Ryan (0:00)

Hello, it is Ryan and I was on a flight the other day playing one of my favorite social spin slot games on jumbacasino.com I looked over the person sitting next to me and you know what they were doing? They were also playing Chumba Casino. Everybody's loving having fun with it. Chumba Casino is home to hundreds of casino style games that you can play for free anytime, anywhere. So sign up now@chumbacasino.com to claim your free welcome bonus. That's chumbacasino.com and live the Chumba Life sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary VGW Group Void where prohibited by law 21/ terms and conditions apply did you know that parents rank financial literacy as the number one most difficult life skill to teach? Meet Greenlight, the debit card and money app for families with greenlight, you can send money to kids quickly, set up chores, automate allowance and keep an eye on what your kids are spending. With real time notifications. Kids learn to earn, save and spend wisely and parents can rest easy knowing their kids are learning about money. With guardrails in place. Try Greenlight Risk free today@greenlight.com iheart @&t has a new guarantee because most things in life are not guaranteed. Like getting through self checkout by yourself. Not guaranteed in a world where Nothing is guaranteed. AT&T is bringing something new to the table. AT&T is introducing a guarantee with connectivity you depend on, deals you want and service you deserve or they'll make it right. Learn more@att.com guarantee@&t connecting changes everything. Terms and conditions apply. Visit att.comguaranty for details. @ Ameca Insurance we know it's more than just a car. It's the two door coupe that was there for your first drive, the hatchback that took you cross country and back, and the minivan that tackles the weekly carpool for the cars you couldn't live without. Trust Amica Auto Insurance Amica Empathy is our best policy. Asking the right questions can greatly impact your future, especially when it comes to your finances. So if you're looking for a financial advisor you can trust, certified financial planner professionals are committed to acting in your best interest. That's why it's gotta be a CFP. Find your CFP professional at letsmakeaplan.org broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Gettysburg Grandis 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, the robot writes out its picks with the help of AI and just like any good office pool, there's a prize at stake. What? So we've had printers for generations. Well, and just. I mean, so well, and if it's some sort of actual like quote unquote handwriting robot. Okay, that's looking at it. I'm looking at it. And it is somewhat novel, but again, what. So just. I don't care. That young man's sense of wonderment. I guess 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. Or they're having a contest for robots. Or we should just have the robots play the games. What is your. So everybody at work has a robot pillow pick up, fill out their bracket, and then you hand it in and then 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. Will we get any? What. What will? Well, this is the ultimate problem with AI. What. What will? Whenever. So 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 it'll be great and it'll be just so satisfying. Wow. Human beings deserve to die off. Bring it on. The 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 at the Department of Education. And some 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. Is so much of what we do on this show or all radio shows, TV shows is just stupid. It's just dumb and it. And it's a waste of time. Speak for yourself in that my stuff is always scintillating and appropriate. And timely in that issue. Polling is so fraught, there's really barely any reason to talk 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 different results based on the wording and it's so inconsistent. And then just the error rate in polling with the small samples, I don't think. But, you know, that's. That's practically our bread and butter in the world of talk radio. New poll says, blah, blah, blah, think. 68% of people think, can you believe that? And you discuss it for a while. So that looking at something like the Gallup poll across time. Yes. Is fair. Definitely for. And then a new study says that's our. There are other bread and butter in the radio, TV industry. A new study says, and these are always preliminary studies of a tiny slice of something that included somewhere in the article. They say, researchers say there's not enough data 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, 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 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 linearly. Linearly and 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. I've lived it. Okay. This particular study says there's a big jump at 44 and a big jump at 60. The one with 40 is mostly. At 44 is mostly metabolizing alcohol and fat. Now, it's obvious that it's harder to keep weight off as you get older. I think everybody's had that experience starting at roughly, I don't know, 22. I don't know if there's a giant drink. Stupid is no way to go through life, son. The alcohol thing in the 40s is interesting. Lots of people who are, who are hardcore drinkers die of alcoholism in their 40s and 50s. That's a pretty common thing where your body just doesn't Metabolize it in the same way. You remember the coroner. I talked to 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, the slab place? You drink yourself, 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 