Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: An MSNBC analysts claimed that Donald Trump wants to take
Speaker 3: anyone in America and disappear them, presumably by booking them
Speaker 3: as an analyst on MSNBC.
Speaker 2: Low Radio.
Speaker 1: I was just reading this article about Corey Lewandowski and
Speaker 1: Christy Noms. So Christy Noman is the way too glam
Speaker 1: for my taste. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. I don't
Speaker 1: know why she gets hold dolled up the way she does,
Speaker 1: for like.
Speaker 2: Visiting El Salvador in prisons. But the thing that.
Speaker 4: Bothers me that's way over the top is when she
Speaker 4: has the I have wet shiny lips lips stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, I don't like the way you said wet.
Speaker 2: Something off putting about that. Wow? Excuse me? It's called
Speaker 2: a gloss, you weirdo?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why lips? Wow? Yeah? What's the why the wet lips stuff?
Speaker 1: So is Corey Lewandowski her chief of staff or chief
Speaker 1: with a staff? That is the question that seems to
Speaker 1: be going around, is they there seems to be an
Speaker 1: inappropriate relationship between the two.
Speaker 2: Are we just gonna let that go? Michael, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna let it go. I was kind of proud of that,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: So Rich Lowry of the National Review wrote a great
Speaker 4: piece about the fact that tomorrow is the two hundred
Speaker 4: and fiftieth anniversary of the Ride of Paul Revere, Vaunted
Speaker 4: and story and song and poem and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: The the poem only semi accurate, and it's fine. For instance,
Speaker 4: he absolutely probably didn't say the British are coming because
Speaker 4: everybody still considered themselves British.
Speaker 1: Listen to my children, and you shall hear that one,
Speaker 1: that poem. Yeah, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. He
Speaker 1: almost certainly said the regulars are coming out, meaning the regular.
Speaker 2: British troops anyway.
Speaker 4: So getting to Rich Lowry's story, sure enough, we've long
Speaker 4: told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in
Speaker 4: April seventeen seventy five, when the famous silver Smith warned
Speaker 4: the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution
Speaker 4: kicked off in earnest. Like all legendary events, Revere's ride
Speaker 4: in the battles of Lexington and Conquered have been encrusted
Speaker 4: with myth. It's almost certainly not the case that he
Speaker 4: yeld the British are coming center, and Revere didn't ride alone,
Speaker 4: and he didn't even make it to Concord. The British
Speaker 4: briefly captured him. And the role of the celebrated minute
Speaker 4: men tends to be exaggerated.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But such minutia side that day two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: years ago still deserves to be celebrated in prose and poetry,
Speaker 4: and is every bit as extraordinary as you might have
Speaker 4: learned when you were a child, before we decided we
Speaker 4: didn't like our own history and heroes so much anymore.
Speaker 2: And you said, it's sooner than fifty years ago tomorrow,
Speaker 2: correct sir, the nineteenth of April.
Speaker 1: I was there on vacation a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I did the walk slash drive through the whole thing,
Speaker 1: Lexington Concord, and it is It's very cool. Oh, I'd
Speaker 1: love to do that. I can't believe I haven't anyway.
Speaker 4: Hoping to maintain operational secrecy, the British sent a contingent
Speaker 4: out at night from Boston to capture reputed stores of
Speaker 4: weapons in Concord. They were immediately noticed and the whole
Speaker 4: one of my land two of by sea plan that
Speaker 4: Revere and has we discussed last hour. Roughly thirty other
Speaker 4: craftsmen and mechanics had come up with a plan to
Speaker 4: monitor the British movement of troops round the clock and
Speaker 4: to warn the Patriots if they started to move in
Speaker 4: an aggressive way. And indeed so the part about the
Speaker 4: old North Church lantern is absolutely a real thing, and
Speaker 4: the race was on. It is really Lowry Wright's one
Speaker 4: of the most dramatic episodes in American history. Paul Revere
Speaker 4: and others rushing to warn the countryside, and the British
Speaker 4: troops marching through the night, not briefed on their mission,
Speaker 4: hearing guns and bells sounding alarms all around them. Lexington
Speaker 4: was on the way. The militia mustard as a show
Speaker 4: of force, not seeking a fight. No one knows who
Speaker 4: fired the shot heard round the world. It may have
Speaker 4: been an inadvertent discharge, but the British then fired volleys
Speaker 4: and charged with bayonets, killing eight. Concord was now fully
Speaker 4: on alert again. There was a wary standoff again someone
Speaker 4: fired during this confrontation at north Bridge. The British got
Speaker 4: off a volley, then the Colonials returned fire with deadly effect,
Speaker 4: and shockingly, the British ran.
Speaker 2: Their rank swelling.
