1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. 4 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: This year, Trump's been to the Super Bowl, the Daytona 5 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: five hundred, the World Cup, two UFC fights, in a 6 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: wrestling championship. 7 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: Eric and Don Junior were like, still couldn't come to 8 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: one of our little league games. 9 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 3: I don't think that. Well, I don't know if that's 10 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 3: true or not, but I don't think that's true. I 11 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 3: just wanted to mention this because I've heard it several times. 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 3: In fact, Jimmy Fallon makes. 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: A joke about it. We have a joke. I don't 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: know if we do or not. 15 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 3: So the US Open Tennis Championship, Trump went to that 16 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 3: there a day on Sunday, I guess it was, and 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 3: he attended, and the US Open made an announcement to 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: the media outlets to not air any cheering or booing. 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: But all of the mainstream media outlets, including Jimmy Fallon's 20 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 3: joke last night, have said and they said, you weren't 21 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 3: allowed to air any booing of President Trump. No, they 22 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: said cheering or booing but they all make it booing 23 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 3: to make it sound like there's some sort of Obviously 24 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 3: Trump gets booed everywhere he goes, and there's a cover 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: up to question. 26 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: That sort of thing makes me angry. It just makes 27 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: me nut. 28 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 3: It also is why you keep losing, by the way, 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 3: because we all see it. 30 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I'm just so used to it. I 31 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: don't even it doesn't upset me anymore. Israel has just. 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 3: Hit dohak Tar with a couple of rockets in an 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 3: attempt to wipe out a couple of senior Hamas officials, 34 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 3: and my guests would be they were probably pretty successful. 35 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 3: It just happens, So I don't know the details, but 36 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: they've been pretty good at this in the last couple 37 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: of years of knowing where somebody is and getting like 38 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 3: that floor of that building and making sure they're dead right. 39 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, their intelligence is spectacular. Yeah. I think the Abraham 40 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: McCords are going on the top shelf in your pantry 41 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: where you put the serving dishes you only use on Thanksgiving. Yeah, 42 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: it's going way back. 43 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: As details come in on that, that's a big story, 44 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 3: we will get them to you. The National report Card 45 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 3: came out today that officially the National Assessment of Education 46 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 3: Progress the NAEP, but they call it the National Report 47 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 3: GUARD where they look at eighth grade science scores and 48 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 3: seniors math and reading scores. 49 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: It's all down. It's all down out there. Everything's down. 50 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 3: Eighth grader science scores have fall in four points, and 51 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 3: it's among high achievers or low achievers. For twelfth graders 52 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 3: math and reading scores of fall in three. The low 53 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 3: achievers are the lowest they've ever been. And the most 54 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 3: important piece of news out of this whole thing, as 55 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 3: far as I was concerned, was that if you go way, way, 56 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 3: way back, we are now down ten points for twelfth 57 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 3: grade readings since nineteen ninety two when they first started 58 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: doing this. So in the last thirty three years we've 59 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 3: dropped ten full points. As people scream and yell about 60 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: throwing more money at schools, and we have thrown more 61 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 3: and more money at schools, and what we've got as 62 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: a result is we've gone down ten points for reading. 63 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 3: Moving there, it seems to me that you have two 64 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 3: different crowds on this. Whenever you hear about it, you 65 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: got our crowd, which is the correct crowd, which says 66 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 3: our schools are diseased. Correct, Not you individual teachers, who 67 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 3: many of whom are like the greatest people I've ever 68 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: met in my life, but the whole structure of having 69 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 3: layers and layers of administrators that who do who knows 70 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: what the hell they do. They didn't used to exist 71 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: when our scores were higher. That all the different wokeness 72 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: that you jam into, all the classes and yeah, no 73 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: more on that to come, all the different things you 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: do that aren't science and reading, and our scores go down. 75 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: You got our crowd who say that that's the problem, 76 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,839 Speaker 3: and then you got the other half of America who 77 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: thinks it's all about you just need to throw more 78 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 3: money at it. More money, we'd get better results. Why 79 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: are you cutting funding? We need more money, right exactly. 