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Speaker 3: This guy's crangef That guy's Trump is so good. I
Speaker 3: thought I really liked the Saturday Alive. I thought it
Speaker 3: was pretty good. It was just an equal opportunity making
Speaker 3: fun of the whole thing. And I also liked During
Speaker 3: the News because I like stupid sketch comedy and having
Speaker 3: Peanut the Squirrel's widow on. I thought I didn't see
Speaker 3: that yet. Oh man, Sarah Sherman has peen at the
Speaker 3: squirrel's widow. So you or what were you just talking about?
Speaker 3: You were talking about what.
Speaker 4: How race has been deemphasized in a big hurry in
Speaker 4: American politics. I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because
Speaker 4: it's semi useful, but it's all about class and all
Speaker 4: about economic aspiration.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, So a couple of things on that.
Speaker 3: Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is,
Speaker 3: tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the
Speaker 3: lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot
Speaker 3: listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub
Speaker 3: rational factors like your race, or your gender, or your
Speaker 3: sexisting or your sexual orientation or something like this, then
Speaker 3: nobody would ever be able to change their mind. You
Speaker 3: exploded the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope. So,
Speaker 3: I don't know. They're almost, well, not almost almost always
Speaker 3: always it's always overstated after every election of my life,
Speaker 3: every presidential election, of how things have changed permanently in
Speaker 3: some way. But this has got to be a nod
Speaker 3: toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting. Ian
Speaker 3: Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also,
Speaker 3: globalism has been an abject failure. Benefiting a small group
Speaker 3: of all leads to the expense of broader populations across
Speaker 3: the West. Yeah, it varies from country to country, but
Speaker 3: that's certainly the way it feels to the average person.
Speaker 3: So you're being you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman,
Speaker 3: the world is flat hidden, this great for everybody thing,
Speaker 3: But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like.
Speaker 4: Well, right, yeah, and it's.
Speaker 2: A complicated set of interactions.
Speaker 4: But yeah, if the manufacturing jobs can be done more
Speaker 4: cheaply over there, and you become the paper shuffling people
Speaker 4: because you're really good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever. Well,
Speaker 4: those jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the
Speaker 4: well arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the
Speaker 4: guys running the ships mostly it rises their you know,
Speaker 4: financial well being.
Speaker 3: And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies
Speaker 3: all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism.
Speaker 3: The United States is not unique, explaining you know why
Speaker 3: people abandon some of their race politics for just uh,
Speaker 3: you know, my own pocketbook.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's a delicate balance if you go very
Speaker 4: far and all down the road of uh, industrial planning
Speaker 4: and government control and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: It's it's a miserable failure.
Speaker 4: But to completely ignore the question of a your people's
Speaker 4: standard living and be your national security.
Speaker 2: But here's an honest here's an honest.
Speaker 4: Question, because we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and
Speaker 4: commuter chips or or whatever is an idiotic thing to do.
Speaker 3: Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having
Speaker 3: so much bigger chunk of the national wealth, and it's
Speaker 3: always been true, but that you made way more money
Speaker 3: with the college education than without, But they have a
Speaker 3: bigger chunk now than they ever had be So I
Speaker 3: don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence
Speaker 3: around is that a college degree is worth less than
Speaker 3: it's ever been before. They're learning lesson they've ever been before.
Speaker 3: Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying more anyway,
Speaker 3: go ahead?
Speaker 2: But are they Yeah, but they're paying way more but
Speaker 2: getting less.
Speaker 3: So are these all these stats on the Wall Street
Speaker 3: Journal article over the weekend, how an Ivy League degree
Speaker 3: helps you hurts you more than helps you now? But
Speaker 3: so are all these stats about income and wealth lagging indicators.
Speaker 2: It's just it's gonna all this is going to catch up.
Speaker 3: To those numbers at some point because like I'm yes,
Speaker 3: I'm not super big on pushing my kids to go
Speaker 3: to college in the way that I I got started
Speaker 3: the whole college fund, like a lot of parents as
Speaker 3: soon as they were born, with just the assumption of
Speaker 3: course they're going to go to college.
Speaker 2: Over my dead body would they not.
