February 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Videoing someone and posting it & parenting under a "challenging climate"
- Life under the Taliban
- Campus Madness Update - Good & Bad!
- Egg prices are out of control & there's an asteroid coming
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Chetty Armstrong and
Jettie I know he Armstrong and Yetty. President Trump attended
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last night's game, making the first sitting president to attend
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Trump got cheered, Taylor Swift, got booed.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And the Chiefs stunk. It was like the Super Bowl
was played on Earth too? Right? Are we the upside down?
What the heck is going on? That's a decent point.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Trump left before the third quarter, while the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Left halfway through the first That's right. Oh said it.
That's pretty good Trump. That's right. I said it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Trump cheered, Taylor Swift booed maybe for the first time
in her life, and the Chiefs just demolished. All three
of those are sick. Somewhat surprising here you go, never
in the game?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ugh uh? What do we got coming up? Before I
get to my stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Campus madness update plus ongoing coverage of the shocking Nancy
Mace rape, voyeurism, sexual exploitation, and trafficking accusations made on
the floor of the House last night. More details are
coming out. This is It's crazy. There's no doubt.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Just what brand of crazy and who's bringing the crazy
is not yet clear.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So mentioned a record viewership for the Super Bowl one
hundred and twenty six million people. Fox has watched across
all their platforms, which you have to count because like
I watched at least half the game on my phone
while I was at the gym, and stuff on the
on the app, so that should count, even though it wasn't,
you know, home on the cable or whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The hell.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's a lot of people, though, one hundred and twenty
six million people, that's that's a stunning audience. When it's
great to at least have a tiny, little temporary return
to the three channel. Everybody can talk about something world right,
When the number one show in America can get nine
million people sometimes one hundred and twenty six is quite
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amazing that we all we also do.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That and CNN gets three hundred and forty people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Here is a woman blaming Trump for the Chiefs losing
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's the other.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Reason why we didn't win, because the Trump was at
the I said, gay Trumps are.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Not good at our game.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now there are a lot of people that do things
online for attention and it's fake. She sounds like because
every year after a Super Bowl you see the legitimately
losing their mind, upset people because.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of their team loss. She sounds legitimately crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Wasted, sitting in a chair crying a legitimately No, she
was legitimately sitting in a chair wasted, crying into a washcloth.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I like those videos. Yeah, every year you get and
it's funny. They're always drunk.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Always.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I was gonna say, if if she has a husband
or a boyfriend, sir, run for your life.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Just run.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I don't care what she looks like, her how well
she can cook, Just trust me on what you know?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Cook if she was hammered drunk, all right, I kind
of want to know, well.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
She can cook, because that's what keep you around. There's
all kinds of other problems. She's a bad mom. Uh,
we never have sex, but man, can she make biscuits?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And great?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I don't give her a who that friend was that
took that video and put it online because they're that
friendship's over.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh that's a decent point there. Does that to me?
I'm going to make their life miserable until what they
I die.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I thank god escaped the everybody's got a video recorder
era of my life when I was drinking. But yeah,
if I'm drunk and saying stupid things and you record
me and post.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It all, that is not good. Are they any laws
about that?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Interesting question.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's interesting expectation of privacy in a public place, right,
you could prove that it was done intentionally with malice.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But how is it different than like in the old
days in radio? And this was a glorious time. Gladys
play the hard These were the good times.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Good time.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The thing was tube amplification. Good times to be a
radio host. Not a good time to be anybody out
there in the world. But back in the day in radio,
you could just call somebody up and have them on
the air immediately and pretty much say or do anything
and air them. And it was oftentimes incredibly unfair and
very incredibly funny. Entertaining yes, And then you have a
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laws where you have to have one person's consent to
do that, And then you have states where there are
laws where you have both people consent to that. I
mean the ones the person consent is ridiculous. So Joe
and I have consented, We're okay with calling this woman
at home pretending we're the fire department and saying her
dog was run over.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let's call her.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And that's good enough because Joe and I consent, but
consent on both ends. Took all the fun out of
these kinds of things on the radio.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But how is that not.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Applied to I video it and then put it out
in the public sphere?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is it because YouTube is not?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is it that old thing with YouTube's not actually a
newspaper or a television station or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't know, is there are any attorneys listening hit
us with an email mail bag at armstrong in geeddy
dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What are the.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Legalities the emerging legal realities? But they might have an
era mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They might have to fix that because I'm not sure
I see a giant difference for the victim there. Wow,
you get hammered drunk and you're stumbling around saying crazys
and your buddy videotapes he puts it on his Twitter
account and now you're being mocked by everyone.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Bringing you shame and humiliation. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
what the law is currently on that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I have to work that out over time.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Here's one of my favorite things that happens about once
a week in the New York Times, parenting in a
burning world.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
This is from a climate editor. Boy, she and I
would have a lot to talk about, wouldn't we mean it?
At time together? Right? They have fun? Apparently that's the news.
Number One.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Writers have spilled a lot of ink on the question
of whether it's ethical, desirable, or financially advisable to have
children in an era of accelerating environmental crisis.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Writers are a self involved ninny and sorrier writers.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Writers have spilled a lot of ink on that, and
most of us have not read any of that stuff, like, well,
I'll get to my ultimate point after this paragraph, because
it's always the same to me. Indeed, it's on many Americans' minds.
A twenty twenty four Pew survey found that more than
a quarter of US adults age eighteen to forty nine
who don't plan on having children cited concerns about the environment,
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including climate change, as the major factor. Yet we rarely
talk about how people have already chosen to become parents.
Can cope with their own anxiety and fears as their
children contend with an increasingly unstable climate. I gotta tell you,
I have, like most parents, a gazillion things I worry about.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All day, every day about my kids that ain't on
the list. Right right. This reminds me what's the technique
called again where you.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
As like James Comy, you leak something to the press
and you have the press call you and then they
can quote you as commenting on the leak.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That you leaked. I can't remember what that's.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Called, the log rolling or the old dipsy doodle or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I can't remember. If somebody remembers, tell me, but.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This seems like kind of a version of them, where
you terrify children, poor little innocent children in schools that
they're going to burn to death, and puppies are going
to burn to death, and everyone will die, including your
mommy and daddy, because of climate change.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And then when they grow up and say I'm not
sure I can have a kid because it's so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You say, look, people aren't willing to have kids because
I'm so dangerous. That is one hundred percent true and
should be commented on regularly. I mean, when you talk
about adults eighteen to forty nine, a quarter of them
don't plan on having kids. How many of us weren't
planning on having kids when we were twenty two, but
then we changed.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Our mind when we got older.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean lots of us, So that younger end of that,
a lot of them aren't going to have kids anyway,
aren't planning to have kids.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
People are having less kids. There's no doubt about that.
That's what I wanted to bring up. I heard something
about China today. They're really struggling in China with marriages.
