December 30, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour two of the Tuesday December 30, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- TSA, weight loss drugs changing the economy
- Cherry Coke/Love for Ham Sandwich/Doggy Style
- Microsoft and WA State Socialists Against Capitalism
- Joe's Newsom Rant
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty
and No Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong. We continue to
be on vacation, but I hope you're enjoying the leftovers.
That's what we call the best of Armstrong and Jodd.
(00:23):
Oh what a vacation it's been. I begged Judy for
years to get me a pony. She finally did. Crapped
on the carpet, it ate the drapes. It was just
a mistake. Be careful what you wished for. Anyway, I
enjoy this Armstrong and Getty replay switching gears. On Sunday,
the TSA screen more than three million people at US airports,
setting a new single day record to release the videos
(00:45):
celebrating this achievement. Checkers out here at the DSA. We
just set a new single day screening record. It's because
of you and your family's love of travel. We're allowed
to do what we do best and on behalf of
everyone at the TSA. We just want to say all
personal belongings in the trade belt too. Your shoes can
stay on laptop and its own trade shoes off. Actually,
laptop can stay in the bag. Actually, chuck your waters
(01:05):
still a little bit of butter. Walk through this laye No,
I mean this lay The sensor detected something on your elbow?
What's this in your bag? Stand and wait while we
ranstack your luggage. Okay, never mind, there's nothing. Good luck
closing your bag again. Is this a real idea? Enjoy
your flight? Oh you missed it? Sorry, Kathi holidays from
the TSA. I've had that one. Good luck closing your
bag again. They get everything and they mess it all up.
(01:25):
It's like you can't possibly get your bag closed again quickly.
And then the uh and then you just gotta love
the It's different every single time. No, no, no electronics
stay in. Seriously, dude, seriously, do you not know that
at other airports they're saying take them out, or that
you were saying take them out last week? Don't act
like I've done something wrong or I'm stupid for not
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knowing in advance. They seriously every TSA guide they ought
to force them to fly back and forth at least once.
All right, you're gonna connect through through Indianapolis, go to
New York, then come back again. Why I trust me,
and they get through that experience and say, oh, oh,
now I get it. Oh so at that airport they
tell you leave your belt on, but at this one
(02:11):
we say take them off, and we act like you're
a moron if you didn't automatically take it off. What exactly? AnyWho,
my son got pulled out a line when we were flying,
and I wish they could there was some sort of
going just go ahead, because the speech the guy gave
was so unbelievably long. You are you the father? I
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am going to touch the back of his buttocks with
the backs of my gloved hands. I will slide down
the buttocks, I will go inside to the thighs. The
backs of my hands will then go down to the
middle of the knees. I'm going to go around to
the front. I will raise the backs. Just do it,
just freaking do it. And I'm standing right here. You're
not gonna molest him. I'm not worried about it. He's
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not worried about it. Let's just get out of here.
They didn't make that up, though. They do that for
a reason, I know, I know, because somebody would sue
or claim they got groped or whatever though, hit not
mom bam on n So the New York Post, well, no,
this was a What he was doing was he's trying
to avoid any sort of you know, sexual impropriety claim
(03:18):
and you're going way too far. I get it. You
gotta touch his pants, will be okay. So the New
York Post built this story around super thin is back
in among celebrities, and they got these pictures since sozempic
and all these things around the market, and they got
a variety of celebrities including are you on a Grande
(03:38):
who I've always found to be a skeleton. I don't
quite get her appeal as a sex object because she
is a skeleton, a skeleton of a person, and it
might not be her fault, but she's podiator.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's it's gotten drastically worse since she had Wicked.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, it has. She this picture here, Oh my god,
she is a skeleton with hair. Same with LaToya Jackson
and a couple other people that don't know. Oh, Megan Trainer,
who did not have LaToya Jackson on my bingo card.
Yeah me neither. Mega Trainer who kind of made her
living as kind of having a big booty. You know,
that was her claim to fame is now just a
(04:17):
stick person. Amy Schumer has lost all her weight again,
but heroin chic is back in. And I was wondering,
stopping has got to be tough if you lose weight,
like knowing when to stop. Like Katie, you lost eighty
some pounds. How did you know when to stop so
you don't end up in look crazy territory? Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I just kind of talked to my doctor about what
a healthy weight for my height would be.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then once I got there, I was like, all right,
you know, because it seems to be a kind of things.
You go, you go to you go from overweight, you know,
like the way you look to look fantastic too. You
look like you're dying, but you're still doing it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, you just so sting up on the workouts and
whatnot to you know, call it good enough.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah. Speaking of weight loss and that sort of thing,
it is really really interesting the extent to which the
super effective weight loss drugs ozempic, Wigovi, Munjaro, and zep
bound have affected the economy in all sorts of ways.
It's turned around the obesity rate for the first time
in human history, certainly in the United States and companies
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are trying to adjust to the new realities. I will
give you a list. Yeah, first of all, I can't
imagine one, so I'm interested in this. I can't like
even predict one. Maybe close sizes perhaps, But as we've
been saying for a while, this is a major cultural change, right,
that's gonna be very obvious very soon. Let's start with pharmacies.
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The drugs come with some uncomfortable or harmful side effects,
including indigestion, nausea, and loss of hair and muscle mass.
As results, sales for supplements vitamin rich beauty products have surged.
Some studies suggest the medication also might boost fertility. Purchases
of pregnancy kits among a cohort GLP one users searched
one hundred and forty eight percent over the course of
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one year, according to Nielsen Research. Loss of hair, yeah,
some thinner, but I lose my hair. I don't know
if that's a good deal. I mean, I'm already for
normal people. Supplements, electrolytes, supplements, hair growth products, and i
nauseamag medications have skyrocketed among GLP one users. Some are
marketing directly to those folks grocery stores. The elimination of
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food noise, which is constantly thinking about food and what
you're gonna eat next, can lead to binging and distracting
thoughts about eating that's food noise can GLP one users
are cutting back on snacks, spending more unhealthy items compared
with non households GLP one households reduced. They're spending by
ten percent over a year across one hundred categories, including groceries,
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quick service restaurants, tobacco, according to another consumer research firm.
While the fallout could hurt the snack food industry, some
companies are innovating and acquiring health food brands. They're focused
on high protein items which support muscle mass or highly
set satiating and boost metabolism, as well as quick and
healthy frozen meals. I wonder what it's going to do
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to close with if it'll go back to it it was,
you know, in the eighties and early nineties or whatever
before we all got fat, When you know, the bulk
of the sweatshirts at the Big five weren't all double
XL to five XL. Yes, yeah, one hundred percent. Let's
eat more fresh produce over a thirteen week period last
year they increased their spending on fresh fruit by fourteen
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percent and on vegetables by thirty eight percent compared with
the year before. Healthy snacks obviously are selling a lot better.
Non alcoholic beverages have exploded in use as GLP one
drugs can suppress alcohol cravings among heavy drinkers. Meanwhile, high
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protein drinks and probiotics soda brands that promote gut health
are seeing significant growth strip malls. Weight loss drugs create
an opportunity for clothing brands as consumers refresh their wardrobe
as they shed pounds more beauty products, smaller sizes for
men and women. Demand for women's tops and extra small
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and small rows two points in the last two years,
and we're down two percentage points for large and extra
large sizes, and formal wear and sporting goods. Formal wear
sales searched eighty percent and sporting goods jump twenty four
percent in the first six months of twenty twenty five.
