November 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Chicken egg dispute & using your credit card
- Gender Bending Madness!
- Depressing academic news
- Final Thoughts!
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The shooter evidently raises chickens, and the conversation was about
how many eggs a chicken can lay. One victim ran
out into the roadway trying to get away from the shooter.
The other two victims head. We had several phone calls.
The shooter himself called nine to one one. Arming yourself
with a handgun when you're under the influence is not.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A good idea.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
There's never going to be a good outcome with that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh, under the influence, Well, that's explained some of it.
I guess how you got into a to the death
argument about how many eggs a chicken can lay? Under
the influence played a role. Yeah, I think if I'm
sober and arguing bitterly over the.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Capacity of chickens to lay eggs, I'm probably gonna keep
it cool.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, any of you have rock, some people should make rock.
How many eggs can it the average hen lay? She
was dead by about two hundred and fifty to three
hundred a year five to six per week. Well roughly, yeah, clearly,
(01:29):
we just have a couple of chickens. You get overwhelmed
by eggs really really fast, like more eggs than you
can eat. Yeah. Yeah, I wish I had a neighbor
with chickens because I love eggs.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Uh. You know, it's not made clear in this account,
and I find this highly dissatisfying. Is who is claiming
what reed chicken egg laying? How far apart were they?
My chicken can lay one hundred eggs a day? No
it can't, Blue, blue blue, It's lucky if it lays
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one a day. Guy ought to shoot you in your belly?
Who was on which side of the argument? What were
the claims and counterclaims here? What was the evidence presented?
All had been drinking and none were hit. Well that's
that's at least that's probably good anyway. Wow, Okay, so
(02:21):
this is interesting. Using your credit card at the checkout
line is about to get a lot more complicated now. Now,
Visa and MasterCards settled a long running legal battle that
gives merchants more flexibility on card acceptance. So your favorite
latte at your local coffee shop could soon cost you
(02:42):
five dollars or five dollars and ten cents or five
dollars in twenty five cents, depending on how you pay.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So, first of all, when did we completely abandon having
to show an ID with a credit card? Remember that
was a thing for many, many years because we're sign
anything here. What if this wasn't your credit card? But
now I use my watch. I tap with my watch
all the time. Nobody's ever asked me for an ID.
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So anyway, settlement between Visa MasterCard and some US merchants
US merchants announced this week usher in a new era
of tiered pricing at the register, giving businesses more power
to charge fees depending on the credit card you use.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I like it when I'm behind some old lady who's
got a combination of a check and some EBT card
and like some coupons, and I don't know, I've been
a gift card. You're combining like five different things. Can
I just pay for it all and then you get
the hell out of my way?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Trying to trade in some shiny shells, a little farger,
a little wamp them.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Maybe I can come clean up on Saturday. And now
would not pay for the milk.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So this anti trust battle over interchange fees has been
going on for two decades, and I can't decide whether
that makes me wish I had become a lawyer, because
oh my god, you talk about you know, two farmers
claim they owned the cow. One farmer pulled on the head,
the other pulled on the tail, and the lawyer milked
the cow. They milking this cow for two decades. Settlement
(04:12):
still needs CORD approval, likely to be contested by some
merchant groups.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Merchants have always had the right to refuse to do
business with a payment network entirely, like Costco only takes
Visa cards yep, but current network rules say if a
store accepts one Visa credit card, it has to accept
all Visa credit cards. Well, the settlement could change that
practice by allowing merchants to pick and choose which categories
of cards to accept within network.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
There's also the dollar limit that I don't know if
there's any legality around it, but like I buy something,
they say you can only use your card if you
spent eight dollars or something, and then I got to
grab something else? What else you got? Okay, a cigarette? Laighter?
I don't smoke. Is this make it eight dollars? I
don't have any cash? Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And the settlement could go further, allowing different search charges
depending on the category your card falls into, Like if
you have a basic no frills card, you might get
charged two and a half percent of the transaction amount.
It's the reverse of a cash discount, whereas if you
have a rewards card it's three percent. Really you really
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wouldn't know what you're paying until you're paying it.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Paying cash just seems so troublesome. Adey change and then
where am I going to put that? Yeah? Track of that?
And then this story.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
A man in France was having a swimming pool dug
in his backyard and they found eight hundred thousand dollars
worth of gold bars whoa uh town council confirmed the
man will be allowed to keep the gold he found,
according to the French Newsman news agency, five gold bars
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and a large amount of gold coins wrapped in plastic bags.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous for reasons that
ought to be fairly obvious, reported define to the local council.
French archaeological officials and law enforcement got involved in determined
if the gold had been if the gold had archaeological significance,
in which case it could be considered state property, or
(06:17):
if it was stolen from somewhere and the gold bars
had unique ID numbers. Law enforcement determined the gold was
not stolen and the bars were only fifteen to twenty
years old, and so they had no historical significance, so
the guy got to keep them money. My daughter, who's
in law school right now, became at one point fascinated
(06:38):
by the law of abandoned property, which is fairly complicated
and convoluted because and I don't remember the details of it,
but like, if somebody sells you a house and it's
left on the property, I think they have a claim
to it still, But if you then sell the he
(07:00):
and the next guy they don't have a claim against
him or a certain number of years. Is super convoluted
and interesting. And anybody who's like a scavenger or what
do you call when you do that at sea, you
reclaim rex and stuff like that. There's all sorts of
laws surrounding that.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, I just thinking we should do away with change
in general, shouldn't. We did away with the penny, but
with inflation, change is not worth much so you're down
less than a dollar, which is like, I don't know,
forty cents compared to what it was ten years ago.
(07:36):
And I'd be fine with stores that just don't do change.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
They round up or down for everything. We'll just make
it even. Yeah, they'd always round up. I think there
would be an investigation shortly after whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's thirty cents. I don't want to carry around some
nickels and pennies. How about this, Daddy Warbucks.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Poor people frequently don't have credit cards and need to
do transactions in cash, and therefore we must have change.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And that's not what I see at the convenience store.
Usually have some sort of government card for the scratchers
vaping and energy drink. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I try to stay away from poor people because I'm
afraid it might be catching.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But that was a joke.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That was a joke, friends, just joke, being silly. These
are serious times, confusing, dark, threatening times. Just trying to
have a little fun. You got the AI, you got
the Divors, Bird treading Card, fees.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Bird flows Center. Yeah, so enough of that. You have
a gender bending madness. We're gonna get to at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, a little gender bending madness update with some fresh
new material.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You know, I can't decide whether to do this today
or tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Randy Weingarten, one of the most evil people on Earth,
has a new book out entitled Why Fascists Fear Teachers?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It is one of the most malignant loads of guana
I've ever come across.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Aren't that many people I hate? I hate her, I deeply,
deeply hate her. She is a force of evil on Earth, correct,
no doubt. Wow. And then the IO ces big new
announcement about not having dudes and women's sports as part
of the whole thing we need to talk about today.