your brain, well, your, your whole system metabolizes alcohol differently. I've talked several times about when I, I was probably 59 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. And I realized, okay, I just can't drink nearly as much. She noticed it in terms of hangover. Yes. And hangovers. Hangovers were also very different. Instead of, oh, I've got a headache and my stomach's kind of upset. No, it's, I feel like I'm dying. I'm miserable physically and emotionally. And this is, this is terrible. I have poisoned myself. I always thought about hangovers. And it's, it's still true that if you, if, if you felt that bad in any other circumstance, you would go to the er. You wouldn't, you wouldn't 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. Oh, right. Or if you consistently ate a calzone that made you feel that you'd be suing the restaurant or having campaigning them, have them closed. 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 that you enjoy, it's 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 stomach is so bad and I have a horrible headache. But it's worth it. Half a dozen times it's worth it. I enjoyed the basketball game that much. Yeah. I once read, and I didn't appreciate it a bit at the time, a guy saying, alcohol is poison, essentially, but if you poison yourself just enough, it makes you feel great. It's fantastic. So anyway, 44, you have a big jump in the way you. You metabolize. These are all on averages and of course, but you metabolize alcohol differently and then the who storing fat thing changes. At 60, the big thing is your immune system and. And parts of the body wearing out. That's the big jump. They say at 60, you're more likely to be sick. Well, I believe this firmly. I've observed it myself. Aging is much like mountain biking, which I used to do with great enthusiasm. You pedal upward for about 24 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. Buy the ticket, take the ride, man. Is there another option? Nope. I'll be darned. DNA and rodents etc, etc. Looking for the blood Plaza. Blah blah blah. Very short handy. DNA and rodents, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I know what you mean. The rate of aging follows a steep curve from early childhood until puberty. Of course, there's all kinds of, you know, the way you. You grow and everything changes and everything like that, but then becomes pretty linear after age 20. Other studies show you say you have experienced the plateaus. My dad says that he feels that. I don't know. 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 seeking certain, you know, aid with the aging process right now? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Am I take testosterone. Well, your 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 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? Yeah, that's an interesting one. So my dad definitely says it wasn't stages for him. Like he was riding his horse, had him on the air on his birthday many, many years ago. He's still riding his horse at age 80. 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 need those. Those are two really big organs, really important organs right there. They rank in the left lung and the spleen, maybe. I don't know. Why? Your gallbladder and one kidney or something. Right, right. The heart and the brain. Who's in charge there? Yeah. 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? What's your takeaway? Yeah, 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. Again, as I said, buy the ticket, take the ride. It's part of life. Just 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 49. 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. My heart. The doctor tells me my heart is 10 years older and I need to treat it like it's 10 years older. My heart aged 10 years because of chemotherapy. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I remember you 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. Okay, Fantastic. 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 make. Your ankles are gonna hold out. Oh, great. Thanks. Is the Department of Education actually gonna go away? Maybe. It's certainly gon political win. Among other things. On the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. This is Jenny Garth from I do part two. If you could lose 10.4 pounds in one month, would you try with Future Health? You can. Future Health gives millions access to affordable weight loss meds for less than three bucks a day. Find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just three minutes at try fh.com try fh.com results vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Data based on independent studies sponsored by Future Health. Future Health is not a healthcare services provider. Meds are prescribed at providers discretion. Hello, it is Ryan and we could all use an extra bright spot in our day, couldn't we? Just to make up for things like sitting in traffic, doing the dishes, counting your steps. You know, all the mundane stuff. That is why I'm such a big fan of Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has all your favorite social casino style games that you can play for free, anytime, anywhere with daily bonuses. So sign up now@chumbacasino.com that's chumbacasino.com no purchase necessary. VGW Group void where prohibited by law 21 + terms and conditions apply. It's tax season and by now I know we're all a bit tired of numbers, but here's an important one you need to hear. $16.5 billion. That's how much money in refunds the IRS flagged for possible identity fraud last year. Here's another 20%. That's the