August 22, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Roblox & government education
- Joe thinks about Jack when he can't sleep
- Blood pressure, rectal cancer & Joe is going to London
- Illhan Omar is screeching
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We have a situation in one example of that where
the parish sheriff was executing a warrant and encountered an
individual who was masking his voice as a fourteen year
old girl while he was actively using Roadblocks to prey
on young young children.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Roadblocks is a popular video game in which you play
with other kids you're hoping from around the country, around
the world. In this case, it was a grown up
sicko pretending to be a fourteen year old girl playing
with your boy or daughter, which is highly troubling and
something you need to warn your kids about and I've
worn my kids about. But luckily they don't play that
game anymore. They grew out of it or something. Yeah,
(01:05):
I've heard of that. What sort of game is it.
I don't even remember which of the many games it was,
but it is one of the big ones. There's one
of the big three, like Fortnite Roadblocks, and then you
get into some of the older kids stuff that they
do now.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, and the internet is the worst street in near town.
It is metaphor worth remembering. So maybe the second worst
street in your town is the one that leads to
your local government schools. As you know, we're fairly critical
of the state of government education. We don't pay say,
public schools, because they're run by not the public, but
the government, and the government is frequently people we don't
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like or respect.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Certainly a lot of woke people in education.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Handful of you know, we should have come up with
a name of the theme song for this, Michael, I
blame myself anyway, handful of stories about education in general.
Do you know who Bill Ackman is. He's that big
hedge fund manager. He's quasi conservative, he's been pro Trump,
a bit of a loose cannon at times, but an
intriguing guy. He led to charge against Harvard's anti semitism
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a year or two ago and really rallied people around
that cost.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But there's right up.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I just came across where his new pet project is
a fast growing private school that flushes lessons on diversity,
equity and inclusion and instead uses AI and other things
to speed teach children in a.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Couple of hours. It's you know, whether it pans out
or not. It's really innovative. They call it Alpha School,
and they're launching in a number of different states. He's
got a panel on K through twelve education, a bunch
of people that you may or may not have heard
of advising him.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The teachers are called guides.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
They used AI enabled software to help students complete course
subjects in just two hours daily at their own speeds.
Very traditional school skill building oriented. And then the schedule
allows students to do hands on activities in the afternoon,
which the school helps says helps them build life skills.
(03:18):
They include five mile bike rides without stopping for kindergarteners,
for instance. You know what, kindergartener's unable to take long
bike rides. That's what's killing this name a tough number kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Chinese kids at age five, they're riding five miles.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And they also say, no, we don't need hot button
social issues into the class routine. No, you don't, good lord,
And it's really catching on. So a little comparent contrast
came across this from the great folks at the California
Globe writing about well, I'll explain the comparent contrast. These
are the words of Gavin Newsom, the governor. Oh, I'm sorry,
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that's not true. These are the words of the school,
the private school in Tony Marin County where his kids go.
And I would never bring up a politician's children in
any context, specifically, except Gavey sends his kids to a
school that says this. Through the vibrancy of our curriculum,
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the engagement appears and the guidance of thoughtful teachers. Students
they leave leave with the tools to make a positive
impact on the world. And they offer a traditional math
sequence algebra and eighth grade calculus by senior year.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And Gov. Gav is a big believer. He sends his
children there.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The governor who champions equity for your children make sure
his own avoid it entirely. Under Newsom's leadership, the state
has embraced the twenty twenty three California Mathematics Framework, built
on the ideology that equity means lowering standards for everyone.
The result, to Jim Andrews' rights is a curriculum that
stalls most students at basic numeracy, shutting off off access
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to STEM careers and other high value feels.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is all the definition of bigotry, the soft bigotry
of low expectations. That's a guy who's a progressive who thinks, well,
those other kids can't do math like this because you know,
they're poor, so they can't do math like this. My
kids can. But we, you know, we have to have
different standards for the poor kids who can't possibly do this.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So this framework did not come out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's the product of two decades of education policy driven
more by ideology than evidence. The Obama administration elevated the
College for all Monterey. We all remember that, arguing that
equity meant getting every student at a higher education readiness
be damned. The message to an entire generation was the same.
Don't worry about preparation, just get on campus. More degrees
will somehow create more wealth. It hasn't, Jim Wrights. Instead
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of learning to code, as the President promised, many graduates
now hold debt.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For degrees with little market value.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
At the state level, the Gates Foundation funded reform networks
and powerful teachers unions push to lower academic thresholds in
the name of closing gaps, and in cal Unicornia that
meant a wholesale rewrite of math education. Abandoning centuries of
proven tradition in favor of a victim oppressor narrative that
casts rigor is exclusion and mastery is privilege.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's really quite amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, And they mentioned this one activist, Stanford professor Joe Bohler.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's Jo.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
She's a woman who really really pushes this stuff and
got it enshrined on the state law, and now they're
spreading it to community colleges. So even as a community
college student, you're going to be stuck in basic math
because that eliminates anybody being behind another education note Brittany Bernstein,
writing in The National Review, you know one thing.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That's missing from that all the time, because when you
get to high school, you should be able to start
picking a path, Like if math is your thing, I
like math, so I took pretty calculus and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But if it's not take the basic math.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And as a I've got a kid who doesn't like math,
is not good at it. It's never gonna be his thing.
It doesn't hurt his feelings that he's that there's advanced
math at his high school.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
He's just happy he doesn't have to take it.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He's perfectly fine taking the basic math while other kids
choose to take the more advanced math. So you're not
those those kids aren't actually feeling left out or something
that they're damaged in any way, right, right, And then
like he's.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Saying an insane philosophy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
He does like an advanced English thing because that's his thing.
But I don't know the idea that that's it's just
terrible that some of these kids can't be in the
advanced math so we won't have any is.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
A made up concept.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, it's Vonagus Harrison Berger and writ large and it's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But it not only I guess my point is it
not only hurts the kids who could excel. It's not
helping the other kids in any way either. They don't care.
Go ahead, let the kids who excel excel. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Another note from the Washington Post, who reported last week
the public schools are closing at Arizona's as Arizona's school
voucher program source. Arizona's gone big on school voucher school choice,
and the Washington Post reported public schools are closing as
the voucher program source. But as the Goldwater Institute pointed out,
The Post's decision to link the school closures to the
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empowerment scholarship accounts is disingenuous if you look at the
actual students. They didn't leave for those reasons. It's inter
you know, it's transfers, it's people moving, it's people moving
to different public schools, that sort of thing. And the
Washington Post invented a narrative out of whole cloth because
they are down with the teachers' unions and slaves to them.
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It's just the there is so much money in education.
We get hammered with teachers don't make nearly enough money.
