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 enough he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I thought that people were jumping a little bit out
Speaker 3: of line.
Speaker 4: They were getting yippie, you know, they were getting a
Speaker 4: little bit yippy, a little bit afraid, unlike these champions,
Speaker 4: because we have a big job to do.
Speaker 1: No other president would have done what I did. No
Speaker 1: other president I know the presidents, they wouldn't have done it,
Speaker 1: and it had to be done.
Speaker 5: I think we have a really big problem, which was
Speaker 5: we have two strong guys, neither of which wants to
Speaker 5: back down. And I was in China a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago, and the Chinese have been preparing for this
Speaker 5: for years. They may not have expected quite the scale
Speaker 5: and speed with which this has become a full on
Speaker 5: trade war with one hundred and twenty five percent times,
Speaker 5: but they are ready for this, and they are in
Speaker 5: no mood right now to back down and both so
Speaker 5: practically it's very very difficult Fijijinping to lose face. That's
Speaker 5: it's he cannot lose face. So for the moment, I
Speaker 5: think quite how they unwind this becomes hard.
Speaker 4: That is really interesting. I you know, I hadn't even
Speaker 4: thought of the Chinese perspective, So they knew at some
Speaker 4: point America was going to have to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course and over again. Of course they do.
Speaker 4: It's so common to, you know, only think about your
Speaker 4: side of the equation and not the fact that China knows.
Speaker 4: Of course we're going to decouple from the United States.
Speaker 4: We have They're going to have to decouple from us.
Speaker 4: It's part of our whole taking over the world, and
Speaker 4: you know we have a plan for that. Of course
Speaker 4: they do. It's not like I'm surprised to them. So
Speaker 4: the the US is fat.
Speaker 1: And lazy, but we're not stupid, and just just very quickly.
Speaker 1: The reason I paired those two pieces of audio together
Speaker 1: was to point out that you have the rest of
Speaker 1: the world world. We got our ninety day pause, they're
Speaker 1: going to be negotiations. Everybody breathes a sigh relief, the
Speaker 1: market skyrocket temporarily, and then you've got China, and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about China this segment.
Speaker 4: So China's eighty four percent tariff on US goes intoffect
Speaker 4: today as Trump's one hundred and twenty five percent tariff
Speaker 4: goes on effect in effect on them. But as that
Speaker 4: person just said, they knew this was coming someday. It's
Speaker 4: not a shock to them. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: So you have multiple layers of gristle in this one
Speaker 1: as we try to chew it. Unnecessary, really, and I
Speaker 1: think ye for them, But I would rather be the
Speaker 1: United States than China ultimately in a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different ways. But you know, just on the face of
Speaker 1: a lot of this, China's got to be thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure glad we don't make all all of our
Speaker 1: drugs in the United States, or all of our electronics,
Speaker 1: or all of our a whole bunch of different things
Speaker 1: in the country we're about to be at war with, right, So,
Speaker 1: like I was saying, you have multiple layers going on here.
Speaker 1: First of all, the ridiculous and idiotic trade imbalance between
Speaker 1: the countries based on protectionism and flooding the market with
Speaker 1: cheap Chinese goods and that sort of thing, the whole
Speaker 1: misguided relationship with China. If we let them liberalize economically,
Speaker 1: they'll become our buddies. Yeah, no, they never intended to.
Speaker 1: We all know that stuff. Then you got two really
Speaker 1: tough guys, Chesi and Ping, who rules with an iron fist.
Speaker 1: And if you're an iron fisted ruler, rule number one
Speaker 1: is don't back down ever unless you can claim it
Speaker 1: was your idea and it was a victory. And Trump
Speaker 1: is making it very difficult for Xijian Ping to back down.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It just it is.
Speaker 1: And Trump, on the other hand, having frankly back down
Speaker 1: on the rest of the world tariff stuff, or at
Speaker 1: least changed his sales. I think it ends up in
Speaker 1: a pretty good place. But he definitely had to change
Speaker 1: because everybody was getting yippie. We talked an hour two
Speaker 1: was it or our one about the bond market? I
Speaker 1: guess it was our one. How everybody who buys US
Speaker 1: bonds and invests in the US started to send signals
Speaker 1: via the bond market that maybe the US isn't such
Speaker 1: a great place anymore, and it got everybody's attention in
Speaker 1: a way that's a little difficult to explain. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: reset it later in the show. But anyway, so Trump
Speaker 1: absolutely adjusted his sales, and so he really needs to
Speaker 1: look tough against China. I mean there are great underlying
Speaker 1: reasons to look tough on China anyway and be tough
Speaker 1: on China, But for his own self image and his
Speaker 1: image politically, he doesn't want to back down to Winnie
Speaker 1: the Pooh. So this one will not unravel quickly or easily.
