Ingram,
Speaker 1: who's an education specialist. Schools should educate children, not train activists.
Speaker 1: America's public education system is drifted dangerously from its core mission.
Speaker 2: Schools exist to educate people.
Speaker 1: Children obviously teach them how to read, write, think critically,
Speaker 1: and understand the world around them. But across the country,
Speaker 1: many classrooms are increasingly focused on something else. Entirely, they
Speaker 1: are bent on turning students into political activists and man,
Speaker 1: she runs through a nationwide checklist of school children, little
Speaker 1: children participating in anti ice drills in protests. It's the
Speaker 1: latest example of political propaganda forced on kids during the
Speaker 1: school day. In New York, footage shows a preschool teacher
Speaker 1: encouraging children to talk about how they feel about ice
Speaker 1: and President Trump, obviously based on the so called education
Speaker 1: they've received from their teacher. In Boston, here's a video
Speaker 1: of an elementary school teacher showing her little kids marching
Speaker 1: around the classroom holding signs chanting no Donald Trump, No
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. It's full on activist training with taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: during the school day, and she which.
Speaker 2: Would be horrible on its own.
Speaker 4: If reading in math were at ninety five percent proficiency,
Speaker 4: it would be awful and a danger to society. But
Speaker 4: you got both ends are bad, agreed.
Speaker 1: Students are taught to organize demonstrations, participate in protests, and
Speaker 1: adopt ideological positions on complex public issues, things they don't
Speaker 1: have the facts or context for, and often before they've
Speaker 1: even mastered basic academic skills.
Speaker 2: To Jack's point.
Speaker 1: Then she restates your argument more or less alternately, it's
Speaker 1: increasingly replaced with lessons instead of reading, math, science, and history,
Speaker 1: lessons centered on activism, grievance, and personal political identity. This
Speaker 1: isn't preparing students for success. It's distracting them from the
Speaker 1: very education they desperately need. And she goes into some
Speaker 1: of the miserable results and more examples of the activism.
Speaker 1: The largest teachers union, the National Education Association, is training
Speaker 1: teachers right now. They're growing these programs in advancing LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus justice and transgender advocacy rather than how to teach reading, writing,
Speaker 1: and math, not like transgender awareness, but advocacy and obviously,
Speaker 1: as she makes the point, kids are not learning to
Speaker 1: think critically and how to think. They're learning what they
Speaker 1: must think. There's only one belief that's allowed. It is
Speaker 1: drilled into them. I wish we had time for this
Speaker 1: whole article, because it is very, very good, but.
Speaker 2: I was struck by this.
Speaker 1: The left leaning it'll leaning please, it leans so far
Speaker 1: it's going to fall over and crack its head. The
Speaker 1: left leaning Atlantic, with their big feature article America is
Speaker 1: sliding toward illiteracy declining standards and low expectations are destroying
Speaker 1: American education. I would go with have destroyed, but I
Speaker 1: would say have perverted and screwed a couple of generations
Speaker 1: of children already.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're all familiar with the oft stated truism
Speaker 1: that we didn't know what was happening in the classrooms
Speaker 1: till COVID and parents looked over their kids' shoulders and
Speaker 1: were like, what the hell, here's the bad news that
Speaker 1: had been going on for some time, and it's still
Speaker 1: going on now. They just know they have to keep
Speaker 1: it a little more cod And I beg you, I
Speaker 1: beg you.
Speaker 2: To believe me.
Speaker 1: I'm not a paranoiac with some sort of agenda, just
Speaker 1: trying to keep you listening. This is true. Let me
Speaker 1: quote a little from the Atlantic. The past decade may
Speaker 1: rank is one of the worst in the history of
Speaker 1: American education.
Speaker 2: So they ease in the least. That doesn't surprise me
Speaker 2: in the least.
