April 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- 250 years ago tomorrow
- Peeps debate & Elon wants lots of kids
- Dying Easter potatoes & Harvard offering remedial math
- FSU shooting & then something to lift the mood
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
An MSNBC analysts claimed that Donald Trump wants to take
anyone in America and disappear them, presumably by booking them
as an analyst on MSNBC.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Low Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I was just reading this article about Corey Lewandowski and
Christy Noms. So Christy Noman is the way too glam
for my taste. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. I don't
know why she gets hold dolled up the way she does,
for like.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Visiting El Salvador in prisons. But the thing that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Bothers me that's way over the top is when she
has the I have wet shiny lips lips stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh geez, I don't like the way you said wet.
Something off putting about that. Wow? Excuse me? It's called
a gloss, you weirdo?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Why lips? Wow? Yeah? What's the why the wet lips stuff?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So is Corey Lewandowski her chief of staff or chief
with a staff? That is the question that seems to
be going around, is they there seems to be an
inappropriate relationship between the two.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Are we just gonna let that go? Michael, I'm just
gonna let it go. I was kind of proud of that,
all right.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So Rich Lowry of the National Review wrote a great
piece about the fact that tomorrow is the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the Ride of Paul Revere, Vaunted
and story and song and poem and the rest of it.
The the poem only semi accurate, and it's fine. For instance,
he absolutely probably didn't say the British are coming because
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everybody still considered themselves British.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Listen to my children, and you shall hear that one,
that poem. Yeah, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. He
almost certainly said the regulars are coming out, meaning the regular.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
British troops anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So getting to Rich Lowry's story, sure enough, we've long
told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in
April seventeen seventy five, when the famous silver Smith warned
the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution
kicked off in earnest. Like all legendary events, Revere's ride
in the battles of Lexington and Conquered have been encrusted
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with myth. It's almost certainly not the case that he
yeld the British are coming center, and Revere didn't ride alone,
and he didn't even make it to Concord. The British
briefly captured him. And the role of the celebrated minute
men tends to be exaggerated.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
But such minutia side that day two hundred and fifty
years ago still deserves to be celebrated in prose and poetry,
and is every bit as extraordinary as you might have
learned when you were a child, before we decided we
didn't like our own history and heroes so much anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And you said, it's sooner than fifty years ago tomorrow,
correct sir, the nineteenth of April.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I was there on vacation a couple of years ago,
and I did the walk slash drive through the whole thing,
Lexington Concord, and it is It's very cool. Oh, I'd
love to do that. I can't believe I haven't anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Hoping to maintain operational secrecy, the British sent a contingent
out at night from Boston to capture reputed stores of
weapons in Concord. They were immediately noticed and the whole
one of my land two of by sea plan that
Revere and has we discussed last hour. Roughly thirty other
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craftsmen and mechanics had come up with a plan to
monitor the British movement of troops round the clock and
to warn the Patriots if they started to move in
an aggressive way. And indeed so the part about the
old North Church lantern is absolutely a real thing, and
the race was on. It is really Lowry Wright's one
of the most dramatic episodes in American history. Paul Revere
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and others rushing to warn the countryside, and the British
troops marching through the night, not briefed on their mission,
hearing guns and bells sounding alarms all around them. Lexington
was on the way. The militia mustard as a show
of force, not seeking a fight. No one knows who
fired the shot heard round the world. It may have
been an inadvertent discharge, but the British then fired volleys
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and charged with bayonets, killing eight. Concord was now fully
on alert again. There was a wary standoff again someone
fired during this confrontation at north Bridge. The British got
off a volley, then the Colonials returned fire with deadly effect,
and shockingly, the British ran.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Their rank swelling.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The Colonials harried the regulars along the narrow battle Road
as they retreated back to Lexington, with the places where
the fighting was especially intense known by names such as
the Bloody Angle and Parker's Revenge. This reminds me a
little bit of the opening days of the war in
Ukraine of a similar situation, in that the Russians met
way more resistance than they thought, and the the home
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people are much more motivated to defend their families and
homes than the Russians that wondered why are we even here?
In the Brits many whom we thought, why are we
even here?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Right? Yeah, that's an excellent point.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And I tell you what, if you hear about places
named the Bloody Angle in Parker's Revenge and don't get
a bit of a chill, You're made of different stuff
than me. Members of the militia did not, as popular
imagination believes, largely act on their own inspired initiative. They
were well led the Americans repeatedly stood in formation against
the British regulars during the course of the day. Historian
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David Hackett Fisher writes it was an extraordinary display of courage, resolve,
and discipline by citizen soldiers against regular troops. The more
dispersed fighting along the battle road later on was itself
the product of a colonial plan to avoid direct confrontation
with a now reinforce much larger British force. By the
time they made it back to Boston, the British had
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suffered a true mauling, experiencing roughly three hundred casualties to
one hundred for the colonials. The Americans ensured that the
words spread far and wide, and the effect was electric.
Thomas Paine, who had only recently come to America, felt
that quote the country into which I just set my
foot was set on fire about my ears. John Adams
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said that Lexington quote changed the instruments of war from
the pen to the sword. If Lexington and Conquered were
small scale engagements and the schemes of things, the reverberations
were enormous, they sent a message that a defiant American
population wouldn't be easily subdued. Wadsworth concluded his famous poem
with the lines through all our history to the last,
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in the hour of darkness and peril and need, the
people will awaken and listen to hear the hurrying hoof
beats of that steed and the midnight message of Paul Revere.
May it be so, writes Rich Lowry. Beautiful job as usual, Rich.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I wish I could remember what book it was I
read fairly recently about this.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But Revere was captured along with the guy who's riding
with They.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Got beaten real good by like rifle butts and stuff
like that by the Brits and got out of there
somehow to continue riding.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But it was way more violent and dicey than you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The poem leads you to believe, right, it was not
romantic and gallant and a horse ride of shouting. Yeah,
you got the hell beat out of him the But
it's just it's been true throughout history, and for obvious reasons.
If you're fighting with your own home, wife and kids
at your back, you fight differently than if you're a
occupying force working for a paycheck. Don't really care that
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much whether you're there or not, and whether it's shooting,
so nobody shoots you Russians in Ukraine or circum circumstances
sometimes the Northern soldiers in the South and the Civil
War and Us in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There's all kinds of examples.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Right, Yeah, I was gonna bring up Afghanistan, and you
know that just needs to be remembered. And it's the
point I've made many times through the years. You can
have the most righteous mission in the world. You can
be backed by the majority of a population of a place,
but they get tired of being occupied really really fast.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
As we would as well as we were at the time.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Always remember in one of Shelby Foot's books about the
Civil War, he's got a quote in there from some
Southern soldier who gets captured after a bloody battle in
the Northern Guys Union guys ask why are you fighting
so hard? And he said, because you're here just thinking here,
you're in arm might you're in my yard?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, fight to the death for that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
We will post a link to this piece by Rich Lowry.
