January 3, 2025 • 36 mins
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- Raw Dogging and Hangxiety
- Have you heard of Tugboat and Expiration Dates
- Election Winners and Losers
- Hong Kong Trial and China 2nd All Time Leading Polluter
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
We think you'll enjoy it, sir, So are you raw
dogging the air?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
This is kind of funny and interesting in a couple
of different ways. So it says Taylor Lorenz human being
that we've talked about before.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
She was a.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Washington Post columnist that was so over the top and
nuts they had to let her go from the Washington
bo start did she quit? Whichever one it was, They
couldn't be They couldn't work together anymore. First of all,
she's super crazy, pro Hamas and everything like that, and
wrote a column for the WAPO accusing Joe Biden to
being a war criminal for supporting blah blah blah all
(01:13):
back crap. Anyway, she's got a book out to talk
about her days in journalism at the Washington Post and
stuff that no one will ever read. And she had
a book event over the weekend in which, uh, and
as this will become clear in a second, she was
super worried about COVID for some reason this book event.
(01:34):
Oh and well, I'll just read this tweet first, She
tweets out, planning a COVID safe book launch took months.
Why did it even cross your mind? This is this
is too, this is contemporary. This was two days ago.
Planning a COVID safe book launch took months and thousands
of my own dollars, ensuring, testing outdoor space, uv lights
(01:59):
and a lit other precautions.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, how insane is that? I didn't want to steal
your thunder in case that's where it's going. But her
main what she's known for mostly am I still in
your thunder? I don't know, is absolutely rabid enforcement of
online especially never challenging the mainstream, especially during COVID. If
(02:23):
you dared suggest there was a problem with knockdowns or vaccines,
were she wanted you docked ruined deep platform, called out
your career.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Over She's a freaking lunatic. God, that is crazy. So
you're launching your book, you spend thousands of your own
dollars to make sure everybody gets tested, now really before
they're allowed in the book thing u V lights whatever
those are for, and a little of other precautions. Mean, awhile,
you dumb f's, I'm glad I didn't actually say it. Meanwhile,
(02:53):
you dumb f's are out there raw dogging the air
and spewing your disease laden breath all over your elderly neighbors.
Quote from Taylor Lorenz. Yeah, so that's where the phrase
raw dogging the air comes from.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Raw dogging the air. Lorenz claims that people who don't
wear masks in public are quote raw dogging the air.
Said this music out. That's usually a phrase I obscene.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's usually a phrase that means you're having sex without
a condom.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh oh, I was right, it is cause I have
seen Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're you're raw dogging if you're
having six, which is fine to me.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It's also a viral TikTok trend where passengers on airplanes
sit silently and without distractions on long flights. I like
Putty and Seinfeldt I've never heard that one before anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I don't know if I know anybody this crazy about COVID,
but I know some people that are still pretty damn
masked up and won't shake hands and stuff like that currently,
so they.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Really need to be analyzed.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Wow, you have an event and you make everybody get tested,
masked and have special UV lights.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Wow, you're an insane person. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh yeah, she is mentally unbalanced, absolutely true, and just
absolutely vicious.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, she's a terrible human being.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So if you hear that, that's making the rounds around
social media, the raw dogging the air. It's very popular
right now, since we're talking about COVID, should throw this out.
You know old Cash Patel, who might be the director
of the FBI. Last year, he was selling some sort
of pills on a website and on his Twitter feed
(04:35):
that were for reversing the vacs. If you want to
cleanse your body of the COVID vaccine and worry about
the damage it was doing to you and your children,
you could take his pills to reverse any of the vaccines. Wow,
whatever it was doing to.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You, that's just stealing the money of the easily led suckers.
That's just fraud. Wow. Well, yeah, that's fraud, merchant.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You know what I should have asked for the clip
from Special Report with Brett Beer last night, in which
Trey Goudie, former federal prosecutor and a guy I really like, said,
as against the Matt Gates nomination, as I was, I
am for Cash Patel.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I really think he will do a great job.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That means a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Did he get into specifics, Well, yeah, he just thought
Patel did an absolutely fantastic, smart, aggressive job in countering
the Russian collusion hoax.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, we do have that clip, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Michael worked elbow to elbow with Cash Patel for two years.
You would not know the foundation or the funding of
the Steel dossier. You would not know him about five abuse,
You would not know about Fusion GPS had it not
been for the hard work of a guy named Cash Patel.
He is quite candidly the most unfairly maligned person that
(05:54):
I worked with the entire eight years I was in Washington.
So I know the left setting their hair on fire
is because of what he found, not because of who
he is. Because of what he found, you would not
know about the fives of views.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
If it were not for cash till and his side
hustle was selling steak oil that.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't like that, But that's all I need to know,
because Trey Goudy has pointed out, I mean, he was hardcore.
Matt Gates shouldn't be attorney general hardcore correct. So it's
not like he's, you know, going along with it or
whatever Trump wants. No, if former prosecutor like that is
on his side, that's all I need to know. Cool,
(06:31):
glad to hear that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, I love Trey Goudy.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, Patel is clearly in that list of I said yesterday,
I think it was that fifty percent of Trump's nominations
were rock solid, about twenty five percent were surprising and intriguing,
and twenty five percent or so or bat oop nuts
And those are rough numbers obviously. Yeah, Patel's clearly in
that intriguing category.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And since we brought you the phrase raw dogging the
air that you might come across, are you aware of
the term anxiety, which apparently is popular right now with
some studies out on which alcohol is the best to
drink to avoid anxiety. I don't know if Joe has
suffered from this over the Thanksgiving break. There are a
couple of drinks that make it worse than others. Apparently,
(07:17):
when you have a hangover and it makes you really,
really anxious.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Some boozeres do that in something does I just well,
I don't know about that. I tend to think those distinctions.
Alcohol is alcohoony, right exactly? Yeah, but yes, I actually
I just happen to be reading about that.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
A guy quit drinking. He said.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
One of the reasons was is it increases the production
of cortisol? Was it, which is a hormone that contributes
to anxiety. Don't forgive me if that's the wrong hormone, but.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you wake up? I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hungover and anxious, although the anxiety might be the where's
my car?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Or who is she? I mean, that will make you anxious, right, yeah? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Or I feel terrible? Am I having a heart attack?
Or you know, is something wrong with my brain? I'm
very far or or.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now I got to get a new job. That'll make
you anxious too, I said, what, Yeah, that'll will make
you anxious, all right?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Or how long are they gonna leave me in here
before I get to see a lawyer? That'll make you anxious.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I've told them three times I got to pee or
are they gonna let me pee? Ang soty, Yes, okay, great,
And I've become aware through a bit of research, very
little research.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That raw dogging, which is fun to say because of
the assimilation, not assimilation, assonance and is what what am
I looking for?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Alliterations? Alliteration except it's assonance. Yeah, it's it's the vowel
sound raw dogging, raw dog.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It's fun to say. It can be a number of things.
It originated as having unprotected sex. But like if you
have the flu, you don't take any medication and you
just gut it out, that's raw dogging the flu. I
would use a multi purpose.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm not going to say to my kids, they have
a headache, would you like some mighty be proken. I'm
gonna say, oh so your raw dog and your headache.
