1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and get Catie 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 2: and no Hee Armstrong and Gutty Strong. We are not wrong. 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,240 Speaker 2: We are still on vacation, and yeah, we're trying to recharge. 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 3: We're trying to just everything ready to go for a bit, 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 3: Noon twenty twenty six. You know, I gotta get her 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 3: name faces on. I'd like to have a word with 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 3: future Shoe. You got on the scale this morning. You said, 10 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 3: oh my god, what did you expect the way you've 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 3: been eating on vacation? What did you expect? Answer me, Well, 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: enjoy and don't. 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: Worry about it. You can lose it in the new year. 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 2: Enjoy some fabulous Armstrong and Geddy replay. We'll get this. 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 4: A new ranking of the top global airlines was just 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 4: released and not a single US carrier made the top ten. Luckily, 17 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 4: no one's flying on US airline. We'll hear this news 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 4: because there's seat screens work and the Wi Fi cost 19 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 4: thirty dollars. 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 2: But this is true. 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 4: Spirit Airlines ranked one hundred and fifteenth, which is really 22 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 4: nice because there's only eighty three airlines. 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 3: So I want to talk a little bit about flying later. 24 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 3: As the Secretary of Transportation came out yesterday and said 25 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 3: some things, and as they were presented by the mainstream media, 26 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 3: of course I have to present everything and Trump administration 27 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 3: is stupid and hilarious, and he talked about people dressing 28 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 3: up more to fly on planes. I thought that is 29 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 3: kind of a weird thing to say, but then I 30 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: heard it in context which I thought was really interesting, 31 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 3: and that was regarding the topic of like all these 32 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: fights on planes and the lack of decorum that we've 33 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,559 Speaker 3: started having in airports and on planes, and it gets 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: the whole culture conversation that I brought up on the 35 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: One More Thing podcast with Elvis and the Beatles and 36 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 3: long hair. 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, I want to talk about that again later. Interesting. 38 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 3: Would it be possible to get to an airline going 39 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 3: that you had to apply to fly on and it 40 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 3: wouldn't be like a really high bar, But if you're 41 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 3: just a jackass or you ever, you know, pulled, you know, 42 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 3: wacky behavior, you'd be off the list. It'd be like 43 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 3: a private club, an airline club, but we wouldn't get like, 44 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 3: it wouldn't be exclusive to like the top two percent. 45 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: It'd be exclusive to like the top eighty five percent, 46 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 3: just not the fifteen percent of America that makes life miserable, 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 3: or maybe ninety eight percent. I mean the percentage of 48 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 3: people that are ever gonna freaking fight, throw punches or 49 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: start screaming at you know, a plane has got to 50 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 3: be pretty damn small, right, I'm telling you, I'm going 51 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 3: to get that started. How much does a plane cost? 52 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 3: I got to buy a bunch of planes first step. 53 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 2: Uh. 54 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: This Fox poll that's out is getting a lot of 55 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 3: attention and more the more I dug into it. 56 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 2: It should be getting a lot of attention. 57 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: This is some I was gonna say it's bad news 58 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: for Trump. It is because he's in office currently. But 59 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 3: what it says the overall takeaway for me as I 60 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 3: read it, is we got a very big chunk of 61 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: America that is unhappy with their economic situation or the 62 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 3: economic situation of the country. And they were unhappy under 63 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 3: Obama at the end, they're feeling better under Trump first term, 64 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: but still it's kind of unhappy, really unhappy under Biden 65 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 3: and really unhappy under Trump again. 66 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 2: And so it's just. 67 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: Our politics are going to swing back and forth like crazy, 68 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 3: and each election, pundits who make their living trying to 69 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 3: figure out the electorates say the Democrats have gotten back 70 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 3: the Hispanic vote and the young, uneducated white male and 71 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 3: then when the other party wins and Trump wins, is ah, 72 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 3: Trump has figured out how to talk to the high 73 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 3: school graduate, white working No, it's just all these people 74 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 3: think they're getting screwed and they're unhappy at the time. 75 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 2: They don't follow politics that closely. 76 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 3: They just want to boot out who's ever in there 77 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 3: and think the next person will be better. 78 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: I think that's it. There's a lot of that. 79 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 3: Currently, three quarters of voters view the economy negatively. It's 80 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: worse than the seventy percent that said the same at 81 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 3: the end of Black Biden's term. 82 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 2: That might be the only number you need to talk about. 83 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 3: So at the end of Biden's first term when he 84 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: got heaved out because Trump's economy was so good, you know, 85 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: first term, seventy percent had a negative viewed economy. It's 86 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 3: now seventy six percent. Yeah, I think Trump may be 87 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 3: getting hosed on that. And I based that partly on 88 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 3: a piece I read by Larry Cudlow. He was talking 89 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 3: about how since uh, Trump has been in office for 90 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 3: eight months now and the inflation of groceries during his 91 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 3: you need to say that again, that is an excellent point. 