I'm not sure the paywall situation. National Review does a
great journalism anyway. Maybe you want to subscribe, but that's that,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm a little bummed today. We got this.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We'll play a little bit later, this this bit about
coloring eggs from Jimmy Kimmel. But my kids are too
old for that now. And I love that. That was
fantastic there for a while. Ye get some eggs and
color them, and it was a little project and they
were so into it.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And the on weight of the teenager is a whole
different thing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Nothing is fun or cool, yes, certainly, nothing to do
with you. Yeah, Actually, there's plenty of things that are
fun and cool. Hanging out with his girlfriend seems to
be very fun and cool. Hanging out with me not
as much.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I was so lucky with my son, in particular that
we both love to play golf, and we both love
rock and roll music and playing guitar and.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Bass and that sort of thing. So we always, you know,
we could do that. Henry and I played tennis yesterday
and lifted weights. It's different stuff, but it's you know,
those little kid activities are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, yeah, I was always very bad at dying eggs.
I was more than happy to let the kids do it.
I just my eggs would come out and look for you.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But how is anyone bad at dying eggs? There's really
the bar is very low. Did the egg end up
not white?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You win? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
No, it's the other people in the family. Their eggs
were much more artful than mine. Okay, I mean beautiful,
like rainbows of color and patterns and that sort of thing.
Mine again looked like something had gone wrong with the egg.
Better throw this one out, honey, it's gone bad.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Joe's going to tell us why common core mats so sucky?
Is Trump going to actually tax the rich?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That'd be the ultimate populist move? But no, no, let's
not know. He's not going to raise tax.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
There's that He's going to a lot of stuff on
the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Strong and yet.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
So the first time since twenty fourteen, Easter and four
twenty will land on the same day this year, which
is going to lead to some very.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Long and confusing egg hunts.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Where did I did I hide those?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
There are a lot of Peeps products then now this
year they have Peep's icies, They've got Peeps flavored milk.
The Peeps and Peeps even teamed up with Milk Bone
to make.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Peeps flavored dog biscuit.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
No, at least one stone dude in the peedile at
Target is going to see that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And just devour the bucket.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I've still never had a peep, but a peep peep
flavored milk sounds awful.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That is just sugary milk. It's milk with sugar in it.
I don't get it. Although I am a big fan
of the peep and have been for many, many years.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We did get one text tying a story of today
with our little revolutionary work.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yes, Katie, you have a peep related comment.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I was just gonna let Joe, No peeps are trash, says, trash.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is like a low rent treats.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Is that No?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
There, it's there with the circus peanuts and the.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I agree, another excellent traait, another delicious treaty.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You canet them the real cheap.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
They come in packaging boxes as well.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And you said the peep is a delightful, soft, yet crunchy,
It's Easter themed treat enjoyed by generations.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The fascinating personality that is you that combines country club
wine connoisseur, you know, Beethoven with you like peeps and
circus peanuts.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yes, and if you were more sophisticated you'd understand how
it all fits together.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
At home matching his peeps with a nice Scotch. Oh,
that sounds delicious.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
One serious thing.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We were talking about the Revolutionary War and the anniversary
of Paul Revere blah blah blah, and one of the
stories of the day. I think it's helpful to point
out that the true beginning of due process began with
John Adams defending the British soldiers after the Boston massacre.
He thought it would end his career and ruin his reputation,
but was convinced it was the right thing to do anyway,
that everybody deserved to due process, even the British soldiers.
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And if you have not seen that play out, you
should watch that HBO series with Paul Giamati as John Adams.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yesterday, Joe brought us some fascinating information about Elon Musk
and his many children and how the whole thing works.
Did that include you mentioning that, well, I'll just read
this text and I don't remember this part or not. Wait,
Elon's been getting all these women pregnant with in vitro fertilization.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Dude, I've got a way cooler method you should try. Well.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
No, I think he does it the old fashioned way.
Mostly what he was suggesting to I think it was
Ashley Saint Clair was that they combine his most excellent
spermatozoans with her delightful ovum ova and implant them in
a bunch of mothers because he thought that they were
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a super great pair to reproduce. But you can't breed
an army one kid at a time, so he's going
to farm out the project to surrogates.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I wonder what his goal is if he's on kid
fourteen at age fifty three, and unlike women, as a dude,
you could keep doing this, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
The rest of your life. I wonder how many kids
he's thinking. I mean, is he.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Gonna like get into Crazyville, like forty fifty kids?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think as many as possible as his goal.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Wow, within the bounds of And we talked about this
yesterday hour four I think gravitfive podcast Armstrong and getting
on demand if you missed it. But the way he
manages the women and pays gives them a lump sum
and then a monthly like one hundred thousand dollars a
month allowance to raise the kid, but then he might
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makes them sign non dispara agreements. NDA's it's all very
complicated and certainly odd from the perspectives of somebody with
a much more traditional lifestyle like myself.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, so the figure you were the reporting was fifteen
million lump sum and then one hundred thousand a month
to Miss Saint Clair. Yeah, indeed, just that little romulus.
Is that for life or is that for till the
kid's eighteen?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, she had some objections to the contract, specifically that
it wasn't terribly specific about what would happen if Elon
died before the kid hit twenty one, because I think
that was one of the answer to your question.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That's kind of easily taken care of. I mean.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
You would think, but yeah, it's a culture of don't
challenge him, just play along, and he will make it
very much worth your while.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Once you got your fifteen million dollars, I think you're
in decent shape.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I mean, unless you're really bad, you got to pay
it back.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
If you disparage him, you'll break the agreement. Yeah, wow,
that's the contract. So you come, you go to TMZ
and say Elon's a bad dad and you owe him
that you got to pay back to fifteen million dollars
which you probably spent most of correct. Yeah, yeah, well,
you know, it's an interesting arrangement you got into anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But so his rockets seem to be very, very good.
Somebody brought up last Hour.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So there's a certain theory with the Mungams and with
Elon that his genius and I think he is a genius,
will translate to the.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Kid you have.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But somebody pointed out last hour. There's not a lot
of examples of that. I mean, we just were mentioning
John Adams, John Quincy Adams. There's one example, but there's
not like regular examples of Thomas Edison's kid or Einstein's
kid or whatever, or athletes or you know, it happens
now and then, but not usually.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, they have different goals and motivations. Of course, they're individuals.
They might be really into, you know, writing about opera
or history or whatever, and no interest in forging ahead
in physics, for instance.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So you got fifteen million dollars one hundred thousand dollars
a month, and you might have a dumb kid. You know,
or Thomas Edison's kid just wanted to play the banjo.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I don't know. Did he have kids?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So I don't know, right, Yeah, that's gonna be interesting
to watch. I'll bet Elon's gonna end up with forty
fifty kids, whichard could be crazy, could be so coming up.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Harvard announced that they need to offer remedial math classes
now to the most exclusive university on a plan. And
part of the reason for that is because common Core
was such a miserable failure. Yep, sure, and you knew it,
didn't you trying to help your kids with their homework.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You're right, all of us parents knew it. You know.