And you know, we can argue about that if you'd like,
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But I know there's a reception.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Just since you mentioned that, I know a half dozen
teachers who retired and lived amazing lives and retired way
younger than you or I are going to.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So it's not always the case.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
That you're under back to you, right, But that, yeah,
that's the narrative though, And so I think people start
to get the idea that, yeah, education is just starved
for money, and it's really a tragedy. There's an enormous
amount of money for unions, especially in education, I mean
it's every town in America. Maybe you know this has
a bunch of damn schools, right, and lots of people
(09:47):
are making their living from them.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And then the not discussed enough, and this is a
problem k through PhD of layers and layers and layers
of people that never existed when you were going to
school and everything was fine. They just created all these
new layers of stuff that requires a lot of money too.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And finally, Corey Deangelois with a great piece in the
National Review entitled how Teachers can Dismantle the Teachers' Unions,
and he goes into a couple of Supreme Court rulings
that has made this possible, and then the monopoly on
government schools that the unions have and the damage it's done,
which we've talked about for a long long time. Many
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teachers hesitate to opt out of the unions. He's suggesting,
just leave the union. You don't have to be in it.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Many teachers hesitate to opt out, fearing the loss of
protections like liability insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That excuse no longer holds.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The Teacher Freedom Alliance just announced that they provide two
million dollars in liability insurance and general support for teachers
who join, and it's free. Teachers can now opt out,
keep more of their hard earned money and remain legally protected.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
There's a story out today about the FBI lowering their standards,
and of course it's being presented as a horror of
the Trump administration. But one of the standards are lowering
is they're no longer going to require that you have
a bachelor's degree to be an FBI agent.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Good because that doesn't mean a freaking thing.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Anybody who hires people knows that the fact that you
have a BA or bs from some college means freaking nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It means you're probably heavily in debt and more prone
to getting bribed by the Chinese.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It also might mean you have never done anything yet.
But yeah, you have said this many times.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You were right.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It might be the single biggest problem we got in America.
And I know we name ten different things as that weekly,
but k through graduating college is just a mess. It's
an absolute mess.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It is diseased, perhaps past healing. One final fact to aid,
forty one percent of teachers identify as Democrats. According to
an Education Week survey, UH ninety eight percent of the
National Education Association's campaign contribution went to Democrats in the
last election.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Site wow.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Conservative and independent teachers make up the other fifty nine
percent of the profession are forced to fund their political opponents.
Why while union bosses like Randy Winegarton, who pocketed over
six hundred grand last year blah blah blah, live lavishly.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Wow, she's representing forty percent of the ideology right of teachers.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's diseased. That is something. It is diseased in so
many different ways.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
As your kids go back to school at whatever level
they're going back to school at.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Oh, and the poor teachers, oh, teachers going back to school.
I was awake for two straight hours last night with
my mind racing. I was thinking about you, and I
will tell you why later in the hour.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I wasn't thinking about sex or the bills I have
to pay her if my children will have happy lives.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I was thinking about you or the bills you have
to pay for sex? What spending on your lifestyle? All right?
I thought you were talking about me. There some so
we get a lot of the way. Stay tuned, Armstrong Hey.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
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Speaker 1 (13:44):
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what I'm going to do.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
If I feel like I I want to watch something,
I'm going to ask chat GPT what it's on and
I'm going to go there. And if I have to subscribe,
I'm going to subscribe and set myself a timer to
remind me to unsubscribe.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, that's smart thing to do. Uh. Coming up. Good news.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
If you don't run ultra marathons and I don't, I
know me either, and they've lowered the limit for when
you got high blood pressure this is a good story.
We got to get on there. They're moving the goal post.
Stay tuned, you know, maybe I'll pay this off.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
We'll get to the crisis in British pub culture. People
are lining up at the bar instead of just bellying
up and it's making bartenders crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Uh. Later in the hour, why is it you new
generations got to ruin everything? Yeah, you suck so I
uh for various reasons.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
My doctor hit me with a pregno zone prescription and
it's totally screwed up my sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Last night.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I was awake for two solid hours, my mind just
racing in the middle of the night last night.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Damn, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, didn't make your raven to see hungry.
That's what I always had with pregnant zone.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Actually, my stomach's kind of upset right now.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
But anyway, So two things occupy my two hours of
like high speed thinking. Number one, I wrote, and rewrote
and like combed through and perfected the first class of
a college class in basic economics that focuses on how
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laws and regulations and prices cause people to change their
behavior logical economics.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I was gonna call it so when you're trying to sleep.
You couldn't sleep, so you came up with a curriculum
for a one hundred level college class and economics that
I will never teach. That's correct, that's relaxing.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
The second thing I did when that was perfected was
I was working on the speech. You poor teachers, and
I'm thinking mostly of Californians, but in blue states everywhere.
And if your school district does this sort of stuff,
you poor teachers who are writing us emails this week saying, yeah,
we're in our mandatory DEI training right now.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Guys, this stuff is not dead.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It is still here, and they're being humiliated and told
that getting your work done on time is white supremacy.
Being diligent is white supremacy, and all of that just
utter garbage. And so I was like writing a speech
for you that you could stand up and say, excuse me,
I hate to interrupt this, but this is racist garbage
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and it's wasting all of our time and worse, and
here's why exactly, and then you would explain to them
briefly that DEI is not does not have anything to
do with racial harmony or anything.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
It's a tool of capture it's a tool of takeover.
If you have three people up for the job of
boss and you can say one of those guys is
a racist, he will not get that authority, he will
not get that money, he will not get the good stuff.
And if you start calling everybody a racist who you
don't want to have power, and everybody's like afraid to
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say that doesn't seem like racism to me, then you're
in power. Di needs to end wherever it exists everywhere
in America today.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
It has nothing to do with race. It is a
Marxist technique to capture institutions.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
New guidelines for what's high blood pressure. You should definitely
know this.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Hypertension is something that will be recognized with lower numbers.
Used to be one forty was the number you really
paid attention to before thinking about treatment. Now it's one
thirty and they want to talk about treating that more aggressively.
So you know, it's interesting if you look at one twenty.
Most people know these numbers, but one twenty over eighty
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and lower that's considered normal. One twenty to one twenty
nine is considered elevated. But that one thirty number is
where people are really starting to pay attention. If you
have blood pressure that falls into that range for three
to six months, you should try, you know, basic lifestyle changes,
which you know, diet, exercise, cutting back on salt. But
if that doesn't work after six months, you probably need
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to be thinking about medication.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, that's is I'm I'm always cynical about this sort
of thing. I know it's not always warranted. Man, there's
a tremendous amount of money to be made if you
lower that number.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You know, I'm such a fool. I hadn't even thought
of that. I was thinking in terms of, you know,
what is the ideal. You're a great athlete, you're perfectly
healthy level of blood pressure. But no, you're right, My god,
there's there's there's so much money to.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Me, billions and billions and billions of dollars to be
made over the next many decades if you get that
number lowered just a little bit, and then it's a.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Proof of it is an interesting thought. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
So, so I went to my nephrologist not long ago.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And so somebody reads the bumps on your head to
predict the future. Yes, that's precisely. I visit him often. No,
it's my my kidney doctor, okay.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
And he took my blood pressure and it was one
twenty three over like eighty one, and it was right
in the good zone. And he goes, you know, we
wanted a little bit lower. He's like, we're looking for
like a one seventeen over seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I'm like, oh, you have big goals, sir, really low.
