Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and Key Armstrong and Yetty. I'm looking
Speaker 2: up at the television.
Speaker 3: They claim that more states are considering a four day
Speaker 3: school week. Are they actually for what reason? Sounds like
Speaker 3: the story they could be manufactured very easy. Somebody talked
Speaker 3: about it somewhere. Their reasoning is more free time for
Speaker 3: the kids, less teacher burnout, cheaper for some reason because
Speaker 3: you don't have the school open as many days, and
Speaker 3: all the costs to go with that, YadA YadA, yeada.
Speaker 2: I feel like, with reading.
Speaker 3: Profession and see math proficiency where it is now, go
Speaker 3: in that direction is not going.
Speaker 2: To be the answer. But you know, oh we go
Speaker 2: to six days? Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3: If we're gonna make a change, how about you do
Speaker 3: more while they're there. Anyway, I don't want to get
Speaker 3: off on that because I want to get off on this.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what's going on with the whole
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly thing, and in general, I feel
Speaker 3: like like media discussing other media isn't the best topic
Speaker 3: because we're in this business and you're not, and maybe
Speaker 3: you don't give a crap.
Speaker 2: But uh, I used to love Tucker.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch Megan Kelly as much, but I always
Speaker 3: thought she was an honest broker.
Speaker 2: But what are things going on with them? Read the
Speaker 2: world of Islam right now?
Speaker 4: So see I see it less as discussing the media,
Speaker 4: even though we clearly are as discussing ideas and philosophies
Speaker 4: and who's pushing them and why in general, if it's
Speaker 4: college kids or Megan Kelly, I still find it interesting
Speaker 4: people pitching radical politics.
Speaker 2: And I think maybe.
Speaker 3: Meghan Kelly, maybe Candice Owns, but certainly Megan Kelly looks
Speaker 3: at Tucker Carlson as like her idol or this is
Speaker 3: how you do it. She sees how incredibly rich is
Speaker 3: She's already regre ridiculously wealthy. Remember that deal she was
Speaker 3: it one hundred and twenty million dollar deal she signed
Speaker 3: with NBC to leave Fox. Right, She's got gobs of money.
Speaker 3: Why would you ever go out and say crap? That
Speaker 3: is that you don't believe for more money at that point,
Speaker 3: But because you become so cynical, I guess, well, you know,
Speaker 3: at every level of wealth. You see somebody who's little
Speaker 3: wealthiered in you and say that'd be cool. I suppose anyway,
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson has become more friendly to Islam as of late.
Speaker 3: We played portions of his interview with The New York
Speaker 3: Times that came out over the weekend. We didn't play
Speaker 3: this and then I'll explain it if it doesn't make
Speaker 3: sense to you.
Speaker 5: I think what we're seeing is evil. Like, are you
Speaker 5: allowed to kill people who've committed no crime? No, super simple,
Speaker 5: You're not allowed to do that under no moral standard?
Speaker 5: Is that allowable? All of a sudden it's allowable. It's
Speaker 5: allowable in Gaza, and our leaders are like, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: it's just totally fine. It's not fine, but certainly it's
Speaker 5: repugnant to the Christian understanding of the world and the
Speaker 5: human soul. Every person has a soul. That's the Christian view,
Speaker 5: and not just the Christian view, it's the Islamic view too.
Speaker 3: So he is going with the israel is Well, let
Speaker 3: me read. One of my favorite pundits wrote this to me.
Speaker 3: The most vile part of the segment, which no one
Speaker 3: is talking about, is where he states that Christians and
Speaker 3: Muslims believe every human has a soul, and then innocent
Speaker 3: civilians shouldn't be murdered, all while calling Israel's war on
Speaker 3: Hamas evil nothing. He had nothing to say about Hamas
Speaker 3: being evil or Muslims in any way ever being evil.
Speaker 2: Listen closely. This is not a criticism of Israel.
Speaker 3: It's a classic antisemitic blood libel and a visceral rejection
Speaker 3: of Judaism that unequivocally debunks Tucker's perpetual claim that he
Speaker 3: doesn't have an issue with Jews or Judaism, just Israeli policy.
Speaker 3: Tucker believes Judaism is a supremacist religion that does not
Speaker 3: believe all humans have souls because he hates talk about
Speaker 3: souls all the time, or that innocent people should not
Speaker 3: be murdered, had nothing to say about Hamas murdered.
Speaker 4: People, including their own people on regular or even the
Speaker 4: Koran saying that it's fine to kill unbelievers and have.
