May 22, 2024 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center. Is Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty show the more election news.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
According to a new poll, seventy one percent of voters
want to see a third party candidate like RFK Junior
participate in the presidential debates seventy one percent. But that
wasn't the only poll about the debate that was a
little surprising. For instance, seventy four percent one a spinning
debate stage that slowly picks up speed throughout the night.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Next up sixty eight percent one Trump and Biden to
swap all their medications and.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
See what happened. Let's go, boy, well tell you out?
Got up? Next?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Seventy seven percent want the loser to get full back
tattoo of the other candidates working, working, And finally one
want different candidates there.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh wow, did you hear the crowd cheer for that? Yeah? Yeah,
different candidates?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That is something though that first number, which I assume
was true two thirds. More than two thirds of Americans
want RFK Junior in the debate.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't know if I do or not. What's your
thought on that? Oh? Goodness.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
First of all, I think that's bad news for the
candidates that that many people want r K Junior in
the debate. I think that means his polling is real.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I think more scrutiny, more questions, more contrast of policies
and opinions is better for the electorates. So yeah, I
think I think it might be better for America if
he was in there in principle, But I haven't really
thought about it much. I just the duopoly of Democrats
(01:53):
and Republicans is not great. It's not a good thing. No,
they don't have to earn our business anymore. They have
all shelf space.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, and the way they've made it so hard for
anybody who's not part of their organizations to get through.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Is not good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm not a fan of RFK Junior, but yeah, in general,
I think, yeah, bring those third party guys up there
before we get to this economic polling that I came across.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's really quite amazing. We're talking about the speech Joe
Biden gave over the weekend to young black men telling
them that they can't get ahead, and it's a racist
country and we're either we you know, the rest of
us white people, Republicans, We're either going to shoot you
or at the very least keep you from succeeding. Anyway,
we got this text, proud black man here twelve years ago,
(02:40):
I couldn't afford to send my kid, my son to college.
Unbeknownst to me, he joined the Navy before he even
graduated high school. Today's a translator, speaks for languages, and
has been all over the world. Best college he ever
could have gone to from the Navy. Today he's stationed
Hawaii with no college debts.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Good for him. Yeah, that's good story, good text. Appreciate it.
Some economic news from a poll. I don't know what
to think about this. I have been mocking, we have
been mocking this idea that trying to tell us that now, no,
(03:18):
the economy's really good when everything you buy is more
expensive than you thought it would be is silly. On
the other hand, these numbers are extraordinary, and I'm not
exactly sure what this means. Fifty five percent of Americans,
so over half of Americans believe the economy is shrinking.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Fifty six percent of people think we're in a recession.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Half of people believe the s and P five hundred
is down for twenty twenty four, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Up double digits. Half of the people.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And I'm sorry to interrupt, but the term recession has
become so amorphous in modern conversation. You might as well
use a funk as a recession. People have no idea
what it means.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, and I'd ask you to define your funk, because
I mean, if you mean, is the economy shrinking or growing?
Is the stock market going up and down? Is unemployment
up or unemployment's low? The economy is growing, the stock
market is setting records on a daily basis. I still
understand why people feel bad about things given trunal. Like
(04:28):
I said, every single thing you buy, you pay your
energy bill, you fill your car with cash, you go
to the grocery store, you go out to eat, you
book a hotel room, whatever you do. It's shocking. That's
why people feel bad about the economy. But on these
specific questions, I don't know where that comes from. And
then finally, half of people believe unemployment.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Half of people believe unemployment is at a fifty year high.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's actually at a fifty year low. Wow, that is disturbing.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's how bad people feel about the current economy. That's
what Joe Biden is up against. Not that I feel
bad for Joe Biden, but man, when you got all
of those numbers, all of those topics are really really
good to me. That's just and this is what I
can't believe the White House doesn't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That's how powerful inflation is. Right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
As I've said before, let's call it Joe Getty's postulate.
I don't even know what a postulate is. When inflation
is high, nothing else matters. And every answer to those
questions was Americans expressing the sentiment prices are high, and
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's what every single.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
One of those answers Meantely, prices are high, and I'm
worried about feeding and clothing and medicating my family. Do
you believe inflation unemployment is high? Yes, whatever, I'm scared.
It's all bad.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
If everything I buy is shockingly expensive, everything is bad, right, right,
And I don't know how they don't get that, And
you can you're certainly never gonna get anywhere by lecturing
us about no, no, no, you're factually wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The S and P. Five hundred is actually at a
high twelve percent up this year. I don't care. I
went to the grocery store last night. They rang up
a few items.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It was one hundred and six bucks, and I thought,
holy crap for that tackler.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah. Yeah, And to engage in the.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Idiotic deception with the aid of the idiots of the media.
And I honestly think in this case it's less partisanship
than just pig ignorance. The idea that well, inflation is down,
so that means prices are down. No, no, no. As
our email Lauri, I love this. He said, Inflation is
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the rate of acceleration. Prices are the speed. Just because
you're accelerating less than you were earlier doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Mean you're going slower.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And it just I honestly believe there's a significant chunk
of American journalism that doesn't get that, which is a
bit disturbing.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, I realized, like three quarters of journalists are twenty
four year olds at this point. But don't they go
to AI But do you think gay I would know it.
Don't they buy groceries and eat out too? And aren't
they shocked by the price. I just I don't get it.
But those are some extraordinary numbers. Half the country believes
unemployments at a fifty year high when it's at a
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fifty year low.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's shocking. That's absolutely shocking.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Uh, yeah, all, I know, I got a bad feeling
about looking for a place to live, either to render
to buy. The prices are insane. Plus all the other
things that I pay for every single day that are
the crazy prices. Yeah, I got a bad feeling about economy.
I don't care what you tell me about all those
other numbers. They don't make any difference to meat at all.
(07:59):
Compare of the things I just said.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Well, yeah, if you food, housing, and medical care have
skyrocketed in particular.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh, cars, car insurance is up twenty percent from last year,
and it was up from the year before.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I mean, everything is.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
So high, right, right, No, there's your answer, clearly, you know,
And excuse me. I'm at the stage of my COVID
where I feel quite good, but I'm still coughing and
sneezing that sort of thing, mostly coughing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So forgive me.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's the best part for the cough button. Yes, that's
the best stage of being sick. You feel okay, but
you sound bad enough you could get out of something
if you had.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
To well, yeah, yeah, absolutely sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I don't you go to that thing. I'd love to
go to that thing. But I mean, listen to me,
you know I did.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
That reminds me I've got a bit of a bone
to pick with you, Jack, And I think, Michael, you're
probably going to be on my side in this. And
that's Jack's desperate need for attention, being an attention hog.
I mean, for instance, when my joints were crumbling from arthritis,
I couldn't say anything because Jack had cancer.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So what am I gonna do? Complain? Oh my hip hurts?
