January 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The Golden Globes & the good/bad of booze
- Trump's cabinet picks & Vivek Murthy is the worst
- Football playoffs & someone on the show got a tick
- The new year started with terrorism
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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 and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Then Daya's here and Dana you were incredible in Dune.
Oh my god, I woke up for all of your scenes.
You are so good. And Challengers Girl, Oh my god,
it was so good. I mean that movie was more
sexually charged than Diddy's Credit Card. I mean, seriously. Oh no, no,
I know, I'm sorry. I'm upset to the after party
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is not going to be as good.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
This year, but we have to move on. I know
what Stanley.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Tucci freakoff just doesn't have the same ring to it.
But no baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, So comedian Nicki Glazer hosting the Golden Globes, which
you didn't watch last night, which is a precursor to
the Oscars, which.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You will not watch. I'm not at gunpoint, but the whole.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
P Diddy thing, everybody there in the audience probably knew
what was going on at those parties, maybe had friends
who went, and similar to Harvey Weinstein, they all just
kept their mouth shut because that's the way that industry is.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I guess, at the risk.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Of going off on a time consuming tangent, I think
the takeaway from this those jokes, and she's a comedian.
She makes jokes about things including uncomfortable maybe you know,
imply chokes, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Not too many years ago, if.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You were to ask a co worker out right, or
you were out for drinks and said, you know, we
ought to get coffee sometime, I really enjoy talking to you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You were a monster.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How dare you use your male patriarchal privilege or power
or something something vague something You're part of rape culture,
believe all women, believe all women something something, And now
a guy who was sanctioning and enforcing rape after rape
(02:16):
is a punchline that everybody giggles at, you know, kind
of uncomfortably, but they're giggling.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think to take.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Away is the woke Hollywood passion of the moment is
just fine to mock and ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's just fine.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, speaking of witch thinking of things to be speaking
of things to be mocked and ignored. I will tell you,
just to establish my bona fides as a reporter on
this story, the Surgeon General Vivek Mercy out with a
warning that alcohol, any consumption of alcohol, is a cancer risk,
and there should be warnings on the labels, and beware, beware, beware.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I am a drinking man.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I enjoy the pleasures of alcohol on a reg basis,
a daily basis, more or less, although I've been sober
for the best part of a week just to reset
the body and the mind, and so I am very,
very curious. I like it a great deal. Actually, yeah,
I don't look at it as not drinking. I look
at it as sobriety and the opportunity to do different
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things in different ways and just let my poor liver
rest for a minute. Ever since my upbringing in the eighties,
playing rock and roll and everything, there were drugs everywhere,
and drugs on campus like crazy. And I always queue
to the philosophy of know what you're putting in your
body and and be smart about it. Don't be the
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moro on who just takes something because somebody offered it
to you. And alcohol is the same way. I'm really
curious to know the good and bad of alcohol, So
I dug into this.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Here's what you need to.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
The good is people are less boring and everybody's hotter.
That's the good.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh, and I don't hate being here, not here there.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The good of alcohol is I don't hate this gathering
near as much as I would if I didn't have alcohol.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I see Jesus at the right hand of God way
back in the day saying, hey, hey, boss, what are
we going to do their? Dad? Dad? What are we
going to do for the introverts? There anything we can
do for well? I suppose we could make it so
that when when fruit fermented, it made you feel less angsty.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A friend of mine who's doing dry January had a
big social gathering they had to go to and make
texted me, this is so boring it's killing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Anyway. Where will we ah?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yes, the Search in general, So, the Search in General
said alcoholic beverages should carry cancer warnings to increase awareness.
The drinks are the leading cause of preventable cancers. Are
a leading cause. I should say that would take it
back to Congress, But he said in his statement, alcohol
is a well established preventable cause of cancer, responsible for
about one hundred thousand CAUs cases of cancer and twenty
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thousand cancer deaths annually in the United States, yet the
majority of Americans are unaware of this risk. They say
alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer
in the US, after tobacco and obesity. Link between alcohol
consumption cancer risk has been established for at least seven
kinds of cancer, including breast, colorectal, esophagus, liver, mouth, throat,
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and voice box mirthy sad.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, Now, the perspective.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
For women consuming less than a drink per week, meaning you're.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
A non drinker.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
If you consume less than a drink per week, well
I consider you a non drinker.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Well yeah, yeah, the absolute risk of developing an alcohol
related cancer is around seventeen percent of what it doesn't
make clear That risk increases to about twenty two percent
for women consuming two drinks a day.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
My god, So wait, so you go from a non.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Drinker at seventeen percent to a to a day and
you get to twenty two percent.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And there's probably a margin of error with the whole
the whole thing, just because of all research.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You know, it takes a while to.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Right, so it's less than a third of a tiny number.
For then the risk increases from ten percent to thirteen percent. Wow,
that again, less than a third. We learned this a
long time ago doing this job. When you hear the
drive by health study stuff, this is the most common
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thing they do. It's an increase of not much to
tiny bit more than not much, and then all the
media runs with it as a big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Coke can call you, I remember when soda was a
coc col can call you as a cancer.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And you know so, lab rats.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Who were force fed sixty cases of coca cola all
day long had a slightly larger chance of getting cancer
than those of drank none. Okay, that's not worth mentioning
at all, Yet it can be a big story.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Or if something or other causes a third higher incidence
of cancer and the just to take a ridiculous example,
but the incident's cancer is one in ten thousand. Well
a third hire is one point three out of ten thousand,
which you know cancer is no choke obviously, but in
Austraia numbers moderate drinkers have a note he had cancer.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
He gets to make that joke.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Moving on, moderate drinkers have a one point eight fold
high risk of developing oral cavity and throat cancers. Now
I will tell you this asaphageal cancer if you are
a heavy drinker, and we'll get into this in a bit,
some of the mouth and throat cancers. If you are
a heavy drinker, there is a significant risk for terrible
forms of cancer. A person I cared about very much
passed away from one of those cancers, and he knew
(07:50):
his way around alcohol.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
We'll leave it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
There, but a saphageal drinking alcohol at any level is
linked with an increased risk of developing cancer in the esophagus,
ranging from one point threefold higher just a third higher
for light drinkers to fivefold for heavy drinkers.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So just don't be a heavy drinker. How do they
define heavy drinker in this study? You know, you know,
I don't think they nail it down exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The heavy might be a Tuesday afternoon in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But yeah, well, and and God bless you for it. Ah.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And by the way, all of these numbers, all of
them are absolutely dwarfed by cigarettes, clearly. But obesity, obesity, man,
what are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Alcohol? And a kidding, no kidding, So great perspective.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Moving on sort of from Alicia Finley, who writes for
The Wall Street Journal and is terrific. She points out,
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has done more to politicize science
in a road trust in public health leaders than anyone
other than Anthony freaking foul O Chi. And he did
it again with the alcohol cancer stuff. Again worth knowing
heavy drinking increases your risk. Two weeks before he shot
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off his mouth, the National Academies of Sciences Engineering in
Medicine released a congressionly mandated review of the recent evidence
on the health effects of moderate drinking or up to
one drink a day for women two for men. It's
more than two hundred pages of findings run counter to
Mrthy's twenty two page report, and they got absolutely no
attention or practically no attention in the press. The Academy
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has found insufficient evidence to support a link between moderate
drinking and oral fare and geal esophagus, laryngel, and other cancers.
