September 26, 2025 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty,
and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Already this morning from inside the White House. President Donald
Trump has been commenting about this case, describing former FBI
director James Comey as a dirty cop and a destroyer
of lives. That comes as Comy now faces federal charges
of obstructing justice and making false statements that could land
to him behind bars for five years if found guilty.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yes, for the first time ever a former or current
FBI director has been indicted. James Comy. You might remember
the name if you follow politics at all. He probably
got Trump elected in twenty sixteen when he announced, with
what like a week to go before the election, I've
reopened the case with Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
What what? Why'd you tell us this? And he's guilty
of all sorts of stuff that we're not going to
charge her with. Back you all right? That talent ended?
That was funny.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, By the way, the indictment Conway, just so you
know what the other side is saying. MSNBC, for instance,
I was watching this morning. They're treating it like this.
I'm looking at a tweet from Joe Scarborough's account. The
Kombi indictment is among the worst abuses in Department of
Justice history in this country.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It is hard to overstate how to big a moment.
This is uh they are calling this. This is a
completely new level of lawlessness, even by Trumps standards. We're
into unknown territory. Our democracy is over. That's the way
it's being looked, right right, Well, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Describing this as lawlessness trying to enforce the law is
kind of funny. If you want to say that the
independence of the Justice Department is threatened. Okay, that's a
good discussion I have. But as we've mentioned earlier in
the show, the fess up to all the times Democrat
administrations pressured the Justice Department to do one thing or another,
including all the lawfair against Trump, which doesn't make it right,
(02:12):
of course what Trump's doing now necessarily quick recap of
the Wall Street Journals description, and then we've got a
lot of great audio for you. A federal grand jury
in Virginia indicted former FBI director James Comy blah blah blah,
fall statements and obstruction days after President Trump demanded the
prosecution and ousted the US attorney who determined that there
was insufficient evidence to bring the case. All right, here's
(02:37):
what we're talking about. Back in twenty twenty, Congress was
holding hearings about the investigation into Trump's and the campaigns
alleged tized to Russia back in the twenty sixteen election,
and how dirty that was. All the leaks, the faked
up PISA warrants, the shock and page and the insurance
(02:58):
plan and just everything else. Oh my god, the Steele
dossier and oh it goes on and on and on
and on. Uh and call mey. Was asked this and
said this, have.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You ever been an anonymous source in news reports about
matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Never, mister McCabe, who works for you as publicly and
repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the Wall Street
Journal and that you were directly aware of it and
that you directly authorized it.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I stand by what the testimony you summarized that I
gave in May of twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Seventeen, and it's nothing that no, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, I didn't, And it's known that he leaked to
that Columbia professor to get stuff into. Whichever newspaper was
I think the Washington Post, New York Times, whichever one,
doesn't matter. That was the way he did things, According
to Andrew McCabe, who was the FBI.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Director after call me right, right, So it seems like
he lied in front of Congress, or at least there's
reasonable suspicion that he lied in front of Congress. I
think he's guilty as a dog. But so why not
just go ahead and do this? Well, you got the
question of Trump browbeating the Justice Department into filing the charges,
(04:18):
even though most of the pros, including according to sources
in the administration, Pam BONDI told him, don't do this.
It won't work, we won't get him. It's it's not
a good look, et cetera. But Trump was intent on
doing it. Why don't we hold off on self righteous
James Comy hauling himself up on the cross thirty five?
This is the president of the United States.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
They're going to make a determination.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm not making that determined.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I think i'd be allowed to get involved in the once,
but I don't really choose to do so. I can
only say that Koby's a bad person. He's a sick person.
I think he's a sick guy. Actually, they did terrible
things at the FBI. But I don't know. I have
no idea what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Nathan Turley is a sane, sober voice with conservative sympathies.
Certainly always interesting to listen to Jonathan about legal matters.
Michael hit the first, turtly, would you forty?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
It is a seismic event. I mean, you're talking about
a former director of the FBI, and there have been
long allegations that Comy was a leaker. If you recall,
the Inspector General report was scathing with regard to Comy's conduct.
(05:34):
Comy removed FBI documents, including classified information when he was fired,
and the Inspector General went after him, but it did
not find that he specifically leaked that to The New
York Times. But this could be a perjury case as
opposed to a leak case.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Hit the next one.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
False statement or perjury prosecutions are not easy matters because
they can be subject to interpretation. James Covey Comby's a
very clever person. He's testified a lot, and so these
cases can be tricky to make out.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's a very charitable way to put it. I think
Jonathan Turley saying it could be tricky. Andrew McCarthy writing
in the National Review, and he is a conservative, and
he hated almost all of the cases against Trump and
wrote at length about why they were ridiculous and you know,
a travesty of justice and we should be worried about
going down this road, et cetera, et cetera. He thinks
the indictment against Comy should be dismissed. He says it's
(06:32):
absolutely a legal mess. He's writing today he said, we
have to resort to reporting about what's in the indictment
rather than just reading the indictment itself, because the charge
is so poorly drafted that it's not entirely clear what
Comy is alleged to have lied about. The indictment does
not mention mccab or Hillary, who were referred to as
someone else at the FBI. This is in quotes and person.
(06:54):
One Missing from the indictment is any description of the
incident involving mcabe, Clinton and Comy, out of which the
perjury chargery charge supposedly results. So it's difficult to understand
what the charge actually is, says Andrew McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh boy, yeah, oh boys. Right, here's Keith Jarrett on
Fox and Friends forty four. It seems to me.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
That his deceptions were pretty obvious, and you know, the
false statement substruction charges are pretty straightforward. Bran And if convicted,
of course, up to five years in prison.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
He allegedly leaked sensitive FBI material and then lied about
it under questioning from Congress twice twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Again, he doubled down in.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Twenty twenty, and while testifying, Comy insisted, gee, I never
authorized anybody else to anonymously leak. Well, several former FBI officials,
including allegedly Andrew McKay James Baker, their own record stating
that Comy did authorize numerous as.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We mentioned that on that one Michael. So there you
have folks on Fox and Friends saying, oh, yeah, these
charges are rock solid. Well, look we're gonna get them.
