Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty
Speaker 1: I know he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2: The ambush targeting US Border Patrol agents outside a facility
Speaker 2: in McCallan, Texas. Authority say, a gunman armed with an
Speaker 2: AR style rifle open fire. A suspect killed in a
Speaker 2: shootout there. Three people were wounded, including two officers.
Speaker 3: There's bent nosed, overly tight T shirt wearing Democratic activists.
Speaker 3: David mrs report on ABC News. We'll have much more
Speaker 3: detail for you in a minute, but out troubling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say I think that you're talking about OLiS,
Speaker 4: New York City. They had a whole bunch of stuff
Speaker 4: down at Battery Park where you get on the boats
Speaker 4: to go out to Statue Liberty. We didn't do that,
Speaker 4: but they apparently were concerned about some sort of giant
Speaker 4: immigration protest because there are tons of like in riot
Speaker 4: gear cops around and all of your immigration monuments sort
Speaker 4: of stuff barricaded off. Yeah, because there's a there's a
Speaker 4: you know, there's a growing violent wing of this topic. Well,
Speaker 4: and the irony of roping off barricading off isn't immigration
Speaker 4: great monuments?
Speaker 3: Is kind of odd, but I get it. For a
Speaker 3: little more report here, a little more detail. Rather, here's
Speaker 3: Jonathan Hant on Fox News.
Speaker 5: It was just before six am when the shooter opened
Speaker 5: fire outside a Border patrol annex in McAllen, Texas. Border
Speaker 5: Patrol agents and local police returned fire, hitting and killing
Speaker 5: the shooter, who was armed with an assault rifle. There
Speaker 5: were many, many, many dozens of rounds fired from by
Speaker 5: by suspect towards the building and towards agents in that building.
Speaker 5: The Border patrol facility was left riddled with bullet holes.
Speaker 5: One McCallan police officer was hitting the knee by either
Speaker 5: a bullet or shrapnel. A car, apparently driven by the
Speaker 5: shooter was found in the Border patrol parking lot and contained,
Speaker 5: according to the police chief, substantial amounts of ammunition and weapons.
Speaker 4: You know, just in general the topic of immigration and
Speaker 4: cracking down on illegals. Man, there are so many more
Speaker 4: news cycles of this to go to see where we're
Speaker 4: going to land as a national opinion, because the stuff
Speaker 4: out of la which we've talked about a little bit
Speaker 4: and we're going to talk about more with the mayors
Speaker 4: trying to get a good photo op of defiantly standing
Speaker 4: up to ice raids and that sort of stuff where
Speaker 4: they rolled through a park and we're looking for illegals
Speaker 4: and booting them ount and not just criminals, but people
Speaker 4: are here illegally, although that is the law. So that's
Speaker 4: part of you know where we're gonna end up on
Speaker 4: this story. We're gonna change the law, We're gonna enforce
Speaker 4: the law. What other law laws a we're gonna choose
Speaker 4: to ignore. I mean, I don't know where we're gonna
Speaker 4: end up as a country on this.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was just gonna say, because there
Speaker 3: are a couple of possible results. Number one the Armstrong plan,
Speaker 3: which I really like. I'm not sure it'll work, but
Speaker 3: is force the issue? Say no, we're going to enforce
Speaker 3: the law as it's written. Oh you hate it, well,
Speaker 3: then change the law. Let's get together. In Congress, they
Speaker 3: write laws according to schoolhouse rock, so.
Speaker 1: Let's do this. Or America says, oh this is all
Speaker 1: too ugly. That was my gardener.
Speaker 3: That's the nice family that's lived down the street for
Speaker 3: ten years.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was legally this.
Speaker 3: Is too mean. We can't do this, and we'll go
Speaker 3: back to our kind of ignoring the law culture. Wow,
Speaker 3: that one of two possibilities.
Speaker 4: Surely we're not gonna end up in that second spot,
Speaker 4: which one.
Speaker 1: Would be easier for people? Right right?
Speaker 3: This is Trisia McLaughlin, who's an assistant DHS secretary.
Speaker 6: Tragically, it's a seven hundred percent increase and assaults against
Speaker 6: our ice enforcement officers. And what these Democrat politicians continue
Speaker 6: to do, whether it be Karen Mass, Gavin Newso, Timwalls,
Speaker 6: or AOC is they villainize, demonize, and attack our ice
Speaker 6: enforcement officers and they give a free pass and actually
Speaker 6: egg on these unhinged lunatics who go after our ice
Speaker 6: enforcement officers. This administration, under President Trump and Secretary Nome,
Speaker 6: we are not having it. And if you put a
Speaker 6: single hand on our law enforcement, you will be arrested.
