July 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The Epstein files & Trump talking to the press
- Jack's RBF development
- School discipline
- New Barbie & a text debacle
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty sow this
Epstein story. Is it finally over?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It might be finally over for for any reporting of
mainstream news.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
The hardcore conspiracy theorists are are fired up by the
latest moves, so they're not done.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And it's driven a lot by the q Andon crowd.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The two things being there are a whole bunch of politicians,
the Obama's, the Clinton's, Hollywood stars who are involved in
child sex trafficking, and that there are hundreds of thousands
of kids that are being child sex traffic with the
help of big powerful people, and it's being all tied
to Jeffrey Epstein. It's being covered up. And then you
got all the remember the Panda eyes thing. I mean,
(01:09):
it's just there's lots of well and it.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Used to be Democrats. Democrats are doing all this well.
Now it's the Trump administration as well. Based on the
last announcement.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I personally know a number of people who were excited
about Trump getting elected because finally this will come forward.
All this information will come out about the child sex trafficking,
and then people are very disappointed that cash Ptel with
the FBI and Trump and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General
and others are covering it up or whatever. Anyway, So
(01:40):
Trump has a cabinet meeting yesterday with all his secretaries
and starts taking questions and answers questions for damn near
two hours. Man, Joe Biden didn't answer questions that much
total in four years of presidency. But somebody asked about Epstein.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Here it goes your.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Memo and Relissia James.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Jeffrey Epstein less leader in this reas.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
One of the biggest ones is whether he ever works
for an American for foreign intelligence agency. So could you
resolve whether or not you did? And also can you
see why there was a minute to scene from jail
house team.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Yeah, sir, just interested. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we
have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things,
and are people still talking about this guy that's created
that is unbelievable? Right?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So the whole was Jeffrey Epstein involved in one of
our intelligence services because there's belief that he's tied in
with the Mascade, and that's the leverage that netan Yahoo
has over Trump because Epstein blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Here's a little more from Trump in that same press conference.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Do you want to waste the time and do you
feel like answered?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
I don't mind answering.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question at
Epstein at a time like this where we're having some
of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened
in Texas.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
It just seems like a desecration.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
But you go ahead.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
To some people that was proof that Trump is on
the list, the supposed Epstein list, and is now trying
to cover that up. Yeah, we got a couple of
emails from folks saying I'm losing confidence with this administration.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The gas lighting continues, just like under Biden. Here's a
gal who thinks Netnahuo nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize
because the Masad and CIA used Epstein, the blackmail politicians,
et cetera, et cetera. Thousands of children have been children
been trafficked, and Bongino, Patel and Bondi are obeying orders
from Trump, and obviously Trump is.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
In on the cover up. According to this emailer, Wow,
that's quite the conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Speaking of Bondi, Pambondi, the Attorney General, she was asked
about so, first, you spent a lot of time talking
about this list and it was on your desk and
you're going to release it. Then the big announcement over
the weekend was there is no list anyway, here's Pam
Bondy sure.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Sure. First to back up on that, in February, I
did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a
lot of attention because I said, I was asked a
question about the client list, and my response was it's
sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file
along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
That's what I meant by that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Okay, so not the list specifically, it I mean, well,
it's the imprecise answer to the question.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's not out, it's not totally crazy to me. Well,
let's hear more from her.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Also, to the tens of thousands of video they turned
out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein.
Child porn is what they were never going to be released,
never going to see the lighted day to him being
an agent.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
I have no knowledge about that. We can get back
to you on that.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I wish she hadn't said that at the end. I mean,
that's true, they have no knowledge of that, but it's
not a thing. There's no evidence whatsoever that Jeffrey Epstein
was involved in any high level intelligence agencies would have
been a bet everything.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
To say I was just reading a piece in Axios
that was super interesting about this shadowy CIA character who
was dealing with Lee, Harvey Oswald and other pro castro
activists way back in the day. Bears no light whatsoever
on the assassination of Kennedy. But the one thing it
does make clear is the CIA will do what it wants,
and it will say whatever it wants in response to questions,
(05:36):
even from on high. They have throughout their history lied
like crazy to preserve you know, mission.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Secrecy, and at every point in our history, probably including now,
we all think well that was the old base. Now
they don't do that sort of thing, right, Which is
not to say we're leaping at some sort of you know,
a nutty conclusion about Jeffrey Epstein and the rest of it.
But I understand why people have their suspicions. Well, that
was interesting. I didn't I don't remember hearing that Jeffrey
(06:03):
Epsteam had so he had thousands of hours of child porn. Really,
I didn't know that that was part of his whole deal. Well,
we did know that it was, you know, under the
age of eighteen. So if you're calling that child porn,
I guess, and that's technically accurate. Here's more from Pambondi and.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
The minute missing from the video.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
We released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive,
but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
And what was on that there was a minute that
was off the counter.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And what we learned from euron Prisons was every year,
every night they redo that videos old from like nineteen
ninety nine, So every night the video is reset and
every night should have the same minute missing. So we're
looking for that video to release that as well, showing
that a minute is missing every night and that's it.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Hot.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So there's a missing minute of footage from overnight of
the jail cell. She's saying that that's the way the
camera works because they reset it. That's a bad system,
or you have a full minute of no cameras every night.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
But well, I'm trying to remember the system from nineteen
ninety nine, So what would that be some sort of
you know, limited space hard drive.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Probably I don't know. Yeah, I mean, like we said yesterday,
you gotta admit.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I mean, it's pretty damn convenient that the camera's turned
off for a minute and then you come back and
the guy's dead.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, hell, yes, Well.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
If I were like a fake QAnon type character online,
I'd be thinking, Man, this is too easy, all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
They're giving me so much to work with. It's effortless.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
The problem I always had he had every reason in
the world to kill himself and like no reason to
stay alive.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Right right, I would agree, But Sadie German wrote a
piece in the Wall Street Journal today that I think
is pretty fair and they're too aspects to it that
I thought we're worth mentioning number one. She says Pam
Bondi's tendency to exaggerate is catching up on her, catching
up to her. She she tries very hard to be
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exciting and flamboyant and very maga a la Trump but
Trump has a teflon quality that other people don't get
away with, and I think Pam is guilty of that probably.
And they go through a couple of quotes and that
ridiculous where they had a bunch of influencers show up
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in the White House driveway and and waived files from
Epstein that turned out to be just like his rolodex,
which was nothing new.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's nothing interesting to that, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
But the other aspect of this that I found interesting,
just you know, looking at MAGA world, the about face
on the because she had once uh promised to release
quote a truckload of documents from the FBI investigation.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well, you say that sort of crap, you should pay
a price for it. I mean, you can't go around
saying that, right.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
But the about face drew a course of criticism from
right wing figures, including Glenn Beck, which I found interesting.
I haven't heard Glenn in ages, but I don't know,
you know, the nature of what he's talking about these days.