Speaker 2: To, and that was in the interview with the New
Speaker 2: York Times. On his show.
Speaker 3: Regularly he's been soft on Islam. And then there's some
Speaker 3: people that suspect he's getting checks from the Kataris or whatever.
Speaker 4: They're spreading billions and billions and billions of dollars around
Speaker 4: the United States change perceptions. I've heard him referred to
Speaker 4: as Tucker katar Elsen.
Speaker 3: Now I don't watch Megan Kelly's show. I keep telling
Speaker 3: myself I should, partially because I really like Mark Alprin
Speaker 3: and Rich Lowry. Those are two of my favorite pundits,
Speaker 3: and they go on Megan Kelly's show every week, and
Speaker 3: I assume, well, she's got to be a straight shooter.
Speaker 3: Here's Megan Kelly from January of this year. This is a
Speaker 3: little long, but this lays down her solid credentials as
Speaker 3: somebody who's worried about radical Islam.
Speaker 1: Islam is not consistent with the values of America of
Speaker 1: the West. They should stay in countries that don't care
Speaker 1: about keeping church and state separated. They should stay in
Speaker 1: countries that don't care about protecting free speech. They should
Speaker 1: stay in countries that don't care about women's rights. That's
Speaker 1: where Islam confess and grow.
Speaker 6: It's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure if that's like your thing you
Speaker 1: don't care about, like genital mutilation, you might really enjoy
Speaker 1: living in an Islamic country. If you don't mind living
Speaker 1: in a life as a woman where you have to
Speaker 1: keep every inch of your body except for your eyeballs covered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: someplace in the Middle East could be for you. It's
Speaker 1: not my thing, it's not America's thing, and it's not
Speaker 1: a thing that we should want.
Speaker 2: To encourage in the West.
Speaker 1: And he's understanding there may be some new listeners over here,
Speaker 1: you know, like he's gotten very very popular lately.
Speaker 3: On that switch to the other thing, we didn't divide
Speaker 3: it when it changes to now Oaks diviner to me, huh.
Speaker 2: I'm confused. I should have clarified this with you, Hanson.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So she does that whole that's back in January
Speaker 3: January earlier this year, where she does that whole, you know,
Speaker 3: completely accurate what she has been saying for many, many
Speaker 3: years that Islam is all kinds of nut job stuff
Speaker 3: that we all know, and she just repeated there.
Speaker 2: Then she's asked me.
Speaker 4: My only disagreement with her is that it is relentlessly expansionist,
Speaker 4: So there's no chance they're going to stay in place.
Speaker 4: That's not what they're called to do. But back to you,
Speaker 4: then she's asked.
Speaker 3: The subject comes up when she's talking to Mark Howperan
Speaker 3: the other day about Tucker's interview with The New York
Speaker 3: Times and some of the things that he said about
Speaker 3: the world of Islam lately. And rather than you know,
Speaker 3: continue where she has been on Islam all this all
Speaker 3: these years, she with this, there's.
Speaker 1: No such thing as Islamophobia. You are not only entitled
Speaker 1: to quote fear Islam. I would argue your duty is
Speaker 1: a criminal distance.
Speaker 3: Did you get a different clip than what I sent you, Hanson?
Speaker 3: This is confusing to me because on these we have
Speaker 3: her soft pedaling antib okay, we need fourteen b okay
Speaker 3: fourteen b And.
Speaker 1: He's understanding there may be some new listeners over here,
Speaker 1: you know, like like he's gotten very very popular lately,
Speaker 1: I read with Muslim viewers because he's been standing up
Speaker 1: for Islam, you know. And I have to tell you, Mark,
Speaker 1: it's been something I've noticed, just since I've gotten sort
Speaker 1: of moral clear eyed on Israel that a lot of
Speaker 1: the anti Muslim rhetoric that's put out there originates with
Speaker 1: people who are very very pro Israel who kind of
Speaker 1: need us to demonize them. And I've taken a look
Speaker 1: recently at my own rhetoric on this to say, have
Speaker 1: I been manipulated. To make sure I'm not getting manipulated.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, she's on Cutter's payroll. What the hell
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, now that she's got clarity on Israel, Wow, she
Speaker 4: got bought.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. What the hell is that?
