Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2: Gatty, Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 3: Came across a fantastic think piece by a fellow by
Speaker 3: the name of Tom Klingenstein about DEI in the United
Speaker 3: States Military. And I've heard various folks, including some of served,
Speaker 3: talk about how it's hurt readiness, and I believed it,
Speaker 3: but I've never heard it fleshed out this well. And
Speaker 3: I wish we had hours and hours, because I'd love
Speaker 3: to read the whole thing and discuss it with you.
Speaker 2: But his point that is.
Speaker 3: Quite eloquently made, and we'll post it at Armstrong and
Speaker 3: Getty dot under hotlinks, is that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: He writes, the military is often perceived by well meaning
Speaker 3: Americans as the last holdout in the progressive march through
Speaker 3: the institutions. In reality, however, it was among the first
Speaker 3: American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas.
Speaker 3: And he talks about the difference between civilian society and
Speaker 3: milliate military society in its values, in its training, in
Speaker 3: its social norms, and why they're so important, and how
Speaker 3: DEI is utterly incompatible with the cultural norms that have
Speaker 3: underpinned every military in the history of time, discipline, sacrificing
Speaker 3: oneself to the unit, everyone being the same, your only identity,
Speaker 3: as I'm a member of this unit. It's very, very
Speaker 3: well written, and it's made me all the more dedicated
Speaker 3: to stamping out this radical ideology wherever it happens. I
Speaker 3: was encouraged to see again editorial in New York and
Speaker 3: The New York Times pointed out by fabulous frequent correspondent
Speaker 3: Paulo DEI is not working on college campuses.
Speaker 2: We need a new approach.
Speaker 3: It's by a couple of academics from Stanford Law and
Speaker 3: Stanford University, and they write it in a way that
Speaker 3: is they are lefties approaching lefties. So it's fairly gentle
Speaker 3: about how the DEI programs that exist on campuses are
Speaker 3: not quite what they purport to be and don't really
Speaker 3: achieve what they've said they should achieve, pointing out the
Speaker 3: rampant anti Semitism on all of these enlightened campuses.
Speaker 2: And again it's it's very well written and I'd love
Speaker 2: to go into more detail.
Speaker 4: On it, and anti Asian bias, which we'll get to
Speaker 4: in a second.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, And we could certainly get into the
Speaker 3: report that just came out from Columbia University about how
Speaker 3: miserable failure Dei has been in rooting out anti Semitism there,
Speaker 3: and he gets into the I'm sorry, these two academics
Speaker 3: get into the rigidity of these programs and how and again,
Speaker 3: this is not a revelation to us at all. They
Speaker 3: don't seem to actually be about diversity, equity and inclusion,
Speaker 3: whatever those things mean. They seem to be rigidly enforcing
Speaker 3: a particular point of view, and they seem to just
Speaker 3: want to see the power at the universities. Well, welcome
Speaker 3: to enlightenment, my friend. But what was interesting was, and
Speaker 3: this is what Paolo, the service Paolo provided, which I
Speaker 3: appreciate very much, he says, more interesting than the article
Speaker 3: are the generally pretty solidly left New York Times reader's comments.
Speaker 3: If you view the reader's picks, meaning the comments on
Speaker 3: the story that got the most thumbs up and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing, you'll see that they are all critical
Speaker 3: of Dei, and they run from as a white male
Speaker 3: is perfectly can be even helpful to ask me to
Speaker 3: examine my values and beliefs for racism and sexism. But
Speaker 3: it's not fine to assign me the category of a
Speaker 3: pressor based solely on my race or gender.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. How about this one.
Speaker 3: As a black immigrant from Africa, the idea that groups
Speaker 3: are inherently oppressed based on skin color is shocking to me.
Speaker 3: All races and genders have issues because we're all human beings.
Speaker 3: I've received far more discrimination in Africa on the basis
Speaker 3: of my tribe than I have from any white person.
Speaker 2: And he goes down that line for a while. As
Speaker 2: a staunch liberal and white minority, ally, the only thing
Speaker 2: that's ever made me consider voting Republican is having to
Speaker 2: write diversity statements for a university job. It's a blatant
Speaker 2: tool of discrimination and everyone knows it.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: A couple one more quick one. As a professor at
Speaker 3: a university, I agree for students to succeed in the university,
Speaker 3: they must feel that they belong. For a minority student
Speaker 3: from a public school and a class full of white kids,
Speaker 3: it's tough to feel like you belong's. Uh, this guy,
Speaker 3: As you finally get to the point, Oh, it's that
Speaker 3: socializing with peers, involvement in student groups, for participating with
Speaker 3: a broad array of people is what breaks down those barriers.
