March 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Handwriting robots & aging bursts
- Democrat favorability is through the floor
- Doing away with the Department of Education
- Useless education in our colleges
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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 Armstrong and
Jetty and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In a March Mandis tournament is underway and as many
people are filling out their brackets to make predictions, there
is a company in Phoenix has robots getting in on
the action as well. Handwritten robots usually spend their days
bringing back the lost art of handwritten notes, but this
March they are taking on a new challenge writing brackets.
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The robot writes out its picks with the help of AI,
and just like any good.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Office pool, there's a prize at stake. What so we've
had printers, generations, well and just I mean so, well,
and if it's some sort of actual like quote unquote
handwriting a robot, Okay, I'm sucking at it. I'm looking
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at it, and it is somewhat novel. But again, what so,
just I don't wire that young man's sense of wonderment. Well,
what I don't get is what are we doing? So
the robot is going to make the picks, then write
them out by hand, and then I turn them in
at work. Well, that's fun, whether they're having a contest
for robots or we should just have the robots play
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the games. But what is your everybody at work has
a robot pill up, pick up, fill out their bracket,
and then you hand it in and and somebody wins
the I don't know. I don't even know what we're
doing anymore. Like we were talking about last hour, about
the AI coding and everything like that, Well we get
any what what will Well, this is the ultimate problem
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with AI. What what will whenever? So uh will be
income will be provided for us? I guess by we're
just going to be such a productive nation. AI will
be so productive that we'll get a check from the
government and we'll do nothing. We won't pick our own brackets.
We won't code computers, we won't, we won't, we won't
do we won't write music because AI is doing that,
or movies, books, everything's done by AI, and and it'll
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be great and it'll be just so satisfying. Wow. Human
beings deserve to die off, not a planet of the
apes or the beavers, or the ants or probably the ants.
Frankly so, Trump today is going to sign an executive
EO on doing away the Department of Education and some
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of the details on that later. Wanted to get to this,
but I feel like almost compelled to ruin it before
I even get to it. So much of what we
do on this show, or all radio shows, TV shows
is just stupid. It's just dumb and to waste of time.
Speak for yourself in that My stuff is always scintillating
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and appropriate and timely. In that issue, polling is so
fraught there's really barely any reason to need any talk
about it. Most of the time. I've listened to people
who are much more knowledgeable about this explain to me
why that is. And it's a you can get such
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different results based on the wording, and it's so inconsistent,
and then just the error rate in polling with the
small sadge and all things. But you know, that's that's
practically our bread and butter in the world of talk radio.
New pole says, blah blah blah. I think sixty eight
percent of people think, can you believe that? And you
can discuss it for a while. So that's just that
looking at something like the gallop pole across times, yes
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is fairly efinitely. And then a new study says that's
there are other bread and butter in the radio TV industry.
A new study says, and these are always preliminary studies
of a tiny slife is something that included somewhere in
the article. They say. Researchers say there's not enough daddy
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yet to be but you talk about it as if
it's true, and everybody does that. So again, killing this
whole story before we get to it, because it is
a preliminary study, it's small, and as The New York
Times points out later, there's a whole bunch of other
people that think it's wrong. And they think this so
coming up top heart doctor reveals five foods mainstream medicine
lied to you about. Mainstream medicine is now coming cleaner
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in five years. Are we gonna anyway? There's one study
out there that says we age in bursts as opposed
to steadily. There are plenty of studies out there that
say we age more or less lineally linearly, kind of
like gradually over time. So if you feel like you
age gradually, fine, there's a study to back that up.
But in this wrong, this study is correct. I've witnessed it,
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I've lived it. Okay, this particular study says there's a
big jump at forty four and a big jump at sixty.
The one with forty is mostly at forty four is
mostly metabolizing alcohol and fat. Now it's obvious that it's
harder to keep wade off as you get older. I
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think everybody's had that experience starting it roughly. I don't
know twenty two. I don't know if there's a giantly drunk.
Stupid is no way to go through life. Some the
alcohol thing in the forties is interesting. Lots of people
are who are hardcore drinkers die of alcoholism in their
forties and fifties. That's a pretty common thing where your
body just doesn't metabolize it in the same way. You
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remember the coroner I talked to, I share your most
common customer. I think you can't tell that story enough.
It's very interesting. Middle aged male alcoholic, that's what she
sees on the slab most frequently. And how do you
end up being there at the slab place and drink
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yourself more? You know, whether literally alcohol poisoning or you
know the related diseases that come from alcohol abuse. But
I think that is in large measure because you're brain. Well,
your whole system metabolizes alcohol differently. I've talked several times
about when I was just I was probably fifty nine
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and a half, which was less than a year ago,
that I noticed I was metabolizing alcohol much differently. And
just a reasonable Saturday night with the fellas that would
have been perfectly fine Sunday, all of a sudden I
was miserable and consistently so she realized, Okay, I just
can't drink nearly as much. She's noticed it. In terms
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of hangover, yes, and hangovers. Hangovers were also very different.
Instead of oh, I've got a headache and my stomach
kind of upset, No, it's I feel like I'm dying.
I'm miserable physically and emotionally, and this is terrible. I
have poisoned myself what I always thought about hangovers. And
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it's still true that if you felt that bad in
any other circumstance, you would go to the er. You
would just be concerned. You'd be at the er like
I'm dying. Get me in immediately. The guy at the
heart having the heart attack, I need to be ahead
of him. That's how bad I feel. Imagine, for instance,
you ate a calzone that made you feel that way outright,
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or if you consistently ate a calzone that made you
feel that you'd be suing the restaurant or campaigning them
to have them clothes. Well, I'm not trying to come
out anti drinking. I don't drink, but I'm not anti drinking.
But if it's hard to apply it to other things
he enjoys like I really like I really like march madness.
I really like watching the college basketball games. But man,
after I watch a college basketball game, I just my
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stomach is so bad and I have a horrible headache.
But it's worth fuked half a dozen times. It's worth
that I enjoyed the basketball game that much. I once
read and I didn't appreciate it a bit at the time.
A guy saying alcohol is poison essentially, but if you
poisoning yourself just enough, it makes you feel great, it's fantastic.
So anyway, forty four, you have a big jumping the
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way you metabolize you and these are all on averages,
and of course, but you metabolize alcohol differently, and then
the whole storing fat thing changes. At sixty. The big
thing is your immune system and parts of the body
wearing out. That's the big jump. They say at sixty
you're more likely to be sick. Well, I believe this firmly.