Speaker 1: It marks a stark reversal from what was once a
Speaker 1: hopeful story at the start of the century. This century,
Speaker 1: American students registered steady improvements in math and reading. Around
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, this progress began to stall out and then
Speaker 1: to backslide dramatically. What exactly went wrong? The decline began
Speaker 1: well before the pandemic, so covid era disruptions alone cannot
Speaker 1: explain it. Smartphones in social media probably account for some
Speaker 1: of the drop, but there's another explanation, albeit one that
Speaker 1: progressives in particular seem reluctant to countenance a pervasive refusal
Speaker 1: to hold children to high standards, and I would argue
Speaker 1: in progressives are absolutely as unwilling to consider this substituting
Speaker 1: indoctrination for learning.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, this is a tough subject for me
Speaker 4: to engage in and not lose my mind because I've
Speaker 4: lived it, because my kids, you know, the last decade
Speaker 4: we've fallen off a cliff. My kids are sixteen and fourteen,
Speaker 4: so I've lived this. I've had teachers tell me your
Speaker 4: kid is grade level and then quisdom and found out, no,
Speaker 4: he's freaking not not even close, not even close.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: We are now seeing what the lost decade in American
Speaker 1: education is wrought they rite in the Atlantic. By some measures,
Speaker 1: American students have regressed to a level not seen in
Speaker 1: twenty five years or more. Test scores from the National
Speaker 1: Association of Educational Process Progress rather release this year's show
Speaker 1: that thirty three percent of eighth graders are at reading
Speaker 1: at a level that is below basic, a third of
Speaker 1: them meaning that they struggle to follow the order of
Speaker 1: events in a passage or even to summarize its main idea. Boy,
Speaker 1: but they can tell you that about all the different genders.
Speaker 1: That is the highest share of students unable to meaningfully
Speaker 1: read since nineteen ninety two. Among fourth graders, forty percent
Speaker 1: are below basic in reading, the highest share since two thousand.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, the average score on the ACT
Speaker 1: the Popular College Admission Standardized Test was nineteen point four,
Speaker 1: the worst average performance since the test was redesigned in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety. American school children have given up almost all
Speaker 1: of the gains they achieved at the start of the century.
Speaker 1: And they mentioned that parents with more money have put
Speaker 1: their kids in private schools, hired tutors, et cetera. But
Speaker 1: the masses of people in say, the bottom eighty percent
Speaker 1: of income, who might not have had those opportunities or
Speaker 1: not been aware of how critical it was to exercise them,
Speaker 1: have seen miserable, miserable results. And this is the progressive
Speaker 1: agenda teachers' unions at work.
Speaker 2: Well, for many, you get a major.
Speaker 4: Disruption of our government schools. Now, if you grew up
Speaker 4: the way I grew up most of us did, where
Speaker 4: your parents could assume that you're learning to read and write,
Speaker 4: and that if you're getting a's and b's or c's
Speaker 4: or whatever, you're roughly doing okay and everything, but that
Speaker 4: those years are I don't know when it ended, but
Speaker 4: those days are over. You cannot at all assume your
Speaker 4: kid is learning basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, or that
Speaker 4: their grade means anything.
Speaker 1: I will restate what I've said many times. You may
Speaker 1: be in the ruby reddest town in America. There is
Speaker 1: an island of deep blue in your town. It is
Speaker 1: your government schools. Trust me on this. Here's another great
Speaker 1: article point rather from the far left Atlantic. A seemingly
Speaker 1: plausible culprit and a familiar boogeyman for progressives is insufficient spending.
Speaker 1: The problem with this tidy explanation is that it's not
Speaker 1: tethered to reality. School spending did not decline from twenty
Speaker 1: twelve to twenty twenty two. In fact, it increased significantly
Speaker 1: even after adjusting for inflation. From fourteen thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: student to more than sixteen thousand, and a great great
Speaker 1: deal more in more expensive places. Oh boy. And they
Speaker 1: go into the financing and more or less, just.
Speaker 4: We're spending more than we've ever spent per student adjusted
Speaker 4: for inflation, in getting less. That's the only thing you
Speaker 4: need to know.
Speaker 1: Besides America recently ran a very large natural experiment and
Speaker 1: dropping money on schools that in a world, in a word, failed.
