November 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- UC San Diego stats
- Randi Weingarten's trash book
- Starbucks Bearista cup, Epstein & more UCSD stats
- US aircraft carrier & Venezuela
Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and know he Armstrong and Yetty. Well,
it's some business news.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Target has a new ten to four policy, which requires
employees within ten feet of customers to smile and wave,
and employees within four feet to start a conversation customers
like what happens within one foot?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Every Target employee's goal is to stay at least eleven
feet away from customers.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I get involved, smile, Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I uh, fair number of Target employees, at least my
local Target who don't really want to have to answer
any questions and are just trying to stock on the shelf.
And why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That said?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Somebody I think maybe have picked up on that and decided, Hey,
if there's a customer near.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You, you need to smile.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I don't want I don't think it employed to ever
be within four feet of me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's pretty close. That's like arm's length. How am I
that close to you?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Nah? I'm squeezing past them for some reason in that scenario. Yeah,
and if you get within two feet I want you
to laugh uproariously. All right, now get to work.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So we did this story yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
There have been some bitter arguments on the internet as
to the not the authenticity of these numbers, but the
way they're portrayed. I'm gonna give the new version of this,
but it's still really bad. So you see, San Diego
had to add a second remedial math class because they've
(01:52):
got so many people coming in who can't do math.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Before we get to the stats, how about this one.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Universities in our country get thirty times more government cash
than they did in the fifties. That's inflation adjusted, thirty
times as much money going to universities from taxpayers then
in the fifties, and we all know for a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That the results are much less.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
We're probably churning out college graduates that were similarly ish
to high school graduates in the fifties.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Probably not even that right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, by the way, later on campus maddeness update, including
the hilarious controversy at Harvard over there, the university saying, yeah,
we got to start having grades. Everybody gets a's all
the time. We got to stop that. And the little
snowflakes are going crazy over it. Anyway, that's for another time. Yeah,
great inflation is one of the reasons for what they
(02:51):
think happened here. The report shows that nearly one in
five students U SEE San Diego fail to meet entry
level writing requirements. The deterioration goes across many across, goes
across many different you know, reading, math, science, all that
sort of stuff. But the report focuses on the decline
(03:12):
in math skills. Skills in particular, they recently tested a
group of their students. Now it's originally portrayed, and I'm
not exactly sure which is true. It is originally portrayed
as this was all students entering UC San Diego. The
correction on x twitter is that it only applies to
the kids that are in these remedial math classes. Okay,
(03:33):
that would be better, But even if it's true, it's stunning.
How do you have remedial math classes at a major
university where you get these results eighty seven percent of
them can do grade one math. One hundred thirteen percent
(03:55):
of the people in your remedial math class that can't
do first grade math?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
How the hell did you get into the university?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, and we're not talking about, you know, Jones County
Community College. This is the University of California at San Diego,
an alleged elite university. And I remember back in my
applying to university days, the idea that you can't do
math up to the standards of a six year old,
you would not have gotten in on any program.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, how'd you get out of high school? How'd you
get out of first grade? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So again I'm not sure which is true, whether this
was all the students or just the remedial math classes,
but even best case scenario.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So eighty two percent of them could do second grade math,
only three quarters could do third grade math.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What are you in third grade? Eight years old? Eight
or nine? Yeah, what are you doing in third grade?
All work entails a you. I don't think you're into
multiplication tables yet. But anyway, even if you are, you're
a you're at a university.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Of college campus. Yeah, at a quarter of you can't
do that. So a third can't do fourth grade math.
You get into about fifty percent that can do fifth
grade math. About fifty percent can't do fifth grade math.
That would be like multiplication and long division stuff. I mean,
(05:29):
I've just I've got a fifth grader recently. Yeah, yeah, So,
I mean it ain't hard stuff. I mean it's pretty
damned remedial. And half the kids are accepted into the
university having graduated high school. I assume can't do math
at that level.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You get to eighth grade math.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Only nineteen percent of people could do eighth grade math,
but they were admitted to a major, allegedly elite university.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Why yea, is it a dei thing? Is it?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I mean, the the like the social grievance studies programs,
you don't need any preparation. You're there to sit and
be indoctrinated, so you don't need to leave it to
bring any skill to the table or any skill set.
I mean, the whys is almost as interesting a questions
the how the f although I think we know how
(06:28):
the heck this happened.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
More on that in a moment.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
On all education stuff, the educators have the out of
blaming the pandemic, and there is a dip in the
pandemic crowd. But as we talked about a couple of
weeks ago, when the nation's report card came out, the
trend lines were down for decades before the pandemic. It
accelerated a little during the pandemic, and now it continues
(06:52):
to go down. So we're head of that direction anyway.
That's a that's a bad way out of this conversation
to claim it was the pandemic. And other reason, according
to this researcher, is the elimination of standardized test requirements,
which helped schools claim everybody's up to grade level and
they can pass everybody and get the government funding they want.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And with high.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
School grade inflation, where the percentage of people to get
a's and b's is skyrocketed over the years, not that
the abilities have skyrocketed, just the number of a's and
b's that they hand out, right, and the whole social
promotion thing where you get moved on to the next
grade no matter if you learned anything or not. And
then at the point that I mean, because math in particular,
(07:33):
you build your next skill is built on the foundation
of your previously learned skills mostly and so yeah, if
you got out of third grade not having mastered or
come close to third grade math, you are finished as
a person learning math.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
In most cases.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
This is a California thing, but not surprising A major cause,
according to this person, Steve McGuire, a major cause that
you see sd in. They point to a significant increase
in students admitted from LCFF, that's Local Control Funding formula schools,
which are California public schools in which seventy five percent
of the school's total enrollment is composed of students who
(08:14):
identified as either eligible for free or reduced price meals,
or English lunars or foster youth. So these are schools
with either troubled kids or poor kids or whatever, and
you have to admit a whole bunch of them because
you know, equity and inequity and all these different sorts
of things, thereby setting them up to fail miserably in
(08:37):
college because they are at a place they can't cut it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Two choices.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And Roland Frar, the gray Harvard economist, black man Coleman Hughes,
another great Black thinker, Thomas Soel, has pointed this out
all sorts of people have. The worst thing you can
do is take a kid unprepared and throw them into
the shark tank of an elite university because they can't
handle it, and they they I think there's a worse
(09:01):
thing you can do pass them through the university, give
them a degree, and then send them out in the
world with them thinking I'll be able to support myself.
I'll be able to pay off these enormous debts because
I have an important and valuable university degree having been
defrauded by the university.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And that's what I was going to get to. So
you have two choices.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Number one, throw them in the shark tank is described
moments ago or two, so inflate grades that the kids
get through the university having been totally unprepared, doing very
little work and learning almost nothing. My god, we need
to tear this down to the studs. And this gets
to what you're talking about yesterday. Then you get these
college graduates who don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That they got a bad education. How would you know that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
They think they got a college education just like their
parents and grandparents did, and look at the results that
they got, and now I can't get a job. It
must be capitalism, it must be the system. And that's
why people voted for Momdanni. Yeah, as we've pointed out
in that brilliant essay, we had a couple of days ago. Yeah,
they get out into the free market. They were told
that they had skills worth a certain amount, at least
(10:07):
enough to pay off their college debt. And when it
turns out that no, they actually have a worthless degree,
they're not told that. They're told capitalism is the problem.
The system is the problem. It's exploitive and in a
very closely related story, I mean, it's the same story.
After the break, I want to bring you news of
(10:29):
American Federation of Teachers Presidents Randy Weingarten's new book. I
do want to talk about that, but as just it
just popped in my head what you're always saying, we
need to go way back earlier in the development of
kids to deal with these situations, dealing with it at
the point you're at the university, What how did you
get out of fifth grade not being able to do
(10:51):
first grade math?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Well, how'd you get out of first grade without being
able to do first grade math? Back when I was
a kid? I mean it's not so you graduated. How'd
you get out of high school? You can't do first
grade math?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So the left in the teachers unions would have us
failed these kids from age five through eighteen, completely failed
them while they feather their own nest and then make
it all up at age eighteen as they're admitted into
an elite university that is perverse.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's idiotic.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I can't believe I have to say this. We have
Epstein more Epstein stuff to talk about. Lord, all right,
this is going to be the same life a punch.
