1 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Catty arm Strong, and Jetty 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: and he Armstrong and Getty Strong, and so as a 4 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: precursor to what we're about to discuss, I don't think 5 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: you can understand the world really until you understand what 6 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: a weird country we are. In a lot of ways. 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: We have been so safe and prosperous and have such 8 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: a great system and such a great bill of rights 9 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: that we are like by far the most optimistic people 10 00:00:54,680 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: on Earth, and Americans are uncalculating in a way that 11 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: and and this is this is my main point. We 12 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: don't understand that the rest of the world is not 13 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: nearly as care free as we are. I mean we are. 14 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: Let's do a little dance to make a little love, 15 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: get down tonight, you know, make a little money. Everybody's fine, 16 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: everybody's most people are nice, and blah blah blah. The 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: rest of the world is much more grim and calculating. 18 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: And in that spirit, let's take a look inside the 19 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: China Cabin. It's my masquerading as clever name for some 20 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: of those stories about China. 21 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: China, we don't salty another good point and salty, that's right. 22 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: Yes, we brought this up before, but there is a 23 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: congressional report out now and a demand of Harvard University 24 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: that they stop educating the elites of the Chinese Communist 25 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: Party and how to be more effective communists. The elite 26 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: of our universities, including Harvard, are through the Kennedy School 27 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: and other places, educating the well the elite. Again, the 28 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: most powerful people within the most powerful bodies of the CCP. 29 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: The collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School and the Chinese 30 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: Executive Leadership Academy at Pudong. That institution is controlled by 31 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: the Central Organization Department, one of the most powerful bodies 32 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: within the CCP. It oversees shijin Ping thought training programs 33 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: for party elites and controls placement in key Communist Party 34 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: roles and high ranking members of the Chinese Academy of 35 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: Social Sciences, and these people are sent to the Harvard 36 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: Kennedy School as part of the Organization Department's education and 37 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: training and these congress pe for sending a letter to 38 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: the head guy at Harvard, President Alan Garber, saying what 39 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: are you doing? And it's a reasonable question to cite 40 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: some obvious, probably too obvious, historical parallels. Harvard wasn't in 41 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight, you know, getting Joseph Goebbels to be 42 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: better at propaganda, you know, in exchange for a full ride, 43 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: you know, tuition. I don't even know what to think 44 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: of this. It's insane. Yeah, well, you know what, it's 45 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: not insane. It is a hangover, a holdover from that 46 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: few decades long period where we got duped into thinking 47 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: China wanted to reform and it wanted to become, you know, 48 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: a happy free market, to participant in the Community of Nations. 49 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: But like everybody knows, that's not true now except academia. 50 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 3: But helping communists be better in the Communist Party, it's 51 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 3: right there in the name Communists. We used to be 52 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: really against that, right. 53 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: And Mike Gallagher has a piece in the Wall Street 54 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: Journal's opinion section today which my guests, there's like five 55 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, I know. This is the former very sane, 56 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: very serious congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the Select Committee 57 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,239 Speaker 1: on the Chinese Communist Party, distinguished fellow at the Hodson Institute. Anyway, 58 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: his piece is entitled send Harvard's Chinese students home. It 59 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: makes no sense for the US to be educating the 60 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: scientific and leadership clash of a future adversary. For decades, 61 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats agreed our universities were crown jewels of 62 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: American exceptionalism, and Harvard shown brightest of all. Mister Trump, however, 63 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: has an uncanny neck for exposing rotten shibbliths. In recent 64 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: years have seen top universities unmasked as global far left 65 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,239 Speaker 1: patronage networks using research as a smoke screen to prevent 66 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: scrutiny of campus hate as they aid adversaries like China. 67 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: Roughly thirty percent of Harvard's student body is foreign, At 68 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: Columbia it's almost forty percent, and America's top universities benefit 69 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: from billions of dollars in government grants and tax breaks 70 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: while admitting fewer Americans every year. I'd like to know 71 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: what it is in my local college town, because it's 72 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: pretty high. Yeah yeah oh. B meta's chief AI officer, 73 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: Alexander Wang, has argued that the rate of AI progress 74 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: may be such the quote, you need to prevent all 75 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: of our secrets from going over to our adversaries, and 76 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: you need to lock down the labs, thousands of Chinese citizens. 