I'll point out again Fox.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I turned on Fox and Friends this morning that while
while other cable news channels are saying this is one
of the biggest things that has ever happened and the
worst thing Trump has ever done, Fox didn't even get
around the story to the second segments, which makes me
think that they're not super proud of it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
They went with a bunch of other stories.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Comy's a liar, and he's absolutely full of crap about
so many different things. And I do think he's a
bad human. I don't know if he's the worst human
that's ever existed or something. That Trump said, Yes, still
is in the finals in the run.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Which is that hell of a thing to say.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But once again, reading from Mark Halprin's a non partisan
newsletter today, he wrote, I've long been mystified as to
the deification of James Comy by the media, a man
whose public actions and statements have been put in sharp
relief with a complete unprincipled phony and liar. He is unprincipled,
phony and liar. That's exactly what he is. We got
(09:00):
to play the Comy defending himself Instagram stuff just because
it's so good. It's our classic James Comy. One more
at Lindsey Graham fifty two. Then we'll get to Komy.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
When I questioned him five years ago, I didn't believe
a word he told me. I don't believe this possible
for the director of the FBI not to know that
the sub source who gave the information about the Russian
dossier recantedate and it never got up to him. I
don't believe this possible that Comy did not know there
(09:32):
was accusations against Clinton cooking this up, because now we
know that in August of twenty sixteen, three months before
he applied for the warrant, they had a meeting about
whether or not her campaign started this storyline to avoid
exposure for the email scandal.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So like, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an expert
in this area at all, and I don't claim to be.
But just from reading the smart people that I like,
it seems to me classic law which is going on here.
There's very little chance because of the particulars that they
get anything, you know, legally real against Comy.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But the whole lawfair thing is often.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Just to make your life miserable, just to drag you
through the Hall process, have to hire a bunch of lawyers,
dominate your life with a very unpleasant situation for a
long time to come because you hate the person, which
is exactly what they did to Donald Trump for years
and friends, are you there sitting there are you thinking
Comy deserves that?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Eh? Yeah, well so Jim Jack. In this country, we
let the defendants speak. In other words, we don't hang
a man without a fair trial. This is true.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's right, Dad. Now I've got to go shopping with
your moth. So this is James Comy last night in
his Instagram post.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
My family and I have known for years that there
are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we
couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either.
Could he be more dramatic and pompous. We will not
live on our knees, and you shouldn't either. Okay, go on,
I'm good, I'm fine. I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is
the tool of a tyrant, and she's right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I'm not afraid. Oh, and I hope you're not either. Oh.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I hope instead you are engaged, You are paying attention,
and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it,
which it does.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'm not afraid and you shouldn't be either. As he
takes the mantle of leader of those who are so afraid,
out there, although I know some people are.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
James, that was good. That was really good. But let's
do one more take. Can you tone down the I'm
Jesus on the cross thing just a little bit, roll
it back in och. That'd be good. Let's try again. Ready,
action go on.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but
I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. I'm innocent,
So let's have a trial. I keep the faith you.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I will, and I'll get off my knees and I
won't be afraid. Was there more?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Your heart is broken for the judicial system when you
lied about stuff to get PAISA warrants so you could
spy on people when you wanted to, planted stories in
the paper so you could then brief the president and
then plant another story that the president has been briefed.
I mean just that your heart didn't break for the
Justice Department then, because you weren't doing the right thing,
(12:34):
because you James call me. And this is what he
has been from the beginning. He thinks he is the
one arbiter of what is true and good, and he
can go outside the norms because he could be trusted
with the norms.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He knows what's good and what's right. Right, He's far
more enlightened than those simple men who made the rules.
I will change the rules when necessary for justice. Is
there another one that's it?
Speaker 11 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He make people vomit. He is so hard to take.
Doesn't mean this case is a good case or should
be brought, but yeah, he's hard to take. We got
more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
You see, in this country, we're very proud to have
a process known as the law, and none of the law.
A man is presumed innocent until he's proven guilty.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Right.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
In other words, we don't hang anybody without.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
A fair trial.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Everybody knows that, sure, but sometimes we tend to forget. Well,
I'm glad you understand. I'll see you kids later. I
have to go shopping with your.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Money, Armstrong.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
And finally, American Airlines has unveiled new amenity kits for
premium tickets, which include beauty products from celebrity facialist Joanna Vargus.
Will Spirit said, they'll just keep passing around a tub
of vacilline.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Wow, relentless on the Spirit Airlines? Is that an East
Coast thing or the more people fly Spirit there?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I don't know. I think it's mostly East Coast.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I never heard anybody bring it up as an airline,
So this is exciting people. Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive poll
is out and up and you can vote on.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It if you're scrossed. Yeah, and I think this is
my year, Michael. Finally, I've been working out a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What's mostly interesting as you get older and pay less
attention to pop culture Like me, you don't know who
any of these people are, but it's interesting to me
that next to the names of these people I don't know,
it's what they do. Number of TikTok stars, podcasters, influencers,
(14:43):
influencers that you would have to be in that world
to have any idea who they are. Isn't that something
this year? This year's Sexy Fan of Life could be
some influencer that nobody under the over the age.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Of forty has ever heard of. Maybe I don't know. Yeah,
and has you know, many many, many millions of people
who are fans. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I was listening to something. Rob Reiner was talking about this.
He's the movie director Spinal Tap two is coming out. Mean,
it's talking about shared experiences and how we don't have
those anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And he thinks it's bad. I think it is too.
I don't know there's anything to do about it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
But he was on the TV show All in the Family,
and he was talking about how back in the day,
it was the number one show on television for five years,
and every Thursday night at eight o'clock. I think he said,
about a quarter of the country would tune in, and
that's including men, women, and children. About a quarter of
the country would tune in and not only watch the show,
(15:38):
but at that moment because there was no way to
record it or anything like that, so every a quarter
of the country was sitting on their couch at that moment,
all across the nation. We don't have anything close to
that now other than Super Bowl every year.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh, I can't imagine what it would be unless there's
some sort of cataclysm. But they know, even then, everybody
would separate to their own favorite website or streaming service
or what have you. Even the really big popular shows,
people aren't watching them at the same time, you know.
So you know, as somebody brings it up at a
dinner and you say, oh, don't tell me, I'm only
on season two, you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Right, So, and there was something. There was definitely a
bonding pulls us together. Here's something we can talk about.
That's shows we, you know, have some commonality.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Before we get it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, any political issue comes up that might keep
us from flying apart and hating each other.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
There's got to be something there, right, No, I think
you're one hundred percent right. And all my point was
with the sexiest man alive. It wasn't that many years
ago that whoever won, everybody in the country knew who
that person was. Everybody because it was such a common experience. Now,
you know, though there's divided into so many different categories
depending on your age, politics, part of the country you
(16:55):
live in. Right, so are the amount of overlap in
you know, the things we do, the things we care about,
the things that make us laugh is either much much
less and you never get a chance to find out
about it because you're yelling at each other about politics first,
which is unfortunate. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
I printed space on a dozen digital billboards on Highway
one oh one in Silicon Valley between Santa Clara and
San Francisco to advertise my personal dating website, Mary Lisa
dot com.
