Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Jailing.
Speaker 3: He scored three touchdowns on Sunday. You did, but the
Speaker 3: first one was doing what people are calling the toush push.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that what you call it?
Speaker 1: It's not what I call it. It's not what you
Speaker 1: call it's not what I call it. What do you
Speaker 1: call it?
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna say what I called it?
Speaker 1: But it's okay.
Speaker 4: I'll take off too, because when I got there, I'm
Speaker 4: known as the toush push. But I didn't know if
Speaker 4: that's what we called But I thought it was called that,
Speaker 4: and it's not called the touchbush.
Speaker 1: Actually, no, what.
Speaker 2: Is your role in the in the.
Speaker 1: Quote unquote touch push.
Speaker 4: I think I have the easiest job, to be honest.
Speaker 4: I think I'm the one who pushes the tush.
Speaker 1: That's partly the running back. I pushed the tush and
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Eagles. I wonder what they do
Speaker 1: call it. Obviously it's not a good one. It's got
Speaker 1: to be some sort of jam it up there, you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: Some sort of name like that I want. Oh I
Speaker 1: hope not. Yes, Michael, I was told to brotherly shove.
Speaker 5: The brotherly shove. That's the other nickname for it, because
Speaker 5: it's Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't think he'd be afraid to say that.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, that's not what they call Yeah,
Speaker 5: they call it something unerable.
Speaker 1: They call it, let's say, let's jam it, you know
Speaker 1: up there. I'll bet it something like that. And I
Speaker 1: don't appreciate the course language.
Speaker 5: Speaking of which, the next thing we're about to play,
Speaker 5: I think it's worth noting, first of all, this is
Speaker 5: not the most important part of it.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
Speaker 5: But the first part of it is Maxine Dexter, who's
Speaker 5: a Democrat congresswoman from Oregon.
Speaker 1: All the people you're about to hear are Congress people.
Speaker 1: And she's a.
Speaker 5: Nice like school teacher, sure mom, who decided to run
Speaker 5: for Congress.
Speaker 1: Nice person.
Speaker 5: I disagree with her politics, but and you can hear
Speaker 5: the discomfort in her voice as she's joining in the
Speaker 5: new slogan that's gonna turn America around.
Speaker 1: I am gonna tell you that we do have to.
Speaker 2: I don't swear in public very well, but we have
Speaker 2: to Trump.
Speaker 6: Please don't tell my children that I just said that.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you I'm from Jersey, so it look
Speaker 2: get a little different.
Speaker 1: Problem Donald Trump and Elon So you can chart this
Speaker 1: over my lifetime quite easily, of the coarseness of our
Speaker 1: politics and this let us go around. There was the
Speaker 1: F Joe Biden, but politicians weren't saying it. Football crowds
Speaker 1: were chanting it or whatever, but you didn't have a
Speaker 1: rally on the steps. Now it's gone from the football
Speaker 1: crowd to the politicians saying F the President. And I
Speaker 1: don't really I think we might be at the end
Speaker 1: of the road unless, like you said earlier, well, right,
Speaker 1: we're at the lowest common denominator, unless we just moved
Speaker 1: that final step to taking a crap on the stage
Speaker 1: and pointing at it, no words necessary. Right, our discourse
Speaker 1: has got as low as it can possibly get.
Speaker 5: I think they've got to start showing Idiocracy the Great
Speaker 5: movie in the Civics class in eighth grade, in the
Speaker 5: few school districts that have civics classes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know what it is.
Speaker 5: If I were to put on my serious political analyst hat,
Speaker 5: it's a nakedly transparent and frantic effort to gather the
Speaker 5: troops around some message, any message of defiance and resistance
Speaker 5: to the Trump administration. But try as they might, they're
Speaker 5: just not finding anything. Howling about Elon Musk being any
Speaker 5: dollar gark and unelected. In the rest of it. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's it's okay.
Speaker 1: For the base.
Speaker 5: The base is digging it, they're loving it the base,
Speaker 5: but the base is way too small.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got I got a point on that to make.
Speaker 1: But I want to read this text because a last
Speaker 1: hour we're talking about Elon and Trump in the Oval
Speaker 1: office yesterday, and Elon was talking about uh, Trump was
Speaker 1: talking about various government programs or where people get paid
Speaker 1: long after their contract has ended and nobody pays any
Speaker 1: attention and blah blah blah. So we got this text.
Speaker 1: I was receiving dozens and dozens of COVID payments in
Speaker 1: other people's names at my rural mailbox, and I returned
Speaker 1: all of them, indicating that the fraudulent nature, and not
Speaker 1: one person from the government asked me a single question.