77 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: Chinese citizens are working and studying in such labs. The 78 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: US hosted one point one million international students last year. 79 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: Of those, twenty five percent came from China, more than 80 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: a quarter million. 81 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 3: I know somebody in academia who worked in a lab 82 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 3: with Chinese citizens who were there in the lab also, 83 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 3: and they would never talk about anything because they were 84 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 3: worried about if he brought up anything political. They would 85 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 3: never say anything. With the assumption from this person, I 86 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 3: know that they were scared to say anything because it 87 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 3: would get reported back. 88 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, foreign nationals, many of them Chinese, 89 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: accounted for almost forty percent of science doctorates in the 90 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: United States. Almost forty percent. Wow, that is incredible. 91 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 3: We're educating our number one global enemy for the next 92 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 3: you know, for the foreseeable future, China will be our 93 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 3: number one enemy on planet Earth, and we're educating their scientists. 94 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: And Beijing is aggressively cultivating American educated and American employed 95 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: researchers by the Thousand Talents program. That's part of their 96 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: whole of society. Everybody has to be bent on China 97 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: being a sentant and squashing the US blindly embracing academic 98 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: cooperation with geopolitical rivals is absurd. Nobody suggests we should 99 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: train Iran Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. The 100 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: US wouldn't have been better off collaborating more with Nazi 101 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: Germany in the thirties or with the Soviet during the 102 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: Soviets during the Cold War. Why make an exception for 103 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: a nation dedicated to surpassing the US in emerging technologies? 104 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: Then he mentions that universities loved the Chinese students because 105 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: they generally pay full freight, often subsidized by the Chinese 106 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: Communist Party. What the hell are we doing? And then 107 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: finally this speaking of money, and I mentioned this once, 108 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: but it is absolutely worth digging into. There is a 109 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: nonprofit called the Energy Foundation China. It is based in 110 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: San Francisco, and according to its website, EFC has dispersed 111 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: over half a billion dollars to more than four thousand 112 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: climate related projects, many of them in the US. Well, 113 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: wait a minute, since the Chinese Communist Party controls everything, 114 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: why is a Chinese Chinese Excuse me, the Communist Party 115 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: run foundation financing thousands of climate related projects. Uh, it's 116 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: Ceyoba Huway is based in Beijing and has a background 117 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: of strong ccp UH affiliations. Well, here's the deal, UH, 118 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: and Ted Cruz has dug into this. China has realized 119 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: that a if they can shove us away from steady 120 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: sources of energy, it hurts our economy. As they're building, 121 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: they're burning and building coal plants as fast as they can. 122 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: Plus they're pushing us as hard as they can toward 123 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: renewable energy. Who has cornered the market on the critical 124 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: rare earth minerals, for instance, batteries, et cetera. Who has 125 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: cornered the market on all that stuff in renewable energy? China? 126 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: So they are financing all of these Americans so called 127 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: environmental groups screaming for us to give up fossil fuels 128 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: and embrace technologies that China controls. 129 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 3: They must. They're at Communist party headquarters. Parties just throw 130 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 3: back their heads in laughter, sometimes at the things they're 131 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 3: able to pull up. 132 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: Hey, guess what I bought another one hundred acres next 133 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: to a military base? You did, yeah, right next to it? 134 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: Or did you claim to be I just said who 135 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: I was? Yeah? They just let you? 136 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 3: Or this we're financing that giant rally you' sa on 137 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: TV the other day where they're saying, you know, down 138 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 3: with fossil fuels. We paid for that, and then the 139 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 3: hippies push for all these programs that then we sell 140 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 3: them the stuff. Yeah, Their largest state, California, has given 141 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 3: up producer seeing the safest, cleanest, best policies for workers 142 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 3: oil that is produced anywhere on Earth, and instead has 143 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 3: instead outsourced it to despicable regimes that don't give a 144 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 3: crap about the environment or their workers. That's enlightened California. 