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I've observed it myself. Aging is much like mountain biking,
which I used to do with great enthusiasm. You pedal
upward for about twenty four years, and it's a lot
of work but kind of fun, and then you go
down at you know, mild grades and then plateaus, and
then you plunge down for a while, and then you
plateau again. By the ticket, take the ride, man, Is
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there another option? Nope, I'll be darned. DNA and rodents
et cetera, et cetera, look into the blood plausa blah
blah blah, very shorthandy DNA and rhadents blah blah blah. Yeah,
I mean, the rate of aging follows a steep curve
from early childhood until puberty. Of course, there's all kinds
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of you know, the way you grow and everything changes
and everything like that, but then it becomes pretty linear
after age twenty. Other studies show you say you have
experienced the plateaus. My dad says that he feels that
I don't know that. I don't know that. I feel that.
I just that has not been my life experience. I
don't think right. On the other hand, are you not
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seeking certain you know, aid with the aging process right now? Oh? Yeah, absolutely?
Am I take testosterone? Well, certain testimony is inadmissible in court? Fine, yeah,
I'm not trying to admit test All I can say
is I haven't had that experience. So that's all I
can say. Particular organs age faster than others, though I
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thought that was kind of interesting. The heart and the
brain may age faster than others. They're not exactly sure why.
That's why great. If I could pick two organs to
not have that be true, I'd probably start right there.
Come on, God, what are you thinking? Oh my lord,
I just questioned the almighty. Oh what's the weather forecast?
Is there any lightning?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's an interesting one. So my dad definitely says when
stages for him, like he was riding his horse and
had him on the air on his birthday many many
years ago. He's still riding his horse at age eighty.
Then just like all of a sudden, he couldn't. He
just his balance wouldn't allow him to do that. But
the brain and heart thing. That's pretty interesting. You really
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need those. Those are two really big organs, really important
organs right there, and the left lung in the spleen.
Maybe I don't know, your gullbladder and one kidney or
something right right the heart and the brain. Who's in charge?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
There?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is there anything to take away from this? That's what
I was thinking about. Even if this was true, and
it might not be, Is there anything to take away
from this? So le's your takeaway? Yeah, it don't panic,
it's fine. Just keep doing the things that are smart
to be healthy. And if you notice, oh my lord,
I feel significantly older than I did two years ago.
You know, again, as I said, by the ticket, take
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the ride. It's part of life. Just to be as
positive as you can about it. My other aberrant situation
that makes me not a good candidate for discussing this
is getting cancer at age forty nine, and that whole
thing just changed so many parts of my body. I
don't have any idea what it would have been like
to go through those couple of years without cancer. I
don't know. I lost so much muscle and everything like that.
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In my heart. The doctor tells me my heart is
ten years older. And I need to treat it like
it's ten years older. My heart aged ten years because
of chemotherapy. Did you know that? I didn't know that.
The l remember you're saying, so, yeah, I didn't know that,
did that? Not like you have an option? But right right?
Sobering too, sobering? So your heart and your brain? No, okay, fantastic, Spreghetti.
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Your hotel suite is ready. Unfortunately there's rats in the
bed and no plumbing. But other than that, we think
you'll find the room delightful. No, no, you're gonna be fine,
except for your heart and your brain. No, I say,
thank Your ankles are going to hold out? Oh great, thanks?
Is the Department of Education actually gonna go away? Maybe
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it's certainly going to be a political win among other things.
On the way, stay here. Tomorrow is the.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
First round of Mars madness. Oh yeah, but this year
will be a little different. If you see a car
flipped over, its either fans celebrating their school or people
protesting Elon Musk so just too careful one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Of the two. Ah ha ha ha haa domestic terrorism hilarious.
I don't it's it's just interesting to for a variety
of reasons this is not being treated like what it is. Yeah,
either the the political aspect of this is treated as
just fine and predictable because you know, Elon Musk is
a Nazi he gave that salute. Or I've come across
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a couple of news accounts that don't mention any political
aspect of it at all. People are setting fire to
Tesla's and blowing up to the dealerships. That's weird in
other news, right, Yeah, exactly the media news media sucks.
And so how did Tim Walls end up back on
anybody's radar? Agaon? Does he have aspirations? Is he like
trying to figure out a way to get his name
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out there with Gavin Newsom's name out there and stuff like,
see you think he's gonna run for president? Man, he
is disillusioned if he thinks he's got any I hope
he has aspirations to be a laughing stock, because that
is certainly his greatest talent. Yes, he actually thinks he
might have an outside chance. Wow. I wonder if he
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thinks Kamala held him back anyway, just a Tesla's stock.
This is what Tim Walls was on a stage in
front of a bunch of people who like his sort
of politics and said this yesterday, let me know this
on the iPhone. They've got that little stock app I
added Tesla tude to give me a little boost during
the day.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Two twenty five and dropping so. And if you own one,
if you own one, we're not blaming you. You can
you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off,
you know, and take out of just telling you.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That is so stupid and self defeating. I'm enjoying it.
That is something, isn't it. The only electric car company
that has ever even come close to making a dent
in the idea of driving. And it's a punchline for
Democrats now of yay, it's failing and people are setting
on fire. Whoo, except it's not, by any estimates, still
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the most valuable car company in the world as of today. Yeah,
the insanely inflated stock is now just crazy inflated. If
you dig, and we don't have time now, but if
you dig into the numbers that we were talking about earlier,
Democratic Party twenty nine percent favorable on CNN twenty seven percent,
then NBC, if you go into some of the other
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questions they asked about our Democrats focused on helping people
like me and blah blah blah that sort of thing.
It's miserable, absolutely miserable. I feel like if you were
on strategy and you said, hey, I just like say
I love teslas. If I'm a Democrat. If I love teslas,
I love electric cars, I think we should all drive them.
I think the world would be a lot better if
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we did. I don't like what Elon Musk is doing
with Doge. I think if you said that, I think
a lot of Democrats would react, Well, there's a normal
person with a normal reaction, right, I think you're right.
I was about to say what I'm about to say
is one of the most depressing things you'll ever hear.
But I'm going to amend it after I said, what
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you just said is far too nuanced for American Paula.
You really think so? No, I think I just think no.
And here's the here's the the amendment. I think the
Democrats think that message is far too nuanced for American politiciss.
They have such contempt for voters, and that is that
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is I think at the heart of their undoing. They
view themselves as so morally superior and so much smarter
than the average American. I mean, if you if you
disagree with me, please explain yourself, because I think that
is their number one sin. Be similar to standing in
front of an audience and saying, hey, I'm pro gray rights,
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I'm glad gay marriage happened, and blah blah blah, this
and that, but we can't we can't have men in
women's sports. I think most Democrats will polling show this
would say yeah, I'm I'm with you, yeah, yeah, just
you know, superior contempt or contemptuous superiority. That is their
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problem right now. And that's I love contemptu superiority. That's
how I go through my day. Liz, enjoy it, Liz,
I wake up, I write myself notes. Hey, remember to
be this. They really need a Bill Clinton. We got
more in the way. If you miss anything, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
First it was Elon Musk with the chainsaw. Now President
Trump taking a sledgehammer to the Apartment of Education figuratively, speaking,
of course, that executive order expected to be signed later today.
Here's Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon, no stranger to the takedown.
