Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arms Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: President Zalinski's coming to see me on Friday. Friday morning,
Speaker 3: and we're going to be signing really a very important
Speaker 3: agreement for both sets, because it's really going to get
Speaker 3: us into that country. We'll be working there, We'll have
Speaker 3: a lot of people working there, and so in that sense,
Speaker 3: it's very good. It's a backstop. You could say, I
Speaker 3: don't think anybody's going to play around. If we're there
Speaker 3: with a lot of workers and having to do with
Speaker 3: rare earths and other things which we need for our country,
Speaker 3: then we appreciate it very much. And I look forward
Speaker 3: to seeing him.
Speaker 4: Are there areas specifically of Ukraine that you're talking about
Speaker 4: in giving back specifically Crania.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking about that. We're going to see if
Speaker 2: we can get it back or get a lot of
Speaker 2: it back.
Speaker 5: So he says he's gonna converse with Putin about getting
Speaker 5: some of the land back.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 5: It's the first time I've heard him say that of
Speaker 5: a Ukraine getting some of their land back. And then
Speaker 5: also the first question was about whether or not we're
Speaker 5: going to send troops or anything like that, and he said, no,
Speaker 5: but we're gonna have a lot of people in there.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a lot of people, and I don't
Speaker 5: think anybody will mess around us with us when we've
Speaker 5: got you know, all these people working there.
Speaker 2: So I don't it's.
Speaker 5: Hard to say with Trump always if that's a veiled
Speaker 5: threat or an outright threat, or just an assumption that
Speaker 5: if we have a whole bunch of USA dump trucks
Speaker 5: and machinery and scientists and whatever else there, that's ours.
Speaker 1: Right, right, or it might be red herring because sometimes
Speaker 1: Trump throws those out. We've referred to it occasionally as
Speaker 1: you know, you're in a negotiation and you demand an elephant,
Speaker 1: and they yell, they they tell you we can't afford
Speaker 1: an elephant.
Speaker 2: There's nowhere to put an elephant.
Speaker 1: You say, no, got to have an element, and you
Speaker 1: make the other side to spend a certain amount of
Speaker 1: time and energy on getting the element, the elephant out
Speaker 1: of the contract. You never wanted an elephant. Trump does
Speaker 1: that too, so it's really difficult to discern what his
Speaker 1: strategy is, which is part of his strategy.
Speaker 2: No doubt. So you think it's possible.
Speaker 5: I assume you're talking about he's trying to work Putin,
Speaker 5: So you think Putin's gonna think I don't want the
Speaker 5: United States invested heavily in Ukraine with equipment and manpower there.
Speaker 2: That is not good.
Speaker 5: Maybe I should give back some land or whatever to
Speaker 5: keep that from happening.
Speaker 2: Right, that's possible.
Speaker 1: And I was going to get into this factor a
Speaker 1: little later, but we'll just go ahead and do it now.
Speaker 1: The problem is, though, and often the folks on the
Speaker 1: kind of New World Order Tucker Carlson Wright don't mention this,
Speaker 1: Ukraine has zero interest in being under Russia's thumb. They
Speaker 1: would die literally, they're doing it before they accepted that
Speaker 1: Russia and the Soviet Union interchangeable practically with Putin in charge,
Speaker 1: starved tens of millions of their family to death. They
Speaker 1: have slaughtered civilians, they have systematically tortured people. They have
Speaker 1: kidnapped tens of thousands of their children. How would Americans
Speaker 1: react to a power that did that. We would fight
Speaker 1: them until our dying day. If it took fifty generations,
Speaker 1: and the Ukrainians feel the same way, So keep that
Speaker 1: in mind anytime you talk about some brilliant broker ceasefire
Speaker 1: that's going to include mineral rights or whatever. The other
Speaker 1: factor that you really need to remember is that Putin
Speaker 1: will only keep an agreement until the minute it's more
Speaker 1: profitable to abandon it. His word is worth nothing on
Speaker 1: the international stage.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: And you can start with when Ukraine yielded its nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons in nineteen ninety four in exchange for security guarantees
Speaker 1: from the US, UK and Russia. Moscow explicitly promised to
Speaker 1: respect Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and refrained from economic coercion.
Speaker 1: And they went back on that the minute it was convenient.
Speaker 1: In three Russia began building a dam on the tiny
Speaker 1: Ukrainian island of Toslow without warning or permission. Ukraine responded
Speaker 1: by deploying troops. Crisis diffused only after the current president
Speaker 1: then struck a compromise with Putin on terms heavily favorable
Speaker 1: to Moscow.
Speaker 2: Oh Boy.
Speaker 1: Moscow resorting to energy extortion to draw Kiev into its orbit.