That's gonna be the story for a couple of days.
So lots on the ways stay here. The actual math
test is out from UC San Diego. Some of the
questions and what percentage of people got them right or wrong.
(11:46):
We might have to get into that later because it's
pretty interesting. So perhaps you would like to leave a
flaming bag of dog experiments on your neighbor's front porch,
but you lack such an item, you go with Randy
Weingarten's new book instead, Why Fascists Fear Teachers, Public Education,
and the Future of Democracy. If there was ever a
(12:10):
flaming bag of dog crap sold as a book, this
is it. Why Fascists Fear Teachers? Who are these fascists?
We'll get to that in a moment. So obviously the
title is designed to be eye catching and attract readers,
but by now, as this review puts it, the word
fascist is thrown around routinely. The book's title Public Education
(12:33):
the Future Democracy is more significant deceptive.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The book's purported intention.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Is to argue for public school's crucial role in our
democratic society, but it offers very little in the way
of education policy or ideas that would truly benefit teachers
or God forbids, students.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The randul aime Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Randy Weingarten played the major role in keeping the schools
closed during the pandemic. For instance, yeah, I'm sorry the
American Federation of Teachers president for years and years and years.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The real aim is made clear.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
It devotes most of its pages to attacking her political opponents,
especially especially supporters of school choice, and defending the interests
of the American Federation of Teachers, her big rich union.
She starts out claiming ninety percent of American kids attend
public schools.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Not so fast. It was a little over.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Eighty one percent four years ago at the beginning of
COVID so and that's before the expansion of universal school
choice in states like Texas and New Hampshire. Half of
American children now have access to school choice, so the
number is far far lower than the ninety percent. She claims,
so it's appropriate the book would start off with lies.
(13:45):
As it continues. In that vein, Winngarten characterizes the school
choice movement as a conspiracy organized by Christopher Ruffo, Moms
for Liberty, and other hard right wing activists. Quote, a
plot to destroy public education.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah all for that, based on right.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Now, you know, honestly, Yeah, I see your point. The
real drivers of the choice movement, they point out, however,
her parents like Virginia olden Ford, a black, low income
other in Washington, d C. Who grew frustrated watching her
sons struggle in public school and helped create the DC
Opportunity Scholarship Program, the nation's first federally funded voucher initiative.
But yeah, she's a conspiracy Not sure, Randy, let's see.
(14:26):
Winngartan also insists that vouchers are devised by whites to
undermine desegregation. Oh, it's racism, probably systemic racism. This isn't
just wrong, it gets the history completely backward. In fact,
some teachers' unions fought against vouchers because they facilitated integration.
(14:46):
Wygarten claims she is quote willing to work with anyone
who wants to actually address the problems facing our public schools,
but she refuses to engage with school choice advocates who
propose concrete and constructive options for students underserved by traditional
school districts. Then she denigrates religious schools, whose very purpose
is in doctrination.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's a quote.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
This animus causes her to overlook the many advantages of
faith based education, such as the Catholic school effect, which
has been demonstrated to benefit disadvantage minority students in particular,
has to do with high expectations and discipline and that
sort of thing. The biggest deception in Wingarten's book is
her portrayal of her role Jackie loved this during the pandemic,
I quote, I led the AFT in developing a concrete
(15:31):
plan to reopen schools as quickly and safely as possible, when,
of course, Winegotten and her union colleagues kept children American
children out of schools until the government approved her request
for a seven hundred and fifty billion dollar federal age
package federal aid package to feather their nest and hire
more administrations and more union members.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
The book is primarily an attempt to rehabilitate Winegarton's image
after she backed the longest school closures in American history,
which yield that the largest drop in student performance ever recorded.
Not to mention the emotional turmoil, and she mentions the
Aforah mentioned fascists like ourselves in her title replace facts
and critical thinking with propaganda that romanticizes the nation's past.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No, absolutely obscene.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
You know, I gotta apologize to flaming bags of dog
crap comparing them to this book.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's insulting.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, that's really maddening. I mean, we've talked about this
a lot, and I hate her so much. Do you
think she actually believes she's doing the right thing for
kids or did she abandon that a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I don't. She couldn't. There's no way.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
There's no way she possibly thought keeping the schools closed
was the best thing for the kids.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Not a chance she actually believed that.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
No, unless her own evil in her need to, you know,
explain it has perverted her own mind to the point
that she can't recognize truth. She's like OJ Simpson who
thought he'd didn't kill his wife.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, what a horrifying human being.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, we'll get to some of those math problems. That
University of San Diego students couldn't do, among other things, coming.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Up Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You guys, it's Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Tonight's audience is made up entirely of veterans, active military
and their families and friends.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Pup from to the zone.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I thank you for all the sacrifices you have made
fighting overseas while the rest of us are at home
fighting over bear shaped cups at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thank you very much. I've never been to a war zone.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
However, I have been to a waffle house at two am,
and that's that's pretty real. I've never been stuck in
a fox hole. However, one time my uber driving Pycknam
in a Mini Cooper that I'm in the front and
backseat NaNs.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
So what's the deal on the little bear thing at Starbucks? Katie,
you had that story for it. It keeps popping up
in my news feed.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Well, you know those old honey dispensers that are in
the shape of a bear. It's a cup that looks
just like that, and it's got a little green hat
and it's glass, and it's from Starbucks. And there's all
of this drama people saying the employees are taking them
for themselves. And I looked online over the weekend and
one was on eBay for like four hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Wow. Wow, Hey.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
When little Jack Jo Mike Michael was born, well and
maybe a few years down the line, I got to
come and teach Drew. My favorite one of my favorite
dad bits that I used to do at the table,
the breakfast table with my kids. We'd have the honey
Bear and you know, he'd be like, you know, a
third empty, and I would do him as a little character.
(18:48):
I would move him around and look at the kids
and I'd say, what are you looking at? When you
look at me like that makes me so mad? I
get madder and madder, and I would squeeze it and
the honey would rise up like he's turning red.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And I was a kid looking at me.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Then I turned looking my other kid and they'd squeal
and I'd make the honeyper mad at them too.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I was a good time, good time. The Honeybear. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
My favorite was a post online of a woman who
had just gotten one, and it showed the ring camera
of her walking out of her house and her dropping it.
Oh it's glass and do you drink coffee out of it?
Because yeah, it looks like it's for iced drinks.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Probably because you don't drink coffee out of that hot
coffee had burn your hand, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Unless you put a little sweater on him, like.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Oh, wouldn't that be cute? A little sweater on your bear?
In a sweater they have furse. So I think I've
nailed down the Epstein thing for today. The Epstein story
today is there are these supposed letters that Jeffrey Epstein
wrote to Michael wolf And I don't know if you
(19:55):
remember this name or not. We've had him on before.
He's written a whole bunch of politic books over the years,
and they're usually they they always sound like crap to me.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I've never read one.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
They're always full of the they're not they're though that
genre of not taking super seriously political books that come out.
But one side really loves him because it usually is
very partisan. Yeah, and uh, anyway, so he's claiming Jeffrey
Epstein wrote him these these letters and we're all just
learning this now, all right, maybe yeah, Anyway, he Michael Wolfe,
(20:30):
the political author. Remember I looked up some of the
titles something fury.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
There was the.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Fire and fury inside the Trump White House. Oh that
was a huge thing for the lefty media to grasp
on and have this guy on with his anonymous source
stories of really crazy stuff that happened. And I just
I've taken him as a crap author before this even happened.
