WEBVTT - Pennies Were Stupid Before Inflation 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.280 I'm Strong and Getty and Key Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.600 On its website, Massachusetts Easy Past Warrants, the overdue toll 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.920 message is a scam and it's happening across the country 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.200 criminals posing as totaling authorities. Cybersecurity pro say the scam 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.680 software was built in China and sold to criminal gangs 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.479 around the world, called a smshine scheme using SMS messaging. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.640 Cyber pro say it's the latest twist to a scam 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:48.199 telling Americans they owe money for a postal delivery. The 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.040 expert device be suspicious of any message from a totaling agency. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.279 Call the agency's published number if you're not sure, and 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.960 never click on the link or accept a one time 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:59.960 code that could open your bank account. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:01.720 Did he say smishing? 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.120 Yes to smishing operations, so it's like phishing, but it's 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:12.400 SMS texting, so they're calling it smishing. All right, everything's 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.440 gonna have a cute name. Uck, everything's branding these days. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.520 Do you know anything more about this, Katie. I've had 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.600 I've been I've had this coming in my text line 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:20.960 a lot. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.040 Yeah, I mean, I mean this, this is pretty common. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.480 Any anytime you get a text message with a link, 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.240 my rules just don't click it. The problem is that 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.399 the times when it's true then called. Well, if you 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.360 have endless time, you can call every single one of 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.400 these and try to track down do I actually have 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.080 a package. I'll wait on hold here at the ups 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.160 one eyed undered line to figure out if I actually 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.560 have a package or if this is a scam. And 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.400 I get ten of these a day, so I just 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.120 ignore them all. And then every once while you get 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.200 a letter in the mail. No, that one, that medical bill. Yeah, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.880 we're gonna turn it over to the collection agency if 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.600 you don't pay it. Oh that's a real one. Oh okay, yeah, yeah. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.680 They're usually signs that it's phony. The the the actual 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.640 U r L will be Funky or what have you. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.400 L that's right. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.040 Yep, that's your stage name during your hip hop days. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:14.320 That's right for smishing schemes. Speaking of scams, it was funny. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.040 I was going to bring this up later, but now's 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.760 a fine time. You know, it's one of the greatest 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.079 scams in the workplace. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:20.519 Uh. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:26.840 The concept of unlimited paid time off. Here at Jones Tech, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.520 we have unlimited vacation as long as you. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.320 Take care of your stuff. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.760 If you need to take time off, you just take 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:38.839 it here at Jones Technology. Well, big study, and I've 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.000 I actually I've known a couple of people who have 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:45.080 this situation. It's generally the what it ought to be 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.800 called is non specified time off because it's usually in 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.520 go go companies with a you gotta give it all 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:59.320 to the company culture, and the idea of taking any 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.880 time off, much less like two and a half weeks 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.359 to go to Australia is completely out of the question. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.880 I think I might like this. Maybe it's a way 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.840 to get around a variety of things and start punishing 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.960 or overlooking the people that you know abuse vacation days 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.880 and spirit days and sick days and all that sort 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.240 of stuff. You do this, and it's like, Okay, here, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.640 he is a lot of time off, We'll overlook them. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.640 How about we give it to Fred or Janine who 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.280 is not taken all the time off, move her up 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:36.120 to the next job. Well yeah, but the functional the 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.320 result of this is nobody gets any vacation. You'd have 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.360 to have some sort of unlimited time off after two 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.120 weeks or something I think would be the only way 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.240 to work, or however, many weeks vacation would be normal, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.040 So everybody gets a certain amount, yeah for sure. Yeah, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.360 and then beyond that, you know you want to go 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.360 ahead and be the person who never shows up for work. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.600 Go ahead and see how that works out. Yeah, well 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.280 that's the way a lot of companies work. But anyway, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.360 if you accept a job like that, thinking oh, this 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.200 is great, I can take time off whenever I want. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:08.400 No, it's the opposite. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.440 The people at these companies that have unlimited PTO as 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:17.359 they call it, take less vacation than normal workers. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.680 I would have assumed that's the case. Yeah, that's what 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.800 I assumed when I first heard the whole thing. Yeah. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.279 Yeah, here's very insightful, here's regulations, here's good news from DOGE. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.200 I'm very excited about this. One of their first things. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.880 They're taking aim at the humble penny pennies. Gotta go 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.840 elon and people said the other day this has made 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.520 no sense for years. We're spending four cents to make 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.480 a penny or whatever it is. I think it's three cents, 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.400 three and a half cents. It costs to make a penny. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.960 You don't need pennies, especially after inflation. Pennies were stupid 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.320 before inflation. Post inflation, it's insane that we have the penny. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.280 But so they're gonna finally get rid of it, or 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.479 at least they're gonna yet they're. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:55.000 Gonna recommend it. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.919 You know what's funny and ironic is I'm always mindful 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.279 of Chesterton's fence. Don't take down a fence until you 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.960 fully understand why it is there. And so that's you know, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.880 it's one of your ancient, time honored explanations of conservatism. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:16.240 But the progressive side, mostly when it comes to government, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.839 are among the most conservative people on earth. If a 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:26.320 government program exists, it must always exist. If something that 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.520 is paid for by taxpayers ever happens, it must always 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.040 happen and can never not happen again, no matter how 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.440 wasteful or ridiculous. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:40.599 Isn't that odd? Goodbye penny? Yeah, fine, good riddance, And 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:41.160 I like this. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:46.960 Representative darryl Isa of California tweeted out yesterday, I've seen enough. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.640 I'm calling for a congressional investigation of the White House staff. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.080 Elected Democrats in mainstream media who knew about Joe Biden's 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.279 decline and covered it up from the American people, I 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.640 think that's perfectly appropriate to have a full investigation on that. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.599 Do you think that's grandstanding or show voting or just 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.920 trying to create a spectacle. I think that's a that 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.599 really ought to be looked into. Yeah, on what basis? 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.960 Though? What are we looking for? Violations of the law? 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.080 What law? Here's senile? How senile? Does it have to 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:21.800 be a violation of the law to have a congressional inquiry? 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.919 No? No, But that's what I'm asking. Why are we 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.760 doing this? What are we hoping to accomplish? Well, if 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.200 it's just too embarrassed democrats, I'm not for it. If 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.960 it's to let people know though, you don't get to 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.800 do this, You don't get to just lie at that 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.720 level and not be honest with the American people, you've 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.560 crossed the line, then I'm for it. Because they did 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.320 cross the line. They crossed the line, I would agree. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.159 I just again, I'm not sure what we're doing here. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:59.280 Condemning lying about senile presidents, I'm already there. And again 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.760 I'm not against this, I'm just not sure what shape 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.400 it would take anyway. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:05.440 Ah. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:11.160 So remember Vivek Murphy was that his name the woossy 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:16.080 don't do anything ever, Surgeon General under Biden, who's now gone, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.840 thank goodness, along with the rest of that rabble. Ah, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.040 he put out that you can't ever drink anything. It's 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.080 bad for you. Any level will raise your chance of 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.119 this cancer from one in a million to one point 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.120 three in a million. And well, there's another giant study 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.480 that's coming out of this week. I think that that 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.320 is much more nuanced and different and says, yeah, for 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.600 if you're a low to moderate drinker, you're less likely 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.000 to die of all causes. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.240 Blah blah blah. This reminds me now of. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.640 The dueling coffee studies that our beloved old newsman Marshall 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.800 Phillips would bring us. Look, the more you drink, the 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.760 worse it is for your health. All right, don't drink 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:01.360 a lot, drink some. This is media reporting on media. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.040 As we all know, cable news is really struggling worse 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.280 than you thought. CNN is laying off two hundred employees, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.040 or they did yesterday as its TV audience continues to tank. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.160 Here are some numbers Inauguration day coverage on CNN was 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.840 down eighty three percent compared to four years earlier. Woof, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.360 Not only is Trump stronger than he's ever been, his 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.360 political career may well have killed legacy media, says Clay 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.280 Travis of Travis and Buck, who replaced Rush Limbaugh. As 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.840 you know, that is quite a drop eighty three percent. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.199 I mean, I realized it wasn't their boy Biden getting inaugurated, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.600 it was Trump. But that's quite the best. They must 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.280 have had hundreds of people watching nationwide. I think getting 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.760 back to Biden's senility, I think the damage done to 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:53.319 people and institutions who were in on the scam that 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.080 Biden is sharp and he's not senile, and inflation is 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.240 it's been Trump caused it and it's transitory and it's 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.400 not that bad, and the economy is great, and don't 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.920 believe your eyes and ears believe us. I think they 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:11.120 did themselves fatal damage. I think CNN is a poster 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.280 child for that. Yeah, they may kill themselves and good, Yeah, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.520 oh it's too bad. eBay sellers are listing iPhones with 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:23.200 TikTok already installed for thousands of dollars for anybody out 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.480 there who I don't know who wanted TikTok but didn't 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.960 download it before. I don't quite understand who the what 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:34.000 the market is on that, or don't understand that it's 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.040 the the upkeep, the updates to the app that are 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.360 going to be the problem. Having the app is not 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.880 really the problem. Okay, but you know buyer b ware. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.480 A pay penalty is keeping men out of classrooms. According 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.600 to the Wall Street journals Matt Barnam and Paul Overberg, 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:59.840 it's funny a pay penalty because teachers make less than 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:06.920 the average male profession. It's interesting how and this is 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.920 clearly written from a fairly progressive point of view, although 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.880 it makes some great points about male teachers are much 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.760 less likely to see boys acting like boys is somehow 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.240 a problem the way you know women are more likely 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.319 to And I want to get off on that tangent 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.800 because that's soon to be the main point. But I 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.480 like the way they call the fact that a certain 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.679 profession makes less than another one a pay penalty, as 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:36.679 if it's somehow unjust and harsh and unfair, the way 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.000 all progressives look at economics like a price is of 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.400 value judgment, and we should all decide how much should 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:46.440 the bacon cost. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.080 I mean, that's not the way it works, you know. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.440 I was saying about this the other day when I 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.559 was watching my son, he plays drums in the drumline, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.439 and they're playing at the high school basketball game, and 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.720 how many of the like practically all the teacher were there, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:06.280 and just thinking what a vocation that is as opposed 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.040 to a job. When you're a teacher somewhere and just 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.040 you know, how much of your life you have to 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.320 give to it because you teach all day and they 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.439 go to all the events. If you go to anything 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.080 with your school, as you know, you know all the 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.960 teachers are there, and the number of hours you would 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:22.880 have to put in to do that. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.240 It's really impressive. It is. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.679 Indeed now most teachers get the summer off, or at 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.600 least a substantial part is that there are trade offs, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.920 and is free human beings. They can make whatever choice 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.840 they want. It's not a pay penalty. It's the pros 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:37.360 and cons. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:37.600 Oh. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.480 I wasn't making the argument they aren't paid enough. I 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:40.160 think they are. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.599 I just thought that that's something, you know, because I 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.959 wouldn't mind teaching high school history. I wouldn't want to 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.320 go to all the girls high school basketball. I gotta admit, yeah, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.640 oh yeah, yeah, I know. I'm not arguing with you. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.520 I'm just just getting back to the gist of the 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.960 article here. The thing that I did appreciate partly was 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.400 the ideas that, well, we've gone from roughly one in three, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.720 almost one in three teachers being male in the seventies 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:13.720 and eighties to fewer than one in four now, and 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.480 that is a problem. And they make the point that 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.440 men are less likely than women to look at a 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.600 boy's natural boyish behavior as a problem and expect little 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.640 boys to sit there like little girls and behave like 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.640 little girls. It's awful and just it's towering stupidity. How 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.280 many you expect? How many men men are in teaching 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.280 in the modern world as opposed to the document? What 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.640 does that mean? You know exactly what it means. I 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.559 just I'm shocked at what you're trying to imply. Noah, 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.360 is there are money of manly men are teachers? 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.360 Not as many as used to be. I don't think. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.920 I think there's a lot more of the men. Go ahead, Katie, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.440 say what you got to say. I you've silenced me. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.280 I just I think it's I think it's a lot 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.600 of the men crowd that get into teaching now are 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.400 the I'm kind of ashamed of being a man. I 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.400 really wish I was a woman, and I'm go along 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.560 with whatever women want and think. Certainly not the great 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.320 male teachers who are listening now though, same time, friends 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.160 of Armstrong and Getdye, you have painted with a broadbrush, sir. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.719 Now there are way fewer manly men in teaching now 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.880 than there ever were before. Garren freaking teed men in teaching. Yes, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.160 mail bag at Armstrong and getdy dot com. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.840 Yeah no kidding, I'm moon washing right now. We gotta 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.199 take a break. There's more of this I want to 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:32.439 get into. Stay with us, guys. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.120 There was another brutally cold day across the country. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.120 Wasn't it cold? 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.199 It was so cold in New York City on my 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.199 way into work, I sat in my uber driver's lap. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.720 You guys, the time of year in the city. I 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.760 like to play a fun game called guess which bottleby 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.839 fluid made that patch of ice that one has his 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:55.360 inn pouch in it. Holy cell growsed. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.880 So, getting back to the discussion of teachers and pay 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.079 and that sort of thing. The thing that bothered me 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.680 about this article, A couple of things did, but they 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:11.680 mention that what's the specific quote that men would be 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.679 less likely to see rambunctious boys as a problem. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:22.120 You know, boys just acting like boys, right right? 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.680 And although I have a point to make, here's a 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.160 quote not that I think about. Maybe it does surprise 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.600 me how many teachers or parents, if you've raised boys, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.240 whether you're a man or a woman, you know what 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.640 boys are like. Well, yeah, give me a second, we're 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.000 getting there. So this guy says he thinks he's successful 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.040 with boys because he doesn't write them off as rambunctious 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.960 or hyperactive, but he sees them fully as students in 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:50.600 humans who may express their needs differently than girls. Well 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.760 that is self evidently true. But how the hell is 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:58.520 that some sort of insight that's worthy of even noticing? 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.280 That's what you do for a living. Now I'm not 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.920 yelling at this guy, I'm yelling at everybody else. You 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:13.480 teach young human males and females. That is your job, 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.760 it's your mission in life. It's what you do. How 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.320 can you not know that little boys behave differently than 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.320 little girls because of their way they're made? 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.440 How is that some sort of insight that's shocking. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.720 Oh I'm supposed to talk into this end of the 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.600 microphone I discover in the twenty third year of my 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:32.480 radio career. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.000 No, that would make me a freaking moron, or. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.640 Or, in the case of the teachers, and this is 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.320 the root of the problem, a political extremist, a nutjob, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:50.760 somebody who goes around talking about toxic masculinity, who thinks 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.800 boys will be boys is an expression that's meant to 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.080 excuse sexual assault. No, that's not what that expression means, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.560 or any of the things you see is negative about 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.040 boys are well one a flaw and two it's something 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.920 that they learned through our wrong society and can be 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.000 the patriarchy can be corrected out of them. I was 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.120 thinking about somebody I heard the other day, real nice person, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.960 I really like, but they're talking about how their young 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.880 son was running around at the playground with sticks with 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.920 some other boys, pretending to shoot each other. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.000 And she thought, Oh my god, where have I gone wrong? 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.440 I just I was trying to think, what have I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.400 done that would lead him to think that that was okay, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:29.320 That's what. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:34.040 I'm talking faking talking about. Oh my lord, Oh, I 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:35.080 am so troubled by that. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.680 I have my society gets so far off track and 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:44.640 to have the outward whatever five percent in terms of 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:49.880 attitudes in this country be seventy five to ninety percent 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.640 of teachers, that's a scary thing. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:52.640 That's not healthy. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.040 If you've got any comment on any of that, because 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.240 we'd like to hear from you, if you're in the 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.880 profession text line four one two nine five KFTC. Trump 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.159 announced yesterday he signed some sort of order he's going 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.040 to release the files on the Kennedy assassination and the 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.480 MLK assassination. Which brings me to wanting to talk a 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.600 little bit about MLK Junior. His birthday was Monday, and 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.440 we didn't get around to it. There's a big thing 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.160 happening in two years that needs to be discussed. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.840 As a nation. Armstrong and geddy. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.199 He has been urged by a number of people, but 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:31.080 especially Robert F. Kennedy Junior, that he he should release everything, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.439 he should make everything public. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:33.520 You know, Robert F. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.520 Kennedy Junior has privately told a number of people, and 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.480 he has you know, alluded to this publicly that he 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.199 believes that there is, you know, some information that the 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.560 government has that the government had some role in what 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.280 happened to his uncle. You know, his father was also assassinated, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.919 and so I think that that is why President Trump 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.000 is going ahead with this yet. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.520 Trump's going to release information that previously hasn't been reliefed 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:02.520 about the JFK assassination, RFK assassination, LKA Junior assassination, which 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.680 I like we were talking about earlier. I don't think 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.800 is gonna be major blockbusters. I just don't like the 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.560 idea of the government keeping secrets. It's better better we 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.560 hang onto this. I just did that tendency of the government. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:12.960 Is not good. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.119 And as we learned with Biden, Obama, and Trump and 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.920 all their top secret documents that they keep around, there's 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.800 just way too many top secret things that don't. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.760 We're the government. You don't. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.840 You don't get to keep everything secret all the time 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.760 forever just because you're you're better off that you have 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:30.520 the information. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:31.919 I've never liked that. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.679 Last night, I was running back and forth. My oldest 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.560 son was upstairs doing a paper on the civil rights 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.199 movement for some class in school. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:47.560 He's in high school, and. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.280 Then my youngest was doing math, and I was running 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:54.040 back and forth helping them. Multiplied decimals and I going 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.639 up to help that going down there, and at some 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.240 point I said, hey, you're wearing me out with this. 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.240 I think you can handle this on your own. Henry, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.720 my thirteen year old, said, you're a parent. You signed 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.720 up for this. This is what parents do. They help 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:05.760 their kids with their homework. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.480 Wow, what the hell? 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:16.919 Anyway? For better or worse? I hope for better at 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.760 least over time. The idea that my son was working 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.560 on a paper about the civil rights movement came up 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.199 while we were eating, and then I and then I 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.399 went off on a long rant as I often do, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.480 about the civil rights movement and MLK Junior and a 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.280 whole bunch of different things, asking them, well, which part 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.679 of it you think you're going to write about this? 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:36.239 And this and this. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.639 And I'm in the midst of reading yet another MLK 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.440 Junior biography, the one that came out last year won 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.000 the Pulser Prize for Biography. And it's really great and 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.399 one of the reasons. First of all, it's really well written, 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:53.399 like it's got a real it's not dry, it's not 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.359 like a textbook. It's written with a little more drama 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.360 than that. But there's so many things to Trump releasing 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:02.240 those files, that files that have come out since the 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.639 last major MLK Junior biography, and so we now know 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.320 more about what was going on with him with the government, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.399 between him and the government and everything like that, and 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.840 we need to know all that stuff right right, more 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.280 on that second, as you know, and I'm sure you're 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.240 getting there, and there's going to be some rough stuff too. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.359 Yeah, in those directions. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.919 Yeah, I'm more thinking about the FBI ought to come 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.200 in for a kicking. But before we get to that, 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.240 one part of the book I thought was really interesting. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.760 So as I was pointing not to my son because 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.800 he was going to do the Montgomery bus boycott, really 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.960 the first giant civil rights thing that happened and started 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.360 in fifty five went through fifty six. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.760 That's the Rosa Parks story. If you know what. MLK Jr. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.160 Was twenty six, twenty six. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.800 Years old, and I've always found it interesting he'd had 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.000 no interest in being a civil rights leader. Zero wasn't 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.160 on his mind at all. He just wanted to be 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.560 He had his Phdology and he got this church with 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.159 the help of his dad that he was a minister 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:05.639 at in his twenties and he's got a wife and 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.720 kids and he just wanted to do that. He had 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.520 no interest. Even after the Rosa Parks thing happened. He 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.080 wasn't thinking I'm gonna lead this. He had no interest whatsoever. 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.680 They have their first big meeting after Rosa Parks. He 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.200 gets arrested on the bus and if you don't know 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.000 what I'm talking about, I don't even know why you're listening. 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:25.080