WEBVTT - I Clapped Back At My Own Brain 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.360 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.840 Armstrong and Jetty and Key. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:37.200 Arms from Studio C see Senior A dimly let room 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.160 deeper them the Babbles, so the Armstrong in getting communications compound. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.159 And today we are under the tutelage of our general manager, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.199 Donald J. Trump, his world. We're just living in it. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.360 Then, no doubt, no doubt. I got a philosophical question 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.640 for you. Then you're perfect to answer. I hope so 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.200 arguing about in my head as I was driving, but 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:00.960 I can't do it over. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.480 This music's nice groove. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.880 This is a fine groove, Michael, thanks for playing it 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.480 doing so. Two of our lead stories today we'll be 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.720 talking about is Trump threatening, Uh all hell breaking loose 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.240 in Gaza if they don't turn over the hostages. That's 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.600 a good one. We'll talk about that today. The AI conference, 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.520 it's going on in Europe and all that. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:22.039 Sort of stuff. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.800 But you know, uh, plenty of doge stuff is still 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.640 going on, Yeah, roiling the country. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.480 DC and everything like that. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:35.080 And I was thinking about the power of status quo, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.720 how it's just just the momentum of status quo is 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.399 just so amazing. And then I thought to myself, but 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.840 wait a second, dude, I'm arguing with my like I'm 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.319 really putting a finger in my chest. Say hey, wise guy, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.680 your anti status quo. I thought that's what conservatism was, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.560 you know, conserving things, hanging on to things. Then I 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.639 shot back at my phone. You owned yourself, I owned 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.080 I clapped back at my own brain. Yes, trying to 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.120 figure out this. So the idea of conservatism is to 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.800 hang on to things that are working. The status quo, though, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.960 that we're trying to disrupt are things that aren't working. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.280 So that's where status quo becomes a problem. Why would 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.480 we hang on to things continue doing things that don't work? 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.400 For instance, public schooling, we're spending multiples more money than 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.320 we were spending ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.079 years ago for less results. Why wouldn't you want to 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.120 disrupt that in a major way. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.639 I mean, like in a major way where people going, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.160 oh my god, what are we going to do now? 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.880 I don't know, something different because this isn't working. Sure, yeah, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.880 I think the fundamental problem is awareness. If people are 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.919 aware of the miserable failure of our government schools. They 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.880 are in enormous numbers in favor of some serious reforms, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.040 even if they're not quite sure what those should look like. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.360 But I think a huge percentage of population assumes that 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:58.800 their school experience is. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.959 Continuing on today. That's roughly the same what's roughly the 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:02.760 same effectiveness. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.480 There's got to be a word for that, though, the 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.480 difference between status quo for things that aren't working versus conservatism, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.239 which is, you know, moving slowly in a Burkian way. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.440 Because we got a functioning society, you don't want me 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.040 jerking it around too much because you're not exactly sure 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:17.880 why it's functioning. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:19.560 Sure, Yeah, that's a. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.880 That's a good distinction, really interesting topic. I just think 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.240 it has to do with with realism and continually Uh, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.240 you know the Chesterston's fence is, you don't remove the 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.560 fence unless you know one hundred percent why it was there. Well, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:43.040 I think that's all about understanding effectiveness of always appraising 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.040 whether things are working or not. That's that's kind of 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.640 the other side of the coin. If something is clearly 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.760 not working, it's fine to get rid of it. Here's 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.200 here's here's another example of the power of status quo. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.000 Let me grab this. This is from ABC looking at 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.480 their tweet and Emon musk Ally, hired to overhaul the 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.840 Department of Treasury, has an under has an undertaking hard line, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.440 has a record of undertaking hardline reforms in the private 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.560 sector that demoralized staff and made them fear for their jobs, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.479 according to interviews with several former employees, Well you might cute, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.679 you might be demoralized and fear for your job if you're. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.400 Not needing needed or you're doing a sucky job. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.560 Why I don't I don't even understand the conversation. It's 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.960 hard to have an argument with people when I don't 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.360 even understand your point of view. I guess my point 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.839 of view is so freaking what so what right? I 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.760 think we may be better positioned than some to understand 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.600 and feel what you're talking about, because media has changed 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.839 so vastly in the last thirty years. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.479 And and you know radio. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.320 Ranches that none specific come to mind, but that had 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:03.360 employed ninety eight people fifteen years ago now employ fifteen 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.200 twenty maybe three. Well, it depends, Yeah, it depends where 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.080 you're talking about. So the idea of well, the world 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.320 has changed and now they want to make changes at 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.840 the company, and that's unfair. It's just I don't know 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.760 what ways you live in that's immune to change. Well, yeah, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.880 if ABC's point is losing your job sucks, or industries 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.920 changing and becoming more efficient in a way that they 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.280 don't need you sucks for you. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.400 Yeah, I understand. But acting like that's just. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:37.960 A horror in general, or that something unfair has been done, right, Yeah, exactly, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.000 that's it. That's something unfair has been done. No, it's 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.200 just you know, we're gonna do things differently now because 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.919 this wasn't work. We found a more efficient way to 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.880 do it now. Of course, this all hinges on the 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.240 fact that it actually is going to accomplish something and 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.400 be more efficient. But in the case of the public schools, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.920 for instance, I don't I don't know how it could 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.400 get worse. Really, Yeah, yeah, it might be as simple 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.359 as and this seems just so dopey it can't be true, 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.080 but I think it is. And there are a bunch 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.440 of different examples of this, a bunch of different contexts. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:14.599 We've had very similar conversation. If it makes someone feel bad, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.080 it must be wrong. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.080 There you go. That is a lot of the coverage of. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.839 This, and it extends to all sorts of things, from 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.440 parenting to government reform, to ending programs that don't work, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.720 to reforming schools to you know, the teacher's union head 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.120 who would have made just a great Nazi. It seems upset. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.720 Therefore this must be wrong. Someone is upset, This must 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.159 be wrong. I guess that gets to that difference in 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.280 philosophy of looking at individuals as opposed to the whole group. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.000 I'm sad for all the kids in school across the 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.320 country who have so many layers of middle management that 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.120 aren't needed that they can't get the sort of education 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:57.640 that happened decades earlier. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:58.839 That makes me sad. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.719 Do you get sad for the individual middle management person 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.480 that didn't used to exist and everything was just fine 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.240 if they're going to lose their job, but not for 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.040 the kids. Is that just the practical versus the emotional? 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.000 I mean anything somebody of our mindset is involved with 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.800 you ask what are we doing here? Why are we 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.800 here to educate children? How are we doing very poorly? 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.840 What is standing in the way of educating those children? 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.880 And then addressing it? And absolutely people are going to 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.440 be upset by those answers and by the solutions you 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.920 decide upon. But that's not only is that fine, it's 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.640 absolutely necessary, But there's a significant chunk of the population 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.920 that can't get past. Oh, somebody's upset. It must be 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.960 mean I don't know, Republicans or whatever, just being jerks. Yeah, 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.720 if this education week where Doge is really loicing at education, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.880 I wish Elon could get somebody at a high position, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.680 teachers union or something like that to answer that question 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.920 of why if the student population has gone up, you know, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.720 single digits present, the number of middle management people in 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.320 schools has gone up one hundred and eighty percent. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.120 Why and this is just. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.600 In the two thousands, not even going back to like 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.800 the eighties or something like that. Why Why Why do 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.720 you need that many more people in a school where 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.640 all the money is going than you used to do? 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:28.000 What? 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.160 What would their answer be on the left? Yeah, there 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:37.439 are there a political answer or the truthful answer. I 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.800 think answer it's a jobs program. It's pretty simple. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.199 But well right, yeah, I was gonna say. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.920 The political answer would be we need experts to solve 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.680 these problems. So we have added more funding, We've got 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.640 more folks involved we're going. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.439 To get to the bottom of this, blah blah blah. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.880 But no, the the honest answer is no, we're just 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.559 we know we can count on their votes. We are 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.360 buying our power through government. School has to push back 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.480 on the political answer seems pretty easy though, but we're 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.200 getting less lower results, we're getting worse results, so it 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:15.600 has we're getting really philosophical. Here. Here's the headbutting that 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:21.760 makes me uncomfortable. Every civilization, every society, every culture has 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:27.959 its myths, and myths doesn't necessarily mean inaccurate or fictional. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.040 They are stories we all tell that help us understand 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.680 the way our culture works. And in the United States, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.760 one of the most critical ones is that we have 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.880 a system of self governance. We the people, for the people, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.920 by the people, et cetera, and that we all participate. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.200 And it's a beautiful thing. And it is a beautiful thing. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.240 It's one of the most incredible things that's ever been 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.080 done on the face of the earth by humankind. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:58.800 On the other hand, the honest truth is there's only a. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.920 Little truth to that, and there there's a whole lot 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.240 of self serving greed and lust for power, and that 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.440 we the people, you know, it's funny that that's not 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.760 it's not contradictory. I think we the people just need 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.079 to be smart enough to know, like the founding fathers 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:20.520 did that Evildoers will exploit that system as much as 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:25.240 they can all the time. But we've lost our cynicism 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.480 about politicians because the government does everything all the time now, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.320 and so we're dependent. It's practically as Stockholm syndrome. We 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.960 dare not displease our captors. Well, we got the latest 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:41.160 list of recommended or actual DOGE cuts from a whole 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.120 bunch of different places. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.640 There was a lot yesterday. Some of you agree with, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:45.880 some of you might not. I don't know. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.160 We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.120 Joe Getty on this it is how did it already 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.640 get to be? Tuesday February eleventh, Here twenty twenty five, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.520 we are Armstrong and Getty and that you know. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.440 Jive and we approval. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.520 All right, let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.760 and regulations, here we go at mark elon Musk. Where 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.560 are you bring. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.920 Your ass of a hair? How you can? Says hair? 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:20.120 Kid with an IQ between seventy five and eighty five 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.040 deserve a congresswoman too. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.640 Bring your ass over here. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.199 Maxine Waters, Elon Mike walk over, he's that kind of guy, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.400 and say, okay, let's have a conversation here on the 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:32.760 microphones in front of everybody. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:33.800 What do you want to talk about? 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:38.840 Yeah, yeah, the penny as Maxine and Chuck and Jakim 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.800 bravely stand up for bureaucrats and against the American people. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:49.600 Good strategy. Elon Musk, Bring your ass over here, Wed 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.040 and they getting weird fast. You're right? 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:52.400 Uh? 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.480 You unelected dictator? How does the mailbag look? Oh, that's right, 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.520 we've moved mailbag. I The listeners must be adjustinguse I. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.440 Know who I am? Yes, moved mail bag too. Different segments. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.040 So this Jack considers this Chesterton's teas. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.360 We don't want to remove this teas until we fully 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.120 understand why mailbag was In the second segment, Man jd 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.040 Vance gave quite a statement about AI in Europe yesterday 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.480 in front of the world leaders of AI controversial, among 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.080 other things, stay with us. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.000 The Eagles scored twenty four points in just the first half. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.520 Twenty four twenty. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:36.600 Four, or in football terms, one full Bill Belichick girlfriend. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.360 You could tell the game was over when the Eagles 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.760 dumb gator d on their coach halfway through the second quarter. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.320 We've still got a lot of game left. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.600 That's interesting that whole Bill Belichick. He's a famous coach 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.200 if you don't know who he is. But the key 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.719 to the story is his super hot girlfriend was a 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.000 cheerleader while he was a coach. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.360 And he's fifty years older than her. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.880 Fifty forty eight actually, but I mean close enough, fifty 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.240 freaking years, and the way he flaunts it is just 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.040 so interesting in like a no, I'm not like a 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.280 little uncomfortable with this. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.480 I'm a I know you're I know you're jealous of me. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.440 I'm making it. I don't make her. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.320 But she dresses as skippy as possible to accentuate the 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.160 fact that she's fifty years younger than me. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:20.520 Wow, you're on her. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.000 I've got to stand up for the defense here. Mister 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.760 Belichick isn't flaunting anything. It's his girlfriend. He goes places 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.559 with her, and she's a lovely. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.160 Young gal who dresses like lovely young gals. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.680 I'm hearing a lot of prejudicial talk out of the 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:34.640 prosecutor here. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.640 Fifty years sure, that's a long time. Yeah, I know, 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:41.480 I would think. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.559 You'd been literally nothing to talk about in terms of 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.320 really into you know, the blitz and defensive backs. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.760 Yes, Katie, their play. Oh it's simple. They love each other. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:14:01.839 Thank you exactly. Joe Biden's long lost daughter. Uh. Yeah. 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:06.480 I prize the right for people to make their own 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.800 choices in life and follow their own paths, and I 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.600 totally get the lifestyle must be fantastic. But I just 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.840 I don't know, Darling, and maybe she thinks, you know, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:19.360 it's funny. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:19.720 I had a. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.800 Conversation with a youngish person the other day and it 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.840 was so well reflected with your discussion of Henry, your son, 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.800 who is talking about serving in the military and having 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.440 a good, long career and then saying, Hey, when I 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.160 get out, I'll only be x years old. I'll have 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.200 plenty of life in front of me, which is incredibly 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.880 insightful for a lad of his years. I think maybe 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.000 the young galon Bill's arm is thinking, you know what, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.040 when he croaks, I'll be like thirty three. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.800 It's still hot, so still lot. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.680 And I've got a verbal contract that he'll quote unquote 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.840 support me. We're working on firming that up. Everything's going beautifully, Yes, Michael. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:15:00.480 Maybe they're both Milton Borough fans. Oh boy, Yeah, Well, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.000 I'll make a controversial statement. I don't know where the 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.480 cut iff cut off is because I don't think this 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.720 for you know, all age gaps. But I think at 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.800 fifty years, if she's in love with him, she's got 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.200 some psychological problem. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.040 I believe that would be correct. Yeah. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:21.680 I mean I have a handful of relationships with much 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:27.200 younger people than me, and they are entirely friend mentor 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.680 sounding board, which is a beautiful thing. But if it 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.520 turned romantic, I'd be like, what the hell? And I'm 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.119 many years younger than him, well several a few. Anyway, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:40.800 I wanted to get to this. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.560 It's simple. They love each other exactly. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.000 They just like Joe Biden's dad fancifully told him in 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.200 nineteen forty or something about gay men kissing on the 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.720 sidewalk another and how that was perfectly fine. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.000 It's simple, they love each other. Good lord, is the 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.160 mummy still kicking? Is he still around his first? Yeah? 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.040 So I wanted to get this. Gosh, you don't really 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.840 have time. How much time do we have, Michael, barely 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.520 a minute? Nah? 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.400 I don't know if we can get We're talking about 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.520 teachers unions and schools and how bloated they are and 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.040 how they're not educating anybody. And they recently reported in 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.520 the Free Press the miserable test scores. You've probably heard them, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.640 but they're highlighting a teachers union contract from Michigan that 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.080 reveals that to be fired, you have to be caught 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.640 drunk at school five times. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.360 Yeah, I saw that five times. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.400 Caught drunk, which means you have an unlimited pass if 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:34.560 you can keep it on the QT. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.960 So who knew there was such attractive jobs I know? 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.440 To me, that's just a giant billboard for we're all 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.880 about protecting teachers, not about making sure your kids are 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.040 educated in the best way. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.560 That is our At number one. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.920 If you, as a teacher get caught literally selling drugs, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.640 your punishment is three days without pay. You have to 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.040 get caught selling drugs a second time to get fired. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.840 Then they mentioned that the entire flowchart of the Fairfax 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.720 County Schools flows through their DEI office. Everybody reports to 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.040 DEI more or less alongside the head of the school district. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.960 It's insane. Has nothing to do with educating the kids. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.919 That's an afterthought. Mail bags on the way and a 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.479 bunch of other stuff. If you miss the secment, get 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.960 the podcast Armstrong and Getty on. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:27.280 Demand Armstrong and Getty O. The Great. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.720 Rich Lowry writes in The New York Post today that 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.560 we the right have had our best three weeks in 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.239 the culture war in half a century at least, and 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.600 goes through the examples, which is pretty interesting. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.120 Think he's right then, that something though, that is something. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.640 Here's my favorite doge cut from me that was announced 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:51.320 to yesterday, nine million dollars cut from Central American Gender 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:52.600 Assessment Services. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.360 Gender assessment so. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.920 Down in Central America, I was paying with my tax 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.639 payer money to assess what gender you are to me 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.280 next and if there's any doubt, we'll drop your pants. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.040 I mean it's a little intrusive, but yeah, yeah, it's 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.840 just crazy and just strategically speaking, I read a couple 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.719 of stages talking about how the Democrats and we'll get 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.320 into this in detail in a little bit, but they 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.639 seem to be going with hair on fire all the 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.399 time as the strategy directed in various you know, directions 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.040 and kind of varying messages just about theft and constitutional 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:36.840 crises and unelected this, but that it's a horror and 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.800 everything's terrible and got to help us all. And I 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.320 find myself wondering, what if you're just lay low for 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.600 a little bit, just wait for Trump to do something wrong, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.000 maybe the tariffs. I'm concerned that the tariffs are really 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.679 going to screw up the economy, for instance. 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.160 Just wait for that. But I guess you don't raise 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.560 money that way. Maybe that's it. Anyway, here's your freedom 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:56.320 loving quote of the day. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.520 Well, I know that Mark Alpern rights and quoting a 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.320 lot of Democratic strategists. They're at a complete loss how 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.399 to do this. It's like a whirlwind has hit them 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.200 hard and fast, with what looks to be a lot 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.919 of public support, and they just have no idea what 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.520 they should do at this point to fight back, and 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.760 they're flighting. They seem to be divided fifty to fifty 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.320 between those who are screaming, we need to. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.800 Move further to the left and oppose everything Trump. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.119 Does, and then the same branch of the Democratic Party 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.440 that's saying, no, why don't we work with them when 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.480 we can and shove our lunatic left wing aside because 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.119 they're killing us here, right, But I mean, there is 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.719 no accord there anyway. I thought this was so interesting. 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:48.080 Steven sent this along did the god fearing founders of 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.680 America arrive at the three branches of government? From the Bible, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.560 this is from Isaiah thirty third chapter, twenty fourth verse. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.359 For Jehovah is our judge. Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.200 is our case. He is the one who will save us. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.760 I see judicial, legislative, and executive right there in scripture. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.479 I think you know that reflects the ancient reality that 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.879 when human beings associate, they need someone to make up 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.399 the rules, then figure out how are we going to 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.240 enforce these rules, and what if there's a disagreement. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:21.560 I think it's as simple as that. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.920 But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes way back 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.280 to the Old Testament. That's right, sir, that's what we're 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:32.960 talking about. Mail day. You can drop us a note 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.919 at any time you like. Michael always appropriate, drop us 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:38.840 a note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.760 This first email references the fact that today is indeed 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.760 my birthday, not only that it is my sixtieth birthday. 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.080 I know you're thinking, Joe, you seem so youthful and clever. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:51.919 That can't be true. 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.399 Yeah, I know. Have you checked the math on that? 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:55.560 Why not? 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.200 Jack and I first. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.480 Connected in our mid twenties. We're twenty five. 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:10.800 Yeah, that seems only remember like three things between then 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:11.160 and now. 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.560 Two of them were brothers of children. That's sorry. That 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.359 seems like And I know, if you're forty, this seems weird. 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.879 Maybe you're certainly if you're twenty five, that seems like 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:21.640 six years ago. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:28.000 Yeah, roughly seems like about six years ago. It's crazy. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:29.399 That's nuts. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.560 And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.680 lovely and very very much appreciated. And it's funny. It's Tuesday, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:38.560 it's a work day. I've got my kids arriving in 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.320 town this week, which is that big fun. That is awesome. Yeah, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.000 it is awesome, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.439 various ways. My son and I. I picked them up 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.280 at the airport. I'm a big hug, and then we 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.520 philosophized the entire way home from the airport, which. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:53.080 Is what we do. 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.760 My eldest of my youngest daughter and I spar and 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:58.360 joke and kid each other. 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.720 And so it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. But 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.240