Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: USA.
Speaker 2: We won the Pope World Cup USA.
Speaker 1: Amrica right, actually lived most of his life away from
Speaker 1: the country, snubbing us, giving us the middle finger, if
Speaker 1: you will.
Speaker 2: Didn't speak in English yesterday.
Speaker 3: He spoken Italian, Latin, and Spanish, but not English.
Speaker 1: I'm prepared to pronounce him an America hater and turn
Speaker 1: against him immediately. Why waste time?
Speaker 2: If necessary? Always the age.
Speaker 1: Of hyperbole, keyboard warriors and saying horrifying things about people,
Speaker 1: thinking nobody will ever know who you are. So yes,
Speaker 1: I've turned on him seriously, speaking of the modern world,
Speaker 1: and we'll get to cal of the week in just
Speaker 1: a second or two. We got this follow up note
Speaker 1: in reference to our previous conversation from Rich in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: who addresses it to you, Sarah, Jack. I downloaded chat
Speaker 1: GPT a week ago and was blown away. I asked
Speaker 1: it to write a short story about a boy bullied
Speaker 1: at school. It was the most beautiful, tender story I've
Speaker 1: ever read. It made me cry. Oh my god, then
Speaker 1: I asked it to write a novel, and now we
Speaker 1: have a full collaborative relationship writing my novel together. I
Speaker 1: am a recovering person like you, with an addictive personality.
Speaker 1: I just found a new drug and I'm really scared.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I wondered about, not not so much
Speaker 3: being addicted to is just.
Speaker 2: So many different ways to make that a giant part
Speaker 2: of your life.
Speaker 1: How interesting to be alive at the sunset of humanity?
Speaker 1: Huh yeah?
Speaker 2: All right, here's your interesting to be raising.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a old girl about how interesting to
Speaker 3: be raising kids to send out into this world. Yeah,
Speaker 3: hoping they can have a long life.
Speaker 1: Hey son, you should dedicate to all of your time
Speaker 1: and energy to acquiring an education and then after that
Speaker 1: into a particular field which may then disappear in the
Speaker 1: blink of an eye. Good luck, go get them. Among
Speaker 1: other issues, never mind the emotional human connection ones we
Speaker 1: were discussing earlier. All right, quick prediction, then we'll do cow.
Speaker 1: Does humankind adjust to this? No? Okay, moving along, it's
Speaker 1: time for the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look
Speaker 1: back at the week that was. It's cow Clips of
Speaker 1: the Week. I'm in contrast to your contrast.
Speaker 2: We like that.
Speaker 1: I'll say this as well. You can have that.
Speaker 2: Product, whip some week.
Speaker 4: Life away celebrating nine day.
Speaker 5: I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs that's eleven
Speaker 5: years old, needs to have thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: How do you lead the world having ambitious struction? How
Speaker 2: do you been out?
Speaker 1: I'm in the best health care inal.
Speaker 2: He wasn't hiding somewhere.
Speaker 1: I didn't have him, you know, sequestered in some place.
Speaker 2: Where she had You know, Canada loves us and we
Speaker 2: love Canada. But we'll see, I mean, over time, we'll
Speaker 2: see what.
Speaker 1: Happens to me. Having met with the owners of Canada
Speaker 1: over the course of the campaign, it's not for sale,
Speaker 1: won't be for sale.
Speaker 6: Evers Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: It sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful
Speaker 1: and strong and miserable.
Speaker 2: Week Crew is called.
Speaker 6: Most Diablos Day forty two.
Speaker 1: It's basically the minor league gang for trenda Ragway.
Speaker 2: This is made up of kids.
Speaker 3: While a large crowd of protesters gathered outside near the campus,
Speaker 3: where they clashed with New York City police.
Speaker 7: This latest mishaf occurring when the pilot of an FA
Speaker 7: eighteen super Hornet was attempting a nighttime tale with blending,
Speaker 7: but the jet ended up falling off the end of
Speaker 7: the flight deck instead.
Speaker 6: After six decades leading Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett said he'll
Speaker 6: step down as CEO.
Speaker 1: Come on up this time. At least one hundred flights
Speaker 1: have been canceled today. I discuss told that proach lost
Speaker 1: all the radars.
Speaker 2: Three of the four radar screens were blocking. And it's
Speaker 2: because of Trump and Doge.
Speaker 5: If there's any place where Trump chaos can really cause
Speaker 5: loss of life, it's at the FAA.
Speaker 3: His lawyers are aiming to convince the jury the government
Speaker 3: is trying to police consensual sex by a swinger who
Speaker 3: they say invited others into his bedroom.