Speaker 1: The Colonials harried the regulars along the narrow battle Road
Speaker 1: as they retreated back to Lexington, with the places where
Speaker 1: the fighting was especially intense known by names such as
Speaker 1: the Bloody Angle and Parker's Revenge. This reminds me a
Speaker 1: little bit of the opening days of the war in
Speaker 1: Ukraine of a similar situation, in that the Russians met
Speaker 1: way more resistance than they thought, and the the home
Speaker 1: people are much more motivated to defend their families and
Speaker 1: homes than the Russians that wondered why are we even here?
Speaker 1: In the Brits many whom we thought, why are we
Speaker 1: even here?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah, that's an excellent point.
Speaker 4: And I tell you what, if you hear about places
Speaker 4: named the Bloody Angle in Parker's Revenge and don't get
Speaker 4: a bit of a chill, You're made of different stuff
Speaker 4: than me. Members of the militia did not, as popular
Speaker 4: imagination believes, largely act on their own inspired initiative. They
Speaker 4: were well led the Americans repeatedly stood in formation against
Speaker 4: the British regulars during the course of the day. Historian
Speaker 4: David Hackett Fisher writes it was an extraordinary display of courage, resolve,
Speaker 4: and discipline by citizen soldiers against regular troops. The more
Speaker 4: dispersed fighting along the battle road later on was itself
Speaker 4: the product of a colonial plan to avoid direct confrontation
Speaker 4: with a now reinforce much larger British force. By the
Speaker 4: time they made it back to Boston, the British had
Speaker 4: suffered a true mauling, experiencing roughly three hundred casualties to
Speaker 4: one hundred for the colonials. The Americans ensured that the
Speaker 4: words spread far and wide, and the effect was electric.
Speaker 4: Thomas Paine, who had only recently come to America, felt
Speaker 4: that quote the country into which I just set my
Speaker 4: foot was set on fire about my ears. John Adams
Speaker 4: said that Lexington quote changed the instruments of war from
Speaker 4: the pen to the sword. If Lexington and Conquered were
Speaker 4: small scale engagements and the schemes of things, the reverberations
Speaker 4: were enormous, they sent a message that a defiant American
Speaker 4: population wouldn't be easily subdued. Wadsworth concluded his famous poem
Speaker 4: with the lines through all our history to the last,
Speaker 4: in the hour of darkness and peril and need, the
Speaker 4: people will awaken and listen to hear the hurrying hoof
Speaker 4: beats of that steed and the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Speaker 4: May it be so, writes Rich Lowry. Beautiful job as usual, Rich.
Speaker 1: I wish I could remember what book it was I
Speaker 1: read fairly recently about this.
Speaker 2: But Revere was captured along with the guy who's riding
Speaker 2: with They.
Speaker 1: Got beaten real good by like rifle butts and stuff
Speaker 1: like that by the Brits and got out of there
Speaker 1: somehow to continue riding.
Speaker 2: But it was way more violent and dicey than you know.
Speaker 1: The poem leads you to believe, right, it was not
Speaker 1: romantic and gallant and a horse ride of shouting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got the hell beat out of him the But
Speaker 1: it's just it's been true throughout history, and for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: If you're fighting with your own home, wife and kids
Speaker 1: at your back, you fight differently than if you're a
Speaker 1: occupying force working for a paycheck. Don't really care that
Speaker 1: much whether you're there or not, and whether it's shooting,
Speaker 1: so nobody shoots you Russians in Ukraine or circum circumstances
Speaker 1: sometimes the Northern soldiers in the South and the Civil
Speaker 1: War and Us in Iraq.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of examples.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I was gonna bring up Afghanistan, and you
Speaker 4: know that just needs to be remembered. And it's the
Speaker 4: point I've made many times through the years. You can
Speaker 4: have the most righteous mission in the world. You can
Speaker 4: be backed by the majority of a population of a place,
Speaker 4: but they get tired of being occupied really really fast.
Speaker 1: As we would as well as we were at the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Always remember in one of Shelby Foot's books about the
Speaker 1: Civil War, he's got a quote in there from some
Speaker 1: Southern soldier who gets captured after a bloody battle in
Speaker 1: the Northern Guys Union guys ask why are you fighting
Speaker 1: so hard? And he said, because you're here just thinking here,
Speaker 1: you're in arm might you're in my yard?
Speaker 2: Yeah, fight to the death for that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: We will post a link to this piece by Rich Lowry.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure the paywall situation. National Review does a
Speaker 4: great journalism anyway. Maybe you want to subscribe, but that's that,
Speaker 4: you know what.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bummed today. We got this.