Lots on the way. Stay here. I'm not trying to
(09:29):
send you to another podcast. But Tucker's latest is chemtrails
are real and it's worse than you even thought with
some special guest. Good lord, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'll look into that, but right now, it's a gender
bending madness update.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So I kept hearing about this thing called the Loco.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We're a brave world, so they Bloom is definitely off
the transgender craze, as the number of young people identifying
as transgender has been cut in half in like two years.
Just utterly ridiculous. But the hits keep coming. First, some
(10:14):
encouraging news from the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
The IOC will issue the band sometime early next year,
citing a new scientific review that found evidence men have
a permanent physical advantage over women athletes even after hormone therapy. However,
The Guardian newspaper says the band could still be a
year out and that the IOC is facing pushback to
a possible ban on athletes who reported female at birth
(10:39):
but have male chromosomes and the same testosterone level as men,
also known as differences in sexual development. That would include
athletes like South Africa's Casser Semenya, who won gold at
the London and Real Games before Track and Fields governing
body World Athletics banned DSc athletes from competing as women
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
A new study, you say that shows that men have
a permanent advantage even if they undergo it the transitioning.
I'll be darned it says here they're bigger and stronger
than women. I'll be damned. Good thing they did that
new study.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the poor cops are still trying to
figure out what woke, idiot policy they're supposed to be following.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Sarah Swinson is a regular at the Tucker Reid Kocher Library.
She says after she used the ladies room on October twentieth,
a Decab police officer on hand for early voting confronted her.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He says, excuse me, sir, so misjendering me right away.
You're not a woman. That's obvious. This is a police matter.
There are women and little girls in there, and I
have to protect them. She says.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
It ended up causing a scene in the middle of
the library, and she tried to de escalate. The next day,
she emailed library staff, who she says, reached out to
the Cab County Police, and I asked to Cab County
CEO Lorrain Cochran Johnson about all of this. She told
us the county supports the LGBTQ community, calling this a
teachable moment. The county further clarified their official position is
(12:11):
for library patrons to use whichever bathroom aligns with their
gender identity.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This is well trod ground, I realized, but it just
scurted me. What is the argument for why if you
got a penis, but you feel like a girl, you
should be in the girl's restroom as opposed to in
the restroom where every trans women are women. That's a
woman right there. That's an argument, but we all shouldn't
that man with the low voice, Jack, that was a woman.
(12:36):
That's my favorite part of the report is just the
the reporter was so matter of fact. She she was
in the bathroom, and then Sarah.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I used the restroom, the woman's restroom, like I've been
for months. I mean, he says, excuse me, sir. So
look he misgenders me right away. He says, you're not
a woman. That's obvious. I said, how dare you? The
poor little lady was offended.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
That doesn't seem out aligned. Say I believe you're a woman,
and I'll call you she and call you by your name.
You're a woman, but you got a penis, so all
the penises are in one room and all the vaginas
are in a different room.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Ye have suggested just have anies and auti's you call
yourself whatever you want. But that is giving too much
ground to the transgender radical gender seria crowd. I won't
do it. It's a decent middle ground, I suppose for
a place like Atlanta that's trying to be woke, but
it's still absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, Again, ma'am, I'm sorry you
were offended. This is offensive.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Faith Blue hears Okay. Faith Smith was.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
A twenty eight year old woman and inmate at the
Washington Correction Center for Women, viciously attacked a couple of
months ago by a six foot four inch male child molester.
Identify identifying as a transgender woman. And of course Washington
State puts men who claim to be women in women's
prisons out of some sort of psychosis. And here's a
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gal who spent some time in the Central California Women's
Facility in Chochilli, California, one of the largest women's prisons
in the country, and she's writing about how she saw
firsthand how critical single sex spaces are for the safety
and dignity of incarcerated women. And she says one case
still haunts me. A male inmate isolated in a men's
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prison for assaulting bunk mates was moved into a women's
cell with seven women. These women were trapped, their voices ignored.
This guy beat them through, her to the ground, punched
and cooked her, kicked her relentlessly.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I thought horrible. I thought this aspect of it would
get taken care of her with a lawsuit. I thought
that that would happen early on. Somebody would sue a state,
get like a half a billion dollars because you put
a dude in prison with me, and that put it
end to it. But it hasn't yet. Takes a while.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It takes a while the work its way through the system,
I would agree. And all the poor kids mutilated, they're
actually who are caught up in the social contagion. In
the last several years, there are still a hell of
a lot of them that are struggling to convince themselves
they did the right thing, because to admit otherwise would
be utterly heartbreaking for everybody involved. And so that's part
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of the reason for the delay in that sort of
suit these and there have been a handful anyway of
the kids who got whisked along the activist pipeline and
got their body mutilated and castrated chemically and the rest
of it, and now will regret it. But those lawsuits
will come. Got a couple more stories for you. A
federal judge is ruled that the Bureau of Prisons, oh
this is a federal judge must provide sex change procedures
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to a convicted pedophile who recently began identifying as transgender.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Brian Buckingham forty seven, serving Morgan twenty one years forty
seven just now determined. You know what I think I've
been chick. I'll down I've been wrong for half a century.
Brace yourselves, folks.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
He sexually abused his own ten year old son and
produced child porn with the.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Boy, murder him or put him to death.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Shortly before sentencing, Buckingham began identifying as nanny, love them
to be female and put her to death, and in
court filings, the judge said they have to provide gender
affirming treatments like hormone therapy because his sexual dysfunction or
his dysphoriat worsened his depression in suicidal thoughts, and Magistrate
(16:18):
Judge David Crystal ruled that yes, that indeed, tax.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Dole will happily refer to her as her as we
give her the sodium pentathal. Excellent. I love that idea.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And finally, in disappointing news for New Hampshiretes, the first
openly trans lawmaker in the United States who was hailed
as a trailblazers, admitted to sickening child sex charges involving
young kids in a daycare. Former Democratic New Hampshire Reps
Stacy Marie Lawton, a biological male who identifies as female,
pleaded guilty to charges including child sexual exploitation of children
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in Boston federal court. Faces up to thirty years in
federal prison. You don't even want to hear what this
guy did.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He's sexually confused and sick. That's taken a couple of
different forms, including I'm a girl. Now it's a mental disorder,
gender bending madness update.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh's rough, yep. Trump speaking at Arlington. We'll have a
little clip of that for Veterans Day, among other things
coming up. Armstrong and Getty today, to every veteran, we
love our veterans. We say the words too often left unsaid.
