September 10, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Trump at the RNC Convention
- AI filters
- America's back to school season
- No stools & more on American education
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a
dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
America for $ 5, 000.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We are not burying the lead.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We're doing like what they do on those a lot
of those TV shows, animal attacks. And then all the
promos have a really exciting animal attack. And then you
watch the show and find out that's the only interesting
one there. That's kind of like Trump spoke for about
two hours last night. And if you like his his
act and his riffs, it was the normal thing throughout.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But that is that is the punch line right there.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
That is going to give every American adult citizen five
thousand dollars if the Republicans win. which is a heck
of a thing. I've got a little analysis on that,
but let's hear it couched in the whole explanation here
of what's going on. Even though President Trump's name isn't
on the ballot this fall, he is still in full-on
campaign mode right now.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
He spoke here for nearly two hours straight last night.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong number, Michael.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
42.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is the full version of Trump explaining what's going
on here.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Here is my promise.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Both of them.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because of our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history,
we've never had anything like what's happening.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But because of our.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend
to every adult citizen in the United States of America for.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
$ 5, 000.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Here is my promise.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
OK, so it goes on to say explaining that the
money is because of the tariffs. We got all that
money sloshing around because the tariffs have been so successful
that everybody's getting five thousand dollars back. that doesn't make
sense on any level whatsoever of the way any of
this works. But so J.D. Vance immediately went on Fox
(02:32):
and was talking to Brett Baer. Brett Baer said $ 5, 000
for every adult citizen.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's about $ 1. 3 trillion.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
The critics will say this is, you know, The critics
will say the president is bribing voters and he's bankrupting
the country.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
J.D.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Vance said tariffs have generated a lot of revenues. The
president is saying if you keep us in power, then
you will share in some of the benefit of this
incredible wealth that we have created.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's where we are now.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
If we can discuss it in like real world, a
grown up terms like, you know, where's the money coming
from and whether it's a good idea fiscally and whether
whether the tariffs are actually generating revenue that's sitting in
a pot somewhere that you can draw from. But then
there's also the political thing, which Mark Halperin looks at
a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And he said Trump got what he wanted.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Most of the coverage, especially in local news around the country,
frames this as a straightforward presidential idea with none of
the but it'll cost one point three trillion dollars, but
tariff money, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's just a flat out.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Trump said that cool and other news and a lot
of voters are just saying, wow, I'm going to get
five thousand dollars if I get out and vote Republican.
So politically, it's a win.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I appreciate for practically the first time in the last
30 years, the drive by media's half inch deep coverage
benefits Republicans.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So that is novel.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I was going to say I'd be delighted to discuss this,
but I'm going to have to work to avoid dropping
a BSC. That is my new acronym I will use
to save time in place of bat.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Crazy. Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Golly gee. I am so disillusioned. I wish I was
wearing my F. Yollican party t-shirt that I helped Hanson
design for those of us who just are so disgusted
with both the.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Parties we don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
When.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Joseph R.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Biden, senile, Delaware, was telling all of us to ignore
the evidence of your eyes and ears. These are not
the droids you are looking for. There is no inflation.
Your economic situation is fine. We berated him for that.
(04:55):
And here's Trump, who just finds it impossible to explain
anything more complex than... Then I'm going to give you money.
He blames Biden for the inflation. OK, take 20 seconds
and explain that to people.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But he doesn't. I just I've had enough.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, like so even the community note on Twitter, which
is really pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I think the community notes thing.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Says annual tariff revenue cannot fund a one point three
dollar payout and distributed funds requires congressional approval and the
money from the tariffs actually went to blah, blah, blah.
So even the, you know. We mentioned last hour. Elon
has come out today and the story is he's willing
to spend up to 200 million dollars in Texas alone
(05:46):
to make sure that Trump's win that Senate seat and
hang on to the the U.S.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Senate.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
So it's not like Elon's not all in on making
sure the Republicans and Trump have have a good midterm.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But his his groks is yet the whole. That's just there's.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
There's nothing sensical about this at all. The idea that
the tariff revenue is coming in and is in some
sort of fund that you can then draw on and
pay people out and that the president can decide to
take $ 5, 000 to give to every citizen.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
None of that is doable.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then the initial promise got revised a couple of
times within a couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
To various income levels. Yeah, it's not for everybody. You
have to be below. Just floundering.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
$ 150, 000.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Household or whatever the number is.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
To get that number down from $ 1. 2 or $ 1. 3 trillion.
But the president doesn't have the power to do this.
It's not even worth talking.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
About, really.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So this is what politics all is now.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It always has been to a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
If the president had promised to suspend gravity every July 4th,
so we could all flap our arms and fly around
in celebration of our nation's birthday, it would have an
equal chance of happening as this.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
From now on, every 4th of July, in honor of
this great country, I will suspend gravity so.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That you and your children can wave your.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Arms and float around this great nation with American flags
in your hand and.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
View it from above.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Every American, every adult American, every adult American less than
$ 150, 000 in joint income filing separately as an adult.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now, I don't know, do I need to throw in
this caveat to not make some of you really, really angry?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The socialists stand up there.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
And say stuff that is absolutely, completely badass, crazy, undoable, immoral.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hundreds of trillions of dollars of ridiculous promises.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that just make no sense whatsoever, but... I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know, we ought to give a little credit to
that side of the conversation. There are a couple of
notable things that happened. Number one, absolutely flogging the Democratic
Party for going socialist slash communist, radical, out of control,
every syllable of which is true.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Let's hit Tim Scott.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
52, Michael.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
The only way to keep dangerous, radical, weird out of
the Senate is a united Republican Party! Standing with our president,
Donald J. Trump. Stand for the president, Donald J.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Trump.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
This is a battle for the heart of our nation.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I said the heart of our nation.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The Democrats, extreme candidates, will rip that heart out of
our chest.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
They hate our culture. They hate what it means to
be American. Hear me, Dallas. Not on our watch. We
will not back down. We will not grow weary. So
much yelling. Are you with me? I suspect from the
(09:18):
previous reactions. Are you with me? They are indeed with you, sir.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then, as long as we're playing Tim Scott, Hanson
really wanted us to play 53.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
James Tallarico claims there are six genders.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
He believes God is non-binary.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He thinks God needs special woke pronouns.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But Texas, we know who God is. We're talking about Jesus.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Tallarico has walked back the six genders thing saying six.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He misspoke.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, it's the Spanberger technique, they're calling it, in honor
of the new governor of Virginia who ran as a
moderate and then immediately governed as a far lefty. All
of these folks are scrubbing their social media. They're saying,
my comments missed the mark.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Little kids ought to be castrated. Saying that is not
missing the mark. It's repugnant.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So, yeah, they're trying to pretend there's something they're not.