Speaker 1: I don't think. No.
Speaker 4: So all of this stuff that we were talking about
Speaker 4: yesterday is still a fact. The shelves in Walmart full
Speaker 4: of Chinese products, Amazon just full of Chinese products.
Speaker 1: And how long does this last? And soon do we
Speaker 1: notice it?
Speaker 4: Remember what inflation was like and you go to the
Speaker 4: grocery store, whatever you do, and you'd be shocked every
Speaker 4: time you got the bill. How soon do we notice
Speaker 4: that sort of thing? I wonder in weeks? And then
Speaker 4: how does the working class America, which is the base
Speaker 4: of the MAGA movement react to that is the reaction.
Speaker 4: I knew it was going to cost more, but it's
Speaker 4: it's good for the long term. Or does Trump's pull
Speaker 4: numbers go in the toilet immediately?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, anybody who's gotten a little older in life
Speaker 1: understands that sometimes the things you have to do are painful, comfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most of the things you have to do are painful. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And here's here's the reality. Because the long term prospect
Speaker 1: of like going back to manufacturing our own underpants and
Speaker 1: T shirts in this country, it's conceivable, but it would
Speaker 1: make them much more expensive than it would take a
Speaker 1: while to gear up and do that. It's funny to
Speaker 1: use the term underpants as opposed to what underwear underwear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just underpants. It seems so old timey. That's part of
Speaker 1: my charm anyway. So the prices on a lot of
Speaker 1: things that people do tend to buy fairly frequently are
Speaker 1: going to go up, at least in the short term.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that's going to be painful
Speaker 1: is a according to every economic survey I've seen, people
Speaker 1: are already kind of at the end of their rope
Speaker 1: financially because of the past inflation. That's interesting, so orrowing
Speaker 1: credit card balances, the rest of it. I was about
Speaker 1: to say, as soon as people catch wind to this,
Speaker 1: and some people already have, you're going to buy your
Speaker 1: underpants or your cheap electronics or whatever. Now, which is
Speaker 1: what bloomers your braziers?
Speaker 4: Yes, which here, of course it's which is what drives inflation,
Speaker 4: is the fear of inflation. I mean, it helps drive it,
Speaker 4: so everybody's going out buying it and then it just
Speaker 4: keeps going and going. But maybe that won't happen if
Speaker 4: everybody's maxed out their credit cards. You're just thinking, you
Speaker 4: know what, I'm gonna have to wear holy underpants exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. And the other aspect of it,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. And again this is absolutely not an argument
Speaker 1: against doing it or an argument about the way Trump's
Speaker 1: doing it, because we all knew something like this had
Speaker 1: to come. As Jack was just describing China. Knew is
Speaker 1: that there are so many Americans who are employed in retail,
Speaker 1: in trucking, in you know, the various handling of the
Speaker 1: goods that come from China, or build stuff with parts
Speaker 1: that come from China. It's gonna hurt sectors of the
Speaker 1: American economy where they're working. People work, So that's going
Speaker 1: to be kind of difficult to work through. Not kind
Speaker 1: of it's going to be difficult to work through, depending
Speaker 1: on how this goes, of course, but man, it is
Speaker 1: so layered and one sector and one you know aspect
Speaker 1: of this is interwoven with the other ones in a
Speaker 1: way that I mean, it would take forever to describe it,
Speaker 1: even if I had the knowledge to nobody can. That's
Speaker 1: the point of a free market. It does itself, you
Speaker 1: don't need to guide it. But well, so, what were
Speaker 1: you ben get ripped off for a long time? What
Speaker 1: were the tariffs on China a week ago? Below fifties?
Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, it's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be about two and a half times the tariff on
Speaker 4: all Chinese goods coming into this country.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna notice that hard and fast, for
Speaker 1: better or worse. So with the new US tariffs making
Speaker 1: the American market all but closed to Chinese products, even
Speaker 1: this is from the Wall Street Journal, even more Chinese
Speaker 1: goods will be rerouted to countries in Europe and Asia,
Speaker 1: where leaders are already concerned about a flood of Chinese
Speaker 1: products that have jeopardized jobs, which leads me to clicking
Speaker 1: over to this piece, also in the Journal, the rest
Speaker 1: of the world is bracing for a flood of cheap
Speaker 1: Chinese goods. Wow, so China sold a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to us. Sure, and it's funny. This
Speaker 1: was written a couple of days ago when it was
Speaker 1: tariffs for around seventy percent A lot of it crappy,
Speaker 1: but a lot of it not Nikes aren't crappy. No,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it was good enough. We've talked
Speaker 1: for years about this experiment going on. If we gave
Speaker 1: you something that was a third less good but costs
Speaker 1: forty percent less, would you buy it, knowing you have
Speaker 1: to replace it sooner? And Americans have answered yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: over and over again on cheap Chinese junk.