Speaker 1: We'll play a little bit later, this this bit about
Speaker 1: coloring eggs from Jimmy Kimmel. But my kids are too
Speaker 1: old for that now. And I love that. That was
Speaker 1: fantastic there for a while. Ye get some eggs and
Speaker 1: color them, and it was a little project and they
Speaker 1: were so into it.
Speaker 2: And the on weight of the teenager is a whole
Speaker 2: different thing.
Speaker 1: Nothing is fun or cool, yes, certainly, nothing to do
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, Actually, there's plenty of things that are
Speaker 1: fun and cool. Hanging out with his girlfriend seems to
Speaker 1: be very fun and cool. Hanging out with me not
Speaker 1: as much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: I was so lucky with my son, in particular that
Speaker 4: we both love to play golf, and we both love
Speaker 4: rock and roll music and playing guitar and.
Speaker 1: Bass and that sort of thing. So we always, you know,
Speaker 1: we could do that. Henry and I played tennis yesterday
Speaker 1: and lifted weights. It's different stuff, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: those little kid activities are fantastic.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was always very bad at dying eggs.
Speaker 4: I was more than happy to let the kids do it.
Speaker 4: I just my eggs would come out and look for you.
Speaker 1: But how is anyone bad at dying eggs? There's really
Speaker 1: the bar is very low. Did the egg end up
Speaker 1: not white?
Speaker 2: You win? Oh?
Speaker 4: No, it's the other people in the family. Their eggs
Speaker 4: were much more artful than mine. Okay, I mean beautiful,
Speaker 4: like rainbows of color and patterns and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Mine again looked like something had gone wrong with the egg.
Speaker 4: Better throw this one out, honey, it's gone bad.
Speaker 1: Joe's going to tell us why common core mats so sucky?
Speaker 1: Is Trump going to actually tax the rich?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: That'd be the ultimate populist move? But no, no, let's
Speaker 1: not know. He's not going to raise tax.
Speaker 2: There's that He's going to a lot of stuff on
Speaker 2: the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1: Strong and yet.
Speaker 6: So the first time since twenty fourteen, Easter and four
Speaker 6: twenty will land on the same day this year, which
Speaker 6: is going to lead to some very.
Speaker 2: Long and confusing egg hunts.
Speaker 6: Where did I did I hide those?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of Peeps products then now this
Speaker 6: year they have Peep's icies, They've got Peeps flavored milk.
Speaker 6: The Peeps and Peeps even teamed up with Milk Bone
Speaker 6: to make.
Speaker 2: Peeps flavored dog biscuit.
Speaker 6: No, at least one stone dude in the peedile at
Speaker 6: Target is going to see that.
Speaker 2: And just devour the bucket.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: I've still never had a peep, but a peep peep
Speaker 1: flavored milk sounds awful.
Speaker 4: That is just sugary milk. It's milk with sugar in it.
Speaker 4: I don't get it. Although I am a big fan
Speaker 4: of the peep and have been for many, many years.
Speaker 1: We did get one text tying a story of today
Speaker 1: with our little revolutionary work.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, you have a peep related comment.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna let Joe, No peeps are trash, says, trash.
Speaker 2: Is like a low rent treats.
Speaker 1: Is that No?
Speaker 2: There, it's there with the circus peanuts and the.
Speaker 4: I agree, another excellent traait, another delicious treaty.
Speaker 1: You canet them the real cheap.
Speaker 2: They come in packaging boxes as well.
Speaker 4: And you said the peep is a delightful, soft, yet crunchy,
Speaker 4: It's Easter themed treat enjoyed by generations.
Speaker 1: The fascinating personality that is you that combines country club
Speaker 1: wine connoisseur, you know, Beethoven with you like peeps and
Speaker 1: circus peanuts.
Speaker 4: Yes, and if you were more sophisticated you'd understand how
Speaker 4: it all fits together.
Speaker 1: At home matching his peeps with a nice Scotch. Oh,
Speaker 1: that sounds delicious.
Speaker 2: One serious thing.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the Revolutionary War and the anniversary
Speaker 1: of Paul Revere blah blah blah, and one of the
Speaker 1: stories of the day. I think it's helpful to point
Speaker 1: out that the true beginning of due process began with
Speaker 1: John Adams defending the British soldiers after the Boston massacre.
Speaker 1: He thought it would end his career and ruin his reputation,
Speaker 1: but was convinced it was the right thing to do anyway,
Speaker 1: that everybody deserved to due process, even the British soldiers.
Speaker 1: And if you have not seen that play out, you
Speaker 1: should watch that HBO series with Paul Giamati as John Adams.
Speaker 2: It's really good.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Joe brought us some fascinating information about Elon Musk
Speaker 1: and his many children and how the whole thing works.