Speaker 1: So you got thirty two million followers, so you're one
Speaker 1: of the most followed people.
Speaker 7: See wait now, right now, you're not going to take
Speaker 7: inches off my back, bro.
Speaker 2: I thought you're talking about the five what.
Speaker 6: Ring?
Speaker 3: We had that clip of Kanye in there. We played
Speaker 3: a little of the new Kanye music. Was that on
Speaker 3: the show yesterday? The podcast?
Speaker 1: But podcast?
Speaker 3: One more thing that was on the show anyway, My
Speaker 3: son and I were listening a little bit of a
Speaker 3: couple of tracks that are available. Most of the streaming
Speaker 3: services won't air his weird hitler song, so it's hard
Speaker 3: to find.
Speaker 1: Why not.
Speaker 3: One song called Cousins. I said, I haven't heard this.
Speaker 3: When I started, my son said, don't listen to it.
Speaker 3: It's too disturbing. I said, I think I'll be okay.
Speaker 3: I'm sixty, but it was. It was pretty out there.
Speaker 3: What was the theme generally speaking, It's kind of hard
Speaker 3: to tell, but just you know, just a mishmash of disturbing,
Speaker 3: kind of like is another one, the World War III
Speaker 3: song about getting off Twitter and reading mind comp and
Speaker 3: just all kinds of craziness. But the music part is great.
Speaker 3: I mean it's really really good. Sounds great in my truck.
Speaker 3: These are odd times. What flavor are we looking for
Speaker 3: this hour, final hour of the week. It's Friday. We
Speaker 3: could certainly have some fun. We got wacky clips from
Speaker 3: around the country. Air traffic being odd and unexpected things. Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: air Traffic Control in Newark is reporting another radar outage.
Speaker 3: The latest disruption one of the busiest airports in America
Speaker 3: happened again today briefly, So that's got to get nailed
Speaker 3: down that whole thing before summer travel season.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, indeed, a couple of stories from America's metropolitan
Speaker 1: areas I found interesting Midwest cities. Downtown is now mad
Speaker 1: Max style hell hole where locals are scared to go
Speaker 1: out after eight pm. Talking about fabulous Kansas City, Missouri,
Speaker 1: it's become a hotspot for legal street racing, reckless ATV
Speaker 1: M and I'm sorry ATV and dirt bike riders tearing
Speaker 1: through neighborhoods, side shows, that sort of thing, the riding
Speaker 1: electric dirt bikes and.
Speaker 3: That sort of stuff. That's just that's everywhere. My son
Speaker 3: watches those YouTube videos all the time. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they're gonna crack down then then or what.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, well I'll be in the woods watching the squirrels.
Speaker 1: Cavort society crumbles. But said David Lopez, local business owner,
Speaker 1: this isn't a race issue, it's not a political issue.
Speaker 1: This is a safety issue. I feel as though this
Speaker 1: city is about as unsafe as it's been since my
Speaker 1: family's been. And he gives his address and that's forty
Speaker 1: five years this September.
Speaker 2: That's too bad.
Speaker 1: When things out of your control start to chip away,
Speaker 1: at the very foundation of what you've done for four generations.
Speaker 1: It hurts, he says, people are gonna leave. That's it.
Speaker 2: We have been on in Kansas City for years.
Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getty shown are very proud to be
Speaker 3: and I used to live there and I worked radio
Speaker 3: in Kansas City many many, many years ago before Joe
Speaker 3: and I even got together.
Speaker 1: But I love Kansas City. I didn't love it more.
Speaker 3: Did they have a policy change, did they do one
Speaker 3: of those woke da.
Speaker 1: Things, or what's going on there? You know, that's an
Speaker 1: excellent question. I ought to dig into it, and certainly
Speaker 1: Kansas Citians, if you'd like to drop us a note
Speaker 1: and give us your take on it, love to hear it.
Speaker 1: Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 3: I lived on the Kansas side, not the god forsaken
Speaker 3: Missouri side.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Kansas City Democrat Mayor Quinin Lucas pictured after his blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. There are suggestions in this article to what
Speaker 1: extent it's a full description of the situation that suggested, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's typical Democrat blue city policies, particularly post George Floyd,
Speaker 1: that have given people the license to go out and
Speaker 1: do whatever they want and the cops are pulling back.
Speaker 3: How in the hell does this continue to catch on places?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the the inability to connect policy with result is
Speaker 1: one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed as
Speaker 1: an observer of politics and culture. Even without that, what
Speaker 1: is your upbringing, life, education, your education, that might be it,
Speaker 1: But what is leading you to your concern?