145 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: And when they're not doing that, they're doubling down on 146 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 3: technologies that we control and can get them. We can 147 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 3: threaten to choke that stuff off, and Donald Trump will 148 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 3: let Nvidia sell their most advanced chips. Are damn near 149 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 3: to the Chinese Communist Party because we've gotten them to 150 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 3: buy the green energy scam. 151 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: We are a stupid people, all right, certainly our leaders are. 152 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: That's your look inside the China Cabinet, Armstrong and the 153 00:10:58,360 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty show. 154 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 4: Oh look out, something just came and say the floor 155 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 4: and an object of just flewing as the free throw 156 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 4: is being made, you look like that hit a player too. 157 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 3: So it's becoming a safety issue people throwing the sex 158 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 3: toys on the floor at the w NBA Games. And 159 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 3: I think it's a good idea to call it an object, 160 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 3: same way they used to not show streakers run across 161 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 3: the field because it just. 162 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: Encourages them, right right, Yeah, you don't want to give 163 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: them the same they're looking for. Yeah, exactly. 164 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 3: So anyway, we'll keep an eye on that very important 165 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 3: story of sex toys being thrown on the floor WNBA games. 166 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: I want to mention this. 167 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 3: So I bought a bought my son's first vehicle the 168 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 3: other day, and I bought it from a guy in 169 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 3: the Bay Area, and I drove her there. I ubered 170 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 3: over to pick it up yesterday and drove it home. 171 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 3: Smelly a stuba ride have ever taken in my life. 172 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 3: I don't know what was going on there. I don't 173 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 3: know if a body was dickying or if it was 174 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 3: him or what. But ooh, that was rough. 175 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: AnyWho. The guys, the guy I bought it. 176 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 3: From, guy about my age, seemed pretty well to do, 177 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 3: but living in a uh, not particularly well to do 178 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 3: a little duplex thingy, he said, Yeah, I'm living with 179 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 3: my daughter. I had a house in the Pacific Palisades 180 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 3: completely burned to the ground. And then we got on 181 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 3: that whole. I said, oh geez, yeah, I found it, 182 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 3: and he ended up showing me. We ended up talking 183 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 3: about it for a long time, and he showed me 184 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 3: tons of pictures and videos. I mean, he was taking 185 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 3: pictures and videos while it was occurring, with the idea 186 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 3: that he was going to be fine. 187 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: For a couple of different reasons. 188 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 3: It was way over there, and he thought, there's no 189 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 3: way it gets clear over here. Plus he thought, with 190 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 3: all these gazillion dollars homes and some of the masters 191 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 3: of the universe that live in this name, there's no 192 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 3: way the city is gonna let these homes burn down, 193 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 3: was his thinking. And he was standing there wife and kids. 194 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 3: He didn't have kids, but a wife and pats had 195 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 3: taken off and everything like that. 196 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: He was there with a hose. 197 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 3: He was going to protect his house, and the cops 198 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 3: showed up and said you gotta go, and he went. 199 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 3: And now he's so thankful that he did, because the 200 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 3: fire quickly overwhelmed everything and burnt everything to the ground. 201 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: He has shown me pictures of stuff that he found 202 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: in the. 203 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 3: In the He showed me he had a cyber truck, 204 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 3: like I have a cyber truck, and he had a 205 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 3: cyber truck. And there's nothing left but the stainless steel 206 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 3: panels just sitting there on the ground. Everything else completely disappeared. 207 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 3: Showed me up nice he had a watch collection, a 208 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 3: nice watch that he found. 209 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: It was just charred. You could kind of tell it 210 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: was a watch. I'll bet more than one person. And 211 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: this is grim sorry, but has met their end, standing 212 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: there with a fire hose as the I'm sorry, with 213 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 1: a hose, a consumer hose as the wall of fire 214 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: comes towards them, and thinking, oh my god, I miscalculated. 215 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 3: I almost did myself. If you'll remember, that's what I 216 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 3: told him about because he said, he said fire. He said, 217 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 3: I have a new respect for fire, and I said, 218 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 3: the same thing happened to me. I've told the story. 