80 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: Don't do any reforms, don't do any charter schools, don't 81 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: do any education vouchers, no school choice, don't anything right 82 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: right track, We just need more more money, right yeah, 83 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: So just a bottom line it for you. The twelfth graders, 84 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: these are the kids heading either to college where they 85 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: don't teach anymore either or out in the workforce. The 86 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: percentage that are proficient in reading thirty five percent, just 87 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,559 Speaker 1: over a third And that's the good news, folks. Math 88 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: is less than a quarter twenty two percent. 89 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 3: How could we you graduate? How could you have a 90 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 3: high school graduating class where only a third can read 91 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 3: it proficiency? 92 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: And they're not. 93 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 3: Uh setting the bar very high for proficiency, by the way, 94 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 3: we keep lowering it over the years. That's left out 95 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 3: of the story, and lots of places across the country 96 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 3: we keep lowering the bar for what's proficiency. 97 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: Well, they do have a measure of just basic skills. 98 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,559 Speaker 1: Do you at least have basic skills? And it's under 99 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: seventy percent for reading and about fifty five percent for math. 100 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 3: There are myriad reasons that we got problems in our 101 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 3: public schools. One of them is they pass everybody along. 102 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: You can't do math and read as a first grader, 103 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 3: and they move you on to second grade. 104 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: You're doomed. 105 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 3: And that teacher is doomed because they just inherited a 106 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 3: kid into their second grade classroom. They can't read or 107 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 3: do math at a first grade level, so they can't 108 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 3: catch them up. 109 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: I mean, what are they supposed to do? And it 110 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: just keeps continuing. 111 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 3: Who thought this was a good idea to keep passing 112 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 3: kids along? From grade to grade. You're doing such a 113 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 3: disservice to these children. I hate it so much. I 114 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 3: dealt with it with my own kid. I won't get 115 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 3: into the detail because it wouldn't be fair to him. 116 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 3: He's especially needs to get blah blah blah. But I 117 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 3: caught them numerous times claiming that he could do things 118 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 3: that he couldn't. 119 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 1: How do you think you're doing him a favor? 120 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 3: Oh that makes me so angry. Yeah, yeah, so Reggie 121 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 3: a piece a part of it. 122 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: That's a nice thing to do. 123 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: What is nice about telling a kid you got nice 124 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 3: for them, you got an a on that, when they 125 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 3: can't actually do it. 126 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 1: How is that nice? I don't get it. It's sick. 127 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: It's sick and self serving. Reggie part of a piece 128 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: the other day from Dan Lherman. I think his name 129 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: is about the stone sounding high school teacher who didn't 130 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: teach math. He just prattled on about woke crap. And 131 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: he goes through a bunch of examples like In twenty 132 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: twenty one, State of California unveiled a draft of its 133 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: new mathematics framework, calling for districts to abandon tracking practices 134 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: and delaying algebra one until ninth grade in the name 135 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: of equity. In doing so, they stunted the students who 136 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: may well have soared all while affluent families bypassed the 137 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: system through private options, led to the recall elections removal 138 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: of three Board of Education people. But you've got students 139 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: in blue cities doubling down on that stuff. Portland public 140 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: schools portions of Valet, San Francisco, United have explored or 141 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: piloted these grading for equity reforms where they eliminate penalties 142 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: for missing work or cheating. They exclude homework, attendance, behavior 143 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: and participation from academic grades, permit unlimited retakes of tests 144 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: and essays, and the results are just absolutely clear. This 145 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: is you don't need Sherlock Holmes. When a guy is 146 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: standing over the victim with a smoking gun, it's just unbelievable, 147 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: and he goes into scientists talking about how it's just 148 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: absolutely clear what's going on. The National Review had a 149 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: great piece recently about textbook bias. The textbooks these kids 150 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: are reading from are left wing indoctrination. 151 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: And in my son's class, the teacher held up that 152 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 3: left wing book and said, this book is full of lies. 153 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: Meaning it wasn't woke enough, right. 154 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 3: But another one of the numbers that is out the 155 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 3: percentage of kids that missed three or more days of school. 