He is everything that's claimed.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I'm stealing from Jonah Goldberg here, who I think has
Trump derangement syndrome, actually. But he said Trump's $ 5, 000 gambit
reminds him of H.L. Mencken's quote about Truman, which you
probably know because you're a big H.L.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Mencken fan.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in
the country, he would have promised to provide them with
free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
But anyway, so here's one of my favorite economists, conservative
economists saying. The claim that federal budget is so overrun
with surplus cash that Washington can afford to spend $ 1. 3
trillion on rebates is so detached from reality that I
refuse to waste my time walking you through the math.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If it makes sense to you, you are beyond help.
I agree.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
It's just we're living in fantasy land with the whole
money thing. We'll probably do us ourselves no favors as
a radio show trying to make, you know, money and
have listeners and talking about it because nobody's interested. I'm
looking at a quote from Steve Hayes of The Dispatch.
quoting their recent piece about the parties and the debt.
(11:44):
There is no denying that the country no longer has
a major political party devoted to limiting the size and
scope of government.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It just doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And so if you're hammering that, you're just, I don't
know who your constituency is. I don't know who our
constituency is for your hammering, limiting the size and scope
of government.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now, those of you and a number of people have
pointed out, man, this this thing pales as promises go
to President Autopen promising to pay off Gen Z's student loans.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Absolutely. Which we blasted endlessly because it was also ridiculous.
It is ridiculous. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
There is one surprise at the gathering at 51 for us, Michael.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Big room of Republicans in Dallas.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Yes, I'm Senator John Fetterman, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yes, I'm a Democrat. Why am I here talking to
you today?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Because, well, I'm a common sense Democrat. I'm always going
to stand with America. I'm always going to reject the
extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
A lot of talk about what Fetterman's up to to
be the guy to introduce the president at the big rally.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I mean, he's already polling at like.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
16% among Democrats in Pennsylvania who put him in office.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Is he going to switch parties before the next election?
He says he's not. Absolutely not. Is he going to
go independent? Does he just not care that he won't
get reelected? I think he gives zero poops.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think he's going to try to get as much
done and speak as much truth as he can and
then go off into the wilderness.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
He votes with Democrats 75% of the time, just not
on the crazy stuff or the anti-Israel stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah. All right, so much to talk about.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
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Patients being prompted.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
By not only selfies that they change with filters, but
also with AI, Snapchat, dysmorphia. Patients just continue getting surgery
and never are totally satisfied with what happens. But unfortunately,
they're coming with images in their minds and they present
images to us in consultation that are not accomplishable. So
(14:58):
it introduces uncertainty. Unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I struggle with accents.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
That's a doctor saying that patients have unrealistic expectations due
to AI and filters. They come in and think, make
me look like this. And you say, you can't actually
do that. That's an AI filter.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Right, right.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
We're going to talk AI in hour three and that
huge story from yesterday about the fact that they're having
conversations at the biggest AI corporations on planet Earth about
how it's going to kill all of humanity and kind
of yada, yada, yada anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Also, in sports news, yeah, a couple of AI heavyweights said, yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And a handful said, that's nuts. So we'll hit that
next hour.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
A different kind of tech thing is the big Apple
thing was yesterday and then unveiled their first big new
product in like over a decade. The big foldable phone.
And I've seen people's other foldable phones. This looked way
cooler than that. And the things it can do. And
I watched a bunch of the reviews and stuff like that.
I'd like to have one. $ 2, 000 is a lot for
a phone.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I don't know. Can they make a case for it?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
That's one of my concerns, because I'm not going to
have a $ 2, 000 phone without a case, but I was
trying to picture how would a case work on that,
since you've got a screen here and there and there
and there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I just don't know how it works. We can put
a man on the moon. Surely we can invent a
foldy case.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I believe they do have cases. I was watching a video.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
They do.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay. Cool. I want one of those.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
But one of the reasons it's so expensive is not
just that it's foldable and new tech. As we know,
is we had to buy some new computers recently. When
we finally get on YouTube, which is still happening, buying
these cameras and computers, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm going to that doctor we just quoted for plastic surgery.
I got to get healed before we go on YouTube.
My upturned Michael Jackson nose didn't come out quite right,
so I'm having a redo, a revision.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
When I'm getting horns, like a lot of the hipsters get.
This is a weird show, everybody. Weird looking at these guys. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Joe's upturned nose, me with the horns. Hey, so I
have to tell you about this new iPhone. So when
you open it, Joe, I think you're going to love this.
You can have two apps open at once. So let's
say you select.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
A restaurant you would like to go to.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
You click the directions, and then the directions open up
on the other side of the screen and shows you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Oh, I need this. I'm feet finder.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I'm on it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh, that's it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Katie's going to generate a little spending cash by posting
erotic photos of her feet.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Don't care. Oh, you'll step on cake. Now you got
my attention.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I do like cake.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I like that they went with matte finish, kind of
like the Kindle paper thing that I've got, so it
looks like More like paper, not shiny, as opposed to
the glass. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Hides the fold, too, they say. Why so expensive? The
cost of memory. That's part of the reason they did it, Katie.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The cost of memory and storage chips has quintupled since
last fall. Quintupled. The cost of those chips. And that's
why the phones are so much more expensive now. All
computers are, if you haven't shopped for them yet.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Basically, back to school time, and right now a lot
of college kids are meeting their freshman roommates for the
first time. And there's some signs on whether you have
a good college.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Roommate or a bad one. We have some examples right here.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
For instance, you have a good college roommate if they
bought a mini fridge. You have a bad college roommate
if it's just filled with jars marked clean urine.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's not good.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Next up, you have a good college roommate if you're
woken up by the gentle sound of their alarm. You
have a bad college roommate if you're woken up by
a gentle kiss on your forehead.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm sure it went on in that style.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
My junior high school son got a mini fridge. A
friend gave it to him for some reason. Anyway, he
is loving that lifestyle so much. Having a few things
in his fridge by his bed. He just feels like
the king of the world.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
That's funny. So, coming up, a....