They can't get people to get married. And then they
went through this reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It might be.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
While people of blah blah bah. There's something happening, and
I don't know why. People just aren't willing to understand this.
There's something happening in modern society with comfort and luxury
or attention span or something where we're just not interested
in coupling and having children. Why they have to assign
a reason to it. It's climate change, it's the rent's
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too high, it's the Trump is in office.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's no, it's not there's something going on. As a
beast that's taken away.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
There's no stronger desire on planet Earth than to couple
and have kids. That has gone away for some reason.
And it ain't because of the rent, right, I would
agree completely. And the fact that it's happening in communist China, yeah,
and capitalists South.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Korea and Denmark and Italy and the United States and
rural America and cities, yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And the other thing that bothers the hell out of
me about that conversation is I find it so pathetically
and it's a perfect, you know, the manifestation of victimhood culture,
where you've got to be a victim of something to get.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Attention and feel important. But for the lady for the
New York.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Times to say, these times they are so dangerous and volatile,
we can't have children, Not during World War one or two,
or the Middle Ages or the smallpox outbreak or you
know whatever, the Cold War or the race riots.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And assassinations in nineteen sixty eight. No, these are the
times that are really scary.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Oh, man up, including the women, She s Louise quit
celebrating weakness.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What do you get when you do that? I'll give
you a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What kind of society do you get tictok a week
one right, you nailed it, ge money, and a new
guest essay, the Oregon writer Emma Pate explains how she
had made peace with the dire facts of climate change,
including Wait.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
A minute, Wait a minute, an Oregon writer named Pate?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Is this parody? I wrote? I know? Is this Fred Ormison? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
She's made peace with the dire facts of climate change,
including the reality that her children will be increasingly affected
by warming and pollution or climate related disasters in the
years to come. I know my children are likely to
die in the endless hurricanes. But I had children anyway.
How brave of you whether it's ethical to have kids.
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Screw you and you determining whether it's ethical for me
to have kids.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Man, these people are insufferable. They really are. I know it.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know what, if you had children, you'd be too
busy to write this stuff. You wouldn't have time, right right,
we got and you wouldn't be worried about fanciful half
a degree elevations in forty seven years.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Please, we got a lot more in the way. Stay here.
What really doomed Joe Biden's presidency? Well, actuary tables.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But what doomed in politically early on was the pull
out of Afghanistan, which was a disaster. Everybody watched on
TV as his poll numbers plummeted. He never recovered and
CBS News checking in on Afghanistan. What life is like
under the Taliban. Here's the reporter interviewing a Taliban leader.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
The president has demanded that Thaliban give back the hardware value.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's seven billion dollars hardware put on parade last year
at an abandoned US air base.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Abdul Kahar Balki.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Is the Taliban spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Is it entirely out of the question that the Thaliban
would ever return this military hardware?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is it absolutely off the table?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
These are the assets off the state of Avanistan and
they will continue to be in the position off to
stay toughle funds.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It seems like there's no deal then with the president.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
People don't make deals on the assets of these states.
They make agreements through doalg and engagement to find spaces
and areas of common interests.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Fresh and translate that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay, Oh, First of all, the Taliban leader speaks better
English than me.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Where do you go to school, not public school.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Apparently, I guess he's I would guess he's British educated,
judging by his accent. First, I was thinking, why are
you asking this question? There's no way he's gonna say, oh, yeah,
sure you want to back, We'll give him back. But
I guess because President Trump has demanded him back, and
so that's a reason to ask the Taliban leader, is
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there any any circumstance where are gonna give them back?
In the Taliband's gonna say no. Of course they're going
to say no, you want them, come and get him.
It'd take a lot of troops in many, many years.
I think you tried that once before. But if you
want to go ahead, I think it's much more likely
again they're going to say, make us an offer.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Let's talk.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We got your stuff, you want it back? We need money. Yeah,
they don't need some of this stuff. I mean, they
probably want to keep a lot of the guns and everything,
but they don't need tanks and humbes necessarily to keep
the population under control. They'd probably be happier in heck
to sell those for a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wows Uncle Joe, wowow Wow. So I'm on this just
popped into my head.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So I'm exchanging gratitude lists with this guy.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We decided the other day we're going to get on
this habit. We're going to be grateful for his stuff,
and he's.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, no, just uh.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm going to text him every morning and and I
forgot today, so I got to do it during the
commercial break. I'll text him every morning three things I'm
grateful for, and he's going to text me three things
he's grateful for.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I brought up the whole idea of.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
No wine February, the no whining during February, you know,
on the kind of the flip side of whining. And
one way to get out of whining is to be
grateful for the good things. One thing a person I
put on my list today, be grateful you're born in
the freaking United States. If you're born in Afghanistan, you're
going to have an awful, miserable, possibly very short life. Yeah,
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no matter what your attitude.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Is, unless you're an active participant in evil, that would help.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It would give you a better chance of survival probably,
But yeah, and that you know you can have all
the strength of character you want, you're gonna have a miserable, short,
painful life if you were born lots of places in
the world other than the United States. Doesn't happened in
the United States. Isn't the only place you can avoid
that to a fate. I mean, I think if you're borning,
you know, some rural village of France, you probably have
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a decent life. But there are a lot of places
where you you got no shot and it's just luck.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh my god, that's wrong. This is the worst most
racist country on earth. What else should I put on
my gratitude list?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Mcflurri's grateful for Oreo, mcfluury's that come in two sides.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wow Wow coming up a campus madness update, k through
grad school madness, good news and bad news.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Tell you was as long as we have a minute,
the next doge like effort and I don't know if
it could be cat or something like that, muskrat spell
out all the letters involved in seriously calling out the
bull crap of the American education system from top to
bottom and making it a national beyond a moonshot priority
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like more like, you know, curing smallpox or getting electricity
to all fifty states style effort to get rid of
what's wrong with the American education system and straighten it out. Honestly,
that might be the single most important thing we could
conceivably do, right up there with dealing with overspending in
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the national debt.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I wonder if we might not be better off
if we only focused on the education, the schools and
like put all the effort into that. Yeah, be more
likely to be successful because there's plenty there, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
So Democrats have been playing hopscotch while Republicans are playing
grand theft dollar four and we're finally starting to realize,
let's put the chalk down and let's actually focus on
what are those lanes where we can pursue, like the
legal cases, like legislatively, really the budget that's really really
place where they do have power.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
That's particularly talking about the whole doge thing. But we've
been mentioning this column by Rich Lowry of National Review,
where he says, this is the biggest win in the
last three weeks for the right in the culture war
in half a century. And I'm so used to losing
every cultural war thing. The idea that we're winning now
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is a bunch of issues is just I don't even
know how to I don't even know how.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
To feel right. It is so odd, but it's it's great.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Excuse me, and I think the voices of sanity need to,
you know, make as much progress as quickly as possible.