Yeah wow.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
But he said, saw my doc the other day and
he was thrilled with mine, which was, you know, it
was not.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
That Yeah, I don't know. And I told him.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
I was like, well, I will try my best, but
you need to get to know me because my blood
pressure already just runs high.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Before I move on to some other health related news,
Katie's got some football news as we head into Is
this the final weekend of preseason?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I think it is. It certainly maybe back.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
To you headline from the Babylon B Dallas Cowboys relieved
to no longer be the gayest team in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So that's based on the Minnesota Vikings getting the h
the cheerleaders. But then we found out from an NFL
insider that lots of teams have the effeminate dude cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now it's a thing in the NFL. But prancy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
But so she did that during the commercials, you were
out of the room, Joe and Hanson said, he came
across something else was a gutfelder. Some of you had
a Dallas Cowboy being the gayest team thing?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Why? Why is that? What does that mean? Where'd that
come from?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
There? Did I miss something about the Dallas Cowboys? When
did they become the gayest team? And I don't know
what that means?
Speaker 9 (20:28):
I don't know either, And when I do the headlines
once a week, Babylon Bee has something about the Cowboys
being gay.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Maybe it's just so many of work. Maybe maybe they
just hate the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, any gay football fans, certainly, if you'd like to
weigh in, we'd love to hear from your mail bag
at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. But I know I
have no idea what does that even mean?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know came across this story.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Ultra marathoners, it would seem, according to a new study,
have a higher likelihood of rectal cancer colon cancer than
regular people. And they don't exactly know why. I don't
do it and that is why I stopped.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'd be running an ultra marathon right now if it
weren't for that just seems foolish.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That's what I was planning for this afternoon. But I
guess I'll call it off.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And they don't know why.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And it started with a doctor who noticed, man, I
see an oddly high number of ultra marathoners here as
an expert in colon cancer, like, well, it seems odd
that I'd come across this many. So then they looked
into the study and there's some connection that they have
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no idea what, but.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Wow, I mean, I'm intrigued. I want to know more.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I'm intrigued by ultra marathoning in general. Remember our old
old producer Scott, Buddy Scott. I think he had high
blood pressure. That was what got him started. His blood
pressure got a little high. He was worried about it
because his dad had had problems, and he became an
exercise nuts is. He's in tremendous shape, but he became
an ultra marathoner running.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Shout out Scotty. Yeah, very very good guy.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
His his great uncle is mentioned in Ulysses.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'm reading the Ulysses.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yes, our old producer Scott Sandow, whose great great uncle
was the world's strongest man. That's right, lifted the pony
over his head. The great Sandow. You can find uh
YouTube videos of him with Edison. Is the first Edison
film I think was our old producer, Scott's great great uncle. Wow,
And anyway, he's mentioned in Ulysses and I thought, wow,
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that's Scott's uncle. That's hilarious. But hey, hilarious. So he
became an ultra marathoner and how name dropped in Ulysses? Yes,
by what's his face, the Irish guy James Joyce. Yeah,
that's the one.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But I'm I gotta believe that in general, you know,
for all all our jokes aside that there's a lot
of harm to your body by running ultra marathons. Your joints,
you're they're all kinds of stuff that I.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Mean, you're not built to do that, right, And just
the way various things we do change our brain chemistry.
I mean, we have a kindergartner's understanding that as a
as a species.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I mean, science has.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Got a lot better at it, but I still think
we're at the very beginnings of understanding, you know, the
very things, the various things we do and don't do,
how they change our body chemistry.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
But here's in a narrow casting thing about exercise that
I found interesting, and I don't know if it will
ever apply to me or any of you.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But I've got a friend.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
He's an older guy in his seventies, but he used
to be really serious bike rider, competitive bike rider. And
I just bought a really fancy bike and I'm riding
my bike and I'm not going to compete or anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I just want to get exercise.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But he was explaining to me on how he was
so good and he won so often, and I didn't
know this, he said, most of the other people he
wrote against didn't know this. It's a matter of figuring
out what you're the upper level is of your heart rate,
and then you figure out a percentage and then if
you stay, like I forget what it was two and
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a half percent below your peak heart rate, you won't
get the lactic acid in your muscles that causes people
to cramp up. And in long, long running races and
bike races, oftentimes what takes you out is you get cramps.
But if you know what you're you're the highest end
of your like the top five percent of your heart
rate is and then you stay two and a half
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percent below.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's just math, he said.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And if you just figure out the math and you
keep track of your heart rate, you can stay out
of the lactic acid thing, compete at a high level
the entire race, and run by all these people are
ride by all these people who have cramps. I thought
that was really interesting about the human body. I didn't
know that, And I wonder why that isn't like talk
to more of us, because I've I've had that problem before,
Like if you've.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Ever has been, I think slow and steady wins the race.
I always thought that was ridiculous because a rabbit could
whoop a turtles ass in a race and everybody knows it.
But that was the ancients trying to tell their warriors,
don't get tired out.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Uh, you know yourself, that is exactly right. They didn't
know the math on it or whatever. They just had
the human experience of.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They didn't know from lactic acid.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, you start out too fast and all of a
sudden you got paint, you go, that pain in your
side you get or your your VI's or whatever you
got to stay just below that. That's interesting, So that
that is probably where that comes from. I'll bet we'll
me damn and again. Now haste does make waste. I
am going to cancel the older you two, Michael, you're
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canceling your ultra marathon for this afternoon scin am.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yes, that's hilarious, the idea of me running an ultramanthon.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
So the exercise I'm most known to do is twelve
ounce curls Jack, he says, by way of transition, it's
a joke about drinking anyway. Evidently there's a crisis in
British pub culture. Oddly enough, I will be in Britain
as of tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I think that's find over night. Do you plan to
drink in Britain? I hope to. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I'm feeling kind of under the weather now, but I
suspect I will bounce back.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You not. I would love nothing better than to have
a couple of pines in a pub. Well, you're not
a beer guy anymore, so what would you drink in Britain? Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'll have some beer.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I did like, haven't given up beer, I just don't
drink it much. I'll have some scotch too, I hope
nobody's offended. But anyway, so all of a sudden, people
are waiting in line at bars. They're queuing up, as
they say in Britain, like lining up, and it's sometimes
it stretches out the door a single file, and the
pub owners and bartenders are like, would you please stop it?