Speaker 3: Is there just too many people in jail? I never
Speaker 3: think that I'm a worried that there are too many
Speaker 3: people in jail.
Speaker 1: Well, if you if you've ever been to a prison
Speaker 1: or you know seen them, you understand their start in
Speaker 1: depressing places, A bunch of people who made really bad
Speaker 1: decisions and I'm glad they're locked up. Well I'm getting there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I could see people think he is
Speaker 1: terrible how many people we have in prison? But for
Speaker 1: the thought not to even occur to you, Well, we
Speaker 1: have laws and they broke them. That is that is
Speaker 1: a person I would like studied at the university level.
Speaker 1: And actually, you know, it's a pretty good personage of
Speaker 1: the American people who don't even well, perhaps it's folks
Speaker 1: who have been con evinced by their government, schools and
Speaker 1: universities that well, the only reason those people are incarcerating
Speaker 1: is because of systemic racism drove them to make desperate choices,
Speaker 1: And it's all about tearing down Western civilization, which my
Speaker 1: Marxist professors have convinced me is completely honest or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: completely necessary in my women's queer gender Hispanic studies classes
Speaker 1: or what have.
Speaker 2: Critical women's gender studies queer?
Speaker 1: I said queer twice classes. Yeah, I blew off class
Speaker 1: way too much. I didn't pick up all of Lengo.
Speaker 1: But now that reminds me, where is that soul quote?
Speaker 1: A ton of soul? Kicked off the show with this?
Speaker 1: More or less today, there have always been ignorant people,
Speaker 1: but they haven't always had a college degree to make
Speaker 1: them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they
Speaker 1: are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy
Speaker 1: of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes. That is a really
Speaker 1: good description of the modern college education in a lot
Speaker 1: of places. You engineers, leaving you out of the discussion.
Speaker 1: You chemists, you're actually getting taught with you you ought
Speaker 1: to be learning at least, I hope man.
Speaker 3: I'm glad there's some really smart people out there fighting
Speaker 3: back about this stuff that are smart enough to like
Speaker 3: and take the time to really like delineate the argument
Speaker 3: the way who's our favorite guy, Like the way James
Speaker 3: Lindsay does. I mean he'll take the time to do
Speaker 3: the research to really you know, and just say, oh,
Speaker 3: shut up, the way I kind of do.
Speaker 2: When I hear that crap.
Speaker 3: He actually breaks it all down and explains why it
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Right, And it's so important that people understand and and
Speaker 1: the best way to get started understanding it, I think
Speaker 1: is at least to read the first handful of chapters
Speaker 1: of Lindsey and pluck Rose's book Cynical Theories, because attracts
Speaker 1: the origin of the critical theory thing, which is like
Speaker 1: at the at the root of all the stuff we're
Speaker 1: talking about. How it started, how it was described as
Speaker 1: a strategy to capture institutions, to take them over and
Speaker 1: bend them to the purposes of neomarxism. As I've said
Speaker 1: many times, these people wrote books, their names are on
Speaker 1: the spine. They're proud of it. They told us exactly
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do. But when somebody like me
Speaker 1: or James Lindsay or Jack or whoever is trying to
Speaker 1: describe this. The left says, all listen to the crazy,
Speaker 1: paranoid conspiracy theorists, and a lot of people, even those
Speaker 1: like steeped in all this crap. They're unaware of what
Speaker 1: I was just talking about. Because the great con is
Speaker 1: it's sold as a moral philosophy and not as a
Speaker 1: tool of takeover in the name of neomarxism. It's sold
Speaker 1: as hey, look, black people are belieguered. Are you an
Speaker 1: anti racist or are you a racist? People think, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not a racist, I must be an anti racist.
Speaker 1: Tell me what I should do, Tell me what I
Speaker 1: should say? Oh, wise, overlords, and they have no idea
Speaker 1: what they're participating in. I don't remember if it was
Speaker 1: a ute video or podcast or what. But his whole
Speaker 1: why two plus two equals five is dangerous? That one
Speaker 1: was so interesting in the history of that and the
Speaker 1: pushback and the people that push.
Speaker 2: It, it's it's wild.
Speaker 3: We got a bunch on the way, like why is
Speaker 3: Milania only spent fourteen days at the White House?
Speaker 2: What's going on there? Almong other things there?
Speaker 5: Well, you guys, this weekend is Mother's Day. That's right,
Speaker 5: And already if people are sending some heartfelt messages. For instance,
Speaker 5: President Trump said I can't wait to celebrate Mother's Day
Speaker 5: with my beautiful wife and an incredible mother, Milania, and
Speaker 5: then former President Obama said I'd like to send a
Speaker 5: happy Mother's Day wish to the amazing mother of my
Speaker 5: two children, Michelle.