Speaker 14 (17:28):
It's been months since I've been on a date. I
can't even get men to talk to me on any
of the apps. I don't understand what's going on, but
I figured it's time for a bold move. And what's
bolder than running billboards on the side of a major
highway to essentially market myself?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Katie, Have you seen this woman? Have you gone to
marry Lisa dot com?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I have. She's cute. I'm picking up crazy vibes, though
a little bit well.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was thinking that maybe she's like beyond cute, like stunning,
Like she's trying to get a thing going with a website,
whether it's only fans or influencer or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you think she's just a regular person. Yeah, she's.
I mean, she's not like a Kardashian, but she's certainly
not ugly. She's cute find to land an internet zillionaire? Maybe, Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I wonder why she can't get men to respond to
her things on online dating.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I wish crazy vibes were like scientifically miserable. Yeah, and
that would be you know, part of you know, are
you financially together? You know you're five foot four, Oh gosh,
you're a six point five on the crazy scale.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But now a six point five on the crazy scale.
You gotta hunt it out, you gotta sense it. She's attractive, Yeah,
she's cute. Uh, it's interesting she's taking out billboards though.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
See that screams.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Crazy to me. Yeah, just as a female. It's r
O d reeks of desperation.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah. Well, and you're going to get thousands of responses,
oh yeah in all likelihood, Oh yeah, in ten minutes.
So how would you wade through all of those responses
and pick a non crazy person yourself if you're normal.
I don't know how the hell you would do that.
I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It seems like an odd plan. Uh, coming up, just
came across this. It wasn't true very many years ago,
wasn't even close to true twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's true now Britain is poorer.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Than all fifty US states ins of in terms of individual.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Quality of life. Based on that, socialism works great.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Even our poorest states are richer on average than Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And we'll get into the stats coming up. It's really
quite amazing. Yeah, and actually some of our poorest states
are staging an amazing turnaround in their education systems. That's
what I was just about to talk about. That's what
I was just about to read.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh good, good, a piece about the Mississippi Miracle, which
you were talking about the other day. Consider this latest
chapter of the Mississippi Miracle, which has seen the state
climb from forty ninth in the country on fourth grade
reading to ninth nationally. That is quite a turnaround from
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second to last in top to top ten. This rise
has received a great deal of coverage in publications ranging
from The New York Times in the New York Post.
We talked about it the other day, Joe brought it
to us, and yet it still feels like what's taking
place in the Deep South has been grossly under sold.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
That's funny, Yeah, no kidding. Well, first of all, surely
it's the teachers unions that have turned it around in progressive,
equity based policies. Right.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
First, it's not just Mississippi, it's Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee
have all adopted the same strategies stemmed from bleeding effective states,
bleeding affecting, stemmed the bleeding affecting states elsewhere and seen
significant improvements. And the second, many people who aren't too
focused on education. Paul he seemed to imagine, Mississippi has
(21:01):
only stopped the underperforming. But it's not just that the
people that were overperforming are now even higher. So it
raised everybody, the bottom people and the top people.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Right well, and again they make the point that it's
not that Mississippi is just not sucking anymore, if you'll
pardon my front, it's that they're doing really, really well.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, So one other thing on that, and then you
can get into why the heck this is the difference
is most pronounced. You look at the most disadvantage students.
In California, only twenty eight percent of black fourth graders
read at or above basic level, compared to fifty two
percent in Mississippi. Over half in Mississippi of the most
disadvantage only better slightly better than a quarter in California.
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Gavin Newsom for president and again, but it's not just
that Mississippi has raised the florid. It's also raised the ceiling.
The state has also one of the nation's best when
you look at students who are not economically disadvantaged.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Right right. The key aspect to this, I know in
Mississippi there are no teachers' union to come up the
works to quote one Mississippi teacher. And the other thing
is the schools and the states have said, we are
going to teach reading and writing and math and history.
We are going to teach kids core academic academic topics entirely,
(22:30):
and nothing but that. We're going to identify the underperforming
kids and we're going to give them intense tutoring. This
school is about learning and nothing else, no indoctrination. Can
you imagine that, friends, something so radical and it's working
beautifully because of course it effing is pardon me, you know,
(22:51):
a quick huddle here, quick huddle friends. Can you believe
we let the insane people run education for as long
as we did and they still are in most places?
Who think what I just said is somehow awful shocking.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Well, see, it seems crazy to me that I ever
wasn't thinking about this. But like one of the big
pushbacks against government healthcare, for instance, government taking over healthcare
is oh, you want your doctor to be like the DMV. Well,
I feel like we were starting from scratch and somebody
proposing the government run schools, I would be saying, oh,
you want your schools to be like the DMV.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
It's a lot like the DMV whole bunch of middle
management who kind of have contempt for their customer, the students.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Or the person trying to get a driver's license, depending
on it. Doesn't matter how well they do their job,
can't get it fired no matter what. Yeah, a couple
of exhibits that are kind of the other side of
the coin. First of all, interesting article I came across
about how boys may benefit from red shirting in kindergarten.
It's the idea of and we weighed this with our
kids too, who all happen to have kind of uh yeah,
(23:59):
could go this way, could go that way, birthdays, right exactly.
And is your boys in particular are they ready to
start school or would they benefit from one more year
of reading at home, mom and dad reading two of
them and then they start to school or just maturing right, yeah, exactly.
(24:22):
It's interesting. This writer quotes a researcher in child and
adolescent studies at the unforgivably liberal California State University System.
But they mentioned that a big training session happened and
every single teacher was talking about how boys are struggling
and they all wanted to do something about it, which
is laudable and good and I'm glad to hear it.
(24:43):
But later in the article you get to the fact
that leftist groups, including teachers' unions, are actually coming out
against red shirting children, red shirting children including boys, because
only more affluent families can afford to do that. Therefore,
(25:07):
it's an inequity, and you should force those boys who
are not ready for school into school. People are freaking crazy. Oh,
I know, I know. It makes you angry, doesn't it, Yes,
it does. No, you can't hold your son out even
though he's completely not ready, because that would be inequitable
because some parents can't do that. Started again on the
(25:28):
whole pre K thing, which makes me nuts.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It partially makes me nuts because they just built a
big new I'm sure it cost many millions of dollars
building at the school where my kids went when they
were little for pre K, which is presented as just
obviously a good idea, even though there are no studies
that show it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
No, including many studies that show the contrary. And one
more thing, one more exhibit, and I've mentioned this several
times that you know through the years of various news shows,
including sixty Minutes have highlighted these unbelievable inner city schools
that turn around the kid's futures. And it's always the
(26:04):
same formula. They raise that expectations, they instill discipline, often
their uniforms involved, take them relieve uh, and they teach
core topics to the kids. They go hardcore on academics
and people are held accountable. Yeah, and it's in a cheerful,
positive you can do this way, and it's always, always,
(26:28):
always a charter school or an independent school zorin Mamdani
Mandani is so damni say it with me, Mam dumni.