Speaker 6: You will be prosecuted to the fullest ex sent of
Speaker 6: the law.
Speaker 3: So one of the more troubling and interesting trends going
Speaker 3: on right now is you have these ad hoc groups
Speaker 3: that are coming together to try to oppose and interfere
Speaker 3: with ICE, and the free press is writing about it,
Speaker 3: and they started with this guy in Ireland who for
Speaker 3: some reason thinks this is the great standing up against
Speaker 3: the oppressor's cause of the moment, and so he's organized
Speaker 3: a website that publishes the names, photos, and social media
Speaker 3: profile links of ICE agents in the US, even though
Speaker 3: he's not an American. This is the newest battleground America's
Speaker 3: war over immigration. The dramatic escalation and arrests blah blah
Speaker 3: blah is fueling grassroots efforts aimed at thwarting ICE everywhere
Speaker 3: it goes. What began as a frenzy of ad hoc
Speaker 3: social media post has turned into apps, hotlines, neighborhood focused
Speaker 3: groups on nextdoor, and websites like people over Papers, which
Speaker 3: are allegedly trying to expose the identities and locations of
Speaker 3: ICE agents and even the hotels where they're staying to
Speaker 3: provoke protests and shame the hotel operators.
Speaker 4: I don't know where America is going to land on this,
Speaker 4: I really don't, but I tend to believe. I mentioned
Speaker 4: Sarah Izger of The Dispatch, who knows a lot about
Speaker 4: issue polling, that even if it polds poorly, booting out
Speaker 4: illegals who have done nothing else wrong man, I think
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, being just known as
Speaker 4: were the ones doing something about illegal immigration is going
Speaker 4: to be a win.
Speaker 3: You could be right going forward future electoral cycles that
Speaker 3: sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you absolutely could be right.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I don't know, I just had kind
Speaker 3: of an the opposite thought going through my head.
Speaker 1: I think Stephen Miller is over the top. Oh.
Speaker 3: I think he really needs to rein it in a
Speaker 3: little bit, not for reasons of being right or wrong,
Speaker 3: but just in terms of understanding where the public is
Speaker 3: pr Wise, if I were advising Trump, I would say,
Speaker 3: go with the most righteous deportations you can, all the time,
Speaker 3: as many criminals as you can, people with you know,
Speaker 3: serious violations, even kind of middling violations. Fear clear of
Speaker 3: the kindly, you know, landscape guy carpenter, the hotel maid
Speaker 3: who's never done anything wrong, because that is going to,
Speaker 3: bit by bit chip away at the support you get
Speaker 3: from the American people for doing some of the stuff,
Speaker 3: because some of it's just some of it's tough, some
Speaker 3: of it's a little ugly, some of it's sad, and
Speaker 3: the American people, especially these days, don't have a lot
Speaker 3: of appetite for difficult and sad man.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: So what is there six hundred seven hundred thousand illegals
Speaker 4: that have a criminal They added that they committed crime,
Speaker 4: so you can easily justify booting them out and that
Speaker 4: leaves what fifteen million illegals that that's you know, fish,
Speaker 4: where the fish are in terms of booting people out.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of people. Yeah, you're right, you're right,
Speaker 3: And I might be wrong about this. It might just
Speaker 3: be sheer bulk will win the day. That's not my
Speaker 3: sense of it. But you know, the media works to
Speaker 3: establish the narrative that I was kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: pitching thinking about out loud.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know any thoughts.
Speaker 3: You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 3: and getdy dot com. What's the smarter tach the administration
Speaker 3: could take to keep the support of the American people.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I was thinking about the whole
Speaker 4: you know, change law. You don't like it, change the law,
Speaker 4: but the current law is you can't be here legally,
Speaker 4: we boot you out.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Maybe they don't want to talk about that when you've
Speaker 4: got a republic in Congress. But when the Democrats take
Speaker 4: back the House, which they I think they almost certainly will,
Speaker 4: because that's pretty much what always happens after a president's
Speaker 4: election elected. They lose the House first first the next election. Man,
Speaker 4: if the Democrats are in charge, Trump could hammer that
Speaker 4: all the time, and I think could be in a
Speaker 4: pretty good political position. You don't like what we're doing,
Speaker 4: change the law, go ahead, pass a law then what
Speaker 4: could be?
Speaker 1: And uh it would be a lot lot harder to
Speaker 1: do than they think.
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Speaker 4: So the immigration thing has got many, many more news cycles,
Speaker 4: as I said, many more layers to it. I have
Speaker 4: no idea how it's going to play out over time.