Yea jack ass cancer.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And then like like last week, last week I got
the COVID Jack sensing that coming preemptively had a motorcycle
wreck so he would get the attention.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is there a good points Jack, Joe? Yes? Yes.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
And then then yesterday, this is true, folks, Yesterday, in
a kitchen mishap, I sliced open two of my fingertips, oh,
my index finger and my middle finger on my right hand. Oh,
and I could come in here and talking about but
guess what happened yesterday? Friends, Jack had his eyeballs sliced
open in a surgery. So Joe will just have to
(09:47):
keep it to himself. Selfishness, that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
God.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I had the worst mental state for that surgery yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I don't know why. I just could not. It's why
I'm a bad athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I get negative thoughts going into my head and I
just cannot stop them. And I couldn't stop thinking about
what they were actually doing to my eyes, even though
I knew there was going to be no pain, and
there was no pain, but they are cutting into your
eyeballs and I couldn't stop.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Like picturing a knife going into the shopping.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I couldn't stop, and it was just freaking me out
so much.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I think everybody battles with that sum but you're right,
some of us are better at stopping thoughts than others.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It didn't help any of course, I said yesterday, I said,
I don't even know what they do.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And we got a thousand texts of people describing how
they do lens replacement surgery. Like if I wanted that information,
I would have sought it out.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
People going into.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Great detail about how they cut out the blah blah bond.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh no, no, nobody wants to hear that there was
no that sound never occurred.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I listened to pleasant music and there was incredibly advanced
twenty first century medicine.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Michael, there is no pain whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
But yeah, well, yeah, I did wreck my motorcycle on purpose,
just because I knew you had COVID and I need
the attention.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So that's the way it works. Well.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Getting back to the economy, Uh, the haves and have
nots will be our theme coming up, Jack, Are you
familiar with smellmaxing?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I am not, but it sounds like one of your
funny made up terms. Are you?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Are you familiar with the fact that in the modern
world everything has to have a damn name.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Right, smell maxing? Are you at risk? Right? Plus?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
What was the other thing? Ah, the booming business of
eternal youth. People who are throwing money around are thrown
money around like maniacs on a couple of different sectors
of the economy.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We can tell you, Bob, Yeah, I could see doing that.
If something could make me younger, I would I would
spend quite a bit of bunny on that. Looking forward
to all those stories, stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
This has been a significant concern for the Pentagon. It
was last Thursday that Russia launched this satellite into low
Earth orbit, a satellite that the Pentagon does believe is
capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit, while
there's no indication that Russia plans on attacking other satellites,
and it is.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Not the first time Russia has done this.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
When ask if the Russian counterspace weapon posed a threat
to US satellites, a Pentagon spokesman said, it's a counterspace
weapon in the same orbit as a US government satellite.
The deputy US ambassador to the UN is calling this
launch trutling.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
How about that wording out of Martha radd Its. I mean,
she's just quoting what they said. There are no plans
for the Russians to shoot down our satellites.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They just have the capability to do it. Now, Oh okay,
well I won't worry about it. Then.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I feel like we're entering a new age of chaos
from the frekingly bottom of the ocean. I mean literally,
I've got stories we haven't gotten to about how China
is suspected of cutting critical internet cables and Russia has
cut I can't remember a natural gas pipe or something
like that, So an age of chaos from the bottom
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of the ocean to.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Space and all points in between. Wow. Great.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
More on the geopolitical scene coming up later, but I
thought this was worth at least tipping our cap to Jack.
I don't know if you've caught on too, smell maxing.
I don't see your boys being involved in this. But okay,
so now you've narrowed down what this could possibly be.
Slightly there because I have no idea. I don't even
know what possible category we're in, though coverage by The
(13:37):
New York Times recently smell Maxing, smell Maxing. It's become
a cliche for adolescent boys to douse themselves in acts
body spray blah blah blah. But lately, teen and even
tween boys with money to spare are growing obsessed with
designer fragrances that cost hundreds of dollars an aggressive cent.
By the way, this is the death knell for American
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manhood as a teenager.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yes, I don't think your team becomes obsessed with hundreds
of dollars with the fragrances unless you're giving him that money. Well, yeah,
these kids have money. But guess where all of this
is spawned. He here's a hint. It rhymes with bick bach.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Ask a teenager why he wants a two hundred dollars
bottle of cologne, he might tell you he's smellmaxing, a
term for enhancing one's musk that is spreading on social media.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I started seeing a.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Lot of videos on tech talk, and I thought, I
don't want to miss out, said Logan, a fourteen year
old in Chicago who's been putting his bar Mitzvah money
toward a collection of high end colognes. He displays bottles
from Valentino and Emporio ar Money proudly in front of
his lava lamp and considers this nearly three hundred dollars
bottle of tom Ford's tobacco Venil to be his signature cent.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I don't have a signature cent, but that fourteen year
old does. Humm uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I spent a few months speaking to teenagers at Fragrance
cam around New York in online cologne forums. What struck
me most was the language they used, which sounded like
more like the stuff of Somlier's than middle schoolers. The
sent la mail by Jean Paul Goltier has a really
good honey note, said Luke, a fourteen year old who
lives in Orlando, Florida, and he talks about.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Fragrances with his friends at sleepovers.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Wow, I've to ask my son, who's fourteen, if this
is going on in his school. If I have a
signature sent it's coffee and ivory soap, It's probably what
it is.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
A younger generation is inspired by the main guy. The
most prominent flayed Fragrance influencer on TikTok is Jeremy Fragrance.
He calls himself an often shirtless German with nearly nine
million followers. In his videos, he sniffs his fans trying
to guess which sense they are wearing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And that's a heck of a phrase.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
An often shirtless German with nine million followers.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Why don't you take off your sh let me sniff
upon you and see what you're wearing.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, Katie, what's your husband's signature scent.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Everybody's got to have a signature scent.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
It's like a tobacco bourbon beer soap that he gets
very nice. It's classy smelling.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I need a new scent. I was actually thinking about
that at the story. The other day, I need a
new scent. I need to work on that. I'll ask
these fourteen year olds or maybe the shows, maybe the
often shirtless German.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
May I sniff you? Please? Let me sniff upon you?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And a younger generation inspired by Jeremy Fragrance is coming
up behind him.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It's an interesting joys of words.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Jatin Aurora, AJ teen shares daily Fragrance reviews with more
than a million followers. His collection, nearly four hundred bottles,
includes many free products from brands which are catching on
to the fact that these influencers can get their products
in front of young buyers.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And here's a middle school.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Fitness teacher talking about eleven year old students coming to
school with one hundred and sixty dollars bottles of cologne.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I don't want to ask a fourteen year old boy
with the best sent for me, though, is I want
to ask?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, women of my age. I'd rather please them.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
You don't want to talk to shirtless German boys about sense?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Why? Why not? Luckily? No Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Now. New Fox News poll shows President Biden losing support
from the following demographics compared to four years ago, Black
and Hispanic voter suburban women, moderates, and the biggest drop,
perhaps the reason for this payment fourteen point drop among
young voters under the age of thirty.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I just came across something from the Trump side of things.
