November 18, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Injuries when you're young vs. when you're older
- Matt Gaetz - love him or hate him?
- People are starting to connection election with policies & outcomes
- Is college worth it?
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong, and Gatty.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty, you gotta remember this. He got off easy.
I think we both know.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
If I was in the race, I want to beat you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Like a drum.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Joe.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard anyone say.
And for that reason, I'd like to offer you a
position in my cabinet.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
No can, dude, Jack, you need to make take a
little time off from his place.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What do you think you'll do next, Joe? Will you retire?
I'll do what every worn down old guy does. I'm
gonna fight chick Paul.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That was pretty good cold open, I thought I thought
that was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, we're discussing off the air, Like everywhere we went,
everybody's talking about that fight.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh yeah, kids, old women, no matter who I came
in contact with, people were talking about the.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Mike captured America's imagination. Jack, it did. Why do you
think that was really?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And it's interesting Mike Tyson, who was a villain ish
at least in his prime. I mean, he needed to
go to prison for rape and uh, big guy's ear
off and all that sort of stuff. He'd been arrested.
He'd been arrested in a thirty good list already thirty
five times by the time he was sixteen or something
like that. And he had a rough life. But now
(01:40):
he needs to get a grill going, like George Foreman.
He needs to have some sort of thing to cook
hot dogs or something, because he seems to be somewhat
beloved for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, kind of the snoop dogg syndrome. I gassy. Yeah,
he's got to find an alternative to get a hit
in the head for a way to make money. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Man, he got punched in the face several times and
after words and they ask him if you fight again?
I thought surely he would say no way, because he
looked to me like when he sat down after that
first round, the look on his face to me was
this was a terrible idea. I don't know what I
was thinking. He was so tired. Uh, even after the
first two minutes, he was just shot. And I don't
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care if you're Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Getting hit in the head is different at age sixty
than it was at age twenty five. That's an interesting point.
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I hadn't even thought about that because, like when I
fall off my kids skateboard or whatever, the way it
rocks your world versus you know, falling off your bike
when you're younger, it's completely different. I don't know if
the like juice that keeps your brain safe gets.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Staff for what happens. But your brain juice tries, Now
that's exactly what everyone knows. That's what happens. Your brain
juice to just coragulates. It just doesn't work the same way.
I grew up playing hockey, played in college and stuff
like that. Not college hockey, but I was playing club
hockey in college, and and you know, you get bonked
in the head and falling the ice whatever. I was skating,
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and this was probably fifteen years ago, gladys, and I
was doing some of the fancier skating stuff you do
as a hockey player, you know, changing direction, going for
forward to backward and back again real fast. And I
got my skates tied up and I fell and bonked
my head mediumsh hard on the ice. And that was
my first reaction. Oh my god, that was different. Yeah, yeah,
(03:28):
so yeah, anyway, getting slugged in the head can't have
been enjoyable. Has Tyson never done a one man show?
I don't. Yeah, he did have an idea of that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
He had a Tyson show for a while, think of Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, he he had four hundred million dollars at the
peak of his career. He threw a combination of being
stolen from which is the history of boxing, and really
bad life decisions. He ended up twenty some million dollars
in debt, which he's climbed out of, and he had
a big payday the other night, somewhere between twenty and
forty million dollars. So I'd get punched in the head
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quite a few. I mean, if you could get anywhere
close to that kind of money for one more head punch,
and I would do it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah. Yeah, but he looked he did. He was not
competitive in any way whatsoever. Yeah. Well, I hesitate to
give it any more time or attention. But I think
the reason it was so compelling is you got the
question of Ken a incredibly tough, strong, capable boxer, still
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show some of that as he ages, because we all
want to not age, and so you've got that, like
very basic human instinct. Then you got a guy and
Jake Paul really needs to get punched in the face.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh yeah, love to see him get punched in the
face more. Unfortunately, Tyson landed seventeen total punches.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
By whomever in whatever setting just so he gets punched.
So yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh when Jake Paul came riding out in that car
with his brother whatever where his brother's name is, who
made the prime energy drink, the crack dealer that got
every kid hooked on that horrible drink?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Just he couldn't hate those two more.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh, anyway, speaking to people to hate, some of you
hate Matt Gates, some of you love Matt Gates as
the new Attorney General. As from what I can tell
from social media, speaker Johnson, who does not want the
Ethics Committee report to be released, was supposed to come
(05:31):
out last Friday. Matt Gates resigned on Wednesday just a
coincidence and doesn't want some import release because he thinks
it would be a bad President had this to say
about Matt Gates yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Matt Gates is a colleague of mine. We've been serving
together for more than eight years. He's one of the
brightest minds in Washington or anywhere for that matter, and
he knows everything about how the Department of Justice has
been weaponized and misused, and he will be a reformer.
And I think that's why the establishment in Washington is
so shaken up about this pick.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Maybe at least three Republican senators that I've seen, I
don't know how many on the record, but at least
three Republican senators I've seen said they want that House
Ethics Committee report to be part of the hearing. They
want to see it, even if it is not made
public reporting over the weekend. So the whole thing is
(06:22):
not leaked out yet. I thought it would leak out Friday,
but it has not yet. But little nuggets have leaked out,
like they did talk to a girl who testified to
the House Committee that she saw Matt Gates have sex
with an underage girl and then some other girl who
may have been of age, but he had sex with
two different women at that party who were like seventeen
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and nineteen. So I mean that's a certain lifestyle right there.
Sex with two different girls in one night at a party,
both of them barely teenagers.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I mean they're still teenagers. But yeah, to the
House Ethics Committee question, Johnson went on to say, look,
we don't put out reports on private citizens who are
not members of Congress. So no, we're not going to
put that out. It's justifiable. Right. On the other hand,
it's been pointed out that if you're going for ag
the investigation into you, the what's the background term background check? Right, Yeah,
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of course is incredibly rigorous. It should be. Yeah, absolutely,
as it should be. But Johnson's strategy there in which
he recognizes, all right, this is an incredibly bright guy
who the quote was he knows how the Justice Department
has been weaponized that may or may not be true.
(07:42):
That was respectful to Donald Jay's selection of the guy,
and then let's let the process continue, he says, knowing
that the senators, who jealously guard the powers of the
Senate as Congress ought to start going, is going to
vet the guy good and thoroughly. So there's no reason
for Johnson to say, I don't know, it seems like
kind of a perv to me. I want him to
(08:02):
stay away from my wife. There's no need for that.
The Senate will do the tough work, but be respectful
to Trump.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well after bouncing around a fair amount of magas social
media over the weekend. I see that many of you
believe all this stuff about I him and sex with
a teenage girl is just the deep State doing what
they do with fake news and bringing people down.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So that's not going to have any effect on you.