Speaker 4: It certainly seems that the Trump administration is hell bent
Speaker 4: on continuing to prosecute their case, and we'll see how
Speaker 4: the public reacts to it. They don't, well, maybe they do.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, they don't want a lot
Speaker 4: of photo ops like yesterday where you got guys who
Speaker 4: looked like they're dressed up for Fallujah going through a
Speaker 4: park with a bunch of little Mexican kids playing. I
Speaker 4: don't think that's a good look. But maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 4: maybe that's a better I don't know. I have no
Speaker 4: idea how that's going to turn out well. And just
Speaker 4: on a practical level is it's practical politics. I'm not
Speaker 4: talking principle now as I usually am and ranting and
Speaker 4: raving about, but purely practically. I was making the joke
Speaker 4: the other day We're having a big remodel project done
Speaker 4: on our house, and I was joking with friends Donald
Speaker 4: J let's just keep it cool until they're done with
Speaker 4: my house plays because it is remarkable the number of
Speaker 4: Spanish speakers who are in the construction trade, both coasts
Speaker 4: and the middle of the country.
Speaker 1: It's really quite exceptional.
Speaker 3: And though employers, and I've actually talked to a number
Speaker 3: of employers about this, they try to verify who's who,
Speaker 3: But between the imperfections the verified program, the ease of
Speaker 3: getting fake documents, and the rest of it, sometimes they're
Speaker 3: suspicious but.
Speaker 1: They don't know.
Speaker 3: So if over and over and over again people's housekeeper,
Speaker 3: their gardener, their construction crew, their hotel staff, their meat.
Speaker 4: Packing staffy, that would really hit people harder. Consider of
Speaker 4: any kind.
Speaker 3: Your nanny, the great fabulous waiter at your favorite diner.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 3: All these people are disappearing. That's gonna hurt support. I
Speaker 3: just I'm super curious to see which way it goes.
Speaker 4: Do you suffer from RBF resting bitch faces? It's called
Speaker 4: that's a course term. There's there anything you can do
Speaker 4: about it. Gonna talk about that coming up, among other things. Also, man,
Speaker 4: this new study out about kids which has me highly troubled.
Speaker 1: It should trouble everyone. We'll get to that.
Speaker 4: Lots of good stuff on the way. So I got
Speaker 4: a question for I guess anybody on the staff. Uh
Speaker 4: so it could be you know, anybody who works with me.
Speaker 4: This is I know, and I know what the answer
Speaker 4: is going to be. And there's a point to this
Speaker 4: that can help you. You the listener, If you suffer
Speaker 4: from RBF resting bitch face, which is a common thing.
Speaker 1: Do I jack?
Speaker 4: Do I come off as unapproachable when really I'm just
Speaker 4: this is just my normal face.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I see everybody hesitating. Let me lead
Speaker 3: the problem. Million percent. I have sat in meetings thinking,
Speaker 3: oh my god, you're radiating hate.
Speaker 4: So that's the first question on the whole Do you
Speaker 4: have RBF and what to do about it? Thing that
Speaker 4: I came across. I've been working on this for two
Speaker 4: weeks and I think I'm getting somewhere.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, yeah, so some of it is.
Speaker 4: And I came to this idea on my own, but
Speaker 4: actually did a research and it's a common thing.
Speaker 1: Practicing neutral expressions.
Speaker 4: It's the whole resting bitch face is just you know,
Speaker 4: maybe you were born that way or for some reason,
Speaker 4: a lot of people with age you just get used
Speaker 4: to like, you know, your muscles relaxing and falling and
Speaker 4: you're the falling muscles of your face kind of puts
Speaker 4: you in a frown for a lot of people. And
Speaker 4: I know I've known lots of people older people like
Speaker 4: that happens regularly with old people where you see a
Speaker 4: guy or a woman who just looks so grumpy and
Speaker 4: you engage them at all and they just light up
Speaker 4: with a beaming smile.
Speaker 1: They're not at all. That's just their face sagging. But
Speaker 1: why do you laugh at that, Kittie? Like God, I
Speaker 1: can just picture you saying that to somebody. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: actually quite pleasant in your face was just sagging.
Speaker 3: You're not a nasty human, right, and they're thinking I
Speaker 3: was thinking the same thing of you.
Speaker 1: Yes, psycho killer looking bastard.
Speaker 4: There are practical things you can do if you're concerned
Speaker 4: about resting bitch face, or as friends have told me,
Speaker 4: I've got our MF resting murdery face like a step
Speaker 4: beyond RBA. Whether you're trying to change how others perceive
Speaker 4: you or feel more approachable, and here's a rundown of
Speaker 4: your options.