This could indicate a need or desired to buy new
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clothing and accessories after undergoing a positive life change. They
go into thrift stores, fast foods, and restaurants. Obviously, healthier
options in all sorts of different categories with the risk
of losing muscle mass. GLP one users are encouraged to
exercise and strength train. They're also spending more on items
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like wearable electronics and exercise devices of all sorts. So
these drugs cause you to lose muscle mass. That's a problem.
I don't know how often that is. They call it
a side effect, and it's a risk of losing muscle
masses that ten percent or ninety percent, I do not know.
Training programs, clinics travel with extra energy and confidence. GLP
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one users may invest in more adventures outside the home.
They saw fifteen percent increase. Blah blah blah. I wonder
what it will do to social pressure if you're overweight.
There has been no social pressure about being overweight for
quite some time because we're all overweight. But if soon,
you know, you're three hundred pounds and you really stand
out in a group because everybody else is on the ozepic,
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it be a lot more noticeable. Yeah, I wonder. I
wonder Rascal sales will go way down. Oh yeah, absolutely,
sell your Rascal stock now. Or those grads they grabber
sticks where you pick stuff off off the floor because
you can't bend over anymore. Right, I washed myself with
a rag and a stick exactly. Yeah. Boy, I don't
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want the hair loss or the muscle mass loss, or
the nausea really any of them. No. Well, and our people.
So if you're not super overweight, So originally all this
stuff was for people who are super overweight. If you're
just like fifteen or just diabetic, yeah, if you're twenty
pounds overweight, thirty pounds overweight, do you take a lower
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dose or something. I think that's on the way that
they're working on more maintenance dose, just take the edge
off tys. Yeah, that's what they need, and then I
would assume the side effects will be lower. Also. Boy,
that's going to change the country. Well yeah, that's the point. Yeah,
economically and health wise as well. A lot of underlying diseases, cancer's,
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heart disease, all of it. Well, just all those years
of we need to make the airline seats wide or
not narrow orn, now they're going to make them even narrow.
Oorm jam. No, No, my shoulders haven't lost weight, my big, strapping,
manly shoulders, Katie, don't laugh, all right. Yeah. My youngest brother,
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who is a large man, was talking about when he
gets set next to somebody else his size on a plane. Oh,
it's just impossible. I mean, it's just physically impossible that
they both share that spot. Yeah. Yeah, So you just
press up against each other, or one of it kind
of leans forward, you take turns if you're buying the space,
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go like that, the lean or the lean to the side,
which kills my back. Yeah. Well, I don't know if
the heroin chic look is going to catch on with
regular people as opposed to just starlets. I don't like
the super bony look. I mean, if you're born now,
well you're born away, that's fine, sure, but that's a
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heck of a thing to aspire to. I want to
be able to see your knee. I want your knees
to be whiter than the rest of your leg. Is
the bone bart like on Ariana Grande. That's a rough look.
All right, enough about Ariana Grande's bones. That's enough of this.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Greta Tumberg, the environmental activist, arrived at a port in
Israel after they were detained by Israel's navy on board
an AID ship bound for god So the activists group
called the Freedom Flotilla coalition claims that the Israelis quote
unlawfully boarded their ship, which was full of baby formula
and medical supplies.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And quote confiscated the goods.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Israel calls the ship and its passenger is a quote
selfie yacht, and they said the mission's sole purpose was publicity.
Israel plans to quickly deport the detained actor bisks back
to their home countries. Israel also claims that the aid
that wasn't quote consumed by the celebrities unquote, will be
sent to Gaza through humanitarian channels.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And that's some controlling right there by the idf oh D.
The selfie yacht, it is obviously such a stunt because
it's such a dent in, you know, in the whole thing.
And this doesn't get reported a lot, But there have
been millions of meals provided there in Gaza, millions, some
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of which are stolen by Hamas, most of them aren't
millions over the last several weeks, yeah, they had less
than a single truckload of aid. More than twelve hundred
AID trucks have entered Gaza from Israel within the past
two weeks, et cetera. I think the selfie yacht is
a good name for it. I love that they made
these people watch October seventh footage is condition of their release,
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the Freedom Flotilla. Do you think Hamas wants freedoms? It's
all wrong? Yes, you're right. Well, so that was back
when she was more of a child. You can't blame
her really for the you know, the lefty world elevated
her to pope's status when she was a child. You know,
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that would get to your That would go to your head.
You would start to think, well, people really care what
I think about stuff? She's unhinged. Poor kid. Well it
was that whole because she's a child. That makes it
more true. Thing about climate change. There for a cup
of coffee. Soda fans, I say pop, so I'll say pop.
Pop fans are freaking out over the limited return of
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the beloved, beloved Coca Cola flavor. I didn't know this
was so beloved. Diet cherry coke is making a comeback.
Anybody excited about that? No, I consume that way back
in the day, but it sounds disgusting to me. Now.
You don't drink pop, Oh, you're better than us. I
don't drink pop either, correct, Yes, yes, Katie, do you
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drink pop rarely?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But everything everything that cherry flavored tastes like cough syrup
to me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That manufactured cherry flavor. I can't do it different red fruit.
But did you know this is my son set this
can't be true. He wanted a strawberry milkshake the other day.
We were at In and Out and he says, they
have the best strawberry milkshakes. And I said, you know,
I've never had a strawberry milkshake, which now added to
the list of things Jack is never which I couldn't believe.
(15:26):
And I'm know I've never had a story. It always
sounded gross to me, but you know, I'm starting to
think it might be delicious. This is this. I think
about this because my son, Henry, the thirteen year old,
had his first Ham sandwich the other day and loved it.
It's not because I haven't like allowed him. I've been
trying to encourage that for years, but he just thought
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Ham sounded awful. For some reason. He finally tried Ham
and he said, Dad, Ham is fantastic. I said, yes, yes, yes, welcome.
So he loved the Ham sandwich, and I'll bet in
the last week I'm not exaggerating. I'd be shocked if
he hasn't had twenty ham sandwiches in the last week,
two or three a day. Wow. But you know, I'm
a guy. I had my first belt when I was
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forty five, and I remember coming on the air the
next day and saying, the belt is amazing. I've never
had one before. Have you checked out? I don't know.
A sunset or falling in love. Those are kind of
nice too. Puppy is a nice puppy. Working with you is.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So great, Jack, because every day it's like, really wow.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I know, ye well, but I have such wonders that
await me. You know, other people have to I don't know,
travel to balid to have some new experience. All I
got to do is have a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.
Or try one of the three most popular slavors of
milkshake hunners right now, I've never had a strawberry milkshake.
I should try that. They're really good, That's what everybody says.
I don't know. They always sound it gross to me.
(16:49):
And whenever you're offered one, there's also a chocolate or vanilla,
But why the strawberry is a delightful berry universally enjoyed.