He preaches an equity agenda that includes choking off funding
for charter schools. He wants to essentially end them. Mamdannie
(26:53):
threatens to stu and they go into uh. This is
a I think the Wall Street journal is talking about
the astonishingly terrible achievement numbers of a lot of students
in New York City and how in the charter school
system they're vastly, vastly better. I mean, there's just like,
holy crap, and it's it's white kids, black kids, Hispanic kids,
(27:15):
and all its similar results. Mundanni threatens to stump this
success story quote. I oppose efforts by the state to
mandate and expansion of charter school operations in New York City.
He opposes charters co locating sharing facilities with district schools.
He is big on equity. If anybody excels. If I'm sorry,
(27:37):
if everybody doesn't excel, nobody should be allowed to excel.
They should be held down. That may be the most
sick philosophy, non demand. That might be the main tenet
of socialism and communism. That person over there doing well
somehow is damaging me, so let's make sure they don't
do well. Crazy This mum, Donnie's hostility to charters is
(27:58):
reminiscent in a forum or build de Blagio who made
it harder for charters to do what they do, and
they go into the details of it and the way
he harassed them and hit them with expenses that they
never saw coming and never paid before. Says Eva Moscow
at CEO of Success Academies that has a wonderful success record.
It was eight years of daily hostility. It was the
(28:20):
worst eight years of my life, and it just made
the work so incredibly hard. These are people trying to
turn the lives of little kids in cities around Can
you imagine that? And the politicians who are slaves to
and money grubbing hoes for the teachers' unions, they will
(28:40):
kill the success if they can. It would be sickening.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
If public schools were doing well, it would still be
sickening that there are people. Yeah, I just like to
do it a different way, with an emphasis on you know,
more of an emphasis on Christianity or science or whatever
it is. We want to have, you know, private schools
or charter schools or whatever. But since the public school
are failing all over the place, good lord, it's just said,
(29:04):
this is.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
One of the biggest problems we've got in the entire country. Right.
I think it is. I absolutely think it is. It
might be the biggest problem because for bringing up generation
after generation kids to hate their own country and their
angry ignoramuses steeped only in Marxism.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
What do you think the result of that's gonna be.
We had this party last night. A lot of people
brought up to me having heard me talk about my
son's American history class, where so far they hadn't done
anything a month into the school year, but talk about
white people's genocide of the Indians haven't gotten to anything
about American Revolution or Thomas Jefferson or any of that
(29:41):
stuff yet. I don't know if that's evercoming because I
pulled my son out of the class.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But when they do, it'll just be to perpetuate slavery.
But at least I'm sure it would be.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I almost wanted him to be around, just to see
where this was going to go. But wasn't me of
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Late touchdown by the Cardinals last night looks like there
and then the Seahawks kick a field goal as time
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Speaker 1 (31:09):
Of the game. You wouldn't think that'd be possible.
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That it happens that often, but it sure does, which
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of great teams.
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By the way, football fans, you know that one of
the reasons people love it as it comes down to
the end like that so often. We got a lot
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Speaker 13 (31:26):
Miriam Webster now today that the twelfth edition of its
Collegiate Dictionary will include more than five thousand new words,
including riz. That's for the definition of riz. If you're
looking it up in the dictionary, you don't have it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's probably true.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Kind of sounds like me, honey.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
How are there five thousand new words? That's wild? I'm
sure we're enough words.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
You know, we're not there yet. It's only September. We'll
be at the end of the we year and we'll
get to all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
But I'm calling for a moratorium on new fair are
enough words the world. One of the world's old humans,
her final words at one hundred and seventeen when she
died were study me. And they have.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
They've they've studied every bit of her body after she
passed away, and the New York Times has an article
about things they've learned.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And so we'll get to that in hour three. Wow, longevity,
it's a hot, hot topic. You know, who's spending zillions
of dollars on that is a lot of your tech titans,
because they have zillions of dollars and they have faith
in technology, and they're you know, they're financing all sorts
of from intriguing to promising to ridiculous schemes. For staving
(32:33):
off aging. Here's something I heard the other day.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
The guy who does that podcast econ Tak, one of
the most famous podcasters in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I can't think of his name right now. Roberts. Is
that what it is anyway?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
A common a question he has is a thing he
has is if I gave you ten million dollars, would
you go back to live in nineteen fifty And he
said most of the time, if people think it over,
the answer is no. And my initial answer was, hell, yeah,
I would. But that wouldn't work for either you or me.
(33:09):
I mean specifically you were me, so no, I mean,
like your hips went out on you, You'd be crippled.
I would have died of cancer already, so whoops. So no,
for both of us our future airs.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I'm never sure how time machines work would be very
very well, say though, but so for just from medical advancements,
let alone other things. Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. So,
speaking of textillionaires and that sort of thing, I have
no opinion on this topic, which is rare ready And
the question is will this mind boggling spending on AI
(33:50):
by tech companies. Will it pan out? Obviously, will it
turn out to be a good investment. Obviously they're betting. Yes,
Oh yeah, yeah, clearly, yeah, literally yes. And the Wall
Street Journal with some really interesting coverage of it, including
they talk about Ellendale, North Dakota. It's got a population
of eleven hundred with two motels, a dollar general, a
(34:12):
Pentecostal Bible college, and a half built AI factory bigger
than home ten home depots. Wow, it's more than fifteen
billion dollar price tag is equivalent to a quarter of
the state's annual economic output the cost of this one plant.
And they're writing about how the AI boom is ushered
(34:34):
in one of the costliest spending sprees in world history,
no doubt. And the numbers defy comprehension. And everybody's doing it,
from you know, Microsoft, to Meta to Google to Open
Ai to everybody else. Mark Zuckerberg, who happens to be Satan,
was talking the other day about a conference about how
(34:55):
long it might take to pay off. Then he made
a couple of rye comments than he surmised that the
US company is spending through twenty twenty eight, so that's
six century four years or so, is gonna be something
like six hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Wow on AI, and so a lot of it is
with many products. This is true, being the first best
is worth.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
A lot of money, but there is growing doubt whether
all of this money will be a successful investment, and
whether this is a dot com bubble ish chapter in
Silicon Valley, there are some very very learned people who
are like, I don't think this is gonna pan out again.
(35:43):
I have no opinion. I don't know enough to have one,
but it'll be interesting to say, see play out.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
No doubt it would be merely an opinion anyway, because
the experts are all over the place. I take in
so much news on this topic. The act the smartest
people in the world on this don't agree. So right, Yeah,
clearly true, Gosca, We're gonna live through it, though it's
gonna We're gonna know fairly soon.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I would rather not see the stock market. But is
there another word that bubble I can use? I would
rather not see.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
It, Papa, Yeah, but i'd also not I don't want
my organs harvested by AI either.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
So there's that. What Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty,
and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Already this morning from inside the White House. President Donald
Trump has been commenting about this case, describing former FBI
director James Comey as a dirty cop and a destroyer
of lives. That comes as Comy now faces federal charges
of obstructing justice and making false statements that could land
to him behind bars for five years if found guilty.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yes, for the first time ever a former or current
FBI director has been indicted. James Comy. You might remember
the name if you follow politics at all. He probably
got Trump elected in twenty sixteen when he announced, with
what like a week to go before the election, I've
reopened the case with Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
What what? Why'd you tell us this? And he's guilty
of all sorts of stuff that we're not going to
charge her with. Back you all right? That talent ended?