Speaker 1: Practice neutral expressions in the mirror.
Speaker 4: I had been doing that, and now I've been walking
Speaker 4: around with what I hope is at least a neutral
Speaker 4: expression on my face most of the time. Slightly lift
Speaker 4: the corners of your mouth to create a softer, more approachable,
Speaker 4: resting face. You can also practice relax brows if you
Speaker 4: got furrow brows.
Speaker 1: I don't have that, but I do have the mouth thing.
Speaker 4: Even if your face seems serious, open posture eye contact
Speaker 4: can off set it also, But intentional smiling is a
Speaker 4: big thing. Try the soft smile when you're in social settings,
Speaker 4: barely upturned lips, not no need.
Speaker 1: For a full grin. That's the thing I've been troubled by.
Speaker 4: OHI okay, so it was kind of late. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was kind of fun. I was on vacation, so you know,
Speaker 4: I'm around people I don't know. So I was able
Speaker 4: to practice it a lot and I got results, and
Speaker 4: I was I was comfortable practicing because I don't know.
Speaker 4: If I practiced, you know, if I first started practicing
Speaker 4: around here, people are gonna say are you okay?
Speaker 1: Are you constipated? Or do you want something?
Speaker 4: Or if you go too far with the silly grin,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like, are you gonna kill me? I mean,
Speaker 4: what is happening right now? What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Why do you have that look on your face? But
Speaker 4: I noticed, and this is so crazy. I was going
Speaker 4: around with the kind of neutral, slightly upturned expression and
Speaker 4: getting a no noticeably better result out of people that
Speaker 4: I interacted with, whether it's just somebody at the coffee
Speaker 4: shop or just walking down the street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this my whole.
Speaker 4: Life, walking down the street looking like I want to
Speaker 4: kill you and and radiating hate as Joe said, and
Speaker 4: uh and and and getting an immediate result by trying
Speaker 4: to change that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: There's a a person who I love very much you
Speaker 3: will remain nameless, who has the who has had to
Speaker 3: learn not to be completely transparent when you've lost her interest,
Speaker 3: Like she'll tell a story, then you'll tell a story
Speaker 3: and you'll just see click that moment, I totally lost
Speaker 3: interest you. And we have been working on a oh
Speaker 3: my god, cheerfully attentive look.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, oh, I'm doing it right now, right, So it's better.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: It's it's I feel we're no longer a free and
Speaker 4: you know what's interesting about it, the whole just it's
Speaker 4: kind of similar like with stretching, you just get used
Speaker 4: to your muscles being in a certain way. In my face,
Speaker 4: in my mind, it feels like I'm grinning like the
Speaker 4: Joker from Batman. But I look in the mirror and
Speaker 4: it's just completely neutral because my muscles are so formed
Speaker 4: to frown. So it's gonna take I gotta I gotta
Speaker 4: make sure I check on a daily basis so I
Speaker 4: don't end up walking the halls grinning like a homicidal lunatic.
Speaker 1: Well see that's the idea across the line right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like nice, Yes, nice, very good.
Speaker 4: It feels really uncomfortable and unnatural for me. But like
Speaker 4: I said, I've been getting better result results. So give
Speaker 4: it a whirl see if you can change it. And
Speaker 4: of course the idea with like with stretching and lifting
Speaker 4: rates or whatever or posture is it becomes your habit
Speaker 4: and it just becomes normal and natural and you don't
Speaker 4: have to try anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know how long that will take.
Speaker 3: Well sumbs up for the resting pleasant face, thumbs down
Speaker 3: for the state of America's kids, whether you're a parent
Speaker 3: or not, Folks, we need to band together. We need
Speaker 3: to be aware of this and realize our kids' hearts
Speaker 3: and souls are at steak on a number of different fronts.
Speaker 4: It's getting worse, not better, even with all our recognition.
Speaker 1: So stay tuned.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: On the fourth of July, Kambla Harris.
Speaker 3: Posted quote, things are probably going.
Speaker 1: To get worse before they get better.
Speaker 4: That's also how she starts her speaking engagements.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting. I don't watch Gutfeld.
Speaker 4: He's got a really interesting style and delivery, and he
Speaker 4: gets great ratings.
Speaker 3: And he's a Kamala kicker for sure. God, i'd say
Speaker 3: subject of many of his jabs. I'd say, by the way,
Speaker 3: going back, just one segment on the you know, changing
Speaker 3: your facial expression as an adult.
Speaker 4: That's an interesting idea. I don't think most of us
Speaker 4: think about it much. But can you, you know, midlife,
Speaker 4: decide I'm going to have a different.