(21:00):
So he's claiming he got these letters from Jeffrey Epstein
months before Epstein killed himself.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
If he got the letters after him, it'd be weird.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
In which he had written to Wolfe saying that Trump
had told Epstein to stop recruiting young girls from the
spa at marl Iago to groom and abuse. Well, Trump
talked about that a little bit. Yes, yes, yes, that
(21:28):
has been reported to other places. But although the groom
and abused part, I think Trump didn't say he just
didn't appreciate his employees being poached.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So this guy wolf takes a step further in the
letters that he claims he has that Trump actually knew
what was going on over there and did nothing about it.
So that's the Epstein story of the day. And as
I've mentioned several times, MSNBC is talking about it a
lot in Congress back Concession starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's all about the Epstein thing. Now. The Republicans can't
hide it any longer.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
They found a way to shut down Congress for forty days,
but now the Epstein stuff's going to come out. I
thought that story was as dead as Jeffrey Epstein, but apparently.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
So.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
If you are listening to the podcast later today and
you're thinking, wow, that's weird. I accidentally downloaded something from
four months ago.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It's just it's one more, probably last ditch effort to
squeeze something out of the Epstein story. So this is allegedly,
and I think it's true. It's coming from good sources,
but I'll say allegedly because I.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Don't know that it's true.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
This is some of the math questions that they had
in the remedial math class at you See San Diego
that kids couldn't answer. For instance, only seventy five percent
of the people in the remedial math class at U
See San Diego. You got accepted into a major university,
(22:58):
you graduated high schoo obviously seven plus two equals what
plus six?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Wow? Seventy five percent got it right? Wow? That is
that's shocking.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I mean that is the most basic basic mathematics. Sorry,
this is seen as a grade two question, second grade question.
Ninety one percent got it right, but that means nine
percent didn't get it right. What's sixty six plus forty four?
I mean it's just like very basic math. Anyway, we'll
(23:44):
look to some that they found.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
A little harder.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Sarah had nine pennies and nine dimes. How many coins
did she have? Well, seventy nine percent people got right
one out of five. Admitted to an allegedly elite university
in California. And I've told the story before. My kid
had amazing grades and is very, very bright, and I
(24:12):
think she was told to pound sand by the University
of California system, the valedictorian of her class, young female,
daughter of immigrants, person of color, unbelievable extracurriculars, not admitted
to the UC school of her choice. Didn't have room
(24:33):
for her. But they have room for people who couldn't
do math.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, what is going on there?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I've got an acquaintance whose kids went to some of
the UC classes, went to UC schools.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
How did they get in? I don't think they make
a lot of money. Is that? Is that the whole thing.
You gotta plead podst Rather.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
There's so many Chinese nationals. I don't know. Well, this
is the valedictorian girl I'm talking about there. Her family
was a very modest means. I'm flabbergasted by the whole thing.
I emerged from that process just completely confused about how
the whole thing worked.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Huh. I should have claimed my name was.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Hjin Pong and my daughter Delaney was you know whatever,
Come make us up some fake Chinese name. Of course
I would have been charged, you know, the rack rate.
I don't know what to do with this information. Tear
the government schools, including the universities, down to the studs
(25:41):
and start over again. I don't know how that would happen.
I don't expect it to well, the factor that, but
factor this stuff in whenever you're thinking about, first of all, inequality,
you're gonna have a lot of inequality. If you have
people going to really expensive universities and coming out not
knowing anything, or people graduating from high school that shouldn't
be grauating fro high schoo well, because they're not capable
(26:01):
of going out in the world making a living. They
didn't get an education, not their fault, not their fault
at all. In fact, you're screwing them. I mean, it's
just absolutely horrific what we're doing. Two children, right, they
are truly the victims. And then when they get out
into the free market and fail miserably, what do they
blame the people who indoctrinated them since they were tiny
little kids. No, they blame the free market. They blame
(26:23):
if you want to call it capitalism, capitalism, and they
vote for Zorn Mumdani. Yeah, which leads me to this
Thomas Sowell quote which was floating around. I think you
to retweeted it. Well, it's on Thomas Sowell quotes. It's
actually a quote from Waltery Williams. Soho, I don't know
this guy, but I like this quote. Oh, Walter Williams,
great columnist for many many years, great conservative black thinker. Yeah,
(26:47):
let me offer you my definition of social justice. I
keep what I earn and you keep what you learn.
Do you disagree, Well, then tell me how much of
what I earn belongs to you and why that is
so good? Why can't we have that conversation on a
regular basis that why isn't that like ninety percent of
all presidential debates are all political debates, no matter what
(27:10):
you're running for.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
How about this, I keep what I make. You keep
what you make.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Now, if you're saying you should get someone I make,
explain to me why how much? And why right?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
How much?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Why? You know?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
What I would love to see break the bubble of
indoctrination in the government schools, including universities, is you know,
just to randomly select I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'd like ten people.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Who have a net worth of a million dollars or whatever,
you pick the figure, a million dollars, two million dollars whatever,
people generally in their forties, fifties, sixties, and have them
on some sort of compulsory TV show the little kids
have to watch, and the young adults explain how they
made their money. And I think it would blow up
(27:58):
to a large extent the ridiculous idea that the United
States the fixes in and only the privileged few white
people make money or become successful, and the American dream
is dead and there's no reason to keep trying, which
is so Viet slash current Chinese slash Russian propaganda and
always has been.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But I was repeated in our nation's schools. It makes
me insane.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Because you think most of the stories would be something like,
you know, I got out of college and I went
to work for a firm and I was working sixty
hours a week, and I worked myself up to assistant
to the general manager and blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Yeah, I became a plumber and I really
liked dealing with the customers and.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I was pretty good at it.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
And my boss was going to retire or I decided
to open my own company and hired some of the
plumbers I knew blah blah blah. And now I've got
twenty guys under me, and yeah, I make a really
good living.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
It's been great.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
But just all those stories, I mean, you're gonna get occasionally.
Oh I inherited it.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Most people are out there. I don't begrudge them that.
But there's so many great success stories that these kids
never get exposed to. Right, I'm a salesman. I really
like meeting people. I'm kind of out going. And first
I sold whatever aluminum siding. Then I got into software,
(29:16):
and now I do cloud computing, and I visit big
corporations and blah blah blah. Yeah, the commissions are really good,
but it's just because I like to meet people. It's
like the version of I've talked about this before. Something
I learned from YouTube. Musicians. Really good musicians.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Practice like crazy. Yes. Were they born with more talent
than me? Probably?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Do they practice more than every day than I've ever
practiced one day? Yes, I mean just like insane work
that they put into it that I've learned from YouTube,
and I'm you know, that's the lesson you'd get from
successful people. Oh, they worked really really really They had
a plan and then they worked really, really really hard.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Jut this one down.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
If you're a tattoo artist, maybe tattooed on your own
arm right now, I'll give you a second to get
your INCREDI there's nothing that takes more effort than effortlessness.
I would drop my mic, but it's attached to this
rack thing here, so I can't. Something looks effortless. There
was a lot of effort behind.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It, generally for years and years. Interesting. Yeah, any thoughts
on a han of that text line? Four one k FTC.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Farm strong.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Guys tired all the time, gaining weight, low drive. These
aren't just signs of aging. They could be low testosterone
or other underlying issues. Right now, Revive Men's Health Sacramento
is making it easier to get answers where they're comprehensive
wellness panel. It's not just a lab test, it's where
better performance begins. Our providers will check your testosterone, bloodshirt, cholesterol, kidney, liver,
(31:01):
thyroid and heart health a four hundred dollars value for
just ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Or free if you start treatment.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
Over one hundred and twenty thousand men have trusted ReVibe
to restore their energy, mood and confidence. So if you're
ready to feel better and live stronger, call nine one
six six one nine three thousand. That's nine one six
six one nine three thousand, or visit revibemenshealth dot com.