Speaker 1: That's sweet.
Speaker 5: And finally, Elon Muss said, Happy Mother's Day to my
Speaker 5: kids amazing moms Alice, Jessica and Linda Harley, Meghan, Sarah
Speaker 5: Sarad and eighty six more than I'm sending scratch.
Speaker 1: Off took Street. Oh my, oh my.
Speaker 3: So speaking of Milania, she's only been stayed the night
Speaker 3: at the White House fourteen times so far, which is
Speaker 3: not very often compared to most first ladies.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It might just be as she's raising Baron away from
Speaker 3: the spotlight of the White House. I mean, he's a
Speaker 3: college kid now, but he's going to Isn't he going
Speaker 3: to school in New York?
Speaker 2: I think he is.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Maybe I have a feeling that's part of it.
Speaker 1: And she doesn't really have any interest in politics, and
Speaker 1: she has thoroughly read her I'm a crazy hot model
Speaker 1: who married a billionaire contract and has has noticed a
Speaker 1: clause forty four C, which says you don't have to
Speaker 1: spend as much time as arm candy after a year
Speaker 1: twenty two. Well, Michelle, however long they've been together.
Speaker 3: Michelle Obama's been pretty open lately about how much she
Speaker 3: hated it there. She's probably thinking, I wish I'd have
Speaker 3: done that. A lot of.
Speaker 1: First families have that same reaction, that same feeling. It
Speaker 1: sounds like it is definitely something you would do to
Speaker 1: your family. Oh yeah, it's an enormous sacrifice by those
Speaker 1: poor people. Whatever party you were talking about, whatever.
Speaker 3: President, No kidding, just running. I don't even know how
Speaker 3: you present that to your wife or husband. Here's what
Speaker 3: we'll do. We'll make everything we've ever done or said
Speaker 3: with everyone we've ever known in our lives a national topic.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: What percentage of the First ladies of the last say,
Speaker 1: seventy five years were also political beasts? Hillary was obviously, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Jill Biden obviously to the point of mania, trotting
Speaker 1: to pour senile husband out for profit and power. You
Speaker 1: know you did such a great job.
Speaker 7: You answered every question.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That was after the disastrous senility debate. She said that.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, what a nut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of tales from around the country. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we have no time. Humh. Let me give you the
Speaker 1: gist and then we will pay off. On the other
Speaker 1: side of a very short and informative commercial break, here's
Speaker 1: one state going absolutely in the wrong direction. Prosecutors in
Speaker 1: Minnesota's largest county, Woke, Woke, Minneapolis, are now being instructed
Speaker 1: to take race into consideration when you're giving out sentences
Speaker 1: or recommending sentences or prosecuting people.
Speaker 2: That's not racist at all.
Speaker 1: No, indeed, that's not at all unconstitutional, except that it's
Speaker 1: completely blatantly in black and white unconstitutional. But what but
Speaker 1: of many jokes, what state, the punchline to many jokes,
Speaker 1: has completely turned around their educational system? And how did
Speaker 1: they do it? There's an old saying, thank God for
Speaker 1: Mississippi because you might be forty ninth in this, that
Speaker 1: or the other, but you're probably not gonna be in
Speaker 1: last place in American states because thank God for Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Mississippi has staged a hell of a turnaround. I want
Speaker 1: to tell you about it.
Speaker 2: Among other things. On the way, stay.
Speaker 6: Here, armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 4: I have never seen anything like that in my life,
Speaker 4: and appears that little black stuff has falling down the
Speaker 4: center of it. Tell me that is not freaking weird.
Speaker 4: I have no idea. I've been recording it. It was
Speaker 4: a dark black circle, and now it's dissipating.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks like somebody blew a big old.
Speaker 6: Smokering a congregation the bird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I thought, because it looked like everything
Speaker 4: was falling through the center. But now it's just like
Speaker 4: totally dissipating. But I ain't never seen nothing like that
Speaker 4: in my life. I hadn't pull over recording.
Speaker 2: What the heck was that, Katie.
Speaker 8: That was a guy who was driving in Kansas and
Speaker 8: there was this giant black ring of Again, people thought
Speaker 8: it might have been birds. They didn't know what it was,
Speaker 8: but it was a rangement.
Speaker 2: Pope got a new pope. Sure, nothing to think about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, apparently scientists are claiming that it was man made.
Speaker 8: But it looked like a giant It looked like someone
Speaker 8: blew a giant black smoke ring into the sky.
