Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Alright, who's
Speaker 2: in charge here? It just dawned on me.
Speaker 3: We're all excited about a clip before the show started.
Speaker 2: It was almost the opening clip.
Speaker 3: It lost out to JD Van's call and Kamala drunk
Speaker 3: for reasons that you see, you can guess, but we
Speaker 3: haven't played it at all. Now, who's in Seriously, who's
Speaker 3: in charge? Well, your name's on the show, you jackass?
Speaker 3: Fair point, fair point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you make a good argument, But we need to
Speaker 4: get to that clip.
Speaker 3: I can't wait, but first it must give way too
Speaker 3: many other clips. Oddly enough, it's the Friday tradition. It's
Speaker 3: time to take far look back at the week that was.
Speaker 3: It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 2: Hello stranger, So this really come as quite a shock
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: Which.
Speaker 5: SpaceX Crew ten climbing through the skies above a Falcon
Speaker 5: nine rocket.
Speaker 2: And splash down Crew nine back on Earth.
Speaker 3: Well and speaking up for the women folk in space,
Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about, you know, support garments
Speaker 3: or anything, you know, your bobs flow cow.
Speaker 6: Yes, d FBI is investigating what it calls a targeted
Speaker 6: attack shots fired at this Tesla dealership in Oregon, Tesla's
Speaker 6: spray painted in Massachusetts.
Speaker 7: We have to make them really afraid, and what's happening
Speaker 7: now with Musk is making them very afraid.
Speaker 3: There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here,
Speaker 3: because this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: What's the plan? If Putin doesn't agree to a ceasefire?
Speaker 1: Bad news for this world?
Speaker 5: Lami Putin did not agree to the unconditional US backed
Speaker 5: thirty day ceasfireplan.
Speaker 6: It looks like more than three hundred and fifty people
Speaker 6: were killed. This according to the Palestinian health officials in Hamas.
Speaker 3: We cannot have a world with the Ayatolas with their
Speaker 3: finger on the nuclear button.
Speaker 5: Then as Wayland gang members arriving to his country overnight,
Speaker 5: marching into prison.
Speaker 2: I don't care whether the judges sank.
Speaker 7: I don't care the leftanks we're coming.
Speaker 5: I think at a certain point you have to start
Speaker 5: looking at what do you do when you have a
Speaker 5: rogue judge?
Speaker 2: Just say no this, and then you'll know that I'm ring.
Speaker 8: Say no.
Speaker 9: You'll know that I'm run first it was Elon Musk
Speaker 9: with the chainsaw. Now President Trump taking a sledgehammer to
Speaker 9: the Department of Education.
Speaker 1: And am a firm believer that President Trump will run
Speaker 1: and win again in twenty twenty eight. As we'll say
Speaker 1: what the definitioner term limit is.
Speaker 2: I'm a leader. I made my money all by myself.
Speaker 2: Most of their ass I do.
Speaker 3: Him money.
Speaker 10: I'm studying the unseen body and created spaces of a
Speaker 10: racial exposure the queer.
Speaker 2: Do we have jobs for that?
Speaker 8: Yes, it's called Starbucks.
Speaker 2: God, when I'm talking, you're not talking about Hill. When
Speaker 2: I'm talking, you're not talking.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 1: That was Alec Baldwin's wife there at the end. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Oh how does he do that?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Just nails on a blackboard? Yikes.
Speaker 3: Those previous clips were completely inaudible, which is odd for
Speaker 3: an audio feature, but it's creative anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember what the clip was. That almost
Speaker 1: was the opening clip today. Uh does it need any
Speaker 1: set up?
Speaker 2: A clip? Sixteen? Katie, I think you brought this.
Speaker 9: Uh it's it is a dude dressed as a woman
Speaker 9: and she's or he's got one of those nose rings
Speaker 9: and that looks like two hooks coming out of his nostrils,
Speaker 9: and yeah, it's he's a mess.
Speaker 1: Okay, Clay Case, you need to load a mimp in
Speaker 1: a truck and you can use a stick with a
Speaker 1: hook on it.
Speaker 3: It's very handy, a nose ring exactly. So this is
Speaker 3: a pay three piece. So I thought I've explained something.
Speaker 8: When I say I'm a woman, I'm not asking if
Speaker 8: you'll pretend I fit your definitions of a woman. I'm
Speaker 8: saying I'm a woman. You should add that to your
Speaker 8: definitions of women. Now, yeah, does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Nope? No, thanks.