Look forward to complaining about this, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
A dozen eggs are going for more than six dollars
according to the national average.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You might have seen the.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Social trends plastic egg decorating and dying marshmallows, and potatoes.
All it takes is a little food dye you probably
have in the back of your pantry from last.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Year, and egg shaped potatoes.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Both options are a fraction of the cost of a
dozen eggs.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
I think to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs
is the reason our grandparents left the old country.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Good.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know what you want, you know what you can
do if you can't buy eggs.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Eggs are suggestions, are good suggestions.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Just tell your kids you hid the eggs really really
well this year.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
How do you dye a plastic egg?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You know, that's the perfect example of a social media
trend that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Doesn't exist on Earth.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
It's only nobody's dying blanking potatoes. Egg shaped potatoes, no
first social media trend. I don't think anybody's in a
situation where that extra dollar from what they cost a
year ago is going to keep you from being able
to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And if you are, that's I feel for you.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
But like, sell some plasma today or a steal, do something,
but don't make your kids die egg shaped potatoes.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Wow, So coming up a little bingo banngo bongo of headlines,
A lot of stuff going on. We'll just touch on
a lot of it briefly. But I was struck, as
so many were, that even Harvard is now having to
offer remedial math classes because our nation's government schools are
doing such a poor job of preparing kids for college.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
That's crazy. I can't believe you're qualify for Harvard, yet
you need remedial math.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I've been hearing for years about remedial English and writing
in particular courses in a lot of universities for kids
who are accepted into what are quote unquote the elite universities.
And you know, not to brag or anything, we're the
product of our upbringing in the education that was offered
to us, and our own driving curiosity.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But the idea that.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You could get admitted into well I went, you know,
to University of Illinois, for instance, and not the reasonably
competent at math and reading is just astonishing to me,
especially given and any parent of a high school or
can tell you this right now. It's extremely competitive to
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get into these schools. What does all of that mean, Well,
it has to do with great inflation and the dumbing
down of education in the country. It's been a miserable failure.
But I thought this was interesting. The Harvard is not
labeling the new course remedial. The official se that the
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course quote is intended to support students who face early
challenges in their math courses.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
In other words, it's remedial.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
So they quote an expert in the California Globe is Zuomi.
Mister is Zumi. What's his first name?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I don't know, but he does great work, Oh, Lance
Zumi of the Pacific Research Institute. He says much of
the reason for the poor performance of American students is
because of the failed progressive math teaching methods and curricula
pushed on schools by the National common Core Math Standards,
which were adopted by most states in the early twenty tens.
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Under common Course math standards that tried and true standard algorithms,
meaning step by step operational methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division were de emphasized, while progressive and often confusing
methods such as drawing pictures to solve fractional multiplication problems
were prioritized. The result was widespread student math failure, with
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a federally funded study finding the common Core has had
a significant negative impact on eighth grade math achievements and
that this negative fact effect has increased over time.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
This is not a shock to any parent who dealt
with this.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I was starting roughly ten years ago. My kids got
into elementary school and they were doing math like grade
school math that I couldn't help them with. And I
was a math guy, and I couldn't help them with it.
And I talked to lots of people like, Oh, we've
gotten emails from people that were like literally rocket scientists
who couldn't help their kids with their math because it
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made no sense.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
You know, that method of teaching makes sense to a
small number of kids who, for whatever neurological reasons, see
the world that way.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, good for them, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
And I'll go ahead and get to my usual punchline
on this, and then there's more information on this, which
to me is really interesting. But education is so overloaded
with administrators, number one, and with people with phony advanced degrees,
masters and PhDs that are completely unnecessary to the task
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of educating children. They did a hell of a job
not very long ago without a bunch of PhDs running
around your local elementary school. Well, if you are a
would be, you know, a leading light in your industry,
you're never going to become one by saying the stuff
we've been doing for the last seventy years, it's perfect,
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it's great. Really, we don't need to tweak it hardly
at all. Let's just keep going. You will never become
a leading light that way. The last innovation, how.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
About the last seven hundred years when it comes to
basic math, right, right, yeah, seven thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Archimedes is spinning in his grave anyway. So there's this
never ending push to innovate, even at the expense of
the kids. And it's all supported by the teachers unions
who work to quash And I remember at the time
anybody who was saying, hey, common course crazy and it
doesn't work. You're portrayed as some sort of right wing.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Fascist, right and then a lot and a lot of something,
not a lot, But some of the teachers were completely
aware of this because I ended up in a situation
where one of my children was struggling with the math
and they said, look, look, just to do the flash cards.
Do the old fashioned way, the flash cards, okay, some
memorizing math facts because they didn't want kids to have
to do that for some reason. Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So back to mister Azumi, he said, a major study
by the ACT Test found that from twenty ten to
twenty twenty two, a dozen years, the grade point average
in high school English, math, science, and social studies courses
among students taking the ACT College Inferance Test increased year
over year, while their ACT scores decreased in every one
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of those subjects.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, well that's we know why that is.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
They lower the ball to get more passing grades or
straight a's. You're not learning more. They just make it
easier to qualify for an A. It's the what's the
good what principles? My favorite thing I've ever learned in
my life. Yeah, Goodhart principle. Once a measure becomes a goal,
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it ceases to be a good measure. And that's exactly
what happened there. And there's all kinds of examples through life.
Once you think about it, this is a perfect one
right there. Once they measure became a goal, the goal
was we need more people who were straight a's, or
we need more people who pass Okay, then you change
the structure to get.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
That result, right thumbs on scales in short. Yeah, final
note from mister Zuomi. In my book, I conclude that
too many K through twelve schools are putting political ideology
over what works, whether it be a misguided equity agenda
that seeks to dumb down learning to the lowest common denominator,
or progressive curricula and instructural methods that are being used
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in intellectual defiance of him empirical evidence showing that they
are ineffective and are damaging children.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Then he goes into great inflation.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
How dangerous it is, and then how miserable things are
in the state of California, since this is the California globe,
and what an utter failure education is in particular compared
to Florida.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But enough of that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You're right all along, folks, you were right all along.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Man. That's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
If you spent many hours sitting around the table trying
to figure out how to help your kid with their math,
they get frustrated, You get frustrated, and it was all
freaking a waste of time, complete freaking waste of time,
no need whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
God, that makes me angry.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
If I was a zillionaire, I would figure out a
way to grow some of the great private school the
fundamental schools that exist in the world. I'm aware of
John Adams Academy. I was just talking to somebody involved
in that the other day, and there are a number
of worthy examples around the country. But man, I would
like to somehow fertilize their growth and their affordability for
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average American families, because you know, talk shows the talk
radio is the land of hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It's like the Internet.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
But I swear I'm not trying to be hyperbolic when
I say this is a terrible, almost fatal disease.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We have in this country.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
How perverse in and effect of our education systems have become.