overall increase in identity theft related to tax fraud in 2024 alone. But it's not all grim news. Here's a good 100 million. That's how many data points Lifelock monitors every second. If your identity is stolen, LifeLock's US based restoration specialists will fix it, backed by another good number, the Million Dollar Protection Plan. In fact, restoration is guaranteed or your money back. Don't face identity theft and financial losses alone. There's strength in numbers with Lifelock Identity theft Protection for tax season and beyond. Join now and save up to 40% your first year. Call 1-800-LIFELOCK and use promo code iheart or go to lifelock.com iheart for 40% off terms apply. This message comes from Greenlight. Ready to start talking to your kids about financial literacy? Meet Greenlight, the debit card and money app that teaches kids and teens how to earn, save, spend wisely and invest with your guardrails in place. With Greenlight, you can send money to kids quickly, set up chores, automate allowance, and keep an eye on what your kids are spending with real time notifications. Join millions of parents and kids building healthy financial habits together on Greenlight. Get started risk free@greenlight.com iheart stop hitting snooze on new tech. Upgrade the whole team@lenovo.com Unlock AI experiences with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon powered by Intel Core Ultra processors so you can work, create and boost productivity all on one device. Win the Tech Search for Business PCs@lenovo.com Lenovo Lenovo Tomorrow is the first round of Marsh Madness, but this year will be a little different. If you see a car flipped over is either fans celebrating Their school or people protesting Elon Musk. So just be careful. One of the two. Ahaha. Domestic terrorism is hilarious. It's just interesting that for a variety of reasons this is not being treated like what it is. Yeah. Either 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 a couple of news accounts that don't mention any political aspect of it at all. They're like people are setting fire to Teslas and blowing up 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 again? Does he have aspirations? Is he like trying to figure out a way to get his name out there with Gavin Newsom's name out there and stuff like. So you think he's going to run for president? Man, he is disillusioned if he thinks he's got any. I hope he has aspirations to be a laughingstock because that is certainly his greatest talent. Yes, he actually thinks he might have an outside chance. Wow. I wonder if he thinks Kamala held him back. Anyway, just to 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. Some of you know this on the iPhone they've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day. 225 and dropping. So and, 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. Just telling you 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 it on fire. Woohoo. Except it's not by any means Estimate still 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, 29% favorable on CNN, 27% on NBC. If you go into some of the other questions they asked about, are 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 stage 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 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 you just said is far too nuanced for American politics. 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 politics. They have such contempt for voters. And that is, that 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 gay rights, I'm glad gay marriage happened, and blah, blah, blah, this, that. But we can't, we can't have men and women's sports. I think most Democrats, well, polling shows this would say, yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, yeah, just, you know, superior contempt or contemptuous superiority. That is their problem right now. And that's, I love contemptuous superiority. That's how I go through my day. Please enjoy it. Please. 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. This is Ashley Akadeni from the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast. If you could lose 10.4 pounds in one month, would you try? Well, with Future Health, you can find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just 3 minutes at try fh.com that is try fh.com try fh.com results may vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Database on independent studies sponsored by few Future Health. Future Health is not a healthcare services provider. Meds are prescribed at provider's discretion. Stop hitting snooze on new tech. Upgrade the whole team@lenovo.com Unlock AI experiences with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon powered by Intel Core Ultra processors so you can work, create and boost productivity all on one device. Win the tech search for business PCs at Lenovo.com Lenovo Lenovo this message comes from Greenlight Ready to start talking to your kids about financial literacy? Meet Greenlight, the debit card and money app that teaches kids and teens how to earn, save, spend wisely and invest with your guardrails in place. With Greenlight, you can send money to kids quickly, set up chores, automate allowance, and keep an eye on what your kids are spending with real time notifications. Join millions of parents and kids building healthy financial habits together on Greenlight. Get started risk free@greenlight.com iheart when you're in HR, it can feel like nothing is easy. From payroll to pto, from onboarding to benefits and everything in between, it's a constant juggle of tasks, systems and spreadsheets. But your HR software? That's