Speaker 1: He goes into the details. Michael Petrelli, the president of
Speaker 1: the Thomas by Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank, said,
Speaker 1: and I quote, and I'm going to use the term
Speaker 1: spit for obvious reasons here. The scientific term for this
Speaker 1: is that we didn't get Jack's spit out of that money.
Speaker 1: There's some studies that can detect small impacts, but they're small.
Speaker 1: I think it's also fair to say that a lot
Speaker 1: of the money was wasted. I mean, obviously we could
Speaker 1: go on all day. I will not step even a
Speaker 1: tiny baby step back from my statement that I've made
Speaker 1: more than once. The biggest crisis, the biggest problem the
Speaker 1: United States of America faces right now is the indoctrination
Speaker 1: and lack of education of our children. China as a
Speaker 1: threat pails next to it, as does Iran.
Speaker 2: End of screed for now, well, and they'll all fit
Speaker 2: together eventually. Well.
Speaker 1: And the fact that all of this, all of this,
Speaker 1: the progressivism is being pushed hard by China through TikTok
Speaker 1: among other things, and Russia and all of our adversaries,
Speaker 1: they are bankrolling the crap out of it. Who do
Speaker 1: you think George Soross? What do you think he believes?
Speaker 1: Why do you think he's financing what he is to
Speaker 1: bring down the great evil United States?
Speaker 2: All right, that's the end of my screed.
Speaker 4: Day one of my son's public school history class, they
Speaker 4: had to write the land acknowledgment. That's what they did
Speaker 4: in history class on day one. He is no longer
Speaker 4: in that.
Speaker 2: Glass, but.
Speaker 4: Tear it all down. It's unreal. Any comments text line
Speaker 4: four one five two nine five KFTC. So we're going
Speaker 4: to talk about the cease fire and what we know
Speaker 4: and what we don't know coming up in just a
Speaker 4: little bit. But we didn't because Trump threatened to end
Speaker 4: to civilization yesterday. We didn't get around to this story.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you just heard the broad outlines of it.
Speaker 4: Two days ago when it first emerged of dude goes
Speaker 4: out in a boat with his wife. He comes back,
Speaker 4: swims back saying wife fell overboard.
Speaker 1: He paddled back saying his wife fell overboard with the
Speaker 1: boat key in her hand, so he couldn't start the engines.
Speaker 1: So it took him a very long time to get
Speaker 1: back to reporter missing.
Speaker 2: So that was all I heard. Maybe all of you,
Speaker 2: was there?
Speaker 4: Anybody unless you haven't watched enough twenty twenty your dateline
Speaker 4: in your life, who didn't immediately jumped to the he
Speaker 4: killed her? Yeah, immediately anyways. So here's the latest development
Speaker 4: in the story.
Speaker 5: The desperate search into Bahamas from Michigan mother Lynette Hooker,
Speaker 5: who went missing during a nighttime boat ride with her husband,
Speaker 5: Brian Hooker, has entered day three. Speaking to CBS News
Speaker 5: Carly Ailsworth, Lynette's daughter, says the two had a rocky relationship.
Speaker 5: Their relationship has been a lot of fighting and drinking lately,
Speaker 5: so I'm just kind of questioning what actually went on
Speaker 5: in the dinghy. Royal Bahamian Police Hey Brilliant told investigators
Speaker 5: Lynette fell over from an eight foot hard bottomed dinghy
Speaker 5: with the keys to the boat and was carried away
Speaker 5: by strong rip currents. Allsworth says her mother is an
Speaker 5: experienced swimmer and boater and doesn't believe his story.
Speaker 4: Adds up, Okay, that doesn't include the daughter, also saying
Speaker 4: yesterday he had once threatened to drown her.
Speaker 2: And I just obviously this is not funny.
Speaker 4: It's just it's incredible to me that the idiot murderers,
Speaker 4: like the guy on the cliff in Hawaii, took out
Speaker 4: an insurance policy on his wife. Then a week later,
Speaker 4: you know, beats tries to beat her to death with
Speaker 4: a rock and throw off a cliff and thinks he's
Speaker 4: gonna get away with it.