92 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 3: How do we all forget that every single day? Oh yeah, 93 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 3: it's just eight months or so, or three years into 94 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 3: the Trump term. No, we have many months of consumer 95 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 3: price index reports. I should say we just started Trump's term. 96 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, it's amazing, But the 97 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,799 Speaker 3: increase in the price of groceries, the inflation of groceries. 98 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: Has actually been very, very modest. 99 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 3: The cumulative grocery price jump is one point four percent, 100 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 3: and Cudlow say says that he has nothing to apologize for, 101 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: his point being that the terrible inflation of the Biden years. 102 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 3: You've phrased it as people still haven't gotten used to 103 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 3: seeing those prices on items. The other reality is, though 104 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 3: wages have increased significantly, they haven't increased nearly enough to 105 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 3: eat up all of the inflation and prices, and so 106 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 3: people are still getting abused by the prices they see 107 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 3: every single day, and they've actually gone up a teeny 108 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 3: tiny bit since Trump took office, which is not surprising, 109 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 3: but partly because Trump promised he would lower prices, and 110 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 3: on a few groceries they have lowered, but most it's 111 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 3: just arresting the rise in prices or just. 112 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: Letting them rise a little bit. I think people are. 113 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 3: People expected much more than they could reasonably expect to get. 114 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 2: Partially because they were told unreasonable things. Yeah, that's true. 115 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 2: That well, that's American elections. Yeah, no doubt about it. 116 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 3: Well, since you brought that up, we'll get into the 117 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 3: specifics on what people feel about these things. Compared to 118 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 3: a year ago, voters say their Seventy eight percent of 119 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 3: voters say their utilities have gone up, two thirds say 120 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 3: their healthcare has gone up, two thirds say their housing 121 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 3: has gone up. 122 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: Over halfs say their gasolina is higher. 123 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 3: Eighty five percent say their grocery prices are higher, including 124 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 3: sixty percent who say they're and groceries have gone up 125 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 3: a lot. Eighty five percent say their grocery prices are 126 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: more expensive under Trump than they were before, and sixty 127 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,799 Speaker 3: percent say a lot. 128 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 2: That's that's a bad political. 129 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 3: Environment for you, Whether it's fair or not, that doesn't 130 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 3: really factor in unless you can get out there and 131 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 3: message in such a way that you convince people it's 132 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 3: not your fault. 133 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, they better message aggressively. 134 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 3: I mean, because for one thing, people are coming to 135 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 3: the annual renewal of various things, their homewress, insurance, their 136 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 3: current insurance, their healthcare plan, their rent, their least whatever, 137 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 3: and the Biden inflation hadn't hit them in a long 138 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 3: time in those categories, and now they're getting punched in 139 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 3: the stomach. By the way, because we usually break down 140 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: the polls Republican and Democrat, because sometimes the number for 141 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 3: Democrats can be ninety eight percent and for Republicans it's 142 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 3: two percent. You average it out to fifty and what 143 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 3: does that tell you about anything? But on this particular 144 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 3: topic that I just hit you with all those numbers, 145 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 3: it was majorities of Republicans that agree with the majorities 146 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 3: of Democrats on all of those numbers, except for gas. 147 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 3: All the other numbers, Oh, it's majority of Republicans say, yeah, 148 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: it's gotten more expensive. 149 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: How about this number. 150 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: At the end of Biden's term, voters said by a 151 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: thirty point margin that his policies had done more to 152 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 3: hurt than help their families. 153 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 2: I remember we talked about that a lot. 154 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, the new survey shows almost eight identical results thirty 155 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 3: one point margin that Trump's economic policies have hurt rather 156 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 3: than help them. 157 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: Wow. 158 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 3: Wow, you know one more excuse for Trump. He's got 159 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: the entirety of the media against him, but that is 160 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 3: electorally disastrous. By a two to one margin, voters say 161 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 3: Trump is more responsible for the current economy than Biden. 162 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 3: That doesn't make any sense obviously, since Trumps, since you know, 163 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:26,239 Speaker 3: you got to bake. 164 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: The cake of the economy. 