Speaker 3: And Tucker's standing up for Muslims, you know, and he's
Speaker 3: getting a lot of new viewers, young men and Muslims
Speaker 3: because he's standing up for Islam. And you know, I
Speaker 3: got to say I was misled a little bit by
Speaker 3: you know, the pro Israeli crowd.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'd like to go point by point Megan. So
Speaker 4: were you wrong about free speech in Muslim countries? Or
Speaker 4: were you wrong about freedom of religion? Were you wrong
Speaker 4: about the rights of women? I mean, on the facts,
Speaker 4: never mind who influenced whom are you? Were you wrong
Speaker 4: about the fact that Islam is a political system that's
Speaker 4: incombatible with the principles of democracy. What specifically changed?
Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing, She's a She's been bought or lost her mind.
Speaker 2: It's horrific. Well, I don't think there's a chance she
Speaker 2: lost her mind. Now.
Speaker 3: My question I've had for a chowhile now is how
Speaker 3: long does Mark Halprin and Rich Lowry. I don't know
Speaker 3: if any of you know who those people are, particularly
Speaker 3: Rich Lowry, but they're pundits like Joe and I like
Speaker 3: because we believe they're straight shooters and honest and they're
Speaker 3: But Halpert kind of had a look on his face.
Speaker 3: He's a little wide eyed as she was saying that, like.
Speaker 2: H I know, I was supposed to respond to this. Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like she was saying that in
Speaker 3: the nineties and now she says what she just said.
Speaker 3: This is a couple of months ago. Yeah, genera little mutilation.
Speaker 3: No rights for women. Can't do anything but share your eyeballs.
Speaker 3: Now it's Tucker's getting lots of new viewers, and you know,
Speaker 3: young men, Muslim men because he's standing up for Islam.
Speaker 3: And I've been misled by the pro Israel crowd, by
Speaker 3: the Fox crowd.
Speaker 2: Whoa, oh yeah, how much money?
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking for myself, as a guy who's in broadcasting,
Speaker 3: how much money would I have to think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: make for me to want to change my tune that
Speaker 3: much on something as evil as radical Islam. I don't
Speaker 3: think I could do it, but I've never had anybody offer.
Speaker 4: Me twenty million dollars. No, I wouldn't do it, not
Speaker 4: for a second, but I could. Everybody has their price, though,
Speaker 4: I mean that's an ancient saying, and you know, a
Speaker 4: regime like Cutter can hit virtually anybody's price if you
Speaker 4: have a price, which everybody has. So you know what
Speaker 4: strikes me I kept thinking about, let me give this
Speaker 4: off my chest, is we made a conscious decision a
Speaker 4: very long time ago to not be insiders of any sort,
Speaker 4: not hobnob with the powerful, not go to the cocktail parties,
Speaker 4: not get invited to the blankety blank.
Speaker 2: It's corrupting.
Speaker 4: It's I am so brutally disappointed by Halpern and rich
Speaker 4: Lowry not saying whoa, whoa, wait a minute, because they're
Speaker 4: both plenty bite enough oh yeah, to argue the point
Speaker 4: in the moment, which just goes to show you they
Speaker 4: don't want to upset the apple cart because they share
Speaker 4: listeners and viewers and they kind of promote each other's products,
Speaker 4: and god, it's so corrupt. I'm second by that, absolutely second.
Speaker 3: And so it's not really the islam Inn that bad
Speaker 3: part that is jarring. I think it's the turn on Israel.
Speaker 3: It's the anti Semitic. It's the Jews, the Jews, Ah,
Speaker 3: they were splitting these lies about Islam. I was misled
Speaker 3: by the Jews and the people who loved the Jews.
Speaker 3: That's what she's saying. Every show we kick off at
Speaker 3: the very.
Speaker 4: Beginning with me coming up with a couple of fanciful
Speaker 4: potential titles for today's show. And I've been resisting the
Speaker 4: temptation to go with nineteen thirty six is Now because
Speaker 4: it's saddam serious. But the story about anti Semitism in
Speaker 4: the US and in Europe and how completely crystal knocked
Speaker 4: it is, including like statements by Keir Starmer is a
Speaker 4: Jewish business is smashed up and looted and the rest
Speaker 4: of it, and you know, you're star of David spray
Speaker 4: painted or swastik is whatever. And he said it was
Speaker 4: a minor act of vandalism. It's not a major happening.
Speaker 4: Everybody trying to downplay it and poo poo it. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't worry about it. Yeah, it's nineteen thirty six is now.