But there's always a chocolate or vanilla option in there,
and I know I love that, so I just figured
why risk it? There you go?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Well, when you go to In and Out, try the
Neapolitan shake they mix all three?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Is that one part of the secret menu. I don't
like the secret menu thing. I don't. I don't like
that at all. That for some reason that bothers me
get over it and try its elitism or something armstrong?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He edie.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
So do you understand that there is a likelihood that
businesses could decide Microsoft just said they would to move
jobs out of state, and are you concerned about that?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Right?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Those aren't the entities that I cent her in my policymaking.
I believe that they're smoking for enough in Olympia.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh my gosh. You can tell a progressive, can't you,
Because they hurl around the nomenclature, the terminology they learned
in college and in their marchist training classes. That's reporter
Brandy Cruz talking to Washington State Representative Sean Scott about
what was what's called a chilling warning from my Microsoft
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new Washington state taxes trying to soak corporations in the
quote unquote rich are going to drive high paying jobs
right out of the state. And what did he say?
I didn't understand what he said. He said, I don't
center those people in my policies. Oh, okay, you gotta
center people right and speak their truth and all that
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crap that they're always talking about. So, as thousands of
tech workers across the Seattle region face layoffs, Microsoft's top
executive is issuing a stark warning to Washington lawmakers. Keep
raising taxes and you risk driving companies and they are
high paying jobs out of the state. Brad Smith, I
don't center those people in my policies. Well, maybe you
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should start. Microsoft president Brad Smith said if Washington's tax
burden becomes quote prohibitive, companies will reconsider where they put jobs.
That includes Microsoft itself. Democrats and newly elected Seattle mayor
Katie Wilson have campaigned on raising taxes on wealthy residents
and large companies. Tech has become the political punching bag
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of choice. Cast is the villain in the region's affordability crisis,
even as the industry powers Washington's economy. I hate I
don't know what do you call them progressives. Mmmm is
that the right name? Or I don't even know? I
hate you? Oh you don't think you hate them? You're dumb.
Wait till I play that. You're completely ignorant of how
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the world works. You just think that, like multi billion
dollar corporations will just keep cranking out money for your
town or state or this country, regardless of how you
treat them. It's just what the millionaire has been, just
indoctrinated into this fantasy view of how humanity works by
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smart but insidious people, and they swallow it whole, and
they spout it out. They repeat the mantras. There's no
original or critical thought here. You're just demand. It's just
demanded of you that you repeat the mantras. So anyway,
this Brandy Cruse, the reporter continues the conversation with the
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state Repshawn Scott. Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Would you would you like them to leave? Representative Scott?
Do you think that Amazon and Microsoft are a net
good for our state?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Say more about that?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
When you say thatt good, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I think that workers, were they to collectivize, could come
up with something like Amazon on their own, but that
Amazon can't has a very difficult time providing the value
that you would like to see in reverse. In other words,
I think that working people getting together, forming unions, coming
out and lobbying for policies such as this could create
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something that resembled that Amazon corporation without that added layer
of exploitation. But I don't know that Amazon's leadership, such
as it is, would be able to do something that
on its own. So I'm much more concerned with the
social good of people that are in Washington State, that
want to be here, that believe in Washington State enough
to fight for well funded public programs, and they can
speak for themselves through other channels that they would like
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to those.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Too many words, the correct answer to that question was yes, yeah, yes, yes,
it is a net good that we have Amazon in
the state. How great was this idea that if workers
unionize and band together, they can come up with their
own socialist Amazon and get that going and have all
the benefits without exploitation, Because creating one of the what
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two or three most successful companies in the history of
the world is easy. Yeah, the workers can just band
together and do it instead of the evil capitalist. You're
an idiot. You're just these people are idiots. They're driving
me crazy because they're moronic. Seriously, go home and feed
fairy dust to your pet unicorns, or because you have
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no connection with reality. Does people believe no understanding of
how the world actually works. I think he believes that.
S oh, he does one hundred percent. Yeah, that's my point.
He lives in a fantasy world. And he's, you know,
a popularly elected the government official in Washington State. Even
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some Democrats are sounding alarms now. Of course, virtually everybody
gets office in except for Eastern Washington, is a Democrat.
But the Commerce director Joe Nwinn, who himself is a
proud Progressive, He told Bloomberg that he has spent time
and this is smart. Mister Newinn, you are not a
unicorn writing jackass. You might be wrong about stuff, but
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I congratulate you on your realism. He has spent his
time studying rust belt cities that collapsed after driving out employers,
and he has been telling lawmakers that punitive taxes risk
repeating that history says, quote, if you want to tax
the rich, you have to have rich people to tack.
If you want to protect workers. They have to have
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jobs to work in. It's a good point, great coverage
as usual from our colleagues at Seattle read seven to
seventy Am Jalens tip my cap to whoever that reporter was.
What a great question to ask somebody like that, do
you think this company is a net plus? And then
just let them answer that, let them hang themselves by
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their own nonsense, because any answer other than yes is moronic.
I mean, even if they were like relatively abusive, I mean,
like your worst version of capitalism you can possibly come
up with, it still would be a net positive for
the state because people are voluntarily working there, and the
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amount of tax money you're getting, jobs and tax money
you're getting, it's just overwhelming. Right, Microsoft is not enslaving people,
all right. The Microsoft cavalry didn't come across the hills
conquer sat and has now enslaved the poor residence. They're
there voluntarily. You check ass, you know where to even
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start with somebody that well, he's a cultist. He's been
convinced of reality that is not real, which reminds me.
I read a great piece I think it was in
It was in the Dispatch, talking about one of Friedrich
Hayek's books, which I haven't read, and I'm going to
buy it and add it to the stack of stuff,
and at some point which one I'm gonna go wild?
(24:28):
Reading The Use of Knowledge in Society, which came out
eighty years ago last month, it's not nearly as well
known as The Road to serf Them. I read that,
which is his all time, you know, great, it's his
stairway to Heaven. But the Use of Knowledge in Society
Hayek lays out society's fundamental e economic challenge quite clearly.
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It's not merely a problem of how to allocate given resources,
in other words, settling the usual who gets what and
how debate. It's a knowledge problem. How can we make
the best, most efficient use of our limited resources when
no single entity, even like a vast government, can know
everything there is to know about a given economy. And
(25:13):
if you're familiar with the Great Sai Pencil, you know
what we're getting at here. Can But can a team
of the world's greatest economists come close to accounting for
what a factory will pay for steel, what it will
do next if it can't find that price, and what
every employee or steel using industry and those companies employees
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will do once they are affected. The ripple effects are
endless and unknowable, as Pete bolt key rights in the dispatch,
and planners can't know what firms employees are willing to
pay for a sandwich outside the plant, or what the
sandwich maker, breadmaker, and meat supplier, each with their own
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set of countless unknowable circumstances, are willing and able to
do to meet the worker's price. There's simply too much
information underlying even the simplest seeming economic transactions, and the
free market solves all of that and nearly instantaneously, over
and over and over again. It's a miracle of efficiency,
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and yet we keep effing with it. The government does,
or the fools who believe in big government to try
to gain the utopia. Leave it alone? Can can you
play that last clip that we played again? We won't
play the whole thing, but I want to hear the
first thing. It's so good?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Would you like them to leave? Representative Scott do you
think that Amazon and Microsoft are a net good for
our state?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Say more about that.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
When you say that good, what.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Do you mean?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
I think that workers or they he goes off on
his rent.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So it's just if mind blowing to me. So you
think the state would be better off if AM and
Microsoft were somewhere else, Well, yes, because the workers could
develop a perfect socialist Amazon. Of course they would have,
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and they haven't just because they've been held back by
the evil capitalists.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
That is so nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
There are arguments where you know, you're I'm right, but
they got a twenty percent decent point of where but
this one is just this one's open and shut. Oh yeah, yeah,
it's it's fanciful. It's ridiculous. I mean, if you said, well, yes,
of course, but if you look at their rate of
on the job accidents, they're mistreating workers. Okay, let's talk.