Speaker 2: This guy had been getting into fight, said I'm gonna
Speaker 2: kill you, I'm gonna drown.
Speaker 4: You, and then takes her out in a boat and
Speaker 4: she disappears, and he thinks that that's gonna work.
Speaker 1: He makes up this elaborate story that conveniently explains like
Speaker 1: every aspect of it, then makes it look like he's
Speaker 1: not a murderer.
Speaker 2: What is it with the murderous idiots?
Speaker 1: Well in, the guy in Hawaii was a doctor, I mean,
Speaker 1: very bright, but some people, some people must have a
Speaker 1: blind spot imagining how their story is going to sound
Speaker 1: to another person. I mean, because that boat story, like
Speaker 1: you said, everybody reacted the same way. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we all reacted that way before we heard from the
Speaker 1: daughter who said, yeah, he'd been threatening to kill her
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's place. It's over what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's so unfortunate that that so many bad
Speaker 4: things happen at the hands of complete idiots.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope this is nobody in our audience. But if
Speaker 1: there's somebody vexing you in your life and you're thinking
Speaker 1: about killing him, number one, you will get caught and
Speaker 1: you will be in a cage for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. Number two, just just go through the other
Speaker 1: choice and no matter how painful it might be, of
Speaker 1: divorce or lawsuit or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she fell overboard with the key and you see,
Speaker 4: and yeah, you're right, and you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna say, damn, that's a shame.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: My prayers are with you.
Speaker 4: Go and live your life now without your wife burdening
Speaker 4: your soul.
Speaker 1: Because it's never your angry, drunk spouse who commits that
Speaker 1: sort of crime. So I guess you're free to go
Speaker 1: you morewed Oh, unbelievable. Did Iran get everything it wanted
Speaker 1: or close to it, or did Trump get everything he wanted?
Speaker 4: We can get into some of the details on that
Speaker 4: coming up. The details that are known, which aren't many.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: The president declaring victory, but so is the Iranian regime
Speaker 6: as it announces that the country is going to temporarily
Speaker 6: halt retaliatory attacks in the region to allow these negotiations
Speaker 6: to take place. It also says it's going to reopen
Speaker 6: the critical Strait of Horne Moose for the next two weeks.
Speaker 6: But honestly, there are many unanswered questions about what's actually
Speaker 6: been agreed and achieved. Although the Strait of Horror Moose
Speaker 6: will reopen for now, it'll be controlled by the Iranian military,
Speaker 6: whereas before the war there was a free passage for
Speaker 6: all vessels.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to come up with the most charitable view
Speaker 4: of this I possibly can. Maybe maybe the problem that
Speaker 4: some of us are making is not recognizing that this
Speaker 4: is just a pause for the negotiations. This is not
Speaker 4: anything having been accomplished. Just both sides have proposals. Let's
Speaker 4: stop the fighting and then sit down and talk. About
Speaker 4: these proposals when.
Speaker 1: As I suggested earlier, also get a grip on who
Speaker 1: are the new guys, who's in charge, and what are
Speaker 1: their attitudes.
Speaker 4: With the idea that we could restart the ass kicking
Speaker 4: right if they don't agree?
Speaker 1: Got this note just real briefly, Dave from South Carolina,
Speaker 1: loyal day from South Carolina. We assume that Dave here
Speaker 1: you're the loyal start. Can you act a little bit
Speaker 1: happier that we're not at war today? And hell didn't
Speaker 1: break loose the way you thought it was going to yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's why I haven't watched the mainstream meetings. That's twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I swear a lot of people seem bummed out today
Speaker 1: that the war didn't happen like they thought it would.
Speaker 1: Market's way up, disaster averted, beautiful, spring weather, life's good.
Speaker 1: Go buy some stocks, boys, Which is funny. I think
Speaker 1: I would describe it, Dave, as there was a giant
Speaker 1: hornet's nest in the attic, and today was the day
Speaker 1: that the battle was going to begin, and the exterminator said, Ehna,
Speaker 1: it's going to be fine, And I'm like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: still a hornet's nest in the attic.