I'm not gonna say that. I'm not gonna use that
in that way.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well you don't have to, but it is multi multi use,
very fersatile.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And then sitting on a plane and staring straight ahead
that what he said.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I guess it's evolved into just means dealing with something
without any aid.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
First flight, I got on, had Life Story person in
front of me, loud Life Story person. Oh, I didn't
have any headphones or anything like that. I'm just gonna read.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But just I just I'm always amazed.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
By that, the lack of self awareness for how loud
you are or how much you're talking.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you notice nobody else is talking. You've been talking for.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
An hour and nobody else has been talking. It doesn't
seem odd to you in any way?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Nope, it doesn't. How those people?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
How do you going through your whole life without without thinking, huh,
there's a bunch of human beings here. We could either
all not talk, or we could all talk equally, or
I could talk the entire time while they listen. One
of them seems odd. Yeah, it's impossible for me to imagine.
And I think one of the reasons I'm reasonably good
(10:17):
at this is I'm very self conscious about what I say, so.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I tend to form it pretty carefully. I mean, somebody
can say, Joe, what do you think? And I think
is it appropriate for me to talk now? So I
can't imagine somebody who's in that completely polar opposite headspace.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And then along with the volume, just like so everybody
in several roles can hear you night.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And then when I got out of high school, that's
when the fun really started.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So I joined the military. I don't recall asking, sir,
what the hell do you know anybody like that? And
you have any explanation.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I've been wondering about this my whole Life's.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty show them I'm
getting shot apple.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Pool and nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
If you're a sports fan, here's the latest. If you're
a baseball fan, particularly latest sensation. Are you into tugboat yet?
I've read about tugboat two hundred and seventy pound baseball player,
big fat guy, really really good, and apparently his YouTube
videos are very popular. So if you're a baseball fan
and you like oddities, it's not like a bearded woman
(11:24):
or something, but it is a bigger guy usually.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
See.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Wow, that that sounded transphobic to me. So back to
this tugboat guy. Though he's you know, he's at a
low level of a minor league ball at this point, lowish,
but he strikes out more than half the batters he faces.
It's his numbers are astonishing. I'm intrigued. I want to
watch one of his games.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
By the way, Ryan Gosling and mikey Day of Saturday
Night Live are reprising their Beavis and butt Head act.
It has become very popular. If you saw that sketch
on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So they're making the rounds doing that, including at the
premiere of his latest film. I wouldn't be surprised if
there isn't somebody making a movie that will feature those
two as Beevis and but Hit.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It was pretty damned funny. But I wanted to get
to this.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
The New York Times had this article over the weekend
that I read because I'm always wondering about this, and
this is a classic the food expiration dates. You should
actually follow. This comes up all the time. The first
thing you should know, said the New York Times. The dates,
as we know them have nothing to do with safety.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I have thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I have been involved with people in my life at
various points who followed these religiously, as if they were
God's own word. And if you were anywhere near the date,
let alone past it, obviously that is something you shouldn't eat.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's not even based on safety.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
According to the US Department of Agriculture, it's completely voluntary
for all products except for baby food. It's completely voluntary,
and so there are no rules around it whatsoever. And
it's got nothing to do with safety. And it's solely
based on the manufacturer's best guess as to when the
product will not be at peak quality, whatever that means.
(13:07):
And of course there is a financial incentive to imply
that this isn't safe to eat it after a certain date,
so you'll buy another one.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, throw it out and go to the store and
buy another one. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Anyway, So it goes through in the New York Times
some of the things that never go bad. White flour
never goes bad.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It never goes bad? Keep that around forever? Talks about bread.
I struggle with this. So I've been trying to eat
more healthier bread. You know, I've been a wonderbread guy
my whole life. There's not a lot of nutrition in wonderbread.
It's a child's bread, but it does stay soft and
edible for a very long time. And as it talks here,
a lot of those breads like I get wonderbread. You've
got like a full week probably on that loaf where
(13:50):
you get fresh bread from your bakery, which is so good,
you know, an hour after it was baked to stale
the next day. So well is the wonders of chemistry.
So when you buy the fresh bread, which is delicious,
you sit and eat it all one one afternoon or all.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
In one sitting. That's right. I just eat it and
eat it and eat it. Yeah, spices last forever.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't I don't remember ever looking at the expiration
date on my salt or pepper, and.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Do not discover the joys of the plastic bag. It
keeps spread fresh for days days, and tastes.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I always feel like.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It gets too moist you put in a plastic bag,
it gets like gooey.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I don't like that, like like real bread. Yeah no, no,
why does that happen to me? I don't know. I
can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I mean, I tend to eat like rye and pumpernickel
and grown man's breads. Seven grain is my favorite. Nos,
it got six grain maybe in.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
A pinch seven that's what I require.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I actually hate both of those. I would I would
not eat a sandwich. I would take the bread off
if it had rye bread on it or no. Grow
What an odd character you are anyway? Yeah, they last
for a week, week and half at least. Yeah, they last.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Util them.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Don't eat canned goods. Hard goods last for years.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
If I've met old tea leaking, it's fine, go ahead
and eat them.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Rusty smells weird. Don't worry about it. Now, that's not
what they said. As long as the can or jar
is not touched in any way or it doesn't look
damage to last forever. Mustards last forever. My yellow French
is mustard that I get to go with my wonderbread
lasts forever.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Would you know I'm going to write a song about
mustard today after the show Mustards Last Forever.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm a man who enjoys mustard. I have no less
than ten different mustards in my refrigerator. I eat them
gleefully on rye bread. It's your pinky in the air.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, disgusting, because made you have any gray popon?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I do, really, I've never even, of course, tasted gray popon.
I don't even actually know what it is. I've only
heard about it in advertisements. And then finally, milk I
wanted to get to that, just because that's when we
worry about lot, especially if you have kids. We've all
accidentally poured some clumpy, spoiled milk into our cereal holes.
I have done. It is one of the worst smells
on earth. That's like nature's own protective mechanism, right, It's
(16:08):
letting our brains know this is not good. Don't eat it.
It can seem like your milk is perfectly fine until
it's suddenly not.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
How does it go bad overnight? The truth is it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
From the moment you open a carton of milk, bacteria
starts to digest lactose and produce acidic byproducts. Anyway, if
you want your milk to last longer, look for ultra
high temperature or UHT labeled on the milk. I've never
looked for that before, but some milks have it and
some don't. Milk and these cartons have been pasteurized at
a high temperature, hot enough to destroy destroy all the
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bacteria and then in there and they last a lot longer.
I will start looking for that today because I feel
like my milk goes bad fast.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
You know, that's the same as ultra pasteurized. I guess
I've seen that label. You know whose milk is sucky?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I won't mention a particular place, but like a lot
of convenience store milk, I don't know how what they
do on the trucks.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But out you were talking about a particular mother in
your neighborhood or something.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Do you know whose milk is quote unquote sucky? It's terrible?
All right?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Who's what milk from a convenience story, it's it won't
last like a day if it's any good at all.
I don't know if the truck's sit there and get hot.
