# The A&G Replay Friday Hour One

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 23 Oct 2026, 36 min.

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The A&G Replay Hour One for Friday, October 23, 2026 contains: • Biggest Unanswered Questions at Work • NFL Celebrations & muting during zoom meetings • NYC horse ban, CA report cared & thumbs down emoji • The world of drugs & a midterm poll/ being a better mom Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:09] Speaker 1: And now, broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio
[0:13] Speaker 1: at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
[0:18] Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. And now.
[0:24] Speaker 3: Not live from studio c we're armstrong and getty joe
[0:31] Speaker 3: didn't even show up to record this for the armstrong
[0:34] Speaker 3: and getty replay i'm doing.
[0:36] Speaker 2: This by myself that's how half aid we're going about
[0:39] Speaker 2: this right now you know what we're doing we're taking
[0:41] Speaker 2: a day off to really get ourselves girded up for
[0:44] Speaker 2: the midterms we got one week of shows that are
[0:46] Speaker 2: going to be crazy with all kinds of October surprises
[0:49] Speaker 2: and polling and all that sort of stuff. And then
[0:51] Speaker 2: a bunch of other stuff, too. Obviously not all politics
[0:54] Speaker 2: all next week. But this is going to be a
[0:55] Speaker 2: good show today. We got some of the best stuff
[0:57] Speaker 2: of the last couple of weeks and some probably one
[0:59] Speaker 2: more thing podcast stuff that you might not have ever heard.
[1:03] Speaker 2: So I hope you can stay tuned to the Armstrong
[1:04] Speaker 2: and Getty replay. This story, though, did you hear? Did you?
[1:07] Speaker 4: I think we talked about this a month ago. Open
[1:09] Speaker 4: AI announced that one of its most powerful models. had
[1:13] Speaker 4: cracked a notoriously difficult millennial prize problem, one of the
[1:18] Speaker 4: incredibly complicated vexing math conundra that exists in the world.
[1:23] Speaker 4: I don't know from advanced math, so I scratch my head.
[1:26] Speaker 4: It's your Goodwill hunting style question. I don't get the
[1:30] Speaker 4: whole math problems that have been around for centuries. Nobody
[1:33] Speaker 4: could solve them.
[1:34] Speaker 2: Bang. I've never quite understood what that was all about. But, yeah,
[1:37] Speaker 2: AI cracked it.
[1:39] Speaker 4: So, yeah, a big deal was made of that, and
[1:43] Speaker 4: people freaked out in various ways or were angry or afraid. Anyway,
[1:49] Speaker 4: so on Tuesday night, OpenAI dumped– well, they said essentially, yeah,
[1:54] Speaker 4: guess what? We solved like 200 more of these. They
[1:58] Speaker 4: dumped proofs online.
[2:00] Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I jumped ahead. Yeah.
[2:04] Speaker 4: The backlash from the math world coincided with a global
[2:07] Speaker 4: reckoning about technology.
[2:09] Speaker 2: The guy quit.
[2:10] Speaker 4: Everybody's talking about that for a cup of coffee. Meanwhile,
[2:13] Speaker 4: mathematicians were dealing with existential questions of their own as
[2:16] Speaker 4: they publicly debated the future of their ancient field. OpenAI's
[2:19] Speaker 4: model kept churning out proofs behind closed doors. left the
[2:24] Speaker 4: company with a problem a bunch of humans would have
[2:25] Speaker 4: to solve. What to do with all that AI-generated math?
[2:28] Speaker 4: They solved like hundreds of these problems. Well, that makes sense.
[2:31] Speaker 4: I can understand why you'd get a little concerned as
[2:33] Speaker 4: a mathematician. It's hard to imagine why any mathematician could
[2:39] Speaker 4: ever make a dollar in the future.
[2:43] Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine the scenario.
[2:46] Speaker 4: So among the major findings, and this might mean something
[2:49] Speaker 4: to you, it doesn't really to me, but reported by OpenAI,
[2:52] Speaker 4: advances related to three of the five remaining Millennium Prize problems,
[2:56] Speaker 4: including the Ryman hypothesis, which I believe is it takes
[3:01] Speaker 4: one to know one. They've proved that through algorithms. Anyway,
[3:08] Speaker 4: so AI is now freaking out the world of math.
[3:11] Speaker 4: Speaking of science and inquiries, I thought this was just
[3:13] Speaker 4: such a good idea, such a good premise. And the
[3:15] Speaker 4: New York Times, which just annoys the crap out of
[3:17] Speaker 4: me so often. They are so biased, so blind to
[3:20] Speaker 4: their own biases. They're so ideological in so many ways.
[3:24] Speaker 4: But they have the budget to do like cool, real
[3:27] Speaker 4: journalism stuff that all the big papers used to be
[3:30] Speaker 4: able to do, mostly.
[3:31] Speaker 2: Because people love the wordle.
[3:32] Speaker 4: Anyway, they sponsored and had a reporter reach out to
[3:40] Speaker 4: experts in all sorts of scientific fields, mostly science, and
[3:46] Speaker 4: ask the question, What is the greatest unsolved problem in
[3:52] Speaker 4: your field? What do you think about or would love
[3:56] Speaker 4: to be able to find the answer for?
[3:58] Speaker 2: Getting your wife to have sex with you.
[4:00] Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
[4:00] Speaker 2: That's not the biggest unsolved problem. It's certainly one of them.
[4:04] Speaker 2: Let's see.
[4:05] Speaker 4: So he posted a query. What is the biggest unsolved problem?
[4:08] Speaker 4: question in your field and responses poured in from biochemists
[4:11] Speaker 4: quantum physicists archaeologists oceanographers nobel prize winning biologists geoscientists entomologists
[4:18] Speaker 4: you name it and i.
[4:21] Speaker 2: Can think of one for our career but i don't
[4:22] Speaker 2: want to say it out loud.