Earlier this month on the show on where she would
like to see some of this money go.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
There are various programs that we would look at, scholarship programs,
we could use voucher systems to go to different schools.
I think there are a lot of ways to provide
opportunities to children that are stuck in failing schools. No
child should be stuck in a failing school.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Glinda, I hope you do a great job and put
yourself out of a job. And what I want to
do is let the States run schools.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
I believe strongly in school too, But in addition to.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That, I want the States to.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Run school He's expected to sign that today and Mark
Alpern and his newsletter said that Trump people must have
internal pulling. This shows that this is very popular and
they're going to have a big signing ceremony around that
today that they think, will you know, be good and
splashy in the news, even though it's being couched in
mainstream news of course, always as a negative, like the
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headline in the New York Times. Trump to sign order
dismantling Education Department as opposed to implication being dismantling education
of course right, as opposed to child will learn ever again?
Right like education, the public schooling is going away because
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of this, as opposed to a headline that could say
Trump to sign order to return power to the states
over education, which is right. The goal Trump empowers local
schools over federal bureaucrats. Sure, White House officials. In the
New York Times, it says, who spoke on a condition
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of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said
the order instructs msmicmahon to return authority over education to
the states. Oh no, the state will decide. How's anybody
afraid of that? What about Notspornia or ignorant Sylvania? Will
they educate their children? No? No, we care about our
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children where we live, Thank you very much. Bureaucrats, We
care about them more than you do. You lie in phonies.
The movement to do away the Department of Education dates
way back, which we're going to talk more about, but
that includes key pro Trump grassroots activists expanded around opposition
to progressive agendas that promoted mandating certain education standards and
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inclusive policies for LGBDQ students. So it's Trump coming after
the gays. Sure, Sure, it's not Trump coming after radical
Marxists who are indoctrinating your che children into perverse ideologies
while they're supposed to be learning to read, write, and
do arithmetic. That wouldn't be it at all. No, you
know a lot of the stuff even that my kids
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are learning in school and I learned in school. At
this point in my life, I'm really wanting to boil
it down to like just the real basics of learning.
I don't know, do we need the schools to get
into what you eat? The Founding fathers didn't think the
government should be taking tax payer money to bring your
kids into a building and explain to them eat more
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of this and less of that. I could see making
that part of a biology course, you know, human biology
that makes sense. Nutritional science is you know, fine, you
own the machine, you ought to know how to run it.
But no as a separate thing like in the the
what's the term that the progressive use, progressive views for
the holistic, educational, the whole child or I can't remember,
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you know, exercise, sexuality, what you eat? And what is
that gottness? I see declining math and reading scores over
decades and decades, and I don't know if that's a
cause and effect. But and what's so typically governmental about
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all this is if I was running, say, a garbage company,
a trash hauling company, and you know, I was so
pleased with myself I decided to add on. And you
know what, our trash men are, our truck drivers. They're
going to stop by the size of the rows and
roads and plant daffodils casually. Also you know, beautified parks,
and while they're at it, help old people who seem
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to be hobbling on their driveways to pick up their
mail and have all these great rosy outreach programs, and
the trash doesn't get picked up. It's like it doesn't
get picked up at all, or it's strewn all over
the streets or whatever it's and just everybody's angry. It's
a miserable failure. And it never occurs to me. Boy,
we ought to just get back to picking up garbage.
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That insight is just too crazy for me to come
to and makes you want to pull your hair out.
To take it further, we're more obese than we've ever been.
So do you have any evidence to show that all
this nutrition stuff in school, for instance, nutrition and exercise
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has done any good? And you could argue that it'd
be even worse, but I don't know. You certainly can't
argue that it's helped. So maybe through the ages. So
when we were kids were old, but when we are
kids in school, they were telling us to eat stuff
that was the absolute worst stuff you should eat on earth.
So then you carry carbs and trans fats. So then
you've just got the you know, regular complaint that people
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like us have is that federal government's off of and
wrong anyway. So I don't want them teaching my kid
what to eat right well, particularly because there's nothing more
intransigent and permanent than a Washington bureaucracy. It's not light
on its feet, it's not adaptable. It doesn't respond to
changes in knowledge or the environment, or for instance, that
the trash isn't getting picked up because the secretary of
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planning the daffodils by the road side is so intent
on protecting their turf. To go back to my metaphor,
they won't. They can't relinquish that as part of the
you know, trash pickup experience. Likewise, the activists and all
this bull crap is part of the educational age. How
about I talk to my kids about safe sex and
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what to eat, and the school teaches the math and reading?
Would that be a problem. So just I'm not sure.
I'm not sure you're being clear enough. You don't think
schools should be teaching my child how to please a
gay lover or a straight lover for that matter, right,
I just don't understand how that's in the Bailey wick
of well, what school should be if you're going to
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start from scratch. So one of the very few benefits
of age is that you start to see the arc
of their eye, and as it were, you start to
see the cycles of politics and society and that sort
of thing in a way that you can't unless you've
seen a couple of the cycles, you don't recognize them
as cycles. And one of the things that have has
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occurred to me in the last couple of years is that,
as a young person in particular, you view what you
see as inevitable. It has always been here and always
will be here. It's my entire experience, and it's really
liberating in a way to learn how stuff started and
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what it was supposed to do, and then see examples
of things that ended and how the world went on.
And it was fine even if it was a little
rocky for a while, it ended up being fine. For instance,
the Department of Education did not exist until eighteen forty one, No,
nineteen seventy nine. For goodness sakes, the rolling stones were
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old banned when the Department of Education started. Congress narrowly
approved creating the Department of Education out of the already
existing Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. But truly, in
the whole country, who's over the age of I don't
know what it would be exactly, but fifty five roughly,
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that'd be everybody running everything, every corporation in all of
government was educated prior to the Department of Education. And
that's damn close to true. Yeah, we're not all stumbling
around illiterate, et cry for yourself. But the newly created
federal bureaucracy was more of a favor. I'm quoting now
from Reason dot com, which does great stuff even when
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I don't agree with them. They're very smart. It was
more of a favor to a large and powerful special
interest group on behalf of a beleaguered president than a
necessary reorganization to allow the federal government to quote meet
its responsibilities in education more effectively, more efficiently and more responsibly.
As then President Carter put it, it was a giant
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sop to the powerful lefty teachers unions, thanks Jimmy, because
he was losing to Ronald Reagan, and they swore if
he created a federal Department of Education, which would send
the delicious federal funding and have an ear always open
to the teachers' unions, that then they would, in a
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way they hadn't in the past, they would endorse Jimmy Carter.
That was it. Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know that.
Uh yeah, yeah, he had promised in nineteen seventy six.