But yeah, anytime I buy milk at a convenience store,
I have I have bad, bad luck with it. I
don't think they see keep it cold all the way
through like they do.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
At the grocery stores. Yeah, I wonder. Oh they're in
the same fridge as the beer and the PEPSI that
might be my least favorite smell slash taste is spoiled milk.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Ugh Armstrong, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I love this from Andrew Styles the Definitive List of
winners and losers the twenty twenty four election, and actually,
much as I love andrewing it, to Quipple with his opening,
he says, the election's over. Donald Trump and the Republicans,
excuse me, want a stunning and decide of victory. I
would say Donald Trump won a stunning in decisive victory.
(18:04):
The Senate performed very very well, and the House scraped.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
By for the Republicans. Yeah, mentioned certified government mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I hadn't thought about it until I heard a Democrat
pointed out, how can you call it a wave if
you're going to have like a three seat majority in
the House of Representatives, that ain't much of a wave.
I mean, when Obama won, he had like an eighty
seat majority.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's an indy bitty wave. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
But anyway, winners and losers. Winner diversity, actual diversity. All
sorts of different people voted for Trump and got out
of their electoral pens that the Democrat had told them
they ought to stay in the Democrats rather, with the
exception of seniors and college educated white women. Huzzah, Trump
improved his margins in every group. Winner Hillary Clinton no
longer the only Democrat to lose to Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Winner.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Mental health professionals about to make a fortune treating the
emotional breakdowns of college educated white women and deranged liberals
and journalists who base their entire personalities on hating Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And his Wow, what a way to live your life.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
All the same people who are cutting off friends and
loved ones who care about them deeply as a human
being because they because they've bought I think the most
hyperbolic and ridiculous stuff about the politics.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Spend Thanksgiving alone and in the comfort of knowing at
least you're not hanging around with Trump voters.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You weirdo are evil, That's right. Another winner Dean Phillips.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Only Democrat with the balls to run against Biden in
the Democratic primary and say he's too old.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He was mocked and ridiculed at the time.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh Man in the Democratic Party cut his legs out
from underneath him, made it impossible for him to get anywhere.
And he was a one hundred percent right it turns.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Out, and telling the truth. Yeah, he's not welcome in politics. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Another winner Josh Shapiro. He dodged the bullet of being
a hitched to Kamala Harris's w right. He looks smart
for not taking the job, which he probably didn't want anyway,
we've already forgotten the name of the guy she did
pick the guy in the camo had who pranced around
and lied about China.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, what's his face? Tap on? How about his weird
five minutes of fame? That'll never I mean, it'll be
a trivia question.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Please, let's begin laughing at the laughing stock. Jeff Bezos
the whole temper tantrum, saying we got to be a
reporter of news, not an opinion machine. Tony Hitchcliff and garbage.
He goes into how that was like the final week
closing argument, look at this monster Trump mounted to nothing,
didn't amount to a pile of garbage in terms of
(20:28):
electoral effect, right, yes, go ahead that.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Remember we were counting the days it had, like five
days of legs. That Puerto Rico joke as being one
of the lead stories. What a stupid decision from the
media who was hell bent on bringing down Trump. You
thought that was your best argument. That comedian's joke apparently
didn't work.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Why because they see everything through the lens of identity politics.
So this looked like an enormous faux paw and a
great break bet to beat Trump with the rest of
us normal people, including plenty of Democrats and lefties, as
many of whom are listening right now. They're like, yeah,
I can't afford my groceries. I don't care what some
obscure comedians said about Puerto Rico alts the new media
(21:19):
alternative meetia, including ourselves big winners in the election, Sonny
Hostin and the other ladies of the view for sinking
the Harris campaign with the what would you do differently
than Biden? There is not a thing that comes to mind,
Harris said, in a breathtaking display of unpreparedness.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is Sonny Hosten a lock for Journalist of the Year?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well, as she has come out and said she was
shocked to that answer. So she was trying to throw
Kamala a life preserver because she had flubbed the answer
the day before, and instead of the life preserver she
threw a cinder block that took her under the water.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yes, yeah, well, said another winter women. Trump's victory Russia
in a golden era of women's rights, in spite of
the muling and screeching of the college educated white women
of a certain age, his chief of staff, Susie Wiles,
would be the first woman to hold a job. It'll
soon be safe to play sports again. Women can say
Merry Christmas and be attractive without getting publicly shamed, etcetera.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
So wonder you're gonna learn, ladies America does not want
a female president.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I think that's they'll take away.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Oh my god, that was an attempt, and I emphasize
attempt at humor, ladies, and I apologize for it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Scott jameson Great on the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I heard somebody say the other day, how about try
something different than pantsuits? Two pantsuit ladies who bring in
effeminate men to be their underlings, try something different?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, Uh, Margaret thatcher or dresses didn't she I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I don't care what they wear, wear anything at and
wear nothing.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Scott Jennings Great on CNN, Very reasonable, smart conservative, Mark Halperin,
who's independent reporting in sober analysis, much of which you
heard mentioned here on The Armstrong and Getty Show is
vastly superior and more informative than the mainstream media is hackish, hyperventilating,
another example of new media just whooping the old.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Then some other obscure stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The pig reel winner, the pant suit thing is actually interesting,
and I learned this from listening to Sarah I isiger
in the Dispatch. I hadn't known about level one, level two,
level three feminism, but like level two feminism or whatever,
maybe one was the pants suit. It's like, see, we
can be just like men. We've got our version of
suits and here we are in the workplace. And then
(23:44):
like the next level of feminism, No, I can dress
like kind of hot, like a woman likes two sometimes
in a skirt and high heels, and also be effective.
And I think that would be helpful to get away
from that old level of pants suit thingy. I think
there is sort of a subliminal thing going on there.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, we're going to free you by demanding you adhere
to our stereotypes and our orders. You will work outside
the home. You will turn your nose up at raising
children and being the leader of the family. You will
make money for a corporation, and you will wear pants.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
In the name of freedom, right right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Level threes where whatever you want, do whatever you want,
and I tell you what that's And I don't know
if there's a name for guys like I'll just speak
for myself, who are like women can do whatever they
want and achieve whatever they want, and who the hell
am I to tell them that it's more satisfying to
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make another half of a percent for your corporation as
opposed to raising children and being the actual functional chief
operating officer as a family.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You do what you want. I trust you to make
the decision.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I don't believe in browbeating people to conform to some
sort of, you know, prefab image of.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
What they ought to be.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I find it disgusting no matter what you know label
it puts on itself. We're going over the winners and
losers from the recent election. Loser number one, Come on,
Joe Biden. The experts told us sleepy Joe would be
the most consequential president since FDR.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
When he dropped out in July.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Those same experts compared Biden to George Washington, praising his
selfless act as political courage.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
He will not be remembered that way now.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
In reality, Biden's decision to run for reelection rights Andrew
Styles will be remembered as one of the most reckless
acts of political hubris and American history. His selection of
Kamala Harris as a running mate in twenty twenty, his
decision to immediately endorse her also regarded as monumental blunders.