Speaker 1: Did that include you mentioning that, well, I'll just read
Speaker 1: this text and I don't remember this part or not. Wait,
Speaker 1: Elon's been getting all these women pregnant with in vitro fertilization.
Speaker 2: Dude, I've got a way cooler method you should try. Well.
Speaker 4: No, I think he does it the old fashioned way.
Speaker 4: Mostly what he was suggesting to I think it was
Speaker 4: Ashley Saint Clair was that they combine his most excellent
Speaker 4: spermatozoans with her delightful ovum ova and implant them in
Speaker 4: a bunch of mothers because he thought that they were
Speaker 4: a super great pair to reproduce. But you can't breed
Speaker 4: an army one kid at a time, so he's going
Speaker 4: to farm out the project to surrogates.
Speaker 1: I wonder what his goal is if he's on kid
Speaker 1: fourteen at age fifty three, and unlike women, as a dude,
Speaker 1: you could keep doing this, you know.
Speaker 2: The rest of your life. I wonder how many kids
Speaker 2: he's thinking. I mean, is he.
Speaker 1: Gonna like get into Crazyville, like forty fifty kids?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think as many as possible as his goal.
Speaker 4: Wow, within the bounds of And we talked about this
Speaker 4: yesterday hour four I think gravitfive podcast Armstrong and getting
Speaker 4: on demand if you missed it. But the way he
Speaker 4: manages the women and pays gives them a lump sum
Speaker 4: and then a monthly like one hundred thousand dollars a
Speaker 4: month allowance to raise the kid, but then he might
Speaker 4: makes them sign non dispara agreements. NDA's it's all very
Speaker 4: complicated and certainly odd from the perspectives of somebody with
Speaker 4: a much more traditional lifestyle like myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the figure you were the reporting was fifteen
Speaker 1: million lump sum and then one hundred thousand a month
Speaker 1: to Miss Saint Clair. Yeah, indeed, just that little romulus.
Speaker 1: Is that for life or is that for till the
Speaker 1: kid's eighteen?
Speaker 4: Well, she had some objections to the contract, specifically that
Speaker 4: it wasn't terribly specific about what would happen if Elon
Speaker 4: died before the kid hit twenty one, because I think
Speaker 4: that was one of the answer to your question.
Speaker 2: That's kind of easily taken care of. I mean.
Speaker 4: You would think, but yeah, it's a culture of don't
Speaker 4: challenge him, just play along, and he will make it
Speaker 4: very much worth your while.
Speaker 1: Once you got your fifteen million dollars, I think you're
Speaker 1: in decent shape.
Speaker 2: I mean, unless you're really bad, you got to pay
Speaker 2: it back.
Speaker 1: If you disparage him, you'll break the agreement. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that's the contract. So you come, you go to TMZ
Speaker 1: and say Elon's a bad dad and you owe him
Speaker 1: that you got to pay back to fifteen million dollars
Speaker 1: which you probably spent most of correct. Yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's an interesting arrangement you got into anyway.
Speaker 2: But so his rockets seem to be very, very good.
Speaker 2: Somebody brought up last Hour.
Speaker 1: So there's a certain theory with the Mungams and with
Speaker 1: Elon that his genius and I think he is a genius,
Speaker 1: will translate to the.
Speaker 2: Kid you have.
Speaker 1: But somebody pointed out last hour. There's not a lot
Speaker 1: of examples of that. I mean, we just were mentioning
Speaker 1: John Adams, John Quincy Adams. There's one example, but there's
Speaker 1: not like regular examples of Thomas Edison's kid or Einstein's
Speaker 1: kid or whatever, or athletes or you know, it happens
Speaker 1: now and then, but not usually.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have different goals and motivations. Of course, they're individuals.
Speaker 4: They might be really into, you know, writing about opera
Speaker 4: or history or whatever, and no interest in forging ahead
Speaker 4: in physics, for instance.
Speaker 1: So you got fifteen million dollars one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month, and you might have a dumb kid. You know,
Speaker 1: or Thomas Edison's kid just wanted to play the banjo.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Did he have kids?
Speaker 1: So I don't know, right, Yeah, that's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to watch. I'll bet Elon's gonna end up with forty
Speaker 1: fifty kids, whichard could be crazy, could be so coming up.
Speaker 4: Harvard announced that they need to offer remedial math classes
Speaker 4: now to the most exclusive university on a plan. And
Speaker 4: part of the reason for that is because common Core
Speaker 4: was such a miserable failure. Yep, sure, and you knew it,
Speaker 4: didn't you trying to help your kids with their homework.
Speaker 2: You're right, all of us parents knew it. You know.