[4:24] Speaker 5: Oh boy oh maybe off the air yeah oh oh
[4:29] Speaker 5: lore our industry how is blank still on the air
[4:32] Speaker 5: would be oh golly gee that's a.
[4:36] Speaker 4: Good one So 100 scientists, 100 questions. I'll throw some
[4:41] Speaker 4: at you, and we'll go as far as we want
[4:43] Speaker 4: to go. Here's a theoretical physicist for the Institute for
[4:48] Speaker 4: Advanced Study who says the question is, did time have
[4:51] Speaker 4: a beginning when our universe was very small?
[4:55] Speaker 2: AI can't answer that. Oh, this has nothing to do
[4:59] Speaker 2: with AI.
[5:00] Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
[5:01] Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm sorry.
[5:02] Speaker 4: That's a silly thing to say. It may well have
[5:06] Speaker 4: a great deal to do with AI, but that's not
[5:08] Speaker 4: the premise.
[5:08] Speaker 2: Right. And I should have made the transition a bit
[5:11] Speaker 2: more clear. And AI solved that math problem nobody could solve. Right.
[5:15] Speaker 2: Can they solve all these big problems?
[5:17] Speaker 1: Right.
[5:18] Speaker 4: It had nothing to do with the premise, but certainly
[5:20] Speaker 4: it will have something to do with some of these solutions,
[5:21] Speaker 4: I'll bet. In a similar vein, this fellow from Johns
[5:24] Speaker 4: Hopkins who's a natural physicist said, what preceded the Big Bang?
[5:28] Speaker 2: Yeah, I brought this up the other day because I
[5:30] Speaker 2: was reading about it and it makes my brain hurt,
[5:32] Speaker 2: like gives it and puts a cramp in my brain.
[5:35] Speaker 2: The Big Bang Theory, which is, I read about this
[5:37] Speaker 2: deep dive on this a couple weeks ago, but it's
[5:39] Speaker 2: not been around that long, the Big Bang Theory. It
[5:42] Speaker 2: only got, like, agreed upon, like, everybody agrees that that's
[5:46] Speaker 2: what happened in, like, the 60s. It's not like a
[5:48] Speaker 2: 60-year-old agreed-upon theory. But what before that? Yeah. And then
[5:55] Speaker 2: as the universe is growing, at the outer edge, what's
[5:58] Speaker 2: on the outside of that edge? Yeah. right. Something? Nothing?
[6:03] Speaker 2: Space is nothing. Space is nothing. Space suburbs? Yeah, Costco?
[6:09] Speaker 2: What is out there?
[6:11] Speaker 4: So, yeah, that reminds me, it was accepted, the Big Bang,
[6:14] Speaker 4: beware the consensus trap. We may get to this today,
[6:17] Speaker 4: maybe tomorrow, but eventually. It's a really interesting thought about how,
[6:21] Speaker 4: and we learn nothing from history, but maybe we, you
[6:24] Speaker 4: good people and we, will learn something from history, and
[6:27] Speaker 4: so we'll be able to shout angrily at the idiots
[6:29] Speaker 4: who don't. But the idea of, well, science agrees on this,
[6:32] Speaker 4: so you can't question it anymore. In fact, if you do,
[6:34] Speaker 4: you're a bad person.
[6:35] Speaker 2: We can all think of examples of that recently.
[6:37] Speaker 4: Moving along, here's one that keeps me up at night.
[6:39] Speaker 4: Here's an astrophysicist from UCLA. How many dimensions does it
[6:43] Speaker 4: take to describe the formation and evolution of our universe?
[6:50] Speaker 2: All right. Is this just to make me feel dumb?
[6:53] Speaker 2: You wanted to make me feel dumb today. Okay, that's fine. Yes, yes, yes.
[6:57] Speaker 4: Speaking of the human brain, when and where did the
[7:01] Speaker 4: cognitive capacities that made language, mathematics, and complex societies.
[7:05] Speaker 2: Possible first emerge? Yeah, I love that one. Oh, yeah,
[7:10] Speaker 2: me too. Me too.
[7:12] Speaker 4: With all due respect and affection for our fundamentalist religious listeners,
[7:18] Speaker 4: I believe the story of the creation is metaphoric and
[7:21] Speaker 4: human beings developed over a great deal of time.
[7:23] Speaker 2: Right. Getting back to the Big Bang, one of the
[7:25] Speaker 2: pushbacks from the Big Bang is that a lot of
[7:27] Speaker 2: people were too uncomfortable with it. Fits pretty well into,
[7:31] Speaker 2: in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
[7:33] Speaker 2: Fits in with the Big Bang pretty well. Right, right.
[7:36] Speaker 2: And I've always been amazed. Since I was a teenager,
[7:39] Speaker 2: I was amazed at people.
[7:41] Speaker 4: who either never considered or rejected the idea, well, yeah,
[7:45] Speaker 4: God created the universe.
[7:47] Speaker 2: If you believe that or if you don't, I don't
[7:49] Speaker 2: really care. That's up to you and God, if there
[7:51] Speaker 2: is one. But the idea that— You'll be damned to
[7:55] Speaker 2: hell as an unbeliever, but, you know, you live your
[7:57] Speaker 2: life the way you want. More of the same.
[8:00] Speaker 4: The idea that, yeah, God created the earth, and this
[8:03] Speaker 4: is the process he used— That never seemed in opposition
[8:08] Speaker 4: to me.
[8:09] Speaker 2: Me neither. It bothers me not. I'm a big Bible guy,
[8:12] Speaker 2: and the fact that we know there were dinosaurs does
[8:15] Speaker 2: not bother me in the least.
[8:17] Speaker 4: Biologist at the University of Maryland. Why and how did
[8:20] Speaker 4: the human brain expand so quickly during the Ice Age?