Speaker 1: After that, weaponized its trade with the Ukraine. In twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: they blocked Ukrainian exports at the border while backing a
Speaker 1: puppet regime. There are all sorts of examples of their
Speaker 1: agreements just falling apart again the minute it's convenient for
Speaker 1: Putin to blow it up.
Speaker 5: I gotta believe though, since France and Britain have agreed
Speaker 5: to thirty thousand troops boots on the ground there, and
Speaker 5: we're talking about having you know, USA man power there
Speaker 5: to get the minerals out and also probably some sort
Speaker 5: of backstop that remains very misty, that would be suicide
Speaker 5: for Putin to attack that. I mean, he'd be full
Speaker 5: on at war with NATO if he did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, although you have long questioned are and
Speaker 1: the other NATO powers commitment to actually living up to
Speaker 1: their Article five obligations. If one are attacked, all are
Speaker 1: attacked and we fight back. In fact, Trump is explicit
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a difference between I'm France and Tonia Estonia.
Speaker 5: I don't know the name of some of these countries
Speaker 5: gets attacked and I think, okay, do I want to
Speaker 5: send French troops and French troops are being.
Speaker 1: Attacked, Well, there are only like one hundred French troops
Speaker 1: and they're wearing panties. So let's go with a country
Speaker 1: with a real military. If we can find on Finland,
Speaker 1: well that's so on, so on fire. Really, I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I tell you the one thing I approached this
Speaker 1: somewhat humbly, because nobody, including JD. Vance, probably knows exactly
Speaker 1: what Trump has in mind, what he considers an acceptable outcome,
Speaker 1: and how that squares with what he talks to Selinski
Speaker 1: out behind the scenes. Very difficult to know where this
Speaker 1: could go. But back to your point and then be
Speaker 1: done with it.
Speaker 5: Is the imagine if you're a Ukrainian and your kids
Speaker 5: were taken at gunpoint from your home and now lives
Speaker 5: somewhere in Russia and twenty percent of your land mass
Speaker 5: is gone and all your buildings are rubble, and you're
Speaker 5: just supposed to accept this.
Speaker 1: Deal, right right, It's not going to happen, can't even
Speaker 1: mean Yeah, guerrilla warfare for decades. Who knows what shape
Speaker 1: it'll take. But I have no idea. I usually have
Speaker 1: a theory how these things are going to shake out.
Speaker 1: This one is just all wild cards speak thees. I
Speaker 1: got a theory four year right after this.
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Speaker 5: Run your game, okay, wife trips over space, heater drops
Speaker 5: pills on the floor, hits her head dies. Okay, dog
Speaker 5: dies in the grate, starves, which is horrible obviously. Oh
Speaker 5: so Geen Jeane with dementia, sees wife doesn't know what
Speaker 5: to do, gets confused, He's stumbling around the house. He
Speaker 5: does not do anything at this point in his life.
Speaker 5: He's ninety five years old. He gets weak, falls, hits
Speaker 5: his head and dies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even the broad outlines of it, even if some
Speaker 1: of the details aren't there, hits her head and dies,
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen a lot deceivable.
Speaker 2: I got a.
Speaker 5: Friend he tripped on the curb a couple years ago.
Speaker 5: He was like sixty and he's dead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got for a walk with his wife, fall
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, and then very old Gene Hackman.
Speaker 5: I, Well, what I like about this theory is that
Speaker 5: a weird odd event happens with the youngest healthiest one
Speaker 5: in this one, and then you got a ninety five
Speaker 5: year old on their own, and then anything could.
Speaker 1: Happen, right, Yeah, And given the timetable and the mummification,
Speaker 1: et cetera, it's entirely possible that he passed three days
Speaker 1: after her, although if he was out of it then
Speaker 1: he would have been getting full time care. I would
Speaker 1: think otherwise you would have called the cops. They had phones.
Speaker 1: She would have been full time care for him, and
Speaker 1: then she was dead. Yeah, it's possible. So your money
Speaker 1: is on truly unfortunate string of events and not foul play.
Speaker 5: Now I don't think there's foul play, but I'm still
Speaker 5: going with He has a heart attack in the mud room.
Speaker 5: She sees him dead as so despondent, she says, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna kill myself, goes and.
Speaker 2: Gets the pills.
Speaker 1: Executive producer Mike Hanson makes the trains run on time.
Speaker 1: He's a practical man. What is your theory, handsome?
Speaker 6: Similar similar theory, but involving heartbreak. So the wife has
Speaker 6: a heart attack, perhaps due to the stress and strain
Speaker 6: of taking care of her elderly. What next, she has
Speaker 6: a heart attack and dies. He finds her sometime later, distraught,
Speaker 6: stumbles around the house, has a heart attack himself, falls
Speaker 6: and dies.