Speaker 2: Look forward to complaining about this, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: A dozen eggs are going for more than six dollars
Speaker 7: according to the national average.
Speaker 1: You might have seen the.
Speaker 7: Social trends plastic egg decorating and dying marshmallows, and potatoes.
Speaker 7: All it takes is a little food dye you probably
Speaker 7: have in the back of your pantry from last.
Speaker 1: Year, and egg shaped potatoes.
Speaker 7: Both options are a fraction of the cost of a
Speaker 7: dozen eggs.
Speaker 6: I think to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs
Speaker 6: is the reason our grandparents left the old country.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 2: You know what you want, you know what you can
Speaker 2: do if you can't buy eggs.
Speaker 3: Eggs are suggestions, are good suggestions.
Speaker 6: Just tell your kids you hid the eggs really really
Speaker 6: well this year.
Speaker 2: How do you dye a plastic egg?
Speaker 4: You know, that's the perfect example of a social media
Speaker 4: trend that.
Speaker 1: Doesn't exist on Earth.
Speaker 4: It's only nobody's dying blanking potatoes. Egg shaped potatoes, no
Speaker 4: first social media trend. I don't think anybody's in a
Speaker 4: situation where that extra dollar from what they cost a
Speaker 4: year ago is going to keep you from being able
Speaker 4: to do it.
Speaker 2: And if you are, that's I feel for you.
Speaker 1: But like, sell some plasma today or a steal, do something,
Speaker 1: but don't make your kids die egg shaped potatoes.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, So coming up a little bingo banngo bongo of headlines,
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff going on. We'll just touch on
Speaker 1: a lot of it briefly. But I was struck, as
Speaker 1: so many were, that even Harvard is now having to
Speaker 1: offer remedial math classes because our nation's government schools are
Speaker 1: doing such a poor job of preparing kids for college.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. I can't believe you're qualify for Harvard, yet
Speaker 2: you need remedial math.
Speaker 4: I've been hearing for years about remedial English and writing
Speaker 4: in particular courses in a lot of universities for kids
Speaker 4: who are accepted into what are quote unquote the elite universities.
Speaker 4: And you know, not to brag or anything, we're the
Speaker 4: product of our upbringing in the education that was offered
Speaker 4: to us, and our own driving curiosity.
Speaker 2: But the idea that.
Speaker 4: You could get admitted into well I went, you know,
Speaker 4: to University of Illinois, for instance, and not the reasonably
Speaker 4: competent at math and reading is just astonishing to me,
Speaker 4: especially given and any parent of a high school or
Speaker 4: can tell you this right now. It's extremely competitive to
Speaker 4: get into these schools. What does all of that mean, Well,
Speaker 4: it has to do with great inflation and the dumbing
Speaker 4: down of education in the country. It's been a miserable failure.
Speaker 4: But I thought this was interesting. The Harvard is not
Speaker 4: labeling the new course remedial. The official se that the
Speaker 4: course quote is intended to support students who face early
Speaker 4: challenges in their math courses.
Speaker 2: In other words, it's remedial.
Speaker 1: So they quote an expert in the California Globe is Zuomi.
Speaker 1: Mister is Zumi. What's his first name?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but he does great work, Oh, Lance
Speaker 4: Zumi of the Pacific Research Institute. He says much of
Speaker 4: the reason for the poor performance of American students is
Speaker 4: because of the failed progressive math teaching methods and curricula
Speaker 4: pushed on schools by the National common Core Math Standards,
Speaker 4: which were adopted by most states in the early twenty tens.
Speaker 4: Under common Course math standards that tried and true standard algorithms,
Speaker 4: meaning step by step operational methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication,
Speaker 4: and division were de emphasized, while progressive and often confusing
Speaker 4: methods such as drawing pictures to solve fractional multiplication problems
Speaker 4: were prioritized. The result was widespread student math failure, with
Speaker 4: a federally funded study finding the common Core has had
Speaker 4: a significant negative impact on eighth grade math achievements and
Speaker 4: that this negative fact effect has increased over time.
Speaker 2: This is not a shock to any parent who dealt
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 1: I was starting roughly ten years ago. My kids got
Speaker 1: into elementary school and they were doing math like grade
Speaker 1: school math that I couldn't help them with. And I
Speaker 1: was a math guy, and I couldn't help them with it.
Speaker 1: And I talked to lots of people like, Oh, we've
Speaker 1: gotten emails from people that were like literally rocket scientists
Speaker 1: who couldn't help their kids with their math because it
Speaker 1: made no sense.
Speaker 4: You know, that method of teaching makes sense to a
Speaker 4: small number of kids who, for whatever neurological reasons, see
Speaker 4: the world that way.
Speaker 2: Well, good for them, you know.