Thank you for your service. Thank you very much. President
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Trump at Arlington National Ceremony Cemetery for Veterans Day, talking
to lots of people, talking about the one million people
that have given their lives in our nation's history to
protect this country and our culture. We talked earlier about
how three quarters of people say they would fight for
their country. In Asian India, for instance, about a third
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in Europe and Canada would be willing to fight for
their country. So if you want to hear more of
that conversation, that was an hour three I think get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's a downer.
That is a dowter. What's your best joke? I need
something whimsical here, Michael, before I go into something else
that is depressing but very very interesting, but very interesting.
(18:23):
What's the best joke we got left? We haven't played
your favorite one?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Hey, finally, Taco Bella's, We've gone offering a Baja Blast
Pie chiller, which features a slice of Baja Blast pie
blended with vanilla ice cream and top with whipped cream
and chero crunch. That story again, weed is getting way
too strong.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Wow, that is some meal. Oo. Wow, sounds kind of good.
I just listening to a podcast yesterday. They got into
a conversation about sandwiches. I don't know a lot about sandwiches,
but like this, it's like subway sort of sandwiches. What
do you call sandwich? Like that? As a subway sandwich,
there are a number of different regionals hogyes, subway sandwiches,
(19:06):
grind grinders, whatever, they are right, and I just thought
somebody mocked Subway. They said, well, one thing I wouldn't
do is get it at Subway, And my main experience
with sandwiches like that is from Subway. And I just thought,
I've got to work at branching out. I don't know
if I can do that in the town I live in.
But places that make, you know, real sandwiches with real
bread and real ingredients to try that out.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, well, Subway does. They're just fairly straightforward. I would
say that there are sandwich shops that way more adventurous
in their ingredients and just interesting flavor combinations with Subways. No,
they were talking about They weren't talking about different stuff.
They're talking about like, you know, roast beef on bread
with mayonnaise and mustard being completely different at a non
(19:51):
Subway place. You tell me, because I don't have the
I don't have the experience it is, you would say
that's accurate. Yeah, yeah, just the way the meat is
seasoned than prepared and all a little more painstaking.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You can pay more money for it, but right I
expect that. Yeah, Okay, I need to seek that out
of my life. Life's too short. Teat you want something depressing, Oh, yes,
you see. San Diego has released a new report documenting
(20:23):
a steep decline in the academic preparedness of its freshmen.
We've been on this story for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
The number of entry knock me down with a useless diploma,
no kidding. The number of entering students needing remedial math
remedial math as a college kid has exploded from one
in one hundred back in the early two thousands to
one in eight whah, some of the numbers around one
(20:53):
percent to what's one in eight fifteen percent.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
The report also showed that nearly one in five students
failed to meet entry level writing requirements.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Fuck, I need remedial math. That's kind of funny. That's ironic.
From one percent to twelve and a half percent. I'm sorry,
what was that remedial writing? Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Very low. Also, the supuriation does coincide with the COVID
nineteen pandemic, but standardized the elimination of standardized testing because
that'd be unfair to certain groups and is racist. Great inflation,
which we all know about. It's been good for the
teachers to be able to say all of my students
are now getting bees even though they would have been
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c's twenty years ago, and the expansion of admissions from
under resourced high schools but forcing colleges to be able
to allow them in. Here's my favorite part of this
story though, that the mention the reason that I brought
it up percentages of students who correctly answered questions at
each grade level. So they they ask college kids coming
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into college at U SEE San Diego, they had them
do math for like first grade math, second grade math,
third grade math up through eighth grade. So the good
news is people coming into UC San Diego, which is
an expensive college to go to, eighty seven percent of
the people going to the university could do first grade math.
(22:16):
Shouldn't it be higher than that first grade? So you
got slightly over one out of ten that can't even
do first grade math? Why are they at your college? Boy?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I knew high school diplomas were worthless and perfunctory. They're
given out automatically. I had not realized it was that bad. Well,
I had the experience.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I've talked about this on the air, and I hate
talking about it because some of the people involved are very,
very nice people who worked really hard helping me and
my kid. But they were so hell bent on getting
him up to grade level, since he didn't go to
school until he was in fourth grade, getting him up
to grade level, and they just exaggerated, would be a
kind word, misrepresented, He's at grade level. And I remember
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I was all excited because I was following this and
everything like that. I started asking him some questions and
I was like, wait a second, why don't you know
the answer to him? And so I sat down, did
some mathelm. He wasn't even freaking close. Yeah, but they
were telling the parent me that he was at grade
level and was ready to go on to the next grade. No,
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he's not, I said, he's not even close. You're not
doing anybody any favors by doing that. Maybe you maybe
the school, but you're certainly not doing me or him
any favors by claiming he can do at that time
it was fifth grade bath when he can't.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, the road to hell is paved with good intentions,
but the road all sorts of places are paved with
good intentions just everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But like success anyway, back to this thing, and I
think this is how you end up with because you're
not allowed to fail people anymore, which is nuts, right, sure,
Getting back to this, so eighty seven percent of the
kids going into UC San Diego could do first grade math. Congratulations.
Second grade math drops to eighty two percent. Oh boy,
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third grade math we're down to seventy four percent. So
you now got a quarter of the people going into
U SEE San Diego that can't do third grade math.
My mind is already blown.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You're gonna need a bucket and a mop by the
time you get down to you know.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Fifth grade. Go ahead. Fourth grade math, we're at sixty
four percent, so you got almost a third. You got
a little over a third that can't do fourth grade math.
You're about half at fifth grade. Half the students and
do fifth grade math. What the hell? Sixth grade it's
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at two thirds. Can't do it. College math, nobody can
do it. Seventh grade about sixty percent can't do it.
Eighth grade math. Only nineteen percent of people were proficient
with eighth grade math. Appreciate out of middle school? Yeah, okay,
that is the whole teachers passing them along knowing they
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can actually do it, but you're not allowed to hold
them back, and it would really lower our scores. If
we were honest here.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And great inflation and teaching woke crap instead of math.
Do you remember over and over again we've read to you.
I could do probably dig it up again, but I
don't feel like it. The state wide guidelines. Now, i'd
imagine the majority of kids going to UC San Diego
were schooled in California. Maybe not a huge majority, but
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the majority probably Remember the state wide guidelines call for
students to center anti racism and what's the other DEI in.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
All classes, including math. So you don't think that's a
factor including math?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, two plus two doesn't equal four, It doesn't necessarily
equal four. That's white supremacy. How could that not have
a just a cancerous effect?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I realize on this show we declare six different things
per day. Is the biggest problem in the country. But
your regular go to of our education system K through
graduate school, Yeah, is the biggest problem is probably what
I would sign on to.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
The spring of poison that's pouring into so many of
our other institutions.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
The reason I elevated to the biggest problem is because
of the tentacles it has going forward. People that either
are under educated, trying to make a living, in the
world or born to all kinds of crazy s that
they're going to believe the rest of their lives. That's
anness problem.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I was gonna save this, and I probably still will
for a campus madness update coming up at some point.