219 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 3: This is before you were here, Katie. But our farm 220 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 3: caught on fire and I had it was a tiny 221 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 3: little fire. I mean it was like three feet in diameter, 222 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 3: and I thought, well, I'm going to get a hose, 223 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 3: and so I went and got some hoses and put 224 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 3: them together. And when I turned around, Gold, it's a 225 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 3: giant fire. And then I got the hose stretch over there, 226 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 3: and I'm trying to hose it, and before long I 227 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 3: was consumed in smoke and heat and didn't know which 228 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 3: direction was out and which direction was toward the fire. 229 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 3: And fire trucks eventually got there and blah blah blah, 230 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 3: my shoes melted to the pavement. 231 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: It was. But yeah, that's exactly right. 232 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 3: You think I'm gonna stop this with this hose, and 233 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 3: the next thing, you know, mother nature does her thing. 234 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: And that's what happened with him. But I asked him 235 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 3: the question, of course, of how has it been dealing 236 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 3: with the county and the government and the insurance. He said, 237 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 3: oh please, and he dropped a bunch of f bombs 238 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 3: and his accomplished a zero since that fire. In terms 239 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 3: of trying to get any money. He's living with his daughter, 240 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 3: and he doesn't have any idea if he's going back, 241 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 3: if he can go back, what kind of money he's 242 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 3: gonna get. 243 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: Nothing at this point. I hate to bring politics into this, 244 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: but I just happened to read I think it was 245 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: a National Review, Somebody's writing about how Donald Trump saved 246 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: Karen Bass's job. The idiot left the mayor of la 247 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: who was seriously on the ropes because of her utterly incompetent, insensitive, 248 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: dishonest handling of the wildfire problem. But the high profile 249 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: immigration raids has enabled her to you know, rush to 250 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: the ramparts, to play the progressive warrior to protect our 251 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: immigrant communities, and it's saved her bacon if you get in, 252 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: Which is not to say he shouldn't be deporting people 253 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: at all, but it's it's kind of interesting the way 254 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: those things can turn out. 255 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 3: Oh and no way he sent the National Guard. That 256 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 3: was a good you know, helped rescuer. I guess if 257 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: you get into an uber or a lyft and it 258 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: smells really, really horrible, what is it most likely the driver? 259 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, in my experience, it's often like they're wearing 260 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: way too much cologne or has just coded the place 261 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: with some sort of disinfectant deodorant thing, which is terrible. 262 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 3: Now, this wasn't either one of those. It definitely wasn't Colonne, 263 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 3: and it wasn't a stank huh. 264 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: It was stank. It was like was it like. 265 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: A spill that they didn't get all the way and 266 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 3: went moldy in the car kind of a situation. 267 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: That could happen. 268 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 3: I did have a gallon of milk explode in my 269 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 3: truck one time, and it smelled pretty bad for a 270 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 3: long time. 271 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: Should have torched it. Speaking of fire, I left. 272 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 3: It in my truck on accident on a day when 273 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 3: it was one hundred and twelve degrees outside and it 274 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 3: was probably one hundred and fifty inside the truck and 275 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 3: it just burst and then it was in there overnight and. 276 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: It smelled so bad. 277 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 3: But I eventually lysolted enough over the period of like 278 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 3: a year to get the smell completely gone. But I 279 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 3: think this was the dude, what would make a human 280 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 3: being smell like that? Is it like a thirty year 281 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 3: old dude? What would what would cause your body to 282 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 3: do that? 283 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: What kind of question is that? Exactly? What's key? You 284 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: want to talk about this on the air? Well lost 285 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: your mind? Are are you dying? Or perhaps? But I'm not. 286 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: I will not. I will not take an uber ride 287 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: to this conversation. Hey Michael, you answer him no seriously. 288 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show, yea or Jack your show 289 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: podcasts and Our Hot Lakes. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 290 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 3: I got at least one kid that diagnosed with ADHD, 291 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 3: and the other one certainly might have it. And I 292 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 3: know how some people react to this with uh, this 293 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 3: is just the way kids have always been, and now 294 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 3: they're putting a name on it. And I think there's 295 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 3: some truth there. I think there is, too depends on 296 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 3: the kid, obviously, I know in at least one of 297 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 3: my cases, it's definitely not that. But there's so many 298 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 3: different medications out there. And since it's interesting, I've known 299 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 3: a couple of really successful people, scholastically successful people that 300 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 3: had ADHD and were able to focus better than normal 301 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 3: people in certain situations. That's one of the weird things 302 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 3: about ADHD. But like several fins I know who have 303 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 3: ADHD can drink coffee, like a big cup of coffee 304 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 3: before they go to bed. It helps calm them down, 305 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 3: stimulates calm them down. So Energery drinks coffee. It's like 306 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 3: how you exhale and focus and Riddlin famously as a stimulant. 