(27:40):
That's fine, let's talk. But no, we should build a
worker Amazon, and then a worker Apple, and then a
workers of the world unite open AI and to have
workers develop all the great medications that are saving so
many lives these days. But yeah, why start with a jack.
You don't need to go into all that. The answer is, yes,
(28:02):
is a net positive for the state to have Amazon
and Microsoft here? Yes, a freaking course it is right.
Every other state would crawl on their knees over broken
glass to have Amazon or Microsoft in their state. Is
it a good thing to saw off your hand with
a rusty saw? What do you mean by good thing?
(28:26):
Expound on that? Would you? Yeah, expound on that? But well, yeah,
that's that's uh, that's the person who has completely lost
their head. Wow, I would you know. I'd like to
ask a representative, Scott. I'm not going to threaten him
with a hammer or a sickle, but I'd like to
ask him, why do you think states, counties, countries compete
(28:49):
feverishly to get these companies to build a headquarters, build
a plant there? What do you suppose that is? Is
it possibly? Because yes? It's an effing that positive view,
jackass butt clown. Wow, there are some ideas so idiotic
only an intellectual could hold them, ye, Thomas Sowell. Ye.
(29:12):
And there are intellectuals who heard that answer and nodded
their head. It made sense to them. Collectivist Amazon, Yes,
let's get to work on that, you weirdo. It'd be
like a Soviet you know, tank factory. Every is efficient
and profitable. Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show,
(29:36):
the arm Strong and Getty Show, the LATINX stuff that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
By the way, no one person ever in my office
has ever used the word LATINX.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So can we finally put that to bed? Yeah? But
where did that even? Know? More lax everybody? Well, I
just didn't even know where it came from, And like,
what are people talking about?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I hope we can really paint a picture in terms
of our consciousness of how impactful.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
This has been on the LATINX community. About three quarters
of in the state that.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Have fallen behind and rent represented the Latino and African American.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Community, the LATINX and Black communities.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You've got politicians that are banning not assault rifles, but
the word latin X.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They're not even serious. Wow, that's even further so. That's
Gavin Newsom doing his bro podcasts that he's doing all
across the country now as he tries to be like
just a regular guy running for president, and he's doing
a pretty good job of it might work for him,
but claiming that LATINX whoever even heard of that before?
What does that even mean? And then a little montage
(30:34):
of him using the term in recent years, including one
in where he's fighting against, trying to take away the
word LATINX, blasting anybody who would dare disparage it. Oh boy,
but oh bet it works. People don't hear the you know,
like in newspapers or books, there's the big headline and
then there's a little sentence underneath. People don't hear the
(30:56):
sentence underneath. Ninety percent of people, they just get the
big headline of everything, of every story. And that's funny. Though.
He's got to run away from so much of that
stuff because it's so freaking crazy. Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
The least is long of policies that are abhorrent to
most Americans and or results that are abhorrent to Americans.
(31:20):
For instance, as we outlined last our cal unicorney has
lost one hundred and a half hundred thousand private sector
jobs and added three hundred and sixty one thousand government
jobs since twenty twenty two. It's just astonishing. Well, let's
let's be happy about this stuff, though people. Rather than
condemning the hypocrisy, we should be happy. He understands that
(31:42):
he needs to run away from the nonsense like trans
boys in girls sports or the term LATINX, which is
one of the dumbest things that's ever happened in my lifetime.
He has to run away from it if he wants
to be president. He is determined, and he's right, and
that's good news, right it is. Although don't let down
your guard because we've received I don't know half a
(32:04):
dozen emails just in the last forty eight hours from
folks that are getting ready to get back in the
classroom as teachers in California and are going through their
state mandated DEI white supremacist woke doctrine right now. They're
getting educated in that quote unquote educated. So getting back
to Gavy, and we talked about this fairly recently. If
(32:28):
you're just tuning in, but the whole bed bath and
beyond thing, the head of bed bath and beyond. Do
you have that statement or I mean for people who
are not familiar, just real quickly, yes, I do. I'm sorry,
this is I got the other screen up about shreking,
a dating trend in which people are dating unattractive people
on purpose. That story we got to get to later
(32:49):
this hour. Yes, yes, yes, and different species of giraffes. Yes,
I already did the giraffes shreaking. We will do this
hour though it's an actual thing, and it's really quite
an entertaining way. So the CEO of Bed, Bath and
Beyond puts out a statement yesterday, we will not operate
or open retail stores in California. This decision isn't about politics,
It's about reality. California has created one of the most overregulated,
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expensive and risky environments for business in America. It's a
system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to
keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.
The result higher taxes, higher fees, higher wages that many
businesses simply cannot sustain. And then Gavin Newsom, in a
snarky social media post yesterday, replied.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The company that already went bankrupt and closed every store
across the country two years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Okay, all right, so Gavin, here is my response to
your sarcasm anti rooms. Oh yeah, foyer window will get
me started, window treatments, that's all absolutely yes, although you
do have windows in beds and baths. Michael. So it's
(33:58):
a good point. Yeah, Okay, where were we? I'm sure
there was a thread? Oh yes, so Gavin's snark about
a ceo saying your state is so hostile to business
and so difficult to operate in we're not even gonna try.
And instead of addressing policy, he says, Oh, yeah, the
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same company that went bankrupt and closed all their stores
two years ago. Let me explain something to you, Gavin.
Because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth,
you've been successful in business because you've been bankrolled up
to your ears by all of your rich relatives. Uh.
But here's the way it works. Big companies sometimes failed
to adjust with the times. Something you know, changes whatever,
(34:43):
they're unsuccessful, they declare bankruptcy and they reorganize. Bed Bath
and Beyond has a lot of fans. It's a cool store.
I'm a fan, Judy and I shop there for a
lot of stuff for years and years, and we're super
bummed to hear it was closing. Well, now they're reopening
with a little different concept that's going to be better
(35:05):
for consumers and more likely to be a successful business.
It's the very thing we treasure in America, Gavin, Innovation, adaptation,
creativity and sticking to it. And these people who are
doing that said, the one place we're not going to
bother is California because it's so hostile to business. Go ahead, Gavey,
(35:29):
give us some more of your clever, clever snark. Ah,
what a blank. That was the perfect way to end
my screed. The Armstrong and Getty Show
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty
and No Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong. We continue to
be on vacation, but I hope you're enjoying the leftovers.
That's what we call the best of Armstrong and Jodd.