156 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: The absenteeism is through the roof, since COVID kids just 157 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 3: got used to not going to school, or parents realized 158 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 3: you could get away with your kid not going to school, 159 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 3: or whatever is causing it. So that obviously doesn't help 160 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 3: the scores because it's pretty hard to learn when you're 161 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 3: not there. For all the obvious reasons, the guy who 162 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 3: runs this whole organization that does the national report card 163 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,239 Speaker 3: said that this has been a trend for many years. 164 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 3: My predecessor's predecessor said, we need to keep our eye 165 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 3: on this trend. It's going the wrong way. Then my 166 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 3: predecessor said it. Now I'm saying it. We're all saying 167 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 3: the same thing. It keeps going down, down, down again. 168 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 3: There's a ten point drop in reading since ninety two. 169 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: Ten points is a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's shocking, and hey, 170 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: rampant illegal immigration plays a role in this, It absolutely does. 171 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: But that's another progressive Well, it's a little more complicated 172 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: than that. It is a progressive policy. But there are 173 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: plenty of people on Wall Street I love it too. 174 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: Europe will tell you the same thing. No, I've had 175 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: the experience. 176 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 3: I've talked about this with teachers who have had to 177 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: use the Google Translate on their phone and they do 178 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 3: something in English and then they do the Google Translate 179 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 3: thing for the kid who speaks whatever language happens to 180 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 3: be in the class. 181 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: And you have to do that for a couple of 182 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: different kids. Obviously, that's going to drag down the whole class. Yeah, 183 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: so your summary, sament, I think is that we've been 184 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: we Americans, kids, parents, all the society suffers. 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I 218 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: don't believe in wild radical change suddenly because is is 219 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: where it is, because it's worked and been time tested. 220 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: And government schools had a period where they're pretty damn solid, 221 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: depending where you were, but overall pretty damn solid. A 222 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: lot of dedicated people who are there teach children. It 223 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: is now a government jobs program, our government school. 224 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 3: System layers and layers and layers of administrators that didn't 225 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 3: used to exist, and we're getting a worse result. I 226 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 3: mean the math. Speaking of math, the math seems pretty 227 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 3: easy on me on this. 228 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: For men, yeah, it's it's more like patronage jobs, like 229 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: Pete Hexith and Trump have said the Pentagon became it's 230 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: it's just a jobs program as opposed to a war 231 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: fighting force, and it's got to be cleaned up. 232 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 3: Any thoughts on this text line four one five two 233 00:12:49,160 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 3: nine five KFTC. So the nation's school report car is out, 234 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 3: no surprise, down again, keeps going down, be and going 235 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 3: down for decades. We keep throwing more money at it. 236 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 3: And adding more layers of administration to all our schools 237 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 3: getting worse results. But I don't think they actually care because, 238 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 3: as Joe said, it's more of a jobs program than 239 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 3: about educating kids at this point anyway. 240 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: And an indoctrination camp into leftist ideology. So Roland Fryar, 241 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: who is a brilliant economist, researcher, writer, he happens to 242 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: work at Harvard, and he happens to be a black guy. 243 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: He wrote a piece I'm just going to read you 244 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: a chunk of it. He said, this is personal to 245 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: me and Houston. I a research project I led called 246 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: Apollo twenty showed it was possible to erase the racial 247 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: achievement gap in less than two years by applying simple 248 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: reform principles to the worst performing schools. Today, the tools 249 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: we used sit on the shelf, not because they failed, 250 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: but because leaders failed to act. We are watching temporary 251 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: setbacks calcify into permanent inequality, even though we know how 252 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: to reverse them. I've been obsessed with fixing American schools 253 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: from most of my career. In twenty oh nine, sold 254 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 1: my team of research assistants and project managers that we 255 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: could do it by twenty twenty five. It was part optimism, 256 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,839 Speaker 1: part arrogance, part youthful naivete but he mentioned a number 257 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: of city leaders who believed that nothing was impossible and 258 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: fueled my optimism. Fifteen years later, many of the ideas 259 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: that once filled our conversations are gone, not because they failed, 260 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: but because the system walked away from them, and he 261 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: I'll just read it day. In twenty twelve, my graduate 262 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: student I collected unprecedented data from nearly fifty New York 263 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: City charter schools to see which practice is truly boosted 264 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: student learning, class size, and teacher credentials. Political obsessions for 265 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: decades mattered little. What mattered most for five concrete, replicable 266 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: practices more instruction time, high expectations, frequent teacher feedback, data 267 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: driven instruction, and high dosage tutoring. Together, these five tenants 268 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: explained roughly half the difference between effective and ineffective schools. 