December 23, 2024 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong
and Jato arms Strong and Getty. Could he come inside?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Though?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Awesome, you're groundated? No, my friends show me that one.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
They're ground You go outside?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, it's different for you because you would rather be
inside your corner shops.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
To be outside. You need to be a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Do something out here. There's a lot of things you
can do. Climb the tree, jump the fence. I don't
really care, go tea the audition neighbor.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's not worry. You have to be creative. What do
you want to do inside?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Anyways?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And that's the probable.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know, well, that kid sounded like he was reading
from a script. But I had a very similar conversation
with my son last night, like in a very serious way.
He was breaking down emotionally over this, over the whole
thing I talked about over the last couple of weeks.
I'm getting rid of Netflix and Disney and all that
different sort of stuff. As I've been encouraging him for
a long time. Got to come up with other things
(01:20):
to do. He's homeschooled, so he has more time on
his hands than his brother does. But uh, it's I
do have some sympathy as a guy who loves to read.
I find it difficult to read now because my brain
is warped from looking at my phone. And I didn't
(01:43):
start looking at my phone until I was forty five.
So you know, if you've been if you've been doing
that your whole life. Just the pace of things being outside.
I'm supposed to get a stick and like digging the
dirt at their point, which is what I did sometimes,
(02:03):
but just the pace is just so slow.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
We need and this is my ten million dollar idea
that I'm too shift list to actually implement. We need
electronic detox programs, and I know they exist, but they
need to be like well known and popular where whether
as an adult or as a parent or whatever. Maybe
the kid himself realizes I am making myself insane. I
(02:28):
need two weeks in the woods to decompress, get weaned
off the devices, get back in touch with the reality.
I mean actual real reality, not virtual reality reality.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I need it myself, right, I camba have we done?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't know what are human beings doing to themselves?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You know quote unquote tech I swear is the apple
from the tree and knowledge in the Book of Genesis.
It is the the thing we cannot handle as a species.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Troubles me greatly and I only think about it every
single day. So well, we're gonna do oh oh.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Speaking of kids, I wanted to bring this up and again,
you're not gonna hear this anywhere but here. Even though
it's a huge, huge story, and especially in the wake
of the recent Supreme Court oral arguments, the UK has
banned puberty blockers for gender confused children indefinitely. It's an
(03:29):
unacceptable safety risk quote unquote. Existing emergency measures banning the
sale and supply puberty supressing hormones will be made indefinite
following official advice from medical experts. Any medical expert that
is not utterly corrupted by radical gender theory can look
at the evidence and see what the CAST report saw
and say, wow, there is no evidence that this is
(03:51):
worth all of the risks and the side effects and
the injuries and eighty five percent of kids grow out
of it within six months anyway, and the rest of it.
So I don't know what to say other than that
the UK has made their very very strong decision, joining
half a dozen other European countries that are doing exactly
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So the biggest political story of the day to me,
and I think this can't be overstated, is how high
Donald Trump is right now as a politician compared to
where he once was. There might not be a example
(04:32):
of this throughout world history of anybody being as low
as somebody was and as high as somebody was as
right now with Donald Trump, it is absolutely amazing. So today,
in case you didn't know it, he rang the bell
to open the New York Stock Exchange, which no president
or president elect has done since Reagan. So it's been
forty years for whatever reason. But there's a video out
(04:54):
of when Donald Trump gets told this yesterday, when somebody
comes to us, say, hey, we just got the news
the New York Stock Exchange is invited you to ring
the bell. Nobody, no president has done it since Reagan
in nineteen eighty two or whatever it is. It And
you can just tell the I mean, the guy who's
grown up in New York. New York is his home town.
It's like, you know, being successful wherever you went to
high school, sure, I mean, and at the same day
(05:17):
Time Magazine names You're gonna be on the cover of
Time magazine, which Trump is an old man, it still
really means something to be Time Magazine's person of the year.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Oh you know who else is Time Magazine's person of
the year Jack Perhaps you've heard of him Hitler.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And so the combination of those two things with this
CNN poll that is out, first of all, the CNN
poll on how do you feel Trump is handling the transition?
Fifty five forty five approved. He's got a ten point win.
We're just a couple of weeks ago he was Hitler
according to everyone, exception for people who are going to
(05:57):
vote for Trump.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And to me, the most interesting part of the transition
the way it's being run is he's more or less
the president already.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I wish we could revive James Madison and have him say, yeah,
have the new guys start early. The old guy's not
doing anything, so let's get started. Because that's the feel
of it, according to Democrats.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
According to Politico over the weekend, unnamed Democrats in the
White House saying, yeah, it feels like Trump's the president already.
Democrats and the White House are saying that. I mean,
it's absolutely amazing. So they break it down your choices
on here are a lot of confidence, some confidence, no
real confidence, no opinion. And here's all these different categories
that Trump's killing it in. Dealing with the economy. You
(06:38):
add up a lot of confidence with some confidencies at
sixty five percent in the you know, positive territory on
dealing with the economy, handling the war between Russia and
Ukraine's sixty two, dealing with immigration policy sixty providing real
leadership for the country fifty nine, handling foreign affairs. God
Ian Bremer and people like him constantly writing how nervous
(07:01):
world leaders are now that Trump's coming back in the eyes. Okay, well,
Americans are fifty five percent of them either a lot
or somewhat okay with way He's going to handle it,
Appointing the best people to office fifty four percent, and
then the most amazing one given January sixth, using the
power of the presidency responsibly fifty four percent. He's above
(07:25):
fifty on all of those categories. It's stunning. Yeah, yeah,
how much of it is the positive Trump thing? How
much of it is the negative Democrat thing? They're just
so not liked or respected or trusted. Yes, that's a
(07:46):
great question.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I was just gonna say, I would love to think
long and hard about this and question others from a
completely non partisan point of view. Just trying to understand
how an electorate moves from one place to another is
part of it. Just the dimming of memories, the when
Lestrei's hand sung, those too painful to remember, we simply
(08:09):
choose to forget. Is there a certain amount of that
of the negatives of Trump? As you point out, Well,
it's a binary choice, and the current guy is just
a miserable loser. So yeah, we're gonna go with the
next guy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't know. So final thing on this. Democrats are
still trying to do a bit of an autopsy, not
just on the election but on their party, like where
are we and what's the future and everything like that.
Polling suggests that Trump is ideologically closer to the median
voter than Kamala Harris Shock. Third Way, which is a
centrist democratic think tank their job is to figure this
(08:45):
stuff out to get Democrats elected, conducted a post election
survey asking voters to place themselves Harrison Trump on a
scale ranging from zero very liberal to ten, very conservative.
The mean response was two point four point five for Harris,
just dang close down to the liberal end, seven point
seven eight for Trump. For all voters it's five point
(09:08):
sixty three. So Trump is way closer to where the
average American is than Kamala Harris. I mean it's not
even close. No wonder he won. Yeah, yeah, that's striking.