Speaker 1: Look on my face all the time. I guess you
Speaker 1: can if you practice it.
Speaker 4: But one of the things I had to get over
Speaker 4: is I abhor phoniness, always have my whole life. I'm
Speaker 4: I'm practically holding call field in that way read catcher
Speaker 4: in their eye. I just I can't stand phoniness. So
Speaker 4: the idea of having a phony expression bothers me. But
Speaker 4: I overcome that or may reminding myself the I want
Speaker 4: to kill you expression is not real. So so I'm
Speaker 4: getting rid of I'm getting rid of a phony expression,
Speaker 4: is what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's accidental.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's gravity, or or the fact that I hate
Speaker 4: most people. Oops, I let that slip up.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 4: So this is troubling, and this is not new. It's
Speaker 4: something we've talked about a lot. But there is a
Speaker 4: brand new study that just came out. And I actually
Speaker 4: went to the study itself, because sometimes that's handy. Though
Speaker 4: you have to skip over all the scientific gobbly gook
Speaker 4: to get somebody to condense it for you. But the
Speaker 4: study itself was here was the question that the researchers asked,
Speaker 4: how has US children's health, chronic conditions, obesity, functional status
Speaker 4: symptoms changed from two thousand and seven to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: It does not say here why they chose two thousand
Speaker 4: and seven. It seems like an interesting coincidence that's where
Speaker 4: the smartphone arrived, but I don't think that's the reason
Speaker 4: they did it.
Speaker 1: What were the findings?
Speaker 4: Trends have significantly worsened for child mortality, chronic physical, developmental
Speaker 4: mental health conditions, obesity, sleep health, early puberty, limitations in activity,
Speaker 4: and physical and emotional symptoms significantly worsened in all those
Speaker 4: categories since two thousand and seven. And we were talking
Speaker 4: about this in two thousand and seven on how bad
Speaker 4: it was and how much more overweight, depressed, anxious, can't
Speaker 4: sleep kids were, and it's gotten significantly worse since then.
Speaker 1: Good lord, it's nightmarish.
Speaker 4: They don't have a why. I mean, this research wasn't.
Speaker 4: Their thing wasn't to try to figure out the why.
Speaker 4: It was just to measure the changes. And the headline
Speaker 4: at least in Fortune Magazines version of what was kids
Speaker 4: or the canaries in the coal mine. I don't exactly
Speaker 4: understand what that means. I mean, I understand the expression.
Speaker 3: I think they are well, you know, I have my
Speaker 3: own theories about this, which we've discussed many times. I'm
Speaker 3: share with Jonathan Height among other researchers, and Peter Vagoshin
Speaker 3: and some others. But the canary in the coal mine
Speaker 3: of the digital world, the digital connected smartphone world, the
Speaker 3: world susceptible to the poison gases of no real interaction,
Speaker 3: no running around and relating to people, just staring at screens.
Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't talk about that. That was such a
Speaker 4: fight on vacation. Such a fight on vacation. And you know,
Speaker 4: kids have always been bored by museums in a variety
Speaker 4: of things. But trying to get my kids interested in
Speaker 4: anything when their brains have been adjusted to the modern
Speaker 4: world of instant gratification and input and sort of stuff
Speaker 4: like that really really.
Speaker 1: Hard, never ending shots of endorphins. That's super.
Speaker 4: And if they were going to be completely honest with me,
Speaker 4: I think ninety percent of the time on vacation, if
Speaker 4: I gave them the choice between what we were doing
Speaker 4: and sitting in the room looking at the phone. They
Speaker 4: would have absolutely chose and sitting in the hotel room
Speaker 4: looking at their phone like percent of the time, and
Speaker 4: too often for me, you know, I gotta fight the
Speaker 4: urge myself. So man, it was, it was, It was noticeable.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about how different it was from when
Speaker 4: I was their age and my parents. Just whatever we
Speaker 4: were doing was better than nothing. Who's my other alternative?
Speaker 4: But they're better than nothing. Is the world in their
Speaker 4: hand in terms of endorphins, right, And that's troubling. So
Speaker 4: that's got to play a role in it. But listen
Speaker 4: to this one of the lead researchers. The surprising part
Speaker 4: of the study wasn't any with any single statistic. It
Speaker 4: was that there were one hundred and seventy different indicators.
Speaker 4: We looked at eight data sources, all showing the same thing,
Speaker 4: a worsening, a generalized decline in kids' health. One hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy indicators. They're all going the wrong direction. That is,
Speaker 4: that's a disaster.