Speaker 2: The pork dog is stuck in the in the kennel. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's all about It's all about heart heart to break.
Speaker 5: She is just similar to the text that it makes
Speaker 5: more sense if she goes first, because then he's on
Speaker 5: his own as a ninety five year old, and quite
Speaker 5: possible he would have just if you if she's gonna sell,
Speaker 5: he dies, he doesn't know where he is, or can't
Speaker 5: get out.
Speaker 1: Of the house or whatever, or he discovers his wife
Speaker 1: didda the heart attack and rushes to grab his phone,
Speaker 1: falls and hits his head.
Speaker 2: That's it could be as simple as that. Okay.
Speaker 5: She comes out of the bedroom. Dog is barking. She
Speaker 5: puts it in the great shut up dog. She goes up, bigfoot,
Speaker 5: standing there.
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't think you're taking this serious anyway.
Speaker 2: We got a bunch of techs.
Speaker 1: She seizes her chest, says, yeah, Well.
Speaker 5: We got a lot more news to get to and
Speaker 5: a bunch of different things.
Speaker 2: Is the Great blackout going on?
Speaker 5: Has anybody noticed our liberals not buying anything today? On
Speaker 5: the Great Economic Blackout? Does anybody notice that at all?
Speaker 5: Text four one five KFTC.
Speaker 7: Well, guys, the ninety seventh Oscars are this Sunday. The
Speaker 7: Best Actor nominees include Timothy Chalomey for his role as
Speaker 7: Bob Dylan and uh Elon Musk for his role as President.
Speaker 7: I heard that this year's Oscar gift bag contains two
Speaker 7: hundred thousand dollars worth of item.
Speaker 2: That's right, it's one carton of eggs. So I was
Speaker 2: just rang joke.
Speaker 5: I was just written an interesting thing. I'm rooting for
Speaker 5: the Bob Dylan movie for a couple of reasons, including
Speaker 5: it's the only movie nominated movie I've seen, so you know,
Speaker 5: make me feel better.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm rooting for the transgender cartel boss pile of
Speaker 1: steaming Wells.
Speaker 2: I saw that one. So I was just.
Speaker 5: Reading how because of the controversy around that, with the
Speaker 5: star of the trans movie saying uncool things and they know,
Speaker 5: they're really screaming toward non controversial and it's been a
Speaker 5: big break for the Bob Dylan movie that might have,
Speaker 5: you know, not won much in the face of because
Speaker 5: it's very big to give these awards to things that
Speaker 5: fit with the political moment. See you have a trans
Speaker 5: movie when you know, we don't know how that works.
Speaker 5: But they might be going non controversial just to stay
Speaker 5: out of the trouble and leaning toward the Bob Dylan movie.
Speaker 5: That's the latest feeling in Hollywood, according to people watch
Speaker 5: this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I watch that movie, but I would have
Speaker 1: to go to a movie theater, so that's gonna interfere.
Speaker 5: Okay, here is I know some of you listening probably
Speaker 5: already know this. I did not know this until last night.
Speaker 5: So someone I know hipped me to the fact that. Okay,
Speaker 5: so Macrone was in Washington, d C. Meeting with Trump
Speaker 5: and a person says to me, of course his wife's
Speaker 5: a dude.
Speaker 2: Ha ha ha. I just looked at him, and.
Speaker 5: You don't know that, know what that Macrone's wife is
Speaker 5: a dude. And so apparently Candae Owens, who we actually
Speaker 5: kind of know, and others have videos showing mcrone's wife
Speaker 5: in various situations where she looks very much like a dude.
Speaker 2: And this person says, they're all dudes. You know. Michelle
Speaker 2: Obama's a dude. And I said, well, I've heard those jokes.
Speaker 5: But and says, no, you know the Ellen video And
Speaker 5: I said, what, So you should grab your phone, Joe
Speaker 5: and Katie should grab your phone because I've forwarded you
Speaker 5: the video. So when Michelle Obama was on Ellen, you know,
Speaker 5: when you went on Ellen degenerous, you had to dance.
Speaker 5: Everybody had to dance when they came on. If you
Speaker 5: zoom in on Michelle Obama in her loose fitting slacks
Speaker 5: at least in this video that it looks like she's
Speaker 5: got a penis.
Speaker 2: So that is the anyway.
Speaker 5: So I guess that's a big theme for a lot
Speaker 5: of you.
Speaker 2: What do you think that is? I'm not. I don't
Speaker 2: think Michelle Obama's a dude, by the way, I don't.
Speaker 2: But yes, Katie, I can tell you what I think
Speaker 2: it is. It's ai that's fake.
Speaker 1: Unless you have police powers, you cannot compel me to
Speaker 1: join in this idiotic conversation.
