Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: This year, Trump's been to the Super Bowl, the Daytona
Speaker 2: five hundred, the World Cup, two UFC fights, in a
Speaker 2: wrestling championship.
Speaker 1: Eric and Don Junior were like, still couldn't come to
Speaker 1: one of our little league games.
Speaker 3: I don't think that. Well, I don't know if that's
Speaker 3: true or not, but I don't think that's true. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to mention this because I've heard it several times.
Speaker 3: In fact, Jimmy Fallon makes.
Speaker 1: A joke about it. We have a joke. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we do or not.
Speaker 3: So the US Open Tennis Championship, Trump went to that
Speaker 3: there a day on Sunday, I guess it was, and
Speaker 3: he attended, and the US Open made an announcement to
Speaker 3: the media outlets to not air any cheering or booing.
Speaker 3: But all of the mainstream media outlets, including Jimmy Fallon's
Speaker 3: joke last night, have said and they said, you weren't
Speaker 3: allowed to air any booing of President Trump. No, they
Speaker 3: said cheering or booing but they all make it booing
Speaker 3: to make it sound like there's some sort of Obviously
Speaker 3: Trump gets booed everywhere he goes, and there's a cover
Speaker 3: up to question.
Speaker 1: That sort of thing makes me angry. It just makes
Speaker 1: me nut.
Speaker 3: It also is why you keep losing, by the way,
Speaker 3: because we all see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I'm just so used to it. I
Speaker 1: don't even it doesn't upset me anymore. Israel has just.
Speaker 3: Hit dohak Tar with a couple of rockets in an
Speaker 3: attempt to wipe out a couple of senior Hamas officials,
Speaker 3: and my guests would be they were probably pretty successful.
Speaker 3: It just happens, So I don't know the details, but
Speaker 3: they've been pretty good at this in the last couple
Speaker 3: of years of knowing where somebody is and getting like
Speaker 3: that floor of that building and making sure they're dead right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, their intelligence is spectacular. Yeah. I think the Abraham
Speaker 1: McCords are going on the top shelf in your pantry
Speaker 1: where you put the serving dishes you only use on Thanksgiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going way back.
Speaker 3: As details come in on that, that's a big story,
Speaker 3: we will get them to you. The National report Card
Speaker 3: came out today that officially the National Assessment of Education
Speaker 3: Progress the NAEP, but they call it the National Report
Speaker 3: GUARD where they look at eighth grade science scores and
Speaker 3: seniors math and reading scores.
Speaker 1: It's all down. It's all down out there. Everything's down.
Speaker 3: Eighth grader science scores have fall in four points, and
Speaker 3: it's among high achievers or low achievers. For twelfth graders
Speaker 3: math and reading scores of fall in three. The low
Speaker 3: achievers are the lowest they've ever been. And the most
Speaker 3: important piece of news out of this whole thing, as
Speaker 3: far as I was concerned, was that if you go way, way,
Speaker 3: way back, we are now down ten points for twelfth
Speaker 3: grade readings since nineteen ninety two when they first started
Speaker 3: doing this. So in the last thirty three years we've
Speaker 3: dropped ten full points. As people scream and yell about
Speaker 3: throwing more money at schools, and we have thrown more
Speaker 3: and more money at schools, and what we've got as
Speaker 3: a result is we've gone down ten points for reading.
Speaker 3: Moving there, it seems to me that you have two
Speaker 3: different crowds on this. Whenever you hear about it, you
Speaker 3: got our crowd, which is the correct crowd, which says
Speaker 3: our schools are diseased. Correct, Not you individual teachers, who
Speaker 3: many of whom are like the greatest people I've ever
Speaker 3: met in my life, but the whole structure of having
Speaker 3: layers and layers of administrators that who do who knows
Speaker 3: what the hell they do. They didn't used to exist
Speaker 3: when our scores were higher. That all the different wokeness
Speaker 3: that you jam into, all the classes and yeah, no
Speaker 3: more on that to come, all the different things you
Speaker 3: do that aren't science and reading, and our scores go down.
Speaker 3: You got our crowd who say that that's the problem,
Speaker 3: and then you got the other half of America who
Speaker 3: thinks it's all about you just need to throw more
Speaker 3: money at it. More money, we'd get better results. Why
Speaker 3: are you cutting funding? We need more money, right exactly.