[8:25] Speaker 2: My son would really be into this stuff. Here's a
[8:28] Speaker 2: molecular biologist. Here's the question that he, that is the
[8:32] Speaker 2: biggest question he has. What is curiosity? Whoa. Is he
[8:37] Speaker 2: trying to be ironic? Could be a joke.
[8:43] Speaker 4: You need more knowledge to stay alive. In general, knowing
[8:46] Speaker 4: that fire is hot and alligators will bite you is good,
[8:49] Speaker 4: so you want.
[8:49] Speaker 2: As much knowledge as you can get. That one's easy
[8:51] Speaker 2: to answer. The incurious end up dying very quickly, and
[8:55] Speaker 2: the curious procreate. Good news, Victor Ambrose of UMass Chan
[9:00] Speaker 2: Medical School. We've solved that one. A couple of disc
[9:02] Speaker 2: jockeys figured it out for you. Never call me that again.
[9:05] Speaker 2: That's horrible. I know, Michael. I'll hit the delay. Oh,
[9:10] Speaker 2: my God.
[9:12] Speaker 4: If I wasn't a doughy white suburbanite, I'd say drop
[9:14] Speaker 4: an ethnic slur on me before you call me the
[9:17] Speaker 4: D word. Okay, here's a geoarchaeologist at Texas A &
[9:24] Speaker 4: M who wants to know, how did the first indigenous
[9:26] Speaker 4: people enter the Americas? That's a fine question. Similarly, Adam Brom,
[9:32] Speaker 4: who's with Griffith University in Australia.
[9:34] Speaker 2: I thought they knew that. Wasn't the land bridge over
[9:36] Speaker 2: when Russia and the United States were connected? Maybe. Worked
[9:42] Speaker 2: their way down?
[9:43] Speaker 4: You should call him and tell him a million years ago.
[9:46] Speaker 4: How did earlier human species colonize remote and previously uninhabited
[9:51] Speaker 4: islands in South Asia?
[9:52] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[9:53] Speaker 2: Southeast Asia.
[9:55] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[9:56] Speaker 2: Why? and how? Well, maybe this is going to come up.
[10:00] Speaker 2: I think it's amazing. Hey, you want to go over there? Yeah,
[10:02] Speaker 2: all right. I think it's amazing we have no idea
[10:06] Speaker 2: why life started. No idea. It just did. Yeah, yeah.
[10:11] Speaker 2: And does it start anywhere else for any reason? Well,
[10:14] Speaker 2: we don't know why it started here, so how would
[10:15] Speaker 2: we know if it could start anywhere else? And as
[10:17] Speaker 2: a simpleton, a lot of that astrophysics stuff, I can't comprehend.
[10:20] Speaker 2: We're about to get into the section of the list
[10:22] Speaker 2: that I really enjoyed. Oh, you saved back the part
[10:24] Speaker 2: you're going to enjoy. Well, I'm kind of going in order,
[10:28] Speaker 2: but I'm just, no, just coincidentally. Oh, okay. You disc jockey.
[10:33] Speaker 2: Just coincidentally. That's too much. Two wrongs don't make a right.
[10:38] Speaker 2: You know what? I've learned a lesson here, Michael. Thank you.
[10:42] Speaker 4: We're going to get to my favorite part of the list.
[10:44] Speaker 4: Moving on with the list. Here's a cognitive scientist in Paris.
[10:48] Speaker 4: Why does full writing, complete sentences that can make sense
[10:52] Speaker 4: to readers out of context, appear so late in human history?
[10:58] Speaker 2: Love that one. Love that one. This one, I don't get.
[11:02] Speaker 2: What is the form of human thought?
[11:05] Speaker 4: Words?
[11:06] Speaker 2: Pictures? Something more abstract? It blows my mind. When I
[11:13] Speaker 2: think something, when I thought of that sentence, we know
[11:19] Speaker 2: so little about how that all works. God, you'd think
[11:22] Speaker 2: if we knew something, it'd be that.
[11:23] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[11:25] Speaker 2: Okay.
[11:26] Speaker 4: Given how much, here's a neurobiologist, given how much AI
[11:29] Speaker 4: is accomplishing with relatively simple neural networks, why is the
[11:33] Speaker 4: human brain so complex?
[11:37] Speaker 2: Wow, I wish I knew that. You know, I would
[11:39] Speaker 2: like to live forever, not just because I fear death,
[11:41] Speaker 2: but There are so many fields I would like to pursue.
[11:44] Speaker 2: That question fascinates me. I know. I was going to
[11:46] Speaker 2: be a neurobiologist until I decided to be a DJ. Oh, Lord.
[11:51] Speaker 4: How does the human brain construct meaning from language when
[11:54] Speaker 4: so much of what we understand is not expressed in
[11:56] Speaker 4: the words themselves? Psychologist at Alabama.
[12:01] Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
[12:02] Speaker 4: Here's a cognitive scientist in the dog cognition lab at
[12:06] Speaker 4: Barnard College.
[12:07] Speaker 1: Woof.
[12:08] Speaker 2: Alexandra Horowitz. Who knows what you just said? It might
[12:11] Speaker 2: have been offensive.
[12:13] Speaker 4: She wants to know what kind of information about people, places,
[12:17] Speaker 4: and other dogs can dogs acquire through smell?
[12:22] Speaker 2: My dog, Baxter, God rest his doggy soul.
[12:25] Speaker 4: At one point, my friend Greg, the professional dog trainer, said,
[12:28] Speaker 4: you really ought to get into the dog sniffing trial
[12:32] Speaker 4: things because he's so scent intense and so good at
[12:37] Speaker 4: finding things.
[12:38] Speaker 2: And that's a hobby, I guess, people have. The amateur drug.
[12:41] Speaker 4: Dog trials where you as the handler and your dog
[12:44] Speaker 4: try to win these contests.
[12:45] Speaker 2: And I just didn't have the time. Sniffing out hippies.
[12:49] Speaker 4: So I would, sure, and give him the what for her.