All for ends November thirtyeth must medically qualify terms apply.
(31:31):
Contact us for full offer details now.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Traffic on top six fifty kste.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Charding your drive south A Nite five from Woodland to
downtown Sacramento. It's twenty four minutes. That's seven minute delay
mostly out of North Potomas on South Eype five for
around Del Passo Road to just Pass eighty Elk Grove
to downtown in eighteen minutes north on ninety nine just
thirteen minutes taken north Eye five traffic every ten minutes
mornings and afternoons on KFBK News Radio ninety three point
(31:59):
one FM, fifty thirty Am.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
This report is sponsored by Mattress Firm. Need Better Sleep.
Score huge deals on your perfect bed at Mattress Firms
Black Friday Sale. Stop in today and let the sleep
experts find the right upbraide for your unique needs.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Matris Firm. They make sleep easy all right.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Holiday time is coming. That means it is high crime season,
but not all crime should be addressed the same way.
We have statistics from the FBI, and that's twenty twenty two.
Firearms is only necessary less than one percent of the time. Now,
the Burner launcher covers ninety nine point nine to nine
percent of altercations with the fire power needed to incapacitate
(32:39):
any attacker for up to forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I carry one myself.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
I recommend every family concerned about safety and security have
one as well. The Burner Compact Launcher is the smallest,
less lethal launcher that is concealable anywhere. Now, it may
be small but it fires powerful kinetic rounds tier gas
that can stop an attacker cold for up to forty
minutes with a rate just sixty feet, and you can
confidently and effectively de escalate any situation without using lethal force.
(33:06):
You don't need a background check. It's legal in all
fifty states. It come straight to your door. Just visit
by RNA dot com or try before you buy, stop
by your local sportsman's warehouse location.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I've been touting prunes now for quite a while. Jack Armstrong,
Armstrong and Getty for California Prunes. I was having a
bit of a problem. My doctor recommended prunes. It worked,
by the way, and it's turned into one of my
favorite snacks of all time. So we're happy to talk
about California prunes. Sure delicious. California prunes help with your
digestion gut health, but also your bone health, your heart health,
healthy snacking for weight management, even improve your cognition.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
California Prunes.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Go to California prunes dot org if you want more
information or how to buy some of their fantastic products.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They're so good. California Prunes dot work.
Speaker 11 (33:47):
Hey, they're bat walls for rosevield nums. Manics and Coin Shop.
You know gold and silver prices who are on the rise,
So I always tell you about Roseville Nums. Manics and
Coin Shop's been a partner of my show for several years.
They tell me many people have been coming in recently.
This gold and silver items make it a nice profit
on items they purchased in the past. So if you
have gold, silver, platinum, jewelry or rare coins, find out
(34:09):
what they are worth now that timing is perfect. Pay
The team at Roseweld nwismatics is professional knowledgeable eight ninety
eight Dougs Boulevard and Roseville.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Just knock on a door tell them Patrick Sant.
Speaker 12 (34:18):
You have you seen this week's digital member deals at
Rayley's in bel Air. Just clip your digital member deal
online or in our app to get a dozen Rayleighs
large cage free eggs for two ninety seven each. Limit
to fall saggings. You can count on only at Rayley's
in bel Air.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
This report is sponsored by Think it Up. Think it
Up is an initiative to activate student powered teacher led
learning projects. Students and teachers, How can you spark great
learning experiences in your classrooms today?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Join at thinkitup dot Org.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Here's your updated weather on the top six fifty ksse
clodies guys.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
This morning partly cloudy into the midday through the afternoon,
more clouds tonight.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Wednesday, highs in the mid two upper sixty.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
He is currently in Sacramento, fifty four degrees in the
KFK Weather Center. For news at the top and bottom
of every hour, tune the KFK News Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
The Sean Hannity Show coming up at noon.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
Say say, say, if.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
You're a squatter, you have more rights than homeowners. I'm
just saying the criminals are running the asylum.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Shawn Hannity Talk six fifty KSTE Now your chance to.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Win one thousand dollars entered this nationwide keyword on our.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Website, Bills.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
That's bills Enter it now, KST dot com tox six
fifty KST.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
The USS gerald Ford Aircraft Carrier Strike Group has moved
into the Latin American region. President Trump ordered the deployment
last month, adding to the eight warships, nuclear submarine, and
F thirty five aircraft already in the Caribbean. Pentagon says
the move is to disrupt narcotics trafficking and dismantle transnational
criminal organizations.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
The US military has.
Speaker 13 (36:17):
Carried out at least nineteen strikes like what you're looking
at here against suspected drug vessels, killing at least seventy
six people.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah, it was forecast a couple of weeks ago that
the gerald Ford aircraft carrier was headed there, and it
was described at the time as the world's biggest aircraft carrier.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I assume that's still true.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
It is now there, and Venezuela is not going to
take it lying down, as they have mobilized two hundred
thousand troops according to their leader Nicholas Maduro and their
Secretary of Defense person.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
They got all kinds of stuff they're doing.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
The objective is to place the entire country's military arsenal
and full operational readiness.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Said their sec death or the equivalent there.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
The preparations include massive deployment of ground, aerial, naval, riverine,
and missile forces with the participation of all security forces
and militia.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Twohundred thousand troops. So what sort of a what sort
of an action?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Well, first of all, we've got the sort of armada
there like we're invading the Philippines in nineteen forty four, Right, Yeah,
what do you think They got a lot of like,
not very well trained, not very well equipped lunkheads in
their military. But they're elite troops, many of whom have
(37:36):
trained in Cuba, I'm told with various other communist regimes
are pretty good.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
It's with a regime like Menduo's part of his probably
legitimate concern about what Trump has in mind, But the
rest of it is you're whipping up nationalism and the
threat from outside is the greatest thing that can happen
to a dictator.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
But what do you think Trump does have in mind?
Do not know?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Trying to My best guess is sending a message through
a variety of channels, including the obvious that we're discussing
that if you wanted to get rid of Maduro, we
will help you keep order. Maybe because we're not invading Venezuela,
(38:23):
you think that's off the table. Yeah, yeah, I certainly
hope it is Marines landing on the beach there and
then what to capitate the Meduro regime and then it
occupied the country for the next twenty years' tract carrier
doing there flexing muscles.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Okay, this is one of my very very small jihads.
It's way back in the three hundreds, but it was
funny Brett Bear mentioning all the ships and boats and
everything and a nuclear submarine. All of our submarines are nuclear.
They are powered by nuclear power. That doesn't mean they're
armed with nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well, the problem is, yeah, when people say in.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Aircraft carriers are nuclear craft, right, what's that Aircraft carriers
are nuclear craft?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Probably the problem is it's funny.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
The problem is when people say it, they're meaning to
intend that it has something to do with nuclear weapons, right,
and it does. So we really should fix that because
it's not a minor quibble, right of whether or not
we're talking about putting nukes on the table.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Indeed, whatever question we're discussing, nobody talks about the power
plant of destroyers and aircraft carriers and anything else. But yeah,
it's always nuclear submarine okay. Uh carriers. Aircraft carriers are
strategic assets. In the United States uses its fleet of eleven.
We have eleven, the most in the world. We're the
(39:55):
only country that had them at all not that long ago.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
But it's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Have one of our major aircraft carriers down there by
Venezuela doing whatever it's doing, doing what.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It's ready in case of something. I don't want to
talk about Epstein. I don't talk about Epstein. I won't
your Democrats want to talk about Epstein.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Out Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and know he Armstrong and Yetty. Well,
it's some business news.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Target has a new ten to four policy, which requires
employees within ten feet of customers to smile and wave,
and employees within four feet to start a conversation customers
like what happens within one foot?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Every Target employee's goal is to stay at least eleven
feet away from customers.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I get involved, smile, Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I uh, fair number of Target employees, at least my
local Target who don't really want to have to answer
any questions and are just trying to stock on the shelf.