And it ought to be just coast to coast, a
national priority to sort it out. But there are moneyed
interests who are standing in the way.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Well it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You know, after many generations of you could count on
as a parent, you know, my kid waits out there
at the bus stop, he gets on the bus, he
goes to school, he learns, he's going to learn what
he needs to learn. He's gonna come out, he's gonna
be able to be a productive citizen in the world
like I did. Like I did, you could count on it.
You didn't have to worry about it. But those days
are over. But it's just it's a lot easier to
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think you can just drop your kid off at school
and they're getting what they need. No they're not, probably,
and you've got to stay on top of it. And
it's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
It absolutely is a few more stories squeeze in the court.
A appeal Federal Appeals Court yesterday delivered a striking rebuke
to the Trump administration's renewed challenge to an order that
is seeking the return of that guy who needs to
be returned from the Salvador in prison. The court called
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it a shocking or is a quote it must facilitate
the return. The government is asserting a right to stash
away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the
semblance of due process that is the foundation of our
constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it
has rid itself of custody, that now nothing can be done,
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said the Reagan appointee judge, writing for a unanimous three
judge panel of that appeals court.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
This is not over.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
The biggest question mark on that whole story to me
is why did his wife try to get a restraining
order on it, claiming he was beating her and was
so violent and all this sort of stuff. And the
quotes are out there from the actual legal documents, and
now is saying he's a great man. That wasn't true,
I didn't mean it or something. I wonder what's going
on there? Yeah, boy, it could be half a dozen
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different things. Could be lots of different things.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, fear being cajoled by activists, being bribed, Yeah, some
sort of you know, they were about to get divorced
when she made the original claims. Who knows with something
like that, But not impossible that somebody gets to her
with here's a lot of good things that will happen.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
To you if you just say he's a good dude.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Oh yeah, well, you know you want your kid to
go to school in this country, We can take.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Care of that, go to college or whatever. Here's a
little fun to get you started.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Our our buddy, mister Soros, who is behind a lot
of the protests that are going on right now, as
always finances it. But yeah, absolutely true. Go ahead and
roll a clip ninety Michael. I wanted to touch on this.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
President has spent eighty seven days at the highest level
of its government repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war
to an end. We are now reaching a point where
we need to decide and determine whether this is even
possible or not, which is why we're engaging both sides.
We need to figure out here now, within a matter
of days, whether this is doable in the short term,
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because if it's not, then I think we're just going
to move on from our perspective.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio there said the US would
pause its efforts to negotiate an end of the war
in Ukraine if progress isn't made in the coming days,
in an attempt to put pressure on Kiev end Moscow
to compromise.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I have not seen Moscow compromising at all. No, No,
what is next the next step? No idea.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, the Euros are going to hold a meeting that
Rubio said, I'm happy to go to if there's any
point in it. But this, the prospect of some sort
of peace agreement is completely out to see at this point,
completely out to see. It was from the beginning. I'm
out of order here. I meant to mention that that
Senator Van Holland from Maryland met with the deported mister
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Abrego Garcia. And the only reason I bring that up,
or wanted to, was because the wise cracking president of
El Salvador Na bo Kelly continued his sarcastic comedy tour,
saying that after the meeting, now that he's been confirmed healthy,
he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody,
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so we're not turning them loose.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
So he's still there and will remain so until further notice.
Opinions are like elbows, as they say. But here's an
opinion for other people saying more earthy version of that
that I would say, which I don't say because I'm
you know, classy.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
But everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
At least one high profile business saying there are going
to be thousands, then many, maybe millions of American small
businesses go bankrupt this year if this whole Chinese tariff
thing doesn't go away. We can explain that at some
point that that's a that's that's quite a prediction.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
And Bertie Sanders spending a quarter of a million dollars
for private jets on his fighting oligarchy tour.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You with us all all the way, stay here. The
shooter is twenty.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Year old Phoenix Eibner, and he's a son of a
Leon County sheriff deputy. Our deputy Deputy Eidner has been
with the Lean County Sheriff's Office for over eighteen years. Unfortunately,
her son had access to one of her weapons, and.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That was one of the weapons. That's what's found at
the scene.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
That's a shooting that happened college in Florida yesterday. Have
you heard anything about how kind of trouble this sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Might be in kid getting hold of her gun.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
No.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I can assume a couple of things, But no, not really.
The mainstream media, I was just looking at some news
alerts is delighted to inform us that this young man
had right wing conspiracy theories. It's funny how they were
uninterested in the fact that the lunatic who burned down
the Governor Shapiro's house in Pennsylvania appears to be not
only a lunatic, but a pro Palestinian activist that was
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not worthy of coverage.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
They're just such lying liars.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But stop shooting people in burning stuff, you jackasses.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't need to belabor this at all. Is there
anything to say about another shooting anything?
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Not?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Really, I don't know how he getted.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Another pathetic coward who thinks he gets to hurt people
because he's unhappy about this, that or the other. Why
are we going to start as a culture calling these
people stupids and make it utterly clear to everyone right,
like a drunk driver or a wife beater. It's not funny,
it's not cool. You're not a hero, you're not scary.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
We're not gonna put your pictures on the news like
you're some sort of a character out of the matrix.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Now you're a stupid coward.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, I wonder if if we could get all the
media to go along with the loser then walked through
the hallways and you know, just refer to them as
a loser all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, change topic. Luckily that wasn't a whole bunch of
dads there. Oh, there were a couple of couple of kids.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
There going to that college that had been at the
school in Parkland, Florida when they were younger.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Then jeez, well you earlier about a shooting in the
town where you live, where thank god nobody died, but
kids are terrorized and afraid to sleep in their own beds.
And often I think we all of us say, Okay,
thank god nobody died. But if you've ever a been
in a situation where you could have died, like some
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monstrous lunatic was trying to kill you, and perhaps he
shot you, and you have a gunshot wound to heal
from your body and your mind are changed forever.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's not okay because somebody didn't die, right, Okay, complete
change of tone. Here is somebody on Facebook making fun
of the whole Chicksterrenaut episode.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
What I know. I hate to see it made fun of.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I feel love, like live left Love, but like the
rich version of it. I hope everyone sees how unified
we were go to space in full glam. I hope
that in seeing us make the decision to spend that
kind of money to leave Earth, that everyone else understands
you're not like us. This was important for us to
do because tourism to space isn't for everyone. We weren't
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just going to space. We were making space for all
of you to watch us. This is what women need
right now, tourism, cute outfits, hair extensions, and zero gravity.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah that's pretty good. Well, there's a lot to mock
in the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, whatever that was the point had the biggest backfires
in recent memory, but it was delightful. We all needed
a moodlift, didn't we, folks.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah. I'd like to thank the ladies for that.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
An MSNBC analysts claimed that Donald Trump wants to take
anyone in America and disappear them, presumably by booking them
as an analyst on MSNBC.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Low Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I was just reading this article about Corey Lewandowski and
Christy Noms. So Christy Noman is the way too glam
for my taste. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. I don't
know why she gets hold dolled up the way she does,
for like.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Visiting El Salvador in prisons. But the thing that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Bothers me that's way over the top is when she
has the I have wet shiny lips lips stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh geez, I don't like the way you said wet.