Speaker 3: But now now I'm like, why would you go to
Speaker 3: college unless you have these specific things you want need
Speaker 3: to learn to do whatever it is you want to
Speaker 3: do in the world. But again, these all the stats
Speaker 3: out there showed on average, person with a college education
Speaker 3: makes a lot more money than person who doesn't have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think part of that is that the when was
Speaker 4: it that the boom in number of people getting college
Speaker 4: educations really took off?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 4: The people who were at the earlier edge of that
Speaker 4: are now in their fifties and sixties and in many
Speaker 4: cases in their peak earning years, oh, peak wealth accumulation years.
Speaker 4: Let's take another snapshot in thirty years, when you know
Speaker 4: a large number of college graduates will be in a
Speaker 4: world where a lot of people are college graduates, and
Speaker 4: they'll have taken useless degrees where they didn't learn anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a definite example of how it could be
Speaker 3: way a lagging an indicator, because if you're going to
Speaker 3: go with lifetime earnings, well obviously people have to be
Speaker 3: you know, sixty to come up with the in their
Speaker 3: sixties to come up with lifetime earnings that late. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: way lagging into There's just no way that's still going
Speaker 3: to be true. I don't think they make significantly more
Speaker 3: money with a college education than without.
Speaker 4: It just can't be, particularly given how rapidly everything changes
Speaker 4: now economical they technically technologically, I mean, so a quick
Speaker 4: thought for you, and then getting back to the piece
Speaker 4: in the Wall Street Journal about how it's less and
Speaker 4: less about race, thank god, and more and more about
Speaker 4: policy and opportunity. I was a kid in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 4: mostly you know, late teens in the eighties, but the
Speaker 4: three and I was a weird little kid. Not a
Speaker 4: surprise we got Time magazine. We're not like any Newsweek perverts.
Speaker 4: We were a magazine fan. Good Lord, I walk into
Speaker 4: somebody's else they got Newsweek. What else goes on here
Speaker 4: that I find? Devil worship, animal sacrifice, God knows anyway.
Speaker 4: But we would get Time magazine every week, and I
Speaker 4: would read it cover to cover every unless there was
Speaker 4: some particularly dry thing that I just couldn't get through.
Speaker 4: But I remember three news stories from the seventies distinctly now.
Speaker 4: One Vietnam unavoidable, two Watergate, watching that unfold, and three Inflation.
Speaker 4: I remember the whip inflation now, buttons I remember it
Speaker 4: being the major story in Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune,
Speaker 4: which we got at least on Sundays. As I recall
Speaker 4: all about inflation, asking my parents what is inflation. They
Speaker 4: would try to explain it to me. And we've talked
Speaker 4: since about what the mortgage rates were when they were
Speaker 4: trying to crush inflation by raising interest rates so high
Speaker 4: that mortgages were sixteen seventeen eighteen percent a year eighteen
Speaker 4: percent mortgage?
Speaker 2: Can you believe that like putting your house on your
Speaker 2: credit card?
Speaker 4: But getting back to the piece in the journal, then
Speaker 4: I'll bring it all together, as is my style. They
Speaker 4: quote Chicago and Alfredo Ramirez, who voted for or Brock
Speaker 4: twice Hillary in twenty sixteen. Last two elections, He's back Trump.
Speaker 4: He said economic concerns, not race, largely drove his vote
Speaker 4: this time. He and his wife are raising three kids
Speaker 4: on his twenty five thousand dollars a year job at
Speaker 4: Target WHOA. He remembers the economy being better before the pandemic,
Speaker 4: when eggs and everything else cost less. Trump has done
Speaker 4: more for the American people, he says, as post to
Speaker 4: the Democrats, they are only caring about themselves. He also
Speaker 4: said being Latino didn't affect his vote. Quote, it really
Speaker 4: doesn't matter as long as we are out here fighting
Speaker 4: for our freedom. And the reason I brought up the
Speaker 4: stories I remembered as a kid. In particular in inflation,
Speaker 4: particularly inflation is if inflation is high, as I've said
Speaker 4: many times, nothing else matters.
Speaker 2: And they mentioned where is that? I thought I was
Speaker 2: pretty well written.
Speaker 4: They mentioned that all sorts of alleged experts were in
Speaker 4: all sorts of media there is at times tried to
Speaker 4: use statistics.
Speaker 2: He said, this is a college guy.
Speaker 4: Uh explained down to the decimal point to argue that
Speaker 4: inflation wasn't really hurting people and that voters' concerns about
Speaker 4: immigration were unfounded. Explain that to mister Ramirez. Explain that
Speaker 4: to the black construction worker Aaron Waters, who we talked
Speaker 4: about before.
Speaker 2: What a load of crap.