Speaker 9: Also, don't call me sweet peaude.
Speaker 1: No, sir, hard No, I got a question for you.
Speaker 1: I'll start with Katie, Katie, I'll start with Michael. Michael,
Speaker 1: do you have something your wife calls you or you
Speaker 1: call your wife that is like a pet name?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she calls me honey.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good one. That's a classic classic.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you don't have to answer this question
Speaker 1: obviously if it's too personal, But do you call her something.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while, I'll call her sweety or
Speaker 2: something like that. Okay, my queen, that's a good one. O.
Speaker 1: Katie, do you have something like that with your husband.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we have two.
Speaker 9: One we made up, uh sweetheart and Babo Babo?
Speaker 1: Which one will you?
Speaker 2: Is? Babo?
Speaker 1: Both of us?
Speaker 2: Both of you?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Oh cool, Well bab it's they're a thrifle. Yeah, exactly, Okay,
Speaker 3: how about you, Joe?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: For us, Oh no, I would never dignify that prying
Speaker 3: question with an answer. You should though, Uh, there are
Speaker 3: no less than half a dozen each, probably uh huh
Speaker 3: many many, depending on the mood in the situation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but of course, yeah, been together.
Speaker 2: Forever, depending on the mood.
Speaker 1: So like in a certain like later tonight, a couple
Speaker 1: of drinks Friday night, stallion might be what it is.
Speaker 3: Probably yeah, yeah, or she she just calls me. Thor
Speaker 3: Joe thankes references to hammers I don't bring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what was that sound? Wow?
Speaker 3: And she's miles away right now. I heard my eyes,
Speaker 3: my wife's eyes rolling. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Thor, it's just when when you mentioned that that
Speaker 1: gentleman uh saying sweetpea, I mean because for some people
Speaker 1: it might be sweetpea.
Speaker 2: Play that that big fella again, would you? Michael Sweep?
Speaker 8: So I thought I'd explained something when I say I'm
Speaker 8: a woman. I'm not asking if you'll pretend I fit
Speaker 8: your definitions of a woman. I'm saying I'm a woman.
Speaker 8: You should add that to your definitions of women.
Speaker 2: Now, ye haven't changed my mind. I'm not see I
Speaker 2: know what a woman is.
Speaker 3: I'm fairly confident, fairly cause I'm one hundred percent confident
Speaker 3: in my knowledge of what's a woman and what's not.
Speaker 2: And you eight you're a fella, So there you go.
Speaker 2: Yes you can. At least we were able to settle this.
Speaker 1: You can lead a horse to water by their nose ring,
Speaker 1: but you can't make them drink the kool aid of
Speaker 1: whatever this is.
Speaker 2: Yes, skatie.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm just giving you both a nice visual of
Speaker 9: what this fine gentleman looks like.
Speaker 1: Let me check that picture.
Speaker 3: It looks like Stephen Tyler Verosmith in his younger days.
Speaker 3: Perhaps you are a fella, sir, you can looks like
Speaker 3: a late not coincidentally, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Those are practically horns. That's not just like way, that's
Speaker 1: not your smaller nose ring, that's a Those are horns.
Speaker 2: Those are tusks. He has to look at his schnaz.
Speaker 3: He's got like various studs stuck in various locations around
Speaker 3: his his nose.
Speaker 1: This isn't always true, but I remember PJ O'Rourke, who
Speaker 1: passed away a couple of years ago, saying that the
Speaker 1: number of piercings, tattoos, et cetera inversely related to how
Speaker 1: interesting you are. And I've found that to be a
Speaker 1: case on a case on a number of occasions. Not
Speaker 1: always true, but sometimes it is a I'm trying really
Speaker 1: hard to have something to offer the world, but I
Speaker 1: ain't got nothing.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be cruel because there are a
Speaker 3: lot of fine folks who have various adornments that they enjoy. Sure,
Speaker 3: and blanket to indictments are are well, they're they're inaccurate,
Speaker 3: which is I PJ was not entirely wrong, though.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: If you want to express yourself, express yourself, don't like
Speaker 3: stick something through your what's.
Speaker 2: It's I mean you can if you want.
Speaker 1: My messages to the world is that I'm but tusked.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm trying to say to the world.