But I've just been aware of this book The Breakdown
of Higher Education, how it happened, the damage it does,
and what can be done by a guy who is
a actually, interestingly enough, a University of California professor. He
wrote a piece that they published in the Journal Today.
(27:15):
Higher ed needs receivership, not reform, meaning receivership means you're
bankrupt in you're owned by somebody else, or somebody else
runs you. The radicals who hollowed out America's universities can't
be trusted to restore their proper purpose. And his point is,
you know he makes it quite briefly, is that Point
(27:38):
two of Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence and Higher Education
is the key to reform. It asks that schools cultivate
a virant marketplace of ideas on campus, which is exactly
what the campus radicals have destroyed, and appealing to them
to reinstate it is crazy. They're not going to number one,
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they don't want to, and number two, even if they did,
they wouldn't be able to because they don't believe in it.
So you got the kids, and we'll get more into
that another time. But you got the kids getting to
college with only twenty one or twenty percent of them
could get out of eighth grade math, and then they
don't learn anything at the college. But in doctrination, walk indoctrination,
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I mean, it does need to go into receivership. Oh
and then on the other side of the aisle, you
got Randy Winingarten ahead of the Big teachers Union, coming
out with a book that says, anybody who challenges the
teachers Union is a fascist. Given the state of government education,
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I mean, it's hard to imagine a less functional, more
diseased institution than government schools in the United States.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I know it's depressing.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, I'm more energized, but it is depressing. It absolutely is.
Maybe it's that my kids are out of school, but
I got one in law school, and law schools have
strong swung wildly left in the last twenty years too.
But I don't it's a clear objective, it's a clear
thing that needs to be done. I'm not sure it
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can be done, but it needs to be done.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
We will finish strong next. We got some interesting stuff
for his stay here. One of the most famous scientists
in human history died just a couple of days ago.
That would be James Watson. If you remember from grade
school and you had to learn this sort of thing.
He was, along with doctor Crick, discovered DNA and the
(29:51):
way the body is made, and the developments that have
come out of that are just endless. One double of
helicks was there. Double Helix was also the name of
his memoir, which is one of the most famous scientific
books ever written in supposed to be really good and
very accessible, and I actually should give it a read.
One of the interesting things about this he died at
(30:12):
age ninety seven, I think the other day, so he's
been alive a very long time. He was twenty five
when they made their giant one of the biggest discoveries
in human history breakthrough. He was twenty five years old.
That would be something to have the highlight of your
career that everybody references the rest of your life, especially
as you get older. Be something you did when you
(30:33):
were twenty five. I'm working on something new too. Yeah, yeah, whatever,
get back to us if you figured out, Yeah, I
loved your first album, oh twenty five. And then you
might remember this because we talked about it quite a
bit at the time. In two thousand and seven, he
did an interview where he said some fairly racist stuff
and then, as I remember, we were on the air
(30:54):
talking about it as one of the most famous scientists
of all time and hailed by everybody around the world,
and you want to know, prize and blah blah blah,
and taught at Harvard and he could fill lecture halls
everywhere he went. All of a sudden, he couldn't. For instance,
he said this to the London Sunday Times, I'm inherently
gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social
policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is
(31:16):
the same as ours, whereas all testing says not really.
He elaborated that while he hoped for equality, people who
have to deal with black employees find that it's just
not true. Oh oh my god. And I remember at
the time, so two thousand and seven, he was already old.
(31:36):
He just died almost one hundred, so he was already
old and there was some speculation that was kind of like,
you know, you get old and you'd lose your filter
and don't really think straight and you know whatever. Yeh,
he was at that point in his life. But anyway,
Bloom was off the rows. He no longer would get hot,
he'd never no longer spoke at any lectures anywhere. He
lost all his honorary degrees from all the universities around
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the world, all these different sorts of things, and now
is all it is. Uh. New York Times, for instance,
their their big Ulgi section had to include in the
first paragraph that he was also a racist.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Interesting that reminds me of a similar story, which I
will save from my final thought.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Cool, I'm strong, I'm strong. You're ready, Katie Green And yeah,
here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
To wrap up today. There is Michael Angelo pressing the buttons.
Michael watch final thought.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
You know, the most impressing story for me today was
that Ai country song Yeah be at top of the
charts if you can. Nobody's gonna make any money in
music at all anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's done. Yeah, damn, Katie green are esteemed to Newswoman
As a final thought, Katie, just thank you to all
of our veterans today for their service and their sacrifice.
Jack final thought for us, Yeah, it's also thank you
to all the veterans on this Veterans Day, including my
brother and dad. I guess how the lesson is you
might have had a really good life, but you could
(33:12):
say something, write something really awful when you're almost dead,
and then that's not going to be what people remember
you for. Oh no, I try every day.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
My final thought, in addition to thanks to all of
the veterans, is that, speaking of canceled things, I've been
trying desperately to find Faulty Towers after Prunenla's Scales died.
Greatest sitcom of all time, voted over and over again,
absolutely brilliant, hilarious. You can't find it, partly because it
used some politically incorrect terms. I've even used AI to
say where can I find this? And they tell me
(33:42):
Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You can search and search and search, you can't find it.
I really want to show my friend's Faulty Towers who've
never seen it. Was it racial stuff or they?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, there was one racial term I guess in one episode,
and god knows what else the know the woke police
in Britain especially, I have decided it's no good wow.
But if anybody has a line on where you can
rent it or buy it, stream it whatever, let me know.
Mail Bag at Armstrong Yeddy dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Armstrong you Getty wrapping. I'm another grueling four hour workday.
So many people thank so the little time. Yeah, drop
us note mail bag at Armstrong you getdy dot com.
How do we get young women back to the Republican Party?
Anybody got any ideas? Plus the ang swag store, Holy Cow,
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shirt an age conscience to the nation hoodie. So many
great choices starve the lazy. We will see tomorrow. God
(34:33):
bless America. It's the Armstrong and Getty show. I like this.
Ye I think I might come back and do it again.
That's what I was told. Okay, fair enough, so let's
go with it. Buying. Do you flush things out or
flush things out? It depends what you're doing. If you
got birds in a in a in a thicket and
you're trying to shoot them, you flush them out.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You give absolutely flush them out, yeah okay, and then
shoot them dead yes, because or evil and.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
That high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The shooter evidently raises chickens, and the conversation was about
how many eggs a chicken can lay. One victim ran
out into the roadway trying to get away from the shooter.