Speaker 4: This is what it felt like in Nazi Germany. And
Speaker 4: another great piece I think was the Free Press was
Speaker 4: talking about how the anti Semite crowd has so taken
Speaker 4: over the Democratic Party because the whole Red Green Alliance
Speaker 4: thing where the Marxists joined with the Islamists because they
Speaker 4: have the same goals, And how you dare not in
Speaker 4: the center left to left of the Democratic Party criticize
Speaker 4: Islamism at this point. And it reminds me so much
Speaker 4: of because I spent a lifetime studying Germany in the
Speaker 4: World War two period, and blah blah. There is a
Speaker 4: party that's out of power, but it's got a lot
Speaker 4: of energy with the young, and it is really kind
Speaker 4: of a sendant and we don't think they can win.
Speaker 4: But one of their big things is we hate the Jews.
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Speaker 2: Michael. When you how long you've been with us, Michael,
Speaker 2: h see since twenty twenty six years. Yeah, so were
Speaker 2: we already gracious?
Speaker 3: Were we already done with our sinko io hijinks by
Speaker 3: the time you joined us?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, you did?
Speaker 3: Uh what?
Speaker 2: Cinco de Mayo?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're at We had people eat a fifth of mayonnaise.
Speaker 3: Yes, we used to have a contest on Syco Domayo
Speaker 3: who could eat a big jar of mayonnaise the fastest.
Speaker 3: We did that many years in a row. It's always
Speaker 3: entertaining and often included vomiting. Oh yeah, as you might guess,
Speaker 3: there's hardly anything I can think of. I'd rather eat
Speaker 3: less a large quantity of alone than mayonnaise, which is
Speaker 3: part of the point of the thing.
Speaker 2: Stupid human tricks. Yes, we gave away prizes, though, I
Speaker 2: remember somebody.
Speaker 4: Why would you bring that up at this Why don't
Speaker 4: you do mention the time you beat a girlfriend, which
Speaker 4: you would never do.
Speaker 2: Of course, No, of course, but.
Speaker 4: It's a sin of the past that's best left in
Speaker 4: the past.
Speaker 3: It's a sin that we used to have eating contests.
Speaker 2: Citiatic yiss.
Speaker 4: How about when we weighed a woman's boobs? That was science?
Speaker 4: Why did we do that? Well, we were talking about
Speaker 4: larger breasted women in back problems, and one of us
Speaker 4: or both of us asked, well, what is like the
Speaker 4: typical weight of a press? How much weight are we
Speaker 4: talking about? And nobody had any idea, And.
Speaker 3: Some large shifted woman came in and we had a
Speaker 3: scale for some reason to weigh her boob. She tried
Speaker 3: to hold herself in such a way that only her
Speaker 3: boob was on the scale.
Speaker 4: And kind of neutralize the Uh yes, whole that was science. Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 4: that's fascinating that it's a different time. It was ninety
Speaker 4: simpler time, nineteen fifty seven. Everything was in black and white.
Speaker 4: You know, it really was a simpler time. It was
Speaker 4: pre social media, pre smartphone explosion. People would like their
Speaker 4: neighbor and not particularly care what their politics were.
Speaker 3: Pre Ever, thinking about whether or not you dated somebody
Speaker 3: was a Republican or a Democrat, or who they voted
Speaker 3: for president would never cross your mind.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you've got unbelievable chemistry. You're sexually attracted to
Speaker 4: each other, but they voted the wrong way in the midterms.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't give to the sexual chemistry because you'd find that
Speaker 3: out first, because it's like the most important thing on
Speaker 3: your list, right, which.
Speaker 4: Is so crazy and stupid. But I don't think it's
Speaker 4: going away anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Anyway. We got a lot more on the way if
Speaker 3: you missed a segment of the podcast or I'm Strong
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: This is just rapidly changing and developing hour by hour.
Speaker 7: Here President Trump did weigh in. I'll get to that
Speaker 7: in a second, but he did seem to confirm that
Speaker 7: there is at least a deal on the table, and
Speaker 7: that was first reported out by Axios. What they had
Speaker 7: in their details were a fourteen point plan that would
Speaker 7: in effect and the war reopen the Strait. It would
Speaker 7: also unfreeze Iran funds and also would effectively have a
Speaker 7: moratorium on Iran enriching uranium.
Speaker 3: It's possible we're close to an end of the war
Speaker 3: and we're going to get a lot of the things
Speaker 3: that we wanted.
Speaker 2: It's possible.
Speaker 3: There are some Iranians that have told news outlets that
Speaker 3: axious story doesn't hold, But you don't know if.
Speaker 2: They have the power or not. Who's got the power.
Speaker 3: I assume Trump and his people think they're dealing with
Speaker 3: the people that have the decision making power. Sure, and
Speaker 3: not whatever voices told Iranian news outlets, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: We're not agreeing to this.
