April 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Autism spike & RFK Jr's claim
- Neighbors yelling at each other
- Social security & federal government spending
- The broadstronauts took a ride
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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 Armstrong and
Jetty and he are strong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The authorities at the CDC.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You're trying to explain what's behind new numbers showing that
one out of every thirty one children in America was
diagnosed with some measure of autism in twenty twenty two,
the latest figures available, and the report shows that autism
was much more common in boys than girls. Other health
officials are explaining that the larger numbers are because parents
and doctors are now much more aware of the disease
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and are now correctly identifying more symptoms.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I might.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Be biased in this, just because I've known a couple
of people that were in that world of researching that
who really react like angrily to that notion that that
is just just a distraction. Autism is so overwhelmingly a
bigger deal now than it used to be. Maybe around
the edges it's because of diagnosis, but it's not a
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factor in the whole thing at all. And it just
it just you know, it just clouds, It just takes
away the momentum you've got in the conversation and you.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Definitely thought that was righteous fervor as opposed. So they
didn't want their funding cut.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely that's what they believe.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, well that's interesting and good to know. You know,
my kid we were told she was not autistic back
in the prehistory of knowing a damn thing about this,
which was roughly the year nineteen ninety eight or so,
and now she absolutely is considered autistic. So there has
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been an evolution and recognition, and that's in distagnosis. But
is that ten percent of the rise? Is it fifty percent?
Is it one hundred percent? That's what does make so
many of these discussions in the media especially so annoying
to me, is people, Oh, it's a rise in awareness, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Ten or one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah. I believe autism is the thing. I believe it exists,
and I believe it is.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Way worse.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Maybe it never existed in the past or at such
small levels we didn't notice it. I think it's, you know,
a big giant concern. But I do know for a fact,
because I'm in this world also that there are parents
who work hard to find a doctor who will say,
your kids on the spectrum because it gives you an
opportunity to get involved in all kinds.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Of public school stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Wow, once you get that modern world, modern world, one
star cannot recommend. So Alexis mccadams on Fox News doing
an extended report on autism research and politics and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Let's start with ninety en roll from there, Michael.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
This week, this CDC is expected to release data showing
that the rate of autism spectrum disorder among children is
now one in thirty one from one in thirty six
and twenty twenty three and one in one hundred and
fifty in two thousand. It's an increase met with a
bold promise.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
By September, we will know what has caused the autism
into hapidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior says an effort to
pinpoint the cause of autism and its rise is now
being led by the National Institutes of Health and will
involve hundreds of scientists worldwide.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, I'm glad we're giving it that kind of attention,
because we've been saying for a long time, it should
get that sort of tension. But what did he claim
by September. By September will know the cause of autism.
I find that normally eliminate exposure to it. Well, that
suggests something that might not be the case, Mungo.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Yeah, exactly, that is. I think that's fairly easy to explain.
He and people who think like him are going to
present quote unquote research that says it's vaccines, and therefore
we can stop autism by stopping the vaccines. It's a
preordained outcome. That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I've been around to school.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You have to.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I've been around schools a lot with Mike. I have
fifteen year old and a thirteen year old, and I
mean I was there up until a couple of years ago.
I was there every day picking one of them up,
and then at the playground with all the kids every
single day. And blah blah blah. That number sounds easily
right to me. One out of thirty. Interesting based on
looking at classrooms and that sort of stuff, that is
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not shocking to me at all.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, you're around youngsters much more than I am these days.
I mean, my info is out of date again. As
you know, referencing my kid something that happened twenty five
years ago is just pleace prehistory.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Let's roll on with Alexis.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Existing research, including studies done on twins, show us that
there's a huge genetic component contributor to Doctor Nicole Saffire
adds that the NIH has also identified potential environmental risk
factors for autism. Kennedy believes a singular toxin could be
found responsible.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Everything is on the table, our food system, our water,
our air, different ways of parenting.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Epidemics are not caused by genes.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Kennedy says vaccines are on the table as well, despite
widespread scientific evidence showing no link to.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Autism, claims that autism is solely caused by environmental exposures
parenting style or vaccines is not only lacking scientific evidence,
but it's also incredibly irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard parenting styles
thrown out there for the whole autism thing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
What yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I loved him saying everything's on the table, food, environment, vaccines,
everything that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Parenting styles. What parenting style?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Maybe he had to say that to satisfied some group
that thinks it's that, and he doesn't think it's that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But he's just saying, we're gonna look at everything. But
have you have you heard that before?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
No, no, no, that's out of left field. And him
saying genetics doesn't cause epidemics, that's that's an interesting point. No,
it doesn't, but it absolutely plays role in autism. That's indisputable.
And sometimes it's epigenetics, which means if you have a
particular gene and it is exposed to a particular environmental factor,
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that will it's a genetic issue, but it's it's epigenetic.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It means it's one step removed.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I never heard that word before, but that makes sense
that you know, if you're you could have this particular
genetic makeup all throughout human history. But now that particular
genetic makeup comes in contact with certain amount of plastics
or cell phone powers or whatever we decided it is right,
you have this thing called autism.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah, exactly. Uh, just for instance, it is absolutely indisputable.
At my kid's grandfather, my wife's dad was autistic.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh wow, that is interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did not know that. Okay, that's really interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, and yeah, on my side of the family, there's
definitely evidence of it as well.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
H huh.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
It could be a certain combination of jeans. It's like,
you know, a husband A and wife A together might
have a kid who has a genetic syndrome, but if
they're not, if they married somebody else, the kid wouldn't
have anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't want to get too far if you would.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Genetics probably worth throwing this out there because my son
has a variety of things that I've talked about a
lot on the air, and I talk about him less
as he's getting older, but always every time we're with
a psychiatrist, psychologist, doctor, whatever dealing with this stuff through
his life, somebody throws out, you know, has he been
tested for autism or have they looked at autism or
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whatever I've.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Had I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Fifteen to twenty I mean that's not an exaggeration. Fifteen
to twenty different medical professionals look into it and all
say no, he's not autistic. So they will say no
with similar characteristics, at least that has been my experience.
So they're not like using that as a easy blanket
catch all for anything they can't figure out, at.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Least not wrong kid or like ADHD for every restless
little boy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, finally, This from Alexis McAdams on Fox News.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Doctor Peter Marx, the FDA's former top vaccine official forced
to resign last month, spoke out yesterday against Kennedy's September promise,
saying autism is just too complex.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You can be incredibly supportive of people, but giving them
false hope is wrong.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
The cause of autism and the rise in the number
of cases are largely seen as two separate issues. Most
experts feel the rate increases due to greater awareness and
expanded criteria.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Expanded criteria is a different thing. That's a that's a problem.