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Here's a one manager.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
As British people, we absolutely love queuing, but the one
place we've never really done that is the pub.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
But it makes it so long and tedious.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
She put up a new sign please stand at the bar,
and there's a big line of people in front of
that sign.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Lined up sign.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
At Glasgow's Drweerry Street bar and kitchen is less polite,
stop effing queueing, elbows on the bar.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
We will not rest until this problem is eradicated. And
there's a social media site that this school teacher runs
where he shames people. He takes pictures of them lining
up at pubs and shames them online. But so there's
actually been people overheard saying, hey, get to the bar, you'll.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
End up on that one website. Ha shame.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
How did how did this impromptuly happen? I mean, how
did this organization of it's been the same way. I
gotta believe for a thousand years I was in a pub.
I remember at England when I was out hiking around.
It was four hundred years old. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And there are a few more examples that are charming
and very British. But I will skip to the main point,
as you have requested. It's I'll start during the pandemic
when the stupid lining up a few feet apart was
a temporary requirement to protect pubgoers who then you know,
hang out and drink together.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Blanking stupid, blank stupid, it is stupid.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Three years after social distancing ended, single file cues still
form the culprit. The most hardened pub goers blame Generation
z Here's the part that's gonna make you sad. Having
come around a come of age around social distancing, zoomers
have continued the practice. Some younger pubgoers say it ensures
fairness instead of the old informal system where the bar
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staff must keep tabs on who's been waiting longer and
give you the nod, which we drinkers are more than
familiar with, or.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
They go with the hot chick. Well, of course they do.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
The whole single file Q saying feels way more civil
and respectful, said a student in London.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No one's being rude.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Everyone respects each other's space, and eventually everyone gets their
drink when it's their turn. But for many older patrons,
a single file Q makes the pub feel sterile, like
a supermarket checkout or passport control. The scrum at the
bar is a key and joyful part of pub culture.
Oh yeah, you're probably not there just to drink, unless
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you're a hardcore alcoholic. You're there to socialize, and part
of the socializing is.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
The all you stand in there waiting for your drinks
right already talking about the probably there soccer matchup on
the television, or you know whatever news of the day or.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Whatever you're talking about, says one manager. Pubs have forty
foot long bars for a reason, yes, and socializatly, but
many younger people don't revere the pub in the same way.
Four and five zoomers would prefer to visit pubs with karaoke, games,
themed events, and live music over the traditional offering of
lunch and a beer. They also line up when they
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drink alcohol at all, and they stare at their phone.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, I've heard that. I haven't been to bars since
smartphones became a thing. But I guess that's what people
do now. Instead of talking about the ballgame or whatever,
you just stare at your phone in silence.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
That's sad, Yeah, it is kind of sad. I wonder
if you could plant them in a bar. I'm gonna
have a drink.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I wonder if you could start a bar where you say,
nobody gets your phone out. I'm not gonna take your phones,
but you don't get to stare at your phone. Just
kick you right out. What's a British beer's bass hale
of British beer?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It is?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I love mass Irish love me a bass ale Guinness
of the UK, Boddington's British Bodington's.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I used to be a Bodington's guy back in the day.
There you go, yep, ye, well you get a disease.
Oh maybe are you kidding? Stop me?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Maybe flirt with a lassie. No, that's more Scottish, but
again the UK. It will be for me is I'm
gonna be with my wife?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Well maybe years, maybe she will. Maybe she'll flirt with
a chap or oh wait a minute, there you go
reined it in there.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Hussey Hu's see.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Uh, we got a Gavin Newsom thing we got to
get on the air before we get done.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
With this hour.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Gavin Newsom, is he the next Kamala Harris whoa more
ways than one?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
WHOA perhaps? Okay, stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
So if you haven't heard this story, former National Security
advisor under Trump, John Bolton's home was raided by the
FBI today on the order of Cash Patel, who tweeted out,
no one is above the law kind of mysteriously and
so what is that all about rating John Bolton's home?
When we got a little more information on that, we'll
get into in our four ess.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Actually some pretty good thorough information on that whole back
and forth with Trump through the years. I found it
very very interesting. If you don't get our four, grab
it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. A little
breaking political news here. Ilhan Omar, America hating Muslim Marxist
Democratic senator from Minnesota, is screeching at her own state party,
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the Democratic Farm Labor Party, because they have revoked their
endorsement of that Omar Fatah Fate character, who is an
America hating Muslim Marxist who had gotten the endorsement to
be the mayor of MINNIEAPLI, the DFL Party, which is
(32:03):
their version of the Democratic Party but its way left,
cited substantial failures in our endorsement convention process and so
ilhan Omar is now screeching that it's racism and big
a tree and the small group of majority living outside
Minneapolis meant to overturn the will of the Minneapolis delegates
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who volunteered organized blah blah blah racism, et cetera, et cetera.
Thank god Minnesota has woken up. Hope somebody, I mean,
the guy who like they pushed aside, is to the
left of Trotsky. But this guy is Disty's beyond the pale.
So anyway, we'll see how that plays out. I think
there are a lot of very very smart, powerful people
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within the Democratic Party who are absolutely disgusted, terrified, and
sickened by what's become of their party. We mentioned how
they're hemorrhaging voters. A big study came out in New
York Times. All there's another headline, The DNC wildly trails
the RNC and fundraising as donors bemoan the party's direction.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
According to a new report.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Are you going to show me how Gavin Newsom is
the new Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I am, I am, indeed I will do that right now,
ladies and gentlemen. Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Forty here in a moment with deep sobriety, recognizing that
we need to reconcile this moment, but we're gonna meet
the moment not just with rhetoric but through action.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
WHOA, Okay, he's talking about the redistrict. That was the
use of the word moment too many times. Here's Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time as every day.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
And again, Gavin Newsom, we're here in a moment with
deep sobriety, recognizing that we need to reconcile this moment,
but we're gonna meet the moment not just with rhetoric
but through action.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I'm sure he'd like to have that one back. His
candle power is a great deal higher than hers, though,
so oh yeah, beyond question. He has one of the
same problems, though, is that he doesn't because he's a man,
he doesn't have any real beliefs, or the beliefs he
has are abhorrent to so much of America. He's constantly
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calculating what he ought to be saying, as opposed to
the rest of us who just say what we think
because we think what we're saying.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, good, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Taking in a lot of national news, he gets mentioned
a ton on national news. So if he wants to
be the go to Democrat who is the resistance to Trump,
he might be there.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, he's certainly way ahead of the pack at this point.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, do you I don't know if I've ever really
thought about this. Does he believe any of that stuff
that he has done all these years or is that
just the way to get to governor in California? Because
I might not have any idea what he actually believes.
It's really hard to know.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, I mean, he does the guy podcasts and claims
he's not down with the Latin X. Then there's a
litany of times he's used the term, and then he
says justice you can't have men in a girls' sports.
