August 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of the Thursday, August 28,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- Jack's Camp Guitarist/Trump Rough/China Robots
- Sperminator Hangs Up Gonads
- Corruption & Rot in Education System, Evil Teacher's Union
- Donate Your Pets to Feed Zoo Animals
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
So, when I dropped my son off at boy Scout
camp the other day at this late and they were
gonna have to hike to their destination, it's a couple
of mile hike. You have to take everything in with you,
so try to pack as lightly as possible. Blah blah
blah blah.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Drop them off there.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I load everybody up, and this one kid brought a
guitar and a boy Scout leader. One of them said,
you're sure you want to carry that thing for a
couple of miles. I said, yeah, yeah, I really want
to bring it. And you know, if you've ever camped,
having a guitar around, if your a guitar player is
really cool and you can sing songs and all that
sort of stuff. Anyway, we stopped for lunch. It's a
couple hour drive to this lake, and we stopped for
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lunch at this little pullout and he gets his guitar
out and sets up a little thing, and he's like
thirteen years old, and he sets up a little chair
and he's sitting there on a log and he starts
in playing. And if I would have bet you ten
thousand dollars one hundred thousand million dollars, that wasn't gonna
hear what came out of his mouth as a thirteen
year old boy. Because I'm just wondering, you know, what's
a thirteen year old boy gonna play. He sits down
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with his guitar. First of all, he's got an incredibly
low voice, and he says I met her accidentally in
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
He launches into a Johnny Cash song.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Immediately, I'm like what what me? And one of the
other leaders was like unbelievable. I would have never guessed
that this was what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He did several Johnny Cash songs and then put his
guitar away. I'll be dang, I know, and he played
better than me, which is highly disappointing.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, that's so annoying, very very annoying.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You might be annoyed if you're really into the whole
pedo ring story. That is the reason a chunk of
you voted for Donald Trump. Some of you don't even
know what I'm talking about, because I only know because
I happen to know a couple of people that are
really into this story. Their big thing was, I mean,
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they were all tweeting and texting each other leading up
to election day and inauguration day.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Finally it comes to an end. They're all going to
be exposed.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The Clinton's, the Hollywood types, everybody who's been trafficking all
these children for sex.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
All these years are going to get nailed to the wall.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And it's all tied in with Epstein and he's a
massad agent in blackmail and all these different sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right, it's a form of the Q and HO are
more like the Pizzagate thing, just evolving, continuing to evolve,
because that's the nature of these things.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And you might be disappointed if you're in that crowd
that Trump has come out so hardcore against you today
with truth social posts and a couple of different on
Mike things denouncing you and saying he doesn't need your
vote anymore. Here's the very latest from the Oval office.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He said this was all a hoax. Has your attorney
general told you this was a hoax?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What evidence is that the Attorney general? No, I know,
it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats. It's been run
by the Democrats for four years. You had Christopher Ray
and these characters and called me before him, and it's
a bad group.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It started.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Actually look at the Steele dossier that turned out to
be a total hoax. The fifty one Agency intelligence so
called intelligence agents.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It was a hoax. It's all been a big hoax.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some stupid Republicans and
foolish Republicans fall into.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The net and so they.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Try and do the democrats work. I call it the
Epstein hooks. The sad part is it's people that are
really doing the Democrats work. There's stupid people.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The most energetic Trump supporters I know would be that
group of stupid Republicans that fell into the net doing
the work of the Democrats he just talked about. Because
they believe that story that your attorney general and FBI
director and others were pushing for quite some time. It
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wasn't Democrats. I don't remember Democrats ever pushing this child
sex ring thing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, when they're now doing the work of the Democrats
by undermining the Trump administration, saying.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right, but how does it tie in with Komi and
russiagat and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, it doesn't. That's not a great comparison. I mean,
they're both false, and both you know, had just enough
tidbit of evidence here, evidence there that you could spin
the yarn if your James call me that, Yes, Trump
is a secret Russian stooge. So you hear the.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Phrase in politics sometimes about when Bill Clinton denounced a
rapper that kind of went against his own party, a
sister Soldier moment. People call about it and and it
helped him bring people into support him from the other side.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
This is like, well he was proving I'm not look,
I'm left, but I'm not way out there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I'm willing to denounce the crazies
in my party.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Is this Trump's sister Soldier moment? Yeah? Except that the
Epstein thing is so under the radar of the vast,
vast majority of people, whereas like and violent imagery and
anti American imagery, and in the case of Sister Soldier,
I think it was anti cop imagery. That's everybody's aware
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of that. That's like a hot top. This is so
I mean, he's denouncing them so strongly.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It would be like, if, you know, assuming Biden wasn't
a mental patient, if Biden had.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Come out and said, look, these college students marginal reminder,
Kamala was the actual candidate, so yous Kamala. Okay, if
Kamala had come out and said, these college students are crazy.
They've fallen for a hoax that Israel is perpetuating a genocide,
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I don't want their support. They're nuts.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I mean, it's that level of your biggest supporter, the
biggest supporters, you're calling crazies, your most passionate supporters.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah wow, yeah, Yeah, it's notable. And you know what's
funny is I think the criticism of Pam Bondi and
Cash Betellent Company is legitimate, having led people way down
the garden path of the idea that there's something here
and we're getting to the bottom of it. Just to
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exploit them and keep them listening in, watching them whatever,
and then just saying I've looked at the violin, there's
nothing there, so we're fine. Here, we're done, and thinking
that's going to be good enough. It's just dumb. You
don't understand how the way human beings behave you needed
to do better than that and explain why, having promoted
the idea for the longest time, or in the case
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of Pambondy freaking specifically said.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You had the client list on your desk, you gotta
do better. Do you think she needs to step down
or will a lot of people say that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I don't know. It's so hard to say. Within Trump world,
it's entirely possible. Yeah, but anyway, I was working toward
a point. Oh, that's absolutely I think they mishandled it.
They had to do better. On the other hand, I
have no idea why Donald J would be so harsh.
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He doesn't need a sister soldier. Moment he's in office.
He can't run again. He's just doesn't care who he
hurts and bruises with his words.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It seems to me like he would have been better
off if he went with Look, I wasn't paying attention
to the Epstein thing. Really, you know, throw Bondie and
patell or whoever you want under the bus. You know,
they were pushing this. I heard what they said and
I thought, wow, that's interesting, but I wasn't really paying
attention to it. It turns out there's nothing to it. Yeah,
they probably went too far, folks.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And now they've seen the actual facts and they realized
there was really nothing there. So they you know, they
owe you an apology, right being as enthusiastic as they were, right, Well,
they didn't have the facts go with.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They owe you know, apology as opposed to, you're crazy
and I don't want your support anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And stupid stupid crazy is one thinks stupid is another.
