1 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: Jettie and he Arms wrong yet. 4 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: Live from Studio ce Signor, deep within the stinking bowels 5 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 2: of the Armstrong and Giddy Intormation Complex. 6 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: This is the Armstrong and Getty Show Live. 7 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 2: Yes, not best of We're back live this Wednesday for 8 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 2: the twenty third the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. 9 00:00:52,159 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 2: This morning, under the tutelage of temporary general manager Clarity, 10 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: Jack is out at least part of today, so I 11 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 2: get to do one of my theme general managers instead 12 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: of a specific general manager, specific human being. I should say, 13 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: I've been thinking about as I look over a bunch 14 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 2: of different stories and groups of stories that I really 15 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: want to talk about today. And if there is a 16 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 2: theme emerging, it is this, and as usual Donald J 17 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: is more or less at the center of it. But 18 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 2: whether it's Pete Hegseeth at the Defense Department that's getting 19 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: a lot of attention among the chattering classes. The tariff slash, 20 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: trade ups and downs, stock market skyrocketing yesterday after going 21 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: in the toilets the previous day, et cetera, et cetera. 22 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: Getting kind of used to it, aren't we The immigration stuff, 23 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 2: and a couple of different other topics, oh, you know, 24 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: bumps and junkies on the streets, school choice, and in 25 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 2: particular the battle with the major university. Clarity is a 26 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: little hard to find because and we're all used to 27 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: this at this point, you're either screeching twenty four hours 28 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: a day that Trump is Satan. If Satan got together 29 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 2: with a female Hitler and they had an unholy evil baby, 30 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: that's Trump, or Trump is always right in every way, 31 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: even when any reasonable human being would say, whoops, that 32 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 2: was a misstep. He probably shouldn't have done that. Whereas 33 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: the truth is usually in between, and it's much more interesting. 34 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: And so we're gonna try to bring you clarity about 35 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: a handful of different topics, and we'll figure out in 36 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 2: what order in a moment or two, because they're all 37 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: so interesting. Obviously, if you know the show I Joe 38 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: Getti m on a g hod against the neo Marxist 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: woke indoctrination our kids are getting from the time they 40 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: step into pre kindergarten. As it turns out, I've been 41 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 2: saying k through pH D for the longest time. There 42 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: is a story out of Is it a Maryland, I'll look, 43 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. It's one of your blue Eastern states 44 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 2: that have lost their minds, where they are indoctrinating the 45 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: tiny little kids, the pre k kids into the woke 46 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 2: doctrine at age three and four in a preschool. 47 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: I know it's an obscenity. 48 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: Is it is absolutely worth having a g hot against 49 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: this stuff. I came across an author that generally I 50 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 2: like and admire a little bit. 51 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: He's what's his face, It doesn't matter. He's the guy. 52 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: He's always writing about Stoicism. 53 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 2: He's put out like eleven books about the Stoic philosophy 54 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: and stuff, and it's really good, and I like the 55 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: Stoic philosophy. I'm a fan. But this guy had a 56 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 2: piece in I think the New York Times, I think 57 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: piece were he claimed that any claim of Neo Marxism 58 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: in education these days is just the stupid kneed. You're 59 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 2: in a kind of cliche of the right and there's 60 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: nothing to say here. And I thought, oh, my god, brother, 61 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: I'm not sure I can read your stuff anymore. You're blind. 62 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: You have these ideas that dominate education. You're supposed to 63 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 2: be teaching how to add and subtract, and they've got 64 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: the rainbow and the genderbread person and explaining how you 65 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: know people of color aren't allowed to add in America because. 66 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: The slavery are some nonsense. 67 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 2: This guy's trying to claim that this stuff is just 68 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 2: some sort of paranoid dream of the right, and it's 69 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: just very disappointing. Whether he's deliberately blinded or ease of 70 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: that point of view, I don't know. But we're definitely 71 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 2: still at the stage of this battle where we're drawing 72 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: people's attention to the issues at hand, which is fine, 73 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 2: more than willing to do that. But the battle will 74 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 2: be long, and it will be chaotic, and there will 75 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 2: be times that perhaps our side, I'm assuming you're more 76 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: or less on the same side ideologically. If you're not, 77 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 2: that's fine, feel free to drop a note explaining where 78 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 2: we're wrong. But those of us who are on the 79 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: side of a much more traditional read and write, rhythmetsic 80 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 2: education and not indoctrination into neo Marx's garbage, there are 81 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: going to be missteps and courts that say, no, you 82 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 2: can't do that. In that way, because Trump is trying 83 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 2: to do what we're talking about in a very Trumpian way, 84 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 2: suddenly and dramatically and stirring things up and stirn up 85 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: a bunch of dust, and then trying to get a 86 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: settlement within the chaos, which is his negotiating style. 