Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty sow this
Speaker 3: Epstein story. Is it finally over?
Speaker 4: It might be finally over for for any reporting of
Speaker 4: mainstream news.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 5: The hardcore conspiracy theorists are are fired up by the
Speaker 5: latest moves, so they're not done.
Speaker 2: And it's driven a lot by the q Andon crowd.
Speaker 4: The two things being there are a whole bunch of politicians,
Speaker 4: the Obama's, the Clinton's, Hollywood stars who are involved in
Speaker 4: child sex trafficking, and that there are hundreds of thousands
Speaker 4: of kids that are being child sex traffic with the
Speaker 4: help of big powerful people, and it's being all tied
Speaker 4: to Jeffrey Epstein. It's being covered up. And then you
Speaker 4: got all the remember the Panda eyes thing. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just there's lots of well and it.
Speaker 5: Used to be Democrats. Democrats are doing all this well.
Speaker 5: Now it's the Trump administration as well. Based on the
Speaker 5: last announcement.
Speaker 4: I personally know a number of people who were excited
Speaker 4: about Trump getting elected because finally this will come forward.
Speaker 4: All this information will come out about the child sex trafficking,
Speaker 4: and then people are very disappointed that cash Ptel with
Speaker 4: the FBI and Trump and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General
Speaker 4: and others are covering it up or whatever. Anyway, So
Speaker 4: Trump has a cabinet meeting yesterday with all his secretaries
Speaker 4: and starts taking questions and answers questions for damn near
Speaker 4: two hours. Man, Joe Biden didn't answer questions that much
Speaker 4: total in four years of presidency. But somebody asked about Epstein.
Speaker 2: Here it goes your.
Speaker 6: Memo and Relissia James.
Speaker 7: Jeffrey Epstein less leader in this reas.
Speaker 6: One of the biggest ones is whether he ever works
Speaker 6: for an American for foreign intelligence agency. So could you
Speaker 6: resolve whether or not you did? And also can you
Speaker 6: see why there was a minute to scene from jail
Speaker 6: house team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, sir, just interested. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
Speaker 8: This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we
Speaker 8: have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things,
Speaker 8: and are people still talking about this guy that's created
Speaker 8: that is unbelievable? Right?
Speaker 4: So the whole was Jeffrey Epstein involved in one of
Speaker 4: our intelligence services because there's belief that he's tied in
Speaker 4: with the Mascade, and that's the leverage that netan Yahoo
Speaker 4: has over Trump because Epstein blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Here's a little more from Trump in that same press conference.
Speaker 8: Do you want to waste the time and do you
Speaker 8: feel like answered?
Speaker 7: I don't mind answering.
Speaker 8: I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question at
Speaker 8: Epstein at a time like this where we're having some
Speaker 8: of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened
Speaker 8: in Texas.
Speaker 7: It just seems like a desecration.
Speaker 8: But you go ahead.
Speaker 4: To some people that was proof that Trump is on
Speaker 4: the list, the supposed Epstein list, and is now trying
Speaker 4: to cover that up. Yeah, we got a couple of
Speaker 4: emails from folks saying I'm losing confidence with this administration.
Speaker 5: The gas lighting continues, just like under Biden. Here's a
Speaker 5: gal who thinks Netnahuo nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize
Speaker 5: because the Masad and CIA used Epstein, the blackmail politicians,
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. Thousands of children have been children
Speaker 5: been trafficked, and Bongino, Patel and Bondi are obeying orders
Speaker 5: from Trump, and obviously Trump is.
Speaker 2: In on the cover up. According to this emailer, Wow,
Speaker 2: that's quite the conspiracy.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Bondi, Pambondi, the Attorney General, she was asked
Speaker 4: about so, first, you spent a lot of time talking
Speaker 4: about this list and it was on your desk and
Speaker 4: you're going to release it. Then the big announcement over
Speaker 4: the weekend was there is no list anyway, here's Pam
Speaker 4: Bondy sure.
Speaker 1: Sure. First to back up on that, in February, I
Speaker 1: did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a
Speaker 1: lot of attention because I said, I was asked a
Speaker 1: question about the client list, and my response was it's
Speaker 1: sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file
Speaker 1: along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 7: That's what I meant by that.
Speaker 5: Okay, so not the list specifically, it I mean, well,
Speaker 5: it's the imprecise answer to the question.
Speaker 2: It's not out, it's not totally crazy to me. Well,
Speaker 2: let's hear more from her.
Speaker 1: Also, to the tens of thousands of video they turned
Speaker 1: out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: Child porn is what they were never going to be released,
Speaker 1: never going to see the lighted day to him being
Speaker 1: an agent.
Speaker 7: I have no knowledge about that. We can get back
Speaker 7: to you on that.