Benny Johnson, who is and Jack Pisobiak. Laura Lumer asked
late Monday on X quote, how many more times is
this woman going to get away with effing everything up
(09:33):
before she is fired. So MAGA world, at least that
section of it is turning on Pam BONDI well, part
of it is the Epstein file has got to be.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
If it's in the top one thousand of priorities of
things she's thinking about every day, I'd be surprised. Yeah,
is this is this the whole Epstein case file list
going to be something I hear about from some people
for the rest of my life?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Yes, Wow, Okay, Well
there you go. For what it's worth.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
There has been very little indication lately that Trump listens
to and responds to that kind of pardon me, but
whack a doodal wing of Maga. He wants their support,
soft pedals, that he's gentle with them and all. But
other than a couple of early appointments during the transition period,
(10:32):
I haven't seen a lot of evidence that they're really
yanking his chained the Tucker Carlson influence, for instance, Teyroan Tucker,
where is it?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, it's where Do I see this article I read
over the weekend about how the mainstreaming of Donald Trump,
how many mainstream positions he's got right now in terms
of things that he has done were set.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's weird. I heard he was the new Hitler.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Back to you anyway, that's enough of that. Working on
getting rid of my RBF. I want to tell you
how that's coming along and maybe it can work for you.
I took some suggestions.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Plus, discipline in schools is making a comeback. That's great news.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
God, I'd say so, it's all the way stay here
played for me Clip twenty one, Michael. I'm very excited
about this story.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
The big change at American airports, the TSA saying effective immediately,
all passengers will be able to keep their shoes on
through security, something we haven't seen in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But there is a caveat.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
If that scanner alarm goes off for a special screening,
you will need to take those shoes off.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What a dumb caveat. So here's what I haven't heard
anybody ask about this, and this is what I would
love to know. This is having lived through the pandemic
and finding out that six feet apart was completely made up.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Absolutely one percent out of whole cloth made up.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
So this wasn't completely made up because we did have
that one dude try to set his shoes on off.
But I'd like to know how long has it not
been necessary for people to take their shoes off?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
How much good was it doing.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I'd like somebody to explain that just because we all
have to live under these various rules that they come
up with now and then again, as we all learned
through COVID.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And sometimes they're just made up and there's nothing to
back them up.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I hope somebody comes forward with that. So I'll bet
some at some point I would be not surprised to hear, Yeah,
the whole taking your shoes off thing, there's no evidence
that did any good, it ever stopped the terrorist attack
or we knew like three years ago or fifteen years
ago that this wasn't necessary. I would like to know that,
right right, Yeah, because you know, having lived through six
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feet apart, would it be surprising do you to find
that out?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We got a great note.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
By the way from Paolo about how the forced consensus
in COVID is so much like the forced consensus on
climate change we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
At some point.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, so you say I brought up this idea of
getting read of my RBF or my rmf resting murdery
face and got a pair amount of responses, not only
on the text line, but in real life because if
you have it, you know you have it, and it
bothers you. You realize that you come off as unapproachable
(13:22):
or off putting to people in a way that you
don't want to be, particularly if you're shingle perhaps, And
so I'm trying to do something about it, and I'd
read this article about how you can change your resting
facial expression, but it takes time. It's really like working
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on your posture or your golf swing or the way
you play guitar, any of those things.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's like it's a muscle memory thing. It's just getting
in the habit of it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And you know, like for a long time, I changed
the way I played guitar way I held my pick
after twenty five years of holding it the same way,
and it was really really hard to do for quite
a while before it became natural and normal. And that's
the way I do it all the time, because you're
going against all that in your brain and muscle memory
(14:13):
and all that sort of stuff, and to hold it
with your between your toes now exactly and you can
do that with your face, but it takes a lot
of practice, and as I pointed out yesterday and the
suggestions from this article, where you got to look in
the mirror to do this. But I feel like if
I make a just neutral face, it feels it feels
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to me like I'm mediating hatred. It feels to me
like I'm smiling like a lunatic. That's what it feels
like in my brain, in my face to just have
a neutral face, to try to get my mouth to
just to turn up my lips just a little bit
on the corners and not look so angry.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Turn them up more. Because that face you just made,
I thought that was the before, not the after. Tell
out this. Yeah, oh see, I feel like you're plotting
on me when you look at me like that plotting
on you, Yeah, like you're up to no good.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You're right, yeah, But the other face I have is
like I'm going to hit you in the head with
a hammer, son shilling.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's a step in the right direction either way. I'm
in a defensive posture.
Speaker 10 (15:17):
But it's weird how it feels in my brain, like
I am like, you know, people who have this giant hey,
how you do it look on you. That's what it
feels like in my head, just to try to get
to somewhere near neutral.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, that'll change.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Like you're saying, the interesting aspect of this to me
is and you kind of said it in the other direction,
was that your resting facial expression is not one of
those It is what it is, and there's no changing it.
You absolutely can change it. Yeah, it's very much like
your posture. Although, man, was there a great article in
the New York Times a while back did I talk
about this on the air, about how much the whole
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posture thing was completely made up. It's like the six
feet apart or taking your shoes off of the air.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It was just made up. It's like one etiquette person
thought it was important to sit up straight.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And somehow I caught on and became a thing for
like a century before anybody looked into the fact that
it doesn't really make any difference at all.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
If you like this, or if you said like that,
that doesn't have any effect on anything.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
As you know, I prefer to walk along hunched over
with my arms, swinging feet like an ape and just
more comfortable with that the whole you know, that that
whole posture Nazism, the fascism of.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Standing up straight. I've had enough of it.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
For some reason, I noticed it as I was walking
through one of the art galleries in New York. I
had my hands behind my back as I strolled along,
and my kids said, you look so old right now
walking with your hands behind your fag.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I guess it's my art gallery walk. If the orthopedic
shoe fits huh so. Good news.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
One more idiotic woke policy is starting to be rolled back,
and that has to do with school discipline. Yeah, talk
about that, among other fair Hope you can stay tuned
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
Betteran women's cyclists or accusing the sports governing body of
intentionally hiding the fact that a biological male was going
to be competing at the Road Racing National Championships in
Wisconsin last week. That transgender cyclist Kate kJ Phillips ultimately
won that race by passing the other cyclist in the
final sprint to win by a single second.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
One hundred races against women, thousands against in group rides,
sprinting against men, and I knew at that sprint that
that was a man's.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Sprint, big hulking dude too. Wow, just unbelieved. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So a woman who has participated in lots of bike
rides with both men and women, could tell that was
a dude.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
When you got passed.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure of course, because men are bigger
and stronger, have denser bones, bigger lungs and heartst cetera,
et cetera, should be competing against men. One more example
of lunatic, lefty woke policies that are finally being rolled
back by sanity. And we've got a couple of more,
and you know that reminds me. Maybe next hour we
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can talk about this, the whole Memdanni trying to pass
himself off as African American. You know, I've been tempted
not to even talk about her, to bring it up,
because I think all of that identity politics is so
stupid and corrosive. And I'm like, good, you know, Hoysted,
done your own petart or whatever that expression is. You
know you're gonna live by that stuff, You're gonna die
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by it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
But the depth of hypocrisy it reveals is I don't know,
maybe worth touching on, but anyway, I want to get
to this.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
She didn't claim he was black.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
He just he checked the box African American, knowing how
it would help him.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh yeah, taking advantage of how imprecise and silly that
term is.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But knowing that the reason it existed was to help
black Sure. Yeah, yeah, but you know he's he's a scammer.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Those people again, there are useful idiots who go along
with some of their doctrines thinking they're doing the right thing,
but at their core, like DEI, is not about diversity.