165 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 3: It takes a long time to steer the giant aircraft 166 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 3: carrier of the economy. It turns very slowly. But the 167 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 3: only saying is so true. Presidents get more credit or 168 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 3: blame for everything that happens to the economy because the 169 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 3: predecessor usually you know, will put the ingredients in the cake. Well, 170 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 3: and we're talking about the percentage of the economy or 171 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: how do I face this exactly? That the president in 172 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 3: the federal government can affect it all because your state 173 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 3: is really important to the economy. It's laws, regulations, not 174 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 3: to mention hello, market forces. Yeah, we shouldn't be talking 175 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 3: about the government much at all when we're talking about 176 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 3: the economy. It's way over involved in the economy. So 177 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 3: the idea that the president can wave a magic fiscal 178 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 3: wand and turn things around is just a fantasy that's 179 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: been you know, sold by both parties for a long time. 180 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 3: So I get why people are fooled by it, but 181 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 3: it's ridiculous. Again, it's two to one voters say Trump 182 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 3: is more responsible for the current economy than Biden, and 183 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 3: like eighty percent of people say the economy for them 184 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 3: is bad. It's sixty two to thirty two. So those 185 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 3: are some tough numbers. Had an inflation is high or 186 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 3: has been high, nothing else matters. That is so flipping true. 187 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 3: And you see it every day. 188 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: I know. 189 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 3: That's the way it wears on me, even if it's 190 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 3: a small thing. You know, I got and then I 191 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 3: end up spending twenty eight dollars. But if I thought 192 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 3: it was going to be sixteen and it's twenty eight, 193 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 3: it just puts in my mind a feeling of damn, 194 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 3: things are expensive, right, And if under the next guy's 195 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: watch it goes up to twenty nine, you're not thinking, well, 196 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 3: as an annualized rate, that's actually fairly modest. No, you're thinking, 197 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 3: holy crap, that's expensive. And it compounds inflation like interest compounds, 198 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 3: you know, it's it's funny, and I've got all sorts 199 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 3: of stuff on inflation I want to talk about later, 200 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 3: just because I think it's important people understand it. That's like, 201 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: the number one reason you ought to be in favor 202 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,599 Speaker 3: of serious fiscal responsibility in the government is the insidious 203 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 3: hidden tax of inflation. But was I gonna say I 204 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 3: had a point there as an inflation. Oh, that's right. 205 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 3: So the way that gets you so enthusiastic about saving, 206 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 3: or they used to anyway, is they point out that, look, 207 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 3: if you make a five percent interest the next year, 208 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 3: you're not making you know, you're not getting five percent 209 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 3: of a dollar. 210 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 2: You're getting five percent of a dollar. 211 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 3: Five, which turns into you know, after a couple of years, 212 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 3: it's a dollar six, and it grows and pounds. Well, 213 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 3: inflation's the same thing. Two percent of a dollar six 214 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 3: is more than two percent of a dollar. Yeah, so 215 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 3: it keeps compounding and eating away at your buying power. 216 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 3: So here's where I turned cynical libertarian. So the government 217 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 3: can print money and hand it out to their cronies 218 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 3: and or buy your votes, even though it's incredibly ill 219 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 3: advised to print that money. Before we take a break, 220 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 3: and get to mail bag. I'll hit you with a 221 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 3: couple of numbers that are bad for the Democrats, just 222 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 3: to you know, throw that out. 223 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 2: There, you go give them one or two. 224 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 3: Yes, a record low thirty nine percent have a favorable 225 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 3: view of the Democratic Party. That's the lowest they've ever had, 226 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 3: prombly because they're so terrible Senate. 227 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 2: Everyone knows it. Yeah, yes, or your lips to God's ears. 228 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 3: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has a twenty two percent 229 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 3: approval rating. Who are you twenty two percent? What are 230 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 3: your standards? What bad leader of the minority party in 231 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 3: the Senate look like? 232 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 5: And do? 233 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 2: Yeah? 234 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 3: But really, the overall headline is Trump is down thirty 235 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 3: eight percent on the economy. Then that was his rock solid. 236 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 3: You know, even if you hated Trump, you believed him 237 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 3: on the economy first term. He's now at thirty eight 238 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 3: percent on the economy. That's a big deal. 239 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: Yeah. 240 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 3: The piece I was reading, I can't remember where about 241 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Green in a big meeting of the Republican 242 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 3: Party in her district and how it became clear that 243 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 3: the vast bulk of the folks were with Margie as 244 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 3: opposed to Trump in the areas where they disagreed, and 245 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 3: there was a fair current of Trump seems more interested 246 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 3: in the world. Marjorie is more about the people of 247 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: her district than the people in this part of the country. Yeah, well, 248 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 3: Trump yesterday I heard him talking about the stock market records, 249 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 3: and Marjorie Taylor Green is probably talking about the price 250 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 3: of you know, let us or whatever something was making 251 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 3: seven dollars to a whole bunch to a whole bunch 252 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 3: voters that never ever think about the stock market. 