(00:23):
Oh what a vacation it's been. I begged Judy for
years to get me a pony. She finally did. Crapped
on the carpet, it ate the drapes. It was just
a mistake. Be careful what you wished for. Anyway, I
enjoy this Armstrong and Getty replay switching gears. On Sunday,
the TSA screen more than three million people at US airports,
setting a new single day record to release the videos
(00:45):
celebrating this achievement. Checkers out here at the DSA. We
just set a new single day screening record. It's because
of you and your family's love of travel. We're allowed
to do what we do best and on behalf of
everyone at the TSA. We just want to say all
personal belongings in the trade belt too. Your shoes can
stay on laptop and its own trade shoes off. Actually,
laptop can stay in the bag. Actually, chuck your waters
(01:05):
still a little bit of butter. Walk through this laye No,
I mean this lay The sensor detected something on your elbow?
What's this in your bag? Stand and wait while we
ranstack your luggage. Okay, never mind, there's nothing. Good luck
closing your bag again. Is this a real idea? Enjoy
your flight? Oh you missed it? Sorry, Kathi holidays from
the TSA. I've had that one. Good luck closing your
bag again. They get everything and they mess it all up.
(01:25):
It's like you can't possibly get your bag closed again quickly.
And then the uh and then you just gotta love
the It's different every single time. No, no, no electronics
stay in. Seriously, dude, seriously, do you not know that
at other airports they're saying take them out, or that
you were saying take them out last week? Don't act
like I've done something wrong or I'm stupid for not
(01:49):
knowing in advance. They seriously every TSA guide they ought
to force them to fly back and forth at least once.
All right, you're gonna connect through through Indianapolis, go to
New York, then come back again. Why I trust me,
and they get through that experience and say, oh, oh,
now I get it. Oh so at that airport they
tell you leave your belt on, but at this one
(02:11):
we say take them off, and we act like you're
a moron if you didn't automatically take it off. What exactly? AnyWho,
my son got pulled out a line when we were flying,
and I wish they could there was some sort of
going just go ahead, because the speech the guy gave
was so unbelievably long. You are you the father? I
(02:33):
am going to touch the back of his buttocks with
the backs of my gloved hands. I will slide down
the buttocks, I will go inside to the thighs. The
backs of my hands will then go down to the
middle of the knees. I'm going to go around to
the front. I will raise the backs. Just do it,
just freaking do it. And I'm standing right here. You're
not gonna molest him. I'm not worried about it. He's
(02:54):
not worried about it. Let's just get out of here.
They didn't make that up, though. They do that for
a reason, I know, I know, because somebody would sue
or claim they got groped or whatever though, hit not
mom bam on n So the New York Post, well, no,
this was a What he was doing was he's trying
to avoid any sort of you know, sexual impropriety claim
(03:18):
and you're going way too far. I get it. You
gotta touch his pants, will be okay. So the New
York Post built this story around super thin is back
in among celebrities, and they got these pictures since sozempic
and all these things around the market, and they got
a variety of celebrities including are you on a Grande
(03:38):
who I've always found to be a skeleton. I don't
quite get her appeal as a sex object because she
is a skeleton, a skeleton of a person, and it
might not be her fault, but she's podiator.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's it's gotten drastically worse since she had Wicked.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, it has. She this picture here, Oh my god,
she is a skeleton with hair. Same with LaToya Jackson
and a couple other people that don't know. Oh, Megan Trainer,
who did not have LaToya Jackson on my bingo card.
Yeah me neither. Mega Trainer who kind of made her
living as kind of having a big booty. You know,
that was her claim to fame is now just a
(04:17):
stick person. Amy Schumer has lost all her weight again,
but heroin chic is back in. And I was wondering,
stopping has got to be tough if you lose weight,
like knowing when to stop. Like Katie, you lost eighty
some pounds. How did you know when to stop so
you don't end up in look crazy territory? Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I just kind of talked to my doctor about what
a healthy weight for my height would be.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then once I got there, I was like, all right,
you know, because it seems to be a kind of things.
You go, you go to you go from overweight, you know,
like the way you look to look fantastic too. You
look like you're dying, but you're still doing it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, you just so sting up on the workouts and
whatnot to you know, call it good enough.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah. Speaking of weight loss and that sort of thing,
it is really really interesting the extent to which the
super effective weight loss drugs ozempic, Wigovi, Munjaro, and zep
bound have affected the economy in all sorts of ways.
It's turned around the obesity rate for the first time
in human history, certainly in the United States and companies
(05:29):
are trying to adjust to the new realities. I will
give you a list. Yeah, first of all, I can't
imagine one, so I'm interested in this. I can't like
even predict one. Maybe close sizes perhaps, But as we've
been saying for a while, this is a major cultural change, right,
that's gonna be very obvious very soon. Let's start with pharmacies.
(05:51):
The drugs come with some uncomfortable or harmful side effects,
including indigestion, nausea, and loss of hair and muscle mass.
As results, sales for supplements vitamin rich beauty products have surged.
Some studies suggest the medication also might boost fertility. Purchases
of pregnancy kits among a cohort GLP one users searched
one hundred and forty eight percent over the course of
(06:13):
one year, according to Nielsen Research. Loss of hair, yeah,
some thinner, but I lose my hair. I don't know
if that's a good deal. I mean, I'm already for
normal people. Supplements, electrolytes, supplements, hair growth products, and i
nauseamag medications have skyrocketed among GLP one users. Some are
marketing directly to those folks grocery stores. The elimination of
(06:37):
food noise, which is constantly thinking about food and what
you're gonna eat next, can lead to binging and distracting
thoughts about eating that's food noise can GLP one users
are cutting back on snacks, spending more unhealthy items compared
with non households GLP one households reduced. They're spending by
ten percent over a year across one hundred categories, including groceries,
(07:01):
quick service restaurants, tobacco, according to another consumer research firm.
While the fallout could hurt the snack food industry, some
companies are innovating and acquiring health food brands. They're focused
on high protein items which support muscle mass or highly
set satiating and boost metabolism, as well as quick and
healthy frozen meals. I wonder what it's going to do
(07:22):
to close with if it'll go back to it it was,
you know, in the eighties and early nineties or whatever
before we all got fat, When you know, the bulk
of the sweatshirts at the Big five weren't all double
XL to five XL. Yes, yeah, one hundred percent. Let's
eat more fresh produce over a thirteen week period last
year they increased their spending on fresh fruit by fourteen
(07:44):
percent and on vegetables by thirty eight percent compared with
the year before. Healthy snacks obviously are selling a lot better.
Non alcoholic beverages have exploded in use as GLP one
drugs can suppress alcohol cravings among heavy drinkers. Meanwhile, high
(08:06):
protein drinks and probiotics soda brands that promote gut health
are seeing significant growth strip malls. Weight loss drugs create
an opportunity for clothing brands as consumers refresh their wardrobe
as they shed pounds more beauty products, smaller sizes for
men and women. Demand for women's tops and extra small
(08:27):
and small rows two points in the last two years,
and we're down two percentage points for large and extra
large sizes, and formal wear and sporting goods. Formal wear
sales searched eighty percent and sporting goods jump twenty four
percent in the first six months of twenty twenty five.