I suspect, you know, barring well, you know that's crazy
to try.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
To predict anything. Trump will have four years.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm certainly hoping his successor at least wires at least
oh boy, the constitutional corsis will have at least four
years to continue the progress that's being made. But we
absolutely need a moonshot style effort to reform education in
this country because it is absolutely killing us. Michael, It's
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a campus Madness Update, good and bad news edition, good
and bad.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
News, madness screaming, how's madness?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You idiot on the campus? God, how's quite scream Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No kiddingel So, disembalment figures into the story somehow, so
well metaphorically speaking.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So we'll start with some good news, really interesting piece
about Tufts University, which is to the left of Trotsky
Boston area. But there's a professor by the name of
Hirsch there who teaches a class on American conservatism that
is always one hundred percent enrolled and extremely popular, and
he a man of the sane center left, has them
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read Frederick Hayek's Road to Serve Them at Ininran's The
Nature of Government, and then has lefty writers assigned as well.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That says, all right, let's talk about this issue.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And it is a classic American education where you have
to understand both sides before you say which one you're on.
And he is systematically steel manning conservative arguments for the
college kids. And the really encouraging part about this is
the kids love it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And poll after poll has shown that a lot of
college kids resent the cancel culture and the bully culture
and the radical culture. But they just they're afraid or
you know, intimidated into silence. And there's a lot more
curiosity out there than I think you would think from
looking at college camp.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
God, are we.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Actually coming out of peak that? And we'll never have
to deal with it again, at least in our lifetimes.
I mean, did we just live through the pendulum swinging
to the far end of that nuttiness?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I share hope. So I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I'm a little afraid of it being like a sports
team that you know has a very bad beginning of
the season, then they win six in a row and
you think all right, and then that is just a
blip and they go back to being bad. I think
there's so much of a fight to go on, but
let me plunge on here. We can talk about this
at length. A great piece in the Free Press about
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how all over the country, including in some surprising places,
educators are covering up for their own failures wholesale. We
should have the best education system in the world, they write,
we should have an education system that reflects us being
a superpower. But there's no one with a straight face
who can say that the United States has a world
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class education system. And that's from a higher up in
the New Jersey Department of Education, now retired. But they
go through place after place where because they are failing
to meet any standard, they are systematically changing the standards,
including this shock to me. In twenty twenty four, Oklahoma
schools seemed to perform a miracle. They went from twenty
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four percent proficiency in reading to forty seven percent in
two years. You almost number doubling the previous figure. You
see that number in a year. You know, something funky happen.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Indeed, if it sounds too good to be true, that's
because it was. In last year, Oklahoma lowered its cut scores,
the score a student needs to hit on test to
be considered proficient.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Unbelievable. That's good Hearts law. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Once, once a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to
be a good measure.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yep. Trend is also happening in New York State.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
After not a single eighth grader in the upstate city
of Schenectady tested proficient in math in twenty twenty two,
state officials lowered the scores the following year. Wisconsin lowered
cut scores last year. Illinois is about to lower its scores,
et cetera, et cetera. We did in tell a lot
of blue states, but Oklahoma shocked me.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We've done it in California a couple of times. Well,
it speaks as much to the nature of bureaucracy as liberalism.
Well it's a good Heart's law. I mean that seems
to be a law. No matter what you no matter
your politics, you come up with a goal, or you
measure something, then you come up with a goal and
then you just fudge to meet the goal, and so
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the measure doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And that's it happens, over and over again.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I can come up with one hundred examples up the
top my head, because I think it's a fascinating aspect
of the way the human brain works. But how are
there not People raise their hands, say, we can't be
lowering the standards.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We need to raise the quality field tradition.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, right right, lift up the children, don't drop the standards.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
That'd be a good slogan.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Veering back to good news, The Department of Education on Friday,
Cancer which still exists, apparently canceled fifteen million dollars in
federal grants that were used to fund diversity programs at
three universities in California, State, La, Virginia Commonwealth, and University
of Saint Thomas and Minnesota. All had received giant, multimillion
dollar grants, part of a billion dollars a billion that
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the Biden Education Department spent on diversity programs in America's schools,
nearly half of which went to grants for race based hiring.
That is, at least temporarily on the way out. Now
back to bad news. Two stories here that are adjoined
at the hip Brown University Medical School that's one of
your elite ivy leaguers.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
By the way, elite. I almost vomit when I say
that about these universities.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But they now give diversity, equity and inclusion more weight
than excellent clinical skills in its promotion criteria for faculty,
raising questions duh about the equality of teaching and patient
care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply
deis penetrated medical education. Again, when they decide what faculty
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to promote, they now give DEI more weight than excellent
clinical skills.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I saw that over the week in Medicine. I meant
to mention now on the air, that is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I was looking at the actual paperwork, the criteria, and
really your plan for how you're answering the question of
how you're going to get diversity, equity inclusion into your
your medical practice is more important than your actual SI right,
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that is how or as important?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
How is that even possible?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You could take a talk show host's opinion on this,
or you could listen to Bob Cerencioni, an orthopedic surgeon Maryland,
This is as stark as it gets the criteria. Say
what DEI medical schools is all about, and it's not
about clinical performance. Hector Choppaw, clinical professor at Texas A
and M, said it was difficult to comprehend why clinical
skills get less weight than DEI quote.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Clinical skills are of paramount importance and should be considered
major criteria for any promotion.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The quotes from saying people go on and on, but
we'll keep moving.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
University of California Schools oops illegally used racial preferences and
admissions lawsuit alleges.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Of course, California.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
By gonna Trump prove California we already in deficit, but
we're gonna spend fifty million dollars to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
They are illegally still recruiting based on race and with
a paper thin, a tissue thin cover up of what
they're doing all across the UC system.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That fifty million dollar Trump proofing California legislation. By the way,
past Friday afternoon late I noticed when I got the
ding on my phone it was like five thirty California
time when they announced the passing of that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think that was an accident. He laughed, I laughed, And.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
If that got you riled up, this is going to
make you completely insane. You may remember that last year
San Diego school officials got sued for punishing a student
for supposedly wearing blackface at a football game when it
was really just team color face paint. Well, now a
worse and more horrifying battle is unfolding within the Capistrano
Unified School District in Orange County, where an elementary school
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student was punished and deemed racist for making a drawing
that say it said black lives matter, with the offending
phrase all lives matter under it. The girl, through her mother,
is suing the school district. Listen to this, and we
could get into the legalities of this, but I think
their self evident. The fractice began when the girl who's
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just identified as BB heard a lesson on Martin Luther
King that also touched on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
This is in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
BB's teacher read her and other students in the class
of a book about Martin Luther King and also discuss
discussed the Black Lives Matter movement. Students were probably already
familiar with it is. The school had a picture displayed
that included the phrase black lives matter, along with a
clenched fist that young BB saw every day. And this
girl is where does it say that? The whole clunch
(27:34):
six years old?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Six? Wow?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, the clenched fist accompanying that sign off awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
What are you trying to say there?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
So BB became concerned for classmate of color, while b
B did not understand what phrase meant. The book had
the effect of making BB feel bad for a classmate
of color, who then drew a picture for her little
friend to help her feel Included. BB's picture contained the
frame black lives matter, drawn in black marker. Below that
was the phrase any life, written in light colored marker.