So it wasn't even as do goodery as I thought
it was. No, it was more transactional than I even thought. Well,
and I got one date semi wrong. He promised it
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in nineteen seventy six when he got the endorsement of
the National Education Association the evil and EA to become
evil certainly, and that he knew he had to pay
it off. And so by nineteen seventy nine, when the
heat was on, he actually got Congress to barely barely
approve it. And interestingly, Jimmy Carter is quoted at the
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time and I don't have it in front of me.
But it's easy enough to paraphrase as saying, hey, look
we needed this for the NEA support. It's not going
to work the way they think it is. Oh wow.
So yeah, he was skeptic. He understood that this was
not a good idea, but he had to politically. So
another thing I don't think enough people understand or admit.
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So I was watching some MSNBC this morning and they
were talking about how this isn't really gonna do anything anyway.
The Department of Education is so small. They don't as
a lot of right wingers claim mandates, what states do.
States still get to make their own decisions. I know
how this works. Though you all know how this works.
They will yank your funding. If you don't, you can
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do whatever you want, but if you want this funding,
you need to do this. That's the way the federal
government strong arms all kinds of things, speed limit, helmet laws.
They've done lots of different things like that. No, no, no, no,
you can make your own decision, but if you want
the big federal funding, you better go along with our idea.
And then which happens to be gay porn in fist
Grader's libraries these days, right. One more bit of historical perspective.
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According to Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, who's a Democrat from New
York at the time, Congress went along with the plan
out of quote not wanting to embarrass the president, and
the Wall Street Journal at the time reported the admission
of one House Democrat who said, quote, the idea of
an education department is really a bad one, but it's
Anya's top priority. There are school teachers in every congressional district,
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and most of us simply don't need the aggravation of
taking them on. There has been no more powerful and
awful perverting force of American education than teachers' unions. Oh absolutely,
And I understand and the idea of it and the
desire for it or need for it from the perspective
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of a good, solid American school teacher, I'm not unsympathetic
to the idea of you know, it'd be crazy easy
to hire and fire people because there are a lot
of people who used to want to become teachers blah
blah blah. But in their current incarnation, maybe at the
time they were built, they were built for good, honest reasons.
They have become evil, clearly demonstrated through COVID. Yeah, oh yeah,
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the most horrifying chapter. They're evil. Yes, I'm interested to
see how the reaction is today. And Trump has his
big announcement and might lead the evening news tonight how
it's proposing to have one lefty news anchor quote those
Democratic Congress people. This is not a good idea, but
we don't want to embarrass the president. And he didn't
say in an election year, but that's what he meant.
(29:56):
So Trump talked about something awfully interesting with Zelensky yesterday
around the whole Ukraine Russia thing that I don't feel
likes getting enough attention to. All all the things we
can talk about stick around. Meanwhile, so that.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yale made the tournament this year and they're a thirteen
seed and they play at number four.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Texas A and M. Yeah, it's a pretty lopsided matchup.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
And you can tell how Yale's fans are feeling just
based on the signs that they made for the game.
I'll just checked these out first. There's ahem, don't you
know who our fathers are? Up next, there's a do
you want to take this outside?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Where my driver will fight you for me?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Up next, there's why don't we settle this like real
men with a sailboat race? Then there's does the concession stand?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Carrie foi gras perchance?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Finally, please show me on TV so everybody knows I.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Went to Yale. You know what's interesting about that is
that the jokes are all centered on the idea that
your audience believes most people at a college like Yale
are rich. Why would the best institutions be rich kids primarily?
(31:12):
And when we're getting lectured from these people about inequality
and all these different awful things that are happening in
the world, but your colleges only let in the richest kids.
And as an alleged humorist, to your point, he didn't
even have to drop a hint as to the premise
of miss joke. No, because we all just assume that
because it's true, because it's true. I said this the
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other day, and I've always thought this was really interesting.
Larry Summers, who's a Democrat, and he was the president
at Harvard for a while, and they had all of
these programs for years about diversity and this and that
and trying to get, you know, do away with inequality.
And he said he was sitting in his office one
time looking out the window, and he thought, why am
I seeing pretty much only rich white kids, even after
(31:56):
all that we've done. Is he not to have like
a phone line to his I don't know what you'd
call it. Into college's money people, Miss President, this is
a little uncomfortable. Now. If you write a big check,
we let you in. But so they claim all these
various things, but they are enough ways to get around it.
Apparently that you still end up with mostly rich white kids. Yeah. Interesting,
(32:22):
How about smart kids? How about the smartest kids? How
about you try that. I want the smartest kids of
the best colleges, period. That's what I merit. Merit all
day long. Attack the problems at the elementary education level.
Oh but Democrats are not in favor of the speaking
of education almost speaking of that. An attack on homeschooling
next hour. It's disgusting doing away at the education department.
(32:44):
Somebody texted this and I was going to bring it up.
Somebody said this. We developed the a bomb, put a
man on the moon, invented computer all without pre K,
free babysitting in votes an example of useless education. Yes
there are. The pre K movement is a perfect example
of what freaking is wrong with the whole education system.
We're adding another grade that there are no studies that
(33:06):
say there are any benefit. But it's another grade of
tax money, federal funding, adding employees, maybe some more propaganda
to your kids for yet another year free babysitting. Is
this person's aid it no educational value. In fact, it's
(33:26):
detrimental according to the most responsible. See it hurts my heart.
My local school where my kids went to they built
a new building, and I thought, what was that going
to be? It's a pre k Oh my god. It
makes my heart hurt that they're going to convince so
many people that this is the best thing for their
kid to not be at home with mom and dad
or whoever and playing and having a good time. You're
(33:47):
going to be at another government school building for another
year for no freaking reason. I know it sounds paranoid,
but trust me when I say, I'm one of the
most reasonable people you'll ever meet in college University of
Illinois prominent professor and I quote the nuclear family is
(34:09):
an organ of oppression. The government should be raising children
didn't occur to me at that moment, because I didn't
have the background to understand that that was an avowed
Marxist expressing what Marxism expresses. As I often say, these
people wrote books, their names are on the spine. They
say precisely what they believe in, what they would like
(34:30):
to do, and having the state educate your child is
one of the bedrock tenets of Marxism. Fight it, friends,
it's so much more insidious than it seems. Not too
late overall, but it's too late on the pre k
thing man. That train has left the station, which again
makes actually makes my heart hurt. I feel so bad
for those kids. Speaking of emails, David points out something
(34:52):
I meant to point out that when Tim Walls was
chortling about Tesla stock being down and how much he
loved it, that the State of Minnesota retirement funds had
one point six million shares of Testla in it interesting.
But he's a jackass and a moron. He's a jack
more more ass or some jack most of their ass, okay,
(35:15):
the united most of their ass, which like the right cheek,
you're an idiot. Armstrong and getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In a March Mandis tournament is underway and as many
people are filling out their brackets to make predictions, there
is a company in Phoenix has robots getting in on
the action as well. Handwritten robots usually spend their days
bringing back the lost art of handwritten notes, but this
March they are taking on a new challenge writing brackets.