The other two victims head. We had several phone calls.
The shooter himself called nine to one one. Arming yourself
with a handgun when you're under the influence is not.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
A good idea.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
There's never going to be a good outcome with that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh, under the influence, Well, that's explained some of it.
I guess how you got into a to the death
argument about how many eggs a chicken can lay? Under
the influence played a role. Yeah, I think if I'm
sober and arguing bitterly over the.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Capacity of chickens to lay eggs, I'm probably gonna keep
it cool.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, any of you have rock, some people should make rock.
How many eggs can it the average hen lay? She
was dead by about two hundred and fifty to three
hundred a year five to six per week. Well roughly, yeah, clearly,
(01:29):
we just have a couple of chickens. You get overwhelmed
by eggs really really fast, like more eggs than you
can eat. Yeah. Yeah, I wish I had a neighbor
with chickens because I love eggs.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Uh. You know, it's not made clear in this account,
and I find this highly dissatisfying. Is who is claiming
what reed chicken egg laying? How far apart were they?
My chicken can lay one hundred eggs a day? No
it can't, Blue, blue blue, It's lucky if it lays
(01:58):
one a day. Guy ought to shoot you in your belly?
Who was on which side of the argument? What were
the claims and counterclaims here? What was the evidence presented?
All had been drinking and none were hit. Well that's
that's at least that's probably good anyway. Wow, Okay, so
(02:21):
this is interesting. Using your credit card at the checkout
line is about to get a lot more complicated now. Now,
Visa and MasterCards settled a long running legal battle that
gives merchants more flexibility on card acceptance. So your favorite
latte at your local coffee shop could soon cost you
(02:42):
five dollars or five dollars and ten cents or five
dollars in twenty five cents, depending on how you pay.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So, first of all, when did we completely abandon having
to show an ID with a credit card? Remember that
was a thing for many, many years because we're sign
anything here. What if this wasn't your credit card? But
now I use my watch. I tap with my watch
all the time. Nobody's ever asked me for an ID.
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So anyway, settlement between Visa MasterCard and some US merchants
US merchants announced this week usher in a new era
of tiered pricing at the register, giving businesses more power
to charge fees depending on the credit card you use.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I like it when I'm behind some old lady who's
got a combination of a check and some EBT card
and like some coupons, and I don't know, I've been
a gift card. You're combining like five different things. Can
I just pay for it all and then you get
the hell out of my way?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Trying to trade in some shiny shells, a little farger,
a little wamp them.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Maybe I can come clean up on Saturday. And now
would not pay for the milk.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So this anti trust battle over interchange fees has been
going on for two decades, and I can't decide whether
that makes me wish I had become a lawyer, because
oh my god, you talk about you know, two farmers
claim they owned the cow. One farmer pulled on the head,
the other pulled on the tail, and the lawyer milked
the cow. They milking this cow for two decades. Settlement
(04:12):
still needs CORD approval, likely to be contested by some
merchant groups.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Merchants have always had the right to refuse to do
business with a payment network entirely, like Costco only takes
Visa cards yep, but current network rules say if a
store accepts one Visa credit card, it has to accept
all Visa credit cards. Well, the settlement could change that
practice by allowing merchants to pick and choose which categories
of cards to accept within network.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
There's also the dollar limit that I don't know if
there's any legality around it, but like I buy something,
they say you can only use your card if you
spent eight dollars or something, and then I got to
grab something else? What else you got? Okay, a cigarette? Laighter?
I don't smoke. Is this make it eight dollars? I
don't have any cash? Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And the settlement could go further, allowing different search charges
depending on the category your card falls into, Like if
you have a basic no frills card, you might get
charged two and a half percent of the transaction amount.
It's the reverse of a cash discount, whereas if you
have a rewards card it's three percent. Really you really
(05:17):
wouldn't know what you're paying until you're paying it.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Paying cash just seems so troublesome. Adey change and then
where am I going to put that? Yeah? Track of that?
And then this story.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
A man in France was having a swimming pool dug
in his backyard and they found eight hundred thousand dollars
worth of gold bars whoa uh town council confirmed the
man will be allowed to keep the gold he found,
according to the French Newsman news agency, five gold bars
(05:55):
and a large amount of gold coins wrapped in plastic bags.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous for reasons that
ought to be fairly obvious, reported define to the local council.
French archaeological officials and law enforcement got involved in determined
if the gold had been if the gold had archaeological significance,
in which case it could be considered state property, or
(06:17):
if it was stolen from somewhere and the gold bars
had unique ID numbers. Law enforcement determined the gold was
not stolen and the bars were only fifteen to twenty
years old, and so they had no historical significance, so
the guy got to keep them money. My daughter, who's
in law school right now, became at one point fascinated
(06:38):
by the law of abandoned property, which is fairly complicated
and convoluted because and I don't remember the details of it,
but like, if somebody sells you a house and it's
left on the property, I think they have a claim
to it still, But if you then sell the he
(07:00):
and the next guy they don't have a claim against
him or a certain number of years. Is super convoluted
and interesting. And anybody who's like a scavenger or what
do you call when you do that at sea, you
reclaim rex and stuff like that. There's all sorts of
laws surrounding that.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, I just thinking we should do away with change
in general, shouldn't. We did away with the penny, but
with inflation, change is not worth much so you're down
less than a dollar, which is like, I don't know,
forty cents compared to what it was ten years ago.
(07:36):
And I'd be fine with stores that just don't do change.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
They round up or down for everything. We'll just make
it even. Yeah, they'd always round up. I think there
would be an investigation shortly after whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's thirty cents. I don't want to carry around some
nickels and pennies. How about this, Daddy Warbucks.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Poor people frequently don't have credit cards and need to
do transactions in cash, and therefore we must have change.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And that's not what I see at the convenience store.
Usually have some sort of government card for the scratchers
vaping and energy drink. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I try to stay away from poor people because I'm
afraid it might be catching.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But that was a joke.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That was a joke, friends, just joke, being silly. These
are serious times, confusing, dark, threatening times. Just trying to
have a little fun. You got the AI, you got
the Divors, Bird treading Card, fees.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Bird flows Center. Yeah, so enough of that. You have
a gender bending madness. We're gonna get to at the bottom.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, a little gender bending madness update with some fresh
new material.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You know, I can't decide whether to do this today
or tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Randy Weingarten, one of the most evil people on Earth,
has a new book out entitled Why Fascists Fear Teachers?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It is one of the most malignant loads of guana
I've ever come across.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Aren't that many people I hate? I hate her, I deeply,
deeply hate her. She is a force of evil on Earth, correct,
no doubt. Wow. And then the IO ces big new
announcement about not having dudes and women's sports as part
of the whole thing we need to talk about today.
