November 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Flight cancellations, Jack wanders & weight loss drugs
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & inflation
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Jackie and he.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Armsdronget Yay, it's Brian in a dimly lit room even
in the bowels and the Armstrong and Getty communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, y'all headed into the weekend. We're under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, our general manager is going to be the title
of the new movie I'm writing, and I haven't settled
on a title yet, Michael, I would like your opinion
on this place. In particular, it has to do with
the canceling of all those flights that could well screw
up everybody's holidays. The title's either going to be the
air Apocalypse, plane Pain, or my personal favorite, or what
(01:07):
the heck was it gonna be? Wait a minute, oh,
Departure to Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I like plane Pain. Is Departure to Hell gonna be
like a horror movie?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Uh No, it's just a travel horror. Yeah, which is,
you know, pretty horrible horror when.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You're in the middle of it. So Air Apocalypse or whatever,
I could see a star being attached to that. I
feel like Plane Pain is gonna have Jesse Smolette in
the lead. Mm yeah, straight to video. It's made for
TV movie air Apocalypse. Now, I'd probably get sued, which
could be good publicity.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Then we change it to Departure from Hell or to Hell,
not from Hell to Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Departure from Hell would be a good thing. So, if
you haven't paid attention, we all woke up to the
you know, this is an ongoing story and they're making
this up as they go along. But so they announced
the ten percent airports yesterday and they've decided to roll
out what four percent today, So so far it's two
hundred and fifty flights or something like that, and by
Tuesday it'll be eight percent, and then it'll ramp up
(02:11):
if the shutdown continues to hit ten percent by a
week from today, I believe, which would be your forty
five hundred flights canceled per day. Here'sn't a wrinkle. I
hadn't heard and I don't quite understand, but they had
somebody representing pilots for some reason. Doing this is going
to cause us to chew through all those extra hours
(02:34):
of availability pilots build up through the year so that
come holiday season they have pilots they can draw on
if the weather turns really bad, because otherwise you end
up in those situations where you know there are mandated
only be able to fly so many hours per day
or week or whatever it is, and you end up
with you got pilots hanging around, but they've reached their limit.
They can't fly. And that's why nobody can go on
(02:56):
a you know, bad weather Thanksgiving long weekend or whatever.
They build up hours of availability headed into the bad
weather holiday season to have pilots, and for some reason,
and I don't quite get it, they're gonna be chewing
through those starting today. I don't get why that is,
but I don't know that's what they claim is going
(03:16):
to happen. But if that's his point was, this will
even if the shutdown ends on Tuesday, it will take
weeks or beyond Thanksgiving to get caught back up and
the building up the pilot hours that you need to
have in case the weather turns bad.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Right right, Speaking as a guy who takes in an
enormous amount of news too much, it's made me a
bitter and miserable man. I have seen this story nowhere
except for the absolutely fabulous California Globe, californiaglobe dot com.
This ought to be leading every newscast in America, but
it's not because of their overt bias. Five hundred tourism
(03:55):
businesses warned of the Thanksgiving chaos and urged Congress to
pass a clean resolution, including the US Travel Association super heavyweights.
Five hundred of them have said pass a clean resolution and.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Stop this funny.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
They didn't lead with that on any of the newscasts
because that is a directly at the Democrats, because the
Republicans have voted what is it seventeen eighteen thirty seven
times now to have a clean resolution and get on
with it, but the Democrats insist, no, we've got to
extend the super giant COVID Obamacare subsidies or we won't
let the government open.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Nobody's reporting honestly on this. It's outrageous. Yeah, And part
of that might be because they know that whole pilot thing,
for instance, that even if the shutdown ends two weeks
before Thanksgiving, like a week from now, they're going to
be ripple effects on flights for clear through Thanksgiving. I mean,
the tentacles of that with hotels and restaurants and just
(05:02):
everything else, not to mention the misery of not getting
to go where you wanted to go for Thanksgiving or
have the people show up at your house. But yeah, god,
the costs on that. That's probably all those businesses are saying, Hey,
let's end this nonsense. And one of the problems will
continue to shovel enormous mountains of money into Obamacare, which
goes to what the poor and down truck. No, it
(05:22):
goes to insurance companies. Craig, the healthcare guru, has been
telling us from the beginning, We're gonna get crazy ass
rich from this fixed system. I was just reading Mark
Alprin's analysis of the shutdown at this point, being that
both sides feel like they're gonna Both sides are desperately
afraid of being just getting killed by their base if
(05:47):
they are the ones that cave give in. Both sides
horrified by that. Look like if the Republicans would decide, okay,
we'll extend the Obamacare benefits, or if the Democrats come
in and say, okay, we'll sign the clean resolution, both
sides are horrified about how their side will perceive their
weakness over that and then themselves into a corner, painted themselves
(06:08):
into a corner. And what was the other thing? I
had another thing on that on why he thinks this
isn't going to end soon. There's no good will between
either side. But that's like not breaking news for anyone
that there's very little incentive for them right now. But
I heard of Washington Post columnists say, and I thought
this was pretty good. And I can't stand him, and
(06:30):
he's a lefty, right, but he might be right. He said,
the Democrats get to go out there saying this is
going to raise your healthcare costs, and Republicans are out
there saying we need a clean CR and people are like,
what the hell is a crred percent? And just in
terms of the argument, one is my healthcare is going
to go up, the other one is some congressional thing
I've never heard of.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Allegedly the two sides are getting together for some sort
of face saving solution resolution today.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Who knows. We'll see that happens. We'll tell you, yeah,
well that was all right. It's adjusting the thermostat. That's
what's where I go whenever I walk off microphone. If
you're ever wondering, I go over to the thermostat in
the morning, it's cold. Is the dark surface of the moon,
the dark side of the moon. I thought it was
just old age. You just were wandering on it, just
wandered off. It says we got to put them on
(07:18):
a leash, you forget them at work, and I just
water off. Katie. Yesterday morning, you were like, why am
I over here? The President got right out, understand what
(07:41):
was the saying? Oh, the other analysis was there are
no like, there's no gang of five or gang of
eight or whatever that used to exist all the time
that would make the news. According to Mark Alvilm's right,
there's no Joe Lieberman's and John McCain's, the people that
are friends across the aisle and they can be the
grown ups and get together and come up. But it
just doesn't exist anymore, right, And a lot of people
(08:03):
are screaming thank god, although I don't know what the
proof is that that's good at this point.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I heard the other day that the Problem Solvers Caucus
in the House had come up with some sort of
plan that they were trying to promote, and I thought, wow, okay,
all right, this is an interesting development. And then the
guy just mentioned like three people, maybe four. I don't
know what you know about the House of Representatives, but
there's hundreds of them running around, so I don't know
(08:30):
if there's more to that caucus or not.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But I'm like, what three or four people?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
What? Eh?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This is no way to run a republic. Here is
the most interesting thing I've heard today. Trump claims that
this new deal he's got with the weight loss drugs
is going to take one of your most popular ones.
I don't remember which one. It doesn't make any difference.