We're talking about crazy stuff from the Biden side of things.
It's so over the top. This is going to be
already is the crazy election in our history? And can
we survive it? More on that coming up. Oh boy,
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now you've filled me with a sense of dread.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Thanks. I wonder nobody invites you to their parties. I
know I walk in. I give everybody the old sod
sense a dread, no kidding, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So, speaking of the electorate and turnout and that sort
of thing, I found this so interesting. An analysis of
what it would take to flip the twenty twenty four
battleground states and now everybody knows it's going to be
a close election and etc. There are a couple of
things before we get into the state by state, which,
trust me, is one of the most interesting things you
(18:40):
will hear about politics this month. The Wall Street Journal
mentions that Latino voters are a growing force in the electorate,
likely to exceed the ten percent share of all votes
they posted in twenty twenty as a percentage white working
class voters without a college degree or projected a fall
by about two percent of the electorate. Which Americans will
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choose to vote is going to be a big factor.
Will young voters sit out the election in part because
of the Israel Amas thing? Will Donald j drive up
turnout among white working class voters?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Which candidates when they're vote? Yeah exactly. So there are
turnout is everything? Absolutely everything?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, underappreciated and impossible to guess. So that's when polls
are off. It's not because the polls were bad. It's
because the turnout was different than the model that they had.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, exactly. But this here's the impuls part all of them.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Okay, okay, So let's take a look at the giant
important swing state of Pennsylvania. Even a small shift in
support from white working class voters could put the state
back in Trump's columns. Specifically, in twenty twenty, white working
class folks went for Trump by twenty three percent more
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Trump than Biden, and Trump and Biden won with fifty
point four percent of the vote. If that stays the same,
Biden wins with fifty point four if Trump gets plus
twenty three of those workers. If he gets plus twenty five,
Trump flips Pennsylvania with fifty point one percent of the vote.
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So just a two point difference among white working class
voters flips who wins Pennsylvania. That's going to be something
to live in a state where your vote actually matters
in a presidential election.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I don't think I ever have where it's going to
be even close to close.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, yeah, when we first moved to California, definitely leaned blue.
But there's a Republican I grew up in a pretty
purple Illinois. But no, it's in the modern day. No, No. Interestingly,
among black and Latino voters, there's not really a divide
by educational status, partly because you know, black voters, for instance,
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knee jerk voted for Democrats for the longest time.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think you were duped. Sorry folks, But.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Anyway, moving along Georgia, what a depressed or energized black
electorate means for the nation's most competitive state. So if
black voters turn out at the same level as twenty
sixteen when they weren't super excited about Hillary ah and
they turned out at fifty nine percent Trump flips Georgia
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gets fifty point five percent of the vote. Now, if
they turn out at twenty twenty levels, then Biden keeps
Georgia by the same margin Trump would have won. So
in twenty sixteen, fifty nine percent of black votes showed.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Up and then four years later was sixty four.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
From fifty nine to sixty four, you get the twenty
sixteen levels Trump wins, you get the twenty twenty levels
Biden wins, and obviously, and this is not unlikely, you
get something in between.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's going to be decided by like six.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Votes, right, getting go getting back to the idea of
being in a state where your vote actually matters. I
mean I for presidential elections. I've never lived anywhere where.
If it became really inconvenient to vote that day, I'll
just stay home.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It's not gonna make any difference.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
But as opposed to no, I've got to get to
the poll and my friends have got to get to
the polls because it's gonna make a difference.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's got to be very exciting.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
In Nevada, the Latino population is growing and increasingly open
to voting Republican. If they vote the way they did
in twenty twenty, Biden keeps Nevada with fifty one point three.
They voted like twelve points more for Biden than Trump.
If Trump can flip it to just a ten point
advantage among Latinos and nothing else changes, no more enthusiasm
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for them among Republicans, no depressed Democrat turnout because Joe
Biden is a horrible freaking president and senile. If nothing
else changes, but he can get that edge in Hispanics,
Trump will flip Nevada.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That's all it will take.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think one of the things that's happening, there's clearly
a realignment occurring that's obvious to everyone, and Republican Party
is going to become more of the party of the
working class voter of all races.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Going forward.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
For instance, I took a lift from San Jose to
San Francisco this morning for work. I did my ice
surgery yesterday in San Jose, California. And I don't know
where this guy is from, but he had a very
thick Hispanic accent, and we were talking about the homeless population,
how many homeless people they are, and I was telling them, well,
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it's you know, it's policy. I mean, some places have
more homeless than other people and other places. That depends
on what your governments, he says, Oh, I know, I know,
And you can't offer them places to stay because they
don't want it. They'd have to follow the rules, they
can't drink and do drugs, they'd have time lives. I thought, Okay,
so you're a guy from another country here working your
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ass off, driving me in the middle of the night
on a lift car, who has no patience for the
street population. I feel like the Democratic Coalition that existed
for most of my lifetime that never made any sense.
He got all these different groups with completely different needs
and wants, but came together to make one party work.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think that has fallen apart.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I suspect you're right, especially among Hispanic people and increasingly
among black folks.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, I certainly hope that. I hope that's the case.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Not that the Republican Party is any sort of shining
citadel of honor and good policy, but ah, I.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Think it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think it's going to be such a mix up
of different things in the very near future. I don't
even know where I'm gonna end up landing. But both
parties are going to be so different in a few years.
I have no idea right or conceivably some third alternative,
which is going to be difficult but not impossible. You know,
it strikes me listening to that gentleman who is obviously
working class, obviously non quote unquote white, and I despise
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this focus on race, I really do, But a guy
of his lifestyle saying that as matter of factly as
he did, it just struck me all of a sudden
that I think the great divide among people, especially in
a place like cal Unicornia, is you either base your
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worldview on your ideology or on evidence. You either have.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Your ideology formed by evidence or your evidence is formed
by your ideology. Because and many smart I mean, like
Barry Weiss and her partner Nelly Bowles, who's written an
amazing new book that we haven't talked about yet, have
talked about being a progressive. But seeing the evidence and
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realizing the evidence does not jibe at all with my.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Political idea.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And I've got to change my political identity because I
will not be ignoring the evidence of my eyes and ears,
as or will warned us.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And that's it.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I admire people like that because that takes intellectual and
moral courage to come out and say that, and they've
lost lots of friends, for instance.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
But that's a fairly small group. I think. On the
progressive side.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Of the isle, you have an entire like a philosophical cabal,
a political party that ignores evidence in favor of ideology.
And that's the one thing, and I know you agree
with me on this check. Conservatives cannot become some sort
of cult of personality, whether it's Trump or whatever or whomever,
(26:42):
where we just blind ourselves to evidence because we're so
gung ho for our ideology. I don't want to be
part of that group of people. That's just that's no
way to be as a human being. That would be
you know, and this is a funny thing to say.