Lots on the way. Stay here. I'm not trying to
(09:29):
send you to another podcast. But Tucker's latest is chemtrails
are real and it's worse than you even thought with
some special guest. Good lord, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'll look into that, but right now, it's a gender
bending madness update.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So I kept hearing about this thing called the Loco.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We're a brave world, so they Bloom is definitely off
the transgender craze, as the number of young people identifying
as transgender has been cut in half in like two years.
Just utterly ridiculous. But the hits keep coming. First, some
(10:14):
encouraging news from the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
The IOC will issue the band sometime early next year,
citing a new scientific review that found evidence men have
a permanent physical advantage over women athletes even after hormone therapy. However,
The Guardian newspaper says the band could still be a
year out and that the IOC is facing pushback to
a possible ban on athletes who reported female at birth
(10:39):
but have male chromosomes and the same testosterone level as men,
also known as differences in sexual development. That would include
athletes like South Africa's Casser Semenya, who won gold at
the London and Real Games before Track and Fields governing
body World Athletics banned DSc athletes from competing as women
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
A new study, you say that shows that men have
a permanent advantage even if they undergo it the transitioning.
I'll be darned it says here they're bigger and stronger
than women. I'll be damned. Good thing they did that
new study.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the poor cops are still trying to
figure out what woke, idiot policy they're supposed to be following.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Sarah Swinson is a regular at the Tucker Reid Kocher Library.
She says after she used the ladies room on October twentieth,
a Decab police officer on hand for early voting confronted her.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He says, excuse me, sir, so misjendering me right away.
You're not a woman. That's obvious. This is a police matter.
There are women and little girls in there, and I
have to protect them. She says.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
It ended up causing a scene in the middle of
the library, and she tried to de escalate. The next day,
she emailed library staff, who she says, reached out to
the Cab County Police, and I asked to Cab County
CEO Lorrain Cochran Johnson about all of this. She told
us the county supports the LGBTQ community, calling this a
teachable moment. The county further clarified their official position is
(12:11):
for library patrons to use whichever bathroom aligns with their
gender identity.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This is well trod ground, I realized, but it just
scurted me. What is the argument for why if you
got a penis, but you feel like a girl, you
should be in the girl's restroom as opposed to in
the restroom where every trans women are women. That's a
woman right there. That's an argument, but we all shouldn't
that man with the low voice, Jack, that was a woman.
(12:36):
That's my favorite part of the report is just the
the reporter was so matter of fact. She she was
in the bathroom, and then Sarah.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I used the restroom, the woman's restroom, like I've been
for months. I mean, he says, excuse me, sir. So
look he misgenders me right away. He says, you're not
a woman. That's obvious. I said, how dare you? The
poor little lady was offended.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
That doesn't seem out aligned. Say I believe you're a woman,
and I'll call you she and call you by your name.
You're a woman, but you got a penis, so all
the penises are in one room and all the vaginas
are in a different room.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Ye have suggested just have anies and auti's you call
yourself whatever you want. But that is giving too much
ground to the transgender radical gender seria crowd. I won't
do it. It's a decent middle ground, I suppose for
a place like Atlanta that's trying to be woke, but
it's still absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, Again, ma'am, I'm sorry you
were offended. This is offensive.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Faith Blue hears Okay. Faith Smith was.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
A twenty eight year old woman and inmate at the
Washington Correction Center for Women, viciously attacked a couple of
months ago by a six foot four inch male child molester.
Identify identifying as a transgender woman. And of course Washington
State puts men who claim to be women in women's
prisons out of some sort of psychosis. And here's a
(13:57):
gal who spent some time in the Central California Women's
Facility in Chochilli, California, one of the largest women's prisons
in the country, and she's writing about how she saw
firsthand how critical single sex spaces are for the safety
and dignity of incarcerated women. And she says one case
still haunts me. A male inmate isolated in a men's
(14:18):
prison for assaulting bunk mates was moved into a women's
cell with seven women. These women were trapped, their voices ignored.
This guy beat them through, her to the ground, punched
and cooked her, kicked her relentlessly.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I thought horrible. I thought this aspect of it would
get taken care of her with a lawsuit. I thought
that that would happen early on. Somebody would sue a state,
get like a half a billion dollars because you put
a dude in prison with me, and that put it
end to it. But it hasn't yet. Takes a while.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It takes a while the work its way through the system,
I would agree. And all the poor kids mutilated, they're
actually who are caught up in the social contagion. In
the last several years, there are still a hell of
a lot of them that are struggling to convince themselves
they did the right thing, because to admit otherwise would
be utterly heartbreaking for everybody involved. And so that's part
(15:13):
of the reason for the delay in that sort of
suit these and there have been a handful anyway of
the kids who got whisked along the activist pipeline and
got their body mutilated and castrated chemically and the rest
of it, and now will regret it. But those lawsuits
will come. Got a couple more stories for you. A
federal judge is ruled that the Bureau of Prisons, oh
this is a federal judge must provide sex change procedures
(15:33):
to a convicted pedophile who recently began identifying as transgender.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Brian Buckingham forty seven, serving Morgan twenty one years forty
seven just now determined. You know what I think I've
been chick. I'll down I've been wrong for half a century.
Brace yourselves, folks.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
He sexually abused his own ten year old son and
produced child porn with the.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Boy, murder him or put him to death.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Shortly before sentencing, Buckingham began identifying as nanny, love them
to be female and put her to death, and in
court filings, the judge said they have to provide gender
affirming treatments like hormone therapy because his sexual dysfunction or
his dysphoriat worsened his depression in suicidal thoughts, and Magistrate
(16:18):
Judge David Crystal ruled that yes, that indeed, tax.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Dole will happily refer to her as her as we
give her the sodium pentathal. Excellent. I love that idea.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And finally, in disappointing news for New Hampshiretes, the first
openly trans lawmaker in the United States who was hailed
as a trailblazers, admitted to sickening child sex charges involving
young kids in a daycare. Former Democratic New Hampshire Reps
Stacy Marie Lawton, a biological male who identifies as female,
pleaded guilty to charges including child sexual exploitation of children
(16:52):
in Boston federal court. Faces up to thirty years in
federal prison. You don't even want to hear what this
guy did.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He's sexually confused and sick. That's taken a couple of
different forms, including I'm a girl. Now it's a mental disorder,
gender bending madness update.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh's rough, yep. Trump speaking at Arlington. We'll have a
little clip of that for Veterans Day, among other things
coming up. Armstrong and Getty today, to every veteran, we
love our veterans. We say the words too often left unsaid.