253 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 2: Ever, this is not on the radar at. 254 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 3: All, right, right, Yeah, it's the first signs of out 255 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: of touch billionaire we've seen a handful of times in 256 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 3: recent days. Yeah, or the signs that we got a 257 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 3: really angry proletariat that probably ought to be educated on 258 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 3: bigger picture stuff and. 259 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: Have a better understanding the way the world works. Maybe 260 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 2: both both. Oh Joe throws out of both. 261 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 3: We've got just made the case that people who never 262 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 3: even think about the stock market because they got no 263 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 3: money in it, you know, they have the right to 264 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 3: be mad. 265 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 2: Which what side of this are you working? 266 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 3: Are you jumping back and forth like some sort of 267 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 3: frog or flea or some jumping thing I'm trying to 268 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 3: have both sides. Okay, That's what I'm trying to tell you. 269 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 3: Never lose an argument that way, or it's. 270 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 2: The other way. Usually I'm trying to anger everyone. 271 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: Yes, the Armstrong and Getty Show or Jack your show 272 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: podcasts and our hot Legs. 273 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 2: Strong and Getty Show. 274 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 3: We had a conversation last week that I was very 275 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 3: uncomfortable with, and I felt very guilty about it because 276 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 3: I concealed a truth during the conversation, confession being good 277 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 3: for the soul. 278 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 2: I am here to confess it. 279 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 3: But like all good confessions, they work best in a 280 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 3: multiple choice format. 281 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 2: And so I'm going to give you multiple choices. 282 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 3: But to up the ante, each of the choices will 283 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 3: get successively more evil. 284 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 2: Oh boy, and you have to choose which one I 285 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 2: am actually guilty of. I'm so uncomfortable right now. 286 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 3: Hey, I, Joe Getty have a second wife across town, 287 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 3: with whom I have two children. She is in a 288 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 3: legal alien and I keep her in line by threatening 289 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 3: her with deportation. 290 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: What's okay? 291 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: What's striking about this is you clearly didn't do that, 292 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 3: but you're going up. 293 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 2: The landing at worse, They're going to get worse. 294 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, okay, anybody want to go for a or 295 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: you want to go on, you want to roll the dice? 296 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 2: Anybody, Michael, Clearly that's not true. 297 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, b I am now and have been 298 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 3: for thirty years an active member of the American Communist 299 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 3: Party and have been working to subvert the Constitution with 300 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 3: every ounce of my energy up to and including acts 301 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 3: of violence and sabotage. So I think I think you've 302 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 3: laid a really good premise here, because you've given two 303 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 3: very bad choices obviously not true. 304 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 2: Whatever something, What are off held? Did you do that? 305 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 5: Am I gonna want to associate with you after this? 306 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 2: I don't know, Comrade. 307 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 3: Perhaps again from a conversation last week in which I 308 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 3: conceal the truth or possibility, say, I had never seen Gladiator. 309 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 2: Until this weekend. 310 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 3: Oh wow, whoa You saw the movie Gladiator? My secret 311 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 3: shame Gladiator won? 312 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 2: You remembled it. 313 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 3: Along with every converse, SA, shit, are you not entertained? 314 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 2: Ha ha? I grow. 315 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 3: I assume you went along with the factors because I 316 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 3: watched it with my son Henry a couple of weeks 317 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 3: back before we went to Gladiator two. 318 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 2: He loved it. And it reminded me how much great 319 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 2: it was. 320 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 3: But I said it might be in my top three 321 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 3: movies of all time, and I. 322 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 2: Did not at that moment revealed, you know, I've never 323 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: seen that movie. Wow, that was good because I. 324 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 3: Knew the derision that would rain down upon Were you 325 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 3: probably okay twenty years ago? Yeah, you were in the 326 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 3: middle of raising kids, So no, of course you didn't 327 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: see that movie. 328 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 2: Because I had a house full of babies, including a 329 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 2: one year old. 330 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't see anything between I don't know whatever 331 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 3: years twenty ten and like a year ago. 332 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 5: I am impressed, Joe, because you carried on a full 333 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 5: blown conversation about that movie as if you it was one. 334 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: Of your favorites. 335 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I read a lot, so I pick 336 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 3: up clues from the you know, contexts and stuff like that. 337 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 3: But you know, Jack, you make a good point. I 338 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 3: remember roughly when the movie came out. Hey, dude, you 339 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 3: got to see this is great. It's an unbelievable movie. 340 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 3: Great guy in Villain. It's like two and a half 341 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 3: hours long, and I'm my responss chance or if I'm 342 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 3: gonna have a couple two three hours, I'm gonna spend 343 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 3: it silently staring at a screen when you can hang 344 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 3: out with your wife or doing something. I mean, yeah, 345 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 3: not gonna happen. 346 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 2: It was fun. Nobody could do what Russell Crow did. 347 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 2: I don't know what magic he had there, but you 348 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: like Gladiator movies. 