Speaker 4: So practically every phrase from that learned gentleman needed a
Speaker 4: disclaimer or two. But you know, that's the situation we
Speaker 4: find ourselves on.
Speaker 3: I feel like the IRGC announcing earlier today that they
Speaker 3: would not fire on chips was a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: That seems like it a nod to me that they're
Speaker 3: considering this proposal.
Speaker 4: How's this for commentary. Something's happening, Something is happening. Trump
Speaker 4: said this yesterday, which was interesting.
Speaker 1: Other presidents should have done this forty seven years they've
Speaker 1: been toying with these stupid people.
Speaker 2: That's that the way we play now, we do it
Speaker 2: the old fashion way. And they should wave. They're very proud.
Speaker 1: Maybe you won't see a white flag, but essentially that's
Speaker 1: already what they are.
Speaker 2: They need.
Speaker 3: They should wave the white the flag, the white flag
Speaker 3: of surrender. So the latest truth social post, which is
Speaker 3: the way we currently in this country make you know,
Speaker 3: major foreign policy announcements, is that, he says, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of commas here. Assuming Iran agrees to give
Speaker 3: what has been agreed to comma, which is comma, perhaps
Speaker 3: comma a big assumption, comma, the already legendary epic fury
Speaker 3: will be at an end, and the highly effective blocket, Yes.
Speaker 4: Is the comma of the new explanation. Mark We'll take
Speaker 4: your calls.
Speaker 3: And he said, the blockade will affect it highlight blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. The straight will be open to all in
Speaker 3: all caps. If they don't agree the bombing starts, and
Speaker 3: it will be sadly at a much higher level and
Speaker 3: intensity than it was before.
Speaker 2: So yet another.
Speaker 3: Threat to bombing the crap out of him if this
Speaker 3: doesn't hold, which I think he means this time. One
Speaker 3: reason I think that is this just came across from
Speaker 3: open source. The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, that's a
Speaker 3: French aircraft carrier has transited southbound through the Suez Canal
Speaker 3: to deploy to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aiden
Speaker 3: and preparation for a straight of Hormuze mission per the
Speaker 3: French Defense Ministry. So the French are sending an aircraft
Speaker 3: carrier to the Straight of Hormos, which is a good
Speaker 3: sign all the way around as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: Number one, who knew they had one?
Speaker 4: Number two, Given the weakness of European defense and budgets
Speaker 4: and everything, I wouldn't think they would do that unless
Speaker 4: they thought it was for a productive purpose.
Speaker 3: Well, and they need the straight open. Europe needs the
Speaker 3: straight open, true because they need the oil. And Trump
Speaker 3: might have said, yeah, the worst to start back up,
Speaker 3: need your help, you need to get on board. So
Speaker 3: it'd be US, France, Israel, and the UAE at least
Speaker 3: pounding the crap out out of ran and opening the
Speaker 3: straight back up if this all starts up again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, boy, there are so many ifs, but it's certainly
Speaker 4: possible that Trump finally got some buy in from the
Speaker 4: Euros and the Chinese saying all right, look, we'll be reasonable.
Speaker 4: Here's what we have to have from Iran uh and
Speaker 4: and one of those things is the straight being opened,
Speaker 4: and we need your help making sure it's open. If so,
Speaker 4: we will call off the dogs and let the world's
Speaker 4: economy get.
Speaker 2: Back to doing what it does. It's it's possible.
Speaker 3: I wish I could figure out how on news apps
Speaker 3: to get back to the article I was reading before
Speaker 3: it takes me away from the article I was reading.
Speaker 2: Ah, it's very annoying. God, dang it. Why do you
Speaker 2: think they do that?
Speaker 3: Lots of lots of apps and sights to it is
Speaker 3: so they get more clicks.
Speaker 2: By definition, you have to click more times on their site.
Speaker 2: It's it's possible. I don't know. I'd be guessing.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not to make it easier to use. It's
Speaker 3: got to be some metric like that. It's not to
Speaker 3: make your site easier to use, or you wouldn't take
Speaker 3: me away from the thing I'm reading. So but they
Speaker 3: all do it. I don't know if I got anything
Speaker 3: for you here. The story I've got is gone and
Speaker 3: into the ether, cray. That's the way life is visited.
Speaker 2: See if I got that, there you go. See if
Speaker 2: I can come with it. No, that's not it. See No,
Speaker 2: that's not it.
