WEBVTT - Just One Prune a Day! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.800 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:17.320 and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.760 This year, Trump's been to the Super Bowl, the Daytona 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.360 five hundred, the World Cup, two UFC fights, in a 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:34.440 wrestling championship. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.559 Eric and Don Junior were like, still couldn't come to 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:38.560 one of our little league games. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.360 I don't think that. Well, I don't know if that's 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.320 true or not, but I don't think that's true. I 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.440 just wanted to mention this because I've heard it several times. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.320 In fact, Jimmy Fallon makes. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.600 A joke about it. We have a joke. I don't 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:53.400 know if we do or not. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.720 So the US Open Tennis Championship, Trump went to that 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.280 there a day on Sunday, I guess it was, and 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.800 he attended, and the US Open made an announcement to 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.560 the media outlets to not air any cheering or booing. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.880 But all of the mainstream media outlets, including Jimmy Fallon's 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.160 joke last night, have said and they said, you weren't 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.800 allowed to air any booing of President Trump. No, they 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.160 said cheering or booing but they all make it booing 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.240 to make it sound like there's some sort of Obviously 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.560 Trump gets booed everywhere he goes, and there's a cover 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:28.520 up to question. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.480 That sort of thing makes me angry. It just makes 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:33.120 me nut. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.280 It also is why you keep losing, by the way, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:36.360 because we all see it. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:38.640 Yeah, I guess I'm just so used to it. I 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:46.039 don't even it doesn't upset me anymore. Israel has just. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.960 Hit dohak Tar with a couple of rockets in an 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.640 attempt to wipe out a couple of senior Hamas officials, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.720 and my guests would be they were probably pretty successful. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.880 It just happens, So I don't know the details, but 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.520 they've been pretty good at this in the last couple 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.360 of years of knowing where somebody is and getting like 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.960 that floor of that building and making sure they're dead right. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.600 Yeah, their intelligence is spectacular. Yeah. I think the Abraham 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.200 McCords are going on the top shelf in your pantry 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.000 where you put the serving dishes you only use on Thanksgiving. Yeah, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.000 it's going way back. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.760 As details come in on that, that's a big story, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.680 we will get them to you. The National report Card 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.959 came out today that officially the National Assessment of Education 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.880 Progress the NAEP, but they call it the National Report 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.720 GUARD where they look at eighth grade science scores and 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:38.880 seniors math and reading scores. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.560 It's all down. It's all down out there. Everything's down. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.239 Eighth grader science scores have fall in four points, and 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.840 it's among high achievers or low achievers. For twelfth graders 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.959 math and reading scores of fall in three. The low 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.080 achievers are the lowest they've ever been. And the most 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.240 important piece of news out of this whole thing, as 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.079 far as I was concerned, was that if you go way, way, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.840 way back, we are now down ten points for twelfth 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.800 grade readings since nineteen ninety two when they first started 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.680 doing this. So in the last thirty three years we've 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:16.160 dropped ten full points. As people scream and yell about 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.040 throwing more money at schools, and we have thrown more 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:20.960 and more money at schools, and what we've got as 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.280 a result is we've gone down ten points for reading. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.760 Moving there, it seems to me that you have two 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.040 different crowds on this. Whenever you hear about it, you 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.600 got our crowd, which is the correct crowd, which says 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.320 our schools are diseased. Correct, Not you individual teachers, who 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.040 many of whom are like the greatest people I've ever 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.480 met in my life, but the whole structure of having 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.800 layers and layers of administrators that who do who knows 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.840 what the hell they do. They didn't used to exist 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:54.360 when our scores were higher. That all the different wokeness 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.680 that you jam into, all the classes and yeah, no 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.520 more on that to come, all the different things you 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.800 do that aren't science and reading, and our scores go down. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.920 You got our crowd who say that that's the problem, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.839 and then you got the other half of America who 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.520 thinks it's all about you just need to throw more 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.400 money at it. More money, we'd get better results. Why 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.560 are you cutting funding? We need more money, right exactly. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.960 Don't do any reforms, don't do any charter schools, don't 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.800 do any education vouchers, no school choice, don't anything right 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.560 right track, We just need more more money, right yeah, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.040 So just a bottom line it for you. The twelfth graders, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.680 these are the kids heading either to college where they 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.960 don't teach anymore either or out in the workforce. The 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.760 percentage that are proficient in reading thirty five percent, just 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.559 over a third And that's the good news, folks. Math 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.520 is less than a quarter twenty two percent. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.360 How could we you graduate? How could you have a 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.880 high school graduating class where only a third can read 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:52.720 it proficiency? 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:53.560 And they're not. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.560 Uh setting the bar very high for proficiency, by the way, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.680 we keep lowering it over the years. That's left out 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.200 of the story, and lots of places across the country 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.480 we keep lowering the bar for what's proficiency. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.960 Well, they do have a measure of just basic skills. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.559 Do you at least have basic skills? And it's under 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.520 seventy percent for reading and about fifty five percent for math. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.320 There are myriad reasons that we got problems in our 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:28.520 public schools. One of them is they pass everybody along. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.960 You can't do math and read as a first grader, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.200 and they move you on to second grade. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:34.880 You're doomed. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.159 And that teacher is doomed because they just inherited a 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.800 kid into their second grade classroom. They can't read or 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.359 do math at a first grade level, so they can't 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:45.039 catch them up. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:46.719 I mean, what are they supposed to do? And it 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:47.839 just keeps continuing. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.039 Who thought this was a good idea to keep passing 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.599 kids along? From grade to grade. You're doing such a 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.400 disservice to these children. I hate it so much. I 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.400 dealt with it with my own kid. I won't get 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.040 into the detail because it wouldn't be fair to him. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.640 He's especially needs to get blah blah blah. But I 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.359 caught them numerous times claiming that he could do things 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:10.400 that he couldn't. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.479 How do you think you're doing him a favor? 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.400 Oh that makes me so angry. Yeah, yeah, so Reggie 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:18.880 a piece a part of it. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.800 That's a nice thing to do. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.320 What is nice about telling a kid you got nice 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.279 for them, you got an a on that, when they 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.039 can't actually do it. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.239 How is that nice? I don't get it. It's sick. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.680 It's sick and self serving. Reggie part of a piece 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.159 the other day from Dan Lherman. I think his name 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.960 is about the stone sounding high school teacher who didn't 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:49.080 teach math. He just prattled on about woke crap. And 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.440 he goes through a bunch of examples like In twenty 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.400 twenty one, State of California unveiled a draft of its 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.760 new mathematics framework, calling for districts to abandon tracking practices 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.920 and delaying algebra one until ninth grade in the name 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.640 of equity. In doing so, they stunted the students who 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.320 may well have soared all while affluent families bypassed the 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.600 system through private options, led to the recall elections removal 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:20.040 of three Board of Education people. But you've got students 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.440 in blue cities doubling down on that stuff. Portland public 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.040 schools portions of Valet, San Francisco, United have explored or 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.720 piloted these grading for equity reforms where they eliminate penalties 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.800 for missing work or cheating. They exclude homework, attendance, behavior 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:40.000 and participation from academic grades, permit unlimited retakes of tests 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:45.560 and essays, and the results are just absolutely clear. This 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.520 is you don't need Sherlock Holmes. When a guy is 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:55.440 standing over the victim with a smoking gun, it's just unbelievable, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.200 and he goes into scientists talking about how it's just 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:03.000 absolutely clear what's going on. The National Review had a 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.160 great piece recently about textbook bias. The textbooks these kids 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.480 are reading from are left wing indoctrination. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.760 And in my son's class, the teacher held up that 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.960 left wing book and said, this book is full of lies. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.680 Meaning it wasn't woke enough, right. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:27.000 But another one of the numbers that is out the 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.000 percentage of kids that missed three or more days of school. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.880 The absenteeism is through the roof, since COVID kids just 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.160 got used to not going to school, or parents realized 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.040 you could get away with your kid not going to school, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.040 or whatever is causing it. So that obviously doesn't help 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.360 the scores because it's pretty hard to learn when you're 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:51.200 not there. For all the obvious reasons, the guy who 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.199 runs this whole organization that does the national report card 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:00.239 said that this has been a trend for many years. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.880 My predecessor's predecessor said, we need to keep our eye 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.880 on this trend. It's going the wrong way. Then my 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.360 predecessor said it. Now I'm saying it. We're all saying 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.640 the same thing. It keeps going down, down, down again. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:18.240 There's a ten point drop in reading since ninety two. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.640 Ten points is a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's shocking, and hey, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:29.320 rampant illegal immigration plays a role in this, It absolutely does. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.200 But that's another progressive Well, it's a little more complicated 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.040 than that. It is a progressive policy. But there are 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.840 plenty of people on Wall Street I love it too. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.640 Europe will tell you the same thing. No, I've had 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:42.319 the experience. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.200 I've talked about this with teachers who have had to 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.600 use the Google Translate on their phone and they do 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.800 something in English and then they do the Google Translate 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.360 thing for the kid who speaks whatever language happens to 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:52.920 be in the class. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:53.959 And you have to do that for a couple of 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.760 different kids. Obviously, that's going to drag down the whole class. Yeah, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.360 so your summary, sament, I think is that we've been 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:06.240 we Americans, kids, parents, all the society suffers. Everybody has 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:11.040 been betrayed by the government, class and the government unions 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.080 which include teachers unions multiple times in multiple ways, including 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.640 the illegal immigration thing. And there's just it can't be 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.360 allowed to continue to handle that part of our lives. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.120 In my opinion. The brilliant Roland Frar do you know 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:30.640 Roland Friar. He's an economist, teaches and works and researches 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.480 and rights out of Harvard. He happens to be a 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.440 black man. He has solved these problems actually in real life, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.840 in real schools, solve these problems, and the educational establishment 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.720 has no interest in it. More on that, next segment, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.559 A quick word from our friends that Prize Picks. 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I 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:01.600 don't believe in wild radical change suddenly because is is 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.760 where it is, because it's worked and been time tested. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.640 And government schools had a period where they're pretty damn solid, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.800 depending where you were, but overall pretty damn solid. A 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.720 lot of dedicated people who are there teach children. It 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.800 is now a government jobs program, our government school. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.640 System layers and layers and layers of administrators that didn't 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.720 used to exist, and we're getting a worse result. I 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.360 mean the math. Speaking of math, the math seems pretty 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:33.440 easy on me on this. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:38.240 For men, yeah, it's it's more like patronage jobs, like 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.720 Pete Hexith and Trump have said the Pentagon became it's 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.000 it's just a jobs program as opposed to a war 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.120 fighting force, and it's got to be cleaned up. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.040 Any thoughts on this text line four one five two 0:12:49.160 --> 0:13:00.400 nine five KFTC. So the nation's school report car is out, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.160 no surprise, down again, keeps going down, be and going 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.840 down for decades. We keep throwing more money at it. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.440 And adding more layers of administration to all our schools 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.720 getting worse results. But I don't think they actually care because, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.120 as Joe said, it's more of a jobs program than 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.559 about educating kids at this point anyway. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.840 And an indoctrination camp into leftist ideology. So Roland Fryar, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.000 who is a brilliant economist, researcher, writer, he happens to 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.959 work at Harvard, and he happens to be a black guy. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.240 He wrote a piece I'm just going to read you 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.240 a chunk of it. He said, this is personal to 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.920 me and Houston. I a research project I led called 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.280 Apollo twenty showed it was possible to erase the racial 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.200 achievement gap in less than two years by applying simple 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.920 reform principles to the worst performing schools. Today, the tools 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.439 we used sit on the shelf, not because they failed, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.480 but because leaders failed to act. We are watching temporary 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.480 setbacks calcify into permanent inequality, even though we know how 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.760 to reverse them. I've been obsessed with fixing American schools 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.200 from most of my career. In twenty oh nine, sold 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.559 my team of research assistants and project managers that we 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.240 could do it by twenty twenty five. It was part optimism, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.839 part arrogance, part youthful naivete but he mentioned a number 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.680 of city leaders who believed that nothing was impossible and 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.680 fueled my optimism. Fifteen years later, many of the ideas 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.800 that once filled our conversations are gone, not because they failed, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.000 but because the system walked away from them, and he 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.400 I'll just read it day. In twenty twelve, my graduate 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.320 student I collected unprecedented data from nearly fifty New York 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.560 City charter schools to see which practice is truly boosted 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:37.000 student learning, class size, and teacher credentials. Political obsessions for 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:42.080 decades mattered little. What mattered most for five concrete, replicable 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:47.840 practices more instruction time, high expectations, frequent teacher feedback, data 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.760 driven instruction, and high dosage tutoring. Together, these five tenants 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.600 explained roughly half the difference between effective and ineffective schools. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.960 And then they found a superintendent in Houston who was 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.400 like the only one who was interested in putting what 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.520 they learned to work. And so together we applied the 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.640 five tenants in twenty struggling public schools serving nearly twenty 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.520 thousand students. We lengthened the school year by twenty percent, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.640 brought in hundreds of tudors, replaced ninety five percent of 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.960 the principles and half the teachers, while retaining the rest 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.920 embedded and retraining the rest, I should say, embedded data 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.520 in instruction, and built a culture of high expectations. It 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.080 was one of the most ambitious social experiments in American 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:35.479 public education, and the results were astonishing. It was an enormous, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:40.600 complete success. He mentions that reading was a little tougher 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.479 to turn around, and they didn't do as well because 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.440 of the unique state of kids' brains when they're very young. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:52.800 Yeah, up until like age eight, your brain is just unbelievable, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.480 and then it changes after that. Your ability to learn 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.760 prior to that age is incredible, So it's truly hard. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.000 That's why it's so hard to pick up foreign languages 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.080 an adults or whatever, right unless you have that special talent. Anyway, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.640 he says, in elementary school math students gained the equivalent 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.600 of four extra months of learning each year, enough to 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.120 erase the racial achievement gap in less than two years. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.640 And he's looking at it through the lenders of race obviously, 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.760 but any kid who's not achieving because their schools are 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.040 crappy would benefit from this. In secondary schools where skeptics 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.440 said reform was impossible, students gained nearly eight additional months 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.000 of learning in a nine month school year. Wows were 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.080 bigger effects than those produced by some of the other 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.360 great success stories in education. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.120 So the Houston schools double these games year after year. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.720 By the third year, elementary students that accumulated the equivalent 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.040 of an extra academic year. That's incredible. Blah blah blah. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.160 Results were jaw dropping. Then he talks about reading, and 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.200 then he says by twenty thirteen the project was finished, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:57.760 not despite its success but because of it. But even so, 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.880 the funding was pulled from the schools because they were 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.440 no longer the worst in the district than they probably been. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:09.360 They predictably backslid, and the education industrial complex has no 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.600 interest in these programs none. They don't profit the teachers' union, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.120 they don't reward the administrators. They have been rejected, even 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.920 though they worked, like penicillin on an infection, an amazing 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:26.240 success story, rejected by the educational establishment. Which is why 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.199 I say I don't think there's any fixing it. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.640 No I don't think there is either, and I don't 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.880 understand why it's not more of a conversation. I don't 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.480 have the numbers in front of me, but whenever we've 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.919 talked about them, it's amazing the number of administrators to 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.200 teacher that went from like one to one. 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.400 To like one hundred to one in the last several decades, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.280 all at every level of education. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.720 All of those people, yeah k through getting a PhD, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:52.399 every level of education. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.679 All those people didn't used to exist, and now they do. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.560 They don't need to right, and the equity based teaching 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.359 of every topic. It's not about your kids learning, it's 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.000 about indoctrinating them into far leftist politics, neo Marxism. It 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.520 is a huge crisis, i'd. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.520 Say, But like I said, half the country is going 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.960 to demand more money. It's just going to say the 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.520 problem is we don't have enough money. If you gave 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:17.960 us more money, you would get a better result. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.640 Armstrong and Getty, I do want to give you the 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.919 Katari reaction. I reached out to a Katari official in Doha, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.240 who responded with a statement from the spokesman for Qatar's 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.200 foreign minister saying, in part quote, the state of Qatar 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.960 condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly Israeli attack targeting 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.440 the residential headquarters of several members of the Hamas political 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.960 bureau in the Katari capital Doha. It's quite a lengthy statement, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.879 but it goes on to talk about the state of 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.520 Qatar and their condemnation of these strikes earlier today. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.800 So Israeli officials now for almost two years, we're coming 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.719 up on the two year anniversary, have been vowing to 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.520 kill any leaders who are involved in the planning of 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.760 the October seventh attacks. They may have taken out a 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:10.960 few more of the planners in Doha in their residential. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:12.440 Dwelling. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:17.240 They're in Qatar with a couple of rocket strikes. Now, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:23.119 Doha and Qatar are a couple of those areas you 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.240 know that they exist in the Middle East where it's 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.119 just super fancy high rises and everything like that, and 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.600 it's supposed to be a you know, a safe haven 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.320 for business and tourists and whatever, away from the other 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.640 craziness of the Middle East. We don't have that sort 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.119 of craziness here. You can come here and just do 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.639 business and be safe. And then our rocket attack on 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.439 the residential headquarters of Hamas today, and the Kataris are 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.120 saying it violates all international law and blah blah blah, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.280 blah blah. And as often as the case with these stories, 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.520 it's quite possible that the Katari leaders are happy as 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.920 hell that Israeli Israel has taken out these as. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:03.399 Leaders from their midst Yeah. I don't know, Carr, if 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.199 you want to pronounce it to however you want, I 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:10.600 don't care. They really like being the middle man. They 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.679 like being the a We're calm, we're the brokers. We 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.240 listen to everybody, all sides. We profit from everybody. We 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.000 donate generously to your lobbyists and colleges to curry favor, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.680 and we like being the middle man. So on the 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.800 other hand, they really don't have a military presence worth 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.159 speaking of. So that's that's bold though. Man, Israel is 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.240 not kidding around. This is not We're going to knock 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.879 him back and then negotiate. No, this is our new plan. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.280 Our new defense plan is to defeat our enemy. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.080 Well one, somebody made this point the other day at 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.160 a smart person, and I thought it was wise. One 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.359 of the downsides of the whole world, except for the 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:59.120 United States being against Israel and decrying every single thing 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.960 they do. Is they have an attitude of, well, everybody 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.640 already hates us, what difference does it make. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:07.040 We'll do whatever we gotta do. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.800 It's kind of like when I heard this, I thought 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.320 of it as a parenting which I think about a 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.280 lot the teenage or whatever. You know, if you go 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.440 too hard on your kids for too much stuff, they 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.000 can get an attitude of I get in trouble for everything, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:23.159 So I don't even care anymore. 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:24.160 I'll just do it if I want. 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.639 Yeah, And and that's kind of where Israel is. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:34.359 Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting take. I think you're probably right. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:36.800 Plus, what are you going to vote against us in 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.560 the UN or something because we struct all the buildings? 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.240 Yeah exactly. Some phony international court that nobody recognizes is 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:48.680 going to call somebody a war criminal? Oh no, uh yeah, yeah. Well, 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:54.600 and so much of the criticism is posturing. It's either 0:21:55.600 --> 0:22:00.800 you know, leftists who believe the whole you know, colonial whatever, 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:06.000 the crap, postmodern Marxist stuff, or it's governments who think, 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.639 all right, I gotta be seen condemning this, so I 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.680 condemn it. All right, whatever, do what you're doing anyway, 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.119 speaking of politics, I found this very interesting. I have 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.840 a prune update on the way. Oh no, oh good, 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:22.359 oh Christmas. 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:23.879 Well, I could get it, throw it quickly. I was 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.560 supposed to add in one per day, according to the doctor. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:28.520