Speaker 1: That freaky out, Yeah, and then he laughed like his
Speaker 1: soul had become uninjured.
Speaker 8: That was my favorite part of the clip was his laugh.
Speaker 8: He was so amused by this, and people were pulling
Speaker 8: over to talk to him, and he's on his motorcycle.
Speaker 2: Just look it up. Cool.
Speaker 1: That was a bizarre laugh at the end. Anyway, I'm disturbed.
Speaker 1: So you think, Jack, your theory is at least this
Speaker 1: is what I've taken from your comments, that the new
Speaker 1: pope is actually evil and God Almighty was sending us
Speaker 1: a sign but missed by a couple of states and
Speaker 1: sent it to Kansas instead of Illinois.
Speaker 2: No, it's not, but it's a good working theory, I suppose.
Speaker 1: So, just getting back briefly to the Minnesota story, you
Speaker 1: got the prosecutor in Hennepin County, which is where Minneapolis is,
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh. You know, well, I won't go
Speaker 1: off on the tangent. I'll wait. But this this woman,
Speaker 1: what's her first name, Mary Moriarty, full on woke Marxist
Speaker 1: prosecutor of the George Gascone variety and the others. She
Speaker 1: became Hennepin County's top prosecutor January twenty three after receiving
Speaker 1: donations from a group link to of course megodowner George Soros.
Speaker 1: She's the same gal who declined to charge that state
Speaker 1: employee who was caught on video vandalizing Tesla cars right
Speaker 1: and costing more than twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: In damage, which is just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, shouldn't we easier two thousand dollars in damage,
Speaker 1: no charges?
Speaker 2: Shouldn't it be easier to remove those people?
Speaker 1: He has come under scrutiny for repeatedly refusing to prosecute
Speaker 1: accused rapists and killers. According to The New York Post, U, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, you're by definition not doing your job.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how it's not easier to remove them,
Speaker 3: recall them, or impeach them or whatever.
Speaker 2: You're well right, state.
Speaker 1: Allows, And so the reason we brought this up in
Speaker 1: the last segment was they had she had announced a
Speaker 1: policy that they would take race into consideration with charging
Speaker 1: decisions and sentencing decisions and all sorts of stuff. Spokesperson
Speaker 1: for the Hennepin County Attorney's Office defended Mori Alreaties directive
Speaker 1: telling local TV station quota defendants race matters because we
Speaker 1: know unaddressed, unconscious biases lead to racial disparities, which is
Speaker 1: an unacceptable outcome. A constitutional law professor at the University
Speaker 1: of Minnesota. Jill has Day said the policy will likely
Speaker 1: be overturned by the Supreme Court and accused the progressive
Speaker 1: prosecutor of writing it ambiguously to skirt constitutional issues. M
Speaker 1: m uh and and she goes into a description of
Speaker 1: the writing of it. But that's just crazy.
Speaker 2: What was that that thing at the beginning there? The
Speaker 2: uh any outcome that.
Speaker 1: Oh that I just read. Yeah, defendant's race matters, because
Speaker 1: we know unaddressed, unconscious biases lead to racial disparities, and.
Speaker 3: That's the only way you could end up with unequal
Speaker 3: amounts of percentages of people in jail.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, disproportionate, Yeah, incarceration of say, black men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's it. That's the only possible explanation. So that
Speaker 1: is interesting, to say the least. I really wanted to
Speaker 1: get to how woke Colorado's become. Maybe next week we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it, among other things. Oh and the tangent
Speaker 1: that I disciplined myself for once not to go off
Speaker 1: on you. Remember I brought to your attention the gal
Speaker 1: in the Minneapolis area Hennepin County who had dropped an
Speaker 1: N bomb end bombs on a kid in a park
Speaker 1: and then various right wing ye folks raised a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of money for her. I mean, like getting close
Speaker 1: to a million dollars, maybe over a million dollars now, Matt.
Speaker 3: Walsh, because she had been docked. I mean, she got
Speaker 3: her life pretty ruined. I mean, you know, she did
Speaker 3: something really awful. But in the modern world, you lose
Speaker 3: your job anyway, and then you then you donate money
Speaker 3: because you don't think, I don't know, it's complicated.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, and it's even more complicated than I thought.