That would be so human aliating to me, just speaking
for myself. If I were to put in front of
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like a tribunal of all of my heroes, including my mom,
my late mom, and my dad, an Abe Lincoln and
George Orwell and H. L. Menken and Thomas Sowell, if
they were to sit in judgment of me, and I
was one of those like personality cultists and ignored what
I saw and could easily discern from the world around me.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I would have their contempt and I just I can't
stand that notion.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
What I would like to see happen, and maybe this
is going to happen, is to see the race division
go away and it become divided by workers versus the takers.
That's what I'd like to see happen. Joe and I
were listening to an old Chris Rock bit the other
day where he was talking about, you know, a black
woman who's got three jobs trying to raise their kids
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versus a black woman who's cranking out kids and living
off of welfare. I mean that hard working black woman
has no more tolerance for the welfare woman that I
mean recon take race out of it, and I would
like to see that happen more often. Like my lift
driver was today, Hey, i'm working here. They're taken the
workers versus the takers. I would like to see that
split and leave race out of it. Who cares what
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the race is. I'm working, I'm paying, you're taken, and
we're in different We're in different parties.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Why is that black bus driver janitor uh working class
guy in the same party as the thirty year old
white Wellesley grad with a degree in women's studies, who
is demanding that the government pay.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Off her loans? And why are you two are in
the same why are you in the same party?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And uses the word latinx right exactly and herkstree And
it's explaining to that hardworking black man and woman's children
that a don junior, you're probably a girl and you
don't have any chance of making it in America.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Katie, and you two in the same party.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
This is a different topic, but for some reason this
popped into my head of that sort of latinex kirk
Street thing. Katie, I need a ruling on this. Saw
a woman the other day, tractive, young woman, very hairy
armpits more than me, like I trim more than she does.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, how do we feel about that? Ladies need to
stop it. It's this whole women need to embrace their
natural hair and their butt. Stop it. It's gross. It's
not supposed to be there.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I don't know why it's not supposed to be there,
but it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's hilarious. I don't know why. God clearly made a
mistake on this one.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
We've all decided you didn't mess up on anything else,
But that shouldn't happened.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I thought, what a decision she's making because she's probably
like twenty two attractive, young toy. You have limited the
number of people that could be interested.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
In you by a lot. By anything that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Signaling decision, you're signaling something. I don't know what you're signaling.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
This is a fortunate trend, is what's happening, because there's Yeah,
there's a.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Whole collection online, care all of it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Do you think it's growing? Wait a minute, chest hair?
Wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
There's a woman that just went hardcore viral because she
naturally grows chest hair and she's been maintaining it her
entire life and decided to let it go. And it's
this this natural.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Movement for on. Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Wow, you know better the Harry Pitts than the Marxism.
But I have a feeling our aforementioned heirsuit. Young lady
embraces both of those things.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, I think they go together, like ninety nine percent
of the time.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Karl Mark's very hairy, for instance.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Wow, you know, I like to I see myself as
I care about what's on the inside, not the outside.
I like to see myself as that sort of guy
I don't think I could overcome the hairy chest. I
don't think I could overlooked.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I couldn't. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Oh come on, why no, I'm I'm good because I'm
kind and gentle.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But I gotta admit I would. That would be a moment.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I'll just say that we can be friends. We need
we need to leave the lights off for this. I mean,
like for everything. The lights need to be off of
the house all the time. We're gonna put stover within them.
I just can't see that.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Wow. Wow, sexism, folks, misogyny. Gotta lean down to kisser.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
She puts both arms up and it's just like a
chia pet.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Oh what yeh me?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Now, I'm gonna get you into Congress to get into
bitter arguments with AOC.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
That's that's why you're on the show, Katie Green, so
that you can say those things because we can't uh speaking,
AOC got in argument with MTG. MTG just tweeted something unbelievable.
Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Donald's is dropping a new Grandma mcflurry, which they claim
is sweet just like Grandma. Also, just like Grandma, it
has some very outdated, upsetting opinions about the Oreo mcflurry.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
McDonald says the new dessert.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Comes with chopped candy pieces meant to honor all the
candies grandma's tend to hide in their purses. I'm sorry,
but if you want to be authentic to what's in
grandma's purse, you gotta swirl in a menthol cigarette, a
five dollars bill, and a birthday card that calls you
by your cousin's name.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I uh just became in the mcflurry, became aware of it,
like in the last year. So, as I've said before,
that's one of the better desserts on planet Earth. If
they served it at your favorite fancy restaurant, you'd buy
it every time.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's a good dessert right there. You're a child.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
So Trump tweeted this out. This is how it starts.
We're gonna end with We're gonna start with Trump. Then
we're gonna get to Marjorie Taylor Green. So Trump or
truth this out.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I just came out of the Biden witch hunt trial
in Manhattan. The ice box still complaining about how cold
it is in there, and was showing reports that Crooked
Joe Biden's DOJ in their illegal and unconstitutional rate of
Marl Lago that was over the document's case authorized.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The FBI to use deadly lethal force.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Now we know for sure that Joe Biden is a
serious threat to democracy. He's mentally unfit to hold off
his twenty fifth Amendment. Now on Twitter, because that went
out on Twitter Twitter, I don't know, does Elon do
this himself or whoever jumps in and is a truth
fact checker person. They jumped in and said this is false.
(33:44):
Neither the DOJ, neither the Dog or DJ or the
FBI were planning to assassinate mister Trump. That language in
question is is standard procedure blah blah blah. What they're
referring to is Marjorie Taylor Green's tweet which which went
out a couple Trump's the Biden Dog and FBI were
(34:06):
planning to assassinate President Trump and gave the green light.
Does everyone get it yet? What are Republicans going to
do about it?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Wow? Thanks Margie?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Marjorie Taylor Green stating that the Biden DOJ and FBI
were planning to assassinate Trump.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
A certain number of softheads are actually going to believe
that and wrecked on it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Jonah Goldberg's response to that was, this is wildly responsible,
even for Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
FBI knew Trump wasn't there. This is known. We all
know this.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It was all coordinated with the Secret Service in advance.
The FBI worked with the Secret Service to make sure
there would be the mishaps or anything like that. So
there was no plan to assassinate Trump or anything even
within a thousand miles of that going on. And that's
you know, we were talking earlier about Joe Biden claiming
we're such a racist country and young black men are
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being gunned down in the street, and Marjorie Tayller Green
saying this, this is not a good place for us
to be. People are gonna get hurt, people are gonna
get killed. There's going to be riots at some point,
or at the very least. People get so cynical, we're
not going to end up in any place good.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
And can you imagine being so cynical that you would
do either end of that just to keep power and
gain power.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
It's just it just a man. Is our system poisoned? Yikes?
We're in a bad place. People. I don't know what
pulls us out of this tailspin.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Alan Dershowitz with some strong comments on the Kangaroo Court
in New York.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
All sorts of good stuff next hour. I hope you
can hang around Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center. Is Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty show the more election news.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
According to a new poll, seventy one percent of voters
want to see a third party candidate like RFK Junior
participate in the presidential debates seventy one percent. But that
wasn't the only poll about the debate that was a
little surprising. For instance, seventy four percent one a spinning
debate stage that slowly picks up speed throughout the night.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I do that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Next up sixty eight percent one Trump and Biden to
swap all their medications and.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
See what happened. Let's go, boy, well tell you out?