This could indicate a need or desired to buy new
(08:48):
clothing and accessories after undergoing a positive life change. They
go into thrift stores, fast foods, and restaurants. Obviously, healthier
options in all sorts of different categories with the risk
of losing muscle mass. GLP one users are encouraged to
exercise and strength train. They're also spending more on items
(09:09):
like wearable electronics and exercise devices of all sorts. So
these drugs cause you to lose muscle mass. That's a problem.
I don't know how often that is. They call it
a side effect, and it's a risk of losing muscle
masses that ten percent or ninety percent, I do not know.
Training programs, clinics travel with extra energy and confidence. GLP
(09:34):
one users may invest in more adventures outside the home.
They saw fifteen percent increase. Blah blah blah. I wonder
what it will do to social pressure if you're overweight.
There has been no social pressure about being overweight for
quite some time because we're all overweight. But if soon,
you know, you're three hundred pounds and you really stand
out in a group because everybody else is on the ozepic,
(09:57):
it be a lot more noticeable. Yeah, I wonder. I
wonder Rascal sales will go way down. Oh yeah, absolutely,
sell your Rascal stock now. Or those grads they grabber
sticks where you pick stuff off off the floor because
you can't bend over anymore. Right, I washed myself with
a rag and a stick exactly. Yeah. Boy, I don't
(10:19):
want the hair loss or the muscle mass loss, or
the nausea really any of them. No. Well, and our people.
So if you're not super overweight, So originally all this
stuff was for people who are super overweight. If you're
just like fifteen or just diabetic, yeah, if you're twenty
pounds overweight, thirty pounds overweight, do you take a lower
(10:40):
dose or something. I think that's on the way that
they're working on more maintenance dose, just take the edge
off tys. Yeah, that's what they need, and then I
would assume the side effects will be lower. Also. Boy,
that's going to change the country. Well yeah, that's the point. Yeah,
economically and health wise as well. A lot of underlying diseases, cancer's,
(11:04):
heart disease, all of it. Well, just all those years
of we need to make the airline seats wide or
not narrow orn, now they're going to make them even narrow.
Oorm jam. No, No, my shoulders haven't lost weight, my big, strapping,
manly shoulders, Katie, don't laugh, all right. Yeah. My youngest brother,
(11:25):
who is a large man, was talking about when he
gets set next to somebody else his size on a plane. Oh,
it's just impossible. I mean, it's just physically impossible that
they both share that spot. Yeah. Yeah, So you just
press up against each other, or one of it kind
of leans forward, you take turns if you're buying the space,
(11:46):
go like that, the lean or the lean to the side,
which kills my back. Yeah. Well, I don't know if
the heroin chic look is going to catch on with
regular people as opposed to just starlets. I don't like
the super bony look. I mean, if you're born now,
well you're born away, that's fine, sure, but that's a
(12:06):
heck of a thing to aspire to. I want to
be able to see your knee. I want your knees
to be whiter than the rest of your leg. Is
the bone bart like on Ariana Grande. That's a rough look.
All right, enough about Ariana Grande's bones. That's enough of this.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Greta Tumberg, the environmental activist, arrived at a port in
Israel after they were detained by Israel's navy on board
an AID ship bound for god So the activists group
called the Freedom Flotilla coalition claims that the Israelis quote
unlawfully boarded their ship, which was full of baby formula
and medical supplies.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And quote confiscated the goods.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Israel calls the ship and its passenger is a quote
selfie yacht, and they said the mission's sole purpose was publicity.
Israel plans to quickly deport the detained actor bisks back
to their home countries. Israel also claims that the aid
that wasn't quote consumed by the celebrities unquote, will be
sent to Gaza through humanitarian channels.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And that's some controlling right there by the idf oh D.
The selfie yacht, it is obviously such a stunt because
it's such a dent in, you know, in the whole thing.
And this doesn't get reported a lot, But there have
been millions of meals provided there in Gaza, millions, some
(13:31):
of which are stolen by Hamas, most of them aren't
millions over the last several weeks, yeah, they had less
than a single truckload of aid. More than twelve hundred
AID trucks have entered Gaza from Israel within the past
two weeks, et cetera. I think the selfie yacht is
a good name for it. I love that they made
these people watch October seventh footage is condition of their release,
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the Freedom Flotilla. Do you think Hamas wants freedoms? It's
all wrong? Yes, you're right. Well, so that was back
when she was more of a child. You can't blame
her really for the you know, the lefty world elevated
her to pope's status when she was a child. You know,
(14:17):
that would get to your That would go to your head.
You would start to think, well, people really care what
I think about stuff? She's unhinged. Poor kid. Well it
was that whole because she's a child. That makes it
more true. Thing about climate change. There for a cup
of coffee. Soda fans, I say pop, so I'll say pop.
Pop fans are freaking out over the limited return of
(14:38):
the beloved, beloved Coca Cola flavor. I didn't know this
was so beloved. Diet cherry coke is making a comeback.
Anybody excited about that? No, I consume that way back
in the day, but it sounds disgusting to me. Now.
You don't drink pop, Oh, you're better than us. I
don't drink pop either, correct, Yes, yes, Katie, do you
(14:58):
drink pop rarely?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But everything everything that cherry flavored tastes like cough syrup
to me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That manufactured cherry flavor. I can't do it different red fruit.
But did you know this is my son set this
can't be true. He wanted a strawberry milkshake the other day.
We were at In and Out and he says, they
have the best strawberry milkshakes. And I said, you know,
I've never had a strawberry milkshake, which now added to
the list of things Jack is never which I couldn't believe.
(15:26):
And I'm know I've never had a story. It always
sounded gross to me, but you know, I'm starting to
think it might be delicious. This is this. I think
about this because my son, Henry, the thirteen year old,
had his first Ham sandwich the other day and loved it.
It's not because I haven't like allowed him. I've been
trying to encourage that for years, but he just thought
(15:46):
Ham sounded awful. For some reason. He finally tried Ham
and he said, Dad, Ham is fantastic. I said, yes, yes, yes, welcome.
So he loved the Ham sandwich, and I'll bet in
the last week I'm not exaggerating. I'd be shocked if
he hasn't had twenty ham sandwiches in the last week,
two or three a day. Wow. But you know, I'm
a guy. I had my first belt when I was
(16:08):
forty five, and I remember coming on the air the
next day and saying, the belt is amazing. I've never
had one before. Have you checked out? I don't know.
A sunset or falling in love. Those are kind of
nice too. Puppy is a nice puppy. Working with you is.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So great, Jack, because every day it's like, really wow.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I know, ye well, but I have such wonders that
await me. You know, other people have to I don't know,
travel to balid to have some new experience. All I
got to do is have a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.
Or try one of the three most popular slavors of
milkshake hunners right now, I've never had a strawberry milkshake.
I should try that. They're really good, That's what everybody says.
I don't know. They always sound it gross to me.
(16:49):
And whenever you're offered one, there's also a chocolate or vanilla,
But why the strawberry is a delightful berry universally enjoyed.