Speaker 2: But I respectfully abstained.
Speaker 5: No, the conversation for me isn't is mccrone's wife a
Speaker 5: dude or Michelle Obama dude? The conversation is there are
Speaker 5: lots and lots and lots of people who believe that
Speaker 5: and use these videos and stuff like that for evidence.
Speaker 8: It definitely looks like she's she's got a thing in
Speaker 8: this in this video.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's that's that's swinging in man. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as I said, you'd think, you know, I'm a guy,
Speaker 5: I would wear some sort of underwear. If I was
Speaker 5: wearing those pants, I wouldn't be uh, you know, fbing
Speaker 5: it if.
Speaker 1: You will, Right, it's just sensible, that's right. So what
Speaker 1: are you asking me? Do I think Michelle Obama has
Speaker 1: a sponse or does it look like it in the video,
Speaker 1: or you're.
Speaker 5: Just times that you just want to Okay, it's interesting
Speaker 5: that there are lots of people, and again, I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's ten thousand or ten million people that
Speaker 5: I believe this.
Speaker 2: I mean into I'm trying to get my arms around.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Michelle Obama and old Lady McCrone are dudes.
Speaker 2: Who else is a dude? All of them?
Speaker 5: A lot of the day, A lot of the Democrat,
Speaker 5: high level democrats, their wives are dudes.
Speaker 2: Why I don't know.
Speaker 5: But but this person I was talking to, college educated person,
Speaker 5: you know whatever, one hundred percent believes that.
Speaker 1: It's not like they were laughing about it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they're all dudes. I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they said they're all squirrels, I would
Speaker 1: have the same reaction.
Speaker 5: I mean, the conversation, so the conversation actually immediately went
Speaker 5: on their end from I don't understand why Barack Obama
Speaker 5: just didn't run as a as a gay man married
Speaker 5: to another man, I don't I guess maybe they didn't
Speaker 5: think he could get elected in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 5: With that you could now probably, but it's just surprising
Speaker 5: me the I mean, so they immediately went to the
Speaker 5: practicality of why they hid the fact that Michelle is
Speaker 5: a dude. The question of whether or not she's a
Speaker 5: dude wasn't even there anymore. We're onto the.
Speaker 2: Settled Yeah, that's settled science.
Speaker 1: Well, that is fascinating to me and is one more
Speaker 1: reason we should unplug the internet.
Speaker 2: Should I post this video? Helly hilarious? Yeah, post that
Speaker 2: video so people can check it out.
Speaker 5: I mean, in this video, this person dancing appears to
Speaker 5: have male parts in loose pants while they're dancing on Allan.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think it is AI adjusted.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna get Katie's corner ready and I'll put it there.
Speaker 8: So I don't put that on your hot lengths and
Speaker 8: trash things up because I'll upset Joe and.
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard the mccrone's wife as a dude.
Speaker 5: Also, anyway, it fits in somehow with the Epstein stuff.
Speaker 2: That that crowd is very excited about the list coming out.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to come out yesterday, didn't Pambondi's believing the
Speaker 5: FBI stonewalling. Wait a second, Cash, Betel's stonewalling you. That
Speaker 5: doesn't make sense, So I don't. I don't know what's
Speaker 5: going on with any of that, and I don't believe.
Speaker 5: I'm all for the jokes. The jokes are funny. I've
Speaker 5: laughed at many of them. Like Greg Gutfeld the other
Speaker 5: day about it looks like the Obama marriage is doing okay,
Speaker 5: and he said, I don't know why. They just can't
Speaker 5: settle it like men. I mean, so that's a winking.
Speaker 2: A nod to the crowd. Sure, and I laughed, But
Speaker 2: I don't believe Michelle Obama's a dude. I don't at all,
Speaker 2: not even a tiny bit.
Speaker 1: So coming up, the Democrats are about to squeal like
Speaker 1: spine about Medicare reform, what it is and what it's not.
Speaker 1: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty, As I said, you'd think,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a guy, I would wear some sort
Speaker 1: of underwear.
Speaker 2: If I was wearing those pants, I.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be, you know, being it if you will not right,
Speaker 1: it's just sensible, that's right.
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty show el.
Speaker 5: Right, which har comes back to a story I told
Speaker 5: about a marine. I was on a boat with in
Speaker 5: Hawaii talking about the song free Falling and how he
Speaker 5: would sing it and how hilarious it was, and everybody
Speaker 5: it's from back in the summer.
Speaker 2: Find the podcast. It's an annoying story. M sorry it
Speaker 2: was brought up again. And it is no new news.
Speaker 2: It's redundant.