307 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And so. 308 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 3: Anyway, for all kinds of different reasons, there's this giant 309 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 3: Swedish study that's out right now. They followed one hundred 310 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 3: and fifty thousand people with ADHD for two years on 311 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 3: ADHD medication, and based on their analysis with this very 312 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 3: big study, the medicated group experienced an estimated seventeen percent 313 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 3: fewer suicidal behaviors, fifteen percent fewer cases of substance abuse, 314 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 3: thirteen percent fewer criminal convictions, and a dozen percent fewer 315 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 3: traffic accidents compared to people that didn't take ADHD medication. 316 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 3: So I don't know if that informs anybody who's in 317 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 3: the I'm not going to do medication for my kid crowd. 318 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: That's a tough yeah, just because that is something that 319 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: improves outcomes, or so it would seem from that study. 320 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: You know, with the usual grains of salt. Doesn't mean 321 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: it's the best solution. That would be my only quibble, 322 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: and again it varies kid to kid. But that's interesting. 323 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: I mean, if that's helping people be happier and all, 324 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: I'm in favor of it. I just I know I 325 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: am certain I would have been diagnosed as a as 326 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: a boy with ADHD. Do you think the problem was 327 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: the pace of school was so slow it made me insane? 328 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 3: But do you think it would have helped you if 329 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 3: you'd have had something that would have taken the edge off? 330 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: Uh? No, what really helped me was getting into a 331 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: program that lets you learn that you're on speed. I 332 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: loved it, absolutely loved it, happy as a clam. 333 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 3: And it didn't exhibit itself in any other ways. 334 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think so, not that I'd have to 335 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: think about that for a while. 336 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 3: There's also degrees because it's of course they do diagnosis 337 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 3: as mild, moderate, or severe. 338 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I want to make it clear I come 339 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: to this conversation humbly because every kid is different, and 340 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: I don't know your kid or your kid or your kid, 341 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: and and some people absolutely need the help. 342 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 3: Well yeah, well that's the problem you have if you 343 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 3: run into people that have very strong opinions on this is. 344 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: First of all, I've had a very respected doctor get 345 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 3: one diagnosis and a different respected doctor have a completely 346 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 3: different diagnosis, And then what in the hell are you 347 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 3: supposed to do with that information? So they're guessing to 348 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 3: a great extent, it's all on a continuum line between 349 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 3: zero and a thousand, and it's also combined with all 350 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 3: the other personality factors that you have that are somewhere 351 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 3: in the range of normal or not. So yeah, it's complicated, 352 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 3: and their environment so speaking of kids' mental health. I 353 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 3: absolutely love Abigail Schreier. 354 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: She wrote a couple of books, Irreversible Damage, about the 355 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: unspeakably cruel experimenting on confused adolescents who momentarily believe they're 356 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: a different gender because activists have convinced them that they 357 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: might be or that they are, and kids are so impressionable. 358 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: It led kids down what I've called the high speed 359 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: conveyor belt of activism toward irreverse damage to their bodies. Terrible. 360 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: She also wrote a book, Bad Therapy, which she references here. 361 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: I'm just going to read something she wrote briefly, Well, 362 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: I was writing my book Bad Therapy, my middle school 363 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: age son returned home from sleep away camp with a 364 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: persistent stomach ache. I took him to urgent care, where 365 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: a nurse asked me to leave the room. I know 366 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: you love this Jack, so he could administer a mental 367 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: health screening tool put out by our National Institute's of 368 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: Mental Health. Afterward, I received a copy of the survey 369 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: and photographed it. Here, verbatim are the five questions the 370 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: nurse intended to ask my son in private, and what 371 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: was the age of the kid? Again? Uh, middle school 372 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: in the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead? 373 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: Two in the past few weeks, have you felt that 374 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: you or your family would be better off if you 375 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: were dead? Three in the past week, have you been 376 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: having thoughts about killing yourself? Why can't I be in 377 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: the room for these questions? By the way, because they 378 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: don't want you, the parents, interfering with they the government, 379 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: getting the truth from your kid. Four have you ever 380 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: tried to kill yourself? If yes, how when? And five 381 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: are you thinking of killing yourself right now? If yes, 382 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: please describe. 