Speaker 1: Don't do any reforms, don't do any charter schools, don't
Speaker 1: do any education vouchers, no school choice, don't anything right
Speaker 1: right track, We just need more more money, right yeah,
Speaker 1: So just a bottom line it for you. The twelfth graders,
Speaker 1: these are the kids heading either to college where they
Speaker 1: don't teach anymore either or out in the workforce. The
Speaker 1: percentage that are proficient in reading thirty five percent, just
Speaker 1: over a third And that's the good news, folks. Math
Speaker 1: is less than a quarter twenty two percent.
Speaker 3: How could we you graduate? How could you have a
Speaker 3: high school graduating class where only a third can read
Speaker 3: it proficiency?
Speaker 1: And they're not.
Speaker 3: Uh setting the bar very high for proficiency, by the way,
Speaker 3: we keep lowering it over the years. That's left out
Speaker 3: of the story, and lots of places across the country
Speaker 3: we keep lowering the bar for what's proficiency.
Speaker 1: Well, they do have a measure of just basic skills.
Speaker 1: Do you at least have basic skills? And it's under
Speaker 1: seventy percent for reading and about fifty five percent for math.
Speaker 3: There are myriad reasons that we got problems in our
Speaker 3: public schools. One of them is they pass everybody along.
Speaker 3: You can't do math and read as a first grader,
Speaker 3: and they move you on to second grade.
Speaker 1: You're doomed.
Speaker 3: And that teacher is doomed because they just inherited a
Speaker 3: kid into their second grade classroom. They can't read or
Speaker 3: do math at a first grade level, so they can't
Speaker 3: catch them up.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are they supposed to do? And it
Speaker 1: just keeps continuing.
Speaker 3: Who thought this was a good idea to keep passing
Speaker 3: kids along? From grade to grade. You're doing such a
Speaker 3: disservice to these children. I hate it so much. I
Speaker 3: dealt with it with my own kid. I won't get
Speaker 3: into the detail because it wouldn't be fair to him.
Speaker 3: He's especially needs to get blah blah blah. But I
Speaker 3: caught them numerous times claiming that he could do things
Speaker 3: that he couldn't.
Speaker 1: How do you think you're doing him a favor?
Speaker 3: Oh that makes me so angry. Yeah, yeah, so Reggie
Speaker 3: a piece a part of it.
Speaker 1: That's a nice thing to do.
Speaker 3: What is nice about telling a kid you got nice
Speaker 3: for them, you got an a on that, when they
Speaker 3: can't actually do it.
Speaker 1: How is that nice? I don't get it. It's sick.
Speaker 1: It's sick and self serving. Reggie part of a piece
Speaker 1: the other day from Dan Lherman. I think his name
Speaker 1: is about the stone sounding high school teacher who didn't
Speaker 1: teach math. He just prattled on about woke crap. And
Speaker 1: he goes through a bunch of examples like In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, State of California unveiled a draft of its
Speaker 1: new mathematics framework, calling for districts to abandon tracking practices
Speaker 1: and delaying algebra one until ninth grade in the name
Speaker 1: of equity. In doing so, they stunted the students who
Speaker 1: may well have soared all while affluent families bypassed the
Speaker 1: system through private options, led to the recall elections removal
Speaker 1: of three Board of Education people. But you've got students
Speaker 1: in blue cities doubling down on that stuff. Portland public
Speaker 1: schools portions of Valet, San Francisco, United have explored or
Speaker 1: piloted these grading for equity reforms where they eliminate penalties
Speaker 1: for missing work or cheating. They exclude homework, attendance, behavior
Speaker 1: and participation from academic grades, permit unlimited retakes of tests
Speaker 1: and essays, and the results are just absolutely clear. This
Speaker 1: is you don't need Sherlock Holmes. When a guy is
Speaker 1: standing over the victim with a smoking gun, it's just unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and he goes into scientists talking about how it's just
Speaker 1: absolutely clear what's going on. The National Review had a
Speaker 1: great piece recently about textbook bias. The textbooks these kids
Speaker 1: are reading from are left wing indoctrination.
Speaker 3: And in my son's class, the teacher held up that
Speaker 3: left wing book and said, this book is full of lies.
Speaker 1: Meaning it wasn't woke enough, right.
Speaker 3: But another one of the numbers that is out the
Speaker 3: percentage of kids that missed three or more days of school.