Got up? Next?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Seventy seven percent want the loser to get full back
tattoo of the other candidates working, working, And finally one
want different candidates there.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh wow, did you hear the crowd cheer for that? Yeah? Yeah,
different candidates?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That is something though that first number, which I assume
was true two thirds. More than two thirds of Americans
want RFK Junior in the debate.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't know if I do or not. What's your
thought on that? Oh? Goodness.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
First of all, I think that's bad news for the
candidates that that many people want r K Junior in
the debate. I think that means his polling is real.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I think more scrutiny, more questions, more contrast of policies
and opinions is better for the electorates. So yeah, I
think I think it might be better for America if
he was in there in principle, But I haven't really
thought about it much. I just the duopoly of Democrats
(01:53):
and Republicans is not great. It's not a good thing. No,
they don't have to earn our business anymore. They have
all shelf space.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, and the way they've made it so hard for
anybody who's not part of their organizations to get through.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Is not good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I'm not a fan of RFK Junior, but yeah, in general,
I think, yeah, bring those third party guys up there
before we get to this economic polling that I came across.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's really quite amazing. We're talking about the speech Joe
Biden gave over the weekend to young black men telling
them that they can't get ahead, and it's a racist
country and we're either we you know, the rest of
us white people, Republicans, We're either going to shoot you
or at the very least keep you from succeeding. Anyway,
we got this text, proud black man here twelve years ago,
(02:40):
I couldn't afford to send my kid, my son to college.
Unbeknownst to me, he joined the Navy before he even
graduated high school. Today's a translator, speaks for languages, and
has been all over the world. Best college he ever
could have gone to from the Navy. Today he's stationed
Hawaii with no college debts.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Good for him. Yeah, that's good story, good text. Appreciate it.
Some economic news from a poll. I don't know what
to think about this. I have been mocking, we have
been mocking this idea that trying to tell us that now, no,
(03:18):
the economy's really good when everything you buy is more
expensive than you thought it would be is silly. On
the other hand, these numbers are extraordinary, and I'm not
exactly sure what this means. Fifty five percent of Americans,
so over half of Americans believe the economy is shrinking.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Fifty six percent of people think we're in a recession.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Half of people believe the s and P five hundred
is down for twenty twenty four, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Up double digits. Half of the people.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And I'm sorry to interrupt, but the term recession has
become so amorphous in modern conversation. You might as well
use a funk as a recession. People have no idea
what it means.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, and I'd ask you to define your funk, because
I mean, if you mean, is the economy shrinking or growing?
Is the stock market going up and down? Is unemployment
up or unemployment's low? The economy is growing, the stock
market is setting records on a daily basis. I still
understand why people feel bad about things given trunal. Like
(04:28):
I said, every single thing you buy, you pay your
energy bill, you fill your car with cash, you go
to the grocery store, you go out to eat, you
book a hotel room, whatever you do. It's shocking. That's
why people feel bad about the economy. But on these
specific questions, I don't know where that comes from. And
then finally, half of people believe unemployment.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Half of people believe unemployment is at a fifty year high.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's actually at a fifty year low. Wow, that is disturbing.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's how bad people feel about the current economy. That's
what Joe Biden is up against. Not that I feel
bad for Joe Biden, but man, when you got all
of those numbers, all of those topics are really really
good to me. That's just and this is what I
can't believe the White House doesn't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That's how powerful inflation is. Right.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
As I've said before, let's call it Joe Getty's postulate.
I don't even know what a postulate is. When inflation
is high, nothing else matters. And every answer to those
questions was Americans expressing the sentiment prices are high, and
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's what every single.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
One of those answers Meantely, prices are high, and I'm
worried about feeding and clothing and medicating my family. Do
you believe inflation unemployment is high? Yes, whatever, I'm scared.
It's all bad.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
If everything I buy is shockingly expensive, everything is bad, right, right,
And I don't know how they don't get that, And
you can you're certainly never gonna get anywhere by lecturing
us about no, no, no, you're factually wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The S and P. Five hundred is actually at a
high twelve percent up this year. I don't care. I
went to the grocery store last night. They rang up
a few items.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It was one hundred and six bucks, and I thought,
holy crap for that tackler.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah. Yeah, And to engage in the.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Idiotic deception with the aid of the idiots of the media.
And I honestly think in this case it's less partisanship
than just pig ignorance. The idea that well, inflation is down,
so that means prices are down. No, no, no. As
our email Lauri, I love this. He said, Inflation is
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the rate of acceleration. Prices are the speed. Just because
you're accelerating less than you were earlier doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Mean you're going slower.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And it just I honestly believe there's a significant chunk
of American journalism that doesn't get that, which is a
bit disturbing.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, I realized, like three quarters of journalists are twenty
four year olds at this point. But don't they go
to AI But do you think gay I would know it.
Don't they buy groceries and eat out too? And aren't
they shocked by the price. I just I don't get it.
But those are some extraordinary numbers. Half the country believes
unemployments at a fifty year high when it's at a
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fifty year low.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's shocking. That's absolutely shocking.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Uh, yeah, all, I know, I got a bad feeling
about looking for a place to live, either to render
to buy. The prices are insane. Plus all the other
things that I pay for every single day that are
the crazy prices. Yeah, I got a bad feeling about economy.
I don't care what you tell me about all those
other numbers. They don't make any difference to meat at all.
(07:59):
Compare of the things I just said.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Well, yeah, if you food, housing, and medical care have
skyrocketed in particular.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh, cars, car insurance is up twenty percent from last year,
and it was up from the year before.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I mean, everything is.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
So high, right, right, No, there's your answer, clearly, you know,
And excuse me. I'm at the stage of my COVID
where I feel quite good, but I'm still coughing and
sneezing that sort of thing, mostly coughing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So forgive me.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's the best part for the cough button. Yes, that's
the best stage of being sick. You feel okay, but
you sound bad enough you could get out of something
if you had.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
To well, yeah, yeah, absolutely sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I don't you go to that thing. I'd love to
go to that thing. But I mean, listen to me,
you know I did.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
That reminds me I've got a bit of a bone
to pick with you, Jack, And I think, Michael, you're
probably going to be on my side in this. And
that's Jack's desperate need for attention, being an attention hog.
I mean, for instance, when my joints were crumbling from arthritis,
I couldn't say anything because Jack had cancer.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So what am I gonna do? Complain? Oh my hip hurts?