And why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That said?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Somebody I think maybe have picked up on that and decided, Hey,
if there's a customer near.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You, you need to smile.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I don't want I don't think it employed to ever
be within four feet of me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's pretty close. That's like arm's length. How am I
that close to you?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Nah? I'm squeezing past them for some reason in that scenario. Yeah,
and if you get within two feet I want you
to laugh uproariously. All right, now get to work.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So we did this story yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
There have been some bitter arguments on the internet as
to the not the authenticity of these numbers, but the
way they're portrayed. I'm gonna give the new version of this,
but it's still really bad. So you see, San Diego
had to add a second remedial math class because they've
(01:52):
got so many people coming in who can't do math.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Before we get to the stats, how about this one.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Universities in our country get thirty times more government cash
than they did in the fifties. That's inflation adjusted, thirty
times as much money going to universities from taxpayers then
in the fifties, and we all know for a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That the results are much less.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
We're probably churning out college graduates that were similarly ish
to high school graduates in the fifties.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Probably not even that right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, by the way, later on campus maddeness update, including
the hilarious controversy at Harvard over there, the university saying, yeah,
we got to start having grades. Everybody gets a's all
the time. We got to stop that. And the little
snowflakes are going crazy over it. Anyway, that's for another time. Yeah,
great inflation is one of the reasons for what they
(02:51):
think happened here. The report shows that nearly one in
five students U SEE San Diego fail to meet entry
level writing requirements. The deterioration goes across many across, goes
across many different you know, reading, math, science, all that
sort of stuff. But the report focuses on the decline
(03:12):
in math skills. Skills in particular, they recently tested a
group of their students. Now it's originally portrayed, and I'm
not exactly sure which is true. It is originally portrayed
as this was all students entering UC San Diego. The
correction on x twitter is that it only applies to
the kids that are in these remedial math classes. Okay,
(03:33):
that would be better, But even if it's true, it's stunning.
How do you have remedial math classes at a major
university where you get these results eighty seven percent of
them can do grade one math. One hundred thirteen percent
(03:55):
of the people in your remedial math class that can't
do first grade math?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
How the hell did you get into the university?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, and we're not talking about, you know, Jones County
Community College. This is the University of California at San Diego,
an alleged elite university. And I remember back in my
applying to university days, the idea that you can't do
math up to the standards of a six year old,
you would not have gotten in on any program.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, how'd you get out of high school? How'd you
get out of first grade? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So again I'm not sure which is true, whether this
was all the students or just the remedial math classes,
but even best case scenario.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So eighty two percent of them could do second grade math,
only three quarters could do third grade math.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What are you in third grade? Eight years old? Eight
or nine? Yeah, what are you doing in third grade?
All work entails a you. I don't think you're into
multiplication tables yet. But anyway, even if you are, you're
a you're at a university.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Of college campus. Yeah, at a quarter of you can't
do that. So a third can't do fourth grade math.
You get into about fifty percent that can do fifth
grade math. About fifty percent can't do fifth grade math.
That would be like multiplication and long division stuff. I mean,
(05:29):
I've just I've got a fifth grader recently. Yeah, yeah, So,
I mean it ain't hard stuff. I mean it's pretty
damned remedial. And half the kids are accepted into the
university having graduated high school. I assume can't do math
at that level.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You get to eighth grade math.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Only nineteen percent of people could do eighth grade math,
but they were admitted to a major, allegedly elite university.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Why yea, is it a dei thing? Is it?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I mean, the the like the social grievance studies programs,
you don't need any preparation. You're there to sit and
be indoctrinated, so you don't need to leave it to
bring any skill to the table or any skill set.
I mean, the whys is almost as interesting a questions
the how the f although I think we know how
(06:28):
the heck this happened.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
More on that in a moment.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
On all education stuff, the educators have the out of
blaming the pandemic, and there is a dip in the
pandemic crowd. But as we talked about a couple of
weeks ago, when the nation's report card came out, the
trend lines were down for decades before the pandemic. It
accelerated a little during the pandemic, and now it continues
(06:52):
to go down. So we're head of that direction anyway.
That's a that's a bad way out of this conversation
to claim it was the pandemic. And other reason, according
to this researcher, is the elimination of standardized test requirements,
which helped schools claim everybody's up to grade level and
they can pass everybody and get the government funding they want.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And with high.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
School grade inflation, where the percentage of people to get
a's and b's is skyrocketed over the years, not that
the abilities have skyrocketed, just the number of a's and
b's that they hand out, right, and the whole social
promotion thing where you get moved on to the next
grade no matter if you learned anything or not. And
then at the point that I mean, because math in particular,
(07:33):
you build your next skill is built on the foundation
of your previously learned skills mostly and so yeah, if
you got out of third grade not having mastered or
come close to third grade math, you are finished as
a person learning math.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
In most cases.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
This is a California thing, but not surprising A major cause,
according to this person, Steve McGuire, a major cause that
you see sd in. They point to a significant increase
in students admitted from LCFF, that's Local Control Funding formula schools,
which are California public schools in which seventy five percent
of the school's total enrollment is composed of students who
(08:14):
identified as either eligible for free or reduced price meals,
or English lunars or foster youth. So these are schools
with either troubled kids or poor kids or whatever, and
you have to admit a whole bunch of them because
you know, equity and inequity and all these different sorts
of things, thereby setting them up to fail miserably in
(08:37):
college because they are at a place they can't cut it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Two choices.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And Roland Frar, the gray Harvard economist, black man Coleman Hughes,
another great Black thinker, Thomas Soel, has pointed this out
all sorts of people have. The worst thing you can
do is take a kid unprepared and throw them into
the shark tank of an elite university because they can't
handle it, and they they I think there's a worse
(09:01):
thing you can do pass them through the university, give
them a degree, and then send them out in the
world with them thinking I'll be able to support myself.
I'll be able to pay off these enormous debts because
I have an important and valuable university degree having been
defrauded by the university.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And that's what I was going to get to. So
you have two choices.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Number one, throw them in the shark tank is described
moments ago or two, so inflate grades that the kids
get through the university having been totally unprepared, doing very
little work and learning almost nothing. My god, we need
to tear this down to the studs. And this gets
to what you're talking about yesterday. Then you get these
college graduates who don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That they got a bad education. How would you know that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
They think they got a college education just like their
parents and grandparents did, and look at the results that
they got, and now I can't get a job. It
must be capitalism, it must be the system. And that's
why people voted for Momdanni. Yeah, as we've pointed out
in that brilliant essay, we had a couple of days ago. Yeah,
they get out into the free market. They were told
that they had skills worth a certain amount, at least
(10:07):
enough to pay off their college debt. And when it
turns out that no, they actually have a worthless degree,
they're not told that. They're told capitalism is the problem.
The system is the problem. It's exploitive and in a
very closely related story, I mean, it's the same story.
After the break, I want to bring you news of
(10:29):
American Federation of Teachers Presidents Randy Weingarten's new book. I
do want to talk about that, but as just it
just popped in my head what you're always saying, we
need to go way back earlier in the development of
kids to deal with these situations, dealing with it at
the point you're at the university, What how did you
get out of fifth grade not being able to do
(10:51):
first grade math?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Well, how'd you get out of first grade without being
able to do first grade math? Back when I was
a kid? I mean it's not so you graduated. How'd
you get out of high school? You can't do first
grade math?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So the left in the teachers unions would have us
failed these kids from age five through eighteen, completely failed
them while they feather their own nest and then make
it all up at age eighteen as they're admitted into
an elite university that is perverse.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's idiotic.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I can't believe I have to say this. We have
Epstein more Epstein stuff to talk about. Lord, all right,
this is going to be the same life a punch.
That's gonna be the story for a couple of days.