Speaker 3: Not being set into camps and set against each other.
Speaker 2: That's the opposite of what works.
Speaker 3: So, as I've said many times, this is not the
Speaker 3: beginning of the end of this neo Marxist garbage. It's
Speaker 3: the end of the beginning. People are starting to realize, Wow,
Speaker 3: this isn't about diversity or equity, which is communism or
Speaker 3: inclusion at all. They just want to take control of
Speaker 3: things by cowing us into silence, by calling us racists on.
Speaker 4: The racial breakdown at colleges. Maybe you saw this headline.
Speaker 4: I saw the initial headline over the weekend after Supreme
Speaker 4: Court ruling against affirmative action. Black acceptance to MIT drops
Speaker 4: ten percentage points, and they presented it only that way.
Speaker 4: I think it was The New York Times had it,
Speaker 4: and obviously it's supposed to be a.
Speaker 2: Horror that happened.
Speaker 4: Sich Lowry actually wrote in The New York Post yesterday
Speaker 4: digging into it.
Speaker 2: A little more.
Speaker 4: A spike in Asian Americans who were admitted to MIT,
Speaker 4: who you can only assume were not getting in even
Speaker 4: though they deserved it before because of affirmative actions.
Speaker 2: So the whole numbers on that.
Speaker 4: So MIT is the first top level college to release
Speaker 4: their numbers on this. We're going to be hearing more
Speaker 4: about these in the fall, I assume from Harvard, Yale,
Speaker 4: whoever else. But MIT released its first post affirmative action
Speaker 4: admissions number for the incoming class since the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: ruled the affirmative action in these universities is wrong, and
Speaker 4: the percentage of Asian American students increased from forty to
Speaker 4: forty seven percent the first year are the first opportunity
Speaker 4: to have, you know, merit based admissions. Black students dropped
Speaker 4: from fifteen to five, Hispanic students from sixteen to eleven,
Speaker 4: White stayed roughly the same, and as Rich Lowry rights,
Speaker 4: either the MIT admissions office has been somehow infiltrated by
Speaker 4: racists who want to exclude as many black and Hispanic
Speaker 4: students as possible while boosting Asian Americans for some reason,
Speaker 4: or they were working to keep out meritorious Asian American
Speaker 4: applicants all these years, people that deserve to be in
Speaker 4: the school and weren't allowed in because they weren't the
Speaker 4: right race.
Speaker 2: What could be more racist than that.
Speaker 3: Well, and to take a step back to I think
Speaker 3: the greater and more important issue is now that we
Speaker 3: haven't papered over the difference is in achievement by shoving
Speaker 3: kids in who probably can't make it at MIT, because
Speaker 3: there's a huge incidence of that the kids who are
Speaker 3: elevated beyond their level of achievement and stuck into these colleges,
Speaker 3: they fail at unbelievable levels.
Speaker 2: You're not going to read that in the mainstream media,
Speaker 2: but it's true.
Speaker 3: Instead of papering over the question of okay, why is
Speaker 3: a disproportionately small percentage of black students able to qualify
Speaker 3: for MIT start before they're even in school. Let's talk
Speaker 3: about kindergarten. Let's look at first grade through eighth grade.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about middle school and high school and the
Speaker 3: rest of it. Let's address causes as opposed to these
Speaker 3: affirmative action at the end programs that enable a people
Speaker 3: who are profiting from this, the teachers' unions and don't
Speaker 3: want to solve the problems, and b society that's uncomfortable
Speaker 3: talking about it. Why do black kids underachieve if you
Speaker 3: don't paper over the process at the end, you're forced
Speaker 3: to reckon with the problem at the beginning. And that's
Speaker 3: why I like these problems as somebody who's not trying
Speaker 3: to take over universities through my DEI critical thinking or
Speaker 3: I'm not critical thinking, critical theory, neo Marxism.
Speaker 2: I actually care about little black kids.