This report and the deep State forced him to go
on the House of Floor and show videos of girls
he'd coupled with to colleagues who didn't want to see them.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, I guess you'd believe Mullen is part of the
deep State, I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Said Mullen. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, ran into some
folks who were of that mind over the weekend, super
supportive of all the picks. All the tick. Was very
little gentle bit of pushback in some cases because you
(09:06):
get bubbled. I mean, for instance, the whole Rick Scott
should be the leader of the Senate, not John Thune.
John Thune is a Rhino, which I still think is
a really odd accusation because he's like a complete central
casting Republican. He's exactly what a Republican has been for
(09:27):
twenty five years. Trump is not, so to call Thune
a Republican in name only, is that. I get what
you're trying to say, but it's an odd epithet to
hit him with. But it was pointed out that Thune
voted in a favor or with Trump a significantly higher
percentage of the time than Rick Scott did both was
(09:47):
an overwhelming majority of the time. But and you know,
the people I talked to had no idea of that,
So I don't know. We are interesting times.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We have a result in the Pennsylvania Senate race. It
took till now for them to finally count all the
voids votes. Man, this is a close race. Thank god
the presidential election didn't go down the way a lot
of people were predicting it would, where it would come
down to Pennsylvania or we would be finding out today. Well, no,
we wouldn't because it would be way more lawsuits. We
(10:17):
would still be in the midst of lawsuits and all
kinds of claims of vote voter fraud and everything else.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Because it was so close.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But they've called it for the Republican McCormick over the
Democrat Casey who ran ads about how friendly he was
with Trump to try to win. But forty eight point
eight percent to forty eight point six percent.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Wow, that's a close race. Doesn't that trigger an automatical
recall or not recount? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The automatic rec is a very tiny amount of percentage
in money, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't know. We'll see. I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I'm glad the presidential race didn't go down like that.
We would be living in a different world right now.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So oh yeah, oh oh, it'd be horrible, absolutely horrible.
We really dodged yet another bullet. So speaking of the election,
putting the results aside, one of the things that made
me really really happy is the trend is absolutely clear.
It's much less and less about race because racial politics balkanization.
(11:24):
You want to end up like Lebanon for instance. Oh,
it's the worst thing. Uh, It's it's about class now
in a way that's really interesting. Some of the statistics
about the why the working class is saying the Democrats, Yeah,
we tried you, we want something different. We'll have for
you in a moment. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Realignment, something to watch, stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Machel has apologized after mistakingly printing the web address of
a porn site on the packaging of its new Wicked Dolls.
It was actually a simple mistake. You see, the box
was supposed to read wickedmovie dot com, but instead they
printed choke me, Jeff Goldlin.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's a mistake. That's a nod.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So ODSSA Friday night, Are we gonna get our Elon
Musk Zuckerberg fight? Seems like that'd be the next good Netflix.
Everybody gather around as kind of a national Friday night thing,
watch a couple of billionaires beat each other up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah. I think Elon's a little busy reigning in the
federal government at this point, no kidding, two point three
million employees. I would love to follow him around.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So he seems to be constantly working on his rocket company.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He's got twelve kids. I don't know if that plays
a role in his life at all. I give the
idea not a huge one.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
He's on Twitter constantly also, and then he's at the
fight with Trump and then mar A Lago for days
and I just can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah. Yeah, well, he famously his mind never slows down.
He's made it clear this would make most people crazy,
and I think it has made him a little crazy.
But anyway, so the big change in the election that
we'll be talked about for years and years is not
just the winners and losers, but the fact that Black
American Hispanic America moved significantly rightward. I mean, the Democrats
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still get the majority of the black vote, for instance,
but it's changing, and it's changing pretty quickly. And you know,
it's easy for us and people like us to forget that.
Most people don't think about politics that much. I've been
yelling for Black America to reconsider this unholy alliance with
the Democratic Party, which is just exploited the black vote,
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assumed the black vote, and giving you nothing but empty
promises and government dependents for decades and decades. Now it
appears that, I don't know, perhaps people are starting to
connect elections with policy with outcomes in a way that
you know is too slow for me, but I get it.
And the journal with the Wall Street Journal was some
pretty interesting analysis of the fact that it's now about
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class and not race. If you're working class, you are
swinging way towards the Republicans and it doesn't matter what,
Hugh your skin is. Thank god, I'm so happy about that.
And not just because it's Republican. I mean it could
be Democrat too. Let's just not have like hugely important
racial politics in this country.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Please, for a number of reasons, including I think you're
much more likely to get policy discussions if you're talking
about people of different income situations than their skin color. Well,
you make the claim of racism is so easily right.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And they quote Aaron Waters, who's the first gent they
quote in this article, who's a black construction worker union
member in Chicago who voted for Trump after voting for
Biden and Obama in past elections, and he says, race
is not an issue for me. It's about what you
can do for each and every one of us as
a whole, as a US citizen. Now, the reason that's important,
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getting back to my berating you know, quote unquote black America,
is that guys like Aaron are saying, no, you can't
say I'm down with the black folks, so vote for me.
What are you gonna do? What are your policies? That's phony.
He's realized it's well, it's phony. It's it's putting you
in a pen. And I've always hated that. But came
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across a couple of interesting statistics about this this question.
And here's an associate professor of political science at the
University of South Carolina. He says, quote, this is the
shock of the early twenty first century. This this big move.
Thirty years ago, Americans with a college degree was twenty
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percent of the population twenty percent thirty years ago now
and held the same percentage of house hold wealth as
those without a degree, so outsized. But it was like
fifty to fifty the wealth. So twenty percent had college
degrees and they had half the wealth. Now it's thirty
eight percent of the population has college degrees. It's almost
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doubled in thirty years. Many of them useless, but anyway,
and seventy three percent of the household wealth. So the
you know other sixty two percent of the population that
has twenty seven percent of the household wealth is starting
to think, Hey, this system isn't really set up for me,
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regardless of color.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I want to talk a little more about that. I
have several things to say on that topic and a
couple other examples of the changing world for the way
we look at you know, what we were not of government,
and whether it's serving me or you or a one
percent or whoever.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I that we will get to So hope you can stick.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Around if you can't stick around, you can always grab
the podcasts Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You should subscribe as the word Armstrong and Getty. Come on,
let's be real, man, this place is great. I have
so many wonderful memories here.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Doctor Gil Houston, foreign leaders, my dog attacking every single one.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I brought my party.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Together so much they teamed up and kicked me out.