269 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: And then they found a superintendent in Houston who was 270 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: like the only one who was interested in putting what 271 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: they learned to work. And so together we applied the 272 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: five tenants in twenty struggling public schools serving nearly twenty 273 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: thousand students. We lengthened the school year by twenty percent, 274 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: brought in hundreds of tudors, replaced ninety five percent of 275 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: the principles and half the teachers, while retaining the rest 276 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: embedded and retraining the rest, I should say, embedded data 277 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: in instruction, and built a culture of high expectations. It 278 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: was one of the most ambitious social experiments in American 279 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:35,479 Speaker 1: public education, and the results were astonishing. It was an enormous, 280 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: complete success. He mentions that reading was a little tougher 281 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,479 Speaker 1: to turn around, and they didn't do as well because 282 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: of the unique state of kids' brains when they're very young. 283 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, up until like age eight, your brain is just unbelievable, 284 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 3: and then it changes after that. Your ability to learn 285 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 3: prior to that age is incredible, So it's truly hard. 286 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 3: That's why it's so hard to pick up foreign languages 287 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: an adults or whatever, right unless you have that special talent. Anyway, 288 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 3: he says, in elementary school math students gained the equivalent 289 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 3: of four extra months of learning each year, enough to 290 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 3: erase the racial achievement gap in less than two years. 291 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 3: And he's looking at it through the lenders of race obviously, 292 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 3: but any kid who's not achieving because their schools are 293 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 3: crappy would benefit from this. In secondary schools where skeptics 294 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 3: said reform was impossible, students gained nearly eight additional months 295 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 3: of learning in a nine month school year. Wows were 296 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 3: bigger effects than those produced by some of the other 297 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 3: great success stories in education. 298 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: So the Houston schools double these games year after year. 299 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: By the third year, elementary students that accumulated the equivalent 300 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: of an extra academic year. That's incredible. Blah blah blah. 301 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: Results were jaw dropping. Then he talks about reading, and 302 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: then he says by twenty thirteen the project was finished, 303 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: not despite its success but because of it. But even so, 304 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: the funding was pulled from the schools because they were 305 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: no longer the worst in the district than they probably been. 306 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: They predictably backslid, and the education industrial complex has no 307 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: interest in these programs none. They don't profit the teachers' union, 308 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: they don't reward the administrators. They have been rejected, even 309 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: though they worked, like penicillin on an infection, an amazing 310 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: success story, rejected by the educational establishment. Which is why 311 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 1: I say I don't think there's any fixing it. 312 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 3: No I don't think there is either, and I don't 313 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 3: understand why it's not more of a conversation. I don't 314 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 3: have the numbers in front of me, but whenever we've 315 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 3: talked about them, it's amazing the number of administrators to 316 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 3: teacher that went from like one to one. 317 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: To like one hundred to one in the last several decades, 318 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: all at every level of education. 319 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 3: All of those people, yeah k through getting a PhD, 320 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 3: every level of education. 321 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: All those people didn't used to exist, and now they do. 322 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: They don't need to right, and the equity based teaching 323 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: of every topic. It's not about your kids learning, it's 324 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: about indoctrinating them into far leftist politics, neo Marxism. It 325 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: is a huge crisis, i'd. 326 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 3: Say, But like I said, half the country is going 327 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 3: to demand more money. It's just going to say the 328 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 3: problem is we don't have enough money. If you gave 329 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 3: us more money, you would get a better result. 330 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty, I do want to give you the 331 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 4: Katari reaction. I reached out to a Katari official in Doha, 332 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 4: who responded with a statement from the spokesman for Qatar's 333 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 4: foreign minister saying, in part quote, the state of Qatar 334 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 4: condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly Israeli attack targeting 335 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 4: the residential headquarters of several members of the Hamas political 336 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 4: bureau in the Katari capital Doha. It's quite a lengthy statement, 337 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 4: but it goes on to talk about the state of 338 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 4: Qatar and their condemnation of these strikes earlier today. 