Speaker 4: I wish she hadn't said that at the end. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's true, they have no knowledge of that, but it's
Speaker 4: not a thing. There's no evidence whatsoever that Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 4: was involved in any high level intelligence agencies would have
Speaker 4: been a bet everything.
Speaker 5: To say I was just reading a piece in Axios
Speaker 5: that was super interesting about this shadowy CIA character who
Speaker 5: was dealing with Lee, Harvey Oswald and other pro castro
Speaker 5: activists way back in the day. Bears no light whatsoever
Speaker 5: on the assassination of Kennedy. But the one thing it
Speaker 5: does make clear is the CIA will do what it wants,
Speaker 5: and it will say whatever it wants in response to questions,
Speaker 5: even from on high. They have throughout their history lied
Speaker 5: like crazy to preserve you know, mission.
Speaker 4: Secrecy, and at every point in our history, probably including now,
Speaker 4: we all think well that was the old base. Now
Speaker 4: they don't do that sort of thing, right, Which is
Speaker 4: not to say we're leaping at some sort of you know,
Speaker 4: a nutty conclusion about Jeffrey Epstein and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: But I understand why people have their suspicions. Well, that
Speaker 4: was interesting. I didn't I don't remember hearing that Jeffrey
Speaker 4: Epsteam had so he had thousands of hours of child porn. Really,
Speaker 4: I didn't know that that was part of his whole deal. Well,
Speaker 4: we did know that it was, you know, under the
Speaker 4: age of eighteen. So if you're calling that child porn,
Speaker 4: I guess, and that's technically accurate. Here's more from Pambondi and.
Speaker 7: The minute missing from the video.
Speaker 1: We released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive,
Speaker 1: but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.
Speaker 7: And what was on that there was a minute that
Speaker 7: was off the counter.
Speaker 1: And what we learned from euron Prisons was every year,
Speaker 1: every night they redo that videos old from like nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine, So every night the video is reset and
Speaker 1: every night should have the same minute missing. So we're
Speaker 1: looking for that video to release that as well, showing
Speaker 1: that a minute is missing every night and that's it.
Speaker 7: Hot.
Speaker 4: So there's a missing minute of footage from overnight of
Speaker 4: the jail cell. She's saying that that's the way the
Speaker 4: camera works because they reset it. That's a bad system,
Speaker 4: or you have a full minute of no cameras every night.
Speaker 5: But well, I'm trying to remember the system from nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety nine, So what would that be some sort of
Speaker 5: you know, limited space hard drive.
Speaker 2: Probably I don't know. Yeah, I mean, like we said yesterday,
Speaker 2: you gotta admit.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty damn convenient that the camera's turned
Speaker 4: off for a minute and then you come back and
Speaker 4: the guy's dead.
Speaker 2: I mean, hell, yes, Well.
Speaker 5: If I were like a fake QAnon type character online,
Speaker 5: I'd be thinking, Man, this is too easy, all this stuff.
Speaker 2: They're giving me so much to work with. It's effortless.
Speaker 4: The problem I always had he had every reason in
Speaker 4: the world to kill himself and like no reason to
Speaker 4: stay alive.
Speaker 5: Right right, I would agree, But Sadie German wrote a
Speaker 5: piece in the Wall Street Journal today that I think
Speaker 5: is pretty fair and they're too aspects to it that
Speaker 5: I thought we're worth mentioning number one. She says Pam
Speaker 5: Bondi's tendency to exaggerate is catching up on her, catching
Speaker 5: up to her. She she tries very hard to be
Speaker 5: exciting and flamboyant and very maga a la Trump but
Speaker 5: Trump has a teflon quality that other people don't get
Speaker 5: away with, and I think Pam is guilty of that probably.
Speaker 5: And they go through a couple of quotes and that
Speaker 5: ridiculous where they had a bunch of influencers show up
Speaker 5: in the White House driveway and and waived files from
Speaker 5: Epstein that turned out to be just like his rolodex,
Speaker 5: which was nothing new.
Speaker 2: There's nothing interesting to that, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: But the other aspect of this that I found interesting,
Speaker 5: just you know, looking at MAGA world, the about face
Speaker 5: on the because she had once uh promised to release
Speaker 5: quote a truckload of documents from the FBI investigation.
Speaker 4: Well, you say that sort of crap, you should pay
Speaker 4: a price for it. I mean, you can't go around
Speaker 4: saying that, right.
Speaker 5: But the about face drew a course of criticism from
Speaker 5: right wing figures, including Glenn Beck, which I found interesting.
Speaker 5: I haven't heard Glenn in ages, but I don't know,
Speaker 5: you know, the nature of what he's talking about these days.