Wait a minute, maybe I hate it here too.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
No, Joe, I know it's awful, but I can't go
back tomorrow, Lago Joe, because Elon is there and he
will not leave.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's like, what about Bob.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
He's walking around in his bathing suit showing me videos
or rockets and monkeys with computers in their heads.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
This guy's crangef That guy's trump is so good. I
thought I really liked the Sarah Alive. I thought it
was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It was just an equal opportunity making fun of the
whole thing. And I also liked During the News because
I like stupid sketch comedy and having Peanut the Squirrel's
widow on.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I thought I didn't see that yet, Oh man, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Sherman is peen at the Squirrel's widow so you were
what were you.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Just talking about? You were talking about what how race
has been deemphasized in a big hurry in American politics.
I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because it's useful,
but it's all about class and all about economic aspiration. Really. Yeah,
So a couple of things on that.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is,
tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the
lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot
listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub
rational factors like your race, or your gender, or you're
sexting or your sexual orientation or something like this, nobody
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would ever be able to change their mind. You exploded
the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
So.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I don't know, they're almost well, not almost.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Almost always always it's always overstated after every election of
my life, every presidential election, of how things have changed
permanently in some way. But this has got to be
a nod toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting.
Ian Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also,
globalism has been an abject failure, benefiting a small group
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of elites to the expense of broader populations across the West. Yeah,
it varies from country to country, but that's certainly the
way it feels to the average person. So you're being
you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman, the world is flat.
N't this great for everybody?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Thing? But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like. Well, right, yeah,
and it's it's a complicated set of interactions. But yeah,
if the manufacturing jobs can be done more cheaply over there,
and you become the paper shuffling people because you're really
good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever, well those
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jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the well
arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the guys
running the ships. Mostly it rises their you know, financial
well being.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies
all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism.
The United States is not unique, explaining you know why
people abandon some of their race politics for just uh,
you know, my own pocketbook.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, and it's a delicate balance. If you go very
far and all down the road of uh, industrial planning
and government control and that sort of thing. It's it's
a miserable failure. But to completely ignore the question of
a your people's standard living and be your national security.
But here's an honest here's an honest quest. Mean, because
we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and computer chips
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or or whatever, is an idiotic thing to do.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having
so much bigger chunk of the national wealth. And it's
always been true, but that you made way more money
with the college education than without. But they have a
bigger chunk now than they ever had before. So I
don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence
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around is that a college degree is worth less than
it's ever been before. They're learning less than they've ever
been before. Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying
more anyway, go ahead, but are they Yeah, but they're
paying way more but getting less. So are these all
these status of the Wall Street Journal article over the weekend,
how an Ivy League degree helps you hurts you more
than helps you now? But so are all these stats
about income and wealth lagging indicators? It's just it's gonna
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all this is going to catch up to those numbers
at some point because like I'm yes, I'm not super
big on pushing my kids to go to college in
the way that I I got started the whole college fund,
like a lot of parents as soon as they were born,
with just the assumption of course they're going to go
to college.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Over my dead body, would they not.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But now I'm like, why would you go to college
unless you have these specific things you want need to
learn to do whatever it is you want to do
in the world. But again, all the stats out there
showed on average person with a college education makes a
lot more money than person doesn't have it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, I think part of that is that the when
was it that the boom in number of people getting
college educations really took off? I don't know, But the
people who were at the earlier edge of that are
now in their fifties and sixties and in many cases
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in their peak earning years, oh, peek wealth accumulation years.
Let's take another snapshot in thirty years, when you know
a large number of college graduates will be in a
world where a lot of people are college graduates, and
they'll have taken useless degrees where they didn't learn anything.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, that's it's definitely example how it could be way
a lagging an indicator, because if you're gonna go with
lifetime earnings, well obviously people have to be, you know,
sixty to come up with in their sixties to come
up with lifetime earnings that late. So yeah, yeah, way
lagging into great because there's just no way that's still
gonna be true. I don't think I make significantly more
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money with a college education than without.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It just can't be, particularly given how rapidly everything changes
now economical, they technically, technologically, I mean, so a quick
thought for you, and then getting back to the peace
in the Wall Street Journal about how it's less and
less about race, thank god, and more and more about
policy and opportunity. I was a kid in the nineteen seventies,
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mostly you know, late teens in the eighties, but the
three and I was a weird little kid. Not a surprise.
We got Time magazine. We're not like any of you
Newsweek perverts. We were at magazine. Fo good lord.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I walk into somebody's else they got Newsweek. What else
goes on here that I find devil.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Worship animal sacrifice. God knows anyway. But we would get
Time magazine every week, and I would read it cover
to cover every week unless there was some particularly dry
thing that I just couldn't get through. But I remember
three news stories from the seventies distinctly now. One Vietnam unavoidable,
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two Watergate, watching that unfold, and three Inflation. I remember
the whip inflation now, buttons I remember it being the
major story in Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, which we
got at least on Sundays. As I recall all about inflation,
asking my parents what is inflation? They would try to
explain it to me. And we've talked since about what
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the mortgage rates were when they were trying to crush
inflation by raising interest rates so high that mortgagers were
sixteen seventeen eighteen percent a year eighteen percent mortgage? Can
you believe that? Like putting your house on your credit card?
But getting back to the piece in the journal, then
I'll bring it all together, as is my style. They
quote Chicago and Alfredo Ramirez, who voted for Brock twice
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Hillary in twenty sixteen. Last two elections. He's back Trump,
he said, economic concerns, not race, largely drove his vote
this time. He and his wife are raising three kids
on his twenty five thousand dollars a year job at
Target Whoa. He remembers the economy being better before the pandemic,
when eggs and everything else cost less. Trump has done
(25:38):
more for the American people, he says, as post of
the Democrats, they are only caring about themselves. He also
said being Latino didn't affect his vote. Quote, it really
doesn't matter as long as we are out here fighting
for our freedom. And the reason I brought up the
stories I remembered as a kid, in particular in inflation,
particularly inflation, is if inflation is high, as I've said times,
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nothing else matters. And they mentioned where is that? I
thought I was pretty well written. They mentioned that all
sorts of alleged experts were in all sorts of media.
There is Democrats at times tried to use statistics. He said,
this is a college guy, explained down to the decimal
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point to argue that inflation wasn't really hurting people and
that voters' concerns about immigration were unfounded. Explain that to
mister Ramirez. Explain that to the black construction worker Aaron Waters,
who we talked about before. What a load of crap.
(26:48):
You're not scared at the grocery store when you see
the bill and think, how the hell am I going
to pay my rent? You think you are? And I
keep reading that wages have actually caught up to an inflation?
Do you know anybody about her house saying there, I've
got such a giant race since a pre pandemic. I'm
making twenty percent more.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
There's no way you're gotta be making almost thirty percent more.