It's about takeover. It's about conquest of institutions. You call
something racist until you control it. Anyway, school discipline is
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making a comeback. Discipline policy in K through twelve public
schools rode the progressive tide on race and crime in
recent years. Right so the editorial board of the journal,
as the Feds and states pushed therapy over suspensions and expulsions.
But classroom misbehavior has surged since the COVID lockdowns, and
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some states are responding with changes that will benefit teachers
and students. Jack, I'm sure you've got plenty of real
world examples and illustrations.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, the term restorative justice hasn't come up yet, but
that's the whole movie that swept the country for I
don't know how many years, but I ran up against
it with my kids a couple of different times, and
I've called it the Golden Age of being a bully,
which is interesting given the fact that we've had several
first ladies in a row make bullying their number one cause,
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and there are all these anti bullying PSAs on radio
that didn't used to exist when there was far less bullying,
and it all happened at the same time as restorative justice,
which was allowing bullies to do whatever they wanted because
you blame the victim and the person who did it
exactly the same way, and then there's no consequences, right,
they just both.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Have feelings to share, We'll share those. Failing reason, then
no consequences. Well, the Texas legislature and may pass the bill.
It makes it easier for teachers to remove misbehaving students
from classrooms and extends the allowable time for in school suspensions.
Some thirty three hundred Texas School District employees were assaulted
by students in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,
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according to the Texas Tribune, thirty three hundred.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
And in many states around the country you don't even
get in serious trouble for assaulting a teacher. I'll bet
there was like a century in this country where it
didn't happen. Maybe more than twice in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Arkansas lawmakers in April passed a law that ensures students
removed for violent behavior or not return to the same classroom.
Legislature are also stripped from state law requirement that districts
use positive behavioral support, which focuses on conflict resolution and
coping skills to address student misbehavior. I mean, if you
want to throw some of that stuff in with the punishment,
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I have no problem with that. You got a kid
with anger problems, or maybe things are going sideways at
home or whatever, and you want to understand that.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
That's fine, but you cannot remove the sanction.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
No, at some point, regardless of what the reason is,
that kid can't go to school and beat other kids.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
You just can't let that go, right, exactly, have to
be lines bright lines. Washington State, for the love of
all that is progressive. Their superintendent state superintendent finalized rules
effective this month that loosen restrictions on removing, suspending, or
expelling students because the restorative justice experiment, like so many
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progressive policies, the best way to discredit them is to
implement them.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's a miserable failure.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Louisiana and Louisiana Nevada have taken similar actions, and they
mentioned both those states, the state teachers union supported legislation
making it easier to remove students. Yes, so their constituents
being beaten on became even more important than their wild
progressive pologies. I was about to say, the kids being
beaten up at school and being afraid to go to
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school and being told that do you you have to
talk to an adult, talk to adult, do not respond
talk to an adult, and then the adults do effing nothing.
I saw this over and over again. That's why I
taught my kids. He hits you, you punch him right
in the nose. And then I got yelled at by
teachers for saying that you don't do anything. You don't
do anything. The kids have no choice but to fight back.
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The whole go to an adult thing is crap.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I was given the same advice check.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It's ridiculous anyway. I think when the teachers started getting attacked,
the power of the teacher union turned into a good
thing because they were able to say, hey, wait, putting
up with this anymore.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yeah, doing what a teacher's union ought to do, not
advocating for radical politics like for instance, for the UH.
It's the United Auto Workers that organize the university campuses
at least in cal Unicornia and some other states, and
they've become just radical leftist organizations, and they use the
power of the union not to get like better wages
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and benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, they use the power of the union to enforce
like radical leftist politics, which is just bizarre. We're on
that side.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I'll never forget the look on the face of the
particular human being when I them. Yeah, I've told my
kid if somebody punches them, to punch them right in
the nose. They looked at me like I was insane,
Like I don't even know how to respond to somebody
would say something like you're a monster because you don't
do anything here, you don't do anything well. And the
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kids who aren't blinded by out ideology, they do that
math quickly It's about the only math they learn in
public schools that, oh, I'm told not to defend myself.
The authorities will take care of it. But the authorities
never take care of the reverse part. The reverse parts
are the bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Though.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
The kid that's doing the punching figures out very quickly.
Nobody's gonna do anything about this. I can beat up
whoever the hell I want.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
All of this marks is shift away from the progressive
push for therapeutic or restorative practices. The Obama administration encouraged
districts it yanked him by the chain of funding to
emphasize quote positive interventions over student removal. In at twenty
four guidance letter warning of racial disparities in traditional discipline
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twenty twenty three, Biden administration Education Department advocated listening and
healing and warned that suspensions and expulsions quote often disproportionately
affects students of color, but soft disciplined policies have victims
of their own.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
One district superintendent wrote in public comment, teachers are getting hit, kicked,
spit on, custed out the fact that we cannot suspend
these students and have to wait, in some cases weeks
until we can bring parents and teammate members together to
create a solution. Is leaving both teachers and administration with
a feeling of helplessness.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
And the kids too. For good. Yeah, the kids who
are not victimized.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That's what I was going to say. I feel bad
for the teachers. At least they're adults, so they have
some way to deal with that. That's happened to all
the kids on the playground too, Lots of kids who
are scared to go to school because you allow that
to happen, You freaking weirdos. You allow these kids to
be scared to go to school because you have this strange,
progressive in spite of all of human history knowledge of
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how this whole thing works.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And so finally we started happening to you. He decided
to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
And I'm glad you mentioned the funding part, because that's
why so many conservatives are against the Department of Education,
because yes, they do control your schools locally, and that
they will yank funding if you don't go along with
their whack job theories.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It's worth mentioning you can draw a bright line between
the obotoma administration's restorative justice practices, and the Florida shooter
getting away with slaughtering all those kids because he was
a quote unquote minority and the school district officials were
terrified of suspending him or punishing him, or especially calling
the cops because that would become part of the schools
(26:44):
to jail's pipeline that you may remember progressive folks talked
about as an excuse not to ever discipline people because
you put people on the wrong side of quote unquote
the law, then they become prisoners because of your system racism.