Speaker 2 (19:10):
A group of bikini baristas won a big legal settlement
in the Seattle area. A victory not just for those gals,
but for underclad beverage salespeople everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So we'll bring you the details on that one.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So speaking of education, as Jimmy Fallon was, and this,
believe it or not, will end with at least partially
good news.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Partially.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Partially. You heard the story earlier in the week. We
brought it to you. It was all over the news.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Even the New York Times hammered it that the reading
scores of American 15-year-olds has fallen sharply since 2022 and
are near the lowest point in 25 years.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Math scores equally miserable.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I found this interesting, the New York Post talking about
back-to-school time in New York City and how the abysmal
scores in New York City have been met by the
New York education establishment changing the standards and then putting,
because of course that's what you do, If students don't
meet standards, you change the standards. And then they put
(20:11):
out their big education plan. And I'd love to read
this whole thing to you because it's really good writing.
But they barely mention reading or math. I think there's
one mention of the word. There's a token mention of
rigorous academics or something, but then it doesn't really mention
reading and math at all. Yeah. But ideology is everywhere
(20:38):
in this document. Buzzwords like CRT, DEI, culturally responsive sustaining education,
social emotional learning, diversity, equity, justice, restorative, marginalized, identity, bias, inequality,
and their ilk still flood the mission statements pages and links.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's all over the site. Without the words reading or mathematics. Correct. Yeah, yeah.
Then I mentioned this briefly yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
The number of New Yorkers, again, New York, but I
think you can extrapolate to a lot of places around America,
particularly blue places. The number of kids being homeschooled has
tripled in 15 years.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Tripled.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I've gotten those emails from the public school before, and
this year we have the most diverse class. Yeah, what
are you going to teach them? That's what I'm interested in.
I don't care about that sort of stuff. That's not
supposed to be your job.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Right. Right. I don't even think you ought to pay
attention to it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Please see our segment yesterday about, well, I can't remember,
Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist thinker, the Italian who's really the
most important intellectual in terms of his effectiveness of.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
The 20th century. He came up with the idea of
the long march through the institutions.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
We need to take over education first and teach this stuff.
Then we'll change the culture. The kids won't know anything
but what we teach them. And then we can win. Um, and,
and again, we talked about that at length. I think
it was our three of the show yesterday, Armstrong and
Getty on demand, grab the podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Trust me, it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Um, But anyway, I was ranting and raving a couple
of weeks ago about the so-called Mississippi miracle. And it's
not a miracle, but that's a good name for it.
The state of Mississippi has gone from the laughingstock in
American education to skyrocketing results. Anybody with a conscience in
education is riveted by what Mississippi's been doing. And what
(22:42):
they're doing very, very briefly is they're eliminating all the crap.
As we're about to get into, they're focusing on reading, writing,
and math, phonics, no experimental new age crap phonics. And
if kids can't read at the end of third grade,
they're held back, period. This kid's going to learn to
(23:02):
read before she leaves this.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
School, is their vow in Mississippi. And it's working like crazy.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
One of my kids mentioned the other day he was
shocked at how many other kids can't Can't read.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Very well at this point. At what age? I don't
want to say because I don't want to nail down
the school. All right. But it's not second grade. No,
it is teenager years. Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So I was very intrigued to see the Wall Street
Journal publishing a piece by Rachel Cantor today. She is
the director of education policy for Reinventing America's Schools Project
at the Progressive Policy Institute and the founder of Mississippi First,
an advocate for education initiative in Mississippi. She's one of
the people at the very center of this turnaround. So
(23:53):
I thought, oh, great, what does Rachel have to say?
And she says, for the past year, my phone hasn't
stopped ringing from callers wanting to learn more about how
Mississippi improved its public schools. Frustrated by sagging reading and
math scores, educators, advocates, lawmakers around the country are curious
about reforms that transform Mississippi from a national punchline into
(24:14):
a leader in reading and math proficiency, policies I spent
much of my career championing. Here's where it turns a little, folks. Democrats, however,
don't often ask me how to replicate Mississippi's success. They
ask me if it's possible at all, given the power
of teachers' unions in their home states. As one audience
member skeptically asked me at a recent panel discussion, you've
(24:36):
done your work in a red state.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Do you really think blue states can do this?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
My answer is unequivocally yes, even if blue state politics
may make Mississippi-style reforms harder to pass. Now, that statement
should sicken you. If it doesn't sicken you, you should
take a moment or two and contemplate it so you're
good and sickened. Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show
where you walk away sickened. Seriously, and you've got to
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confront this fact, and I'm going to paraphrase it, but
the iron law of bureaucracy states that over time, every
bureaucracy which starts with people dedicated to accomplishing a purpose,
accomplishing a purpose, will slowly evolve and gain more and
more people who are dedicated to protecting the bureaucracy until,
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in its fairly end-ish stage, the bureaucracy just exists for
its own sake and its own self-protection.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's American government schools. That's American education.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It is a jobs program that kind of tangentially teaches
kids some stuff. Although, according to the fondest dreams of Gramsci,
it's now teaching them mostly to hate their own country
and socialism. But she goes on, if helping kids to
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read and do math at grade level is the goal,
the evidence shows that what we've been doing in schools
across the country for the last 12 years or so
has not worked.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Children have lost so much ground.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
They not only know less than their counterparts did a
decade ago, older children know as little as they have
this century. And she goes into the very test scores
that we were discussing earlier, and they're abysmal. And she
points out that decline did not start with COVID. The
pandemic was simply, quote, the mudslide that followed seven years
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of erosion in student achievement.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That's a good metaphor.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I hate that people are getting away with blaming this
on COVID because they're not looking at the long-term directional
direction of the graph.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
For years now, she writes, the education world has been
fascinated by the story of how Mississippi tackled our literacy
problem by ensuring teachers applied the science of reading. That's
a set of principles and practices brought to prominence by
the National Reading Panel's 2000 report, 26 blanking years ago, friends,
that called on educators to teach phonics again, to help
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children systematically match letters to sounds and supplement that learning
with background knowledge and vocabulary.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
To aid comprehension....
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And then Mississippi passed a Literacy Basic Promotion Act, which
required children scoring in the lowest level of reading performance
to be held back at the end of third grade.
And the state began offering teachers and school administrators training
and required training and coaching for the lowest performing elementary schools.
And what they found was nobody wants the kids to
be held back. Nobody's happy about that. But what they
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found was that the kids and the parents... And the
teachers and the community and everybody became focused on not
changing the standards, but reaching the goal. We've got to
have these kids read. What do we have to do?