383 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 3: Keeping in mind, and I know more about this than 384 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 3: I wish I knew, But keeping in mind. If they 385 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 3: declare your kid a threat to themselves, they fifty one 386 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 3: to fifty that kid and your kid no longer belongs 387 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 3: to you. It belongs to the county. They are in 388 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 3: the government's control. You get no say at that point, 389 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 3: I mean zero say wow, So, Abigail writes. 390 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: Children across America are being asked these questions by doctors 391 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: because this is explicit protocol from the NIM. The National 392 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: Institute of Mental Health asks parents ask parents to leave 393 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: so that you can administer the following questions to kids 394 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: age eight and up who have not shown any signs 395 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: of mental distress. There are so many problems with this. 396 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: The main one is kids are wildly suggestible, especially where 397 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: psycheatric symptoms are concerned. Ask a kid repeatedly if he 398 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: might be depressed, how about now? Are you sure? And 399 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: he just might. 400 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 3: Decide that he is sure, or she writes that yeah, 401 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 3: be in a position at that moment that day where 402 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:15,479 Speaker 3: they want attention. 403 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, and she writes now. Thanks to Illinois 404 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: Governor JB. Pritzker, tens of thousands of Illinois kids will 405 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: be encouraged to think of themselves as sick. Many or 406 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: most will be false positives. 407 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 3: How do you freaking nutjobs think you're making the world 408 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 3: better with this stuff? 409 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: I'll never understand it. I just think there are There 410 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: is a huge share of people that thinks in terms 411 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: of feelings and not outcomes. Does this make me feel? 412 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: Does this sound good? Does this seem concerned? And they 413 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: don't even ask? All right, every action has reactions, both 414 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: intended and unintended. Let's think about what they might be. 415 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: Progressives don't say those things. It's also a weird tendency 416 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: on the left to uh feel like there I don't 417 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: know if. 418 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 3: Because they come from tend to come from dysfunctional families 419 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 3: or what it is. But they kind of want it 420 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 3: not to be true that there are functioning families out there. Yeah, 421 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 3: it bothers them that sometimes we got it. If things 422 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 3: are fine, I'm okay, I don't need your help. 423 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: They hate that in a way, yes, because nothing makes 424 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: them feel better than helping. I just feel like, to 425 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: go back to the great C. S. Lewis quote about 426 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: the worst sort of oppression is from do gooders because 427 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: they will never stop, right. 428 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 3: I just feel like it's been more prevalent of people 429 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 3: I've known that were super progressive, that nobody's actually happily married. 430 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 3: That's no, they're all faking it or lying or you know, 431 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 3: there are no families that are okay just and I've 432 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 3: always thought that's so weird. 433 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: Why do you have that view in the world. 434 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 3: So, and if you have that view of the world, 435 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 3: you'd be more likely to want this sort of stuff. 436 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: So, getting back to J. D. Pitt Pritzker assigning mandatory 437 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: mental health screenings for little kids in the law and 438 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: you're not in the room'elievable. Yeah. Yeah, And actually Abigail 439 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: Schreier mentions if basic literacy hadn't already collapsed in Illinois, 440 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: kids might pose spirited objections to Pritzker's sales pitch, but 441 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: in fact nobody learns anything in Illinois but her experience 442 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: talking to parents of such kids right afterward from Simply 443 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: Safe home security feeling safe at home speaking of functional families, 444 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: I mean actually safe, whether you're going to sleep at 445 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: night or leaving for the day and leaving your home empty. 