Speaker 4: I was watching a guy at a shoe store sells
Speaker 4: gymnasium shoes, and he said, this pair of and I
Speaker 4: don't remember what he was holding up. It wasn't Nike's.
Speaker 4: It was one of the other brands. And I don't
Speaker 4: know which ones are made Ware, but AAIs or Adidas
Speaker 4: or whatever they were, and he said, these are I'm
Speaker 4: already have already marked him up from one eighty to
Speaker 4: two hundred, and I might have to go up higher
Speaker 4: already and prepare for now. You know, the media's going
Speaker 4: out of their way to find people that are doing that,
Speaker 4: to present this as scary and as bad for Trump
Speaker 4: as you can. But I wonder what that will be.
Speaker 4: What will appair of Nike shoes cost next week or
Speaker 4: next month, and when people still want to buy them.
Speaker 4: Of course, the idea is that you don't, right, isn't
Speaker 4: that the whole point of what Trump wants to do.
Speaker 4: As you won't buy the Nike shoes at that price,
Speaker 4: You'll buy some shoes that were made somewhere else or
Speaker 4: in the United States, and Nike will be forced to
Speaker 4: move their factory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ultimately indom the United States if you believe the
Speaker 1: first argument that this is permanent, or you know, somebody
Speaker 1: other than China, if you believe what I believe. This
Speaker 1: is all mostly posturing to get better trade deals. But
Speaker 1: so the rest of the world is not going to
Speaker 1: love this either. Now. I don't particularly give a crap
Speaker 1: how shoe stores in London are doing. But the towering
Speaker 1: tariff wall also risks diverting some US bound Chinese exports
Speaker 1: into a global market already swimming in China made goods,
Speaker 1: orsening what is called a China shock that was already
Speaker 1: facing pushback from countries around the world according to other
Speaker 1: According to economists, other major exporters like Vietnam, South Korea,
Speaker 1: Japan could also see barriers grow as US spending on
Speaker 1: import falls in general. But so China's got to sell
Speaker 1: their cheap craps somewhere, and so they're going to cause
Speaker 1: just enormous economic shocks wherever they find they can dump
Speaker 1: their goods.
Speaker 4: Is there going to be a black market? Are people
Speaker 4: going to be driving into Canada to buy Nikes?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. That's an interesting question, But I'm
Speaker 1: thinking more geopolitically, Jack, and I wonder whether more and
Speaker 1: more countries and more and more peoples wake up to
Speaker 1: the fact that if you're in bed with China, it's
Speaker 1: for China's benefit. Don't believe don't trust China? Right China?
Speaker 1: What do we have to tip you to play these
Speaker 1: sounds now? Or what? And why am I yelling at MICHAELA.
Speaker 1: I know it's the stress Jack from the tariffs, But anyway,
Speaker 1: will this alert more and more countries around the world? Okay,
Speaker 1: Trump's a little mercurial, but is just predatory.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're smart to know where this
Speaker 4: is going or have an idea. Textas four one, five,
Speaker 4: two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 3: Shot the stunning volume of explicit images investigators say they've
Speaker 3: seed from former University of Michigan coach Matt Weiss, the
Speaker 3: Justice Department, emailing thousands of victims telling them. Wis gained
Speaker 3: unauthorized access to their email, social media, and cloud storage
Speaker 3: accounts and stole thousands of intimate photographs and videos. The
Speaker 3: indictment says Weiss hacked into a third party vendor that
Speaker 3: maintains student databases for more than one hundred colleges and
Speaker 3: universities across the country, and even crack the encryption protecting
Speaker 3: the passwords simply by doing research online.
Speaker 4: What a weirdo so dedicated to the kink of being
Speaker 4: able to see, like really not that sexy pictures of people,
Speaker 4: but because you know them or you have the power
Speaker 4: to see stuff you're not supposed to see. I guess
Speaker 4: exactly that's the payoff for you. Because there's plenty of
Speaker 4: pictures of naked women online. You can see anything you want,
Speaker 4: doing anything you want if you want that. But the
Speaker 4: fact that this girl is at your college, even though
Speaker 4: it's like a blurry picture from across across the locker
Speaker 4: room or something, it's.
Speaker 1: Bad then it might be, but extremely explicit, it's that,
Speaker 1: and it's one hundred different universities whatever. It's just it
Speaker 1: was somebody who did not want to share that with me,
Speaker 1: and I get to see it. Yeah, that's weird. And
Speaker 1: you're that dedicated and that knowledgeable and skillful right in
Speaker 1: the arts of computer hackery, and that's your goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no kidding.
Speaker 4: If you've got that kind of hacking ability and you're
Speaker 4: willing to commit crimes, there's a lot of really lucrative
Speaker 4: things you could do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do something respectable like him doting people's bank accounts.