339 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 3: So Israeli officials now for almost two years, we're coming 340 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,719 Speaker 3: up on the two year anniversary, have been vowing to 341 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 3: kill any leaders who are involved in the planning of 342 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 3: the October seventh attacks. They may have taken out a 343 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 3: few more of the planners in Doha in their residential. 344 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: Dwelling. 345 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 3: They're in Qatar with a couple of rocket strikes. Now, 346 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 3: Doha and Qatar are a couple of those areas you 347 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 3: know that they exist in the Middle East where it's 348 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 3: just super fancy high rises and everything like that, and 349 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 3: it's supposed to be a you know, a safe haven 350 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 3: for business and tourists and whatever, away from the other 351 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 3: craziness of the Middle East. We don't have that sort 352 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 3: of craziness here. You can come here and just do 353 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 3: business and be safe. And then our rocket attack on 354 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,439 Speaker 3: the residential headquarters of Hamas today, and the Kataris are 355 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 3: saying it violates all international law and blah blah blah, 356 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 3: blah blah. And as often as the case with these stories, 357 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 3: it's quite possible that the Katari leaders are happy as 358 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 3: hell that Israeli Israel has taken out these as. 359 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 1: Leaders from their midst Yeah. I don't know, Carr, if 360 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 1: you want to pronounce it to however you want, I 361 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: don't care. They really like being the middle man. They 362 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: like being the a We're calm, we're the brokers. We 363 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: listen to everybody, all sides. We profit from everybody. We 364 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: donate generously to your lobbyists and colleges to curry favor, 365 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: and we like being the middle man. So on the 366 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: other hand, they really don't have a military presence worth 367 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 1: speaking of. So that's that's bold though. Man, Israel is 368 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: not kidding around. This is not We're going to knock 369 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: him back and then negotiate. No, this is our new plan. 370 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: Our new defense plan is to defeat our enemy. 371 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 3: Well one, somebody made this point the other day at 372 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 3: a smart person, and I thought it was wise. One 373 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 3: of the downsides of the whole world, except for the 374 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 3: United States being against Israel and decrying every single thing 375 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 3: they do. Is they have an attitude of, well, everybody 376 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 3: already hates us, what difference does it make. 377 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: We'll do whatever we gotta do. 378 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 3: It's kind of like when I heard this, I thought 379 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 3: of it as a parenting which I think about a 380 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 3: lot the teenage or whatever. You know, if you go 381 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 3: too hard on your kids for too much stuff, they 382 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 3: can get an attitude of I get in trouble for everything, 383 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 3: So I don't even care anymore. 384 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: I'll just do it if I want. 385 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, And and that's kind of where Israel is. 386 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting take. I think you're probably right. 387 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 3: Plus, what are you going to vote against us in 388 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 3: the UN or something because we struct all the buildings? 389 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Some phony international court that nobody recognizes is 390 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 1: going to call somebody a war criminal? Oh no, uh yeah, yeah. Well, 391 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: and so much of the criticism is posturing. It's either 392 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: you know, leftists who believe the whole you know, colonial whatever, 393 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: the crap, postmodern Marxist stuff, or it's governments who think, 394 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: all right, I gotta be seen condemning this, so I 395 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: condemn it. All right, whatever, do what you're doing anyway, 396 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: speaking of politics, I found this very interesting. I have 397 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: a prune update on the way. Oh no, oh good, 398 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: oh Christmas. 399 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 3: Well, I could get it, throw it quickly. I was 400 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 3: supposed to add in one per day, according to the doctor. 401 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 3: I started at one, then I went to two. I'm 402 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 3: now three. Still no results, so we'll go with four today. 403 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 3: We'll try four prunes today. 404 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 1: Wow wow, wow, Okay, So I wish you well in 405 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: your end of her I can't believe you know what. 406 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, You've sucked me in and I resent it. 407 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 3: Uh. I can't believe your doctor started you on one prune. 408 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 3: Well it's like nothing. Well it is, I say, I 409 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 3: don't know, is it? Well? 410 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: How many would you meet? Well? 411 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 3: They help with regularity. Certainly I was going to leave 412 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 3: it unset. Why I'm taking the prunes. 