Speaker 5: Benny Johnson, who is and Jack Pisobiak. Laura Lumer asked
Speaker 5: late Monday on X quote, how many more times is
Speaker 5: this woman going to get away with effing everything up
Speaker 5: before she is fired. So MAGA world, at least that
Speaker 5: section of it is turning on Pam BONDI well, part
Speaker 5: of it is the Epstein file has got to be.
Speaker 4: If it's in the top one thousand of priorities of
Speaker 4: things she's thinking about every day, I'd be surprised. Yeah,
Speaker 4: is this is this the whole Epstein case file list
Speaker 4: going to be something I hear about from some people
Speaker 4: for the rest of my life?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Yes, Wow, Okay, Well
Speaker 2: there you go. For what it's worth.
Speaker 5: There has been very little indication lately that Trump listens
Speaker 5: to and responds to that kind of pardon me, but
Speaker 5: whack a doodal wing of Maga. He wants their support,
Speaker 5: soft pedals, that he's gentle with them and all. But
Speaker 5: other than a couple of early appointments during the transition period,
Speaker 5: I haven't seen a lot of evidence that they're really
Speaker 5: yanking his chained the Tucker Carlson influence, for instance, Teyroan Tucker,
Speaker 5: where is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's where Do I see this article I read
Speaker 4: over the weekend about how the mainstreaming of Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: how many mainstream positions he's got right now in terms
Speaker 4: of things that he has done were set.
Speaker 2: That's weird. I heard he was the new Hitler.
Speaker 4: Back to you anyway, that's enough of that. Working on
Speaker 4: getting rid of my RBF. I want to tell you
Speaker 4: how that's coming along and maybe it can work for you.
Speaker 4: I took some suggestions.
Speaker 2: Plus, discipline in schools is making a comeback. That's great news.
Speaker 4: God, I'd say so, it's all the way stay here
Speaker 4: played for me Clip twenty one, Michael. I'm very excited
Speaker 4: about this story.
Speaker 9: The big change at American airports, the TSA saying effective immediately,
Speaker 9: all passengers will be able to keep their shoes on
Speaker 9: through security, something we haven't seen in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 2: But there is a caveat.
Speaker 9: If that scanner alarm goes off for a special screening,
Speaker 9: you will need to take those shoes off.
Speaker 4: What a dumb caveat. So here's what I haven't heard
Speaker 4: anybody ask about this, and this is what I would
Speaker 4: love to know. This is having lived through the pandemic
Speaker 4: and finding out that six feet apart was completely made up.
Speaker 2: Absolutely one percent out of whole cloth made up.
Speaker 4: So this wasn't completely made up because we did have
Speaker 4: that one dude try to set his shoes on off.
Speaker 4: But I'd like to know how long has it not
Speaker 4: been necessary for people to take their shoes off?
Speaker 2: How much good was it doing.
Speaker 4: I'd like somebody to explain that just because we all
Speaker 4: have to live under these various rules that they come
Speaker 4: up with now and then again, as we all learned
Speaker 4: through COVID.
Speaker 2: And sometimes they're just made up and there's nothing to
Speaker 2: back them up.
Speaker 4: I hope somebody comes forward with that. So I'll bet
Speaker 4: some at some point I would be not surprised to hear, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the whole taking your shoes off thing, there's no evidence
Speaker 4: that did any good, it ever stopped the terrorist attack
Speaker 4: or we knew like three years ago or fifteen years
Speaker 4: ago that this wasn't necessary. I would like to know that,
Speaker 4: right right, Yeah, because you know, having lived through six
Speaker 4: feet apart, would it be surprising do you to find
Speaker 4: that out?
Speaker 1: Not me.
Speaker 2: We got a great note.
Speaker 5: By the way from Paolo about how the forced consensus
Speaker 5: in COVID is so much like the forced consensus on
Speaker 5: climate change we're talking about.
Speaker 2: At some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you say I brought up this idea of
Speaker 4: getting read of my RBF or my rmf resting murdery
Speaker 4: face and got a pair amount of responses, not only
Speaker 4: on the text line, but in real life because if
Speaker 4: you have it, you know you have it, and it
Speaker 4: bothers you. You realize that you come off as unapproachable
Speaker 4: or off putting to people in a way that you
Speaker 4: don't want to be, particularly if you're shingle perhaps, And
Speaker 4: so I'm trying to do something about it, and I'd
Speaker 4: read this article about how you can change your resting
Speaker 4: facial expression, but it takes time. It's really like working
Speaker 4: on your posture or your golf swing or the way
Speaker 4: you play guitar, any of those things.
Speaker 2: It's like it's a muscle memory thing. It's just getting
Speaker 2: in the habit of it.
