The Article Was Simply Too Long!
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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On the Tuesday May 5, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- Teens don't know their history!
- Joe brings us a fascinating story about a researcher, Sam Kriss, and his article on the decline of literacy, Reading is Magic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | There was an article about how reading is so important, but it was too long, so I didn't read it. |
| 0:08.9 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:10.9 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:12.1 | One more thing. |
| 0:13.6 | Speaking of books, I just saw this up on the screen. |
| 0:16.4 | Let me screen capture so we can talk about it tomorrow. |
| 0:18.9 | Oh. |
| 0:19.9 | 13% of eighth graders are proficient in U.S. history. |
| 0:24.2 | They did that study coming up on the 250th birthday of the country. |
| 0:29.0 | My own eighth grader was complaining yesterday. |
| 0:32.3 | He was looking forward to the chapter. |
| 0:35.3 | It ended up being a page. |
| 0:36.9 | He was looking forward to learning about the Civil War. |
| 0:39.1 | They barely talked about it at all. |
| 0:41.4 | Gettysburg got like a mention in the fact that Lincoln gave a speech called the Gettysburg |
| 0:45.5 | address. |
| 0:45.8 | That was the sum total of that. |
| 0:47.2 | And all the rest of it was about how the Native Americans were affected by the Civil War. |
| 0:51.6 | And my son, who's super into history, so he's watched hours and hours of YouTube videos |
| 0:57.8 | about the founding and the Civil War and all this sort of stuff. |
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