I thought I had it and that's with me. And
if you lean Wright, it's good news because the Democratic Party,
if they want to have any say whatsoever, is going
(09:29):
to have to move closer to us if they want
to have any say whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Well, and for the emptieth time of the media is
just a far left freak show. I mean, nobody.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Believes what they believe.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Statistically speaking, Why are they still in business?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, they're they're rapidly going out of business.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
One final thought on that, and this is so remarkable
to me. I find no need to relitigate the election.
But after the election they hold this event. I think
it's at Georgetown again. I'll bet I could find it
real quick. But where the heavyweight of the two candidates
campaigns get together and they compare notes and they make
(10:08):
jokes and they cast dispersions and that sort of thing.
And it's most Americans are totally unaware of it. But
if you're a Beltway freak, I mean, this is the
super Bowl. It's crazy interesting if you're into campaigns. And
Carl Rove just wrote a piece for The Wall Street
Journal that at Today's at this year's autopsy, the higher
(10:32):
ups in the Harris campaign were saying, we ran a
flawless campaign. We hit all the notes. Wow, it was
mostly misogyny and that sort of thing. And they were
dead blank and serious.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Good good, good luck, good luck with that, Good luck
with thinking that's it, Good luck with ignoring this think
tank who said you're way out of step with the
mean American You're not even close. Go ahead and think
it's misogyny, racism, please do. Okay, So it's Harvard.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
As it turns out, Kamala Harris's campaign of chief of staff,
Sheila Knicks, jolted the conference Thursday night by boasting that
Democrats ran a pretty flawless campaign. In quotes, Ms Harris
did all the steps that were required to be successful,
she claimed, we hit all the marks. This earned derision
from Trump campaign co manager Chris Lsovita, as it should have.
(11:25):
And then he gets on to the you know, well,
the obvious problems with her campaign and the electorate not
separating yourself from Biden. We don't need to go over
that again. But it is just amazing to me the
extent to which these people are are siloed and still
clueless about what happened. And as you said, well, good.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Katie brought us this headline last week. I came across
it and read a little bit about it. I'd rather
die hot than live ugly. Tanning mania returns oh It
pointed out that at the Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence was ridiculously bronze.
So is Bradley Cooper and one other actor just like
(12:11):
crazy tan and so it is like, you know, like
fashion comes in and out, being over the top. Ten
is back. I guess I know a couple of people
who are ten.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, huh. I might have to get tan soon.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Every time I go to my dermatologist, I lose a
knife fight. So I don't I don't think it's a
great idea. I'm not going to get actual sunshine. That's
what's surprising to me that it's people. One of the
Kardashians posted something she's got a tanning bed in her office,
so she regular that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm not going to do that, but uh, I'll let
him spray me. I can look bronze like Bradley Cooper.
Does that protect you at all? Or does it do nothing?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Interesting question? I have no idea is there? Does it
reflect U V A and UVB raised I don't know,
because we all.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Know if you're tan, you don't burn his as is
when you're pale. Does that help if you spray tan?
Or will you burn as if you were? Why does
the sheet of paper, which is what I actually am.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I once asked a dermatologist friend, which sunscreen do you recommend?
And she said the one you reapply. Yeah, that's the key.
It doesn't last all day anyway. Word to the wise. Oh,
which reminds me delighted to be on the air in
beautiful Vero Beach, Florida now on the mighty Vero Patriot Cool.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So thanks very much for having us folks.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
As we often say, the shows a little different than
a lot of talk radio. Give it a little while
to get used to it, and if you still don't
like it, give it a little longer.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Right, anyway, you get you can adapt to anything, you
can get used to anything. That's a good point. You
keep a listening, it'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Last week we were talking about the fact that so
many protests that end up on the evening news feature
professional protesters, and we heard via email from a handful
of folks who have friends and relatives who've done it,
and yeah, they're unmailing lists and they're told, all right,
get on this bus to Portland. Be there, we'll cover
your travel expenses and blah blah blah and pay you,
(14:10):
you know, fifty bucks a day for your trouble. And
you got people who do this, which is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So you get there and then they hand you a
big placard that says my body, my choice or something
like that, and you stand outside a building. Yeah up
with this or down with that.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Frequently you don't even know what you're going to protest
for against until you get there. And you know, you
combine that with the fact that if you have people,
if you have half a dozen people shouting angrily, the
news media will come with a camera and push it
as close as they have to so that that number
of people, be it six or sixty, fill the frame,
(14:45):
and as I often say, they'll have, you know, a
couple of dozen people chanting angrily on the steps of
the Supreme Court. There are five times that many sitting
right now watching a high school basketball game somewhere, and
nobody's covering that.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So add this to that. This is in the Liberal
LA Times.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Paid protester company looking to hire seven foot three hundred
pounds giants quote unquote for intimidation factor.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
A lot of seven three hundred pound people to hire.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
I would say ask for a lot of money if
you are one of the aforementioned behemoths. But Crowds on
Demand is a Beverly Hills based company that provides quote
incentivized activism.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I love that for companies and.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Groups looking to fill out events and demonstrations with totally real,
totally paid activists. The company recently posted a job opening
for people over seven feet tall and three hundred pounds, crowds.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I could get to if I eate enough. I can't
get a foot taller, though.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
So Crowds on Demand founder and CEO Adams Swartt says
the gigantic protestors will mostly be used to turn heads
for the corporate side of the business that provides crowds
for new startups and product launches.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's a good way.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
It can't help or it can't hurt that it will
be intimidating in a positive sense, he said.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
When is intimidating ever in a positive sense, well.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
He means attractive. It will attract attention. It's positively intimidating. No,
it's a torture of the language. There are only seventy
such adult men in the United States between the ages
of twenty and forty, according to a recent Sports Illustrated article.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Seventy Yeah, rough, Wow, that's not very many. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
So if you're a giant and would like to stand
around chanting what was that phrase?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Again?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I loved it so much and I forgot it incentivized activism,
you know, call now.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
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Speaker 8 (17:16):
Are people are not thrilled with the altoon of McDonald's
employees who mickfingered him. Several nasty Google reviews have been
left of the Altoona location, including they got rats behind
the counter, do not recommend, while many other simply left
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one star reviews citing bad service and so called snitches.
You know what they say, snitches get filet of fishes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Michael play thirty three and thirty four back to back
for us would be so kind.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Manjoni's case has become a cause, with admirers posting videos
on Instagram. The social media profile gained hundreds of thousands
of followers after his arrest, and the police department that
arrested Manchoni has been threatened. His lawyer's office has been
inundated with calls from people offering to pay his legal bills.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's not only in the digital world. We saw a
lookalike contest in New York.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
People are selling things or we're selling things with Mangoni's
image on.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Etsy and with the whole denied delay defend or the
deposed variation that this murderer came up with, and the
response to it's been very, very odd and troubling, and
you want to ask these people, all right, the CEOs
of what other industries, and how many of them including women?