Speaker 1: They just send them month after month after month. Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking if I ever got something like that I'm
Speaker 1: put in the bank, I might not spend it under
Speaker 1: the fear that at some point somebody catches on and
Speaker 1: comes and says, hey, where's our two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars we've over the last ten years, And
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't have it, but I might put it
Speaker 1: in the bank. I don't know. I pay a lot
Speaker 1: of tax, that's that's sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, as long as you knew you could write
Speaker 5: them that check when they finally came a calling.
Speaker 1: If they finally came a calling.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I don't think there's any issue with that whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And in fact, it could be argued you kept it
Speaker 1: safe to the political rhetoric. And I will mention for
Speaker 1: the one millionth time of book nobody has read but me,
Speaker 1: Paris on Fire. It's about the they had a civil
Speaker 1: war in France, particularly in Paris in eighteen seventy in
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy one, that I had never read about or
Speaker 1: heard about. And it's amazing it got as ugly as
Speaker 1: what Hamas did to the Jews on that day, between
Speaker 1: people that grew up in France, their whole lives lived
Speaker 1: in Paris, or whole lives to each other. I mean
Speaker 1: that brutal in Paris in eighteen seventy wow, because of
Speaker 1: the politics ramping up and ramping up and ramping up
Speaker 1: in what people were saying about each other and claiming
Speaker 1: that they're side could do. And one thing the author said,
Speaker 1: as once it finally calmed down and they're trying to
Speaker 1: put things back together, and everybody's just gobsmacked by what
Speaker 1: the hell just happened. Buildings are rubble all around Paris,
Speaker 1: the stench of dead bodies everywhere. Everybody knows somebody that
Speaker 1: was raped or mutilated or tortured or whatever in Paris, France,
Speaker 1: which at the time was the most sophisticated city in
Speaker 1: the world, and the whole world was looking at it
Speaker 1: like what the hell that can happen? And one thing
Speaker 1: the author said that I thought was so interesting and
Speaker 1: we might see this in our lifetimes. After that political speeches,
Speaker 1: nobody was paying any attention, like we've heard this before,
Speaker 1: we've heard this, we know where this goes. You getting
Speaker 1: us all riled up and claiming the other side is
Speaker 1: evil in our side's always right. And it took a
Speaker 1: long time before anybody believed politicians again after that happened.
Speaker 5: How interesting, That's what I thought. Yeah, the aftermath of it.
Speaker 5: I hadn't even considered that.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, this isn't a game. But I'm sure you
Speaker 1: finally at some point think, oh, oh, this isn't a game.
Speaker 1: I understand, and this is where it can go if
Speaker 1: we demonize the other side so much for so long,
Speaker 1: and oh oh, your claims of all my dreams will
Speaker 1: come true? Not so much. Yeah, yeah, this has always
Speaker 1: been true of politics. I'm gonna keep this very vague.
Speaker 5: I ran into some folks recently who are very very
Speaker 5: modest circumstances in life, and from a place like many
Speaker 5: of us live, that is very very blue, and in
Speaker 5: spite of their complete lack of political sophistication, they held
Speaker 5: completely confident contempt for anybody who thought differently than the
Speaker 5: people that surround them. And I, you know, since I've
Speaker 5: been studying this stuff since I was a little kid,
Speaker 5: it doesn't threaten me.
Speaker 1: I don't get angry. I'm just interested in it mostly.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Obviously, on an electoral level, when elections are when and
Speaker 5: lost in decisions get made, then I care a lot.
Speaker 5: But just when I'm interacting with individuals, I'm more curious
Speaker 5: than anything. And it was absolutely clear to me in
Speaker 5: that moment that it was the classic I have to
Speaker 5: feel better than someone to feel good about myself phenomenon.
Speaker 5: And the problem with that feeling because we it's I mean,
Speaker 5: that's like a constant and humankind. It explains a lot
Speaker 5: of racism and xenophobia or whatever. But the problem is
Speaker 5: now that politics is omnipresent in our lives. And if
Speaker 5: that feeling is Jack was just describing about, you know,
Speaker 5: Paris in the eighteen seventies, if that feeling extends to
Speaker 5: politics and then political violence, it ends in horrific bloodshed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it can all come apart. And and that's why
Speaker 1: for a couple hundred years anyway, we had people speaking
Speaker 1: politicians about each other. I disagree with the good gentleman
Speaker 1: from Missouri, I think the fact friend from Kansas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the reason they went so far that direction was it
Speaker 1: can go It can really come apart, and I just
Speaker 1: you know, wow, I'm you know, if you've listened to
Speaker 1: this show for years, you know, I'm more than capable
Speaker 1: of laughing at you know, F this and F that
Speaker 1: and all that sort of low level discourse. But you
Speaker 1: don't want it to all just disintegrate. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: step away from I hate you. I hate you, and
Speaker 1: that's the only discourse that crosses the austs. We're discussing earlier,
Speaker 1: the stuff Elon Musk said, and we'll play some more
Speaker 1: of the audio from his impromptu I guess a press
Speaker 1: conference in the Oval Office yesterday, in which he was
Speaker 1: explaining in extremely calm and measured ways, perfectly sensible descriptions
Speaker 1: of the fiscal crisis that we're nearing as a country
Speaker 1: and how we have to rein in spending on the
Speaker 1: not so great, not so important stuff, or we'll have
Speaker 1: no money for the very very great, extremely important stuff
Speaker 1: and soon. And by the way, just as an aside,
Speaker 1: the idea among some people, particularly on particularly on the left,
Speaker 1: that we can just grow our way out of our
Speaker 1: debt problems. It's a very Wolf of Wall Street esque
Speaker 1: view of life. We'll just make more and more and
Speaker 1: more money.