That was funny.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, By the way, the indictment Conway, just so you
know what the other side is saying. MSNBC, for instance,
I was watching this morning. They're treating it like this.
I'm looking at a tweet from Joe Scarborough's account. The
Kombi indictment is among the worst abuses in Department of
Justice history in this country.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It is hard to overstate how to big a moment.
This is uh they are calling this. This is a
completely new level of lawlessness, even by Trumps standards. We're
into unknown territory. Our democracy is over. That's the way
it's being looked, right right, Well, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Describing this as lawlessness trying to enforce the law is
kind of funny. If you want to say that the
independence of the Justice Department is threatened. Okay, that's a
good discussion I have. But as we've mentioned earlier in
the show, the fess up to all the times Democrat
administrations pressured the Justice Department to do one thing or another,
including all the lawfair against Trump, which doesn't make it right,
(02:12):
of course what Trump's doing now necessarily quick recap of
the Wall Street Journals description, and then we've got a
lot of great audio for you. A federal grand jury
in Virginia indicted former FBI director James Comy blah blah blah,
fall statements and obstruction days after President Trump demanded the
prosecution and ousted the US attorney who determined that there
was insufficient evidence to bring the case. All right, here's
(02:37):
what we're talking about. Back in twenty twenty, Congress was
holding hearings about the investigation into Trump's and the campaigns
alleged tized to Russia back in the twenty sixteen election,
and how dirty that was. All the leaks, the faked
up PISA warrants, the shock and page and the insurance
(02:58):
plan and just everything else. Oh my god, the Steele
dossier and oh it goes on and on and on
and on. Uh and call mey. Was asked this and
said this, have.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You ever been an anonymous source in news reports about
matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Never, mister McCabe, who works for you as publicly and
repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the Wall Street
Journal and that you were directly aware of it and
that you directly authorized it.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I stand by what the testimony you summarized that I
gave in May of twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Seventeen, and it's nothing that no, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, I didn't, And it's known that he leaked to
that Columbia professor to get stuff into. Whichever newspaper was
I think the Washington Post, New York Times, whichever one,
doesn't matter. That was the way he did things, According
to Andrew McCabe, who was the FBI.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Director after call me right, right, So it seems like
he lied in front of Congress, or at least there's
reasonable suspicion that he lied in front of Congress. I
think he's guilty as a dog. But so why not
just go ahead and do this? Well, you got the
question of Trump browbeating the Justice Department into filing the charges,
(04:18):
even though most of the pros, including according to sources
in the administration, Pam BONDI told him, don't do this.
It won't work, we won't get him. It's it's not
a good look, et cetera. But Trump was intent on
doing it. Why don't we hold off on self righteous
James Comy hauling himself up on the cross thirty five?
This is the president of the United States.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
They're going to make a determination.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm not making that determined.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I think i'd be allowed to get involved in the once,
but I don't really choose to do so. I can
only say that Koby's a bad person. He's a sick person.
I think he's a sick guy. Actually, they did terrible
things at the FBI. But I don't know. I have
no idea what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Nathan Turley is a sane, sober voice with conservative sympathies.
Certainly always interesting to listen to Jonathan about legal matters.
Michael hit the first, turtly, would you forty?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
It is a seismic event. I mean, you're talking about
a former director of the FBI, and there have been
long allegations that Comy was a leaker. If you recall,
the Inspector General report was scathing with regard to Comy's conduct.
(05:34):
Comy removed FBI documents, including classified information when he was fired,
and the Inspector General went after him, but it did
not find that he specifically leaked that to The New
York Times. But this could be a perjury case as
opposed to a leak case.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Hit the next one.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
False statement or perjury prosecutions are not easy matters because
they can be subject to interpretation. James Covey Comby's a
very clever person. He's testified a lot, and so these
cases can be tricky to make out.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's a very charitable way to put it. I think
Jonathan Turley saying it could be tricky. Andrew McCarthy writing
in the National Review, and he is a conservative, and
he hated almost all of the cases against Trump and
wrote at length about why they were ridiculous and you know,
a travesty of justice and we should be worried about
going down this road, et cetera, et cetera. He thinks
the indictment against Comy should be dismissed. He says it's
(06:32):
absolutely a legal mess. He's writing today he said, we
have to resort to reporting about what's in the indictment
rather than just reading the indictment itself, because the charge
is so poorly drafted that it's not entirely clear what
Comy is alleged to have lied about. The indictment does
not mention mccab or Hillary, who were referred to as
someone else at the FBI. This is in quotes and person.
(06:54):
One Missing from the indictment is any description of the
incident involving mcabe, Clinton and Comy, out of which the
perjury chargery charge supposedly results. So it's difficult to understand
what the charge actually is, says Andrew McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh boy, yeah, oh boys. Right, here's Keith Jarrett on
Fox and Friends forty four. It seems to me.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
That his deceptions were pretty obvious, and you know, the
false statement substruction charges are pretty straightforward. Bran And if convicted,
of course, up to five years in prison.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Now.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
He allegedly leaked sensitive FBI material and then lied about
it under questioning from Congress twice twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Again, he doubled down in.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Twenty twenty, and while testifying, Comy insisted, gee, I never
authorized anybody else to anonymously leak. Well, several former FBI officials,
including allegedly Andrew McKay James Baker, their own record stating
that Comy did authorize numerous as.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We mentioned that on that one Michael. So there you
have folks on Fox and Friends saying, oh, yeah, these
charges are rock solid. Well, look we're gonna get them.