Speaker 1: Matt Walsh Conservative provocateur has written a really interesting piece
Speaker 1: about the situation in her part of Minnesota, that being
Speaker 1: Biden and Minnesota's policies have completely changed the face of
Speaker 1: these towns in a very few years, and they are
Speaker 1: now just there are any many, many thousands of Somali refugees,
Speaker 1: recent immigrants to our land, some legal, some illegal, and
Speaker 1: how they have imported to a large degree the Somali culture,
Speaker 1: which includes a rampant corruption and theft, and that a
Speaker 1: lot of people are completely at the end of their
Speaker 1: ropes because their town has gone from idyllic midwestern Minneapolis
Speaker 1: area town to crime ridden hellhole and there's no reason
Speaker 1: to drop an enbomb on a kid. No, but thievery
Speaker 1: is rampant apparently, and this kid was rooting through her
Speaker 1: bag and she lost her mind.
Speaker 3: Man, I don't know where I am on this because
Speaker 3: Matt wallsh we've liked a lot of his stuff before.
Speaker 3: He and James Lindsay, who I referenced earlier and I
Speaker 3: like a lot of his stuff, are locked in a
Speaker 3: quite angry battle over this whole thing. I mean, like
Speaker 3: vicious on this specific topic. Scific topic. Yes, oh boy,
Speaker 3: going on looking a week or longer. Yeah, it's it's something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't Yeah. Interesting, I mean I can
Speaker 1: see both sides, but I'll have to see what James
Speaker 1: has to say about it. Uh. There are plenty of
Speaker 1: people I like very much and respect a great deal.
Speaker 1: Who you know about ten, maybe even twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the time, I think, Nope, you're wrong, But I'll look
Speaker 1: into it. It's interesting on the good news front for once,
Speaker 1: this is an amazing story, so amazing that I want
Speaker 1: to dig a little bit more. The skeptic in me
Speaker 1: has been aroused. I do I mean sexually, I mean
Speaker 1: good skepticism.
Speaker 3: I I think glad you brought that up. Well, I
Speaker 3: was afraid you were going to make an idiotic joke.
Speaker 3: Frankly now about you being aroused sexually? You okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Well what hell? Oh, don't not get till you've tried
Speaker 3: it anyway.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: Painting the Deep Who am I quoting here? This is
Speaker 1: so well written. Daily does good job, a good work
Speaker 1: for the free press. Painting the Deep South it is
Speaker 1: as an embarrassing cultural backwater is one of the last
Speaker 1: socially acceptable forms of prejudice among elites. It's not just tolerated,
Speaker 1: it's venerated. Mississippi target Let's see, you know about the
Speaker 1: poor health outcomes, the poverty, the corruption, the obesity, the
Speaker 1: Confederacy stuff.
Speaker 2: The Confederacy. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Wikipedia has an entry dedicated the phrase thank God for
Speaker 1: Mississippi because its horrible performance on so many metrics saves
Speaker 1: other states from the embarrassment of finishing last.
Speaker 2: I've only driven around Mississippi. I did well.
Speaker 3: One of my last areas of the country that I
Speaker 3: ever got to, as I've driven around all forty eight
Speaker 3: contiguous states was the South and Alabama and Mississippian those areas,
Speaker 3: uh one vacation.
Speaker 2: Just loved it.
Speaker 3: I just loved everything about it, just the way the
Speaker 3: towns looked, and the roads and the people and the
Speaker 3: food and just everything I thought was fantastic.
Speaker 2: I've never lived there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a lot to love, definitely, including this.
Speaker 1: Mississippi has become the fastest improving school system in America.
Speaker 1: Mississippi is taking names and knows how to spell them.
Speaker 1: In twenty oh three, only the District of Columbia had
Speaker 1: more fourth graders in the lowest achievement level on our
Speaker 1: National Reading test than Mississippi. Only DC was worse.
Speaker 2: How does that and not get more attention?
Speaker 1: By last year only four states did better.
Speaker 3: Wow, Now they didn't just lower their standards, did they,
Speaker 3: California style?
Speaker 1: I need to look into this. When the Urban Institute
Speaker 1: adjusted national test results for student demographics, and I will
Speaker 1: click on that and check into that. In a second,
Speaker 1: Mississippi ranked fourth grade math, first, fourth grade reading, first
Speaker 1: eighth grade math, first eighth grade reading fourth and again,
Speaker 1: I'm going to check into the validity of this. And
Speaker 1: I think I know how because the skeptic in me thinks,
Speaker 1: did you change standards in a significant way or what?
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this. They decided we are
Speaker 1: going to focus on core educational principles. That's what we teach, reading, writing, arithmetic,
Speaker 1: No flabby stuff, no optional stuff. We are just going
Speaker 1: to devote all of our time and energy in too
Speaker 1: making sure these kids can do the basic stuff.
Speaker 3: Am I crooked letter, crooked letter, I crooked letter, crooked letter?