And that's why that Florida kid got away with so
much for so long. At least one more note on this.
(27:06):
I love this from Daniel Buck who's a former teacher.
He wrote this for the Fordham Institute last year. Getting
back to your point, Jack about the kids who are
not victimizers are afraid to go to school. Peers of
disruptive students are robbed of learning time. Given that high
poverty schools struggle with the most with disciplinary challenges, keeping
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disruptive students in classrooms only widens the achievement gain.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
No kidding, boy, you gotta have a PhD to figure
that out.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Oh my god, folks, come you know, I happen to
be wearing my armstrong and get he cut the crap
T shirt. All of this stuff that defies common sense,
defies all of human history. As Jack pointed out, boys
playing girls sports, no negative repercussions for negative actions.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I mean, it is just it's crap. It's garbage.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
It's woke nonsense still on society by professors who have
no interest in or experience in the real world.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Cut the crap.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I didn't even get into my screen, which I'm anxious
to get to at some point, Jack, partly for your benefit.
On the death of the public library, Oh yeah, I
saw that article. That is that is so oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Let me just read the headline in the subhead to
you one comment, then I sweir, I'll shut up.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The death of the public library. This happens to be
in the free press.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Public libraries are in decline, not because of the Internet
or because people are reading less, but because they have
become defecto homeless shelters.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
And I when did ransient shelter's junkie shelter. I used
to go to the Sacramento Public Library downtown all the time.
How many years ago. Was that that I just stopped
going And it wasn't. And it's exactly what that headline says.
It wasn't because the internet or made it easier, different
thing technology or whatever. No, I like to checking out
books and CD and stuff like that, because it was
(29:01):
years ago. That's how long ago it wasn't CDs. It
became almost shelter.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
It's scary and disgusting to go to the library in
a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
And when I had kids, no way I was taking
my kids to the public library in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
No freaking way.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Too many scary people are You certainly can't take your
five year old to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
There's two dry addics in their washing their feet. Right.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
So here's a question. Why wasn't this a problem twenty
years ago? Housing prices? No, not housing prices policy are
as a society willingness to put up with aberate behavior
in the name of compassion.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I was at the target last night.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Took a long time to find somebody with a key
to unlock the glass so my son could get his
lego set that he wanted to buy.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
They did, well, that's because of the high price of housing.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Jack, Yeah, exactly, these weren't locked up when you were little,
but now they're locked up.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
He was getting one of those adult lego sets like
a teenager would want. But uh yeah, and people just
accept that. That's funny. Things didn't used to be locked up,
now they're locked up. You just ignore that. You just
accept that, Okay whatever.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Uh, very very manning. Actually people aren't accepting it, as
you can see from voting results. A bunch of different
places amen to that. Stay tuned Armstrong.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
Heyety five years ago, my brother decided to be a vegan,
and I've spent multiple Thanksgivings with him, and I one
hundred percent would prefer my next Thanksgiving start with my
dad walking in and saying.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I'm a lady now.
Speaker 12 (30:29):
Then I would spending another Thanksgiving where my brother keeps
asking me, is there butter in this? I'm like, there's
butter in everything. Fun day was over in my apartment
and I just sort of threw a granola barb at
him because he looked like he was starving, and he
picked it up and he just started reading the label.
If there was a logo for veganism, it should be someone.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
At your home reading a label under problem.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Vegans are intolerable. Vegetarians are fine, can be annoying. Vegans
are in work. Yeah, and especially if you're evangelical, like
like you're trying to spread it.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You can't just be that quietly. You have to try
to convince me right right.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
You know, it occurred to me during the break that
the first thing we talked about is a perfect example
of the second thing we talked about, in that insisting
that teachers not punch students was called white supremacy. You know,
showing up on time, working hard, not punching your teacher
is white supremacy culture, and if and thereby they could
(31:43):
change everything and take over school systems and the rest
of it by that argument.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But seriously, if having your teachers.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Being unpunched is white supremacy, I guess I am one.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I don't want any.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Teachers punched anywhere, but they all only make those claims
that it's racism to put you on your heels. And
if minority kids are disproportionately disciplined, you got to go
to root causes.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And help the kids. Letting them become criminals does not
help them in any way.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That is racist.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Got an update here, I'm looking up at the television.
Barbie has just unveiled its first Barbie with type one diabetes.
So Naty, I know you're a little too old for
barbiees Gabe.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
They're trying to make one that all the kids can
relate to.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I think the first Barbie with type one diabetes, all right,
that's a very odd story. First, the first Gi Joe
with I don't know, lasoriasis. I see a lot of
ads for that anxiety problems Gi Joe anxiety. I had something,
(32:53):
but I decided I'm going to save it for the
One More Thing podcast because it's so good. Wanted to
mention this at a text Misshappy yesterday. I have these
now and then. Maybe I'm not good at forming my texts,
but I think it's part of the nature of texting.
Have you ever had like one where like somebody completely
(33:14):
misinterprets your text because it's very very difficult.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
To pick up tone and text and and uh and
so that happens now and then.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
But someone I saw yesterday someone once told me you
should never make absolute decisions over something communicated in a text,
And I think that is a is a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If you're ever like, if you ever get a text
and you're like, Eh, what you know? Explain more?
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Or I don't know how you approach it, but realize
you may be misinterpreting it. Her they because one word different.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Can make a huge difference on a text. Again, since
you don't know the tone at all. The second I
get that vibe, I pick up the phone and make
the phone call.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
That's a good idea, right there, Yeah, clear it up
quickly on the phone. Uh, yes, did you mean to
when sound as insulting as that was?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
No, not at all. Fact, I was trying to make
a joke or something. Mmm, all right, that's never happened
to you never.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well, yeah, it has text from you, as a matter
of fact, which is why I'm hesitating to comment, trying
to figure out how to approach it.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Maybe I'm just bad at it. It's possible. Maybe maybe
I'm bad at it. I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
If I thought you were, I would tell you. So
We've exchanged tens of thousands of texts through the years,
so I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I don't think that's necessarily true. Perhaps when one is
in a crazed hurry for most of one's day.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
That is what always, almost always is the culprit with
me is like I'm doing it in my car voice,
texting or whatever. And then you leave out verbs or
you know, mitigating terms or stuff like that, it seems
really harsh. Okay, I'll get it can come off as
(34:56):
very you know, harsh, when that's not what you meant
at all.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
At one point I'd written my letter of resignation and
started a taco stand and sales were actually going quite well.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But then I thought, no, it's a text maybe Avrikna
what that far? We were already having good sales.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Oh yeah, the chicken tacos were selling like crazy, so
spicy people, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty sow this
Epstein story. Is it finally over?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It might be finally over for for any reporting of
mainstream news.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
The hardcore conspiracy theorists are are fired up by the
latest moves, so they're not done.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And it's driven a lot by the q Andon crowd.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The two things being there are a whole bunch of politicians,
the Obama's, the Clinton's, Hollywood stars who are involved in
child sex trafficking, and that there are hundreds of thousands
of kids that are being child sex traffic with the
help of big powerful people, and it's being all tied
to Jeffrey Epstein. It's being covered up. And then you
got all the remember the Panda eyes thing. I mean,
(01:09):
it's just there's lots of well and it.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Used to be Democrats. Democrats are doing all this well.