Speaker 4: And I'll go ahead and get to my usual punchline
Speaker 4: on this, and then there's more information on this, which
Speaker 4: to me is really interesting. But education is so overloaded
Speaker 4: with administrators, number one, and with people with phony advanced degrees,
Speaker 4: masters and PhDs that are completely unnecessary to the task
Speaker 4: of educating children. They did a hell of a job
Speaker 4: not very long ago without a bunch of PhDs running
Speaker 4: around your local elementary school. Well, if you are a
Speaker 4: would be, you know, a leading light in your industry,
Speaker 4: you're never going to become one by saying the stuff
Speaker 4: we've been doing for the last seventy years, it's perfect,
Speaker 4: it's great. Really, we don't need to tweak it hardly
Speaker 4: at all. Let's just keep going. You will never become
Speaker 4: a leading light that way. The last innovation, how.
Speaker 1: About the last seven hundred years when it comes to
Speaker 1: basic math, right, right, yeah, seven thousand.
Speaker 4: Archimedes is spinning in his grave anyway. So there's this
Speaker 4: never ending push to innovate, even at the expense of
Speaker 4: the kids. And it's all supported by the teachers unions
Speaker 4: who work to quash And I remember at the time
Speaker 4: anybody who was saying, hey, common course crazy and it
Speaker 4: doesn't work. You're portrayed as some sort of right wing.
Speaker 1: Fascist, right and then a lot and a lot of something,
Speaker 1: not a lot, But some of the teachers were completely
Speaker 1: aware of this because I ended up in a situation
Speaker 1: where one of my children was struggling with the math
Speaker 1: and they said, look, look, just to do the flash cards.
Speaker 1: Do the old fashioned way, the flash cards, okay, some
Speaker 1: memorizing math facts because they didn't want kids to have
Speaker 1: to do that for some reason. Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 4: So back to mister Azumi, he said, a major study
Speaker 4: by the ACT Test found that from twenty ten to
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, a dozen years, the grade point average
Speaker 4: in high school English, math, science, and social studies courses
Speaker 4: among students taking the ACT College Inferance Test increased year
Speaker 4: over year, while their ACT scores decreased in every one
Speaker 4: of those subjects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's we know why that is.
Speaker 1: They lower the ball to get more passing grades or
Speaker 1: straight a's. You're not learning more. They just make it
Speaker 1: easier to qualify for an A. It's the what's the
Speaker 1: good what principles? My favorite thing I've ever learned in
Speaker 1: my life. Yeah, Goodhart principle. Once a measure becomes a goal,
Speaker 1: it ceases to be a good measure. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened there. And there's all kinds of examples through life.
Speaker 1: Once you think about it, this is a perfect one
Speaker 1: right there. Once they measure became a goal, the goal
Speaker 1: was we need more people who were straight a's, or
Speaker 1: we need more people who pass Okay, then you change
Speaker 1: the structure to get.
Speaker 4: That result, right thumbs on scales in short. Yeah, final
Speaker 4: note from mister Zuomi. In my book, I conclude that
Speaker 4: too many K through twelve schools are putting political ideology
Speaker 4: over what works, whether it be a misguided equity agenda
Speaker 4: that seeks to dumb down learning to the lowest common denominator,
Speaker 4: or progressive curricula and instructural methods that are being used
Speaker 4: in intellectual defiance of him empirical evidence showing that they
Speaker 4: are ineffective and are damaging children.
Speaker 2: Then he goes into great inflation.
Speaker 1: How dangerous it is, and then how miserable things are
Speaker 1: in the state of California, since this is the California globe,
Speaker 1: and what an utter failure education is in particular compared
Speaker 1: to Florida.
Speaker 2: But enough of that.
Speaker 1: You're right all along, folks, you were right all along.
Speaker 2: Man. That's frustrating.
Speaker 1: If you spent many hours sitting around the table trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to help your kid with their math,
Speaker 1: they get frustrated, You get frustrated, and it was all
Speaker 1: freaking a waste of time, complete freaking waste of time,
Speaker 1: no need whatsoever.
Speaker 2: God, that makes me angry.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: If I was a zillionaire, I would figure out a
Speaker 4: way to grow some of the great private school the
Speaker 4: fundamental schools that exist in the world. I'm aware of
Speaker 4: John Adams Academy. I was just talking to somebody involved
Speaker 4: in that the other day, and there are a number
Speaker 4: of worthy examples around the country. But man, I would
Speaker 4: like to somehow fertilize their growth and their affordability for
Speaker 4: average American families, because you know, talk shows the talk
Speaker 4: radio is the land of hyperbole.
Speaker 2: It's like the Internet.