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Before any life were four circles of different colors, which
BB drew to represent three classmates in herself holding hands.
And for that she was suspended for school, singled out, browbeaten,
yelled at by the teacher, forced to apologize to her
little not a chance, not a chance, not a chance,
not a chance. I realize it's easier said than done
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to pull your kid out of school because it's really
really expensive. I'm paying the bills right now. But no way,
I'm letting my kid have to apologize for that and
sending them back into that classroom.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
No flipping way, Little.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
MC, the second girl in question, expressed confusion about what
BB was apologizing for. BB shared MC's confusion about the
need for an apology, but she did as she was
ordered to do. She was then prohibited from taking part
in recess for two weeks. She was banned from recess,
forced to sit on a bench and watch her classmates
play without her for that sin.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's California schools, folks.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I'll move around along before I say anything that would
end our careers.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's unbelievable. I know it is.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I know it is. I tell you what. It makes me,
just absolutely militant. I would be eupy I would be
in danger of getting arrested if I got into a
conversation about that with my kid at the school.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
We could talk about an oh, oh, it would go
very very badly. Yes, we could talk about the former Oakland,
California teacher who is now suing because she was fired
for not calling a five year old by the right
pronouns because the five year old's crazy ass activist parents
had decided that their five year old was misgendered, and
finally this.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
To drive home the point that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We need a Space Shot style effort to clean up education.
Three Columbia University encampment leaders are suing the school alleging
that it's disciplinary actions such as they were, caused them
quote severe emotional and psychological harm, and one of the
attorneys is Jim carl James Carlson, a professional anarchist who
stormed Hamilton Hall last spring and clashed with a facilities
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worker with the militant students again, the university gives them
pitter pat sanctions for violently taking over buildings, and they
sue for damage and other relief for severe emotional and
psychological arm including anxiety, depression, and trauma for which they
are seeking treatment. Wow, if we as a society can't
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stand up and face that sort of thing down, we
deserve to go away. We deserve to be taken over
by China or whoever else.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I agree with that. But none of this is going
to matter because an asteroids going to hit Earth in
eight years. I've got the details on that coming up.
Among other things.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But the price of eggs skyrocketing from bird flu. Shortages
are growing from coast to coast. Some chains like Costco
and Trader Joe's are limiting the amount of eggs customers
can buy, and it stores with eggs on the shelves
sticker shop. Eggs are now so valuable become a target
for thieves. In Seattle, surveillance camera captured suspects entering a
shed behind Luna Park Cafe. Or police say they stole
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more than five hundred eggs. Jerry's Organics had to beef
up security after thieves stole.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
One hundred thousand eggs from their farm.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
In Pennsylvania, bird flu was impacted tens of millions of
farmed chickens, sending egg prices up sixty.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Five percent in the last year.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
The Department of Agriculture projects egg prices will increase again
about twenty percent this year, and we're told that it
will be at least another six months before egg price
is stabilized.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Well, that's why the kids are sharing a room now
my guy did when I was a kid, and the
other room is being used full hens. You got about
one hundred hens in their laying eggs where the money
is got the.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Hens little hazmat suits so they don't get the bird flu.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You almost eat more eggs than I do.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean, I just I realize if you're a restaurant aware, Well,
let's hear this story first.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
In Los Angeles, Canter's Deli has been in business for
over one hundred years now. So basically, just to explain this,
you went from dollars a month a few years ago
to know at least twenty three to twenty five thousand
dollars a month for eggs.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, for pretty much the same product for them, the
same amount of eggs.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
And they are drowning under those costs.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
A business has been in business for one hundred and
five years now, can't break even.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Not just simply because of the eggs. That's enough to
do it. There you go.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
So they're just gonna have to lose money till the
egg thing gets straightened out. To hold on to their
customer base, they keep on serving meals and just losing
money on everywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
That would suck.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But I might eat three eggs a month, I don't know,
A couple of week, I don't know, don't do do
do more people? Most people eat way more eggs than me.
I don't know that I too, will really enjoy four
or five a month, maybe six. Well, although it's in
you know, bread and stuff like that too, truely, Yeah,
(32:49):
which all made indeed, which makes everything go up in price. Well,
I'm big right now on the thing you talk about
a lot with the tiny number of ingredients like I
got banana bread at the store the other day, and
the ingredients where like banana, walnuts, butter and some else
like four ingredients, And yeah, it makes you feel a
lot better than when you get that long laundry list
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of ingredients in there.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, great rule of thumb for avoiding the what do
they call it, the ultra refine foods or Hunter process?
Ultra process. Yeah, highly process.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So we have more to the Nancy May story an
hour for we do.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Indeed, the concious woman from South Carolina got up and
gave a shocking speech about rape and sexual exploitation and
name specific names of her oppressors and those who victimized
her and other women called out the Attorney General of
the state of South Carolina against whom she is going
to be running for office soon. It's all very odd
(33:45):
and shocking and unprecedented. On the floor of the house.
We'll have some of the audio for you and some interpretation.
But this story is not going away. It's one brand
of crazy or another, and we haven't figured out which
brand yet.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I'll get to that now or four. Two quick things
before we take a break.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
One I'm really liking on the iPhone the AI summary
of my texts.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I'm finding that very very handy. Huh. I haven't used
it yet.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I did I have a choice in using it. It
just showed up on my phone when I had did
the update, But now all my texts. I glance at
it and there's an update long text from the babysitter saying,
you know dropped off Henry. She will pick him up,
but as a much longer text day. The way it
picks out just the information you need and gives it
to you in the bullet is awesome. Uh. And this story,
(34:33):
NASA is tracking an asteroid that could hit the Earth
in eight years. The asteroid is between one hundred and
thirty and three hundred feet long, which I believe gets
you into destroy the dinosaur's territory. Estimated two percent chance
of an impacting Earth at this point, I had a
one in fifty. If I had a one and fifty
(34:53):
chance of winning five million dollars. I'd be as excited
as hell.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I would be too.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
We have one and fifty chance of having a dinosaur
level exting. Seems like this is a big story. Sweet
meat or death. Better late than never.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Eight years, Well, it's been a good run. Been a
good run.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
We do four hours every single day. We're kind of
petering out though, after a good run. It's been We
do four hours every day. If you miss an hour,
or like me, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Chetty Armstrong and
Jettie I know he Armstrong and Yetty. President Trump attended
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last night's game, making the first sitting president to attend
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Trump got cheered, Taylor Swift, got booed.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And the Chiefs stunk. It was like the Super Bowl
was played on Earth too? Right? Are we the upside down?