Speaker 5: It's okay, how much we're spending on cocaine, hookers and
Speaker 5: giant houses and cars, Well, just keep making more money.
Speaker 5: It's just, oh my god, it's an idiotic notion. But anyway,
Speaker 5: the fact that he would say what he said in
Speaker 5: such reasonable tones and have some of the heavyweights of
Speaker 5: media and society and academia.
Speaker 1: He's a monster in reply to what he said, that's troubling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's as if he said, puppies are cute,
Speaker 5: and good nutrition helps keep you healthy, and gosh, there's
Speaker 5: nothing better than a spring day. And he was screeched
Speaker 5: at as a monster for saying those things, as if
Speaker 5: he were.
Speaker 1: Saying I hate poor people and they should suffer, or
Speaker 1: I hate this race or that race.
Speaker 5: That's the way it's being treated, right, Yeah, is there
Speaker 5: getting past this without horrific bloodshed? And it's worth noting
Speaker 5: we had our own civil war, perhaps you've heard of it,
Speaker 5: which probably gave birth to a lot of that civility
Speaker 5: in our government for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're exactly right. You're exactly right. That is probably
Speaker 1: what led to the let's keep this really really cool
Speaker 1: from here on out right, so that doesn't happen again. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: so there you go. I don't expect it to get
Speaker 1: turned around anytime soon.
Speaker 5: No, I don't know what would overwhelming success of the
Speaker 5: Trump administration would help. Although, man, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 5: little pessimistic here. If you could not get the average
Speaker 5: voter to be aware of our mounting debt crisis and
Speaker 5: vote in ways that would be good to get rid
Speaker 5: of it. How are you going to get their praise
Speaker 5: for solving it.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot more to talk about. There's a
Speaker 1: rush around the country to buy chickens amid the eggs shortage.
Speaker 1: People trying to figure out what equipment do I need
Speaker 1: to have chickens in my backyard or my garage. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many eggs you all eat. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to become a chicken farmer all of a sudden
Speaker 1: because eggs are more expensive. I'll just eat fewer eggs,
Speaker 1: I guess. And now credit where it's due.
Speaker 5: Some notable liberal media let's saying, Hey, the whole keeping
Speaker 5: the kids out of school thing during COVID was a disaster,
Speaker 5: and it's way worse than Blue States.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I love hearing that. I hate to love
Speaker 1: I love that. I h I'll work on that. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: So news of the day inflation about three percent in January,
Speaker 1: higher than economists expected. Market drops, blah blah blah. You
Speaker 1: know the story. It's left over from the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: But the next inflation numbers people will blame on Trump
Speaker 1: rightly or wrongly, and I think wrongly that early, but
Speaker 1: you know that's how it will work.
Speaker 5: January is huge too, because it's when many, many, many
Speaker 5: businesses look at how last year went and say, hey,
Speaker 5: look we got to reprint the menus with higher prices.
Speaker 1: During inflation, there was a lot of talk about, well,
Speaker 1: everything was more expensive when we talked about it all
Speaker 1: the time, but eggs and bacon regularly got mentioned. Eggs
Speaker 1: are particularly expensive. Now you combine inflation with the bird
Speaker 1: flu and destroying so many chickens and all this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff that's going on around the country, and eggs
Speaker 1: are the most expensive they've ever been. I continue to
Speaker 1: wonder how many eggs do you all eat? How vital
Speaker 1: is it to your diet. I don't eat that many eggs,
Speaker 1: and even if I did, if they got more expensive
Speaker 1: than I wanted to pay, I'd switched to something else.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know. It must be very
Speaker 1: important to many of you, because I saw this on
Speaker 1: TV and then I googled it and I came across
Speaker 1: a news story, afternoon story all across the country buying
Speaker 1: chickens to save money on eggs. Fox thirteen Seattle Rising
Speaker 1: egg prices have Sacramento County residents flocking to feed stores
Speaker 1: to buy laying heads, and Orlando hig egg prices lead
Speaker 1: people to start buying chickens, and it's all over the country.