446 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: You want simply Safe's new active guard outdoor protection. It 447 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: helps stop breaking before they happen. Yeah. 448 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 3: So I got all the sensors and the cameras and 449 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff, and it costs about a 450 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 3: dollar a day. 451 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 1: Which is amazing. 452 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 3: There are no contracts because simply Safe doesn't feel like 453 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 3: they need to lock you in. That you're gonna want 454 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 3: to get out, You're gonna like it, and you're gonna 455 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 3: want to stay in. That shows real confidence in their 456 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 3: equipment and their service. It's simply Safe, Yep. They're raided 457 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 3: the best by all sorts of different folks. 458 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: And what's really amazing about the out active guard outdoor 459 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: protection plan and the accommodation of AI powered cameras and 460 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: live monitoring agents is The monitoring plans start around a 461 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: buck at day. It's so much less than a traditional system, 462 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: and it's so much better sy it'll leap forward anyway. 463 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: Visit simply safe dot com slash armstrong. You get fifty 464 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: percent off a new system with a professional monitoring plan 465 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: and get your first month free simply safe dot com 466 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: slash armstrong. There's no safe like simply safe. Go just 467 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,479 Speaker 1: hate this story you brought us? Yeah, sorry about that, so, 468 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: Abigail writes, I've spoken to hundreds of parents of such kids. 469 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, I published Bad Therapy and an 470 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: Investigation into the surge and adolescent mental health diagnoses and 471 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 1: psychiatric prescription drug use. Many young people without serious mental 472 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: illness nonetheless spend years languishing with a diagnosis, alternately cursing 473 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: it and embracing it, believing they have a broken brain, 474 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: convincing themselves that their struggles are insurmountable because of the 475 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: disorder's constraints, They meet regularly with a therapist or school counselor, 476 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: on whom they become increasingly reliant, losing a sense of efficacy, 477 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: unable to navigate on their own, even minor setbacks in 478 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: interpersonal conflicts. They begin courses vanid depressants that carry all 479 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: kinds of side effects, suppressed libido, fatigue, muffling of all emotion, 480 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: and even an increase in depression. Anti anxiety drugs and 481 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: stimulants given a kids diagnosed with ADHD are both addictive 482 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: and ubiquitously abused, and often that tragic dissent begins with 483 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: a simple mental health survey. Then she tells the story 484 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: of her son, and this is maybe the key takeaway. 485 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: If you haven't spent a lot of time around kids, 486 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: you don't know this. Kids are wildly suggestible, especially where 487 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: psychiatric symptoms are concerned. As a kid repeatedly if he 488 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: might be depressed, how about now are you sure? And 489 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: he might just decide that he is. Introduce gender dysphoria 490 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: into a peer group, and a swath of seventh grade 491 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: girls are likely to decide they were born in the 492 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: wrong body, introduced testing anxiety or social phobia or suicidality 493 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: to them, and many teams are likely to decide I 494 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: have that too. There is a reason clinicians keep anorexia 495 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: patients from socializing unsupervised in a hospital ward. Anorexia is 496 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: a profoundly socially contagious mental illness. 497 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 3: Wow, that is I think obviously true and so troubling. Yeah, 498 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 3: testing anxiety is a great example. I mean, I think 499 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 3: they talk about that in classes openly all the time now, 500 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 3: and they. 501 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: You know, if everybody gets a free pass. 502 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then of course, I mean, who doesn't get 503 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 3: anxious when you've got to test anybody? 504 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: One? More? Note in do you want to squeeze it 505 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: in an hour after the break? It's the guy who 506 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: writes the giant Psychiatric Bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 507 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: of Mental Disorders. For the addition, I'll just do it 508 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: real quick now, he says, mandatory school Mandatory school screenings 509 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: of kids for mental illness is great in theory and 510 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: terrible in practice. Yeah, most kids who screen positive will 511 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: have transient problems out mental disorders. Mislabeling stigmatizes and subjects 512 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: them to unnecessary treatments while misdirecting very scarce resources away 513 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: from kids who desperately need them. 514 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 3: Don't do it, then you've got the added problem of 515 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 3: some parents I'm definitely not this who love the idea 516 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 3: of having a kid who has some sort of special. 