It did find a slightly higher risk of breast cancer
with moderate drinking, but also a lower risk of death
generally and from cardiovascular disease specifically compared with never drinking.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You also should factor enjoyment of life. How boring most
people are, life didn't suck as much, so you got
to factor that in, and Finley points out that for
some cancers, quote evidence shows that this risk may start
to increase while around one or fewer drinks per day.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Notice the operative word may no kidding. Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So I was gonna blame the media most of the time,
this is a media thing. You can't blame the scientists.
It's their job to study, you know, to pop tarts
give you cancer or something like that. And then they,
you know, somebody does a study on that, and they
put out a study that's got a tiny increase, and
then the media acts like it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's not the scientist problem.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
But in this case you get the freaking Surgeon General
trumping up these numbers and making noises like it's.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
A big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
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Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'd admit I could not have told you. If you'd
have said who's the surgeon General, I wouldn't have been
able to come up with the name off the top
of my head. Is uh Oz going to be the
surgeon general? Doctor Oz?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He's ahhs, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I thought that's what RFK Junior was going to be.
We actually we should nail that down.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He gets inaugurated in fourteen days. What are you going
to do in the interim with that knowledge?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
We'll have that for you when you come back. Many
of you are screaming at the radio, Hey, you knuckleheads.
This person's this and this person's that. But I wonder
how they feel about this warning labels on booze or whatever.
The New Orleans terrorist attack. How big a deal is this?
Do we have terrorist cells active in the United States
or whatever? FBI director thinks, so the government thinks. So
(12:49):
a bunch of stuff on the way. I hope you
can stay here. So we were just talking about the
fact that the current surgeon general is talking about a
warning label on ALP like they have on cigarettes because
of a study about cancer and everything like that. And
we got another conversation because the current surgeon general is
in office for a few more days and the new
(13:10):
administration takes over and we're talking about who's what now?
And I didn't even remember, but one thing. Looking at
the list of all Trump's nominees, there are so many
layers of just the health thing. And that's one of
the problems we have is so RFK Jr. Is is
Health and Human Services Secretary, Okay, as opposed to this
(13:33):
guy who Jay however he pronounce his name, who's the
head of the NIH National Institutes of Health. Okay, what
is that compared to what RFK Junior is going to do.
Then you have got Jim O'Neil who's going to be
the Health Deputy. Then you've got veteran stuff around health,
which is a huge part of the budget and a
lot of the whole health infrastructure. Then you have a
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Surgeon General who's a different person, and then an HHS
Secretary which has a bit That department has a bigger
budget than the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And these are all different people.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Ha And you left out the Centers for Disease Control
right right left out CDC.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So okay, I'll bet you get into one of those jobs,
and you'd think, how does this even square with the
fifteen other giant organizations that are in charge of this? Also,
what if I did nothing right, would anybody notice? Like
for a year I'm going to do nothing for a
year and see if anybody says anything. I'm looking up
(14:32):
at CBS right now, new alcohol warning, and they're taking
it completely seriously.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Joe is here to tell us no. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Doctor Mercy claims that alcohol use quote not only abuses
a leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States,
contributing to nearly one hundred thousand cancer case about to
twenty thousand cancer deaths each year. That estimate is based
on models of associations from cherry pick to observational studies.
Even the report partially attributes only seventeen percent of these
estimated deaths to moderate drinking, so almost all of its
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heavy drinking and of the cancer deaths in twenty three,
that would mean modern drinking contributed to contributed to thirty
four hundred, or about six tenths of one percent. Doctor
Murphy's claims about alcohols cancer risks are misleading, but typical
of his reports, which are intended to drive a political agenda. Then,
Alicia Finley from The Wall Street Journal explains, let's review
(15:25):
the role. First Advisory in twenty twenty one declared health
misinformation a serious threat. It warned that and I'm quoting
misinformation has caused confusion and led people to decline COVID
nineteen vaccines, reject public health measures such as masking and
physical distancing, and use unproven treatments. So there he was
(15:46):
cracking down on, among other things, Jay Batticharia and the
Great Barrington Declaration, which was right about everything. The Surgeon
General urged tech companies to quote strengthen the monitoring of misinformation, quote,
prioritize her early detection of misinformation super spreaders and repeat
offenders like Battachari and his cohort there in the Great
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Barrington Declaration, and quote redesigned recommendation algorithms to avoid amplifying misinformation,
in other words, censor COVID views that he and Fauci
didn't like. Next came Murthy's twenty twenty two report on
Workplace Mental Health, which was informed quote by the voices
of many workers and unions.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It was a push.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
For a living wage before overtime tips and commissions, also
family leave, and all sorts of left wing workplace prescriptions.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Then there was the twenty twenty three Advisory on our
Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, which came to the forefront
of public consciousness during the pandemic, never mind that Murthy's
promotional lockdowns caused the problem. To improve social connection, he
advised increased access to public transit. What a load of cracks.
I'm I'm so glad the Biden administration about gone, and
(17:00):
I won't even get in. We don't have time for
firearm violence. So public health crisis in America that recommended
a ban on ill defined assault weapons or restriction on
concealed and open carry permits, and increasing criminal liability for
shooting a firearm after being attacked if you could have
safely retreated, that's a quote. So not gang bangers and
(17:23):
gun slingers in our cities that cause the vast vast
majority of the murders and which progressive prosecutors don't prosecute. No,
it's somebody in their own home who's a scumbag is terrorizing.
You can't shoot them if you could have retreated, that's
vivek mercy for you.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Goodbye. Don't let the door hit you on your healthy ass. Anyway,
I was in Washington, D C.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
When the terrorist attack in New Orleans hit, So man,
they sure ramped up security there. Oh, I got to
talk about New Year's even Washington, DC. Also that was
something I know. A bunch of stuff on the way
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That's an excellent idea.
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
First, a goal in sign run for KIMS.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Still going to the gold number four on the night.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
One night to remember round Nut Guy ties the Lions record.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
For touchdowns in a game, maybe in a season a
lot of years. The Lions stomped to the Vikings as
what they were calling the most consequential last game of
the season in NFL history because they were playing for
the winner got the number one seed in the NFC
home field advantage throughout. The loser is the five seed
and plays the next week. That was a pretty consequential game,
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but wasn't even close.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Playoff football is upon us.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Hala hala, Yeah, no, kidd, and the uh you can
google it anywhere, but the uh.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
The brackets are all set for next weekend.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I hope everybody had a good holiday time. I hope
you had a little time off to relax.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I did.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It was fantastic spend mostly just family time, I did.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I did have that time off. No relaxing, Yeah, oh
it was very very relaxing. A lot of good visiting
and played a lot of cribbage that sort of thing. Also,
I had an experience that inspired me. I've been writing
songs again, and I've written what I believed to be
And Katie, you might enjoy this.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
The worst Christmas song of all time. It's based on
a true story. I'm still working on the melody. It's
a little rough. I went to Urgent Care on Christmas
Eve to get a tick removed. It burrowed into my
skin the way you burrowed into my heart.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That's just that's all I got so far. No, that's
based on a true story, based on a true story. Yes, yes, urgent. Wow,
this is some urgent ca for a tick. What was that?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
What was that reality show that was hot for a
while with the little heavy girl and everything like that,
Mama June, what was that?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right? Honey boo right now?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, you have very honey booboo lifestyle going on. Here,
we're you're going to your care to get a tick removed.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
If someone gave me a pop quiz of who on
this show is going to get a tick removed over break,
it wasn't Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah. Let's you know. I tried. I try to be surprising.