So lots on the ways stay here. The actual math
test is out from UC San Diego. Some of the
questions and what percentage of people got them right or wrong.
(11:46):
We might have to get into that later because it's
pretty interesting. So perhaps you would like to leave a
flaming bag of dog experiments on your neighbor's front porch,
but you lack such an item, you go with Randy
Weingarten's new book instead, Why Fascists Fear Teachers, Public Education,
and the Future of Democracy. If there was ever a
(12:10):
flaming bag of dog crap sold as a book, this
is it. Why Fascists Fear Teachers? Who are these fascists?
We'll get to that in a moment. So obviously the
title is designed to be eye catching and attract readers,
but by now, as this review puts it, the word
fascist is thrown around routinely. The book's title Public Education
(12:33):
the Future Democracy is more significant deceptive.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The book's purported intention.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Is to argue for public school's crucial role in our
democratic society, but it offers very little in the way
of education policy or ideas that would truly benefit teachers
or God forbids, students.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The randul aime Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Randy Weingarten played the major role in keeping the schools
closed during the pandemic. For instance, yeah, I'm sorry the
American Federation of Teachers president for years and years and years.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The real aim is made clear.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
It devotes most of its pages to attacking her political opponents,
especially especially supporters of school choice, and defending the interests
of the American Federation of Teachers, her big rich union.
She starts out claiming ninety percent of American kids attend
public schools.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Not so fast. It was a little over.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Eighty one percent four years ago at the beginning of
COVID so and that's before the expansion of universal school
choice in states like Texas and New Hampshire. Half of
American children now have access to school choice, so the
number is far far lower than the ninety percent. She claims,
so it's appropriate the book would start off with lies.
(13:45):
As it continues. In that vein, Winngarten characterizes the school
choice movement as a conspiracy organized by Christopher Ruffo, Moms
for Liberty, and other hard right wing activists. Quote, a
plot to destroy public education.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah all for that, based on right.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Now, you know, honestly, Yeah, I see your point. The
real drivers of the choice movement, they point out, however,
her parents like Virginia olden Ford, a black, low income
other in Washington, d C. Who grew frustrated watching her
sons struggle in public school and helped create the DC
Opportunity Scholarship Program, the nation's first federally funded voucher initiative.
But yeah, she's a conspiracy Not sure, Randy, let's see.
(14:26):
Winngartan also insists that vouchers are devised by whites to
undermine desegregation. Oh, it's racism, probably systemic racism. This isn't
just wrong, it gets the history completely backward. In fact,
some teachers' unions fought against vouchers because they facilitated integration.
(14:46):
Wygarten claims she is quote willing to work with anyone
who wants to actually address the problems facing our public schools,
but she refuses to engage with school choice advocates who
propose concrete and constructive options for students underserved by traditional
school districts. Then she denigrates religious schools, whose very purpose
is in doctrination.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's a quote.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
This animus causes her to overlook the many advantages of
faith based education, such as the Catholic school effect, which
has been demonstrated to benefit disadvantage minority students in particular,
has to do with high expectations and discipline and that
sort of thing. The biggest deception in Wingarten's book is
her portrayal of her role Jackie loved this during the pandemic,
I quote, I led the AFT in developing a concrete
(15:31):
plan to reopen schools as quickly and safely as possible, when,
of course, Winegotten and her union colleagues kept children American
children out of schools until the government approved her request
for a seven hundred and fifty billion dollar federal age
package federal aid package to feather their nest and hire
more administrations and more union members.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
The book is primarily an attempt to rehabilitate Winegarton's image
after she backed the longest school closures in American history,
which yield that the largest drop in student performance ever recorded.
Not to mention the emotional turmoil, and she mentions the
Aforah mentioned fascists like ourselves in her title replace facts
and critical thinking with propaganda that romanticizes the nation's past.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No, absolutely obscene.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
You know, I gotta apologize to flaming bags of dog
crap comparing them to this book.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's insulting.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, that's really maddening. I mean, we've talked about this
a lot, and I hate her so much. Do you
think she actually believes she's doing the right thing for
kids or did she abandon that a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I don't. She couldn't. There's no way.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
There's no way she possibly thought keeping the schools closed
was the best thing for the kids.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Not a chance she actually believed that.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
No, unless her own evil in her need to, you know,
explain it has perverted her own mind to the point
that she can't recognize truth. She's like OJ Simpson who
thought he'd didn't kill his wife.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, what a horrifying human being.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, we'll get to some of those math problems. That
University of San Diego students couldn't do, among other things, coming.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Up Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You guys, it's Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Tonight's audience is made up entirely of veterans, active military
and their families and friends.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Pup from to the zone.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I thank you for all the sacrifices you have made
fighting overseas while the rest of us are at home
fighting over bear shaped cups at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thank you very much. I've never been to a war zone.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
However, I have been to a waffle house at two am,
and that's that's pretty real. I've never been stuck in
a fox hole. However, one time my uber driving Pycknam
in a Mini Cooper that I'm in the front and
backseat NaNs.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
So what's the deal on the little bear thing at Starbucks? Katie,
you had that story for it. It keeps popping up
in my news feed.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Well, you know those old honey dispensers that are in
the shape of a bear. It's a cup that looks
just like that, and it's got a little green hat
and it's glass, and it's from Starbucks. And there's all
of this drama people saying the employees are taking them
for themselves. And I looked online over the weekend and
one was on eBay for like four hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Wow. Wow, Hey.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
When little Jack Jo Mike Michael was born, well and
maybe a few years down the line, I got to
come and teach Drew. My favorite one of my favorite
dad bits that I used to do at the table,
the breakfast table with my kids. We'd have the honey
Bear and you know, he'd be like, you know, a
third empty, and I would do him as a little character.
(18:48):
I would move him around and look at the kids
and I'd say, what are you looking at? When you
look at me like that makes me so mad? I
get madder and madder, and I would squeeze it and
the honey would rise up like he's turning red.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And I was a kid looking at me.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Then I turned looking my other kid and they'd squeal
and I'd make the honeyper mad at them too.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I was a good time, good time. The Honeybear. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
My favorite was a post online of a woman who
had just gotten one, and it showed the ring camera
of her walking out of her house and her dropping it.
Oh it's glass and do you drink coffee out of it?
Because yeah, it looks like it's for iced drinks.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Probably because you don't drink coffee out of that hot
coffee had burn your hand, right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Unless you put a little sweater on him, like.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Oh, wouldn't that be cute? A little sweater on your bear?
In a sweater they have furse. So I think I've
nailed down the Epstein thing for today. The Epstein story
today is there are these supposed letters that Jeffrey Epstein
wrote to Michael wolf And I don't know if you
(19:55):
remember this name or not. We've had him on before.
He's written a whole bunch of politic books over the years,
and they're usually they they always sound like crap to me.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I've never read one.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
They're always full of the they're not they're though that
genre of not taking super seriously political books that come out.
But one side really loves him because it usually is
very partisan. Yeah, and uh, anyway, so he's claiming Jeffrey
Epstein wrote him these these letters and we're all just
learning this now, all right, maybe yeah, Anyway, he Michael Wolfe,
(20:30):
the political author. Remember I looked up some of the
titles something fury.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
There was the.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Fire and fury inside the Trump White House. Oh that
was a huge thing for the lefty media to grasp
on and have this guy on with his anonymous source
stories of really crazy stuff that happened. And I just
I've taken him as a crap author before this even happened.
(21:00):
So he's claiming he got these letters from Jeffrey Epstein
months before Epstein killed himself.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
If he got the letters after him, it'd be weird.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
In which he had written to Wolfe saying that Trump
had told Epstein to stop recruiting young girls from the
spa at marl Iago to groom and abuse. Well, Trump
talked about that a little bit. Yes, yes, yes, that
(21:28):
has been reported to other places. But although the groom
and abused part, I think Trump didn't say he just
didn't appreciate his employees being poached.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So this guy wolf takes a step further in the
letters that he claims he has that Trump actually knew
what was going on over there and did nothing about it.