[12:53] Speaker 4: But I would watch him sniff and sniff and sniff
[12:55] Speaker 4: and sniff and wonder, what information are you getting? Because
[13:00] Speaker 4: he would sniff for a freaking hour if I let it.
[13:04] Speaker 2: Dude, I got to go to work, I would say.
[13:06] Speaker 4: Here's an engineering biologist in the Netherlands. How do birds
[13:12] Speaker 4: migrate with such energy efficiency? There's another bird guy at Minnesota.
[13:18] Speaker 4: Why did birds survive the Cretaceous mass extinction while other
[13:22] Speaker 4: dinosaurs went extinct?
[13:25] Speaker 2: They're up in the air? Pardon me? They're up in
[13:27] Speaker 2: the air? That's a great theory. Here's a paleontologist at Maryland.
[13:33] Speaker 4: Were the first dinosaurs warm-blooded, or did different groups evolve
[13:38] Speaker 4: it as separate evolutionary events? And here's a guy who
[13:43] Speaker 4: wants to know, and this is a good question. If
[13:45] Speaker 4: you know any vegans... Because they are universally pale, weedy,
[13:50] Speaker 4: can't lift 50 pounds over their heads. I mean, they're just,
[13:53] Speaker 4: they're terrible. How did some herbivorous dinosaurs grow to 100
[13:58] Speaker 4: feet long or more on an all-plant diet? How'd they
[14:02] Speaker 4: grow bones that were strong enough to support their massive frames?
[14:06] Speaker 2: Good question. They're vegetarians. They should have been weedy.
[14:09] Speaker 4: We just got to 17 of 100.
[14:12] Speaker 2: Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10 and
[14:13] Speaker 2: buns in packs of 8? Nobody knows. Lord knows.
[14:29] Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
[14:32] Speaker 7: Traditional sports betting is nothing new, but now football fans
[14:36] Speaker 7: are increasingly turning to a different way of cashing in.
[14:39] Speaker 2: Prediction markets surging in popularity.
[14:42] Speaker 7: One analysis showing NFL trading volume on prediction markets could
[14:46] Speaker 7: more than double this season, potentially topping $ 36 billion.
[14:49] Speaker 6: Wow.
[14:52] Speaker 2: In addition to all the regular betting. That's something. So,
[14:55] Speaker 2: you know, one of the things the NFL has going
[14:58] Speaker 2: for it as the most popular television show in America
[15:00] Speaker 2: is the season is short enough that the games matter.
[15:05] Speaker 2: I mean, people get it. I get excited about opening
[15:07] Speaker 2: day for Major League Baseball and like, you know, NBA
[15:14] Speaker 2: season starts. I look at the predictions, but it's 82
[15:16] Speaker 2: to games long. You don't need to pay attention for
[15:18] Speaker 2: a long time as an individual baseball game is meaningless.
[15:24] Speaker 2: Football games are not. They mean especially your division games.
[15:29] Speaker 2: My brother, I said I'm envious of my brother. He's
[15:31] Speaker 2: going to be at Arrowhead Stadium tonight with his girlfriend. Chiefs, Broncos.
[15:36] Speaker 2: Broncos were the number one seed in the AFC last year.
[15:39] Speaker 2: And that's what the NFL does good. It's making exciting
[15:41] Speaker 2: games early. Opening game for both of those teams. Mahomes
[15:46] Speaker 2: is back. First game back after getting hurt.
[15:49] Speaker 6: And.
[15:50] Speaker 2: They were the team to beat for the previous five years.
[15:54] Speaker 2: I mean, that's a heck of a fun game to
[15:56] Speaker 2: be at. So I'll be watching that tonight. My brother
[15:59] Speaker 2: has got really good seats. That'd be fun. I'm headed
[16:04] Speaker 2: to jury duty here in a little bit, and I'll
[16:07] Speaker 2: find out if I get put on the trial or not.
[16:11] Speaker 2: There's going to seat three juries. We got three four-day
[16:16] Speaker 2: trials that they're trying to come up with juries for,
[16:18] Speaker 2: and we're all showing up there. Today to see if
[16:21] Speaker 2: we make the cut, and I have no idea. I've
[16:23] Speaker 2: never made the cut before. So we're talking about, let's see,
[16:26] Speaker 2: 36 plus alternates.
[16:28] Speaker 4: We'll say, for the sake of the argument, 40, 45 people.
[16:32] Speaker 4: What's the pool? How big is the pool?
[16:34] Speaker 2: I don't know. In the room there were... 40 of
[16:39] Speaker 2: us online. I couldn't really tell looking up at the screen.
[16:42] Speaker 2: I told that story last week about how hilarious people
[16:46] Speaker 2: just can't handle the mute situation on Zoom calls. They
[16:49] Speaker 2: just can't. And there were dozens and dozens of people, right?
[16:53] Speaker 2: It was.
[16:53] Speaker 7: Yeah.
[16:54] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[16:54] Speaker 2: And and the the the guy with the cop uniform,
[16:58] Speaker 2: whatever he is. And then you had another lady make
[17:00] Speaker 2: an announcement and the judge himself. OK, I'm going to
[17:02] Speaker 2: unmute this. Everybody mute their screen because I'm going to,
[17:06] Speaker 2: I've got you all muted now, but I'm going to
[17:08] Speaker 2: unmute it. And the second he unmuted, it was just
[17:11] Speaker 2: nonstop noise. I mean, it was hilarious. It was like
[17:13] Speaker 2: a comedy bit of kids crying and horns and music
[17:17] Speaker 2: and people talking and dogs barking and traffic. Mute! How
[17:24] Speaker 2: do you not understand this? Those people are going to
[17:29] Speaker 2: judge somebody's guilt or innocence. Right.
[17:33] Speaker 3: Getty.
[17:40] Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
[17:42] Speaker 6: I think that we have a civic responsibility to ensure
[17:45] Speaker 6: that we are not leaving anybody out to dry. Over
[17:48] Speaker 6: the course of this entire conversation, I have always spoken
[17:51] Speaker 6: about the importance of taking care of the workers.