And then see that that's why. And you said the
modern world, the modern world is a problem. There is
so much benefit to expand the criteria for money that
you get for either your research institution or your school,
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your classroom, whatever. Then, like I said, if you can
get your kid diagnosed by somebody on some level of
the spectrum, then you qualify for all these different things.
All these things have the unfortunate, you know, ability to
like mislead us on actually trying to figure out how
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many autistic kids we have and how do we fix it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
We're swimming in a miasthma.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Of ulterior motives. Wow, a my asthma? Was that flowery
enough for you? If you came for flowery, boy, you
got it there. What is a miasthma? It's like something
you can swim in confusing mix. It's where you can't
breathe right exactly. No, that's that's just regular asthma happened.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So finally, this I want is throw this in that whole.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The origin of the its vaccines thing is from a
since retracted nineteen ninety eight study which was based on
fraudulent data from twelve children that gave rise to the
vaccine autism theory continues to fuel conspiracy theories. Here's the
director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University,
who I have a feeling is sincere in wanting to
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figure out.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
We will learn absolutely nothing with another study about vaccines.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
We've ruled it out.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I don't really mind anything RFK Junior said there, other
than the fact that we will figure out what's causing
this by September and maybe it's parenting styles and not
from a false hope standpoint, because well, I don't know,
but most parents I know who have taught testing kids
would roll the rise that they're not going to think,
Oh good, we're gonna have it cured by September.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, no, no, you're not.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Unless they're on the verse you have some mind blowing breakthrough.
Having been in the position now for what two months,
seems unlikely anyway.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, Well, I am glad that it's being treated like
a crisis, because it is a freaking crisis.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah. Yeah, amen to that.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Wherever the road leads, let's get there as fast as possible, please,
can we You know what?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And here you go.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Here's the same old song. Here's my freebird, here's my
stairway to Avon. You came to hear this, you're gonna
hear it. If we would quit wasting money as a
government on stupid crap or buying votes and spending far
more than we take in, we would have plenty of
money to do important scientific research.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
End of screed.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Speaking of wasting money, there is a survey done by
the Cato Institute about people's attitudes. Shocking results to me
happy about happy to be shocked about how many people
think government waste money.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
There's something they can do about it. We got to
do something about it. Happy to hear that. We'll get
to that, la. It's really good stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So Cato ne're a think tank, we like. They did
a survey along with you Gov, asking all kinds of
questions about tax cuts and spending in the federal government
and that sort of stuff. I'll hit you with one
number and then get to a whole bunch more next segment.
Only fifteen percent of Americans think the massive increase in
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federal spending over the last decade has improved their quality
of life. Huh fifteen percent, with the headline being vast majorities,
including Democrats, think we spend too much. We got to
spend less. They want the tax cuts permanent. That the
government is ripping us off, We're not getting any bang
for our buck.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's like it's it's a settled issue.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You wouldn't grasp that from taking in politics through mainstream media,
but it is a settled issue.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But we get more of that coming up.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, boy, I have thoughts on that, but we'll delve
into them later. For no particular reason other than we
enjoy it. Now, let's continue our series of neighbors screaming
at each other like lunatics. Apparently the guy started taping
the guy with his phone, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm gonna come up to it right now and I'm
gonna fucking stuff that thing up. Your's the most.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Disrespectful sort of coo yourself, stuffy you. I find it
on YouTube, and it's gonna go right up your coop
your's set it again, goop your's up.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I'll say to my face, goods.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Next time I see you face to face, you're the
one that's gonna go fuck yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
We have any idea what their argument is about what
their beef is or the plural beabs, maybe they have
multiple beabs.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I just don't think they get along. Jack.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
That that didn't have quite the manic delightfulness of mashed
potato on Tesla.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
No, but the the accents in the speaking styles, in
the mild speech impediments, I thought made it very charming. Uh.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, they're reach on YouTube. I'm gonna shove it right up, y'all.
All right, yeah, we get it.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think we need to use more ie statements, less
you statements, tell.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Him how you feel, don't accuse, Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I feel like I would like to put your phone
up your rs.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I feel like, if I see this on YouTube, I
am going to kill you.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Ah Now I understand beautiful still like the other one better.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You sit here, you drive in and you drive out.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You have jump cars all you drive and you drive out.
That's what people do in their driveways. You more.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
That's one of the funniest things ever. And now, Michael,
you've derailed a segment. I was going to get to
a trio fascinating baseball stories, only one of which has
anything to do with baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Do we have any time? Yeah? Time? We got about
a minute forty.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
All right, play. This is a clip number sixteen. This
is a Red Sox game.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
A little buzz in the ballpark, and it's not the fans.
They've halted play, but there's a whistling effect in the
sound system. There we go.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Whatever they had.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
To do, they did it. That was so weird. That
sound was giving me nausea, Katie. It just did the
exact same thing to me.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
That's weird. I felt like I was gonna throw up. Yeah,
I'm sorry if that If it actually made anybody recurgitate.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know if that was because it was like
directly because the headphones or what. But wow, that was
and I bet it was a lot louder for the
people in the stands there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Wow, Okay, do we have time for this? This is
from the Atlanta Braves game.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Who do we got?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You wish?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Your name?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
My name is Lauren and I'm kayla. You guys hang
out the rooftop lounge often.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Once a year.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I come out to visit. Okay, Wiley got more innings
to get the numbers? Come on, come all right, So
they want me to get your number? They want you
to get that. I'm dead serious.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
So the best part of this right now is that
Wiley could totally be faking and this might be the
new move. I just walk around with a fan dueled
microphone and an earpiece in and convince fans that they're
actually on TV.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I should have thought of this years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I got the number. We're good and what that is?
Toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It was masodynty Jack.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I can't believe a young man would want to be
with a young woman and ask her to be with him.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's sickening.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
There's actually a third baseball story that's about baseball. Could
be a major change in pitching. Most of America agrees
with you.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Taxes and spending arstrong and getty.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Joe Biden made his first appearance in public since he
left office. Biden spoke at a bipartisan an event to
encourage Democrats or Republicans to work to protect social security together,
which seems about as likely to happen as a reboot
of Fiddler on the Roof starring Kanye West. But social
security is number one for Joe Biden. Literally, his social
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Security number is one.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's kind of interesting as a lead into this.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Republicans and Democrats not being able to work together, it
would seem that they could work together on cutting spending
based on this polling that just came out from the
Cato Institute.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Cato is a serious think tank. It's a conservative thing tank.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
They worked with yougo on this survey and it's one
of your really big, large number of people, wide reaching,
lots of questions sort of survey that comes out every
once in a while from these think tanks. I don't
know which of these numbers is my favorite. There's a
lot of them that are just mind blowingly.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Make me happy.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
But I can't believe because public will is a real
big part of getting anything done in a democracy. Obviously,
if you got big majorities of people that want something
to happen, you should be able to get it to
happen and run on it. Here's my favorite of all
the spending we've done in the last ten years, and
we've done a lot of spending in the last ten years,
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eighty five percent. Now that's a big number. Whenever you
get eighty five percent of people in agreement on something,
you'd think.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You could get political will to do something.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Eighty five percent say that spending is either not helped
them or made their lives worse.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Eighty five percent. That's astounding. You wouldn't get that.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
From taking it in through the mainstream media, who feels
like all government programs are wonderful and doges trying to
cut back on any of them as a horror. Eighty
five percent of Americans say all that spending has either
not done anything.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
For me or actually made my life worth the worse.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Forty two percent no impact, forty three percent say it
reduced to their quality of life.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Wow, that's got to be Inflation, which is the greatest
teacher of economic principles in the history of mankind.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Well, ors, just I regularly say, and this this is
true for me in my own personal life. I believe
the government stops me from doing things more than it
helps me.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Uh yeah, I think so. I mean, and well, do
you drive on the roads. Yeah, we we know you're
an idiot. Courses something else to listen to music you more.
I'm not even gonna explain why you're moro.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I know, moron.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
And by the way, this is a non partisan observation.
Eight and ten Democrats and nine and ten Republicans believe
that the increase in federal spending has either made their
lives not better or worse.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Boy, this is really heartening.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I know, if the Republican If the Republicans can keep
between the ditches and not roll the car of their
messaging over, it seems to me like the ground is
super fertile for some good, solid conservatism in the years
to come.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Three quarters of Americans say the government spends too much.
Love that seventy six percent the government spends too much.
And again, it's not a partisan thing at all. Majorities
of Democrats fifty nine percent of Democrats think the government
spends too much money. Well, you'd never get that from
the main from your mainstream media coverage.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, and the question of what do you cut and
how and how much?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's you know, the devil is in the details.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
But we do have an enormous generalized agreement that, yeah,
we need.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
To cut again two thirds.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You get the opposite message from all of the coverage
of doges for instance.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
So almost everyone agrees there is waste, fraud and abuse
in the federal government. The number is ninety eight percent.
I out know if I've ever seen a poll that
reached ninety eight percent. Usually you have more than two percent.
They're like, no opinion, I don't know, refuse to answer.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Yeah, but would you like me to stab you right now?
You might get ninety eight percent saying no, no opinion?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Ninety I'm not sure stab me as what?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Ninety eight percent broadly agree there is waste, fraudle abuse
in the federal government. Of course, just to say no,
you'd be a crazy person. About half say there is
a great deal. Oh yeah, and twenty percent a monitor amount.
If hundreds of millions of dollars isn't a great deal
to you, what are you elon musk or something?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Man?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, Like I said, there's so many good numbers here,
I don't even know which ones to pick out the
most this one. One of the reasons this got attention
was some of the tax stuff yesterday. Fifty five percent
of Americans think their taxes are too high, hm, which
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I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Especially especially given what we were talking about yesterday on
Tax Day that the top forty percent or so of
income levels pay all of the income tax, but.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Fifty five percent of American seatter taxes are too high.
Fifty five percent same number believe they pay more than
their fair share in taxes. That obviously is interesting given
the fact that half the country does not pay federal
taxes federal income tax.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Although you do have to remember, you know, a property
tax hammers a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Sales taxes.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Sales tax, I think is probably what gets a lot
of people sure. How about the controversial Trump tax cuts
from twenty seventeen and whether they should be extended or not.
According to this, eighty five percent of Americans support extending
the twenty seventeen tax cuts.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Eighty five percent.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It's a gift of million ass and billion as How
is this a controversial issue? If the mainstream media was
not what they are could Democrats win a single election
as they're currently constituted.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
They need some of the best wordsmiths. Well, actually most
journalists are wordsmiths at all. Their parrots, but they need
the power of the media colossus to polish their their
their poop, if you will. I'm sorry, I just didn't
want to use that common expression polishing a turd.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Because it's disgusting. But that's essentially But it's good though.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It's illustrative, Jack, I mean, it really makes the point.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's got to be a better one, is there? It
got to be that doesn't include the T word.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Thoroughly lipsticking the pig of their policies.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So three quarters of people agree with the statement the
twenty seventeen tax cuts should be made permanent because businesses
and families need stability of the tax code to plan.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
For the future. Three quarters agree with that.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Also, three quarters agree that tax cuts should be made
permanent because taxes are too high. Three quarters of Americans
think the Trump tax cuts should be made permanent because
taxes are too high.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Wow, did you hear the pot about the millionaires?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You did? Oh, you're rejecting it. I gotta get to that.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Then, since you brought that up, do the spending, because
you'll that fits in perfect what you just said. A
majority of Americans admire the rich sixty five. Two thirds
disagree with the statement wealth should be taken from the
rich and given to the poor.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Two thirds of Americans disagree with that.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Wow, this is a different country than the media would
have you believed.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I'd xastly different.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Three out of five Americans strongly agree ninety percent strongly
or somewhat agree that quote. There is nothing wrong with
trying to make as much money as you can. Ninety
percent strongly or somewhat agree with that.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
When I asked specifically about billionaires, seventy one percent disagree
that it's immoral for society to allow people to become billionaires.
Seventy one percent don't agree with that statement. You hear
it all the time from the AOC Bernie crowd, Elizabeth
Warren crowd, and they put it on the news like
that's you know, representing half.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Of America, right right, Yeah, And anybody who does think
we should make it impossible to you know, become a billionaire,
you just you're so dumb.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You are so dumb. We just need you to get
out of the way. Please.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
As if you come up with a great idea that
one person likes and it makes you a dollar, that's fine.
If a million people like that idea and give you
a dollar, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But if a billion.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
People like that idea and give you a dollar, that's
wrong or a borrow Again, you're just so dumb you
need to get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, not near as many people agree with that as
I thought, And I've been misled myself. And you know,
we're in the industry and taking lots of media and
read lots of polls, but I've been misled to think
they're that in modern America there were way more people
that hate the rich and think something's wrong there.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That seems to be true.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Two thirds think wealth should not be taken from the
rich and given.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
To the poor. I'm sorry, I just didn't know.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
So I think part of the reason that our perception
might be a little warped is that even some of
my favorite conservative journalists are of.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
The coastal elites.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Variety, and they're nice fellas and they have great principles,
but I don't think they know America and listen to
say sound absolutely do not. This is going to sound
awfully like a self backpadding. But I think it's a
couple of guys from you know, fairly average families in
the Midwest. I don't feel like an elite anything. I've
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never hung out with those people. I wouldn't be comfortable there.