Speaker 2: I have tusks exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So there's an inverse relationship between how interesting you
Speaker 3: actually are. We have some experience with a character who
Speaker 3: had multiple gimmicks slash look at me, look at me,
Speaker 3: look at me's And if you were to engage that
Speaker 3: individual and conversation, you would find it was a great
Speaker 3: deal like conversing with I don't know, a barnyard animal,
Speaker 3: glass of milk, Yes, a glass.
Speaker 2: Milk if you prefer a cat.
Speaker 1: A couple of interesting pieces in the opinion section of
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal today that I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: before we run out of time for the week. Pretty good.
Speaker 1: I think you'll like something that was called a lie
Speaker 1: by political fact that is couldn't be more true that
Speaker 1: Eli mus fact checking doesn't check facts. But we got
Speaker 1: a lot of serving. We had a lot of good
Speaker 1: stuff on the way. I hope you can stay with this.
Speaker 8: Basically, so, I thought i'd explained something. When I say
Speaker 8: I'm a woman, I'm not asking if you'll pretend I
Speaker 8: fit your definitions of a woman. I'm saying I'm a woman.
Speaker 8: You should add that to your definitions of women. Now, yeah,
Speaker 8: does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So completely aside from the trans issue, the is that
Speaker 1: that person there had tusks. They had a big thing
Speaker 1: through their middle of their nose and two tusks coming
Speaker 1: out and.
Speaker 3: They consider themselves an elephant American.
Speaker 1: And there there are different levels of adornment that have
Speaker 1: become more acceptable, you know, in the last couple of decades, obviously,
Speaker 1: and we've all grown used to it. I mean there,
Speaker 1: when I was younger, if a woman with a tattoo
Speaker 1: had this might be shocking to you, Katie, because you're younger.
Speaker 1: But I worked at this country bar. If there had
Speaker 1: been a woman who had a tattoo, everybody in the
Speaker 1: bar would have been talking about it, like if she
Speaker 1: had a tattoo because she just never ever ever saw
Speaker 1: a woman with a tattoo, right, weird. It would have
Speaker 1: seemed crazy.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And now it is as acceptable as anything could possibly
Speaker 1: and being fine, I have no problem with it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And similar with some of the piercings that would have
Speaker 1: been incredibly crazy. You know, this thing through the nose
Speaker 1: or whatever. Now you see it all the time. But
Speaker 1: there I still find the gauges in the ears, which
Speaker 1: you had, Katie. Uh, pretty enough. So just because you're
Speaker 1: starting to deform yourself at that point. I've seen the
Speaker 1: I have seen in person the lumps under the head
Speaker 1: where you get horns.
Speaker 9: I guess, oh yeah, they're implants, like silicone implants that
Speaker 9: they put right under your skin.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. It looks like you're some sort
Speaker 2: of devil child.
Speaker 1: I don't know at the point you're deforming yourself to
Speaker 1: the extent that you ought to be under the care
Speaker 1: of state because harming yourself. But you gave us an example, Katie,
Speaker 1: if someone you worked.
Speaker 9: With, Yeah, I worked with someone years ago who used
Speaker 9: to do this suspension training, if I'm remembering properly, But
Speaker 9: they would go to these meetings and put giant fish
Speaker 9: hooks through the top layer of their skin, just behind
Speaker 9: their shoulder blades, one right in the middle of the back,
Speaker 9: and then I believe like two in the like your
Speaker 9: love handle area, and then someone would pull on the
Speaker 9: rope and you would suspend and hang from the ceiling.
Speaker 9: And you know, I'd see them at work and they'd
Speaker 9: have bandages all over their back, and I get, you know,
Speaker 9: it's I guess it's part of like some witchcraft thing.
Speaker 1: But oh, my goodness, oh it's a witchcraft thing. I
Speaker 1: was going to ask, do they claim then that, oh,
Speaker 1: you you have no idea how freeing it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just it really releases the stress of a day
Speaker 1: to hang there for a while, and then the toxins
Speaker 1: in my biome, in my stomach and everything gets better
Speaker 1: when I hang from the ceiling by fish hooks through
Speaker 1: my back right.
Speaker 9: And like when I say fish hooks, I mean like
Speaker 9: deep sea sport fishing fish hooks, not like the little
Speaker 9: tiny marble talks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, well I'd actually prefer that if I'm suspended
Speaker 3: in such a way.
Speaker 2: If you're doing that this weekend, I will.
Speaker 3: Teach you to play golf for free. It's frustrating at
Speaker 3: first one. I think you'll enjoy it very much. It's
Speaker 3: better for your health than being lifted aloft like you're
Speaker 3: a recently landed.