What the heck is going on? That's a decent point.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Trump left before the third quarter, while the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Left halfway through the first That's right. Oh said it.
That's pretty good Trump. That's right. I said it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Trump cheered, Taylor Swift booed maybe for the first time
in her life, and the Chiefs just demolished. All three
of those are sick. Somewhat surprising here you go, never
in the game?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ugh uh? What do we got coming up? Before I
get to my stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Campus madness update plus ongoing coverage of the shocking Nancy
Mace rape, voyeurism, sexual exploitation, and trafficking accusations made on
the floor of the House last night. More details are
coming out. This is It's crazy. There's no doubt.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Just what brand of crazy and who's bringing the crazy
is not yet clear.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So mentioned a record viewership for the Super Bowl one
hundred and twenty six million people. Fox has watched across
all their platforms, which you have to count because like
I watched at least half the game on my phone
while I was at the gym, and stuff on the
on the app, so that should count, even though it wasn't,
you know, home on the cable or whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The hell.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's a lot of people, though, one hundred and twenty
six million people, that's that's a stunning audience. When it's
great to at least have a tiny, little temporary return
to the three channel. Everybody can talk about something world right,
When the number one show in America can get nine
million people sometimes one hundred and twenty six is quite
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amazing that we all we also do.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That and CNN gets three hundred and forty people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Here is a woman blaming Trump for the Chiefs losing
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's the other.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Reason why we didn't win, because the Trump was at
the I said, gay Trumps are.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Not good at our game.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now there are a lot of people that do things
online for attention and it's fake. She sounds like because
every year after a Super Bowl you see the legitimately
losing their mind, upset people because.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of their team loss. She sounds legitimately crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Wasted, sitting in a chair crying a legitimately No, she
was legitimately sitting in a chair wasted, crying into a washcloth.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I like those videos. Yeah, every year you get and
it's funny. They're always drunk.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Always.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I was gonna say, if if she has a husband
or a boyfriend, sir, run for your life.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Just run.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I don't care what she looks like, her how well
she can cook, Just trust me on what you know?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Cook if she was hammered drunk, all right, I kind
of want to know, well.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
She can cook, because that's what keep you around. There's
all kinds of other problems. She's a bad mom. Uh,
we never have sex, but man, can she make biscuits?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And great?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I don't give her a who that friend was that
took that video and put it online because they're that
friendship's over.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh that's a decent point there. Does that to me?
I'm going to make their life miserable until what they
I die.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I thank god escaped the everybody's got a video recorder
era of my life when I was drinking. But yeah,
if I'm drunk and saying stupid things and you record
me and post.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It all, that is not good. Are they any laws
about that?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Interesting question.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's interesting expectation of privacy in a public place, right,
you could prove that it was done intentionally with malice.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But how is it different than like in the old
days in radio? And this was a glorious time. Gladys
play the hard These were the good times.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Good time.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The thing was tube amplification. Good times to be a
radio host. Not a good time to be anybody out
there in the world. But back in the day in radio,
you could just call somebody up and have them on
the air immediately and pretty much say or do anything
and air them. And it was oftentimes incredibly unfair and
very incredibly funny. Entertaining yes, And then you have a
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laws where you have to have one person's consent to
do that, And then you have states where there are
laws where you have both people consent to that. I
mean the ones the person consent is ridiculous. So Joe
and I have consented, We're okay with calling this woman
at home pretending we're the fire department and saying her
dog was run over.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let's call her.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And that's good enough because Joe and I consent, but
consent on both ends. Took all the fun out of
these kinds of things on the radio.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But how is that not.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Applied to I video it and then put it out
in the public sphere?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is it because YouTube is not?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is it that old thing with YouTube's not actually a
newspaper or a television station or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't know, is there are any attorneys listening hit
us with an email mail bag at armstrong in geeddy
dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What are the.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Legalities the emerging legal realities? But they might have an
era mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They might have to fix that because I'm not sure
I see a giant difference for the victim there. Wow,
you get hammered drunk and you're stumbling around saying crazys
and your buddy videotapes he puts it on his Twitter
account and now you're being mocked by everyone.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Bringing you shame and humiliation. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
what the law is currently on that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I have to work that out over time.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Here's one of my favorite things that happens about once
a week in the New York Times, parenting in a
burning world.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
This is from a climate editor. Boy, she and I
would have a lot to talk about, wouldn't we mean it?
At time together? Right? They have fun? Apparently that's the news.
Number One.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Writers have spilled a lot of ink on the question
of whether it's ethical, desirable, or financially advisable to have
children in an era of accelerating environmental crisis.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Writers are a self involved ninny and sorrier writers.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Writers have spilled a lot of ink on that, and
most of us have not read any of that stuff, like, well,
I'll get to my ultimate point after this paragraph, because
it's always the same to me. Indeed, it's on many Americans' minds.
A twenty twenty four Pew survey found that more than
a quarter of US adults age eighteen to forty nine
who don't plan on having children cited concerns about the environment,
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including climate change, as the major factor. Yet we rarely
talk about how people have already chosen to become parents.
Can cope with their own anxiety and fears as their
children contend with an increasingly unstable climate. I gotta tell you,
I have, like most parents, a gazillion things I worry about.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All day, every day about my kids that ain't on
the list. Right right. This reminds me what's the technique
called again where you.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
As like James Comy, you leak something to the press
and you have the press call you and then they
can quote you as commenting on the leak.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That you leaked. I can't remember what that's.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Called, the log rolling or the old dipsy doodle or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I can't remember. If somebody remembers, tell me, but.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This seems like kind of a version of them, where
you terrify children, poor little innocent children in schools that
they're going to burn to death, and puppies are going
to burn to death, and everyone will die, including your
mommy and daddy, because of climate change.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And then when they grow up and say I'm not
sure I can have a kid because it's so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You say, look, people aren't willing to have kids because
I'm so dangerous. That is one hundred percent true and
should be commented on regularly. I mean, when you talk
about adults eighteen to forty nine, a quarter of them
don't plan on having kids. How many of us weren't
planning on having kids when we were twenty two, but
then we changed.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Our mind when we got older.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean lots of us, So that younger end of that,
a lot of them aren't going to have kids anyway,
aren't planning to have kids.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
People are having less kids. There's no doubt about that.
That's what I wanted to bring up. I heard something
about China today. They're really struggling in China with marriages.
They can't get people to get married. And then they
went through this reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It might be.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
While people of blah blah bah. There's something happening, and
I don't know why. People just aren't willing to understand this.