517 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: Problem to get to talk about and then everything. Yeah, 518 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: uns in syndrome and it's various vas Jack Armstrong and 519 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show. See Armstrong and Getty show. 520 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 3: You good morning. It's National Radio Day. How you doing 521 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 3: nay giving away a taco? When you hear this sound 522 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 3: later next hour, be caller six win a taco. Traffic 523 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 3: on the fives National Radio Day. 524 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, that was horrible. Let's see. Mayor's your freedom 525 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: loving quote of the day, Amy Radio Day to you. 526 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: This one comes from Louis Ferdinand Celine, who I don't 527 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: know his work. He's a French one, but I like 528 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: to quote. I've never voted. Oh, I'm doing a series 529 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: on voting. By the way, I've never voted in my life. 530 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: I have always known and understood that the idiots are 531 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: in the majority, and so it's certain that they will win. 532 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: We could have gotten along. That's pretty good here the majority, 533 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: So what's the point? Mail Bag? Feel free to reach 534 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: out to drop us a note mail Bag and Armstrong 535 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: Egiddi dot com guy guys. First day back at school, 536 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: writes anonymous. We teachers had our first day of professional 537 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: development yesterday and it was all day long. DEI. It 538 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: has not gone away, and in some places they're digging 539 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: their heels in even deeper. Parents and communities need to 540 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: pay attention. Oh man, there religionar to me where al 541 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: is would not shock me if you was in cal Unicornia. 542 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 3: You know, I have friends they had their kids in 543 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,720 Speaker 3: a expensive private Catholic school and it was woke a 544 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 3: f wow, wow, you know. 545 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: I want to scroll down to this. I really don't 546 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: have time to search for this, but the graphic was 547 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: smaller than I expected it to be. Hey, Jack and 548 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: Joe thought you might be interested slash of Paul. This 549 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: is a different note from al different anonymous in cal Unicornia. 550 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: You might be interested in a Paul that they're now 551 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: saying the quiet part out loud in teacher training. And 552 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: it's a graphic up on a you know, a screen 553 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: that talks about allyship, and the screen explains that what 554 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: you're trying to do there it is I want to 555 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: read it correctly. Allyship, when a person's a privilege, works 556 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: in solidarity in partnership with a marginalized group of people 557 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: to help take down the systems that challenge that group's 558 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: basic rights, equal access and ability to thrive in our society. 559 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: So they say, yeah, we're tearing allyship being an allyship. Yeah, 560 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: they say, yeah, we're trying to tear down the system, 561 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: but they brand the United States Western civilization as well. 562 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: It's a system of oppression, souse, that's what we're taking down. 563 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 3: Sure, a lock people in this system with a very 564 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 3: high standard of living compared to the world. 565 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, A totally different note, A really nice note from 566 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 1: Emily here. It's a picture of the memorial table for 567 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: her dad who passed away, and it includes a stupid 568 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: shit hurt t shirt. Oh so that's great, that's great. 569 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: Sorry for the loss of your pop, but that's nice. Anyway, 570 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:37,439 Speaker 1: Moving along, How does Prague, Czechoslovakia feel toward, well, Czech 571 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: Republic right feel toward Russia? Guys. I was in Prague 572 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I encountered these the citizens expressing 573 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,879 Speaker 1: the feelings toward Russia. It is a fountain, a water 574 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: feature in Yugoslavia, I'm sorry of in the Czech Republic 575 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,760 Speaker 1: of two grown men. Anatomically correct standing on the base 576 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: of the fountain is a flag of Russia, and they 577 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: are both your inating upon it, don't I don't know 578 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: if I grasped the symbolism. I wonder if that's because 579 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union oppressed those poor people for generations. Moving along, 580 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: Guy good Bar in Long Time Listener writes, Troy, I 581 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: want to make sure you knew the government subsidized Sunfresh 582 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: grocery store in Kansas City closed several days ago. Local 583 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: radio says twenty nine million dollars invested in the city 584 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: over ten years. I yield the rest of my time. 585 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: But f this, Wow, and mum Donnie is going to 586 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: try that in New York City. Yeah, Kansas City tried 587 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 1: government grocery stores. They squandered twenty nine million dollars on it. 588 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: If became a crime, choked, no food, Soviet style wasteland 589 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: and closed. And you haven't heard any reporting on that. 590 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 1: It's the Armstrong in Getty show. Armstrong in Getty Strong 591 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 3: Conscience of the Nation, Barnshaw and Getty