Speaker 4: And you know, like for a long time, I changed
Speaker 4: the way I played guitar way I held my pick
Speaker 4: after twenty five years of holding it the same way,
Speaker 4: and it was really really hard to do for quite
Speaker 4: a while before it became natural and normal. And that's
Speaker 4: the way I do it all the time, because you're
Speaker 4: going against all that in your brain and muscle memory
Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff, and to hold it
Speaker 4: with your between your toes now exactly and you can
Speaker 4: do that with your face, but it takes a lot
Speaker 4: of practice, and as I pointed out yesterday and the
Speaker 4: suggestions from this article, where you got to look in
Speaker 4: the mirror to do this. But I feel like if
Speaker 4: I make a just neutral face, it feels it feels
Speaker 4: to me like I'm mediating hatred. It feels to me
Speaker 4: like I'm smiling like a lunatic. That's what it feels
Speaker 4: like in my brain, in my face to just have
Speaker 4: a neutral face, to try to get my mouth to
Speaker 4: just to turn up my lips just a little bit
Speaker 4: on the corners and not look so angry.
Speaker 2: Turn them up more. Because that face you just made,
Speaker 2: I thought that was the before, not the after. Tell
Speaker 2: out this. Yeah, oh see, I feel like you're plotting
Speaker 2: on me when you look at me like that plotting
Speaker 2: on you, Yeah, like you're up to no good.
Speaker 4: You're right, yeah, But the other face I have is
Speaker 4: like I'm going to hit you in the head with
Speaker 4: a hammer, son shilling.
Speaker 2: It's a step in the right direction either way. I'm
Speaker 2: in a defensive posture.
Speaker 10: But it's weird how it feels in my brain, like
Speaker 10: I am like, you know, people who have this giant hey,
Speaker 10: how you do it look on you. That's what it
Speaker 10: feels like in my head, just to try to get
Speaker 10: to somewhere near neutral.
Speaker 2: Well, that'll change.
Speaker 4: Like you're saying, the interesting aspect of this to me
Speaker 4: is and you kind of said it in the other direction,
Speaker 4: was that your resting facial expression is not one of
Speaker 4: those It is what it is, and there's no changing it.
Speaker 4: You absolutely can change it. Yeah, it's very much like
Speaker 4: your posture. Although, man, was there a great article in
Speaker 4: the New York Times a while back did I talk
Speaker 4: about this on the air, about how much the whole
Speaker 4: posture thing was completely made up. It's like the six
Speaker 4: feet apart or taking your shoes off of the air.
Speaker 2: It was just made up. It's like one etiquette person
Speaker 2: thought it was important to sit up straight.
Speaker 4: And somehow I caught on and became a thing for
Speaker 4: like a century before anybody looked into the fact that
Speaker 4: it doesn't really make any difference at all.
Speaker 2: If you like this, or if you said like that,
Speaker 2: that doesn't have any effect on anything.
Speaker 5: As you know, I prefer to walk along hunched over
Speaker 5: with my arms, swinging feet like an ape and just
Speaker 5: more comfortable with that the whole you know, that that
Speaker 5: whole posture Nazism, the fascism of.
Speaker 2: Standing up straight. I've had enough of it.
Speaker 4: For some reason, I noticed it as I was walking
Speaker 4: through one of the art galleries in New York. I
Speaker 4: had my hands behind my back as I strolled along,
Speaker 4: and my kids said, you look so old right now
Speaker 4: walking with your hands behind your fag.
Speaker 2: I guess it's my art gallery walk. If the orthopedic
Speaker 2: shoe fits huh so. Good news.
Speaker 4: One more idiotic woke policy is starting to be rolled back,
Speaker 4: and that has to do with school discipline. Yeah, talk
Speaker 4: about that, among other fair Hope you can stay tuned
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 11: Betteran women's cyclists or accusing the sports governing body of
Speaker 11: intentionally hiding the fact that a biological male was going
Speaker 11: to be competing at the Road Racing National Championships in
Speaker 11: Wisconsin last week. That transgender cyclist Kate kJ Phillips ultimately
Speaker 11: won that race by passing the other cyclist in the
Speaker 11: final sprint to win by a single second.
Speaker 1: One hundred races against women, thousands against in group rides,
Speaker 1: sprinting against men, and I knew at that sprint that
Speaker 1: that was a man's.
Speaker 2: Sprint, big hulking dude too. Wow, just unbelieved. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: So a woman who has participated in lots of bike
Speaker 4: rides with both men and women, could tell that was
Speaker 4: a dude.