Who was going to be disappointed in their chardonnay? Joe?
Who is going to get a tick removed? Got a parasite? Well,
so I know you know you.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Out doorsy type. He's saying, you don't need to go
to urgent care. Here's the here's the deal. I assue
I get out of the shower. I'm walking out of
the shower with my my arnold schure saying, you're like
a physique just glistening in the water. You can imagine.
And uh and and my bride who's in there, said
is that new? And she like points to my side
and I've got like a nasty looking sore And I'm like, yeah,
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what the heck?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Because I was totally unaware of it. Is that a new?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
So is that with all your other older sores?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Actually, I've been so carved up by my dermatologist.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It looks like I've been in a gunfight.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So but anyway, so yeah, it turns out to be
a tick, and you know, we we administered the various
getting ticks out techniques and you're like, all right, and
she said, all right, now I can get it, and
she he's the tweezers and just manages to like pull
its legs off, and so off to the urgent care went.
It was terrible tortures. Yaw long it was there, probably
(21:31):
not long. I actually think I remember when it got
on me through the.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Woods since his last coon hunt. Ain't nothing wrong with
coon hunt.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
He's back in the holler making shine, and he went
on a coon hunt and he got ticks Garcie usually
and his daddy's breeches because he's got none of his own. No,
it's so anyway, that was an unfortunate and you get
there and of course you're thinking, oh good, there's only
two people in front of you. Then inexplicable you're still
sitting there in forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
But anyway, so that was fine. It was dealt with,
and then we moved on with our lives. And I
took a bunch of antibiotics to make sure I don't
get lime disease.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh boy, you don't want that. Oh no, no, I hear.
It's a horror. Antibiotics can keep you from getting lime disease.
I didn't know that if you jump on it in time.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
There's one particular that they recommend as a prophylactic, which
I hammered down.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So so the New Orleans guy, we got some text
about the alcohol thing, but I'll save that for a
little bit later. The knew should it have a cancer
warning thing? New Orleans guy. So this I was on
the East coast. We're in Washington, d C. For New
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Year's Eve, which we went to a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
I was trying to figure out where to go eat
and we went very early so we were able to
get in. Everybody was super dressed up. We were dressed
like tourists and felt kind of out of place because
you know, a lot of women in little black skirts
and high and guys and suits and stuff because it
was New Year's even there wanting to be special and
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we were dressed like tours So luckily we were eating
early and getting out there.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The bill was insane. No I did that place was
so expensive.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
AnyWho, we get we get back to the hotel early
my kids like on New Year's Eve to eat junk food,
and we flipped around the channels and watched all the
TV shows we're watching. We're watching Dick Clark's Rocking New Year,
New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest and flipping over to
Anderson Cooper getting drunk with his gay buddy on CNN
where they do vodka shots all night long and all
(23:34):
that sort of Stuff'm flipping around and they just giggle
and just nonsense, and mostly wonder who watches this craft
other than like the really really sad who have no friends,
and I don't even know who could be good Bob
possibly be watching this stuff?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Could it be that the entire audience for the show
is ironic? I wonder that myself, every single person is
wondering who the hell watches this?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Almost almost every musical act is either the has been
like you know, the Jackson's We're on the Rock in
New Year's Eve for instance.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Some Jackson, I mean Everybody's eighty or some up and
comer you've never heard of.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Anyway, it's New Year's Eve at the hotel and it
turns twenty twenty five and nobody's keys work, So every
single person coming back to their room at this giant hotel,
couldn't get into the room. And there's like two security
people with passes, you know, the the key into the room.
Sid they had to go one by one, every single
human to their room to get him into the room.
(24:30):
What a y two k sort of stupidity thing that
is from a major hotel chain. How could you make
a mistake like that where oh, we didn't have a
new system when they could ever be not twenty twenty four,
We didn't think of programming as anyway minor norts, right,
But so we get to bed and we missed hearing
the story till the next morning about the guy ram
in his Ford f one fifty lightning into the crowd
(24:54):
that he had rented and killing a whole bunch of
people and turned out to be Isis. And then, however,
many hours was later the Tesla, another electric vehicle, blowing
up or attempting to blow it up there in Las
Vegas in front of Trump Tower. And for a while
there the media coverage really had them linked.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right, In fact, they said specifically they were linked for
a moment, right.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And then the FBI early on said that they were
investigating three other people that had placed bombs somewhere, and
so it's starting to look like a fairly big plot there.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
In the early hours.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Joe and I are big on the don't believe anything
you hear in the first twenty four hours on any
of these sorts of things, which is more true now
than it was the first time we ever said it.
There's almost there's almost no reason point in reacting to
any of the stuff you hear on these kinds of
stories school shootings, mass shootings, terrorist attacks, whatever, because so
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much of it turns out to not be true.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Wouldn't you say, yeah, it might be true, but it
might not. It's practically random, it's a coin flipping.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
There's certainly no point and going off on a like
both presidents did some long screed about the information at
the time, because who knows how it's gonna turn out.
It turns out they're not linked at all. The FBI
now says, and I know a lot of you don't
believe it that they're covering for something that the FBI
now says that they're not looking for three other people
placing pipe bombs. Just said dude, Although it does look
(26:22):
like that dude was inspired by isis? And are they
still calling it a terrorist attack? I know that went
back and forth a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Well, at first the FBI was adamant that it was
not some local gal and the local police girl.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Why are no men in charge the police? She's anymore?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
The same police chief Oakland had for a cup of
coffee and was run out of town because she sucked
when she was a police chief in Oakland, ends up
the police chief in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
How the hell does that happen? How are you so.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Bad at your job that you get run out of
Oakland as a black woman, and and you go to
New Orleans and.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Get to be the police chief? What as a black woman?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You're telling me there's no other candidates than somebody who
failed horribly at their job in Oakland.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Evidently I was in a coma when the constitutional amendment
passed that said, we can't possibly have a white male
running a major city police department. It's just it's it's
utterly impossible. At this point, you couldn't get one through.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
How about the.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Thousands of idiotic how about the thousands of black women,
if you want to stick with that theme, who don't suck?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Already? Good lord. Anyway, your point was originally she did.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
What Well, the FBI was adamant that this was not
a terrorist attacks, not it's a Muslim fellow, but it's
not terrorism, And you know, it's just it's it's ridiculous
that the posturing. It brings to mind the horrifying British
story which we'll get to next hour, about the the
rapes of the young girls. But what was the point
I was driving toward. It seems significant at the time.