413 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: Please, now you're mister decorum. That's hilarious. Yeah, just but 414 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: one was where would you start? Would you have started 415 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: with three? Three? Four? Really? Okay? 416 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 3: I thought I was really getting out there by going 417 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 3: to four. To baby, you'd say you would have started 418 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 3: with four. 419 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: That's a little three. It's like eating an apple. 420 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 3: I undershot on my prunes. I do not like the consistency. 421 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 3: I have a hard time getting them down. Are they fresher? 422 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 3: They like dried? These are gooey, Yeah they are. They 423 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,479 Speaker 3: are funky. Yeah, it's like I'm eating a bug or something. 424 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 3: I don't like it, a gooey bug. I got the 425 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 3: organic kind. 426 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 1: So oh that's nice. Super I thought this was so 427 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: interesting and it's funny. Just as an aside to both 428 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: Jack and the good folks. Yeah, you good folks. I'm 429 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 1: looking at all of the stuff I have ready to 430 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: talk about, and a lot of it is super important 431 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: and significant and in many cases will well it's it's significant. 432 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: It's not like day to day gossipy stuff. But it's 433 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: all so damn serious and like impactful and everything. I 434 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: don't know, the weight of the world is some days 435 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: it's too much, you know. 436 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 3: As impactful as Trump's drawing to Epstein on his birthday. 437 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: And his signature that seemed to mimic public hair. Ah right, 438 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: stop it with that. Nobody cares. Evidently people do care 439 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: because it's the lead story, like in all the mainstream media. Yeah. 440 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 3: I was just looking at the New York Times coverage 441 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 3: on that. Man, There is no there there. 442 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: I know, So what I keep saying, so, I don't know, 443 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: so what might be. 444 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 3: Though, So my whole life, people have been saying this, 445 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 3: if you get one of these things happening, one of 446 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 3: these things, I don't even know what you call this, 447 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 3: but when something like this is occurring, get everything out 448 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 3: immediately because it's gonna happen eventually, and it only makes 449 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 3: it worse. 450 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: To fight it. 451 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 3: And I think that's all they can do. I think 452 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 3: that's the only way to end this thing. It's inevitable 453 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 3: that every bit of government information is going to be released, 454 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 3: So just do it six months ago and put an 455 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 3: end to this. 456 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they probably have to the extent that 457 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: they can. But I don't know. I don't know. I 458 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: won't I won't talk about it. The only thing I'll 459 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,959 Speaker 1: talk about is the media's interest in this birthday letter. Well, 460 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: why isoud Trump saying? Trump is denying it exactly, He's 461 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: making it worse. Don't stop denying it. Stop saying, that's 462 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: not your signature. 463 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 3: I had to actually have a letter to my son 464 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 3: when he was sick from Donald Trump. 465 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: That is his signature. 466 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 3: It looks just like that, yes, Yeah, And he was 467 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 3: known to hang out with Epstein and they asked him, hey, 468 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 3: send him a little note for his birthday, and he 469 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: did it. If you were if it's one hundred percent true, 470 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 3: every word of it, so what nobody cares. 471 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: It's not important in any way, but he'll deny it 472 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: obviously gives the story more legs. Oh yeah, yeah, obviously yeah, 473 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: and breasts as turns out anyway, you've seen the picture, 474 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So this is not okay. 475 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: I can't. I don't understand her. You're prunes now, it's Epstein. 476 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: You're a monster. What have you become? I don't understand 477 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: what we're doing? 478 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 3: So is is is the media suggesting? 479 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: Are they are? 480 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 3: Do they believe that Donald Trump was having sex with 481 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 3: underage girls with Ebstein? And it's just a matter of 482 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: time before we find out. 483 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: Do they think that? 484 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 5: No? 485 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: But I think they enjoy hinting at it, okay, because 486 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: if they even went beyond the hinting at all, and 487 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: like when a third of the way down the road 488 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: you just went down, they know it's it's unprovable and 489 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: it's been denied by everybody, but they enjoy the tying 490 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: Trump to Epstein. 