How about minorities? Do they all get murdered if you
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don't like their company's polls? Oil companies perhaps, I don't know,
tobacco carmakers, and nobody seems to have an answer for that.
You know, it occurred to me Jack just now, as
I was thinking about this, I wonder how much of
this is that such a high percentage of our interactions
with any human beings are third hand via the Internet,
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and so they don't seem like real human beings at all.
You get a character on TV got gunned down, Oh
I'm so in Manhattan. Absolutely, it's not a real human being.
It's just a TV show.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, and then if you combine the coin of the
realm in twenty twenty four, for communication is just over
the top. I mean, that's just the way we all
talk now, at least online, that's the way people talk. Certainly,
it's so over the top. Maybe those two things coming together,
(19:41):
I mean, do people mean this as we As we've
experienced before, we've had some situations with some really nasty
textures emails who were violently threatened, and we turn it
over to cops or investigators or something like that, and
as soon as there's any pushback whatsoever there all I know,
I don't mean you that I love the show.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing about face Michael. One more montage
if you would clip number thirty eight. This is, you know,
media and social media reactions.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I
think that's why I felt, along with so many other
Americans joy unfortunately, you know, because seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I mean execution.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Maybe not joy, but certainly not no, certainly not empathy.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
A reaction not of.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Universal horror that a fifty year old father of two
and husband was shot dead in public, but rather of.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
And I don't want to call it glee, but let's
just say not unhappiness.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Some of the comments were thoughts and deductibles to the family.
One of the comments was, unfortunately, my condolences are out
of network, and so I think it really.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Isn't that something.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I really think it's reflective about how people are feeling
about their healthcare.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, you are twisted. If you throughout the word joy,
you're a sick human being. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
That was Taylor Lorrain on Piers Morgan, and she is
absolutely a sick human being. She is a twisted she's
you know what, she is very much of cut from
the same cloth as the killer.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't see her killing anybody, But.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
She is the over educated progressive who is so one
hundred percent convinced of her own rightness that she believes
people can be hurt, silence, jailed, whatever if they dare
disagree with her. Her her COVID record is unforgivable, especially
because that big five hundred page report just came out
and said that virtually everything they did with sher saying
was wrong at the time was wrong, including the shutdowns
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and the stupid masks and the schools being closed, unforgivable.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Even without getting into the complications of health insurance and
the government's role and what would you replace it with
and all that sort of stuff. How could you possibly
think that a society where you're okay with gunning people
down that you disagree with would never work right? It
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would fall apart immediately. Hey, guess what, Taylor Lorenz, There's
people who think you're bad, so.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They'd gunn you down, You moron.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, how do you not understand that?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You could.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
You could absolutely make a coherent argument that Taylor Lorenz
was a prominent force in keeping kids out of schools,
and a lot of those kids are either miserable, fallen behind,
have psychological problems, or committed suicide. So you know, I
would never make that argument because it's abhorrent, but it
could be made that she is so evil dot dot
dot if you live.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
In that society. Uh, you know, let's go ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
She was on Piers Morgan and he was trying to
like get coherent answers out of her, and.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
She's occurred to me a lot of that crowd probably uh,
vehemently anti capital punishment.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Also, oh yeah, yeah, good point, good point, but pro abortion,
So give us forty you're gonna you've heard part of
this already.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I
think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans,
joy Unfortunately, you know, because it.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Seriously, I mean execution.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Should they will be killed, these healthcare executives. Would that
make you even more joyful?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I know that would not want And.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Good question, I think, because yours, because it doesn't wouldn't
fix the whole thing there is.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I find your question, let's be murdered in the street.
I don't find it funny. I don't. That's a very
good question from Meerce Margan, who I generally find annoying.
But that's a very good question. So if more were killed,
would that make you more joyful? Well? No, of course not.
Well why not.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Come on, lay out your logic for me here? Why
no one was shot, not killed, but just blinded. Now
how joyful would that make? It?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Kind of medium joyful? And you know, just because I
thought of the capital punishment thing, i'd like to joy
read with that order. How do you feel about I guarantee
she's against capital punch of men. So people have been
convicted of a heinous murder, gone through all the appeals
and all that sort of stuff. Put to death, wrong,
random killing on the street because you don't agree with
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the policy. Correct. Okay, Now you explain to me how
that makes sense in your worldview.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
And these people are our moral betters, by the way,
they're constantly explaining to us what's right and what's wrong.
One more clip of the utterly soulless, gutless, brainless Taylor
Lorenz and Peers Morgan.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Now, I want to.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Fix the system.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
You're right, we shouldn't be going around shooting each other
with vigilante justice. No, I think that it is a
good thing that this murder has led to America. Really,
the media elites and politicians in this country paying attention
to this issue. For the first time, you mentioned you
couldn't understand why somebody would feel this reaction when they
watched a CEO die. It's because you have not dealt it.
(24:53):
Sounds like with the American healthcare system in the way
that millions of other Americans have.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I've doubled the healthcare system in various ways in America.
I don't think it's perfect by any means. But the
idea that I would view it as something the idea
that I would view it as something joyful that a
man has been he's just a healthcare executive has been
executed in the street, I find completely bizarre.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Okay, so I don't say I'm joyful.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I said, I said you would.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You said you were feeling joyful.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Yeah, I take that back. Joyful is the wrong word here,
I said as I.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, you think is the wrong wood.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Yeah, indicated celebratory, because again, it feels like justice in
this system when somebody responsible for the deaths of tens
of thousands of Americans suffers the same fate as those
tens of thousands of Americans he.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Murdered that I never brought this up the other day.
Maybe I should find it on my phone, So that
tens of thousands of Americans, there's a number going around
sixty eight thousand. It comes from a wacky study by
wacky people that exaggerates all kinds of things, includes all
kinds of things that don't fit in as often is
the case wise damn lies and statistics. So that's where
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that argument comes from. Not that that would make any
sense anyway, right.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
And then juxtaposing the healthcare CEO murder with the other
big high profile guy who died story, and that would
be the Penny Subway vigilante defending the innocent guy ends
up dead. I'm not going to call it a murder
like Al Sharpton and his folks are, but place forty two,
(26:32):
This is on CNN.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Penny and the verdict there there you also have a
victim who somebody determined did not deserve.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
To continue living. No, no, no, yeah, tell me tell
me which tell me which vigilante action is? Okay? Is
one is being proactive?
Speaker 10 (26:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So this kid who executed someone executed a guy walking
away from him, shot him in the back, shot him
in the for no reason whatsoever. Daniel Penny, he's a.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Heron panelists, and I wish i'd bother to get her name.