It's gonna go from thirteen hundred and fifty dollars a
month to two hundred and fifty dollars a month. Oh mind.
(08:58):
That's a major change. That takes it from affordable to
only a few to affordable to quite a few, especially
if that's a high priority to you. Rearrange your life
to where you you know you can carve out that
two fifty a month.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
That would be tempted to consult my physician, but I
so absolutely, and I was listened to a doctor go
on and on about this.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's your opening dose of I've got to lose the weight.
First of all, they're talking about the one hundred sum
diseases that are mostly affected by obesity, that could taper
way back if the population, you know, make America thin again.
Was what doctor Oz said yesterday. If if just as
(09:43):
a whole we lose a bunch of weight, just hundreds
of diseases that would be affected. But the doctor has
listened to today said that that's the opening cost, in
the opening dose. The belief is that once you lose
the amount of weight you want to lose, you could
taper down to a maintaining dose. There would be lower
and cheaper and just stay on that right, right, So
(10:05):
this first, again, I've been saying this for a long time.
I really think it now. I think pretty soon practically
everybody you know is going to be on one of these. Yeah,
it would not surprise me at all, which could be awesome.
I mean, we could see the pictures throughout history, you know,
where you see a high school class from nineteen eighty
and you think, look than everybody is, and now you
see it in everybody's fat. We might see look at
the class of twenty and thirty five.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Everybody's then again, right, and it's entirely possible to be
able to tweak these drugs a little bit. As the uh,
you know, the tro the experience with them grows so
that some of the side effects are less and they're
even more effective.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Who knows. Yes, Michael means there's gonna be a lot
more hot looking people. Okay, yeah, I suppose hard. Here
you go. Yeah, make America fin again, Make America hot again.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's always been one of our greatest strengths. I mean
we're no Sweden, but we're an attractive people.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, Paul, and we got to recapture that. Bring the
hot back, exactly, bring sexy back. Coorse Timberlake when you
and he crashed into a tree. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday,
November seventh, the year twenty twenty five, where Armstrong and
getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Okay, let's begin officially. According to FCC rules and regulations,
here comes the show.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
At mark.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Air traffic controllers just got that zero dollar paytub or
second of this government shutdown, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
says that has built stress into the national airspace system
to a point where it's no longer safe to operate
airline schedules at four capacity.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah, unfortunately, maybe time to try your new favorite airline,
the bus. You know their slogan, the bathroom door is
stuck open.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Have you ever traveled by bus? It very infrequently, but
yes I did one time, a long bus trip and man,
it like Greyhound that sort of thing. Yeah, by the
end of it, it was the bathroom was pretty grody. Yeah. Yeah,
I've mostly been on like busses for group tracks. But
(12:05):
even then, if everybody like knows each other and has
an interest in you know, let's keep everything reasonably clean. Oh,
it's just I don't know what it is, but yeah,
bus bathrooms are nasty.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You do the thing where you and the other people
in your community you get on the bus and you
go to the gambling the casino and you know, I'll
go in there and you gamble a well, and then
you come back exactly sit there, cigarettes and dangling out
of the corners of our mouths, staring blankly ahead of
the machines. Big times. That sounds fun. Okay, So we've
got Katie's headlines on the way, we got clips of
the weekend, more news for you, and we'll keep our
(12:36):
eye on the airports all on the way on the
Armstrong Young Giddy Show. I just shut you at Katie headline,
Katie or Katie headline, not last minute at all, no
less without last min no one second before you go
on there? How's that? I got you? Yeah, that's a
good one. It's awful, sloppy, it's unprofessional. I don't like it.
(12:59):
All right, taking me get that together. Hey, let's figure
out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie
d and Katie.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Also, I just want to point out that we have
gone an entire.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Week without a joke. Oh god, yes, So I got
my stack of jokes at home. I got to bring
them in. Wow, just when we needed it most in
these dark days, right too, Right, a nation yearns for
a joke right from NBC.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Judge orders Trump administration to deliver full snap benefits to
the States.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
By today, which I believe Trump is happy about that
the judge has ruled that kind of gives him the
cover and his he he is saying the same thing
that democratic pundits are saying after Tuesday. Affordability.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Affordability from the Guardian death toll from ups plane crash
at airport rises to thirteen.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, man, that I saw more videos from different angles.
That is quite the fireball. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Tens of thousands of callons of jet fuel on board
and they crashed into a petroleum recycling center who had
giant tanks of fuel.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
From the Wall Street Journal, Ford considers terminating the electric
version of its Ford F one fifty pickup, a move
that would make the money losing truck America's first major
EV casualty.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, and the number one selling vehicle in America for
the last thirty five years is the F one to fifty.
They tried to make an electric one. People don't like
electric cars. You can say whatever you want about them.
Joe Biden can have all the meetings on the White
House lawn with electric cars out there and drive around
and talk about it all that, but most people like
(14:40):
by far, most people don't want an electric car. And
Ford was strong armed into doing that in the first Sure,
they didn't want because they know they're in the business
of knowing what people want. These big American car companies,
they knew people didn't want the electric cars. They were
forced into it by the government, and as soon as
you rolled back the mandates, they're like cool, cool. Can
(15:00):
I get rid of this? This is a money loser.
That's so maddening to me that the freaking democratic organization
of the whole thing is the Senate, and Biden and
everybody else tried to force America, one of our biggest
interest industries into doing something nobody wanted.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Right from the New York Post, trans person accused of
exposing himself at Gold's.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Gym was convicted of.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Brutally beating his ex wife before taking her name.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Wow, it turns out he's a job in other ways. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's like that inmate we talked about the other day,
who a judge declared has to get a taxpayer sponsored
sex change. The PAS guy is a child molesting, child
porn manufacturing, sick piece of crap. And the newest twist
on his twistedness is I want to be a girl.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Now, No, we're not paying for that. What if we
become we're insane.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That a judge would say, yeah, you have to pay
for that because that's a medical condition, it's a psychological condition.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Put them in a padded room. That's what we need
to do.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
From USA today, dating trends reached new lows this year.
What are throning, shreking and bank seeing shrenking.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We talked about I don't know what throning is or
bank seeing.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
There's a nice list and explanation of us on hotline
well perfect on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We'll get into those later and figure out what those
trends are. Shreking is an interesting one, and I have
talked to people that that's a real thing. Yeah, you
got to bring that to us, Katie, we want you
to quarterback that. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
That's segment Yeah, TMZ oh thirty never mind from the
Babylon b Mom Donnie moves mayor's office under children's hospital.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh that's pretty clever. Oh, seth for the wind, that's
pretty clever. Nice was your TMZ headline? Quick?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
What was Did he bragging about Trump going to pardon him?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, I guess he's bragging in jail saying oh yeah,
I'm going to get a part.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh my god, Oh surely Trump will pardoned? Did he?
Well hope not. I hope not either. Maybe on the
way out the door when he I don't know, Oh no,
not at all at all. Armstrong and Getty. I hate
to keep using the A word, but it might be
the word of the next year, affordability. Last night, my
(17:34):
kids were with me. We had to go to a
CBS to get two things. It was forty dollars. My
son said, it was forty dollars to buy these two things.
