WEBVTT - Just Skin Me 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:24.079 Jettie and no Hee Armstrong and Yetty. I want to 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:25.520 bring the schools. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.600 I want to bring the schools back to the States. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.120 And and I've said it a hundred times, we're ranked 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.200 at the bottom of the list, and yet we spend more. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.559 If you tell me about Indiana and some of these 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:43.479 great states that run really well Iowa. You tell me 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.559 about those states, and if they run their own education, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.040 they're going to do a lot better than somebody sitting 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.279 in Washington, DC that couldn't care less about the pupils 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.280 out in the Midwest. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.280 No, no, no, no, no, places like New York and LA. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.960 They should set the standards for the kind of education 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.520 your kid gets in stupid Iowa and stupid Indiana, and 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.679 then the federal government can force it on those people. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.520 Wow, that is some excellent sarcasm there. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.720 I just appreciate Trump's use of the term pupils, which 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.880 you don't hear that much anyway. Yeah, well, he's an 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:20.399 old man, he is that. So President Trump is sitting 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.920 on is still considering apparently an executive order that some 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.280 people thought might come out this week aimed at abolishing 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.640 the Education Department. By the way, some of them just 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.480 throwing it in there at Trump's age, he's damn near eighty. Yeah, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.640 the last three weeks. Who you me, anyone has worked 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.520 three weeks that much that hard at any age, let 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.080 alone eighty years old, I'd be in some sort of 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.080 rest facility, some sort of resk. God, anyway, back to you, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.279 it's amazing anyway. A draft of the order directs Education 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.360 Secretary Linda McMahon to quote, take all necessary steps to 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.600 facilitate the closure of the Education Department based on the 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:06.200 maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law. And then and 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.240 that just refers to the fact that if Congress starts 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.360 a department and tasks it with specific things, really the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.880 best you can do is pare it down to that 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:20.280 which is obviously undeniably what Congress said specifically. But agencies 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.600 tend to metastasize and take on a bigger and bigger 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.120 list of programs, a lodger remit. As they'd say in 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.200 the intellectual community, why can't you talk like regular people. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.640 I'm trying to, you know, to change the world in 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.480 the way they were never designed to do. But anyway, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.720 some of the verbiage from the Draft report, the experiment 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.160 of controlling American education through federal programs and dollars and 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.320 the unaccountable bureaucrats those programs and dollars support has failed 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.880 our children, our teachers, and our families. The draft viewed 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.760 was labeled as predecisional. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.880 I like that. I just like that term. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:03.400 I live my life that way. Watch lots of issues. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.200 I like that color for the drapes. But this is 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.239 a predecisional, you know, discussion. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.720 I'm in my predecisional period on a number of things. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.160 I was thinking to you the other day. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.959 I want you to react to this from from your heart, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.240 from your ticker, from your gut. Two hours spent looking 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:27.079 at granite and other counter surfaces for a kitchen remodel. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.000 So did a new slip off your neck or how 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.760 did you end up in that situation? I enjoyed it. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.680 This is how you tell us apart. I thought it 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.280 was fun. I perfectly embrace that. Other people are okay 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:39.480 with that. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.760 I yes, dude, I don't understand that on any level whatsoever. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.400 I can almost convert you I'll convert you on one left. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:54.360 The variety of colors and patterns that are produced by nature, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:04:01.560 by God's creation, are astonishing and beautiful. I've awakened the 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.680 poet in your soul. Anyway, So I thought this was great. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.520 Kim Strassel, who's a genius, quoting a lot of really 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.760 brilliant women on today's show, which which I think is great. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.200 She's talking about the executive Order. She was writing about 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.240 it recently and is in favor of it, and I 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.160 love her description, you know, never mind her reasoning, which 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.720 is great. But never has a department been more deceptively titled. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.760 To listen to this week's whaling, the Federal Education Department 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.240 is the beating heart of our nation's schools, and its 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.520 demise a straight line to an illiterate nation. Oh my god, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.880 that's funny. Yeah, yeah, I gotta voice her articles because 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.200 she doesn't have an aluw enough voice to say a. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.000 Straight line to an illiterate nation. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.600 You know, you gotta be scary, and as we practically 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.160 are now with de part of Education in charge. Well 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.680 wait a minute, yeah, the Education Department is more of 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.040 the straight line to an illiterate nation than its absence 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.760 would be the re our. Federal Education bureaucracy takes no 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.080 part in the daily, hard fought grind of teaching. Little 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.279 salute to the great teachers, That sentence goes out to 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:11.840 y'all because you're heroes. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.960 I am stunned by the work a lot of my 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.000 kids teachers have done and do just I mean stunned. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.040 It's a lot of teachers' unions are evil. Really hear themselves. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:28.040 I love you, yeah, yeah. Anyway, So the Federal Education bureaucracy, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.159 it takes no part in the daily, hard fought grind 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.799 of teaching. It does not step in classrooms, interview teachers, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.120 or debate curriculum. It doesn't meet with parents, coach sports, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.680 or set bus schedules. The department's only job is to 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.600 act as the keeper of the education treats. Every year, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.160 these federal masters get some eighty billion dollars to dispense 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.000 on good behavior. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.040 They hive off a dollop for their own salaries. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.679 Well. The rest they dispense as if rewarding a pet. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.320 Good state puppies, those that roll, fetch and fill out 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.919 paperwork and triplicate get grants from IDA funds. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.279 Bad puppies lose their school lunch money. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.400 Thus today's inane system in which kids from Taos to 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.240 Tallahassee are held hostage to a counterproductive mays of federal 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.600 rules that dictate dollars yet waste resources and stemy local innovation. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.320 School stage Bingo nights when staff coach parents to minimize 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.960 their salaries on forms so that the school qualifies for 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:31.520 Title I Low Income funding. Wow. Parents and administrators fight 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.760 to get kids labeled special needs to score an individual 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.920 education plan and extract federal resources. And by the way, folks, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.960 before you fire off an angry email that in no 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.440 way implies that any kid with special needs is trying 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.720 to do that, not at all. It's like, you know, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.280 riddle in for ADHD. There are some cases that are 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.159 absolutely necessary. They're a hell of a lot that aren't. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.240 Having said that, in recent years, the threat of losing 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.400 federal funds also sent district scurrying to comply with Joe 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:06.440 Biden's trends gender directives. And then she gives a bunch 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.440 of specific examples of the specific grants and how they 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.559 they play the tune in the schools have to dance 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.800 to it. Whatever you know, whatever the cause, celeb is 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:24.120 restorative justice and transgender you know, boys playing girls' sports 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:24.880 and the rest of it. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.520 You know, the thing Trump said there at the beginning 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.920 should be like the only part of the discussion, and 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.280 then go from there. We spend more than anybody else, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.080 we get lower results. Even if you don't want to 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.560 compare to other countries, don't compare it to ourselves. We 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.840 spend more than we ever have and we get less 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.480 out of it. What changed from you know, the year 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.240 nineteen ninety or the new year nineteen seventy, that we 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.800 have to spend so much money per pupil and then 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.040 get a worse result. I mean that seems like such 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.600 an obvious How would you get around it? 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.120 Sign that things are off the rails? Yeah, I think 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.240 it's Washington thrives on this. But we need to return 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.280 to a plane spoken sentiment like this has been a failure. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.440 What do you want to try now? As opposed to 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.960 the notion that, well, the Department of Education exists and 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.000 it does the things it does and we probably shouldn't 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:23.640 mess with it. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:24.520 No, it's failed. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.840 What are you try now? Or somebody just hit you 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.080 with teachers or heroes and right, you're supposed to just 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.120 recoil an emotional horror from. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:38.120 You know anything else. And indeed Ms Strassel, much like 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.320 mister Armstrong and mister Trump, points out the formula afore 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.199 described sent one trillion dollars to schools since nineteen seventy nine, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.520 producing a perfect inverse correlation of plummeting education scores. And 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.840 then she makes a point that I love, go ahead, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:53.800 I don't. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.040 I mean, that is the end game of the discussion. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.719 We're spending more and getting less need. Something's wrong. We 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.439 got to change, like massively change. But this is this 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.520 is how you get people to rally. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:07.880 Jack. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.280 We've established it needs to change. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.600 Now we're going to get them excited about it by 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:17.920 pissing them off. She writes, Yet what And she went 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.640 through gosh six or eight different ways the money flows 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.240 to schools for dancing to the tune being a good puppy. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.440 Yet note what these federal funds have in common. The money, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:34.760 ostensibly for the children, all goes to the adults to 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.960 hire more counselors and special ed teachers for those IEPs 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.760 sometimes great necessary, but more administrators to run various programs, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.200 including perverse ones, legions of staff to input data, and 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.800 guess what. Most of those adults belong to a union 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.040 local of the National Education Association or the American Federation 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.960 of Teachers, because the keeper of treats was, is and 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.880 always will be Jimmy Carter's thank you for Teachers Union endorsements. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:08.880 Randy Weingarten controls the clicker, and then she's a little 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.959 annoyed that Trump has been a little passive on education 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.680 so far, but everything else has been so feverish it's 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.560 hard to it's easy to forget that. No, no, no, 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.320 this is month number two. We'll get to it. It'll 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.200 be good. I hope you're Randy Winingarten. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.679 Say hello to Hitler and Ojy when you get to Hell, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.839 because that's where you're headed. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:30.360 Amen to that. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.640 Yeah, she does say he didn't mention school choice in 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.280 his address as addressed to Congress this week, which would 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.600 have been good. But conservatives are already on the offence 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.239 and winning school choices exploding across the States. Those laboratories 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.280 and democracy innovating on scholarships, vouchers, savings, accounts, charters. New 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.240 generation and conservative leaders are embracing next steps accountability and standards, merit, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:57.280 pay for teachers, reviving vocational education and parents are loving 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:02.600 it in large measure. One one note, before we eliminate 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.760 the Department of Education, and although, honestly to answer myself 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.280 before I even make any argument, have the Department of 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.400 Justice to it, or Streets and Sanitation or park rangers 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:14.920 or something. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.880 But we don't need a whold department for this. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.439 But the still breathing Department of Education launched a public 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:27.720 portal last week for parents, students, teachers, and communities to 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.760 submit reports of sex and race based discrimination in public 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.680 K through twelve schools. The portal is called the nd 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.760 DEI Portal and allows the submission of an email address, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.679 the name of students, school or school district, and a 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.720 text box for detailing. Hey, even though this DEI racial 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.559 discrimination stuff is illegal, now my school is still doing 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.360 it and here's how they're doing it. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:57.200 Wow, that's good because our friend Tim Sandifer, who works 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.439 for the Goldwater Institute. He tweeted out today win for Goldwater. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.040 A Pennsylvania school district tried to hide its DEI from 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.280 a mom It claimed the materials were copyrighted so they 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.920 weren't subject to state's open records law, and Goldwater. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.280 Change that in one Yeah, yeah, I could write a 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:22.160 book right now about ways colleges, especially and lower tiers 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.480 of education are getting around all the anti DEI stuff. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.680 I'll give them points for creativity, but they are just 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:34.319 changing names of programs and offices, changing titles, and pretending 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.160 to change their admissions while doing precisely the same stuff. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.520 And one more note and then I'll shut up. I 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.040 read a really interesting piece. I can't remember who wrote it, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.160 might have been the Free Press. Was talking about how 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.839 one of the big problems is the accreditation organizations that 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.559 the government has tasked with. And this is the sort 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.440 of thing that ought to respond to the private market, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.320 but it doesn't because universities are so woke. But they're 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.880 tasked with saying the University of Pennsylvania, for instance, has 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.120 good professors and they're teaching good stuff, and. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.960 We accredit them as a university. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:12.200 Those organizations are crazy ass woke, the creditors themselves, and 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.600 so they're going to the universities and saying, if I 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.240 don't see you march in the DEI tune, we're not 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.719 going to credit credit you as a university. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.600 Yeah, not shocking at all. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.240 Troubling, So coming up trying to put a lipstick on 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.240 a pig re Ukraine and Russia. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.000 I'm gonna try to do that. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.920 And also Ai comes to the McDonald's drive through, among 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:34.360 other things. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:41.640 On the way, Trump talked about all the good happening, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.559 the damn sis seeds. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.000 That was Liz Warren. There's so much steam coming from 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.640 her ears. I thought you was sending smoke signals me 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.000 very mad at Orange Man. Meanwhile, Nancy nod through her 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.120 mouth like it was a tough chunk of rice pudding. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.160 George Washington's teeth bit better, and he whittled them out 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:03.120 of mahogany. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.160 I'd meant to comment on that. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:11.320 After the Tuesday night speech, Nancy Pelosi was making never ending, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.400 very old person mouth motions. I saw that. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.800 Yeah, yeah, we're all going to be that age someday. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.680 Well right, yeah, I'm not going to mock her for it, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.960 but the idea that she was the leader of a 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.560 party until like last week is just absurd. I just 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.880 ran into my son in the hallway. He said, what 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.760 are you doing at home? I'm at home, And the 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.480 reason I'm home, as I told him, is because I'm 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.440 on the tail end of the flu and my stomach 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.720 is not good. This whole flu thing. I'm flying today, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.600 and I'm going to get an aisle seat. If you 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.080 know what I'm saying. I need to to be able 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.920 do move quickly, move quickly. There are remedies, of course, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.240 you know you're hip to them. Yeah, I don't know. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.560 I hate to take some sort of stop me all up. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.120 What do you hate more? 0:14:59.080 --> 0:14:59.840 That's a good question. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.840 Yeah, Oh my god. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.280 Speaking of medical matters, I just got a call during 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.080 the commercial break from my dermatologist. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.440 They got a slice on me again. And I'm gonna 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:09.960 walk in there. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.320 I've threatened before to bring my own knife and say, yeah, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.360 come at me, let's go. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.360 You like it, I'm gonna get some, but I've changed 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:17.080 my strategy. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.600 I'm gonna walk in there and say, hey, let's save 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.240 all of us a little time in trouble. Just skin me, 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.200 just take all of it, all right, or at least 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:27.560 my back. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:28.200 We'll call it. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.040 Good covering, some sort of cellophane or something. Oh man, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:38.000 those summer days on the Indiana dunes, all covered with oil. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.120 That's like the only thing going in the right direction. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.920 You know how, I always say, name one thing that's 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.920 getting better, because everything seems like it's getting worse. One 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.320 thing that's getting better is as we stay out of 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.240 the sun and our kids, like my kids, I think 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.920 one of us had one sunburn and the other one's none, 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.480 and their lives and. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.960 I used to get burnt practically every day. Yeah yeah, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.960 with the the cost being paid now with slicings. Anyway, Ah, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.440 what was I going to say, there's a sunburned sunscreen 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:16.080 doing better? They skin you skinning Joe? Yeah, let's uh anyway, ah, jab, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.160 we're not coming off at all like old Al Green 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.000 shaking his cave. You can get the fluid any age? 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.000 All right? Oh no, I'm yeah, just yeah, man, here's 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.840 something exciting. McDonald's is going to use AI computer vision 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.280 and facial recognition in store mounted cameras at the drive 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.920 through to determine whether the orders are accurate before they're 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.760 handed to customers. Oh so, the same technology that is 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.880 facial recognition. They're going to look at your bag, I 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.920 guess and say it looks like two cheeseburgers and mcflurry 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:53.680 go ahead, give it to him. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:55.240 It's necessary. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.240 You know what drives all this, by the way, raising 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.400 the minimum waged. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.040 Where they can't afford him employees, so they got little 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.160 willing to spend whatever they got to spend to get 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:08.320 rid to eliminate employees ding true fact. Yea, what is 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:09.679 the Trump plan in Russia? 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:10.200 Ukraine? 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.200 We might actually know now we might not armstrong and getty. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.080 President's Zelensky sent a letter to the President. I think 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.000 the President thought that it was a really good, positive 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.639 first step. We're now in discussions to uh coordinate a 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.679 meeting with the Ukrainians and Rhyod or even potentially Jetta, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.479 and I think the idea is to get down a 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.879 framework for a peace agreement and an initial ceasefire ceasefire 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:38.320 as well. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:44.520 Okay, so Zelensky is playing ball a little more than 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:49.919 he did a week ago. Today, Uh with what Trump wants. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.399 Whether it's just rhetorically or in reality, I don't know 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.800 which Trump needs. But uh, and here's Trump yesterday talking 0:17:58.840 --> 0:17:59.480 about the whole thing. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.440 What's going to happen is Ukraine wants to make a 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.040 deal because I don't think they have a choice. I 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.760 also think that Russia wants to make a deal because 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.399 in a certain different way, a different way that only 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.520 I know, only. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:14.720 I know, they have no choice either. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.119 So what was that the entire foreign policy establishment wants 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.080 to know in a certain way that only I know, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.359 only I know Russia needs to make a deal. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:34.040 Also, what is that oh boy? Whether that's oh boy 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.240 threat that hasn't been said out loud, or we are 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:44.119 more aware of their near collapse of either the economy 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:50.399 or the military or something. When Trump last time around 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.480 appeared to be kissing up to Putin, he secretly implanted 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.960 a painless chip under Putin's skin that is, in fact, 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.040 to tiny nuclear device he can blow his head off 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:10.399 with the flip of a switch. I don't. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.880 I am so intrigued by that. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.119 I've got a button and it's right next to my 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.400 diet coke button here at the desk, So I gotta 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:18.800 make sure. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.720 I don't get him mixed up. But if I press 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.280 this button, it'll blow your head clean off your shoulders. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:30.960 So let's get down to business. Yeah, wow, that's is 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.080 that Trumpian bull duty or hard to say? But so 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.320 I want to preface with this just for my own 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:46.200 conscience that I am not trying to spend this like I. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.600 Think Trump has handled this beautifully and I'm all in 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.679 favor of everything that's happening. He said some to me 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.240 just horrific things about the war in Ukraine and equivocating 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.640 between Russian and that, like they're equal, and I don't 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.880 get that at all. But that being said, he might 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.119 through all of that haze of the way Trump does things, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.359 there might be a strategy. According to even David Ignatius 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.239 in the Washington Post today. And I came to this 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:19.119 through Mark Halprin's newsletter where he said, the foreign policy 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:20.160 world of. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:20.960 Washington, d c. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.800 And they are a thing, the foreign policy what is 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.080 the right term, something. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:29.119 Contingent. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.359 They're more or less permanent, I mean, like the State 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.760 Department and a whole bunch of other thinkers and everything 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.560 like that. They stay there as presidents come and go, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.240 and they are starting to wake up to according to 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.240 Mark Halprin, to a possible strategy that Trump's got here, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.159 and that David Ignacius writes a little bit about in 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.280 the Washington Post today. First of all, David Ignacius writing, 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.560 and he does not like Donald Trump, but he writes, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.840 give Trump this much. He's right that the time has 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.880 come to end the horrific Ukraine War. And he's right 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.480 too that the United States needs to re establish a 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:07.400 relationship with the Kremlin to play an effective mediating role. Okay, 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.679 so you got to do whatever you gotta do to 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.199 get Putin to talk to you. And one you have 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:16.919 to talk to him too. You have to come up 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:17.760 with a way to get him. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.440 To talk to you, right, yeah, and send the message, Hey, 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.320 we're not coming in to lop your head off in 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.760 spite of my earlier idea or coming into broker this. 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.000 So we're gonna be cool. Can you be cool? 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.240 Here's the paradox at the core of the negotiations, writes 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:36.440 David Ignatius. Though Ukrainian President Vladimir de Zelenski has bristled 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.600 at Trump's pressure, he badly needs a ceasefire. His forces 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:41.800 are tired and depleted and could begin to buckle in 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:46.119 the next six months. As for Russian President Vladimir Putin, 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.720 he has welcomed Trump's embrace, but he doesn't want to 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.480 cease fire unless it gives him the victory. He hasn't 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:59.399 won on the battlefield, because while Russia has been somewhat successful, 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.120 they're not anywhere near what Putin was open for. 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:03.480 Right. 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.080 I read a great think piece that said Putin has 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:10.440 lost this war by any of his definitions. It's been 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.920 a miserable failure in spite of the territory game. 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:16.040 In fact, to you, the diplomatic agenda was summed up 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:20.119 well by Keith Kellogg yesterday. He's the retired Army lieutenant 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:24.040 general who's serving as Trump's Ukraine envoy. What you're seeing 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.240 now are urgent efforts to bring both sides to the 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.600 table to get a peace settlement. Bringing both sides to 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.440 the table means applying pressure points and incentives, sticks and carrots, 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:33.120 he said. 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:39.679 Yesterday Putin and I don't know if he's just waking 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.280 up to this or what. 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.560