Speaker 4: So a doke researchers expecting similar results in other Ivy
Speaker 4: League schools this fall a big increase for Asian American students,
Speaker 4: white students staying about flat, and then a substantial drop
Speaker 4: in Black and Hispanic admissions. Rich Lowry points out here
Speaker 4: it's the same experience California had when the state passed
Speaker 4: the anti Affirmative Action proposition in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 4: I mean two o nine. Back in ninety six, Asian
Speaker 4: Americans went from thirty seven percent of freshmen at UC
Speaker 4: Berkeley to forty three percent. White students dropped ten points.
Speaker 4: So you can't claim it's white supremacy or white power
Speaker 4: structure or something like that. The number of white kids
Speaker 4: getting into Berkeley dropped from thirty percent to twenty percent.
Speaker 4: And this is my favorite part of it. There isn't
Speaker 4: some giant factory somewhere that's manufacturing generic Asian Americans either,
Speaker 4: who all have the same backgrounds and attitudes. The category
Speaker 4: of Asian American includes people from countries that hate each
Speaker 4: other and always have people from countries that have little
Speaker 4: to do with one another. For instance, China, India, the
Speaker 4: Philippines whatever, They.
Speaker 2: Got nothing to do with each other. Some cases hate
Speaker 2: each other and always have hated each other.
Speaker 4: They've killed each other by the hundreds of thousands in
Speaker 4: brutal ways. It's not like some monolithic group like you
Speaker 4: claim white people are, who are trying to take over something.
Speaker 3: Well, and you've got to drop your preconceptions too about
Speaker 3: elite universities and such. I tell you what, here at
Speaker 3: Joe's second tier university, you're gonna learn a hell of
Speaker 3: a lot. You're gonna drink some beer and get laid.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be great at the superachiever universities will be
Speaker 3: for superachievers.
Speaker 2: And that's fine.
Speaker 3: And I remind you of the fact that generally speaking,
Speaker 3: A students work for B students at companies owned by
Speaker 3: C students.
Speaker 2: As the old saying goes, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you mentioned that, because Rich Lowry did end
Speaker 4: with as for students who would have been admitted under
Speaker 4: the old racialized system. It's not like they'll have no future.
Speaker 4: If they end up at a good state school somewhere, you'll
Speaker 4: be absolutely perfectly fine. If you're good to ed her off.
Speaker 4: Probably yeah, very good chance you will be better off.
Speaker 4: But the idea that your life is ruined or something
Speaker 4: like that's insane. Took us a long time to get here.
Speaker 3: These affirmative action programs exist in large measure to prevent
Speaker 3: us from considering the uncomfortable and difficult questions of black underachievement.
Speaker 2: I believe that to my bone. That's really interesting.
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Speaker 3: Oh here's how money actually works.
Speaker 2: Seven dollars beautiful? Are you about to say something?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, So we're gonna do the one on one class
Speaker 3: first and then two to one class. If this first
Speaker 3: part is too obvious for some of you, Congratulations on
Speaker 3: understanding the basics of economics, which is a fairly rare
Speaker 3: thing in today's world, which is highly discouraging. But first
Speaker 3: of all, they're talking about who's this writer. I like
Speaker 3: to ta give credit because this is really well written.
Speaker 3: Matthew Hennessy in the Wall Street Journal is talking about
Speaker 3: the fellows in Oasis, the British rock band which is
Speaker 3: getting back together.
Speaker 2: Wonderwall. He gets back, he.
Speaker 3: Gets into some of the backstory, the Gallagher brothers who
Speaker 3: can't stand each other and can't get along, but they're
Speaker 3: the indispensable members of the band Oasis. Last month the
Speaker 3: Boys Buried the Hatchet announced series twenty twenty five concerts.
Speaker 3: Delirious Fans were young and relatively poor during the band's
Speaker 3: heyday are now older and relatively rich. They have the
Speaker 3: willingness and ability to pay to see Oasis and concert.
Speaker 3: Economically speaking, that's called demand, but demand is only one
Speaker 3: side of the economic story.
Speaker 2: Morning Glory for the moment.
Speaker 3: At least, the Oasis reunion is limited to a handful
Speaker 3: of shows, and the Wembley Stadium is large. It's not
Speaker 3: infinitely so, and there's no guarantee the brothers will remain
Speaker 3: on speaking terms beyond next summer. Fans understand that this
Speaker 3: may be their last chance to see the battling Gallagher
Speaker 3: lads together on stage.
Speaker 2: Supply is limited now.
