Psammophile was the word from the national spelling bee that had everyone confused. And, of course, Cow Clips of the Week!
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We have a number of SAMO files for you this
hour that I think you will enjoy. That SAMO file.
I'm sorry, I don't know what that word means, but
it's spelled psa mm mm wow o phili as the
winning word from the scripts National Spelling Bee last night,
won by a kid. I'm looking up what the TV
appears to be an Indian American child shocking. That's surprising, right,
(00:24):
And I only bring that up because, yeah, culture of
various groups matters to education outcome. So you can say
out loud that clearly Indian Americans or Asian Americans studying harder,
doing better. But if any other group, including white kids,
are doing less, nobody ever says because you don't try
(00:45):
hard enough, It's got to be something else. So here's
a question for you, Jack. Do you think you Jack
Armstrong of the Radio, are or are not a SAMO file.
Let me look at the word of the way it's
spelled again, trying to come up with a root word
out of there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
M psamm oh file.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It seems like too many ms.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I think I am soon unnaturally attracted to something salmon.
I think I am a samophile, and probably so well.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Then you're well, is that included in one of the
LGBTQP for SAMO files. No, it's an organism that prefers
or thrives in sandy soils or areas.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Ah, so that'd be like what a crab or something. Now,
we talk about this every year, and I don't want
to be mocking hard work and achievement, but it's it's
just a dumb trivia contest memorizing how to spell words
nobody is ever going to use ever in a million years,
and if you ever do need to use it, you'll
look it up. It's just I wouldn't want my kids
(01:53):
to spend their time doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Right, It's like memorizing I don't know the names of
towns in foreign countries. Name the town just east of
Blacksburg in southern Austria. Uh, Witchstein, that's right. The hell
look at a map? Kid?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, watch Spellbound, the documentary. I say it is every
year or too about what it's like for those kids.
Does it look like what you want your kid to do?
And I kid up there, God, I'm sure he's going
to be successful.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But wow, well, we have a lot of stuff to squeeze.
In the final hour, of the week. But first let's
turn our gaze to the rear view mirror.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm just happy that a semophile didn't turn out to
be somebody sexually attracted to piglets or something.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Let's see what was I saying. Ah, Yes, let's take
a fin look back of the week. That was it's
cow clips of the week. Ron. We are barreling towards
unlimited debt in this country.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
This is fabulous.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'm Ron de Santis, cold as pandit I'm retired to
There were two doors. They both led to hell.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We chose the one that was least bad.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Come on back to San Francisco, where he's like less
likely to be victimized. Yeah, white women are one of
the most dangerous groups in the United States and abroad
that you know. It's not fair to my kids or
yours to see a dead body on the side of
the road as we try to leave the house for
(03:29):
hot cocoa. It seems irresponsible to throw someone back out
into the street who has just committed a violent felony.
The migrants being in those hotels have destroyed them. There's
a lot of alcohol in these rooms. Housekeeping is there
all week.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We will be forced to sell these goats to slaughter
and to the option yards, and we'll be forced out
of business and probably file for bankrupts. Fifteen months into
the war and Russia still striking terror in the hearts
of locals. Moscow hit by a squadron of eight drones.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
An advisor to President Zelenski said, they were watching with pleasure.
We don't tell them where to strike, we don't tell
them we're not to strike. Not one Republican should vote
for this deal.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It is a bad deal, one of the sides, so
to speak. I would like to see with this sandwich.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I had no idea that we would see a plan
as ephemeral and as malodorous as this plan.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I thought it would be hard.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I thought it'd be almost impossible. There's going to be
a reckoning about what just occurred.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know, it's not a victory, it's a surrender, but
it grooves the ball in our direction. I'm Rand de Santis.
Everyone knows my husband, Rond de Santis. I'm Rond de Santis,
Ron de Santis.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
By the way, I with who those guys that fly
over shortly?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You heard them having three of the more women. That's
when he stumbled and went down, landing on his right hip.
He pointed at something that had caused him to trip, but.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I said, I'm not falling.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
There's no way, so I'd go tiptoe down the thing
that was a mistake, Ye dude. It sogging them back,
but they tugging in your kids.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
They don't even need to ask because you love what
Speaker 1 (05:29):
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