Was trying to suggest that, Hey, they're both vigilantic killings,
and you're saying one's right and one's wrong. Where do
you get off precisely where I get off? And how
I say that?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wow? Yeah, yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Every time CNN does some pretty good reporting, like Clarissa
Ward's been terrific, for instance, they turn around and do
something like that, and I think they should just be unplugged.
But anyway, I yeah, just yank the court on CNN.
They're losing money anyway, nobody watches it. They suck anyway. Uh,
Jake Tapper would make a fine assistant manager of pet
(27:40):
food stores. Wow, yeah, Joe Getty's hot and fire no
even bombs, truth bombs right and left. We need to
develop And I wonder if the kids have this already
new vernacular for like that freaking moron Taylor Lorenz, who
I've just just despised for years in a very inside
(28:03):
media way. Most people have never heard of her, and good,
your life is better for it. But do the kids
already have an expression for you know, somebody says I
think that guy ought to be shot? Do you really
mean that? No, I Internet mean it. I just mean
it on internet level.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That guy should realize that guy should low key be shot, right. Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's the similar. Yeah. I don't know, but as
you heard, they're drilled down a little bit. Those people
seem to mean it. I don't know how many people
online mean it, but those those panelists meant it. Yeah,
(28:42):
whether it was the joy or where do you draw
the line between vigilante justice? What are you talking about?
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Ho?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Stupid?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
These are apples and refrigerators as a come you know,
as a comparison.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah, And I think it probably all boils down
to what's making so many of people miserable, including the kids,
and that is that, in a very very very short
span of time, we as human beings have gone from
every single interaction is in person with a flesh and
blood human being, with the rare exception of maybe you
got a letter from somebody, to now ninety percent of
(29:16):
your interactions are not in person with an air breathing
Homo sapien. They're online, they're electronic, and therefore the killing
of one of those human beings doesn't mean anything to you.
They're an abstraction. They're not a human being. They're a
video of a human being. Before we go to break,
I'm not going to explain this. You either understand it
(29:36):
or you don't. Did you hear that former Patriots coach
Bill Belichick might take the job coaching at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The joke is it's will help his girlfriend with admissions.
She's youthful. Youthful, let us sin fifty year age gap
in that relationship. He started dating cheerleader. He's in his
mid seventies, she's in her mid twenties. He's a very
(30:07):
young seventy five. Armstrong and Yetty. Quick question for you,
what if you happen to miss this unbelievable radio program.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
The answer is easy, friends, just download our podcast, Armstrong
and Getty on Demand. It's the podcast version of the
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Speaker 3 (30:31):
Download it now Armstrong and Getty on Demand, art Strong,
he YETI.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
My son was playing the drums at the high school
basketball game the first time I've watched him do it
at the basketball game, and I hadn't been in it
banned situation drum line, so it's just all drums, but nice.
First time I've been inside a small high school gym
a game, with all that goes on with that in many,
(31:03):
many decades.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It hasn't changed a bit. Really. It was a lot
more people staring at their phones than the last time I.
Nobody was staring at some piece of equipment in their
handback when the last time I was in a gym.
But other than that, it was all the same. And
I wish this weren't true. I know this makes me
a crazy person, but I get just as uncomfortable. I
was just as uncomfortable last night being in that gym
(31:25):
as I was when I was in high school myself
and all the dynamics of high school and everything that
goes on with that and everything, and how much I
hated it, and how how it just freaked me out.
I feel exactly the same way now, And it's just
it's it's some sort of PTSD, right. It's got to
because obviously I don't need to know if the cool
group thinks I'm got the right shoes on or anything.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Now right, your shoes are by the way, we're all
just commenting on what nice shoes you have.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Whatever. The stupid moronic dynamics of high school are, you know,
it's it's absolutely anthropological.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
It's at the point that you're really becoming in charge
of keeping your DNA alive. You take in data about
what's a danger, what's good, what's bad, and it burns
permanent pathways in your head so you don't have to
be reminded of it again.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Just to survive.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It's like, yeah, I wouldn't call being in the same
room with your your first love PTSDA good, But does
that bring on a flood of emotion?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
That's a good loan, That's that's a pretty good. That's
pretty good. It's per charitable and pretty good. And it's
so easy. I feel like the spot as I'm sitting
there in the gym, I can say, Okay, there's the
cool group they just walked in, look at the like
the the water's part as they walked through, and everybody
starre hated them a little, didn't you.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I didn't. I don't think I hated them. I don't
think I ever hated them. I was scared of them,
but I didn't hate them. Then there's there's the group
that wants to be them but not quite is. And
there's the outliers. They're kind of standing alone over there,
and they wish they could be part of any group.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
And you can.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
You can just see all the dynam of high school
just right there. You're freaking everyone out. This is making
me really uncomfortable, which proves your point.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Now's your chance, Jack.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
You see that cool group, you can tell them off,
like you listen, you think you're so cool.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
See, I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I never, I don't. I didn't have that feeling. Then
I don't have that feeling. Now tell them off for what?
How dare you be attractive and have good personalities and
good at something? How screw you?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
I mean, I didn't feel that way them. I don't
feel that way. That's healthy, that's right. You gotta tear
him down. Life is a zero some game. Their happiness
is your unhappiness. Look at your DEI training. If they
have something, it's because.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
They stole it. There's no such thing as merits. There's
a certain amount of happiness to go around there. There
there is a particular guy and girl that walked in
high school guy and girl and he was a he
looked like a like something from a TV show, and
she was stunning. And it was just like the attention
they got when they came over to the bleachers and
kind of just sat wherever they wanted. Everybody moved out
(34:02):
of the way. It's just something to see. What is
it with human beings? I don't know. Do bears do
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I mean, they're sitting there eating their berries or overturning
trash cans or something. Then a really hot looking bear
and her big bear mate come along.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Oh my god, look at them. Yeah, he could be
a movie star. You and they looked so comfortable and
in charge of the world, like things could never be better.
And then all the other people you could see the
angst on their face. So not all of them, but
certain groups of people. Is just like you know, looking
around and trying to how should I walk, how should
I sit? How should I whatever? You know that goes
on when you're that age. Just oh my god. I
(34:39):
wouldn't go through that again for any amount of money.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Like observing a band of chimps in the forest lest
poo chucking, Thank goodness, and I.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Don't And one other thing before we got to get
to Katie's headlines, I don't know. My brother was telling
me about how like his daughter is a super stud
of high school girls basketball player, and he said, girls
basketball is so much better now than it was like
when we were younger. It's a different thing, but so
is the boys. I thought, this boy's high school team,
I don't know if my high school team could score
(35:09):
a basket on these guys. Has everything just gotten that
much better because of youth sports or emphasis on sports
or something? But yeah, more professionalized. Everything's more professional.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Games are not to be played for fun, there to
be excelled at to game of scholarship.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Maybe that's it. But it was a completely different level
than the last time I was in a high school gym,
which was a very very long time. It was in
black and white.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong
and Jato arms Strong and Getty. Could he come inside?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Though?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Awesome, you're groundated? No, my friends show me that one.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
They're ground You go outside?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, it's different for you because you would rather be
inside your corner shops.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
To be outside. You need to be a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Do something out here. There's a lot of things you
can do. Climb the tree, jump the fence. I don't
really care, go tea the audition neighbor.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's not worry. You have to be creative. What do
you want to do inside?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Anyways?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And that's the probable.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You know, well, that kid sounded like he was reading
from a script. But I had a very similar conversation
with my son last night, like in a very serious way.