There's just now like.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Average out including a hedge fund guys.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how
you twist the statistics to get that. But I don't
think I know a single person who would say that
that was true for them.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, I know, I know, and I've seen it in
a couple of publications, so including the Wall Street Journal,
which surprised me. But everybody they talked to in this story,
every single damn one of them, talks about the economy
and their job and inflation. If that's what it takes
to take the gasoline out of the engine of it's
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all about race. Halle freaking Loujah.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
One more kind of economics thing I came across that
I thought was interesting from the Wall Street Journal. What
does HUDD have to show for trillions of dollars a
tax payer money, housing and urban development.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
With this quote in there?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Add it all up, and since nineteen sixty five, the
US has spent four trillion dollars, but it has not
increased home ownership as a percentage, making homes more affordable,
or reducing rents adjusted for inflation. Nothing at a strange
four trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Tomorrow during the show, I want to go down a
checklist of this learned person knows all about the federal
deocracy and how it works and how to reform it
and all going through a checklist of the various departments
and how expendable they are. You know, I don't know
if Elon and VvE can pull off what they're promising. Boy,
(28:41):
they could do a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I just I just saw this headline. I might have
to find the audio. CNN Morning Crew cracks up at
RFK on Trump plane being forced to eat poison in
hostage video. That's the picture if you haven't seen it
of them all eating McDonald's. You got on Trump's you
got Trump, and Elon Trump Junior, Mike Johnson's there and
(29:04):
RFK Junior with a big mac in his hand kind
of looking like I guess I gotta do this.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
He absolutely looks like a guy who's nodding on the joke.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It must have happened so fast, like he didn't have
time to think through do I want to be a
part of this or not? Which I've had happened to
me before.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So we played the audio of Trump entering the UFC
Arena Madison Square Garden and the place going just absolutely wild.
My second favorite pro wrestling clip of the weekend, well
worth staying tuned. Okay, cool, believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's on the way a Spirit Airlines flight was forced
to divert after it was struck by gunfire from gangs
while trying to land in Haiti, a rare setback for
people who fly Spirit to Haiti.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's a dang good joke right there. That is a
funny joke. Indeed, came across this over the weekend. The
big US UFC fight, the pro wrestling Why do we
play seventeen again? All right? Have we even played this one?
I don't know. Go ahead, and ladies and Hillman.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Who is now making his play to the world. Fantas
opt to God black by UFC CEO Tata White forty
five Sooner Big forty seven Presidents, Les.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Gold of Truck, He prist the people go home twenty year.
It doesn't sound in this room is so loudly here
it is so loud. It's always low when he comes here.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
But how many's wrong now that he's the president?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yes, oh my god, as kid Rock inevitably jams in
the background. You and that is yeah, yeah, crazy and
Tulsey yeah, and RFK Junior Yeah, but no Matt Gates interesting.
Uh So, after he won one of the big matches,
(31:10):
UFC fighter Jim Miller said the following eighteen, Michael, it feels.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Amazing New York. I got one thing to say. First,
we need justice for Peanut, right right, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And it's not USA.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
It's all the kids that went hungry that night and
all the other things that the money and resources could
have been put through. Holby, that's jog Clans things up
out to state Leveon. I like, how to use the
fuse fitting speech for a political rally.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Justice for Peanut? Yeah, I'm not sure. How many kids
quote unquote went hungry that night because the state of
New York didn't have resources because they were hunting down
Peanut was assassinating a famous scrorel. Yeah, yeah, I do
appreciate him bringing it up. And just the whole cultural thing.
(32:05):
I'm sorry, thing is never the best word, but the
whole cultural milieu, which is French for thing. But you
got the sense of humor, the unapologetic masculinity, the loud
rock and music, and Trump not embracing it because he
(32:30):
thinks he's he should, but that's kind of his thing.
What an interesting character. Rich since birth, billionaire developer absolutely
gets normal people for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And there are lots of people that come from normal
beginnings who end up successful and rich who just can't
don't have the common touch like that at all. They
just can't make it happen, even though that's their background.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Like Mitt Romney became very, very wealthy, but he was
very not wealthy as a young man, a young husband.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
He could not pull off working people thing.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
No, no, And I still think it's because Trump, especially
early in his career. And I don't know the chapter
and verse of this, but he spent a tremendous amount
of time at the work sites for the buildings he
was developing, working with the foreman and talking to the
workers and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Tesla's stock up seven percent because of the belief that
Trump's going to deregulate the electric car industry to a
certain extent.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, there's Jack again, there's Joe Man.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
It's time of just the show with the help of
Kadie Green and Michael Langel.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So creepy for friends, they're like fans again, They're not
our radio. So let's they're they're final tusk people or
they have to go Wow, why is that so disturbing? Wow? Hey,
how about you get back in the store and quit
menacing me? Right? Was that supposed to be disturbing when
he made It's Dabby the Clown? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
pressing the buttons are technical director Mike l Aanglow. Michael,
I'm just picturing the White House and Trump ordering cheeseburgers
just to irritate RFK, like they're having a meeting and
just a whole bunch of cheeseburgers come into the room
from McDonald's. You know, uh, Katie Green. A final thought for.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Us, I would take a lot of joy and some
professional boxers around the age of Jake Paul challenging him
to a fight.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, knocking him out? I agree, I agree. Oh he
still needs to be punched, but that's part of his thing,
isn't it. Yeah, being you love to hate him? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Final thought for us, Yeah, I really enjoyed the communal
thing that was the Friday night fight. During the day,
the people talking about when you gonna watch, you're gonna watch,
what time?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Who you haven't over? And then the next day everybody.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Talking about I miss that that we used to have
all the time, you know, a TV show in an
event that we could well have a communal thing about.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But we don't anymore. It's very rare. Yeah, that one
was great and profound. Mine is silly following that, so
I don't I'm not even gonna bother. Okay, my final
thought ain't worth crap. Now. My final thought is whatever
it takes for this country to avoid sectarian politics, that
(35:23):
is a good thing again. Look up the history of Lebanon,
do a little reading, and good to the modern day.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
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Speaker 5 (35:48):
They're some of the most dynamic, freethinking, animal killing, sexually criminal,
medically crazy people in the country.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Who are you thinking about? I'm strong and getty, and
you know what everyone knows, that's not what I was told.
It's time to do something different, and.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That time is every day, So say it with me.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
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Speaker 8 (36:11):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong, and Gatty.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty, you gotta remember this. He got off easy.
I think we both know.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
If I was in the race, I want to beat you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Like a drum.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Joe.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard anyone say.