There's something happening in modern society with comfort and luxury
or attention span or something where we're just not interested
in coupling and having children. Why they have to assign
a reason to it. It's climate change, it's the rent's
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too high, it's the Trump is in office.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's no, it's not there's something going on. As a
beast that's taken away.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
There's no stronger desire on planet Earth than to couple
and have kids. That has gone away for some reason.
And it ain't because of the rent, right, I would
agree completely. And the fact that it's happening in communist China, yeah,
and capitalists South.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Korea and Denmark and Italy and the United States and
rural America and cities, yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And the other thing that bothers the hell out of
me about that conversation is I find it so pathetically
and it's a perfect, you know, the manifestation of victimhood culture,
where you've got to be a victim of something to get.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Attention and feel important. But for the lady for the
New York.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Times to say, these times they are so dangerous and volatile,
we can't have children, Not during World War one or two,
or the Middle Ages or the smallpox outbreak or you
know whatever, the Cold War or the race riots.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And assassinations in nineteen sixty eight. No, these are the
times that are really scary.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Oh, man up, including the women, She s Louise quit
celebrating weakness.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What do you get when you do that? I'll give
you a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What kind of society do you get tictok a week
one right, you nailed it, ge money, and a new
guest essay, the Oregon writer Emma Pate explains how she
had made peace with the dire facts of climate change,
including Wait.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
A minute, Wait a minute, an Oregon writer named Pate?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Is this parody? I wrote? I know? Is this Fred Ormison? Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
She's made peace with the dire facts of climate change,
including the reality that her children will be increasingly affected
by warming and pollution or climate related disasters in the
years to come. I know my children are likely to
die in the endless hurricanes. But I had children anyway.
How brave of you whether it's ethical to have kids.
(11:44):
Screw you and you determining whether it's ethical for me
to have kids.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Man, these people are insufferable. They really are. I know it.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know what, if you had children, you'd be too
busy to write this stuff. You wouldn't have time, right right,
we got and you wouldn't be worried about fanciful half
a degree elevations in forty seven years.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Please, we got a lot more in the way. Stay here.
What really doomed Joe Biden's presidency? Well, actuary tables.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But what doomed in politically early on was the pull
out of Afghanistan, which was a disaster. Everybody watched on
TV as his poll numbers plummeted. He never recovered and
CBS News checking in on Afghanistan. What life is like
under the Taliban. Here's the reporter interviewing a Taliban leader.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
The president has demanded that Thaliban give back the hardware value.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That's seven billion dollars hardware put on parade last year
at an abandoned US air base.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Abdul Kahar Balki.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Is the Taliban spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Is it entirely out of the question that the Thaliban
would ever return this military hardware?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is it absolutely off the table?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
These are the assets off the state of Avanistan and
they will continue to be in the position off to
stay toughle funds.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It seems like there's no deal then with the president.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
People don't make deals on the assets of these states.
They make agreements through doalg and engagement to find spaces
and areas of common interests.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Fresh and translate that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Okay, Oh, First of all, the Taliban leader speaks better
English than me.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Where do you go to school, not public school.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Apparently, I guess he's I would guess he's British educated,
judging by his accent. First, I was thinking, why are
you asking this question? There's no way he's gonna say, oh, yeah,
sure you want to back, We'll give him back. But
I guess because President Trump has demanded him back, and
so that's a reason to ask the Taliban leader, is
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there any any circumstance where are gonna give them back?
In the Taliband's gonna say no. Of course they're going
to say no, you want them, come and get him.
It'd take a lot of troops in many, many years.
I think you tried that once before. But if you
want to go ahead, I think it's much more likely
again they're going to say, make us an offer.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Let's talk.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We got your stuff, you want it back? We need money. Yeah,
they don't need some of this stuff. I mean, they
probably want to keep a lot of the guns and everything,
but they don't need tanks and humbes necessarily to keep
the population under control. They'd probably be happier in heck
to sell those for a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wows Uncle Joe, wowow Wow. So I'm on this just
popped into my head.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So I'm exchanging gratitude lists with this guy.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We decided the other day we're going to get on
this habit. We're going to be grateful for his stuff,
and he's.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, no, just uh.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I'm going to text him every morning and and I
forgot today, so I got to do it during the
commercial break. I'll text him every morning three things I'm
grateful for, and he's going to text me three things
he's grateful for.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I brought up the whole idea of.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
No wine February, the no whining during February, you know,
on the kind of the flip side of whining. And
one way to get out of whining is to be
grateful for the good things. One thing a person I
put on my list today, be grateful you're born in
the freaking United States. If you're born in Afghanistan, you're
going to have an awful, miserable, possibly very short life. Yeah,
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no matter what your attitude.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Is, unless you're an active participant in evil, that would help.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It would give you a better chance of survival probably,
But yeah, and that you know you can have all
the strength of character you want, you're gonna have a miserable, short,
painful life if you were born lots of places in
the world other than the United States. Doesn't happened in
the United States. Isn't the only place you can avoid
that to a fate. I mean, I think if you're borning,
you know, some rural village of France, you probably have
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a decent life. But there are a lot of places
where you you got no shot and it's just luck.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Oh my god, that's wrong. This is the worst most
racist country on earth. What else should I put on
my gratitude list?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Mcflurri's grateful for Oreo, mcfluury's that come in two sides.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wow Wow coming up a campus madness update, k through
grad school madness, good news and bad news.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Tell you was as long as we have a minute,
the next doge like effort and I don't know if
it could be cat or something like that, muskrat spell
out all the letters involved in seriously calling out the
bull crap of the American education system from top to
bottom and making it a national beyond a moonshot priority
(16:36):
like more like, you know, curing smallpox or getting electricity
to all fifty states style effort to get rid of
what's wrong with the American education system and straighten it out. Honestly,
that might be the single most important thing we could
conceivably do, right up there with dealing with overspending in
(16:58):
the national debt.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I wonder if we might not be better off
if we only focused on the education, the schools and
like put all the effort into that. Yeah, be more
likely to be successful because there's plenty there, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
So Democrats have been playing hopscotch while Republicans are playing
grand theft dollar four and we're finally starting to realize,
let's put the chalk down and let's actually focus on
what are those lanes where we can pursue, like the
legal cases, like legislatively, really the budget that's really really
place where they do have power.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
That's particularly talking about the whole doge thing. But we've
been mentioning this column by Rich Lowry of National Review,
where he says, this is the biggest win in the
last three weeks for the right in the culture war
in half a century. And I'm so used to losing
every cultural war thing. The idea that we're winning now
(17:59):
is a bunch of issues is just I don't even
know how to I don't even know how.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
To feel right. It is so odd, but it's it's great.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Excuse me, and I think the voices of sanity need to,
you know, make as much progress as quickly as possible.