Speaker 1: It's no news that the Democratic Party has no idea
Speaker 1: what to do with itself and is wandering around in
Speaker 1: the wilderness. And as soon as the let's be moderates
Speaker 1: like we used to be wing gets a little momentum,
Speaker 1: the lunatic left just cuts them off the knees and
Speaker 1: docks them and threatens with primaries and gets rid of them.
Speaker 1: And then Kim Strassel and the Wall Street Journalist wrote
Speaker 1: a great article today, great to think piece about how
Speaker 1: you know, the moderates of the past are gone and
Speaker 1: those of the present are just getting murdered by the
Speaker 1: lunatic left.
Speaker 2: And one of my favorite lines.
Speaker 1: From it is if if the Democrats didn't already know
Speaker 1: the progressive agenda was a political loser, they do now
Speaker 1: what to do with an ash heap of a political platform,
Speaker 1: one nonetheless rigidly enforced by liberal shock troops, and no
Speaker 1: charismatic figure with the spiner know how to lead a
Speaker 1: change of direction, engage muscle memory, and do the easy
Speaker 1: fight fight fight. Thus the bizarre site of Democrats rallying
Speaker 1: fervently in favor of government waste, fraud, and inefficiency. I
Speaker 1: expect this to continue. Yeah, and she mentions Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: shout gasping, we will win, we will win, which brings
Speaker 1: us to the next strategy.
Speaker 2: We're going to hear and the media, of course.
Speaker 1: Will echo this as loudly as they possibly can, and
Speaker 1: that is shouting about the Republicans so called Medicaid cuts.
Speaker 1: There are no Medicaid cuts coming. Some more on that
Speaker 1: in a minute, But keep in mind that Medicaid, which
Speaker 1: is in great need of reform, was established to help
Speaker 1: the needy, poor, children, pregnant women, the elderly disabled, and
Speaker 1: Democrats have expanded it bit by bit by bit into
Speaker 1: a much broader entitlement for able bodied, working age adults
Speaker 1: with lower incomes. So, not surprisingly, Medicaid spending is out
Speaker 1: pacing even Social Security Medicare. Federal Medicaid Outlaid's outlays have
Speaker 1: increased two hundred and seven percent since oh eight, and
Speaker 1: fifty one percent just since twenty nineteen, Medicaid spending is
Speaker 1: a share of federal outlays rose to ten percent from
Speaker 1: seven percent over the last twenty or so years. Well,
Speaker 1: the share of Social Security and medicare remained stable. Now
Speaker 1: the press is claiming Republicans want to gut Medicaid, but
Speaker 1: it's not true at all. They're not proposing a cut.
Speaker 1: Medicaid outlays are on track to increase by two point
Speaker 1: four trillion dollars through twenty thirty five according to the CBO,
Speaker 1: So shaving eight hundred and eighty billion from that baseline
Speaker 1: of increase would still amount to a one point five
Speaker 1: trillion dollar increase in Medicaid spending.
Speaker 5: This is one of the older tricks in the book
Speaker 5: of this sort of thing. We've been talking about this
Speaker 5: for decades. If you try to slow down the increase
Speaker 5: in spending, it is portrayed as a cut, and because
Speaker 5: very few people pay close enough attention, it usually works.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she points are the editorial board, I guess
Speaker 1: it is. The journal points out that Republicans should have
Speaker 1: fixed the baseline increased thing, but they've lacked the nerve.
Speaker 1: So to hit the target, Republicans just need a slow
Speaker 1: Medicaid spending growth to about two percent annually, which follows
Speaker 1: Biden's increasing it by nine percent a can.
Speaker 2: You imagine wow.
Speaker 1: But one reason is that Democrat runs states have figured
Speaker 1: out how to scam Medicaid to finance their other spending priorities.
Speaker 1: Quoting the Journal, one trick is imposing taxes on hospitals
Speaker 1: and managed care insurance plans, which states then use to
Speaker 1: spend more on Medicaid to collect more federal dollars. For
Speaker 1: every dollar state spend on Medicaid, the Feds chip in
Speaker 1: one to three on top of it, so the match
Speaker 1: is nine to one for the Obamacare expansion population, which
Speaker 1: gives states an incentive to spend more on the healthy,
Speaker 1: abled bodied then on the vulnerable.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of government spending, especially when the Feds
Speaker 1: and states get into bed together, he's such an incentive
Speaker 1: to spend as much money as humanly possible, even if
Speaker 1: it is utterly at odds with what medicaid is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Democrats and Republicans joined in ninety one to
Speaker 1: impose limits on these tax schemes.
Speaker 2: One reason the.
Speaker 1: New York, for instance, received three thousand dollars plus for
Speaker 1: each state resident in twenty twenty three. Based on the
Speaker 1: recent federal data, federal medicaid dollars also subsidized California and
Speaker 1: Illinois much more than the Red states because of their policies.