Speaker 1: People are buying, setting up becoming chicken farmers so they
Speaker 1: can provide their own eggs. And it reminds me of
Speaker 1: when gas prices get high and some people will trade
Speaker 1: in a car at a cost of tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars to save an extra ten dollars a week
Speaker 1: briefly while gas is high. And it happens all the time.
Speaker 1: I remember when we were endorsing a car lot once
Speaker 1: he said, oh yeah, gas prices get high, and we
Speaker 1: get people coming in, you know, changing their least costing
Speaker 1: them tons of money to because gases. People don't do
Speaker 1: the math. I'm the same with the chickens. I mean,
Speaker 1: living on the farm, we had chickens laying lots of eggs.
Speaker 1: First of all, you don't need that many chickens because
Speaker 1: you will have more eggs than you know what to
Speaker 1: do with. Before you know.
Speaker 5: It, what's the average output per chicken. I'm a city guy.
Speaker 5: I don't know this.
Speaker 1: I wasn't counting it. Per chicken heine. But I know
Speaker 1: we had a few hens, and we had I mean
Speaker 1: just was constantly eating eggs, not wanting them to go
Speaker 1: to waste, and just eggs. You know, eggs everywhere, and
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 5: In California, you couldn't give them to your neighbors except
Speaker 5: under the dark of night to risk being accused of
Speaker 5: unlicensed chicken good distribution.
Speaker 1: Well, the other problem you're going to have is unless
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have a dog. But if you have
Speaker 1: your dog, your dog is going to eat your chickens.
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't eat your chickens, it's gonna eat
Speaker 1: your eggs. So you have to keep the dog out
Speaker 1: of the henhouse. Somehow it will eat your chickens, it
Speaker 1: will eat your eggs, and you'll have your eggs sucking dog.
Speaker 1: We have a very fat blue healer dog that eats
Speaker 1: so many eggs.
Speaker 5: Well, longtime listeners the show, remember when my two Labrador
Speaker 5: Retrievers murdered several neighborhood chickens, causing a great deal of
Speaker 5: angst in the hood.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about chickens and dogs,
Speaker 1: but some dogs don't care. They're fine, They'll just walk
Speaker 1: Buy a chicken other dogs. It's like their life's gold
Speaker 1: to kill that chicken. And you can't train them out
Speaker 1: of it or nothing. No, and they don't eat it.
Speaker 1: They just kill it. Yeah. Yeah, they just are really
Speaker 1: bothered by the existence of a chicken for some reason.
Speaker 1: Although if your dog eats endless eggs, it will have
Speaker 1: a very shiny coat. I have learned that. But I
Speaker 1: gotta believe that building a coop, especially in an urban area,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have to build a coop. You can't
Speaker 1: just let them run around the farm like we do.
Speaker 1: You build a coop and you get the feet and
Speaker 1: you buy the chickens. I don't know how ahead you're
Speaker 1: gonna come out on this deal.
Speaker 5: Oh, somebody's got to watch them when you go on
Speaker 5: vacation or whatever too, which is a pain in the butt.
Speaker 5: Although just the very primal nature of the kind of
Speaker 5: the unplugged, not twenty first century nature of tending to
Speaker 5: beasts and raising plants and stuff that really appeals to me.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's awesome. It is a great feeling.
Speaker 5: Even lefty media is saying, yeah, keeping the schools closed
Speaker 5: during COVID was a disaster.
Speaker 7: More on that to come Armstrong and getty right, but
Speaker 7: show where some of the details that have come out,
Speaker 7: like the you know, fifty nine million dollars spent on
Speaker 7: luxury hotels, it's actually not.
Speaker 1: About the femal money that was a used for migrants.
Speaker 1: That was, yeah, FEMA money for migrants.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 1: Now no I'm not saying it. So I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's okay. Don't put word So would you stop that?
Speaker 2: Would you stop that process?
Speaker 1: Don't be a dick?
Speaker 5: That's a little Andy Cooper there on CNN telling his
Speaker 5: guests Johnson UNU not to.
Speaker 1: Be in and I quote Dick uh. Breaking news Fox
Speaker 1: anyway is reporting that Tulsia Gabbard because they're about to
Speaker 1: vote Tulsia Gabbard is on track to be confirmed as
Speaker 1: Director of Intelligence. They've talked to senators and counted and
Speaker 1: say it's going to happen. It wouldn't be hard to
Speaker 1: do because you know who the the whole out last
Speaker 1: knows were And if you got enough of those to
Speaker 1: say now I'm gonna go ahead and vote yes, you'd know,
Speaker 1: which reminds me. Came across this from the Dispatch, who
Speaker 1: is really against Tulsa Gabbard being confirmed a lot of
Speaker 1: my favorite thinkers are and I don't think there are
Speaker 1: deep state hacks either. Snowden's leak and this was controversial.