I said yeah. And we went over to the grocery
store to buy our stuff for tacos, a couple other things.
It was one hundred and thirty bucks. Wow, my son said,
it was one hundred and thirty bucks for all that.
I said, yeah, we just spent one hundred and seventy dollars.
(17:56):
Like I'm living in some sort of South American Banana Republic.
I know, local currency is going to carry around a wheelbarrow.
And to that point, The New York Post with an
article out today which I'll get to in just a
moment about hey, Donald Trump, stop saying that you've whipped
inflation and goes through some of the numbers. We'll get
to those in just a minute. It's troubling.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Matthew Count and Eddy in the Free Press an absolutely
brilliant piece about how Republicans had better refocus on kitchen
table issues because a lot of the affordability stuff the
Democrats like Momdonni, you're selling our fantasies. I mean they
cannot happen economically. In fact, they'll achieve the opposite. But
the serious policy that tends to lower prices, or at
(18:38):
least not them let them go up as fast. They
need to focus on that or they will be screwed.
Because the elections yesterday, and we'll get to Cow in
just a second, but the election results that came out
this week, it's easy to dismiss them as few blue states,
but if you look at a bunch of different districts
in a bunch of different states, one thing that was
(18:59):
unmistakable is the gains among Hispanics vanished in a bunch
of different places.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The idea that Trump.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Has moved the Hispanics over to the Republican Party and
not so fast. So anyway, we're on that to come
right now, it's Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
At the week that was. It's Cow Clips of the Week,
How coming mayor Killer Japanese Theirs?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
You can't sell flying but the Dodgers if you're just right.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
If clips up the week, the greatest and most dramatic
Ink seven in World series history, and that one is.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I'm ready to get another rain.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Japan is grappling with a grizzly problem, deadly bear attacks.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And Paris prosecutors now say amateurs, not professionals out the
highest at the louver.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
The FAA is imposing a ten percent cut the flights
at forty major airports across the country.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Panick at a Louisiana fair, Rescuer scaling of Ferris will
to reach a woman clinging to an overtipped carriage. I'm
a woman and every rights, and not one a man
in the restroom when I'm naked.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Mostly the undertones come across as transphobic and racist as well, because.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
A lot of players in the league have messaged me
and reached out saying they do agree, but they're fearful
to speak of God.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well you up to six forty five Saturday morning, he
goes wrong, get your boots on. Let school walking. It's
actually funny. It was December eighteenth. I remember because that's
an important date to me, and as Joseph Stalin's birthday.
I'm a fan character AI, a bot generating app that
connects users with fictional bought friends.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Ended up with the bots initiating romantic kiss.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We also have to work those sort of the dark side,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
When the day starts with Dick Cheney, you're being dead,
it ends with Mom Donnie winning.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yes, so hear me.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
President Trump when I say this, to get to any.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Of us, you will have to get through all of
us every couple of years or so. We need a conspicuous,
confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again.
I'm a democratic socialist who is also a democrat.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Nothing I just like more than the politician that has
sits there and lies to you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
It's just a vile creature, the worst thing along face
of the earth with Japanese trousers. And this is our
debut single Lampshade of the Sky, Clips of a Winch.
There's several things in there I'd like to comment on,
but we already have. Mostly I'm just and I'm often
(22:04):
awestruck by this. That was all this week. Yeah, stunning,
isn't it? No wonder we're all anxious. I was listening
to the National Review podcast yesterday and they were all
doing a little retrospective on Dick Cheney dying Vice President
Dick Cheney, and somebody bringing up just the idea. He
was serious. He was a serious man. He took all
(22:27):
this seriously and had serious conversations. And we just don't
do that anymore. Everything is performative and jokey and trolling,
and you just don't sit down and have no this
is a really serious conversation. Right.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
This sounds elitist because it is whether you're running a
corporation or running for class president, or running for political office,
or discussing politics on a much bigger setting like the
US of A.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
If you.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Restrict the discussions to the most serious, learned people, it's
going to be a very very different discussion, obviously than
if you go way down to the lowest common denominator,
because you have to craft the discussion to move the
most of those people and the whole rock the vote thing,
(23:28):
you know, trying to get more and more more and
more turnout sounds lovely in principle, but we need you know,
it'd be interesting and I don't know how to do
this in kind of a neutral way that didn't offend everybody.
But there ought to be a study, a thorough study
of how knowledgeable and what's.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The words I keep using, the words serious? We both
do knowledgeable and intent on getting to the truth people
are in this country and your bottom twenty five percent
would not vote, they should not participate in guiding the
ship of state. And I know that sounds elitist, but
why you know what it's not. It's antetized, a bunch
(24:11):
of people deciding who shouldn't participate. You see what he
did there, folks? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Nice, Why don't you go right for the New York Times.
It's not elitist, it's anti ignoramus.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh, I agree, it's just hard to present it in
a way that is obviously sounding elitist. Those of us
who are smarter will make decisions for you that you
will live under eye. I don't want to sound elitist, but.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, and the interesting part is, of course you know,
and several of you are probably shouting right now at
your listening device, Hey dude, it was like the educated
elite that elected Mumdani. So you know it's the over
educated white women of America who keep voting for these
economic policies that can possibly work. So it's Friday week,
(24:59):
and limprist admit as well, we got a couple of
fun things. We got to get two since its Friday
Katie's gonna win an hour or two. We've got to
get to the dating trends of shrekking throning and whatever.
That other was one was that I've never heard of
bank saying banks seeing which is the artist Banksy. Anyway,
I've got something that's entertaining. I don't know if it's funny,
it's frightening as hell. The New York Times did a
(25:19):
profile on I think three different people. I read it
last night. I couldn't stop reading it. Three different people
that are in relationships with chatbots, romantic relationships.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh boy, And I mean it's one hundred percent serious. Wow.
And so yeah, I want to pass that along to you,
but I want to get to see it's not gonna
help me have any faith in humanity in the future.
Right after this, I want to tell you the numbers
of the New York Post wanted Donald Trump to see
so he doesn't go around claiming he's whipped inflation. Hit
(25:49):
hit with that in just a second.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
And there's even greater significance, I think, to the fact
that the New York Post is out and proud with
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There's no safe like simply save. Yes, you picked up
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me to mention it was the New York Post. The
fact that the New York Post, which tends to love
many things that Donald Trump does, out today with a hey,
slow down, Donald Trump, with saying you whipped inflation. Here
are the numbers, with a social media post that said
(27:23):
stop lying about there being affordability crisis. President Trump claims
he's whipped inflation. Consumers are feeling the squeeze. Rights to
the New York Post, Targets prices are up five point
five percent nationwide this year. That's a noticeable amount. Walmart's
are up five point three percent, according to Riesi's recent analysis.
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Amazon's prices have averaged more than twelve percent according to
a report, so after seven months under Trump's tariffs or
other economic factors that had been going on for quite
a while. In addition to that, Americans are paying more
for nearly everything from a cup of coffee to a
living room sofa, to children's toys to whatever you buy.