Speaker 4: You're not scared at the grocery store when you see
Speaker 4: the bill and think how the hell am I going
Speaker 4: to pay my rent?
Speaker 2: You think you are?
Speaker 4: And I keep reading that wages have actually caught up
Speaker 4: to inflation. Do you know anybody here saying I've got
Speaker 4: such a giant race since a pre pandemic, I'm making
Speaker 4: twenty percent more.
Speaker 3: There's no way you're gotta be making almost thirty percent more.
Speaker 3: There's just now like.
Speaker 2: Average out including a hedge fund guys.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how you twist the
Speaker 2: statistics to get that.
Speaker 3: But I don't think I know a single person who
Speaker 3: would say that that was true for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know, and I've seen it in
Speaker 4: a couple of publications, so including the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 4: which surprised me. But everybody they talked to in this story,
Speaker 4: every single damn one of them, talks about the economy
Speaker 4: and their job and inflation. That's what it takes to
Speaker 4: take the gasoline out of the engine of it's all
Speaker 4: about race.
Speaker 2: Halle freaking Loujah.
Speaker 3: One more kind of economics thing I came across that
Speaker 3: I thought was interesting from the Wall Street Journal. What
Speaker 3: does HUDD have to show for trillions of dollars a
Speaker 3: taxpayer money housing and urban development with this quote in there?
Speaker 3: Add it all up, and since nineteen sixty five, the
Speaker 3: US has spent four trillion dollars, but it has not
Speaker 3: increased home ownership as a percentage, making homes more affordable,
Speaker 3: or reducing rents adjusted for inflation. Nothing at a range
Speaker 3: were trillion.
Speaker 4: Dollars Tomorrow during the show, I want to go down
Speaker 4: a checklist of this learned person knows all about the
Speaker 4: federal deocracy and how it works and how to reform it,
Speaker 4: and all going through a checklist of the various departments
Speaker 4: and how expendable they are. You know, I don't know
Speaker 4: if Elon and VvE can pull off what they're promising.
Speaker 2: Boy, they could do a lot of it. I just
Speaker 2: saw this headline. I might have to find the audio.
Speaker 3: CNN Morning Crew cracks up at RFK on Trump plane
Speaker 3: being forced to eat poison in hostage video. That's the
Speaker 3: picture if you haven't seen it, of them all eating McDonald's.
Speaker 3: He got on Trump's plane, he got Trump and Elon
Speaker 3: Trump Junior, Mike Johnson's there and RFK Junior with a
Speaker 3: big mac in his hand kind of looking like I
Speaker 3: guess I gotta do this.
Speaker 2: He absolutely looks like a guy who's nodding on the Joe.
Speaker 2: It must have.
Speaker 3: Happened so fast, like he didn't have time to think
Speaker 3: through do I want to be a part of this
Speaker 3: or not, which I've had happen to me before.
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Speaker 2: So I'm a big Jerry Lewis fan.
Speaker 3: His heyday was in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: He was as big a.
Speaker 3: Deal in the movie industry as practically anybody has ever been.
Speaker 3: A comedian, did comic films, and I loved a lot
Speaker 3: of his funny movies when I was a kid. But
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd ever heard about this. I
Speaker 3: didn't know about it. So I came across this tweet.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Martin Scorsese has made a documentary about
Speaker 3: Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried, the movie Lewis
Speaker 3: made about the Holocaust, that is literally the most famous,
Speaker 3: notorious unseen film ever made. Piqued my curiosity. I didn't
Speaker 3: know anything about it. I read up on it, and
Speaker 3: I'm about to explain the plot to you and everything
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: It starred Jerry Lewis. He made it way back in
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 3: It's an unfinished and unreleased nineteen seventy two Swedish French
Speaker 3: drama film. It's a drama directed by and starring Jerry
Speaker 3: Lewis as the Clown, based on a screenplay. The film
Speaker 3: was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which
Speaker 3: features a circus clown who's imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
Speaker 3: It has never been seen. Lewis repeatedly insistent that The
Speaker 3: Day the Clown Cried would never be released, but later
Speaker 3: donated an incomplete copy to the Library of Congress in
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen under the stipulation that it was not to
Speaker 3: be made available between June before June of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: which was just a couple months ago. I've never heard
Speaker 3: a word about this me neither wait till I read
Speaker 3: the plot. But listen to this if you want an
Speaker 3: idea of how good it is or isn't. Harry Sheer
Speaker 3: lott of you, I feel like comedy know who he is.