Speaker 1: Back walking around huff and paint out of a sack
Speaker 1: would be a step up.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: So it was it like a witchcrafty thing as opposed
Speaker 3: to a sexual thing or was it kind of both?
Speaker 9: It definitely more witchcraft than than sexual. Here's a witch
Speaker 9: very the crowd that did this very goth dark personalities.
Speaker 1: And they call them suspensions.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, oh boy, the blood, the blood that
Speaker 9: because you know, they would show pictures like, oh check
Speaker 9: this out, you know, it's like, oh, I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so amateur psychoanalysis on this is just your incredibly
Speaker 1: lonely uh you feel like a nobody. That'd just be
Speaker 1: my guess. But it's a thing maybe I shouldn't Maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be so judged mental.
Speaker 3: Well, And it's it's a natural impulse for younger people
Speaker 3: to want.
Speaker 2: To suspend themselves from bishooks.
Speaker 3: Yes no, to be seen as or to see themselves
Speaker 3: as bold or adventurous or unafraid. I would suggest there
Speaker 3: are better avenues to pursue that sort of fulfillment than
Speaker 3: having yourself lifted like you're about to have your throat
Speaker 3: cut at a chicken factory.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever, this is if I ever get to
Speaker 1: have a ted talk, this is what I would like
Speaker 1: it to be. And I've done that. I've had this
Speaker 1: screed many many times. I wish you could convince everybody, really,
Speaker 1: and certainly teenagers, you want to be like the average person.
Speaker 1: And that's the last thing you want to be when
Speaker 1: you're a teenager is like the typical person. But the
Speaker 1: typical person doesn't go to jail. The typical person graduates
Speaker 1: high school, the typical person gets a job. The typical
Speaker 1: person supports themselves. The typical person isn't a drug addict.
Speaker 1: The typical person, I mean, all of things that are
Speaker 1: like your average typical person that you're trying so hard
Speaker 1: not to be, are things that are gonna make your
Speaker 1: life so much freaking better. Yeah, you want to be
Speaker 1: that typical person, you just do. Typical person gets married,
Speaker 1: has a home, has kids, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Those are the happy people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to grow a long beard, or
Speaker 3: you know, get a couple of tats, or go ahead,
Speaker 3: play a metal band, enjoy yourself. But you know, the
Speaker 3: the mainstream is the mainstream for a reason. A lot
Speaker 3: of it's because it's a better idea. Yeah, right, then,
Speaker 3: it's not that we lack imagination, friends, it's that we've
Speaker 3: tried the other stuff and it's a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Well, I have tried everything. I haven't tried that. I
Speaker 1: haven't suspended myself even once. I want your reaction to
Speaker 1: the photo I just sent you, Jack, I don't want
Speaker 1: to see it. Is it going to gross me out?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about like you'd expect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2: It's pretty icky.
Speaker 3: Where the dude's getting suspended in the fashion that we
Speaker 3: have discussed.
Speaker 1: No wear sock shoes like we were talking about last hour.
Speaker 1: You want to be really out there and bold, wear
Speaker 1: sock shoes. You'll go through a faith maybe like when
Speaker 1: I had a perman war parachute pants. Really no harm done,
Speaker 1: No harm done.
Speaker 3: The world's leading Leo Sayer imitator in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 1: Luckily, pre smartphone, no pictures of this exist.
Speaker 2: He knows he can dance. You know he can dance.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no permanent damage, no blood. Nobody was worried
Speaker 1: for my mental health.
Speaker 3: At least he's being lifted up by his back and
Speaker 3: not his front. I mean that would be really uncomfortable.
Speaker 9: Oh the front is also Oh no, oh.
Speaker 2: Katie, say it ain't so.
Speaker 1: And I assume when you talk to those people, if
Speaker 1: a guy like me, a square like me, were to
Speaker 1: say you're mentally ill, that's exactly what they want they want.
Speaker 1: But a person like me, you know, middle aged dad
Speaker 1: to say they're antal eel typical of that kind of guy.
Speaker 8: You know that?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3: You gotta go through it, just don't don't do the
Speaker 3: super crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: God, if I come home and my kids are hanging
Speaker 1: from the ceiling by fish hooks. I'm gonna feel like
Speaker 1: I failed.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: On the first day of college basketball's Banner Tournament, a
Speaker 5: technical foul on Louisville's coach Pat Kelsey as the Cardinals
Speaker 5: tried to claw their way back against Creighton, turning into
Speaker 5: an ugly moment as someone through a water bottle onto
Speaker 5: the court of the announcers immediately reacting to the brazen measure.