And they answered the problem and they solved it. Only
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thing holding that back from your school and your blue state,
your blue city, is politics and the teachers' unions. I
state that without fear of contradiction.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I can understand how... As a kid, I was never
held back, but I knew kids that were. And it
would be horribly embarrassing. And then as a parent, it
would be rough. I'd be so worried about my kid
and how he's feeling and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But is that worse than moving them along when they
can't read? Or better?
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I mean, because allowing them to move on and not
read to avoid those other bad things I mentioned?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, it's badass crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Which brings up another one of their policies, and I'll
illustrate it by illustrating the opposite first. A parent I
know who may want to remain nameless in a bluish
area was told repeatedly that their kid was doing fine
and up to grade level when that child was not
doing fine and not near grade level. Mississippi's doing the
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opposite of that. Hey, your kid is really struggling to read.
We're going to have to hold him back at the
end of third grade. Here's how he scored. Here's how
we'd like to address it. Can you help us, mom, dad?
And the reaction has been extremely.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Positive because, of course it is. People love their children.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Unless they're, you know, morons or moral reprobates themselves, they're like, yes,
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
What do we do? Oh, my God, it's so fixable.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Well, it has been fixed. The example is out there
in our laboratories of diagnosis. democracy that we have around
the country. That's the advantage of having states the way
we do.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's been done. So we don't have to wonder anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
What's super bonus frustrating and there's no point in dwelling
on the frustration you got to look for solutions but
what's a double bonus frustrating is that this exciting new
way is precisely the way it's been done for you
know 75 years prior to the current woke takeover of
schools and universities. It's a return to basics and a
return to phonics and a return to responsibility and a
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return to these standards don't get altered just because you're
failing at them.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Anyway, end of rant.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I look forward to our AI conversation based on the
explosive story that came out yesterday from basically a whistleblower
who quit his job to be a whistleblower.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Right. And more importantly, does.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Showing a little butt cheek mean you don't deserve a
living wage?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I say no. The story of the bucks and baristas
coming up. And I'm going to buy some bagpipes, which
I've been threatening to do for years, but I'm going
to do it. That is a threat. That's exactly what
that is. I've done some research on this.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But stay tuned for all that. It's all coming up.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Why aren't cashiers allowed to sit down? while they're working? Like,
why do they have to stand on their two feet
the whole time just to scan some items and collect cash? Like,
why is Audi the only store that allows their employees
to sit down while they're completing transactions? There's no part
of scanning items and collecting cash that requires you to
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stand on your two feet the whole shift.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
That's a decent question. Why do?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Because most people sit to do that kind of work,
typing on a computer or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Why do cashiers have to stand? Make it optional. There's
no good reason for that, I wouldn't think. Get a stool.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Sure, it can be a high stool. You can look
people in the eye and not get the varicose veins.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I don't know. Let them sit. I'm going to march
on the picket line.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Trump should mention that before the midterms. Free stools for
all the cashiers.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You know, my final note on the education thing was
that they did a couple of different studies and found
a direct correlation, or an inverse correlation, I guess, between
the strength of teachers' unions and how many of these
reform measures had been adopted in various schools in various states.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's not surprising in the least. It is shocking and terrible.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
All right, speaking of cashiers and that sort of people,
it's getting a lot of attention because it's hot chicks
in bikinis, but a group of bikini baristas won nearly
$ 2 million.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
In a legal battle. $ 2 million?
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah, it's a years-long battle over pay violations. I feel
like we've been talking about this for 15 years.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It's been going on for a long time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Most of the pay violations occurred at coffee stands operating
under the brand name Beehive Espresso. But anyway, the coffee
stands with bikini baristas who wear bikinis or lingerie while
making coffee are.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Popular across Washington. It's weird, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It's odd that Washington, such a blue state, would be
like the world's leader in hot chicks dispensing beverages. Scantily
clad hot chicks. But the guy who ran these stands,
Alan Tagle, he was ripping these girls off. He was
groping them. He was filming them changing. He was demanding
sex acts for promotions.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
He was just a monster. It's a story about a
horrible employer. And I don't want to generalize.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
But the fact that anybody would put up with any
of this for more than like a day and a
half makes me think that young, comely women who are
willing to make their living wearing tiny bikinis and slinging
caffeine maybe don't have a.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Ton of options. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Why were we originally talking about the bikini braces?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
What was the original lawsuit? Was it a free speech
thing or a? It was a pay thing, as I recall.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
They're being paid less than minimum wage because they got tips,
but then he would confiscate the tips.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
I know that happened, but there was some giant thing
around the bikini baristas.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
One of the drive-thru people attacked a barista, and she
jumped through the window and beat the ass.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Ever living hell out of.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Them yes there was that story too but there was
also some somebody was complaining and it was whether or
not they're allowed to dress that way and whether they're
allowed to dance the zoning that's what it was like
it's right is it sex work or is it a
coffee shop right something like that and it was like
a big court case it went a long way take
it up with hooters and uh right which was part
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i think of our argument at the time and then
there was if you don't want to see that don't
get your coffee there.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
And as we always point out, Hooters is utterly un-unique
amongst sports bars.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
So we got a number of texts referring to me
mentioning that I'm going to buy some bagpipes. Including if
Jack buys bagpipes, the Christmas episode is going to be
lit this year.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's right. That's a good point, friend.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
So we were, where were we? Oh, we were in Victoria, Canada.
Little town on the island of Vancouver Island. Beautiful little
English town. Very English town. And there was a guy
playing bagpipes. And I said to my son, I said,
I think I could do that. You always hear this.
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Every song either sounds the same or they play the
same song.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I don't know which it is.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
But I think the main thing to playing the bagpipes
is owning bagpipes. I think that's what it is, and
I'm going to prove that. I'm going to get some bagpipes.