I'll point out again Fox.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I turned on Fox and Friends this morning that while
while other cable news channels are saying this is one
of the biggest things that has ever happened and the
worst thing Trump has ever done, Fox didn't even get
around the story to the second segments, which makes me
think that they're not super proud of it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
They went with a bunch of other stories.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Comy's a liar, and he's absolutely full of crap about
so many different things. And I do think he's a
bad human. I don't know if he's the worst human
that's ever existed or something. That Trump said, Yes, still
is in the finals in the run.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Which is that hell of a thing to say.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But once again, reading from Mark Halprin's a non partisan
newsletter today, he wrote, I've long been mystified as to
the deification of James Comy by the media, a man
whose public actions and statements have been put in sharp
relief with a complete unprincipled phony and liar. He is unprincipled,
phony and liar. That's exactly what he is. We got
(09:00):
to play the Comy defending himself Instagram stuff just because
it's so good. It's our classic James Comy. One more
at Lindsey Graham fifty two. Then we'll get to Komy.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
When I questioned him five years ago, I didn't believe
a word he told me. I don't believe this possible
for the director of the FBI not to know that
the sub source who gave the information about the Russian
dossier recantedate and it never got up to him. I
don't believe this possible that Comy did not know there
(09:32):
was accusations against Clinton cooking this up, because now we
know that in August of twenty sixteen, three months before
he applied for the warrant, they had a meeting about
whether or not her campaign started this storyline to avoid
exposure for the email scandal.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So like, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an expert
in this area at all, and I don't claim to be.
But just from reading the smart people that I like,
it seems to me classic law which is going on here.
There's very little chance because of the particulars that they
get anything, you know, legally real against Comy.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But the whole lawfair thing is often.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Just to make your life miserable, just to drag you
through the Hall process, have to hire a bunch of lawyers,
dominate your life with a very unpleasant situation for a
long time to come because you hate the person, which
is exactly what they did to Donald Trump for years
and friends, are you there sitting there are you thinking
Comy deserves that?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Eh? Yeah, well so Jim Jack. In this country, we
let the defendants speak. In other words, we don't hang
a man without a fair trial. This is true.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's right, Dad. Now I've got to go shopping with
your moth. So this is James Comy last night in
his Instagram post.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
My family and I have known for years that there
are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we
couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either.
Could he be more dramatic and pompous. We will not
live on our knees, and you shouldn't either. Okay, go on,
I'm good, I'm fine. I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is
the tool of a tyrant, and she's right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I'm not afraid. Oh, and I hope you're not either. Oh.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I hope instead you are engaged, You are paying attention,
and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it,
which it does.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'm not afraid and you shouldn't be either. As he
takes the mantle of leader of those who are so afraid,
out there, although I know some people are.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
James, that was good. That was really good. But let's
do one more take. Can you tone down the I'm
Jesus on the cross thing just a little bit, roll
it back in och. That'd be good. Let's try again. Ready,
action go on.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but
I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. I'm innocent,
So let's have a trial. I keep the faith you.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I will, and I'll get off my knees and I
won't be afraid. Was there more?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Your heart is broken for the judicial system when you
lied about stuff to get PAISA warrants so you could
spy on people when you wanted to, planted stories in
the paper so you could then brief the president and
then plant another story that the president has been briefed.
I mean just that your heart didn't break for the
Justice Department then, because you weren't doing the right thing,
(12:34):
because you James call me. And this is what he
has been from the beginning. He thinks he is the
one arbiter of what is true and good, and he
can go outside the norms because he could be trusted
with the norms.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He knows what's good and what's right. Right, He's far
more enlightened than those simple men who made the rules.
I will change the rules when necessary for justice. Is
there another one that's it?
Speaker 11 (13:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He make people vomit. He is so hard to take.
Doesn't mean this case is a good case or should
be brought, but yeah, he's hard to take. We got
more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
You see, in this country, we're very proud to have
a process known as the law, and none of the law.
A man is presumed innocent until he's proven guilty.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Right.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
In other words, we don't hang anybody without.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
A fair trial.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
Everybody knows that, sure, but sometimes we tend to forget. Well,
I'm glad you understand. I'll see you kids later. I
have to go shopping with your.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Money, Armstrong.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
And finally, American Airlines has unveiled new amenity kits for
premium tickets, which include beauty products from celebrity facialist Joanna Vargus.
Will Spirit said, they'll just keep passing around a tub
of vacilline.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Wow, relentless on the Spirit Airlines? Is that an East
Coast thing or the more people fly Spirit there?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I don't know. I think it's mostly East Coast.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I never heard anybody bring it up as an airline,
So this is exciting people. Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive poll
is out and up and you can vote on.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It if you're scrossed. Yeah, and I think this is
my year, Michael. Finally, I've been working out a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What's mostly interesting as you get older and pay less
attention to pop culture Like me, you don't know who
any of these people are, but it's interesting to me
that next to the names of these people I don't know,
it's what they do. Number of TikTok stars, podcasters, influencers,
(14:43):
influencers that you would have to be in that world
to have any idea who they are. Isn't that something
this year? This year's Sexy Fan of Life could be
some influencer that nobody under the over the age.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Of forty has ever heard of. Maybe I don't know. Yeah,
and has you know, many many, many millions of people
who are fans. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I was listening to something. Rob Reiner was talking about this.
He's the movie director Spinal Tap two is coming out. Mean,
it's talking about shared experiences and how we don't have
those anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And he thinks it's bad. I think it is too.
I don't know there's anything to do about it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
But he was on the TV show All in the Family,
and he was talking about how back in the day,
it was the number one show on television for five years,
and every Thursday night at eight o'clock. I think he said,
about a quarter of the country would tune in, and
that's including men, women, and children. About a quarter of
the country would tune in and not only watch the show,
(15:38):
but at that moment because there was no way to
record it or anything like that, so every a quarter
of the country was sitting on their couch at that moment,
all across the nation. We don't have anything close to
that now other than Super Bowl every year.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh, I can't imagine what it would be unless there's
some sort of cataclysm. But they know, even then, everybody
would separate to their own favorite website or streaming service
or what have you. Even the really big popular shows,
people aren't watching them at the same time, you know.
So you know, as somebody brings it up at a
dinner and you say, oh, don't tell me, I'm only
on season two, you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Right, So, and there was something. There was definitely a
bonding pulls us together. Here's something we can talk about.
That's shows we, you know, have some commonality.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Before we get it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know, any political issue comes up that might keep
us from flying apart and hating each other.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
There's got to be something there, right, No, I think
you're one hundred percent right. And all my point was
with the sexiest man alive. It wasn't that many years
ago that whoever won, everybody in the country knew who
that person was. Everybody because it was such a common experience. Now,
you know, though there's divided into so many different categories
depending on your age, politics, part of the country you
(16:55):
live in. Right, so are the amount of overlap in
you know, the things we do, the things we care about,
the things that make us laugh is either much much
less and you never get a chance to find out
about it because you're yelling at each other about politics first,
which is unfortunate. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
I printed space on a dozen digital billboards on Highway
one oh one in Silicon Valley between Santa Clara and
San Francisco to advertise my personal dating website, Mary Lisa
dot com.