Speaker 1: Come on, I could have done some real damage to
Speaker 1: the full water bottle.
Speaker 5: The University of Kentucky police quickly identified the individual who
Speaker 5: caused the disruption and removed them from the facility.
Speaker 3: You've got people setting fire to testa dealerships. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I yeah, don't drunk bottles, your bottle chuckers. But yeah, sorry, no.
Speaker 1: Outrage left, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: You drag them out of the stadium. One.
Speaker 1: I agree, A boy.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm scanning the sound sheet. I'm kicking myself.
Speaker 3: It's sometimes we have too many assets and I you know,
Speaker 3: it gets lost in the stuff you need, gets lost
Speaker 3: in the forest. But got a lot of great clips
Speaker 3: about ending the department of education. We were talking about that earlier.
Speaker 3: For instance. We'll just touch on this quickly. Thirty two,
Speaker 3: Jackie Heinrich, Fox News.
Speaker 10: The nation's report card shows math proficiency at thirty nine
Speaker 10: percent in fourth graders, twenty eight percent for eighth grade,
Speaker 10: in reading fourth graders thirty one percent, proficient eighth graders
Speaker 10: sitting at thirty percent. But the National Education Association says
Speaker 10: the move will quote hurt all students by sending class
Speaker 10: sizes soaring, cutting job training programs, making higher education more expensive.
Speaker 1: None of those to any of those things. Now, none
Speaker 1: of those things are going to happen.
Speaker 2: You're lying. I wonder why they would lie.
Speaker 3: Is it because they don't want to use their great, compelling,
Speaker 3: honest arguments? Are they keeping them fresh for Sunday because
Speaker 3: that's all they have? Play Satan? Why do we always
Speaker 3: assume Satan is going to be a dude. That's sexism
Speaker 3: to me. Satan can assume many forms, including that of
Speaker 3: the overhied.
Speaker 1: It's not been my experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty five.
Speaker 7: It is an assault on knowledge. It is an assault
Speaker 7: on what our kids need, curiosity, innovation, confidence in the future.
Speaker 7: That's what's so stunning about.
Speaker 3: This Randy Weingarten, who has to have her horns filed
Speaker 3: down every three months to keep them from being visible.
Speaker 2: She is Satan in human form.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how she sleeps at night because.
Speaker 2: She has no conscience. She is a sociopath.
Speaker 3: She you'd have to be m Yeah, yeah, millions children suffering.
Speaker 3: You know, I was just reading a piece. Didn't mention
Speaker 3: it on the show yet. But New York City is
Speaker 3: absentee numbers. It's the biggest school district in America. The
Speaker 3: chronic absenteeism has skyrocketed since COVID. The best anybody can
Speaker 3: figure out is kids and families either got out of
Speaker 3: the habit of sending the kids to school, or the
Speaker 3: message was just sent unmistakably that we do not value
Speaker 3: your attendance at school. It's not that big a deal.
Speaker 3: Will pretend to educate you on video, it's not working
Speaker 3: at all. We're still going to keep you out of
Speaker 3: school for reasons you and your parents don't quite get.
Speaker 3: But it sent an unmistakable message, and so New York's
Speaker 3: now got just a crisis of you know, I wonder
Speaker 3: if I could find that real quickly, we get do
Speaker 3: numbers right, but the numbers are shocking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've wondered about that, because it's a nationwide that's
Speaker 1: a problem. What is that psychologically?
Speaker 2: I think it might be like.
Speaker 1: It's a macro version of you know, like you go
Speaker 1: on a diet or you're hitting a gym every day,
Speaker 1: and then when you break that streak, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it can be hard to get that streak going again.
Speaker 1: It might just be that I wonder, we just had
Speaker 1: the discipline of sending our kid to school all the time,
Speaker 1: and the kids going to school all the time, and
Speaker 1: then we just broke that streak, and then we just
Speaker 1: can't get it back.