Speaker 3: The absenteeism is through the roof, since COVID kids just
Speaker 3: got used to not going to school, or parents realized
Speaker 3: you could get away with your kid not going to school,
Speaker 3: or whatever is causing it. So that obviously doesn't help
Speaker 3: the scores because it's pretty hard to learn when you're
Speaker 3: not there. For all the obvious reasons, the guy who
Speaker 3: runs this whole organization that does the national report card
Speaker 3: said that this has been a trend for many years.
Speaker 3: My predecessor's predecessor said, we need to keep our eye
Speaker 3: on this trend. It's going the wrong way. Then my
Speaker 3: predecessor said it. Now I'm saying it. We're all saying
Speaker 3: the same thing. It keeps going down, down, down again.
Speaker 3: There's a ten point drop in reading since ninety two.
Speaker 1: Ten points is a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's shocking, and hey,
Speaker 1: rampant illegal immigration plays a role in this, It absolutely does.
Speaker 1: But that's another progressive Well, it's a little more complicated
Speaker 1: than that. It is a progressive policy. But there are
Speaker 1: plenty of people on Wall Street I love it too.
Speaker 1: Europe will tell you the same thing. No, I've had
Speaker 1: the experience.
Speaker 3: I've talked about this with teachers who have had to
Speaker 3: use the Google Translate on their phone and they do
Speaker 3: something in English and then they do the Google Translate
Speaker 3: thing for the kid who speaks whatever language happens to
Speaker 3: be in the class.
Speaker 1: And you have to do that for a couple of
Speaker 1: different kids. Obviously, that's going to drag down the whole class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so your summary, sament, I think is that we've been
Speaker 1: we Americans, kids, parents, all the society suffers. Everybody has
Speaker 1: been betrayed by the government, class and the government unions
Speaker 1: which include teachers unions multiple times in multiple ways, including
Speaker 1: the illegal immigration thing. And there's just it can't be
Speaker 1: allowed to continue to handle that part of our lives.
Speaker 1: In my opinion. The brilliant Roland Frar do you know
Speaker 1: Roland Friar. He's an economist, teaches and works and researches
Speaker 1: and rights out of Harvard. He happens to be a
Speaker 1: black man. He has solved these problems actually in real life,
Speaker 1: in real schools, solve these problems, and the educational establishment
Speaker 1: has no interest in it. More on that, next segment,
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Speaker 1: a moment or two. I am a conservative, proudly. I
Speaker 1: don't believe in wild radical change suddenly because is is
Speaker 1: where it is, because it's worked and been time tested.
Speaker 1: And government schools had a period where they're pretty damn solid,
Speaker 1: depending where you were, but overall pretty damn solid. A
Speaker 1: lot of dedicated people who are there teach children. It
Speaker 1: is now a government jobs program, our government school.
Speaker 3: System layers and layers and layers of administrators that didn't
Speaker 3: used to exist, and we're getting a worse result. I
Speaker 3: mean the math. Speaking of math, the math seems pretty
Speaker 3: easy on me on this.
Speaker 1: For men, yeah, it's it's more like patronage jobs, like
Speaker 1: Pete Hexith and Trump have said the Pentagon became it's
Speaker 1: it's just a jobs program as opposed to a war
Speaker 1: fighting force, and it's got to be cleaned up.
Speaker 3: Any thoughts on this text line four one five two
Speaker 3: nine five KFTC. So the nation's school report car is out,
Speaker 3: no surprise, down again, keeps going down, be and going
Speaker 3: down for decades. We keep throwing more money at it.
Speaker 3: And adding more layers of administration to all our schools
Speaker 3: getting worse results. But I don't think they actually care because,
Speaker 3: as Joe said, it's more of a jobs program than
Speaker 3: about educating kids at this point anyway.
Speaker 1: And an indoctrination camp into leftist ideology. So Roland Fryar,
Speaker 1: who is a brilliant economist, researcher, writer, he happens to
Speaker 1: work at Harvard, and he happens to be a black guy.