Speaker 3: It's a national emergency, it's a global emergency.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to be funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it says here the health of kids in America
Speaker 4: is not as good as it should be obs but
Speaker 4: not as good as other countries. That's interesting. Is it
Speaker 4: just because we're the leading edge of smartphone stuff?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: How are we on the whole free range parent thing
Speaker 3: compared to other countries. I don't actually know that. I
Speaker 3: know that there's plenty of nanny statism in other ways
Speaker 3: in Europe, for instance, policing of speech, which we ought
Speaker 3: to talk about at some point.
Speaker 4: But I wonder about that. Yeah, I know, I work
Speaker 4: on that more than I used to. I sent my
Speaker 4: kids out while we were in New York a couple
Speaker 4: of times by themselves. We were staying right in Times Square,
Speaker 4: which if you haven't been there recently, it's like your
Speaker 4: local strip mall and it's just got so little character.
Speaker 4: But anyway, although the Times Square almost still charming, it's
Speaker 4: like fifty.
Speaker 1: Almost running around all of them.
Speaker 4: Yes, but both my kids it went out, you know,
Speaker 4: go do this or figure that out or and then
Speaker 4: you know, so you got to navigate the world. You
Speaker 4: got to navigate the getting in out of the hotel
Speaker 4: and up and down the elevator and across the street
Speaker 4: and talking to somebody at the Canes Chicken. Whys are
Speaker 4: a Cane Chicken in Times Square? Why are you going
Speaker 4: to New York? You spent all this money to travel there.
Speaker 4: You're staying in a hotel, even if it's a cheap hotel,
Speaker 4: it's an expensive hotel because of the taxes. And you're
Speaker 4: eating at Cane's Chicken and shopping at Old Navy.
Speaker 1: Who are you? Why are you an old lady? There's
Speaker 1: an old Navy in your town. I don't understand what
Speaker 1: you're doing. I know the homogenization of America.
Speaker 4: It's horrifying any who I let them go out and
Speaker 4: navigate the world with just that in mind. What we've
Speaker 4: been talking about, that that's supposed to be really good
Speaker 4: for your anxiety and emotional development.
Speaker 3: But at the risk of repeating myself, but I say,
Speaker 3: so little that's worth hearing. If I hit on something
Speaker 3: that is, you know, I kind of lean on it.
Speaker 3: Imagine if you were to gather the great philosophers of history,
Speaker 3: the great religious leaders, or whomever you think you know
Speaker 3: has the most wisdom and say, look, I got this idea.
Speaker 3: I am going to invent a device that people can
Speaker 3: have with them all the time that will give them
Speaker 3: pleasure whenever they want it. So much pleasure they don't
Speaker 3: even look for any other pleasure. Not only that, but
Speaker 3: it will eliminate boredom, so they never have to invent
Speaker 3: a way to a themselves, or go out and look
Speaker 3: for something interesting, or go interact with people. They're never poured,
Speaker 3: and they always have pleasure. What do you think, Jesus?
Speaker 3: What do you think, Buddha? What do you think? Abraham Lincoln?
Speaker 3: Or whoever you want to ask? Please, the answer.
Speaker 1: Would be universal.
Speaker 4: This is not that hard, and it will speed up
Speaker 4: your mind in such a way that everything else that
Speaker 4: people have ever enjoyed is unenjoyable.
Speaker 3: It's too dull, right, Oh that's right. And it's addictive.
Speaker 3: It's physically addictive. To Jesus the Great, you know, man
Speaker 3: of peace, he'd punch you right in the face for
Speaker 3: even suggesting it.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 3: Theologians differ, but he'll return the temples, the tables at
Speaker 3: the temple.
Speaker 1: Right. He might have punched Steve Jobs in the face.
Speaker 4: I think he was angry that day. I think that,
Speaker 4: Oh that'll do it. We're talking about this in twenty eleven.
Speaker 4: Joe and I have been doing this show since the
Speaker 4: mid forties. So we've talked about every topic a lot,
Speaker 4: but we're talking about this in twenty eleven. How are
Speaker 4: things since twenty eleven? Thank you, Gladys. A child is
Speaker 4: almost twenty percent more likely than a kid in twenty
Speaker 4: eleven to have a chronic condition such as anxiety, depression,
Speaker 4: sleep apnea, other things, according to the study, up almost
Speaker 4: twenty percent since twenty eleven when we were scared to death.