[17:53] Speaker 2: In this industry.
[17:54] Speaker 6: When it comes to the horses, I don't think the
[17:56] Speaker 6: vision is that the horses would then continue to perform
[17:59] Speaker 6: this kind of work elsewhere. There have been a lot
[18:02] Speaker 6: of different proposals that have been forwarded, whether it's sanctuary,
[18:06] Speaker 6: Whether it's then being taken in by farms, things of
[18:08] Speaker 6: that nature.
[18:08] Speaker 2: That's everything we're going to be investigating. Zoran Mondami, part
[18:12] Speaker 2: of his announcement that they're getting rid of the New
[18:14] Speaker 2: York City horse carriages like Kramer did in the Seinfeld episode.
[18:18] Speaker 2: Here's a taste of old New York. I never did that.
[18:21] Speaker 2: I've always wanted to do it. I always thought not
[18:22] Speaker 2: this time, next time. And I never did. Now they're
[18:24] Speaker 2: going to take it away. Why are they taking away
[18:26] Speaker 2: my horse carriages? Because it's mean to the horses or something?
[18:29] Speaker 2: Why is it mean to the horses? Horses are pulling
[18:32] Speaker 2: things around the country forever and will forever, probably.
[18:35] Speaker 4: It's been an animal rights thing from dirt. It's hot
[18:39] Speaker 4: and they don't get enough rest or water and they
[18:41] Speaker 4: miss the farm or something.
[18:42] Speaker 2: Well, if you're not giving them water, then you're treating
[18:45] Speaker 2: them poorly. Well, and they'll die. Horses pull all kinds
[18:50] Speaker 2: of things all over the country.
[18:52] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[18:53] Speaker 2: Parades and farm machinery and all kinds of things.
[18:57] Speaker 4: I just think, and you can speak to this better
[18:59] Speaker 4: than I can, it's just city people relating to beasts
[19:02] Speaker 4: of burden like they relate to their well-groomed wackadoodle, or
[19:09] Speaker 4: whatever the hot dog breed is, their King Charles French
[19:12] Speaker 4: Bulldog Terrier Doodle.
[19:14] Speaker 2: Well, I always thought that was a pretty charming part
[19:16] Speaker 2: of the whole Central Park scene. Sometimes they whip them, too,
[19:21] Speaker 2: I guess. Well, then don't do that! Yeah, I know,
[19:24] Speaker 2: it's all stupid. But they're going away. I'm pro-horse, by
[19:28] Speaker 2: the way. Yes, Katie? There's another part of this that
[19:31] Speaker 2: an 18-year-old died in June after one of these things.
[19:34] Speaker 2: Something spooked the horse, and the carriage took off, and
[19:37] Speaker 2: he fell, and he died.
[19:38] Speaker 4: In the time it took you to say that, 20
[19:40] Speaker 4: 18-year-olds have died of drug overdoses in America.
[19:44] Speaker 2: Or anything else. Or anything else. Yeah, playing softball. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
[19:52] Speaker 2: that was that's an excuse. Anyway, I don't want to
[19:54] Speaker 2: talk about this.
[19:54] Speaker 4: This is a story coming up of no significance to anybody,
[19:58] Speaker 4: including the horses, because they're too stupid to know what's
[20:00] Speaker 4: going on.
[20:01] Speaker 2: If you have ADHD or have a family member with it,
[20:04] Speaker 2: there's some new science around it. We might have been
[20:06] Speaker 2: looking at it wrong. I definitely was into this story
[20:09] Speaker 2: because it's in my life. I think you should stay tuned.
[20:13] Speaker 2: It's interesting. Now, speaking of that, I don't know if
[20:15] Speaker 2: it has anything to do with the school situation. I
[20:18] Speaker 2: don't think it does. It's our teaching. The California report
[20:22] Speaker 2: card just came out, the latest. And most California kids
[20:27] Speaker 2: still can't read or do math. The majority can't. Majority
[20:31] Speaker 2: of California students still can't read at grade level and
[20:36] Speaker 2: they do not shoot for the stars when they when
[20:41] Speaker 2: they do the pass fail on this. It's like minimal
[20:45] Speaker 2: to to reach grade level. And you still can't get
[20:48] Speaker 2: a majority for that. And it's not even close for English.
[20:51] Speaker 2: It's close for I mean, it's close for English. It's
[20:54] Speaker 2: not even close for math. Thirty eight percent reaching proficiency
[20:58] Speaker 2: in math in California public schools currently. You know what
[21:01] Speaker 2: it is? It's because we don't spend enough money on schools.
[21:04] Speaker 2: Ha ha ha.
[21:05] Speaker 4: I wonder what percentage of those kids could explain to
[21:07] Speaker 4: you that, you know, if you don't feel like a
[21:09] Speaker 4: boy inside, you can become a girl or. what settler
[21:13] Speaker 4: colonialism is or what have you they're teaching marxism in
[21:16] Speaker 4: schools that's why there's no time for the reading and
[21:18] Speaker 4: writing uh so speaking of school districts i almost aborted
[21:21] Speaker 4: this story from our good folks at reason.com i almost
[21:24] Speaker 4: bailed from it thinking this is such a minor incident
[21:27] Speaker 4: what the hell do i care uh kearney missouri school
[21:31] Speaker 4: district it's a suburb of kansas city up north They
[21:36] Speaker 4: hired a new principal to run one of the elementary schools.
[21:39] Speaker 4: And one of the parents who's dealt with this, I
[21:42] Speaker 4: suspect very strongly, fairly woke former director of curriculum and
[21:48] Speaker 4: instruction posted a thumbs down on the school district's Facebook page.
[21:54] Speaker 4: It might have been a thumbs down. It might have
[21:56] Speaker 4: been a sad face emoji. Nobody's sure.