Speaker 1: So when you hear that, you know Republicans are gutting medicaid,
Speaker 1: balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and
Speaker 1: the sick and coughing babies.
Speaker 2: It's just not true. Well, good luck on winning net messaging.
Speaker 2: It's a tough one. Yeah, it's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: I remember roughly the first time I heard the expression
Speaker 1: in politics. If you're explaining you're losing, and that is
Speaker 1: just that is really really discouraging. Yes, i'd say, I mean,
Speaker 1: especially because we've let the government, the federal government, grow
Speaker 1: to such astounding size and complexity.
Speaker 2: You can't explain anything.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you can't really describe or discuss anything without explaining.
Speaker 5: You're punishing poor people. Now you have to just how
Speaker 5: many words was that you're punishing poor forwards, you would
Speaker 5: have to take paragraphs to explain how I'm not punishing
Speaker 5: poor people.
Speaker 1: If you liar, it's probably not that effective, But it
Speaker 1: was satisfying.
Speaker 2: Your husband's your wife's a dude, that's how you would reply.
Speaker 2: So's your sister. Oh, speaking of fake narratives.
Speaker 1: The whole the public school thing is, we've discussed many times,
Speaker 1: is utterly corrupt K through grad school and needs to
Speaker 1: be torn to the studs or just eliminated. But may
Speaker 1: is out main another blue state out with their educational stats.
Speaker 1: Their scores are plummeting, and anybody who's telling the truth says, yes,
Speaker 1: it's the giant influx. Well, it's keeping our kids out
Speaker 1: of school for like the entirety of COVID because it's
Speaker 1: a blue state. So of course you had to do
Speaker 1: that because Trump said to open the schools. But that
Speaker 1: and the influx of illegal immigrants. It's a Democrat dominated
Speaker 1: sanctuary state. And the number of children who cannot speak
Speaker 1: English fluently is sword in the last decade, and the
Speaker 1: scores are plunging. Only thirty three percent of children in
Speaker 1: the fourth grade and main and proficient math twenty six percent,
Speaker 1: are fluent in reading only twenty six percent, some of
Speaker 1: the worst scores in the nation.
Speaker 2: And the older kids.
Speaker 1: What is that sixth grade they test them again, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but the older kids are even worse off
Speaker 1: A mere twenty five percent proficient in math and twenty
Speaker 1: six percent in reading.
Speaker 5: I think maybe the best strategy would be to strip
Speaker 5: down schooling K THROUGHHD to just like STEM stuff. So
Speaker 5: what's STEM stand for science? Technology, technology, engineering.
Speaker 1: Engineering, and and and manliness anyway, mathematics even then you're
Speaker 1: up against it in some cases, as we've learned, as
Speaker 1: they got woke stuff.
Speaker 2: Slipping into math and everything like that.
Speaker 5: But I had a little thing I was going to
Speaker 5: read the other day about how at the university level, anthropology,
Speaker 5: sociology and one of the other one ologies are just
Speaker 5: so incredibly woke. I mean, they're just they're so out
Speaker 5: there crazy that they're they're definitely a net deficit to
Speaker 5: society and you're not freaking learning anything. And I thought
Speaker 5: about that when I was reading joy Read's bio the
Speaker 5: other day when we were talking about how she's leaving MSNBC.
Speaker 5: She went to Harvard, but she was a film studies
Speaker 5: major or something like that, and boy and all of
Speaker 5: that sort of stuff. The other day, I was thinking,
Speaker 5: because I've really gotten into the history of the Impressionists lately,
Speaker 5: and I thought I wish I had taken art history
Speaker 5: in college.
Speaker 2: I should take art history. Maybe I'll get a minor
Speaker 2: in art history or something like that. Then I felt,
Speaker 2: why would I do that?
Speaker 5: Every bit of information I want to know about art
Speaker 5: history is out there, either in a book or I
Speaker 5: can watch endless YouTube videos of the smartest people on
Speaker 5: the subject giving endless lectures about whatever I'm interested in.
Speaker 5: There's no reason to put it in the world of
Speaker 5: a university, all of that stuff, there's no point in it.
Speaker 5: There's no point in paying for your kid to go
Speaker 5: learn art history or like a nine gazillion other.
Speaker 2: Things that you can learn on your own. There's just
Speaker 2: no need for it.
Speaker 1: It's as if people are still carrying around a calculator
Speaker 1: in addition to their smartphone, like the word hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: to them that this is an utterly unnecessary redundancy. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to have somebody guide your learning, design
Speaker 1: the curriculum, but again that can be found online without indoctrination.