I'm going to learn that.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I'm going to learn that.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
I'm going to learn that tune.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Or you could just get a donkey. Which I think
will take me a weekend. Hanson, please isolate that. which
will take me.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Like a weekend to learn I think no offense to
bagpipe players and then anytime there's any I'm going to
buy a kilt and the socks and then I'll do
whatever festival is going on where you need a bagpipe
player from here on out because I think I can
play that tune.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Good luck I bet the practicing is awful to listen
to who cares AI
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Is going to kill us all next hour stay with
us Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a
dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
America for $ 5, 000.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We are not burying the lead.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We're doing like what they do on those a lot
of those TV shows, animal attacks. And then all the
promos have a really exciting animal attack. And then you
watch the show and find out that's the only interesting
one there. That's kind of like Trump spoke for about
two hours last night. And if you like his his
act and his riffs, it was the normal thing throughout.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But that is that is the punch line right there.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
That is going to give every American adult citizen five
thousand dollars if the Republicans win. which is a heck
of a thing. I've got a little analysis on that,
but let's hear it couched in the whole explanation here
of what's going on. Even though President Trump's name isn't
on the ballot this fall, he is still in full-on
campaign mode right now.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
He spoke here for nearly two hours straight last night.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong number, Michael.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
42.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is the full version of Trump explaining what's going
on here.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Here is my promise.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Both of them.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because of our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history,
we've never had anything like what's happening.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But because of our.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend
to every adult citizen in the United States of America for.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
$ 5, 000.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Here is my promise.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
OK, so it goes on to say explaining that the
money is because of the tariffs. We got all that
money sloshing around because the tariffs have been so successful
that everybody's getting five thousand dollars back. that doesn't make
sense on any level whatsoever of the way any of
this works. But so J.D. Vance immediately went on Fox
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and was talking to Brett Baer. Brett Baer said $ 5, 000
for every adult citizen.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's about $ 1. 3 trillion.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
The critics will say this is, you know, The critics
will say the president is bribing voters and he's bankrupting
the country.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
J.D.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Vance said tariffs have generated a lot of revenues. The
president is saying if you keep us in power, then
you will share in some of the benefit of this
incredible wealth that we have created.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's where we are now.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
If we can discuss it in like real world, a
grown up terms like, you know, where's the money coming
from and whether it's a good idea fiscally and whether
whether the tariffs are actually generating revenue that's sitting in
a pot somewhere that you can draw from. But then
there's also the political thing, which Mark Halperin looks at
a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And he said Trump got what he wanted.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Most of the coverage, especially in local news around the country,
frames this as a straightforward presidential idea with none of
the but it'll cost one point three trillion dollars, but
tariff money, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's just a flat out.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Trump said that cool and other news and a lot
of voters are just saying, wow, I'm going to get
five thousand dollars if I get out and vote Republican.
So politically, it's a win.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I appreciate for practically the first time in the last
30 years, the drive by media's half inch deep coverage
benefits Republicans.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So that is novel.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I was going to say I'd be delighted to discuss this,
but I'm going to have to work to avoid dropping
a BSC. That is my new acronym I will use
to save time in place of bat.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Crazy. Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Golly gee. I am so disillusioned. I wish I was
wearing my F. Yollican party t-shirt that I helped Hanson
design for those of us who just are so disgusted
with both the.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Parties we don't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
When.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Joseph R.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Biden, senile, Delaware, was telling all of us to ignore
the evidence of your eyes and ears. These are not
the droids you are looking for. There is no inflation.
Your economic situation is fine. We berated him for that.
(04:55):
And here's Trump, who just finds it impossible to explain
anything more complex than... Then I'm going to give you money.
He blames Biden for the inflation. OK, take 20 seconds
and explain that to people.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But he doesn't. I just I've had enough.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, like so even the community note on Twitter, which
is really pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I think the community notes thing.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Says annual tariff revenue cannot fund a one point three
dollar payout and distributed funds requires congressional approval and the
money from the tariffs actually went to blah, blah, blah.
So even the, you know. We mentioned last hour. Elon
has come out today and the story is he's willing
to spend up to 200 million dollars in Texas alone
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to make sure that Trump's win that Senate seat and
hang on to the the U.S.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Senate.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
So it's not like Elon's not all in on making
sure the Republicans and Trump have have a good midterm.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But his his groks is yet the whole. That's just there's.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
There's nothing sensical about this at all. The idea that
the tariff revenue is coming in and is in some
sort of fund that you can then draw on and
pay people out and that the president can decide to
take $ 5, 000 to give to every citizen.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
None of that is doable.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then the initial promise got revised a couple of
times within a couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
To various income levels. Yeah, it's not for everybody. You
have to be below. Just floundering.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
$ 150, 000.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Household or whatever the number is.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
To get that number down from $ 1. 2 or $ 1. 3 trillion.
But the president doesn't have the power to do this.
It's not even worth talking.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
About, really.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So this is what politics all is now.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It always has been to a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
If the president had promised to suspend gravity every July 4th,
so we could all flap our arms and fly around
in celebration of our nation's birthday, it would have an
equal chance of happening as this.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
From now on, every 4th of July, in honor of
this great country, I will suspend gravity so.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That you and your children can wave your.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Arms and float around this great nation with American flags
in your hand and.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
View it from above.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Every American, every adult American, every adult American less than
$ 150, 000 in joint income filing separately as an adult.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now, I don't know, do I need to throw in
this caveat to not make some of you really, really angry?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The socialists stand up there.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
And say stuff that is absolutely, completely badass, crazy, undoable, immoral.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hundreds of trillions of dollars of ridiculous promises.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that just make no sense whatsoever, but... I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know, we ought to give a little credit to
that side of the conversation. There are a couple of
notable things that happened. Number one, absolutely flogging the Democratic
Party for going socialist slash communist, radical, out of control,
every syllable of which is true.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Let's hit Tim Scott.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
52, Michael.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
The only way to keep dangerous, radical, weird out of
the Senate is a united Republican Party! Standing with our president,
Donald J. Trump. Stand for the president, Donald J.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Trump.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
This is a battle for the heart of our nation.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I said the heart of our nation.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The Democrats, extreme candidates, will rip that heart out of
our chest.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
They hate our culture. They hate what it means to
be American. Hear me, Dallas. Not on our watch. We
will not back down. We will not grow weary. So
much yelling. Are you with me? I suspect from the
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previous reactions. Are you with me? They are indeed with you, sir.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then, as long as we're playing Tim Scott, Hanson
really wanted us to play 53.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
James Tallarico claims there are six genders.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
He believes God is non-binary.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He thinks God needs special woke pronouns.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But Texas, we know who God is. We're talking about Jesus.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Tallarico has walked back the six genders thing saying six.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He misspoke.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, it's the Spanberger technique, they're calling it, in honor
of the new governor of Virginia who ran as a
moderate and then immediately governed as a far lefty. All
of these folks are scrubbing their social media. They're saying,
my comments missed the mark.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Little kids ought to be castrated. Saying that is not
missing the mark. It's repugnant.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So, yeah, they're trying to pretend there's something they're not.