You hate to be both. Yeah, it's it's just it's
bad politics. But you can do whatever he wants. That
much is clear. Okay, Well that's that story. You're thinking
this is over that dang story. Yeah. I'm just interested
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in watching humans and and just the psychological, social, political
aspects of this. I don't. I don't. I have no
interest in the story itself really because I've I've learned
everything I need to learn. I think about it. But
people behave is so interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's exactly what I thought it was. I assumed all
along they were saying this to get ratings and or
get votes, and there was nothing to it but change
the topic. I just wanted to get this story on.
It's a story about China and what they're doing around AI.
And now Trump gave to go ahead from the video
to continue to sell the very best AI chips to China.
(10:04):
I'm not xac sure what that's all about. I haven't
looked into it. But Chinese government they're working on AI too,
let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
This whole robotic push comes at a time when the
Chinese government is making technology, including AI, a national priority. Already,
China's approven innovator, as we've seen with evs. Now it's
looking to dominate the field of AI enabled robots, and
the gap with the US is widening.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
According to Morgan Stanley Research.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
China is really pushing the envelope in all things leading
edge technology, and there are so many practical and also
strategic applications of AI and robotics combined.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now, you said you saw the video of the Chinese
robot soldiers, and it was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It was not Chinese. It was they were are they're
the good guy soldier alots. But they're pretty impressive. Oh,
it's just crazy impressive. That's funny. There will be a
human being on a battlefield in ten years.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
On CNN, I saw a thing about China's particular robot armies,
robot dogs, robot soldiers, robot they're actually they're presenting it
all as robot athletes, which is pretty clever. Yeah, we
just want to have the best robot athletes out there.
They're really strong and fast and could jump high and
run fast and have guns, and then we'll have guns
and they'll go from being athletes to being very athletic soldiers.
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But they were damned impressive, and it reminded me of
and I keep mentioning this book, but I'm reading this
listening to this book about the end of World War.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
II in the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We were just dominating the Japanese in that last year
of the war before we finally won, because we just
had better technology. Our technology was so much better than
what they had. We're just literally blowing them out of
the water, but they couldn't. Our planes could fly circles
around their planes. Our intelligence was so much better. Our
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radars ability to reach out further than they could. They
wouldn't know where our fleet was, and we'd show up
because they knew where they were, and.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's how you win.
I mean, you can care about your country and be
a patriot and that that matters. See Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But the main reason Ukraine's doing so well is their
innovation and their technology. And if China ends up, you know,
with way ahead of us, like this person suggested an AI,
that's going to be a problem. We defeated the Japanese
so soundly, not because we're a better well, it is
because we're a better such, but not because we're better
people or more honorable or ethical. It's because we we
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had the better technology.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To win the war, right, right, And I hope China
doesn't have that. That report man sound like they do. Right,
Sometimes you just have the edge temporarily. But yeah, yeah,
plenty of awful regimes have gotten over because they had
better war making tools. Yeah, we need to at least
be fighting them to a draw. In the AI stuff,
I mean, it is so obviously the future of warfare.
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It seems silly to even pointed out anymore. But you're
gonna have unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned aquatic vehicles, unmanned men
in the field, just and practically nothing but that it
relates directly that farm story I was excited to about
get into. Maybe we can do it tomorrow. But there's
not gonna be a damn person in your local farm field,
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never mind dozens and dozens of people who oddly have
no immigration paperwork place. That's gonna be as yesterday's ville,
as as I said earlier, importing a bunch of Chinese
people to build the railroad, it'll be a historical curiosity.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And soon, well if you had a bunch of column
Ai soldiers robot soldiers, but they're various kinds of drones early,
I suppose, And then you get a big battle and
the true drone armies meet and then some of them
are hearing, some on the ground. Some of them look
like dogs, some look like people, some of them look
like a half a tank or whatever. And then they
meet and then they have a battle. What do we
all just watch the video at the end say huh
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we won or how we lost?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then it boils down to manufacturing capability against China were.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Like, their army beats your army, and then they say, so,
do you want a super peace or.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
What because we just defeated your army. Well, once we
defeat all your machines, we're gonna come for your humans.
So you got to just smash up machines until everybody
runs out of them, or one side or the other
runs out of them. Then we say, all right, we're
coming for your people. Next you say, all right, all right, uncle,
we can't manufacture fast enough to keep up with you. Wow,
that'll be something.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
To much The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, bar Jack,
your show.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Podcasts and our Hot lakes.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
A guy named dubbed the Sperminator is decided to hang
up his testicles, and he announced it yesterday on Father's
Day after he's turning fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You don't know this guy. You're wrinkling your eyes there
as Katie dling my eyes at a lot of things
about this story. Down I'm I'm taking a wait and
see a posture on this side.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He was dubbed the Sperminator by the New York Post
due to his prolific sperm donations. He after more than
seventeen years of donating his swimmers to complete strangers and
generating one hundred and eighty one kids across five continents.
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He's finally retiring for some reason. He's a math professor
from New York. I think that makes you an incredible weirdo.
But you know people need that. So I suppose you
being the guy.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Who shows up like every other day with a sample
for some weird reason. Well, no, there's demand for him.
Is probably a tall, good looking math professor, right, Yeah,
that's part of it. Yes, the industry that says to him,
you know, see you Monday. You know we're gonna need
more for more, or moms around the world or are
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looking for tall, good looking kids who are good at math,
the whole things. But then they and I know there
is a need for that and all that sort of thing.
But the idea that I got one hundred and eighty
one kids out there that are not going to have
any of my parenting or any stories about my dad
and mom or just none of the you know, none
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of that, I just I think that's I hate that.
So are you against sperm donation in general? No, I
don't know that. I mean, because if I had one
kid out there answering to the description you just gave. That's
a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Although I know people who do have that information about
the sperm donator. When it's you know, a person who
do you know pass along that information or allow them
to get in contact.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You're not going to get in contact. Is he going
to get in contact with one hundred and eighty one
different kids? No, I don't know. That's not the nature
of it, though, as long as you have the medical
I'm just saying I wouldn't want that. No, I hear you,
I hear you. I hate I do. You have a
whole bunch of little mees out there with me in
no role in whatsoever. We all hate that idea.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's been stated by various people, including me, that the
corruption and rot in our education system, specifically far left indoctrination,
is the biggest problem facing America because hearkening back to
Lincoln statement that essentially we'd never be brought down from without.
The only way the United States ends is if we
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commit suicide. I think that is the route by which
we commit suicide. We raise generation after generation that hates
their kind and embraces these Marxist principles. Anyway, that's kind
of the umbrella over this FEATURETTE this segment quick headline.