Speaker 1: I ipply? Yeah? Yeah. More often they have been sloppy
Speaker 1: attempts at debunking Mississippi's success. Some of them ran a
Speaker 1: national papers, others were withdrawn when the authors realized they
Speaker 1: were based on flawed information. There are lessons for our
Speaker 1: education community and for both political parties.
Speaker 2: Well that's that. I like that.
Speaker 3: That would be a great once again laboratory of democracy
Speaker 3: experiment where they focused on the basics which we've been
Speaker 3: saying for a long time, and left out all the
Speaker 3: other crap. It reminds me of the thing Katie sent
Speaker 3: us the other day that in is it Boise, Idaho,
Speaker 3: where they just voted to somehow get around the law.
Speaker 3: How did that whole thing work, Katie?
Speaker 8: They Yeah, they found some loophole in the law where
Speaker 8: now the state capitol will permanently display the Pride flag
Speaker 8: because they'd passed a law that you could only have
Speaker 8: the state or county flags.
Speaker 1: Official flag, official official flag.
Speaker 2: And that's something Trump's been pushing at the federal level.
Speaker 8: And Boise is a blue dot in a sea of
Speaker 8: red and everyone is pissed except for the college down.
Speaker 3: And they found a way to include the pride flag
Speaker 3: in the official flags second flag. And I just bring
Speaker 3: it up because that's the sort of stuff that's happening
Speaker 3: in a lot of schools where they they jam in
Speaker 3: all this, like in a whole month worth of pride
Speaker 3: stuff in the middle of all you're schooling.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So here's the detail I needed. This adjustment
Speaker 1: of scores. Demographically, what they're doing is comparing apples to apples,
Speaker 1: kids to kids and separating how you instead of having
Speaker 1: an overall score, how did you do among affluent kids,
Speaker 1: middle class kids, poverty stricken kids. And Mississippi is doing
Speaker 1: beautifully compared to a lot of other places on kids
Speaker 1: in poverty. Mississippi just has so many kids in poverty
Speaker 1: it makes their scores look bad like it's quote unquote
Speaker 1: a dumb state when they're doing pretty heroic work with
Speaker 1: a sort of kids who would do miserably worse in
Speaker 1: more affluent states. With fewer poverty stricken kids. Interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is interesting. I would never want to dumb things
Speaker 1: down and say, well they're poor kids, so that's good enough,
Speaker 1: which is the tendency on the left. But now I
Speaker 1: get the methodology and why it's at least a decent idea.
Speaker 3: So I got a little warning I would throw out
Speaker 3: to you if you're thinking of getting a Tesla, and
Speaker 3: you probably weren't, but I'm on number three and I
Speaker 3: got rear ended a couple about a month or so ago,
Speaker 3: if you remember that in my cyberbeast, and so I
Speaker 3: took it in to get a fixed yesterday, and I
Speaker 3: learned something you need to know before you ever consider
Speaker 3: buying a Tesla, or maybe even in any other electric cars.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but anyway, that and other stuff will
Speaker 3: finish strong next.
Speaker 2: So this makes me stupid, but this is the way
Speaker 2: I did it. So I bought.
Speaker 3: I'm on my third Tesla that I've had. I never
Speaker 3: paid attention to what the car insurance was. Really I
Speaker 3: just said, whatever it is that this is the car
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get. I gotta pay it. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: I chose the deductible and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: But the car insurance on Tesla's is insane.
Speaker 2: I mean absolutely insane.
Speaker 3: And so I got into that conversation with the guy
Speaker 3: yesterday because I got real ended about a month ago
Speaker 3: and my brand new Cyberpiecet and it took it in
Speaker 3: to get it fixed, and it's gonna be like eight
Speaker 3: thousand dollars for this minor bit of damage. Part of
Speaker 3: the reason it's so expensive to repair these things. And
Speaker 3: I just wonder if all cars are going to be
Speaker 3: going this direction as technology gets more and more and
Speaker 3: more complicated. Any very few shops can work on a
Speaker 3: Tesla because you have to be certified from the person
Speaker 3: who answers the phone and every single tech. You just
Speaker 3: can't have one tech that knows how to work on Tesla.
Speaker 3: Everybody has to be fully certified. You have to have
Speaker 3: all the tools, everything like that. The reason for that
Speaker 3: is Elon and Tesla's on the hook for if anything
Speaker 3: happens with the automotive automatic driving thing, if anything goes wrong,
Speaker 3: so you get any kind of dent or anything like that,
Speaker 3: they got to make sure that didn't damage any sensor
Speaker 3: or anything so that it doesn't cause a crash, you know,
Speaker 3: and on the hook for a billion dollars or it
Speaker 3: ruins the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And so for that reason, it's really expensive, Like I mean,
Speaker 3: you should look into it if you think and you're
Speaker 3: gonna save money because you're not buying gas. There's no
Speaker 3: way you're gonna come out ahead with what insurance costs.