Something off putting about that. Wow? Excuse me? It's called
a gloss, you weirdo?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Why lips? Wow? Yeah? What's the why the wet lips stuff?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So is Corey Lewandowski her chief of staff or chief
with a staff? That is the question that seems to
be going around, is they there seems to be an
inappropriate relationship between the two.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Are we just gonna let that go? Michael, I'm just
gonna let it go. I was kind of proud of that,
all right.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So Rich Lowry of the National Review wrote a great
piece about the fact that tomorrow is the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the Ride of Paul Revere, Vaunted
and story and song and poem and the rest of it.
The the poem only semi accurate, and it's fine. For instance,
he absolutely probably didn't say the British are coming because
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everybody still considered themselves British.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Listen to my children, and you shall hear that one,
that poem. Yeah, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. He
almost certainly said the regulars are coming out, meaning the regular.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
British troops anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So getting to Rich Lowry's story, sure enough, we've long
told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in
April seventeen seventy five, when the famous silver Smith warned
the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution
kicked off in earnest. Like all legendary events, Revere's ride
in the battles of Lexington and Conquered have been encrusted
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with myth. It's almost certainly not the case that he
yeld the British are coming center, and Revere didn't ride alone,
and he didn't even make it to Concord. The British
briefly captured him. And the role of the celebrated minute
men tends to be exaggerated.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
But such minutia side that day two hundred and fifty
years ago still deserves to be celebrated in prose and poetry,
and is every bit as extraordinary as you might have
learned when you were a child, before we decided we
didn't like our own history and heroes so much anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And you said, it's sooner than fifty years ago tomorrow,
correct sir, the nineteenth of April.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I was there on vacation a couple of years ago,
and I did the walk slash drive through the whole thing,
Lexington Concord, and it is It's very cool. Oh, I'd
love to do that. I can't believe I haven't anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Hoping to maintain operational secrecy, the British sent a contingent
out at night from Boston to capture reputed stores of
weapons in Concord. They were immediately noticed and the whole
one of my land two of by sea plan that
Revere and has we discussed last hour. Roughly thirty other
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craftsmen and mechanics had come up with a plan to
monitor the British movement of troops round the clock and
to warn the Patriots if they started to move in
an aggressive way. And indeed so the part about the
old North Church lantern is absolutely a real thing, and
the race was on. It is really Lowry Wright's one
of the most dramatic episodes in American history. Paul Revere
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and others rushing to warn the countryside, and the British
troops marching through the night, not briefed on their mission,
hearing guns and bells sounding alarms all around them. Lexington
was on the way. The militia mustard as a show
of force, not seeking a fight. No one knows who
fired the shot heard round the world. It may have
been an inadvertent discharge, but the British then fired volleys
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and charged with bayonets, killing eight. Concord was now fully
on alert again. There was a wary standoff again someone
fired during this confrontation at north Bridge. The British got
off a volley, then the Colonials returned fire with deadly effect,
and shockingly, the British ran.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Their rank swelling.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The Colonials harried the regulars along the narrow battle Road
as they retreated back to Lexington, with the places where
the fighting was especially intense known by names such as
the Bloody Angle and Parker's Revenge. This reminds me a
little bit of the opening days of the war in
Ukraine of a similar situation, in that the Russians met
way more resistance than they thought, and the the home
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people are much more motivated to defend their families and
homes than the Russians that wondered why are we even here?
In the Brits many whom we thought, why are we
even here?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Right? Yeah, that's an excellent point.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And I tell you what, if you hear about places
named the Bloody Angle in Parker's Revenge and don't get
a bit of a chill, You're made of different stuff
than me. Members of the militia did not, as popular
imagination believes, largely act on their own inspired initiative. They
were well led the Americans repeatedly stood in formation against
the British regulars during the course of the day. Historian
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David Hackett Fisher writes it was an extraordinary display of courage, resolve,
and discipline by citizen soldiers against regular troops. The more
dispersed fighting along the battle road later on was itself
the product of a colonial plan to avoid direct confrontation
with a now reinforce much larger British force. By the
time they made it back to Boston, the British had
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suffered a true mauling, experiencing roughly three hundred casualties to
one hundred for the colonials. The Americans ensured that the
words spread far and wide, and the effect was electric.
Thomas Paine, who had only recently come to America, felt
that quote the country into which I just set my
foot was set on fire about my ears. John Adams
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said that Lexington quote changed the instruments of war from
the pen to the sword. If Lexington and Conquered were
small scale engagements and the schemes of things, the reverberations
were enormous, they sent a message that a defiant American
population wouldn't be easily subdued. Wadsworth concluded his famous poem
with the lines through all our history to the last,
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in the hour of darkness and peril and need, the
people will awaken and listen to hear the hurrying hoof
beats of that steed and the midnight message of Paul Revere.
May it be so, writes Rich Lowry. Beautiful job as usual, Rich.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I wish I could remember what book it was I
read fairly recently about this.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But Revere was captured along with the guy who's riding
with They.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Got beaten real good by like rifle butts and stuff
like that by the Brits and got out of there
somehow to continue riding.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But it was way more violent and dicey than you know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The poem leads you to believe, right, it was not
romantic and gallant and a horse ride of shouting. Yeah,
you got the hell beat out of him the But
it's just it's been true throughout history, and for obvious reasons.
If you're fighting with your own home, wife and kids
at your back, you fight differently than if you're a
occupying force working for a paycheck. Don't really care that
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much whether you're there or not, and whether it's shooting,
so nobody shoots you Russians in Ukraine or circum circumstances
sometimes the Northern soldiers in the South and the Civil
War and Us in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There's all kinds of examples.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Right, Yeah, I was gonna bring up Afghanistan, and you
know that just needs to be remembered. And it's the
point I've made many times through the years. You can
have the most righteous mission in the world. You can
be backed by the majority of a population of a place,
but they get tired of being occupied really really fast.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
As we would as well as we were at the time.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Always remember in one of Shelby Foot's books about the
Civil War, he's got a quote in there from some
Southern soldier who gets captured after a bloody battle in
the Northern Guys Union guys ask why are you fighting
so hard? And he said, because you're here just thinking here,
you're in arm might you're in my yard?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, fight to the death for that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
We will post a link to this piece by Rich Lowry.