(00:45):
The robot writes out its picks with the help of AI,
and just like any good.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Office pool, there's a prize at stake. What so we've
had printers, generations, well and just I mean so, well,
and if it's some sort of actual like quote unquote
handwriting a robot, Okay, I'm sucking at it. I'm looking
(01:09):
at it, and it is somewhat novel. But again, what so,
just I don't wire that young man's sense of wonderment. Well,
what I don't get is what are we doing? So
the robot is going to make the picks, then write
them out by hand, and then I turn them in
at work. Well, that's fun, whether they're having a contest
for robots or we should just have the robots play
(01:31):
the games. But what is your everybody at work has
a robot pill up, pick up, fill out their bracket,
and then you hand it in and and somebody wins
the I don't know. I don't even know what we're
doing anymore. Like we were talking about last hour, about
the AI coding and everything like that, Well we get
any what what will Well, this is the ultimate problem
(01:51):
with AI. What what will whenever? So uh will be
income will be provided for us? I guess by we're
just going to be such a productive nation. AI will
be so productive that we'll get a check from the
government and we'll do nothing. We won't pick our own brackets.
We won't code computers, we won't, we won't, we won't
do we won't write music because AI is doing that,
or movies, books, everything's done by AI, and and it'll
(02:14):
be great and it'll be just so satisfying. Wow. Human
beings deserve to die off, not a planet of the
apes or the beavers, or the ants or probably the ants.
Frankly so, Trump today is going to sign an executive
EO on doing away the Department of Education and some
(02:34):
of the details on that later. Wanted to get to this,
but I feel like almost compelled to ruin it before
I even get to it. So much of what we
do on this show, or all radio shows, TV shows
is just stupid. It's just dumb and to waste of time.
Speak for yourself in that My stuff is always scintillating
(02:55):
and appropriate and timely. In that issue, polling is so
fraught there's really barely any reason to need any talk
about it. Most of the time. I've listened to people
who are much more knowledgeable about this explain to me
why that is. And it's a you can get such
(03:15):
different results based on the wording, and it's so inconsistent,
and then just the error rate in polling with the
small sadge and all things. But you know, that's that's
practically our bread and butter in the world of talk radio.
New pole says, blah blah blah. I think sixty eight
percent of people think, can you believe that? And you
can discuss it for a while. So that's just that
looking at something like the gallop pole across times, yes
(03:36):
is fairly efinitely. And then a new study says that's
there are other bread and butter in the radio TV industry.
A new study says, and these are always preliminary studies
of a tiny slife is something that included somewhere in
the article. They say. Researchers say there's not enough daddy
(03:57):
yet to be but you talk about it as if
it's true, and everybody does that. So again, killing this
whole story before we get to it, because it is
a preliminary study, it's small, and as The New York
Times points out later, there's a whole bunch of other
people that think it's wrong. And they think this so
coming up top heart doctor reveals five foods mainstream medicine
lied to you about. Mainstream medicine is now coming cleaner
(04:22):
in five years. Are we gonna anyway? There's one study
out there that says we age in bursts as opposed
to steadily. There are plenty of studies out there that
say we age more or less lineally linearly, kind of
like gradually over time. So if you feel like you
age gradually, fine, there's a study to back that up.
But in this wrong, this study is correct. I've witnessed it,
(04:44):
I've lived it. Okay, this particular study says there's a
big jump at forty four and a big jump at sixty.
The one with forty is mostly at forty four is
mostly metabolizing alcohol and fat. Now it's obvious that it's
harder to keep wade off as you get older. I
(05:04):
think everybody's had that experience starting it roughly. I don't
know twenty two. I don't know if there's a giantly drunk.
Stupid is no way to go through life. Some the
alcohol thing in the forties is interesting. Lots of people
are who are hardcore drinkers die of alcoholism in their
forties and fifties. That's a pretty common thing where your
body just doesn't metabolize it in the same way. You
(05:26):
remember the coroner I talked to, I share your most
common customer. I think you can't tell that story enough.
It's very interesting. Middle aged male alcoholic, that's what she
sees on the slab most frequently. And how do you
end up being there at the slab place and drink
(05:48):
yourself more? You know, whether literally alcohol poisoning or you
know the related diseases that come from alcohol abuse. But
I think that is in large measure because you're brain. Well,
your whole system metabolizes alcohol differently. I've talked several times
about when I was just I was probably fifty nine
(06:09):
and a half, which was less than a year ago,
that I noticed I was metabolizing alcohol much differently. And
just a reasonable Saturday night with the fellas that would
have been perfectly fine Sunday, all of a sudden I
was miserable and consistently so she realized, Okay, I just
can't drink nearly as much. She's noticed it. In terms
(06:31):
of hangover, yes, and hangovers. Hangovers were also very different.
Instead of oh, I've got a headache and my stomach
kind of upset, No, it's I feel like I'm dying.
I'm miserable physically and emotionally, and this is terrible. I
have poisoned myself what I always thought about hangovers. And
(06:53):
it's still true that if you felt that bad in
any other circumstance, you would go to the er. You
would just be concerned. You'd be at the er like
I'm dying. Get me in immediately. The guy at the
heart having the heart attack, I need to be ahead
of him. That's how bad I feel. Imagine, for instance,
you ate a calzone that made you feel that way outright,
(07:17):
or if you consistently ate a calzone that made you
feel that you'd be suing the restaurant or campaigning them
to have them clothes. Well, I'm not trying to come
out anti drinking. I don't drink, but I'm not anti drinking.
But if it's hard to apply it to other things
he enjoys like I really like I really like march madness.
I really like watching the college basketball games. But man,
after I watch a college basketball game, I just my
(07:39):
stomach is so bad and I have a horrible headache.
But it's worth fuked half a dozen times. It's worth
that I enjoyed the basketball game that much. I once
read and I didn't appreciate it a bit at the time.
A guy saying alcohol is poison essentially, but if you
poisoning yourself just enough, it makes you feel great, it's fantastic.
So anyway, forty four, you have a big jumping the
(08:00):
way you metabolize you and these are all on averages,
and of course, but you metabolize alcohol differently, and then
the whole storing fat thing changes. At sixty. The big
thing is your immune system and parts of the body
wearing out. That's the big jump. They say at sixty
you're more likely to be sick. Well, I believe this firmly.
(08:22):
I've observed it myself. Aging is much like mountain biking,
which I used to do with great enthusiasm. You pedal
upward for about twenty four years, and it's a lot
of work but kind of fun, and then you go
down at you know, mild grades and then plateaus, and
then you plunge down for a while, and then you
plateau again. By the ticket, take the ride, man, Is
(08:47):
there another option? Nope, I'll be darned. DNA and rodents
et cetera, et cetera, look into the blood plausa blah
blah blah, very shorthandy DNA and rhadents blah blah blah. Yeah,
I mean, the rate of aging follows a steep curve
from early childhood until puberty. Of course, there's all kinds
(09:10):
of you know, the way you grow and everything changes
and everything like that, but then it becomes pretty linear
after age twenty. Other studies show you say you have
experienced the plateaus. My dad says that he feels that
I don't know that. I don't know that. I feel that.