Speaker 2: That's where we are. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the problem with my rosi scenario is that not
Speaker 4: what the Trump administration is saying. They're saying that Iran
Speaker 4: has agreed to all this stuff, and there's no indication
Speaker 4: that they actually have right now. Maybe that's just Trump
Speaker 4: being the salesman with the presumptive.
Speaker 2: Clothes or whatever.
Speaker 4: Here's a rosy view before we get to some of
Speaker 4: the less rosy views. Former Ambassador to Oman. His name
Speaker 4: is Mike smart Sievers. He tweeted this out my take
Speaker 4: on the ceasefire. Iran blinked. Just yesterday the regime rejected
Speaker 4: a temporary ceasefire and refused to meet in Islamabad overnight.
Speaker 4: They took President Trump's threats seriously. There is no way
Speaker 4: to bridge Iran's ten points with America's fifteen. So the
Speaker 4: outcome of negotiations depends on whether Iran accepts the fundamental
Speaker 4: US demands removal of highly enriched uranium, no further enrichment,
Speaker 4: dismantlement of the ballistic missile and drone capacity, and end
Speaker 4: to funding and directing regional proxies, and a full reopening
Speaker 4: of the Strait of Horror moves we'll see soon enough. Well,
Speaker 4: there's no indication that they're going to agree to any
Speaker 4: of those things. They have never hinted that they're going
Speaker 4: to do any of those things. And they're claiming to
Speaker 4: their own people and anybody who asks, they haven't agreed
Speaker 4: to those things and they won't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if there is an explanation to square that circle,
Speaker 1: whatever that expression means, I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: and I'm working as hard as I can to imagine
Speaker 1: it now. The Okay, here's here's one possibility. The shaky
Speaker 1: newish leaders of Iran, trying to coalesce their control over
Speaker 1: the military and the country, are anxious not to signal
Speaker 1: any sort of weakness less to more militant factions push
Speaker 1: them aside. So they're talking to Washington while claiming to
Speaker 1: be hard asses at home.
Speaker 4: That's a good angle, and that could be one of
Speaker 4: those things that you know, with the twenty twenty hindsight,
Speaker 4: twenty years from now, when the details come out, it'll
Speaker 4: all make sense because.
Speaker 2: This does happen a lot.
Speaker 4: Read some history of some major ending of conflicts or
Speaker 4: peace deals or whatever. There's so many things going on
Speaker 4: behind the scenes that you don't know about that you
Speaker 4: can't know about.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe the people kind of in charge and Iran
Speaker 4: have told Trump and Witkough that the only way we're
Speaker 4: holding on is by pretending to be a hard ass.
Speaker 4: Otherwise we're dead and then you'll be negotiating with the
Speaker 4: real crazies. And so we've got to at least protect
Speaker 4: that's possible, That is absolutely hundred percent possible.
Speaker 1: The businessmen are trying to wrest control away from the
Speaker 1: religious fanatics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's possible.
Speaker 4: For what we know, though, Trump said, quote from his
Speaker 4: own post complete a metis and safe opening of the
Speaker 4: Straight of Horm moves. The Financial Times and others are
Speaker 4: reporting that as of this morning, Iran is demanding that
Speaker 4: shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers to
Speaker 4: pass through the Straight of horor Moves.
Speaker 2: The strait was.
Speaker 4: Free to pass through before the war started, and as
Speaker 4: of today it looks like you gotta pay Iran a
Speaker 4: toll now. Jonathan Carl just tweeted out that he had
Speaker 4: a conversation on the phone with President Trump and Trump
Speaker 4: said he's okay with the Iranians charging a toll for
Speaker 4: all the ships that go through the Straight of horor moves.
Speaker 4: He said, we're thinking of doing this as a joint venture,
Speaker 4: a US Iran venture to charge tolls.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 4: We're thinking of doing this as a joint venture. It's
Speaker 4: a way of securing it, also securing it from lots
Speaker 4: of other people.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: If that is the result, Trump will be impeached and
Speaker 1: he should be.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: He bombed the b Jesus out of Iran. They become
Speaker 1: more militant and seize control of the Straight of hor moves.