I'm not sure the paywall situation. National Review does a
great journalism anyway. Maybe you want to subscribe, but that's that,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm a little bummed today. We got this.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We'll play a little bit later, this this bit about
coloring eggs from Jimmy Kimmel. But my kids are too
old for that now. And I love that. That was
fantastic there for a while. Ye get some eggs and
color them, and it was a little project and they
were so into it.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And the on weight of the teenager is a whole
different thing.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Nothing is fun or cool, yes, certainly, nothing to do
with you. Yeah, Actually, there's plenty of things that are
fun and cool. Hanging out with his girlfriend seems to
be very fun and cool. Hanging out with me not
as much.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I was so lucky with my son, in particular that
we both love to play golf, and we both love
rock and roll music and playing guitar and.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Bass and that sort of thing. So we always, you know,
we could do that. Henry and I played tennis yesterday
and lifted weights. It's different stuff, but it's you know,
those little kid activities are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, yeah, I was always very bad at dying eggs.
I was more than happy to let the kids do it.
I just my eggs would come out and look for you.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But how is anyone bad at dying eggs? There's really
the bar is very low. Did the egg end up
not white?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You win? Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
No, it's the other people in the family. Their eggs
were much more artful than mine. Okay, I mean beautiful,
like rainbows of color and patterns and that sort of thing.
Mine again looked like something had gone wrong with the egg.
Better throw this one out, honey, it's gone bad.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Joe's going to tell us why common core mats so sucky?
Is Trump going to actually tax the rich?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That'd be the ultimate populist move? But no, no, let's
not know. He's not going to raise tax.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
There's that He's going to a lot of stuff on
the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Strong and yet.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
So the first time since twenty fourteen, Easter and four
twenty will land on the same day this year, which
is going to lead to some very.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Long and confusing egg hunts.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Where did I did I hide those?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
There are a lot of Peeps products then now this
year they have Peep's icies, They've got Peeps flavored milk.
The Peeps and Peeps even teamed up with Milk Bone
to make.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Peeps flavored dog biscuit.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
No, at least one stone dude in the peedile at
Target is going to see that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And just devour the bucket.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I've still never had a peep, but a peep peep
flavored milk sounds awful.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That is just sugary milk. It's milk with sugar in it.
I don't get it. Although I am a big fan
of the peep and have been for many, many years.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We did get one text tying a story of today
with our little revolutionary work.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yes, Katie, you have a peep related comment.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I was just gonna let Joe, No peeps are trash, says, trash.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is like a low rent treats.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Is that No?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
There, it's there with the circus peanuts and the.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I agree, another excellent traait, another delicious treaty.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You canet them the real cheap.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
They come in packaging boxes as well.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And you said the peep is a delightful, soft, yet crunchy,
It's Easter themed treat enjoyed by generations.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The fascinating personality that is you that combines country club
wine connoisseur, you know, Beethoven with you like peeps and
circus peanuts.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yes, and if you were more sophisticated you'd understand how
it all fits together.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
At home matching his peeps with a nice Scotch. Oh,
that sounds delicious.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
One serious thing.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We were talking about the Revolutionary War and the anniversary
of Paul Revere blah blah blah, and one of the
stories of the day. I think it's helpful to point
out that the true beginning of due process began with
John Adams defending the British soldiers after the Boston massacre.
He thought it would end his career and ruin his reputation,
but was convinced it was the right thing to do anyway,
that everybody deserved to due process, even the British soldiers.
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And if you have not seen that play out, you
should watch that HBO series with Paul Giamati as John Adams.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yesterday, Joe brought us some fascinating information about Elon Musk
and his many children and how the whole thing works.
Did that include you mentioning that, well, I'll just read
this text and I don't remember this part or not. Wait,
Elon's been getting all these women pregnant with in vitro fertilization.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Dude, I've got a way cooler method you should try. Well.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
No, I think he does it the old fashioned way.
Mostly what he was suggesting to I think it was
Ashley Saint Clair was that they combine his most excellent
spermatozoans with her delightful ovum ova and implant them in
a bunch of mothers because he thought that they were
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a super great pair to reproduce. But you can't breed
an army one kid at a time, so he's going
to farm out the project to surrogates.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I wonder what his goal is if he's on kid
fourteen at age fifty three, and unlike women, as a dude,
you could keep doing this, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
The rest of your life. I wonder how many kids
he's thinking. I mean, is he.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Gonna like get into Crazyville, like forty fifty kids?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think as many as possible as his goal.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Wow, within the bounds of And we talked about this
yesterday hour four I think gravitfive podcast Armstrong and getting
on demand if you missed it. But the way he
manages the women and pays gives them a lump sum
and then a monthly like one hundred thousand dollars a
month allowance to raise the kid, but then he might
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makes them sign non dispara agreements. NDA's it's all very
complicated and certainly odd from the perspectives of somebody with
a much more traditional lifestyle like myself.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, so the figure you were the reporting was fifteen
million lump sum and then one hundred thousand a month
to Miss Saint Clair. Yeah, indeed, just that little romulus.
Is that for life or is that for till the
kid's eighteen?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, she had some objections to the contract, specifically that
it wasn't terribly specific about what would happen if Elon
died before the kid hit twenty one, because I think
that was one of the answer to your question.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That's kind of easily taken care of. I mean.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
You would think, but yeah, it's a culture of don't
challenge him, just play along, and he will make it
very much worth your while.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Once you got your fifteen million dollars, I think you're
in decent shape.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I mean, unless you're really bad, you got to pay
it back.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
If you disparage him, you'll break the agreement. Yeah, wow,
that's the contract. So you come, you go to TMZ
and say Elon's a bad dad and you owe him
that you got to pay back to fifteen million dollars
which you probably spent most of correct. Yeah, yeah, well,
you know, it's an interesting arrangement you got into anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But so his rockets seem to be very, very good.
Somebody brought up last Hour.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So there's a certain theory with the Mungams and with
Elon that his genius and I think he is a genius,
will translate to the.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Kid you have.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But somebody pointed out last hour. There's not a lot
of examples of that. I mean, we just were mentioning
John Adams, John Quincy Adams. There's one example, but there's
not like regular examples of Thomas Edison's kid or Einstein's
kid or whatever, or athletes or you know, it happens
now and then, but not usually.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, they have different goals and motivations. Of course, they're individuals.
They might be really into, you know, writing about opera
or history or whatever, and no interest in forging ahead
in physics, for instance.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So you got fifteen million dollars one hundred thousand dollars
a month, and you might have a dumb kid. You know,
or Thomas Edison's kid just wanted to play the banjo.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I don't know. Did he have kids?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So I don't know, right, Yeah, that's gonna be interesting
to watch. I'll bet Elon's gonna end up with forty
fifty kids, whichard could be crazy, could be so coming up.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Harvard announced that they need to offer remedial math classes
now to the most exclusive university on a plan. And
part of the reason for that is because common Core
was such a miserable failure. Yep, sure, and you knew it,
didn't you trying to help your kids with their homework.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You're right, all of us parents knew it. You know.