Speaker 2: When you got passed.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, sure of course, because men are bigger
Speaker 5: and stronger, have denser bones, bigger lungs and heartst cetera,
Speaker 5: et cetera, should be competing against men. One more example
Speaker 5: of lunatic, lefty woke policies that are finally being rolled
Speaker 5: back by sanity. And we've got a couple of more,
Speaker 5: and you know that reminds me. Maybe next hour we
Speaker 5: can talk about this, the whole Memdanni trying to pass
Speaker 5: himself off as African American. You know, I've been tempted
Speaker 5: not to even talk about her, to bring it up,
Speaker 5: because I think all of that identity politics is so
Speaker 5: stupid and corrosive. And I'm like, good, you know, Hoysted,
Speaker 5: done your own petart or whatever that expression is. You
Speaker 5: know you're gonna live by that stuff, You're gonna die
Speaker 5: by it.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 5: But the depth of hypocrisy it reveals is I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe worth touching on, but anyway, I want to get
Speaker 5: to this.
Speaker 2: She didn't claim he was black.
Speaker 4: He just he checked the box African American, knowing how
Speaker 4: it would help him.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, taking advantage of how imprecise and silly that
Speaker 2: term is.
Speaker 4: But knowing that the reason it existed was to help
Speaker 4: black Sure. Yeah, yeah, but you know he's he's a scammer.
Speaker 5: Those people again, there are useful idiots who go along
Speaker 5: with some of their doctrines thinking they're doing the right thing,
Speaker 5: but at their core, like DEI, is not about diversity.
Speaker 5: It's about takeover. It's about conquest of institutions. You call
Speaker 5: something racist until you control it. Anyway, school discipline is
Speaker 5: making a comeback. Discipline policy in K through twelve public
Speaker 5: schools rode the progressive tide on race and crime in
Speaker 5: recent years. Right so the editorial board of the journal,
Speaker 5: as the Feds and states pushed therapy over suspensions and expulsions.
Speaker 5: But classroom misbehavior has surged since the COVID lockdowns, and
Speaker 5: some states are responding with changes that will benefit teachers
Speaker 5: and students. Jack, I'm sure you've got plenty of real
Speaker 5: world examples and illustrations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the term restorative justice hasn't come up yet, but
Speaker 4: that's the whole movie that swept the country for I
Speaker 4: don't know how many years, but I ran up against
Speaker 4: it with my kids a couple of different times, and
Speaker 4: I've called it the Golden Age of being a bully,
Speaker 4: which is interesting given the fact that we've had several
Speaker 4: first ladies in a row make bullying their number one cause,
Speaker 4: and there are all these anti bullying PSAs on radio
Speaker 4: that didn't used to exist when there was far less bullying,
Speaker 4: and it all happened at the same time as restorative justice,
Speaker 4: which was allowing bullies to do whatever they wanted because
Speaker 4: you blame the victim and the person who did it
Speaker 4: exactly the same way, and then there's no consequences, right,
Speaker 4: they just both.
Speaker 5: Have feelings to share, We'll share those. Failing reason, then
Speaker 5: no consequences. Well, the Texas legislature and may pass the bill.
Speaker 5: It makes it easier for teachers to remove misbehaving students
Speaker 5: from classrooms and extends the allowable time for in school suspensions.
Speaker 5: Some thirty three hundred Texas School District employees were assaulted
Speaker 5: by students in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: according to the Texas Tribune, thirty three hundred.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: And in many states around the country you don't even
Speaker 5: get in serious trouble for assaulting a teacher. I'll bet
Speaker 5: there was like a century in this country where it
Speaker 5: didn't happen. Maybe more than twice in the whole country.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: Arkansas lawmakers in April passed a law that ensures students
Speaker 5: removed for violent behavior or not return to the same classroom.
Speaker 5: Legislature are also stripped from state law requirement that districts
Speaker 5: use positive behavioral support, which focuses on conflict resolution and
Speaker 5: coping skills to address student misbehavior. I mean, if you
Speaker 5: want to throw some of that stuff in with the punishment,
Speaker 5: I have no problem with that. You got a kid
Speaker 5: with anger problems, or maybe things are going sideways at
Speaker 5: home or whatever, and you want to understand that.
Speaker 2: That's fine, but you cannot remove the sanction.
Speaker 4: No, at some point, regardless of what the reason is,
Speaker 4: that kid can't go to school and beat other kids.
Speaker 5: You just can't let that go, right, exactly, have to
Speaker 5: be lines bright lines. Washington State, for the love of
Speaker 5: all that is progressive. Their superintendent state superintendent finalized rules
Speaker 5: effective this month that loosen restrictions on removing, suspending, or
Speaker 5: expelling students because the restorative justice experiment, like so many
Speaker 5: progressive policies, the best way to discredit them is to
Speaker 5: implement them.
Speaker 2: It's a miserable failure.