And for that reason, I'd like to offer you a
position in my cabinet.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
No can, dude, Jack, you need to make take a
little time off from his place.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What do you think you'll do next, Joe? Will you retire?
I'll do what every worn down old guy does. I'm
gonna fight chick Paul.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That was pretty good cold open, I thought I thought
that was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, we're discussing off the air, Like everywhere we went,
everybody's talking about that fight.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh yeah, kids, old women, no matter who I came
in contact with, people were talking about the.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Mike captured America's imagination. Jack, it did. Why do you
think that was really?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And it's interesting Mike Tyson, who was a villain ish
at least in his prime. I mean, he needed to
go to prison for rape and uh, big guy's ear
off and all that sort of stuff. He'd been arrested.
He'd been arrested in a thirty good list already thirty
five times by the time he was sixteen or something
like that. And he had a rough life. But now
(01:40):
he needs to get a grill going, like George Foreman.
He needs to have some sort of thing to cook
hot dogs or something, because he seems to be somewhat
beloved for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, kind of the snoop dogg syndrome. I gassy. Yeah,
he's got to find an alternative to get a hit
in the head for a way to make money. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Man, he got punched in the face several times and
after words and they ask him if you fight again?
I thought surely he would say no way, because he
looked to me like when he sat down after that
first round, the look on his face to me was
this was a terrible idea. I don't know what I
was thinking. He was so tired. Uh, even after the
first two minutes, he was just shot. And I don't
(02:19):
care if you're Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Getting hit in the head is different at age sixty
than it was at age twenty five. That's an interesting point.
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I hadn't even thought about that because, like when I
fall off my kids skateboard or whatever, the way it
rocks your world versus you know, falling off your bike
when you're younger, it's completely different. I don't know if
the like juice that keeps your brain safe gets.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Staff for what happens. But your brain juice tries, Now
that's exactly what everyone knows. That's what happens. Your brain
juice to just coragulates. It just doesn't work the same way.
I grew up playing hockey, played in college and stuff
like that. Not college hockey, but I was playing club
hockey in college, and and you know, you get bonked
in the head and falling the ice whatever. I was skating,
(03:04):
and this was probably fifteen years ago, gladys, and I
was doing some of the fancier skating stuff you do
as a hockey player, you know, changing direction, going for
forward to backward and back again real fast. And I
got my skates tied up and I fell and bonked
my head mediumsh hard on the ice. And that was
my first reaction. Oh my god, that was different. Yeah, yeah,
(03:28):
so yeah, anyway, getting slugged in the head can't have
been enjoyable. Has Tyson never done a one man show?
I don't. Yeah, he did have an idea of that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
He had a Tyson show for a while, think of Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, he he had four hundred million dollars at the
peak of his career. He threw a combination of being
stolen from which is the history of boxing, and really
bad life decisions. He ended up twenty some million dollars
in debt, which he's climbed out of, and he had
a big payday the other night, somewhere between twenty and
forty million dollars. So I'd get punched in the head
(04:06):
quite a few. I mean, if you could get anywhere
close to that kind of money for one more head punch,
and I would do it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah. Yeah, but he looked he did. He was not
competitive in any way whatsoever. Yeah. Well, I hesitate to
give it any more time or attention. But I think
the reason it was so compelling is you got the
question of Ken a incredibly tough, strong, capable boxer, still
(04:34):
show some of that as he ages, because we all
want to not age, and so you've got that, like
very basic human instinct. Then you got a guy and
Jake Paul really needs to get punched in the face.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh yeah, love to see him get punched in the
face more. Unfortunately, Tyson landed seventeen total punches.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
By whomever in whatever setting just so he gets punched.
So yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh when Jake Paul came riding out in that car
with his brother whatever where his brother's name is, who
made the prime energy drink, the crack dealer that got
every kid hooked on that horrible drink?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Just he couldn't hate those two more.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh, anyway, speaking to people to hate, some of you
hate Matt Gates, some of you love Matt Gates as
the new Attorney General. As from what I can tell
from social media, speaker Johnson, who does not want the
Ethics Committee report to be released, was supposed to come
(05:31):
out last Friday. Matt Gates resigned on Wednesday just a
coincidence and doesn't want some import release because he thinks
it would be a bad President had this to say
about Matt Gates yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Matt Gates is a colleague of mine. We've been serving
together for more than eight years. He's one of the
brightest minds in Washington or anywhere for that matter, and
he knows everything about how the Department of Justice has
been weaponized and misused, and he will be a reformer.
And I think that's why the establishment in Washington is
so shaken up about this pick.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Maybe at least three Republican senators that I've seen, I
don't know how many on the record, but at least
three Republican senators I've seen said they want that House
Ethics Committee report to be part of the hearing. They
want to see it, even if it is not made
public reporting over the weekend. So the whole thing is
(06:22):
not leaked out yet. I thought it would leak out Friday,
but it has not yet. But little nuggets have leaked out,
like they did talk to a girl who testified to
the House Committee that she saw Matt Gates have sex
with an underage girl and then some other girl who
may have been of age, but he had sex with
two different women at that party who were like seventeen
(06:43):
and nineteen. So I mean that's a certain lifestyle right there.
Sex with two different girls in one night at a party,
both of them barely teenagers.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I mean they're still teenagers. But yeah, to the
House Ethics Committee question, Johnson went on to say, look,
we don't put out reports on private citizens who are
not members of Congress. So no, we're not going to
put that out. It's justifiable. Right. On the other hand,
it's been pointed out that if you're going for ag
the investigation into you, the what's the background term background check? Right, Yeah,
(07:19):
of course is incredibly rigorous. It should be. Yeah, absolutely,
as it should be. But Johnson's strategy there in which
he recognizes, all right, this is an incredibly bright guy
who the quote was he knows how the Justice Department
has been weaponized that may or may not be true.
(07:42):
That was respectful to Donald Jay's selection of the guy,
and then let's let the process continue, he says, knowing
that the senators, who jealously guard the powers of the
Senate as Congress ought to start going, is going to
vet the guy good and thoroughly. So there's no reason
for Johnson to say, I don't know, it seems like
kind of a perv to me. I want him to
(08:02):
stay away from my wife. There's no need for that.
The Senate will do the tough work, but be respectful
to Trump.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well after bouncing around a fair amount of magas social
media over the weekend. I see that many of you
believe all this stuff about I him and sex with
a teenage girl is just the deep State doing what
they do with fake news and bringing people down.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So that's not going to have any effect on you.
This report and the deep State forced him to go
on the House of Floor and show videos of girls
he'd coupled with to colleagues who didn't want to see them.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, I guess you'd believe Mullen is part of the
deep State, I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Said Mullen. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, ran into some
folks who were of that mind over the weekend, super
supportive of all the picks. All the tick. Was very
little gentle bit of pushback in some cases because you
(09:06):
get bubbled. I mean, for instance, the whole Rick Scott
should be the leader of the Senate, not John Thune.