Now it's the Trump administration as well. Based on the
last announcement.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I personally know a number of people who were excited
about Trump getting elected because finally this will come forward.
All this information will come out about the child sex trafficking,
and then people are very disappointed that cash Ptel with
the FBI and Trump and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General
and others are covering it up or whatever. Anyway, So
(01:40):
Trump has a cabinet meeting yesterday with all his secretaries
and starts taking questions and answers questions for damn near
two hours. Man, Joe Biden didn't answer questions that much
total in four years of presidency. But somebody asked about Epstein.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Here it goes your.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Memo and Relissia James.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Jeffrey Epstein less leader in this reas.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
One of the biggest ones is whether he ever works
for an American for foreign intelligence agency. So could you
resolve whether or not you did? And also can you
see why there was a minute to scene from jail
house team.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Yeah, sir, just interested. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we
have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things,
and are people still talking about this guy that's created
that is unbelievable? Right?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So the whole was Jeffrey Epstein involved in one of
our intelligence services because there's belief that he's tied in
with the Mascade, and that's the leverage that netan Yahoo
has over Trump because Epstein blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Here's a little more from Trump in that same press conference.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Do you want to waste the time and do you
feel like answered?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
I don't mind answering.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question at
Epstein at a time like this where we're having some
of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened
in Texas.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
It just seems like a desecration.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
But you go ahead.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
To some people that was proof that Trump is on
the list, the supposed Epstein list, and is now trying
to cover that up. Yeah, we got a couple of
emails from folks saying I'm losing confidence with this administration.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
The gas lighting continues, just like under Biden. Here's a
gal who thinks Netnahuo nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize
because the Masad and CIA used Epstein, the blackmail politicians,
et cetera, et cetera. Thousands of children have been children
been trafficked, and Bongino, Patel and Bondi are obeying orders
from Trump, and obviously Trump is.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
In on the cover up. According to this emailer, Wow,
that's quite the conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Speaking of Bondi, Pambondi, the Attorney General, she was asked
about so, first, you spent a lot of time talking
about this list and it was on your desk and
you're going to release it. Then the big announcement over
the weekend was there is no list anyway, here's Pam
Bondy sure.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Sure. First to back up on that, in February, I
did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a
lot of attention because I said, I was asked a
question about the client list, and my response was it's
sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file
along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
That's what I meant by that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Okay, so not the list specifically, it I mean, well,
it's the imprecise answer to the question.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's not out, it's not totally crazy to me. Well,
let's hear more from her.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Also, to the tens of thousands of video they turned
out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein.
Child porn is what they were never going to be released,
never going to see the lighted day to him being
an agent.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
I have no knowledge about that. We can get back
to you on that.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I wish she hadn't said that at the end. I mean,
that's true, they have no knowledge of that, but it's
not a thing. There's no evidence whatsoever that Jeffrey Epstein
was involved in any high level intelligence agencies would have
been a bet everything.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
To say I was just reading a piece in Axios
that was super interesting about this shadowy CIA character who
was dealing with Lee, Harvey Oswald and other pro castro
activists way back in the day. Bears no light whatsoever
on the assassination of Kennedy. But the one thing it
does make clear is the CIA will do what it wants,
and it will say whatever it wants in response to questions,
(05:36):
even from on high. They have throughout their history lied
like crazy to preserve you know, mission.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Secrecy, and at every point in our history, probably including now,
we all think well that was the old base. Now
they don't do that sort of thing, right, Which is
not to say we're leaping at some sort of you know,
a nutty conclusion about Jeffrey Epstein and the rest of it.
But I understand why people have their suspicions. Well, that
was interesting. I didn't I don't remember hearing that Jeffrey
(06:03):
Epsteam had so he had thousands of hours of child porn. Really,
I didn't know that that was part of his whole deal. Well,
we did know that it was, you know, under the
age of eighteen. So if you're calling that child porn,
I guess, and that's technically accurate. Here's more from Pambondi and.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
The minute missing from the video.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
We released the video showing definitively the video was not conclusive,
but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
And what was on that there was a minute that
was off the counter.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And what we learned from euron Prisons was every year,
every night they redo that videos old from like nineteen
ninety nine, So every night the video is reset and
every night should have the same minute missing. So we're
looking for that video to release that as well, showing
that a minute is missing every night and that's it.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Hot.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So there's a missing minute of footage from overnight of
the jail cell. She's saying that that's the way the
camera works because they reset it. That's a bad system,
or you have a full minute of no cameras every night.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
But well, I'm trying to remember the system from nineteen
ninety nine, So what would that be some sort of
you know, limited space hard drive.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Probably I don't know. Yeah, I mean, like we said yesterday,
you gotta admit.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I mean, it's pretty damn convenient that the camera's turned
off for a minute and then you come back and
the guy's dead.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, hell, yes, Well.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
If I were like a fake QAnon type character online,
I'd be thinking, Man, this is too easy, all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
They're giving me so much to work with. It's effortless.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
The problem I always had he had every reason in
the world to kill himself and like no reason to
stay alive.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Right right, I would agree, But Sadie German wrote a
piece in the Wall Street Journal today that I think
is pretty fair and they're too aspects to it that
I thought we're worth mentioning number one. She says Pam
Bondi's tendency to exaggerate is catching up on her, catching
up to her. She she tries very hard to be
(08:15):
exciting and flamboyant and very maga a la Trump but
Trump has a teflon quality that other people don't get
away with, and I think Pam is guilty of that probably.
And they go through a couple of quotes and that
ridiculous where they had a bunch of influencers show up
(08:37):
in the White House driveway and and waived files from
Epstein that turned out to be just like his rolodex,
which was nothing new.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's nothing interesting to that, blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
But the other aspect of this that I found interesting,
just you know, looking at MAGA world, the about face
on the because she had once uh promised to release
quote a truckload of documents from the FBI investigation.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well, you say that sort of crap, you should pay
a price for it. I mean, you can't go around
saying that, right.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
But the about face drew a course of criticism from
right wing figures, including Glenn Beck, which I found interesting.
I haven't heard Glenn in ages, but I don't know,
you know, the nature of what he's talking about these days.