Speaker 14 (17:28):
It's been months since I've been on a date. I
can't even get men to talk to me on any
of the apps. I don't understand what's going on, but
I figured it's time for a bold move. And what's
bolder than running billboards on the side of a major
highway to essentially market myself?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Katie, Have you seen this woman? Have you gone to
marry Lisa dot com?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I have. She's cute. I'm picking up crazy vibes, though
a little bit well.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was thinking that maybe she's like beyond cute, like stunning,
Like she's trying to get a thing going with a website,
whether it's only fans or influencer or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you think she's just a regular person. Yeah, she's.
I mean, she's not like a Kardashian, but she's certainly
not ugly. She's cute find to land an internet zillionaire? Maybe, Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I wonder why she can't get men to respond to
her things on online dating.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I wish crazy vibes were like scientifically miserable. Yeah, and
that would be you know, part of you know, are
you financially together? You know you're five foot four, Oh gosh,
you're a six point five on the crazy scale.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But now a six point five on the crazy scale.
You gotta hunt it out, you gotta sense it. She's attractive, Yeah,
she's cute. Uh, it's interesting she's taking out billboards though.
Speaker 10 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
See that screams.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Crazy to me. Yeah, just as a female. It's r
O d reeks of desperation.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah. Well, and you're going to get thousands of responses,
oh yeah in all likelihood, Oh yeah, in ten minutes.
So how would you wade through all of those responses
and pick a non crazy person yourself if you're normal.
I don't know how the hell you would do that.
I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It seems like an odd plan. Uh, coming up, just
came across this. It wasn't true very many years ago,
wasn't even close to true twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's true now Britain is poorer.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Than all fifty US states ins of in terms of individual.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Quality of life. Based on that, socialism works great.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Even our poorest states are richer on average than Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And we'll get into the stats coming up. It's really
quite amazing. Yeah, and actually some of our poorest states
are staging an amazing turnaround in their education systems. That's
what I was just about to talk about. That's what
I was just about to read.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh good, good, a piece about the Mississippi Miracle, which
you were talking about the other day. Consider this latest
chapter of the Mississippi Miracle, which has seen the state
climb from forty ninth in the country on fourth grade
reading to ninth nationally. That is quite a turnaround from
(20:16):
second to last in top to top ten. This rise
has received a great deal of coverage in publications ranging
from The New York Times in the New York Post.
We talked about it the other day, Joe brought it
to us, and yet it still feels like what's taking
place in the Deep South has been grossly under sold.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
That's funny, Yeah, no kidding. Well, first of all, surely
it's the teachers unions that have turned it around in progressive,
equity based policies. Right.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
First, it's not just Mississippi, it's Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee
have all adopted the same strategies stemmed from bleeding effective states,
bleeding affecting, stemmed the bleeding affecting states elsewhere and seen
significant improvements. And the second, many people who aren't too
focused on education. Paul he seemed to imagine, Mississippi has
(21:01):
only stopped the underperforming. But it's not just that the
people that were overperforming are now even higher. So it
raised everybody, the bottom people and the top people.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Right well, and again they make the point that it's
not that Mississippi is just not sucking anymore, if you'll
pardon my front, it's that they're doing really, really well.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, So one other thing on that, and then you
can get into why the heck this is the difference
is most pronounced. You look at the most disadvantage students.
In California, only twenty eight percent of black fourth graders
read at or above basic level, compared to fifty two
percent in Mississippi. Over half in Mississippi of the most
disadvantage only better slightly better than a quarter in California.
(21:51):
Gavin Newsom for president and again, but it's not just
that Mississippi has raised the florid. It's also raised the ceiling.
The state has also one of the nation's best when
you look at students who are not economically disadvantaged.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Right right. The key aspect to this, I know in
Mississippi there are no teachers' union to come up the
works to quote one Mississippi teacher. And the other thing
is the schools and the states have said, we are
going to teach reading and writing and math and history.
We are going to teach kids core academic academic topics entirely,
(22:30):
and nothing but that. We're going to identify the underperforming
kids and we're going to give them intense tutoring. This
school is about learning and nothing else, no indoctrination. Can
you imagine that, friends, something so radical and it's working
beautifully because of course it effing is pardon me, you know,
(22:51):
a quick huddle here, quick huddle friends. Can you believe
we let the insane people run education for as long
as we did and they still are in most places?
Who think what I just said is somehow awful shocking.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Well, see, it seems crazy to me that I ever
wasn't thinking about this. But like one of the big
pushbacks against government healthcare, for instance, government taking over healthcare
is oh, you want your doctor to be like the DMV. Well,
I feel like we were starting from scratch and somebody
proposing the government run schools, I would be saying, oh,
you want your schools to be like the DMV.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
It's a lot like the DMV whole bunch of middle
management who kind of have contempt for their customer, the students.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Or the person trying to get a driver's license, depending
on it. Doesn't matter how well they do their job,
can't get it fired no matter what. Yeah, a couple
of exhibits that are kind of the other side of
the coin. First of all, interesting article I came across
about how boys may benefit from red shirting in kindergarten.
It's the idea of and we weighed this with our
kids too, who all happen to have kind of uh yeah,
(23:59):
could go this way, could go that way, birthdays, right exactly.
And is your boys in particular are they ready to
start school or would they benefit from one more year
of reading at home, mom and dad reading two of
them and then they start to school or just maturing right, yeah, exactly.
(24:22):
It's interesting. This writer quotes a researcher in child and
adolescent studies at the unforgivably liberal California State University System.
But they mentioned that a big training session happened and
every single teacher was talking about how boys are struggling
and they all wanted to do something about it, which
is laudable and good and I'm glad to hear it.
(24:43):
But later in the article you get to the fact
that leftist groups, including teachers' unions, are actually coming out
against red shirting children, red shirting children including boys, because
only more affluent families can afford to do that. Therefore,
(25:07):
it's an inequity, and you should force those boys who
are not ready for school into school. People are freaking crazy. Oh,
I know, I know. It makes you angry, doesn't it, Yes,
it does. No, you can't hold your son out even
though he's completely not ready, because that would be inequitable
because some parents can't do that. Started again on the
(25:28):
whole pre K thing, which makes me nuts.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It partially makes me nuts because they just built a
big new I'm sure it cost many millions of dollars
building at the school where my kids went when they
were little for pre K, which is presented as just
obviously a good idea, even though there are no studies
that show it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
No, including many studies that show the contrary. And one
more thing, one more exhibit, and I've mentioned this several
times that you know through the years of various news shows,
including sixty Minutes have highlighted these unbelievable inner city schools
that turn around the kid's futures. And it's always the
(26:04):
same formula. They raise that expectations, they instill discipline, often
their uniforms involved, take them relieve uh, and they teach
core topics to the kids. They go hardcore on academics
and people are held accountable. Yeah, and it's in a cheerful,
positive you can do this way, and it's always, always,
(26:28):
always a charter school or an independent school zorin Mamdani
Mandani is so damni say it with me, Mam dumni.