87 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: And there will be. 88 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: Moments where, Hm, that's not gonna work, and probably wasn't 89 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 2: a great idea. 90 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: I mean, for instance, trying to deny Harvard its tax 91 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: exempt status. 92 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 2: You may be shocked by this, but I think that's 93 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 2: a mistake, and we'll get into a little detail about 94 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 2: that later. The reason being just very very briefly, it 95 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 2: grants the executive ranks for presidents specifically think Obama and 96 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: the Tea party organizations. It grants the administration way too 97 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 2: much power to say to the irs, Yes, that group 98 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: and that group and that college, deny their tax exempt status. 99 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 2: There are four oh one C three or five oh 100 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: one C three, whatever it is. This is why I 101 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 2: hire an accountant, deny them their status because they are 102 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 2: not under kingly favor, and the left has abused the 103 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 2: hell out of that. And so I find myself on 104 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 2: the side of Congress needs to do its job and 105 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: limit that sort of abusive executive power because if we 106 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 2: if we permit it on the right, the left is 107 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 2: going to just do it like crazy. And I know 108 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 2: there's a certain point of view that's like, you know, 109 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: they take the low road all the time, and there 110 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 2: are virtually no repercussions. So we're going to take the 111 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 2: low road until we win. I don't think it's time 112 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 2: for that yet. I think we kick Congress and it's 113 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: behind get them to limit executive power in a way 114 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: that it's fair handed for both sides, you know, and 115 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 2: keep appointing reasonable conservative judges, not conservative politically that. 116 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: Always come to an outcome. 117 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: I like conservative as in the understand the three branches 118 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 2: of government and what their jobs are and don't overreach. 119 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: So anyway, that will be one of the topics to 120 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: address today that I hope you'll find interesting. Matt Tayibe 121 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 2: one of my favorite authors, even when I don't just 122 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 2: when I don't agree with him, just because he's he's 123 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 2: able to getting back to the whole Trump delusion syndrome 124 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: or you know, people who believe he's right every single 125 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 2: second of the day. Tayibe will praise Trump lavishly when 126 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: he's right. And he'll say loudly when he thinks he's wrong. 127 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: And his piece recently about the divorce between the federal 128 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 2: bureaucracy and big time colleges is you know, long, long, 129 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: long overdue. And he is absolutely honest in pointing out 130 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: that while some of the things that Trump administration is 131 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 2: doing to try to reign in the colleges might be 132 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 2: a little over certain lines and maybe we need to 133 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: reel it in a little bit, he is absolutely brutal 134 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,839 Speaker 2: and honestly describing how perverse and one sided universities in 135 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: the United States have become. So we'll get to that, 136 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 2: among other things. Anyway, glad you're here, Thank you for 137 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 2: tuning in. Jack will be joining us as possible as 138 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 2: he has got the respiratory butt kicker doujore Just nasty, Katie, 139 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: do you here we go with a little on air 140 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 2: medical diagnosis, one of our specialties. You said, it sounds 141 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 2: kind of similar to what your mom and pop had, right. 142 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:01,599 Speaker 1: Almost to a t. 143 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 3: I mean they were sore throat, a bunch of crap 144 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 3: in their lungs, coughing a lot, and that's basically what 145 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 3: Jack's been talking about. And theirs lasted for weeks. 146 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: Oh that's not good. Ye yeah, was it ever named? 147 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 2: No? 148 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 3: They went from a cute bronchitis to possible pneumonia, back 149 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 3: to bronchitis to upper respiratory infection. 150 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 2: Ah, yes, yeah you are I the all purpose term 151 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 2: for you got some sort of microbe and it's it's 152 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 2: making it hard to breathe. 153 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, and the wheezing and the coughing. Just they're still 154 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 3: coughing a little bit. And it's been over a month. 