(28:10):
Five percent increase at Target and five point three at Walmart,
and twelve percent Amazon is a very noticeable amount. And
to your point about the whole the Hispanic photograph, we
probably misread the election, which is what happens like every
election is almost completely misread in retrospect, with the hindsight
you figured out, it was just plain affordable. People couldn't
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stand how expensive they were, so they booted out the
current leader so that the new guy. I mean, it
wasn't deeper politics than that, philosophy or all these different
sort of things. Things are too expensive, just like I
was talking about last night, I made two stops at
the store and both of them are like what that cost?
What Both Times and people across America are saying that,
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And they booted out the last person, and they might
boot up this group of people if things are still expensive.
I think it's only slightly more subtle than that, in
that it was the border and and prices, a border
and kitchen table affordability. Well, the borders fixed, so now
we're down to bread.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
So although there are real signs that the hyper aggressive
deportation round up thing has gone too far for a
lot of even Trump supporters, you know, whether that's legit
or not or should be, we can argue about another time.
And so it's a yeah, we'll give it a minus.
On the immigration stuff, definitely an a, but an a minus.
(29:28):
And on the affordability stuff, not good at all. And
if you were to ask the average American working family,
all right, if you could only choose.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
One of those things, oh yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Would probably think, jeez, I really really want to see
the border close because this is absurd. It's obscene, But
I gotta feed my kids. I guess I'll take. You know,
a good economy and quashing inflation.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, one of them is real, but theoretical, and you know,
in an argument to be had in a newspaper or whatever,
you get slapped in the face every se day, your
cup of coffee and your gas and your grocery store stopping.
I mean, it's just insane and I don't know if
anything can be done about it. Of course tariffs didn't help, but.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
We well know, and it was just way too much
that had to be really carefully done because you're coming
out of an era of terrible inflation which was brutal
to human beings. And keeping in mind now it's about
three percent. That's three percent on top of all the
inflation of the last several years. It compounds.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
It's not three percent of the original total, it's three
percent of the brand new, bloated total. It's like compound
interest in reverse. And so if he was gonna do
the tariff thing and really get tough on trade deals
and on shore manufacturing, but we'll have to weather a
long period of significantly higher prices. That would have been
(30:48):
a red flag right there. Who whoa whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Higher prices is the one thing we can't have. We've
got to be really, really careful about this. And instead
of really really careful, Trump went with extremely broad and
aggressive I think it was a misstep.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, well, I think there's a hell of a lot
of people across the country that vote that would say,
I don't even know what a tariff is, but my
grocery bill's too high, and that's all they care. Fair enough,
And we got mail bag on the way. We got
into that dating stuff that's going to be so danged
interesting in an hour two including people in relationships with abots.
Oh my, so many things going on in the world.
(31:27):
At the same time. They I won't to do it.
I was about to do a bad economics thing that
came out today. But this New York Times story about
these three different people that are in serious relationships with
their AI chatbots. It's mind blowing. Oh boy, all right,
all right, I'll just stay tuned for that. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I was looking at today in history just for chuckles.
Today was the day the first woman was elected to
Congress in nineteen sixteen. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Going down? Oh what?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Now, come on, Now, here's your freedom loving one of
the day. We're taking a break against my better judgment.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I kid with her.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Oh with our series from John Stuart Mill who I
revere his book on liberty, just because this is so
timely sent along by Jeff honorary producer Jeff, who's just
a great contributor.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Your quote is from zoron Mumdani in twenty twenty five.
There is no problem too large for government to solve,
and no concern too small for it to care about.
And then he also quotes Benito Mussolini from nineteen twenty five.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against
the state. I remember, as a college boy it struck
(32:41):
me that the horseshoe principal horseshoe theory. They're teaching us
about communism, fascism, and not like if effectively these are
the same system They just use slightly different rationales for
getting to their complete control of society.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And denial of individual liberty. Anyway, thank you, Jeff well
crafted mailbag drops a oe mailback and Armstrong getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Kendra from NorCal writes, Guys, I looked at your superstore,
your website. Did that basic internet search? Where do I
see the logo for the f Yolican Party? What's right there?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Armstrong and Getty dot com at the store. Maybe it
hadn't been updated, but it's right there. I can't wait
to get my f Yolickin party T shirt. I'll wear
it around Krospp keep roasting our stupid political parties will
do can't help ourselves. Let's see this from Paolo on
the redistricting conundrum, and.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I'm gonna summarize this, but he talks about if you
have sixty percent Democrats forty percent Republicans, there's an expectation
that we want sixty percent of the congressional representatives to
be Democrats and forty percent Republicans. Roughly but if Republicans
and Democrat voters were completely evenly distributed geographically, no matter
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how the map partitions voters geographically, every district would contain
sixty forty and that would result in one hundred percent
congressional representatives being Democrats, which is.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
A bit of a conundrum. It's a flawed system. No
gerrymandering requiring required. I came across a solution to that problem.
It would take a constitutional amendment, but I think it's
really really good and.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I want to hit that next hour. That's true, and
that would be a problem. But if you look at
maps at any state in California, the same way you've
seen the county maps, there's tons of red counties that
are majority Republican. It's not yeah you know, yeah, indeed yep.
I got this from Jason listening to your conversation about
(34:38):
the dramatic increase in young children identifying as trans and
then the huge drop off.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
More on that to come. Thought you'd appreciate this elementary
school near me. This was on their electronic billboard.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
We celebrate our LGBTQ students. So they aren't accepting those
folks or supportive, No, they celebrate them. Wonder if they
celebrate the straight kids. Seems like the schools are pushing
kids toward being trans rather than simply accepting every child
as they are. That's true. Actually, that's a part of neomarxism.
(35:10):
If you can get people on the other side of
the powers that be, whether sexual reasons, racial reasons, you're colonized,
you're oppressed, whatever, that's all you want is to get
them to reject the current system. That's how you overthrow
the system. We just got Queer means I'm not answering
to the man. That's all it means. We just got
(35:31):
this text. This day in history was that Nancy Pelosi,
the first woman in Congress in nineteen sixteen. That's correct,
speaking which speaking of whom JK writes. No matter how
many accolades people try to lay on Pelosi, I say,
ding dong, the witch is dead. Her biggest accomplishment, and
that's a negative one, is she took away the ability
to think and act independently by any Democratic House members.
(35:51):
It was get in line with her be excommunicated.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
That's still the case today, one solid, stupid block of
House stems. She was praised in politics for her ability
to discipline her caucus.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, and never bring a bill to the floor unless
you know it's going to pass.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
And finally, Christo and Reno writes, Hey, guys, it's very
clear the Republicans have been missing the mark of who
to blame for the shutdown. AOC is to blame for this.
They need to call her out and make her promise
not to primary Chuck Schumer. If she did that, maybe
Chuck would feel better and instruct his colleagues to sign
the clean.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Cr Call her out. Are any of you people throning
this weekend in the dating world, whatever the hell that is.