I just that has not been my life experience. I
don't think right. On the other hand, are you not
(09:30):
seeking certain you know, aid with the aging process right now? Oh? Yeah, absolutely?
Am I take testosterone? Well, certain testimony is inadmissible in court? Fine, yeah,
I'm not trying to admit test All I can say
is I haven't had that experience. So that's all I
can say. Particular organs age faster than others, though I
(09:54):
thought that was kind of interesting. The heart and the
brain may age faster than others. They're not exactly sure why.
That's why great. If I could pick two organs to
not have that be true, I'd probably start right there.
Come on, God, what are you thinking? Oh my lord,
I just questioned the almighty. Oh what's the weather forecast?
Is there any lightning?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's an interesting one. So my dad definitely says when
stages for him, like he was riding his horse and
had him on the air on his birthday many many
years ago. He's still riding his horse at age eighty.
Then just like all of a sudden, he couldn't. He
just his balance wouldn't allow him to do that. But
the brain and heart thing. That's pretty interesting. You really
(10:35):
need those. Those are two really big organs, really important
organs right there, and the left lung in the spleen.
Maybe I don't know, your gullbladder and one kidney or
something right right the heart and the brain. Who's in charge?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
There?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is there anything to take away from this? That's what
I was thinking about. Even if this was true, and
it might not be, Is there anything to take away
from this? So le's your takeaway? Yeah, it don't panic,
it's fine. Just keep doing the things that are smart
to be healthy. And if you notice, oh my lord,
I feel significantly older than I did two years ago.
You know, again, as I said, by the ticket, take
(11:13):
the ride. It's part of life. Just to be as
positive as you can about it. My other aberrant situation
that makes me not a good candidate for discussing this
is getting cancer at age forty nine, and that whole
thing just changed so many parts of my body. I
don't have any idea what it would have been like
to go through those couple of years without cancer. I
don't know. I lost so much muscle and everything like that.
(11:34):
In my heart. The doctor tells me my heart is
ten years older. And I need to treat it like
it's ten years older. My heart aged ten years because
of chemotherapy. Did you know that? I didn't know that.
The l remember you're saying, so, yeah, I didn't know that,
did that? Not like you have an option? But right right?
Sobering too, sobering? So your heart and your brain? No, okay, fantastic, Spreghetti.
(12:01):
Your hotel suite is ready. Unfortunately there's rats in the
bed and no plumbing. But other than that, we think
you'll find the room delightful. No, no, you're gonna be fine,
except for your heart and your brain. No, I say,
thank Your ankles are going to hold out? Oh great, thanks?
Is the Department of Education actually gonna go away? Maybe
(12:22):
it's certainly going to be a political win among other things.
On the way, stay here. Tomorrow is the.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
First round of Mars madness. Oh yeah, but this year
will be a little different. If you see a car
flipped over, its either fans celebrating their school or people
protesting Elon Musk so just too careful one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Of the two. Ah ha ha ha haa domestic terrorism hilarious.
I don't it's it's just interesting to for a variety
of reasons this is not being treated like what it is. Yeah,
either the the political aspect of this is treated as
just fine and predictable because you know, Elon Musk is
a Nazi he gave that salute. Or I've come across
(13:08):
a couple of news accounts that don't mention any political
aspect of it at all. People are setting fire to
Tesla's and blowing up to the dealerships. That's weird in
other news, right, Yeah, exactly the media news media sucks.
And so how did Tim Walls end up back on
anybody's radar? Agaon? Does he have aspirations? Is he like
trying to figure out a way to get his name
(13:29):
out there with Gavin Newsom's name out there and stuff like,
see you think he's gonna run for president? Man, he
is disillusioned if he thinks he's got any I hope
he has aspirations to be a laughing stock, because that
is certainly his greatest talent. Yes, he actually thinks he
might have an outside chance. Wow. I wonder if he
(13:49):
thinks Kamala held him back anyway, just a Tesla's stock.
This is what Tim Walls was on a stage in
front of a bunch of people who like his sort
of politics and said this yesterday, let me know this
on the iPhone. They've got that little stock app I
added Tesla tude to give me a little boost during
the day.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Two twenty five and dropping so. And if you own one,
if you own one, we're not blaming you. You can
you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off,
you know, and take out of just telling you.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That is so stupid and self defeating. I'm enjoying it.
That is something, isn't it. The only electric car company
that has ever even come close to making a dent
in the idea of driving. And it's a punchline for
Democrats now of yay, it's failing and people are setting
on fire. Whoo, except it's not, by any estimates, still
(14:55):
the most valuable car company in the world as of today. Yeah,
the insanely inflated stock is now just crazy inflated. If
you dig, and we don't have time now, but if
you dig into the numbers that we were talking about earlier,
Democratic Party twenty nine percent favorable on CNN twenty seven percent,
then NBC, if you go into some of the other
(15:16):
questions they asked about our Democrats focused on helping people
like me and blah blah blah that sort of thing.
It's miserable, absolutely miserable. I feel like if you were
on strategy and you said, hey, I just like say
I love teslas. If I'm a Democrat. If I love teslas,
I love electric cars, I think we should all drive them.
I think the world would be a lot better if
(15:36):
we did. I don't like what Elon Musk is doing
with Doge. I think if you said that, I think
a lot of Democrats would react, Well, there's a normal
person with a normal reaction, right, I think you're right.
I was about to say what I'm about to say
is one of the most depressing things you'll ever hear.
But I'm going to amend it after I said, what
(15:56):
you just said is far too nuanced for American Paula.
You really think so? No, I think I just think no.
And here's the here's the the amendment. I think the
Democrats think that message is far too nuanced for American politiciss.
They have such contempt for voters, and that is that
(16:17):
is I think at the heart of their undoing. They
view themselves as so morally superior and so much smarter
than the average American. I mean, if you if you
disagree with me, please explain yourself, because I think that
is their number one sin. Be similar to standing in
front of an audience and saying, hey, I'm pro gray rights,
(16:38):
I'm glad gay marriage happened, and blah blah blah, this
and that, but we can't we can't have men in
women's sports. I think most Democrats will polling show this
would say yeah, I'm I'm with you, yeah, yeah, just
you know, superior contempt or contemptuous superiority. That is their
(17:00):
problem right now. And that's I love contemptu superiority. That's
how I go through my day. Liz, enjoy it, Liz,
I wake up, I write myself notes. Hey, remember to
be this. They really need a Bill Clinton. We got
more in the way. If you miss anything, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
First it was Elon Musk with the chainsaw. Now President
Trump taking a sledgehammer to the Apartment of Education figuratively, speaking,
of course, that executive order expected to be signed later today.