John Thune is a Rhino, which I still think is
a really odd accusation because he's like a complete central
casting Republican. He's exactly what a Republican has been for
(09:27):
twenty five years. Trump is not, so to call Thune
a Republican in name only, is that. I get what
you're trying to say, but it's an odd epithet to
hit him with. But it was pointed out that Thune
voted in a favor or with Trump a significantly higher
percentage of the time than Rick Scott did both was
(09:47):
an overwhelming majority of the time. But and you know,
the people I talked to had no idea of that,
So I don't know. We are interesting times.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We have a result in the Pennsylvania Senate race. It
took till now for them to finally count all the
voids votes. Man, this is a close race. Thank god
the presidential election didn't go down the way a lot
of people were predicting it would, where it would come
down to Pennsylvania or we would be finding out today. Well, no,
we wouldn't because it would be way more lawsuits. We
(10:17):
would still be in the midst of lawsuits and all
kinds of claims of vote voter fraud and everything else.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Because it was so close.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But they've called it for the Republican McCormick over the
Democrat Casey who ran ads about how friendly he was
with Trump to try to win. But forty eight point
eight percent to forty eight point six percent.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Wow, that's a close race. Doesn't that trigger an automatical
recall or not recount? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
The automatic rec is a very tiny amount of percentage
in money, So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't know. We'll see. I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I'm glad the presidential race didn't go down like that.
We would be living in a different world right now.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So oh yeah, oh oh, it'd be horrible, absolutely horrible.
We really dodged yet another bullet. So speaking of the election,
putting the results aside, one of the things that made
me really really happy is the trend is absolutely clear.
It's much less and less about race because racial politics balkanization.
(11:24):
You want to end up like Lebanon for instance. Oh,
it's the worst thing. Uh, It's it's about class now
in a way that's really interesting. Some of the statistics
about the why the working class is saying the Democrats, Yeah,
we tried you, we want something different. We'll have for
you in a moment. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Realignment, something to watch, stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Machel has apologized after mistakingly printing the web address of
a porn site on the packaging of its new Wicked Dolls.
It was actually a simple mistake. You see, the box
was supposed to read wickedmovie dot com, but instead they
printed choke me, Jeff Goldlin.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's a mistake. That's a nod.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So ODSSA Friday night, Are we gonna get our Elon
Musk Zuckerberg fight? Seems like that'd be the next good Netflix.
Everybody gather around as kind of a national Friday night thing,
watch a couple of billionaires beat each other up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah. I think Elon's a little busy reigning in the
federal government at this point, no kidding, two point three
million employees. I would love to follow him around.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So he seems to be constantly working on his rocket company.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He's got twelve kids. I don't know if that plays
a role in his life at all. I give the
idea not a huge one.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
He's on Twitter constantly also, and then he's at the
fight with Trump and then mar A Lago for days
and I just can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah. Yeah, well, he famously his mind never slows down.
He's made it clear this would make most people crazy,
and I think it has made him a little crazy.
But anyway, so the big change in the election that
we'll be talked about for years and years is not
just the winners and losers, but the fact that Black
American Hispanic America moved significantly rightward. I mean, the Democrats
(13:25):
still get the majority of the black vote, for instance,
but it's changing, and it's changing pretty quickly. And you know,
it's easy for us and people like us to forget that.
Most people don't think about politics that much. I've been
yelling for Black America to reconsider this unholy alliance with
the Democratic Party, which is just exploited the black vote,
(13:48):
assumed the black vote, and giving you nothing but empty
promises and government dependents for decades and decades. Now it
appears that, I don't know, perhaps people are starting to
connect elections with policy with outcomes in a way that
you know is too slow for me, but I get it.
And the journal with the Wall Street Journal was some
pretty interesting analysis of the fact that it's now about
(14:10):
class and not race. If you're working class, you are
swinging way towards the Republicans and it doesn't matter what,
Hugh your skin is. Thank god, I'm so happy about that.
And not just because it's Republican. I mean it could
be Democrat too. Let's just not have like hugely important
racial politics in this country.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Please, for a number of reasons, including I think you're
much more likely to get policy discussions if you're talking
about people of different income situations than their skin color. Well,
you make the claim of racism is so easily right.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And they quote Aaron Waters, who's the first gent they
quote in this article, who's a black construction worker union
member in Chicago who voted for Trump after voting for
Biden and Obama in past elections, and he says, race
is not an issue for me. It's about what you
can do for each and every one of us as
a whole, as a US citizen. Now, the reason that's important,
(15:05):
getting back to my berating you know, quote unquote black America,
is that guys like Aaron are saying, no, you can't
say I'm down with the black folks, so vote for me.
What are you gonna do? What are your policies? That's phony.
He's realized it's well, it's phony. It's it's putting you
in a pen. And I've always hated that. But came
(15:29):
across a couple of interesting statistics about this this question.
And here's an associate professor of political science at the
University of South Carolina. He says, quote, this is the
shock of the early twenty first century. This this big move.
Thirty years ago, Americans with a college degree was twenty
(15:53):
percent of the population twenty percent thirty years ago now
and held the same percentage of house hold wealth as
those without a degree, so outsized. But it was like
fifty to fifty the wealth. So twenty percent had college
degrees and they had half the wealth. Now it's thirty
eight percent of the population has college degrees. It's almost
(16:17):
doubled in thirty years. Many of them useless, but anyway,
and seventy three percent of the household wealth. So the
you know other sixty two percent of the population that
has twenty seven percent of the household wealth is starting
to think, Hey, this system isn't really set up for me,
(16:40):
regardless of color.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I want to talk a little more about that. I
have several things to say on that topic and a
couple other examples of the changing world for the way
we look at you know, what we were not of government,
and whether it's serving me or you or a one
percent or whoever.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I that we will get to So hope you can stick.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Around if you can't stick around, you can always grab
the podcasts Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You should subscribe as the word Armstrong and Getty. Come on,
let's be real, man, this place is great. I have
so many wonderful memories here.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Doctor Gil Houston, foreign leaders, my dog attacking every single one.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I brought my party.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Together so much they teamed up and kicked me out.