Speaker 3: Introductory economics tell us that when supply is tight and
Speaker 3: demand is high prices rise to an equilibrium, which is
Speaker 3: exactly what happened. Then he talks about dynamic pricing and
Speaker 3: how the tickets are significantly more expensive than they seem
Speaker 3: to be when initially announced. Some accuse the greedy brothers
Speaker 3: of ripping off their loyal fans. Many more aimed their
Speaker 3: furia ticket Master, the American ticket Sales BMTH, owned by
Speaker 3: Live Nation Entertainment.
Speaker 2: The fur revealed terrible.
Speaker 4: Probably not going to argue me out of my anger
Speaker 4: at ticket ticket Master in general, but go.
Speaker 3: On, Oh the fees, the fees that creep up onto
Speaker 3: your bill at the end. Yes, that's a different topic
Speaker 3: and an interesting you're electronic sending me of the ticket
Speaker 3: cost forty dollars what? Yeah, anyway, putting that aside, because
Speaker 3: this is just a question of the price of the tickets.
Speaker 3: The furor revealed a terrible ignorance, even among the highly educated,
Speaker 3: of what prices are and how they work.
Speaker 2: I would argue to the journalists that know these.
Speaker 3: Are people opposing is being outraged, they're not actually outraged.
Speaker 3: Like the very Prime Minister of Britain, kir Starmer, told
Speaker 3: the House Commons that he found it depressing to hear
Speaker 3: of the oasis price hikes, he promised a commission to
Speaker 3: investigate what he called extortionate price resalers whatever. Culture Secretary
Speaker 3: Lisa Nandy told the Bebe that quote, vastly inflated prices
Speaker 3: would exclude ordinary fans.
Speaker 4: They have a culture secretary, Yeah, why do you need
Speaker 4: that secretary of culture? And there should be some sort
Speaker 4: of government intervention in that some things are more expensive
Speaker 4: than others.
Speaker 3: What, yeah, bollocks in economic terms a concert ticket. And
Speaker 3: this is the really important part. This is the econ
Speaker 3: one to one stuff that if you don't understand it,
Speaker 3: you don't get anything about economics. A concert ticket is
Speaker 3: no different from a book, a bottle of wine, or
Speaker 3: a house. It has no inherent value, only the price
Speaker 3: a buyer is willing to pay and a seller is
Speaker 3: willing to accept. The market clearing price of anything is
Speaker 3: where demand meet supply. The correct and fair price is
Speaker 3: whatever the market will bear. No buyer has a right
Speaker 3: to a low price, just as no seller has a
Speaker 3: right to a high price. Then they point out the
Speaker 3: obvious oasis could be nice guys and sellar tickets for
Speaker 3: five bucks, but scalpers would snatch them all up. And
Speaker 3: resell them for much much more. What good would it
Speaker 3: do for Oasis, for the ordinary fan or anybody to
Speaker 3: allow third party resellers to capture all that value.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what Yeah, that's what people don't understand about sports,
Speaker 4: guitar players, whatever, actors and actresses. Somebody's going to get
Speaker 4: that money because there's a demand for it. So if
Speaker 4: it's not George Clooney or Shoheyo Tani or the Gallagher brothers,
Speaker 4: then the company that puts on the show or the game,
Speaker 4: or the network or whatever, they get the money. But
Speaker 4: somebody is getting the money. It's just the way it works, right.
Speaker 3: A couple more quick tidbits of music industry guru explained
Speaker 3: that the acts hide behind Ticketmaster. They want them to
Speaker 3: take the flack.
Speaker 2: All this stuff.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good, that's probably true.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's not good for your image, but Ticketmaster takes
Speaker 3: all the flack. And he also writes, here's the dirty
Speaker 3: little secret. Ticketmaster does nothing that the band does not
Speaker 3: agree to. So anyway, I thought that was a good
Speaker 3: little instructional on if there's demand and little supply, the
Speaker 3: prices are going to go up, and it should.
Speaker 2: And you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: The gallery good boys are going to put down their
Speaker 3: fists and open up their calendars and say, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a lot to play half a dozen more shows,
Speaker 3: are you? And supply will increase in the prices will.
Speaker 4: I was drunk in the backseat of an suv that
Speaker 4: could go. I have one thousand, five hundred stories that
Speaker 4: start that way, but in this particular one enter my seat.
Speaker 4: I was drunk in the back of the suv on
Speaker 4: the way to an Oasis concert Charlotte, North Carolina, in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety five when we heard on the radio that
Speaker 4: they'd cancel the concert because the two brothers had gotten
Speaker 4: a fistfight backstage.