This is the legacy Biden deserves.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They met Trump and Biden met for two hours yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I find that pretty interesting alone. What were they talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Trump says they talked a lot about Ukraine and talked
a lot about Israel. But two hours, that's a pretty
serious conversation.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, I have no doubt. I'm glad
to hear it. Honestly.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Another loser, of course, Tim Walltz oh right, the camo
hat guy who around pranced around on stage and lied
constantly about China and other weird things. He was supposed
to help the Hair's campaign appeal to men. He pretended
to go pheasant hunting, cackled with the ladies of the U,
and played video games with AOC.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He said Republicans were weird. Trump won mail voters by thirteen.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Points, right, And obviously, if you're going to pick somebody
out of the whole crowd, that was weird. He was
almost certainly the weirdest.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Another losers, other losers, the Obamas, and you know, he
talked about various things, but they tried to shame black
men into voting for Kamala scolding the brothers for hating women.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Oh, go away, please go away.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Other losers Alex Sorosho, the son of billionaire George Soros,
who funneled hundreds of million dollars of dollars into the
Democrats in twenty twenty four, hanging out with him at
elite conferences, inviting them to his swanky Manhattan pad, et cetera.
And some other people you've never heard of. The mainstream
media journalists are the worst. They scolded the American people
(27:18):
for feeling stressed about the economy and thinking, but Biden
was too old to run for reelection. They still don't
understand why no one trusts them or takes them seriously.
They try to put their thumbs on the scale for Harris,
but it made no difference due to their rapidly diminishing
credibility and relevance. They will learn nothing and carry on
into the void.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Speaking of spending money, did you see that Kamala Harris's
campaign gave Al Sharpton a half a million dollars five
hundred thousand dollars they gave to Kamala before he did
the glowing interview with her. Wow, what kind of shakedown
is that? And I can't believe that they play that
game with Al freaking Sharpton. You gave him a half
(27:58):
a million dollars so he do a softball interview with you.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, more losers, the Lincoln Project go away, shameless griff.
There's criminals, terrorists in Iran. Not even Ben Rhodes can
save you. Now, losers.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That Al Sharpton thing pisses me off because that interview
got a fair amount of play in mainstream media because
she was addressing, you know, all the black community and all.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
That sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He did.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Wouldn't do the interview unless he got a half a
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh my god, can we have some sort of giant
statement from you know, the black folks in America, fabulous
loyal Americans who disavow the very concept of Al Sharpton
being a spokesperson for anybody.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
This is interesting and not terribly shocking. Well, I guess
when you get down.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
To the the granular detail, it is fairly shocking. But
Americans are more reliant than ever on government aid. An
aging population, economic distress raised dependence on federal and state support,
and it matters a hell of a lot for our elections.
As you might guess Wall Street Journal looking into a
major study. This is little graphics heavy, but I can
(29:20):
interpret it for you. They're talking about the share of
personal income from government assistance. How in how many counties
is it twenty five percent or more? In nineteen seventy,
government safety net money accounted for significant income. That's more
than twenty five percent. Twenty five percent or more in
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fewer than one percent of America's counties.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So say that again, in what year?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
In nineteen seventy it was less than one percent? Okay,
in two thousand it went from less than one percent
to roughly ten percent. That's the year twenty ten percent,
which a tenfold increase is not minor. In the year
twenty twenty two, fifty three percent, more than half of
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US counties drew at least a quarter of their income
from government aid.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
So this is we were talking about this last week,
and now that it's the average person in the bottom quintile.
I know this is a lot of complicated talking, but
the bottom twenty percent of income earners in America get
on average sixty eight thousand dollars per household of transfer payments,
and that's left out of every argument about we have the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Highest inequality of any nation in the world.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
They never include this stuff and what you just talked
about there, that's never included in these conversations from Bernie
Sanders or probably Tim Walls tonight in the debate. People
live in paycheck to paycheck. Well, more people are getting
the handouts from the government than ever before.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
A lot.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
And as we've discussed with Craig the healthcare Guru, socialism
is not a light switch. It's a it's a fungus
oh that spreads across a country, and it's programmed benefits
and yeah, yeah, sure, there's just no stopping it.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
So the big reasons for this dramatic growth are interesting.
Some of them I think most conservatives would jacked out
of hand. But it gets a little complicated when you
dig into it. There are much larger share of Americans
who are seniors. Period, We're living longer, and we've aged
as a population, we're not having kids anymore. And healthcare raw, sorry,
healthcare costs have risen fairly dramatically as they've gotten more fantastic.
(31:46):
The technology we have at our disposal to keep ourselves
healthy and alive is truly awe inspiring.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But it costs.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, And as my doctor said last week, what exactly
is the point? Sometimes he wonders, is would you get
You know, our brains don't work, our bodies don't work,
but we hang around longer at a great expense.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Right, Well, it could be the money is the point
in at least some situations. Although it's I understand it's
an odd conundrum that a person could sit around rubbing
their chin thinking about for a long time. You're not
going to turn down medical advances because it's every advance
is an incremental step. It can lead toward other advances
(32:29):
or cures or what have you. But at the same
time you and your doctor are quite right, Hey, good news,
we can keep alzheimer suffering Granny alive for one more year.
We can stave off for cancer with this new gene therapy.
Blah blah blah. What are we doing here anyway? To
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get back to the major thread of the thing, AROUNI
here At the same time, many communities, so it's the
aging and the development of medical technology number one. At
the same time, any communities have suffered from economic client
because of the challenges including the loss of manufacturing, leaving
government money is the larger share of people's income in
(33:10):
such places. You know, I could bore you to death.
I won't because I do this for a living and
kind of enjoy getting the paycheck. But one of the
big debates in conservative circles these days is the question
of the reagan Esque free trade global economy conservatives versus
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what's being called the new conservatism or whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
To call it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
And everybody's always government conservatism. Some people call it, yeah,
industrial planning, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Sometimes people even call it central planning what have you,
and are bellowing at each other about it, as if
the solutions and the questions and answers are very simple.
They're not at all. They're trillions of dollars at sake.
So I understand why the people making lots and lots
of money want to keep that money flowing. They don't
care how much unemployment there is in rural Pennsylvania, for instance.
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At the same time, oh oh, and the other point
I was going to make on the side of the new.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Conservatives.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Back in Reagan's day, we didn't have the situation where
our chief global adversary is our one of our chief
trading partners, technology partners, and practically indispensable to the world economy.
So if you are pitching free global trade of a
reaganesque sort, your pitching continued interaction slash dependence with China,
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which is just a bad idea. Times have changed, the
arguments have to change too, So I have sympathy with
both sides, but it is not simple. So for its
analysis of government spending, EIG, which is the folks doing
the analysis, used a government definition of income that includes
spending on programs Americans pay into, such as Medicare and
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Social Security. Another major government health program, Medicaid, is counted.