We'll learn about that inn hour two. If you don't
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey, y'all headed into the weekend. We're under the tutelage
of our general manager.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, our general manager is going to be the title
of the new movie I'm writing, and I haven't settled
on a title yet, Michael, I would like your opinion
on this place. In particular, it has to do with
the canceling of all those flights that could well screw
up everybody's holidays. The title's either going to be the
air Apocalypse, plane Pain, or my personal favorite, or what
(01:07):
the heck was it gonna be? Wait a minute, oh,
Departure to Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I like plane Pain. Is Departure to Hell gonna be
like a horror movie?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Uh No, it's just a travel horror. Yeah, which is,
you know, pretty horrible horror when.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You're in the middle of it. So Air Apocalypse or whatever,
I could see a star being attached to that. I
feel like Plane Pain is gonna have Jesse Smolette in
the lead. Mm yeah, straight to video. It's made for
TV movie air Apocalypse. Now, I'd probably get sued, which
could be good publicity.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Then we change it to Departure from Hell or to Hell,
not from Hell to Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Departure from Hell would be a good thing. So, if
you haven't paid attention, we all woke up to the
you know, this is an ongoing story and they're making
this up as they go along. But so they announced
the ten percent airports yesterday and they've decided to roll
out what four percent today, So so far it's two
hundred and fifty flights or something like that, and by
Tuesday it'll be eight percent, and then it'll ramp up
(02:11):
if the shutdown continues to hit ten percent by a
week from today, I believe, which would be your forty
five hundred flights canceled per day. Here'sn't a wrinkle. I
hadn't heard and I don't quite understand, but they had
somebody representing pilots for some reason. Doing this is going
to cause us to chew through all those extra hours
(02:34):
of availability pilots build up through the year so that
come holiday season they have pilots they can draw on
if the weather turns really bad, because otherwise you end
up in those situations where you know there are mandated
only be able to fly so many hours per day
or week or whatever it is, and you end up
with you got pilots hanging around, but they've reached their limit.
They can't fly. And that's why nobody can go on
(02:56):
a you know, bad weather Thanksgiving long weekend or whatever.
They build up hours of availability headed into the bad
weather holiday season to have pilots, and for some reason,
and I don't quite get it, they're gonna be chewing
through those starting today. I don't get why that is,
but I don't know that's what they claim is going
(03:16):
to happen. But if that's his point was, this will
even if the shutdown ends on Tuesday, it will take
weeks or beyond Thanksgiving to get caught back up and
the building up the pilot hours that you need to
have in case the weather turns bad.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Right right, Speaking as a guy who takes in an
enormous amount of news too much, it's made me a
bitter and miserable man. I have seen this story nowhere
except for the absolutely fabulous California Globe, californiaglobe dot com.
This ought to be leading every newscast in America, but
it's not because of their overt bias. Five hundred tourism
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businesses warned of the Thanksgiving chaos and urged Congress to
pass a clean resolution, including the US Travel Association super heavyweights.
Five hundred of them have said pass a clean resolution and.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Stop this funny.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
They didn't lead with that on any of the newscasts
because that is a directly at the Democrats, because the
Republicans have voted what is it seventeen eighteen thirty seven
times now to have a clean resolution and get on
with it, but the Democrats insist, no, we've got to
extend the super giant COVID Obamacare subsidies or we won't
let the government open.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Nobody's reporting honestly on this. It's outrageous. Yeah, And part
of that might be because they know that whole pilot thing,
for instance, that even if the shutdown ends two weeks
before Thanksgiving, like a week from now, they're going to
be ripple effects on flights for clear through Thanksgiving. I mean,
the tentacles of that with hotels and restaurants and just
(05:02):
everything else, not to mention the misery of not getting
to go where you wanted to go for Thanksgiving or
have the people show up at your house. But yeah, god,
the costs on that. That's probably all those businesses are saying, Hey,
let's end this nonsense. And one of the problems will
continue to shovel enormous mountains of money into Obamacare, which
goes to what the poor and down truck. No, it
(05:22):
goes to insurance companies. Craig, the healthcare guru, has been
telling us from the beginning, We're gonna get crazy ass
rich from this fixed system. I was just reading Mark
Alprin's analysis of the shutdown at this point, being that
both sides feel like they're gonna Both sides are desperately
afraid of being just getting killed by their base if
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they are the ones that cave give in. Both sides
horrified by that. Look like if the Republicans would decide, okay,
we'll extend the Obamacare benefits, or if the Democrats come
in and say, okay, we'll sign the clean resolution, both
sides are horrified about how their side will perceive their
weakness over that and then themselves into a corner, painted themselves
(06:08):
into a corner. And what was the other thing? I
had another thing on that on why he thinks this
isn't going to end soon. There's no good will between
either side. But that's like not breaking news for anyone
that there's very little incentive for them right now. But
I heard of Washington Post columnists say, and I thought
this was pretty good. And I can't stand him, and
(06:30):
he's a lefty, right, but he might be right. He said,
the Democrats get to go out there saying this is
going to raise your healthcare costs, and Republicans are out
there saying we need a clean CR and people are like,
what the hell is a crred percent? And just in
terms of the argument, one is my healthcare is going
to go up, the other one is some congressional thing
I've never heard of.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Allegedly the two sides are getting together for some sort
of face saving solution resolution today.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Who knows. We'll see that happens. We'll tell you, yeah,
well that was all right. It's adjusting the thermostat. That's
what's where I go whenever I walk off microphone. If
you're ever wondering, I go over to the thermostat in
the morning, it's cold. Is the dark surface of the moon,
the dark side of the moon. I thought it was
just old age. You just were wandering on it, just
wandered off. It says we got to put them on
(07:18):
a leash, you forget them at work, and I just
water off. Katie. Yesterday morning, you were like, why am
I over here? The President got right out, understand what
(07:41):
was the saying? Oh, the other analysis was there are
no like, there's no gang of five or gang of
eight or whatever that used to exist all the time
that would make the news. According to Mark Alvilm's right,
there's no Joe Lieberman's and John McCain's, the people that
are friends across the aisle and they can be the
grown ups and get together and come up. But it
just doesn't exist anymore, right, And a lot of people
(08:03):
are screaming thank god, although I don't know what the
proof is that that's good at this point.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I heard the other day that the Problem Solvers Caucus
in the House had come up with some sort of
plan that they were trying to promote, and I thought, wow, okay,
all right, this is an interesting development. And then the
guy just mentioned like three people, maybe four. I don't
know what you know about the House of Representatives, but
there's hundreds of them running around, so I don't know
(08:30):
if there's more to that caucus or not.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But I'm like, what three or four people?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
What? Eh?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
This is no way to run a republic. Here is
the most interesting thing I've heard today. Trump claims that
this new deal he's got with the weight loss drugs
is going to take one of your most popular ones.
I don't remember which one. It doesn't make any difference.
It's gonna go from thirteen hundred and fifty dollars a
month to two hundred and fifty dollars a month. Oh mind.