He wasn't nearly that direct, but then backtracked.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Why did they raid John Bolton's home? An hour four?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
We have a situation in one example of that where
the parish sheriff was executing a warrant and encountered an
individual who was masking his voice as a fourteen year
old girl while he was actively using Roadblocks to prey
on young young children.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Roadblocks is a popular video game in which you play
with other kids you're hoping from around the country, around
the world. In this case, it was a grown up
sicko pretending to be a fourteen year old girl playing
with your boy or daughter, which is highly troubling and
something you need to warn your kids about and I've
worn my kids about. But luckily they don't play that
game anymore. They grew out of it or something. Yeah,
(01:05):
I've heard of that. What sort of game is it.
I don't even remember which of the many games it was,
but it is one of the big ones. There's one
of the big three, like Fortnite Roadblocks, and then you
get into some of the older kids stuff that they
do now.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, and the internet is the worst street in near town.
It is metaphor worth remembering. So maybe the second worst
street in your town is the one that leads to
your local government schools. As you know, we're fairly critical
of the state of government education. We don't pay say,
public schools, because they're run by not the public, but
the government, and the government is frequently people we don't
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like or respect.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Certainly a lot of woke people in education.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Handful of you know, we should have come up with
a name of the theme song for this, Michael, I
blame myself anyway, handful of stories about education in general.
Do you know who Bill Ackman is. He's that big
hedge fund manager. He's quasi conservative, he's been pro Trump,
a bit of a loose cannon at times, but an
intriguing guy. He led to charge against Harvard's anti semitism
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a year or two ago and really rallied people around
that cost.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But there's right up.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I just came across where his new pet project is
a fast growing private school that flushes lessons on diversity,
equity and inclusion and instead uses AI and other things
to speed teach children in a.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Couple of hours. It's you know, whether it pans out
or not. It's really innovative. They call it Alpha School,
and they're launching in a number of different states. He's
got a panel on K through twelve education, a bunch
of people that you may or may not have heard
of advising him.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The teachers are called guides.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
They used AI enabled software to help students complete course
subjects in just two hours daily at their own speeds.
Very traditional school skill building oriented. And then the schedule
allows students to do hands on activities in the afternoon,
which the school helps says helps them build life skills.
(03:18):
They include five mile bike rides without stopping for kindergarteners,
for instance. You know what, kindergartener's unable to take long
bike rides. That's what's killing this name a tough number kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Chinese kids at age five, they're riding five miles.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And they also say, no, we don't need hot button
social issues into the class routine. No, you don't, good lord,
And it's really catching on. So a little comparent contrast
came across this from the great folks at the California
Globe writing about well, I'll explain the comparent contrast. These
are the words of Gavin Newsom, the governor. Oh, I'm sorry,
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that's not true. These are the words of the school,
the private school in Tony Marin County where his kids go.
And I would never bring up a politician's children in
any context, specifically, except Gavey sends his kids to a
school that says this. Through the vibrancy of our curriculum,
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the engagement appears and the guidance of thoughtful teachers. Students
they leave leave with the tools to make a positive
impact on the world. And they offer a traditional math
sequence algebra and eighth grade calculus by senior year.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And Gov. Gav is a big believer. He sends his
children there.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The governor who champions equity for your children make sure
his own avoid it entirely. Under Newsom's leadership, the state
has embraced the twenty twenty three California Mathematics Framework, built
on the ideology that equity means lowering standards for everyone.
The result, to Jim Andrews' rights is a curriculum that
stalls most students at basic numeracy, shutting off off access
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to STEM careers and other high value feels.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
This is all the definition of bigotry, the soft bigotry
of low expectations. That's a guy who's a progressive who thinks, well,
those other kids can't do math like this because you know,
they're poor, so they can't do math like this. My
kids can. But we, you know, we have to have
different standards for the poor kids who can't possibly do this.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So this framework did not come out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's the product of two decades of education policy driven
more by ideology than evidence. The Obama administration elevated the
College for all Monterey. We all remember that, arguing that
equity meant getting every student at a higher education readiness
be damned. The message to an entire generation was the same.
Don't worry about preparation, just get on campus. More degrees
will somehow create more wealth. It hasn't, Jim Wrights. Instead
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of learning to code, as the President promised, many graduates
now hold debt.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For degrees with little market value.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
At the state level, the Gates Foundation funded reform networks
and powerful teachers unions push to lower academic thresholds in
the name of closing gaps, and in cal Unicornia that
meant a wholesale rewrite of math education. Abandoning centuries of
proven tradition in favor of a victim oppressor narrative that
casts rigor is exclusion and mastery is privilege.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's really quite amazing.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, And they mentioned this one activist, Stanford professor Joe Bohler.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's Jo.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
She's a woman who really really pushes this stuff and
got it enshrined on the state law, and now they're
spreading it to community colleges. So even as a community
college student, you're going to be stuck in basic math
because that eliminates anybody being behind another education note Brittany Bernstein,
writing in The National Review, you know one thing.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That's missing from that all the time, because when you
get to high school, you should be able to start
picking a path, Like if math is your thing, I
like math, so I took pretty calculus and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
But if it's not take the basic math.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And as a I've got a kid who doesn't like math,
is not good at it. It's never gonna be his thing.
It doesn't hurt his feelings that he's that there's advanced
math at his high school.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
He's just happy he doesn't have to take it.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He's perfectly fine taking the basic math while other kids
choose to take the more advanced math. So you're not
those those kids aren't actually feeling left out or something
that they're damaged in any way, right, right, And then
like he's.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Saying an insane philosophy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
He does like an advanced English thing because that's his thing.
But I don't know the idea that that's it's just
terrible that some of these kids can't be in the
advanced math so we won't have any is.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
A made up concept.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, it's Vonagus Harrison Berger and writ large and it's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But it not only I guess my point is it
not only hurts the kids who could excel. It's not
helping the other kids in any way either. They don't care.
Go ahead, let the kids who excel excel. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Another note from the Washington Post, who reported last week
the public schools are closing at Arizona's as Arizona's school
voucher program source. Arizona's gone big on school voucher school choice,
and the Washington Post reported public schools are closing as
the voucher program source. But as the Goldwater Institute pointed out,
The Post's decision to link the school closures to the
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empowerment scholarship accounts is disingenuous if you look at the
actual students. They didn't leave for those reasons. It's inter
you know, it's transfers, it's people moving, it's people moving
to different public schools, that sort of thing. And the
Washington Post invented a narrative out of whole cloth because
they are down with the teachers' unions and slaves to them.
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It's just the there is so much money in education.
We get hammered with teachers don't make nearly enough money.