155 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yeah, I've had a version of that, the 156 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: ol you've felt good for five six weeks weeks and 157 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: you're still coughing. 158 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: Deal. Yeah, and just you know, just a little hint. 159 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 2: And I will certainly not to harass our co hosts 160 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 2: since he's not here to defind himself. Some people on 161 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 2: Earth are hypochondriacs. In the minute they have a sniffle, 162 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 2: they act like they're dying. Some people are much more stoic. 163 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 2: Back to stoicism probably misuse of the term, but anyway, 164 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 2: if perhaps they are the sort who come from a 165 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: family of Iowa farmers, where you show up and do 166 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 2: the work no matter how bad you feel, and you 167 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: don't complain. Blah blah, blah blah blah much. Perhaps you 168 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 2: don't take illnesses seriously enough. I would suggest if you 169 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 2: get this one, you understand people are getting pretty sick 170 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: from it. M M. What's interesting is nobody's even asking 171 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: the question, is it COVID A variant? 172 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: Is it COVID? Which is good? 173 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 2: I guess we'll beyond that until doctor Fauci goes to 174 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 2: work at the Wuhan lab again. Anyway, all right, let's 175 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 2: begin the show officially according to FCC rules and regulations. 176 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: Here we go. The show starts at mark. 177 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 4: I was born in Brooklyn, the same place where Donald Trump's. 178 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: Family comes from. His father and my grandfather were builders 179 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: together in Brooklyn. Yeah, even when he was much younger, 180 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: you knew that he was going to go places. 181 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 2: That's Chuck Schumer singing the praises of Donald J. 182 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: Trump. 183 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 2: That was from The Apprentice in two thousand and six, 184 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: which I don't want to horrify anybody, was nineteen years ago. 185 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, let me, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I 186 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: was never a. 187 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: Great guy at math carry the three good Lord. Two 188 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 2: thousand and six was nineteen years ago. II kamba, Oh 189 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? 190 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: Time? 191 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 2: March is on. Doesn't it all right? Katie has her 192 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 2: headlines coming up. We've got all sorts of good stuff 193 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 2: squeeze in this hour. I hope you can stay with us. 194 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: Hedgehogs are disappearing in the UK Live Team coverage coming 195 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 2: up a little bit later on, among other stories we'll 196 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 2: be covering today. I just saw that that audio. Are 197 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 2: they really well, that's disturbing. I think are hedgehogs? 198 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll talk about it. When we talk 199 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: about it. 200 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what it will leave plenty 201 00:11:59,040 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: of time. 202 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green. 203 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 2: Katie Well, it's just like, I mean, I've become aware 204 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 2: spending time in South Carolina that our medillos, while a 205 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 2: fascinating looking beast, and Texans can certainly relate to this, 206 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 2: are incredibly destructive. They dig up your lawn and then 207 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 2: they dig under your foundation. Oh real stuff, they're they're 208 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 2: oh yeah, they're destructive little bastards. And I just the 209 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 2: hedgehog is a cute little roly poly furry. 210 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: Looking thing, right, yes, but but do the Brits oh 211 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: my gosh. Sorry on a side, so. 212 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: Years ago, when I just moved to northern California. I 213 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 2: was playing golf with Mike. I'm not even sure Mike's 214 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 2: still with us, but a wonderful guy and uh and 215 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 2: I was trying to connect with them. And it was 216 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: the first time we played golf together. And some deer 217 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: kpered by on the very pretty golf course we're playing, 218 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 2: and I said, oh my god, They're so graceful, aren't they? 219 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: And he said, what they're beep beep, rats with hooves. 220 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,839 Speaker 1: They eat all my flowers. I was like, oh, well, 221 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: I didn't work out right, make it graceful, rats with hoofs. 222 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: So I don't know. The Brits think hedgehogs is rats 223 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: with the fur. I don't, well the rats have for 224 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. 225 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 2: Anyway, I don't, all right, Joe, And then he shot 226 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 2: it to you right in front of me, out of 227 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 2: your meanness. 228 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: No he didn't know. I'm sorry, Katie. Back to you. 229 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 3: From MSNBC. Education Department plans to restart debt collections for 230 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,239 Speaker 3: defaulted student loan. 231 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 2: Borrowers, yes, having inexplicably been suspended for years and years 232 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 2: and years because of COVID. 