Benny Johnson, who is and Jack Pisobiak. Laura Lumer asked
late Monday on X quote, how many more times is
this woman going to get away with effing everything up
(09:33):
before she is fired. So MAGA world, at least that
section of it is turning on Pam BONDI well, part
of it is the Epstein file has got to be.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
If it's in the top one thousand of priorities of
things she's thinking about every day, I'd be surprised. Yeah,
is this is this the whole Epstein case file list
going to be something I hear about from some people
for the rest of my life?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Yes, Wow, Okay, Well
there you go. For what it's worth.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
There has been very little indication lately that Trump listens
to and responds to that kind of pardon me, but
whack a doodal wing of Maga. He wants their support,
soft pedals, that he's gentle with them and all. But
other than a couple of early appointments during the transition period,
(10:32):
I haven't seen a lot of evidence that they're really
yanking his chained the Tucker Carlson influence, for instance, Teyroan Tucker,
where is it?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, it's where Do I see this article I read
over the weekend about how the mainstreaming of Donald Trump,
how many mainstream positions he's got right now in terms
of things that he has done were set.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's weird. I heard he was the new Hitler.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Back to you anyway, that's enough of that. Working on
getting rid of my RBF. I want to tell you
how that's coming along and maybe it can work for you.
I took some suggestions.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Plus, discipline in schools is making a comeback. That's great news.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
God, I'd say so, it's all the way stay here
played for me Clip twenty one, Michael. I'm very excited
about this story.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
The big change at American airports, the TSA saying effective immediately,
all passengers will be able to keep their shoes on
through security, something we haven't seen in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But there is a caveat.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
If that scanner alarm goes off for a special screening,
you will need to take those shoes off.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What a dumb caveat. So here's what I haven't heard
anybody ask about this, and this is what I would
love to know. This is having lived through the pandemic
and finding out that six feet apart was completely made up.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Absolutely one percent out of whole cloth made up.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
So this wasn't completely made up because we did have
that one dude try to set his shoes on off.
But I'd like to know how long has it not
been necessary for people to take their shoes off?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
How much good was it doing.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I'd like somebody to explain that just because we all
have to live under these various rules that they come
up with now and then again, as we all learned
through COVID.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And sometimes they're just made up and there's nothing to
back them up.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I hope somebody comes forward with that. So I'll bet
some at some point I would be not surprised to hear, Yeah,
the whole taking your shoes off thing, there's no evidence
that did any good, it ever stopped the terrorist attack
or we knew like three years ago or fifteen years
ago that this wasn't necessary. I would like to know that,
right right, Yeah, because you know, having lived through six
(12:46):
feet apart, would it be surprising do you to find
that out?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We got a great note.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
By the way from Paolo about how the forced consensus
in COVID is so much like the forced consensus on
climate change we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
At some point.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, so you say I brought up this idea of
getting read of my RBF or my rmf resting murdery
face and got a pair amount of responses, not only
on the text line, but in real life because if
you have it, you know you have it, and it
bothers you. You realize that you come off as unapproachable
(13:22):
or off putting to people in a way that you
don't want to be, particularly if you're shingle perhaps, And
so I'm trying to do something about it, and I'd
read this article about how you can change your resting
facial expression, but it takes time. It's really like working
(13:42):
on your posture or your golf swing or the way
you play guitar, any of those things.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's like it's a muscle memory thing. It's just getting
in the habit of it.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And you know, like for a long time, I changed
the way I played guitar way I held my pick
after twenty five years of holding it the same way,
and it was really really hard to do for quite
a while before it became natural and normal. And that's
the way I do it all the time, because you're
going against all that in your brain and muscle memory
(14:13):
and all that sort of stuff, and to hold it
with your between your toes now exactly and you can
do that with your face, but it takes a lot
of practice, and as I pointed out yesterday and the
suggestions from this article, where you got to look in
the mirror to do this. But I feel like if
I make a just neutral face, it feels it feels
(14:34):
to me like I'm mediating hatred. It feels to me
like I'm smiling like a lunatic. That's what it feels
like in my brain, in my face to just have
a neutral face, to try to get my mouth to
just to turn up my lips just a little bit
on the corners and not look so angry.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Turn them up more. Because that face you just made,
I thought that was the before, not the after. Tell
out this. Yeah, oh see, I feel like you're plotting
on me when you look at me like that plotting
on you, Yeah, like you're up to no good.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You're right, yeah, But the other face I have is
like I'm going to hit you in the head with
a hammer, son shilling.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's a step in the right direction either way. I'm
in a defensive posture.
Speaker 10 (15:17):
But it's weird how it feels in my brain, like
I am like, you know, people who have this giant hey,
how you do it look on you. That's what it
feels like in my head, just to try to get
to somewhere near neutral.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, that'll change.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Like you're saying, the interesting aspect of this to me
is and you kind of said it in the other direction,
was that your resting facial expression is not one of
those It is what it is, and there's no changing it.
You absolutely can change it. Yeah, it's very much like
your posture. Although, man, was there a great article in
the New York Times a while back did I talk
about this on the air, about how much the whole
(15:55):
posture thing was completely made up. It's like the six
feet apart or taking your shoes off of the air.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It was just made up. It's like one etiquette person
thought it was important to sit up straight.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And somehow I caught on and became a thing for
like a century before anybody looked into the fact that
it doesn't really make any difference at all.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
If you like this, or if you said like that,
that doesn't have any effect on anything.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
As you know, I prefer to walk along hunched over
with my arms, swinging feet like an ape and just
more comfortable with that the whole you know, that that
whole posture Nazism, the fascism of.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Standing up straight. I've had enough of it.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
For some reason, I noticed it as I was walking
through one of the art galleries in New York. I
had my hands behind my back as I strolled along,
and my kids said, you look so old right now
walking with your hands behind your fag.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I guess it's my art gallery walk. If the orthopedic
shoe fits huh so. Good news.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
One more idiotic woke policy is starting to be rolled back,
and that has to do with school discipline. Yeah, talk
about that, among other fair Hope you can stay tuned
if you can't subscribe to our podcast Armstrong and Getdy
on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
Betteran women's cyclists or accusing the sports governing body of
intentionally hiding the fact that a biological male was going
to be competing at the Road Racing National Championships in
Wisconsin last week. That transgender cyclist Kate kJ Phillips ultimately
won that race by passing the other cyclist in the
final sprint to win by a single second.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
One hundred races against women, thousands against in group rides,
sprinting against men, and I knew at that sprint that
that was a man's.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Sprint, big hulking dude too. Wow, just unbelieved. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So a woman who has participated in lots of bike
rides with both men and women, could tell that was
a dude.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
When you got passed.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure of course, because men are bigger
and stronger, have denser bones, bigger lungs and heartst cetera,
et cetera, should be competing against men. One more example
of lunatic, lefty woke policies that are finally being rolled
back by sanity. And we've got a couple of more,
and you know that reminds me. Maybe next hour we
(18:15):
can talk about this, the whole Memdanni trying to pass
himself off as African American. You know, I've been tempted
not to even talk about her, to bring it up,
because I think all of that identity politics is so
stupid and corrosive. And I'm like, good, you know, Hoysted,
done your own petart or whatever that expression is. You
know you're gonna live by that stuff, You're gonna die
(18:35):
by it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
But the depth of hypocrisy it reveals is I don't know,
maybe worth touching on, but anyway, I want to get
to this.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
She didn't claim he was black.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
He just he checked the box African American, knowing how
it would help him.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh yeah, taking advantage of how imprecise and silly that
term is.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But knowing that the reason it existed was to help
black Sure. Yeah, yeah, but you know he's he's a scammer.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Those people again, there are useful idiots who go along
with some of their doctrines thinking they're doing the right thing,
but at their core, like DEI, is not about diversity.