Speaker 1: They promised to share some of the booty with us,
Speaker 1: and we say, okay, it's.
Speaker 4: A deal because in Trump's mind, we weren't getting any
Speaker 4: money for ships going through previously and now we are.
Speaker 2: So that's good.
Speaker 4: Yes, the people of Iran still live under a horrifying
Speaker 4: regime that is gonna seek out anybody who said an
Speaker 4: even slightly kind word about the United States over the
Speaker 4: last month, and they're going to torture them to death
Speaker 4: and hang them in the streets.
Speaker 1: With all due respect to the horrors that the people
Speaker 1: of Iran suffer, I'm more concerned about the US and
Speaker 1: our allies. Will Iran continue to export Islamic fundamentalist terror?
Speaker 2: How about that? Aspect.
Speaker 1: I don't care how big a slice we're getting of
Speaker 1: the action in the strait of horror moves.
Speaker 2: If they keep doing that, how about.
Speaker 4: The main reason for the war? Do they hang onto
Speaker 4: the uranium and keep working on trying to get a bomb?
Speaker 1: Questions piled on question now.
Speaker 4: Trump said this morning that Iran is gonna help us
Speaker 4: dig up the uranium and get it out of the country.
Speaker 4: That's hard to imagine. I suppose it's possible, but that
Speaker 4: seems unlikely. But well, the only thing we have to
Speaker 4: go on right now is Trump's own quotes today. We're
Speaker 4: thinking of charging a toll as a joint venture, and
Speaker 4: it's a way of securing it from lots of other people.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing. That's where we're gonna end up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm digging. I'm trying to come up with any clues.
Speaker 1: International relief was tempered by uncertainty over what comes next.
Speaker 4: There also is this. This has been reported. I saw
Speaker 4: it on MSNBC and Fox. Our version of the agreement
Speaker 4: of the ceasefire is they get up their nuclear program
Speaker 4: and we get the uranium back. The Farsi version that
Speaker 4: Iran put out doesn't include that that's a pretty major point.
Speaker 4: It's the reason the war happened.
Speaker 1: Hey, somebody hit copy. They forgot to hit paste. It happens.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'm uh. I'm reading some of the statements
Speaker 1: of the people involved, and I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's just there's no knowing at this point. Shipping companies
Speaker 1: signaled that they were cautious about resuming transit through the waterway,
Speaker 1: and full of ships have been observed moving through each
Speaker 1: day since the war began. Blah blah blah. Israel said
Speaker 1: the ceasefire did not extend to Lebanon. On Wednesday, carried
Speaker 1: out its largest strike against Hesbla since that front opened up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the agreement out of Islamabad said that Israel
Speaker 4: did need to stop attacking Lebanon and Hezbollah. Israel said,
Speaker 4: we don't agree with that, and they've hit him more
Speaker 4: today than they have at any point over the last month.
Speaker 1: Further highlighting the fragility of the truth.
Speaker 2: Such as it is.
Speaker 1: Iran's state media reported that an oil refinery on Lavan And,
Speaker 1: an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf, was struck by
Speaker 1: unspecified enemies. Freshraanian attacks were also reported in some Persian
Speaker 1: Gulf countries. Kuwait's defense ministry said that its air defenses
Speaker 1: had engaged with at least twenty eight drones from Iran
Speaker 1: despite the ceasefire, investors welcomed this ceasefire after weeks of war.
Speaker 1: They haven't ceased firing. Is my objection that term.
Speaker 4: I give more leeway to that, just because the ends
Speaker 4: of lots of wars have included continuing to fire stuff
Speaker 4: off for a while.
Speaker 2: It's hard to get everybody on board, I guess. And
Speaker 2: here's the key sentence.
Speaker 1: Worldwide relief at the pause in fighting was tempered by
Speaker 1: confusion over what would come next.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is financial times. Trump says US and
Speaker 4: Iran will dig up and remove nuclear material. You know,
Speaker 4: big if true, as they say. Mark Alprin, from his
Speaker 4: newsletter today, said, if there is a Trump master stroke coming,
Speaker 4: it will emanate from a place that is currently hidden
Speaker 4: from analysts about what happened and what happens next.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did happen last night? What is actually being
Speaker 2: a was anything? Agreed to.