Speaker 2: So I still have not seen them.
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, Yeah, that legend not overblown. No, that reminds
Speaker 3: me when they were like in their sixties, the Davis brothers.
Speaker 3: It looks like Davies, but it's pronounced Davis of the Kinks. Actually,
Speaker 3: we're continuing to come to blows and scream at each
Speaker 3: other backstage in their sixties trying to tour.
Speaker 2: Wow, get some counseling for us or something.
Speaker 1: Let it go Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: I've wanted to bring this up for a while, the
Speaker 3: real crisis in America's government schools. And I don't want
Speaker 3: to be the cliched everything is going to hell all
Speaker 3: the time person like me, that's what I am, because
Speaker 3: that's my brand, because we already have one of them. No,
Speaker 3: but I was thinking about it, and it goes back
Speaker 3: to our discussion of the natural state of things is
Speaker 3: chaos and poverty and violence, and if you have a civilization,
Speaker 3: the challenge of preserving that civilization never ends. And everything
Speaker 3: isn't necessarily going to hell, but everything will go to
Speaker 3: hell if you don't stop it. Going to hell needs
Speaker 3: to be maintained. Yes, in short, So anyway, I think
Speaker 3: one of the things in another principle before we get
Speaker 3: in the specifics you've quoted George will As saying, one
Speaker 3: of the essential, you know, elements of being a conservative
Speaker 3: is you have to deal with reality, recognize what is right.
Speaker 3: You can't be a utopian, unicorn riding wisher of fond
Speaker 3: wishes and call yourself a conservative.
Speaker 2: It's just it doesn't fit. So anyway, I.
Speaker 3: Think we have an enormous crisis with America's government schools
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt of that.
Speaker 3: I think it would be a four alarm panic going
Speaker 3: on in America right now if it were not for
Speaker 3: two things. Number One, a lot of parents think schools
Speaker 3: are still what they went to, what they grew up with.
Speaker 2: And the distraction of the Golden Bachelor and the Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 3: And there are three things now that I think about it,
Speaker 3: And the other one is that there are some schools.
Speaker 3: It's actually four things, including the Golden Bachelor. There are
Speaker 3: some schools that are still doing a good job. They're
Speaker 3: fighting hard, they're in conservative areas, the teachers and administrators
Speaker 3: are not fully woke.
Speaker 2: So people think our schools seem to be fine, and
Speaker 2: maybe they are.
Speaker 3: But the fourth thing, obviously, is that the dominant media
Speaker 3: do not talk about this much at all because it's
Speaker 3: extremely uncomfortable for them because they are progressive, they are woke,
Speaker 3: they are pro union, and.
Speaker 4: The heavyweights have their kids in private schools, so they
Speaker 4: wouldn't know anyway.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. That is a good point in
Speaker 3: the middleweights too, anyway. So a couple of exhibits in
Speaker 3: the prosecution of America's government schools, one that you've probably
Speaker 3: heard similar fare before, But this is a bit of
Speaker 3: an update. Between two thousand, year two thousand and the
Speaker 3: year twenty twenty two, the number of students in Marca's
Speaker 3: schools rose by five percent.
Speaker 2: Five percent. The number of teachers rose by ten percent,
Speaker 2: which is interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the number of principles and assistant principles rose by
Speaker 3: forty percent.
Speaker 2: Whoa what? Who had their kid in school in the
Speaker 2: year two thousand thought, you know, this is going.
Speaker 4: Well, it'd be a lot better though if we had
Speaker 4: like eight more principles.
Speaker 2: Who the hell thought that?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: And then again, keeping in mind that the increase in
Speaker 3: students is five percent, the increase in administrative staff is
Speaker 3: ninety five percent.
Speaker 2: There you go, Samons with universities. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, some we've talked about this in the past, and
Speaker 3: some folks have said, yeah, the uh, the government mandates
Speaker 3: on schools is so cumbersome now, the federal and state mandates.
Speaker 3: You have to have compliance staff, oh my god, that
Speaker 3: spend their whole days issuing reports and filling out forms
Speaker 3: that say you've conformed to all of the demands of
Speaker 3: the centralized government.
Speaker 4: There are so many forms. So I have been through
Speaker 4: a lot of this and super nice people I'm not
Speaker 4: complaining about any of these people.
Speaker 2: But I was one meeting.