Speaker 4: But I swear I'm not trying to be hyperbolic when
Speaker 4: I say this is a terrible, almost fatal disease.
Speaker 2: We have in this country.
Speaker 4: How perverse in and effect of our education systems have become.
Speaker 4: And it ought to be just coast to coast, a
Speaker 4: national priority to sort it out. But there are moneyed
Speaker 4: interests who are standing in the way.
Speaker 5: Well it.
Speaker 1: You know, after many generations of you could count on
Speaker 1: as a parent, you know, my kid waits out there
Speaker 1: at the bus stop, he gets on the bus, he
Speaker 1: goes to school, he learns, he's going to learn what
Speaker 1: he needs to learn. He's gonna come out, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to be a productive citizen in the world
Speaker 1: like I did. Like I did, you could count on it.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to worry about it. But those days
Speaker 1: are over. But it's just it's a lot easier to
Speaker 1: think you can just drop your kid off at school
Speaker 1: and they're getting what they need. No they're not, probably,
Speaker 1: and you've got to stay on top of it. And
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: It absolutely is a few more stories squeeze in the court.
Speaker 4: A appeal Federal Appeals Court yesterday delivered a striking rebuke
Speaker 4: to the Trump administration's renewed challenge to an order that
Speaker 4: is seeking the return of that guy who needs to
Speaker 4: be returned from the Salvador in prison. The court called
Speaker 4: it a shocking or is a quote it must facilitate
Speaker 4: the return. The government is asserting a right to stash
Speaker 4: away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the
Speaker 4: semblance of due process that is the foundation of our
Speaker 4: constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it
Speaker 4: has rid itself of custody, that now nothing can be done,
Speaker 4: said the Reagan appointee judge, writing for a unanimous three
Speaker 4: judge panel of that appeals court.
Speaker 2: This is not over.
Speaker 1: The biggest question mark on that whole story to me
Speaker 1: is why did his wife try to get a restraining
Speaker 1: order on it, claiming he was beating her and was
Speaker 1: so violent and all this sort of stuff. And the
Speaker 1: quotes are out there from the actual legal documents, and
Speaker 1: now is saying he's a great man. That wasn't true,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean it or something. I wonder what's going
Speaker 1: on there? Yeah, boy, it could be half a dozen
Speaker 1: different things. Could be lots of different things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fear being cajoled by activists, being bribed, Yeah, some
Speaker 4: sort of you know, they were about to get divorced
Speaker 4: when she made the original claims. Who knows with something
Speaker 4: like that, But not impossible that somebody gets to her
Speaker 4: with here's a lot of good things that will happen.
Speaker 1: To you if you just say he's a good dude.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, you know you want your kid to
Speaker 4: go to school in this country, We can take.
Speaker 1: Care of that, go to college or whatever. Here's a
Speaker 1: little fun to get you started.
Speaker 4: Our our buddy, mister Soros, who is behind a lot
Speaker 4: of the protests that are going on right now, as
Speaker 4: always finances it. But yeah, absolutely true. Go ahead and
Speaker 4: roll a clip ninety Michael. I wanted to touch on this.
Speaker 8: President has spent eighty seven days at the highest level
Speaker 8: of its government repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war
Speaker 8: to an end. We are now reaching a point where
Speaker 8: we need to decide and determine whether this is even
Speaker 8: possible or not, which is why we're engaging both sides.
Speaker 8: We need to figure out here now, within a matter
Speaker 8: of days, whether this is doable in the short term,
Speaker 8: because if it's not, then I think we're just going
Speaker 8: to move on from our perspective.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio there said the US would
Speaker 1: pause its efforts to negotiate an end of the war
Speaker 1: in Ukraine if progress isn't made in the coming days,
Speaker 1: in an attempt to put pressure on Kiev end Moscow
Speaker 1: to compromise.
Speaker 2: I have not seen Moscow compromising at all. No, No,
Speaker 2: what is next the next step? No idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Euros are going to hold a meeting that
Speaker 4: Rubio said, I'm happy to go to if there's any
Speaker 4: point in it. But this, the prospect of some sort
Speaker 4: of peace agreement is completely out to see at this point,
Speaker 4: completely out to see. It was from the beginning. I'm
Speaker 4: out of order here. I meant to mention that that
Speaker 4: Senator Van Holland from Maryland met with the deported mister
Speaker 4: Abrego Garcia. And the only reason I bring that up,
Speaker 4: or wanted to, was because the wise cracking president of
Speaker 4: El Salvador Na bo Kelly continued his sarcastic comedy tour,
Speaker 4: saying that after the meeting, now that he's been confirmed healthy,
Speaker 4: he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody,
Speaker 4: so we're not turning them loose.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: So he's still there and will remain so until further notice.