He was breaking down emotionally over this, over the whole
thing I talked about over the last couple of weeks.
I'm getting rid of Netflix and Disney and all that
different sort of stuff. As I've been encouraging him for
a long time. Got to come up with other things
(01:20):
to do. He's homeschooled, so he has more time on
his hands than his brother does. But uh, it's I
do have some sympathy as a guy who loves to read.
I find it difficult to read now because my brain
is warped from looking at my phone. And I didn't
(01:43):
start looking at my phone until I was forty five.
So you know, if you've been if you've been doing
that your whole life. Just the pace of things being outside.
I'm supposed to get a stick and like digging the
dirt at their point, which is what I did sometimes,
(02:03):
but just the pace is just so slow.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
We need and this is my ten million dollar idea
that I'm too shift list to actually implement. We need
electronic detox programs, and I know they exist, but they
need to be like well known and popular where whether
as an adult or as a parent or whatever. Maybe
the kid himself realizes I am making myself insane. I
(02:28):
need two weeks in the woods to decompress, get weaned
off the devices, get back in touch with the reality.
I mean actual real reality, not virtual reality reality.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I need it myself, right, I camba have we done?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't know what are human beings doing to themselves?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
You know quote unquote tech I swear is the apple
from the tree and knowledge in the Book of Genesis.
It is the the thing we cannot handle as a species.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Troubles me greatly and I only think about it every
single day. So well, we're gonna do oh oh.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Speaking of kids, I wanted to bring this up and again,
you're not gonna hear this anywhere but here. Even though
it's a huge, huge story, and especially in the wake
of the recent Supreme Court oral arguments, the UK has
banned puberty blockers for gender confused children indefinitely. It's an
(03:29):
unacceptable safety risk quote unquote. Existing emergency measures banning the
sale and supply puberty supressing hormones will be made indefinite
following official advice from medical experts. Any medical expert that
is not utterly corrupted by radical gender theory can look
at the evidence and see what the CAST report saw
and say, wow, there is no evidence that this is
(03:51):
worth all of the risks and the side effects and
the injuries and eighty five percent of kids grow out
of it within six months anyway, and the rest of it.
So I don't know what to say other than that
the UK has made their very very strong decision, joining
half a dozen other European countries that are doing exactly
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So the biggest political story of the day to me,
and I think this can't be overstated, is how high
Donald Trump is right now as a politician compared to
where he once was. There might not be a example
(04:32):
of this throughout world history of anybody being as low
as somebody was and as high as somebody was as
right now with Donald Trump, it is absolutely amazing. So today,
in case you didn't know it, he rang the bell
to open the New York Stock Exchange, which no president
or president elect has done since Reagan. So it's been
forty years for whatever reason. But there's a video out
(04:54):
of when Donald Trump gets told this yesterday, when somebody
comes to us, say, hey, we just got the news
the New York Stock Exchange is invited you to ring
the bell. Nobody, no president has done it since Reagan
in nineteen eighty two or whatever it is. It And
you can just tell the I mean, the guy who's
grown up in New York. New York is his home town.
It's like, you know, being successful wherever you went to
high school, sure, I mean, and at the same day
(05:17):
Time Magazine names You're gonna be on the cover of
Time magazine, which Trump is an old man, it still
really means something to be Time Magazine's person of the year.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Oh you know who else is Time Magazine's person of
the year Jack Perhaps you've heard of him Hitler.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And so the combination of those two things with this
CNN poll that is out, first of all, the CNN
poll on how do you feel Trump is handling the transition?
Fifty five forty five approved. He's got a ten point win.
We're just a couple of weeks ago he was Hitler
according to everyone, exception for people who are going to
(05:57):
vote for Trump.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And to me, the most interesting part of the transition
the way it's being run is he's more or less
the president already.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I wish we could revive James Madison and have him say, yeah,
have the new guys start early. The old guy's not
doing anything, so let's get started. Because that's the feel
of it, according to Democrats.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
According to Politico over the weekend, unnamed Democrats in the
White House saying, yeah, it feels like Trump's the president already.
Democrats and the White House are saying that. I mean,
it's absolutely amazing. So they break it down your choices
on here are a lot of confidence, some confidence, no
real confidence, no opinion. And here's all these different categories
that Trump's killing it in. Dealing with the economy. You
(06:38):
add up a lot of confidence with some confidencies at
sixty five percent in the you know, positive territory on
dealing with the economy, handling the war between Russia and
Ukraine's sixty two, dealing with immigration policy sixty providing real
leadership for the country fifty nine, handling foreign affairs. God
Ian Bremer and people like him constantly writing how nervous
(07:01):
world leaders are now that Trump's coming back in the eyes. Okay, well,
Americans are fifty five percent of them either a lot
or somewhat okay with way He's going to handle it,
Appointing the best people to office fifty four percent, and
then the most amazing one given January sixth, using the
power of the presidency responsibly fifty four percent. He's above
(07:25):
fifty on all of those categories. It's stunning. Yeah, yeah,
how much of it is the positive Trump thing? How
much of it is the negative Democrat thing? They're just
so not liked or respected or trusted. Yes, that's a
(07:46):
great question.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I was just gonna say, I would love to think
long and hard about this and question others from a
completely non partisan point of view. Just trying to understand
how an electorate moves from one place to another is
part of it. Just the dimming of memories, the when
Lestrei's hand sung, those too painful to remember, we simply
(08:09):
choose to forget. Is there a certain amount of that
of the negatives of Trump? As you point out, Well,
it's a binary choice, and the current guy is just
a miserable loser. So yeah, we're gonna go with the
next guy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't know. So final thing on this. Democrats are
still trying to do a bit of an autopsy, not
just on the election but on their party, like where
are we and what's the future and everything like that.
Polling suggests that Trump is ideologically closer to the median
voter than Kamala Harris Shock. Third Way, which is a
centrist democratic think tank their job is to figure this
(08:45):
stuff out to get Democrats elected, conducted a post election
survey asking voters to place themselves Harrison Trump on a
scale ranging from zero very liberal to ten, very conservative.
The mean response was two point four point five for Harris,
just dang close down to the liberal end, seven point
seven eight for Trump. For all voters it's five point
(09:08):
sixty three. So Trump is way closer to where the
average American is than Kamala Harris. I mean it's not
even close. No wonder he won. Yeah, yeah, that's striking.