The analysis also includes unemployment insurance, food stamps, the Earned
Income Tax credit, veterans benefits, PELL grants, COVID era payments,
and other income supports. States helped pay for some of
these programs, like Medicaid, but the federal government covers roughly
seven seventy percent of the cost, and it doesn't include
(35:24):
other ways government spending floods into corners of America, such
as farm subsidies or military bases. So this spending accounts
for big and growing share of not only the income
of the nation, but also our national debt. We are
addicted to government spending slash social programs as a country.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
There's no weaning off that either. I don't believe you
know backwards. I don't think it's possible, but you do have.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
To be honest about the dollars and cents coming and going,
and we're headed for a cliff.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So we went from one percent nineteen seventy to over
half now correct.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Believable.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Not very many people could tell you that Armstrong and
Getty
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
We think you'll enjoy it, sir, So are you raw
dogging the air?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
This is kind of funny and interesting in a couple
of different ways. So it says Taylor Lorenz human being
that we've talked about before.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
She was a.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Washington Post columnist that was so over the top and
nuts they had to let her go from the Washington
bo start did she quit? Whichever one it was, They
couldn't be They couldn't work together anymore. First of all,
she's super crazy, pro Hamas and everything like that, and
wrote a column for the WAPO accusing Joe Biden to
being a war criminal for supporting blah blah blah all
(01:13):
back crap. Anyway, she's got a book out to talk
about her days in journalism at the Washington Post and
stuff that no one will ever read. And she had
a book event over the weekend in which, uh, and
as this will become clear in a second, she was
super worried about COVID for some reason this book event.
(01:34):
Oh and well, I'll just read this tweet first, She
tweets out, planning a COVID safe book launch took months.
Why did it even cross your mind? This is this
is too, this is contemporary. This was two days ago.
Planning a COVID safe book launch took months and thousands
of my own dollars, ensuring, testing outdoor space, uv lights
(01:59):
and a lit other precautions.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, how insane is that? I didn't want to steal
your thunder in case that's where it's going. But her
main what she's known for mostly am I still in
your thunder? I don't know, is absolutely rabid enforcement of
online especially never challenging the mainstream, especially during COVID. If
(02:23):
you dared suggest there was a problem with knockdowns or vaccines,
were she wanted you docked ruined deep platform, called out
your career.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Over She's a freaking lunatic. God, that is crazy. So
you're launching your book, you spend thousands of your own
dollars to make sure everybody gets tested, now really before
they're allowed in the book thing u V lights whatever
those are for, and a little of other precautions. Mean, awhile,
you dumb f's, I'm glad I didn't actually say it. Meanwhile,
(02:53):
you dumb f's are out there raw dogging the air
and spewing your disease laden breath all over your elderly neighbors.
Quote from Taylor Lorenz. Yeah, so that's where the phrase
raw dogging the air comes from.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Raw dogging the air. Lorenz claims that people who don't
wear masks in public are quote raw dogging the air.
Said this music out. That's usually a phrase I obscene.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's usually a phrase that means you're having sex without
a condom.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh oh, I was right, it is cause I have
seen Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're you're raw dogging if you're
having six, which is fine to me.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It's also a viral TikTok trend where passengers on airplanes
sit silently and without distractions on long flights. I like
Putty and Seinfeldt I've never heard that one before anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I don't know if I know anybody this crazy about COVID,
but I know some people that are still pretty damn
masked up and won't shake hands and stuff like that currently,
so they.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Really need to be analyzed.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Wow, you have an event and you make everybody get tested,
masked and have special UV lights.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Wow, you're an insane person. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh yeah, she is mentally unbalanced, absolutely true, and just
absolutely vicious.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, she's a terrible human being.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So if you hear that, that's making the rounds around
social media, the raw dogging the air. It's very popular
right now, since we're talking about COVID, should throw this out.
You know old Cash Patel, who might be the director
of the FBI. Last year, he was selling some sort
of pills on a website and on his Twitter feed
(04:35):
that were for reversing the vacs. If you want to
cleanse your body of the COVID vaccine and worry about
the damage it was doing to you and your children,
you could take his pills to reverse any of the vaccines. Wow,
whatever it was doing to.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You, that's just stealing the money of the easily led suckers.
That's just fraud. Wow. Well, yeah, that's fraud, merchant.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You know what I should have asked for the clip
from Special Report with Brett Beer last night, in which
Trey Goudie, former federal prosecutor and a guy I really like, said,
as against the Matt Gates nomination, as I was, I
am for Cash Patel.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I really think he will do a great job.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That means a lot to me.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Did he get into specifics, Well, yeah, he just thought
Patel did an absolutely fantastic, smart, aggressive job in countering
the Russian collusion hoax.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, we do have that clip, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Michael worked elbow to elbow with Cash Patel for two years.
You would not know the foundation or the funding of
the Steel dossier. You would not know him about five abuse,
You would not know about Fusion GPS had it not
been for the hard work of a guy named Cash Patel.
He is quite candidly the most unfairly maligned person that
(05:54):
I worked with the entire eight years I was in Washington.
So I know the left setting their hair on fire
is because of what he found, not because of who
he is. Because of what he found, you would not
know about the fives of views.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
If it were not for cash till and his side
hustle was selling steak oil that.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't like that, But that's all I need to know,
because Trey Goudy has pointed out, I mean, he was hardcore.
Matt Gates shouldn't be attorney general hardcore correct. So it's
not like he's, you know, going along with it or
whatever Trump wants. No, if former prosecutor like that is
on his side, that's all I need to know. Cool,
(06:31):
glad to hear that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, I love Trey Goudy.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, Patel is clearly in that list of I said yesterday,
I think it was that fifty percent of Trump's nominations
were rock solid, about twenty five percent were surprising and intriguing,
and twenty five percent or so or bat oop nuts
And those are rough numbers obviously. Yeah, Patel's clearly in
that intriguing category.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And since we brought you the phrase raw dogging the
air that you might come across, are you aware of
the term anxiety, which apparently is popular right now with
some studies out on which alcohol is the best to
drink to avoid anxiety. I don't know if Joe has
suffered from this over the Thanksgiving break. There are a
couple of drinks that make it worse than others. Apparently,
(07:17):
when you have a hangover and it makes you really,
really anxious.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Some boozeres do that in something does I just well,
I don't know about that. I tend to think those distinctions.
Alcohol is alcohoony, right exactly? Yeah, but yes, I actually
I just happen to be reading about that.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
A guy quit drinking. He said.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
One of the reasons was is it increases the production
of cortisol? Was it, which is a hormone that contributes
to anxiety. Don't forgive me if that's the wrong hormone, but.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you wake up? I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hungover and anxious, although the anxiety might be the where's
my car?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Or who is she? I mean, that will make you anxious, right, yeah? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Or I feel terrible? Am I having a heart attack?
Or you know, is something wrong with my brain? I'm
very far or or.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now I got to get a new job. That'll make
you anxious too, I said, what, Yeah, that'll will make
you anxious, all right?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Or how long are they gonna leave me in here
before I get to see a lawyer? That'll make you anxious.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I've told them three times I got to pee or
are they gonna let me pee? Ang soty, Yes, okay, great,
And I've become aware through a bit of research, very
little research.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That raw dogging, which is fun to say because of
the assimilation, not assimilation, assonance and is what what am
I looking for?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Alliterations? Alliteration except it's assonance. Yeah, it's it's the vowel
sound raw dogging, raw dog.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It's fun to say. It can be a number of things.
It originated as having unprotected sex. But like if you
have the flu, you don't take any medication and you
just gut it out, that's raw dogging the flu. I
would use a multi purpose.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm not going to say to my kids, they have
a headache, would you like some mighty be proken. I'm
gonna say, oh so your raw dog and your headache.