Speaker 1: Opinions are like elbows, as they say. But here's an
Speaker 1: opinion for other people saying more earthy version of that
Speaker 1: that I would say, which I don't say because I'm
Speaker 1: you know, classy.
Speaker 2: But everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: At least one high profile business saying there are going
Speaker 1: to be thousands, then many, maybe millions of American small
Speaker 1: businesses go bankrupt this year if this whole Chinese tariff
Speaker 1: thing doesn't go away. We can explain that at some
Speaker 1: point that that's a that's that's quite a prediction.
Speaker 4: And Bertie Sanders spending a quarter of a million dollars
Speaker 4: for private jets on his fighting oligarchy tour.
Speaker 2: You with us all all the way, stay here. The
Speaker 2: shooter is twenty.
Speaker 9: Year old Phoenix Eibner, and he's a son of a
Speaker 9: Leon County sheriff deputy. Our deputy Deputy Eidner has been
Speaker 9: with the Lean County Sheriff's Office for over eighteen years. Unfortunately,
Speaker 9: her son had access to one of her weapons, and.
Speaker 2: That was one of the weapons. That's what's found at
Speaker 2: the scene.
Speaker 1: That's a shooting that happened college in Florida yesterday. Have
Speaker 1: you heard anything about how kind of trouble this sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 2: Might be in kid getting hold of her gun.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I can assume a couple of things, But no, not really.
Speaker 4: The mainstream media, I was just looking at some news
Speaker 4: alerts is delighted to inform us that this young man
Speaker 4: had right wing conspiracy theories. It's funny how they were
Speaker 4: uninterested in the fact that the lunatic who burned down
Speaker 4: the Governor Shapiro's house in Pennsylvania appears to be not
Speaker 4: only a lunatic, but a pro Palestinian activist that was
Speaker 4: not worthy of coverage.
Speaker 2: They're just such lying liars.
Speaker 1: But stop shooting people in burning stuff, you jackasses.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't need to belabor this at all. Is there
Speaker 1: anything to say about another shooting anything?
Speaker 9: Not?
Speaker 2: Really, I don't know how he getted.
Speaker 1: Another pathetic coward who thinks he gets to hurt people
Speaker 1: because he's unhappy about this, that or the other. Why
Speaker 1: are we going to start as a culture calling these
Speaker 1: people stupids and make it utterly clear to everyone right,
Speaker 1: like a drunk driver or a wife beater. It's not funny,
Speaker 1: it's not cool. You're not a hero, you're not scary.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna put your pictures on the news like
Speaker 4: you're some sort of a character out of the matrix.
Speaker 2: Now you're a stupid coward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if if we could get all the
Speaker 1: media to go along with the loser then walked through
Speaker 1: the hallways and you know, just refer to them as
Speaker 1: a loser all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, change topic. Luckily that wasn't a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: dads there. Oh, there were a couple of couple of kids.
Speaker 1: There going to that college that had been at the
Speaker 1: school in Parkland, Florida when they were younger.
Speaker 4: Then jeez, well you earlier about a shooting in the
Speaker 4: town where you live, where thank god nobody died, but
Speaker 4: kids are terrorized and afraid to sleep in their own beds.
Speaker 4: And often I think we all of us say, Okay,
Speaker 4: thank god nobody died. But if you've ever a been
Speaker 4: in a situation where you could have died, like some
Speaker 4: monstrous lunatic was trying to kill you, and perhaps he
Speaker 4: shot you, and you have a gunshot wound to heal
Speaker 4: from your body and your mind are changed forever.
Speaker 1: It's not okay because somebody didn't die, right, Okay, complete
Speaker 1: change of tone. Here is somebody on Facebook making fun
Speaker 1: of the whole Chicksterrenaut episode.
Speaker 2: What I know. I hate to see it made fun of.
Speaker 5: I feel love, like live left Love, but like the
Speaker 5: rich version of it. I hope everyone sees how unified
Speaker 5: we were go to space in full glam. I hope
Speaker 5: that in seeing us make the decision to spend that
Speaker 5: kind of money to leave Earth, that everyone else understands
Speaker 5: you're not like us. This was important for us to
Speaker 5: do because tourism to space isn't for everyone. We weren't
Speaker 5: just going to space. We were making space for all
Speaker 5: of you to watch us. This is what women need
Speaker 5: right now, tourism, cute outfits, hair extensions, and zero gravity.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's pretty good. Well, there's a lot to mock
Speaker 2: in the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever that was the point had the biggest backfires
Speaker 1: in recent memory, but it was delightful. We all needed
Speaker 1: a moodlift, didn't we, folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'd like to thank the ladies for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Armstrong and Getty