He preaches an equity agenda that includes choking off funding
for charter schools. He wants to essentially end them. Mamdannie
(26:53):
threatens to stu and they go into uh. This is
a I think the Wall Street journal is talking about
the astonishingly terrible achievement numbers of a lot of students
in New York City and how in the charter school
system they're vastly, vastly better. I mean, there's just like,
holy crap, and it's it's white kids, black kids, Hispanic kids,
(27:15):
and all its similar results. Mundanni threatens to stump this
success story quote. I oppose efforts by the state to
mandate and expansion of charter school operations in New York City.
He opposes charters co locating sharing facilities with district schools.
He is big on equity. If anybody excels. If I'm sorry,
(27:37):
if everybody doesn't excel, nobody should be allowed to excel.
They should be held down. That may be the most
sick philosophy, non demand. That might be the main tenet
of socialism and communism. That person over there doing well
somehow is damaging me, so let's make sure they don't
do well. Crazy This mum, Donnie's hostility to charters is
(27:58):
reminiscent in a forum or build de Blagio who made
it harder for charters to do what they do, and
they go into the details of it and the way
he harassed them and hit them with expenses that they
never saw coming and never paid before. Says Eva Moscow
at CEO of Success Academies that has a wonderful success record.
It was eight years of daily hostility. It was the
(28:20):
worst eight years of my life, and it just made
the work so incredibly hard. These are people trying to
turn the lives of little kids in cities around Can
you imagine that? And the politicians who are slaves to
and money grubbing hoes for the teachers' unions, they will
(28:40):
kill the success if they can. It would be sickening.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
If public schools were doing well, it would still be
sickening that there are people. Yeah, I just like to
do it a different way, with an emphasis on you know,
more of an emphasis on Christianity or science or whatever
it is. We want to have, you know, private schools
or charter schools or whatever. But since the public school
are failing all over the place, good lord, it's just said,
(29:04):
this is.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
One of the biggest problems we've got in the entire country. Right.
I think it is. I absolutely think it is. It
might be the biggest problem because for bringing up generation
after generation kids to hate their own country and their
angry ignoramuses steeped only in Marxism.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
What do you think the result of that's gonna be.
We had this party last night. A lot of people
brought up to me having heard me talk about my
son's American history class, where so far they hadn't done
anything a month into the school year, but talk about
white people's genocide of the Indians haven't gotten to anything
about American Revolution or Thomas Jefferson or any of that
(29:41):
stuff yet. I don't know if that's evercoming because I
pulled my son out of the class.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But when they do, it'll just be to perpetuate slavery.
But at least I'm sure it would be.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I almost wanted him to be around, just to see
where this was going to go. But wasn't me of
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Late touchdown by the Cardinals last night looks like there
and then the Seahawks kick a field goal as time
expires and win. It's amazing how many NFL games come
down to a kick at the end.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Of the game. You wouldn't think that'd be possible.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
That it happens that often, but it sure does, which
is one of the reasons the West has a lot
of great teams.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
By the way, football fans, you know that one of
the reasons people love it as it comes down to
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Speaker 13 (31:26):
Miriam Webster now today that the twelfth edition of its
Collegiate Dictionary will include more than five thousand new words,
including riz. That's for the definition of riz. If you're
looking it up in the dictionary, you don't have it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's probably true.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Kind of sounds like me, honey.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
How are there five thousand new words? That's wild? I'm
sure we're enough words.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
You know, we're not there yet. It's only September. We'll
be at the end of the we year and we'll
get to all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
But I'm calling for a moratorium on new fair are
enough words the world. One of the world's old humans,
her final words at one hundred and seventeen when she
died were study me. And they have.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
They've they've studied every bit of her body after she
passed away, and the New York Times has an article
about things they've learned.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And so we'll get to that in hour three. Wow, longevity,
it's a hot, hot topic. You know, who's spending zillions
of dollars on that is a lot of your tech titans,
because they have zillions of dollars and they have faith
in technology, and they're you know, they're financing all sorts
of from intriguing to promising to ridiculous schemes. For staving
(32:33):
off aging. Here's something I heard the other day.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
The guy who does that podcast econ Tak, one of
the most famous podcasters in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I can't think of his name right now. Roberts. Is
that what it is anyway?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
A common a question he has is a thing he
has is if I gave you ten million dollars, would
you go back to live in nineteen fifty And he
said most of the time, if people think it over,
the answer is no. And my initial answer was, hell, yeah,
I would. But that wouldn't work for either you or me.
(33:09):
I mean specifically you were me, so no, I mean,
like your hips went out on you, You'd be crippled.
I would have died of cancer already, so whoops. So no,
for both of us our future airs.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I'm never sure how time machines work would be very
very well, say though, but so for just from medical advancements,
let alone other things. Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. So,
speaking of textillionaires and that sort of thing, I have
no opinion on this topic, which is rare ready And
the question is will this mind boggling spending on AI
(33:50):
by tech companies. Will it pan out? Obviously, will it
turn out to be a good investment. Obviously they're betting. Yes,
Oh yeah, yeah, clearly, yeah, literally yes. And the Wall
Street Journal with some really interesting coverage of it, including
they talk about Ellendale, North Dakota. It's got a population
of eleven hundred with two motels, a dollar general, a
(34:12):
Pentecostal Bible college, and a half built AI factory bigger
than home ten home depots. Wow, it's more than fifteen
billion dollar price tag is equivalent to a quarter of
the state's annual economic output the cost of this one plant.
And they're writing about how the AI boom is ushered
(34:34):
in one of the costliest spending sprees in world history,
no doubt. And the numbers defy comprehension. And everybody's doing it,
from you know, Microsoft, to Meta to Google to Open
Ai to everybody else. Mark Zuckerberg, who happens to be Satan,
was talking the other day about a conference about how
(34:55):
long it might take to pay off. Then he made
a couple of rye comments than he surmised that the
US company is spending through twenty twenty eight, so that's
six century four years or so, is gonna be something
like six hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Wow on AI, and so a lot of it is
with many products. This is true, being the first best
is worth.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
A lot of money, but there is growing doubt whether
all of this money will be a successful investment, and
whether this is a dot com bubble ish chapter in
Silicon Valley, there are some very very learned people who
are like, I don't think this is gonna pan out again.
(35:43):
I have no opinion. I don't know enough to have one,
but it'll be interesting to say, see play out.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
No doubt it would be merely an opinion anyway, because
the experts are all over the place. I take in
so much news on this topic. The act the smartest
people in the world on this don't agree. So right, Yeah,
clearly true, Gosca, We're gonna live through it, though it's
gonna We're gonna know fairly soon.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I would rather not see the stock market. But is
there another word that bubble I can use? I would
rather not see.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
It, Papa, Yeah, but i'd also not I don't want
my organs harvested by AI either.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
So there's that. What Armstrong and Getty
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