Speaker 4: That had like fifteen people in it about my son,
Speaker 4: and they kept using the word rubric. Well, this, this
Speaker 4: fits the rubric, and it doesn't fit the rubric. And
Speaker 4: we've looked at the rubric. Everything I get said. I
Speaker 4: I think I said out loud. I think I cannot
Speaker 4: hear the word rubric another time. Just we gotta I
Speaker 4: don't even know what that is. We gotta stop singing.
Speaker 2: The word rubric.
Speaker 3: Please, if we do nothing else here, to refrain from
Speaker 3: singing rubric.
Speaker 2: So it was a paperwork thing. It was just all
Speaker 2: kinds of different layers of paperwork.
Speaker 3: So you have this from Jason Riley, who's a great
Speaker 3: writer and thinker. Biden and Harris worked to crush school competition.
Speaker 3: He is more opposed to charter schools than any president
Speaker 3: in recent history. And Kamala has spoken enthusiastically about how
Speaker 3: wonderful teachers unions are and that everything that tends to
Speaker 3: take money and influence away from the teachers unions is
Speaker 3: an attack on public schools. That would be bad enough
Speaker 3: were it not for the numbers involved. Again, this is
Speaker 3: fairly oh you know, the National Review actually touched on
Speaker 3: the fact that the left is now trying to promote
Speaker 3: or I'm sorry to indict school choice movements as an
Speaker 3: effort a secret plot to promote Christian nationalism.
Speaker 2: All right, that's one of the attacks.
Speaker 4: I assume you're about to get to some of the
Speaker 4: results we're getting out of the schools. Uh yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: But even without that, even if it had maintained what
Speaker 4: public schools were from the past, why would you need
Speaker 4: to increase administration by ninety percent and think that that
Speaker 4: was a good idea, Even if we had maintained the
Speaker 4: same quality. It's like, well, why are we spending all
Speaker 4: this money? It was working fine.
Speaker 3: Before, right, Yeah, And I'm looking at the clock. I
Speaker 3: think maybe we take a break and then come back
Speaker 3: with some of the results stuff. But the other thing
Speaker 3: I wanted to get to, and we have a lot
Speaker 3: of great teachers who listen to the show and communicate
Speaker 3: to us and blow the whistle on some of the
Speaker 3: more insane progressive things that are taking the place of
Speaker 3: math and reading in our schools. The genderbread person, which
Speaker 3: I'm always hammering about because you know, California is a
Speaker 3: particular interest because that's where the show is based and
Speaker 3: the perversity in California schools is just it's heartbreaking. But anyway,
Speaker 3: Wall Street journal with a big piece. Teachers are burning
Speaker 3: out on the job, and the subhead is student behavior
Speaker 3: and mediocre pay are taking their toll from lefty media.
Speaker 3: It's always about the pay. It's always about money, and
Speaker 3: there's such a lack of understanding and wisdom. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: that progressives so fill the newsrooms that that's the only
Speaker 3: point of view, and a lot of journalists are young
Speaker 3: these days because it doesn't pay very well.
Speaker 2: But there is such a lack of wisdom.
Speaker 3: If I have a fun, rewarding, joyful job and I
Speaker 3: get the summer off, I would accept that rate of
Speaker 3: pay at X. If I have a miserable, discouraging, heartbreaking job,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to work for that.
Speaker 2: Low level of pay. I'm gonna want a hell of a.
Speaker 3: Lot more to keep showing up very good point, student
Speaker 3: behavior problems, cell phones in class, anemic pay that's not
Speaker 3: really true, and artificial intelligence powered cheating are taking their
Speaker 3: toll on America's roughly three point eight million teachers. On
Speaker 3: top of the bruising pandemic years the Sheriff. Teachers who
Speaker 3: say the stress and disappointments of the job are worth
Speaker 3: it has fallen twenty one points in the last couple
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 2: Doubt that. As recently as twenty eighteen, over seventy percent
Speaker 2: of teachers said the stress was worth it. Now it's
Speaker 2: forty two.
Speaker 4: In surveys and interviews, teachers are most any place you work,
Speaker 4: as they is, they layered in more administration to wherever
Speaker 4: you work. Did that make things more enjoyable or less enjoyable?
Speaker 4: Where you work well?
Speaker 3: And we're going to get to the you know, it's
Speaker 3: more than frustration, it's being physically at risk. In surveys
Speaker 3: and interviews, teachers are most often pointing to a startling
Speaker 3: rise in students' mental health challenges and misbehavior as the
Speaker 3: biggest drivers of burnout. In the Rand Corporation survey, student
Speaker 3: behavior was the top source of teachers job stress.