Here's Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon, no stranger to the takedown.
Earlier this month on the show on where she would
like to see some of this money go.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
There are various programs that we would look at, scholarship programs,
we could use voucher systems to go to different schools.
I think there are a lot of ways to provide
opportunities to children that are stuck in failing schools. No
child should be stuck in a failing school.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Glinda, I hope you do a great job and put
yourself out of a job. And what I want to
do is let the States run schools.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
I believe strongly in school too, But in addition to.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That, I want the States to.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Run school He's expected to sign that today and Mark
Alpern and his newsletter said that Trump people must have
internal pulling. This shows that this is very popular and
they're going to have a big signing ceremony around that
today that they think, will you know, be good and
splashy in the news, even though it's being couched in
mainstream news of course, always as a negative, like the
(18:24):
headline in the New York Times. Trump to sign order
dismantling Education Department as opposed to implication being dismantling education
of course right, as opposed to child will learn ever again?
Right like education, the public schooling is going away because
(18:44):
of this, as opposed to a headline that could say
Trump to sign order to return power to the states
over education, which is right. The goal Trump empowers local
schools over federal bureaucrats. Sure, White House officials. In the
New York Times, it says, who spoke on a condition
(19:05):
of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said
the order instructs msmicmahon to return authority over education to
the states. Oh no, the state will decide. How's anybody
afraid of that? What about Notspornia or ignorant Sylvania? Will
they educate their children? No? No, we care about our
(19:25):
children where we live, Thank you very much. Bureaucrats, We
care about them more than you do. You lie in phonies.
The movement to do away the Department of Education dates
way back, which we're going to talk more about, but
that includes key pro Trump grassroots activists expanded around opposition
to progressive agendas that promoted mandating certain education standards and
(19:47):
inclusive policies for LGBDQ students. So it's Trump coming after
the gays. Sure, Sure, it's not Trump coming after radical
Marxists who are indoctrinating your che children into perverse ideologies
while they're supposed to be learning to read, write, and
do arithmetic. That wouldn't be it at all. No, you
know a lot of the stuff even that my kids
(20:09):
are learning in school and I learned in school. At
this point in my life, I'm really wanting to boil
it down to like just the real basics of learning.
I don't know, do we need the schools to get
into what you eat? The Founding fathers didn't think the
government should be taking tax payer money to bring your
kids into a building and explain to them eat more
(20:32):
of this and less of that. I could see making
that part of a biology course, you know, human biology
that makes sense. Nutritional science is you know, fine, you
own the machine, you ought to know how to run it.
But no as a separate thing like in the the
what's the term that the progressive use, progressive views for
the holistic, educational, the whole child or I can't remember,
(20:59):
you know, exercise, sexuality, what you eat? And what is
that gottness? I see declining math and reading scores over
decades and decades, and I don't know if that's a
cause and effect. But and what's so typically governmental about
(21:22):
all this is if I was running, say, a garbage company,
a trash hauling company, and you know, I was so
pleased with myself I decided to add on. And you
know what, our trash men are, our truck drivers. They're
going to stop by the size of the rows and
roads and plant daffodils casually. Also you know, beautified parks,
and while they're at it, help old people who seem
(21:44):
to be hobbling on their driveways to pick up their
mail and have all these great rosy outreach programs, and
the trash doesn't get picked up. It's like it doesn't
get picked up at all, or it's strewn all over
the streets or whatever it's and just everybody's angry. It's
a miserable failure. And it never occurs to me. Boy,
we ought to just get back to picking up garbage.
(22:06):
That insight is just too crazy for me to come
to and makes you want to pull your hair out.
To take it further, we're more obese than we've ever been.
So do you have any evidence to show that all
this nutrition stuff in school, for instance, nutrition and exercise
(22:26):
has done any good? And you could argue that it'd
be even worse, but I don't know. You certainly can't
argue that it's helped. So maybe through the ages. So
when we were kids were old, but when we are
kids in school, they were telling us to eat stuff
that was the absolute worst stuff you should eat on earth.
So then you carry carbs and trans fats. So then
you've just got the you know, regular complaint that people
(22:48):
like us have is that federal government's off of and
wrong anyway. So I don't want them teaching my kid
what to eat right well, particularly because there's nothing more
intransigent and permanent than a Washington bureaucracy. It's not light
on its feet, it's not adaptable. It doesn't respond to
changes in knowledge or the environment, or for instance, that
the trash isn't getting picked up because the secretary of
(23:11):
planning the daffodils by the road side is so intent
on protecting their turf. To go back to my metaphor,
they won't. They can't relinquish that as part of the
you know, trash pickup experience. Likewise, the activists and all
this bull crap is part of the educational age. How
about I talk to my kids about safe sex and
(23:32):
what to eat, and the school teaches the math and reading?
Would that be a problem. So just I'm not sure.
I'm not sure you're being clear enough. You don't think
schools should be teaching my child how to please a
gay lover or a straight lover for that matter, right,
I just don't understand how that's in the Bailey wick
of well, what school should be if you're going to
(23:53):
start from scratch. So one of the very few benefits
of age is that you start to see the arc
of their eye, and as it were, you start to
see the cycles of politics and society and that sort
of thing in a way that you can't unless you've
seen a couple of the cycles, you don't recognize them
as cycles. And one of the things that have has
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occurred to me in the last couple of years is that,
as a young person in particular, you view what you
see as inevitable. It has always been here and always
will be here. It's my entire experience, and it's really
liberating in a way to learn how stuff started and
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what it was supposed to do, and then see examples
of things that ended and how the world went on.
And it was fine even if it was a little
rocky for a while, it ended up being fine. For instance,
the Department of Education did not exist until eighteen forty one, No,
nineteen seventy nine. For goodness sakes, the rolling stones were
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old banned when the Department of Education started. Congress narrowly
approved creating the Department of Education out of the already
existing Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. But truly, in
the whole country, who's over the age of I don't
know what it would be exactly, but fifty five roughly,
(25:26):
that'd be everybody running everything, every corporation in all of
government was educated prior to the Department of Education. And
that's damn close to true. Yeah, we're not all stumbling
around illiterate, et cry for yourself. But the newly created
federal bureaucracy was more of a favor. I'm quoting now
from Reason dot com, which does great stuff even when
(25:46):
I don't agree with them. They're very smart. It was
more of a favor to a large and powerful special
interest group on behalf of a beleaguered president than a
necessary reorganization to allow the federal government to quote meet
its responsibilities in education more effectively, more efficiently and more responsibly.
As then President Carter put it, it was a giant
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sop to the powerful lefty teachers unions, thanks Jimmy, because
he was losing to Ronald Reagan, and they swore if
he created a federal Department of Education, which would send
the delicious federal funding and have an ear always open
to the teachers' unions, that then they would, in a
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way they hadn't in the past, they would endorse Jimmy Carter.
That was it. Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know that.