(08:58):
That's a major change. That takes it from affordable to
only a few to affordable to quite a few, especially
if that's a high priority to you. Rearrange your life
to where you you know you can carve out that
two fifty a month.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
That would be tempted to consult my physician, but I
so absolutely, and I was listened to a doctor go
on and on about this.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's your opening dose of I've got to lose the weight.
First of all, they're talking about the one hundred sum
diseases that are mostly affected by obesity, that could taper
way back if the population, you know, make America thin again.
Was what doctor Oz said yesterday. If if just as
(09:43):
a whole we lose a bunch of weight, just hundreds
of diseases that would be affected. But the doctor has
listened to today said that that's the opening cost, in
the opening dose. The belief is that once you lose
the amount of weight you want to lose, you could
taper down to a maintaining dose. There would be lower
and cheaper and just stay on that right, right, So
(10:05):
this first, again, I've been saying this for a long time.
I really think it now. I think pretty soon practically
everybody you know is going to be on one of these. Yeah,
it would not surprise me at all, which could be awesome.
I mean, we could see the pictures throughout history, you know,
where you see a high school class from nineteen eighty
and you think, look than everybody is, and now you
see it in everybody's fat. We might see look at
the class of twenty and thirty five.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Everybody's then again, right, and it's entirely possible to be
able to tweak these drugs a little bit. As the uh,
you know, the tro the experience with them grows so
that some of the side effects are less and they're
even more effective.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Who knows. Yes, Michael means there's gonna be a lot
more hot looking people. Okay, yeah, I suppose hard. Here
you go. Yeah, make America fin again, Make America hot again.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's always been one of our greatest strengths. I mean
we're no Sweden, but we're an attractive people.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, Paul, and we got to recapture that. Bring the
hot back, exactly, bring sexy back. Coorse Timberlake when you
and he crashed into a tree. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday,
November seventh, the year twenty twenty five, where Armstrong and
getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Okay, let's begin officially. According to FCC rules and regulations,
here comes the show.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
At mark.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Air traffic controllers just got that zero dollar paytub or
second of this government shutdown, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
says that has built stress into the national airspace system
to a point where it's no longer safe to operate
airline schedules at four capacity.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah, unfortunately, maybe time to try your new favorite airline,
the bus. You know their slogan, the bathroom door is
stuck open.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Have you ever traveled by bus? It very infrequently, but
yes I did one time, a long bus trip and man,
it like Greyhound that sort of thing. Yeah, by the
end of it, it was the bathroom was pretty grody. Yeah. Yeah,
I've mostly been on like busses for group tracks. But
(12:05):
even then, if everybody like knows each other and has
an interest in you know, let's keep everything reasonably clean. Oh,
it's just I don't know what it is, but yeah,
bus bathrooms are nasty.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You do the thing where you and the other people
in your community you get on the bus and you
go to the gambling the casino and you know, I'll
go in there and you gamble a well, and then
you come back exactly sit there, cigarettes and dangling out
of the corners of our mouths, staring blankly ahead of
the machines. Big times. That sounds fun. Okay, So we've
got Katie's headlines on the way, we got clips of
the weekend, more news for you, and we'll keep our
(12:36):
eye on the airports all on the way on the
Armstrong Young Giddy Show. I just shut you at Katie headline,
Katie or Katie headline, not last minute at all, no
less without last min no one second before you go
on there? How's that? I got you? Yeah, that's a
good one. It's awful, sloppy, it's unprofessional. I don't like it.
(12:59):
All right, taking me get that together. Hey, let's figure
out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie
d and Katie.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Also, I just want to point out that we have
gone an entire.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Week without a joke. Oh god, yes, So I got
my stack of jokes at home. I got to bring
them in. Wow, just when we needed it most in
these dark days, right too, Right, a nation yearns for
a joke right from NBC.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Judge orders Trump administration to deliver full snap benefits to
the States.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
By today, which I believe Trump is happy about that
the judge has ruled that kind of gives him the
cover and his he he is saying the same thing
that democratic pundits are saying after Tuesday. Affordability.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Affordability from the Guardian death toll from ups plane crash
at airport rises to thirteen.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, man, that I saw more videos from different angles.
That is quite the fireball. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Tens of thousands of callons of jet fuel on board
and they crashed into a petroleum recycling center who had
giant tanks of fuel.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
From the Wall Street Journal, Ford considers terminating the electric
version of its Ford F one fifty pickup, a move
that would make the money losing truck America's first major
EV casualty.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, and the number one selling vehicle in America for
the last thirty five years is the F one to fifty.
They tried to make an electric one. People don't like
electric cars. You can say whatever you want about them.
Joe Biden can have all the meetings on the White
House lawn with electric cars out there and drive around
and talk about it all that, but most people like
(14:40):
by far, most people don't want an electric car. And
Ford was strong armed into doing that in the first Sure,
they didn't want because they know they're in the business
of knowing what people want. These big American car companies,
they knew people didn't want the electric cars. They were
forced into it by the government, and as soon as
you rolled back the mandates, they're like cool, cool. Can
(15:00):
I get rid of this? This is a money loser.
That's so maddening to me that the freaking democratic organization
of the whole thing is the Senate, and Biden and
everybody else tried to force America, one of our biggest
interest industries into doing something nobody wanted.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Right from the New York Post, trans person accused of
exposing himself at Gold's.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Gym was convicted of.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Brutally beating his ex wife before taking her name.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Wow, it turns out he's a job in other ways. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's like that inmate we talked about the other day,
who a judge declared has to get a taxpayer sponsored
sex change. The PAS guy is a child molesting, child
porn manufacturing, sick piece of crap. And the newest twist
on his twistedness is I want to be a girl.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Now, No, we're not paying for that. What if we
become we're insane.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That a judge would say, yeah, you have to pay
for that because that's a medical condition, it's a psychological condition.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Put them in a padded room. That's what we need
to do.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
From USA today, dating trends reached new lows this year.
What are throning, shreking and bank seeing shrenking.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
We talked about I don't know what throning is or
bank seeing.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
There's a nice list and explanation of us on hotline
well perfect on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We'll get into those later and figure out what those
trends are. Shreking is an interesting one, and I have
talked to people that that's a real thing. Yeah, you
got to bring that to us, Katie, we want you
to quarterback that. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
That's segment Yeah, TMZ oh thirty never mind from the
Babylon b Mom Donnie moves mayor's office under children's hospital.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh that's pretty clever. Oh, seth for the wind, that's
pretty clever. Nice was your TMZ headline? Quick?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
What was Did he bragging about Trump going to pardon him?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, I guess he's bragging in jail saying oh yeah,
I'm going to get a part.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh my god, Oh surely Trump will pardoned? Did he?
Well hope not. I hope not either. Maybe on the
way out the door when he I don't know, Oh no,
not at all at all. Armstrong and Getty. I hate
to keep using the A word, but it might be
the word of the next year, affordability. Last night, my
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kids were with me. We had to go to a
CBS to get two things. It was forty dollars. My
son said, it was forty dollars to buy these two things.