[21:59] Speaker 1: What?
[22:00] Speaker 2: Because the school district took it down. What color thumb
[22:03] Speaker 2: was it? It's important to me also. Was it white, brown,
[22:06] Speaker 2: dark brown, light brown, yellow?
[22:08] Speaker 4: Lost to the dustbin of history, I'm afraid. So anyway,
[22:12] Speaker 4: Simpsons yellow, or did you go with your accurate flesh tone?
[22:16] Speaker 2: I don't send emojis as an adult, as you know.
[22:19] Speaker 4: Whether it was a sad face emoji or a thumbs down, regardless,
[22:23] Speaker 4: the school's director of communications took it down and banned
[22:27] Speaker 4: the parent from the Facebook page. Oblivious to the First
[22:32] Speaker 4: Amendment implication of that decision.
[22:35] Speaker 2: Wow. Or even without the First Amendment thing. So you're
[22:38] Speaker 2: running a Facebook page about the school and you don't
[22:42] Speaker 2: want anybody to ever criticize anything. Okay. Well, that's interesting.
[22:47] Speaker 4: We've got to get by something. We've got to get
[22:49] Speaker 4: past something here to continue the discussion, and that is
[22:52] Speaker 4: the fact that the senior counsel at the Liberty Justice
[22:55] Speaker 4: Center's Parents Initiative, which I am squarely in favor of,
[23:00] Speaker 4: virtually all the work they do, very good organization, the
[23:03] Speaker 4: chief counsel's name is Timothy Snowball.
[23:07] Speaker 2: You got to change your name. You can't go through life.
[23:10] Speaker 2: You can't let your kids go to school named Snowball.
[23:13] Speaker 4: Are you a character in a beloved Christmas cartoon?
[23:17] Speaker 2: Are you a cat? Are you a Dickens character where
[23:20] Speaker 2: he comes up with names and explain who the character is?
[23:24] Speaker 2: You can't let your kid go to school named Snowball
[23:27] Speaker 2: in a part of the country where it snows. He's
[23:28] Speaker 2: going to be taking snowballs to the back of the
[23:30] Speaker 2: head his whole life. Oh, your kitten is so darling.
[23:35] Speaker 2: What's its name? Snowball.
[23:37] Speaker 4: Well, Timothy Snowball, but just Snowball for short. Anyway.
[23:42] Speaker 2: All right.
[23:42] Speaker 4: So this crusading First Amendment lawyer, God bless him in
[23:45] Speaker 4: his work. His name remains Timothy Snowball. Anyway, he pointed
[23:52] Speaker 4: out and they won this case or I think he
[23:56] Speaker 4: got appealed, but they're going to win it. Government officials
[24:00] Speaker 4: violate the First Amendment when they restrict constituents' access to
[24:04] Speaker 4: official social media accounts in response to opinions that offend them.
[24:10] Speaker 2: He added that the U.S.
[24:10] Speaker 4: Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which includes Missouri,
[24:13] Speaker 4: has also acknowledged that blocking a constituent from a government-operated
[24:17] Speaker 4: social media page based on the viewpoint of their.
[24:20] Speaker 2: Expression is unconstitutional. Hmm.
[24:25] Speaker 4: If there is an official page of any government entity
[24:28] Speaker 4: and there's more legalese here about they have actual responsibility
[24:32] Speaker 4: to do that, this, that or the other on behalf
[24:33] Speaker 4: of taxpayers, they cannot censor your access or your reactions
[24:38] Speaker 4: to that speech constitutionally.
[24:42] Speaker 2: He looks like you'd name him Timothy Snowball. Just looking
[24:45] Speaker 2: at a picture. Oh, it seems like a nice guy.
[24:51] Speaker 2: Is he feline in appearance? Round and white. Oh, my.
[25:00] Speaker 2: Reminiscent of a, oh, I don't know what. Oh, my. Okay. Mr.
[25:10] Speaker 4: Snowball continues. I would at least pronounce it like that. Hi,
[25:16] Speaker 4: Tim Snowball.
[25:16] Speaker 2: Good to meet you. Right. Right. I don't know if
[25:20] Speaker 2: he's wet. He might be wet. It depends how cold
[25:23] Speaker 2: it is outside, yeah. And he points out, by restricting Ms.
[25:29] Speaker 4: Palmer, that was the gallon question, access to an officially
[25:31] Speaker 4: operated social media page because a district employee took offense
[25:34] Speaker 4: at a thumbs-down emoji or perhaps a sad face emoji,
[25:37] Speaker 4: an obvious and quintessential expression of opinion on a matter
[25:40] Speaker 4: of public concern, the district violated the First Amendment, etc.
[25:43] Speaker 2: So.
[25:45] Speaker 4: Oh, here it is, the 2024 Supreme Court decision, unanimous decision,
[25:50] Speaker 4: Linke versus Freed.
[25:52] Speaker 2: Michael, I know you're big on this one. That any government.
[25:54] Speaker 4: Official who has actual authority to speak on the state's behalf,
[25:58] Speaker 4: the state meaning government, and purported to exercise that authority
[26:02] Speaker 4: when he spoke on social media is subject to First
[26:05] Speaker 4: Amendment claims if they try.
[26:07] Speaker 2: To block a critic. So... If there's an official Twitter.
[26:11] Speaker 4: Page of this school district or that political department or whatever,
[26:17] Speaker 4: just keep that in mind.
[26:18] Speaker 2: They can't block you. I found that interesting. Moving along.
[26:26] Speaker 2: Just going back to the proficiency thing. It's amazing how
[26:30] Speaker 2: you can get to a spot where, I guess, little
[26:34] Speaker 2: by little over years, And then, like, if you landed
[26:39] Speaker 2: here from outer space and somebody explained to you what
[26:41] Speaker 2: was going on, you'd think, well, you can't have your
[26:44] Speaker 2: local public school, taxpayer supported school where people send their kids.