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's cuts to the
Education Department. It's one of those emergency orders. They didn't
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mention the vote, but it was probably six to three,
and there's no like rationale given because they don't do
that on emergency orders, generally speaking. But so he can
go ahead and gut the Department of Education. Wow, gut gut,
And I feel like that's language of the left. Gut, oh, gut,
gut away, get gut. Well, the gut's good, that's what
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I say. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I thought this was interesting.
A couple of wags in the New York Times with
the following article. And we're leading up to the big gohona, No,
this is like this. You had the opening opening band
play two songs. Now these guys get like a twenty
minute set. But don't worry. We're heading for the headliner,
which is the evil evil teachers' unions. And I stand
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by those. Woo, what a smaller Education Department is doing
under Trump, writes the New York Times. Cuts have hit
most of the department's main functions, which include investigating civil
rights complaints. That means, for the last quite a few years,
enforcing DEI dictates. That's what they mean by enforcing civil
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rights complaints, providing financial aid a bloated system that has
skyrocketed the costs of college education, which Trump is about
to roll back too. We'll have more time for that
another time. But the federal government is to a large
extent getting out of education financing, moving along with the
subhead here in the New York Times. Other things the
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Department of Education does researching what works in education? Oh
like when the Department of Education handed down dictates and
funding to get rid of phonics in favor of the newest,
fashionable whole length language learning or whatever. They called it,
a miserable, miserable failure. What else do they do testing
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students on the federal level. You could make an argument
for that, but as Jack is explained through Goodheart's Law,
once you establish that as a standard, they pervert the
education system. They just score better, and then finally and
dispersing federal funding. That's what we need the Education Department
to do. Yeah, dispersing federal funding is the leash that
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they have the school districts on that they yank if
they don't fall into line with whatever left wing dictate
has been handed down. Yeah, you're seeing Trump use it
now in different levels, right to get rid of boys
in girl sports. Well right, exactly, And in the past
several years it was used to enforce boys in girls
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sports and to enforce restorative justice practices the bully's best friend,
and to enforce saying if you report violent students to
the cops, that's the school to jail pipeline. They better
not be minorities. So yeah, great, the Education Department is
just doing wonderful job, a wonderful job through the years,
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and it's just a tragedy that they're being gutted anyway.
I promised you. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the world's greatest
rock and roll band, the Rolling Stones. Here's your headliner.
And this is some great, great writing by Maya Sulkan
in the Free Press. Headline is how do you fix schools? Teachers'
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union says stop Trump, ice and fascism. Maya Sulkin wrote this,
forty percent of American fourth graders have less than basic
reading skills that's not proficient, forty percent have less than
the basic level of ability, and only twenty six percent
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of twelfth graders are considered efficient in math, according to
the federal government's own educational I'm sorry Progress Assessment. Yeah,
but more importantly, did they have never ending pride assemblies
in the proper month at school? Because that's what I like. Yeah,
you're on the right track, so Maya writes. So you
might think that there wasn't much else on the minds
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of teachers at the latest annual gathering of the nation's
largest teachers union. And it's a good point. Our nation
schools are miserably failing, our government schools, I should say,
miserably failing to teach kids what they need to know.
So that must be the main topic. Are you blanking
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kidding me? No, And she goes into the description of
every approved business item in the agenda published by the NEA,
but one convention delegate from Texas summarized them by telling
me the response she got while trying to talk to
other union members about the best ways to teach reading
and writing. We don't have time for that. We got
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to fight Trump. Her friend was told, no, somebody said
that out loud. Yes, wow, at least at the meeting.
But that e's sense in the classroom. You've gotta fight Trump.
I can't believe anybody said that out loud. And this
is this is not folks Breitbart, this is the free press,
which is you know, very carefully nonpartisan common sense. When
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I asked the NEA for comments, she writes, the union
directed me toward a number of previous statements, including the
convention speech by Becky Pringle, a middle school teacher. Is
now any a president. We must use our power to
take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts.
She said. Here are some of the initiatives approved thousands
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of dollars to quote defend democracy against Trump's embrace of
fascism by using the term fascism in which is misspelled.
By the way, how great is that to use the
term fashion and materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump's program
and actions. Also support foreign participation in the mass democratic
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movement against Trump's authoritarianism and violations of human rights. That
includes support for the No King's movement. Oh that was
reorth shaking well, and the Los Angeles based movement to
defeat Trump's attempts to use federal forces against the state
of California and other states and communities. Why are schools
thinking about this stuff at all? Also opposition to immigrations
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and custom enforcement, kidnapping of student leaders, and support for students'
rights to organize against ice raids and deportations. That's right.
Main plank of the National Education Association, the Teachers' Union
is to encourage kids to demonstrate against ice. If I
was going to be slightly charitable, I wonder if it's
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just a over time you just assumed, even within school
system or in the teachers' unions at higher levels. Maybe
in the school you know it because you're up against
it every day, but you're in the teachers unions at
higher levels, you're not in the schools on a regular basis.
You just assume the nuts and bolts part is okay,
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you know it's it's cruising along teaching kids math and
reading that that's fine. We just we need to there's
these other things we have the power to focus on,
and you just somehow missed the boat that that core part,
the learning part, yeah, had gotten overlooked or decayed or whatever. Oh, yeah,
they don't care. It's an indoctrination factory. Another a couple
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of uh. There are other resolutions that passed UH to
defend students' rights to dissent and organize against Trump's policies,
including attacks against lbgt Q plus students and against racism.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
I mean, if you, I just I think about if
you were going to build a school today, a public
If I was going to maybe other people like in
the town I live and wouldn't agree with me, But
it's going to build a school today, There'd be no
politics in it at all. We wouldn't be doing anything
about any political issue.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There'd be no assemblies, there'd be no speeches, there'd be
no position papers. The would be nothing like first period math,
second period reading, third period math again, I mean, just
throughout today and then you go.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
To vics, plays, social studies, that sort of thing, learn
the Constitution, and then you go home. In response to
the Supreme Court ruling allowing parents stop their kids out
of gender ideology and doctrination, the NEEA will provide quote
a sample local school board resolution that protects educators in
the classroom who are teaching LGBTQ plus inclusive curriculum and content,
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meaning teaching your kid that radical gender theory and the
genderbred person and teaching them that they can change their
sexes if they want. And indeed, you don't have to
tell mommy and daddy. I will help you. I will
tell you where to go. That's what the NEA is
concerned about. I'm just gonna a few more, because this
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is quite the list. Oppose any move to eliminate the
US Department of Education, a bunch of radical stuff, commitment
to the twenty twenty six federal, state and local elections
as a pivotal moment for our democracy training programs to
address the alarming level of discrimination against and bullying of
Arab American students in the public school system. That's the
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whole up with the Palestinians thing, and it goes on
and on and on. The NEA is a radical leftist
organization that could not give a crap about your kids.