Uh yeah, yeah, he had promised in nineteen seventy six.
So it wasn't even as do goodery as I thought
it was. No, it was more transactional than I even thought. Well,
and I got one date semi wrong. He promised it
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in nineteen seventy six when he got the endorsement of
the National Education Association the evil and EA to become
evil certainly, and that he knew he had to pay
it off. And so by nineteen seventy nine, when the
heat was on, he actually got Congress to barely barely
approve it. And interestingly, Jimmy Carter is quoted at the
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time and I don't have it in front of me.
But it's easy enough to paraphrase as saying, hey, look
we needed this for the NEA support. It's not going
to work the way they think it is. Oh wow.
So yeah, he was skeptic. He understood that this was
not a good idea, but he had to politically. So
another thing I don't think enough people understand or admit.
(27:34):
So I was watching some MSNBC this morning and they
were talking about how this isn't really gonna do anything anyway.
The Department of Education is so small. They don't as
a lot of right wingers claim mandates, what states do.
States still get to make their own decisions. I know
how this works. Though you all know how this works.
They will yank your funding. If you don't, you can
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do whatever you want, but if you want this funding,
you need to do this. That's the way the federal
government strong arms all kinds of things, speed limit, helmet laws.
They've done lots of different things like that. No, no, no, no,
you can make your own decision, but if you want
the big federal funding, you better go along with our idea.
And then which happens to be gay porn in fist
Grader's libraries these days, right. One more bit of historical perspective.
(28:21):
According to Representative Benjamin Rosenthal, who's a Democrat from New
York at the time, Congress went along with the plan
out of quote not wanting to embarrass the president, and
the Wall Street Journal at the time reported the admission
of one House Democrat who said, quote, the idea of
an education department is really a bad one, but it's
Anya's top priority. There are school teachers in every congressional district,
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and most of us simply don't need the aggravation of
taking them on. There has been no more powerful and
awful perverting force of American education than teachers' unions. Oh absolutely,
And I understand and the idea of it and the
desire for it or need for it from the perspective
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of a good, solid American school teacher, I'm not unsympathetic
to the idea of you know, it'd be crazy easy
to hire and fire people because there are a lot
of people who used to want to become teachers blah
blah blah. But in their current incarnation, maybe at the
time they were built, they were built for good, honest reasons.
They have become evil, clearly demonstrated through COVID. Yeah, oh yeah,
(29:33):
the most horrifying chapter. They're evil. Yes, I'm interested to
see how the reaction is today. And Trump has his
big announcement and might lead the evening news tonight how
it's proposing to have one lefty news anchor quote those
Democratic Congress people. This is not a good idea, but
we don't want to embarrass the president. And he didn't
say in an election year, but that's what he meant.
(29:56):
So Trump talked about something awfully interesting with Zelensky yesterday
around the whole Ukraine Russia thing that I don't feel
likes getting enough attention to. All all the things we
can talk about stick around. Meanwhile, so that.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yale made the tournament this year and they're a thirteen
seed and they play at number four.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Texas A and M. Yeah, it's a pretty lopsided matchup.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
And you can tell how Yale's fans are feeling just
based on the signs that they made for the game.
I'll just checked these out first. There's ahem, don't you
know who our fathers are? Up next, there's a do
you want to take this outside?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Where my driver will fight you for me?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Up next, there's why don't we settle this like real
men with a sailboat race? Then there's does the concession stand?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Carrie foi gras perchance?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Finally, please show me on TV so everybody knows I.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Went to Yale. You know what's interesting about that is
that the jokes are all centered on the idea that
your audience believes most people at a college like Yale
are rich. Why would the best institutions be rich kids primarily?
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And when we're getting lectured from these people about inequality
and all these different awful things that are happening in
the world, but your colleges only let in the richest kids.
And as an alleged humorist, to your point, he didn't
even have to drop a hint as to the premise
of miss joke. No, because we all just assume that
because it's true, because it's true. I said this the
(31:33):
other day, and I've always thought this was really interesting.
Larry Summers, who's a Democrat, and he was the president
at Harvard for a while, and they had all of
these programs for years about diversity and this and that
and trying to get, you know, do away with inequality.
And he said he was sitting in his office one
time looking out the window, and he thought, why am
I seeing pretty much only rich white kids, even after
(31:56):
all that we've done. Is he not to have like
a phone line to his I don't know what you'd
call it. Into college's money people, Miss President, this is
a little uncomfortable. Now. If you write a big check,
we let you in. But so they claim all these
various things, but they are enough ways to get around it.
Apparently that you still end up with mostly rich white kids. Yeah. Interesting,
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How about smart kids? How about the smartest kids? How
about you try that. I want the smartest kids of
the best colleges, period. That's what I merit. Merit all
day long. Attack the problems at the elementary education level.
Oh but Democrats are not in favor of the speaking
of education almost speaking of that. An attack on homeschooling
next hour. It's disgusting doing away at the education department.
(32:44):
Somebody texted this and I was going to bring it up.
Somebody said this. We developed the a bomb, put a
man on the moon, invented computer all without pre K,
free babysitting in votes an example of useless education. Yes
there are. The pre K movement is a perfect example
of what freaking is wrong with the whole education system.
We're adding another grade that there are no studies that
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say there are any benefit. But it's another grade of
tax money, federal funding, adding employees, maybe some more propaganda
to your kids for yet another year free babysitting. Is
this person's aid it no educational value. In fact, it's
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detrimental according to the most responsible. See it hurts my heart.
My local school where my kids went to they built
a new building, and I thought, what was that going
to be? It's a pre k Oh my god. It
makes my heart hurt that they're going to convince so
many people that this is the best thing for their
kid to not be at home with mom and dad
or whoever and playing and having a good time. You're
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going to be at another government school building for another
year for no freaking reason. I know it sounds paranoid,
but trust me when I say, I'm one of the
most reasonable people you'll ever meet in college University of
Illinois prominent professor and I quote the nuclear family is
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an organ of oppression. The government should be raising children
didn't occur to me at that moment, because I didn't
have the background to understand that that was an avowed
Marxist expressing what Marxism expresses. As I often say, these
people wrote books, their names are on the spine. They
say precisely what they believe in, what they would like
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to do, and having the state educate your child is
one of the bedrock tenets of Marxism. Fight it, friends,
it's so much more insidious than it seems. Not too
late overall, but it's too late on the pre k
thing man. That train has left the station, which again
makes actually makes my heart hurt. I feel so bad
for those kids. Speaking of emails, David points out something
(34:52):
I meant to point out that when Tim Walls was
chortling about Tesla stock being down and how much he
loved it, that the State of Minnesota retirement funds had
one point six million shares of Testla in it interesting.
But he's a jackass and a moron. He's a jack
more more ass or some jack most of their ass, okay,
(35:15):
the united most of their ass, which like the right cheek,
you're an idiot. Armstrong and getty
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