He is everything that's claimed.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I'm stealing from Jonah Goldberg here, who I think has
Trump derangement syndrome, actually. But he said Trump's $ 5, 000 gambit
reminds him of H.L. Mencken's quote about Truman, which you
probably know because you're a big H.L.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Mencken fan.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in
the country, he would have promised to provide them with
free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
But anyway, so here's one of my favorite economists, conservative
economists saying. The claim that federal budget is so overrun
with surplus cash that Washington can afford to spend $ 1. 3
trillion on rebates is so detached from reality that I
refuse to waste my time walking you through the math.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If it makes sense to you, you are beyond help.
I agree.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
It's just we're living in fantasy land with the whole
money thing. We'll probably do us ourselves no favors as
a radio show trying to make, you know, money and
have listeners and talking about it because nobody's interested. I'm
looking at a quote from Steve Hayes of The Dispatch.
quoting their recent piece about the parties and the debt.
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There is no denying that the country no longer has
a major political party devoted to limiting the size and
scope of government.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It just doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And so if you're hammering that, you're just, I don't
know who your constituency is. I don't know who our
constituency is for your hammering, limiting the size and scope
of government.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Now, those of you and a number of people have
pointed out, man, this this thing pales as promises go
to President Autopen promising to pay off Gen Z's student loans.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Absolutely. Which we blasted endlessly because it was also ridiculous.
It is ridiculous. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
There is one surprise at the gathering at 51 for us, Michael.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Big room of Republicans in Dallas.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Yes, I'm Senator John Fetterman, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yes, I'm a Democrat. Why am I here talking to
you today?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Because, well, I'm a common sense Democrat. I'm always going
to stand with America. I'm always going to reject the
extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
A lot of talk about what Fetterman's up to to
be the guy to introduce the president at the big rally.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I mean, he's already polling at like.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
16% among Democrats in Pennsylvania who put him in office.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Is he going to switch parties before the next election?
He says he's not. Absolutely not. Is he going to
go independent? Does he just not care that he won't
get reelected? I think he gives zero poops.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think he's going to try to get as much
done and speak as much truth as he can and
then go off into the wilderness.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
He votes with Democrats 75% of the time, just not
on the crazy stuff or the anti-Israel stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah. All right, so much to talk about.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
We will take a brief break and be back with
more fascinating intormation.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But first.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Word from our friends at Blue Collar Dollar. Financial planning's
got kind of a suit and tie feel to it,
doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But Blue Collar folks.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
You know, are business owners, farmers, hardworking people who don't
get the Wall Street pretension. They need somebody to talk to, too.
Blue Collar Dollar, good place to turn.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, good hardworking people, and you're going to talk to
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
Patients being prompted.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
By not only selfies that they change with filters, but
also with AI, Snapchat, dysmorphia. Patients just continue getting surgery
and never are totally satisfied with what happens. But unfortunately,
they're coming with images in their minds and they present
images to us in consultation that are not accomplishable. So
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it introduces uncertainty. Unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I struggle with accents.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
That's a doctor saying that patients have unrealistic expectations due
to AI and filters. They come in and think, make
me look like this. And you say, you can't actually
do that. That's an AI filter.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Right, right.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
We're going to talk AI in hour three and that
huge story from yesterday about the fact that they're having
conversations at the biggest AI corporations on planet Earth about
how it's going to kill all of humanity and kind
of yada, yada, yada anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Also, in sports news, yeah, a couple of AI heavyweights said, yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And a handful said, that's nuts. So we'll hit that
next hour.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
A different kind of tech thing is the big Apple
thing was yesterday and then unveiled their first big new
product in like over a decade. The big foldable phone.
And I've seen people's other foldable phones. This looked way
cooler than that. And the things it can do. And
I watched a bunch of the reviews and stuff like that.
I'd like to have one. $ 2, 000 is a lot for
a phone.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I don't know. Can they make a case for it?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
That's one of my concerns, because I'm not going to
have a $ 2, 000 phone without a case, but I was
trying to picture how would a case work on that,
since you've got a screen here and there and there
and there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I just don't know how it works. We can put
a man on the moon. Surely we can invent a
foldy case.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I believe they do have cases. I was watching a video.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
They do.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay. Cool. I want one of those.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
But one of the reasons it's so expensive is not
just that it's foldable and new tech. As we know,
is we had to buy some new computers recently. When
we finally get on YouTube, which is still happening, buying
these cameras and computers, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm going to that doctor we just quoted for plastic surgery.
I got to get healed before we go on YouTube.
My upturned Michael Jackson nose didn't come out quite right,
so I'm having a redo, a revision.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
When I'm getting horns, like a lot of the hipsters get.
This is a weird show, everybody. Weird looking at these guys. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Joe's upturned nose, me with the horns. Hey, so I
have to tell you about this new iPhone. So when
you open it, Joe, I think you're going to love this.
You can have two apps open at once. So let's
say you select.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
A restaurant you would like to go to.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
You click the directions, and then the directions open up
on the other side of the screen and shows you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Oh, I need this. I'm feet finder.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I'm on it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh, that's it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Katie's going to generate a little spending cash by posting
erotic photos of her feet.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Don't care. Oh, you'll step on cake. Now you got
my attention.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I do like cake.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I like that they went with matte finish, kind of
like the Kindle paper thing that I've got, so it
looks like More like paper, not shiny, as opposed to
the glass. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Hides the fold, too, they say. Why so expensive? The
cost of memory. That's part of the reason they did it, Katie.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The cost of memory and storage chips has quintupled since
last fall. Quintupled. The cost of those chips. And that's
why the phones are so much more expensive now. All
computers are, if you haven't shopped for them yet.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
Basically, back to school time, and right now a lot
of college kids are meeting their freshman roommates for the
first time. And there's some signs on whether you have
a good college.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Roommate or a bad one. We have some examples right here.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
For instance, you have a good college roommate if they
bought a mini fridge. You have a bad college roommate
if it's just filled with jars marked clean urine.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's not good.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
Next up, you have a good college roommate if you're
woken up by the gentle sound of their alarm. You
have a bad college roommate if you're woken up by
a gentle kiss on your forehead.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm sure it went on in that style.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
My junior high school son got a mini fridge. A
friend gave it to him for some reason. Anyway, he
is loving that lifestyle so much. Having a few things
in his fridge by his bed. He just feels like
the king of the world.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
That's funny. So, coming up, a....