Speaker 4: Rocky Mountains, the Liberty Bell, I'm thinking it would have
Speaker 4: recently visited. Got to have a fascinating story about air
Speaker 4: travel and how it's been affected by the gas price hike,
Speaker 4: the jetful If.
Speaker 3: You like, let me give you the headline from this
Speaker 3: story and then and then we'll give you that, because
Speaker 3: then they'll dig it up. It's a Washington Post story
Speaker 3: out today, and I don't doubt that this is true.
Speaker 3: And I'm perfectly okay that we were being misled by
Speaker 3: our military, because you need to do that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: But the story from the Washington Post is that Iran
Speaker 3: has hit four There are more US military assets than
Speaker 3: have been reported. According to satellite images, the posts showed
Speaker 3: damage to at least two hundred and twenty eight structures
Speaker 3: a piece of equipment at US military sites that hadn't
Speaker 3: previously been reported.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that.
Speaker 4: Lie.
Speaker 3: There's no reason to announce to the enemy or the
Speaker 3: world or anyone really the amount of damage you've done
Speaker 3: to us in the midst.
Speaker 2: Of a war.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's give them all the data they need
Speaker 4: to improve their systems.
Speaker 2: No, of course not.
Speaker 3: But Iran was successful in hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft,
Speaker 3: and key radar, communications and air defense equipment. According to
Speaker 3: a Washington Post analysis, the threat of air attacks rendered
Speaker 3: some of our US bases in the region too dangerous
Speaker 3: to staff at normal levels. Commanders moved most of the
Speaker 3: personnel from the sites out of range Iranian fire at
Speaker 3: the start of the war.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the sort of thing you don't need
Speaker 3: to tell the enemy, but it's probably good to know
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely does change everybody's perception. I think of how effective
Speaker 4: the counter attacks have been. I mean, not super effective
Speaker 4: on a strategic level, obviously.
Speaker 3: Right, But we were using the best technology on earth
Speaker 3: to stop them from hurting us at all, and they
Speaker 3: did some damage obviously.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of the damage is being done economically. You
Speaker 4: may have noticed that the gas pomp, especially in more
Speaker 4: expensive coastal states. And you've heard about the challenges to
Speaker 4: the airline industry, including Spirit going out of business. They
Speaker 4: would still be fine if fuel prices were what they
Speaker 4: were like last year. And you know, I'd really love
Speaker 4: to get into the weeds of the horrible anti trust
Speaker 4: stuff the Biden administration did, but nobody wants to hear that,
Speaker 4: so I won't. But I found this interesting. Delta Airlines
Speaker 4: just announced it is ending food and beverage service on
Speaker 4: flights under three hundred and fifty miles. No food or
Speaker 4: beverage service unless you are seated in first class, which
Speaker 4: always receives full service. But New York to Boston's under
Speaker 4: three hundred miles, so just you bring a water bottling
Speaker 4: shut up. No beverages, Yeah, no food or beverage service.
Speaker 3: Food food, I get, I long ago gave up on
Speaker 3: the idea of getting much food on a plane.
Speaker 2: But no beverages.
Speaker 3: I don't get a cup of coffee, even though I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be on there for a couple hours.
Speaker 2: For now, at least you'll get nothing in like it.
Speaker 2: Bring a coffee, sit down. Wow, I don't like that.
Speaker 4: So American feeds passengers on flights over two hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty miles, as does Southwest. United says three hundred miles
Speaker 4: or longer. But it's all of all feed. You're using
Speaker 4: a broad term of feed. You give me a tiny
Speaker 4: little packet with six mini pretzels in it. Thanks for
Speaker 4: the food, Thanks for the meal, well mixing a salad jumbo.
Speaker 2: Huh? Always hungry, are you? Huh? You're right, you're right.
Speaker 3: A meal, No more meals. This was my meal. You're
Speaker 3: gonna eliminate the six pretzels.
Speaker 4: Oh gee, thanks, I'll miss those eighteen calories.
Speaker 3: But you know, if you're really struggling, sometimes it's a
Speaker 3: difference maker.
Speaker 4: I think I had heard this before, but I'd forgotten it.
Speaker 4: Fuel accounts for around thirty percent of an airline's overall
Speaker 4: operating costs.
Speaker 3: Here's the most amazing stat I've heard about flying recently.