I would much rather, you know, a drink beer with
my neighbor, Larry the truck driver. I just and I
think maybe we have that advantage and we, all of
us friends, have to trust our own perceptions instead of
that of the bizarro funhouse mirror of the media.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I know a lot of you already believe that.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
The fact that eighty five percent of people say all
that government spending has done nothing for them or made
their lives worse is amazing something. Yeah, and you know
over half of people say my taxes are too high.
All that fitting together, how do we not get a
government that spends less and keeps taxes low?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Well, I think you know, part of the answer would
be the swamp, which includes many Republicans and Democrats who
have a absolutely enormous financial interest in keeping government huge.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Right, there are solid majorities, and I could do more
than numbers. But I don't want to bore you to death,
but the solid majorities of people that thinks it's the spending,
it's not the taxing. I mean that is that is
a settled issue in this country. It's the spending, not
the taxing, and we need to deal with it from
a spending standpoint. So we're not getting the government we
deserve on this front.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, yeah, so true. It's encouraging people believe that in
the numbers that they do. It is discouraging that we
are fighting to make any progress in reigning in the insanity.
But right, yeah, because it's our duty, is citizens, So
I guess we keep trying.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Sometimes it's barely uh, you're barely able to believe that
democracy works.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, you know, look at the border issue. That's
what I've been saying for years.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
It's not controversial at all either, Like ninety percent of
people want to secure border, but we haven't been able
to do it in my.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Entire adult lifetime, right right, Very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, it is ove nice job of those you
out there who agree that all this spending does make
your life worse of anything, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You know what else is amazing?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Jack Gail King's belief that she needs to fight back
against the mockery of Vaders all Girl Spaceflight, and has
decided it would be better for her to continue this topic.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
In the public arena. But continue it, we will, Gale,
my darling, stay with us. We have that coming up.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's awesome to stay here.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Strange, you are officially an astronaut.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
How do you feel? I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I just feel a renew connection to everything in life
and where we are, and I can't wait to go
back out there. It is the highest high and it
is surrender to the unknown.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Trust.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I just like my main goal in life is to
be self aware. Just I guess that's part of the whole,
to your self be true or whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I am having trouble accepting the word astronaut. Yeah, so
is everybody else in America watching you?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Calling you an astronaut is an incredible insult to astronauts.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, nobody thinks you're an astronaut. Nobody's like impressed by
what you just did. They think you went on a
really cool, like amusement park ride.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, so take it easy.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah, you observed a surgery and Now it's not your
fault because the nice lady from Blue Origin just declared
you an astronaut. But observing a surgery doesn't make you
a surgeon, right, good lord. So the mockery of the Galstronauts,
the ch extronauts and their pronouncements of their wonder in
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awe about counting on each other and being there for
each other, and Katie Perry said it's second to being
a mom.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The rest of it.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Gail King has unwisely decided to clap back at people
making fun of the whole deal.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Here she is.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
I really resent that people are calling it a rye.
We duplicated the trajectory of Alan Shepherd's flight back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
No one called that a ride.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
A ride sounds frivolous, it sounds insignificant. This was a
bona fide flight. So you know, I say, have you
been to space? Have you seen what Blue Origin does
to get these machines up, get them up and get
them down with the precision that they do.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm sorry, there are haters. There's always going to be heres.
It's a whole for your role in it is silly.
And first, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, no, we get the whole having a rocket that
goes into space and back and school you. What you
did is one hundred percent frivolous and insignificant.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
That is a perfect description of what you just did.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Indeed, that's not being a hater, that's just describing accurately
what you did.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yes, Katie, uh.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Big shout out to listener Danny who just sent me
he's calling them the broadstronauts.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
All right for many variations.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I I just again to being self aware. How do
you not take how do you not say? Look, all
I did was go parride. It was really cool. I'm
honored that I got to be on the list. It's
one of the coolest things I've ever got to do.
But I mean, I'm not an astronaut.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How do you not say that?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I know, I know, it's just ridiculous. It's hilarious. These
people are so pompous. But wait, it gets better. The
Women's Quick Trip to Space was not exactly well received,
with a slew of stars publicly slamming it, including Emily Raderjakowski,
She of bikini model.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Fame, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
So On the show, King responded to some of the
criticism the trip is received.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
This is what bothers me.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I've certainly read some of the stuff being said online,
and it's coming from people I know, people I consider friends.
Space is not an either or. Just because you do
something in space doesn't mean you're taking anything away from Earth.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
So her star friends were accusing her of abusing the
environment by taking an unnecessary spaceflight.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Okay, you just added you just spread another layer of
stupid on top of this.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Oh, my gosh, I know another good, thick layer of stupid.
It's stupid on stupid violence. Yeah, I'm disappointed and saddened
to buy the hate. What it's doing to inspire other
women and young girls. Please don't ignore that. Oh give
me a inspiring women and girls to drop their stem
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studies and become pop stars so they can get into space.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Because if you're a.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Pop star and you float for fifteen seconds in space,
that makes you an astronaut. Most holy cow, This is
multiple layers of stupid.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Most actual astronauts were in some sort of like really
difficult military service, and then fighter pilots and all kinds
of different things like that, and their mathematicians or physicists
or engineers or pop stars. I'm sorry, not that last one.
There's always going to be haters. People are acting like
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this is significant, and we are.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
We are.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Gail King floating in space for twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Is the very definition of insignificant. Good lord, girl.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Wow, I hope there's another round. I know, keep fighting back, Gail.
Don't put up with this, don't put up with the haters.