233 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 3: From The New York Times, China has an army of 234 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 3: robots on its side. 235 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: In the tariff war. I actually glanced at that story. 236 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 3: Go ahead, Oh no, it's just they're they're mentioning major 237 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 3: investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence giving them the 238 00:13:58,400 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 3: edge over us. 239 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 240 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 2: I came across a really really interesting throw piece about 241 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 2: how we lost our manufacturing edge, and they talked about 242 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 2: the automotive industry a lot, and I. 243 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: How do I express this briefly? 244 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 2: One of the overarching themes is timing, and nobody talks 245 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 2: about that. 246 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: If you have a. 247 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 2: Gigantic, mature industry fifteen years later or twenty five years later, 248 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 2: upstarts are going to be able to move much more 249 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 2: swiftly and creatively than the giant established conglomerates with labor 250 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 2: agreements with big unions and that sort of thing. Part 251 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 2: of it is just timing. But anyway, back to you. 252 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: More on that later from the Washington Times. 253 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 3: Under Trump, border catch and release has dropped ninety nine 254 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 3: point ninety nine percent. 255 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: From Moortion, Oh whoopsnow no, actually he's so good at 256 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 2: immigration there's nobody to round up. 257 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. 258 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, More on that to come, including really interesting perspective 259 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 2: on what the left was saying when their guys were 260 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 2: in office, completely different. 261 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: Oh, there's a shock from ABC. 262 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 3: According to the FBI, seniors lost four point eight billion 263 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 3: dollars to scammers in twenty twenty four alone. 264 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. 265 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 2: Oh this is such a problem, and this is not 266 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 2: as cold as it sounds. Is the only way to 267 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 2: get beyond this to have folks who are not hip 268 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: to the whole internet scammer. Everybody's trying to steal all 269 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: the time culture of ours when they pass away. That's 270 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 2: the only way we're going to get beyond this. I 271 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 2: don't know, Katie, I don't know if you've ever heard 272 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 2: this story. I was talking to some FBI agent instead 273 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 2: a thing I did years ago, and they're talking about 274 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 2: a woman had been scammed out of like half life 275 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 2: savings by a smooth talking telephone, you know, scammer guy. 276 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 2: This is back when it was mostly on phones, and 277 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: they were investigating it talking to her. She was fully 278 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 2: aware of what had happened to her. They are sitting 279 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 2: in the living room, the phone rang, and after a 280 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 2: while they wandered into the kitchen to see what she 281 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 2: was doing. She was getting scammed again. She was falling 282 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 2: for it again. 283 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so what do you do? I don't know. 284 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 3: From the New York Post, gen Z grads say their 285 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 3: college degrees are a waste of time and money as 286 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 3: AI has infiltrated the workplace. 287 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: A lot of truth to that. 288 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon Bee after the food die ban, 289 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 3: fruity pebbles to be changed to whitey pebbles. 290 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: Whitey pebbles. 291 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the comparing contrast between various popular 292 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: products in the US and in Canada that's banned some 293 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: of these diyes ages Ago, Yes, they look fine. 294 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: Jack always said, Oh, they're just not quite as lurid. 295 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: They look less like tropical fish and more like colors 296 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: that actually occur in nature. I'm not super up on 297 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: the food dye science. It can't be doing us any 298 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 2: good now. All right, so much to talk about, My goodness, 299 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: the list is long. 300 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: Can't wait to get started. Glad you're here. 301 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 2: If you have missed a segment, Grab the podcast Armstrong 302 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:24,719 Speaker 2: and Getty on demand. 303 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. 304 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 5: The UK announced plans to improve its environment and hopes 305 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 5: to restore at least one point two million acres of 306 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 5: wildlife habitat to protect a rare species like hedgehogs and 307 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 5: red squirrels, because if those die out it could mean 308 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 5: the end of the traditional English breakfast. 309 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 2: Wow ends up being a shot at British food, which 310 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: is admittedly yeah, way down, way down the ladder of 311 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 2: world cuisines, towering only above the Scots from what I understand, 312 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 2: not that I'm much of a world traveler. 