Blah blah blah. Oh so this guy, it's interesting. It
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reminds me of a lot of ills in our society
these days. This was a miserable failure of a guy
with a bad life who wanted to make it out
on somebody. And I think he embraced the ideology of
ISIS because it's all about hurting and being self righteous
and having a purpose and that sort of thing. And
so he decided to kill a bunch of people in
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service to isis. What good did It's just the futility
of it is what makes me insane. You didn't strike
a blow forrisis, you didn't do anything but killing us
and people, You moron.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, that's why I wanted to bring this up because
I was thinking just a lot of the reading and
podcasts I was listening to over the break about various
periods through history, whether it was a form of the
Constitution or French Revolution, which I just can't stop being
interested in. All this sort of stuff. Just a very
big picture cultural What is our problem here in the West,
(28:46):
not just the United States? Western civilization, the decline of
Western civilization and the lack of purpose and unhappiness is
clearly a theme that runs through so much of it
and explains so many different things. Are politics, the way
we structure our lives, all these different sorts of things.
And while I do believe there is absolutely such a
(29:07):
thing as militant Islam that plenty of people around the
world sign on to because they actually believe the Quran,
when it's described the way these nut jobs describe it,
blah blah blah, Right, a lot of the stuff that
happens in the United States is just what you described.
Sad people with sad lives who don't have another purpose
(29:28):
like charity or God or whatever it ought to be,
and so they look for the closest thing at hand
that will let them manifest their frustrations and hurt people
because they're so unhappy.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Right, and it takes all sorts of different forms. You know,
I'm reminded odd way of the sudden onset gender dysphor
you among adolescent girls. It's not that there's an explosion
in transgenderism. It has nothing to do with sex, or
call it gender if you like. It has to do
with puberty and indoctrination and angst and porn and all
(30:04):
sorts of stuff. It's not that all of a sudden,
little girls are turning into little boys. That's the last
thing that's happened. Yeah, I can't believe I left that
example out that explains that. Also, just a lot of
people are sad and purposeless and confused and lonely and
all those different things.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That we didn't used to be so.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Right, that's the big, biggest problem, bigger than isis even
is the overall Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
People are just unhappy with their lives.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And you know, a lot of you think it's when
religion went away and our secondarization. You might be right,
But whatever it is, that's the big thing that needs
to be fixed that would solve all these different things.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think the religion thing is a factor.
If you were to pick, say arbitrary number five five
things that gave people purpose in their lives.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Religion is one.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Raising a family absolutely was probably number one, but certainly
number two. And you know, you know, getting yourself just
a couple of luxury Number three.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
We had at work a social influencer, a social media influencer.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Oh, that's right, that's a new thing. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
If you were to take the classic examples of what
motivates me to get up in the morning and live
a life of purpose, I think a lot of them,
if not all of them, have been weakened or eliminated
in a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
It's the on we of.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Success, of being decadent, Yeah, aiting, fat and happy.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And just like I said, I spent a couple of
weeks going through a whole bunch of different books and podcasts, and.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
That was my conclusion.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Is almost everything we talk about can be explained by that.
Whatever is driving that, just the on wee lack of purpose,
not happy with your life thing that is happening in
all of Western civilization.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Here's the purpose that unites the country. Perfect timing, because
they're a little shaky, right, now it's time to take
Canada back or Gramma fifty first state America's hat.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Maybe we take Canada and Greenland fifty two states. Get
to work on a pattern on the flag. We've got
to get the stars on there somehow.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Well, first we've got to find Greenland. I think it's
in the North Atlantic.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
We got a couple of text about the whole alcohol thing.
We got a bunch of other stuff to talk about.
I hope you can stay here text line, be interested
in what you think about what we just said. Four
one five two nine five kftc Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Rising threats.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
The country is on edge after a deadly New Year's
Day terror attack that investigators say was inspired by ISIS.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
But what a you know, a horrible way to start
the new year, and it points to the need to
get the answers and to make sure it doesn't happen again.
And I think there is more information comes out and
the investigation is more fully completed, I think we'll have
more of those answers. But you know, clearly it's a
dangerous world, and I think it's a reminder that we
need to be doing everything we can at every level
(33:02):
to keep the American people safe.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Okay, that's the new majority leader, Republican John Thune. Meet
the press there with that intro. One thing that I'm
reminded of every time we go on vacation is how
real life compares to media life. And we're in the media,
and we take in so much media that I even
us who mocked the media regularly, I think, you know,
(33:24):
you get into the media life. The nation is on edge.
I was out and about with people. I didn't run
into a single person who seemed to be even slightly
on edge.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I was in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Which would be one of the biggest focus points of
isis if they could have any attack the day of
the attack, and we were all in line for museums
and restaurants and stuff like that. The idea, the idea
that everybody's upset or on edge or happy, that it's
just always so way overstated by any media.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
That's such a great point. The nation is on edge,
and you think, wow, Okay, the nation's on edge. I'm
supposed to be on edge.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Are you on edge?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Were you on edge before they told you to be
on edge? Nobody I knew was on edge? And the
security was ramped up. That was definitely true everywhere at
airports and DC and every where I was, But I
didn't notice there was no palpable on edge at all.
The way they portrayed it on the news shows.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Well to the extent that anybody wanted this, I think
I've re just solved everything, all of it, all of
the angst and the depression, and the insanity, and the
transgenderism and the other fundamentalist Islam which has been a
scourge for one hundred and hundreds of years. But it
used to be our entire lives were taken in through
our eyes and ears unless you occasionally got a letter
from somebody. Now virtually all of our input is from
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around the entire globe via electronic means.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's making us insane. Period. That's it. There's no more
study needs to be done. Save your money.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
That very well could be it. We got these texts.
Should mention guys. The police chief of New Orleans is
a white woman. The FBI Special Agent in charge of
New Orleans is a black woman, and she initially said
New Orleans attack was terry related. Both, by the way,
appeared to be incompetent despite the whatever is in their
skin that makes their skin a certain color.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yes, if you have testicles, you are not welcome in
the highest echelons of law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's a true thing. Yeah, it's amazing. You know what,
I'm not sure we have time to do this.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
The fella who blew up explosives inside the cyber truck
in Las Vegas evildoers, shooters, scumbags, cowards.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
We don't mention their names.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
I am going to mention the name of Matthew Livelsberger,
who was a decorated Army Special Forces veteran, A beautiful guy,
according to everybody who knew him, including fairly recently, who
had all sorts of concussions in active duty and was
displaying all of the signs of traumatic brain injury and
(35:53):
that sort of thing. Wow, and had some serious depression problems,
and he in back injuries the rest of it. But
he actually had a note that said, Hey, this is
not terrorism. It is a wake up call. Americans only
pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to
get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives.
(36:13):
He and he was dealing with guilt for the people
he'd seen die and the people he'd killed, and it
was just it was a story about a troubled vet,
not terrorism.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
That should get more attention. We'll talk more about that later.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Then Daya's here and Dana you were incredible in Dune.