Speaker 3: Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal, who's a terrific
Speaker 3: writer and actually concerned about poor kids, minority kids, black kids, whatever,
Speaker 3: and not pretends to be for money in power like
Speaker 3: Randy Winegarten, who I might have mentioned, is satan Chronic
Speaker 3: absenteeism defined as missing ten percent or more school days
Speaker 3: in a given academic yere. I mean that's one day
Speaker 3: every two weeks. That's a lot climbed from twenty five
Speaker 3: percent before the pandemic, which ain't great, to thirty five
Speaker 3: percent last year, well above the national average. Broken down
Speaker 3: by grade level. The chronically absent rate for the last
Speaker 3: school year was forty one percent for kindergarten, thirty five
Speaker 3: percent for first grade, and about thirty two and a
Speaker 3: half percent for second grade.
Speaker 1: Kindergarten. Admired that much, but the habit would be a problem.
Speaker 1: You don't want to make a habit of not going.
Speaker 1: But but wow, that's something. So chronic absintee is a
Speaker 1: more than ten days? Is that what you said, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: and more than ten percent.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is something, And.
Speaker 3: Raleigh points out, and it's an excellent point. And this
Speaker 3: makes the COVID cruelty all the more cruel.
Speaker 2: He says, and I quote.
Speaker 3: The figures are especially alarming because educators have long known
Speaker 3: that the ability to read by third grade, when a
Speaker 3: child goes from learning to read to reading to learn,
Speaker 3: it's worth repeating they go from learning to read to
Speaker 3: reading to learn, is a reliable predictor of future success
Speaker 3: in everything from high school graduation to avoiding the criminal
Speaker 3: justice system. Wow, and you sat millions and millions and
Speaker 3: millions of kids out at that critical point so you
Speaker 3: could extort more money and power and for the poor
Speaker 3: desperate appearance.
Speaker 1: And pretended like the zoom thing was worth a crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, anyway, Okay, speaking of America's youth, this was
Speaker 3: really interesting how social media expectations are destroying teenage friendships.
Speaker 2: And this is the sort of thing I must sit.
Speaker 3: Humbly by and be taught about, as I don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of interactions with teens these days. I've got
Speaker 3: a huge, huge amount in the nineties and two thousands.
Speaker 1: A little weird if you did at this point outside
Speaker 1: of some sort of mentoring program or something.
Speaker 3: Which actually I'm going to be getting involved with and
Speaker 3: I can't wait. But anyway, unmet expectations on social media
Speaker 3: are the primary cause of teen friendship conflicts in the
Speaker 3: modern day. Disappointment from friends not responding or engaging as
Speaker 3: expected leads to stronger emotional reactions and arguments, more so
Speaker 3: than the pressure to be constantly available. So number one,
Speaker 3: you post something, your friends don't like it, they don't
Speaker 3: reply to it, or whatever, You feel abandoned, You feel rejected,
Speaker 3: and then visual content on social media amplifies the feelings
Speaker 3: of exclusion and jealousy. Teens are more likely to feel
Speaker 3: left out or rejected when they see friends active online
Speaker 3: or spending time with others, triggering emotional stress and increasing conflict.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that as a as an unpopular high
Speaker 1: school kid, if I had had the ability to actually
Speaker 1: like see the party everybody was going to and videos
Speaker 1: of it and everything like that, Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: would have been brutal.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's any better for a reasonably popular
Speaker 3: high school kid. Oh look, there are my three best
Speaker 3: friends doing something.
Speaker 2: Why did they lose my number? That'd be terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then with the whole dating thing, the ability to
Speaker 1: see you know, the early you dated for two weeks
Speaker 1: now with some other guy.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, you know. They don't just deal with it,
Speaker 2: you have to see it. Yeah. Oh so.
Speaker 3: New research from a university reveals how this digital pressure
Speaker 3: wanted to constantly be available, among other things, is creating
Speaker 3: stress that leads to real world friendship conflicts for teens.
Speaker 3: They tracked twelve hundred teenagers over six months to understand
Speaker 3: how social media affects their friendships. What they found pat's
Speaker 3: a concerning concerning picture of modern teen relationships.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: I do interact with teens a lot, having a couple
Speaker 1: of teenagers, but it doesn't mean I'm many better prepared
Speaker 1: to help them navigate this sense.
Speaker 2: It didn't exist when I was young at all. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's the pressure of constantly being available,
Speaker 3: but even more so than that, disappointment when friends aren't
Speaker 3: available to them, and the feeling of missing out, rejection
Speaker 3: and the.
Speaker 2: Rest of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got to unplugged the Internet. I would really miss
Speaker 3: googling who is the batting champion in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1: But I'll get out a sports allmanoch like I used
Speaker 1: to have, and I'll look it up.