Speaker 3: And I just wonder if all vehicles are gonna go
Speaker 3: that way. Do you think the whole like self driving
Speaker 3: thing is gonna become like pretty much every car will
Speaker 3: have them.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, it's gonna be damn expensive to fix a
Speaker 1: certain level of expense. Yeah, I you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have a test lab. I have a car with a
Speaker 1: fair number of sensors and ability to do this, that
Speaker 1: and the other. And I was told the first time
Speaker 1: of the windshield crack, that'll be X dollars and I
Speaker 1: said what they said, Yeah, we got to replace all
Speaker 1: the sensors. And is for that reason it's liability again, Well,
Speaker 1: and probably a good idea because I don't want to die.
Speaker 1: I don't know Fiery crash Jack's.
Speaker 9: Got quips that'll leave you with stitches. Joe's Hot Tix
Speaker 9: mixed the ridges with glitches.
Speaker 1: Say no, Somber farewell, my friend.
Speaker 9: The laughter boomers to the then Oh Katie's headlines made
Speaker 9: the flavor of spies.
Speaker 7: I knows more.
Speaker 9: Play always hits Jeff Right, it does. Circus of chaos
Speaker 9: somehow found final thought Factory rejoys in that.
Speaker 1: I'm horrified by this on every thought coming personally, professionally, artistically.
Speaker 3: That I don't like to have this taste in my
Speaker 3: mouth for the whole weekend.
Speaker 1: You like at witnessing a murder.
Speaker 9: This is disturbing Strong getting the kings of the taste fortal,
Speaker 9: same time, same Monday.
Speaker 2: All right, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getting.
Speaker 1: If I can continue on, Let's get a final thought
Speaker 1: from those lyrics the painful. Oh my lord, I think
Speaker 1: I've been damaged for life. Michael Angelow, what's your final thought?
Speaker 1: Speaking for myself, I have tears in my eyes. That
Speaker 1: song was that bad.
Speaker 2: It was pretty bad.
Speaker 1: Just AI's Runeina creativity. You know, creative people are very special,
Speaker 1: and I'm just afraid they're going to go by the waystside.
Speaker 3: Well, the creative people will still exist, you just won't
Speaker 3: be able to make any money off of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, Katie Green are esteemed News woman, Katie, Katie
Speaker 1: the news lady, we all stop and stare. What's your
Speaker 1: final thought?
Speaker 2: Speak for yourselves.
Speaker 8: I'm having a blast with chat GPT creating Joe's barbecue.
Speaker 6: Sauce label right now.
Speaker 1: Because I look like a youth pastor who has gone
Speaker 1: rogue to introduce my own line of barbecue sauce. According
Speaker 1: to the Internet.
Speaker 3: Jack a final thought for us, Jack with his quips
Speaker 3: or whatever that was.
Speaker 2: I think that song gave me ed Oh.
Speaker 1: Good, it hurt my soul in ways I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I can't explain. I'm not sure I can go on.
Speaker 1: It's not Ben if you're it's not far off. A
Speaker 1: lot country hits either. The CHIV I know. God, Oh
Speaker 1: she had a little gray in the beard of my
Speaker 1: new barbecue sauce label. Now you've got it nailed, Katie.
Speaker 2: You gotta tweet that out so people can see it.
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Speaker 1: I like to think of myself as rich and tang.
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Speaker 2: Trap us a note.
Speaker 1: If there's something you see over the weekend you think,
Speaker 1: man that fella's ought to be talking about this, send
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Speaker 3: Try having a conversation with chat gpt over the weekend.
Speaker 3: See if it's as profound for you as it was
Speaker 3: for me. Disturbing anyway, We'll be back Monday, when the
Speaker 3: trade war with.
Speaker 2: China might be over already, according to rumors.
Speaker 1: Finally I can stuck up on pencils and dolls again.
Speaker 1: We'll have all the way shaped pencils.
Speaker 2: God bless America.
Speaker 6: Armstrong is an unpredictable beast.
Speaker 1: I was wondering you know what you felt about that?
Speaker 6: Whatever you say that and listen.
Speaker 2: Let's go one final message.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no.
Speaker 8: You look like the poster boys for a podcast called
Speaker 8: Middle Aged Mayhem.
Speaker 1: We complained so you don't have to.
Speaker 2: That's leftloads.
Speaker 3: That's a little on the nose, all right, Great Friday, Mother,
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Geddy