Speaker 1: He wrote a piece I'm just going to read you
Speaker 1: a chunk of it. He said, this is personal to
Speaker 1: me and Houston. I a research project I led called
Speaker 1: Apollo twenty showed it was possible to erase the racial
Speaker 1: achievement gap in less than two years by applying simple
Speaker 1: reform principles to the worst performing schools. Today, the tools
Speaker 1: we used sit on the shelf, not because they failed,
Speaker 1: but because leaders failed to act. We are watching temporary
Speaker 1: setbacks calcify into permanent inequality, even though we know how
Speaker 1: to reverse them. I've been obsessed with fixing American schools
Speaker 1: from most of my career. In twenty oh nine, sold
Speaker 1: my team of research assistants and project managers that we
Speaker 1: could do it by twenty twenty five. It was part optimism,
Speaker 1: part arrogance, part youthful naivete but he mentioned a number
Speaker 1: of city leaders who believed that nothing was impossible and
Speaker 1: fueled my optimism. Fifteen years later, many of the ideas
Speaker 1: that once filled our conversations are gone, not because they failed,
Speaker 1: but because the system walked away from them, and he
Speaker 1: I'll just read it day. In twenty twelve, my graduate
Speaker 1: student I collected unprecedented data from nearly fifty New York
Speaker 1: City charter schools to see which practice is truly boosted
Speaker 1: student learning, class size, and teacher credentials. Political obsessions for
Speaker 1: decades mattered little. What mattered most for five concrete, replicable
Speaker 1: practices more instruction time, high expectations, frequent teacher feedback, data
Speaker 1: driven instruction, and high dosage tutoring. Together, these five tenants
Speaker 1: explained roughly half the difference between effective and ineffective schools.
Speaker 1: And then they found a superintendent in Houston who was
Speaker 1: like the only one who was interested in putting what
Speaker 1: they learned to work. And so together we applied the
Speaker 1: five tenants in twenty struggling public schools serving nearly twenty
Speaker 1: thousand students. We lengthened the school year by twenty percent,
Speaker 1: brought in hundreds of tudors, replaced ninety five percent of
Speaker 1: the principles and half the teachers, while retaining the rest
Speaker 1: embedded and retraining the rest, I should say, embedded data
Speaker 1: in instruction, and built a culture of high expectations. It
Speaker 1: was one of the most ambitious social experiments in American
Speaker 1: public education, and the results were astonishing. It was an enormous,
Speaker 1: complete success. He mentions that reading was a little tougher
Speaker 1: to turn around, and they didn't do as well because
Speaker 1: of the unique state of kids' brains when they're very young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, up until like age eight, your brain is just unbelievable,
Speaker 3: and then it changes after that. Your ability to learn
Speaker 3: prior to that age is incredible, So it's truly hard.
Speaker 3: That's why it's so hard to pick up foreign languages
Speaker 3: an adults or whatever, right unless you have that special talent. Anyway,
Speaker 3: he says, in elementary school math students gained the equivalent
Speaker 3: of four extra months of learning each year, enough to
Speaker 3: erase the racial achievement gap in less than two years.
Speaker 3: And he's looking at it through the lenders of race obviously,
Speaker 3: but any kid who's not achieving because their schools are
Speaker 3: crappy would benefit from this. In secondary schools where skeptics
Speaker 3: said reform was impossible, students gained nearly eight additional months
Speaker 3: of learning in a nine month school year. Wows were
Speaker 3: bigger effects than those produced by some of the other
Speaker 3: great success stories in education.
Speaker 1: So the Houston schools double these games year after year.
Speaker 1: By the third year, elementary students that accumulated the equivalent
Speaker 1: of an extra academic year. That's incredible. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Results were jaw dropping. Then he talks about reading, and
Speaker 1: then he says by twenty thirteen the project was finished,
Speaker 1: not despite its success but because of it. But even so,
Speaker 1: the funding was pulled from the schools because they were
Speaker 1: no longer the worst in the district than they probably been.
Speaker 1: They predictably backslid, and the education industrial complex has no
Speaker 1: interest in these programs none. They don't profit the teachers' union,
Speaker 1: they don't reward the administrators. They have been rejected, even
Speaker 1: though they worked, like penicillin on an infection, an amazing
Speaker 1: success story, rejected by the educational establishment. Which is why
Speaker 1: I say I don't think there's any fixing it.
Speaker 3: No I don't think there is either, and I don't
Speaker 3: understand why it's not more of a conversation. I don't
Speaker 3: have the numbers in front of me, but whenever we've
Speaker 3: talked about them, it's amazing the number of administrators to
Speaker 3: teacher that went from like one to one.
Speaker 1: To like one hundred to one in the last several decades,
Speaker 1: all at every level of education.
Speaker 3: All of those people, yeah k through getting a PhD,
Speaker 3: every level of education.
Speaker 1: All those people didn't used to exist, and now they do.
Speaker 1: They don't need to right, and the equity based teaching
Speaker 1: of every topic. It's not about your kids learning, it's
Speaker 1: about indoctrinating them into far leftist politics, neo Marxism. It
Speaker 1: is a huge crisis, i'd.