Speaker 3: We talk a lot about how we live such wealthy
Speaker 3: lifestyles compared to like when we were kids on average,
Speaker 3: and how the reason the middle class is disappearing is
Speaker 3: because it's moved into the upper class. And we often
Speaker 3: talk about how nobody flew when we were kids. You
Speaker 3: drove on vacations prices for airline tickets adjusted for inflation,
Speaker 3: compared to average people, average stallies are a third what
Speaker 3: they were in the seventies. A third. Yeah, no, wonder
Speaker 3: my parents and nobody I knew. I didn't know anybody
Speaker 3: that flew anywhere. It's not like my friends were flying
Speaker 3: places either. Nobody flew anywhere when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: But you know, if people were making less a third,
Speaker 3: I mean there were three times more expensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're not gonna fly, You're gonna drive or
Speaker 2: I go. Yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 4: The you know, there are plenty of folks in institutions
Speaker 4: that don't want you to know that sort of thing,
Speaker 4: that sort of perspective about inflation or whatever, the difference
Speaker 4: in prices.
Speaker 2: But it's funny.
Speaker 4: I've got a couple of things side to side to
Speaker 4: bring up. At some point. A third of Americans are
Speaker 4: having an existential crisis right now. According to a recent study,
Speaker 4: they're having an existential crisis this year.
Speaker 2: A third. What shut up, No, you're not.
Speaker 4: But then this great essay, if America's so rich, how
Speaker 4: did it get so sad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, maybe talk about that
Speaker 2: in the award winning Hour four. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 2: that comparison thing.
Speaker 3: It's that whole I'm perfectly happy with my house unless
Speaker 3: somebody builds a nicer house next to it, then I'm unhappy.
Speaker 2: Everybody's got so much stuff and we see it all
Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, exactly, well you gave it away, that's
Speaker 2: the answer. That's why everybody's so sad.
Speaker 3: We're living a more privileged life than human beings have
Speaker 3: ever in the history of the world, and we're sad
Speaker 3: and have to take anxiety bills.
Speaker 4: Right and convinced that our lives are miserable and deprived
Speaker 4: because of somebody else's politics, income inequality, or maga, depending
Speaker 4: on I am.
Speaker 2: You know which side of it.
Speaker 4: You're Here's here's I think, here's the answer for you.
Speaker 4: And once you know this, folks, you'll be liberated. Congratulations,
Speaker 4: enjoy your new liberation. Discontent is absolutely necessary to get
Speaker 4: political change. You've got to convince people they're unhappy, even
Speaker 4: if they're happy. Can convince them that they're being abused
Speaker 4: because of the race or who they like to have
Speaker 4: sex with or or whatever. That's the only way you
Speaker 4: get change and get attention in politics.
Speaker 2: Not the best way. Vote for me, not the best way,
Speaker 2: the only way exactly.
Speaker 4: And if you're in a society that say, I'm thinking
Speaker 4: creatively here, people are constantly surrounded by politics and political
Speaker 4: fundraising every day.
Speaker 2: What is that equal?
Speaker 4: A never ending message that you ought to be miserable
Speaker 4: because you're put upon and you're a victim all the time,
Speaker 4: coming from everywhere.
Speaker 3: Even though by all data points that you would use
Speaker 3: to measure that sort of thing. You should be happier.
Speaker 3: We should be happier than we are.
Speaker 4: To get your money and get your votes. Once you
Speaker 4: figure that out, you will be like me, lighthearted and cheering.
Speaker 6: They should check themselves before they wreck themselves in.
Speaker 4: You're right, Margo, Oh what he said? More on the way.
Speaker 3: These networks need to stop pretending people care about the
Speaker 3: WNBA just so they can look enlightened.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. Wow. Wow, that's the ugly face of sexism.
Speaker 2: Folks hate to hear that.
Speaker 4: A couple of stories I have side by side to
Speaker 4: bring to you. Kid, a single kid and this is
Speaker 4: not the record, by the way, consumed thirteen thousand YouTube
Speaker 4: videos during school in three months.
Speaker 2: And that's just one example the during school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, on a school issued device.
Speaker 3: By the bye, my son tells me about kids in
Speaker 3: his class are on their phones the whole time. I
Speaker 3: don't even know how to react to that. I do
Speaker 3: not understand how that is a thing. How does the
Speaker 3: teacher not to say put your phone away, period and
Speaker 3: if you're on it again, I'm taking it until the
Speaker 3: end of class.
Speaker 2: How is that not the always case? Right?
Speaker 4: Why from time immemorial has a teacher not let the
Speaker 4: kids read a comic book or guitar player magazine in
Speaker 4: my case, or whatever during class because they understand kids
Speaker 4: will want to do that, but they're tasked with teaching
Speaker 4: those children, and part of teaching them is not letting
Speaker 4: them screw around. And everybody knew it, like.