I'm not gonna say that. I'm not gonna use that
in that way.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well you don't have to, but it is multi multi use,
very fersatile.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And then sitting on a plane and staring straight ahead
that what he said.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I guess it's evolved into just means dealing with something
without any aid.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
First flight, I got on, had Life Story person in
front of me, loud Life Story person. Oh, I didn't
have any headphones or anything like that. I'm just gonna read.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But just I just I'm always amazed.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
By that, the lack of self awareness for how loud
you are or how much you're talking.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do you notice nobody else is talking. You've been talking for.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
An hour and nobody else has been talking. It doesn't
seem odd to you in any way?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Nope, it doesn't. How those people?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
How do you going through your whole life without without thinking, huh,
there's a bunch of human beings here. We could either
all not talk, or we could all talk equally, or
I could talk the entire time while they listen. One
of them seems odd. Yeah, it's impossible for me to imagine.
And I think one of the reasons I'm reasonably good
(10:17):
at this is I'm very self conscious about what I say, so.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I tend to form it pretty carefully. I mean, somebody
can say, Joe, what do you think? And I think
is it appropriate for me to talk now? So I
can't imagine somebody who's in that completely polar opposite headspace.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And then along with the volume, just like so everybody
in several roles can hear you night.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And then when I got out of high school, that's
when the fun really started.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So I joined the military. I don't recall asking, sir,
what the hell do you know anybody like that? And
you have any explanation.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I've been wondering about this my whole Life's.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty show them I'm
getting shot apple.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Pool and nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
If you're a sports fan, here's the latest. If you're
a baseball fan, particularly latest sensation. Are you into tugboat yet?
I've read about tugboat two hundred and seventy pound baseball player,
big fat guy, really really good, and apparently his YouTube
videos are very popular. So if you're a baseball fan
and you like oddities, it's not like a bearded woman
(11:24):
or something, but it is a bigger guy usually.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
See.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Wow, that that sounded transphobic to me. So back to
this tugboat guy. Though he's you know, he's at a
low level of a minor league ball at this point, lowish,
but he strikes out more than half the batters he faces.
It's his numbers are astonishing. I'm intrigued. I want to
watch one of his games.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
By the way, Ryan Gosling and mikey Day of Saturday
Night Live are reprising their Beavis and butt Head act.
It has become very popular. If you saw that sketch
on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So they're making the rounds doing that, including at the
premiere of his latest film. I wouldn't be surprised if
there isn't somebody making a movie that will feature those
two as Beevis and but Hit.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It was pretty damned funny. But I wanted to get
to this.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
The New York Times had this article over the weekend
that I read because I'm always wondering about this, and
this is a classic the food expiration dates. You should
actually follow. This comes up all the time. The first
thing you should know, said the New York Times. The dates,
as we know them have nothing to do with safety.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I have thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I have been involved with people in my life at
various points who followed these religiously, as if they were
God's own word. And if you were anywhere near the date,
let alone past it, obviously that is something you shouldn't eat.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's not even based on safety.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
According to the US Department of Agriculture, it's completely voluntary
for all products except for baby food. It's completely voluntary,
and so there are no rules around it whatsoever. And
it's got nothing to do with safety. And it's solely
based on the manufacturer's best guess as to when the
product will not be at peak quality, whatever that means.
(13:07):
And of course there is a financial incentive to imply
that this isn't safe to eat it after a certain date,
so you'll buy another one.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, throw it out and go to the store and
buy another one. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Anyway, So it goes through in the New York Times
some of the things that never go bad. White flour
never goes bad.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It never goes bad? Keep that around forever? Talks about bread.
I struggle with this. So I've been trying to eat
more healthier bread. You know, I've been a wonderbread guy
my whole life. There's not a lot of nutrition in wonderbread.
It's a child's bread, but it does stay soft and
edible for a very long time. And as it talks here,
a lot of those breads like I get wonderbread. You've
got like a full week probably on that loaf where
(13:50):
you get fresh bread from your bakery, which is so good,
you know, an hour after it was baked to stale
the next day. So well is the wonders of chemistry.
So when you buy the fresh bread, which is delicious,
you sit and eat it all one one afternoon or all.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
In one sitting. That's right. I just eat it and
eat it and eat it. Yeah, spices last forever.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't I don't remember ever looking at the expiration
date on my salt or pepper, and.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Do not discover the joys of the plastic bag. It
keeps spread fresh for days days, and tastes.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I always feel like.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It gets too moist you put in a plastic bag,
it gets like gooey.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I don't like that, like like real bread. Yeah no, no,
why does that happen to me? I don't know. I
can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I mean, I tend to eat like rye and pumpernickel
and grown man's breads. Seven grain is my favorite. Nos,
it got six grain maybe in.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
A pinch seven that's what I require.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I actually hate both of those. I would I would
not eat a sandwich. I would take the bread off
if it had rye bread on it or no. Grow
What an odd character you are anyway? Yeah, they last
for a week, week and half at least. Yeah, they last.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Util them.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Don't eat canned goods. Hard goods last for years.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
If I've met old tea leaking, it's fine, go ahead
and eat them.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Rusty smells weird. Don't worry about it. Now, that's not
what they said. As long as the can or jar
is not touched in any way or it doesn't look
damage to last forever. Mustards last forever. My yellow French
is mustard that I get to go with my wonderbread
lasts forever.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Would you know I'm going to write a song about
mustard today after the show Mustards Last Forever.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm a man who enjoys mustard. I have no less
than ten different mustards in my refrigerator. I eat them
gleefully on rye bread. It's your pinky in the air.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, disgusting, because made you have any gray popon?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I do, really, I've never even, of course, tasted gray popon.
I don't even actually know what it is. I've only
heard about it in advertisements. And then finally, milk I
wanted to get to that, just because that's when we
worry about lot, especially if you have kids. We've all
accidentally poured some clumpy, spoiled milk into our cereal holes.
I have done. It is one of the worst smells
on earth. That's like nature's own protective mechanism, right, It's
(16:08):
letting our brains know this is not good. Don't eat it.
It can seem like your milk is perfectly fine until
it's suddenly not.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
How does it go bad overnight? The truth is it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
From the moment you open a carton of milk, bacteria
starts to digest lactose and produce acidic byproducts. Anyway, if
you want your milk to last longer, look for ultra
high temperature or UHT labeled on the milk. I've never
looked for that before, but some milks have it and
some don't. Milk and these cartons have been pasteurized at
a high temperature, hot enough to destroy destroy all the
(16:40):
bacteria and then in there and they last a lot longer.
I will start looking for that today because I feel
like my milk goes bad fast.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
You know, that's the same as ultra pasteurized. I guess
I've seen that label. You know whose milk is sucky?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I won't mention a particular place, but like a lot
of convenience store milk, I don't know how what they
do on the trucks.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But out you were talking about a particular mother in
your neighborhood or something.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Do you know whose milk is quote unquote sucky? It's terrible?
All right?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Who's what milk from a convenience story, it's it won't
last like a day if it's any good at all.
I don't know if the truck's sit there and get hot.
But yeah, anytime I buy milk at a convenience store,
I have I have bad, bad luck with it. I
don't think they see keep it cold all the way
through like they do.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
At the grocery stores. Yeah, I wonder. Oh they're in
the same fridge as the beer and the PEPSI that
might be my least favorite smell slash taste is spoiled milk.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Ugh Armstrong, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I love this from Andrew Styles the Definitive List of
winners and losers the twenty twenty four election, and actually,
much as I love andrewing it, to Quipple with his opening,
he says, the election's over. Donald Trump and the Republicans,
excuse me, want a stunning and decide of victory. I
would say Donald Trump won a stunning in decisive victory.