349 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 3: It's been stated by various people, including me, that the 350 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 3: corruption and rot in our education system, specifically far left 351 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 3: in doctrination is is the biggest problem facing America because 352 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 3: hearkening back to Lincoln statement that essentially we'd never be 353 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 3: brought down from without. The only way the United States 354 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 3: ends is if we commit suicide. I think that is 355 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 3: the route by which we commit suicide. We raise generation 356 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 3: after generation that hates their country and embraces these Marxist principles. Anyway, 357 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 3: that's kind of the umbrella over this featurette this segment 358 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 3: quick headline. Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's cuts 359 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 3: to the Education Department. 360 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: It's one of those emergency orders. 361 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 3: They didn't mention the vote, but it was probably six 362 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 3: to three, and there's no like rationale given because they 363 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 3: don't do that on emergency orders, generally speaking. But so 364 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 3: he can go ahead and gut the Department of Education. Wow, 365 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 3: gut gut, and I feel like that's language of the left. 366 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 3: Gut oh, gut, gut away, get gut. Well, the gut's good, 367 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 3: that's im. Yeah, yeah, okay, So I thought this was 368 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,719 Speaker 3: interesting a couple of wags in the New York Times 369 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 3: with the following article. And we're leading up to the 370 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 3: big Gohona, this is like this. You had the opening 371 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 3: opening band play two songs. Now these guys get like 372 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 3: a twenty minute set. 373 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 2: But don't worry. 374 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 3: We're heading for the headliner, which is the evil evil 375 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 3: teachers unions. And I stand by those words. Woo what 376 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 3: a smaller education department is doing under Trump, writes the 377 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 3: New York Times. Cuts have hit most of the department's 378 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 3: main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints. 379 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 2: That means, for the last quite a. 380 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 3: Few years, enforcing DEI dictates. That's what they mean by 381 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 3: enforcing civil rights complaints, providing financial aid a bloated system 382 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 3: that has skyrocketed the costs of college education, which Trump 383 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 3: is about to roll back too. We'll have more time 384 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 3: for that another time. But the federal government is to 385 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 3: a large extent getting out of education financing, moving along 386 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 3: with the subhead here in the New York Times. Other 387 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 3: things the Department of Education does researching. 388 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: What works in education. 389 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 3: Oh like when the Department of Education handed down dictates 390 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 3: and funding to get rid of phonics in favor of 391 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 3: the newest, fashionable whole language learning or whatever, they called 392 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 3: it a miserable, miserable failure. What else do they do 393 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 3: testing students on the federal level. Ah, you could make 394 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 3: an argument for that, but as Jack is explained through 395 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 3: Goodheart's Law, once you established that as a standard, they 396 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 3: pervert the education system, they just score better. And then 397 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 3: finally and dispersing federal funding. 398 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 2: That's what we need the Education Department to do. 399 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, Dispersing federal funding is the leash that they have 400 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 3: the school districts on that they yank if they don't 401 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 3: fall into line with whatever left wing dictate has been 402 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 3: handed down. 403 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 404 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 3: You're seeing Trump use it now in different levels, right, 405 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 3: to get it rid of boys in girl sports. Well right, exactly, 406 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 3: And in the past several years it was used to 407 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 3: enforce boys in girls sports and to enforce restorative justice 408 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 3: practices the bully's best friend, and to force saying if 409 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 3: you report violent students to the cops, that's the school 410 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 3: to jail pipeline. 411 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 2: They better not be minorities. 412 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 3: So yeah, great, the Education Department is just doing wonderful job, 413 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,479 Speaker 3: a wonderful job through the years, and it's just a 414 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 3: tragedy that they're being gutted anyway. 415 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 2: I promised you. 416 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 3: Now, ladies and gentlemen, the world's greatest rock and roll band, 417 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 3: the Rolling Stones. 418 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: Here's your headliner. 419 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 3: And this is some great, great writing by Maya Sulkan 420 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 3: in the Free Press headline is how do you fix schools? Teachers' 421 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:43,239 Speaker 3: union says stop Trump, ice and fascism. Maya Sulkin wrote this, 422 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 3: Forty percent of American fourth graders have less than basic 423 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 3: reading skills that's not proficient. 424 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: Forty percent have less than the basic. 425 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 3: Level of ability, and only twenty six percent of twelfth 426 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 3: grader are considered proficient in math, according to the federal 427 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 3: government's own educational I'm sorry Progress Assessment. Yeah, but more importantly, 428 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 3: did they have never ending pride assemblies in the proper 429 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 3: month at school? 