Look forward to complaining about this, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
A dozen eggs are going for more than six dollars
according to the national average.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You might have seen the.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Social trends plastic egg decorating and dying marshmallows, and potatoes.
All it takes is a little food dye you probably
have in the back of your pantry from last.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Year, and egg shaped potatoes.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Both options are a fraction of the cost of a
dozen eggs.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
I think to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs
is the reason our grandparents left the old country.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Good.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know what you want, you know what you can
do if you can't buy eggs.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Eggs are suggestions, are good suggestions.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Just tell your kids you hid the eggs really really
well this year.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
How do you dye a plastic egg?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You know, that's the perfect example of a social media
trend that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Doesn't exist on Earth.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
It's only nobody's dying blanking potatoes. Egg shaped potatoes, no
first social media trend. I don't think anybody's in a
situation where that extra dollar from what they cost a
year ago is going to keep you from being able
to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And if you are, that's I feel for you.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
But like, sell some plasma today or a steal, do something,
but don't make your kids die egg shaped potatoes.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Wow, So coming up a little bingo banngo bongo of headlines,
A lot of stuff going on. We'll just touch on
a lot of it briefly. But I was struck, as
so many were, that even Harvard is now having to
offer remedial math classes because our nation's government schools are
doing such a poor job of preparing kids for college.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
That's crazy. I can't believe you're qualify for Harvard, yet
you need remedial math.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I've been hearing for years about remedial English and writing
in particular courses in a lot of universities for kids
who are accepted into what are quote unquote the elite universities.
And you know, not to brag or anything, we're the
product of our upbringing in the education that was offered
to us, and our own driving curiosity.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But the idea that.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You could get admitted into well I went, you know,
to University of Illinois, for instance, and not the reasonably
competent at math and reading is just astonishing to me,
especially given and any parent of a high school or
can tell you this right now. It's extremely competitive to
(19:40):
get into these schools. What does all of that mean, Well,
it has to do with great inflation and the dumbing
down of education in the country. It's been a miserable failure.
But I thought this was interesting. The Harvard is not
labeling the new course remedial. The official se that the
(20:00):
course quote is intended to support students who face early
challenges in their math courses.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
In other words, it's remedial.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
So they quote an expert in the California Globe is Zuomi.
Mister is Zumi. What's his first name?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I don't know, but he does great work, Oh, Lance
Zumi of the Pacific Research Institute. He says much of
the reason for the poor performance of American students is
because of the failed progressive math teaching methods and curricula
pushed on schools by the National common Core Math Standards,
which were adopted by most states in the early twenty tens.
(20:39):
Under common Course math standards that tried and true standard algorithms,
meaning step by step operational methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division were de emphasized, while progressive and often confusing
methods such as drawing pictures to solve fractional multiplication problems
were prioritized. The result was widespread student math failure, with
(21:01):
a federally funded study finding the common Core has had
a significant negative impact on eighth grade math achievements and
that this negative fact effect has increased over time.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
This is not a shock to any parent who dealt
with this.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I was starting roughly ten years ago. My kids got
into elementary school and they were doing math like grade
school math that I couldn't help them with. And I
was a math guy, and I couldn't help them with it.
And I talked to lots of people like, Oh, we've
gotten emails from people that were like literally rocket scientists
who couldn't help their kids with their math because it
(21:35):
made no sense.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
You know, that method of teaching makes sense to a
small number of kids who, for whatever neurological reasons, see
the world that way.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, good for them, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
And I'll go ahead and get to my usual punchline
on this, and then there's more information on this, which
to me is really interesting. But education is so overloaded
with administrators, number one, and with people with phony advanced degrees,
masters and PhDs that are completely unnecessary to the task
(22:09):
of educating children. They did a hell of a job
not very long ago without a bunch of PhDs running
around your local elementary school. Well, if you are a
would be, you know, a leading light in your industry,
you're never going to become one by saying the stuff
we've been doing for the last seventy years, it's perfect,
(22:30):
it's great. Really, we don't need to tweak it hardly
at all. Let's just keep going. You will never become
a leading light that way. The last innovation, how.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
About the last seven hundred years when it comes to
basic math, right, right, yeah, seven thousand.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Archimedes is spinning in his grave anyway. So there's this
never ending push to innovate, even at the expense of
the kids. And it's all supported by the teachers unions
who work to quash And I remember at the time
anybody who was saying, hey, common course crazy and it
doesn't work. You're portrayed as some sort of right wing.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Fascist, right and then a lot and a lot of something,
not a lot, But some of the teachers were completely
aware of this because I ended up in a situation
where one of my children was struggling with the math
and they said, look, look, just to do the flash cards.
Do the old fashioned way, the flash cards, okay, some
memorizing math facts because they didn't want kids to have
to do that for some reason. Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So back to mister Azumi, he said, a major study
by the ACT Test found that from twenty ten to
twenty twenty two, a dozen years, the grade point average
in high school English, math, science, and social studies courses
among students taking the ACT College Inferance Test increased year
over year, while their ACT scores decreased in every one
(23:53):
of those subjects.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, well that's we know why that is.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
They lower the ball to get more passing grades or
straight a's. You're not learning more. They just make it
easier to qualify for an A. It's the what's the
good what principles? My favorite thing I've ever learned in
my life. Yeah, Goodhart principle. Once a measure becomes a goal,
(24:19):
it ceases to be a good measure. And that's exactly
what happened there. And there's all kinds of examples through life.
Once you think about it, this is a perfect one
right there. Once they measure became a goal, the goal
was we need more people who were straight a's, or
we need more people who pass Okay, then you change
the structure to get.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
That result, right thumbs on scales in short. Yeah, final
note from mister Zuomi. In my book, I conclude that
too many K through twelve schools are putting political ideology
over what works, whether it be a misguided equity agenda
that seeks to dumb down learning to the lowest common denominator,
or progressive curricula and instructural methods that are being used
(24:57):
in intellectual defiance of him empirical evidence showing that they
are ineffective and are damaging children.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Then he goes into great inflation.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
How dangerous it is, and then how miserable things are
in the state of California, since this is the California globe,
and what an utter failure education is in particular compared
to Florida.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But enough of that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You're right all along, folks, you were right all along.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Man. That's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
If you spent many hours sitting around the table trying
to figure out how to help your kid with their math,
they get frustrated, You get frustrated, and it was all
freaking a waste of time, complete freaking waste of time,
no need whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
God, that makes me angry.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
If I was a zillionaire, I would figure out a
way to grow some of the great private school the
fundamental schools that exist in the world. I'm aware of
John Adams Academy. I was just talking to somebody involved
in that the other day, and there are a number
of worthy examples around the country. But man, I would
like to somehow fertilize their growth and their affordability for
(26:01):
average American families, because you know, talk shows the talk
radio is the land of hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It's like the Internet.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
But I swear I'm not trying to be hyperbolic when
I say this is a terrible, almost fatal disease.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We have in this country.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
How perverse in and effect of our education systems have become.