I thought I had it and that's with me. And
if you lean Wright, it's good news because the Democratic Party,
if they want to have any say whatsoever, is going
(09:29):
to have to move closer to us if they want
to have any say whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Well, and for the emptieth time of the media is
just a far left freak show. I mean, nobody.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Believes what they believe.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Statistically speaking, Why are they still in business?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, they're they're rapidly going out of business.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
One final thought on that, and this is so remarkable
to me. I find no need to relitigate the election.
But after the election they hold this event. I think
it's at Georgetown again. I'll bet I could find it
real quick. But where the heavyweight of the two candidates
campaigns get together and they compare notes and they make
(10:08):
jokes and they cast dispersions and that sort of thing.
And it's most Americans are totally unaware of it. But
if you're a Beltway freak, I mean, this is the
super Bowl. It's crazy interesting if you're into campaigns. And
Carl Rove just wrote a piece for The Wall Street
Journal that at Today's at this year's autopsy, the higher
(10:32):
ups in the Harris campaign were saying, we ran a
flawless campaign. We hit all the notes. Wow, it was
mostly misogyny and that sort of thing. And they were
dead blank and serious.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Good good, good luck, good luck with that, Good luck
with thinking that's it, Good luck with ignoring this think
tank who said you're way out of step with the
mean American You're not even close. Go ahead and think
it's misogyny, racism, please do. Okay, So it's Harvard.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
As it turns out, Kamala Harris's campaign of chief of staff,
Sheila Knicks, jolted the conference Thursday night by boasting that
Democrats ran a pretty flawless campaign. In quotes, Ms Harris
did all the steps that were required to be successful,
she claimed, we hit all the marks. This earned derision
from Trump campaign co manager Chris Lsovita, as it should have.
(11:25):
And then he gets on to the you know, well,
the obvious problems with her campaign and the electorate not
separating yourself from Biden. We don't need to go over
that again. But it is just amazing to me the
extent to which these people are are siloed and still
clueless about what happened. And as you said, well, good.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Katie brought us this headline last week. I came across
it and read a little bit about it. I'd rather
die hot than live ugly. Tanning mania returns oh It
pointed out that at the Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence was ridiculously bronze.
So is Bradley Cooper and one other actor just like
(12:11):
crazy tan and so it is like, you know, like
fashion comes in and out, being over the top. Ten
is back. I guess I know a couple of people
who are ten.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, huh. I might have to get tan soon.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Every time I go to my dermatologist, I lose a
knife fight. So I don't I don't think it's a
great idea. I'm not going to get actual sunshine. That's
what's surprising to me that it's people. One of the
Kardashians posted something she's got a tanning bed in her office,
so she regular that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm not going to do that, but uh, I'll let
him spray me. I can look bronze like Bradley Cooper.
Does that protect you at all? Or does it do nothing?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Interesting question? I have no idea is there? Does it
reflect U V A and UVB raised I don't know,
because we all.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Know if you're tan, you don't burn his as is
when you're pale. Does that help if you spray tan?
Or will you burn as if you were? Why does
the sheet of paper, which is what I actually am.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I once asked a dermatologist friend, which sunscreen do you recommend?
And she said the one you reapply. Yeah, that's the key.
It doesn't last all day anyway. Word to the wise. Oh,
which reminds me delighted to be on the air in
beautiful Vero Beach, Florida now on the mighty Vero Patriot Cool.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So thanks very much for having us folks.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
As we often say, the shows a little different than
a lot of talk radio. Give it a little while
to get used to it, and if you still don't
like it, give it a little longer.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Right, anyway, you get you can adapt to anything, you
can get used to anything. That's a good point. You
keep a listening, it'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Last week we were talking about the fact that so
many protests that end up on the evening news feature
professional protesters, and we heard via email from a handful
of folks who have friends and relatives who've done it,
and yeah, they're unmailing lists and they're told, all right,
get on this bus to Portland. Be there, we'll cover
your travel expenses and blah blah blah and pay you,
(14:10):
you know, fifty bucks a day for your trouble. And
you got people who do this, which is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So you get there and then they hand you a
big placard that says my body, my choice or something
like that, and you stand outside a building. Yeah up
with this or down with that.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Frequently you don't even know what you're going to protest
for against until you get there. And you know, you
combine that with the fact that if you have people,
if you have half a dozen people shouting angrily, the
news media will come with a camera and push it
as close as they have to so that that number
of people, be it six or sixty, fill the frame,
(14:45):
and as I often say, they'll have, you know, a
couple of dozen people chanting angrily on the steps of
the Supreme Court. There are five times that many sitting
right now watching a high school basketball game somewhere, and
nobody's covering that.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So add this to that. This is in the Liberal
LA Times.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Paid protester company looking to hire seven foot three hundred
pounds giants quote unquote for intimidation factor.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
A lot of seven three hundred pound people to hire.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
I would say ask for a lot of money if
you are one of the aforementioned behemoths. But Crowds on
Demand is a Beverly Hills based company that provides quote
incentivized activism.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I love that for companies and.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Groups looking to fill out events and demonstrations with totally real,
totally paid activists. The company recently posted a job opening
for people over seven feet tall and three hundred pounds, crowds.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I could get to if I eate enough. I can't
get a foot taller, though.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
So Crowds on Demand founder and CEO Adams Swartt says
the gigantic protestors will mostly be used to turn heads
for the corporate side of the business that provides crowds
for new startups and product launches.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's a good way.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
It can't help or it can't hurt that it will
be intimidating in a positive sense, he said.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
When is intimidating ever in a positive sense, well.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
He means attractive. It will attract attention. It's positively intimidating. No,
it's a torture of the language. There are only seventy
such adult men in the United States between the ages
of twenty and forty, according to a recent Sports Illustrated article.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Seventy Yeah, rough, Wow, that's not very many. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
So if you're a giant and would like to stand
around chanting what was that phrase?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Again?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I loved it so much and I forgot it incentivized activism,
you know, call now.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Quick question for you, What if you happen to miss
this unbelievable radio program.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
The answer is easy, friends, just download our podcast Armstrong
and Getty on demand. It's the podcast version of the
podcast show, available anytime, any day, every single podcast platform
known demand.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Download it now, Armstrong and Getty on Demand.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Are people are not thrilled with the altoon of McDonald's
employees who mickfingered him. Several nasty Google reviews have been
left of the Altoona location, including they got rats behind
the counter, do not recommend, while many other simply left
(17:39):
one star reviews citing bad service and so called snitches.
You know what they say, snitches get filet of fishes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Michael play thirty three and thirty four back to back
for us would be so kind.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Manjoni's case has become a cause, with admirers posting videos
on Instagram. The social media profile gained hundreds of thousands
of followers after his arrest, and the police department that
arrested Manchoni has been threatened. His lawyer's office has been
inundated with calls from people offering to pay his legal bills.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's not only in the digital world. We saw a
lookalike contest in New York.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
People are selling things or we're selling things with Mangoni's
image on.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Etsy and with the whole denied delay defend or the
deposed variation that this murderer came up with, and the
response to it's been very, very odd and troubling, and
you want to ask these people, all right, the CEOs
of what other industries, and how many of them including women?