Speaker 1: All right, yes, Katie.
Speaker 2: Well, and that was one of the big things that
Speaker 2: they came out with yesterday was the fact that he
Speaker 2: didn't have big computer skills. He figured all of this
Speaker 2: out just by doing simple searches online.
Speaker 1: He figured out how to do it. Really, that's tabling,
Speaker 1: so college encryption services, what are their algorithms there? It is? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll type that in. That's the Wait a minute, really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was what they were saying, is that he's
Speaker 2: not some computer genius. He was just searching online how
Speaker 2: to figure out to get into these files, and he
Speaker 2: was able to do it.
Speaker 1: That's the most interesting part of the whole story. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I've ever been dedicated to anything except perhaps
Speaker 1: being a father, the way this guy was dedicated to
Speaker 1: looking at pictures of unclothed women. Yeah, weird. Lord, They're
Speaker 1: inventing a new kind of crazy every day.
Speaker 4: So I was at the DMV for a couple hours yesterday.
Speaker 4: I was tweeting about it a lot, got a lot
Speaker 4: of responses, some of them I thought were interesting in
Speaker 4: a variety of ways, including this one, because I asked, like,
Speaker 4: why are there no normal people DMV?
Speaker 1: At least my experience seemed to be life's losers.
Speaker 4: My whole life, I've thought that, like this first time
Speaker 4: I went to the It's like, there are no normal people here,
Speaker 4: like the how many people here.
Speaker 1: Have a job? Folks? I found that screen off putting
Speaker 1: in the elitist.
Speaker 4: Honest answer, the DMV is like a real life filter
Speaker 4: that squeezes out every ounce of human dignity. It's where
Speaker 4: time goes to die and ambition takes a smoke break,
Speaker 4: dent and cars dead stairs and crushed dreams. It's basically
Speaker 4: the lobby of government efficiency. But hey, maybe that is
Speaker 4: the secret. The winners don't wait in line, they get
Speaker 4: private plates, personal assistants, or just skip registration like half
Speaker 4: of Congress does.
Speaker 1: Like I've heard those stories years after years. They just
Speaker 1: don't register the cars and stuff like that because nothing's
Speaker 1: going to happen to them. I thought that was pretty good.
Speaker 4: It's where time goes to die and ambition takes a
Speaker 4: smoke break.
Speaker 1: That's some good writing.
Speaker 4: Well doneh I moved to North Idaho in twenty three.
Speaker 4: If you want to know the difference between California and Idaho,
Speaker 4: just go to the DMV. You get right in even
Speaker 4: without an appointment. People are genuinely helpful and friendly. It's
Speaker 4: a fraction of the cost. It's a delight Yeah, there
Speaker 4: are so many.
Speaker 1: Examples of this, because we've gotten emails from folks who
Speaker 1: have like a delightful DMV in their corner of California,
Speaker 1: for instance, whereas Jack's not so much population. Density changes
Speaker 1: human beings. It changes how many rules and regulations and
Speaker 1: laws they want. That's why cities are always blue. They
Speaker 1: want lots and lots of rules, they want democrats in charge.
Speaker 1: Rural areas northern Idaho not so much. And it extends
Speaker 1: how nice people are.
Speaker 4: I'm not the only person that's ever thought this about
Speaker 4: the crowd at the DMV, like where the normal people.
Speaker 4: Seinfeld used to have a whole bit about it way
Speaker 4: back in the day. But anyway, somebody tweeted this line
Speaker 4: is Seinfeld's once said about the people at the DMV undtable.
Speaker 4: Where all these undateable people coming from that are at
Speaker 4: the DMV.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Again, Like I said, the percentage of crutches and slings
Speaker 4: was way out of proportion than the normal population. And
Speaker 4: I can't imagine how those two things fit together.
Speaker 1: The key is how did they get those injuries?
Speaker 4: I should have gone around asking, excuse me, I see
Speaker 4: and her sling, how did you hurt your arm?
Speaker 1: Excuse me as you're on crutches? What did you do
Speaker 1: to your Wow? So let me squeeze this in just
Speaker 1: real quickly, Jack, You'll enjoy this ten seconds. There's not
Speaker 1: even so okay. After the break an emails so devastating.
Speaker 1: I was about to read it. I've got an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. We got plenty of times Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty sandwich change.
Speaker 6: Subway is announced it'll be offering reward members free Dorito's
Speaker 6: foot long nachos with the purchase of any sub And
Speaker 6: you know you're in a good restaurant when the food
Speaker 6: is sold by link.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't think about that when I'm at Subway and
Speaker 4: I'm buying a three foot turo or whatever it is
Speaker 4: that we get sometimes pretty Oh, that's plenty of chio.