I didn't even get to a brilliant article entitled how
did California's public public education go from the best in
the US to the worst? But the short answer is,
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by following chapter and verse all of the things we
just mentioned the NEA is promoting. There is no more
righteous cause than fighting against the left wing and doctrination
factory in America's goal them at school's end of screed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That reminds me, I gotta find a math tutor. I'm
supposed to do that earlier. It's on my to do list.
My son gonna make him do math during the summer.
That's some cruel parenting right there.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
There. You go, gotta be cruel to be kind. So
that a person from Texas, whom I have quoted at
the beginning of the article, said she wasn't surprised at
all to see the approved business items that have nothing
to do with basic educational principles. Quote, it's politics, sex
and gender. When delegates get up on stage, they tell
you that they're political. These things do not just happen overnight.
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People just haven't been paying attention. God, I wish should
be what there aren't.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I suppose you couldn't rise to the ranks where you'd
get a speaking spot, but I wish should be more
people get up on stage say hey, can we just
talk about math and reading?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Like that's it? Never Mintion Trump. I have known and
we hear from lots of teachers who are horrified, outraged,
and saddened by all this. Whether y'all need to start
your own union or form some sort of like you
got your rebel stockholders, sometimes your activist stockholders that shake
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up a corporation, y'all need to somehow find a way
to band together and shake up the NEA and the
other big one because they are absolutely freaking anti American
far left. You know, gorillas, and I think gorillas is
a pretty good term, because they are operating undercover indoctrinating
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our children.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Even if it weren't the far left part, if it's
just not the core things your kid needs to learn
that they're spending time on, that's a crime.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's a great point.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
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Speaker 1 (29:47):
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A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion animals nearing
lifes in to donate them uh as food for captive lynxes, lions,
and other carnivores.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
This is sounding like a pretty darn good idea. Why
haven't we thought about this in the United States.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You know what's funny is I don't know if it's
intentionally or unintentionally. The subhead in the head from the
New York Times. Don't make it clear whether your animal
is alive in this scenario or not. Right, I was
wondering about that. But we got shelters full of cats
and zoos full of hungry lions. How we haven't put
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those two things together.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Oh right, I'm not playing along with them.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, well, and so my. The first thing I thought,
in looking this article over and skimming it real quickly, was, man,
this is a because they make it clear that these
animals would be gently euthanized by trained employees, used for
food by the zoos, predators like the European lynks, lions
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and tigers, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, for me, even I don't want to feel alive,
straight kitten who is going to be euthanized at the shelter?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So long? Rewiring? But uh, why not?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
You know, give a knock it out a little bit
and then give it to the line.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
All right, well, it'll be euthanized, it'll be dead the
circle of life. It won't be asleep, it'll be dead.
But anyway, so enough, knock it out a little bit.
You know, I won't really know what's going on, right,
give it a xanax it'll be fine. Yeah, give it
a half a Benadryll and put it in the lion cage.
So I've got to admit I was thinking, as I
often do, as the the dedicated realist, that all right,
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this is a pretty good dividing line that makes perfect
sense to me. Of course it does. You have these
animals in the zoo. People love them, they admire them,
they learn about conservation, blah blah blah. The animals are
eating meat, obviously, they're feeding them their natural diet, and
as the zoo says, this way nothing goes to waste,
and we ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well being for
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our predators because it mimics the natural food chain by
feeding whole prey to its predators. So it is absolutely
biologically zoologically not only defensible, it's ideal. I'll have to.
I thought, here's a great dividing line. Can you handle
that or not? Do you understand that your pet, when
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it's gone, it's gone, and you'll be doing a good thing.
And then I thought about my dog, and I its
bye bye. It is harder when you think about your
own dog. I can still do it. I'll have to.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I'll have to ask Henry if he'd be okay if
Pugsito got eaten by a lion?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh my, don't you dare ask him that? Not prior
to the age. It's twenty thirty and he'll be one
years old.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
He'll be on a therapist's couch and say, I remember
it today, Gladys, he'll say, and Gladys will play the.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Harp and he'll say, I was thirteen years old and my.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Dad came in and said, would it be okay if
we found Pugsito to a lion?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Your beloved dog companion? Good? Lord, be lucky if he
doesn't take you out anyway. You know what? My only
problem is, do I get to beat Maybe they explain
that in the late going in this article, I was
so intrigued by the ethnic Yes, you'd just finish reading it.
You're just not throwing the dog in there. Run run run.
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You know it's not like that. Well right, And I
don't want to make everybody sad, but certainly the you know,
as we've had to do in the past, I will
be there at the end, and I don't need a
zoo keeper to do it. Backstage of the lion exhibit,
now we have Katie's a dog owner. What's your opinion?
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This whole conversation is just not could you feed that?
What's that little white fluffy dog you got? Frank? Now,
if I could not, I could not, I could not
feed you misunderstand the diet of the great apes.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
But what's that little white fluffy thing you have?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The post linked to the zoo's website describes the process
for donating horses as food.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Now do they take it alive and then they euthanize it?
Because I could not handle see that? So you're still
handing over a live animal?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yes, to the zoo? Yeah? I think this is now.
They also accept chickens, your dogs, and guinea gigs. You're
talking a quick question? Why are we at the zoo?
And where am I going? And why are you not
coming with me? Oh lord, no, no, I can't even contentplate.
It's too dark, it's too terrible. But notice we're at
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the zoo. So they mentioned the we've never been to
the zoo before. The horse will be delivered alive to
the zoo where it will be euthanized by a zoo
keeper and a veterinarian and then slaughtered the zoo's website,
or so they tell you right now. Here's where it
gets weird. The zoo also accepts chickens, rabbits, and guinea
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pigs during weekdays between ten am and one pm, but
no more than four at a time. Oh okay, jeez,
I have six. I'll have to go two days in
a row. Oh my God. And your lower form of
beasts that don't know what from what I feel this
for instance, I feel different about them than I do
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about like, say, a very bright dog. I don't know.
I don't think this is going to catch on a lot.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
I don't like the idea of handing them over alive.