Speaker 3: Say, But like I said, half the country is going
Speaker 3: to demand more money. It's just going to say the
Speaker 3: problem is we don't have enough money. If you gave
Speaker 3: us more money, you would get a better result.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty, I do want to give you the
Speaker 4: Katari reaction. I reached out to a Katari official in Doha,
Speaker 4: who responded with a statement from the spokesman for Qatar's
Speaker 4: foreign minister saying, in part quote, the state of Qatar
Speaker 4: condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly Israeli attack targeting
Speaker 4: the residential headquarters of several members of the Hamas political
Speaker 4: bureau in the Katari capital Doha. It's quite a lengthy statement,
Speaker 4: but it goes on to talk about the state of
Speaker 4: Qatar and their condemnation of these strikes earlier today.
Speaker 3: So Israeli officials now for almost two years, we're coming
Speaker 3: up on the two year anniversary, have been vowing to
Speaker 3: kill any leaders who are involved in the planning of
Speaker 3: the October seventh attacks. They may have taken out a
Speaker 3: few more of the planners in Doha in their residential.
Speaker 1: Dwelling.
Speaker 3: They're in Qatar with a couple of rocket strikes. Now,
Speaker 3: Doha and Qatar are a couple of those areas you
Speaker 3: know that they exist in the Middle East where it's
Speaker 3: just super fancy high rises and everything like that, and
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be a you know, a safe haven
Speaker 3: for business and tourists and whatever, away from the other
Speaker 3: craziness of the Middle East. We don't have that sort
Speaker 3: of craziness here. You can come here and just do
Speaker 3: business and be safe. And then our rocket attack on
Speaker 3: the residential headquarters of Hamas today, and the Kataris are
Speaker 3: saying it violates all international law and blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: blah blah. And as often as the case with these stories,
Speaker 3: it's quite possible that the Katari leaders are happy as
Speaker 3: hell that Israeli Israel has taken out these as.
Speaker 1: Leaders from their midst Yeah. I don't know, Carr, if
Speaker 1: you want to pronounce it to however you want, I
Speaker 1: don't care. They really like being the middle man. They
Speaker 1: like being the a We're calm, we're the brokers. We
Speaker 1: listen to everybody, all sides. We profit from everybody. We
Speaker 1: donate generously to your lobbyists and colleges to curry favor,
Speaker 1: and we like being the middle man. So on the
Speaker 1: other hand, they really don't have a military presence worth
Speaker 1: speaking of. So that's that's bold though. Man, Israel is
Speaker 1: not kidding around. This is not We're going to knock
Speaker 1: him back and then negotiate. No, this is our new plan.
Speaker 1: Our new defense plan is to defeat our enemy.
Speaker 3: Well one, somebody made this point the other day at
Speaker 3: a smart person, and I thought it was wise. One
Speaker 3: of the downsides of the whole world, except for the
Speaker 3: United States being against Israel and decrying every single thing
Speaker 3: they do. Is they have an attitude of, well, everybody
Speaker 3: already hates us, what difference does it make.
Speaker 1: We'll do whatever we gotta do.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like when I heard this, I thought
Speaker 3: of it as a parenting which I think about a
Speaker 3: lot the teenage or whatever. You know, if you go
Speaker 3: too hard on your kids for too much stuff, they
Speaker 3: can get an attitude of I get in trouble for everything,
Speaker 3: So I don't even care anymore.
Speaker 1: I'll just do it if I want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And and that's kind of where Israel is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting take. I think you're probably right.
Speaker 3: Plus, what are you going to vote against us in
Speaker 3: the UN or something because we struct all the buildings?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Some phony international court that nobody recognizes is
Speaker 1: going to call somebody a war criminal? Oh no, uh yeah, yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and so much of the criticism is posturing. It's either
Speaker 1: you know, leftists who believe the whole you know, colonial whatever,
Speaker 1: the crap, postmodern Marxist stuff, or it's governments who think,
Speaker 1: all right, I gotta be seen condemning this, so I
Speaker 1: condemn it. All right, whatever, do what you're doing anyway,
Speaker 1: speaking of politics, I found this very interesting. I have
Speaker 1: a prune update on the way. Oh no, oh good,
Speaker 1: oh Christmas.
Speaker 3: Well, I could get it, throw it quickly. I was
Speaker 3: supposed to add in one per day, according to the doctor.
Speaker 3: I started at one, then I went to two. I'm
Speaker 3: now three. Still no results, so we'll go with four today.