Oh my god, I woke up for all of your scenes.
You are so good. And Challengers Girl, Oh my god,
it was so good. I mean that movie was more
sexually charged than Diddy's Credit Card. I mean, seriously. Oh no, no,
I know, I'm sorry. I'm upset to the after party
(00:46):
is not going to be as good.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
This year, but we have to move on. I know
what Stanley.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Tucci freakoff just doesn't have the same ring to it.
But no baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, So comedian Nicki Glazer hosting the Golden Globes, which
you didn't watch last night, which is a precursor to
the Oscars, which.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You will not watch. I'm not at gunpoint, but the whole.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
P Diddy thing, everybody there in the audience probably knew
what was going on at those parties, maybe had friends
who went, and similar to Harvey Weinstein, they all just
kept their mouth shut because that's the way that industry is.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I guess, at the risk.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Of going off on a time consuming tangent, I think
the takeaway from this those jokes, and she's a comedian.
She makes jokes about things including uncomfortable maybe you know,
imply chokes, which is fine.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Not too many years ago, if.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
You were to ask a co worker out right, or
you were out for drinks and said, you know, we
ought to get coffee sometime, I really enjoy talking to you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You were a monster.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How dare you use your male patriarchal privilege or power
or something something vague something You're part of rape culture,
believe all women, believe all women something something, And now
a guy who was sanctioning and enforcing rape after rape
(02:16):
is a punchline that everybody giggles at, you know, kind
of uncomfortably, but they're giggling.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think to take.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Away is the woke Hollywood passion of the moment is
just fine to mock and ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's just fine.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, speaking of witch thinking of things to be speaking
of things to be mocked and ignored. I will tell you,
just to establish my bona fides as a reporter on
this story, the Surgeon General Vivek Mercy out with a
warning that alcohol, any consumption of alcohol, is a cancer risk,
and there should be warnings on the labels, and beware, beware, beware.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I am a drinking man.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I enjoy the pleasures of alcohol on a reg basis,
a daily basis, more or less, although I've been sober
for the best part of a week just to reset
the body and the mind, and so I am very,
very curious. I like it a great deal. Actually, yeah,
I don't look at it as not drinking. I look
at it as sobriety and the opportunity to do different
(03:19):
things in different ways and just let my poor liver
rest for a minute. Ever since my upbringing in the eighties,
playing rock and roll and everything, there were drugs everywhere,
and drugs on campus like crazy. And I always queue
to the philosophy of know what you're putting in your
body and and be smart about it. Don't be the
(03:41):
moro on who just takes something because somebody offered it
to you. And alcohol is the same way. I'm really
curious to know the good and bad of alcohol, So
I dug into this.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Here's what you need to.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
The good is people are less boring and everybody's hotter.
That's the good.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh, and I don't hate being here, not here there.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The good of alcohol is I don't hate this gathering
near as much as I would if I didn't have alcohol.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I see Jesus at the right hand of God way
back in the day saying, hey, hey, boss, what are
we going to do their? Dad? Dad? What are we
going to do for the introverts? There anything we can
do for well? I suppose we could make it so
that when when fruit fermented, it made you feel less angsty.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A friend of mine who's doing dry January had a
big social gathering they had to go to and make
texted me, this is so boring it's killing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Anyway. Where will we ah?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yes, the Search in general, So, the Search in General
said alcoholic beverages should carry cancer warnings to increase awareness.
The drinks are the leading cause of preventable cancers. Are
a leading cause. I should say that would take it
back to Congress, But he said in his statement, alcohol
is a well established preventable cause of cancer, responsible for
about one hundred thousand CAUs cases of cancer and twenty
(05:02):
thousand cancer deaths annually in the United States, yet the
majority of Americans are unaware of this risk. They say
alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer
in the US, after tobacco and obesity. Link between alcohol
consumption cancer risk has been established for at least seven
kinds of cancer, including breast, colorectal, esophagus, liver, mouth, throat,
(05:25):
and voice box mirthy sad.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, Now, the perspective.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
For women consuming less than a drink per week, meaning you're.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
A non drinker.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
If you consume less than a drink per week, well
I consider you a non drinker.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Well yeah, yeah, the absolute risk of developing an alcohol
related cancer is around seventeen percent of what it doesn't
make clear That risk increases to about twenty two percent
for women consuming two drinks a day.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
My god, So wait, so you go from a non.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Drinker at seventeen percent to a to a day and
you get to twenty two percent.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And there's probably a margin of error with the whole
the whole thing, just because of all research.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You know, it takes a while to.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Right, so it's less than a third of a tiny number.
For then the risk increases from ten percent to thirteen percent. Wow,
that again, less than a third. We learned this a
long time ago doing this job. When you hear the
drive by health study stuff, this is the most common
(06:35):
thing they do. It's an increase of not much to
tiny bit more than not much, and then all the
media runs with it as a big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Coke can call you, I remember when soda was a
coc col can call you as a cancer.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And you know so, lab rats.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Who were force fed sixty cases of coca cola all
day long had a slightly larger chance of getting cancer
than those of drank none. Okay, that's not worth mentioning
at all, Yet it can be a big story.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Or if something or other causes a third higher incidence
of cancer and the just to take a ridiculous example,
but the incident's cancer is one in ten thousand. Well
a third hire is one point three out of ten thousand,
which you know cancer is no choke obviously, but in
Austraia numbers moderate drinkers have a note he had cancer.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
He gets to make that joke.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Moving on, moderate drinkers have a one point eight fold
high risk of developing oral cavity and throat cancers. Now
I will tell you this asaphageal cancer if you are
a heavy drinker, and we'll get into this in a bit,
some of the mouth and throat cancers. If you are
a heavy drinker, there is a significant risk for terrible
forms of cancer. A person I cared about very much
passed away from one of those cancers, and he knew
(07:50):
his way around alcohol.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
We'll leave it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
There, but a saphageal drinking alcohol at any level is
linked with an increased risk of developing cancer in the esophagus,
ranging from one point threefold higher just a third higher
for light drinkers to fivefold for heavy drinkers.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So just don't be a heavy drinker. How do they
define heavy drinker in this study? You know, you know,
I don't think they nail it down exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The heavy might be a Tuesday afternoon in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But yeah, well, and and God bless you for it. Ah.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And by the way, all of these numbers, all of
them are absolutely dwarfed by cigarettes, clearly. But obesity, obesity, man,
what are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Alcohol? And a kidding, no kidding, So great perspective.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Moving on sort of from Alicia Finley, who writes for
The Wall Street Journal and is terrific. She points out,
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has done more to politicize science
in a road trust in public health leaders than anyone
other than Anthony freaking foul O Chi. And he did
it again with the alcohol cancer stuff. Again worth knowing
heavy drinking increases your risk. Two weeks before he shot
(09:10):
off his mouth, the National Academies of Sciences Engineering in
Medicine released a congressionly mandated review of the recent evidence
on the health effects of moderate drinking or up to
one drink a day for women two for men. It's
more than two hundred pages of findings run counter to
Mrthy's twenty two page report, and they got absolutely no
attention or practically no attention in the press. The Academy
(09:33):
has found insufficient evidence to support a link between moderate
drinking and oral fare and geal esophagus, laryngel, and other cancers.