I feel like, I don't know they need to euthanize
them like there. I don't know how that would work out.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Rough rough So when we got in the car, I
thought perhaps where we were added to a church or
a hospital.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
So, when I dropped my son off at boy Scout
camp the other day at this late and they were
gonna have to hike to their destination, it's a couple
of mile hike. You have to take everything in with you,
so try to pack as lightly as possible. Blah blah
blah blah.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Drop them off there.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I load everybody up, and this one kid brought a
guitar and a boy Scout leader. One of them said,
you're sure you want to carry that thing for a
couple of miles. I said, yeah, yeah, I really want
to bring it. And you know, if you've ever camped,
having a guitar around, if your a guitar player is
really cool and you can sing songs and all that
sort of stuff. Anyway, we stopped for lunch. It's a
couple hour drive to this lake, and we stopped for
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lunch at this little pullout and he gets his guitar
out and sets up a little thing, and he's like
thirteen years old, and he sets up a little chair
and he's sitting there on a log and he starts
in playing. And if I would have bet you ten
thousand dollars one hundred thousand million dollars, that wasn't gonna
hear what came out of his mouth as a thirteen
year old boy. Because I'm just wondering, you know, what's
a thirteen year old boy gonna play. He sits down
(01:39):
with his guitar. First of all, he's got an incredibly
low voice, and he says I met her accidentally in
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
He launches into a Johnny Cash song.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Immediately, I'm like what what me? And one of the
other leaders was like unbelievable. I would have never guessed
that this was what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He did several Johnny Cash songs and then put his
guitar away. I'll be dang, I know, and he played
better than me, which is highly disappointing.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh, that's so annoying, very very annoying.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You might be annoyed if you're really into the whole
pedo ring story. That is the reason a chunk of
you voted for Donald Trump. Some of you don't even
know what I'm talking about, because I only know because
I happen to know a couple of people that are
really into this story. Their big thing was, I mean,
(02:32):
they were all tweeting and texting each other leading up
to election day and inauguration day.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Finally it comes to an end. They're all going to
be exposed.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The Clinton's, the Hollywood types, everybody who's been trafficking all
these children for sex.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
All these years are going to get nailed to the wall.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And it's all tied in with Epstein and he's a
massad agent in blackmail and all these different sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right, it's a form of the Q and HO are
more like the Pizzagate thing, just evolving, continuing to evolve,
because that's the nature of these things.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And you might be disappointed if you're in that crowd
that Trump has come out so hardcore against you today
with truth social posts and a couple of different on
Mike things denouncing you and saying he doesn't need your
vote anymore. Here's the very latest from the Oval office.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He said this was all a hoax. Has your attorney
general told you this was a hoax?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What evidence is that the Attorney general? No, I know,
it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats. It's been run
by the Democrats for four years. You had Christopher Ray
and these characters and called me before him, and it's
a bad group.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It started.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Actually look at the Steele dossier that turned out to
be a total hoax. The fifty one Agency intelligence so
called intelligence agents.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It was a hoax. It's all been a big hoax.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some stupid Republicans and
foolish Republicans fall into.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The net and so they.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Try and do the democrats work. I call it the
Epstein hooks. The sad part is it's people that are
really doing the Democrats work. There's stupid people.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The most energetic Trump supporters I know would be that
group of stupid Republicans that fell into the net doing
the work of the Democrats he just talked about. Because
they believe that story that your attorney general and FBI
director and others were pushing for quite some time. It
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wasn't Democrats. I don't remember Democrats ever pushing this child
sex ring thing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, when they're now doing the work of the Democrats
by undermining the Trump administration, saying.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right, but how does it tie in with Komi and
russiagat and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, it doesn't. That's not a great comparison. I mean,
they're both false, and both you know, had just enough
tidbit of evidence here, evidence there that you could spin
the yarn if your James call me that, Yes, Trump
is a secret Russian stooge. So you hear the.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Phrase in politics sometimes about when Bill Clinton denounced a
rapper that kind of went against his own party, a
sister Soldier moment. People call about it and and it
helped him bring people into support him from the other side.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
This is like, well he was proving I'm not look,
I'm left, but I'm not way out there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I'm willing to denounce the crazies
in my party.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Is this Trump's sister Soldier moment? Yeah? Except that the
Epstein thing is so under the radar of the vast,
vast majority of people, whereas like and violent imagery and
anti American imagery, and in the case of Sister Soldier,
I think it was anti cop imagery. That's everybody's aware
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of that. That's like a hot top. This is so
I mean, he's denouncing them so strongly.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It would be like, if, you know, assuming Biden wasn't
a mental patient, if Biden had.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Come out and said, look, these college students marginal reminder,
Kamala was the actual candidate, so yous Kamala. Okay, if
Kamala had come out and said, these college students are crazy.
They've fallen for a hoax that Israel is perpetuating a genocide,
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I don't want their support. They're nuts.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I mean, it's that level of your biggest supporter, the
biggest supporters, you're calling crazies, your most passionate supporters.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah wow, yeah, Yeah, it's notable. And you know what's
funny is I think the criticism of Pam Bondi and
Cash Betellent Company is legitimate, having led people way down
the garden path of the idea that there's something here
and we're getting to the bottom of it. Just to
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exploit them and keep them listening in, watching them whatever,
and then just saying I've looked at the violin, there's
nothing there, so we're fine. Here, we're done, and thinking
that's going to be good enough. It's just dumb. You
don't understand how the way human beings behave you needed
to do better than that and explain why, having promoted
the idea for the longest time, or in the case
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of Pambondy freaking specifically said.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You had the client list on your desk, you gotta
do better. Do you think she needs to step down
or will a lot of people say that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I don't know. It's so hard to say. Within Trump world,
it's entirely possible. Yeah, but anyway, I was working toward
a point. Oh, that's absolutely I think they mishandled it.
They had to do better. On the other hand, I
have no idea why Donald J would be so harsh.
(08:10):
He doesn't need a sister soldier. Moment he's in office.
He can't run again. He's just doesn't care who he
hurts and bruises with his words.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It seems to me like he would have been better
off if he went with Look, I wasn't paying attention
to the Epstein thing. Really, you know, throw Bondie and
patell or whoever you want under the bus. You know,
they were pushing this. I heard what they said and
I thought, wow, that's interesting, but I wasn't really paying
attention to it. It turns out there's nothing to it. Yeah,
they probably went too far, folks.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And now they've seen the actual facts and they realized
there was really nothing there. So they you know, they
owe you an apology, right being as enthusiastic as they were, right, Well,
they didn't have the facts go with.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They owe you know, apology as opposed to, you're crazy
and I don't want your support anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And stupid stupid crazy is one thinks stupid is another.