Try to put them in their place. So delightful. So
how much do time do you have?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Michael? One minute you said, Oh man, I'm not sure
I have time for this. No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I just I don't want to rush through I hate
when we rush through stuff. So we'll just sit here
and contemplate the passage of time. Oh, leading activist in
San Francisco who was in favor of drug addicts ruling
the city is dead of an overdose.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So that takes care of that.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I guess this guy was the guy who'd go around
demonstrating with that says downtown is for drug users, and
it became a movement of junkies.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Now he's dead of a short live movement of junkies. Apparently.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yes, that seems like math. It seems like a math equation. Yeah, yeah,
kind of.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I threw the ball up in the air and guess
what happened next type of thing, Yeah, exactly
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and he are strong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The authorities at the CDC.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You're trying to explain what's behind new numbers showing that
one out of every thirty one children in America was
diagnosed with some measure of autism in twenty twenty two,
the latest figures available, and the report shows that autism
was much more common in boys than girls. Other health
officials are explaining that the larger numbers are because parents
and doctors are now much more aware of the disease
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and are now correctly identifying more symptoms.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I might.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Be biased in this, just because I've known a couple
of people that were in that world of researching that
who really react like angrily to that notion that that
is just just a distraction. Autism is so overwhelmingly a
bigger deal now than it used to be. Maybe around
the edges it's because of diagnosis, but it's not a
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factor in the whole thing at all. And it just
it just you know, it just clouds, It just takes
away the momentum you've got in the conversation and you.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Definitely thought that was righteous fervor as opposed. So they
didn't want their funding cut.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely that's what they believe.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, well that's interesting and good to know. You know,
my kid we were told she was not autistic back
in the prehistory of knowing a damn thing about this,
which was roughly the year nineteen ninety eight or so,
and now she absolutely is considered autistic. So there has
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been an evolution and recognition, and that's in distagnosis. But
is that ten percent of the rise? Is it fifty percent?
Is it one hundred percent? That's what does make so
many of these discussions in the media especially so annoying
to me, is people, Oh, it's a rise in awareness, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Ten or one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah. I believe autism is the thing. I believe it exists,
and I believe it is.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Way worse.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Maybe it never existed in the past or at such
small levels we didn't notice it. I think it's, you know,
a big giant concern. But I do know for a fact,
because I'm in this world also that there are parents
who work hard to find a doctor who will say,
your kids on the spectrum because it gives you an
opportunity to get involved in all kinds.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Of public school stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Wow, once you get that modern world, modern world, one
star cannot recommend. So Alexis mccadams on Fox News doing
an extended report on autism research and politics and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Let's start with ninety en roll from there, Michael.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
This week, this CDC is expected to release data showing
that the rate of autism spectrum disorder among children is
now one in thirty one from one in thirty six
and twenty twenty three and one in one hundred and
fifty in two thousand. It's an increase met with a
bold promise.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
By September, we will know what has caused the autism
into hapidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior says an effort to
pinpoint the cause of autism and its rise is now
being led by the National Institutes of Health and will
involve hundreds of scientists worldwide.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, I'm glad we're giving it that kind of attention,
because we've been saying for a long time, it should
get that sort of tension. But what did he claim
by September. By September will know the cause of autism.
I find that normally eliminate exposure to it. Well, that
suggests something that might not be the case, Mungo.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Yeah, exactly, that is. I think that's fairly easy to explain.
He and people who think like him are going to
present quote unquote research that says it's vaccines, and therefore
we can stop autism by stopping the vaccines. It's a
preordained outcome. That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I've been around to school.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You have to.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I've been around schools a lot with Mike. I have
fifteen year old and a thirteen year old, and I
mean I was there up until a couple of years ago.
I was there every day picking one of them up,
and then at the playground with all the kids every
single day. And blah blah blah. That number sounds easily
right to me. One out of thirty. Interesting based on
looking at classrooms and that sort of stuff, that is
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not shocking to me at all.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, you're around youngsters much more than I am these days.
I mean, my info is out of date again. As
you know, referencing my kid something that happened twenty five
years ago is just pleace prehistory.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Let's roll on with Alexis.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Existing research, including studies done on twins, show us that
there's a huge genetic component contributor to Doctor Nicole Saffire
adds that the NIH has also identified potential environmental risk
factors for autism. Kennedy believes a singular toxin could be
found responsible.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Everything is on the table, our food system, our water,
our air, different ways of parenting.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Epidemics are not caused by genes.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Kennedy says vaccines are on the table as well, despite
widespread scientific evidence showing no link to.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Autism, claims that autism is solely caused by environmental exposures
parenting style or vaccines is not only lacking scientific evidence,
but it's also incredibly irresponsible.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard parenting styles
thrown out there for the whole autism thing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
What yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I loved him saying everything's on the table, food, environment, vaccines,
everything that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Parenting styles. What parenting style?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Maybe he had to say that to satisfied some group
that thinks it's that, and he doesn't think it's that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But he's just saying, we're gonna look at everything. But
have you have you heard that before?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
No, no, no, that's out of left field. And him
saying genetics doesn't cause epidemics, that's that's an interesting point. No,
it doesn't, but it absolutely plays role in autism. That's indisputable.
And sometimes it's epigenetics, which means if you have a
particular gene and it is exposed to a particular environmental factor,
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that will it's a genetic issue, but it's it's epigenetic.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It means it's one step removed.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I never heard that word before, but that makes sense
that you know, if you're you could have this particular
genetic makeup all throughout human history. But now that particular
genetic makeup comes in contact with certain amount of plastics
or cell phone powers or whatever we decided it is right,
you have this thing called autism.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah, exactly. Uh, just for instance, it is absolutely indisputable.
At my kid's grandfather, my wife's dad was autistic.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh wow, that is interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did not know that. Okay, that's really interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, and yeah, on my side of the family, there's
definitely evidence of it as well.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
H huh.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
It could be a certain combination of jeans. It's like,
you know, a husband A and wife A together might
have a kid who has a genetic syndrome, but if
they're not, if they married somebody else, the kid wouldn't
have anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I don't want to get too far if you would.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Genetics probably worth throwing this out there because my son
has a variety of things that I've talked about a
lot on the air, and I talk about him less
as he's getting older, but always every time we're with
a psychiatrist, psychologist, doctor, whatever dealing with this stuff through
his life, somebody throws out, you know, has he been
tested for autism or have they looked at autism or
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whatever I've.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Had I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Fifteen to twenty I mean that's not an exaggeration. Fifteen
to twenty different medical professionals look into it and all
say no, he's not autistic. So they will say no
with similar characteristics, at least that has been my experience.
So they're not like using that as a easy blanket
catch all for anything they can't figure out, at.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Least not wrong kid or like ADHD for every restless
little boy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, finally, This from Alexis McAdams on Fox News.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Doctor Peter Marx, the FDA's former top vaccine official forced
to resign last month, spoke out yesterday against Kennedy's September promise,
saying autism is just too complex.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You can be incredibly supportive of people, but giving them
false hope is wrong.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
The cause of autism and the rise in the number
of cases are largely seen as two separate issues. Most
experts feel the rate increases due to greater awareness and
expanded criteria.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Expanded criteria is a different thing. That's a that's a problem.