It did find a slightly higher risk of breast cancer
with moderate drinking, but also a lower risk of death
generally and from cardiovascular disease specifically compared with never drinking.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You also should factor enjoyment of life. How boring most
people are, life didn't suck as much, so you got
to factor that in, and Finley points out that for
some cancers, quote evidence shows that this risk may start
to increase while around one or fewer drinks per day.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Notice the operative word may no kidding. Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So I was gonna blame the media most of the time,
this is a media thing. You can't blame the scientists.
It's their job to study, you know, to pop tarts
give you cancer or something like that. And then they,
you know, somebody does a study on that, and they
put out a study that's got a tiny increase, and
then the media acts like it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's not the scientist problem.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
But in this case you get the freaking Surgeon General
trumping up these numbers and making noises like it's.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
A big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
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Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'd admit I could not have told you. If you'd
have said who's the surgeon General, I wouldn't have been
able to come up with the name off the top
of my head. Is uh Oz going to be the
surgeon general? Doctor Oz?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He's ahhs, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I thought that's what RFK Junior was going to be.
We actually we should nail that down.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He gets inaugurated in fourteen days. What are you going
to do in the interim with that knowledge?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We'll figure it out.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
We'll have that for you when you come back. Many
of you are screaming at the radio, Hey, you knuckleheads.
This person's this and this person's that. But I wonder
how they feel about this warning labels on booze or whatever.
The New Orleans terrorist attack. How big a deal is this?
Do we have terrorist cells active in the United States
or whatever? FBI director thinks, so the government thinks. So
(12:49):
a bunch of stuff on the way. I hope you
can stay here. So we were just talking about the
fact that the current surgeon general is talking about a
warning label on ALP like they have on cigarettes because
of a study about cancer and everything like that. And
we got another conversation because the current surgeon general is
in office for a few more days and the new
(13:10):
administration takes over and we're talking about who's what now?
And I didn't even remember, but one thing. Looking at
the list of all Trump's nominees, there are so many
layers of just the health thing. And that's one of
the problems we have is so RFK Jr. Is is
Health and Human Services Secretary, Okay, as opposed to this
(13:33):
guy who Jay however he pronounce his name, who's the
head of the NIH National Institutes of Health. Okay, what
is that compared to what RFK Junior is going to do.
Then you have got Jim O'Neil who's going to be
the Health Deputy. Then you've got veteran stuff around health,
which is a huge part of the budget and a
lot of the whole health infrastructure. Then you have a
(13:56):
Surgeon General who's a different person, and then an HHS
Secretary which has a bit That department has a bigger
budget than the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And these are all different people.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Ha And you left out the Centers for Disease Control
right right left out CDC.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So okay, I'll bet you get into one of those jobs,
and you'd think, how does this even square with the
fifteen other giant organizations that are in charge of this? Also,
what if I did nothing right, would anybody notice? Like
for a year I'm going to do nothing for a
year and see if anybody says anything. I'm looking up
(14:32):
at CBS right now, new alcohol warning, and they're taking
it completely seriously.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Joe is here to tell us no. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Doctor Mercy claims that alcohol use quote not only abuses
a leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States,
contributing to nearly one hundred thousand cancer case about to
twenty thousand cancer deaths each year. That estimate is based
on models of associations from cherry pick to observational studies.
Even the report partially attributes only seventeen percent of these
estimated deaths to moderate drinking, so almost all of its
(15:01):
heavy drinking and of the cancer deaths in twenty three,
that would mean modern drinking contributed to contributed to thirty
four hundred, or about six tenths of one percent. Doctor
Murphy's claims about alcohols cancer risks are misleading, but typical
of his reports, which are intended to drive a political agenda. Then,
Alicia Finley from The Wall Street Journal explains, let's review
(15:25):
the role. First Advisory in twenty twenty one declared health
misinformation a serious threat. It warned that and I'm quoting
misinformation has caused confusion and led people to decline COVID
nineteen vaccines, reject public health measures such as masking and
physical distancing, and use unproven treatments. So there he was
(15:46):
cracking down on, among other things, Jay Batticharia and the
Great Barrington Declaration, which was right about everything. The Surgeon
General urged tech companies to quote strengthen the monitoring of misinformation, quote,
prioritize her early detection of misinformation super spreaders and repeat
offenders like Battachari and his cohort there in the Great
(16:09):
Barrington Declaration, and quote redesigned recommendation algorithms to avoid amplifying misinformation,
in other words, censor COVID views that he and Fauci
didn't like. Next came Murthy's twenty twenty two report on
Workplace Mental Health, which was informed quote by the voices
of many workers and unions.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It was a push.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
For a living wage before overtime tips and commissions, also
family leave, and all sorts of left wing workplace prescriptions.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Then there was the twenty twenty three Advisory on our
Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, which came to the forefront
of public consciousness during the pandemic, never mind that Murthy's
promotional lockdowns caused the problem. To improve social connection, he
advised increased access to public transit. What a load of cracks.
I'm I'm so glad the Biden administration about gone, and
(17:00):
I won't even get in. We don't have time for
firearm violence. So public health crisis in America that recommended
a ban on ill defined assault weapons or restriction on
concealed and open carry permits, and increasing criminal liability for
shooting a firearm after being attacked if you could have
safely retreated, that's a quote. So not gang bangers and
(17:23):
gun slingers in our cities that cause the vast vast
majority of the murders and which progressive prosecutors don't prosecute. No,
it's somebody in their own home who's a scumbag is terrorizing.
You can't shoot them if you could have retreated, that's
vivek mercy for you.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Goodbye. Don't let the door hit you on your healthy ass. Anyway,
I was in Washington, D C.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
When the terrorist attack in New Orleans hit, So man,
they sure ramped up security there. Oh, I got to
talk about New Year's even Washington, DC. Also that was
something I know. A bunch of stuff on the way
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's an excellent idea.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That's your new New Year's resolution, eACT subscribe Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
First, a goal in sign run for KIMS.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Still going to the gold number four on the night.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
One night to remember round Nut Guy ties the Lions record.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
For touchdowns in a game, maybe in a season a
lot of years. The Lions stomped to the Vikings as
what they were calling the most consequential last game of
the season in NFL history because they were playing for
the winner got the number one seed in the NFC
home field advantage throughout. The loser is the five seed
and plays the next week. That was a pretty consequential game,
(18:55):
but wasn't even close.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Playoff football is upon us.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Hala hala, Yeah, no, kidd, and the uh you can
google it anywhere, but the uh.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
The brackets are all set for next weekend.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I hope everybody had a good holiday time. I hope
you had a little time off to relax.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I did.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It was fantastic spend mostly just family time, I did.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I did have that time off. No relaxing, Yeah, oh
it was very very relaxing. A lot of good visiting
and played a lot of cribbage that sort of thing. Also,
I had an experience that inspired me. I've been writing
songs again, and I've written what I believed to be
And Katie, you might enjoy this.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
The worst Christmas song of all time. It's based on
a true story. I'm still working on the melody. It's
a little rough. I went to Urgent Care on Christmas
Eve to get a tick removed. It burrowed into my
skin the way you burrowed into my heart.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That's just that's all I got so far. No, that's
based on a true story, based on a true story. Yes, yes, urgent. Wow,
this is some urgent ca for a tick. What was that?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
What was that reality show that was hot for a
while with the little heavy girl and everything like that,
Mama June, what was that?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right? Honey boo right now?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, you have very honey booboo lifestyle going on. Here,
we're you're going to your care to get a tick removed.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
If someone gave me a pop quiz of who on
this show is going to get a tick removed over break,
it wasn't Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah. Let's you know. I tried. I try to be surprising.