430 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 2: Because that's what I like. Yeah, you're on the right track, 431 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 2: so Maya rts. 432 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: So you might think that there wasn't much else on 433 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 3: the minds of teachers that the latest annual gathering of 434 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 3: the nation's largest teachers union. 435 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: And it's a good point. 436 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 3: Our nation schools are miserably failing, our government schools, I 437 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 3: should say, miserably failing to teach kids what they need 438 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 3: to know. So that must be the main topic. Are 439 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 3: you blanking kidding me? No, And she goes into the 440 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 3: description of every approved business item in the agenda published 441 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 3: by the NEEA, but one convention delegate from Texas summarized 442 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 3: them by telling me the response she got while trying 443 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: to talk to other union members about the best ways 444 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 3: to teach reading and writing. We don't have time for that. 445 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 3: We've got to fight Trump. Her friend was told, no, somebody. 446 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 2: Said that out loud. 447 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 3: Yes, wow, wow, at least at the meeting, but that 448 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 3: ex sense in the classroom. 449 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 2: You've got to fight Trump. I can't believe anybody said 450 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 2: that out loud. 451 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 3: And this is this is not folks Breitbart, this is 452 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 3: the free press, which is, you know, very carefully nonpartisan 453 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 3: common sense. When I asked the NEA for comments, she writes, 454 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 3: the union directed me toward a number of previous statements, 455 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 3: including the convention speech by Becky Pringle, a middle school teacher. 456 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 3: Is now any a president? We must use our power 457 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 3: to take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts. 458 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 2: She said. 459 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 3: Here are some of the initiatives approved thousands of dollars 460 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 3: to quote defend democracy against Trump's embrace of fascism by 461 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 3: using the term fascism in which is misspelled. 462 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 2: By the way, How great is that to you? 463 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 3: It was the term fascism in materials to correctly characterize 464 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 3: Donald Trump's program in actions also support foreign participation in 465 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 3: the mass democratic movement against Trump's authoritarianism and violations of 466 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 3: human rights. 467 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 2: That includes support for the No King's movement. 468 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 3: Oh, that was orth shaking well, and the Los Angeles 469 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 3: based movement to defeat Trump's attempts to use federal forces 470 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 3: against the state of California and other states and communities. 471 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 2: Why are schools thinking about this stuff at all? 472 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 3: Also opposition to immigrations and custom enforcement, kidnapping of student leaders, 473 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 3: and support for students' rights to organize against ice raids 474 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 3: and deportations. 475 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: That's right. 476 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 3: Main plank of the National Education Association the Teachers Union 477 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 3: is to encourage kids to demonstrate against ice. If I 478 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 3: was going to be slightly charitable, I wonder if it's 479 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 3: just a over time, you just assumed, even within sk 480 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 3: school systems or in the teachers' unions at higher levels. 481 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 3: Maybe in the school you know it because you're up 482 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 3: against it every day, but you're in the teachers unions 483 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 3: at higher levels, you're not in the. 484 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 2: Schools on a regular basis. 485 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,479 Speaker 3: You just assume the nuts and bolts part is okay. 486 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 3: You know it's it's cruising along teaching kids math and 487 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 3: reading that that's fine. We just we need to there's 488 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 3: those other things we have the power to focus on, 489 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 3: and you just somehow missed the boat that that core part, 490 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 3: the learning part, yeah, had gotten overlooked or decayed or whatever. 491 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they don't care. It's an indoctrination factory. Another 492 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 3: a couple of uh. There are other resolutions that passed 493 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 3: UH to defend students' rights to dissent and organize against 494 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 3: Trump's policies, including attacks against ldgt Q plus students and 495 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 3: against racism. 496 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: I mean, if you're I. 497 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 6: Just I think about ahead, if you were going to 498 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 6: build a school today, a public if I was going 499 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 6: to maybe other people like in the town I live 500 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 6: in and wouldn't agree with me, But there's going to build 501 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 6: a school today there'd be no politics in it at all. 502 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 6: We wouldn't be doing anything about any political issue. 503 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,239 Speaker 3: There'd be no assemblies, there'd be no speeches, there'd be 504 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 3: no position papers. There'd be nothing like first period math, 505 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 3: second period reading, third period math again, I mean just 506 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 3: throughout today, and then you go to vics plays, social studies, 507 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 3: that sort of thing, learn the Constitution, and then you 508 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 3: go home. In response to the Supreme Court ruling allowing 509 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 3: parents top their kids out of gender ideology and doctrination, 510 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 3: the NEA will provide quote a sample local school board 511 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 3: resolution that protects educators in the classroom who are teaching 512 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus inclusive curriculum and content, meaning teaching your kid 513 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 3: that radical gender theory and the genderbread person and teaching 514 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 3: them that they can change their sexes if they want. 515 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 3: And indeed, you don't have to tell mommy and daddy. 