Speaker 3: He saw a rough cut of the film in nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy nine. This is what Harry Sheer said. With most
Speaker 3: of these kinds of things, you find the anticipation or
Speaker 3: the concept is better than the thing itself. But seeing
Speaker 3: this film was really aspiring, and that you were rarely
Speaker 3: in the presence of a perfect object. This was a
Speaker 3: perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong. It's pathos
Speaker 3: and its comedy are so wildly misplaced that you could not,
Speaker 3: in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve
Speaker 3: on what it already is.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's all you can say. Wow.
Speaker 4: So it's so unspeakably horrible or inappropriate, I think, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the basic plot in the Time I've Got Left
Speaker 3: is Jerry Lewis is a clown in Nazi Germany. He
Speaker 3: gets fired from the circus. He's down and out. He
Speaker 3: gets overheard making fun of Hitler in a bar and
Speaker 3: gets thrown into prison. Then he ends up in a
Speaker 3: concentration camp. He decides to try to entertain little Jewish children,
Speaker 3: him and another guy. He gets beaten for it regularly,
Speaker 3: but thinks it's his duty to try to entertain these
Speaker 3: little kids who are probably going to their deaths. His
Speaker 3: buddy is beaten to death in front of the children.
Speaker 3: This isn't drama, not a comedy. His buddy is beaten
Speaker 3: to death in front of the children. I don't even
Speaker 3: know if I want to go to the end of
Speaker 3: the plot.
Speaker 2: It's too dark.
Speaker 3: But it ends up with him dead and kids dead
Speaker 3: and everything. I mean, just as bad as you can imagine.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's got like the ultimate saddest of sad endings.
Speaker 2: The kids too. Oh yeah, it's the Holocaust. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: ends with him.
Speaker 3: It ends with him holding the hand of a little
Speaker 3: girl as they go to their death in the gas
Speaker 3: chamber and he is forced to lead them in there.
Speaker 2: It's just, it's just I don't know what to think
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: But the fact that Martin Scorsese's making a documentary about it,
Speaker 3: I find very intriguing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I find this intriguing on a lot of levels, including
Speaker 4: I can see what Jerry was going for.
Speaker 2: Weeen what was the Oscar Winter Life is Beautiful?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, similar sort of thing, and I
Speaker 3: loved that movie.
Speaker 4: Right, There are a number of great works of art
Speaker 4: about trying to find joy or keep humanity alive in
Speaker 4: one way or another during the Holocaust.
Speaker 3: But why did Jerry Lewis not want it released until
Speaker 3: long after he was dead.
Speaker 4: I've read directors talk about how you can have a
Speaker 4: great idea, great script, great cast, and it just doesn't work.
Speaker 2: But Harry Sheer calling it perfect perfect. The Armstrong and
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Speaker 2: Hot Lakes the Armstrong and Getty Show. So it's funny.
Speaker 2: I've wanted to bring this up for a while.
Speaker 4: The real crisis in America's government schools, and I don't
Speaker 4: want to be the cliched everything is going to hell
Speaker 4: all the time. Person, that's what I am, because that's
Speaker 4: my brand, because we already.
Speaker 2: Have one of them.
Speaker 4: No, but I was thinking about it, and it goes
Speaker 4: back to our discussion of the natural state of things
Speaker 4: is chaos and poverty and violence, and if you have
Speaker 4: a civilization, the challenge of preserving that civilization never ends.
Speaker 4: And everything isn't necessarily going to hell, but everything will
Speaker 4: go to hell if you don't stop it.
Speaker 2: Going to hell needs to be maintained.
Speaker 4: Yes, in short, so, anyway, I think one of the things,
Speaker 4: in another principle before we get into specific said, you've
Speaker 4: quoted George will As saying one of the essential, you know,
Speaker 4: elements of being a conservative is you have to deal
Speaker 4: with reality, recognize what is right. You can't be a utopian,
Speaker 4: unicorn riding wisher of fond wishes and call yourself a concernervative.
Speaker 2: It's just it doesn't fit.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I think we have an enormous crisis with
Speaker 4: America's government schools right now.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt of that.
Speaker 4: I think it would be a four alarm panic going
Speaker 4: on in America right now if it were not for
Speaker 4: two things. Number One, a lot of parents think schools
Speaker 4: are still what they went to, what they grew up with.
Speaker 2: And the distraction of the Golden Bachelor and the Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 4: And there are three things now that I think about it,
Speaker 4: And the other one is that there are some schools.