Speaker 4: Then wow, there's just lots and lots of numbers along
Speaker 4: those lines. But you get the point. We're headed in
Speaker 4: the wrong direction at a pretty good clip. And at
Speaker 4: what point do we, like decide this is the number
Speaker 4: one issue in America. I guess RFK Junior is trying
Speaker 4: to but he's alerting to people to this. Just his
Speaker 4: solutions are not always the most rational.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's true. I just we need a
Speaker 3: national commission. Although if Trump is behind it, the left
Speaker 3: will reject any conclusion that comes to no matter how
Speaker 3: compelling or clearly true. I actually read any commentary that
Speaker 3: when Trump came out with his tariffs the first.
Speaker 1: Time around, they're back by the way, allegedly.
Speaker 3: That all of a sudden, the left was in favor
Speaker 3: of free markets, you know, free trade, free markets.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? The protectionism is terrible And the.
Speaker 3: Joke was just have Trump advocate for everything that's terrible, right,
Speaker 3: and the left will turn on it and we'll have
Speaker 3: a wonderful country. But anyway, I would love to see
Speaker 3: some sort of blue ribbon commission come up with just
Speaker 3: like three recommendations, because there are probably more than that,
Speaker 3: but having to do with, you know, giving kids the
Speaker 3: freedom and getting them away from screens and letting them
Speaker 3: be bored, letting them create, and also it would be
Speaker 3: a radical reform of our nation's school systems. And I
Speaker 3: was kicking myself as this segment began that I hadn't
Speaker 3: asked for the clip of a Sacramento, California area teach
Speaker 3: who was run out of his job because he was
Speaker 3: exposed as being an openly Marxist, radical Black Lives Matter
Speaker 3: Rainbow Flag activist who was caught on tape saying, look
Speaker 3: when class starts in the fall, I know I have
Speaker 3: whatever it was six months to turn these kids into
Speaker 3: little revolutionaries.
Speaker 1: And that's what I do. That's why I am here.
Speaker 3: And the implication being, you know, I might teach you know,
Speaker 3: the stuff I'm supposed to teach, but that's not my
Speaker 3: main purpose. And if you were to picture, and you
Speaker 3: don't need to picture it, just go down to your
Speaker 3: local school.
Speaker 1: An educational system where the kids are.
Speaker 3: Systematically taught that the country they live in is awful,
Speaker 3: that we're all going to die of climate change, that
Speaker 3: they're either bad people because they're white, or that they
Speaker 3: probably are a little girl, even if they're a little boy,
Speaker 3: and the rest of it. Those kids are going to
Speaker 3: be confused and miserable. There's a reason you you know,
Speaker 3: you know, I was grown up. My parents didn't expose
Speaker 3: me to the full horrors of the Vietnam War.
Speaker 1: I couldn't possibly have handled it at that age. You
Speaker 1: ease kids.
Speaker 3: Into taking on the weight of the world and the
Speaker 3: complexity of the world. And not only are they intentionally
Speaker 3: getting the kids early to indoctrinate them, to turn them
Speaker 3: into little Marxists, but they're inflicting way too much heaviness
Speaker 3: and confusion and fear and angst on kids, and again
Speaker 3: systematically from preschool through grad school.
Speaker 1: And it's awful. I have a clip of that teacher.
Speaker 1: By the way, go ahead, I like what you said
Speaker 1: in our cool one hundred and eighty days.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yes, and that's the question because a lot
Speaker 4: of them are indifferent.
Speaker 1: I think they're distracted by the gadgets, show games. How
Speaker 1: do you do that? How do you well? That's funny
Speaker 1: that you scare the f out of them. That's funny.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 4: The person there was concerned about the gadgets. Why how
Speaker 4: are you gonna turn them into Marxists when they're also
Speaker 4: looking at their phone. So their concern is the darn
Speaker 4: smartphones have gotten in the way of being able to
Speaker 4: turn kids into radical Mars Marxists.
Speaker 1: Was an undercover reporter. He's trying to egg the guy on, right.
Speaker 4: But uh so we jumped to some conclusions of what
Speaker 4: might be causing this. The study doesn't get into what's
Speaker 4: causing this at all. You know, is it smartphones? Is
Speaker 4: that the schooling? Is it all of them?
Speaker 1: Isn't it none of that?
Speaker 4: And it's just you get enough plastics in you over
Speaker 4: a certain amount of time and you start acting this way.
Speaker 1: I have no idea might.
Speaker 3: Be another factor, but I will die believing what I
Speaker 3: just stated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a couple more things on this. If
Speaker 4: you have a thought, feel free to text us four
Speaker 4: one five two nine five KFTC. We celebrated our nation's independence.
Speaker 1: With fireworks and drugs. Hit it into to get our
Speaker 1: dogs through the.