How about minorities? Do they all get murdered if you
(18:44):
don't like their company's polls? Oil companies perhaps, I don't know,
tobacco carmakers, and nobody seems to have an answer for that.
You know, it occurred to me Jack just now, as
I was thinking about this, I wonder how much of
this is that such a high percentage of our interactions
with any human beings are third hand via the Internet,
(19:06):
and so they don't seem like real human beings at all.
You get a character on TV got gunned down, Oh
I'm so in Manhattan. Absolutely, it's not a real human being.
It's just a TV show.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, and then if you combine the coin of the
realm in twenty twenty four, for communication is just over
the top. I mean, that's just the way we all
talk now, at least online, that's the way people talk. Certainly,
it's so over the top. Maybe those two things coming together,
(19:41):
I mean, do people mean this as we As we've
experienced before, we've had some situations with some really nasty
textures emails who were violently threatened, and we turn it
over to cops or investigators or something like that, and
as soon as there's any pushback whatsoever there all I know,
I don't mean you that I love the show.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's amazing about face Michael. One more montage
if you would clip number thirty eight. This is, you know,
media and social media reactions.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I
think that's why I felt, along with so many other
Americans joy unfortunately, you know, because seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I mean execution.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Maybe not joy, but certainly not no, certainly not empathy.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
A reaction not of.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Universal horror that a fifty year old father of two
and husband was shot dead in public, but rather of.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
And I don't want to call it glee, but let's
just say not unhappiness.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Some of the comments were thoughts and deductibles to the family.
One of the comments was, unfortunately, my condolences are out
of network, and so I think it really.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Isn't that something.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I really think it's reflective about how people are feeling
about their healthcare.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well, you are twisted. If you throughout the word joy,
you're a sick human being. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
That was Taylor Lorrain on Piers Morgan, and she is
absolutely a sick human being. She is a twisted she's
you know what, she is very much of cut from
the same cloth as the killer.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't see her killing anybody, But.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
She is the over educated progressive who is so one
hundred percent convinced of her own rightness that she believes
people can be hurt, silence, jailed, whatever if they dare
disagree with her. Her her COVID record is unforgivable, especially
because that big five hundred page report just came out
and said that virtually everything they did with sher saying
was wrong at the time was wrong, including the shutdowns
(21:34):
and the stupid masks and the schools being closed, unforgivable.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Even without getting into the complications of health insurance and
the government's role and what would you replace it with
and all that sort of stuff. How could you possibly
think that a society where you're okay with gunning people
down that you disagree with would never work right? It
(21:58):
would fall apart immediately. Hey, guess what, Taylor Lorenz, There's
people who think you're bad, so.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They'd gunn you down, You moron.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, how do you not understand that?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You could.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
You could absolutely make a coherent argument that Taylor Lorenz
was a prominent force in keeping kids out of schools,
and a lot of those kids are either miserable, fallen behind,
have psychological problems, or committed suicide. So you know, I
would never make that argument because it's abhorrent, but it
could be made that she is so evil dot dot
dot if you live.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
In that society. Uh, you know, let's go ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
She was on Piers Morgan and he was trying to
like get coherent answers out of her, and.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
She's occurred to me a lot of that crowd probably uh,
vehemently anti capital punishment.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Also, oh yeah, yeah, good point, good point, but pro abortion,
So give us forty you're gonna you've heard part of
this already.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I
think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans,
joy Unfortunately, you know, because it.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Seriously, I mean execution.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Should they will be killed, these healthcare executives. Would that
make you even more joyful?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I know that would not want And.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Good question, I think, because yours, because it doesn't wouldn't
fix the whole thing there is.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I find your question, let's be murdered in the street.
I don't find it funny. I don't. That's a very
good question from Meerce Margan, who I generally find annoying.
But that's a very good question. So if more were killed,
would that make you more joyful? Well? No, of course not.
Well why not.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Come on, lay out your logic for me here? Why
no one was shot, not killed, but just blinded. Now
how joyful would that make? It?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Kind of medium joyful? And you know, just because I
thought of the capital punishment thing, i'd like to joy
read with that order. How do you feel about I guarantee
she's against capital punch of men. So people have been
convicted of a heinous murder, gone through all the appeals
and all that sort of stuff. Put to death, wrong,
random killing on the street because you don't agree with
(24:09):
the policy. Correct. Okay, Now you explain to me how
that makes sense in your worldview.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
And these people are our moral betters, by the way,
they're constantly explaining to us what's right and what's wrong.
One more clip of the utterly soulless, gutless, brainless Taylor
Lorenz and Peers Morgan.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
Now, I want to.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Fix the system.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
You're right, we shouldn't be going around shooting each other
with vigilante justice. No, I think that it is a
good thing that this murder has led to America. Really,
the media elites and politicians in this country paying attention
to this issue. For the first time, you mentioned you
couldn't understand why somebody would feel this reaction when they
watched a CEO die. It's because you have not dealt it.
(24:53):
Sounds like with the American healthcare system in the way
that millions of other Americans have.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I've doubled the healthcare system in various ways in America.
I don't think it's perfect by any means. But the
idea that I would view it as something the idea
that I would view it as something joyful that a
man has been he's just a healthcare executive has been
executed in the street, I find completely bizarre.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Okay, so I don't say I'm joyful.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I said, I said you would.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You said you were feeling joyful.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Yeah, I take that back. Joyful is the wrong word here,
I said as I.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, you think is the wrong wood.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Yeah, indicated celebratory, because again, it feels like justice in
this system when somebody responsible for the deaths of tens
of thousands of Americans suffers the same fate as those
tens of thousands of Americans he.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Murdered that I never brought this up the other day.
Maybe I should find it on my phone, So that
tens of thousands of Americans, there's a number going around
sixty eight thousand. It comes from a wacky study by
wacky people that exaggerates all kinds of things, includes all
kinds of things that don't fit in as often is
the case wise damn lies and statistics. So that's where
(26:03):
that argument comes from. Not that that would make any
sense anyway, right.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
And then juxtaposing the healthcare CEO murder with the other
big high profile guy who died story, and that would
be the Penny Subway vigilante defending the innocent guy ends
up dead. I'm not going to call it a murder
like Al Sharpton and his folks are, but place forty two,
(26:32):
This is on CNN.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Penny and the verdict there there you also have a
victim who somebody determined did not deserve.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
To continue living. No, no, no, yeah, tell me tell
me which tell me which vigilante action is? Okay? Is
one is being proactive?