Speaker 1: Remember in our hearing the other day, she refused to
Speaker 1: call Snowden a trader. And Snowden's leak cost US critical
Speaker 1: access to a network we'd penetrated, depriving US policy makers
Speaker 1: of potential high value insights into thinking and directives of
Speaker 1: senior Chinese officials. How Snowden's leaks benefited China. We would
Speaker 1: be in, or would have been in until we got caught,
Speaker 1: So the inner thinking of China for quite a while
Speaker 1: if Snowden hadn't revealed that. Yeah. See, I got an
Speaker 1: argument at the bank yesterday about the Patriot Act. I
Speaker 1: talked about it earlier, Grab Hour one, Armstrong, Getty on Demand.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad stuff in the Patriot Act
Speaker 1: that I'm glad Snowden alerted to about. You didn't need
Speaker 1: to tell the world that we are spying on China,
Speaker 1: you dick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was classic case of throwing the baby out
Speaker 5: with the bathwater, which is what the expression is all about.
Speaker 5: He just went way, way, way too far, god, I'd say,
Speaker 5: And he didn't have to.
Speaker 1: And it was inexcusable and yes, traitorous. And if you'd
Speaker 1: gone to France or someplace instead of Russia, we might
Speaker 1: have more respect for you.
Speaker 5: There are any number of countries around the world that
Speaker 5: don't have extradition treaties with the US. But anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I'm very uneasy with Telsea Gabbert. But we'll have
Speaker 5: to see the Senate Advisors and Consents, and they're about
Speaker 5: to apparently.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I lean toward to the idea of the president
Speaker 1: gets to pick who he wants unless they're just like
Speaker 1: a flat out criminal. Well, I'll let him pick who
Speaker 1: he wants and Gore.
Speaker 5: One of my complaints about Trump is that he is
Speaker 5: too transactional, that if you are loyal to him and
Speaker 5: go to bat for him, he will you to a
Speaker 5: position that you're unqualified for, whether by morals or ability
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 1: Or you know.
Speaker 5: Partnering Steve Bannon I think is absolutely absurd, especially because
Speaker 5: Bannon ripped off a bunch of Trump supporters. This fake
Speaker 5: private wall building fund scheme ridiculous. Everybody else involved in
Speaker 5: it is in prison and should be. So, you know,
Speaker 5: having said that, except for that sort of thing, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's his department, it's his cabinet and famously recently, Oh
Speaker 5: and it struck me listening to Elon Musk why that
Speaker 5: was so novel. It was listening to a guy who
Speaker 5: actually has some pretty significant discretionary power in the government,
Speaker 5: in the executive branch. Because for the last you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of decades, especially, cabinet heads are just ceremonial figureheads. Practically,
Speaker 5: they're implementers of what the president tells them to do.
Speaker 1: They do not have the awesome.
Speaker 5: Powers traditionally of that office anymore. So it's just not
Speaker 5: that big a deal.
Speaker 1: Well, right, that's why to me, if you were going
Speaker 1: to really clamp that, the Senate was going to really
Speaker 1: clamp down, will decide who your cabinet member is going
Speaker 1: to be, Well, you just pick somebody that passes the
Speaker 1: Senate and you'd get your advice from somebody else. Nobody
Speaker 1: can stop you from getting advice from someone. Right.
Speaker 5: Sure, So, speaking of policy, and this is so incredibly important,
Speaker 5: Jack is afraid it will vanish into the dustbin of history.
Speaker 1: And I think he's probably right.
Speaker 5: But now, even for instance, the New York Times is
Speaker 5: admitting keeping the schools closed was a horrific idea and
Speaker 5: utterly unnecessary.
Speaker 1: I called it a disaster before.
Speaker 5: No Mount Krakatoa covering your village in Lava is a disaster.
Speaker 5: This was a crime, a partisan political crime, and the
Speaker 5: victims were children in society as a whole.
Speaker 1: And one of the worst things our government has ever done.
Speaker 5: Yes, I would agree absolutely. It was like the internment
Speaker 5: of the Japanese or whatever. You could even make a
Speaker 5: case for that. The scientific case for keeping the little
Speaker 5: kids out of school was null and void within a
Speaker 5: few months of the beginning of COVID. Anyway, New York
Speaker 5: Times writing us, yeah, paying the price. School Children in Massachusetts, Ohio,
Speaker 5: and Pennsylvania are still about a half year behind typical
Speaker 5: pre COVID reading levels. In Florida and Michigan, the gap
Speaker 5: is about three quarters of a year. In Maine, Oregon
Speaker 5: and Vermont, for instance, it's close to a full year.