Speaker 1: Critics of mister Netanyah, who's called these ceasefire a diplomatic
Speaker 1: disaster and accused him of failing to achieve his stated
Speaker 1: war goal of destroying Iran's theocratic government.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else.
Speaker 4: Well, let's go with let's hear from Pete Hegzeth presenting
Speaker 4: the other side of this, starting with sixty and run
Speaker 4: through a couple of these.
Speaker 3: Michael Iran has been a threat to the United States
Speaker 3: and the free world for forty seven years, chance of
Speaker 3: death to America, targeting our people, killing Americans, lying and
Speaker 3: blackmailing their way toward a nuclear weapon. So they thought,
Speaker 3: no longer, not on our watch.
Speaker 1: Is never mind everything we just said, sorry to have
Speaker 1: wasted your time.
Speaker 2: Well is that true?
Speaker 4: I mean, could surely Pete Heggsath wouldn't go out and
Speaker 4: say that if there wasn't some chance that it's true.
Speaker 4: But I can't imagine how it is. Did the agreement
Speaker 4: include because the weird junior is in charge, he's the Ayatola,
Speaker 4: he's in a coma. He isn't in charge of squad,
Speaker 4: that's my opinion. Okay, so you think there's a new
Speaker 4: regime in charge that's not going to chant death to
Speaker 4: America and is going to tell uh, you know the However,
Speaker 4: many million people are in that believe that sort of thing. Hey, hey,
Speaker 4: no more death to America. We're kind of friends with it.
Speaker 2: Now we're trying to think that we're charging No.
Speaker 4: But Pete Hagsath seems to does he believe that though
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have the slightest more from Pete.
Speaker 2: This is just a couple of hours ago.
Speaker 3: President Trump forged this moment. Iran begged for this ceasefire.
Speaker 1: And we all know.
Speaker 3: It as a president truth. This morning a big day
Speaker 3: for world peace. Iran wants it to happen.
Speaker 2: They've had enough.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to just be Captain negative, but they
Speaker 4: probably did beg for a seat fire. It includes we
Speaker 4: now control the strait of hormones and get to charge
Speaker 4: a toll, and according to our version in Farsie of
Speaker 4: the ceasefire, we get to keep our uranium. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm all for the ceasefire. They might say, yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean I would beg for that ceasefire too.
Speaker 2: Pete goes on.
Speaker 3: Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on
Speaker 3: the battlefield. A capital v military victory by any measure.
Speaker 3: Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective
Speaker 3: for years to come.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, I think this next clip is the
Speaker 1: key clip. If there is a key clip.
Speaker 3: This new regime just happened to look at what happened
Speaker 3: to their predecessors. Their top leadership was systematically eliminated. The
Speaker 3: previous Iranian Supreme Leader dead, the Supreme National Security Council
Speaker 3: secretary dead, the Supreme Leader Office advisor dead, the Supreme
Speaker 3: Leader Military Office chief dead, the Defense Minister no longer
Speaker 3: with us, the IRGC commander dead, the Armed Forces General
Speaker 3: Staff commander dead, the Intelligence minister dead, the IRGC Navy
Speaker 3: commander no longer here, the IRGC Intel chief dead.
Speaker 4: So the most charitable view is what you were saying.
Speaker 4: They are dealing with somebody that's nominally in charge right now.
Speaker 4: They can't say it out loud because they're trying to
Speaker 4: figure out how to consolidate power and and you know,
Speaker 4: deal with the people that.
Speaker 2: Want them dead.
Speaker 4: They have agreed and said, yeah, we're fine with not
Speaker 4: having a nuclear weapon, fine with us. We'll give you
Speaker 4: the uranium and the street community for killing the lunatics
Speaker 4: by the way, Yeah yeah, yeah, and we're going to
Speaker 4: try to run the country.
Speaker 2: I hope we can all be friends.