(18:04):
The Senate performed very very well, and the House scraped.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
By for the Republicans. Yeah, mentioned certified government mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I hadn't thought about it until I heard a Democrat
pointed out, how can you call it a wave if
you're going to have like a three seat majority in
the House of Representatives, that ain't much of a wave.
I mean, when Obama won, he had like an eighty
seat majority.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's an indy bitty wave. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
But anyway, winners and losers. Winner diversity, actual diversity. All
sorts of different people voted for Trump and got out
of their electoral pens that the Democrat had told them
they ought to stay in the Democrats rather, with the
exception of seniors and college educated white women. Huzzah, Trump
improved his margins in every group. Winner Hillary Clinton no
longer the only Democrat to lose to Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Winner.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Mental health professionals about to make a fortune treating the
emotional breakdowns of college educated white women and deranged liberals
and journalists who base their entire personalities on hating Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
And his Wow, what a way to live your life.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
All the same people who are cutting off friends and
loved ones who care about them deeply as a human
being because they because they've bought I think the most
hyperbolic and ridiculous stuff about the politics.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Spend Thanksgiving alone and in the comfort of knowing at
least you're not hanging around with Trump voters.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You weirdo are evil, That's right. Another winner Dean Phillips.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Only Democrat with the balls to run against Biden in
the Democratic primary and say he's too old.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He was mocked and ridiculed at the time.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh Man in the Democratic Party cut his legs out
from underneath him, made it impossible for him to get anywhere.
And he was a one hundred percent right it turns.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Out, and telling the truth. Yeah, he's not welcome in politics. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Another winner Josh Shapiro. He dodged the bullet of being
a hitched to Kamala Harris's w right. He looks smart
for not taking the job, which he probably didn't want anyway,
we've already forgotten the name of the guy she did
pick the guy in the camo had who pranced around
and lied about China.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, what's his face? Tap on? How about his weird
five minutes of fame? That'll never I mean, it'll be
a trivia question.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Please, let's begin laughing at the laughing stock. Jeff Bezos
the whole temper tantrum, saying we got to be a
reporter of news, not an opinion machine. Tony Hitchcliff and garbage.
He goes into how that was like the final week
closing argument, look at this monster Trump mounted to nothing,
didn't amount to a pile of garbage in terms of
(20:28):
electoral effect, right, yes, go ahead that.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Remember we were counting the days it had, like five
days of legs. That Puerto Rico joke as being one
of the lead stories. What a stupid decision from the
media who was hell bent on bringing down Trump. You
thought that was your best argument. That comedian's joke apparently
didn't work.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Why because they see everything through the lens of identity politics.
So this looked like an enormous faux paw and a
great break bet to beat Trump with the rest of
us normal people, including plenty of Democrats and lefties, as
many of whom are listening right now. They're like, yeah,
I can't afford my groceries. I don't care what some
obscure comedians said about Puerto Rico alts the new media
(21:19):
alternative meetia, including ourselves big winners in the election, Sonny
Hostin and the other ladies of the view for sinking
the Harris campaign with the what would you do differently
than Biden? There is not a thing that comes to mind,
Harris said, in a breathtaking display of unpreparedness.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is Sonny Hosten a lock for Journalist of the Year?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well, as she has come out and said she was
shocked to that answer. So she was trying to throw
Kamala a life preserver because she had flubbed the answer
the day before, and instead of the life preserver she
threw a cinder block that took her under the water.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yes, yeah, well, said another winter women. Trump's victory Russia
in a golden era of women's rights, in spite of
the muling and screeching of the college educated white women
of a certain age, his chief of staff, Susie Wiles,
would be the first woman to hold a job. It'll
soon be safe to play sports again. Women can say
Merry Christmas and be attractive without getting publicly shamed, etcetera.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
So wonder you're gonna learn, ladies America does not want
a female president.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I think that's they'll take away.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Oh my god, that was an attempt, and I emphasize
attempt at humor, ladies, and I apologize for it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Scott jameson Great on the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I heard somebody say the other day, how about try
something different than pantsuits? Two pantsuit ladies who bring in
effeminate men to be their underlings, try something different?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, Uh, Margaret thatcher or dresses didn't she I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I don't care what they wear, wear anything at and
wear nothing.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Scott Jennings Great on CNN, Very reasonable, smart conservative, Mark Halperin,
who's independent reporting in sober analysis, much of which you
heard mentioned here on The Armstrong and Getty Show is
vastly superior and more informative than the mainstream media is hackish, hyperventilating,
another example of new media just whooping the old.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Then some other obscure stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The pig reel winner, the pant suit thing is actually interesting,
and I learned this from listening to Sarah I isiger
in the Dispatch. I hadn't known about level one, level two,
level three feminism, but like level two feminism or whatever,
maybe one was the pants suit. It's like, see, we
can be just like men. We've got our version of
suits and here we are in the workplace. And then
(23:44):
like the next level of feminism, No, I can dress
like kind of hot, like a woman likes two sometimes
in a skirt and high heels, and also be effective.
And I think that would be helpful to get away
from that old level of pants suit thingy. I think
there is sort of a subliminal thing going on there.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Yeah, we're going to free you by demanding you adhere
to our stereotypes and our orders. You will work outside
the home. You will turn your nose up at raising
children and being the leader of the family. You will
make money for a corporation, and you will wear pants.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
In the name of freedom, right right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Level threes where whatever you want, do whatever you want,
and I tell you what that's And I don't know
if there's a name for guys like I'll just speak
for myself, who are like women can do whatever they
want and achieve whatever they want, and who the hell
am I to tell them that it's more satisfying to
(24:45):
make another half of a percent for your corporation as
opposed to raising children and being the actual functional chief
operating officer as a family.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You do what you want. I trust you to make
the decision.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I don't believe in browbeating people to conform to some
sort of, you know, prefab image of.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
What they ought to be.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I find it disgusting no matter what you know label
it puts on itself. We're going over the winners and
losers from the recent election. Loser number one, Come on,
Joe Biden. The experts told us sleepy Joe would be
the most consequential president since FDR.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
When he dropped out in July.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Those same experts compared Biden to George Washington, praising his
selfless act as political courage.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
He will not be remembered that way now.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
In reality, Biden's decision to run for reelection rights Andrew
Styles will be remembered as one of the most reckless
acts of political hubris and American history. His selection of
Kamala Harris as a running mate in twenty twenty, his
decision to immediately endorse her also regarded as monumental blunders.