You hate to be both. Yeah, it's it's just it's
bad politics. But you can do whatever he wants. That
much is clear. Okay, Well that's that story. You're thinking
this is over that dang story. Yeah. I'm just interested
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in watching humans and and just the psychological, social, political
aspects of this. I don't. I don't. I have no
interest in the story itself really because I've I've learned
everything I need to learn. I think about it. But
people behave is so interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's exactly what I thought it was. I assumed all
along they were saying this to get ratings and or
get votes, and there was nothing to it but change
the topic. I just wanted to get this story on.
It's a story about China and what they're doing around AI.
And now Trump gave to go ahead from the video
to continue to sell the very best AI chips to China.
(10:04):
I'm not xac sure what that's all about. I haven't
looked into it. But Chinese government they're working on AI too,
let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
This whole robotic push comes at a time when the
Chinese government is making technology, including AI, a national priority. Already,
China's approven innovator, as we've seen with evs. Now it's
looking to dominate the field of AI enabled robots, and
the gap with the US is widening.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
According to Morgan Stanley Research.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
China is really pushing the envelope in all things leading
edge technology, and there are so many practical and also
strategic applications of AI and robotics combined.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now, you said you saw the video of the Chinese
robot soldiers, and it was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It was not Chinese. It was they were are they're
the good guy soldier alots. But they're pretty impressive. Oh,
it's just crazy impressive. That's funny. There will be a
human being on a battlefield in ten years.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
On CNN, I saw a thing about China's particular robot armies,
robot dogs, robot soldiers, robot they're actually they're presenting it
all as robot athletes, which is pretty clever. Yeah, we
just want to have the best robot athletes out there.
They're really strong and fast and could jump high and
run fast and have guns, and then we'll have guns
and they'll go from being athletes to being very athletic soldiers.
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But they were damned impressive, and it reminded me of
and I keep mentioning this book, but I'm reading this
listening to this book about the end of World War.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
II in the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We were just dominating the Japanese in that last year
of the war before we finally won, because we just
had better technology. Our technology was so much better than
what they had. We're just literally blowing them out of
the water, but they couldn't. Our planes could fly circles
around their planes. Our intelligence was so much better. Our
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radars ability to reach out further than they could. They
wouldn't know where our fleet was, and we'd show up
because they knew where they were, and.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's how you win.
I mean, you can care about your country and be
a patriot and that that matters. See Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But the main reason Ukraine's doing so well is their
innovation and their technology. And if China ends up, you know,
with way ahead of us, like this person suggested an AI,
that's going to be a problem. We defeated the Japanese
so soundly, not because we're a better well, it is
because we're a better such, but not because we're better
people or more honorable or ethical. It's because we we
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had the better technology.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To win the war, right, right, And I hope China
doesn't have that. That report man sound like they do. Right,
Sometimes you just have the edge temporarily. But yeah, yeah,
plenty of awful regimes have gotten over because they had
better war making tools. Yeah, we need to at least
be fighting them to a draw. In the AI stuff,
I mean, it is so obviously the future of warfare.
(13:02):
It seems silly to even pointed out anymore. But you're
gonna have unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned aquatic vehicles, unmanned men
in the field, just and practically nothing but that it
relates directly that farm story I was excited to about
get into. Maybe we can do it tomorrow. But there's
not gonna be a damn person in your local farm field,
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never mind dozens and dozens of people who oddly have
no immigration paperwork place. That's gonna be as yesterday's ville,
as as I said earlier, importing a bunch of Chinese
people to build the railroad, it'll be a historical curiosity.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And soon, well if you had a bunch of column
Ai soldiers robot soldiers, but they're various kinds of drones early,
I suppose, And then you get a big battle and
the true drone armies meet and then some of them
are hearing, some on the ground. Some of them look
like dogs, some look like people, some of them look
like a half a tank or whatever. And then they
meet and then they have a battle. What do we
all just watch the video at the end say huh
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we won or how we lost?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then it boils down to manufacturing capability against China were.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Like, their army beats your army, and then they say, so,
do you want a super peace or.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
What because we just defeated your army. Well, once we
defeat all your machines, we're gonna come for your humans.
So you got to just smash up machines until everybody
runs out of them, or one side or the other
runs out of them. Then we say, all right, we're
coming for your people. Next you say, all right, all right, uncle,
we can't manufacture fast enough to keep up with you. Wow,
that'll be something.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
To much The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, bar Jack,
your show.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
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Speaker 2 (14:40):
A guy named dubbed the Sperminator is decided to hang
up his testicles, and he announced it yesterday on Father's
Day after he's turning fifty.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You don't know this guy. You're wrinkling your eyes there
as Katie dling my eyes at a lot of things
about this story. Down I'm I'm taking a wait and
see a posture on this side.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He was dubbed the Sperminator by the New York Post
due to his prolific sperm donations. He after more than
seventeen years of donating his swimmers to complete strangers and
generating one hundred and eighty one kids across five continents.
(15:25):
He's finally retiring for some reason. He's a math professor
from New York. I think that makes you an incredible weirdo.
But you know people need that. So I suppose you
being the guy.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Who shows up like every other day with a sample
for some weird reason. Well, no, there's demand for him.
Is probably a tall, good looking math professor, right, Yeah,
that's part of it. Yes, the industry that says to him,
you know, see you Monday. You know we're gonna need
more for more, or moms around the world or are
(16:02):
looking for tall, good looking kids who are good at math,
the whole things. But then they and I know there
is a need for that and all that sort of thing.
But the idea that I got one hundred and eighty
one kids out there that are not going to have
any of my parenting or any stories about my dad
and mom or just none of the you know, none
(16:23):
of that, I just I think that's I hate that.
So are you against sperm donation in general? No, I
don't know that. I mean, because if I had one
kid out there answering to the description you just gave. That's
a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Although I know people who do have that information about
the sperm donator. When it's you know, a person who
do you know pass along that information or allow them
to get in contact.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You're not going to get in contact. Is he going
to get in contact with one hundred and eighty one
different kids? No, I don't know. That's not the nature
of it, though, as long as you have the medical
I'm just saying I wouldn't want that. No, I hear you,
I hear you. I hate I do. You have a
whole bunch of little mees out there with me in
no role in whatsoever. We all hate that idea.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Jack Armstrong and Joetty The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's been stated by various people, including me, that the
corruption and rot in our education system, specifically far left indoctrination,
is the biggest problem facing America because hearkening back to
Lincoln statement that essentially we'd never be brought down from without.
The only way the United States ends is if we
(17:53):
commit suicide. I think that is the route by which
we commit suicide. We raise generation after generation that hates
their kind and embraces these Marxist principles. Anyway, that's kind
of the umbrella over this FEATURETTE this segment quick headline.