Speaker 1: That's really good. Breaking news.
Speaker 4: The House has passed the blueprint for President Trump's tax
Speaker 4: and spending cuts after opposition from hard right Republicans.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from the New York Times and he, you know,
Speaker 1: hard right goodness for the hard right Republican.
Speaker 4: Opposition from hard right Republicans threatened to tank it and
Speaker 4: wanted warned that it would add too much to the
Speaker 4: nation's debt. Chip Roy and that crowd who are just
Speaker 4: saying the math doesn't work. I mean, I'm all for
Speaker 4: tax cuts, love it, but where are spending cuts?
Speaker 1: Right? But as usual, spending cuts will not happen. Without them,
Speaker 1: we would be careening toward the cliff even faster. Thank
Speaker 1: goodness for Chip Roy. Pray for his health. What happens
Speaker 1: if Chip has a heart attack and goes away.
Speaker 4: So this story in the New York Times got my
Speaker 4: attention and I read the whole thing, and there's a
Speaker 4: lot of interesting stuff in it. The pandemic is not
Speaker 4: the only reason US students are losing ground for the
Speaker 4: country's lowest scoring students. Things have really gone off a
Speaker 4: cliff since twenty thirteen. And they used the bottom quintile,
Speaker 4: broke it down into fifths, and actually it looks like
Speaker 4: both the bottom quintile and the second to the bottom,
Speaker 4: so i'd be two quintiles, which would add up to
Speaker 4: forty percent, are both going down quite a bit in
Speaker 4: terms of reading and math for eighth graders and fourth graders,
Speaker 4: and they're trying to figure out why that is. The
Speaker 4: reason is not just the pandemic, although obviously that didn't
Speaker 4: help anything, because yeah, but probably a lot of socioeconomic
Speaker 4: things that factor in with that lower performing student crowd
Speaker 4: that the pandemic really did not help.
Speaker 1: No. Being honest, I have I have a couple of
Speaker 1: suggestions of what's behind this, but i'll i'll hold off.
Speaker 4: For the least the last decade. Starting around twenty thirteen,
Speaker 4: students in the bottom quartile have been losing ground on
Speaker 4: the National Assessment Tests. It's made up of students from
Speaker 4: various backgrounds, but includes a higher proportion of students with disabilities.
Speaker 4: Students learning English. You know, well, if you could be
Speaker 4: hard as you want, but if you don't speak the
Speaker 4: language the teachers speaking and don't read the language, they're
Speaker 4: ending you the.
Speaker 1: Test in.
Speaker 4: Dot dot dot nuff said. Uh, and children from poor families.
Speaker 4: Whatever happening to the lower performers is still happening, and
Speaker 4: we've got to figure this out, said the American Enterprise
Speaker 4: Institute of right leaning think tank. Of course, they don't
Speaker 4: label think tanks. All the other think tanks is left leaning.
Speaker 4: They're just regular think tanks. But anyway, that's it. But
Speaker 4: I like this when you brought this up the other day.
Speaker 4: Researchers point to a number of educational and societal changes
Speaker 4: over the past decade, including well, retrenchment and school accountability.
Speaker 1: How do you take that? What? What? What's retrenchment and
Speaker 1: school accountability. They're saying that schools are less accountable for
Speaker 1: their results. Well, all right, I can't stand it anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw mine out there, and then you can
Speaker 1: go back to your your analysis from the old Gray Lady.
Speaker 1: Number one, rampant immigration. Obviously we've covered that. Secondly, the teachers'
Speaker 1: unions who have demanded less accountability and who have joined
Speaker 1: hand in glove with the progressive er education establishment in
Speaker 1: introducing the woke crap not only the genderbred person in
Speaker 1: the rainbow boy or whatever the hell else, teaching the
Speaker 1: kids about radical gender theory, but also undermining all of
Speaker 1: the values that tend to make you a good student.
Speaker 1: How many times have you heard showing up on time
Speaker 1: and trying hard is white supremacy? Handing in assignments on time,
Speaker 1: or thinking logically, is that's racism? That's white supremacy. You
Speaker 1: send that message year after year after year after year
Speaker 1: to kids, you gotta get better students or worse ones, ladies.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, I don't know if these numbers
Speaker 4: are big enough to make a difference. But we all
Speaker 4: know the number of kids that are homeschooled or been
Speaker 4: moved to private schools has exploded. Oh true, and so
Speaker 4: most of those kids were probably above average performing and
Speaker 4: sort of just.
Speaker 1: Live in families that value education.
Speaker 4: So just statistically, if you took those kids out of
Speaker 4: the public school, that's going to give you a bigger
Speaker 4: chunk of lower performing as a percentage, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just right.
Speaker 1: That's just that's its.