But there's always a chocolate or vanilla option in there,
and I know I love that, so I just figured
why risk it? There you go?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Well, when you go to In and Out, try the
Neapolitan shake they mix all three?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Is that one part of the secret menu. I don't
like the secret menu thing. I don't. I don't like
that at all. That for some reason that bothers me
get over it and try its elitism or something armstrong?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He edie.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
So do you understand that there is a likelihood that
businesses could decide Microsoft just said they would to move
jobs out of state, and are you concerned about that?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Right?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Those aren't the entities that I cent her in my policymaking.
I believe that they're smoking for enough in Olympia.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh my gosh. You can tell a progressive, can't you,
Because they hurl around the nomenclature, the terminology they learned
in college and in their marchist training classes. That's reporter
Brandy Cruz talking to Washington State Representative Sean Scott about
what was what's called a chilling warning from my Microsoft
(18:01):
new Washington state taxes trying to soak corporations in the
quote unquote rich are going to drive high paying jobs
right out of the state. And what did he say?
I didn't understand what he said. He said, I don't
center those people in my policies. Oh, okay, you gotta
center people right and speak their truth and all that
(18:24):
crap that they're always talking about. So, as thousands of
tech workers across the Seattle region face layoffs, Microsoft's top
executive is issuing a stark warning to Washington lawmakers. Keep
raising taxes and you risk driving companies and they are
high paying jobs out of the state. Brad Smith, I
don't center those people in my policies. Well, maybe you
(18:46):
should start. Microsoft president Brad Smith said if Washington's tax
burden becomes quote prohibitive, companies will reconsider where they put jobs.
That includes Microsoft itself. Democrats and newly elected Seattle mayor
Katie Wilson have campaigned on raising taxes on wealthy residents
and large companies. Tech has become the political punching bag
(19:10):
of choice. Cast is the villain in the region's affordability crisis,
even as the industry powers Washington's economy. I hate I
don't know what do you call them progressives. Mmmm is
that the right name? Or I don't even know? I
hate you? Oh you don't think you hate them? You're dumb.
Wait till I play that. You're completely ignorant of how
(19:30):
the world works. You just think that, like multi billion
dollar corporations will just keep cranking out money for your
town or state or this country, regardless of how you
treat them. It's just what the millionaire has been, just
indoctrinated into this fantasy view of how humanity works by
(19:53):
smart but insidious people, and they swallow it whole, and
they spout it out. They repeat the mantras. There's no
original or critical thought here. You're just demand. It's just
demanded of you that you repeat the mantras. So anyway,
this Brandy Cruse, the reporter continues the conversation with the
(20:14):
state Repshawn Scott. Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Would you would you like them to leave? Representative Scott?
Do you think that Amazon and Microsoft are a net
good for our state?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Say more about that?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
When you say thatt good, what do you mean?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I think that workers, were they to collectivize, could come
up with something like Amazon on their own, but that
Amazon can't has a very difficult time providing the value
that you would like to see in reverse. In other words,
I think that working people getting together, forming unions, coming
out and lobbying for policies such as this could create
(20:52):
something that resembled that Amazon corporation without that added layer
of exploitation. But I don't know that Amazon's leadership, such
as it is, would be able to do something that
on its own. So I'm much more concerned with the
social good of people that are in Washington State, that
want to be here, that believe in Washington State enough
to fight for well funded public programs, and they can
speak for themselves through other channels that they would like
(21:13):
to those.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Too many words, the correct answer to that question was yes, yeah, yes, yes,
it is a net good that we have Amazon in
the state. How great was this idea that if workers
unionize and band together, they can come up with their
own socialist Amazon and get that going and have all
the benefits without exploitation, Because creating one of the what
(21:39):
two or three most successful companies in the history of
the world is easy. Yeah, the workers can just band
together and do it instead of the evil capitalist. You're
an idiot. You're just these people are idiots. They're driving
me crazy because they're moronic. Seriously, go home and feed
fairy dust to your pet unicorns, or because you have
(22:01):
no connection with reality. Does people believe no understanding of
how the world actually works. I think he believes that.
S oh, he does one hundred percent. Yeah, that's my point.
He lives in a fantasy world. And he's, you know,
a popularly elected the government official in Washington State. Even
(22:21):
some Democrats are sounding alarms now. Of course, virtually everybody
gets office in except for Eastern Washington, is a Democrat.
But the Commerce director Joe Nwinn, who himself is a
proud Progressive, He told Bloomberg that he has spent time
and this is smart. Mister Newinn, you are not a
unicorn writing jackass. You might be wrong about stuff, but
(22:42):
I congratulate you on your realism. He has spent his
time studying rust belt cities that collapsed after driving out employers,
and he has been telling lawmakers that punitive taxes risk
repeating that history says, quote, if you want to tax
the rich, you have to have rich people to tack.
If you want to protect workers. They have to have
(23:02):
jobs to work in. It's a good point, great coverage
as usual from our colleagues at Seattle read seven to
seventy Am Jalens tip my cap to whoever that reporter was.
What a great question to ask somebody like that, do
you think this company is a net plus? And then
just let them answer that, let them hang themselves by
(23:24):
their own nonsense, because any answer other than yes is moronic.
I mean, even if they were like relatively abusive, I mean,
like your worst version of capitalism you can possibly come
up with, it still would be a net positive for
the state because people are voluntarily working there, and the
(23:46):
amount of tax money you're getting, jobs and tax money
you're getting, it's just overwhelming. Right, Microsoft is not enslaving people,
all right. The Microsoft cavalry didn't come across the hills
conquer sat and has now enslaved the poor residence. They're
there voluntarily. You check ass, you know where to even
(24:07):
start with somebody that well, he's a cultist. He's been
convinced of reality that is not real, which reminds me.
I read a great piece I think it was in
It was in the Dispatch, talking about one of Friedrich
Hayek's books, which I haven't read, and I'm going to
buy it and add it to the stack of stuff,
and at some point which one I'm gonna go wild?
(24:28):
Reading The Use of Knowledge in Society, which came out
eighty years ago last month, it's not nearly as well
known as The Road to serf Them. I read that,
which is his all time, you know, great, it's his
stairway to Heaven. But the Use of Knowledge in Society
Hayek lays out society's fundamental e economic challenge quite clearly.
(24:51):
It's not merely a problem of how to allocate given resources,
in other words, settling the usual who gets what and
how debate. It's a knowledge problem. How can we make
the best, most efficient use of our limited resources when
no single entity, even like a vast government, can know
everything there is to know about a given economy. And
(25:13):
if you're familiar with the Great Sai Pencil, you know
what we're getting at here. Can But can a team
of the world's greatest economists come close to accounting for
what a factory will pay for steel, what it will
do next if it can't find that price, and what
every employee or steel using industry and those companies employees
(25:34):
will do once they are affected. The ripple effects are
endless and unknowable, as Pete bolt key rights in the dispatch,
and planners can't know what firms employees are willing to
pay for a sandwich outside the plant, or what the
sandwich maker, breadmaker, and meat supplier, each with their own
(25:54):
set of countless unknowable circumstances, are willing and able to
do to meet the worker's price. There's simply too much
information underlying even the simplest seeming economic transactions, and the
free market solves all of that and nearly instantaneously, over
and over and over again. It's a miracle of efficiency,
(26:17):
and yet we keep effing with it. The government does,
or the fools who believe in big government to try
to gain the utopia. Leave it alone? Can can you
play that last clip that we played again? We won't
play the whole thing, but I want to hear the
first thing. It's so good?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Would you like them to leave? Representative Scott do you
think that Amazon and Microsoft are a net good for
our state?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Say more about that.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
When you say that good, what.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Do you mean?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
I think that workers or they he goes off on
his rent.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So it's just if mind blowing to me. So you
think the state would be better off if AM and
Microsoft were somewhere else, Well, yes, because the workers could
develop a perfect socialist Amazon. Of course they would have,
(27:14):
and they haven't just because they've been held back by
the evil capitalists.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
That is so nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
There are arguments where you know, you're I'm right, but
they got a twenty percent decent point of where but
this one is just this one's open and shut. Oh yeah, yeah,
it's it's fanciful. It's ridiculous. I mean, if you said, well, yes,
of course, but if you look at their rate of
on the job accidents, they're mistreating workers. Okay, let's talk.