Speaker 3: We'll try four prunes today.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, wow, Okay, So I wish you well in
Speaker 1: your end of her I can't believe you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, You've sucked me in and I resent it.
Speaker 3: Uh. I can't believe your doctor started you on one prune.
Speaker 3: Well it's like nothing. Well it is, I say, I
Speaker 3: don't know, is it? Well?
Speaker 1: How many would you meet? Well?
Speaker 3: They help with regularity. Certainly I was going to leave
Speaker 3: it unset. Why I'm taking the prunes.
Speaker 1: Please, now you're mister decorum. That's hilarious. Yeah, just but
Speaker 1: one was where would you start? Would you have started
Speaker 1: with three? Three? Four? Really? Okay?
Speaker 3: I thought I was really getting out there by going
Speaker 3: to four. To baby, you'd say you would have started
Speaker 3: with four.
Speaker 1: That's a little three. It's like eating an apple.
Speaker 3: I undershot on my prunes. I do not like the consistency.
Speaker 3: I have a hard time getting them down. Are they fresher?
Speaker 3: They like dried? These are gooey, Yeah they are. They
Speaker 3: are funky. Yeah, it's like I'm eating a bug or something.
Speaker 3: I don't like it, a gooey bug. I got the
Speaker 3: organic kind.
Speaker 1: So oh that's nice. Super I thought this was so
Speaker 1: interesting and it's funny. Just as an aside to both
Speaker 1: Jack and the good folks. Yeah, you good folks. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at all of the stuff I have ready to
Speaker 1: talk about, and a lot of it is super important
Speaker 1: and significant and in many cases will well it's it's significant.
Speaker 1: It's not like day to day gossipy stuff. But it's
Speaker 1: all so damn serious and like impactful and everything. I
Speaker 1: don't know, the weight of the world is some days
Speaker 1: it's too much, you know.
Speaker 3: As impactful as Trump's drawing to Epstein on his birthday.
Speaker 1: And his signature that seemed to mimic public hair. Ah right,
Speaker 1: stop it with that. Nobody cares. Evidently people do care
Speaker 1: because it's the lead story, like in all the mainstream media. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was just looking at the New York Times coverage
Speaker 3: on that. Man, There is no there there.
Speaker 1: I know, So what I keep saying, so, I don't know,
Speaker 1: so what might be.
Speaker 3: Though, So my whole life, people have been saying this,
Speaker 3: if you get one of these things happening, one of
Speaker 3: these things, I don't even know what you call this,
Speaker 3: but when something like this is occurring, get everything out
Speaker 3: immediately because it's gonna happen eventually, and it only makes
Speaker 3: it worse.
Speaker 1: To fight it.
Speaker 3: And I think that's all they can do. I think
Speaker 3: that's the only way to end this thing. It's inevitable
Speaker 3: that every bit of government information is going to be released,
Speaker 3: So just do it six months ago and put an
Speaker 3: end to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they probably have to the extent that
Speaker 1: they can. But I don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: won't I won't talk about it. The only thing I'll
Speaker 1: talk about is the media's interest in this birthday letter. Well,
Speaker 1: why isoud Trump saying? Trump is denying it exactly, He's
Speaker 1: making it worse. Don't stop denying it. Stop saying, that's
Speaker 1: not your signature.
Speaker 3: I had to actually have a letter to my son
Speaker 3: when he was sick from Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: That is his signature.
Speaker 3: It looks just like that, yes, Yeah, And he was
Speaker 3: known to hang out with Epstein and they asked him, hey,
Speaker 3: send him a little note for his birthday, and he
Speaker 3: did it. If you were if it's one hundred percent true,
Speaker 3: every word of it, so what nobody cares.
Speaker 1: It's not important in any way, but he'll deny it
Speaker 1: obviously gives the story more legs. Oh yeah, yeah, obviously yeah,
Speaker 1: and breasts as turns out anyway, you've seen the picture,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So this is not okay.
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't understand her. You're prunes now, it's Epstein.
Speaker 1: You're a monster. What have you become? I don't understand
Speaker 1: what we're doing?
Speaker 3: So is is is the media suggesting?
Speaker 1: Are they are?
Speaker 3: Do they believe that Donald Trump was having sex with
Speaker 3: underage girls with Ebstein? And it's just a matter of
Speaker 3: time before we find out.