Speaker 4: Math, even if you are if nothing has changed, just
Speaker 4: moving all those kids out of the school the public
Speaker 4: school system. But I thought this was good because you
Speaker 4: brought this up the other day, worsening cognitive abilities because
Speaker 4: of smartphones, which has happened even among adults. And it
Speaker 4: links to the story you talked about the other day
Speaker 4: on how we may have reached peak brain power a
Speaker 4: few years back, that our cognitive abilities are just getting worse,
Speaker 4: dispit and that they think that that's a chunk of
Speaker 4: it for kids also, which I don't doubt.
Speaker 1: And I thought about that. Well.
Speaker 4: I don't say where I was, but I was someplace
Speaker 4: where I was watching kids just glue to their smartphones
Speaker 4: and iPads in a situation where you could have been
Speaker 4: interacting with you could have been doing something else, but
Speaker 4: the parents were busy doing their own thing. Certain socioeconomic crowd,
Speaker 4: their kids are going to spend way more time staring
Speaker 4: in an iPad or iPhone or a phone than than
Speaker 4: other kids are. And so you're gonna have worsening cognitive abilities.
Speaker 4: More I look at my phone, the worse my brain works.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact, right. Yeah. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you can do about that. Is there more to this analysis,
Speaker 1: Candy doesn't need to be that's up to you. This
Speaker 1: was going to say, in spite of my public school
Speaker 1: analysis or education, rather, I'm able to read. So I
Speaker 1: would like to read this email from Ray that we received.
Speaker 1: You guys need to quit pretending to be a conservative
Speaker 1: show because you're not. You're probably paid by George Soros
Speaker 1: or the Chinese. I will not listen to your show again. Actually,
Speaker 1: we're paid by both George Soros and the Chinese. It's
Speaker 1: like a timeshare. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We do the
Speaker 1: bidding of George Soros. Tuesdays and Thursdays. The communist Chinese
Speaker 1: have us. Then he says, it's obvious you're trying to
Speaker 1: emulate another very popular radio show, but you're failing. One
Speaker 1: is that I have no idea. I can't imagine. And
Speaker 1: do you know what topic this was? Uh no, he
Speaker 1: doesn't say. It's the usual blast of indignance without explanation
Speaker 1: or whatever. I don't. I don't know. Ray feel fun Well,
Speaker 1: I could write back to him, I suppose, just out
Speaker 1: of curiosity. But I will get to this chunk an
Speaker 1: odd email descent.
Speaker 4: I will get to this chunk from the New York
Speaker 4: Times way further down because this is a very long article,
Speaker 4: and it's something that a long article is wanted needed.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a bad thing. It's a heartbreaking. It
Speaker 1: might be the most important issue in America. It's heartbreaking
Speaker 1: you got that many kids that you got no shot.
Speaker 4: At making a go of it in a world with
Speaker 4: AI coming and anyway, the United States since the early
Speaker 4: twenty tens has taken in more immigrants.
Speaker 1: Says The New York Times. I've noticed, we noticed, which
Speaker 1: means more students who don't speak English and knows that
Speaker 1: too have entered public schools.
Speaker 4: Yep, ding these demographic ships. Could ships could explain some
Speaker 4: changes in scores?
Speaker 1: You think so?
Speaker 4: I like the way they act like it's not you
Speaker 4: never hear anybody left of center even come close to
Speaker 4: being honest about the reality of being.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm a fourth grade history teacher.
Speaker 4: I walk into class the first day, I got thirty students,
Speaker 4: and six of them don't speak.
Speaker 1: A word of English. That could explain some of the
Speaker 1: change in your ability to teach? Oh, could it? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Fred and Alice? How does that always completely left out
Speaker 1: of any conversation, like what is supposed to happen right
Speaker 1: there in that situation? That is a blanking dishonest That's
Speaker 1: why it's left down.
Speaker 4: I think it's because they feel like it'd be hurtful
Speaker 4: to point out how difficult that is and it and
Speaker 4: and any any remedy you have for that situation.
Speaker 1: And I know what some of them are. I've seen
Speaker 1: them with my own eyes.
Speaker 4: Really nice guy, one of the best nicest people I've
Speaker 4: ever met in my life. Teacher both my kids had.
Speaker 4: But he would stand up there with his his phone
Speaker 4: and his Google translation, and he would do everything twice.
Speaker 4: Now and if you spoke English, you had to hear
Speaker 4: it twice once in another language. You speak the other
Speaker 4: language you hear you just slow but slows everything down.
Speaker 4: What else is he supposed to do?
Speaker 1: You just gave him a classroom with you know, a
Speaker 1: percentage of kids that don't speak English. What are you
Speaker 1: supposed to do?
Speaker 4: And then when you have scores going down or whatever
Speaker 4: your problems are, you completely ignore that, like it's like
Speaker 4: it's a minor point. You throw it in a paragraph later.