And it ought to be just coast to coast, a
national priority to sort it out. But there are moneyed
interests who are standing in the way.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Well it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You know, after many generations of you could count on
as a parent, you know, my kid waits out there
at the bus stop, he gets on the bus, he
goes to school, he learns, he's going to learn what
he needs to learn. He's gonna come out, he's gonna
be able to be a productive citizen in the world
like I did. Like I did, you could count on it.
You didn't have to worry about it. But those days
are over. But it's just it's a lot easier to
(26:53):
think you can just drop your kid off at school
and they're getting what they need. No they're not, probably,
and you've got to stay on top of it. And
it's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
It absolutely is a few more stories squeeze in the court.
A appeal Federal Appeals Court yesterday delivered a striking rebuke
to the Trump administration's renewed challenge to an order that
is seeking the return of that guy who needs to
be returned from the Salvador in prison. The court called
(27:23):
it a shocking or is a quote it must facilitate
the return. The government is asserting a right to stash
away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the
semblance of due process that is the foundation of our
constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it
has rid itself of custody, that now nothing can be done,
(27:44):
said the Reagan appointee judge, writing for a unanimous three
judge panel of that appeals court.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
This is not over.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
The biggest question mark on that whole story to me
is why did his wife try to get a restraining
order on it, claiming he was beating her and was
so violent and all this sort of stuff. And the
quotes are out there from the actual legal documents, and
now is saying he's a great man. That wasn't true,
I didn't mean it or something. I wonder what's going
on there? Yeah, boy, it could be half a dozen
(28:12):
different things. Could be lots of different things.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, fear being cajoled by activists, being bribed, Yeah, some
sort of you know, they were about to get divorced
when she made the original claims. Who knows with something
like that, But not impossible that somebody gets to her
with here's a lot of good things that will happen.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
To you if you just say he's a good dude.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Oh yeah, well, you know you want your kid to
go to school in this country, We can take.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Care of that, go to college or whatever. Here's a
little fun to get you started.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Our our buddy, mister Soros, who is behind a lot
of the protests that are going on right now, as
always finances it. But yeah, absolutely true. Go ahead and
roll a clip ninety Michael. I wanted to touch on this.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
President has spent eighty seven days at the highest level
of its government repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war
to an end. We are now reaching a point where
we need to decide and determine whether this is even
possible or not, which is why we're engaging both sides.
We need to figure out here now, within a matter
of days, whether this is doable in the short term,
(29:17):
because if it's not, then I think we're just going
to move on from our perspective.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio there said the US would
pause its efforts to negotiate an end of the war
in Ukraine if progress isn't made in the coming days,
in an attempt to put pressure on Kiev end Moscow
to compromise.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I have not seen Moscow compromising at all. No, No,
what is next the next step? No idea.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, the Euros are going to hold a meeting that
Rubio said, I'm happy to go to if there's any
point in it. But this, the prospect of some sort
of peace agreement is completely out to see at this point,
completely out to see. It was from the beginning. I'm
out of order here. I meant to mention that that
Senator Van Holland from Maryland met with the deported mister
(30:09):
Abrego Garcia. And the only reason I bring that up,
or wanted to, was because the wise cracking president of
El Salvador Na bo Kelly continued his sarcastic comedy tour,
saying that after the meeting, now that he's been confirmed healthy,
he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody,
(30:33):
so we're not turning them loose.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
So he's still there and will remain so until further notice.
Opinions are like elbows, as they say. But here's an
opinion for other people saying more earthy version of that
that I would say, which I don't say because I'm
you know, classy.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
But everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
At least one high profile business saying there are going
to be thousands, then many, maybe millions of American small
businesses go bankrupt this year if this whole Chinese tariff
thing doesn't go away. We can explain that at some
point that that's a that's that's quite a prediction.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
And Bertie Sanders spending a quarter of a million dollars
for private jets on his fighting oligarchy tour.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You with us all all the way, stay here. The
shooter is twenty.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Year old Phoenix Eibner, and he's a son of a
Leon County sheriff deputy. Our deputy Deputy Eidner has been
with the Lean County Sheriff's Office for over eighteen years. Unfortunately,
her son had access to one of her weapons, and.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That was one of the weapons. That's what's found at
the scene.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
That's a shooting that happened college in Florida yesterday. Have
you heard anything about how kind of trouble this sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Might be in kid getting hold of her gun.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
No.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I can assume a couple of things, But no, not really.
The mainstream media, I was just looking at some news
alerts is delighted to inform us that this young man
had right wing conspiracy theories. It's funny how they were
uninterested in the fact that the lunatic who burned down
the Governor Shapiro's house in Pennsylvania appears to be not
only a lunatic, but a pro Palestinian activist that was
(32:33):
not worthy of coverage.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
They're just such lying liars.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But stop shooting people in burning stuff, you jackasses.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't need to belabor this at all. Is there
anything to say about another shooting anything?
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Not?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Really, I don't know how he getted.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Another pathetic coward who thinks he gets to hurt people
because he's unhappy about this, that or the other. Why
are we going to start as a culture calling these
people stupids and make it utterly clear to everyone right,
like a drunk driver or a wife beater. It's not funny,
it's not cool. You're not a hero, you're not scary.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
We're not gonna put your pictures on the news like
you're some sort of a character out of the matrix.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Now you're a stupid coward.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, I wonder if if we could get all the
media to go along with the loser then walked through
the hallways and you know, just refer to them as
a loser all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, change topic. Luckily that wasn't a whole bunch of
dads there. Oh, there were a couple of couple of kids.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
There going to that college that had been at the
school in Parkland, Florida when they were younger.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Then jeez, well you earlier about a shooting in the
town where you live, where thank god nobody died, but
kids are terrorized and afraid to sleep in their own beds.
And often I think we all of us say, Okay,
thank god nobody died. But if you've ever a been
in a situation where you could have died, like some
(34:00):
monstrous lunatic was trying to kill you, and perhaps he
shot you, and you have a gunshot wound to heal
from your body and your mind are changed forever.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's not okay because somebody didn't die, right, Okay, complete
change of tone. Here is somebody on Facebook making fun
of the whole Chicksterrenaut episode.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
What I know. I hate to see it made fun of.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I feel love, like live left Love, but like the
rich version of it. I hope everyone sees how unified
we were go to space in full glam. I hope
that in seeing us make the decision to spend that
kind of money to leave Earth, that everyone else understands
you're not like us. This was important for us to
do because tourism to space isn't for everyone. We weren't
(34:50):
just going to space. We were making space for all
of you to watch us. This is what women need
right now, tourism, cute outfits, hair extensions, and zero gravity.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah that's pretty good. Well, there's a lot to mock
in the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, whatever that was the point had the biggest backfires
in recent memory, but it was delightful. We all needed
a moodlift, didn't we, folks.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah. I'd like to thank the ladies for that.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, Armstrong and Getty
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