Speaker 10 (26:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So this kid who executed someone executed a guy walking
away from him, shot him in the back, shot him
in the for no reason whatsoever. Daniel Penny, he's a.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Heron panelists, and I wish i'd bother to get her name.
Was trying to suggest that, Hey, they're both vigilantic killings,
and you're saying one's right and one's wrong. Where do
you get off precisely where I get off? And how
I say that?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wow? Yeah, yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Every time CNN does some pretty good reporting, like Clarissa
Ward's been terrific, for instance, they turn around and do
something like that, and I think they should just be unplugged.
But anyway, I yeah, just yank the court on CNN.
They're losing money anyway, nobody watches it. They suck anyway. Uh,
Jake Tapper would make a fine assistant manager of pet
(27:40):
food stores. Wow, yeah, Joe Getty's hot and fire no
even bombs, truth bombs right and left. We need to
develop And I wonder if the kids have this already
new vernacular for like that freaking moron Taylor Lorenz, who
I've just just despised for years in a very inside
(28:03):
media way. Most people have never heard of her, and good,
your life is better for it. But do the kids
already have an expression for you know, somebody says I
think that guy ought to be shot? Do you really
mean that? No, I Internet mean it. I just mean
it on internet level.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That guy should realize that guy should low key be shot, right. Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's the similar. Yeah. I don't know, but as
you heard, they're drilled down a little bit. Those people
seem to mean it. I don't know how many people
online mean it, but those those panelists meant it. Yeah,
(28:42):
whether it was the joy or where do you draw
the line between vigilante justice? What are you talking about?
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Ho?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Stupid?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
These are apples and refrigerators as a come you know,
as a comparison.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah, And I think it probably all boils down
to what's making so many of people miserable, including the kids,
and that is that, in a very very very short
span of time, we as human beings have gone from
every single interaction is in person with a flesh and
blood human being, with the rare exception of maybe you
got a letter from somebody, to now ninety percent of
(29:16):
your interactions are not in person with an air breathing
Homo sapien. They're online, they're electronic, and therefore the killing
of one of those human beings doesn't mean anything to you.
They're an abstraction. They're not a human being. They're a
video of a human being. Before we go to break,
I'm not going to explain this. You either understand it
(29:36):
or you don't. Did you hear that former Patriots coach
Bill Belichick might take the job coaching at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The joke is it's will help his girlfriend with admissions.
She's youthful. Youthful, let us sin fifty year age gap
in that relationship. He started dating cheerleader. He's in his
mid seventies, she's in her mid twenties. He's a very
(30:07):
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Speaker 11 (30:42):
My son was playing the drums at the high school
basketball game the first time I've watched him do it
at the basketball game, and I hadn't been in it
banned situation drum line, so it's just all drums, but nice.
First time I've been inside a small high school gym
a game, with all that goes on with that in many,
(31:03):
many decades.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It hasn't changed a bit. Really. It was a lot
more people staring at their phones than the last time I.
Nobody was staring at some piece of equipment in their
handback when the last time I was in a gym.
But other than that, it was all the same. And
I wish this weren't true. I know this makes me
a crazy person, but I get just as uncomfortable. I
was just as uncomfortable last night being in that gym
(31:25):
as I was when I was in high school myself
and all the dynamics of high school and everything that
goes on with that and everything, and how much I
hated it, and how how it just freaked me out.
I feel exactly the same way now, And it's just
it's it's some sort of PTSD, right. It's got to
because obviously I don't need to know if the cool
group thinks I'm got the right shoes on or anything.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Now right, your shoes are by the way, we're all
just commenting on what nice shoes you have.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Whatever. The stupid moronic dynamics of high school are, you know,
it's it's absolutely anthropological.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
It's at the point that you're really becoming in charge
of keeping your DNA alive. You take in data about
what's a danger, what's good, what's bad, and it burns
permanent pathways in your head so you don't have to
be reminded of it again.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Just to survive.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It's like, yeah, I wouldn't call being in the same
room with your your first love PTSDA good, But does
that bring on a flood of emotion?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
That's a good loan, That's that's a pretty good. That's
pretty good. It's per charitable and pretty good. And it's
so easy. I feel like the spot as I'm sitting
there in the gym, I can say, Okay, there's the
cool group they just walked in, look at the like
the the water's part as they walked through, and everybody
starre hated them a little, didn't you.
Speaker 10 (32:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I didn't. I don't think I hated them. I don't
think I ever hated them. I was scared of them,
but I didn't hate them. Then there's there's the group
that wants to be them but not quite is. And
there's the outliers. They're kind of standing alone over there,
and they wish they could be part of any group.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
And you can.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
You can just see all the dynam of high school
just right there. You're freaking everyone out. This is making
me really uncomfortable, which proves your point.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Now's your chance, Jack.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
You see that cool group, you can tell them off,
like you listen, you think you're so cool.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
See, I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I never, I don't. I didn't have that feeling. Then
I don't have that feeling. Now tell them off for what?
How dare you be attractive and have good personalities and
good at something? How screw you?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
I mean, I didn't feel that way them. I don't
feel that way. That's healthy, that's right. You gotta tear
him down. Life is a zero some game. Their happiness
is your unhappiness. Look at your DEI training. If they
have something, it's because.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
They stole it. There's no such thing as merits. There's
a certain amount of happiness to go around there. There
there is a particular guy and girl that walked in
high school guy and girl and he was a he
looked like a like something from a TV show, and
she was stunning. And it was just like the attention
they got when they came over to the bleachers and
kind of just sat wherever they wanted. Everybody moved out
(34:02):
of the way. It's just something to see. What is
it with human beings? I don't know. Do bears do
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I mean, they're sitting there eating their berries or overturning
trash cans or something. Then a really hot looking bear
and her big bear mate come along.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Oh my god, look at them. Yeah, he could be
a movie star. You and they looked so comfortable and
in charge of the world, like things could never be better.
And then all the other people you could see the
angst on their face. So not all of them, but
certain groups of people. Is just like you know, looking
around and trying to how should I walk, how should
I sit? How should I whatever? You know that goes
on when you're that age. Just oh my god. I
(34:39):
wouldn't go through that again for any amount of money.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Like observing a band of chimps in the forest lest
poo chucking, Thank goodness, and I.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Don't And one other thing before we got to get
to Katie's headlines, I don't know. My brother was telling
me about how like his daughter is a super stud
of high school girls basketball player, and he said, girls
basketball is so much better now than it was like
when we were younger. It's a different thing, but so
is the boys. I thought, this boy's high school team,
I don't know if my high school team could score
(35:09):
a basket on these guys. Has everything just gotten that
much better because of youth sports or emphasis on sports
or something? But yeah, more professionalized. Everything's more professional.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Games are not to be played for fun, there to
be excelled at to game of scholarship.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Maybe that's it. But it was a completely different level
than the last time I was in a high school gym,
which was a very very long time. It was in
black and white.
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