Speaker 2 (19:10):
A group of bikini baristas won a big legal settlement
in the Seattle area. A victory not just for those gals,
but for underclad beverage salespeople everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So we'll bring you the details on that one.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So speaking of education, as Jimmy Fallon was, and this,
believe it or not, will end with at least partially
good news.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Partially.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Partially. You heard the story earlier in the week. We
brought it to you. It was all over the news.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Even the New York Times hammered it that the reading
scores of American 15-year-olds has fallen sharply since 2022 and
are near the lowest point in 25 years.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Math scores equally miserable.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I found this interesting, the New York Post talking about
back-to-school time in New York City and how the abysmal
scores in New York City have been met by the
New York education establishment changing the standards and then putting,
because of course that's what you do, If students don't
meet standards, you change the standards. And then they put
(20:11):
out their big education plan. And I'd love to read
this whole thing to you because it's really good writing.
But they barely mention reading or math. I think there's
one mention of the word. There's a token mention of
rigorous academics or something, but then it doesn't really mention
reading and math at all. Yeah. But ideology is everywhere
(20:38):
in this document. Buzzwords like CRT, DEI, culturally responsive sustaining education,
social emotional learning, diversity, equity, justice, restorative, marginalized, identity, bias, inequality,
and their ilk still flood the mission statements pages and links.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's all over the site. Without the words reading or mathematics. Correct. Yeah, yeah.
Then I mentioned this briefly yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
The number of New Yorkers, again, New York, but I
think you can extrapolate to a lot of places around America,
particularly blue places. The number of kids being homeschooled has
tripled in 15 years.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Tripled.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I've gotten those emails from the public school before, and
this year we have the most diverse class. Yeah, what
are you going to teach them? That's what I'm interested in.
I don't care about that sort of stuff. That's not
supposed to be your job.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Right. Right. I don't even think you ought to pay
attention to it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Please see our segment yesterday about, well, I can't remember,
Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist thinker, the Italian who's really the
most important intellectual in terms of his effectiveness of.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
The 20th century. He came up with the idea of
the long march through the institutions.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
We need to take over education first and teach this stuff.
Then we'll change the culture. The kids won't know anything
but what we teach them. And then we can win. Um, and,
and again, we talked about that at length. I think
it was our three of the show yesterday, Armstrong and
Getty on demand, grab the podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Trust me, it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Um, But anyway, I was ranting and raving a couple
of weeks ago about the so-called Mississippi miracle. And it's
not a miracle, but that's a good name for it.
The state of Mississippi has gone from the laughingstock in
American education to skyrocketing results. Anybody with a conscience in
education is riveted by what Mississippi's been doing. And what
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they're doing very, very briefly is they're eliminating all the crap.
As we're about to get into, they're focusing on reading, writing,
and math, phonics, no experimental new age crap phonics. And
if kids can't read at the end of third grade,
they're held back, period. This kid's going to learn to
(23:02):
read before she leaves this.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
School, is their vow in Mississippi. And it's working like crazy.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
One of my kids mentioned the other day he was
shocked at how many other kids can't Can't read.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Very well at this point. At what age? I don't
want to say because I don't want to nail down
the school. All right. But it's not second grade. No,
it is teenager years. Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So I was very intrigued to see the Wall Street
Journal publishing a piece by Rachel Cantor today. She is
the director of education policy for Reinventing America's Schools Project
at the Progressive Policy Institute and the founder of Mississippi First,
an advocate for education initiative in Mississippi. She's one of
the people at the very center of this turnaround. So
(23:53):
I thought, oh, great, what does Rachel have to say?
And she says, for the past year, my phone hasn't
stopped ringing from callers wanting to learn more about how
Mississippi improved its public schools. Frustrated by sagging reading and
math scores, educators, advocates, lawmakers around the country are curious
about reforms that transform Mississippi from a national punchline into
(24:14):
a leader in reading and math proficiency, policies I spent
much of my career championing. Here's where it turns a little, folks. Democrats, however,
don't often ask me how to replicate Mississippi's success. They
ask me if it's possible at all, given the power
of teachers' unions in their home states. As one audience
member skeptically asked me at a recent panel discussion, you've
(24:36):
done your work in a red state.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Do you really think blue states can do this?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
My answer is unequivocally yes, even if blue state politics
may make Mississippi-style reforms harder to pass. Now, that statement
should sicken you. If it doesn't sicken you, you should
take a moment or two and contemplate it so you're
good and sickened. Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show
where you walk away sickened. Seriously, and you've got to
(25:02):
confront this fact, and I'm going to paraphrase it, but
the iron law of bureaucracy states that over time, every
bureaucracy which starts with people dedicated to accomplishing a purpose,
accomplishing a purpose, will slowly evolve and gain more and
more people who are dedicated to protecting the bureaucracy until,
(25:23):
in its fairly end-ish stage, the bureaucracy just exists for
its own sake and its own self-protection.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's American government schools. That's American education.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It is a jobs program that kind of tangentially teaches
kids some stuff. Although, according to the fondest dreams of Gramsci,
it's now teaching them mostly to hate their own country
and socialism. But she goes on, if helping kids to
(25:55):
read and do math at grade level is the goal,
the evidence shows that what we've been doing in schools
across the country for the last 12 years or so
has not worked.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Children have lost so much ground.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
They not only know less than their counterparts did a
decade ago, older children know as little as they have
this century. And she goes into the very test scores
that we were discussing earlier, and they're abysmal. And she
points out that decline did not start with COVID. The
pandemic was simply, quote, the mudslide that followed seven years
(26:25):
of erosion in student achievement.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That's a good metaphor.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I hate that people are getting away with blaming this
on COVID because they're not looking at the long-term directional
direction of the graph.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
For years now, she writes, the education world has been
fascinated by the story of how Mississippi tackled our literacy
problem by ensuring teachers applied the science of reading. That's
a set of principles and practices brought to prominence by
the National Reading Panel's 2000 report, 26 blanking years ago, friends,
that called on educators to teach phonics again, to help
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children systematically match letters to sounds and supplement that learning
with background knowledge and vocabulary.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
To aid comprehension....
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And then Mississippi passed a Literacy Basic Promotion Act, which
required children scoring in the lowest level of reading performance
to be held back at the end of third grade.
And the state began offering teachers and school administrators training
and required training and coaching for the lowest performing elementary schools.
And what they found was nobody wants the kids to
be held back. Nobody's happy about that. But what they
(27:31):
found was that the kids and the parents... And the
teachers and the community and everybody became focused on not
changing the standards, but reaching the goal. We've got to
have these kids read. What do we have to do?