313 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: So there's your hedgehog story. Not a lot of detail 314 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: to it, Katie. 315 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 2: Perhaps you could dig into the whole vanishing hedgehog crisis 316 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: in Britain. 317 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm all over at excellent. There you go. Live 318 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: team coverage coming up. So a first a scene setter. 319 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 2: This is the practically unwatchable NBC Nightly News, Stephanie. 320 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 4: Gosk more than two hundred educational institutions signing a statement 321 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 4: protesting the Trump administration's efforts to reshape higher education in 322 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 4: the US. The statement calls the government's tactics unprecedented overreach 323 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 4: and political interference. The statements released coming just hours after 324 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 4: Harvard became the first school to sue the federal government 325 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 4: for freezing two point two billion dollars in research funds. 326 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 4: The lawsuit accuses the government of using the funding as 327 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 4: leverage to gain control of academic decision making. 328 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 2: Okay, I just wanted to set the scene a little bit, 329 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 2: and we'll be talking about colleges more specifically later on 330 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 2: in the show, but I wanted to talk about elementary 331 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: education at least a little bit. So here's here's the situation, 332 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 2: and tactics matter because if say I got a kid 333 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: and the next door neighbor kid is bullying my kid, 334 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 2: and I go over to talk it over with the 335 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 2: kid's parents and say it's got to end. But instead 336 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 2: of talking it over, I just go over and punch 337 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 2: the wife and say, how do you like it? 338 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: Okay, my kid was getting bullied. 339 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 2: That's a legitimate problem that needed to be fixed. 340 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 1: But now I'm the bad guy and that bully. 341 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 2: It ain't gonna get fixed because everybody's gonna be fixated 342 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: on what I just did and this, so you. 343 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: Can't do that. Yeah, they're going to focus on the 344 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: wife punching for sure. Yeah, exactly. 345 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 2: I couldn't decide whether I was going to kick the 346 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 2: dog in this scenario or punch the wife. 347 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: I would never raise my hand to a woman. But anyway, 348 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: you get the point. 349 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 2: You gotta be careful because if you overreach, then and 350 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 2: anybody who's familiar with Saul Olenski's rules for radicals knows this. 351 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: They try to make you the bad guy. They try desperately. 352 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: It's called a decision dilemma. 353 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 2: It's when the protester comes up and screams right in 354 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 2: your face through a bullhorn until you can't take it 355 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 2: anymore and you punch them. Then you notice that they've 356 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 2: all got their phones out and are all videoing you. 357 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: In the carefully edited version video of you punching them 358 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 2: makes you into the bad guy, and they win the day. 359 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 2: They're desperate to get you in a position to do that, 360 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 2: so you have to be tactically smart. Anyway, One more 361 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 2: scenes that are before we get into the substance. Up 362 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 2: until very very recently, a lot of America would hear 363 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 2: DEI and they would think, oh, yeah, diversity. I'm in 364 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,719 Speaker 2: favor of that. Equity sounds like equality, and I've been 365 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 2: taught to be in favor of that an inclusion. 366 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: How can I be against inclusion? 367 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: And they had everybody convinced that this neo Marxist philosophy, 368 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 2: which is actually just a tool of takeover of institutions 369 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 2: because if they can pin the original sin of slavery 370 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 2: on you, and you're thinking, I was born one hundred 371 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 2: and twenty five years after it ended. 372 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. 373 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 2: You're still part of the patriarchy, white supremacy culture, blah 374 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 2: blah blah, sixteen nineteen project blah blah blah. So you're like, oh, 375 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 2: I'll do it. 376 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: You tell me to just tell me what you want 377 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: me to do and and stopped calling me a racist. 378 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 2: So a lot of America was in that attitude, and 379 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 2: so they were winning like crazy, to the point that 380 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 2: they've taken over vast swaths of the American education complex. 381 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 2: So that's where this starts. You know, not long ago 382 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 2: when a lot of people, including us, started fighting against this, 383 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 2: and the Trump administration is right now. So the Trump 384 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 2: administration recently sent a letter to states nationwide with the 385 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 2: demand verify that your schools are not engaging in illegal diversity, 386 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 2: equity and inclusion programs or risk your federal funding because 387 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 2: they're racially discriminatory. 