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's cuts to the
Education Department. It's one of those emergency orders. They didn't
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mention the vote, but it was probably six to three,
and there's no like rationale given because they don't do
that on emergency orders, generally speaking. But so he can
go ahead and gut the Department of Education. Wow, gut gut,
And I feel like that's language of the left. Gut, oh, gut,
gut away, get gut. Well, the gut's good, that's what
(18:33):
I say. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I thought this was interesting.
A couple of wags in the New York Times with
the following article. And we're leading up to the big gohona, No,
this is like this. You had the opening opening band
play two songs. Now these guys get like a twenty
minute set. But don't worry. We're heading for the headliner,
which is the evil evil teachers' unions. And I stand
(18:59):
by those. Woo, what a smaller Education Department is doing
under Trump, writes the New York Times. Cuts have hit
most of the department's main functions, which include investigating civil
rights complaints. That means, for the last quite a few years,
enforcing DEI dictates. That's what they mean by enforcing civil
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rights complaints, providing financial aid a bloated system that has
skyrocketed the costs of college education, which Trump is about
to roll back too. We'll have more time for that
another time. But the federal government is to a large
extent getting out of education financing, moving along with the
subhead here in the New York Times. Other things the
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Department of Education does researching what works in education? Oh
like when the Department of Education handed down dictates and
funding to get rid of phonics in favor of the newest,
fashionable whole length language learning or whatever. They called it,
a miserable, miserable failure. What else do they do testing
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students on the federal level. You could make an argument
for that, but as Jack is explained through Goodheart's Law,
once you establish that as a standard, they pervert the
education system. They just score better, and then finally and
dispersing federal funding. That's what we need the Education Department
to do. Yeah, dispersing federal funding is the leash that
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they have the school districts on that they yank if
they don't fall into line with whatever left wing dictate
has been handed down. Yeah, you're seeing Trump use it
now in different levels, right to get rid of boys
in girl sports. Well right, exactly, And in the past
several years it was used to enforce boys in girls
(20:52):
sports and to enforce restorative justice practices the bully's best friend,
and to enforce saying if you report violent students to
the cops, that's the school to jail pipeline. They better
not be minorities. So yeah, great, the Education Department is
just doing wonderful job, a wonderful job through the years,
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and it's just a tragedy that they're being gutted anyway.
I promised you. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the world's greatest
rock and roll band, the Rolling Stones. Here's your headliner.
And this is some great, great writing by Maya Sulkan
in the Free Press. Headline is how do you fix schools? Teachers'
(21:35):
union says stop Trump, ice and fascism. Maya Sulkin wrote this,
forty percent of American fourth graders have less than basic
reading skills that's not proficient, forty percent have less than
the basic level of ability, and only twenty six percent
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of twelfth graders are considered efficient in math, according to
the federal government's own educational I'm sorry Progress Assessment. Yeah,
but more importantly, did they have never ending pride assemblies
in the proper month at school? Because that's what I like. Yeah,
you're on the right track, so Maya writes. So you
might think that there wasn't much else on the minds
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of teachers at the latest annual gathering of the nation's
largest teachers union. And it's a good point. Our nation
schools are miserably failing, our government schools, I should say,
miserably failing to teach kids what they need to know.
So that must be the main topic. Are you blanking
(22:39):
kidding me? No, And she goes into the description of
every approved business item in the agenda published by the NEA,
but one convention delegate from Texas summarized them by telling
me the response she got while trying to talk to
other union members about the best ways to teach reading
and writing. We don't have time for that. We got
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to fight Trump. Her friend was told, no, somebody said
that out loud. Yes, wow, at least at the meeting.
But that e's sense in the classroom. You've gotta fight Trump.
I can't believe anybody said that out loud. And this
is this is not folks Breitbart, this is the free press,
which is you know, very carefully nonpartisan common sense. When
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I asked the NEA for comments, she writes, the union
directed me toward a number of previous statements, including the
convention speech by Becky Pringle, a middle school teacher. Is
now any a president. We must use our power to
take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts.
She said. Here are some of the initiatives approved thousands
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of dollars to quote defend democracy against Trump's embrace of
fascism by using the term fascism in which is misspelled.
By the way, how great is that to use the
term fashion and materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump's program
and actions. Also support foreign participation in the mass democratic
(24:08):
movement against Trump's authoritarianism and violations of human rights. That
includes support for the No King's movement. Oh that was
reorth shaking well, and the Los Angeles based movement to
defeat Trump's attempts to use federal forces against the state
of California and other states and communities. Why are schools
thinking about this stuff at all? Also opposition to immigrations
(24:30):
and custom enforcement, kidnapping of student leaders, and support for students'
rights to organize against ice raids and deportations. That's right.
Main plank of the National Education Association, the Teachers' Union
is to encourage kids to demonstrate against ice. If I
was going to be slightly charitable, I wonder if it's
(24:52):
just a over time you just assumed, even within school
system or in the teachers' unions at higher levels. Maybe
in the school you know it because you're up against
it every day, but you're in the teachers unions at
higher levels, you're not in the schools on a regular basis.
You just assume the nuts and bolts part is okay,
(25:14):
you know it's it's cruising along teaching kids math and
reading that that's fine. We just we need to there's
these other things we have the power to focus on,
and you just somehow missed the boat that that core part,
the learning part, yeah, had gotten overlooked or decayed or whatever. Oh, yeah,
they don't care. It's an indoctrination factory. Another a couple
(25:37):
of uh. There are other resolutions that passed UH to
defend students' rights to dissent and organize against Trump's policies,
including attacks against lbgt Q plus students and against racism.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
I mean, if you, I just I think about if
you were going to build a school today, a public
If I was going to maybe other people like in
the town I live and wouldn't agree with me, But
it's going to build a school today, There'd be no
politics in it at all. We wouldn't be doing anything
about any political issue.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There'd be no assemblies, there'd be no speeches, there'd be
no position papers. The would be nothing like first period math,
second period reading, third period math again, I mean, just
throughout today and then you go.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
To vics, plays, social studies, that sort of thing, learn
the Constitution, and then you go home. In response to
the Supreme Court ruling allowing parents stop their kids out
of gender ideology and doctrination, the NEEA will provide quote
a sample local school board resolution that protects educators in
the classroom who are teaching LGBTQ plus inclusive curriculum and content,
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meaning teaching your kid that radical gender theory and the
genderbred person and teaching them that they can change their
sexes if they want. And indeed, you don't have to
tell mommy and daddy. I will help you. I will
tell you where to go. That's what the NEA is
concerned about. I'm just gonna a few more, because this
(27:02):
is quite the list. Oppose any move to eliminate the
US Department of Education, a bunch of radical stuff, commitment
to the twenty twenty six federal, state and local elections
as a pivotal moment for our democracy training programs to
address the alarming level of discrimination against and bullying of
Arab American students in the public school system. That's the
(27:23):
whole up with the Palestinians thing, and it goes on
and on and on. The NEA is a radical leftist
organization that could not give a crap about your kids.