Speaker 3: Or I'll argue with my friends and we'll laugh and
Speaker 3: call each other names over a couple of beers and
Speaker 3: never come up with the right answer and not care.
Speaker 1: Right and everything will be fine.
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: We I had one of those. It was just last night.
Speaker 3: I was hanging out with some fellas and a good
Speaker 3: buddy of mine. He's a good guy. But we couldn't remember.
Speaker 3: Oh what was it where I can't remember what we
Speaker 3: couldn't remember, But it was something like that.
Speaker 2: It was a smarts trivia question. I think it was sports. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: Hear the question golf, basketball, baseball, football, all right?
Speaker 3: You know how it goes the minute. I probably not Bowling.
Speaker 3: The minute I stopped thinking about it, it will pop into
Speaker 3: my head. Yeah, it's Bowling. Who was the guy who
Speaker 3: said that? Famous friends? But it was something like that.
Speaker 3: And before I could stop and me googled it. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I want to be tortured by this until I can
Speaker 3: come up with the answer.
Speaker 2: Oh, I remember.
Speaker 3: It was what golf course in the eastern US, the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia area has baskets instead of flags on the poles
Speaker 3: that mark were the hole is the pins?
Speaker 1: And why do they do that?
Speaker 3: It's just an old, quaint tradition. But I was like, oh, no, no,
Speaker 3: is it No. Before I could stop him, he googled it.
Speaker 3: Oh it's blankety Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, how many people are aware of sand greens?
Speaker 1: I brought this up to somebody the other day and
Speaker 1: they'd never even heard of such a thing.
Speaker 3: I was astounded by it. When we first met in
Speaker 3: Kansas and you told me about them, I was like, wait, what, what?
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have him anywhere else but
Speaker 1: in Kansas because it was so dry and it was
Speaker 1: so difficult and unrealistic to try to have green grass
Speaker 1: stay alive. For green greens, the greens were just a
Speaker 1: big sand pit.
Speaker 3: But they were like, you got to play golf dressed
Speaker 3: crusty sand or kind of.
Speaker 1: But you basically just you drew a groove in the
Speaker 1: sand with your putter and then putted the ball down
Speaker 1: the groove and it went the hole. It basically just
Speaker 1: eliminated putting from the sport. It allowed you to have
Speaker 1: a golf course and play golf, but you couldn't have putting,
Speaker 1: which obviously is a very important part of the sport.
Speaker 1: But it just wasn't realistic to have greens, so they didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, I was I was amazed by that.
Speaker 3: It was like hearing from a weird culture where they
Speaker 3: drink cat's blood or something.
Speaker 1: At the turn.
Speaker 2: Hey, anybody thirsty, it's hot day.
Speaker 3: Calves blood caves, blood caves blood pinto UFO break?
Speaker 2: Do you want me to play the full? Pete Weber
Speaker 2: clip is very good. I forgot how goodness this is.
Speaker 1: This is one of the all time legendary bowlers. He
Speaker 1: just bowled a strike or a three hundred or whatever
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he won the game. Yeah, he became the champion.
Speaker 2: Yeah a strike to claim.
Speaker 3: It another time?
Speaker 2: Are you that's right? Who do you think you are
Speaker 2: I think you are? I am? That's right.
Speaker 4: Oh, you can get t shirts that say whoever you
Speaker 4: think you are, I am, you are am. That's one
Speaker 4: of the great, great those things of all time. We'll
Speaker 4: finish strong next Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Hey, here's a guy who drives to Tesla.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if anything will happen to me. Give my
Speaker 1: car keet or you yell that.
Speaker 3: Pal green energy dreaming, unicorn riding weenie. Oh, I mean
Speaker 3: you right wing fascist, maga loving racist climate week exactly,
Speaker 3: yeah something, so this might be the perfect cap on
Speaker 3: the week. Recent Gallup poll did their usual probing of
Speaker 3: Americans try to figure out what they thought about what,
Speaker 3: including their confidence in various institutions great deal, quite a lot,
Speaker 3: some are very little, and number one in America. The
Speaker 3: most trusted valued thing that they asked about, anyway, was
Speaker 3: small business sixty one percent. I don't know how you
Speaker 3: don't have confidence in small business. They live and die
Speaker 3: by their performance. It's the ultimate American thing. You talk
Speaker 3: about a meritocracy, yeah, indeed, Yeah, a salute to use
Speaker 3: small business people the seriously the backbone of the country.