491 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 3: And then, as you always said, which Ebstein story? Are 492 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 3: we talking about. Then there's the chunk of the base 493 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 3: that they don't think Trump was having sex with underage girls, 494 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 3: but they think Trump is now part of the cover 495 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 3: up of the child trafficking ring that Hillary Clinton and 496 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 3: Michelle Obama whose dude has been running from. 497 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: The pie and the rest of it. Yeah, yeah, I know, 498 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: I know. It's just exhausting, Okay. And you know, if 499 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: somebody came to me and said, hey, this is all 500 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: just meant to distract you from X, Y or Z, 501 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: I mean I would have to at least consider it, 502 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 1: because there's so many things that are important going on 503 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: right now. And who wrote that freaking letter to Epstein 504 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: on his birthday? It's not one of them, not even. 505 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 3: I wish Trump would have just said, though, yeah I did. 506 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 3: I mean, he was a friend of mine and we 507 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 3: partied together and it was his birthday, and I jotted 508 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 3: something to him at the end. 509 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it took me about three minutes or or 510 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: he could quite although reasonably say, like several people have, 511 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: I don't remember, sounds like I might have. 512 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 3: I don't know, although I should have dug it up. 513 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 3: The exact quote there at the end though, where he 514 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 3: says may. 515 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: Every day be another beautiful secret or something like. 516 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 3: Something about enigmas always grow with time or something. 517 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: I mean, what what the hell was that? Yeah, I 518 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: don't know. Mumbo jumbo. So really interesting poll recently by 519 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: the NBC Polling Organization asking h I saw under thirties 520 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: what they consider important to a successful life and the 521 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: gulf between young men and young women is now crazy. 522 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to get into that deep next because 523 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 3: that's a good one. It's a better topic than my prunes. 524 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: So that's on the way. 525 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 3: We also are going to talk about why the French 526 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 3: government fell yesterday. It might be a warning for the 527 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 3: United States. Probably get to that now. Ur three stick around. 528 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 2: An MSNBC pundit trash Trump's DC crime crackdown until old 529 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 2: social media posts revealed. 530 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: That she was lamenting having one. 531 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 2: Car, two scooters, and three bikes stolen. Yeah, she tried 532 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 2: to walk back her comments. 533 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: But someone stole his shoes. Boy, that is something. 534 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 3: Though you've had that level of crime touch you and 535 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 3: you still go with the boost your team. 536 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: I'm against the crackdown, the guard troops. Whatever I'm telling you. 537 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: Ideology is like it's like heaven half a dozen drinks 538 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: or something. It just turns you into a babylin fool. 539 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 3: Breaking news atop un official condemns Israeli strike on katar. 540 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: Eh shit Aeta. So this is so interesting and crazy. Uh. 541 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 1: Steve Karnaki at NBC Polling put this out. The asked 542 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: young voters gen z adults, if you want to use 543 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: that term, eighteen to twenty nine years old. What they 544 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: considered important to was successful life. What is important to 545 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: your personal definition of success? And they gave them a 546 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: bunch of things to choose. They could choose no more 547 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: than one. The numbers will make that obvious. But the 548 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: number one thing that's important your personal definition of success 549 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: among men who voted for Trump. Young men who voted 550 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: for Trump, number one thing was having children h thirty 551 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: four percent, interesting, barely beating out financial independence at thirty 552 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: three percent, A fulfilling job and career at thirty percent, 553 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: and being married at twenty nine percent. I am family 554 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: success fulfillment family. 555 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 3: I was four answers, I was joking yelling money. I 556 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 3: would not put that on my list of things that 557 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 3: make you a success. 558 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: Women who voted for Kamala Harris their top four at 559 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: fifty one percent. Fulfilling job and career, number two, having 560 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: money to do the things you want, number three, having 561 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: emotional stability whatever that means, thirty nine percent, and number 562 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 1: four using talents and resources to help others, which is 563 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: a lovely idea. Emotional stability. Yeah, so fulfilling job and 564 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: career is fifty one percent, having money to do the 565 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: things you wants, forty six percent. Having emotional stability whatever 566 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: that is. Thirty nine percent listed that in their several choices. 567 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: Now being married almost the bottom six percent. Having children 568 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: tied at the bottom six percent listed that is important 569 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: to a personal definition of a successful life. In contrast 570 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: to the men who voted for Trump, having children being 571 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: married was thirty four and twenty nine percent. 