Speaker 5: This morning, Group academic researchers released their latest report card
Speaker 5: on pandemic learning loss and it shows a disappointingly slow
Speaker 5: recovery in almost every state.
Speaker 1: And maybe closures, yes, and maybe you're going to get
Speaker 1: into this or they get into this, but that's just
Speaker 1: measuring the learning without measuring the disruption to classes. We've
Speaker 1: heard from lots of teachers of kids are different now.
Speaker 1: They missed a couple of years of having to sit
Speaker 1: there and pay attention and get homework done, and they
Speaker 1: just they're not You can't get them back in the groove.
Speaker 1: They don't really get into that.
Speaker 5: And I'm really glad you brought that up, because the
Speaker 5: socio psychological damage to kids. Hell, that might make the
Speaker 5: reading scores look like you know, I think school closures
Speaker 5: during COVID set children back in most districts have not
Speaker 5: been able to make up the lost ground, obviously, partly
Speaker 5: because kids, when they're that young, they absorb information in
Speaker 5: a way that I envy with every fiber of me.
Speaker 5: And you can't just have them not do that for
Speaker 5: a while and say, all right now we're going to
Speaker 5: do it even more than usual.
Speaker 1: It's not the way kids work. Yeah, does everybody not
Speaker 1: know that or whatever? But anyway, up until about age eight,
Speaker 1: your brain runs about a thousand times faster it does
Speaker 1: after that. You take a kid out of school for
Speaker 1: two years before age eight, Oh my god, you've done
Speaker 1: damage to them. Yes, that's a horrifying Yeah.
Speaker 5: So and here we get into a couple of the
Speaker 5: more interesting specific aspects of this other a reason for
Speaker 5: the lack of, you know, catching up progress is school absences.
Speaker 5: The huge rise has continued long after COVID, says Thomas Kane,
Speaker 5: Harvard Economists, member of the research team that we're going
Speaker 5: to talk about a little. It said, the pandemic may
Speaker 5: have been the earthquake, but heightened absenteeism is that tsunami.
Speaker 1: And it's still rolling through school right that part, not
Speaker 1: just not showing up to school, is still a problem.
Speaker 5: And as I've said many times, when the New York
Speaker 5: Times isn't being just unforgivably idiotically biased, they actually do
Speaker 5: some pretty good deep dive reporting and they look into
Speaker 5: the state variations. According to a new report from scholars
Speaker 5: at your big name universities comparing performances across states, I.
Speaker 1: Hope you're not going to tell me that blue cities
Speaker 1: and states even got poorer performance than red I hope
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have it.
Speaker 5: I'm going to need you to sit down. I need
Speaker 5: you to brace yourself. Michael Jack's about to need a
Speaker 5: big hug, all right.
Speaker 1: Let me know how he.
Speaker 5: Loves that from other males. So today's report shares a
Speaker 5: wide variety of outcomes. In the states that have made
Speaker 5: up the most ground, they're getting close to how they
Speaker 5: were doing five years ago, but the overall.
Speaker 1: Picture is not good.
Speaker 5: And I will skip some of the spatistic specific stats
Speaker 5: and get to what they call the Blue Red divide.
Speaker 5: Political leaders in red and blue America made different decisions
Speaker 5: during the pandemic. Gavin Newsom, I'm looking at you, you
Speaker 5: lying monster, James Prisker, child grooming scumback.
Speaker 1: Because rage reads disdeath santus and people like that wanted
Speaker 1: kids to die for some reason. They enjoy stacks of
Speaker 1: dead children at their skulls, right exactly.
Speaker 5: Many schools in heavily democratic area stayed closed for almost
Speaker 5: a year from the spring of twenty twenty to the
Speaker 5: spring of twenty twenty one, or longer.
Speaker 1: It was longer than that around here, or kel Unicornia. Yeah.
Speaker 5: In some Republican areas, by contrast, schools remain closed only
Speaker 5: for the spring of twenty twenty and opened right up.
Speaker 5: And this helps explain a partisan gap in learning loss.
Speaker 1: How you get in the specific status. I can't believe
Speaker 1: this wasn't more fairly reported on or discussed or whatever.
Speaker 1: I use this example all the time because I got
Speaker 1: it in my own life. I got two schools seven
Speaker 1: miles apart, the public school and the private school. My
Speaker 1: son's now in. The private school barely shut down at all.
Speaker 1: The public school was closed for like two years. And
Speaker 1: there were not I was joking. There were not stacks
Speaker 1: of dead children everywhere, nor teachers. No, nor teachers. The
Speaker 1: private school was fine. Now, how do you explain that
Speaker 1: teachers union public schools. How do you explain that that
Speaker 1: school's open over there, and it's not like they got
Speaker 1: tons extra money for some sort of special ventilation or
Speaker 1: something like that. What a joke.