Wait a minute, maybe I hate it here too.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
No, Joe, I know it's awful, but I can't go
back tomorrow, Lago Joe, because Elon is there and he
will not leave.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's like, what about Bob.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
He's walking around in his bathing suit showing me videos
or rockets and monkeys with computers in their heads.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
This guy's crangef That guy's trump is so good. I
thought I really liked the Sarah Alive. I thought it
was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It was just an equal opportunity making fun of the
whole thing. And I also liked During the News because
I like stupid sketch comedy and having Peanut the Squirrel's
widow on.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I thought I didn't see that yet, Oh man, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Sherman is peen at the Squirrel's widow so you were
what were you.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Just talking about? You were talking about what how race
has been deemphasized in a big hurry in American politics.
I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because it's useful,
but it's all about class and all about economic aspiration. Really. Yeah,
So a couple of things on that.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is,
tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the
lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot
listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub
rational factors like your race, or your gender, or you're
sexting or your sexual orientation or something like this, nobody
(19:00):
would ever be able to change their mind. You exploded
the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
So.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I don't know, they're almost well, not almost.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Almost always always it's always overstated after every election of
my life, every presidential election, of how things have changed
permanently in some way. But this has got to be
a nod toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting.
Ian Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also,
globalism has been an abject failure, benefiting a small group
(19:29):
of elites to the expense of broader populations across the West. Yeah,
it varies from country to country, but that's certainly the
way it feels to the average person. So you're being
you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman, the world is flat.
N't this great for everybody?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Thing? But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like. Well, right, yeah,
and it's it's a complicated set of interactions. But yeah,
if the manufacturing jobs can be done more cheaply over there,
and you become the paper shuffling people because you're really
good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever, well those
(20:07):
jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the well
arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the guys
running the ships. Mostly it rises their you know, financial
well being.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies
all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism.
The United States is not unique, explaining you know why
people abandon some of their race politics for just uh,
you know, my own pocketbook.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, and it's a delicate balance. If you go very
far and all down the road of uh, industrial planning
and government control and that sort of thing. It's it's
a miserable failure. But to completely ignore the question of
a your people's standard living and be your national security.
But here's an honest here's an honest quest. Mean, because
we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and computer chips
(20:57):
or or whatever, is an idiotic thing to do.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having
so much bigger chunk of the national wealth. And it's
always been true, but that you made way more money
with the college education than without. But they have a
bigger chunk now than they ever had before. So I
don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence
(21:22):
around is that a college degree is worth less than
it's ever been before. They're learning less than they've ever
been before. Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying
more anyway, go ahead, but are they Yeah, but they're
paying way more but getting less. So are these all
these status of the Wall Street Journal article over the weekend,
how an Ivy League degree helps you hurts you more
than helps you now? But so are all these stats
about income and wealth lagging indicators? It's just it's gonna
(21:46):
all this is going to catch up to those numbers
at some point because like I'm yes, I'm not super
big on pushing my kids to go to college in
the way that I I got started the whole college fund,
like a lot of parents as soon as they were born,
with just the assumption of course they're going to go
to college.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Over my dead body, would they not.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But now I'm like, why would you go to college
unless you have these specific things you want need to
learn to do whatever it is you want to do
in the world. But again, all the stats out there
showed on average person with a college education makes a
lot more money than person doesn't have it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, I think part of that is that the when
was it that the boom in number of people getting
college educations really took off? I don't know, But the
people who were at the earlier edge of that are
now in their fifties and sixties and in many cases
(22:42):
in their peak earning years, oh, peek wealth accumulation years.
Let's take another snapshot in thirty years, when you know
a large number of college graduates will be in a
world where a lot of people are college graduates, and
they'll have taken useless degrees where they didn't learn anything.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, that's it's definitely example how it could be way
a lagging an indicator, because if you're gonna go with
lifetime earnings, well obviously people have to be, you know,
sixty to come up with in their sixties to come
up with lifetime earnings that late. So yeah, yeah, way
lagging into great because there's just no way that's still
gonna be true. I don't think I make significantly more
(23:23):
money with a college education than without.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It just can't be, particularly given how rapidly everything changes
now economical, they technically, technologically, I mean, so a quick
thought for you, and then getting back to the peace
in the Wall Street Journal about how it's less and
less about race, thank god, and more and more about
policy and opportunity. I was a kid in the nineteen seventies,
(23:50):
mostly you know, late teens in the eighties, but the
three and I was a weird little kid. Not a surprise.
We got Time magazine. We're not like any of you
Newsweek perverts. We were at magazine. Fo good lord.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I walk into somebody's else they got Newsweek. What else
goes on here that I find devil.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Worship animal sacrifice. God knows anyway. But we would get
Time magazine every week, and I would read it cover
to cover every week unless there was some particularly dry
thing that I just couldn't get through. But I remember
three news stories from the seventies distinctly now. One Vietnam unavoidable,
(24:30):
two Watergate, watching that unfold, and three Inflation. I remember
the whip inflation now, buttons I remember it being the
major story in Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, which we
got at least on Sundays. As I recall all about inflation,
asking my parents what is inflation? They would try to
explain it to me. And we've talked since about what
(24:52):
the mortgage rates were when they were trying to crush
inflation by raising interest rates so high that mortgagers were
sixteen seventeen eighteen percent a year eighteen percent mortgage? Can
you believe that? Like putting your house on your credit card?
But getting back to the piece in the journal, then
I'll bring it all together, as is my style. They
quote Chicago and Alfredo Ramirez, who voted for Brock twice
(25:17):
Hillary in twenty sixteen. Last two elections. He's back Trump,
he said, economic concerns, not race, largely drove his vote
this time. He and his wife are raising three kids
on his twenty five thousand dollars a year job at
Target Whoa. He remembers the economy being better before the pandemic,
when eggs and everything else cost less. Trump has done
(25:38):
more for the American people, he says, as post of
the Democrats, they are only caring about themselves. He also
said being Latino didn't affect his vote. Quote, it really
doesn't matter as long as we are out here fighting
for our freedom. And the reason I brought up the
stories I remembered as a kid, in particular in inflation,
particularly inflation, is if inflation is high, as I've said times,
(26:00):
nothing else matters. And they mentioned where is that? I
thought I was pretty well written. They mentioned that all
sorts of alleged experts were in all sorts of media.
There is Democrats at times tried to use statistics. He said,
this is a college guy, explained down to the decimal
(26:26):
point to argue that inflation wasn't really hurting people and
that voters' concerns about immigration were unfounded. Explain that to
mister Ramirez. Explain that to the black construction worker Aaron Waters,
who we talked about before. What a load of crap.
(26:48):
You're not scared at the grocery store when you see
the bill and think, how the hell am I going
to pay my rent? You think you are? And I
keep reading that wages have actually caught up to an inflation?
Do you know anybody about her house saying there, I've
got such a giant race since a pre pandemic. I'm
making twenty percent more.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
There's no way you're gotta be making almost thirty percent more.