It's about takeover. It's about conquest of institutions. You call
something racist until you control it. Anyway, school discipline is
(19:27):
making a comeback. Discipline policy in K through twelve public
schools rode the progressive tide on race and crime in
recent years. Right so the editorial board of the journal,
as the Feds and states pushed therapy over suspensions and expulsions.
But classroom misbehavior has surged since the COVID lockdowns, and
(19:47):
some states are responding with changes that will benefit teachers
and students. Jack, I'm sure you've got plenty of real
world examples and illustrations.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, the term restorative justice hasn't come up yet, but
that's the whole movie that swept the country for I
don't know how many years, but I ran up against
it with my kids a couple of different times, and
I've called it the Golden Age of being a bully,
which is interesting given the fact that we've had several
first ladies in a row make bullying their number one cause,
(20:16):
and there are all these anti bullying PSAs on radio
that didn't used to exist when there was far less bullying,
and it all happened at the same time as restorative justice,
which was allowing bullies to do whatever they wanted because
you blame the victim and the person who did it
exactly the same way, and then there's no consequences, right,
they just both.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Have feelings to share, We'll share those. Failing reason, then
no consequences. Well, the Texas legislature and may pass the bill.
It makes it easier for teachers to remove misbehaving students
from classrooms and extends the allowable time for in school suspensions.
Some thirty three hundred Texas School District employees were assaulted
by students in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,
(20:57):
according to the Texas Tribune, thirty three hundred.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
And in many states around the country you don't even
get in serious trouble for assaulting a teacher. I'll bet
there was like a century in this country where it
didn't happen. Maybe more than twice in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Arkansas lawmakers in April passed a law that ensures students
removed for violent behavior or not return to the same classroom.
Legislature are also stripped from state law requirement that districts
use positive behavioral support, which focuses on conflict resolution and
coping skills to address student misbehavior. I mean, if you
want to throw some of that stuff in with the punishment,
(21:38):
I have no problem with that. You got a kid
with anger problems, or maybe things are going sideways at
home or whatever, and you want to understand that.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
That's fine, but you cannot remove the sanction.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
No, at some point, regardless of what the reason is,
that kid can't go to school and beat other kids.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
You just can't let that go, right, exactly, have to
be lines bright lines. Washington State, for the love of
all that is progressive. Their superintendent state superintendent finalized rules
effective this month that loosen restrictions on removing, suspending, or
expelling students because the restorative justice experiment, like so many
(22:17):
progressive policies, the best way to discredit them is to
implement them.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's a miserable failure.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Louisiana and Louisiana Nevada have taken similar actions, and they
mentioned both those states, the state teachers union supported legislation
making it easier to remove students. Yes, so their constituents
being beaten on became even more important than their wild
progressive pologies. I was about to say, the kids being
beaten up at school and being afraid to go to
(22:45):
school and being told that do you you have to
talk to an adult, talk to adult, do not respond
talk to an adult, and then the adults do effing nothing.
I saw this over and over again. That's why I
taught my kids. He hits you, you punch him right
in the nose. And then I got yelled at by
teachers for saying that you don't do anything. You don't
do anything. The kids have no choice but to fight back.
(23:07):
The whole go to an adult thing is crap.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I was given the same advice check.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It's ridiculous anyway. I think when the teachers started getting attacked,
the power of the teacher union turned into a good
thing because they were able to say, hey, wait, putting
up with this anymore.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yeah, doing what a teacher's union ought to do, not
advocating for radical politics like for instance, for the UH.
It's the United Auto Workers that organize the university campuses
at least in cal Unicornia and some other states, and
they've become just radical leftist organizations, and they use the
power of the union not to get like better wages
(23:47):
and benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, they use the power of the union to enforce
like radical leftist politics, which is just bizarre. We're on
that side.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I'll never forget the look on the face of the
particular human being when I them. Yeah, I've told my
kid if somebody punches them, to punch them right in
the nose. They looked at me like I was insane,
Like I don't even know how to respond to somebody
would say something like you're a monster because you don't
do anything here, you don't do anything well. And the
(24:15):
kids who aren't blinded by out ideology, they do that
math quickly It's about the only math they learn in
public schools that, oh, I'm told not to defend myself.
The authorities will take care of it. But the authorities
never take care of the reverse part. The reverse parts
are the bigger problem.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Though.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
The kid that's doing the punching figures out very quickly.
Nobody's gonna do anything about this. I can beat up
whoever the hell I want.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
All of this marks is shift away from the progressive
push for therapeutic or restorative practices. The Obama administration encouraged
districts it yanked him by the chain of funding to
emphasize quote positive interventions over student removal. In at twenty
four guidance letter warning of racial disparities in traditional discipline
(25:04):
twenty twenty three, Biden administration Education Department advocated listening and
healing and warned that suspensions and expulsions quote often disproportionately
affects students of color, but soft disciplined policies have victims
of their own.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
One district superintendent wrote in public comment, teachers are getting hit, kicked,
spit on, custed out the fact that we cannot suspend
these students and have to wait, in some cases weeks
until we can bring parents and teammate members together to
create a solution. Is leaving both teachers and administration with
a feeling of helplessness.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
And the kids too. For good. Yeah, the kids who
are not victimized.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That's what I was going to say. I feel bad
for the teachers. At least they're adults, so they have
some way to deal with that. That's happened to all
the kids on the playground too, Lots of kids who
are scared to go to school because you allow that
to happen, You freaking weirdos. You allow these kids to
be scared to go to school because you have this strange,
progressive in spite of all of human history knowledge of
(26:04):
how this whole thing works.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And so finally we started happening to you. He decided
to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
And I'm glad you mentioned the funding part, because that's
why so many conservatives are against the Department of Education,
because yes, they do control your schools locally, and that
they will yank funding if you don't go along with
their whack job theories.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It's worth mentioning you can draw a bright line between
the obotoma administration's restorative justice practices, and the Florida shooter
getting away with slaughtering all those kids because he was
a quote unquote minority and the school district officials were
terrified of suspending him or punishing him, or especially calling
the cops because that would become part of the schools
(26:44):
to jail's pipeline that you may remember progressive folks talked
about as an excuse not to ever discipline people because
you put people on the wrong side of quote unquote
the law, then they become prisoners because of your system racism.