Speaker 4: Louisiana and Louisiana Nevada have taken similar actions, and they
Speaker 4: mentioned both those states, the state teachers union supported legislation
Speaker 4: making it easier to remove students. Yes, so their constituents
Speaker 4: being beaten on became even more important than their wild
Speaker 4: progressive pologies. I was about to say, the kids being
Speaker 4: beaten up at school and being afraid to go to
Speaker 4: school and being told that do you you have to
Speaker 4: talk to an adult, talk to adult, do not respond
Speaker 4: talk to an adult, and then the adults do effing nothing.
Speaker 4: I saw this over and over again. That's why I
Speaker 4: taught my kids. He hits you, you punch him right
Speaker 4: in the nose. And then I got yelled at by
Speaker 4: teachers for saying that you don't do anything. You don't
Speaker 4: do anything. The kids have no choice but to fight back.
Speaker 4: The whole go to an adult thing is crap.
Speaker 2: I was given the same advice check.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous anyway. I think when the teachers started getting attacked,
Speaker 4: the power of the teacher union turned into a good
Speaker 4: thing because they were able to say, hey, wait, putting
Speaker 4: up with this anymore.
Speaker 5: Yeah, doing what a teacher's union ought to do, not
Speaker 5: advocating for radical politics like for instance, for the UH.
Speaker 5: It's the United Auto Workers that organize the university campuses
Speaker 5: at least in cal Unicornia and some other states, and
Speaker 5: they've become just radical leftist organizations, and they use the
Speaker 5: power of the union not to get like better wages
Speaker 5: and benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: No, they use the power of the union to enforce
Speaker 2: like radical leftist politics, which is just bizarre. We're on
Speaker 2: that side.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget the look on the face of the
Speaker 4: particular human being when I them. Yeah, I've told my
Speaker 4: kid if somebody punches them, to punch them right in
Speaker 4: the nose. They looked at me like I was insane,
Speaker 4: Like I don't even know how to respond to somebody
Speaker 4: would say something like you're a monster because you don't
Speaker 4: do anything here, you don't do anything well. And the
Speaker 4: kids who aren't blinded by out ideology, they do that
Speaker 4: math quickly It's about the only math they learn in
Speaker 4: public schools that, oh, I'm told not to defend myself.
Speaker 4: The authorities will take care of it. But the authorities
Speaker 4: never take care of the reverse part. The reverse parts
Speaker 4: are the bigger problem.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 4: The kid that's doing the punching figures out very quickly.
Speaker 4: Nobody's gonna do anything about this. I can beat up
Speaker 4: whoever the hell I want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 4: All of this marks is shift away from the progressive
Speaker 4: push for therapeutic or restorative practices. The Obama administration encouraged
Speaker 4: districts it yanked him by the chain of funding to
Speaker 4: emphasize quote positive interventions over student removal. In at twenty
Speaker 4: four guidance letter warning of racial disparities in traditional discipline
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, Biden administration Education Department advocated listening and
Speaker 4: healing and warned that suspensions and expulsions quote often disproportionately
Speaker 4: affects students of color, but soft disciplined policies have victims
Speaker 4: of their own.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 5: One district superintendent wrote in public comment, teachers are getting hit, kicked,
Speaker 5: spit on, custed out the fact that we cannot suspend
Speaker 5: these students and have to wait, in some cases weeks
Speaker 5: until we can bring parents and teammate members together to
Speaker 5: create a solution. Is leaving both teachers and administration with
Speaker 5: a feeling of helplessness.
Speaker 2: And the kids too. For good. Yeah, the kids who
Speaker 2: are not victimized.
Speaker 4: That's what I was going to say. I feel bad
Speaker 4: for the teachers. At least they're adults, so they have
Speaker 4: some way to deal with that. That's happened to all
Speaker 4: the kids on the playground too, Lots of kids who
Speaker 4: are scared to go to school because you allow that
Speaker 4: to happen, You freaking weirdos. You allow these kids to
Speaker 4: be scared to go to school because you have this strange,
Speaker 4: progressive in spite of all of human history knowledge of
Speaker 4: how this whole thing works.
Speaker 2: And so finally we started happening to you. He decided
Speaker 2: to do something about it.
Speaker 4: And I'm glad you mentioned the funding part, because that's
Speaker 4: why so many conservatives are against the Department of Education,
Speaker 4: because yes, they do control your schools locally, and that
Speaker 4: they will yank funding if you don't go along with
Speaker 4: their whack job theories.