And you know, we can argue about that if you'd like,
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But I know there's a reception.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Just since you mentioned that, I know a half dozen
teachers who retired and lived amazing lives and retired way
younger than you or I are going to.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So it's not always the case.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
That you're under back to you, right, But that, yeah,
that's the narrative though, And so I think people start
to get the idea that, yeah, education is just starved
for money, and it's really a tragedy. There's an enormous
amount of money for unions, especially in education, I mean
it's every town in America. Maybe you know this has
a bunch of damn schools, right, and lots of people
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are making their living from them.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And then the not discussed enough, and this is a
problem k through PhD of layers and layers and layers
of people that never existed when you were going to
school and everything was fine. They just created all these
new layers of stuff that requires a lot of money too.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And finally, Corey Deangelois with a great piece in the
National Review entitled how Teachers can Dismantle the Teachers' Unions,
and he goes into a couple of Supreme Court rulings
that has made this possible, and then the monopoly on
government schools that the unions have and the damage it's done,
which we've talked about for a long long time. Many
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teachers hesitate to opt out of the unions. He's suggesting,
just leave the union. You don't have to be in it.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Many teachers hesitate to opt out, fearing the loss of
protections like liability insurance.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
That excuse no longer holds.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
The Teacher Freedom Alliance just announced that they provide two
million dollars in liability insurance and general support for teachers
who join, and it's free. Teachers can now opt out,
keep more of their hard earned money and remain legally protected.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
There's a story out today about the FBI lowering their standards,
and of course it's being presented as a horror of
the Trump administration. But one of the standards are lowering
is they're no longer going to require that you have
a bachelor's degree to be an FBI agent.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Good because that doesn't mean a freaking thing.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Anybody who hires people knows that the fact that you
have a BA or bs from some college means freaking nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It means you're probably heavily in debt and more prone
to getting bribed by the Chinese.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It also might mean you have never done anything yet.
But yeah, you have said this many times.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You were right.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It might be the single biggest problem we got in America.
And I know we name ten different things as that weekly,
but k through graduating college is just a mess. It's
an absolute mess.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It is diseased, perhaps past healing. One final fact to aid,
forty one percent of teachers identify as Democrats. According to
an Education Week survey, UH ninety eight percent of the
National Education Association's campaign contribution went to Democrats in the
last election.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Site wow.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Conservative and independent teachers make up the other fifty nine
percent of the profession are forced to fund their political opponents.
Why while union bosses like Randy Winegarton, who pocketed over
six hundred grand last year blah blah blah, live lavishly.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Wow, she's representing forty percent of the ideology right of teachers.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's diseased. That is something. It is diseased in so
many different ways.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
As your kids go back to school at whatever level
they're going back to school at.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Oh, and the poor teachers, oh, teachers going back to school.
I was awake for two straight hours last night with
my mind racing. I was thinking about you, and I
will tell you why later in the hour.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I wasn't thinking about sex or the bills I have
to pay her if my children will have happy lives.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I was thinking about you or the bills you have
to pay for sex? What spending on your lifestyle? All right?
I thought you were talking about me. There some so
we get a lot of the way. Stay tuned, Armstrong Hey.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
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Speaker 6 (13:14):
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Speaker 5 (13:35):
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to get the new service.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
HM, I'm gonna have to look into it. You know
what I'm going to do.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
If I feel like I I want to watch something,
I'm going to ask chat GPT what it's on and
I'm going to go there. And if I have to subscribe,
I'm going to subscribe and set myself a timer to
remind me to unsubscribe.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, that's smart thing to do. Uh. Coming up. Good news.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
If you don't run ultra marathons and I don't, I
know me either, and they've lowered the limit for when
you got high blood pressure this is a good story.
We got to get on there. They're moving the goal post.
Stay tuned, you know, maybe I'll pay this off.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
We'll get to the crisis in British pub culture. People
are lining up at the bar instead of just bellying
up and it's making bartenders crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Uh. Later in the hour, why is it you new
generations got to ruin everything? Yeah, you suck so I
uh for various reasons.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
My doctor hit me with a pregno zone prescription and
it's totally screwed up my sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Last night.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I was awake for two solid hours, my mind just
racing in the middle of the night last night.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Damn, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, didn't make your raven to see hungry.
That's what I always had with pregnant zone.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Actually, my stomach's kind of upset right now.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
But anyway, So two things occupy my two hours of
like high speed thinking. Number one, I wrote, and rewrote
and like combed through and perfected the first class of
a college class in basic economics that focuses on how
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laws and regulations and prices cause people to change their
behavior logical economics.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I was gonna call it so when you're trying to sleep.
You couldn't sleep, so you came up with a curriculum
for a one hundred level college class and economics that
I will never teach. That's correct, that's relaxing.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
The second thing I did when that was perfected was
I was working on the speech. You poor teachers, and
I'm thinking mostly of Californians, but in blue states everywhere.
And if your school district does this sort of stuff,
you poor teachers who are writing us emails this week saying, yeah,
we're in our mandatory DEI training right now.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Guys, this stuff is not dead.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It is still here, and they're being humiliated and told
that getting your work done on time is white supremacy.
Being diligent is white supremacy, and all of that just
utter garbage. And so I was like writing a speech
for you that you could stand up and say, excuse me,
I hate to interrupt this, but this is racist garbage
(16:21):
and it's wasting all of our time and worse, and
here's why exactly, and then you would explain to them
briefly that DEI is not does not have anything to
do with racial harmony or anything.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
It's a tool of capture it's a tool of takeover.
If you have three people up for the job of
boss and you can say one of those guys is
a racist, he will not get that authority, he will
not get that money, he will not get the good stuff.
And if you start calling everybody a racist who you
don't want to have power, and everybody's like afraid to
(16:54):
say that doesn't seem like racism to me, then you're
in power. Di needs to end wherever it exists everywhere
in America today.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
It has nothing to do with race. It is a
Marxist technique to capture institutions.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
New guidelines for what's high blood pressure. You should definitely
know this.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Hypertension is something that will be recognized with lower numbers.
Used to be one forty was the number you really
paid attention to before thinking about treatment. Now it's one
thirty and they want to talk about treating that more aggressively.
So you know, it's interesting if you look at one twenty.
Most people know these numbers, but one twenty over eighty
(17:37):
and lower that's considered normal. One twenty to one twenty
nine is considered elevated. But that one thirty number is
where people are really starting to pay attention. If you
have blood pressure that falls into that range for three
to six months, you should try, you know, basic lifestyle changes,
which you know, diet, exercise, cutting back on salt. But
if that doesn't work after six months, you probably need
(17:59):
to be thinking about medication.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, that's is I'm I'm always cynical about this sort
of thing. I know it's not always warranted. Man, there's
a tremendous amount of money to be made if you
lower that number.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You know, I'm such a fool. I hadn't even thought
of that. I was thinking in terms of, you know,
what is the ideal. You're a great athlete, you're perfectly
healthy level of blood pressure. But no, you're right, My god,
there's there's there's so much money to.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Me, billions and billions and billions of dollars to be
made over the next many decades if you get that
number lowered just a little bit, and then it's a.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Proof of it is an interesting thought. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
So, so I went to my nephrologist not long ago.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And so somebody reads the bumps on your head to
predict the future. Yes, that's precisely. I visit him often. No,
it's my my kidney doctor, okay.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
And he took my blood pressure and it was one
twenty three over like eighty one, and it was right
in the good zone. And he goes, you know, we
wanted a little bit lower. He's like, we're looking for
like a one seventeen over seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I'm like, oh, you have big goals, sir, really low.