Thank you for your service. Thank you very much. President
(17:38):
Trump at Arlington National Ceremony Cemetery for Veterans Day, talking
to lots of people, talking about the one million people
that have given their lives in our nation's history to
protect this country and our culture. We talked earlier about
how three quarters of people say they would fight for
their country. In Asian India, for instance, about a third
(18:03):
in Europe and Canada would be willing to fight for
their country. So if you want to hear more of
that conversation, that was an hour three I think get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's a downer.
That is a dowter. What's your best joke? I need
something whimsical here, Michael, before I go into something else
that is depressing but very very interesting, but very interesting.
(18:23):
What's the best joke we got left? We haven't played
your favorite one?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Hey, finally, Taco Bella's, We've gone offering a Baja Blast
Pie chiller, which features a slice of Baja Blast pie
blended with vanilla ice cream and top with whipped cream
and chero crunch. That story again, weed is getting way
too strong.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Wow, that is some meal. Oo. Wow, sounds kind of good.
I just listening to a podcast yesterday. They got into
a conversation about sandwiches. I don't know a lot about sandwiches,
but like this, it's like subway sort of sandwiches. What
do you call sandwich? Like that? As a subway sandwich,
there are a number of different regionals hogyes, subway sandwiches,
(19:06):
grind grinders, whatever, they are right, and I just thought
somebody mocked Subway. They said, well, one thing I wouldn't
do is get it at Subway, And my main experience
with sandwiches like that is from Subway. And I just thought,
I've got to work at branching out. I don't know
if I can do that in the town I live in.
But places that make, you know, real sandwiches with real
bread and real ingredients to try that out.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, well, Subway does. They're just fairly straightforward. I would
say that there are sandwich shops that way more adventurous
in their ingredients and just interesting flavor combinations with Subways. No,
they were talking about They weren't talking about different stuff.
They're talking about like, you know, roast beef on bread
with mayonnaise and mustard being completely different at a non
(19:51):
Subway place. You tell me, because I don't have the
I don't have the experience it is, you would say
that's accurate. Yeah, yeah, just the way the meat is
seasoned than prepared and all a little more painstaking.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You can pay more money for it, but right I
expect that. Yeah, Okay, I need to seek that out
of my life. Life's too short. Teat you want something depressing, Oh, yes,
you see. San Diego has released a new report documenting
(20:23):
a steep decline in the academic preparedness of its freshmen.
We've been on this story for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
The number of entry knock me down with a useless diploma,
no kidding. The number of entering students needing remedial math
remedial math as a college kid has exploded from one
in one hundred back in the early two thousands to
one in eight whah, some of the numbers around one
(20:53):
percent to what's one in eight fifteen percent.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
The report also showed that nearly one in five students
failed to meet entry level writing requirements.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Fuck, I need remedial math. That's kind of funny. That's ironic.
From one percent to twelve and a half percent. I'm sorry,
what was that remedial writing? Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Very low. Also, the supuriation does coincide with the COVID
nineteen pandemic, but standardized the elimination of standardized testing because
that'd be unfair to certain groups and is racist. Great inflation,
which we all know about. It's been good for the
teachers to be able to say all of my students
are now getting bees even though they would have been
(21:34):
c's twenty years ago, and the expansion of admissions from
under resourced high schools but forcing colleges to be able
to allow them in. Here's my favorite part of this
story though, that the mention the reason that I brought
it up percentages of students who correctly answered questions at
each grade level. So they they ask college kids coming
(21:56):
into college at U SEE San Diego, they had them
do math for like first grade math, second grade math,
third grade math up through eighth grade. So the good
news is people coming into UC San Diego, which is
an expensive college to go to, eighty seven percent of
the people going to the university could do first grade math.
(22:16):
Shouldn't it be higher than that first grade? So you
got slightly over one out of ten that can't even
do first grade math? Why are they at your college? Boy?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I knew high school diplomas were worthless and perfunctory. They're
given out automatically. I had not realized it was that bad. Well,
I had the experience.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I've talked about this on the air, and I hate
talking about it because some of the people involved are very,
very nice people who worked really hard helping me and
my kid. But they were so hell bent on getting
him up to grade level, since he didn't go to
school until he was in fourth grade, getting him up
to grade level, and they just exaggerated, would be a
kind word, misrepresented, He's at grade level. And I remember
(23:07):
I was all excited because I was following this and
everything like that. I started asking him some questions and
I was like, wait a second, why don't you know
the answer to him? And so I sat down, did
some mathelm. He wasn't even freaking close. Yeah, but they
were telling the parent me that he was at grade
level and was ready to go on to the next grade. No,
(23:27):
he's not, I said, he's not even close. You're not
doing anybody any favors by doing that. Maybe you maybe
the school, but you're certainly not doing me or him
any favors by claiming he can do at that time
it was fifth grade bath when he can't.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, the road to hell is paved with good intentions,
but the road all sorts of places are paved with
good intentions just everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But like success anyway, back to this thing, and I
think this is how you end up with because you're
not allowed to fail people anymore, which is nuts, right, sure,
Getting back to this, so eighty seven percent of the
kids going into UC San Diego could do first grade math. Congratulations.
Second grade math drops to eighty two percent. Oh boy,
(24:17):
third grade math we're down to seventy four percent. So
you now got a quarter of the people going into
U SEE San Diego that can't do third grade math.
My mind is already blown.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You're gonna need a bucket and a mop by the
time you get down to you know.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Fifth grade. Go ahead. Fourth grade math, we're at sixty
four percent, so you got almost a third. You got
a little over a third that can't do fourth grade math.
You're about half at fifth grade. Half the students and
do fifth grade math. What the hell? Sixth grade it's
(24:57):
at two thirds. Can't do it. College math, nobody can
do it. Seventh grade about sixty percent can't do it.
Eighth grade math. Only nineteen percent of people were proficient
with eighth grade math. Appreciate out of middle school? Yeah, okay,
that is the whole teachers passing them along knowing they
(25:20):
can actually do it, but you're not allowed to hold
them back, and it would really lower our scores. If
we were honest here.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And great inflation and teaching woke crap instead of math.
Do you remember over and over again we've read to you.
I could do probably dig it up again, but I
don't feel like it. The state wide guidelines. Now, i'd
imagine the majority of kids going to UC San Diego
were schooled in California. Maybe not a huge majority, but
(25:46):
the majority probably Remember the state wide guidelines call for
students to center anti racism and what's the other DEI in.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
All classes, including math. So you don't think that's a
factor including math?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, two plus two doesn't equal four, It doesn't necessarily
equal four. That's white supremacy. How could that not have
a just a cancerous effect?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I realize on this show we declare six different things
per day. Is the biggest problem in the country. But
your regular go to of our education system K through
graduate school, Yeah, is the biggest problem is probably what
I would sign on to.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
The spring of poison that's pouring into so many of
our other institutions.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
The reason I elevated to the biggest problem is because
of the tentacles it has going forward. People that either
are under educated, trying to make a living, in the
world or born to all kinds of crazy s that
they're going to believe the rest of their lives. That's
anness problem.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I was gonna save this, and I probably still will
for a campus madness update coming up at some point.