Speaker 4: It's actually four things, including the Golden Bachelor. There are
Speaker 4: some schools that are still doing a good job. They're
Speaker 4: fighting hard, they're in conservative areas, the teachers and administrators
Speaker 4: are not fully woke, so people think our schools seem
Speaker 4: to be fine, and maybe they are. But the fourth thing, obviously,
Speaker 4: is that the dominant media do not talk about this
Speaker 4: much at all because it's extremely uncomfortable for them because
Speaker 4: they are progressive, they are woke, they are pro.
Speaker 3: Union, and the heavyweights had their kids in private schools,
Speaker 3: so they wouldn't know anyway.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. That is a good point in
Speaker 2: the middleweights too. Anyway.
Speaker 4: So a couple of exhibits in the prosecution of America's
Speaker 4: government schools. One that you've probably heard similar fare before,
Speaker 4: but this is a bit of an update. Between two thousand,
Speaker 4: year two thousand and the year twenty twenty two, the
Speaker 4: number of students in Marca's schools rose by five percent,
Speaker 4: five percent. The number of teachers rose by ten percent,
Speaker 4: which is interesting. Yeah, the number of principles and assistant
Speaker 4: principles rose by forty percent.
Speaker 2: Whoa what?
Speaker 4: Who had their kid in school in the year two
Speaker 4: thousand thought, you know, this is going well, it'd.
Speaker 3: Be a lot better though if we had like eight
Speaker 3: more principles.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, who the hell fought that? Right?
Speaker 4: And then again, keeping in mind that the increase in
Speaker 4: students is five percent, the increase in administrative staff is
Speaker 4: ninety five percent.
Speaker 2: There you go, Samans with universities. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, some we've talked about this in the past, and
Speaker 4: some folks have said, yeah, the uh the government mandates
Speaker 4: on schools is so cumbersome. Now the federal and state mandates.
Speaker 4: You have to have compliance staff, oh my god, that
Speaker 4: spend their whole days issuing reports and filling out forms
Speaker 4: that say you've conformed to all of the demands of
Speaker 4: the centralized government.
Speaker 3: There are so many forms. So I've been through a
Speaker 3: lot of this and super nice people. I'm not complaining
Speaker 3: about any of these people. What I was one meeting
Speaker 3: that had like fifteen people in it about my son,
Speaker 3: and they kept using the word rubric. Well this, this
Speaker 3: fits the rubric, and it doesn't fit the rubric. And
Speaker 3: we've looked at the.
Speaker 4: Rubric everythink I get said I I think I said
Speaker 4: out loud. I think I cannot hear the word rubric
Speaker 4: another time. Just we gotta I don't even know what
Speaker 4: that is. We gotta stop singing the word rubric, please,
Speaker 4: if we do nothing else here, to refrain from singing rubric.
Speaker 2: So it was a paperwork thing. It was just all
Speaker 2: kinds of different layers of paperwork.
Speaker 4: So you have this from Jason Riley, who's a great
Speaker 4: writer and thinker. Biden and Harris worked to crush school competition.
Speaker 4: He is more opposed to charter schools than any president
Speaker 4: in recent history.
Speaker 2: And Kamala has spoken.
Speaker 4: Enthusiastically about how wonderful teachers unions are and that everything
Speaker 4: that tends to take money and influence away from the
Speaker 4: teachers unions is an attack on public schools. That would
Speaker 4: be bad enough were it not for the numbers involved. Again,
Speaker 4: this is fairly Oh you know, the National Review actually
Speaker 4: touched on the fact that the left is now trying
Speaker 4: to promote or I'm sorry to indict school choice movements
Speaker 4: as an effort, a secret plot to promote Christian nationalism.
Speaker 2: All right, that's one of the attacks.
Speaker 3: I assume you're about to get to some of the
Speaker 3: results we're getting out of the schools. Uh yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: But even without that, even if it had maintained what
Speaker 3: public schools were from the past, why would you need
Speaker 3: to increase administration by ninety percent and think that that
Speaker 3: was a good idea. Even if we had maintained the
Speaker 3: same quality, It's like, well, why are we spending all
Speaker 3: this money?