Speaker 3: You always say, like if back in the day it
Speaker 3: plugged in a television and put on headphones, big screen
Speaker 3: TV and the teacher just says, what what are you
Speaker 3: gonna do? So what am I missing on this? I
Speaker 3: ask my son this all the time, and he says,
Speaker 3: the teacher says, put it away, and then they don't,
Speaker 3: and then he just keeps going.
Speaker 4: Because they've lost the ability to discipline the kids. So
Speaker 4: they've given up because of progressive policies in education. Here's
Speaker 4: the world's least surprising study. This from the National Bureau
Speaker 4: of Economic Research. Schools across the US have sharply restricted
Speaker 4: student use phones during the school day. We evaluated one
Speaker 4: type of restriction, lockable phone pouches, using nationwide data.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Using a staggered difference in difference design, we found that
Speaker 4: pouch adoption substantially reduces phone use as measured by GPS,
Speaker 4: pangs and teacher reports.
Speaker 2: Listen to this, as if anybody needed this.
Speaker 4: In the first year after adoption, disciplinary incidents increased and
Speaker 4: students subjective well being falls consistent with short term disruption.
Speaker 4: So the kids had to be taught to fall in line.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh man, this sucks. However, effects on well
Speaker 4: being became positive almost immediately afterward and disciplinary effects fade.
Speaker 3: That's nice. I don't care if that's true. Not though,
Speaker 3: even if you stay unhappy, you can't look at your
Speaker 3: phone in class. The fact that ultimately you end up
Speaker 3: happier is great. But even if you would didn't end
Speaker 3: up hapier, you can't watch television.
Speaker 2: During science class.
Speaker 4: The end.
Speaker 2: I know how this is. They're debating in this school
Speaker 2: district whether or not what's the debate what's the other
Speaker 2: side of the debate and how did it get this far?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It makes me so mad.
Speaker 4: I mean, the teachers' unions don't care. All they want
Speaker 4: is what is easy and gets them the most money.
Speaker 4: They don't care about the kids.
Speaker 3: How is every school in America already at a zero
Speaker 3: tolerance policy for looking at your smartphone in every class?
Speaker 2: I don't understand it. It makes my brain hurt. It
Speaker 2: makes me think I'm.
Speaker 4: Losing my mind, or that it is no country for
Speaker 4: old men, that I've just aged out of something.
Speaker 2: There's something going on in the world that I don't
Speaker 2: get because I'm old.
Speaker 3: But I don't understand how it's not a universal no
Speaker 3: phone's in the classroom already.
Speaker 4: That's how I felt about boys playing in girls' sports,
Speaker 4: like four years ago, when voices like ours were, you know,
Speaker 4: seldom heard because everybody was afraid. I thought, I must
Speaker 4: be losing my mind, that that person with the bangs
Speaker 4: and the makeup is a lad and he's beaten them.
Speaker 4: But jesus, out of the girls on the field of play,
Speaker 4: is anybody with me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Boy, they're insane in the brain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, apparently, if it's what you said that teachers just
Speaker 3: feel built beat down.
Speaker 2: That has to be the most demoralizing job in the world.
Speaker 3: To stand up there and today, to stand up there
Speaker 3: and talk to a room full of people staring at
Speaker 3: the front, I couldn't do it. Maybe it's easy for
Speaker 3: me to say, because you know, I'm not in that
Speaker 3: situation where you know, I've got tenure, I got a salary.
Speaker 3: I'm going to keep making this salary. I can't get fired.
Speaker 3: This is better than whatever else I could do to
Speaker 3: try to make this one amount of money and you
Speaker 3: get a pension and all that.
Speaker 2: I suppose that's where you end up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but a lot of people are miserable about it
Speaker 4: because people get into teaching because it brings them joy,
Speaker 4: and the joy has been beaten out of it. I
Speaker 4: think no support from the faculty, none from the parents,
Speaker 4: none from the politician.
Speaker 3: I feel like I would just have to say put
Speaker 3: away your phones. If you don't put away your phone,
Speaker 3: I'm taking it at the end of class, and then
Speaker 3: if I end up getting disciplined or fired, then I
Speaker 3: do something else.
Speaker 2: But that's easy to say, Yeah, you'd be doing something else.
Speaker 2: I think that's it. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Why mister Armstrong get fired from science class because he
Speaker 3: wouldn't let people watch television during his class.
Speaker 2: What he's a fasci He's a monster.
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