Speaker 5: Randy Weingarten, the head of the big teachers Union, who
Speaker 5: is a demon from hell sent to punish us for
Speaker 5: our sins, used it like other unions did, as leverage.
Speaker 5: You want the kids back in. I can tell you
Speaker 5: really really want the kids back in. You got to
Speaker 5: give us more money. You got to give us more
Speaker 5: of this, You got to give us more of that. No,
Speaker 5: and the kids stay home.
Speaker 1: I fully believe she was doing that and knew that,
Speaker 1: And I honestly don't know how she sleeps at night.
Speaker 1: I don't because she has no concerence. Monster, You are
Speaker 1: a monster. You certainly don't care about children. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're beyond not caring about them. You're fine with them
Speaker 1: having awful lives if you can have more power. You're
Speaker 1: a disgusting human being.
Speaker 5: But you know what she's like, yah Ya Sinlar of
Speaker 5: Hamas she cares in children insomuch as they are leverage,
Speaker 5: just like Sinwar and Jimaski's about Palestinian citizens.
Speaker 1: I put it to their deaths are leverage. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: put her in that category, but I know plenty of
Speaker 1: teachers that that's not what their angle was. They believed
Speaker 1: the whole it was too dangerous to have schools open
Speaker 1: thing for summer.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, because Trump said it was good to open them.
Speaker 5: The left went crazy explaining how incredibly unwise that would be.
Speaker 5: There's so many things I want to talk about and
Speaker 5: information I have in front of me, but I'm going
Speaker 5: to narrow it down for the interest of time and
Speaker 5: if there needed to be more horrifying irony for the
Speaker 5: political left. All kids were hurt pretty badly. Poor kids
Speaker 5: were just deamated, and there bounce back time even worse.
Speaker 1: Sure, we talked about that during the time this is
Speaker 1: the least progressive thing you could possibly do, because guess what,
Speaker 1: I hired a tutor for my kid. If you can't
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you're in worse shape. So you're standing
Speaker 1: up for the down drodden, are you?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: The last thing I want to squeeze in, and I
Speaker 5: wish we had a little more time. Maybe we can
Speaker 5: do it after the break. But we got a great
Speaker 5: note from a teacher who pointed out a handful of things.
Speaker 5: He said, First of all, he agrees there isn't one
Speaker 5: single cause, and he agrees with many many of the
Speaker 5: things we've said about education. But he also wants to
Speaker 5: point out that the nature of the tests has changed
Speaker 5: a good deal. So to compare scores from like the
Speaker 5: seventies and eighties to today is not apples to apples,
Speaker 5: So it's misleading in its own way. I found it
Speaker 5: really interesting, and again, maybe we can get into it
Speaker 5: in detail.
Speaker 1: I don't know our four.
Speaker 5: But he also says that being said, test scores are
Speaker 5: bad and the following has made this situation worse. Increase
Speaker 5: in second language students, increase in chaotic homes, the rise
Speaker 5: in technological distractions, a decrease in attention spans, children read
Speaker 5: less on their own, increased absenteeism, culture changes, and yes,
Speaker 5: Joe woke ass up with trans diversity, this, that and
Speaker 5: the other thing taking time and attention.
Speaker 1: And also well, I don't want to go down this
Speaker 1: road some other day about spending on schools then versus now.
Speaker 5: Oh, and the one hundred and twenty seven or three
Speaker 5: hundred percent increase in administration was opposed to students.
Speaker 1: Like one example, every school when I was a kid
Speaker 1: used to have these band uniforms that had to be
Speaker 1: incredibly expensive. Schools can't do that now. There's just no
Speaker 1: money for that. Where art they have music classes at all.
Speaker 1: If you have music classes or art classes at all,
Speaker 1: And we had those, and we had plenty of art
Speaker 1: supplies and bank uniforms and all this different sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: And then you got the whole every girl's straight a
Speaker 1: student thing that goes on now that didn't use the harpanslation. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Dave signs off from Swine's teat Nevada.
Speaker 1: I have traveled the highways and.
Speaker 5: Byways of the fair state of Nevada, Dave, and I
Speaker 5: have not found myself yet in the charming burg of
Speaker 5: Swine's teeth.
Speaker 1: But I hope and you hope to see it and
Speaker 1: its citizens sometimes in suburb of Elco.
Speaker 5: Okay or Eli beautiful Lily Eely is beautiful this time
Speaker 5: of year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, that story gets me so worked up
Speaker 1: and so mad because I had kids, I mean right
Speaker 1: in the thick of it during the whole thing. Oh.