Speaker 2: Was working fine before? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm looking at the clock. I think maybe
Speaker 4: we take a break and then come back with some
Speaker 4: of the results stuff. But the other thing I wanted
Speaker 4: to get to, and we have a lot of great
Speaker 4: teachers who listen to the show and communicate to us
Speaker 4: and blow the whistle on some of the more insane
Speaker 4: progressive things that are taking the place of math and
Speaker 4: in our schools. The genderbread person which I'm always hammering
Speaker 4: about because you know, California is a particular interest because
Speaker 4: that's where the show is based, and the perversity in
Speaker 4: California schools is just it's heartbreaking. But anyway, Wall street
Speaker 4: journal with a big piece. Teachers are burning out on
Speaker 4: the job, and the subhead is student behavior and mediocre
Speaker 4: pay are taking their toll from lefty media. It's always
Speaker 4: about the pay. It's always about money, and there's such
Speaker 4: a lack of understanding and wisdom. Maybe it's that progressives
Speaker 4: so fill the newsrooms that that's the only point of view.
Speaker 4: And a lot of journalists are young these days because
Speaker 4: it doesn't pay very well.
Speaker 2: But there is such a lack of wisdom.
Speaker 4: If I have a fun, rewarding, joyful job and I
Speaker 4: get the summer off, I would accept that rate of
Speaker 4: pay at X. If I have a miserable, discouraging, heartbreaking job.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna work for that low level pay. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna want a hell of a lot more to keep
Speaker 2: showing up. Very good point.
Speaker 4: Student behavior problems, cell phones in class, anemic pay that's
Speaker 4: not really true, and artificial intelligence powered cheating are taking
Speaker 4: their toll on America's roughly three point eight million teachers.
Speaker 4: On top of the bruising pandemic years. The sheriff teachers
Speaker 4: who say the stress and disappointments of the job are
Speaker 4: worth it has fallen twenty one points in the last
Speaker 4: couple of years.
Speaker 2: Doubt that.
Speaker 4: As recently as twenty eighteen, over seventy percent of teachers
Speaker 4: said the stress was worth it. Now it's forty two.
Speaker 4: In surveys and interviews, teachers are most any.
Speaker 3: Place you work, as they is, they layered in more
Speaker 3: administration to wherever you work. Did that make things more
Speaker 3: enjoyable or less enjoyable? Where you work well?
Speaker 4: And we're going to get to the you know, it's
Speaker 4: more than frustration, it's being physically at risk. In surveys
Speaker 4: and interviews, teachers are most often pointing to a startling
Speaker 4: rise in students' mental health challenges and misbehavior as the
Speaker 4: biggest drivers of burnout. In the Rand Corporation survey, student
Speaker 4: behavior was the top source of teachers job stress.
Speaker 3: A lot of that, I guarantee you is that whole
Speaker 3: restorative justice thing where they have no ability to deal
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 2: That's the next sentence.
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right to quote a high school math teacher
Speaker 4: who says he saw student behavior deteriorate seriously, let yet
Speaker 4: his school drew more lenient in administrating administering consequences.
Speaker 3: How is the country not aware of what a failure
Speaker 3: this restorative justice thing is.
Speaker 4: I know, because nobody talks about it in the media.
Speaker 4: And this poor son of a gun, so he's dealing
Speaker 4: with all this frustration. And then his district, Kansas City
Speaker 4: Public Schools shout out, Kansas City eight cities were a
Speaker 4: privilege to be on. They rolled out a new policy
Speaker 4: last year. Teachers could not give students a zero for
Speaker 4: an assignment even if they didn't turn it in and
Speaker 4: didn't make any effort to.
Speaker 2: It is to laugh. I mean, that is so funny.
Speaker 2: It is funny, It is hilarious. So say that again.
Speaker 4: You can't get a zero even if even if you say,
Speaker 4: not only did I not do the assignment, mister Gerald,
Speaker 4: you should shove it up your arms.
Speaker 2: He cannot give you a zero for that assignment.
Speaker 4: You've got to get at least like a see one
Speaker 4: of the things I got when I got into teaching.
Speaker 4: My one thing was about learning and love of learning,
Speaker 4: he says. In the end, it was less about the
Speaker 4: learning and more about babysitting. He left teaching this summer.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah. And they go into a great deal
Speaker 4: of detail, with many, many examples of classroom stress and violence,
Speaker 4: lack of consequences for bad behavior, A stort of justice.
Speaker 2: I mean, look it up, well, don't look it up, because.
Speaker 3: Their description of it won't be accurate as to what
Speaker 3: actually happens.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It is the recipe for no discipline and a bullies paradise.