Speaker 5: It's worth mentioning you can draw a bright line between
Speaker 5: the obotoma administration's restorative justice practices, and the Florida shooter
Speaker 5: getting away with slaughtering all those kids because he was
Speaker 5: a quote unquote minority and the school district officials were
Speaker 5: terrified of suspending him or punishing him, or especially calling
Speaker 5: the cops because that would become part of the schools
Speaker 5: to jail's pipeline that you may remember progressive folks talked
Speaker 5: about as an excuse not to ever discipline people because
Speaker 5: you put people on the wrong side of quote unquote
Speaker 5: the law, then they become prisoners because of your system racism.
Speaker 5: And that's why that Florida kid got away with so
Speaker 5: much for so long. At least one more note on this.
Speaker 5: I love this from Daniel Buck who's a former teacher.
Speaker 5: He wrote this for the Fordham Institute last year. Getting
Speaker 5: back to your point, Jack about the kids who are
Speaker 5: not victimizers are afraid to go to school. Peers of
Speaker 5: disruptive students are robbed of learning time. Given that high
Speaker 5: poverty schools struggle with the most with disciplinary challenges, keeping
Speaker 5: disruptive students in classrooms only widens the achievement gain.
Speaker 2: No kidding, boy, you gotta have a PhD to figure
Speaker 2: that out.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, folks, come you know, I happen to
Speaker 5: be wearing my armstrong and get he cut the crap
Speaker 5: T shirt. All of this stuff that defies common sense,
Speaker 5: defies all of human history. As Jack pointed out, boys
Speaker 5: playing girls sports, no negative repercussions for negative actions.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is just it's crap. It's garbage.
Speaker 4: It's woke nonsense still on society by professors who have
Speaker 4: no interest in or experience in the real world.
Speaker 2: Cut the crap.
Speaker 5: I didn't even get into my screen, which I'm anxious
Speaker 5: to get to at some point, Jack, partly for your benefit.
Speaker 5: On the death of the public library, Oh yeah, I
Speaker 5: saw that article. That is that is so oh my god.
Speaker 4: Let me just read the headline in the subhead to
Speaker 4: you one comment, then I sweir, I'll shut up.
Speaker 2: The death of the public library. This happens to be
Speaker 2: in the free press.
Speaker 5: Public libraries are in decline, not because of the Internet
Speaker 5: or because people are reading less, but because they have
Speaker 5: become defecto homeless shelters.
Speaker 4: And I when did ransient shelter's junkie shelter. I used
Speaker 4: to go to the Sacramento Public Library downtown all the time.
Speaker 4: How many years ago. Was that that I just stopped
Speaker 4: going And it wasn't. And it's exactly what that headline says.
Speaker 4: It wasn't because the internet or made it easier, different
Speaker 4: thing technology or whatever. No, I like to checking out
Speaker 4: books and CD and stuff like that, because it was
Speaker 4: years ago. That's how long ago it wasn't CDs. It
Speaker 4: became almost shelter.
Speaker 2: It's scary and disgusting to go to the library in
Speaker 2: a lot of places.
Speaker 4: And when I had kids, no way I was taking
Speaker 4: my kids to the public library in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: No freaking way.
Speaker 4: Too many scary people are You certainly can't take your
Speaker 4: five year old to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: There's two dry addics in their washing their feet. Right.
Speaker 5: So here's a question. Why wasn't this a problem twenty
Speaker 5: years ago? Housing prices? No, not housing prices policy are
Speaker 5: as a society willingness to put up with aberate behavior
Speaker 5: in the name of compassion.
Speaker 2: I was at the target last night.
Speaker 4: Took a long time to find somebody with a key
Speaker 4: to unlock the glass so my son could get his
Speaker 4: lego set that he wanted to buy.
Speaker 2: They did, well, that's because of the high price of housing.
Speaker 4: Jack, Yeah, exactly, these weren't locked up when you were little,
Speaker 4: but now they're locked up.
Speaker 2: He was getting one of those adult lego sets like
Speaker 2: a teenager would want. But uh yeah, and people just
Speaker 2: accept that. That's funny. Things didn't used to be locked up,
Speaker 2: now they're locked up. You just ignore that. You just
Speaker 2: accept that, Okay whatever.
Speaker 4: Uh, very very manning. Actually people aren't accepting it, as
Speaker 4: you can see from voting results. A bunch of different
Speaker 4: places amen to that. Stay tuned Armstrong.
Speaker 12: Heyety five years ago, my brother decided to be a vegan,
Speaker 12: and I've spent multiple Thanksgivings with him, and I one
Speaker 12: hundred percent would prefer my next Thanksgiving start with my
Speaker 12: dad walking in and saying.
Speaker 2: I'm a lady now.
Speaker 12: Then I would spending another Thanksgiving where my brother keeps
Speaker 12: asking me, is there butter in this? I'm like, there's
Speaker 12: butter in everything. Fun day was over in my apartment
Speaker 12: and I just sort of threw a granola barb at
Speaker 12: him because he looked like he was starving, and he
Speaker 12: picked it up and he just started reading the label.