Yeah wow.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
But he said, saw my doc the other day and
he was thrilled with mine, which was, you know, it
was not.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
That Yeah, I don't know. And I told him.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
I was like, well, I will try my best, but
you need to get to know me because my blood
pressure already just runs high.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Before I move on to some other health related news,
Katie's got some football news as we head into Is
this the final weekend of preseason?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I think it is. It certainly maybe back.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
To you headline from the Babylon B Dallas Cowboys relieved
to no longer be the gayest team in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So that's based on the Minnesota Vikings getting the h
the cheerleaders. But then we found out from an NFL
insider that lots of teams have the effeminate dude cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now it's a thing in the NFL. But prancy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
But so she did that during the commercials, you were
out of the room, Joe and Hanson said, he came
across something else was a gutfelder. Some of you had
a Dallas Cowboy being the gayest team thing?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Why? Why is that? What does that mean? Where'd that
come from?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
There? Did I miss something about the Dallas Cowboys? When
did they become the gayest team? And I don't know
what that means?
Speaker 9 (20:28):
I don't know either, And when I do the headlines
once a week, Babylon Bee has something about the Cowboys
being gay.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Maybe it's just so many of work. Maybe maybe they
just hate the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, any gay football fans, certainly, if you'd like to
weigh in, we'd love to hear from your mail bag
at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. But I know I
have no idea what does that even mean?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I don't know came across this story.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Ultra marathoners, it would seem, according to a new study,
have a higher likelihood of rectal cancer colon cancer than
regular people. And they don't exactly know why. I don't
do it and that is why I stopped.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'd be running an ultra marathon right now if it
weren't for that just seems foolish.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That's what I was planning for this afternoon. But I
guess I'll call it off.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And they don't know why.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And it started with a doctor who noticed, man, I
see an oddly high number of ultra marathoners here as
an expert in colon cancer, like, well, it seems odd
that I'd come across this many. So then they looked
into the study and there's some connection that they have
(21:39):
no idea what, but.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Wow, I mean, I'm intrigued. I want to know more.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I'm intrigued by ultra marathoning in general. Remember our old
old producer Scott, Buddy Scott. I think he had high
blood pressure. That was what got him started. His blood
pressure got a little high. He was worried about it
because his dad had had problems, and he became an
exercise nuts is. He's in tremendous shape, but he became
an ultra marathoner running.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Shout out Scotty. Yeah, very very good guy.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
His his great uncle is mentioned in Ulysses.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'm reading the Ulysses.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yes, our old producer Scott Sandow, whose great great uncle
was the world's strongest man. That's right, lifted the pony
over his head. The great Sandow. You can find uh
YouTube videos of him with Edison. Is the first Edison
film I think was our old producer, Scott's great great uncle. Wow,
And anyway, he's mentioned in Ulysses and I thought, wow,
(22:32):
that's Scott's uncle. That's hilarious. But hey, hilarious. So he
became an ultra marathoner and how name dropped in Ulysses? Yes,
by what's his face, the Irish guy James Joyce. Yeah,
that's the one.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But I'm I gotta believe that in general, you know,
for all all our jokes aside that there's a lot
of harm to your body by running ultra marathons. Your joints,
you're they're all kinds of stuff that I.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Mean, you're not built to do that, right, And just
the way various things we do change our brain chemistry.
I mean, we have a kindergartner's understanding that as a
as a species.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I mean, science has.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Got a lot better at it, but I still think
we're at the very beginnings of understanding, you know, the
very things, the various things we do and don't do,
how they change our body chemistry.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
But here's in a narrow casting thing about exercise that
I found interesting, and I don't know if it will
ever apply to me or any of you.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But I've got a friend.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
He's an older guy in his seventies, but he used
to be really serious bike rider, competitive bike rider. And
I just bought a really fancy bike and I'm riding
my bike and I'm not going to compete or anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I just want to get exercise.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But he was explaining to me on how he was
so good and he won so often, and I didn't
know this, he said, most of the other people he
wrote against didn't know this. It's a matter of figuring
out what you're the upper level is of your heart rate,
and then you figure out a percentage and then if
you stay, like I forget what it was two and
(24:03):
a half percent below your peak heart rate, you won't
get the lactic acid in your muscles that causes people
to cramp up. And in long, long running races and
bike races, oftentimes what takes you out is you get cramps.
But if you know what you're you're the highest end
of your like the top five percent of your heart
rate is and then you stay two and a half
(24:24):
percent below.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's just math, he said.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And if you just figure out the math and you
keep track of your heart rate, you can stay out
of the lactic acid thing, compete at a high level
the entire race, and run by all these people are
ride by all these people who have cramps. I thought
that was really interesting about the human body. I didn't
know that, And I wonder why that isn't like talk
to more of us, because I've I've had that problem before,
Like if you've.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Ever has been, I think slow and steady wins the race.
I always thought that was ridiculous because a rabbit could
whoop a turtles ass in a race and everybody knows it.
But that was the ancients trying to tell their warriors,
don't get tired out.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Uh, you know yourself, that is exactly right. They didn't
know the math on it or whatever. They just had
the human experience of.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They didn't know from lactic acid.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, you start out too fast and all of a
sudden you got paint, you go, that pain in your
side you get or your your VI's or whatever you
got to stay just below that. That's interesting, So that
that is probably where that comes from. I'll bet we'll
me damn and again. Now haste does make waste. I
am going to cancel the older you two, Michael, you're
(25:28):
canceling your ultra marathon for this afternoon scin am.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yes, that's hilarious, the idea of me running an ultramanthon.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
So the exercise I'm most known to do is twelve
ounce curls Jack, he says, by way of transition, it's
a joke about drinking anyway. Evidently there's a crisis in
British pub culture. Oddly enough, I will be in Britain
as of tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I think that's find over night. Do you plan to
drink in Britain? I hope to. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I'm feeling kind of under the weather now, but I
suspect I will bounce back.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You not. I would love nothing better than to have
a couple of pines in a pub. Well, you're not
a beer guy anymore, so what would you drink in Britain? Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'll have some beer.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I did like, haven't given up beer, I just don't
drink it much. I'll have some scotch too, I hope
nobody's offended. But anyway, so all of a sudden, people
are waiting in line at bars. They're queuing up, as
they say in Britain, like lining up, and it's sometimes
it stretches out the door a single file, and the
pub owners and bartenders are like, would you please stop it?