Speaker 2: It is, it is. It is tragic for the children
Speaker 2: and the teachers.
Speaker 4: And it's part of oh yeah, absolutely true, and it's
Speaker 4: one hundred percent part of the neo Marxist We're going
Speaker 4: to break the system. We're going to call everything racist
Speaker 4: until we control it. And they do control the schools
Speaker 4: to a large extent now, and anybody who stands in
Speaker 4: our way will call them a racist until we have
Speaker 4: imposed our philosophy on whatever institution you're talking about, from
Speaker 4: public schools to corporations, to the United States government to
Speaker 4: the military for instance.
Speaker 3: By the way, in Kansas City, we're on FM, so
Speaker 3: people can really enjoy our pipes.
Speaker 4: I have nothing to add to that. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: and I don't know. I'm looking at the clock. I
Speaker 4: came across another account a number of school districts in
Speaker 4: oh it was Virginia and one other state in which
Speaker 4: far fewer than half of the children were at the
Speaker 4: minimum level in English, and it was less than a
Speaker 4: third in district after district were not at the minimum
Speaker 4: level for math. We sometimes talk about proficiency. This was
Speaker 4: the well the minimum, and the vast majority of kids
Speaker 4: are nowhere near it. And if you say I got
Speaker 4: to get my kid out of this school, the forces
Speaker 4: of the left, from Joe Biden, Kamala Harrison down will
Speaker 4: tell you you're a rasist for some reason. Be you're
Speaker 4: attacking public schools trying to take resources away, You're a
Speaker 4: bad person and a bad parent.
Speaker 2: It's crazier that this isn't a bigger issue. It is.
Speaker 2: It absolutely is.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Fretti the Armstrong and Getty Show show.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, Friends.
Speaker 4: Another great Alvis Huxley quote sent along by loyal listeners.
Speaker 2: Zabo.
Speaker 4: Is he like a master of the pan fluid or
Speaker 4: a magician or what?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's the screen name is Zabo.
Speaker 4: By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation,
Speaker 4: the democracies will change their nature. The quaint old forms, elections, parliament,
Speaker 4: Supreme courts and all the rest will remain. Democracy and
Speaker 4: freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: the ruling oligarchy, and it's highly trained to lead of soldiers, policemen,
Speaker 4: thought manufacturers, and mind manipulators will quietly run the show
Speaker 4: as they see fit.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 5: Oof.
Speaker 3: Zabo does sound like a off the main drag Vegas
Speaker 3: magician show. We couldn't afford Copperfield, so we went to
Speaker 3: see Zabo.
Speaker 4: It was pretty good, pretty good. The galley Soden half
Speaker 4: was like seventy. She was wearing a sensible pantsuit.
Speaker 2: Mail bag.
Speaker 4: Trump us a note with your mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 4: in getty dot com. We're having printer problems.
Speaker 3: So it lisn't name somebody in America that's not having
Speaker 3: printer problems.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get to Mars and people still can't make
Speaker 4: their printers work at home or at work.
Speaker 2: I still I like to orchestrate it.
Speaker 4: I arrange it carefully, so it may be a little
Speaker 4: haphazard today. But guys, I was reading, Oh this is
Speaker 4: from a loyal listener, a frequence correspondent power Law. I
Speaker 4: was reading Kamala Harris got five billion dollars for lecture
Speaker 4: school buses. They're slowly hitting the road. Proponents say the
Speaker 4: bus is whose initial cost about three hundred and seventy
Speaker 4: five thousand dollars apiece. Is that will boost US manufacturing
Speaker 4: and bring cleaner air for Americans, reduced planet warming emissions,
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. The story never gets around to
Speaker 4: even attempting to actually quantify and compare the cost of
Speaker 4: the buses to the benefits derived from them.
Speaker 2: For example, if the key.
Speaker 4: Benefit is reduction in global warming, how great is the reduction?
Speaker 4: What benefits will come from it? I fear both answers
Speaker 4: are negligible. Oh yeah, absolutely, we can't afford to spend
Speaker 4: billions for negligible benefits. But to some of the cost
Speaker 4: doesn't seem to matter. It's practically a religious issue.
Speaker 2: Correct. That is absolutely well written. Yeah, yeah, well, said Pellow.