Who was going to be disappointed in their chardonnay? Joe?
Who is going to get a tick removed? Got a parasite? Well,
so I know you know you.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Out doorsy type. He's saying, you don't need to go
to urgent care. Here's the here's the deal. I assue
I get out of the shower. I'm walking out of
the shower with my my arnold schure saying, you're like
a physique just glistening in the water. You can imagine.
And uh and and my bride who's in there, said
is that new? And she like points to my side
and I've got like a nasty looking sore And I'm like, yeah,
(20:56):
what the heck?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Because I was totally unaware of it. Is that a new?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
So is that with all your other older sores?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Actually, I've been so carved up by my dermatologist.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It looks like I've been in a gunfight.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So but anyway, so yeah, it turns out to be
a tick, and you know, we we administered the various
getting ticks out techniques and you're like, all right, and
she said, all right, now I can get it, and
she he's the tweezers and just manages to like pull
its legs off, and so off to the urgent care went.
It was terrible tortures. Yaw long it was there, probably
(21:31):
not long. I actually think I remember when it got
on me through the.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Woods since his last coon hunt. Ain't nothing wrong with
coon hunt.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
He's back in the holler making shine, and he went
on a coon hunt and he got ticks Garcie usually
and his daddy's breeches because he's got none of his own. No,
it's so anyway, that was an unfortunate and you get
there and of course you're thinking, oh good, there's only
two people in front of you. Then inexplicable you're still
sitting there in forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
But anyway, so that was fine. It was dealt with,
and then we moved on with our lives. And I
took a bunch of antibiotics to make sure I don't
get lime disease.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh boy, you don't want that. Oh no, no, I hear.
It's a horror. Antibiotics can keep you from getting lime disease.
I didn't know that if you jump on it in time.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
There's one particular that they recommend as a prophylactic, which
I hammered down.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So so the New Orleans guy, we got some text
about the alcohol thing, but I'll save that for a
little bit later. The knew should it have a cancer
warning thing? New Orleans guy. So this I was on
the East coast. We're in Washington, d C. For New
(22:42):
Year's Eve, which we went to a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
I was trying to figure out where to go eat
and we went very early so we were able to
get in. Everybody was super dressed up. We were dressed
like tourists and felt kind of out of place because
you know, a lot of women in little black skirts
and high and guys and suits and stuff because it
was New Year's even there wanting to be special and
(23:05):
we were dressed like tours So luckily we were eating
early and getting out there.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The bill was insane. No I did that place was
so expensive.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
AnyWho, we get we get back to the hotel early
my kids like on New Year's Eve to eat junk food,
and we flipped around the channels and watched all the
TV shows we're watching. We're watching Dick Clark's Rocking New Year,
New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest and flipping over to
Anderson Cooper getting drunk with his gay buddy on CNN
where they do vodka shots all night long and all
(23:34):
that sort of Stuff'm flipping around and they just giggle
and just nonsense, and mostly wonder who watches this craft
other than like the really really sad who have no friends,
and I don't even know who could be good Bob
possibly be watching this stuff?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Could it be that the entire audience for the show
is ironic? I wonder that myself, every single person is
wondering who the hell watches this?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Almost almost every musical act is either the has been
like you know, the Jackson's We're on the Rock in
New Year's Eve for instance.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Some Jackson, I mean Everybody's eighty or some up and
comer you've never heard of.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Anyway, it's New Year's Eve at the hotel and it
turns twenty twenty five and nobody's keys work, So every
single person coming back to their room at this giant hotel,
couldn't get into the room. And there's like two security
people with passes, you know, the the key into the room.
Sid they had to go one by one, every single
human to their room to get him into the room.
(24:30):
What a y two k sort of stupidity thing that
is from a major hotel chain. How could you make
a mistake like that where oh, we didn't have a
new system when they could ever be not twenty twenty four,
We didn't think of programming as anyway minor norts, right,
But so we get to bed and we missed hearing
the story till the next morning about the guy ram
in his Ford f one fifty lightning into the crowd
(24:54):
that he had rented and killing a whole bunch of
people and turned out to be Isis. And then, however,
many hours was later the Tesla, another electric vehicle, blowing
up or attempting to blow it up there in Las
Vegas in front of Trump Tower. And for a while
there the media coverage really had them linked.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Right, In fact, they said specifically they were linked for
a moment, right.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And then the FBI early on said that they were
investigating three other people that had placed bombs somewhere, and
so it's starting to look like a fairly big plot there.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
In the early hours.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Joe and I are big on the don't believe anything
you hear in the first twenty four hours on any
of these sorts of things, which is more true now
than it was the first time we ever said it.
There's almost there's almost no reason point in reacting to
any of the stuff you hear on these kinds of
stories school shootings, mass shootings, terrorist attacks, whatever, because so
(25:51):
much of it turns out to not be true.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Wouldn't you say, yeah, it might be true, but it
might not. It's practically random, it's a coin flipping.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
There's certainly no point and going off on a like
both presidents did some long screed about the information at
the time, because who knows how it's gonna turn out.
It turns out they're not linked at all. The FBI
now says, and I know a lot of you don't
believe it that they're covering for something that the FBI
now says that they're not looking for three other people
placing pipe bombs. Just said dude, Although it does look
(26:22):
like that dude was inspired by isis? And are they
still calling it a terrorist attack? I know that went
back and forth a couple of times.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Well, at first the FBI was adamant that it was
not some local gal and the local police girl.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Why are no men in charge the police? She's anymore?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
The same police chief Oakland had for a cup of
coffee and was run out of town because she sucked
when she was a police chief in Oakland, ends up
the police chief in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
How the hell does that happen? How are you so.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Bad at your job that you get run out of
Oakland as a black woman, and and you go to
New Orleans and.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Get to be the police chief? What as a black woman?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You're telling me there's no other candidates than somebody who
failed horribly at their job in Oakland.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Evidently I was in a coma when the constitutional amendment
passed that said, we can't possibly have a white male
running a major city police department. It's just it's it's
utterly impossible. At this point, you couldn't get one through.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
How about the.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Thousands of idiotic how about the thousands of black women,
if you want to stick with that theme, who don't suck?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Already? Good lord. Anyway, your point was originally she did.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
What Well, the FBI was adamant that this was not
a terrorist attacks, not it's a Muslim fellow, but it's
not terrorism, And you know, it's just it's it's ridiculous
that the posturing. It brings to mind the horrifying British
story which we'll get to next hour, about the the
rapes of the young girls. But what was the point
I was driving toward. It seems significant at the time.