[26:50] Speaker 2: Having half the kids can't read or comprehend and two
[26:57] Speaker 2: thirds can't do math. I mean, that's we got to
[27:00] Speaker 2: fix this. I mean, that's got to be the highest priority.
[27:03] Speaker 2: Because we got in there little by little. Everybody just,
[27:05] Speaker 2: you know, that kind of sucks, doesn't it? And you
[27:07] Speaker 2: move on. I was looking up some of the other places.
[27:09] Speaker 2: Here's Chicago public schools. Their math proficiency rate, 26%.
[27:16] Speaker 5: 26%.
[27:17] Speaker 2: Wow. How does that go on without people in the streets?
[27:22] Speaker 2: Or refusing to pay their taxes because I moved into
[27:25] Speaker 2: this neighborhood to get, you know, to get into school.
[27:28] Speaker 4: Or having serious, serious conversations about the sociological factors that
[27:33] Speaker 4: are going on here, too. Yeah, it's the acceptance of mediocrity, failure,
[27:42] Speaker 4: waste of taxpayer money, bit by bit. And I'm trying
[27:45] Speaker 4: to think, what are the main cogs in the crowd
[27:48] Speaker 4: that's kept us from dealing with this, honestly, the teachers unions, obviously,
[27:52] Speaker 4: that always just crow for more money. And then the
[27:55] Speaker 4: don't blame the victim crowd doesn't want you to talk about,
[27:58] Speaker 4: you know, look, in cultures and subcultures of America, the
[28:01] Speaker 4: value education, they get educated. If mom and dad really,
[28:06] Speaker 4: really want you to get educated, the chances are overwhelming
[28:10] Speaker 4: you'll do pretty well, even if you go to a
[28:12] Speaker 4: fairly junky school. But as Hannah Nicole Jones of all
[28:15] Speaker 4: people from the New York Times, the 1619 Project Marxist,
[28:19] Speaker 4: found out, and we could have gotten more into this.
[28:22] Speaker 4: We should get more into this. She discovered the teachers
[28:26] Speaker 4: in her kid's school didn't even teach. The kids would
[28:30] Speaker 4: just read or play or talk or watch videos. And
[28:33] Speaker 4: there was no effort being made. Papers weren't graded. Tests
[28:37] Speaker 4: weren't even given. They weren't even trying. All protected by
[28:40] Speaker 4: the union. The unions that Hannah Nicole Jones slavishly supports.
[28:45] Speaker 2: It's obscene. What do you call it? Ross Douthat wrote,
[28:49] Speaker 2: I think it was him, wasn't it? That wrote a
[28:50] Speaker 2: book called Decadence. He's the guy that's now with 60
[28:54] Speaker 2: Minutes left the New York Times. And it was all
[28:56] Speaker 2: about this sort of decay. I haven't read that one. And, yeah,
[29:02] Speaker 2: we just, we're decaying and accepting it. Yeah. Which is
[29:07] Speaker 2: weird because our lives are pretty good. We're happy. insanely
[29:12] Speaker 2: wealthy by world history standards. We're insanely wealthy just by
[29:16] Speaker 2: current world standards. You know, the stat that's so amazing
[29:19] Speaker 2: that our poorest state, Mississippi, is equal to the average
[29:24] Speaker 2: Brit is an idea of how wealthy we are. And
[29:27] Speaker 2: when you're that wealthy, you know, you're going on vacations,
[29:29] Speaker 2: you're pretty solid, you got a big TV, you got
[29:32] Speaker 2: a nice house, you can drive in a car. Well,
[29:33] Speaker 2: you're doing whatever you want. It's hard to get worked
[29:35] Speaker 2: up about stuff, I guess. Right, right. You know, I'd
[29:39] Speaker 2: like to.
[29:40] Speaker 4: hit the panel of historians with this question. Name a safe,
[29:47] Speaker 4: extremely affluent society that did not succumb to, what's the
[29:53] Speaker 4: right word?
[29:53] Speaker 1: Decadence.
[29:56] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[29:58] Speaker 2: The decay of decadence.
[30:00] Speaker 4: Decadence being a fancy word that means essentially you stop
[30:05] Speaker 4: doing all the good stuff. You abandon the good practices
[30:08] Speaker 4: in favor of pleasure and self-indulgence and laziness.
[30:12] Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
[30:15] Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
[30:21] Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
[30:29] Speaker 4: So a couple of notes from the world of abusing drugs.
[30:32] Speaker 4: First of all, gosh, finally, we've all been hoping for this.
[30:35] Speaker 4: There is a synthetic opioid that is 10 times more
[30:39] Speaker 4: powerful than fentanyl, which, of course, you remember enough to
[30:43] Speaker 4: fill a pencil eraser could kill 100,000 people or whatever.
[30:46] Speaker 4: This makes that look like cocaine. And they mentioned this
[30:51] Speaker 4: kid in San Francisco died of an overdose of it.
[30:56] Speaker 4: And he had troubles with drugs, and mom had a
[30:59] Speaker 4: couple of doses of Narcan she kept just in case.
[31:02] Speaker 4: But you need multiple, multiple doses of Narcan to even
[31:06] Speaker 4: hope to bring somebody around if they overdose on cyclorphine.
[31:12] Speaker 2: I'm sorry, cyclorphine. Does it have a street name? Not
[31:17] Speaker 2: that they mention. It's got to have some name that
[31:19] Speaker 2: they call it. Cyclo, probably, or something like that. But
[31:23] Speaker 2: it's been big on the East Coast. This is the
[31:25] Speaker 2: first death on the West Coast from it. It is
[31:28] Speaker 2: a very, very sad story. Oh, how about being a
[31:31] Speaker 2: parent who keeps narco around in case your kid overdoses
[31:35] Speaker 2: because there's a likelihood of it. Oh, God, what a
[31:37] Speaker 2: way to live.