Speaker 1: Do they think that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: But I think they enjoy hinting at it, okay, because
Speaker 1: if they even went beyond the hinting at all, and
Speaker 1: like when a third of the way down the road
Speaker 1: you just went down, they know it's it's unprovable and
Speaker 1: it's been denied by everybody, but they enjoy the tying
Speaker 1: Trump to Epstein.
Speaker 3: And then, as you always said, which Ebstein story? Are
Speaker 3: we talking about. Then there's the chunk of the base
Speaker 3: that they don't think Trump was having sex with underage girls,
Speaker 3: but they think Trump is now part of the cover
Speaker 3: up of the child trafficking ring that Hillary Clinton and
Speaker 3: Michelle Obama whose dude has been running from.
Speaker 1: The pie and the rest of it. Yeah, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. It's just exhausting, Okay. And you know, if
Speaker 1: somebody came to me and said, hey, this is all
Speaker 1: just meant to distract you from X, Y or Z,
Speaker 1: I mean I would have to at least consider it,
Speaker 1: because there's so many things that are important going on
Speaker 1: right now. And who wrote that freaking letter to Epstein
Speaker 1: on his birthday? It's not one of them, not even.
Speaker 3: I wish Trump would have just said, though, yeah I did.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was a friend of mine and we
Speaker 3: partied together and it was his birthday, and I jotted
Speaker 3: something to him at the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it took me about three minutes or or
Speaker 1: he could quite although reasonably say, like several people have,
Speaker 1: I don't remember, sounds like I might have.
Speaker 3: I don't know, although I should have dug it up.
Speaker 3: The exact quote there at the end though, where he
Speaker 3: says may.
Speaker 1: Every day be another beautiful secret or something like.
Speaker 3: Something about enigmas always grow with time or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, what what the hell was that? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Mumbo jumbo. So really interesting poll recently by
Speaker 1: the NBC Polling Organization asking h I saw under thirties
Speaker 1: what they consider important to a successful life and the
Speaker 1: gulf between young men and young women is now crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to get into that deep next because
Speaker 3: that's a good one. It's a better topic than my prunes.
Speaker 1: So that's on the way.
Speaker 3: We also are going to talk about why the French
Speaker 3: government fell yesterday. It might be a warning for the
Speaker 3: United States. Probably get to that now. Ur three stick around.
Speaker 2: An MSNBC pundit trash Trump's DC crime crackdown until old
Speaker 2: social media posts revealed.
Speaker 1: That she was lamenting having one.
Speaker 2: Car, two scooters, and three bikes stolen. Yeah, she tried
Speaker 2: to walk back her comments.
Speaker 1: But someone stole his shoes. Boy, that is something.
Speaker 3: Though you've had that level of crime touch you and
Speaker 3: you still go with the boost your team.
Speaker 1: I'm against the crackdown, the guard troops. Whatever I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Ideology is like it's like heaven half a dozen drinks
Speaker 1: or something. It just turns you into a babylin fool.
Speaker 3: Breaking news atop un official condemns Israeli strike on katar.
Speaker 1: Eh shit Aeta. So this is so interesting and crazy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Steve Karnaki at NBC Polling put this out. The asked
Speaker 1: young voters gen z adults, if you want to use
Speaker 1: that term, eighteen to twenty nine years old. What they
Speaker 1: considered important to was successful life. What is important to
Speaker 1: your personal definition of success? And they gave them a
Speaker 1: bunch of things to choose. They could choose no more
Speaker 1: than one. The numbers will make that obvious. But the
Speaker 1: number one thing that's important your personal definition of success
Speaker 1: among men who voted for Trump. Young men who voted
Speaker 1: for Trump, number one thing was having children h thirty
Speaker 1: four percent, interesting, barely beating out financial independence at thirty
Speaker 1: three percent, A fulfilling job and career at thirty percent,
Speaker 1: and being married at twenty nine percent. I am family
Speaker 1: success fulfillment family.
Speaker 3: I was four answers, I was joking yelling money. I
Speaker 3: would not put that on my list of things that
Speaker 3: make you a success.
Speaker 1: Women who voted for Kamala Harris their top four at
Speaker 1: fifty one percent. Fulfilling job and career, number two, having
Speaker 1: money to do the things you want, number three, having
Speaker 1: emotional stability whatever that means, thirty nine percent, and number
Speaker 1: four using talents and resources to help others, which is
Speaker 1: a lovely idea. Emotional stability. Yeah, so fulfilling job and
Speaker 1: career is fifty one percent, having money to do the
Speaker 1: things you wants, forty six percent. Having emotional stability whatever
Speaker 1: that is. Thirty nine percent listed that in their several choices.
