WEBVTT - Arguments with Friends 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:22.400 Armstrong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.480 Billy Joel's wife alexis thanking fans for all of their 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.760 support amid the piano Man's new health struggle, writing on Instagram, 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.000 the family is hoping for his recovery and looks forward 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.720 to seeing everyone in the future. The seventy six year 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.280 old music legend canceled all of his upcoming concert dates 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:41.680 last week, saying he's been diagnosed with NPH normal pressure hydrocephalus, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.520 a very rare brain disorder, his ex wife, Christy Brinkley, saying, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:46.000 you're our piano man. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.680 Yeah, I never had heard of that. Billy Joel announced 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.840 that last week. Is he ever going to be able 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:54.400 to perform again? 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.040 Do you think? Is he probably done forever? No idea. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.960 He canceled his tour And it's interesting about him at 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.479 his age. Most stars at that age are doing sort 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:12.200 of embarrassing final grasps it money too. He's as popular 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.400 as he's ever been. Yeah, Having done his whole record 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.160 breaking Madison Square Garden thing that he wrapped up and touring. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.760 He's huge, and that's got to be quite a disappointment. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.200 I wonder if I had anything to do with his lifestyle. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.280 I don't. I don't know that it did. Oh no, 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:29.320 I don't. I don't know. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.400 I've never heard of this disease. Rare brain diseases rarely 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:35.319 come from lifestyle. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:36.839 But who knows. I don't know what I'm talking about. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.520 I will tell you this, Yeah, he is not one 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.479 of those guys going through the motions at this point. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.440 I'm always interested in people, whether it's a Billy Joel 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.240 or even Bruce Springsteen who's been so obnoxious lately, or 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.600 the Rolling Stones, who are richer than Crisus of Old 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.880 and certainly can do anything they want, and what if 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.160 they want to do is play right. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.480 Particularly if you're not putting out new music. It's always 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.960 interesting to me because Bruce still puts out a new 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.720 album fairly regularly, so he's writing songs, recording songs, and 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.240 then wants to get them out there and see how 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:09.560 they do. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:10.040 I guess. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.240 But if you're going around playing your your jukebox of 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.200 greatest hits, it's interesting to me that you're still motivated 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:16.560 to do that. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.480 Maybe it's fun. Yeah. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.720 I was listened to Adam Dirtz Accounting Crows on a 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.480 thing the other day and he's talking about how sick 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.040 he gets to some of the songs that he's got 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.520 to sing, you know, like, you know, mister Jones going 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.760 out there, and I could, I would think, like a 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.800 night four thirty years later of a week, you know, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.920 you might think I can't freaking sing this song again 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.640 and pretend like I care, But apparently they do. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:40.399 Yeah. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.720 Yeah, as I've often said of this profession, and I've 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.680 got important stuff to get to here, but we'll get 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.120 to it eventually. You know, a lot of people get 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.160 into this business or the big media companies and executives 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.560 think like a David Lee Roth can take over for 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.200 a Howard Stern or people start podcasts all the time, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.040 and it's fine, go ahead, you should. It's it's fun, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.920 it's interesting, challenging. But yeah, go ahead, do that first show, 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.560 then do the second show. Now tell me what you're 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:08.960 gonna do on the two hundred. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.079 And fiftieth show. That's when it gets to be it's 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:12.720 a job. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:19.120 And yeah, playing mister Jones thirty years later his job, 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.320 it's not joy it's what you do for a. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:22.960 Living, but if you don't need the money, so that's 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:23.959 where the question comes in. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.600 Yeah, yeah, anyway, So one more note on the Secret 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.400 Service cat fight which we were describing at the end 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.960 of last hour. This is two Secret Service gals who 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.480 went to beating on each other, well not quite beating 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.800 on each other, just short of it. They were wrestling 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.640 and shoving. I want to know if it was a 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.840 proclaiming to be ready to whoop each other's ass. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.320 I want to know if it was over professional stuff. No, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.040 you're not keeping an eye and sego. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.160 No Quadrant four isis couldn't get in or it was 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:54.760 over a dude or something. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.800 Did you just say I need a bigger size of 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.200 uniform pants? Is that what you just said? A second, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.120 they're going out with Jim Friday night? 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:05.200 What? 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.600 A source said that a fight broke out after the 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.160 officer arrived in a Dodge Durango rather than a Ford Explorer, 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.360 which was allegedly requested by the agent who is about 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:21.920 to clock off. So they criping at each other over 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.640 choice of vehicle and about ended up eating each other 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.320 on the head at two thirty in the morning in 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:28.240 front of Barack. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.640 Obama's Washington d C. Home. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:36.160 Ah right, I think by definition you're not secret service material. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.279 If while on duty the two of you get in 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:38.560 a fight. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.160 Uh yeah, I would agree. I would agree you enough 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.320 this hard walk away? Please you get in a fight 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:45.320 at the bar later. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.560 As we have talked about many times, the sort of 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.159 person that probably they probably came up through the military. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.400 I don't know this, but often they do. You're the 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.520 kind of person that does it. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.839 Then those kind of people are pretty high strung and 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:56.840 like to fight good. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.000 That's the kind of person you want. Perhaps, But if 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.479 if you can't not do it when you're on duty, no, right, yeah, 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:05.440 agreed completely. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.680 So as I look at the clock, I think we 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.040 need to break on time for once in our lives, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.880 and then do what we're going to do after the break, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.680 which is fine, have something else important to squeeze in 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.320 this segment. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.000 I just saw the video finally. Yeah. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:24.400 They were very close to full on beating each other's 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:25.120 brains out. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.640 Yeah yeah, just I mean, fists were cocked, but cooler 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.280 heads prevailed. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.400 Thank god. Find a different line of work, ladies. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.440 So important stuff to come after a quick word from 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.080 our friends and sponsors, that simply save home security. They 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.080 have your back in a crisis, and they can keep 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.880 the scumbags from breaking in. Understand me, it's not that 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.000 the alarm goes off after they've broken in, although that 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.560 sure as heck will happen. 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There's 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.839 no safe like simply safe. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.560 I do want to later get into the whole Tender's 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.320 got a new CEO and they're going to change their 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.600 whole online dating thing because this next generation is different. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.160 I want to talk a little more about that because 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.200 I think it's pretty interesting, among other things and everything. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.640 Joe teased, that's right. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:02.200 So it is a very very common technique of conquest 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.800 of takeover that you co opt the holidays of the 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.640 culture that you're trying to take over. Christianity did it 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.440 with the various pagan festivals in the winter, Pagan spring 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.800 and in an effort to spread Christianity. It's it's fair game, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:23.240 but you have to understand that's what's happening. It's a 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.160 tool of conquest. With that, I give you Mayor Brandon 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:33.840 Johnson on Memorial Day. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.920 Hello, I am Mayor Brandon Johnson, and I'm proud to 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:43.360 join you in recognizing and celebrating Africa Day. The continent 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.440 of Africa is made up of one point two billion people, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:53.160 with diverse countries full of rich traditions, cultures, and heritage. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:58.160 The African The failing mayor of Chicago is doing that. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.560 That was Monday on day, Well was all right, check 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.040 in my calendar here, you're a stickler for accuracy. It 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:11.040 was on Sunday. But he's talking about Memorial Memorial Day weekend. Okay, yeah, wow, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:16.200 it's Africa Day. We're all celebrating Africa Day. It's absolutely 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:22.000 a Marxist effort to raise up race consciousness because it's 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.280 not workers of the world unite, it's black people and 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.120 trans people and queer people in whatever of the world unite. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.320 Now in Marxism, an effort to co op Memorial Day 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:37.400 weekend into Africa Day. It's disgusting, which brings us to 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.839 a persistent and important question. How pervasive is the whole 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:49.560 woke thing in education right now? Is it just California, Oregon, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.400 in Connecticut or not. We will answer that question coming 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.640 up next. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.080 Later, I want to tell about my son getting into 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.840 a political argument, which he does a lot. When I 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.439 was thirteen, I got into roughly zero political arguments. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.560 But LifeWise seventeen and nineteen. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.319 And maybe even twenty five, I mean, but politics all 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.240 the time, everywhere, every age. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.840 Now, more on that later. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.440 We mentioned earlier, perhaps you were here that the state 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:34.520 of California has come up with a pathetic transitional policy 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.840 for high school sports where there could be three winners 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.520 of sporting events, the girls winner, the boys winner, and 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.600 the transgender boy who's pretending to be a girl winner 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.800 because they've realized it's just utterly untenable and everybody hates it. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.280 The idea that when a dude whoops up on the 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.200 girls in sports and stands there holding where I'm number 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.840 one as they receive the medal and denying the record, 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.320 the meddle, the scholarship, whatever to a n actual girl. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.360 Anyway, we're talking about that later. Yeah, sure, we'll get 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:08.080 back into that later. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.160 I have comments, okay, yeah, but I thought this was 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.560 really interesting as rape someone who is beschlonged, I have 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:23.720 comments elegant. I'm reasonably self aware, and I understand that 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:29.000 some people think the stories about the crazy woke education 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.840 thing might be nut picking, overstated, or that's happening in 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.160 a couple of wacky school districts. Great piece by Daniel Buck. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.240 maybe that's true. One question persists in American education. How 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.079 pervasive are the stories of kindergartener's learning about transgenderism, or 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.280 high schoolers waving hamas flags and hallways. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.360 I wonder about that a lot because I live in 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.440 like one of the leading school districts in America for 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.240 this sort of progressive stuff, So I always wonder what 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.560 it's like for the rest of the country. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.559 Well, and interestingly enough, my kids grew up about an 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.319 hour forty five minute drive from where Jack kids are 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:09.000 growing up at, in a very conservative part of California, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:13.200 the school district of which has swung way left in 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.200 the last ten years. But he points out, among the 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.559 four million teachers in the US, there will inevitably be 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.480 cranks and id logs who try to turn the classroom 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.840 into a pulpit. Examination of a typical American school district 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.959 and a typical American town reveals that the progressive mismanagement 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.000 school districts extends beyond the dark blue borders of San 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.760 Francisco and Portland, Oregon. They look at Wawa Tosa, Wisconsin, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.040 a suburb of Milwaukee about as average as it gets, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:47.360 politically split, very average, Midwestern median home value, middle class. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.680 In other words, Wahwatosa is that fabled real America. What 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.080 happens in San Francisco may be an outlier, but what 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.040 happens in Wamwatosa likely happens in countless other districts. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.840 So what happens there? Well. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.720 Three years ago, the wawata A School Board proved a 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:06.280 new sex education curriculum, among other things, that expect sixth 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.199 graders to define different types of sexual intercourse. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.760 Oh my, kindergarteners learn about. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.920 Genitalia, past the whoever, throughout the bad idea phase? How 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:21.160 does it get actually two? All the steps you have 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.720 to go before this ends. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:23.400 Up in a classroom? 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.160 Good freaking god, I didn't even get halfway through the list. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.040 Well, let's see the kids. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.400 The kindergarteners are learning about genitalia with the help of 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.679 cartoon drawings third graders and inform that no matter their 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.800 body parts, they may feel like another gender, just like. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.240 The founding fathers intended. The schools are teaching sixth graders 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.599 about sex positions. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.079 Notably, the newly adopted units are based on the National 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:50.640 Sex Education Standards, which encourage teaching third graders about puberty blockers. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.720 That's right, third graders need to know about puberty blockers 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.680 and how to get them. Sixth graders need to know 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.520 about abortions and how to get them, and students as 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.040 young as kindergarten need to know about gender identity. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.960 Obviously, this explains my son getting into political arguments at 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.960 age thirteen because this stuff comes up in class all 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:12.480 the time. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.560 Well, and to that point, the red flags appear in 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.120 more than the curriculum. Wauwatosa is one of thousands of 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:24.000 districts who have adopted a restorative justice policy useless. This 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.600 is an alternative to traditional discipline structures that emphasize dialogue 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.400 over punishment and focuses on revising school policy rather than 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.520 changing student behavior. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.600 Which I have called the golden age of bullying. While 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.200 we have more first ladies spouting speeches and PSAs on 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.240 the radio about ending bullying, restorative justice is the golden 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.680 age of being a bully. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.280 Oh yeah, it's great. There are no repercussions. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.880 And in fact, this school district retained a consultant to 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.800 investigate that sort of thing and to make it better. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.360 And the final report dated May ninth reveals just a 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.360 couple of weeks ago that disruptive students received traits in 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.800 the form of food and beverages and a chance to 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.560 play games in the office instead of a standard detention 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.280 to know. In surprise, Wawooto's schools have developed a reputation 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.960 for permissive discipline and frequent fights. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:16.200 That chaos results. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.760 The chaos that results from leniency has led to more 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.880 expulsion notices than is typical. And then this author goes 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:33.400 into various other racial balancing moves. Elimination of high achievement programs. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.560 They closed a high performing STEMS school in the district. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.680 I mean, the list goes on and on, eliminating advanced 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:48.480 math tracks, consolidating high school algebra, offering sixth graders a 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.120 chance to do accelerated course works, the highly problematic. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.200 This is the equity part of DEI right exactly. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.520 Yeah, and you know this is a guy who's a 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.040 fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. But 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.240 there it is in the heartland of America. This stuff 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.320 running wild. And a final note, final ish a story 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:14.480 out of Connecticut. You remember that horrifying deal where the 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:19.200 guy was held prisoner in his home for years and 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.600 years till he lit his room on fire and escaped. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.400 Where the house where his step mother allegedly held him 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:30.160 captive and starved him for decades, horrible activists and teachers' 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.480 unions in Connecticut are trying to make this about homeschooling, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.240 because if he'd been at school, the teachers could have 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.560 observed it and reported it. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.760 Here's the truth, though, this kid was in. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.480 School for a long time, being starved and beaten, with 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.240 obvious signs of it, obvious documented over and over again, 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.720 and the state agency in charge of protecting kids failed 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.120 over and over again to protect him. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.800 But they're using this as a club to. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.400 Beat homeschoolers with utterly inexplicable If you think these monsters 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.320 are going to give up their turf easily, these cultists 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.480 and greed heads at the teachers' unions, you're just so wrong. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:13.560 Final note. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.040 Supreme Court temporarily restored the right of a duly elected 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.400 main lawmaker's speak and vote in the state house. She 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.720 was censured over a Facebook post that included photos of 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:29.240 a transgender high school athlete. She said, this isn't right 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.240 particular sports, and so the way left Maine legislature censured 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.360 her and told her you don't get to vote on 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:44.280 legislation anymore. The Supreme Court response was swift and decisive, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:52.560 saying no, this is all squarely, completely horrifyingly clearly inside 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.960 the First Amendment. Stop it main These people are nuts 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:00.400 and we're going to have to fight him for a 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.280 long time. Back to you, I get so frustrated with 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:09.000 uh So. My youngest takes one class at the in 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.240 the school district right now. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.840 Anyway, he's talking about how the. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.280 Kids are on their phones all the time, how they 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.119 had a little quiz in line and some of the 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.359 kids didn't know the answers to some simple questions. And 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.159 he said, they're on their phones all the time. And 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.119 I said, well, doesn't the teacher do anything about it? 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.920 And he said, well, the teacher announces every once in 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.600 a while, you're not allowed to look at your phone, 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.439 but the kids do anyway. And I just I that 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.480 made me insane. I mean, I was so upset by that. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.359 I said to my son, I said, that's so easily solved. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.679 You can solve it in like a minute. If you 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.600 look at your phone again, I'm taking it, and when 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.080 the kid gets out their phone, you take it. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.080 The end. Then no more kids do it for the 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.080 rest of the year. Problem solved. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:58.440 Ideology can blind people to the most obvious and massive truths. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.040 I guess that's some sort of afraid the discipline kids 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.160 or they'll get suited the tea. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.760 I don't even know what that is. Yeah, I know that. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.040 Well, once you go down the progressive road, Yes, that's 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.280 the sort of problem you're inviting. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.359 Yeah, oh that makes me insane. I know that's a 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.320 problem all over the country. Good Ford, a bunch of 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.280 that stuff that we talked about earlier. We will get 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:17.360 to stay here. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:20.879 Armstrong and getty. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.000 Olympic legend Mary lou Rettin was arrested for duy in 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:26.960 West Virginia. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.560 I know she blew a point. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.280 Zero eight, would have been a point zero nine, but 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.040 the cop was from East Germany. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.920 That's a good old time the Olympic joke. I was 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.520 just reading in the journal about this. This lawyer on 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.679 in the Hamptons. I think one of those East Coast 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.800 risk guy enclaves that he makes pretty good living year round, 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.000 but in the three months of the summer he does 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.720 big time dui cases all summer long and rakes in 0:18:58.880 --> 0:18:59.639 high six figures. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.640 He's the I represented justin Timberlake. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.800 Oh really, And probably Mary loud Ruttin now because she 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.399 was in several other stars. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.040 Yeah, she made a lot of money. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.320 She was a big giant gold medal winning on the 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.240 Wheaties box household name way back in the day. Because 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:20.600 she's fifty seven now all around gold gymnast winner, I wonder, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:23.960 so she's not famous enough to get out of a 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.639 dui at this point, and maybe she didn't want to. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.600 You know, she didn't have to do the don't you 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.119 know who I am? Or drop her name. She should 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.760 have jumped on the air, done a little somersault, landed 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.439 on the hood of her car with her legs splayed 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.160 outright and said, ring a bell? Huh, what not walk 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:41.679 heel to toe? How about this? 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.840 Well, she got arrested in charge. That doesn't mean she's 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.560 going to pay for it. She hires this guy, she 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.600 probably will plead it down to a traffic ticket. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.800 Although if you're famous, she'd like to avoid the whole 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.480 I've heard the story eight thousand times in the last 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.760 week situation. If you can, I thought you might like this. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.560 If you're a Trump fan, you'll probably like this. Maybe 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.320 if you're a Trump Peter, it'll be a good reminder 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.360 for you. So Mark Halprin, writing in his newsletter today, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.639 he's breaking down all of the different news stories we 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.280 got going on at the same time into different categories 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:18.720 of incompletes, completes or achievements that Donald Trump is actually done. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.000 I'll read how he's categorizing these things that I'm about 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.400 to list off. Some achievements from America that are clearly 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.320 net good and the fulfillment of clear campaign promises that 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.960 are much more popular than the dominant media and the 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.080 Democrats seem to appreciate, even if there are some downsides 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.080 to them. And at minimum the final chapters are not 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:39.919 written yet. And here's a list of some of the 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:45.800 things that have occurred, he says, here's my score guard 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:47.600 and the big ones in that category. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:48.399 NATO. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.960 Members of NATO on track to contribute five percent of 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.800 their GDPD the alliance. It did not happen by accident, 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.600 rights Mark Albert huge win, huge win, and was never 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.760 gonna happen unless you made the kind of noises about 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.080 NATO that Trump made and got killed for in the 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.760 mainstream media of not believing the most important alliance in 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:10.399 world history, and all this different sort of stuff. 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.159 He's undermining NATO. But they are going to now. 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.639 They used to have to contribute two percent and they didn't, 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:18.960 and nobody held their feet to the fire on that. 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.080 Now they're gonna have to contribute five percent and people 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:22.920 are going to be paying attention. That's a big deal. 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.480