I said yeah. And we went over to the grocery
store to buy our stuff for tacos, a couple other things.
It was one hundred and thirty bucks. Wow, my son said,
it was one hundred and thirty bucks for all that.
I said, yeah, we just spent one hundred and seventy dollars.
(17:56):
Like I'm living in some sort of South American Banana Republic.
I know, local currency is going to carry around a wheelbarrow.
And to that point, The New York Post with an
article out today which I'll get to in just a
moment about hey, Donald Trump, stop saying that you've whipped
inflation and goes through some of the numbers. We'll get
to those in just a minute. It's troubling.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Matthew Count and Eddy in the Free Press an absolutely
brilliant piece about how Republicans had better refocus on kitchen
table issues because a lot of the affordability stuff the
Democrats like Momdonni, you're selling our fantasies. I mean they
cannot happen economically. In fact, they'll achieve the opposite. But
the serious policy that tends to lower prices, or at
(18:38):
least not them let them go up as fast. They
need to focus on that or they will be screwed.
Because the elections yesterday, and we'll get to Cow in
just a second, but the election results that came out
this week, it's easy to dismiss them as few blue states,
but if you look at a bunch of different districts
in a bunch of different states, one thing that was
(18:59):
unmistakable is the gains among Hispanics vanished in a bunch
of different places.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The idea that Trump.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Has moved the Hispanics over to the Republican Party and
not so fast. So anyway, we're on that to come
right now, it's Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
At the week that was. It's Cow Clips of the Week,
How coming mayor Killer Japanese Theirs?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
You can't sell flying but the Dodgers if you're just right.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
If clips up the week, the greatest and most dramatic
Ink seven in World series history, and that one is.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I'm ready to get another rain.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Japan is grappling with a grizzly problem, deadly bear attacks.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And Paris prosecutors now say amateurs, not professionals out the
highest at the louver.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
The FAA is imposing a ten percent cut the flights
at forty major airports across the country.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Panick at a Louisiana fair, Rescuer scaling of Ferris will
to reach a woman clinging to an overtipped carriage. I'm
a woman and every rights, and not one a man
in the restroom when I'm naked.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Mostly the undertones come across as transphobic and racist as well, because.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
A lot of players in the league have messaged me
and reached out saying they do agree, but they're fearful
to speak of God.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well you up to six forty five Saturday morning, he
goes wrong, get your boots on. Let school walking. It's
actually funny. It was December eighteenth. I remember because that's
an important date to me, and as Joseph Stalin's birthday.
I'm a fan character AI, a bot generating app that
connects users with fictional bought friends.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Ended up with the bots initiating romantic kiss.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We also have to work those sort of the dark side,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
When the day starts with Dick Cheney, you're being dead,
it ends with Mom Donnie winning.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yes, so hear me.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
President Trump when I say this, to get to any.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Of us, you will have to get through all of
us every couple of years or so. We need a conspicuous,
confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again.
I'm a democratic socialist who is also a democrat.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Nothing I just like more than the politician that has
sits there and lies to you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
It's just a vile creature, the worst thing along face
of the earth with Japanese trousers. And this is our
debut single Lampshade of the Sky, Clips of a Winch.
There's several things in there I'd like to comment on,
but we already have. Mostly I'm just and I'm often
(22:04):
awestruck by this. That was all this week. Yeah, stunning,
isn't it? No wonder we're all anxious. I was listening
to the National Review podcast yesterday and they were all
doing a little retrospective on Dick Cheney dying Vice President
Dick Cheney, and somebody bringing up just the idea. He
was serious. He was a serious man. He took all
(22:27):
this seriously and had serious conversations. And we just don't
do that anymore. Everything is performative and jokey and trolling,
and you just don't sit down and have no this
is a really serious conversation. Right.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
This sounds elitist because it is whether you're running a
corporation or running for class president, or running for political office,
or discussing politics on a much bigger setting like the
US of A.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
If you.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Restrict the discussions to the most serious, learned people, it's
going to be a very very different discussion, obviously than
if you go way down to the lowest common denominator,
because you have to craft the discussion to move the
most of those people and the whole rock the vote thing,
(23:28):
you know, trying to get more and more more and
more turnout sounds lovely in principle, but we need you know,
it'd be interesting and I don't know how to do
this in kind of a neutral way that didn't offend everybody.
But there ought to be a study, a thorough study
of how knowledgeable and what's.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
The words I keep using, the words serious? We both
do knowledgeable and intent on getting to the truth people
are in this country and your bottom twenty five percent
would not vote, they should not participate in guiding the
ship of state. And I know that sounds elitist, but
why you know what it's not. It's antetized, a bunch
(24:11):
of people deciding who shouldn't participate. You see what he
did there, folks? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Nice, Why don't you go right for the New York Times.
It's not elitist, it's anti ignoramus.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh, I agree, it's just hard to present it in
a way that is obviously sounding elitist. Those of us
who are smarter will make decisions for you that you
will live under eye. I don't want to sound elitist, but.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, and the interesting part is, of course you know,
and several of you are probably shouting right now at
your listening device, Hey dude, it was like the educated
elite that elected Mumdani. So you know it's the over
educated white women of America who keep voting for these
economic policies that can possibly work. So it's Friday week,
(24:59):
and limprist admit as well, we got a couple of
fun things. We got to get two since its Friday
Katie's gonna win an hour or two. We've got to
get to the dating trends of shrekking throning and whatever.
That other was one was that I've never heard of
bank saying banks seeing which is the artist Banksy. Anyway,
I've got something that's entertaining. I don't know if it's funny,
it's frightening as hell. The New York Times did a
(25:19):
profile on I think three different people. I read it
last night. I couldn't stop reading it. Three different people
that are in relationships with chatbots, romantic relationships.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh boy, And I mean it's one hundred percent serious. Wow.
And so yeah, I want to pass that along to you,
but I want to get to see it's not gonna
help me have any faith in humanity in the future.
Right after this, I want to tell you the numbers
of the New York Post wanted Donald Trump to see
so he doesn't go around claiming he's whipped inflation. Hit
(25:49):
hit with that in just a second.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
And there's even greater significance, I think, to the fact
that the New York Post is out and proud with
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Speaker 2 (27:00):
There's no safe like simply save. Yes, you picked up
on this. Maybe it was a little too subtle for
me to mention it was the New York Post. The
fact that the New York Post, which tends to love
many things that Donald Trump does, out today with a hey,
slow down, Donald Trump, with saying you whipped inflation. Here
are the numbers, with a social media post that said
(27:23):
stop lying about there being affordability crisis. President Trump claims
he's whipped inflation. Consumers are feeling the squeeze. Rights to
the New York Post, Targets prices are up five point
five percent nationwide this year. That's a noticeable amount. Walmart's
are up five point three percent, according to Riesi's recent analysis.
(27:47):
Amazon's prices have averaged more than twelve percent according to
a report, so after seven months under Trump's tariffs or
other economic factors that had been going on for quite
a while. In addition to that, Americans are paying more
for nearly everything from a cup of coffee to a
living room sofa, to children's toys to whatever you buy.