388 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: Not to mention neo Marxist, but. 389 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 2: Well, not surprisingly at all, several states have pushed back 390 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 2: like crazy. For instance, New York State, we will not 391 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 2: give in the misleading and damaging myths about diversity, equity, 392 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 2: and inclusion work. Okay, all right, So they've gotten away 393 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 2: with their own absolutely misleading and damaging myth about what 394 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 2: they're doing, but so many people bought it. 395 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: Now they're being called on it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We've 396 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: seen the reality of what you're doing. 397 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 2: You're trying to tear down that the pillars Western civilization. 398 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 2: This isn't about diversity. Well, they're not going to go 399 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 2: down without a fight. So here comes the fight you got. 400 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 2: The General Counsel in Wisconsin's's education department love Wisconsin, but 401 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 2: it's politics like Illinois, my home state, dominated by the 402 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 2: urban areas, lunatic, lefty urban areas that, because of the 403 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 2: numbers involved, you know, in a democracy, dominate the vast 404 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 2: swaths of Wisconsin that are perfectly sane, good, reasonable Midwestern people. 405 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 2: Actually reminds me of California too, for that matter. But anyway, 406 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 2: so the General Council in Wisconsin's Education department said that 407 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 2: letter that the Trump administration sent might be unconstitutionally vague. 408 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 2: New York went back, there are no federal or state 409 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 2: laws prohibiting the principles of DEI. Yes, there are of 410 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: course there are. It's hell, DEI is against everything this 411 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 2: country stands for. But they're clever. They've they've cloaked it. 412 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 2: They've they've they've put lipstick on the pig of that 413 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 2: it is and made it sound like some sort of 414 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: noble undertaking. Anyway, So President Trump's attempt to reshape American 415 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 2: inde has sparked a hell of a pushback from Harvard 416 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 2: talked about that a little bit. Resistance is also emerging 417 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 2: in K through twelve schools, where practices I'm quoting now 418 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 2: I think this is the Wall Street Journal editorial. No, 419 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 2: it's Matt Barnum in the yell Wall Street Journal. Ah, 420 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 2: scrolling back to where I was. Uh sorry, So resistance 421 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 2: is also emerging in K through twelve schools, where practices 422 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 2: have been slow to change, and many Democratic officials are 423 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: challenging Trump's edicts in court. They are going to fight it. Meanwhile, 424 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 2: Republican leaders are cheering Trump's crackdown. For instance, Tom Hornet, 425 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 2: Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, said quote, DEI has no 426 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 2: place in education or society, and I've been working diligently 427 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 2: to get it out of schools. So you've just got 428 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 2: a big battle forming up blue states versus the Education Department, 429 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 2: which maybe we don't distrimantle quite yet, because. 430 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: It's a great way to fight, at least for now. 431 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 2: Linda McMahon staying the job in telloy telling you so, 432 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 2: that is going to be just a battle royale for 433 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: a very long time. Not surprisingly, Cally, Unicornia has a 434 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: state Attorney Generals suing over the cancelation of some of 435 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 2: the spending. LA School System has not shifted its policies 436 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: in response to Trump. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo has said, caught 437 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 2: between California law, which bans discrimination on gender identity. In fact, 438 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 2: as you know, you can't even tell if you're a teacher, 439 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 2: you can't tell a kid's parent. Hey, Johnny says he 440 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 2: wants to be known as Jenny now and is claiming 441 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 2: to be transgender. I think you need to be aware 442 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 2: you're forbidden by Gavin Newsom state tell that. But California 443 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 2: is doubling down too on the DEI stuff. So anyway, 444 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 2: But there are a couple other notes that are more 445 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 2: encouraging in the K through twelve world. For instance, the 446 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 2: Supreme Court heard just yesterday. Oh and guys, I was 447 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 2: so busy. I forgot if we can get as much 448 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 2: audio as possible of the oral arguments before the Supreme 449 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 2: Court yesterday on the Montgomery County Gender Bending Kids case. 450 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 2: That was the big oral argument yesterday. Montgomery County, Maryland 451 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 2: is not letting parents opt their kids out of this 452 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 2: super progressive, radical gender theory education stuff. For instance, imagine 453 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 2: this is Ashley Maguire in the National Review. I'm going 454 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 2: to quote on and off here, but imagine if you're 455 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 2: four year old at preschool was given a book with 456 00:26:55,240 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 2: the intersex flag, drag queens, references to underwear, and this 457 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 2: is part of this is a search and find word list. 458 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 2: Intersex flag is on the word list underwear, leather. 