Speaker 4: We've had more immigration in the United States in the
Speaker 4: last ten years.
Speaker 1: Don't know if you noticed people who might not who
Speaker 1: don't speak English, which might have an effect. You know,
Speaker 1: I've said this a million times. I appreciate the poets
Speaker 1: and songwriters and soft hearted people of the world. I
Speaker 1: really do. They help make the world go round. But
Speaker 1: I don't want them in charge if you cannot look
Speaker 1: at the situation we're describing non English speaking kids in
Speaker 1: American schools and recognize the difficulty of that, both for
Speaker 1: the kids and the teachers and the schools and the parents,
Speaker 1: and not speak honestly about it because you're afraid somebody's
Speaker 1: feelings might be hurt. I don't want you in charge
Speaker 1: of anything, but you're not an adult.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the answer is, but ignoring the
Speaker 4: question doesn't work. Somebody should at least raise their hand
Speaker 4: for this point of view. And I don't know if
Speaker 4: America would go forward or not. How about we say,
Speaker 4: if you can't speak English or read English, you can't
Speaker 4: go to school here. That's one option. Maybe you think
Speaker 4: that's too hard hearted, but that's one option.
Speaker 1: Charge at least talk about it.
Speaker 4: At least it's a solution, because just putting them in
Speaker 4: the classroom is not a solution for anyone.
Speaker 1: Now, you could also say, okay, I'll go away. The
Speaker 1: other direction.
Speaker 4: We need to raise taxes x percent, and it's going
Speaker 4: to be a pretty big chunk chunk to come up
Speaker 4: with teachers that speak Spanish, Punjabi, you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 4: So we can educate all these kids to the level
Speaker 4: that we do other kids.
Speaker 1: That's one option. It's probably somewhere in between those two
Speaker 1: things that I mentioned, but nobody even discusses it.
Speaker 4: I don't understand how more teachers don't just pull their
Speaker 4: hair out or quit on day one or have a march.
Speaker 4: I guess because they'd feel like they were racists.
Speaker 1: Say what am I supposed to do with this? I
Speaker 1: got called racist by their progressive overlords. Exactly. I got
Speaker 1: six kids who don't speak English, and they don't even
Speaker 1: speak the same language. So it's not even like I
Speaker 1: have to learn one language, it's multiple languages. Yeah, Do
Speaker 1: we have to open international academies in every town where
Speaker 1: they have multi lingual teachers who divide up the kids
Speaker 1: by the tongue they speak. I don't know, but you
Speaker 1: know it's I hate to sound like a guess, victim
Speaker 1: of Stockholm syndromeer a battered spouse or something. But the
Speaker 1: fact that, like The New York Times, is at least admitting, Hey,
Speaker 1: our government schools are miserably ineffective and the kids aren't learning.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's at least slightly encouraging the fact that
Speaker 1: they still aren't they are so delusional or lacking in
Speaker 1: spine or adult character that they can't say Yes. An
Speaker 1: enormous influx of non English speakers is tough on schools.
Speaker 1: I mean, for God's sakes, that's not asking much for
Speaker 1: them to say that. The fact that they can't say
Speaker 1: that yet, I fear for the state of the nation
Speaker 1: if our schools continue to be the source of the infection.
Speaker 1: He I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the right outcome is, but you
Speaker 4: could never get to the right outcome if you're not
Speaker 4: willing to be honest about what the polls.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, oh, I'm so sorry. Our Chinese overlord's just
Speaker 1: texted we need to take a break that Thursday. The
Speaker 1: Chinese are in charge. Ray, we need to take it right.
Speaker 4: And I'm supposed to give George Soros a foot rub
Speaker 4: during the commercials stay here.
Speaker 1: Dotcha Chi side puts it up at a forty five
Speaker 1: for doc and chis now sixteen or twenty eight from
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 4: Well, look at Doncik who got traded out of nowhere
Speaker 4: from Dallas where he had made his home and become
Speaker 4: a giant part of the community and started a big
Speaker 4: charity and just loved it there and was a fan favorite,
Speaker 4: beloved by the fans. He loved them, they loved him.
Speaker 4: Everything like that got traded in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4: No idea, why, no discussion. Wasn't just out of nowhere. Anyway,
Speaker 4: playing for the Lakers last night, played back in Dallas,
Speaker 4: scored forty five points and then got all teary eyed
Speaker 4: and actually quiver lipped. I saw that at one point,
Speaker 4: greeting the fans at the end of the game because
Speaker 4: he loved it.
Speaker 1: There so much.
Speaker 4: You know, that's a problem with professional sports is even
Speaker 4: if like one of your players really likes the community
Speaker 4: and wants to be there and help you, you know,
Speaker 4: build schools and all.