Speaker 5: That can be found online too, guiding your learning and
Speaker 5: a curriculum very easily. And it used to be kind
Speaker 5: of funny that mentioned, because I saw one of these yesterday.
Speaker 5: So and so college, and it's one of your top schools,
Speaker 5: is now having a class in Beyonce in which they'll
Speaker 5: study the artists.
Speaker 2: And that stuff is just crap.
Speaker 5: I took a rock and roll history class in college,
Speaker 5: complete waste of time and money. I had a full
Speaker 5: time job. I can't believe it. I even showed up
Speaker 5: to that BS. What the hell are we doing here?
Speaker 5: I took a bowling class. What the hell I understand
Speaker 5: it's a part of being a well rounded whatever that
Speaker 5: went out the window a long time ago. This is
Speaker 5: just crap. You're wasting my time. I got other things
Speaker 5: to do and stealing money from me.
Speaker 1: Final statement in summary of the earlier education stuff, and
Speaker 1: this is undeniable. The data, and it's everywhere suggests rather
Speaker 1: strongly that as a American school systems all over the
Speaker 1: country restructure in their struggle to educate migrant children illegal immigrants,
Speaker 1: mostly the children are the losers.
Speaker 2: Of course, students are the losers.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe that makes you sad or uncomfortable or sounds
Speaker 1: like you're blaming brown people.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, let's deal with facts. I'm blaming reality.
Speaker 2: If you have someone in your class.
Speaker 5: If you have two, because I've seen this, you got
Speaker 5: a class of thirty kids, twenty eight of them speak
Speaker 5: English to one of them speaks Chinese, when of them
Speaker 5: speaks Spanish and the teacher doesn't speak Spanish or Chinese,
Speaker 5: and the teacher stands up there does it in English?
Speaker 5: Then does does their Google translator thing for Spanish and
Speaker 5: for Chinese? How long do you suppose that takes to
Speaker 5: get through any damn lesson when you're doing it that way.
Speaker 2: But that is the way they do it. And if
Speaker 2: you have more kids, there's even more.
Speaker 5: I mean, you might have four different languages in your
Speaker 5: classroom instead of just three.
Speaker 2: It's happening all across the country or now. It's insane.
Speaker 2: That is insane.
Speaker 1: The degree to which the left establishment and the teachers'
Speaker 1: unions will abuse the children, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: term is misapplied to further political their political aims is sickening.
Speaker 2: Sickening. They would they will let.
Speaker 1: The kids coast through school ignorant, and you know, not
Speaker 1: coast through school at all during COVID if they preserve
Speaker 1: their wealth and power.
Speaker 5: It's disgusting, you know, it would be an interesting experiment
Speaker 5: in a parallel universe.
Speaker 2: How long would schools have stayed closed.
Speaker 5: In the bluest areas like where I am if there'd
Speaker 5: been zero pushback, if there had been no pushback at all,
Speaker 5: how long.
Speaker 2: Would they have kept the schools closed? Would they still
Speaker 2: be closed? They might be, they might be. It's so
Speaker 2: obvious looking back at it.
Speaker 1: The teachers' unions knew the parents and the kids were
Speaker 1: desperate to have the schools open. If the person on
Speaker 1: the other side of the negotiating table with you is
Speaker 1: desperate or from you, is desperate, you've got some great
Speaker 1: power to get all sorts of stuff. And that's what
Speaker 1: they did, and the kids' minds and souls be damned. Uh.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we got a bunch of things to get to.
Speaker 5: Major football star makes a retirements announcement if you're an
Speaker 5: NFL fan, and some other things.
Speaker 2: Oh, a couple of things.
Speaker 5: I'm I might actually watch a little of the Oscar
Speaker 5: Sunday night. I thought I would never say that again
Speaker 5: in my life.
Speaker 1: Wow, coding onto the dark side, folks, He's woke, woke.
Speaker 2: Jack Conan's the host anyway, more hilarious. More on all
Speaker 2: that coming up. Stay here, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1: One one.
Speaker 2: Where's your emergency? I've been locked in the storage unit
Speaker 2: for about a week now, and I just now felt.
Speaker 4: My phone a girlfriend has outstanding words for attempted murder
Speaker 4: and for kidnapping, no food, no waters. You know, like
Speaker 4: I said, if we had been in the heat of
Speaker 4: the summer or the super cold of the winter, this
Speaker 4: would be a whole different story.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, Katie, are you behind this clip? There's a
Speaker 2: lot there.
Speaker 5: First I thought the guy accidentally got locked in his
Speaker 5: storage unit for a week.
Speaker 2: Who brought us this? Mike Hanson? Is that you? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 2: So what's the background on this? His girlfriend locked him
Speaker 2: in the storage unit for a week. Indeed, Jack, his
Speaker 2: girlfriend locked him in a storage unit for a.