I suspect, you know, barring well, you know that's crazy
to try.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
To predict anything. Trump will have four years.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm certainly hoping his successor at least wires at least
oh boy, the constitutional corsis will have at least four
years to continue the progress that's being made. But we
absolutely need a moonshot style effort to reform education in
this country because it is absolutely killing us. Michael, It's
(18:43):
a campus Madness Update, good and bad news edition, good
and bad.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
News, madness screaming, how's madness?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You idiot on the campus? God, how's quite scream Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No kiddingel So, disembalment figures into the story somehow, so
well metaphorically speaking.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So we'll start with some good news, really interesting piece
about Tufts University, which is to the left of Trotsky
Boston area. But there's a professor by the name of
Hirsch there who teaches a class on American conservatism that
is always one hundred percent enrolled and extremely popular, and
he a man of the sane center left, has them
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read Frederick Hayek's Road to Serve Them at Ininran's The
Nature of Government, and then has lefty writers assigned as well.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That says, all right, let's talk about this issue.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And it is a classic American education where you have
to understand both sides before you say which one you're on.
And he is systematically steel manning conservative arguments for the
college kids. And the really encouraging part about this is
the kids love it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And poll after poll has shown that a lot of
college kids resent the cancel culture and the bully culture
and the radical culture. But they just they're afraid or
you know, intimidated into silence. And there's a lot more
curiosity out there than I think you would think from
looking at college camp.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
God, are we.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Actually coming out of peak that? And we'll never have
to deal with it again, at least in our lifetimes.
I mean, did we just live through the pendulum swinging
to the far end of that nuttiness?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I share hope. So I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I'm a little afraid of it being like a sports
team that you know has a very bad beginning of
the season, then they win six in a row and
you think all right, and then that is just a
blip and they go back to being bad. I think
there's so much of a fight to go on, but
let me plunge on here. We can talk about this
at length. A great piece in the Free Press about
(20:59):
how all over the country, including in some surprising places,
educators are covering up for their own failures wholesale. We
should have the best education system in the world, they write,
we should have an education system that reflects us being
a superpower. But there's no one with a straight face
who can say that the United States has a world
(21:20):
class education system. And that's from a higher up in
the New Jersey Department of Education, now retired. But they
go through place after place where because they are failing
to meet any standard, they are systematically changing the standards,
including this shock to me. In twenty twenty four, Oklahoma
schools seemed to perform a miracle. They went from twenty
(21:42):
four percent proficiency in reading to forty seven percent in
two years. You almost number doubling the previous figure. You
see that number in a year. You know, something funky happen.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Indeed, if it sounds too good to be true, that's
because it was. In last year, Oklahoma lowered its cut scores,
the score a student needs to hit on test to
be considered proficient.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Unbelievable. That's good Hearts law. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Once, once a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to
be a good measure.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yep. Trend is also happening in New York State.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
After not a single eighth grader in the upstate city
of Schenectady tested proficient in math in twenty twenty two,
state officials lowered the scores the following year. Wisconsin lowered
cut scores last year. Illinois is about to lower its scores,
et cetera, et cetera. We did in tell a lot
of blue states, but Oklahoma shocked me.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We've done it in California a couple of times. Well,
it speaks as much to the nature of bureaucracy as liberalism.
Well it's a good Heart's law. I mean that seems
to be a law. No matter what you no matter
your politics, you come up with a goal, or you
measure something, then you come up with a goal and
then you just fudge to meet the goal, and so
(22:54):
the measure doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And that's it happens, over and over again.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I can come up with one hundred examples up the
top my head, because I think it's a fascinating aspect
of the way the human brain works. But how are
there not People raise their hands, say, we can't be
lowering the standards.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We need to raise the quality field tradition.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, right right, lift up the children, don't drop the standards.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
That'd be a good slogan.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Veering back to good news, The Department of Education on Friday,
Cancer which still exists, apparently canceled fifteen million dollars in
federal grants that were used to fund diversity programs at
three universities in California, State, La, Virginia Commonwealth, and University
of Saint Thomas and Minnesota. All had received giant, multimillion
dollar grants, part of a billion dollars a billion that
(23:43):
the Biden Education Department spent on diversity programs in America's schools,
nearly half of which went to grants for race based hiring.
That is, at least temporarily on the way out. Now
back to bad news. Two stories here that are adjoined
at the hip Brown University Medical School that's one of
your elite ivy leaguers.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
By the way, elite. I almost vomit when I say
that about these universities.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But they now give diversity, equity and inclusion more weight
than excellent clinical skills in its promotion criteria for faculty,
raising questions duh about the equality of teaching and patient
care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply
deis penetrated medical education. Again, when they decide what faculty
(24:29):
to promote, they now give DEI more weight than excellent
clinical skills.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I saw that over the week in Medicine. I meant
to mention now on the air, that is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I was looking at the actual paperwork, the criteria, and
really your plan for how you're answering the question of
how you're going to get diversity, equity inclusion into your
your medical practice is more important than your actual SI right,
(25:01):
that is how or as important?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
How is that even possible?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You could take a talk show host's opinion on this,
or you could listen to Bob Cerencioni, an orthopedic surgeon Maryland,
This is as stark as it gets the criteria. Say
what DEI medical schools is all about, and it's not
about clinical performance. Hector Choppaw, clinical professor at Texas A
and M, said it was difficult to comprehend why clinical
skills get less weight than DEI quote.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Clinical skills are of paramount importance and should be considered
major criteria for any promotion.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The quotes from saying people go on and on, but
we'll keep moving.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
University of California Schools oops illegally used racial preferences and
admissions lawsuit alleges.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Of course, California.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
By gonna Trump prove California we already in deficit, but
we're gonna spend fifty million dollars to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
They are illegally still recruiting based on race and with
a paper thin, a tissue thin cover up of what
they're doing all across the UC system.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That fifty million dollar Trump proofing California legislation. By the way,
past Friday afternoon late I noticed when I got the
ding on my phone it was like five thirty California
time when they announced the passing of that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think that was an accident. He laughed, I laughed, And.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
If that got you riled up, this is going to
make you completely insane. You may remember that last year
San Diego school officials got sued for punishing a student
for supposedly wearing blackface at a football game when it
was really just team color face paint. Well, now a
worse and more horrifying battle is unfolding within the Capistrano
Unified School District in Orange County, where an elementary school
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student was punished and deemed racist for making a drawing
that say it said black lives matter, with the offending
phrase all lives matter under it. The girl, through her mother,
is suing the school district. Listen to this, and we
could get into the legalities of this, but I think
their self evident. The fractice began when the girl who's
(27:04):
just identified as BB heard a lesson on Martin Luther
King that also touched on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
This is in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
BB's teacher read her and other students in the class
of a book about Martin Luther King and also discuss
discussed the Black Lives Matter movement. Students were probably already
familiar with it is. The school had a picture displayed
that included the phrase black lives matter, along with a
clenched fist that young BB saw every day. And this
girl is where does it say that? The whole clunch
(27:34):
six years old?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Six? Wow?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, the clenched fist accompanying that sign off awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
What are you trying to say there?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
So BB became concerned for classmate of color, while b
B did not understand what phrase meant. The book had
the effect of making BB feel bad for a classmate
of color, who then drew a picture for her little
friend to help her feel Included. BB's picture contained the
frame black lives matter, drawn in black marker. Below that
was the phrase any life, written in light colored marker.