And that's why that Florida kid got away with so
much for so long. At least one more note on this.
(27:06):
I love this from Daniel Buck who's a former teacher.
He wrote this for the Fordham Institute last year. Getting
back to your point, Jack about the kids who are
not victimizers are afraid to go to school. Peers of
disruptive students are robbed of learning time. Given that high
poverty schools struggle with the most with disciplinary challenges, keeping
(27:27):
disruptive students in classrooms only widens the achievement gain.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
No kidding, boy, you gotta have a PhD to figure
that out.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Oh my god, folks, come you know, I happen to
be wearing my armstrong and get he cut the crap
T shirt. All of this stuff that defies common sense,
defies all of human history. As Jack pointed out, boys
playing girls sports, no negative repercussions for negative actions.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I mean, it is just it's crap. It's garbage.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
It's woke nonsense still on society by professors who have
no interest in or experience in the real world.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Cut the crap.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I didn't even get into my screen, which I'm anxious
to get to at some point, Jack, partly for your benefit.
On the death of the public library, Oh yeah, I
saw that article. That is that is so oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Let me just read the headline in the subhead to
you one comment, then I sweir, I'll shut up.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The death of the public library. This happens to be
in the free press.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Public libraries are in decline, not because of the Internet
or because people are reading less, but because they have
become defecto homeless shelters.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
And I when did ransient shelter's junkie shelter. I used
to go to the Sacramento Public Library downtown all the time.
How many years ago. Was that that I just stopped
going And it wasn't. And it's exactly what that headline says.
It wasn't because the internet or made it easier, different
thing technology or whatever. No, I like to checking out
books and CD and stuff like that, because it was
(29:01):
years ago. That's how long ago it wasn't CDs. It
became almost shelter.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
It's scary and disgusting to go to the library in
a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
And when I had kids, no way I was taking
my kids to the public library in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
No freaking way.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Too many scary people are You certainly can't take your
five year old to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
There's two dry addics in their washing their feet. Right.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
So here's a question. Why wasn't this a problem twenty
years ago? Housing prices? No, not housing prices policy are
as a society willingness to put up with aberate behavior
in the name of compassion.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I was at the target last night.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Took a long time to find somebody with a key
to unlock the glass so my son could get his
lego set that he wanted to buy.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
They did, well, that's because of the high price of housing.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Jack, Yeah, exactly, these weren't locked up when you were little,
but now they're locked up.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
He was getting one of those adult lego sets like
a teenager would want. But uh yeah, and people just
accept that. That's funny. Things didn't used to be locked up,
now they're locked up. You just ignore that. You just
accept that, Okay whatever.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Uh, very very manning. Actually people aren't accepting it, as
you can see from voting results. A bunch of different
places amen to that. Stay tuned Armstrong.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
Heyety five years ago, my brother decided to be a vegan,
and I've spent multiple Thanksgivings with him, and I one
hundred percent would prefer my next Thanksgiving start with my
dad walking in and saying.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I'm a lady now.
Speaker 12 (30:29):
Then I would spending another Thanksgiving where my brother keeps
asking me, is there butter in this? I'm like, there's
butter in everything. Fun day was over in my apartment
and I just sort of threw a granola barb at
him because he looked like he was starving, and he
picked it up and he just started reading the label.
If there was a logo for veganism, it should be someone.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
At your home reading a label under problem.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Vegans are intolerable. Vegetarians are fine, can be annoying. Vegans
are in work. Yeah, and especially if you're evangelical, like
like you're trying to spread it.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You can't just be that quietly. You have to try
to convince me right right.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
You know, it occurred to me during the break that
the first thing we talked about is a perfect example
of the second thing we talked about, in that insisting
that teachers not punch students was called white supremacy. You know,
showing up on time, working hard, not punching your teacher
is white supremacy culture, and if and thereby they could
(31:43):
change everything and take over school systems and the rest
of it by that argument.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But seriously, if having your teachers.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Being unpunched is white supremacy, I guess I am one.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I don't want any.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Teachers punched anywhere, but they all only make those claims
that it's racism to put you on your heels. And
if minority kids are disproportionately disciplined, you got to go
to root causes.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And help the kids. Letting them become criminals does not
help them in any way.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That is racist.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Got an update here, I'm looking up at the television.
Barbie has just unveiled its first Barbie with type one diabetes.
So Naty, I know you're a little too old for
barbiees Gabe.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
They're trying to make one that all the kids can
relate to.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I think the first Barbie with type one diabetes, all right,
that's a very odd story. First, the first Gi Joe
with I don't know, lasoriasis. I see a lot of
ads for that anxiety problems Gi Joe anxiety. I had something,
(32:53):
but I decided I'm going to save it for the
One More Thing podcast because it's so good. Wanted to
mention this at a text Misshappy yesterday. I have these
now and then. Maybe I'm not good at forming my texts,
but I think it's part of the nature of texting.
Have you ever had like one where like somebody completely
(33:14):
misinterprets your text because it's very very difficult.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
To pick up tone and text and and uh and
so that happens now and then.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
But someone I saw yesterday someone once told me you
should never make absolute decisions over something communicated in a text,
And I think that is a is a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If you're ever like, if you ever get a text
and you're like, Eh, what you know? Explain more?
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Or I don't know how you approach it, but realize
you may be misinterpreting it. Her they because one word different.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Can make a huge difference on a text. Again, since
you don't know the tone at all. The second I
get that vibe, I pick up the phone and make
the phone call.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
That's a good idea, right there, Yeah, clear it up
quickly on the phone. Uh, yes, did you mean to
when sound as insulting as that was?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
No, not at all. Fact, I was trying to make
a joke or something. Mmm, all right, that's never happened
to you never.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well, yeah, it has text from you, as a matter
of fact, which is why I'm hesitating to comment, trying
to figure out how to approach it.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Maybe I'm just bad at it. It's possible. Maybe maybe
I'm bad at it. I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
If I thought you were, I would tell you. So
We've exchanged tens of thousands of texts through the years,
so I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I don't think that's necessarily true. Perhaps when one is
in a crazed hurry for most of one's day.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
That is what always, almost always is the culprit with
me is like I'm doing it in my car voice,
texting or whatever. And then you leave out verbs or
you know, mitigating terms or stuff like that, it seems
really harsh. Okay, I'll get it can come off as
(34:56):
very you know, harsh, when that's not what you meant
at all.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
At one point I'd written my letter of resignation and
started a taco stand and sales were actually going quite well.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But then I thought, no, it's a text maybe Avrikna
what that far? We were already having good sales.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Oh yeah, the chicken tacos were selling like crazy, so
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