572 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 3: Well, that's a problem. Obviously, ain't gonna end up with 573 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 3: many kids in your country, which we don't have, lowest 574 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 3: rate we've ever had in the United States of America. 575 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 3: I think you just explained it. 576 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: It's not like a whole having emotional stability thing. Men 577 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: who voted for Trump that was in last place, probably 578 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: one percent of them said the hell are you talking about? Yeah, 579 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: probably with a heap and helping of what. Well, I 580 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: don't even know what you mean. So I'm gonna put 581 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: this flat. 582 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 5: Isn't that what what's weird about that is, isn't that 583 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 5: something you just kind of, uh inherently want every day 584 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 5: of your life, starting at birth. I mean, it's just 585 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 5: it's like saying, I'd like to have enough air throughout 586 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 5: the day and enough calories to keep me alive. I mean, yeah, Well, 587 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 5: given the fact that not having emotional stability means you're 588 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 5: emotionally unstable, yeah, that's you don't want that. But the 589 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 5: fact that really forty percent of women listed that in 590 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 5: their top I mean it was the third place. That's 591 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,959 Speaker 5: aeniority for life. 592 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: Wow. It speaks to the emotional instability of women in 593 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: the modern world. 594 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 3: Very Now, what year did men are from Mars? Women 595 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 3: are from Venus? Come out? Early nineties? It's God, Now 596 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 3: it's men are from Mars and women are from I 597 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 3: don't know, some alternate universe that we've never looked into. 598 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 3: I mean, just how far apart they are. I'm not 599 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 3: claiming I am claiming this. I guess that I think 600 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 3: one is better than the other, and I agree with 601 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 3: one much more than the other. 602 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: But there's certainly examples of unhinged young men too. 603 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 3: But put again, without putting a judgment on it, the 604 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 3: two sides are very, very far apart. 605 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 1: How many times has it come up in recent years 606 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: that the engine, the bulk of the people screaming like 607 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: lunatics at these progressive protests are young women. I mean, 608 00:33:54,360 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: they're just so angry and hostile and misguided and militant. 609 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: And there it is, right there in the answers. 610 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what to make of that, 611 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 3: but like I said, it explains why we've got the 612 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 3: lowest birthrate we've ever had, and it would lead me 613 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 3: to believe that we're going to continue down that road. 614 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at some of the other answers. 615 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,479 Speaker 3: It seems to me in this anecdotally, God, it's way 616 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 3: more women than men. Anecdotally, it seems to me anecdotally 617 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 3: that most young women want to have enough money to travel. 618 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: That is your goal in life. 619 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 3: I want to travel the world and period pretty much period. 620 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: Drink AfterAll. Sprints is at a good Instagram location having 621 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: children listed by almost six times as many men as women, 622 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: or six times the percentage. That's a problem. That's crazy. 623 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 1: That's a problem that you ever existed in the history 624 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 1: of mankind. 625 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 3: That is the question I asked that all the time. 626 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 3: Has this ever happened before I won? 627 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 1: You know, it's probably worth as a caveat mentioning again 628 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: it was eighteen to twenty nine year olds. And it's 629 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: absolutely the case that many men and women don't really 630 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: feel think they would have kids until they get to 631 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: a certain point in their lives, which is fine and appropriate, 632 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: But given the enormous gulf between men and women on 633 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: that question, that's surprising. 634 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, before I make any doom and gloom judgments, I 635 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 3: suppose i'd like to hear those same questions put to 636 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,800 Speaker 3: thirty to thirty nine year olds. 637 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: Well, we're surrounded by doom and drowning in gloom, so 638 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: I don't think you need to make that leap here. 639 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: We are. We're not having families having kids. The hell, 640 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: they're not even having sex. 641 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 3: No. So France's government fell in the way that parliamentary 642 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 3: systems work. Why is super interesting because they well they've 643 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 3: hit the end of the road of socialism, like you 644 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 3: always do. Might be a little heads up for the way. 645 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 3: We want to take a look at our finances though, 646 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,439 Speaker 3: So we'll get to that in hour three. 647 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,360 Speaker 1: In a related story, Britain and Germany are falling apart 648 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: politically too. 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