And they answered the problem and they solved it. Only
(27:52):
thing holding that back from your school and your blue state,
your blue city, is politics and the teachers' unions. I
state that without fear of contradiction.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I can understand how... As a kid, I was never
held back, but I knew kids that were. And it
would be horribly embarrassing. And then as a parent, it
would be rough. I'd be so worried about my kid
and how he's feeling and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But is that worse than moving them along when they
can't read? Or better?
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I mean, because allowing them to move on and not
read to avoid those other bad things I mentioned?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, it's badass crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Which brings up another one of their policies, and I'll
illustrate it by illustrating the opposite first. A parent I
know who may want to remain nameless in a bluish
area was told repeatedly that their kid was doing fine
and up to grade level when that child was not
doing fine and not near grade level. Mississippi's doing the
(28:56):
opposite of that. Hey, your kid is really struggling to read.
We're going to have to hold him back at the
end of third grade. Here's how he scored. Here's how
we'd like to address it. Can you help us, mom, dad?
And the reaction has been extremely.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Positive because, of course it is. People love their children.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Unless they're, you know, morons or moral reprobates themselves, they're like, yes,
I'm in.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
What do we do? Oh, my God, it's so fixable.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Well, it has been fixed. The example is out there
in our laboratories of diagnosis. democracy that we have around
the country. That's the advantage of having states the way
we do.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's been done. So we don't have to wonder anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
What's super bonus frustrating and there's no point in dwelling
on the frustration you got to look for solutions but
what's a double bonus frustrating is that this exciting new
way is precisely the way it's been done for you
know 75 years prior to the current woke takeover of
schools and universities. It's a return to basics and a
return to phonics and a return to responsibility and a
(30:00):
return to these standards don't get altered just because you're
failing at them.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Anyway, end of rant.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I look forward to our AI conversation based on the
explosive story that came out yesterday from basically a whistleblower
who quit his job to be a whistleblower.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Right. And more importantly, does.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Showing a little butt cheek mean you don't deserve a
living wage?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I say no. The story of the bucks and baristas
coming up. And I'm going to buy some bagpipes, which
I've been threatening to do for years, but I'm going
to do it. That is a threat. That's exactly what
that is. I've done some research on this.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But stay tuned for all that. It's all coming up.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Why aren't cashiers allowed to sit down? while they're working? Like,
why do they have to stand on their two feet
the whole time just to scan some items and collect cash? Like,
why is Audi the only store that allows their employees
to sit down while they're completing transactions? There's no part
of scanning items and collecting cash that requires you to
(31:11):
stand on your two feet the whole shift.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
That's a decent question. Why do?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Because most people sit to do that kind of work,
typing on a computer or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Why do cashiers have to stand? Make it optional. There's
no good reason for that, I wouldn't think. Get a stool.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Sure, it can be a high stool. You can look
people in the eye and not get the varicose veins.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I don't know. Let them sit. I'm going to march
on the picket line.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Trump should mention that before the midterms. Free stools for
all the cashiers.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You know, my final note on the education thing was
that they did a couple of different studies and found
a direct correlation, or an inverse correlation, I guess, between
the strength of teachers' unions and how many of these
reform measures had been adopted in various schools in various states.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's not surprising in the least. It is shocking and terrible.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
All right, speaking of cashiers and that sort of people,
it's getting a lot of attention because it's hot chicks
in bikinis, but a group of bikini baristas won nearly
$ 2 million.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
In a legal battle. $ 2 million?
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah, it's a years-long battle over pay violations. I feel
like we've been talking about this for 15 years.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
It's been going on for a long time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Most of the pay violations occurred at coffee stands operating
under the brand name Beehive Espresso. But anyway, the coffee
stands with bikini baristas who wear bikinis or lingerie while
making coffee are.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Popular across Washington. It's weird, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It's odd that Washington, such a blue state, would be
like the world's leader in hot chicks dispensing beverages. Scantily
clad hot chicks. But the guy who ran these stands,
Alan Tagle, he was ripping these girls off. He was
groping them. He was filming them changing. He was demanding
sex acts for promotions.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
He was just a monster. It's a story about a
horrible employer. And I don't want to generalize.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
But the fact that anybody would put up with any
of this for more than like a day and a
half makes me think that young, comely women who are
willing to make their living wearing tiny bikinis and slinging
caffeine maybe don't have a.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Ton of options. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Why were we originally talking about the bikini braces?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
What was the original lawsuit? Was it a free speech
thing or a? It was a pay thing, as I recall.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
They're being paid less than minimum wage because they got tips,
but then he would confiscate the tips.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
I know that happened, but there was some giant thing
around the bikini baristas.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
One of the drive-thru people attacked a barista, and she
jumped through the window and beat the ass.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Ever living hell out of.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Them yes there was that story too but there was
also some somebody was complaining and it was whether or
not they're allowed to dress that way and whether they're
allowed to dance the zoning that's what it was like
it's right is it sex work or is it a
coffee shop right something like that and it was like
a big court case it went a long way take
it up with hooters and uh right which was part
(34:19):
i think of our argument at the time and then
there was if you don't want to see that don't
get your coffee there.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
And as we always point out, Hooters is utterly un-unique
amongst sports bars.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
So we got a number of texts referring to me
mentioning that I'm going to buy some bagpipes. Including if
Jack buys bagpipes, the Christmas episode is going to be
lit this year.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
That's right. That's a good point, friend.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
So we were, where were we? Oh, we were in Victoria, Canada.
Little town on the island of Vancouver Island. Beautiful little
English town. Very English town. And there was a guy
playing bagpipes. And I said to my son, I said,
I think I could do that. You always hear this.
(35:04):
Every song either sounds the same or they play the
same song.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I don't know which it is.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
But I think the main thing to playing the bagpipes
is owning bagpipes. I think that's what it is, and
I'm going to prove that. I'm going to get some bagpipes.
I'm going to learn that.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I'm going to learn that.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
I'm going to learn that tune.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Or you could just get a donkey. Which I think
will take me a weekend. Hanson, please isolate that. which
will take me.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Like a weekend to learn I think no offense to
bagpipe players and then anytime there's any I'm going to
buy a kilt and the socks and then I'll do
whatever festival is going on where you need a bagpipe
player from here on out because I think I can
play that tune.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Good luck I bet the practicing is awful to listen
to who cares AI
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Is going to kill us all next hour stay with
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