[31:38] Speaker 4: And they tried as hard as they could. They loved
[31:41] Speaker 4: their son, tried to get him help. It just, as
[31:44] Speaker 4: you know, it just doesn't always work. And then this
[31:48] Speaker 4: update from the World of Drug Abuse Network. 80% of
[31:52] Speaker 4: fentanyl traffickers arrested in Portland, where they have a hellacious
[31:58] Speaker 4: drug problem, 80% are illegal.
[32:01] Speaker 2: Immigrants from Honduras. Wow.
[32:06] Speaker 4: About 80 of the 100 arrested in the last couple
[32:09] Speaker 4: of years in Portland are illegals.
[32:10] Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if you know this, Joe,
[32:12] Speaker 2: but immigrants from other countries actually commit crimes at a
[32:17] Speaker 2: lower rate than U.S. born citizens.
[32:19] Speaker 4: On the other hand, shut up, you moron. That is
[32:22] Speaker 4: such a bad argument. Okay, so if it was U.S.
[32:27] Speaker 4: drug dealers, there would be 80 overdoses. With these immigrants,
[32:34] Speaker 4: because they do crimes at a lower percentage, we'll just
[32:37] Speaker 4: have 60 people dead of overdose deaths. Therefore, it's good
[32:42] Speaker 4: to have them here. That's not a freaking argument.
[32:45] Speaker 2: It's stupid.
[32:46] Speaker 4: But anyway, they're trying to crack down after Oregon's disastrous
[32:51] Speaker 4: experiment with legalizing hard drugs. They're actually trying to crack
[32:54] Speaker 4: down on open-air drug markets, and they seized enough fentanyl
[32:57] Speaker 4: to kill everyone in the world. Literally enough to kill
[33:00] Speaker 4: 50 million people, according to a federal press release.
[33:04] Speaker 2: Plus 40 guns and $ 1. 3 million in cash. Oh, I'm sorry.
[33:09] Speaker 4: It's enough fentanyl to kill the 50 million people in Oregon.
[33:14] Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Oregon doesn't have 50 million people. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[33:19] Speaker 2: this is a complicated sentence.
[33:21] Speaker 4: That is enough fentanyl to kill 50 million people or
[33:25] Speaker 4: Oregon's population 11 times.
[33:28] Speaker 2: That sounds like it. There we go.
[33:29] Speaker 4: We've settled down the burning question population of the great
[33:34] Speaker 4: piney-scented state of Oregon. So anyway, but in busting these,
[33:39] Speaker 4: and I've heard about this over and over again from
[33:41] Speaker 4: San Franciscans, too, and San Francisco PD. It's all Honduran immigrants, right?
[33:46] Speaker 4: Most of them illegal. But let's just keep it going.
[33:49] Speaker 4: Just let it enforce the law. Man, we could solve
[33:55] Speaker 4: a lot of problems if we follow those three words.
[33:58] Speaker 4: I'm trying to become a better mom. I feel like
[34:03] Speaker 4: I'm a really good dad. I am not a very
[34:04] Speaker 4: good mom. And I'm okay with the fact that those.
[34:08] Speaker 2: Are different skills. It's a different skill set. And in
[34:11] Speaker 2: an ideal world, you have both of them utilizing their
[34:14] Speaker 2: skill sets. Right. But I'm I'm I'm not good at
[34:17] Speaker 2: the mom thing. I'm trying to pick up. I was
[34:19] Speaker 2: talking to a mom over the weekend. She's talking, telling
[34:21] Speaker 2: me about all the notes. She lives for kids in
[34:25] Speaker 2: their lunches or whatever and like actually laminates positive phrases
[34:31] Speaker 2: to stick them on the shower. So they take a
[34:33] Speaker 2: shower in the morning. They see, you know, be kind
[34:36] Speaker 2: to people, a good attitude, you know, just that sort
[34:38] Speaker 2: of stuff. It's like that's the sort of stuff moms
[34:41] Speaker 2: do that. I just I don't I don't get around to.
[34:45] Speaker 2: And so I'm going to try to get I'm going
[34:47] Speaker 2: to try to get better at that. That's my goal
[34:48] Speaker 2: currently to be a better mom.
[34:51] Speaker 4: It's tough with teenagers, especially because so you're like jumping
[34:56] Speaker 4: into the deep end of the pool.
[34:57] Speaker 2: You're starting with the advanced. Sure. Phase. Yeah.
[35:01] Speaker 3: Yes.
[35:02] Speaker 2: But then and, you know, just also takes a certain
[35:05] Speaker 2: amount of time. That's where it. falls off when you
[35:08] Speaker 2: get two people, you obviously can split those tasks. But anyway,
[35:13] Speaker 2: that is my goal from now on is to try
[35:15] Speaker 2: to be a better mom.
[35:16] Speaker 4: That's that's beautiful. I totally get it. Ideally, as you say,
[35:19] Speaker 4: it's a team sport, but you got to do.
[35:22] Speaker 2: What you got to do.
[35:23] Speaker 4: Maybe take some of those powerful hormones and start lactating
[35:26] Speaker 4: just as a step down that road.
[35:28] Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to I don't want to not
[35:29] Speaker 2: be I don't want to be a weird dad. I
[35:34] Speaker 2: want to continue on that road. I'm brainstorming here. Yeah.
[35:37] Speaker 2: I need a little more of the mom's sensitive touch area. Right.
[35:43] Speaker 2: That I'm not as good at as the dad part. Yeah,
[35:46] Speaker 2: the skinned knee in the playground to me is the
[35:48] Speaker 2: perfect metaphor. Mom says, oh, come here. Dad says, you're fine.
[35:52] Speaker 2: Go play. So I'll say, you're fine. Go play. Run
[35:55] Speaker 2: out behind the bushes. Put on a wig. Come back. Say, oh.
[35:58] Speaker 2: And that's what I'll start doing.
[36:04] Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.

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