Speaker 12: If there was a logo for veganism, it should be someone.
Speaker 2: At your home reading a label under problem.
Speaker 4: Vegans are intolerable. Vegetarians are fine, can be annoying. Vegans
Speaker 4: are in work. Yeah, and especially if you're evangelical, like
Speaker 4: like you're trying to spread it.
Speaker 2: You can't just be that quietly. You have to try
Speaker 2: to convince me right right.
Speaker 5: You know, it occurred to me during the break that
Speaker 5: the first thing we talked about is a perfect example
Speaker 5: of the second thing we talked about, in that insisting
Speaker 5: that teachers not punch students was called white supremacy. You know,
Speaker 5: showing up on time, working hard, not punching your teacher
Speaker 5: is white supremacy culture, and if and thereby they could
Speaker 5: change everything and take over school systems and the rest
Speaker 5: of it by that argument.
Speaker 2: But seriously, if having your teachers.
Speaker 4: Being unpunched is white supremacy, I guess I am one.
Speaker 2: I don't want any.
Speaker 5: Teachers punched anywhere, but they all only make those claims
Speaker 5: that it's racism to put you on your heels. And
Speaker 5: if minority kids are disproportionately disciplined, you got to go
Speaker 5: to root causes.
Speaker 4: And help the kids. Letting them become criminals does not
Speaker 4: help them in any way.
Speaker 2: That is racist.
Speaker 4: Got an update here, I'm looking up at the television.
Speaker 4: Barbie has just unveiled its first Barbie with type one diabetes.
Speaker 4: So Naty, I know you're a little too old for
Speaker 4: barbiees Gabe.
Speaker 2: They're trying to make one that all the kids can
Speaker 2: relate to.
Speaker 4: I think the first Barbie with type one diabetes, all right,
Speaker 4: that's a very odd story. First, the first Gi Joe
Speaker 4: with I don't know, lasoriasis. I see a lot of
Speaker 4: ads for that anxiety problems Gi Joe anxiety. I had something,
Speaker 4: but I decided I'm going to save it for the
Speaker 4: One More Thing podcast because it's so good. Wanted to
Speaker 4: mention this at a text Misshappy yesterday. I have these
Speaker 4: now and then. Maybe I'm not good at forming my texts,
Speaker 4: but I think it's part of the nature of texting.
Speaker 4: Have you ever had like one where like somebody completely
Speaker 4: misinterprets your text because it's very very difficult.
Speaker 2: To pick up tone and text and and uh and
Speaker 2: so that happens now and then.
Speaker 4: But someone I saw yesterday someone once told me you
Speaker 4: should never make absolute decisions over something communicated in a text,
Speaker 4: And I think that is a is a good one.
Speaker 2: If you're ever like, if you ever get a text
Speaker 2: and you're like, Eh, what you know? Explain more?
Speaker 4: Or I don't know how you approach it, but realize
Speaker 4: you may be misinterpreting it. Her they because one word different.
Speaker 2: Can make a huge difference on a text. Again, since
Speaker 2: you don't know the tone at all. The second I
Speaker 2: get that vibe, I pick up the phone and make
Speaker 2: the phone call.
Speaker 4: That's a good idea, right there, Yeah, clear it up
Speaker 4: quickly on the phone. Uh, yes, did you mean to
Speaker 4: when sound as insulting as that was?
Speaker 2: No, not at all. Fact, I was trying to make
Speaker 2: a joke or something. Mmm, all right, that's never happened
Speaker 2: to you never.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it has text from you, as a matter
Speaker 4: of fact, which is why I'm hesitating to comment, trying
Speaker 4: to figure out how to approach it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just bad at it. It's possible. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: I'm bad at it. I don't.
Speaker 5: If I thought you were, I would tell you. So
Speaker 5: We've exchanged tens of thousands of texts through the years,
Speaker 5: so I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's necessarily true. Perhaps when one is
Speaker 5: in a crazed hurry for most of one's day.
Speaker 4: That is what always, almost always is the culprit with
Speaker 4: me is like I'm doing it in my car voice,
Speaker 4: texting or whatever. And then you leave out verbs or
Speaker 4: you know, mitigating terms or stuff like that, it seems
Speaker 4: really harsh. Okay, I'll get it can come off as
Speaker 4: very you know, harsh, when that's not what you meant
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: At one point I'd written my letter of resignation and
Speaker 5: started a taco stand and sales were actually going quite well.
Speaker 2: But then I thought, no, it's a text maybe Avrikna
Speaker 2: what that far? We were already having good sales.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the chicken tacos were selling like crazy, so
Speaker 5: spicy people, Armstrong and Getty