There's just now like.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Average out including a hedge fund guys.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how
you twist the statistics to get that. But I don't
think I know a single person who would say that
that was true for them.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, I know, I know, and I've seen it in
a couple of publications, so including the Wall Street Journal,
which surprised me. But everybody they talked to in this story,
every single damn one of them, talks about the economy
and their job and inflation. If that's what it takes
to take the gasoline out of the engine of it's
(27:42):
all about race. Halle freaking Loujah.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
One more kind of economics thing I came across that
I thought was interesting from the Wall Street Journal. What
does HUDD have to show for trillions of dollars a
tax payer money, housing and urban development.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
With this quote in there?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Add it all up, and since nineteen sixty five, the
US has spent four trillion dollars, but it has not
increased home ownership as a percentage, making homes more affordable,
or reducing rents adjusted for inflation. Nothing at a strange
four trillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Tomorrow during the show, I want to go down a
checklist of this learned person knows all about the federal
deocracy and how it works and how to reform it
and all going through a checklist of the various departments
and how expendable they are. You know, I don't know
if Elon and VvE can pull off what they're promising. Boy,
(28:41):
they could do a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I just I just saw this headline. I might have
to find the audio. CNN Morning Crew cracks up at
RFK on Trump plane being forced to eat poison in
hostage video. That's the picture if you haven't seen it
of them all eating McDonald's. You got on Trump's you
got Trump, and Elon Trump Junior, Mike Johnson's there and
(29:04):
RFK Junior with a big mac in his hand kind
of looking like I guess I gotta do this.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
He absolutely looks like a guy who's nodding on the joke.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It must have happened so fast, like he didn't have
time to think through do I want to be a
part of this or not? Which I've had happened to
me before.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So we played the audio of Trump entering the UFC
Arena Madison Square Garden and the place going just absolutely wild.
My second favorite pro wrestling clip of the weekend, well
worth staying tuned. Okay, cool, believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's on the way a Spirit Airlines flight was forced
to divert after it was struck by gunfire from gangs
while trying to land in Haiti, a rare setback for
people who fly Spirit to Haiti.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's a dang good joke right there. That is a
funny joke. Indeed, came across this over the weekend. The
big US UFC fight, the pro wrestling Why do we
play seventeen again? All right? Have we even played this one?
I don't know. Go ahead, and ladies and Hillman.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Who is now making his play to the world. Fantas
opt to God black by UFC CEO Tata White forty
five Sooner Big forty seven Presidents, Les.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Gold of Truck, He prist the people go home twenty year.
It doesn't sound in this room is so loudly here
it is so loud. It's always low when he comes here.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
But how many's wrong now that he's the president?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yes, oh my god, as kid Rock inevitably jams in
the background. You and that is yeah, yeah, crazy and
Tulsey yeah, and RFK Junior Yeah, but no Matt Gates interesting.
Uh So, after he won one of the big matches,
(31:10):
UFC fighter Jim Miller said the following eighteen, Michael, it feels.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Amazing New York. I got one thing to say. First,
we need justice for Peanut, right right, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And it's not USA.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
It's all the kids that went hungry that night and
all the other things that the money and resources could
have been put through. Holby, that's jog Clans things up
out to state Leveon. I like, how to use the
fuse fitting speech for a political rally.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Justice for Peanut? Yeah, I'm not sure. How many kids
quote unquote went hungry that night because the state of
New York didn't have resources because they were hunting down
Peanut was assassinating a famous scrorel. Yeah, yeah, I do
appreciate him bringing it up. And just the whole cultural thing.
(32:05):
I'm sorry, thing is never the best word, but the
whole cultural milieu, which is French for thing. But you
got the sense of humor, the unapologetic masculinity, the loud
rock and music, and Trump not embracing it because he
(32:30):
thinks he's he should, but that's kind of his thing.
What an interesting character. Rich since birth, billionaire developer absolutely
gets normal people for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And there are lots of people that come from normal
beginnings who end up successful and rich who just can't
don't have the common touch like that at all. They
just can't make it happen, even though that's their background.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Like Mitt Romney became very, very wealthy, but he was
very not wealthy as a young man, a young husband.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
He could not pull off working people thing.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
No, no, And I still think it's because Trump, especially
early in his career. And I don't know the chapter
and verse of this, but he spent a tremendous amount
of time at the work sites for the buildings he
was developing, working with the foreman and talking to the
workers and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Tesla's stock up seven percent because of the belief that
Trump's going to deregulate the electric car industry to a
certain extent.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, there's Jack again, there's Joe Man.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
It's time of just the show with the help of
Kadie Green and Michael Langel.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So creepy for friends, they're like fans again, They're not
our radio. So let's they're they're final tusk people or
they have to go Wow, why is that so disturbing? Wow? Hey,
how about you get back in the store and quit
menacing me? Right? Was that supposed to be disturbing when
he made It's Dabby the Clown? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
pressing the buttons are technical director Mike l Aanglow. Michael,
I'm just picturing the White House and Trump ordering cheeseburgers
just to irritate RFK, like they're having a meeting and
just a whole bunch of cheeseburgers come into the room
from McDonald's. You know, uh, Katie Green. A final thought for.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Us, I would take a lot of joy and some
professional boxers around the age of Jake Paul challenging him
to a fight.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, knocking him out? I agree, I agree. Oh he
still needs to be punched, but that's part of his thing,
isn't it. Yeah, being you love to hate him? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Final thought for us, Yeah, I really enjoyed the communal
thing that was the Friday night fight. During the day,
the people talking about when you gonna watch, you're gonna watch,
what time?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Who you haven't over? And then the next day everybody.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Talking about I miss that that we used to have
all the time, you know, a TV show in an
event that we could well have a communal thing about.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But we don't anymore. It's very rare. Yeah, that one
was great and profound. Mine is silly following that, so
I don't I'm not even gonna bother. Okay, my final
thought ain't worth crap. Now. My final thought is whatever
it takes for this country to avoid sectarian politics, that
(35:23):
is a good thing again. Look up the history of Lebanon,
do a little reading, and good to the modern day.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Armstrong in Giddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So many people who think so little time go to
Armstrong Giddy dot com. Check out the hotlinks, drop us
a note if there's something we ought to be talking about.
Male bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Pickup a
T shirt. Why not, We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They're some of the most dynamic, freethinking, animal killing, sexually criminal,
medically crazy people in the country.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Who are you thinking about? I'm strong and getty, and
you know what everyone knows, that's not what I was told.
It's time to do something different, and.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
That time is every day, So say it with me.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Puff Daddy, Peppe, Daddy, your daddy, riding on a pony,
calling Macaronie
Speaker 8 (36:11):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing note, arm Strong and
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