516 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 3: I will help you. I will tell you where to go. 517 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: That's what the NEA is concerned about. I'm just going 518 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 3: to touch on a few more, because this is quite 519 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 3: the list. Oppose any move to eliminate the US Department 520 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,959 Speaker 3: of Education a bunch of radical stuff. Commitment to the 521 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 3: twenty twenty six Federal state and local elections as a 522 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 3: pivotal moment for our democracy training programs to address the 523 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 3: alarming level of discrimination against and bullying of Arab American 524 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 3: students in the public school system. That's the whole up 525 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: with the Palestinians thing, and it goes on and on 526 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 3: and on. The NEA is a radical leftist organization that 527 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 3: could not give a crap about your kids. I didn't 528 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 3: even get to a brilliant article entitled how did California's 529 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 3: public public education go from the best in the US 530 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 3: to the worst? But the short answer is, by following 531 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 3: chapter and verse all of the things we just mentioned, 532 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 3: the NA is promoting. There is no more righteous cause 533 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 3: than fighting against the left wing and doctrination factory in 534 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 3: America's government schools. 535 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 2: End of screed. 536 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 3: That reminds me, I got to find a math tutor. 537 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 3: I'm supposed to do that earlier. It's on my to 538 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 3: do list. My son going to make him do math 539 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 3: during the summer. That's some cruel parenting right there there. 540 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 2: You go. Gotta be cruel to be kind. 541 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 3: So that a person from Texas who am Ia quoted 542 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 3: at the beginning of the article said she wasn't surprised 543 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 3: at all to see the approved business items that have 544 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 3: nothing to do with basic educational principles. Quote, it's politics, 545 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 3: sex and gender. When delegates get up on stage, they 546 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 3: tell you that they're political. These things do not just 547 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 3: happen overnight. People just haven't been paying attention. 548 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 2: God, I wish should be what there aren't. 549 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 3: I suppose you couldn't rise to the ranks where you'd 550 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 3: get a speaking spot, but I wish should be more 551 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 3: people get up on stage say hey, can we just 552 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 3: talk about math and reading? 553 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 2: Like that's it? Never mintion Trump. 554 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 3: I have known and we hear from lots of teachers 555 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 3: who are horrified, outraged, and saddened by all this. Whether 556 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 3: y'all need to start. 557 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 2: Your own union or form some. 558 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 3: Sort of like you got your rebel stockholders, sometimes your 559 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 3: activist stockholders that shake up a corporation, y'all need to 560 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 3: somehow find a way to band together and shake up 561 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 3: the NEA and the other big one because they are 562 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 3: absolutely freaking anti American far left. You know gorillas, and 563 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,239 Speaker 3: I think gorillas is a pretty good term because they 564 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 3: are operating undercover indoctrinating our children. 565 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 2: Even if it weren't the far left part if it's 566 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 2: just not the core things your kid needs to learn 567 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 2: that they're spending time on, that's a crime. That's a 568 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 2: great point. 569 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show, Orgia Grgio Podcasts, and our 570 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: hot links. 571 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show. 572 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 3: A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion and nearing 573 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 3: LIFs in to donate them as food for captive linxes, lions, 574 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 3: and other carnivores. This is sounding like a pretty darn 575 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 3: good idea. Why haven't we thought about this in the 576 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 3: United States? You know what's funny is I don't know 577 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 3: if it's intentionally or unintentionally. 578 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 2: The subhead in the head from the New York Times. 579 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 3: Don't make it clear whether your animal is alive in 580 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 3: this scenario or not. 581 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,719 Speaker 2: Right, I was wondering about that. But we got shelters 582 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 2: full of cats and zoos full. 583 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 3: Of hungry lions. How we haven't put those two things together? 584 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 5: Oh right, I'm not playing along with them. 585 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and so my The first thing I thought, 586 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 3: in looking this article over and skimming it real quickly, was, man, 587 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 3: this is a because they make it. 588 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 2: Clear that. 589 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 3: These animals would be gently euthanized by trained employees used 590 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 3: for food by the zoos, predators like. 591 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 2: The europe pe In links, lions and tigers, et cetera. 592 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, even I don't want to feel alive, straight kitten 593 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 3: who is going to be euthanized at the shelter? 594 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 2: So long? Rewiring? 595 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 3: But uh, why not, you know, give a knock it 596 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 3: out a little bit and then give it to the line. 597 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 3: All right, well it'll be euthanized, it'll be dead the 598 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 3: circle of life. 599 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: It won't be asleep, it'll be dead. But anyway, so enough, 600 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 2: knock it out a little bit. You know, I won't 601 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 2: really know what's going on, right, give it a xanax. 