the easy part. Meet Bamboohr. Trusted by over 34,000 companies, it handles all your HR tasks, payroll, benefits and time tracking so your team and your company can grow as fast as well. Bamboo and BambooHR software is actually easy to use. One simple system that pulls all your people data together in one place so you can ditch scattered systems and wasted hours on tasks that should only take minutes. Because when HR is easier, you can focus on what matters most your people. HR is hard. Bamboohr is easy. Ready to simplify all your HR tasks for a limited time? Get a $100 Visa gift card when you complete a free demo@bamboohr.com giftcard again, that's bamboohr.com giftcard terms and conditions apply at Ameca Insurance. We know it's more than just a house. It's your home. The place that's filled with memories. The early days of figuring it out to the later years of still figuring it out for the place you've put down roots. Trust Amica Home Insurance Amica Empathy is our best policy first it was Elon Musk with the chainsaw. Now President Trump taking a sledgehammer to the Department 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. 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. Linda, 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. I believe strongly in school choice, but in addition to that, I want the states to run school. He's expected to sign that today, and Mark Halpern in his newsletter said the Trump people must have internal polling that 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 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 Child will learn ever again. Right. Like, like education, like public schooling is going away because 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. Right? Sure. White House officials in the New York Times, it says, who spoke on a condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said the order instructs Ms. McMahon to return authority over education to the states. Oh, no. The state will decide. How's anybody afraid of that? What about not SAF or ignorance Sylvania? Will they educate their children? No, no. We. We care about our children where we live, thank you very much. Bureaucrats. We care about them more than you do, you lying phonies. The movement to do away with 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 inclusive policies for LGBTQ students. So it's Trump coming after the gays. Sure. Sure. It's not Trump coming off coming after radical Marxists who are indoctrinating your 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 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 taxpayer money to bring Your kids into a building and explain to them, eat more 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. But no, as a separate thing, like in the. What's it. What's the term that the progressive use. Progressives use for the holistic, educational, the whole child or. I can't remember. But there's so much, you know, exercise, sexuality, what you eat, and what has that gotten us? 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 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 gonna stop by the size of the rows and roads and plant daffodils occasionally and also, you know, beautify parks and while they're at it, help old people who seem to be hobbling on their driveways to pick up their mail. And we 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 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. 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 has done any good? Now, 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 a lot of it's been wrong through the ages, too. So when we were kids, we're old, but when we were kids in school, they were telling us to eat stuff that was the absolute worst stuff you should eat on earth. So then you've got sugary carbs and trans fats. So then you've just got the, you know, regular complaint that people like us have is that federal government's often 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 on to changes in knowledge or the environment, or, for instance, that the trash isn't getting picked up because the Secretary of Planning, the daffodils by the roadside is so intent on protecting their turf. To go back to my metaphor, they won't. They, they can't relinquish that as part of the, you know, trash pickup experience. Likewise the activists and all this bull crap as part of the educational experience. How about I talk to my kids about safe sex and what to eat and the school teaches them math and reading? Would, would that be a problem? So just, I, I'm not sure. I'm not sure you're being clear enough. You don't think school 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 bailiwick of what school should be if you're going to start from scratch. So one of the very few benefits of age is that you start to see the, the, the, the arc of the horizon, 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 has 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 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 1841. No, 1979, for goodness sakes. The Rolling Stones were an old band. 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 55, roughly. There'd be everybody running everything. Every corporation in all of government was educated prior to the Department of Education. And that's, that's damn close to true. Yeah, we're not all stumbling around illiterate, et cetera. Speak for yourself. But the newly created federal bureaucracy was more of a favor. I'm quoting now from Reason.com which does great stuff even when 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 was a giant 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 way they hadn't in the past, they would endorse Jimmy Carter. That was it. Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. He had promised in 1976. 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 in 1976 when he got the endorsement of the National Education association, the evil nea. It's become evil, certainly. And that he knew he had to pay it off. And so by 1979, when the heat was on, he actually got Congress to barely, barely approve it. And interestingly, Jimmy Carter is quoted at the time, and I don't have it in front of me, but it's easy enough to paraphrase as saying, hey, look, we need 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 and but he had to politically felt like. So another thing I don't think enough people understand or admit. So I was watching some MSNBC this morning and they were talking about how this isn't really going to 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. Sure, I know how this works though. You all know how this works. They will yank your funding if you don't. You can 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 5th graders libraries these days. Right. One more bit of historical perspective. 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 NEA's priority. There are school teachers in every congressional district 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, and I understand the idea of it and the desire for it or need for it from the perspective of a good, solid American schoolteacher. 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. The most horrifying chapter of their evil. Yes. I'll be interested to see how the reaction is today when Trump has his big announcement and so might lead the evening news tonight, how it's progressed. I 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. So Trump talked about something awfully interesting with Zelensky yesterday around the whole Ukraine, Russia thing that I don't feel like is getting enough attention. Among other things. We can talk about. Stick around. Armstrong and Getty. This is Ashley, a Nettie from the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast. You could have lost 10 pounds already if you already started one month ago. So are you ready to start today? Find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just 3 minutes at try fh.com try fh.com try fH.com results vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Database on independent studies sponsored by Future Health. Future Health is not a healthcare services provider. Meds are prescribed at provider's discretion. Stop hitting snooze on new tech. Upgrade the whole team@lenovo.com Unlock AI experiences with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon powered by Intel Core Ultra processors so you can work, create and boost productivity all on one device. Win the Tech Search for Business PCs@lenovo.com Lenovo Lenovo get this. Adults with financial literacy skills have 82% more wealth than those who don't. From swimming lessons to piano classes. Us parents invest in so many things to enrich our kids lives but are we investing in their future financial success? With Greenlight you can teach your kids financial literacy skills like earning, saving and investing. And this investment costs less than that. After school treatment. Start prioritizing their financial education and future today with a risk free trial@greenlight.com iheart greenlight.com iheart when you're in HR, it can feel like nothing is easy. From payroll to pto, from onboarding to benefits and everything in between, it's a constant juggle of tasks, systems and spreadsheets. But your HR software, that's the easy part. Meet BambooHR Trust by over 34,000 companies. It handles all your HR tasks, payroll, benefits and time tracking so your team and your company can grow as fast as well. Bamboo and BambooHR software is actually easy to use. One simple system that pulls all your people data together in one place. So you can ditch scattered systems and wasted hours on tasks that should only take minutes. Because when HR is easier, you can focus on what matters most. Your people. HR is hard. Bamboohr is easy. Ready to simplify all your HR tasks for a limited time? Get a $100 Visa gift card when you complete a free demo@bamboohr.com giftcard again, that's bamboohr.com giftcard terms and conditions apply. Every day, our world gets a little more connected, but a little further apart. But then there are moments that remind us to be more human. Thank you for calling Amica Insurance. Hey, I was just in an accident. Don't worry, we'll get you taken care of. At Ameca, we understand that looking out for each other isn't new or groundbreaking. It's human. Ameca empathy is our best policy. Meanwhile, I saw that Yale made the tournament this year. There are 13 seed and they play at number four, Texas A and M. Yeah, it's a pretty lopsided matchup. And you can tell how Yale's fans are feeling just based on the signs that they made for the game. Check these out. First, there's ahem, don't you know who our fathers are? Up next, there's do you want to take this outside where my driver will fight you for me? Up next there's why don't we settle this like real men with a sailboat race? Then there's does the concession stand Carrey foie gras per chance. Please show me on tv. So everyone knows I 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. Yes. Why would the best institutions be rich kids primarily? And when we're getting lectured from these people about inequality and all these different awful things that are happening in the world. Right, 