And then see that that's why. And you said the
modern world, the modern world is a problem. There is
so much benefit to expand the criteria for money that
you get for either your research institution or your school,
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your classroom, whatever. Then, like I said, if you can
get your kid diagnosed by somebody on some level of
the spectrum, then you qualify for all these different things.
All these things have the unfortunate, you know, ability to
like mislead us on actually trying to figure out how
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many autistic kids we have and how do we fix it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
We're swimming in a miasthma.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Of ulterior motives. Wow, a my asthma? Was that flowery
enough for you? If you came for flowery, boy, you
got it there. What is a miasthma? It's like something
you can swim in confusing mix. It's where you can't
breathe right exactly. No, that's that's just regular asthma happened.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So finally, this I want is throw this in that whole.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The origin of the its vaccines thing is from a
since retracted nineteen ninety eight study which was based on
fraudulent data from twelve children that gave rise to the
vaccine autism theory continues to fuel conspiracy theories. Here's the
director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University,
who I have a feeling is sincere in wanting to
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figure out.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
We will learn absolutely nothing with another study about vaccines.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
We've ruled it out.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I don't really mind anything RFK Junior said there, other
than the fact that we will figure out what's causing
this by September and maybe it's parenting styles and not
from a false hope standpoint, because well, I don't know,
but most parents I know who have taught testing kids
would roll the rise that they're not going to think,
Oh good, we're gonna have it cured by September.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, no, no, you're not.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Unless they're on the verse you have some mind blowing breakthrough.
Having been in the position now for what two months,
seems unlikely anyway.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, Well, I am glad that it's being treated like
a crisis, because it is a freaking crisis.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah. Yeah, amen to that.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Wherever the road leads, let's get there as fast as possible, please,
can we You know what?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And here you go.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Here's the same old song. Here's my freebird, here's my
stairway to Avon. You came to hear this, you're gonna
hear it. If we would quit wasting money as a
government on stupid crap or buying votes and spending far
more than we take in, we would have plenty of
money to do important scientific research.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
End of screed.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Speaking of wasting money, there is a survey done by
the Cato Institute about people's attitudes. Shocking results to me
happy about happy to be shocked about how many people
think government waste money.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
There's something they can do about it. We got to
do something about it. Happy to hear that. We'll get
to that, la. It's really good stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So Cato ne're a think tank, we like. They did
a survey along with you Gov, asking all kinds of
questions about tax cuts and spending in the federal government
and that sort of stuff. I'll hit you with one
number and then get to a whole bunch more next segment.
Only fifteen percent of Americans think the massive increase in
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federal spending over the last decade has improved their quality
of life. Huh fifteen percent, with the headline being vast majorities,
including Democrats, think we spend too much. We got to
spend less. They want the tax cuts permanent. That the
government is ripping us off, We're not getting any bang
for our buck.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's like it's it's a settled issue.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You wouldn't grasp that from taking in politics through mainstream media,
but it is a settled issue.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But we get more of that coming up.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Yeah, boy, I have thoughts on that, but we'll delve
into them later. For no particular reason other than we
enjoy it. Now, let's continue our series of neighbors screaming
at each other like lunatics. Apparently the guy started taping
the guy with his phone, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm gonna come up to it right now and I'm
gonna fucking stuff that thing up. Your's the most.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Disrespectful sort of coo yourself, stuffy you. I find it
on YouTube, and it's gonna go right up your coop
your's set it again, goop your's up.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I'll say to my face, goods.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Next time I see you face to face, you're the
one that's gonna go fuck yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
We have any idea what their argument is about what
their beef is or the plural beabs, maybe they have
multiple beabs.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I just don't think they get along. Jack.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
That that didn't have quite the manic delightfulness of mashed
potato on Tesla.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
No, but the the accents in the speaking styles, in
the mild speech impediments, I thought made it very charming. Uh.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, they're reach on YouTube. I'm gonna shove it right up, y'all.
All right, yeah, we get it.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think we need to use more ie statements, less
you statements, tell.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Him how you feel, don't accuse, Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I feel like I would like to put your phone
up your rs.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I feel like, if I see this on YouTube, I
am going to kill you.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Ah Now I understand beautiful still like the other one better.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You sit here, you drive in and you drive out.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You have jump cars all you drive and you drive out.
That's what people do in their driveways. You more.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
That's one of the funniest things ever. And now, Michael,
you've derailed a segment. I was going to get to
a trio fascinating baseball stories, only one of which has
anything to do with baseball.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Do we have any time? Yeah? Time? We got about
a minute forty.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
All right, play. This is a clip number sixteen. This
is a Red Sox game.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
A little buzz in the ballpark, and it's not the fans.
They've halted play, but there's a whistling effect in the
sound system. There we go.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Whatever they had.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
To do, they did it. That was so weird. That
sound was giving me nausea, Katie. It just did the
exact same thing to me.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
That's weird. I felt like I was gonna throw up. Yeah,
I'm sorry if that If it actually made anybody recurgitate.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know if that was because it was like
directly because the headphones or what. But wow, that was
and I bet it was a lot louder for the
people in the stands there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Wow, Okay, do we have time for this? This is
from the Atlanta Braves game.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Who do we got?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You wish?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Your name?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
My name is Lauren and I'm kayla. You guys hang
out the rooftop lounge often.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Once a year.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I come out to visit. Okay, Wiley got more innings
to get the numbers? Come on, come all right, So
they want me to get your number? They want you
to get that. I'm dead serious.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
So the best part of this right now is that
Wiley could totally be faking and this might be the
new move. I just walk around with a fan dueled
microphone and an earpiece in and convince fans that they're
actually on TV.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I should have thought of this years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I got the number. We're good and what that is?
Toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It was masodynty Jack.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I can't believe a young man would want to be
with a young woman and ask her to be with him.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's sickening.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
There's actually a third baseball story that's about baseball. Could
be a major change in pitching. Most of America agrees
with you.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Taxes and spending arstrong and getty.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Joe Biden made his first appearance in public since he
left office. Biden spoke at a bipartisan an event to
encourage Democrats or Republicans to work to protect social security together,
which seems about as likely to happen as a reboot
of Fiddler on the Roof starring Kanye West. But social
security is number one for Joe Biden. Literally, his social
(17:36):
Security number is one.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's kind of interesting as a lead into this.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Republicans and Democrats not being able to work together, it
would seem that they could work together on cutting spending
based on this polling that just came out from the
Cato Institute.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Cato is a serious think tank. It's a conservative thing tank.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
They worked with yougo on this survey and it's one
of your really big, large number of people, wide reaching,
lots of questions sort of survey that comes out every
once in a while from these think tanks. I don't
know which of these numbers is my favorite. There's a
lot of them that are just mind blowingly.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Make me happy.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
But I can't believe because public will is a real
big part of getting anything done in a democracy. Obviously,
if you got big majorities of people that want something
to happen, you should be able to get it to
happen and run on it. Here's my favorite of all
the spending we've done in the last ten years, and
we've done a lot of spending in the last ten years,
(18:40):
eighty five percent. Now that's a big number. Whenever you
get eighty five percent of people in agreement on something,
you'd think.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You could get political will to do something.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Eighty five percent say that spending is either not helped
them or made their lives worse.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Eighty five percent. That's astounding. You wouldn't get that.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
From taking it in through the mainstream media, who feels
like all government programs are wonderful and doges trying to
cut back on any of them as a horror. Eighty
five percent of Americans say all that spending has either
not done anything.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
For me or actually made my life worth the worse.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Forty two percent no impact, forty three percent say it
reduced to their quality of life.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Wow, that's got to be Inflation, which is the greatest
teacher of economic principles in the history of mankind.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Well, ors, just I regularly say, and this this is
true for me in my own personal life. I believe
the government stops me from doing things more than it
helps me.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Uh yeah, I think so. I mean, and well, do
you drive on the roads. Yeah, we we know you're
an idiot. Courses something else to listen to music you more.
I'm not even gonna explain why you're moro.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I know, moron.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
And by the way, this is a non partisan observation.
Eight and ten Democrats and nine and ten Republicans believe
that the increase in federal spending has either made their
lives not better or worse.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Boy, this is really heartening.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I know, if the Republican If the Republicans can keep
between the ditches and not roll the car of their
messaging over, it seems to me like the ground is
super fertile for some good, solid conservatism in the years
to come.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Three quarters of Americans say the government spends too much.
Love that seventy six percent the government spends too much.
And again, it's not a partisan thing at all. Majorities
of Democrats fifty nine percent of Democrats think the government
spends too much money. Well, you'd never get that from
the main from your mainstream media coverage.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, and the question of what do you cut and
how and how much?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's you know, the devil is in the details.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
But we do have an enormous generalized agreement that, yeah,
we need.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
To cut again two thirds.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You get the opposite message from all of the coverage
of doges for instance.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
So almost everyone agrees there is waste, fraud and abuse
in the federal government. The number is ninety eight percent.
I out know if I've ever seen a poll that
reached ninety eight percent. Usually you have more than two percent.
They're like, no opinion, I don't know, refuse to answer.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Yeah, but would you like me to stab you right now?
You might get ninety eight percent saying no, no opinion?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Ninety I'm not sure stab me as what?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Ninety eight percent broadly agree there is waste, fraudle abuse
in the federal government. Of course, just to say no,
you'd be a crazy person. About half say there is
a great deal. Oh yeah, and twenty percent a monitor amount.
If hundreds of millions of dollars isn't a great deal
to you, what are you elon musk or something?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Man?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, Like I said, there's so many good numbers here,
I don't even know which ones to pick out the
most this one. One of the reasons this got attention
was some of the tax stuff yesterday. Fifty five percent
of Americans think their taxes are too high, hm, which
(22:09):
I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Especially especially given what we were talking about yesterday on
Tax Day that the top forty percent or so of
income levels pay all of the income tax, but.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Fifty five percent of American seatter taxes are too high.
Fifty five percent same number believe they pay more than
their fair share in taxes. That obviously is interesting given
the fact that half the country does not pay federal
taxes federal income tax.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Although you do have to remember, you know, a property
tax hammers a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Sales taxes.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Sales tax, I think is probably what gets a lot
of people sure. How about the controversial Trump tax cuts
from twenty seventeen and whether they should be extended or not.
According to this, eighty five percent of Americans support extending
the twenty seventeen tax cuts.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Eighty five percent.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It's a gift of million ass and billion as How
is this a controversial issue? If the mainstream media was
not what they are could Democrats win a single election
as they're currently constituted.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
They need some of the best wordsmiths. Well, actually most
journalists are wordsmiths at all. Their parrots, but they need
the power of the media colossus to polish their their
their poop, if you will. I'm sorry, I just didn't
want to use that common expression polishing a turd.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Because it's disgusting. But that's essentially But it's good though.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It's illustrative, Jack, I mean, it really makes the point.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's got to be a better one, is there? It
got to be that doesn't include the T word.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Thoroughly lipsticking the pig of their policies.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So three quarters of people agree with the statement the
twenty seventeen tax cuts should be made permanent because businesses
and families need stability of the tax code to plan.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
For the future. Three quarters agree with that.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Also, three quarters agree that tax cuts should be made
permanent because taxes are too high. Three quarters of Americans
think the Trump tax cuts should be made permanent because
taxes are too high.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Wow, did you hear the pot about the millionaires?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You did? Oh, you're rejecting it. I gotta get to that.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Then, since you brought that up, do the spending, because
you'll that fits in perfect what you just said. A
majority of Americans admire the rich sixty five. Two thirds
disagree with the statement wealth should be taken from the
rich and given to the poor.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Two thirds of Americans disagree with that.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Wow, this is a different country than the media would
have you believed.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I'd xastly different.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Three out of five Americans strongly agree ninety percent strongly
or somewhat agree that quote. There is nothing wrong with
trying to make as much money as you can. Ninety
percent strongly or somewhat agree with that.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
When I asked specifically about billionaires, seventy one percent disagree
that it's immoral for society to allow people to become billionaires.
Seventy one percent don't agree with that statement. You hear
it all the time from the AOC Bernie crowd, Elizabeth
Warren crowd, and they put it on the news like
that's you know, representing half.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Of America, right right, Yeah, And anybody who does think
we should make it impossible to you know, become a billionaire,
you just you're so dumb.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You are so dumb. We just need you to get
out of the way. Please.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
As if you come up with a great idea that
one person likes and it makes you a dollar, that's fine.
If a million people like that idea and give you
a dollar, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But if a billion.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
People like that idea and give you a dollar, that's
wrong or a borrow Again, you're just so dumb you
need to get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, not near as many people agree with that as
I thought, And I've been misled myself. And you know,
we're in the industry and taking lots of media and
read lots of polls, but I've been misled to think
they're that in modern America there were way more people
that hate the rich and think something's wrong there.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That seems to be true.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Two thirds think wealth should not be taken from the
rich and given.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
To the poor. I'm sorry, I just didn't know.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
So I think part of the reason that our perception
might be a little warped is that even some of
my favorite conservative journalists are of.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
The coastal elites.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Variety, and they're nice fellas and they have great principles,
but I don't think they know America and listen to
say sound absolutely do not. This is going to sound
awfully like a self backpadding. But I think it's a
couple of guys from you know, fairly average families in
the Midwest. I don't feel like an elite anything. I've
(27:04):
never hung out with those people. I wouldn't be comfortable there.