Yea jack ass cancer.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And then like like last week, last week I got
the COVID Jack sensing that coming preemptively had a motorcycle
wreck so he would get the attention.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is there a good points Jack, Joe? Yes? Yes.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
And then then yesterday, this is true, folks, Yesterday, in
a kitchen mishap, I sliced open two of my fingertips, oh,
my index finger and my middle finger on my right hand. Oh,
and I could come in here and talking about but
guess what happened yesterday? Friends, Jack had his eyeballs sliced
open in a surgery. So Joe will just have to
(09:47):
keep it to himself. Selfishness, that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
God.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I had the worst mental state for that surgery yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I don't know why. I just could not. It's why
I'm a bad athlete.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I get negative thoughts going into my head and I
just cannot stop them. And I couldn't stop thinking about
what they were actually doing to my eyes, even though
I knew there was going to be no pain, and
there was no pain, but they are cutting into your
eyeballs and I couldn't stop.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Like picturing a knife going into the shopping.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I couldn't stop, and it was just freaking me out
so much.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I think everybody battles with that sum but you're right,
some of us are better at stopping thoughts than others.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It didn't help any of course, I said yesterday, I said,
I don't even know what they do.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And we got a thousand texts of people describing how
they do lens replacement surgery. Like if I wanted that information,
I would have sought it out.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
People going into.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Great detail about how they cut out the blah blah bond.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh no, no, nobody wants to hear that there was
no that sound never occurred.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I listened to pleasant music and there was incredibly advanced
twenty first century medicine.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Michael, there is no pain whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
But yeah, well, yeah, I did wreck my motorcycle on purpose,
just because I knew you had COVID and I need
the attention.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So that's the way it works. Well.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Getting back to the economy, Uh, the haves and have
nots will be our theme coming up, Jack, Are you
familiar with smellmaxing?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I am not, but it sounds like one of your
funny made up terms. Are you?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Are you familiar with the fact that in the modern
world everything has to have a damn name.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Right, smell maxing? Are you at risk? Right? Plus?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
What was the other thing? Ah, the booming business of
eternal youth. People who are throwing money around are thrown
money around like maniacs on a couple of different sectors
of the economy.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
We can tell you, Bob, Yeah, I could see doing that.
If something could make me younger, I would I would
spend quite a bit of bunny on that. Looking forward
to all those stories, stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
This has been a significant concern for the Pentagon. It
was last Thursday that Russia launched this satellite into low
Earth orbit, a satellite that the Pentagon does believe is
capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit, while
there's no indication that Russia plans on attacking other satellites,
and it is.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Not the first time Russia has done this.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
When ask if the Russian counterspace weapon posed a threat
to US satellites, a Pentagon spokesman said, it's a counterspace
weapon in the same orbit as a US government satellite.
The deputy US ambassador to the UN is calling this
launch trutling.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
How about that wording out of Martha radd Its. I mean,
she's just quoting what they said. There are no plans
for the Russians to shoot down our satellites.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They just have the capability to do it. Now, Oh okay,
well I won't worry about it. Then.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I feel like we're entering a new age of chaos
from the frekingly bottom of the ocean. I mean literally,
I've got stories we haven't gotten to about how China
is suspected of cutting critical internet cables and Russia has
cut I can't remember a natural gas pipe or something
like that, So an age of chaos from the bottom
(13:09):
of the ocean to.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Space and all points in between. Wow. Great.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
More on the geopolitical scene coming up later, but I
thought this was worth at least tipping our cap to Jack.
I don't know if you've caught on too, smell maxing.
I don't see your boys being involved in this. But okay,
so now you've narrowed down what this could possibly be.
Slightly there because I have no idea. I don't even
know what possible category we're in, though coverage by The
(13:37):
New York Times recently smell Maxing, smell Maxing. It's become
a cliche for adolescent boys to douse themselves in acts
body spray blah blah blah. But lately, teen and even
tween boys with money to spare are growing obsessed with
designer fragrances that cost hundreds of dollars an aggressive cent.
By the way, this is the death knell for American
(13:59):
manhood as a teenager.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yes, I don't think your team becomes obsessed with hundreds
of dollars with the fragrances unless you're giving him that money. Well, yeah,
these kids have money. But guess where all of this
is spawned. He here's a hint. It rhymes with bick bach.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Ask a teenager why he wants a two hundred dollars
bottle of cologne, he might tell you he's smellmaxing, a
term for enhancing one's musk that is spreading on social media.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I started seeing a.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Lot of videos on tech talk, and I thought, I
don't want to miss out, said Logan, a fourteen year
old in Chicago who's been putting his bar Mitzvah money
toward a collection of high end colognes. He displays bottles
from Valentino and Emporio ar Money proudly in front of
his lava lamp and considers this nearly three hundred dollars
bottle of tom Ford's tobacco Venil to be his signature cent.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I don't have a signature cent, but that fourteen year
old does. Humm uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I spent a few months speaking to teenagers at Fragrance
cam around New York in online cologne forums. What struck
me most was the language they used, which sounded like
more like the stuff of Somlier's than middle schoolers. The
sent la mail by Jean Paul Goltier has a really
good honey note, said Luke, a fourteen year old who
lives in Orlando, Florida, and he talks about.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Fragrances with his friends at sleepovers.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Wow, I've to ask my son, who's fourteen, if this
is going on in his school. If I have a
signature sent it's coffee and ivory soap, It's probably what
it is.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
A younger generation is inspired by the main guy. The
most prominent flayed Fragrance influencer on TikTok is Jeremy Fragrance.
He calls himself an often shirtless German with nearly nine
million followers. In his videos, he sniffs his fans trying
to guess which sense they are wearing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And that's a heck of a phrase.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
An often shirtless German with nine million followers.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Why don't you take off your sh let me sniff
upon you and see what you're wearing.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, Katie, what's your husband's signature scent.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Everybody's got to have a signature scent.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
It's like a tobacco bourbon beer soap that he gets
very nice. It's classy smelling.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I need a new scent. I was actually thinking about
that at the story. The other day, I need a
new scent. I need to work on that. I'll ask
these fourteen year olds or maybe the shows, maybe the
often shirtless German.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
May I sniff you? Please? Let me sniff upon you?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
And a younger generation inspired by Jeremy Fragrance is coming
up behind him.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It's an interesting joys of words.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Jatin Aurora, AJ teen shares daily Fragrance reviews with more
than a million followers. His collection, nearly four hundred bottles,
includes many free products from brands which are catching on
to the fact that these influencers can get their products
in front of young buyers.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And here's a middle school.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Fitness teacher talking about eleven year old students coming to
school with one hundred and sixty dollars bottles of cologne.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I don't want to ask a fourteen year old boy
with the best sent for me, though, is I want
to ask?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, women of my age. I'd rather please them.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
You don't want to talk to shirtless German boys about sense?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Why? Why not? Luckily? No Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Now. New Fox News poll shows President Biden losing support
from the following demographics compared to four years ago, Black
and Hispanic voter suburban women, moderates, and the biggest drop,
perhaps the reason for this payment fourteen point drop among
young voters under the age of thirty.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I just came across something from the Trump side of things.
We're talking about crazy stuff from the Biden side of things.