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 his jokes. No, because we all just assume that. Because it's true. Because it's true. I said this the other day and I've always thought this was really interesting. Larry Summers, who's a Democrat and he was the president of Harvard for a while and they had all of these programs for years about diversity and this and that and, 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 all that we've, we've done? Did he not have like a phone line to his. I don't know what you'd call it in a College's Money People. Mr. President, this is a little uncomfortable now. If you write a big check, we let you in. But so they, they claim all these various things, but there are enough ways to get around it apparently that you still end up with mostly rich white kids. Yeah. Interesting. How about smart kids? How about the smartest kids? How about we try that? I want the smartest kids at the best colleges, period. That's what I want. Merit all day long, attack the problems at the elementary education level. Oh, but Democrats are not in favor of that. Speaking of education, I almost. Oh, speaking of that, an attack on homeschooling next hour. It's disgusting. Doing away at the Education department. 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 and votes. An example of useless education. Yes, 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 say there are any benefit. But it's another, another grade of tax money, federal funding, adding employees, maybe Some more propaganda to your kids for yet another year. Free babysitting, as this person said it. No educational value. In fact, it's detrimental, according to the most responsible study. It hurts my heart. My local school where my kids went to, they. They built a new building. And I thought, what is that gonna be? It's a pre K. Oh, my God. It makes my heart hurt that they're gonna 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 gonna 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 will ever meet in college. University of Illinois, prominent professor, and I quote, the nuclear family is 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 and what they would like 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 I'd meant to point out that when Tim Walls was. Was chortling about Tesla stock being down and how much he loved it, that the state of Minnesota retirement funds have 1.6 million shares of Tesla in it. Interesting. But he's a jackass and a. He's a jack more or a morass or such a guy who kick most of their ass. Okay. The United most of their ass, which like the right cheek. You're an idiot. Armstrong and Gettysburg. Your stomach is a mess and you feel lousy. Something is just off, but you don't know what. Yeah, we get it. You've tried every fad, diet and supplement under the sun and none of it worked. Here's the your gut's a mess and your body is letting you know you're just too busy and you ignore the signs making it worse. Viome gets straight to the point. Analyzing your gut microbiome to give you a personalized health plan that actually works. Your gut is how your body processes everything that you consume Stop ignoring the signs. It's time to do something real. Get viome and fix your gut now. Call Star Star gut to get $50 off a full body intelligence test. That's Star Star 488 to receive a link to the offer. It's tax season and by now I know we're all a bit tired of numbers. But here's an important one you need to hear. $16.5 billion. That's how much money in refunds the IRS flagged for possible identity fraud last year. Here's another 20%. That's the overall increase in identity theft related to tax fraud in 2024 alone. But it's not all grim news. Here's a good number. 100 million. That's how many data points Lifelock monitors every second. If your identity is stolen, LifeLock's US based restoration specialists will fix it, backed by another good number, the million dollar protection plan. In fact, restoration is guaranteed or your money back. Don't face identity theft and financial losses alone. There's strength in numbers with Lifelock identity theft protection for tax season and beyond. Join now and save up to 40% your first year. Call 1-800-LIFELOCK and use promo code iheart or go to lifelock.com iheart for 40% off. Terms apply. Stop hitting snooze on new tech Upgrade the whole team@lenovo.com Unlock AI experiences with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon powered by Intel Core Ultra process processors so you can work, create and boost productivity all on one device. Win the tech search for business PCs at Lenovo.com for some of us, personal finances aren't just personal. They include a lot more people than ourselves, loved ones, neighbors, the communities we call home and the causes we hold in our hearts. At Thrivent, we help plan your financial picture with the bigger picture in mind. Because even though our business is helping guide your finances, our ambition is to make it mean so much more. Thrivent where money means more Connect with us@thrivent.com busy work weeks and weekends can leave you feeling drained. Prolon's five day nutrition program works at the cellular level to rejuvenate you with boxes labeled by day so you know exactly what to eat. Developed at USC's Longevity Institute, this science backed program makes your cells believe they are fasting to support fat loss, skin appearance and healthy blood sugar levels. Feel the difference and get real results in just five days. Get 15% off today plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their five day program at prolonlife.com iheart that's prolonlife.com iheartra.