459 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: Xo XO, and drag queen. 460 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 2: This is from a preschool class, and the parents are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. 461 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 2: If you're gonna do this stuff, you've got to let 462 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 2: me know, and you've got to let me opt out. 463 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 2: And this radical Montgomery County, Maryland school district has said no, no, 464 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 2: you're not going to opt out anything. We're not going 465 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 2: to tell you what we're teaching, and you don't have 466 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 2: an option to opt out of it, no matter you're 467 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 2: religious or moral concerns, whether you're a Catholic, a Jew, 468 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 2: you're a Muslim, you're a devouting evangelical Christian, I mean, 469 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 2: and never mind whether it's age appropriate or has any 470 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 2: freakin educational value to begin with this crap. But in 471 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 2: Machmood versus Taylor, which is the name of the case 472 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 2: of that helps, religious parents are asking the highest court 473 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 2: to hold the Maryland School District of policy uns constitutional. 474 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,919 Speaker 2: They argue that the policy violates the parental rights to 475 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 2: educate their children on sensitive matters about human sexuality according 476 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 2: to their faith without interference from the state. They're not 477 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 2: even asking the school district to remove the books from 478 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 2: the classroom or ideological sexual material from instruction, which I 479 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 2: believe they ought to do yesterday. They're merely asking for 480 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 2: the right to be notified and opt their children out, 481 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 2: which is a long standing precedent in our public schools 482 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: with regard to sex education. 483 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: And this stuff is just so radical. 484 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 2: Compared to the you know, testicles, ovaries, you know uterus 485 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 2: stuff that we've all took. But getting back to Ashley's 486 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 2: piece in the National Review, quote, my home County has 487 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 2: bizarrely dug in the book list is part of a 488 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 2: broader initial in the district focused on pre K through 489 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 2: fifth grade titled building Community with LGBTQ plus affirming picture Books. 490 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 2: According to slides from that initiative, which were presented to 491 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 2: teachers and obtained by one new news outlet, teachers have 492 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: been you know what, it's easy to pass by that phrase. 493 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: One news outlet. 494 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: Was able to obtain slides from this district wide initiative 495 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 2: like they had to go under deep cover and sneaking 496 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 2: at night and find the locked file cabinet. Excuse me, 497 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: And because they try to keep this stuff secret, I mean, 498 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: if that isn't a. 499 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: Proof of guilt, has there ever been? 500 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 2: Because you hear this fair amount when you get into 501 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 2: this radical gender bending ideology in schools, you hear a 502 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 2: lot of whether official policy or just teachers saying, you 503 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: don't have to tell your parents about this. In fact, 504 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: don't tell your parents about this. They might not understand it. 505 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 2: So let's keep this between us. A time where it's 506 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 2: ever appropriate for a non parental adult to say to 507 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 2: your kid. 508 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: Hey, let's keep this a secret from your parents. 509 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 2: That is sick and that is what that's the entire 510 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 2: school district's official policy. 511 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: The good news. 512 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 2: The justices of the court, aside from the radical leftists, 513 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 2: seemed very sympathetic to the parental arguments in this yesterday 514 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 2: during the oral arguments, and we will bring you some 515 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 2: of that audio as soon as we can get it 516 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 2: later on in the show. But anyway, this could be 517 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 2: a really landmark case in this topic. I went on 518 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 2: so long about this, we don't have time for this now. 519 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 2: I'll try to get to it later. But Ohio has, 520 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 2: like Arizona and a couple of other states. Texas is 521 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 2: going big on this too, and Florida. Yeah, Florida a 522 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: serious school choice for parents to opt out of their 523 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 2: local government school that is not teaching the kids and 524 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 2: or indoctrinating them into radical ideologies. Ohio is having some 525 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: wonderful success with school choice programs. 526 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: So we'll get to that a little bit later on. 527 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 2: We have mail Bag our freedom loving Quota of the day, 528 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 2: both coming up in seconds, hoping you can stick around. 529 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 2: Coming up next hour, the immigration situation and everyone's favorite 530 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: Maryland father, old kilmar Abrego Garcia the true story behind 531 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 2: his status. 