Speaker 4: A lot of that, I guarantee you is that whole
Speaker 4: restorative justice thing where they have no ability to deal
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 2: That's the next sentence.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right to quote a high school math teacher
Speaker 3: who says he saw student behavior deteriorate seriously, let yet
Speaker 3: his school drew more lenient in administrating administering consequences.
Speaker 4: How is the country not aware of what a failure
Speaker 4: this restorative justice thing is.
Speaker 2: I know because nobody talks about it in the media.
Speaker 3: And this poor son of a gun, So he's dealing
Speaker 3: with all this frustration and then his district, Kansas City
Speaker 3: Public Schools, shout out Kansas City, The Great Cities were
Speaker 3: a privilege to be on. They rolled out a new
Speaker 3: policy last year. Teachers could not give students a zero
Speaker 3: for an assignment even if they didn't turn it in
Speaker 3: and didn't make any effort.
Speaker 2: To It is to laugh. I mean, that is so funny.
Speaker 2: It is funny. It is hilarious. So say that again.
Speaker 2: You can't get a.
Speaker 3: Zero even if even if you say, not only did
Speaker 3: I not do the assignment, mister Gerald, you should shove
Speaker 3: it up your armors. He cannot give you a zero
Speaker 3: for that assignment. You've got to get at least like
Speaker 3: a C. A C one of the things I got
Speaker 3: when I got into teaching. My one thing was about
Speaker 3: learning and love of learning, he says. In the end,
Speaker 3: it was less about the learning and more about babysitting.
Speaker 3: He left teaching this summer oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 3: they go into a great deal of detail with many,
Speaker 3: many examples of classroom stress and violence, lack of consequences
Speaker 3: for bad behavior, a storative justice.
Speaker 4: I mean, look it up, well, don't look it up,
Speaker 4: because their description of it won't be accurate as to
Speaker 4: what actually happens.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: It is the recipe for no discipline and a bullies paradise.
Speaker 2: It is, it is.
Speaker 3: It is tragic for the children and the teachers, and
Speaker 3: it's part of oh yeah, absolutely true, and it's one
Speaker 3: hundred percent part of the neo Marxist We're going to
Speaker 3: break the system. We're going to call everything racist until
Speaker 3: we control it. And they do control the schools to
Speaker 3: a large extent now, and anybody who stands in our
Speaker 3: way will call them a racist until we have imposed
Speaker 3: our philosophy on whatever institution you're talking about, from public
Speaker 3: schools to corporations, to the United States government to the
Speaker 3: military for instance.
Speaker 4: By the way, in Kansas City, we're on FM, so
Speaker 4: people can really enjoy our pipes.
Speaker 2: I have nothing to add to that, you know, and
Speaker 2: I don't know to the clock.
Speaker 3: I came across another account a number of school districts
Speaker 3: in oh it was Virginia and one other state in
Speaker 3: which far fewer than half of the children were at
Speaker 3: the minimum level in English, and it was less than
Speaker 3: a third in district after district were not at the
Speaker 3: minimum level for math. We sometimes talk about proficiency. This
Speaker 3: was the well the minimum and the vast majority kids
Speaker 3: are nowhere near it. And if you say I got
Speaker 3: to get my kid out of this school, the forces
Speaker 3: of the left, from Joe Biden, Kamala Harrison down will
Speaker 3: tell you you're a racist for some reason. B you're
Speaker 3: attacking public schools, trying to take resources away.
Speaker 2: You're a bad person and a bad parent. It's crazier
Speaker 2: that this is a bigger issue. It is. It absolutely
Speaker 2: is arm strong.
Speaker 5: The armstrong and getting shot.
Speaker 2: We got this text out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: Do you know why hippies were Petulia oil so blind
Speaker 4: people can hate them too?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's beautiful. Here's your freedom loving quote of
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 3: Our beloved listeners sent to this to us next.
Speaker 2: To a big picture of Captain America.
Speaker 3: And U and it was Captain America saying this and
Speaker 3: I understand this is a speech he gives to buck
Speaker 3: up Spider Man. At one point during the movies, and
Speaker 3: I thought, boy, this is really eloquent for one of
Speaker 3: your one of your comic book movies. Did the script
Speaker 3: write or write write this? And I did a little digging,
Speaker 3: and no, it's actually a very very close paraphrase of
Speaker 3: something Mark Twain said.