Blah blah blah. Oh so this guy, it's interesting. It
(27:52):
reminds me of a lot of ills in our society
these days. This was a miserable failure of a guy
with a bad life who wanted to make it out
on somebody. And I think he embraced the ideology of
ISIS because it's all about hurting and being self righteous
and having a purpose and that sort of thing. And
so he decided to kill a bunch of people in
(28:12):
service to isis. What good did It's just the futility
of it is what makes me insane. You didn't strike
a blow forrisis, you didn't do anything but killing us
and people, You moron.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, that's why I wanted to bring this up because
I was thinking just a lot of the reading and
podcasts I was listening to over the break about various
periods through history, whether it was a form of the
Constitution or French Revolution, which I just can't stop being
interested in. All this sort of stuff. Just a very
big picture cultural What is our problem here in the West,
(28:46):
not just the United States? Western civilization, the decline of
Western civilization and the lack of purpose and unhappiness is
clearly a theme that runs through so much of it
and explains so many different things. Are politics, the way
we structure our lives, all these different sorts of things.
And while I do believe there is absolutely such a
(29:07):
thing as militant Islam that plenty of people around the
world sign on to because they actually believe the Quran,
when it's described the way these nut jobs describe it,
blah blah blah, Right, a lot of the stuff that
happens in the United States is just what you described.
Sad people with sad lives who don't have another purpose
(29:28):
like charity or God or whatever it ought to be,
and so they look for the closest thing at hand
that will let them manifest their frustrations and hurt people
because they're so unhappy.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Right, and it takes all sorts of different forms. You know,
I'm reminded odd way of the sudden onset gender dysphor
you among adolescent girls. It's not that there's an explosion
in transgenderism. It has nothing to do with sex, or
call it gender if you like. It has to do
with puberty and indoctrination and angst and porn and all
(30:04):
sorts of stuff. It's not that all of a sudden,
little girls are turning into little boys. That's the last
thing that's happened. Yeah, I can't believe I left that
example out that explains that. Also, just a lot of
people are sad and purposeless and confused and lonely and
all those different things.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That we didn't used to be so.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Right, that's the big, biggest problem, bigger than isis even
is the overall Western civilization.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
People are just unhappy with their lives.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And you know, a lot of you think it's when
religion went away and our secondarization. You might be right,
But whatever it is, that's the big thing that needs
to be fixed that would solve all these different things.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think the religion thing is a factor.
If you were to pick, say arbitrary number five five
things that gave people purpose in their lives.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Religion is one.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Raising a family absolutely was probably number one, but certainly
number two. And you know, you know, getting yourself just
a couple of luxury Number three.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
We had at work a social influencer, a social media influencer.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Oh, that's right, that's a new thing. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
If you were to take the classic examples of what
motivates me to get up in the morning and live
a life of purpose, I think a lot of them,
if not all of them, have been weakened or eliminated
in a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
It's the on we of.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Success, of being decadent, Yeah, aiting, fat and happy.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
And just like I said, I spent a couple of
weeks going through a whole bunch of different books and podcasts, and.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
That was my conclusion.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Is almost everything we talk about can be explained by that.
Whatever is driving that, just the on wee lack of purpose,
not happy with your life thing that is happening in
all of Western civilization.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Here's the purpose that unites the country. Perfect timing, because
they're a little shaky, right, now it's time to take
Canada back or Gramma fifty first state America's hat.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Maybe we take Canada and Greenland fifty two states. Get
to work on a pattern on the flag. We've got
to get the stars on there somehow.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Well, first we've got to find Greenland. I think it's
in the North Atlantic.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
We got a couple of text about the whole alcohol thing.
We got a bunch of other stuff to talk about.
I hope you can stay here text line, be interested
in what you think about what we just said. Four
one five two nine five kftc Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Rising threats.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
The country is on edge after a deadly New Year's
Day terror attack that investigators say was inspired by ISIS.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
But what a you know, a horrible way to start
the new year, and it points to the need to
get the answers and to make sure it doesn't happen again.
And I think there is more information comes out and
the investigation is more fully completed, I think we'll have
more of those answers. But you know, clearly it's a
dangerous world, and I think it's a reminder that we
need to be doing everything we can at every level
(33:02):
to keep the American people safe.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Okay, that's the new majority leader, Republican John Thune. Meet
the press there with that intro. One thing that I'm
reminded of every time we go on vacation is how
real life compares to media life. And we're in the media,
and we take in so much media that I even
us who mocked the media regularly, I think, you know,
(33:24):
you get into the media life. The nation is on edge.
I was out and about with people. I didn't run
into a single person who seemed to be even slightly
on edge.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I was in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Which would be one of the biggest focus points of
isis if they could have any attack the day of
the attack, and we were all in line for museums
and restaurants and stuff like that. The idea, the idea
that everybody's upset or on edge or happy, that it's
just always so way overstated by any media.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
That's such a great point. The nation is on edge,
and you think, wow, Okay, the nation's on edge. I'm
supposed to be on edge.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Are you on edge?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Were you on edge before they told you to be
on edge? Nobody I knew was on edge? And the
security was ramped up. That was definitely true everywhere at
airports and DC and every where I was, But I
didn't notice there was no palpable on edge at all.
The way they portrayed it on the news shows.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Well to the extent that anybody wanted this, I think
I've re just solved everything, all of it, all of
the angst and the depression, and the insanity, and the
transgenderism and the other fundamentalist Islam which has been a
scourge for one hundred and hundreds of years. But it
used to be our entire lives were taken in through
our eyes and ears unless you occasionally got a letter
from somebody. Now virtually all of our input is from
(34:43):
around the entire globe via electronic means.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's making us insane. Period. That's it. There's no more
study needs to be done. Save your money.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
That very well could be it. We got these texts.
Should mention guys. The police chief of New Orleans is
a white woman. The FBI Special Agent in charge of
New Orleans is a black woman, and she initially said
New Orleans attack was terry related. Both, by the way,
appeared to be incompetent despite the whatever is in their
skin that makes their skin a certain color.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yes, if you have testicles, you are not welcome in
the highest echelons of law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's a true thing. Yeah, it's amazing. You know what,
I'm not sure we have time to do this.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
The fella who blew up explosives inside the cyber truck
in Las Vegas evildoers, shooters, scumbags, cowards.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
We don't mention their names.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
I am going to mention the name of Matthew Livelsberger,
who was a decorated Army Special Forces veteran, A beautiful guy,
according to everybody who knew him, including fairly recently, who
had all sorts of concussions in active duty and was
displaying all of the signs of traumatic brain injury and
(35:53):
that sort of thing. Wow, and had some serious depression problems,
and he in back injuries the rest of it. But
he actually had a note that said, Hey, this is
not terrorism. It is a wake up call. Americans only
pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to
get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives.
(36:13):
He and he was dealing with guilt for the people
he'd seen die and the people he'd killed, and it
was just it was a story about a troubled vet,
not terrorism.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
That should get more attention. We'll talk more about that later.
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