(27:40):
That's fine, let's talk. But no, we should build a
worker Amazon, and then a worker Apple, and then a
workers of the world unite open AI and to have
workers develop all the great medications that are saving so
many lives these days. But yeah, why start with a jack.
You don't need to go into all that. The answer is, yes,
(28:02):
is a net positive for the state to have Amazon
and Microsoft here? Yes, a freaking course it is right.
Every other state would crawl on their knees over broken
glass to have Amazon or Microsoft in their state. Is
it a good thing to saw off your hand with
a rusty saw? What do you mean by good thing?
(28:26):
Expound on that? Would you? Yeah, expound on that? But well, yeah,
that's that's uh, that's the person who has completely lost
their head. Wow, I would you know. I'd like to
ask a representative, Scott. I'm not going to threaten him
with a hammer or a sickle, but I'd like to
ask him, why do you think states, counties, countries compete
(28:49):
feverishly to get these companies to build a headquarters, build
a plant there? What do you suppose that is? Is
it possibly? Because yes? It's an effing that positive view,
jackass butt clown. Wow, there are some ideas so idiotic
only an intellectual could hold them, ye, Thomas Sowell. Ye.
(29:12):
And there are intellectuals who heard that answer and nodded
their head. It made sense to them. Collectivist Amazon, Yes,
let's get to work on that, you weirdo. It'd be
like a Soviet you know, tank factory. Every is efficient
and profitable. Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show,
(29:36):
the arm Strong and Getty Show, the LATINX stuff that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
By the way, no one person ever in my office
has ever used the word LATINX.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
So can we finally put that to bed? Yeah? But
where did that even? Know? More lax everybody? Well, I
just didn't even know where it came from, And like,
what are people talking about?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I hope we can really paint a picture in terms
of our consciousness of how impactful.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
This has been on the LATINX community. About three quarters
of in the state that.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Have fallen behind and rent represented the Latino and African American.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Community, the LATINX and Black communities.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You've got politicians that are banning not assault rifles, but
the word latin X.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They're not even serious. Wow, that's even further so. That's
Gavin Newsom doing his bro podcasts that he's doing all
across the country now as he tries to be like
just a regular guy running for president, and he's doing
a pretty good job of it might work for him,
but claiming that LATINX whoever even heard of that before?
What does that even mean? And then a little montage
(30:34):
of him using the term in recent years, including one
in where he's fighting against, trying to take away the
word LATINX, blasting anybody who would dare disparage it. Oh boy,
but oh bet it works. People don't hear the you know,
like in newspapers or books, there's the big headline and
then there's a little sentence underneath. People don't hear the
(30:56):
sentence underneath. Ninety percent of people, they just get the
big headline of everything, of every story. And that's funny. Though.
He's got to run away from so much of that
stuff because it's so freaking crazy. Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
The least is long of policies that are abhorrent to
most Americans and or results that are abhorrent to Americans.
(31:20):
For instance, as we outlined last our cal unicorney has
lost one hundred and a half hundred thousand private sector
jobs and added three hundred and sixty one thousand government
jobs since twenty twenty two. It's just astonishing. Well, let's
let's be happy about this stuff, though people. Rather than
condemning the hypocrisy, we should be happy. He understands that
(31:42):
he needs to run away from the nonsense like trans
boys in girls sports or the term LATINX, which is
one of the dumbest things that's ever happened in my lifetime.
He has to run away from it if he wants
to be president. He is determined, and he's right, and
that's good news, right it is. Although don't let down
your guard because we've received I don't know half a
(32:04):
dozen emails just in the last forty eight hours from
folks that are getting ready to get back in the
classroom as teachers in California and are going through their
state mandated DEI white supremacist woke doctrine right now. They're
getting educated in that quote unquote educated. So getting back
to Gavy, and we talked about this fairly recently. If
(32:28):
you're just tuning in, but the whole bed bath and
beyond thing, the head of bed bath and beyond. Do
you have that statement or I mean for people who
are not familiar, just real quickly, yes, I do. I'm sorry,
this is I got the other screen up about shreking,
a dating trend in which people are dating unattractive people
on purpose. That story we got to get to later
(32:49):
this hour. Yes, yes, yes, and different species of giraffes. Yes,
I already did the giraffes shreaking. We will do this
hour though it's an actual thing, and it's really quite
an entertaining way. So the CEO of Bed, Bath and
Beyond puts out a statement yesterday, we will not operate
or open retail stores in California. This decision isn't about politics,
It's about reality. California has created one of the most overregulated,
(33:12):
expensive and risky environments for business in America. It's a
system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to
keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.
The result higher taxes, higher fees, higher wages that many
businesses simply cannot sustain. And then Gavin Newsom, in a
snarky social media post yesterday, replied.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The company that already went bankrupt and closed every store
across the country two years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Okay, all right, so Gavin, here is my response to
your sarcasm anti rooms. Oh yeah, foyer window will get
me started, window treatments, that's all absolutely yes, although you
do have windows in beds and baths. Michael. So it's
(33:58):
a good point. Yeah, Okay, where were we? I'm sure
there was a thread? Oh yes, so Gavin's snark about
a ceo saying your state is so hostile to business
and so difficult to operate in we're not even gonna try.
And instead of addressing policy, he says, Oh, yeah, the
(34:20):
same company that went bankrupt and closed all their stores
two years ago. Let me explain something to you, Gavin.
Because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth,
you've been successful in business because you've been bankrolled up
to your ears by all of your rich relatives. Uh.
But here's the way it works. Big companies sometimes failed
to adjust with the times. Something you know, changes whatever,
(34:43):
they're unsuccessful, they declare bankruptcy and they reorganize. Bed Bath
and Beyond has a lot of fans. It's a cool store.
I'm a fan, Judy and I shop there for a
lot of stuff for years and years, and we're super
bummed to hear it was closing. Well, now they're reopening
with a little different concept that's going to be better
(35:05):
for consumers and more likely to be a successful business.
It's the very thing we treasure in America, Gavin, Innovation, adaptation,
creativity and sticking to it. And these people who are
doing that said, the one place we're not going to
bother is California because it's so hostile to business. Go ahead, Gavey,
(35:29):
give us some more of your clever, clever snark. Ah,
what a blank. That was the perfect way to end
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