Speaker 2: Interesting, but I liked it.
Speaker 3: So much I posted it up in the studio so
Speaker 3: I could glance at it now and again. I will
Speaker 3: give you the Twain version, which is only subtly different.
Speaker 2: As opposed to Captain America.
Speaker 4: Okay, it does lend it a little more gravitas.
Speaker 3: Well, unless you're fighting off a mob, then I'd rather
Speaker 3: have the Captain on my side than the scribe. Honestly
Speaker 3: love Captain America kicks ass. Twain incredibly eloquent. Captain America
Speaker 3: definitely stronger on the whoop ass front.
Speaker 4: If you're fighting the Winter Soldier, you want Captain America,
Speaker 4: not Mark Twain.
Speaker 3: I agree completely. Anyway, here's what Twain said. It's a
Speaker 3: little long, but I love it so much. Maybe we
Speaker 3: could work in a little email later on. Let men
Speaker 3: label you as they may. If you alone, of all
Speaker 3: the nation, decide one way, and that way be the
Speaker 3: right way, by your convictions of the right. You've done
Speaker 3: your duty by yourself and by your country, holding up
Speaker 3: your head, for you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what the press said, it doesn't matter
Speaker 3: what the politicians or the mobs say. It doesn't matter
Speaker 3: if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.
Speaker 3: Republics are founded on one principle above all else, the
Speaker 3: requirement that we stand up for what we believe in,
Speaker 3: no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob
Speaker 3: and the press and the whole world tell you to move,
Speaker 3: your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside
Speaker 3: the river of truth and tell the whole world, no,
Speaker 3: you move. Mark fing Twain, that's you, people understand, that's
Speaker 3: his middle name.
Speaker 4: That's really good stuff if it's the right cause or thing.
Speaker 4: Interestingly enough, and maybe I'll explain later why.
Speaker 2: This has happened.
Speaker 4: I was listening to a speech last night FBI recordings
Speaker 4: of Jim Jones down Guyana, before he had all those
Speaker 4: people kill themselves, the Jim Jones cult, that whole thing.
Speaker 4: He gave a very similar speech there as he had
Speaker 4: convinced all those numb nuts that the world was out
Speaker 4: to get them and they were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: Very funny preach. I had no idea you'd heard that.
Speaker 3: I knew in my heart of hearts you would come
Speaker 3: up with some counter argument against that thought.
Speaker 2: I'm not it.
Speaker 4: It just you just have to have you just have
Speaker 4: to just you know, it works when the cause is right.
Speaker 3: Right, But that's irrelevant as an as an observation of society.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred percent correct as a principle. That some
Speaker 3: people employ it wrongly is irrelevant, right, I think it's
Speaker 3: a moral principle.
Speaker 2: Both are true. Isn't that a head scratcher? It is anyway?
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Speaker 2: One more thing, you know, listen to it out again.
Speaker 4: Speaking of counterintuitive price gouging is a good thing and
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Speaker 3: Podcast, and it's the best thing that can happen for
Speaker 3: poor people. Yeah, let's see. Wow, what a contrast, writes
Speaker 3: Joe and Ventura, California. Noticed this on my local freeway
Speaker 3: off ramp.
Speaker 2: Winner and loser.
Speaker 3: There is a young man appears to be of immigrants,
Speaker 3: stock selling bouquets of flowers to cars whoever want some
Speaker 3: flowers on the way home, and there's a scumbag junkie begging.
Speaker 4: Right right, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 4: You got people there on the corner. This happens driving
Speaker 4: out to the farm. When I go home, sometimes you
Speaker 4: got people on the corner selling strawberries, usually a whole
Speaker 4: family in the h hot sun, set up their table,
Speaker 4: got their you know, station wagon there selling strawberries.
Speaker 2: You got people just begging on the street. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's all I see.
Speaker 4: The people that are working their ass off sitting there
Speaker 4: in the sun selling the strawberries.
Speaker 2: Can't have much respect for the beggar on the street,
Speaker 2: he says.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be ironic if this was a planned social
Speaker 3: science experiment to see what kind of reactions could be
Speaker 3: listened from the drivers? I admit I was guilty of
Speaker 3: making my opinion known A big thumbs up to the
Speaker 3: winner and down to the loser.
Speaker 2: Care to put your own caption on this photo? Well, thanks, Joe.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
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