But I've just been aware of this book The Breakdown
of Higher Education, how it happened, the damage it does,
and what can be done by a guy who is
a actually, interestingly enough, a University of California professor. He
wrote a piece that they published in the Journal Today.
(27:15):
Higher ed needs receivership, not reform, meaning receivership means you're
bankrupt in you're owned by somebody else, or somebody else
runs you. The radicals who hollowed out America's universities can't
be trusted to restore their proper purpose. And his point is,
you know he makes it quite briefly, is that Point
(27:38):
two of Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence and Higher Education
is the key to reform. It asks that schools cultivate
a virant marketplace of ideas on campus, which is exactly
what the campus radicals have destroyed, and appealing to them
to reinstate it is crazy. They're not going to number one,
(27:59):
they don't want to, and number two, even if they did,
they wouldn't be able to because they don't believe in it.
So you got the kids, and we'll get more into
that another time. But you got the kids getting to
college with only twenty one or twenty percent of them
could get out of eighth grade math, and then they
don't learn anything at the college. But in doctrination, walk indoctrination,
(28:22):
I mean, it does need to go into receivership. Oh
and then on the other side of the aisle, you
got Randy Winingarten ahead of the Big teachers Union, coming
out with a book that says, anybody who challenges the
teachers Union is a fascist. Given the state of government education,
(28:45):
I mean, it's hard to imagine a less functional, more
diseased institution than government schools in the United States.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I know it's depressing.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, I'm more energized, but it is depressing. It absolutely is.
Maybe it's that my kids are out of school, but
I got one in law school, and law schools have
strong swung wildly left in the last twenty years too.
But I don't it's a clear objective, it's a clear
thing that needs to be done. I'm not sure it
(29:21):
can be done, but it needs to be done.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
We will finish strong next. We got some interesting stuff
for his stay here. One of the most famous scientists
in human history died just a couple of days ago.
That would be James Watson. If you remember from grade
school and you had to learn this sort of thing.
He was, along with doctor Crick, discovered DNA and the
(29:51):
way the body is made, and the developments that have
come out of that are just endless. One double of
helicks was there. Double Helix was also the name of
his memoir, which is one of the most famous scientific
books ever written in supposed to be really good and
very accessible, and I actually should give it a read.
One of the interesting things about this he died at
(30:12):
age ninety seven, I think the other day, so he's
been alive a very long time. He was twenty five
when they made their giant one of the biggest discoveries
in human history breakthrough. He was twenty five years old.
That would be something to have the highlight of your
career that everybody references the rest of your life, especially
as you get older. Be something you did when you
(30:33):
were twenty five. I'm working on something new too. Yeah, yeah, whatever,
get back to us if you figured out, Yeah, I
loved your first album, oh twenty five. And then you
might remember this because we talked about it quite a
bit at the time. In two thousand and seven, he
did an interview where he said some fairly racist stuff
and then, as I remember, we were on the air
(30:54):
talking about it as one of the most famous scientists
of all time and hailed by everybody around the world,
and you want to know, prize and blah blah blah,
and taught at Harvard and he could fill lecture halls
everywhere he went. All of a sudden, he couldn't. For instance,
he said this to the London Sunday Times, I'm inherently
gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social
policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is
(31:16):
the same as ours, whereas all testing says not really.
He elaborated that while he hoped for equality, people who
have to deal with black employees find that it's just
not true. Oh oh my god. And I remember at
the time, so two thousand and seven, he was already old.
(31:36):
He just died almost one hundred, so he was already
old and there was some speculation that was kind of like,
you know, you get old and you'd lose your filter
and don't really think straight and you know whatever. Yeh,
he was at that point in his life. But anyway,
Bloom was off the rows. He no longer would get hot,
he'd never no longer spoke at any lectures anywhere. He
lost all his honorary degrees from all the universities around
(31:57):
the world, all these different sorts of things, and now
is all it is. Uh. New York Times, for instance,
their their big Ulgi section had to include in the
first paragraph that he was also a racist.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Interesting that reminds me of a similar story, which I
will save from my final thought.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Cool, I'm strong, I'm strong. You're ready, Katie Green And yeah,
here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
To wrap up today. There is Michael Angelo pressing the buttons.
Michael watch final thought.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
You know, the most impressing story for me today was
that Ai country song Yeah be at top of the
charts if you can. Nobody's gonna make any money in
music at all anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's done. Yeah, damn, Katie green are esteemed to Newswoman
As a final thought, Katie, just thank you to all
of our veterans today for their service and their sacrifice.
Jack final thought for us, Yeah, it's also thank you
to all the veterans on this Veterans Day, including my
brother and dad. I guess how the lesson is you
might have had a really good life, but you could
(33:12):
say something, write something really awful when you're almost dead,
and then that's not going to be what people remember
you for. Oh no, I try every day.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
My final thought, in addition to thanks to all of
the veterans, is that, speaking of canceled things, I've been
trying desperately to find Faulty Towers after Prunenla's Scales died.
Greatest sitcom of all time, voted over and over again,
absolutely brilliant, hilarious. You can't find it, partly because it
used some politically incorrect terms. I've even used AI to
say where can I find this? And they tell me
(33:42):
Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You can search and search and search, you can't find it.
I really want to show my friend's Faulty Towers who've
never seen it. Was it racial stuff or they?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, there was one racial term I guess in one episode,
and god knows what else the know the woke police
in Britain especially, I have decided it's no good wow.
But if anybody has a line on where you can
rent it or buy it, stream it whatever, let me know.
Mail Bag at Armstrong Yeddy dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Armstrong you Getty wrapping. I'm another grueling four hour workday.
So many people thank so the little time. Yeah, drop
us note mail bag at Armstrong you getdy dot com.
How do we get young women back to the Republican Party?
Anybody got any ideas? Plus the ang swag store, Holy Cow,
get an f a f y all can party t
shirt an age conscience to the nation hoodie. So many
great choices starve the lazy. We will see tomorrow. God
(34:33):
bless America. It's the Armstrong and Getty show. I like this.
Ye I think I might come back and do it again.
That's what I was told. Okay, fair enough, so let's
go with it. Buying. Do you flush things out or
flush things out? It depends what you're doing. If you
got birds in a in a in a thicket and
you're trying to shoot them, you flush them out.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You give absolutely flush them out, yeah okay, and then
shoot them dead yes, because or evil and.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
That high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong and
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