Speaker 1: I know, I'll be resentful about that the rest of
Speaker 1: my life. Derangement syndrome, no doubt. Chelsea Gabbard, have the
Speaker 1: votes come in? News Nation says they're in and she's confirmed.
Speaker 1: Nobody else is reporting that, but they will be voting
Speaker 1: soon and won't let you know. Stay here.
Speaker 8: Lakers gave out nineteen thousand, number seventy seven T shirts
Speaker 8: to celebrate the arrival of Luke Dauncic. You could see
Speaker 8: the chemistry between Luca and Lebron right off the bat.
Speaker 2: Luca got a huge La.
Speaker 8: Welcome in front of a sold out crowd.
Speaker 1: It was a big night.
Speaker 8: Nobody knows why the Mavericks made this trade. One of
Speaker 8: the storylines is that it was because of his weight.
Speaker 8: Mavericks had concerned about his conditioning, whereas the fans in
Speaker 8: Dallas do not.
Speaker 2: Right, thank you, I guess have you turning on the TV.
Speaker 8: See a bunch of people chanting he's not fat. The
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Speaker 2: This is LA.
Speaker 8: We do not allow fat here. We will get some
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Speaker 2: Look what we did to John Goodman, we can do
Speaker 2: that to you.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Break Kimmel isn't being obnoxious, he's hilarious bringing.
Speaker 1: Back he's not fat. That's one of the strangest high
Speaker 1: level trades that I can remember in pro sports history.
Speaker 5: Right, given this brock for what's his name back in
Speaker 5: the sixties.
Speaker 1: But completely a surprise to the players. Yeah what now? Anyway,
Speaker 1: the breaking news, Tulsea Gobert has been confirmed. She is
Speaker 1: your Director of National Intelligence and has been confirmed fifty
Speaker 1: to forty eight, with only Mitch McConnell joining the Democrats
Speaker 1: in opposition. So there you go, party line vote plus
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. Just have to see that how it goes.
Speaker 5: So if I ever leave the show, which is unlikely,
Speaker 5: I sure hope the folks will rally outside the radio
Speaker 5: ranch and chant to bring him back. He's not fat.
Speaker 5: On my behalf, because that would be an honor Katie Green.
Speaker 5: What what should we know about what we're about to play?
Speaker 9: So I was scrolling through TikTok and this popped up
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Speaker 9: it's a woman filming it. Her husband is driving and
Speaker 9: he has headphones in and she's clearly talking at him,
Speaker 9: but he cannot hear her.
Speaker 10: And this is how it goes down.
Speaker 6: I thinks I talk too much. I can't get a
Speaker 6: word in edge wise when I'm talking.
Speaker 2: To my girls.
Speaker 6: But we're on a road trip in a confined space,
Speaker 6: and he's got your buds in listening to Armstrong and
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Speaker 1: Good Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah he can't.
Speaker 9: He says he can't get a word in edgewise, and
Speaker 9: he's sitting there. He doesn't hear a thing she's saying
Speaker 9: because he's listening to you guys.
Speaker 5: That's funny we made TikTok. I hope she j In
Speaker 5: Ping doesn't purge that clip because it mentions the flaming
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Speaker 1: Uh. I, So you have TikTok on your phone or
Speaker 1: what you Yeah? How much do you enjoy it?
Speaker 10: It's it's okay. I mean the algorithms.
Speaker 9: Definitely, it catches my attention, but I try to, you know,
Speaker 9: not use it as much because the China thing.
Speaker 1: I wish I could do it. I mean I would
Speaker 1: like to. I would like to, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of obnoxious crap on there.
Speaker 9: But somehow that algorithm put that video on my phone yesterday.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Don't trust China. So it knows where you work it probably,
Speaker 1: or just knows what radio show has beloved coast to coast.
Speaker 9: Yeah, or it hears it through my phone when I'm
Speaker 9: on with you guys every day.
Speaker 10: I'm not sure, but I thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 1: That is funny, funny. Bring him back, he's not fat.
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Speaker 1: hours every day day and if you don't get every hour,
Speaker 1: every segment, you should find our podcast Armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 1: bureaucracy resistant to change that Elon laid out in the
Speaker 1: Oval Office yesterday with Trump. I mean, it's hilarious. You
Speaker 1: can't believe it's true. Elon couldn't believe it's true. But
Speaker 1: it is true, and we'll have that an hour for
Speaker 1: could not love it more.
Speaker 5: And with all the ridiculous stories that are elevated and
Speaker 5: we're all supposed to yell at each other about and
Speaker 5: care about that, two days later you don't even remember
Speaker 5: what they were. Reining in spending balancing the federal books
Speaker 5: is the most important story we could possibly talk about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and creating a different culture where people care about
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