It's so over the top. This is going to be
already is the crazy election in our history? And can
we survive it? More on that coming up. Oh boy,
(18:07):
now you've filled me with a sense of dread.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Thanks. I wonder nobody invites you to their parties. I
know I walk in. I give everybody the old sod
sense a dread, no kidding, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So, speaking of the electorate and turnout and that sort
of thing, I found this so interesting. An analysis of
what it would take to flip the twenty twenty four
battleground states and now everybody knows it's going to be
a close election and etc. There are a couple of
things before we get into the state by state, which,
trust me, is one of the most interesting things you
(18:40):
will hear about politics this month. The Wall Street Journal
mentions that Latino voters are a growing force in the electorate,
likely to exceed the ten percent share of all votes
they posted in twenty twenty as a percentage white working
class voters without a college degree or projected a fall
by about two percent of the electorate. Which Americans will
(19:01):
choose to vote is going to be a big factor.
Will young voters sit out the election in part because
of the Israel Amas thing? Will Donald j drive up
turnout among white working class voters?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Which candidates when they're vote? Yeah exactly. So there are
turnout is everything? Absolutely everything?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, underappreciated and impossible to guess. So that's when polls
are off. It's not because the polls were bad. It's
because the turnout was different than the model that they had.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, exactly. But this here's the impuls part all of them.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Okay, okay, So let's take a look at the giant
important swing state of Pennsylvania. Even a small shift in
support from white working class voters could put the state
back in Trump's columns. Specifically, in twenty twenty, white working
class folks went for Trump by twenty three percent more
(19:58):
Trump than Biden, and Trump and Biden won with fifty
point four percent of the vote. If that stays the same,
Biden wins with fifty point four if Trump gets plus
twenty three of those workers. If he gets plus twenty five,
Trump flips Pennsylvania with fifty point one percent of the vote.
(20:19):
So just a two point difference among white working class
voters flips who wins Pennsylvania. That's going to be something
to live in a state where your vote actually matters
in a presidential election.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I don't think I ever have where it's going to
be even close to close.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, yeah, when we first moved to California, definitely leaned blue.
But there's a Republican I grew up in a pretty
purple Illinois. But no, it's in the modern day. No, No. Interestingly,
among black and Latino voters, there's not really a divide
by educational status, partly because you know, black voters, for instance,
(21:03):
knee jerk voted for Democrats for the longest time.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think you were duped. Sorry folks, But.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Anyway, moving along Georgia, what a depressed or energized black
electorate means for the nation's most competitive state. So if
black voters turn out at the same level as twenty
sixteen when they weren't super excited about Hillary ah and
they turned out at fifty nine percent Trump flips Georgia
(21:30):
gets fifty point five percent of the vote. Now, if
they turn out at twenty twenty levels, then Biden keeps
Georgia by the same margin Trump would have won. So
in twenty sixteen, fifty nine percent of black votes showed.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Up and then four years later was sixty four.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
From fifty nine to sixty four, you get the twenty
sixteen levels Trump wins, you get the twenty twenty levels
Biden wins, and obviously, and this is not unlikely, you
get something in between.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's going to be decided by like six.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Votes, right, getting go getting back to the idea of
being in a state where your vote actually matters. I
mean I for presidential elections. I've never lived anywhere where.
If it became really inconvenient to vote that day, I'll
just stay home.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It's not gonna make any difference.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
But as opposed to no, I've got to get to
the poll and my friends have got to get to
the polls because it's gonna make a difference.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's got to be very exciting.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
In Nevada, the Latino population is growing and increasingly open
to voting Republican. If they vote the way they did
in twenty twenty, Biden keeps Nevada with fifty one point three.
They voted like twelve points more for Biden than Trump.
If Trump can flip it to just a ten point
advantage among Latinos and nothing else changes, no more enthusiasm
(22:46):
for them among Republicans, no depressed Democrat turnout because Joe
Biden is a horrible freaking president and senile. If nothing
else changes, but he can get that edge in Hispanics,
Trump will flip Nevada.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That's all it will take.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think one of the things that's happening, there's clearly
a realignment occurring that's obvious to everyone, and Republican Party
is going to become more of the party of the
working class voter of all races.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Going forward.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
For instance, I took a lift from San Jose to
San Francisco this morning for work. I did my ice
surgery yesterday in San Jose, California. And I don't know
where this guy is from, but he had a very
thick Hispanic accent, and we were talking about the homeless population,
how many homeless people they are, and I was telling them, well,
(23:38):
it's you know, it's policy. I mean, some places have
more homeless than other people and other places. That depends
on what your governments, he says, Oh, I know, I know,
And you can't offer them places to stay because they
don't want it. They'd have to follow the rules, they
can't drink and do drugs, they'd have time lives. I thought, Okay,
so you're a guy from another country here working your
(23:58):
ass off, driving me in the middle of the night
on a lift car, who has no patience for the
street population. I feel like the Democratic Coalition that existed
for most of my lifetime that never made any sense.
He got all these different groups with completely different needs
and wants, but came together to make one party work.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think that has fallen apart.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I suspect you're right, especially among Hispanic people and increasingly
among black folks.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, I certainly hope that. I hope that's the case.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Not that the Republican Party is any sort of shining
citadel of honor and good policy, but ah, I.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Think it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think it's going to be such a mix up
of different things in the very near future. I don't
even know where I'm gonna end up landing. But both
parties are going to be so different in a few years.
I have no idea right or conceivably some third alternative,
which is going to be difficult but not impossible. You know,
it strikes me listening to that gentleman who is obviously
working class, obviously non quote unquote white, and I despise
(25:02):
this focus on race, I really do, But a guy
of his lifestyle saying that as matter of factly as
he did, it just struck me all of a sudden
that I think the great divide among people, especially in
a place like cal Unicornia, is you either base your
(25:23):
worldview on your ideology or on evidence. You either have.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Your ideology formed by evidence or your evidence is formed
by your ideology. Because and many smart I mean, like
Barry Weiss and her partner Nelly Bowles, who's written an
amazing new book that we haven't talked about yet, have
talked about being a progressive. But seeing the evidence and
(25:52):
realizing the evidence does not jibe at all with my.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Political idea.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And I've got to change my political identity because I
will not be ignoring the evidence of my eyes and ears,
as or will warned us.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And that's it.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I admire people like that because that takes intellectual and
moral courage to come out and say that, and they've
lost lots of friends, for instance.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
But that's a fairly small group. I think. On the
progressive side.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Of the isle, you have an entire like a philosophical cabal,
a political party that ignores evidence in favor of ideology.
And that's the one thing, and I know you agree
with me on this check. Conservatives cannot become some sort
of cult of personality, whether it's Trump or whatever or whomever,
(26:42):
where we just blind ourselves to evidence because we're so
gung ho for our ideology. I don't want to be
part of that group of people. That's just that's no
way to be as a human being. That would be
you know, and this is a funny thing to say.