Speaker 1: Week, and his phone was with him but not handy
Speaker 1: and he finally found it.
Speaker 2: Well, or it be pitch dark in there? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: As as.
Speaker 1: The chief investigating officer, there's something that doesn't quite fit here.
Speaker 1: And then where we kidnaped him and shut him in
Speaker 1: a storage unit and didn't take his phone from him
Speaker 1: while he was presumably unconscious or is she a big beefy.
Speaker 2: Gallon just overpower? And where was Gene Hackman's body and
Speaker 2: all this it could be related. We're not ruling out
Speaker 2: a connection. Say you're suspicious of something, yeah? Absolutely? Coming
Speaker 2: up next, hour.
Speaker 1: Why women love woke, a British woman columnist has nailed it.
Speaker 1: Women are making themselves miserable, and being miserable makes them
Speaker 1: more woke.
Speaker 2: Stay with us a couple of things.
Speaker 5: Travis Kelcey of the Kansas City Chiefs announced he will
Speaker 5: absolutely be.
Speaker 2: Back next year. He plans to get in the best
Speaker 2: shape of his life.
Speaker 5: He can't end his career with that taste in his mouth,
Speaker 5: he said, So we'll see how that turns out.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Tea Swizzle is happy with that or not.
Speaker 5: You said you were gonna quit. We were supposed to
Speaker 5: go to Bali Bali, someplace fancy. I think they can
Speaker 5: still go to bally Bally. It'll be fine. Anyboddy noticing
Speaker 5: the big liberal walkout today?
Speaker 2: Is that happening anywhere? I haven't gotten any texts that
Speaker 2: people have noticed. They're supposed to.
Speaker 5: Start at noon Eastern, so I guess it hasn't heard
Speaker 5: yet as we are broadcasting this. So we'll see if
Speaker 5: you're not supposed to buy any like fast food or
Speaker 5: anything at a store, or buy any gas or do
Speaker 5: anything if you're a liberal to show how much you
Speaker 5: hate Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a good day to go shopping and
Speaker 1: eating and buying gas to me because I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: running in any progressive jackasses.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 5: You're the umpteenth person I've heard say that today is
Speaker 5: the day I'm always a shop extra.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're saying, I say the obvious, I got
Speaker 1: no originality. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: It was? Text you Sorry, that was a little quick.
Speaker 5: I just think it's funny that that's what everybody's If
Speaker 5: you're not, you know, a lefty, that's your reaction.
Speaker 1: Cool, I'll go shopping. How about how about we make
Speaker 1: you the whole weekend. Let's show those conservative jack Let's.
Speaker 2: Let's show them by not going.
Speaker 1: Out at all all weekend and also not saying anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is there any way you could like not go
Speaker 5: to restaurants the entire weekend and then the rest of
Speaker 5: us could go or whatever. That'd be cool, like the
Speaker 5: sound of that. There was one more thing I wanted
Speaker 5: to jam and before I get to that, I'm still ill.
Speaker 5: So there's no cold medicine that does anything. By the way,
Speaker 5: it is all a joke. It's all a joke that
Speaker 5: the pharmaceutical industry is playing on all this. I don't
Speaker 5: think there's any cold medicine that really does much of anything.
Speaker 1: I think to the extent it has a set of
Speaker 1: minifin the active ingredients in Thailand, all right, that helps
Speaker 1: the rest of it's just nothing.
Speaker 5: No taking thailand al or ibuprofen or something like that
Speaker 5: will help. But the general this is for severe cold
Speaker 5: that has thailand al or ibuprofene in it, and then
Speaker 5: fennerin or in or whatever that stuff is that the
Speaker 5: government itself announced does nothing.
Speaker 2: That's in every one of those cold medicines.
Speaker 1: There is one medicine that actually does work, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember the name of it. I love it,
Speaker 1: and but why it works is a really disgusting phrase
Speaker 1: that I'd rather not say on the air.
Speaker 2: It's a phrase no one wants to hear. Well, it's
Speaker 2: cold and flu season.
Speaker 5: I've got a cold. You know the medicine that actually works,
Speaker 5: You've got to tell us. I'm trying to remember the
Speaker 5: name of it. I know where it is in my
Speaker 5: cabinet in the kitchen. But it works, Jack partly because
Speaker 5: it thins your secretions, all right.
Speaker 1: You're right?
Speaker 2: Are are my secretions too?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding the syrup please, you should be ashamed
Speaker 1: of those secretions anyway. It's what is it, I'll try
Speaker 1: to think of it. It's a cough suppressant and uh
Speaker 1: and uh and and a four discretion thinner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Uncle Otis's secretion finner, Armstrong and Getty