I didn't even get to a brilliant article entitled how
did California's public public education go from the best in
the US to the worst? But the short answer is,
(27:46):
by following chapter and verse all of the things we
just mentioned the NEA is promoting. There is no more
righteous cause than fighting against the left wing and doctrination
factory in America's goal them at school's end of screed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That reminds me, I gotta find a math tutor. I'm
supposed to do that earlier. It's on my to do list.
My son gonna make him do math during the summer.
That's some cruel parenting right there.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
There. You go, gotta be cruel to be kind. So
that a person from Texas, whom I have quoted at
the beginning of the article, said she wasn't surprised at
all to see the approved business items that have nothing
to do with basic educational principles. Quote, it's politics, sex
and gender. When delegates get up on stage, they tell
you that they're political. These things do not just happen overnight.
(28:35):
People just haven't been paying attention. God, I wish should
be what there aren't.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I suppose you couldn't rise to the ranks where you'd
get a speaking spot, but I wish should be more
people get up on stage say hey, can we just
talk about math and reading?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Like that's it? Never Mintion Trump. I have known and
we hear from lots of teachers who are horrified, outraged,
and saddened by all this. Whether y'all need to start
your own union or form some sort of like you
got your rebel stockholders, sometimes your activist stockholders that shake
(29:10):
up a corporation, y'all need to somehow find a way
to band together and shake up the NEA and the
other big one because they are absolutely freaking anti American
far left. You know, gorillas, and I think gorillas is
a pretty good term, because they are operating undercover indoctrinating
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our children.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Even if it weren't the far left part, if it's
just not the core things your kid needs to learn
that they're spending time on, that's a crime.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's a great point.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
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A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion animals nearing
lifes in to donate them uh as food for captive lynxes, lions,
and other carnivores.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
This is sounding like a pretty darn good idea. Why
haven't we thought about this in the United States.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You know what's funny is I don't know if it's
intentionally or unintentionally. The subhead in the head from the
New York Times. Don't make it clear whether your animal
is alive in this scenario or not. Right, I was
wondering about that. But we got shelters full of cats
and zoos full of hungry lions. How we haven't put
(30:30):
those two things together.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Oh right, I'm not playing along with them.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, well, and so my. The first thing I thought,
in looking this article over and skimming it real quickly, was, man,
this is a because they make it clear that these
animals would be gently euthanized by trained employees, used for
food by the zoos, predators like the European lynks, lions
(30:58):
and tigers, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, for me, even I don't want to feel alive,
straight kitten who is going to be euthanized at the shelter?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So long? Rewiring? But uh, why not?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
You know, give a knock it out a little bit
and then give it to the line.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
All right, well, it'll be euthanized, it'll be dead the
circle of life. It won't be asleep, it'll be dead.
But anyway, so enough, knock it out a little bit.
You know, I won't really know what's going on, right,
give it a xanax it'll be fine. Yeah, give it
a half a Benadryll and put it in the lion cage.
So I've got to admit I was thinking, as I
often do, as the the dedicated realist, that all right,
(31:42):
this is a pretty good dividing line that makes perfect
sense to me. Of course it does. You have these
animals in the zoo. People love them, they admire them,
they learn about conservation, blah blah blah. The animals are
eating meat, obviously, they're feeding them their natural diet, and
as the zoo says, this way nothing goes to waste,
and we ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well being for
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our predators because it mimics the natural food chain by
feeding whole prey to its predators. So it is absolutely
biologically zoologically not only defensible, it's ideal. I'll have to.
I thought, here's a great dividing line. Can you handle
that or not? Do you understand that your pet, when
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it's gone, it's gone, and you'll be doing a good thing.
And then I thought about my dog, and I its
bye bye. It is harder when you think about your
own dog. I can still do it. I'll have to.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I'll have to ask Henry if he'd be okay if
Pugsito got eaten by a lion?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh my, don't you dare ask him that? Not prior
to the age. It's twenty thirty and he'll be one
years old.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
He'll be on a therapist's couch and say, I remember
it today, Gladys, he'll say, and Gladys will play the.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Harp and he'll say, I was thirteen years old and my.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Dad came in and said, would it be okay if
we found Pugsito to a lion?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Your beloved dog companion? Good? Lord, be lucky if he
doesn't take you out anyway. You know what? My only
problem is, do I get to beat Maybe they explain
that in the late going in this article, I was
so intrigued by the ethnic Yes, you'd just finish reading it.
You're just not throwing the dog in there. Run run run.
(33:24):
You know it's not like that. Well right, And I
don't want to make everybody sad, but certainly the you know,
as we've had to do in the past, I will
be there at the end, and I don't need a
zoo keeper to do it. Backstage of the lion exhibit,
now we have Katie's a dog owner. What's your opinion?
(33:44):
This whole conversation is just not could you feed that?
What's that little white fluffy dog you got? Frank? Now,
if I could not, I could not, I could not
feed you misunderstand the diet of the great apes.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
But what's that little white fluffy thing you have?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The post linked to the zoo's website describes the process
for donating horses as food.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Now do they take it alive and then they euthanize it?
Because I could not handle see that? So you're still
handing over a live animal?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yes, to the zoo? Yeah? I think this is now.
They also accept chickens, your dogs, and guinea gigs. You're
talking a quick question? Why are we at the zoo?
And where am I going? And why are you not
coming with me? Oh lord, no, no, I can't even contentplate.
It's too dark, it's too terrible. But notice we're at
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the zoo. So they mentioned the we've never been to
the zoo before. The horse will be delivered alive to
the zoo where it will be euthanized by a zoo
keeper and a veterinarian and then slaughtered the zoo's website,
or so they tell you right now. Here's where it
gets weird. The zoo also accepts chickens, rabbits, and guinea
(34:58):
pigs during weekdays between ten am and one pm, but
no more than four at a time. Oh okay, jeez,
I have six. I'll have to go two days in
a row. Oh my God. And your lower form of
beasts that don't know what from what I feel this
for instance, I feel different about them than I do
(35:19):
about like, say, a very bright dog. I don't know.
I don't think this is going to catch on a lot.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
I don't like the idea of handing them over alive.
I feel like, I don't know they need to euthanize
them like there. I don't know how that would work out.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Rough rough So when we got in the car, I
thought perhaps where we were added to a church or
a hospital.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
This for He's say stop with that,
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