532 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: Does that affect the way you see the situation? Probably not. Anyway, 533 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: we'll talk about that next hour. Here's your freedom loving 534 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: quota of the day from. 535 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: Eric Hoffer, the great American author a couple of his classics, 536 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 2: The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, Really wise guys, 537 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 2: one of Reagan's favorite writers. Anyway, Eric Hoffer wrote the following, 538 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 2: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus, 539 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 2: people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to 540 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 2: find a new content, not only by dedicating themselves to 541 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 2: a holy cause, but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. 542 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 2: A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. Boy, 543 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 2: does that not characterize some of the angry left or 544 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 2: vandalizing Tesla's or torching the dealerships or whatever. Oh, and 545 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 2: I want to talk about that Minnesota guy who the 546 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 2: progressive prosecutor is not going to punish in any way 547 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,959 Speaker 2: for causing rip tens of thousands of dollars of damage. 548 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 2: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. 549 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one, so true. Mailbag. 550 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 2: If you would like to weigh in, correspond, drop us 551 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 2: an Oak mail Bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com 552 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 2: is email address. Mail Bag at Armstrong a getty dot 553 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: Com kind of a hodgepodge today, as we were off 554 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 2: for the last couple of days for various reasons, partly 555 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 2: centered around the fact that various people's kids are on 556 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 2: spring break. Anyway, Mike writing in about the San Jose 557 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 2: Mercury News claiming, quote, criminalizing homelessness won't fix the housing shortage, 558 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 2: or what other people say about the lifestyle isn't criminal, 559 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,719 Speaker 2: and he says we categorize all sorts of lifestyles as 560 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 2: a criminal. Jeffrey Dahmer's lifestyle was definitely criminal. 561 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: Who he hung out with, who he. 562 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 2: Stalked, who he ate, definitely a criminal lifestyle. 563 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: Oh. J. 564 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 2: Simpson's lifestyle was at least one point, at one point 565 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 2: definitely criminal, stalkingsac slashing and butchering her and her companion, 566 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 2: then lying about it as a lifestyle. Gang banger is 567 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 2: definitely living in a criminal lifestyle. Heck, the Sicilian mob 568 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 2: had a class your lifestyle, but it was still very 569 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 2: much a criminal lifestyle. So lounging about, not being constructive, 570 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 2: trashing parks and regions, taking mind altering drugs in public, 571 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 2: and defecating, Yeah, that's a criminal lifestyle. It's funny how 572 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:53,120 Speaker 2: the left pretends that the you know, the kind of 573 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 2: the most obvious part of the bums and junkies that 574 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 2: they're living on the streets is just an unfortunate choice, 575 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 2: and they try to separate it from all the other 576 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 2: things that make it so obnoxious, not to mention that 577 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 2: the fact that there are and have always been laws 578 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,919 Speaker 2: against the post camping in the park for obvious reasons. Yes, 579 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 2: it's a criminal lifestyle. They're breaking laws. That's how you 580 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 2: can tell. Thank you, Mike. This note from John, Let's say, oh, 581 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 2: this is harshly critical of Trump. Trump's policies are socialist. 582 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 2: High tariffs, which are taxes, are now a new easy 583 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,800 Speaker 2: money policy, cutting interest rates, which will further drive up inflation. 584 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 2: We've spent years railing against easy money, but now that 585 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 2: Trump's tariff policy is a disaster, we're suddenly supposed to 586 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 2: love it. And Powell is a major loser. What is 587 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 2: this third grade cheers? Okay, we'll take dissent here. It's fine, guys, 588 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 2: writes Fred. We need a term for transgender extremists, nihilists, 589 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 2: transgender extremists. Trantifa is pretty good, violent radical transgender lunatics. 590 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 2: Trantifa moving along sires C says, I saw a blurb 591 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 2: on TV that RFK Junior is going to hold a 592 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 2: pressor about food dies and additives. So how long before 593 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 2: the leftists who've been shrieking about this for years will 594 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 2: come out and protest their removal and come out in 595 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 2: favor of food dies. It'll be interesting to see if 596 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 2: trump dearrangement syndrome goes that far. 597 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: Oh man, we don't have time for this. It's a great. 598 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,439 Speaker 2: Email about how the child star of yesteryear is now 599 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 2: the child internet star. It's not on a sitcom anymore. 600 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 2: The kid is on some Instagram feed or whatever. Really 601 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,359 Speaker 2: interesting story next hour. Stick around if you can see 602 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 2: Armstrong and. 603 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,280 Speaker 1: Getty Show Armstrong and Getty