Speaker 4: Maybe we're dealing with a group of people that are
Speaker 4: saying that, and they're trying to consolidate. I heard this
Speaker 4: phrase one time, maybe from Henry Kissinger somebody like that.
Speaker 4: The only way a state, a nation can survive is
Speaker 4: if it has a monopoly on violence.
Speaker 2: You have to have a monopoly on violence.
Speaker 4: They're trying to come up with a monopoly on violence,
Speaker 4: so they're not other groups out there that can, you know,
Speaker 4: challenge them and the.
Speaker 1: Keys to the treasury. Yeah, exactly. I mean, if that
Speaker 1: is true, that's an incredibly, incredibly encouraging development, a big
Speaker 1: If we'll wait and say.
Speaker 2: God, I would say, holy crap.
Speaker 4: All right, any thoughts so you can text us or emails.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna certain me today. I need uh egg McMuffin,
Speaker 4: and I need eleven big breakfasts with the hotcakes. He said,
Speaker 4: eleven big breakfast eleven Yes, all right, just a warning
Speaker 4: that will take probably a while.
Speaker 1: Well, I got eight hungry kids at the house, so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool.
Speaker 3: Broka A second, I need manager approval.
Speaker 1: Need manager approval, anything else today?
Speaker 2: No, that'll be it. If you're looking at eighty three
Speaker 2: thirty four, the next eighty three Okay, thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Uh first of all, chuckles, McGruff there was taking it
Speaker 1: all in a good spirit. Apparently that's a quote unquote
Speaker 1: viral video.
Speaker 2: He's got a big family. Ba ba ba uh.
Speaker 4: There's actually a follow up story, manage your approval if
Speaker 4: you order like more than what four biscuits or something,
Speaker 4: because the other customers.
Speaker 2: Will have to wait for longer than they want.
Speaker 1: Actually, that might relate to the follow up story that
Speaker 1: I've got, which we barely have time for. But interestingly,
Speaker 1: and we can come back to this later, there's just
Speaker 1: absolutely no question that Americans are have been getting richer
Speaker 1: over the last thirty forty years. The middle class is
Speaker 1: smaller because the upper middle class is much bigger. Every
Speaker 1: quintile is improving in virtually every single way, and the
Speaker 1: populists on the left and right are all wrong. We
Speaker 1: can get back to that next hour. But interestingly, this
Speaker 1: you remember the kind of woosy McDonald's CEO who is
Speaker 1: nibbling at the new Burger. There's a great article in
Speaker 1: the Journal about how McDonald's is dealing with a K
Speaker 1: shaped economy and a K shaped menu. They have one
Speaker 1: cohort of their audience who wants like better food and
Speaker 1: are willing to pay eight nine bucks for burger. That's fine,
Speaker 1: absolutely fine. There's a huge chunk of their business that
Speaker 1: needs the low priced, extra special cheapo stuff, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to cater to both audiences.
Speaker 2: Give mean to stuffy dropped on the floor for right kids,
Speaker 2: that's okay, bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're experimenting with plump, juicy mcspicy wings six
Speaker 1: dollars for four pieces. They're more than twice as expensive
Speaker 1: as the equivalent number of McNuggets, but they're much higher
Speaker 1: quality the McNugget.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: The review says they felt bigger than what I got
Speaker 1: at my last visit to Buffalo Wild Wings. The handbreaded, crispiness,
Speaker 1: rivals raising canes, Oh wow.
Speaker 4: My son wanted to try those when we were there
Speaker 4: at the McDonald's a couple weeks ago, but they were
Speaker 4: out for some reason, so they must be popular, mustn't be.
Speaker 4: And then I got that new sandwich that the CEO
Speaker 4: tried and hated it. But personally I didn't like that one,
Speaker 4: but the big arch, the big arch, I did not like. Yeah,
Speaker 4: can I love McDonald's.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're cut out for the dollar menu. Hey, we're
Speaker 1: dollar menu kid people kids, It's all right.
Speaker 2: Oh that probably fits. Okay, we got more on the
Speaker 2: way in hour three, Armstrong and Getty