That would be so human aliating to me, just speaking
for myself. If I were to put in front of
(27:05):
like a tribunal of all of my heroes, including my mom,
my late mom, and my dad, an Abe Lincoln and
George Orwell and H. L. Menken and Thomas Sowell, if
they were to sit in judgment of me, and I
was one of those like personality cultists and ignored what
I saw and could easily discern from the world around me.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I would have their contempt and I just I can't
stand that notion.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
What I would like to see happen, and maybe this
is going to happen, is to see the race division
go away and it become divided by workers versus the takers.
That's what I'd like to see happen. Joe and I
were listening to an old Chris Rock bit the other
day where he was talking about, you know, a black
woman who's got three jobs trying to raise their kids
(27:52):
versus a black woman who's cranking out kids and living
off of welfare. I mean that hard working black woman
has no more tolerance for the welfare woman that I
mean recon take race out of it, and I would
like to see that happen more often. Like my lift
driver was today, Hey, i'm working here. They're taken the
workers versus the takers. I would like to see that
split and leave race out of it. Who cares what
(28:14):
the race is. I'm working, I'm paying, you're taken, and
we're in different We're in different parties.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Why is that black bus driver janitor uh working class
guy in the same party as the thirty year old
white Wellesley grad with a degree in women's studies, who
is demanding that the government pay.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Off her loans? And why are you two are in
the same why are you in the same party?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And uses the word latinx right exactly and herkstree And
it's explaining to that hardworking black man and woman's children
that a don junior, you're probably a girl and you
don't have any chance of making it in America.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Katie, and you two in the same party.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
This is a different topic, but for some reason this
popped into my head of that sort of latinex kirk
Street thing. Katie, I need a ruling on this. Saw
a woman the other day, tractive, young woman, very hairy
armpits more than me, like I trim more than she does.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, how do we feel about that? Ladies need to
stop it. It's this whole women need to embrace their
natural hair and their butt. Stop it. It's gross. It's
not supposed to be there.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I don't know why it's not supposed to be there,
but it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's hilarious. I don't know why. God clearly made a
mistake on this one.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
We've all decided you didn't mess up on anything else,
But that shouldn't happened.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I thought, what a decision she's making because she's probably
like twenty two attractive, young toy. You have limited the
number of people that could be interested.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
In you by a lot. By anything that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Signaling decision, you're signaling something. I don't know what you're signaling.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
This is a fortunate trend, is what's happening, because there's Yeah,
there's a.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Whole collection online, care all of it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Do you think it's growing? Wait a minute, chest hair?
Wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
There's a woman that just went hardcore viral because she
naturally grows chest hair and she's been maintaining it her
entire life and decided to let it go. And it's
this this natural.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Movement for on. Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Wow, you know better the Harry Pitts than the Marxism.
But I have a feeling our aforementioned heirsuit. Young lady
embraces both of those things.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, I think they go together, like ninety nine percent
of the time.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Karl Mark's very hairy, for instance.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Wow, you know, I like to I see myself as
I care about what's on the inside, not the outside.
I like to see myself as that sort of guy
I don't think I could overcome the hairy chest. I
don't think I could overlooked.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I couldn't. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Oh come on, why no, I'm I'm good because I'm
kind and gentle.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But I gotta admit I would. That would be a moment.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I'll just say that we can be friends. We need
we need to leave the lights off for this. I mean,
like for everything. The lights need to be off of
the house all the time. We're gonna put stover within them.
I just can't see that.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Wow. Wow, sexism, folks, misogyny. Gotta lean down to kisser.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
She puts both arms up and it's just like a
chia pet.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Oh what yeh me?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Now, I'm gonna get you into Congress to get into
bitter arguments with AOC.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
That's that's why you're on the show, Katie Green, so
that you can say those things because we can't uh speaking,
AOC got in argument with MTG. MTG just tweeted something unbelievable.
Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Donald's is dropping a new Grandma mcflurry, which they claim
is sweet just like Grandma. Also, just like Grandma, it
has some very outdated, upsetting opinions about the Oreo mcflurry.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
McDonald says the new dessert.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Comes with chopped candy pieces meant to honor all the
candies grandma's tend to hide in their purses. I'm sorry,
but if you want to be authentic to what's in
grandma's purse, you gotta swirl in a menthol cigarette, a
five dollars bill, and a birthday card that calls you
by your cousin's name.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I uh just became in the mcflurry, became aware of it,
like in the last year. So, as I've said before,
that's one of the better desserts on planet Earth. If
they served it at your favorite fancy restaurant, you'd buy
it every time.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's a good dessert right there. You're a child.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
So Trump tweeted this out. This is how it starts.
We're gonna end with We're gonna start with Trump. Then
we're gonna get to Marjorie Taylor Green. So Trump or
truth this out.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I just came out of the Biden witch hunt trial
in Manhattan. The ice box still complaining about how cold
it is in there, and was showing reports that Crooked
Joe Biden's DOJ in their illegal and unconstitutional rate of
Marl Lago that was over the document's case authorized.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The FBI to use deadly lethal force.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Now we know for sure that Joe Biden is a
serious threat to democracy. He's mentally unfit to hold off
his twenty fifth Amendment. Now on Twitter, because that went
out on Twitter Twitter, I don't know, does Elon do
this himself or whoever jumps in and is a truth
fact checker person. They jumped in and said this is false.
(33:44):
Neither the DOJ, neither the Dog or DJ or the
FBI were planning to assassinate mister Trump. That language in
question is is standard procedure blah blah blah. What they're
referring to is Marjorie Taylor Green's tweet which which went
out a couple Trump's the Biden Dog and FBI were
(34:06):
planning to assassinate President Trump and gave the green light.
Does everyone get it yet? What are Republicans going to
do about it?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Wow? Thanks Margie?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Marjorie Taylor Green stating that the Biden DOJ and FBI
were planning to assassinate Trump.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
A certain number of softheads are actually going to believe
that and wrecked on it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Jonah Goldberg's response to that was, this is wildly responsible,
even for Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
FBI knew Trump wasn't there. This is known. We all
know this.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It was all coordinated with the Secret Service in advance.
The FBI worked with the Secret Service to make sure
there would be the mishaps or anything like that. So
there was no plan to assassinate Trump or anything even
within a thousand miles of that going on. And that's
you know, we were talking earlier about Joe Biden claiming
we're such a racist country and young black men are
(34:57):
being gunned down in the street, and Marjorie Tayller Green
saying this, this is not a good place for us
to be. People are gonna get hurt, people are gonna
get killed. There's going to be riots at some point,
or at the very least. People get so cynical, we're
not going to end up in any place good.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
And can you imagine being so cynical that you would
do either end of that just to keep power and
gain power.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
It's just it just a man. Is our system poisoned? Yikes?
We're in a bad place. People. I don't know what
pulls us out of this tailspin.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Alan Dershowitz with some strong comments on the Kangaroo Court
in New York.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
All sorts of good stuff next hour. I hope you
can hang around Armstrong and Getty
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