Speaker 3: The military is certainly a part of that backbone. Jack
Speaker 3: it's a multifaceted backbone.
Speaker 1: If small businesses are the backbone of the country, what
Speaker 1: is talk radio me the spleen spin.
Speaker 2: The femurs of the country.
Speaker 3: All right, sure keeps us being from knees connected to Pelvis's.
Speaker 2: I mean, how weird would that be? Anyway?
Speaker 3: Number two twelve points down and barely half forty nine
Speaker 3: percent is the military. Forty nine percent have a great
Speaker 3: deal quite a lot some confidence, a great dealer.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to not have confidence in the military,
Speaker 1: don't have the confidence for them to.
Speaker 2: Whoop up in a war? Or Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Actually there are areas in which I don't have confidence
Speaker 3: in the military.
Speaker 2: I think we've gotten kind of fat and lazy.
Speaker 1: Well I have, I don't My confidence in the Pentagon
Speaker 1: is not that high. My confidence in the military is
Speaker 1: very high.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how other people.
Speaker 3: Look at this, right, Yeah, that's there's there's a lot
Speaker 3: of nuance to that one in particular.
Speaker 2: Or the police is net thirty four positive.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't get that idea from the news media.
Speaker 3: The medical system is net six positive.
Speaker 2: It couldn't be more screwed up.
Speaker 1: No, but an individual It's kind of like the way
Speaker 1: we everybody hates Congress, but they like their own congressman.
Speaker 1: They vote for their own congressman over and over again.
Speaker 1: Like the medical system is awful and terrible, and my
Speaker 1: doctor's fantastic and I've had him for years exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The following four are all like positive negatives are balanced,
Speaker 3: the same organized labor, banks, higher education boo, and the
Speaker 3: church or organized religion. Then you get into the negatives,
Speaker 3: and I wish we had time for all of it.
Speaker 3: The highest negatives Congress fifty one percent underwater, well earned,
Speaker 3: just ahead of newspapers.
Speaker 2: Hate kids. It's that time with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a.
Speaker 3: Final thought from everybody to wrap up the week. There
Speaker 3: is our technical director, Michael Agel. Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 3: My wife and I we do have pet names, but
Speaker 3: a lot of times we just call each other by
Speaker 3: our full legal name and social Security number. That's good
Speaker 3: for accuracy. Well, it's any confusion. Katie Greener is themed
Speaker 3: to use woman as a final thought.
Speaker 9: Katie, Yeah, you know things are getting serious when the
Speaker 9: first full name comes out.
Speaker 1: When I get a caitlin O boy.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, oh boy. Yeah, that's like a Joseph yeh Jack.
Speaker 3: Final thought for.
Speaker 1: Us trying to figure out what to do with my
Speaker 1: teenage boys on a Friday night. I drove by a
Speaker 1: park yesterday and I was thinking about, Man, those were
Speaker 1: good times when they were young and I could just
Speaker 1: go to a park, any park, stop there, kill a
Speaker 1: couple hours.
Speaker 2: They were thrilled.
Speaker 3: Now it's getting kind of hard to figure out what
Speaker 3: to do. Yeah, yeah, that is the challenge. My final
Speaker 3: thoughts speaking of amusements is I'm going to a minor
Speaker 3: league hockey game tonight. I can't wait because I love
Speaker 3: the sport of hockey. And if the action never flags,
Speaker 3: grown men will punch themselves in the face or each
Speaker 3: other in the face for my entertainment, which sounds like
Speaker 3: a really good deal for me.
Speaker 1: Wow, hit it with a stick.
Speaker 2: Hit it with a stick, and they will hit him
Speaker 2: with a stick.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other're.
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Speaker 1: Continues to be some really major news and narratives going
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Speaker 3: God bless America, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: We're going to release the animal spirits of that when I'm.
Speaker 1: Talking, you're not talking about.
Speaker 2: When I'm talking, you're not talking. Yes, I think it
Speaker 2: was the real wake up call for me and listens
Speaker 2: and I think he's right about that. In particularly, does
Speaker 2: that makes sense?
Speaker 9: Well, I don't have, you know, four shots of vodka
Speaker 9: before every meeting.
Speaker 3: Whatever you say did, well, we'll just leave it there
Speaker 3: on this story.
Speaker 2: Bye Bye, I have a great Friday. You Mother, Armstrong
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