(26:34):
Here's a one manager.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
As British people, we absolutely love queuing, but the one
place we've never really done that is the pub.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
But it makes it so long and tedious.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
She put up a new sign please stand at the bar,
and there's a big line of people in front of
that sign.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Lined up sign.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
At Glasgow's Drweerry Street bar and kitchen is less polite,
stop effing queueing, elbows on the bar.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
We will not rest until this problem is eradicated. And
there's a social media site that this school teacher runs
where he shames people. He takes pictures of them lining
up at pubs and shames them online. But so there's
actually been people overheard saying, hey, get to the bar, you'll.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
End up on that one website. Ha shame.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
How did how did this impromptuly happen? I mean, how
did this organization of it's been the same way. I
gotta believe for a thousand years I was in a pub.
I remember at England when I was out hiking around.
It was four hundred years old. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
And there are a few more examples that are charming
and very British. But I will skip to the main point,
as you have requested. It's I'll start during the pandemic
when the stupid lining up a few feet apart was
a temporary requirement to protect pubgoers who then you know,
hang out and drink together.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Blanking stupid, blank stupid, it is stupid.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Three years after social distancing ended, single file cues still
form the culprit. The most hardened pub goers blame Generation
z Here's the part that's gonna make you sad. Having
come around a come of age around social distancing, zoomers
have continued the practice. Some younger pubgoers say it ensures
fairness instead of the old informal system where the bar
(28:13):
staff must keep tabs on who's been waiting longer and
give you the nod, which we drinkers are more than
familiar with, or.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
They go with the hot chick. Well, of course they do.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
The whole single file Q saying feels way more civil
and respectful, said a student in London.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No one's being rude.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Everyone respects each other's space, and eventually everyone gets their
drink when it's their turn. But for many older patrons,
a single file Q makes the pub feel sterile, like
a supermarket checkout or passport control. The scrum at the
bar is a key and joyful part of pub culture.
Oh yeah, you're probably not there just to drink, unless
(28:52):
you're a hardcore alcoholic. You're there to socialize, and part
of the socializing is.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
The all you stand in there waiting for your drinks
right already talking about the probably there soccer matchup on
the television, or you know whatever news of the day or.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Whatever you're talking about, says one manager. Pubs have forty
foot long bars for a reason, yes, and socializatly, but
many younger people don't revere the pub in the same way.
Four and five zoomers would prefer to visit pubs with karaoke, games,
themed events, and live music over the traditional offering of
lunch and a beer. They also line up when they
(29:26):
drink alcohol at all, and they stare at their phone.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, I've heard that. I haven't been to bars since
smartphones became a thing. But I guess that's what people
do now. Instead of talking about the ballgame or whatever,
you just stare at your phone in silence.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
That's sad, Yeah, it is kind of sad. I wonder
if you could plant them in a bar. I'm gonna
have a drink.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I wonder if you could start a bar where you say,
nobody gets your phone out. I'm not gonna take your phones,
but you don't get to stare at your phone. Just
kick you right out. What's a British beer's bass hale
of British beer?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It is?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I love mass Irish love me a bass ale Guinness
of the UK, Boddington's British Bodington's.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I used to be a Bodington's guy back in the day.
There you go, yep, ye, well you get a disease.
Oh maybe are you kidding? Stop me?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Maybe flirt with a lassie. No, that's more Scottish, but
again the UK. It will be for me is I'm
gonna be with my wife?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Well maybe years, maybe she will. Maybe she'll flirt with
a chap or oh wait a minute, there you go
reined it in there.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Hussey Hu's see.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Uh, we got a Gavin Newsom thing we got to
get on the air before we get done.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
With this hour.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Gavin Newsom, is he the next Kamala Harris whoa more
ways than one?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
WHOA perhaps? Okay, stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
So if you haven't heard this story, former National Security
advisor under Trump, John Bolton's home was raided by the
FBI today on the order of Cash Patel, who tweeted out,
no one is above the law kind of mysteriously and
so what is that all about rating John Bolton's home?
When we got a little more information on that, we'll
get into in our four ess.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Actually some pretty good thorough information on that whole back
and forth with Trump through the years. I found it
very very interesting. If you don't get our four, grab
it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. A little
breaking political news here. Ilhan Omar, America hating Muslim Marxist
Democratic senator from Minnesota, is screeching at her own state party,
(31:43):
the Democratic Farm Labor Party, because they have revoked their
endorsement of that Omar Fatah Fate character, who is an
America hating Muslim Marxist who had gotten the endorsement to
be the mayor of MINNIEAPLI, the DFL Party, which is
(32:03):
their version of the Democratic Party but its way left,
cited substantial failures in our endorsement convention process and so
ilhan Omar is now screeching that it's racism and big
a tree and the small group of majority living outside
Minneapolis meant to overturn the will of the Minneapolis delegates
(32:26):
who volunteered organized blah blah blah racism, et cetera, et cetera.
Thank god Minnesota has woken up. Hope somebody, I mean,
the guy who like they pushed aside, is to the
left of Trotsky. But this guy is Disty's beyond the pale.
So anyway, we'll see how that plays out. I think
there are a lot of very very smart, powerful people
(32:48):
within the Democratic Party who are absolutely disgusted, terrified, and
sickened by what's become of their party. We mentioned how
they're hemorrhaging voters. A big study came out in New
York Times. All there's another headline, The DNC wildly trails
the RNC and fundraising as donors bemoan the party's direction.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
According to a new report.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Are you going to show me how Gavin Newsom is
the new Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
I am, I am, indeed I will do that right now,
ladies and gentlemen. Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Forty here in a moment with deep sobriety, recognizing that
we need to reconcile this moment, but we're gonna meet
the moment not just with rhetoric but through action.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
WHOA, Okay, he's talking about the redistrict. That was the
use of the word moment too many times. Here's Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time as every day.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
And again, Gavin Newsom, we're here in a moment with
deep sobriety, recognizing that we need to reconcile this moment,
but we're gonna meet the moment not just with rhetoric
but through action.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I'm sure he'd like to have that one back. His
candle power is a great deal higher than hers, though,
so oh yeah, beyond question. He has one of the
same problems, though, is that he doesn't because he's a man,
he doesn't have any real beliefs, or the beliefs he
has are abhorrent to so much of America. He's constantly
(34:22):
calculating what he ought to be saying, as opposed to
the rest of us who just say what we think
because we think what we're saying.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, good, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Taking in a lot of national news, he gets mentioned
a ton on national news. So if he wants to
be the go to Democrat who is the resistance to Trump,
he might be there.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, he's certainly way ahead of the pack at this point.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, do you I don't know if I've ever really
thought about this. Does he believe any of that stuff
that he has done all these years or is that
just the way to get to governor in California? Because
I might not have any idea what he actually believes.
It's really hard to know.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, I mean, he does the guy podcasts and claims
he's not down with the Latin X. Then there's a
litany of times he's used the term, and then he
says justice you can't have men in a girls' sports.
He wasn't nearly that direct, but then backtracked.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Why did they raid John Bolton's home? An hour four?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
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