Speaker 1: Now being married almost the bottom six percent. Having children
Speaker 1: tied at the bottom six percent listed that is important
Speaker 1: to a personal definition of a successful life. In contrast
Speaker 1: to the men who voted for Trump, having children being
Speaker 1: married was thirty four and twenty nine percent.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a problem. Obviously, ain't gonna end up with
Speaker 3: many kids in your country, which we don't have, lowest
Speaker 3: rate we've ever had in the United States of America.
Speaker 3: I think you just explained it.
Speaker 1: It's not like a whole having emotional stability thing. Men
Speaker 1: who voted for Trump that was in last place, probably
Speaker 1: one percent of them said the hell are you talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably with a heap and helping of what. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't even know what you mean. So I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: this flat.
Speaker 5: Isn't that what what's weird about that is, isn't that
Speaker 5: something you just kind of, uh inherently want every day
Speaker 5: of your life, starting at birth. I mean, it's just
Speaker 5: it's like saying, I'd like to have enough air throughout
Speaker 5: the day and enough calories to keep me alive. I mean, yeah, Well,
Speaker 5: given the fact that not having emotional stability means you're
Speaker 5: emotionally unstable, yeah, that's you don't want that. But the
Speaker 5: fact that really forty percent of women listed that in
Speaker 5: their top I mean it was the third place. That's
Speaker 5: aeniority for life.
Speaker 1: Wow. It speaks to the emotional instability of women in
Speaker 1: the modern world.
Speaker 3: Very Now, what year did men are from Mars? Women
Speaker 3: are from Venus? Come out? Early nineties? It's God, Now
Speaker 3: it's men are from Mars and women are from I
Speaker 3: don't know, some alternate universe that we've never looked into.
Speaker 3: I mean, just how far apart they are. I'm not
Speaker 3: claiming I am claiming this. I guess that I think
Speaker 3: one is better than the other, and I agree with
Speaker 3: one much more than the other.
Speaker 1: But there's certainly examples of unhinged young men too.
Speaker 3: But put again, without putting a judgment on it, the
Speaker 3: two sides are very, very far apart.
Speaker 1: How many times has it come up in recent years
Speaker 1: that the engine, the bulk of the people screaming like
Speaker 1: lunatics at these progressive protests are young women. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're just so angry and hostile and misguided and militant.
Speaker 1: And there it is, right there in the answers.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what to make of that,
Speaker 3: but like I said, it explains why we've got the
Speaker 3: lowest birthrate we've ever had, and it would lead me
Speaker 3: to believe that we're going to continue down that road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at some of the other answers.
Speaker 3: It seems to me in this anecdotally, God, it's way
Speaker 3: more women than men. Anecdotally, it seems to me anecdotally
Speaker 3: that most young women want to have enough money to travel.
Speaker 1: That is your goal in life.
Speaker 3: I want to travel the world and period pretty much period.
Speaker 1: Drink AfterAll. Sprints is at a good Instagram location having
Speaker 1: children listed by almost six times as many men as women,
Speaker 1: or six times the percentage. That's a problem. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's a problem that you ever existed in the history
Speaker 1: of mankind.
Speaker 3: That is the question I asked that all the time.
Speaker 3: Has this ever happened before I won?
Speaker 1: You know, it's probably worth as a caveat mentioning again
Speaker 1: it was eighteen to twenty nine year olds. And it's
Speaker 1: absolutely the case that many men and women don't really
Speaker 1: feel think they would have kids until they get to
Speaker 1: a certain point in their lives, which is fine and appropriate,
Speaker 1: But given the enormous gulf between men and women on
Speaker 1: that question, that's surprising.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before I make any doom and gloom judgments, I
Speaker 3: suppose i'd like to hear those same questions put to
Speaker 3: thirty to thirty nine year olds.
Speaker 1: Well, we're surrounded by doom and drowning in gloom, so
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to make that leap here.
Speaker 1: We are. We're not having families having kids. The hell,
Speaker 1: they're not even having sex.
Speaker 3: No. So France's government fell in the way that parliamentary
Speaker 3: systems work. Why is super interesting because they well they've
Speaker 3: hit the end of the road of socialism, like you
Speaker 3: always do. Might be a little heads up for the way.
Speaker 3: We want to take a look at our finances though,
Speaker 3: So we'll get to that in hour three.
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