WEBVTT - I'll Take A Liver! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:17.280 Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.240 Well, guys, the White House is doing damage control over 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:32.720 the military group chat scandal, and today the reporter who 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.760 broke the story published all these screenshots from the chat YEP. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.239 The most humiliating part of the group chat is that 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:44.400 some of the text messages were Green who was an Android? Yes, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.760 say what you want. This never would have happened under Biden. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.800 For starters, he didn't know how to text, So I mean. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:57.240 That would never hurt. And we can hear from a 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.480 lot of people. Get a little montage of Republicans who 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.080 are in office who aren't happy with the way this 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.760 thing is played out. How would you be particularly this one. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.280 This is Roger Wicker. If you don't know who that is, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.800 Senator Roger Wicker. He is the chairman of the Armed 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.280 Services Committee, which is a pretty big position, and he's 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.640 a Republican from Mississippi, that is Trump country. And he said, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.120 the information is published recently appears to me to be 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.320 of such a sensitive nature that, based on my knowledge, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.839 I would have wanted it classified. If mistakes were made, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.520 they should be acknowledged. It's hard to look at that 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.800 list that came out yesterday and think that's not classified, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.480 or those aren't war plans as opposed to battle plans, 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.720 or however you're parsing it if you're the Secretary of Defense, right, 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.440 which is only keeping this story alive, which leads to this. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.200 This is Brit Hume. He's their senior political analyst over 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.120 there at Fox. On how to handle a scandal. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.200 There as some fairly well established rules, if you can 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.280 call them that, for how to deal with a situation 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.360 like this, and the first is get the facts out 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.480 as fast as you can and don't be afraid to 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.440 take responsibility. I actually think in the early going the 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.799 administration did pretty well on that score. You know, Mike 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.600 Waltz was the fourth right saying that he took responsibility, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.920 and the president was as well, go on. But then 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.200 the second rule is don't feed the story. So you know, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.200 once you've got you've made your case about what happened 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.760 and you're maybe waiting for the information to service, just 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.480 stop talking about it. But this administration got itself bogged 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.320 down in this debate. About whether there was war plans 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.359 in there or not, whether there was classified information there 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.960 or not. And then you had Telsey Gabbert on Capitol 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.120 Hill Force to say that, well, you know, this is 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.480 the kind of information that was in that conversation that 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.120 should be classified, and so that just kept the story going. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.079 And the Democrats, of course, are having a field day, 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:53.440 and so. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.080 Are the media. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.920 And the other thing they did is they attacked the journalist. Look, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.760 I'm not a particular fan of of Goldberg or of 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.400 his magazine, but he didn't do anything wrong here. He 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.440 got that thing sent to him passively, he didn't do 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.640 anything to get it, and then when he reported on it, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.840 he left out a lot of the details. So then 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.400 they attacked him and said that he wasn't telling the 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.360 truth about it, which just gave him a reason to 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.280 release the details, as he did this morning. So Rule 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.239 one doing okay, Rule two not so much. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.000 I have a number of thoughts on that. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:35.240 Number one addressed to the people who are thinking or writing, emailing, texting, Well, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.400 you guys are part of the problem. If you'd stop 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.640 talking about it, it would go away. That's not true. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.280 It's just factually not true. It's a big story and 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.440 there is some substance to it. And as Jack put 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.160 it earlier in the show, we talked about stuff because 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.000 it's interesting. I mean, it's not one hundred percent cheerleading 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.400 all the time, and this is a really interesting story 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.960 on a number of different levels. And secondly, what brit 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:05.000 Hume said, the the the title to that screen is 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.480 how you make scandals go away so you can do 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:16.240 the important stuff and handling it completely wrong. But Armstrong 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.800 and Getty just don't mention it. That's not going to 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:19.599 do any good. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.039 I thought this was an interesting take from Mark Alpern 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:30.080 in his newsletter today. However, Jeff Goldberg got on that chat. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.320 The impact has been to give the White House a 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.720 full week to do stuff effectively below the radar, as 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.200 distracted democrats in the dominant media focus almost entirely on 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:41.120 the signal stuff. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.360 Oh wait a minute, eleven dimensional chess. Well, I don't 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.320 think it was there feeding this intentionally. Now, I don't know. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.120 They certainly didn't do it originally on purpose. I don't 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.520 believe that at all. But at this point does it 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:04.440 bother them to have it the number one story with 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.920 it probably can't go any further damage is done, and 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.400 then you do other stuff below the radar, whether it's 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.280 you know, doge stuff, or Department of Education or whatever. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.720 Defund NPR, turn the screws on the college's. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.320 Doge stuff. Like you said, Yeah, interesting thought, Grab up 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:24.880 more Venezuelan's and ship them out. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.640 Yeah, judge said no to that. More on that topic later, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.040 yet another judge. So, I don't do you want to 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.520 play some clips. I don't want to hijack this. I've 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.600 got a couple other takes that I found interesting. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:38.640 No go ahead. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.200 I mean, like Miranda Devine, who writes for The New 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:46.360 York Post, really smart, really funny, snarky, very pro Trump headline, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.080 Mike Waltz's Signal Gate blunder is a hard lesson to 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.480 be learned for Trump's winning team. There's no getting around 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.320 the fact that Signal Gate was a blunder in soccer terms. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.919 It was an old goal, totally unnecessary screw up that 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.640 set back the Trump team. But the team is still 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.920 winning and the opposition is still in total disarray and 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.599 fighting among themselves. Let's hope lessons have been learned. And 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.240 then she goes into a fair amount of detail. But 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.920 that's the long short of it. This is a piece 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.920 from townhall dot com. Avoudly conservative, is it? 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.000 Phil? Or Kurt Schlichter, who's. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.240 Always dependable for some good magas stuff, understand that no 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.960 one outside of Washington, DC or Twitter cares about some 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.520 journalists getting mistakenly admitted into a signal thread at all. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.640 The Democrats think they've finally found something they can seek 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.680 their teeth into after two months of unbroken failure and humiliation. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.039 But it's a pretty pathetic morsel. Real people don't care 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:37.720 about it. I think that's true. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.480 What do you think to a large extent it is? 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.719 I think the part of America that pays attention to 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:46.840 news is aware of it. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:48.200 Well, I think they're aware of it. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.760 But do you think most of America's just gotta have 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.239 a scalp? I mean, if Hegsift doesn't go, whor Walls 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.080 doesn't go, they're just not gonna be I know. I 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:55.640 don't think so. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:56.600 No. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.760 I would agree completely, And that's Phil's main point. Actually 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.200 anticipated it beautifully. The issue here is not about operational security. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.280 Our enemies want to pretend it is because they can 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.680 think they can use that to hurt the Trump administration 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.120 and strip out one or more of his close advisors. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.679 That's one hundred percent trough. They want a trophied amount 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.360 on their wall, and they're demanding firings and resignations. I 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.960 demand the pound, Sand and you should too. We're done 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.560 playing the two tier system of accountability where Democrats do 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.880 whatever they want while Republicans eagerly submit when our enemies 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.760 demand their heads. Nope, not doing that anymore. The two 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.840 tier system accountability is done. The way you make sure 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.520 it's done for good is you don't play along with it. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:36.640 That's a good one. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.240 Yeah, screw with us, you get screwed with back. They're 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.480 bad actors and they don't get to win. I would 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.160 agree completely, and I've never called for anybody's head. I 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.000 think Mike Wilis is a good, decent and very smart 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.880 guy who has nothing but America's best interests at heart. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.360 And all they have to say is, yeah, we screwed up. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.160 We were investigating how Goldberg got on the thread. We're 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.200 going to increase our communications security, apologize for the mistake. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.920 It was a great strike against some evildoers. Let's get 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.600 on with protecting this great country. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.480 We're done well to the double standard of being held 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.640 accountable for various things. This from the Babylon Bee who 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.880 often really gets it to the truth through humor. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.520 What a crazy approach, It'll never work. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.320 Hag Zeth kicking himself for not just getting thirteen soldiers 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.200 killed and giving eighty billion dollars in weapons to terrorists. Yeah, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.800 for instance as a scandal where sec death didn't get fired. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.520 Yeah, no, kidding in the mainstream media wasn't in quite 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.720 the feeding frenzy they are right now, It's absolutely true, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.400 And so I get it when people are frustrated that 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.200 we're talking about what a screw up it is, because 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.480 they feel like, you know, of course we are screaming 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.520 about the Afghanistan stuff too at the time. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.080 Now it's we want to win. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.079 We want the good stuff to happen, and for our 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.480 side or the Republicans or Trump or whatever not to 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:55.160 screw it up. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.360 Anyway, We've got a good flip side. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.800 I'm told, Oh, Mark Meadows, bring in the heat and 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.320 clip number forty four, Michael. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.640 The Democrats are in no position to lecture anybody on 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.120 national security. It's not just about the southern border though, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.600 when you look at what they've allowed to happen and 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.760 to be complicit in it. They're in no position to 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.880 lecture President Trump, Secretary Hegsaff or anyone else that was 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.240 involved in this particular successful mission. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:30.360 Yeah, I would agree. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:36.319 I think Trump is just temperamentally completely unable to admit 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.520 a mistake and move on. He's on attack, attack, attack 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.760 mode always, whether he's accused of, you know, touching somebody 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:50.880 in a department store or whatever. I just I don't 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.760 think it's productive here unless it's the smokescreen thing that 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:54.480 you're bringing up. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.000 I don't know. 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In a seven to 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.240 two decision, the High Court upholding the Biden administration policy 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.120 the such guns can be regulated by the federal government. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.120 The regulations for some companies that manufacture gun part kits 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.280 to place serial numbers on their products and to require 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.800 background checks on customers trying to purchase them. It also 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.080 mandates that people buying such kits be at least eighteen 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.920 years of age. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.360 Yeah, Supreme Court ruling seven to the out of control 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:00.240 maga illegitimate court going with the gun rights or the 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:01.640 anti gun advocates. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.199 I think you know all you need to know about 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.520 the West when or the left rather, I'm sorry, I'm 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.920 trying to read and talk at the same time about 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.160 the left when they howled and gnashed their teeth about 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.000 how Trump was tearing down the institutions of our country. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.600 As Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate the Democrats, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.240 was screaming that the Supreme Court court was out of 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.120 control and Kavanaugh would reap the whirlwind in the rest 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:31.760 when they are perhaps the smartest, most decent, reasonable, constitutionally 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.439 loyal Supreme Court we've had, maybe ever. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:36.839 That's all you need to. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.440 Know coming up? Are you boomer asking your friends? 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.520 They resent you for it and wish you would stop, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.400 and you don't even know you're doing it? What is 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.920 boomer asking? I guarantee I don't know I'm doing it. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.040 So has nothing to do with being a boomer, by 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.800 the way, it has to do with boomerrangs. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.840 So I was just reading the Wall Street Journal's version 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.920 of the so called peace talks between Ukraine in Russia 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.400 and their breakdown leads me to believe that there ain't 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.760 really hardly anything there at all. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.920 You know, it's funny. I had the same take. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.920 It's like when I would go over, you know, fairly 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.720 thoroughly the analysis of the two state solution and the 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.080 talks between Israel and Hamas and all, and I would say, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.200 this math does not work. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.320 There is no solution here. One dale exactly the same, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.320 one paragraph. Quite a weighs down in the story in 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.040 the Wall Street Journal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.400 the difficulty yesterday, saying that the talks over a ceasefire 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.880 are still exploratory and that the US wasn't able to 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:43.000 fulfill Russia's demands. Okay, so then we're nowhere. Sounds like 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.520 the meat. No, no, we're uh. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.840 It's a meeting of people who are pretending to be 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.440 serious about negotiating. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.280 That's how I would describe it. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:59.920 I think Ukraine is serious, given certain pretty reasonable param 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.440 meters in my mind, and putin says of those parameters, no, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.720 not for a second. So there's the math doesn't work. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.400 There will not be a solution. There hit you with 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:09.000 this real quick. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.000 The US economy expanded at a healthy according to ABC News, 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.200 a healthy two point four percent pace during the last 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.080 three months of twenty twenty four, supported by a year 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.640 insurgent consumer spending. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.040 So there you go. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.480 I was hoping to do a little kids these days. Bengo, bango, bongo. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.120 I don't think we really have time, but uh, interesting 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.680 coverage on espionage, betrayal, and water guns inside the game 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:38.360 driving high schoolers mad Jack Senior Assassin. It's become a 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.480 rite of passage for students across the country and a 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.440 headache for almost everyone else. It's a game where and 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.480 there is an app now where you have a team 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.640 of people and you target another individual and you quote 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.720 unquote assassinate them with a water pistol. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.640 I've heard only speaking, I've heard of this happening, and it's. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.040 Become such a craze and a major headache for school administrators. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.480 And one kid got shot. The shop saw him lurking 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.680 outside the house with a water pistol and thought it 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.520 was a gun. The kid got shot in the armies. Okay, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.880 but that could have been tragic. Confiously, oh no, this 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.880 sounds like pretty normal. Run of the mill could have 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.600 been in the fifties. Hijinks to me, you decide. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.640 You're gonna were their apps in the fifties. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.840 No, no, I'm not worried about this one. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.400 Yeah, yeah, it's disruptive. And how about the fact that 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.160 the kids you're not teaching the kids to read? You know, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:38.960 among my concerns, that outranks wearing goggles or swim floaties, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:43.800 because sometimes if you're wearing goggles or swim floaties, that 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.800 gives you protection against being shot with the water pistol. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:47.880 You're not dead. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.240 But sometimes the administrators of the app turn off those 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.120 protections to liven things up. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.320 And get the action gun. That's pretty funny. It actually 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.400 sounds like a lot of fun. But I don't approve. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.080 I don't approve. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:07.880 Disabilities allowances the best of intentions. The Americans with Disabilities 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.840 Act nineteen ninety required schools to offer examinations quote in 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.399 a place and manner accessible to persons with disabilities, or 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:19.000 offer alternative accessible arrangements for such individuals, which can mean 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.400 more time to take exams than other students. You can 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.880 use reference sheets, sit outside the classroom to avoid distraction, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.479 among other things, and truly disabled students need that support 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.680 to help them succeed, but where there is an allowance, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:40.000 it will be abused. Twenty nineteen journal investigation revealed that 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.520 many wealthy parents pay thousands of dollars for their children 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.800 to be tested for learning disabilities by private psychologists who 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.840 have an incentive to give the diagnosis their clients want 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:55.399 and do it. Your rich high schools have one and 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.280 a half to two times the rate of disabilities than 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:00.440 your poor high schools. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.680 Your kids got add or whatever the heck they diagnose 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.360 them with, and they got to get to take their 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.120 test in the hallway away from everybody, or at home, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.040 or with an extra hour. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.479 So they can get into Yale. Yep, so armstrong and 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.720 getty say Taplines like this that make me want to 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:20.520 get out of the business. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.600 Coffee from office machines could be a health hazard. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.840 Just be that desperate for clicks. Let's just put a 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:28.639 boob up there. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:34.800 It's just they come in pairs generally. Yeah, so, uh yeah, 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.119 I would agree. I ran into a heart break the 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.879 last during the last segment talking about the how the 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.679 accommodations for disabilities has become away for rich. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:45.639 People to cheat in school. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.200 That's certainly not to detract from the actual need of 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.560 folks with disabilities, but at public high schools in wealthy areas, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.320 the percentage of students with access to accommodations is about 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.679 four point two percent compared to two point eight nationally. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.120 So that's another you know, what is it fifty percent? 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:08.359 But those stats obscure the worst examples. The rate was 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.919 one in five twenty percent at Scarsdale High School in 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:17.360 New York, the famous one in four at Weston High 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:21.720 School in Connecticut, and one in three at Newton North 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.199 High School in Massachusetts. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.840 Well, you got two things going. The thing you already 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:34.440 mentioned that rich parents, you know, perhaps doctor shopping until 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.119 they find one that diagnoses their kid with something so 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:38.320 that they can get special treatment. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:39.120 There's that, right. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.359 There's also, as we've talked about a gazillion times, is 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.760 there just way more kids that got more problems than 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:45.600 used to exist. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:46.600 And nobody knows. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:51.040 Why, cell phones, plastics, whatever the hell the deal is. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.639 And if you can if you got a kid with 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.960 problems and you can get them, if you can afford 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.480 a doctor, you're more likely to get a well, you're 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:00.680 only going to a diagnosis. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.200 As suppose if you can't afford a doctor. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.840 Final note on this tenth grader at a private high 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.440 school in Massachusetts, the Northeast. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.119 If you've never spend any time in the. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.080 Northeast or no Northeastern nurse, you don't understand how obsessed 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.800 everybody is with getting their kid in the right school, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:15.240 from kindergarten through. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.080 I read this at grad school. I read that stuff 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.400 in the New York Times all the time. I think, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.560 what a weird world you live in where you think 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:21.560 about this all the time. 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:22.720 So here's a. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.879 Tenth grader at a private high school in Massachusetts who 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.000 requested anonymity, estimates that the percentage at her school who 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.960 get these accommodations is closer to half. In a math 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.760 class with nine students, she's the only one who doesn't 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.320 receive extra time on tests. When the period is up, 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.720 she's called by name to hand in her exam. The 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.240 other students keep working. How's that even possible? 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:42.000 She asks one. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.919 Can you imagine being a teacher. I know my kid's class, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.000 and my kid has had some special accommodations with various 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.479 things when he was in public school. Can you imagine 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.320 being a teacher and dealing with that? I mean, how 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.720