So that's the Epstein story of the day. And as
I've mentioned several times, MSNBC is talking about it a
lot in Congress back Concession starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's all about the Epstein thing. Now. The Republicans can't
hide it any longer.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
They found a way to shut down Congress for forty days,
but now the Epstein stuff's going to come out. I
thought that story was as dead as Jeffrey Epstein, but apparently.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
So.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
If you are listening to the podcast later today and
you're thinking, wow, that's weird. I accidentally downloaded something from
four months ago.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
It's just it's one more, probably last ditch effort to
squeeze something out of the Epstein story. So this is allegedly,
and I think it's true. It's coming from good sources,
but I'll say allegedly because I.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Don't know that it's true.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
This is some of the math questions that they had
in the remedial math class at you See San Diego
that kids couldn't answer. For instance, only seventy five percent
of the people in the remedial math class at U
See San Diego. You got accepted into a major university,
(22:58):
you graduated high schoo obviously seven plus two equals what
plus six?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Wow? Seventy five percent got it right? Wow? That is
that's shocking.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I mean that is the most basic basic mathematics. Sorry,
this is seen as a grade two question, second grade question.
Ninety one percent got it right, but that means nine
percent didn't get it right. What's sixty six plus forty four?
I mean it's just like very basic math. Anyway, we'll
(23:44):
look to some that they found.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
A little harder.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Sarah had nine pennies and nine dimes. How many coins
did she have? Well, seventy nine percent people got right
one out of five. Admitted to an allegedly elite university
in California. And I've told the story before. My kid
had amazing grades and is very, very bright, and I
(24:12):
think she was told to pound sand by the University
of California system, the valedictorian of her class, young female,
daughter of immigrants, person of color, unbelievable extracurriculars, not admitted
to the UC school of her choice. Didn't have room
(24:33):
for her. But they have room for people who couldn't
do math.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, what is going on there?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I've got an acquaintance whose kids went to some of
the UC classes, went to UC schools.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
How did they get in? I don't think they make
a lot of money. Is that? Is that the whole thing.
You gotta plead podst Rather.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
There's so many Chinese nationals. I don't know. Well, this
is the valedictorian girl I'm talking about there. Her family
was a very modest means. I'm flabbergasted by the whole thing.
I emerged from that process just completely confused about how
the whole thing worked.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Huh. I should have claimed my name was.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Hjin Pong and my daughter Delaney was you know whatever,
Come make us up some fake Chinese name. Of course
I would have been charged, you know, the rack rate.
I don't know what to do with this information. Tear
the government schools, including the universities, down to the studs
(25:41):
and start over again. I don't know how that would happen.
I don't expect it to well, the factor that, but
factor this stuff in whenever you're thinking about, first of all, inequality,
you're gonna have a lot of inequality. If you have
people going to really expensive universities and coming out not
knowing anything, or people graduating from high school that shouldn't
be grauating fro high schoo well, because they're not capable
(26:01):
of going out in the world making a living. They
didn't get an education, not their fault, not their fault
at all. In fact, you're screwing them. I mean, it's
just absolutely horrific what we're doing. Two children, right, they
are truly the victims. And then when they get out
into the free market and fail miserably, what do they
blame the people who indoctrinated them since they were tiny
little kids. No, they blame the free market. They blame
(26:23):
if you want to call it capitalism, capitalism, and they
vote for Zorn Mumdani. Yeah, which leads me to this
Thomas Sowell quote which was floating around. I think you
to retweeted it. Well, it's on Thomas Sowell quotes. It's
actually a quote from Waltery Williams. Soho, I don't know
this guy, but I like this quote. Oh, Walter Williams,
great columnist for many many years, great conservative black thinker. Yeah,
(26:47):
let me offer you my definition of social justice. I
keep what I earn and you keep what you learn.
Do you disagree, Well, then tell me how much of
what I earn belongs to you and why that is
so good? Why can't we have that conversation on a
regular basis that why isn't that like ninety percent of
all presidential debates are all political debates, no matter what
(27:10):
you're running for.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
How about this, I keep what I make. You keep
what you make.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Now, if you're saying you should get someone I make,
explain to me why how much? And why right?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
How much?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Why? You know?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
What I would love to see break the bubble of
indoctrination in the government schools, including universities, is you know,
just to randomly select I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'd like ten people.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Who have a net worth of a million dollars or whatever,
you pick the figure, a million dollars, two million dollars whatever,
people generally in their forties, fifties, sixties, and have them
on some sort of compulsory TV show the little kids
have to watch, and the young adults explain how they
made their money. And I think it would blow up
(27:58):
to a large extent the ridiculous idea that the United
States the fixes in and only the privileged few white
people make money or become successful, and the American dream
is dead and there's no reason to keep trying, which
is so Viet slash current Chinese slash Russian propaganda and
always has been.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But I was repeated in our nation's schools. It makes
me insane.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Because you think most of the stories would be something like,
you know, I got out of college and I went
to work for a firm and I was working sixty
hours a week, and I worked myself up to assistant
to the general manager and blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Yeah, I became a plumber and I really
liked dealing with the customers and.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I was pretty good at it.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
And my boss was going to retire or I decided
to open my own company and hired some of the
plumbers I knew blah blah blah. And now I've got
twenty guys under me, and yeah, I make a really
good living.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
It's been great.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
But just all those stories, I mean, you're gonna get occasionally.
Oh I inherited it.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Most people are out there. I don't begrudge them that.
But there's so many great success stories that these kids
never get exposed to. Right, I'm a salesman. I really
like meeting people. I'm kind of out going. And first
I sold whatever aluminum siding. Then I got into software,
(29:16):
and now I do cloud computing, and I visit big
corporations and blah blah blah. Yeah, the commissions are really good,
but it's just because I like to meet people. It's
like the version of I've talked about this before. Something
I learned from YouTube. Musicians. Really good musicians.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Practice like crazy. Yes. Were they born with more talent
than me? Probably?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Do they practice more than every day than I've ever
practiced one day? Yes, I mean just like insane work
that they put into it that I've learned from YouTube,
and I'm you know, that's the lesson you'd get from
successful people. Oh, they worked really really really They had
a plan and then they worked really, really really hard.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Jut this one down.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
If you're a tattoo artist, maybe tattooed on your own
arm right now, I'll give you a second to get
your INCREDI there's nothing that takes more effort than effortlessness.
I would drop my mic, but it's attached to this
rack thing here, so I can't. Something looks effortless. There
was a lot of effort behind.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It, generally for years and years. Interesting. Yeah, any thoughts
on a han of that text line? Four one k FTC.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Farm strong.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Guys tired all the time, gaining weight, low drive. These
aren't just signs of aging. They could be low testosterone
or other underlying issues. Right now, Revive Men's Health Sacramento
is making it easier to get answers where they're comprehensive
wellness panel. It's not just a lab test, it's where
better performance begins. Our providers will check your testosterone, bloodshirt, cholesterol, kidney, liver,
(31:01):
thyroid and heart health a four hundred dollars value for
just ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Or free if you start treatment.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
Over one hundred and twenty thousand men have trusted ReVibe
to restore their energy, mood and confidence. So if you're
ready to feel better and live stronger, call nine one
six six one nine three thousand. That's nine one six
six one nine three thousand, or visit revibemenshealth dot com.
All for ends November thirtyeth must medically qualify terms apply.
(31:31):
Contact us for full offer details now.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Traffic on top six fifty kste.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Charding your drive south A Nite five from Woodland to
downtown Sacramento. It's twenty four minutes. That's seven minute delay
mostly out of North Potomas on South Eype five for
around Del Passo Road to just Pass eighty Elk Grove
to downtown in eighteen minutes north on ninety nine just
thirteen minutes taken north Eye five traffic every ten minutes
mornings and afternoons on KFBK News Radio ninety three point
(31:59):
one FM, fifty thirty Am.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
This report is sponsored by Mattress Firm. Need Better Sleep.