Speaker 4: As always, let's see Frank talks about chronic pain and
Speaker 4: how to deal with it. Then he says, now, some
Speaker 4: pain is completely different. I've had kidney stones and that
Speaker 4: requires a different strategy altogether while walking around inside of it,
Speaker 4: as Jack mentioned, makes total sense to me. I take
Speaker 4: a similar but opposite approach. First, I congratulate God on
Speaker 4: creating something so exquisitely perfect the pain. Then I imagine
Speaker 4: him and I standing side by side and observing and
Speaker 4: admiring the pain. That and a little demorroll do the trick.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm so glad of dodge the kidney stone
Speaker 4: stone so far. When I had my gallbladder attack, I
Speaker 4: was trying to try to apply some sort of pain
Speaker 4: stuff I'd heard before my life. But I wasn't so
Speaker 4: much pain I couldn't even think. Oh yeah, and then
Speaker 4: you know what did the trick?
Speaker 2: Morphine? Morphine is what really worked. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: A special request for this the most election of our
Speaker 4: lifetime from JT and Livermore. Even though we only have
Speaker 4: about three weeks to go into the most election of
Speaker 4: our lifetime, the weekends are so boring. So I have
Speaker 4: a special request, for the good of the country and
Speaker 4: for the sanity.
Speaker 2: Of your audience.
Speaker 4: Can you please do your show every day, including weekends,
Speaker 4: until the winner is announced.
Speaker 2: Please, selection of our lifetime. It is the most election
Speaker 2: of our lifetime. Well, thank you for that obviously underhanded compliment. JT.
Speaker 4: I tell you what, if you own a shotgun and
Speaker 4: you can get it into the studio and you can
Speaker 4: level it at me, prepare yourself to see my blood
Speaker 4: spattered on the walls. Because you have to shoot me
Speaker 4: before I do a show on the weekends.
Speaker 2: But thank you.
Speaker 4: Let's see. Oh this is good David and Oakland who
Speaker 4: writes now and again, and it's always a little like this.
Speaker 4: You're a Pennis thing. How disgusting are you trying to
Speaker 4: be trendy? You guys dip below the belt and come
Speaker 4: off as desperate to be cool and with it. I
Speaker 4: turned the dial having no interest in the part you
Speaker 4: were alluding to. You just couldn't help yourself. And I
Speaker 4: wonder how dense and dumb you can be. Do you
Speaker 4: really think this is cutting edge stuff?
Speaker 2: What are they talking about? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Did we do There's some reference to genitalium, perhaps in
Speaker 4: the One War Thing podcast?
Speaker 2: Do you remember Handsome something penis related? From Friday? David
Speaker 2: has been so much lately it all blends together, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, David writes occasionally makes it clear that he just
Speaker 4: despises us.
Speaker 2: And then you know, vanishes back into the woodwork.
Speaker 4: Barbaric Joe you mentioned the other day, there's no fixing stupid.
Speaker 4: The only example I can think of, writes Daniel where
Speaker 4: stupid was fixed was the Scarecrow and the Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 4: So can we get Kamala Harris to crack open a
Speaker 4: bud light and sing? If I only had a brain,
Speaker 4: I don't see that happening. And then finally this from
Speaker 4: Tammy with two ease controversial Tammy. I don't recall what
Speaker 4: prompted me to google Katie Green this weekend, but I did,
Speaker 4: and I landed on her YouTube with the Blue Angels
Speaker 4: number one is a woman. I pictured her as a brunette,
Speaker 4: but she's a cute blonde. I'm a hetero woman, not
Speaker 4: creepily hitting on her, just saying two. I've only heard
Speaker 4: snippets of Jack's experience with the Blue Angels. Three, Jack
Speaker 4: and Katie could talk about their flights, So David and Oakland.
Speaker 4: If he didn't like penis talk, he's gonna love vomit talk,
Speaker 4: so stay with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, did you.
Speaker 4: Find it upsetting digestively the flight at two instances?
Speaker 2: Yes? Breast of it now? I was fine.
Speaker 3: I filled both of the vomit bags completely full. Oh really, yes,
Speaker 3: For a while they were calling me two sack Jack
Speaker 3: because I got off the plane holding both bags and have.
Speaker 2: Some good pictures like trophies.
Speaker 3: However, I did drink the night before and eat unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Food tie food, as I recall, Yes, I.
Speaker 3: Went out to a tie restaurant and drank when they
Speaker 3: said don't eat anything spicy or drink.
Speaker 2: Okay, you did that, yere, because rules do not apply
Speaker 2: to me. No, not. What do you use? Some sort
Speaker 2: of sheep? Exactly, armstrong and getty