I would much rather, you know, a drink beer with
my neighbor, Larry the truck driver. I just and I
think maybe we have that advantage and we, all of
us friends, have to trust our own perceptions instead of
that of the bizarro funhouse mirror of the media.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I know a lot of you already believe that.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
The fact that eighty five percent of people say all
that government spending has done nothing for them or made
their lives worse is amazing something. Yeah, and you know
over half of people say my taxes are too high.
All that fitting together, how do we not get a
government that spends less and keeps taxes low?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Well, I think you know, part of the answer would
be the swamp, which includes many Republicans and Democrats who
have a absolutely enormous financial interest in keeping government huge.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Right, there are solid majorities, and I could do more
than numbers. But I don't want to bore you to death,
but the solid majorities of people that thinks it's the spending,
it's not the taxing. I mean that is that is
a settled issue in this country. It's the spending, not
the taxing, and we need to deal with it from
a spending standpoint. So we're not getting the government we
deserve on this front.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, yeah, so true. It's encouraging people believe that in
the numbers that they do. It is discouraging that we
are fighting to make any progress in reigning in the insanity.
But right, yeah, because it's our duty, is citizens, So
I guess we keep trying.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Sometimes it's barely uh, you're barely able to believe that
democracy works.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, you know, look at the border issue. That's
what I've been saying for years.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
It's not controversial at all either, Like ninety percent of
people want to secure border, but we haven't been able
to do it in my.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Entire adult lifetime, right right, Very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, it is ove nice job of those you
out there who agree that all this spending does make
your life worse of anything, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You know what else is amazing?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Jack Gail King's belief that she needs to fight back
against the mockery of Vaders all Girl Spaceflight, and has
decided it would be better for her to continue this topic.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
In the public arena. But continue it, we will, Gale,
my darling, stay with us. We have that coming up.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's awesome to stay here.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Strange, you are officially an astronaut.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
How do you feel? I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I just feel a renew connection to everything in life
and where we are, and I can't wait to go
back out there. It is the highest high and it
is surrender to the unknown.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Trust.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I just like my main goal in life is to
be self aware. Just I guess that's part of the whole,
to your self be true or whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I am having trouble accepting the word astronaut. Yeah, so
is everybody else in America watching you?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Calling you an astronaut is an incredible insult to astronauts.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, nobody thinks you're an astronaut. Nobody's like impressed by
what you just did. They think you went on a
really cool, like amusement park ride.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
All right, so take it easy.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah, you observed a surgery and Now it's not your
fault because the nice lady from Blue Origin just declared
you an astronaut. But observing a surgery doesn't make you
a surgeon, right, good lord. So the mockery of the Galstronauts,
the ch extronauts and their pronouncements of their wonder in
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awe about counting on each other and being there for
each other, and Katie Perry said it's second to being
a mom.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The rest of it.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Gail King has unwisely decided to clap back at people
making fun of the whole deal.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Here she is.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
I really resent that people are calling it a rye.
We duplicated the trajectory of Alan Shepherd's flight back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
No one called that a ride.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
A ride sounds frivolous, it sounds insignificant. This was a
bona fide flight. So you know, I say, have you
been to space? Have you seen what Blue Origin does
to get these machines up, get them up and get
them down with the precision that they do.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm sorry, there are haters. There's always going to be heres.
It's a whole for your role in it is silly.
And first, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, no, we get the whole having a rocket that
goes into space and back and school you. What you
did is one hundred percent frivolous and insignificant.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
That is a perfect description of what you just did.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Indeed, that's not being a hater, that's just describing accurately
what you did.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yes, Katie, uh.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Big shout out to listener Danny who just sent me
he's calling them the broadstronauts.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
All right for many variations.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I I just again to being self aware. How do
you not take how do you not say? Look, all
I did was go parride. It was really cool. I'm
honored that I got to be on the list. It's
one of the coolest things I've ever got to do.
But I mean, I'm not an astronaut.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How do you not say that?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I know, I know, it's just ridiculous. It's hilarious. These
people are so pompous. But wait, it gets better. The
Women's Quick Trip to Space was not exactly well received,
with a slew of stars publicly slamming it, including Emily Raderjakowski,
She of bikini model.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Fame, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
So On the show, King responded to some of the
criticism the trip is received.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
This is what bothers me.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I've certainly read some of the stuff being said online,
and it's coming from people I know, people I consider friends.
Space is not an either or. Just because you do
something in space doesn't mean you're taking anything away from Earth.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
So her star friends were accusing her of abusing the
environment by taking an unnecessary spaceflight.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Okay, you just added you just spread another layer of
stupid on top of this.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Oh, my gosh, I know another good, thick layer of stupid.
It's stupid on stupid violence. Yeah, I'm disappointed and saddened
to buy the hate. What it's doing to inspire other
women and young girls. Please don't ignore that. Oh give
me a inspiring women and girls to drop their stem
(33:29):
studies and become pop stars so they can get into space.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Because if you're a.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Pop star and you float for fifteen seconds in space,
that makes you an astronaut. Most holy cow, This is
multiple layers of stupid.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Most actual astronauts were in some sort of like really
difficult military service, and then fighter pilots and all kinds
of different things like that, and their mathematicians or physicists
or engineers or pop stars. I'm sorry, not that last one.
There's always going to be haters. People are acting like
(34:04):
this is significant, and we are.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
We are.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Gail King floating in space for twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Is the very definition of insignificant. Good lord, girl.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Wow, I hope there's another round. I know, keep fighting back, Gail.
Don't put up with this, don't put up with the haters.
Try to put them in their place. So delightful. So
how much do time do you have?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Michael? One minute you said, Oh man, I'm not sure
I have time for this. No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I just I don't want to rush through I hate
when we rush through stuff. So we'll just sit here
and contemplate the passage of time. Oh, leading activist in
San Francisco who was in favor of drug addicts ruling
the city is dead of an overdose.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So that takes care of that.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I guess this guy was the guy who'd go around
demonstrating with that says downtown is for drug users, and
it became a movement of junkies.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Now he's dead of a short live movement of junkies. Apparently.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yes, that seems like math. It seems like a math equation. Yeah, yeah,
kind of.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I threw the ball up in the air and guess
what happened next type of thing, Yeah, exactly
Speaker 1 (35:23):
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