Score huge deals on your perfect bed at Mattress Firms
Black Friday Sale. Stop in today and let the sleep
experts find the right upbraide for your unique needs.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Matris Firm. They make sleep easy all right.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Holiday time is coming. That means it is high crime season,
but not all crime should be addressed the same way.
We have statistics from the FBI, and that's twenty twenty two.
Firearms is only necessary less than one percent of the time. Now,
the Burner launcher covers ninety nine point nine to nine
percent of altercations with the fire power needed to incapacitate
(32:39):
any attacker for up to forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I carry one myself.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
I recommend every family concerned about safety and security have
one as well. The Burner Compact Launcher is the smallest,
less lethal launcher that is concealable anywhere. Now, it may
be small but it fires powerful kinetic rounds tier gas
that can stop an attacker cold for up to forty
minutes with a rate just sixty feet, and you can
confidently and effectively de escalate any situation without using lethal force.
(33:06):
You don't need a background check. It's legal in all
fifty states. It come straight to your door. Just visit
by RNA dot com or try before you buy, stop
by your local sportsman's warehouse location.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I've been touting prunes now for quite a while. Jack Armstrong,
Armstrong and Getty for California Prunes. I was having a
bit of a problem. My doctor recommended prunes. It worked,
by the way, and it's turned into one of my
favorite snacks of all time. So we're happy to talk
about California prunes. Sure delicious. California prunes help with your
digestion gut health, but also your bone health, your heart health,
healthy snacking for weight management, even improve your cognition.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
California Prunes.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Go to California prunes dot org if you want more
information or how to buy some of their fantastic products.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They're so good. California Prunes dot work.
Speaker 11 (33:47):
Hey, they're bat walls for rosevield nums. Manics and Coin Shop.
You know gold and silver prices who are on the rise,
So I always tell you about Roseville Nums. Manics and
Coin Shop's been a partner of my show for several years.
They tell me many people have been coming in recently.
This gold and silver items make it a nice profit
on items they purchased in the past. So if you
have gold, silver, platinum, jewelry or rare coins, find out
(34:09):
what they are worth now that timing is perfect. Pay
The team at Roseweld nwismatics is professional knowledgeable eight ninety
eight Dougs Boulevard and Roseville.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Just knock on a door tell them Patrick Sant.
Speaker 12 (34:18):
You have you seen this week's digital member deals at
Rayley's in bel Air. Just clip your digital member deal
online or in our app to get a dozen Rayleighs
large cage free eggs for two ninety seven each. Limit
to fall saggings. You can count on only at Rayley's
in bel Air.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
This report is sponsored by Think it Up. Think it
Up is an initiative to activate student powered teacher led
learning projects. Students and teachers, How can you spark great
learning experiences in your classrooms today?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Join at thinkitup dot Org.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Here's your updated weather on the top six fifty ksse
clodies guys.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
This morning partly cloudy into the midday through the afternoon,
more clouds tonight.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Wednesday, highs in the mid two upper sixty.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
He is currently in Sacramento, fifty four degrees in the
KFK Weather Center. For news at the top and bottom
of every hour, tune the KFK News Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
The Sean Hannity Show coming up at noon.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
Say say, say, if.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
You're a squatter, you have more rights than homeowners. I'm
just saying the criminals are running the asylum.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Shawn Hannity Talk six fifty KSTE Now your chance to.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Win one thousand dollars entered this nationwide keyword on our.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Website, Bills.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
That's bills Enter it now, KST dot com tox six
fifty KST.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
The USS gerald Ford Aircraft Carrier Strike Group has moved
into the Latin American region. President Trump ordered the deployment
last month, adding to the eight warships, nuclear submarine, and
F thirty five aircraft already in the Caribbean. Pentagon says
the move is to disrupt narcotics trafficking and dismantle transnational
criminal organizations.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
The US military has.
Speaker 13 (36:17):
Carried out at least nineteen strikes like what you're looking
at here against suspected drug vessels, killing at least seventy
six people.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah, it was forecast a couple of weeks ago that
the gerald Ford aircraft carrier was headed there, and it
was described at the time as the world's biggest aircraft carrier.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I assume that's still true.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
It is now there, and Venezuela is not going to
take it lying down, as they have mobilized two hundred
thousand troops according to their leader Nicholas Maduro and their
Secretary of Defense person.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
They got all kinds of stuff they're doing.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
The objective is to place the entire country's military arsenal
and full operational readiness.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Said their sec death or the equivalent there.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
The preparations include massive deployment of ground, aerial, naval, riverine,
and missile forces with the participation of all security forces
and militia.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Twohundred thousand troops. So what sort of a what sort
of an action?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Well, first of all, we've got the sort of armada
there like we're invading the Philippines in nineteen forty four, Right, Yeah,
what do you think They got a lot of like,
not very well trained, not very well equipped lunkheads in
their military. But they're elite troops, many of whom have
(37:36):
trained in Cuba, I'm told with various other communist regimes
are pretty good.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
It's with a regime like Menduo's part of his probably
legitimate concern about what Trump has in mind, But the
rest of it is you're whipping up nationalism and the
threat from outside is the greatest thing that can happen
to a dictator.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
But what do you think Trump does have in mind?
Do not know?
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Trying to My best guess is sending a message through
a variety of channels, including the obvious that we're discussing
that if you wanted to get rid of Maduro, we
will help you keep order. Maybe because we're not invading Venezuela,
(38:23):
you think that's off the table. Yeah, yeah, I certainly
hope it is Marines landing on the beach there and
then what to capitate the Meduro regime and then it
occupied the country for the next twenty years' tract carrier
doing there flexing muscles.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Okay, this is one of my very very small jihads.
It's way back in the three hundreds, but it was
funny Brett Bear mentioning all the ships and boats and
everything and a nuclear submarine. All of our submarines are nuclear.
They are powered by nuclear power. That doesn't mean they're
armed with nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well, the problem is, yeah, when people say in.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Aircraft carriers are nuclear craft, right, what's that Aircraft carriers
are nuclear craft?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Probably the problem is it's funny.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
The problem is when people say it, they're meaning to
intend that it has something to do with nuclear weapons, right,
and it does. So we really should fix that because
it's not a minor quibble, right of whether or not
we're talking about putting nukes on the table.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Indeed, whatever question we're discussing, nobody talks about the power
plant of destroyers and aircraft carriers and anything else. But yeah,
it's always nuclear submarine okay. Uh carriers. Aircraft carriers are
strategic assets. In the United States uses its fleet of eleven.
We have eleven, the most in the world. We're the
(39:55):
only country that had them at all not that long ago.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
But it's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Have one of our major aircraft carriers down there by
Venezuela doing whatever it's doing, doing what.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
It's ready in case of something. I don't want to
talk about Epstein. I don't talk about Epstein. I won't
your Democrats want to talk about Epstein.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Out Armstrong and Getty
Hosts And Creators
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage
Rewarded for bravery that goes above and beyond the call of duty, the Medal of Honor is the United States’ top military decoration. The stories we tell are about the heroes who have distinguished themselves by acts of heroism and courage that have saved lives. From Judith Resnik, the second woman in space, to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice, these are stories about those who have done the improbable and unexpected, who have sacrificed something in the name of something much bigger than themselves. Every Wednesday on Medal of Honor, uncover what their experiences tell us about the nature of sacrifice, why people put their lives in danger for others, and what happens after you’ve become a hero. Special thanks to series creator Dan McGinn, to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and Adam Plumpton. Medal of Honor begins on May 28. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear ad-free episodes one week early. Find Pushkin+ on the Medal of Honor show page in Apple or at Pushkin.fm. Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.fm/plus
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com