(28:05):
Before any life were four circles of different colors, which
BB drew to represent three classmates in herself holding hands.
And for that she was suspended for school, singled out, browbeaten,
yelled at by the teacher, forced to apologize to her
little not a chance, not a chance, not a chance,
not a chance. I realize it's easier said than done
(28:25):
to pull your kid out of school because it's really
really expensive. I'm paying the bills right now. But no way,
I'm letting my kid have to apologize for that and
sending them back into that classroom.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
No flipping way, Little.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
MC, the second girl in question, expressed confusion about what
BB was apologizing for. BB shared MC's confusion about the
need for an apology, but she did as she was
ordered to do. She was then prohibited from taking part
in recess for two weeks. She was banned from recess,
forced to sit on a bench and watch her classmates
play without her for that sin.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's California schools, folks.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I'll move around along before I say anything that would
end our careers.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's unbelievable. I know it is.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I know it is. I tell you what. It makes me,
just absolutely militant. I would be eupy I would be
in danger of getting arrested if I got into a
conversation about that with my kid at the school.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
We could talk about an oh, oh, it would go
very very badly. Yes, we could talk about the former Oakland,
California teacher who is now suing because she was fired
for not calling a five year old by the right
pronouns because the five year old's crazy ass activist parents
had decided that their five year old was misgendered, and
finally this.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
To drive home the point that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We need a Space Shot style effort to clean up education.
Three Columbia University encampment leaders are suing the school alleging
that it's disciplinary actions such as they were, caused them
quote severe emotional and psychological harm, and one of the
attorneys is Jim carl James Carlson, a professional anarchist who
stormed Hamilton Hall last spring and clashed with a facilities
(30:06):
worker with the militant students again, the university gives them
pitter pat sanctions for violently taking over buildings, and they
sue for damage and other relief for severe emotional and
psychological arm including anxiety, depression, and trauma for which they
are seeking treatment. Wow, if we as a society can't
(30:26):
stand up and face that sort of thing down, we
deserve to go away. We deserve to be taken over
by China or whoever else.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I agree with that. But none of this is going
to matter because an asteroids going to hit Earth in
eight years. I've got the details on that coming up.
Among other things.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But the price of eggs skyrocketing from bird flu. Shortages
are growing from coast to coast. Some chains like Costco
and Trader Joe's are limiting the amount of eggs customers
can buy, and it stores with eggs on the shelves
sticker shop. Eggs are now so valuable become a target
for thieves. In Seattle, surveillance camera captured suspects entering a
shed behind Luna Park Cafe. Or police say they stole
(31:07):
more than five hundred eggs. Jerry's Organics had to beef
up security after thieves stole.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
One hundred thousand eggs from their farm.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
In Pennsylvania, bird flu was impacted tens of millions of
farmed chickens, sending egg prices up sixty.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Five percent in the last year.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
The Department of Agriculture projects egg prices will increase again
about twenty percent this year, and we're told that it
will be at least another six months before egg price
is stabilized.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Well, that's why the kids are sharing a room now
my guy did when I was a kid, and the
other room is being used full hens. You got about
one hundred hens in their laying eggs where the money
is got the.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Hens little hazmat suits so they don't get the bird flu.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You almost eat more eggs than I do.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean, I just I realize if you're a restaurant aware, Well,
let's hear this story first.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
In Los Angeles, Canter's Deli has been in business for
over one hundred years now. So basically, just to explain this,
you went from dollars a month a few years ago
to know at least twenty three to twenty five thousand
dollars a month for eggs.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, for pretty much the same product for them, the
same amount of eggs.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
And they are drowning under those costs.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
A business has been in business for one hundred and
five years now, can't break even.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Not just simply because of the eggs. That's enough to
do it. There you go.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
So they're just gonna have to lose money till the
egg thing gets straightened out. To hold on to their
customer base, they keep on serving meals and just losing
money on everywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
That would suck.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But I might eat three eggs a month, I don't know,
A couple of week, I don't know, don't do do
do more people? Most people eat way more eggs than me.
I don't know that I too, will really enjoy four
or five a month, maybe six. Well, although it's in
you know, bread and stuff like that too, truely, Yeah,
(32:49):
which all made indeed, which makes everything go up in price. Well,
I'm big right now on the thing you talk about
a lot with the tiny number of ingredients like I
got banana bread at the store the other day, and
the ingredients where like banana, walnuts, butter and some else
like four ingredients, And yeah, it makes you feel a
lot better than when you get that long laundry list
(33:09):
of ingredients in there.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, great rule of thumb for avoiding the what do
they call it, the ultra refine foods or Hunter process?
Ultra process. Yeah, highly process.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So we have more to the Nancy May story an
hour for we do.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Indeed, the concious woman from South Carolina got up and
gave a shocking speech about rape and sexual exploitation and
name specific names of her oppressors and those who victimized
her and other women called out the Attorney General of
the state of South Carolina against whom she is going
to be running for office soon. It's all very odd
(33:45):
and shocking and unprecedented. On the floor of the house.
We'll have some of the audio for you and some interpretation.
But this story is not going away. It's one brand
of crazy or another, and we haven't figured out which
brand yet.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I'll get to that now or four. Two quick things
before we take a break.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
One I'm really liking on the iPhone the AI summary
of my texts.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I'm finding that very very handy. Huh. I haven't used
it yet.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I did I have a choice in using it. It
just showed up on my phone when I had did
the update, But now all my texts. I glance at
it and there's an update long text from the babysitter saying,
you know dropped off Henry. She will pick him up,
but as a much longer text day. The way it
picks out just the information you need and gives it
to you in the bullet is awesome. Uh. And this story,
(34:33):
NASA is tracking an asteroid that could hit the Earth
in eight years. The asteroid is between one hundred and
thirty and three hundred feet long, which I believe gets
you into destroy the dinosaur's territory. Estimated two percent chance
of an impacting Earth at this point, I had a
one in fifty. If I had a one and fifty
(34:53):
chance of winning five million dollars. I'd be as excited
as hell.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I would be too.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
We have one and fifty chance of having a dinosaur
level exting. Seems like this is a big story. Sweet
meat or death. Better late than never.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Eight years, Well, it's been a good run. Been a
good run.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
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