Speaker 4: Fireworks, right, I've heard that as a popular thing. Giving
Speaker 4: your dog benadrill or something on the fourth of July,
Speaker 4: have them take a little nap so they don't freak
Speaker 4: out when they hear the bangs bangs bangs.
Speaker 3: Or you could do the thunder jacket thing that is
Speaker 3: like a blanket around them.
Speaker 1: I've heard those works.
Speaker 4: So we're just talking about this new study that's out
Speaker 4: where they look like one hundred and eighty different things
Speaker 4: about kids, and they're all going the wrong direction. They're
Speaker 4: more anxious, they're more they don't sleep well, they're gaining weight.
Speaker 4: It's just like practically anything you can nail down as
Speaker 4: a part of being a kid is going the wrong direction.
Speaker 4: And it was bad fifteen years ago and it's worse
Speaker 4: now and what the hell is it?
Speaker 1: And I don't know.
Speaker 4: We're talking about smartphones and schools and lots of different things.
Speaker 4: We did get this text though, this is one of
Speaker 4: my favorites of all time, which I think may include
Speaker 4: a phrase that we will have forever. Wow, we're going
Speaker 4: to invent a device that has all the knowledge in
Speaker 4: the world at everyone's fingertips. You guys, sound like the
Speaker 4: gun is killing people. Think different. That's my favorite part
Speaker 4: there at the end. Think different. That's what I like that. Okay,
Speaker 4: I kind of start doing. I'm gonna start saying that
Speaker 4: to people if I disagree with Hey, think different, you
Speaker 4: idiots number one.
Speaker 3: It's differently? But okay, thanks excited?
Speaker 1: Feel uh different? Correct, Well, we'll do so. Uh.
Speaker 4: I mentioned this, and I had forgotten about it until
Speaker 4: it came up. The noticeable struggle it was for me
Speaker 4: to try to have my kids have a vacation like
Speaker 4: I've got in mind now that they both are smartphone kids.
Speaker 4: And actually got Henry his very first smartphone in Miami.
Speaker 4: While we were there. He'd been talking about getting a phone.
Speaker 4: He's got kind of a friend group now, and he's
Speaker 4: kind of on the out side because he can't do
Speaker 4: the group texts and all that, and he's feeling bad
Speaker 4: about it. And anyway, he's thirteen and a half and
Speaker 4: I got him a smartphone, and it was interesting the
Speaker 4: way people reacted to the like at the store, this
Speaker 4: is gonna be his first phone, and he's like, all right,
Speaker 4: high five, and some people that are in a store over, oh, congratulations.
Speaker 4: It's like the modern getting your driver's license or first car.
Speaker 4: I told the Uber driver on the way back to
Speaker 4: the hotel, Hey, I just got him his first phone,
Speaker 4: and he fist bumped him. All right, my man, your
Speaker 4: life has changed forever. And I thought that's really interesting
Speaker 4: that and it's true. It's the biggest thing that happens
Speaker 4: to you now, and you're handed that device for the
Speaker 4: first time, which will be in your hand pretty much
Speaker 4: until the moment you.
Speaker 1: Dieugh, you're making me sad.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not claiming it's all bad or well, I
Speaker 4: can't claim it's all bad, or if it was all bad,
Speaker 4: we wouldn't all be doing it. But it is true
Speaker 4: his life changed when he he got that phone a
Speaker 4: week ago. He now has it with him all the time.
Speaker 4: He mostly researches dinosaurs because that's the thing. But for now,
Speaker 4: I thought that's really interesting that everybody's reaction was, Okay,
Speaker 4: here you go, congratulations, life starts now.
Speaker 1: And it's true to a certain extent.
Speaker 4: And I think that fits into or we're just discussing
Speaker 4: all the various things.
Speaker 1: Oh my point about the vacation. What a struggle. It
Speaker 1: was just.
Speaker 4: Trying to have anything that can beat out the constant
Speaker 4: entertainment that they've got in their hand on vacation. And
Speaker 4: also like wearing an earpiece. Every young person now has
Speaker 4: an earbut in all the time, constantly, and I make
Speaker 4: my kids take it out and it makes them really
Speaker 4: really angry, like they're looking at their phone. They have
Speaker 4: an earpiece in where world. While we're in the lift
Speaker 4: going through Manhattan, take that out. Pay attention to what's around.
Speaker 4: There's nothing on board. What do you mean there's nothing.
Speaker 4: This is one of the greatest cities in the world. Book,
Speaker 4: there's this, There's that. Every thing around you is something
Speaker 4: new and different you've never seen before in your life.
Speaker 1: Look at it and they look at me like I'm crazy. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's being a crazy agender bending madness.
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