602 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,479 Speaker 2: It'll be fine. Yeah, give it a half a ben 603 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 2: a drill and put it in the lion cage. 604 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 3: So I've got to admit I was thinking, as I 605 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 3: often do, as the the dedicated realist, that all right, 606 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 3: this is a pretty good dividing line that makes perfect 607 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 3: sense to me. 608 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 2: Of course it does. You have these animals in the zoo. 609 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 3: People love them, they admire them, they learn about conservation, 610 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 3: blah blah blah. The animals are eating meat, obviously, they're 611 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 3: feeding them their natural diet, and as the zeo says, 612 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 3: this way nothing goes to waste, and we ensure natural behavior, 613 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 3: nutrition and well being for our predators because it mimics 614 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 3: the natural food chain by feeding whole prey to its predators. 615 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 3: So it is absolutely biologically zoologically not only defensible, it's ideal. 616 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 2: I'll have to do. 617 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 3: I thought, here's a great dividing line. Can you handle 618 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 3: that or not? Do you understand that your pet, when 619 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: it's gone, it's gone, and you'll be doing a good thing. 620 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 3: And then I thought about my dog, and by bye. 621 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 2: It is harder when you think about your own dog. 622 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 2: I can still do it. 623 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 3: I'll I'll have to ask Henry if he'd be okay 624 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 3: if Pugsito got eaten by a lion? 625 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 2: Oh my, do you dare ask him that? Not prior 626 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 2: to the age. It's twenty thirty and he'll be one 627 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: years old. 628 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 3: He'll be on a therapist's couch and say, I remember 629 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 3: it today, Gladys, he'll say, and Gladys will play the 630 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 3: harp and he'll. 631 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 2: Say, I was thirteen years old and my dad came 632 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 2: in and said, would it be okay if we Pugsito 633 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 2: to a lion? 634 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 3: Your beloved dog companion? Good Lord, be lucky if he 635 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 3: doesn't take you out anyway. You know what, My only 636 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 3: problem is do I get to beat Maybe they explain 637 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 3: that in the late going in this article, I was. 638 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,719 Speaker 2: So intrigued by the ethnic Yes, you just finish reading it. 639 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 2: You're just not throwing the dog in there? Run run run. 640 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 2: You know it's not like that. 641 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 3: Well right, And I don't want to make everybody sad, 642 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 3: but certainly the you know, as we've had to do 643 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 3: in the past, I will be there at the end, 644 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 3: and I don't need a zoo keeper to do it. 645 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 2: Backstage of the lion exhibit, now we have Katie's a 646 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 2: dog owner. What's your opinion? This whole conversation is just 647 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,479 Speaker 2: not could you feed that? What's that little white fluffy 648 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 2: dog you got? Frank? Now, if I could not, I 649 00:33:55,320 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 2: could not. I could not feed you stand the diet 650 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: of the great apes. But what's that little white fluffy 651 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 2: thing you have? 652 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 3: The post linked to the zoo's website describes the process 653 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 3: for donating horses as food. 654 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 5: Now do they take it alive and then they euthanize it? 655 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 2: Because I could not handle see that. So you're still 656 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 2: handing over a live animal? Yes to the zoo? 657 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is now They also accept chickens. 658 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 2: And your dogs and gigs. You're talking a quick question. 659 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,280 Speaker 2: Why are we at the zoo? And where am I going? 660 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,799 Speaker 2: And why are you not coming with me? 661 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 3: Oh lord, no, no, I can't even contemplate. 662 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 2: It's too dark, it's too terrible. But notice we're at 663 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 2: the zoo. So they mentioned the we've never been to 664 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 2: the zoo before. 665 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 3: The horse will be delivered alive to the zoo where 666 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 3: it will be euthanized by a zoo keeper and a 667 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,879 Speaker 3: veterinarian and then slaughtered the zoo's website. 668 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 2: Or so they tell you. Right now, here's where it 669 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 2: gets weird. 670 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 3: The zoo also accepts chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs during 671 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 3: weekdays between ten am and one pm, but no more 672 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 3: than four at a time. 673 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 2: Oh okay, jeez, I have six. I'll have to go 674 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 2: two days in a row. Oh my god. 675 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,399 Speaker 3: And your lower form of beasts that don't know what 676 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 3: from what I feel this, for instance, I feel different 677 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 3: about them than I do about like, say, a. 678 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 2: Very bright dog. I don't know. I don't think this 679 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 2: is going to catch on a lot. 680 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,800 Speaker 5: I don't like the idea of handing them over alive. 681 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 5: I feel like, I don't know, they need to euthanize 682 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 5: them like there, I don't know how that would work. 683 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,839 Speaker 3: Out rough rough So when we got in the car, 684 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 3: I thought, perhaps where we were added to a church 685 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 3: or a hospital. 686 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 2: This, for he's sake, stop with that