Speaker 1: That sort of stuf. Yeah, that's not the way the
Speaker 1: business works. Nope, it's rough. Yeah, pays pretty well, does
Speaker 1: pay pretty well. Anyway. The Lakers are a three seed
Speaker 1: in the playoffs start next week, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. I'm rooting for him to do well.
Speaker 1: The Dallas GM is hated by the Maverick Chans. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all night long. They wanted a chance for him to
Speaker 1: be fired. That's rough. Wow, does anybody still know why
Speaker 1: he did that? No? I don't want to get two
Speaker 1: sports because we don't do a sports talk show. But
Speaker 1: when that trade was announced, I was playing golf with
Speaker 1: a professional sports writer who is so astounded. He was
Speaker 1: texting all of his friends and nobody had an explanation.
Speaker 1: And I still haven't heard it. It's one of the
Speaker 1: weirdest things in professional sports history. Speaking of sports, not really,
Speaker 1: but of a sports guy, Stephen A. Smith, which might be.
Speaker 4: The most famous voice in all of sports right now,
Speaker 4: ESPN or whatever, has been for quite a while. He
Speaker 4: has really strong opinions. He yells about everything, and he
Speaker 4: yells about everything. His wife asks him, Hey, you need
Speaker 4: anything from the grocery store.
Speaker 1: He says, we need more yogurt. Is yell's about him.
Speaker 1: He's considering a twenty twenty eight presidential run.
Speaker 4: He has been approached by Capitol Hill officials and Electric
Speaker 4: leaders who would.
Speaker 1: Like him to run.
Speaker 4: He says his lack of political record would be a
Speaker 4: campaign advantage, and he exploratory committee is looking into it,
Speaker 4: but he'll only run if he believed he had a
Speaker 4: legitimate chance to win, and based on our recent politics,
Speaker 4: I think he has a legitimate chance to certainly make
Speaker 4: some noise.
Speaker 1: I don't know about when I could see Get in
Speaker 1: the nomination. I assume he's gonna run as a Democrat. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the Democratic field looks pretty clear to me. Could he
Speaker 1: turn out a whole bunch of people that don't normally vote? Heck,
Speaker 1: yeah he could. Yeah in a prime market guy, and
Speaker 1: you know, fine, go ahead. I assume he's running as
Speaker 1: a Democrat.
Speaker 4: Or would he didn't say, but I just yeah, based
Speaker 4: on all the opinions he shouts on a regular basis,
Speaker 4: he seems like a Democrat.
Speaker 1: But that'll be exciting. There's another non political person getting involved.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was just listening to a little Gavy
Speaker 1: Knewsome audio off the air from his conversation with Bill
Speaker 1: Maher not long ago when he was on Bill Marshaw
Speaker 1: and Bill hit him with the transgender kids in school
Speaker 1: thing and Gavey's answer was terrible. It was indefensible, And
Speaker 1: we're working on that audio for you. But so yeah, again, run, Gavin,
Speaker 1: please run. I would be more amused than I have
Speaker 1: been since the first time I saw Monty Python's flying circus.
Speaker 4: And the New York Times has got a peace out
Speaker 4: today about Kamala Harris saying that it's way more likely
Speaker 4: that she runs for governor in California than ever runs
Speaker 4: for president again, but that one of the things they
Speaker 4: point out in the article in the New York Times
Speaker 4: is that the Wisconsin Democrats told her to stay away
Speaker 4: from Wisconsin leading up to the big judge election last week.
Speaker 4: They thought she'd be a bigger they thought she'd be
Speaker 4: a bigger negative than a positive as the Democratic presidential
Speaker 4: nominey to come to her and try to, you know,
Speaker 4: turn people out.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, we played that professor. Was it?
Speaker 1: Harvard guy? Just yesterday you said the only reason she
Speaker 1: lost was America didn't want a black woman as president. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was his explanation. I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: this for a variety of reasons, but the fact that
Speaker 1: she's going to be the next governor of California and
Speaker 1: I think she will is horrifying to me, just horrifying.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: It's the stuff of nightmares. Yeah, yeah, there's no limit.
Speaker 4: She'll bey Governor. Adam Schiff will be one of the senators.
Speaker 1: I mean, what is that horrifying? So the guy who
Speaker 1: tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaughs pled guilty might go to
Speaker 1: jail for good. As crazy as a nut? Oh really Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that a little bit next time. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize he was completely nuts. Well, I have some
Speaker 1: sympathy for that. He seems to be. He's one brand
Speaker 1: of nuts or another. Whether he's quote unquote completely nuts,
Speaker 1: I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. Got
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Speaker 4: Yeah, my technical, scientific assessment of completely nuts, I'd have
Speaker 4: to hold that out until I've talked to the gentleman.
Speaker 1: You're completely nuts. I love to form check the box exactly,
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