(28:10):
Five percent increase at Target and five point three at Walmart,
and twelve percent Amazon is a very noticeable amount. And
to your point about the whole the Hispanic photograph, we
probably misread the election, which is what happens like every
election is almost completely misread in retrospect, with the hindsight
you figured out, it was just plain affordable. People couldn't
(28:30):
stand how expensive they were, so they booted out the
current leader so that the new guy. I mean, it
wasn't deeper politics than that, philosophy or all these different
sort of things. Things are too expensive, just like I
was talking about last night, I made two stops at
the store and both of them are like what that cost?
What Both Times and people across America are saying that,
(28:50):
And they booted out the last person, and they might
boot up this group of people if things are still expensive.
I think it's only slightly more subtle than that, in
that it was the border and and prices, a border
and kitchen table affordability. Well, the borders fixed, so now
we're down to bread.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
So although there are real signs that the hyper aggressive
deportation round up thing has gone too far for a
lot of even Trump supporters, you know, whether that's legit
or not or should be, we can argue about another time.
And so it's a yeah, we'll give it a minus.
On the immigration stuff, definitely an a, but an a minus.
(29:28):
And on the affordability stuff, not good at all. And
if you were to ask the average American working family,
all right, if you could only choose.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
One of those things, oh yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Would probably think, jeez, I really really want to see
the border close because this is absurd. It's obscene, But
I gotta feed my kids. I guess I'll take. You know,
a good economy and quashing inflation.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, one of them is real, but theoretical, and you know,
in an argument to be had in a newspaper or whatever,
you get slapped in the face every se day, your
cup of coffee and your gas and your grocery store stopping.
I mean, it's just insane and I don't know if
anything can be done about it. Of course tariffs didn't help, but.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
We well know, and it was just way too much
that had to be really carefully done because you're coming
out of an era of terrible inflation which was brutal
to human beings. And keeping in mind now it's about
three percent. That's three percent on top of all the
inflation of the last several years. It compounds.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
It's not three percent of the original total, it's three
percent of the brand new, bloated total. It's like compound
interest in reverse. And so if he was gonna do
the tariff thing and really get tough on trade deals
and on shore manufacturing, but we'll have to weather a
long period of significantly higher prices. That would have been
(30:48):
a red flag right there. Who whoa whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Higher prices is the one thing we can't have. We've
got to be really, really careful about this. And instead
of really really careful, Trump went with extremely broad and
aggressive I think it was a misstep.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, well, I think there's a hell of a lot
of people across the country that vote that would say,
I don't even know what a tariff is, but my
grocery bill's too high, and that's all they care. Fair enough,
And we got mail bag on the way. We got
into that dating stuff that's going to be so danged
interesting in an hour two including people in relationships with abots.
Oh my, so many things going on in the world.
(31:27):
At the same time. They I won't to do it.
I was about to do a bad economics thing that
came out today. But this New York Times story about
these three different people that are in serious relationships with
their AI chatbots. It's mind blowing. Oh boy, all right,
all right, I'll just stay tuned for that. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I was looking at today in history just for chuckles.
Today was the day the first woman was elected to
Congress in nineteen sixteen. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Going down? Oh what?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Now, come on, Now, here's your freedom loving one of
the day. We're taking a break against my better judgment.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I kid with her.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Oh with our series from John Stuart Mill who I
revere his book on liberty, just because this is so
timely sent along by Jeff honorary producer Jeff, who's just
a great contributor.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Your quote is from zoron Mumdani in twenty twenty five.
There is no problem too large for government to solve,
and no concern too small for it to care about.
And then he also quotes Benito Mussolini from nineteen twenty five.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against
the state. I remember, as a college boy it struck
(32:41):
me that the horseshoe principal horseshoe theory. They're teaching us
about communism, fascism, and not like if effectively these are
the same system They just use slightly different rationales for
getting to their complete control of society.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And denial of individual liberty. Anyway, thank you, Jeff well
crafted mailbag drops a oe mailback and Armstrong getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Kendra from NorCal writes, Guys, I looked at your superstore,
your website. Did that basic internet search? Where do I
see the logo for the f Yolican Party? What's right there?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Armstrong and Getty dot com at the store. Maybe it
hadn't been updated, but it's right there. I can't wait
to get my f Yolickin party T shirt. I'll wear
it around Krospp keep roasting our stupid political parties will
do can't help ourselves. Let's see this from Paolo on
the redistricting conundrum, and.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I'm gonna summarize this, but he talks about if you
have sixty percent Democrats forty percent Republicans, there's an expectation
that we want sixty percent of the congressional representatives to
be Democrats and forty percent Republicans. Roughly but if Republicans
and Democrat voters were completely evenly distributed geographically, no matter
(33:57):
how the map partitions voters geographically, every district would contain
sixty forty and that would result in one hundred percent
congressional representatives being Democrats, which is.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
A bit of a conundrum. It's a flawed system. No
gerrymandering requiring required. I came across a solution to that problem.
It would take a constitutional amendment, but I think it's
really really good and.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I want to hit that next hour. That's true, and
that would be a problem. But if you look at
maps at any state in California, the same way you've
seen the county maps, there's tons of red counties that
are majority Republican. It's not yeah you know, yeah, indeed yep.
I got this from Jason listening to your conversation about
(34:38):
the dramatic increase in young children identifying as trans and
then the huge drop off.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
More on that to come. Thought you'd appreciate this elementary
school near me. This was on their electronic billboard.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
We celebrate our LGBTQ students. So they aren't accepting those
folks or supportive, No, they celebrate them. Wonder if they
celebrate the straight kids. Seems like the schools are pushing
kids toward being trans rather than simply accepting every child
as they are. That's true. Actually, that's a part of neomarxism.
(35:10):
If you can get people on the other side of
the powers that be, whether sexual reasons, racial reasons, you're colonized,
you're oppressed, whatever, that's all you want is to get
them to reject the current system. That's how you overthrow
the system. We just got Queer means I'm not answering
to the man. That's all it means. We just got
(35:31):
this text. This day in history was that Nancy Pelosi,
the first woman in Congress in nineteen sixteen. That's correct,
speaking which speaking of whom JK writes. No matter how
many accolades people try to lay on Pelosi, I say,
ding dong, the witch is dead. Her biggest accomplishment, and
that's a negative one, is she took away the ability
to think and act independently by any Democratic House members.
(35:51):
It was get in line with her be excommunicated.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
That's still the case today, one solid, stupid block of
House stems. She was praised in politics for her ability
to discipline her caucus.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, and never bring a bill to the floor unless
you know it's going to pass.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
And finally, Christo and Reno writes, Hey, guys, it's very
clear the Republicans have been missing the mark of who
to blame for the shutdown. AOC is to blame for this.
They need to call her out and make her promise
not to primary Chuck Schumer. If she did that, maybe
Chuck would feel better and instruct his colleagues to sign
the clean.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Cr Call her out. Are any of you people throning
this weekend in the dating world, whatever the hell that is.
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