This is the legacy Biden deserves.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They met Trump and Biden met for two hours yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I find that pretty interesting alone. What were they talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Trump says they talked a lot about Ukraine and talked
a lot about Israel. But two hours, that's a pretty
serious conversation.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, I have no doubt. I'm glad
to hear it. Honestly.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Another loser, of course, Tim Walltz oh right, the camo
hat guy who around pranced around on stage and lied
constantly about China and other weird things. He was supposed
to help the Hair's campaign appeal to men. He pretended
to go pheasant hunting, cackled with the ladies of the U,
and played video games with AOC.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He said Republicans were weird. Trump won mail voters by thirteen.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Points, right, And obviously, if you're going to pick somebody
out of the whole crowd, that was weird. He was
almost certainly the weirdest.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Another losers, other losers, the Obamas, and you know, he
talked about various things, but they tried to shame black
men into voting for Kamala scolding the brothers for hating women.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Oh, go away, please go away.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Other losers Alex Sorosho, the son of billionaire George Soros,
who funneled hundreds of million dollars of dollars into the
Democrats in twenty twenty four, hanging out with him at
elite conferences, inviting them to his swanky Manhattan pad, et cetera.
And some other people you've never heard of. The mainstream
media journalists are the worst. They scolded the American people
(27:18):
for feeling stressed about the economy and thinking, but Biden
was too old to run for reelection. They still don't
understand why no one trusts them or takes them seriously.
They try to put their thumbs on the scale for Harris,
but it made no difference due to their rapidly diminishing
credibility and relevance. They will learn nothing and carry on
into the void.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Speaking of spending money, did you see that Kamala Harris's
campaign gave Al Sharpton a half a million dollars five
hundred thousand dollars they gave to Kamala before he did
the glowing interview with her. Wow, what kind of shakedown
is that? And I can't believe that they play that
game with Al freaking Sharpton. You gave him a half
(27:58):
a million dollars so he do a softball interview with you.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, more losers, the Lincoln Project go away, shameless griff.
There's criminals, terrorists in Iran. Not even Ben Rhodes can
save you. Now, losers.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That Al Sharpton thing pisses me off because that interview
got a fair amount of play in mainstream media because
she was addressing, you know, all the black community and all.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
That sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He did.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Wouldn't do the interview unless he got a half a
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh my god, can we have some sort of giant
statement from you know, the black folks in America, fabulous
loyal Americans who disavow the very concept of Al Sharpton
being a spokesperson for anybody.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
This is interesting and not terribly shocking. Well, I guess
when you get down.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
To the the granular detail, it is fairly shocking. But
Americans are more reliant than ever on government aid. An
aging population, economic distress raised dependence on federal and state support,
and it matters a hell of a lot for our elections.
As you might guess Wall Street Journal looking into a
major study. This is little graphics heavy, but I can
(29:20):
interpret it for you. They're talking about the share of
personal income from government assistance. How in how many counties
is it twenty five percent or more? In nineteen seventy,
government safety net money accounted for significant income. That's more
than twenty five percent. Twenty five percent or more in
(29:43):
fewer than one percent of America's counties.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So say that again, in what year?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
In nineteen seventy it was less than one percent? Okay,
in two thousand it went from less than one percent
to roughly ten percent. That's the year twenty ten percent,
which a tenfold increase is not minor. In the year
twenty twenty two, fifty three percent, more than half of
(30:11):
US counties drew at least a quarter of their income
from government aid.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
So this is we were talking about this last week,
and now that it's the average person in the bottom quintile.
I know this is a lot of complicated talking, but
the bottom twenty percent of income earners in America get
on average sixty eight thousand dollars per household of transfer payments,
and that's left out of every argument about we have the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Highest inequality of any nation in the world.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
They never include this stuff and what you just talked
about there, that's never included in these conversations from Bernie
Sanders or probably Tim Walls tonight in the debate. People
live in paycheck to paycheck. Well, more people are getting
the handouts from the government than ever before.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
A lot.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
And as we've discussed with Craig the healthcare Guru, socialism
is not a light switch. It's a it's a fungus
oh that spreads across a country, and it's programmed benefits
and yeah, yeah, sure, there's just no stopping it.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
So the big reasons for this dramatic growth are interesting.
Some of them I think most conservatives would jacked out
of hand. But it gets a little complicated when you
dig into it. There are much larger share of Americans
who are seniors. Period, We're living longer, and we've aged
as a population, we're not having kids anymore. And healthcare raw, sorry,
healthcare costs have risen fairly dramatically as they've gotten more fantastic.
(31:46):
The technology we have at our disposal to keep ourselves
healthy and alive is truly awe inspiring.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But it costs.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, And as my doctor said last week, what exactly
is the point? Sometimes he wonders, is would you get
You know, our brains don't work, our bodies don't work,
but we hang around longer at a great expense.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Right, Well, it could be the money is the point
in at least some situations. Although it's I understand it's
an odd conundrum that a person could sit around rubbing
their chin thinking about for a long time. You're not
going to turn down medical advances because it's every advance
is an incremental step. It can lead toward other advances
(32:29):
or cures or what have you. But at the same
time you and your doctor are quite right, Hey, good news,
we can keep alzheimer suffering Granny alive for one more year.
We can stave off for cancer with this new gene therapy.
Blah blah blah. What are we doing here anyway? To
(32:49):
get back to the major thread of the thing, AROUNI
here At the same time, many communities, so it's the
aging and the development of medical technology number one. At
the same time, any communities have suffered from economic client
because of the challenges including the loss of manufacturing, leaving
government money is the larger share of people's income in
(33:10):
such places. You know, I could bore you to death.
I won't because I do this for a living and
kind of enjoy getting the paycheck. But one of the
big debates in conservative circles these days is the question
of the reagan Esque free trade global economy conservatives versus
(33:33):
what's being called the new conservatism or whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
To call it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
And everybody's always government conservatism. Some people call it, yeah,
industrial planning, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Sometimes people even call it central planning what have you,
and are bellowing at each other about it, as if
the solutions and the questions and answers are very simple.
They're not at all. They're trillions of dollars at sake.
So I understand why the people making lots and lots
of money want to keep that money flowing. They don't
care how much unemployment there is in rural Pennsylvania, for instance.
(34:09):
At the same time, oh oh, and the other point
I was going to make on the side of the new.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Conservatives.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Back in Reagan's day, we didn't have the situation where
our chief global adversary is our one of our chief
trading partners, technology partners, and practically indispensable to the world economy.
So if you are pitching free global trade of a
reaganesque sort, your pitching continued interaction slash dependence with China,
(34:40):
which is just a bad idea. Times have changed, the
arguments have to change too, So I have sympathy with
both sides, but it is not simple. So for its
analysis of government spending, EIG, which is the folks doing
the analysis, used a government definition of income that includes
spending on programs Americans pay into, such as Medicare and
(35:02):
Social Security. Another major government health program, Medicaid, is counted.
The analysis also includes unemployment insurance, food stamps, the Earned
Income Tax credit, veterans benefits, PELL grants, COVID era payments,
and other income supports. States helped pay for some of
these programs, like Medicaid, but the federal government covers roughly
seven seventy percent of the cost, and it doesn't include
(35:24):
other ways government spending floods into corners of America, such
as farm subsidies or military bases. So this spending accounts
for big and growing share of not only the income
of the nation, but also our national debt. We are
addicted to government spending slash social programs as a country.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
There's no weaning off that either. I don't believe you
know backwards. I don't think it's possible, but you do have.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
To be honest about the dollars and cents coming and going,
and we're headed for a cliff.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So we went from one percent nineteen seventy to over
half now correct.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Believable.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Not very many people could tell you that Armstrong and
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