December 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Microsoft & WA state socialists against capitalism
- Genetically desirable children
- Financing Jihadis & pressure to couple
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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 (00:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Those aren't the entities that I center in my policymaking.
I believe that they're smoking for enough in Olympia.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
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 for Microsoft, new Washington state taxes
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trying to soak corporations in the quote unquote rich are
going to drive high paying jobs right out of the state.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And what did he say? I didn't understand what he said.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
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 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.
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Keep raising taxes and you risk driving companies and are
high paying jobs out of the state.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Brad Smith, I.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Don't center those people in my policies. Well maybe you
should start.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
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 Kati
Wilson have campaigned on raising taxes on wealthy residents and
large companies. Tech has become the political punching bag of choice.
(02:10):
Cast is the villain in the region's affordability crisis, even
as the industry powers Washington's economy.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You know, maybe it's because I'm sick, but I've got
I got less energy for this crowd right like, right
at this moment.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I hate what do you call them? Progressives? Is that
the right name? Or I don't even know where I
hate them? I hate you? Oh you dumb? Think you
hate them? You're dumb?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Wait till I play that. You're completely ignorant for how
the world works.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
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.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's just what the billionaires be.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Just indoctrinated into this fantasy view of how human works
by smart but in cities people and they swallow it
whole and they spout it out. They repeat the mantras.
There's no like original or a critical thought here. You're
just demand. It's just demanded of you that you repeat
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the mantras. So anyway, this Brandy Cruse, the reporter, continues
the conversation with the state Repshawn Scott.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Listen to this. Would you would you like them to leave?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Representative Scott? Do you think that Amazon and Microsoft are
a net good for our state?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Say more about that. When you say that good, what
do you mean?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
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 like
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 if they would
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like to.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Those 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.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Because creating one of the what two or three most
successful companies in the history of the world is easy.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, the workers can just band together and do it
instead of the evil capitalist.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
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. Unicorn, sir, because you
have no connection with reality. Does he believe no understanding
of how the world actually works?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think he believes that. S oh, he does one
hundred percent. Yeah, that's my point.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
He lives in a fantasy world. And he's, you know,
a popularly elected government official in Washington State. Even 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.
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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 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,
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if you want to tax the rich, you have to
have rich people to tax. If you want to protect workers,
they have to have jobs to work in.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's a good point.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Great coverage as usual from our colleagues at Seattle read
seven to seventy am Jalens.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Tip my cap to whoever that reporter was.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
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
their own nonsense, because any answer other than yes is moronic.
I mean, even if they were like relatively abusive, I mean,
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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
amount of tax money you're getting jobs and tax money
you're getting it overwhelming.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Microsoft is not enslaving people, all right.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
The Microsoft cavalry didn't come across the hills conquer Seattle
and has now enslaved the poor residence.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
They're there voluntarily.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You check ass, you know, Jack, where to even start
with somebody that, well, he's a cultist. He's been convinced
of reality that is not real, which reminds me.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I read a great piece I think it was in you.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It was in the Dispatch talking about one of Friedrich
Hayek's books, which I haven't read, and I'm gonna buy
it and add it to the stack of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And at some point, which one I'm gonna go wild?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
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 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 economic challenge quite clear. It's
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not merely a problem of how to allocate given resources,
in other words, settling the usual who gets what and
how debate.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's a knowledge problem.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
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 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,
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what it will do next if it can't find that price,
and what every employee or steel using industry and those
companies employees will do once they are affected. The ripple
effects are endless and unknowable. As Pete Bultkey writes in
The Dispatch and Planners can't know what firms employees are
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willing to pay for a sandwich outside the plant, or
what the sandwich maker, breadmaker, and meat supplier, each with
their own set of countless unknowable circumstances, are willing and.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Able to do to meet the worker's price.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
There's simply too much information underlying even the simplest seeming
economic transactions, and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The free market solves.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All of that and nearly instantaneously, over and over and
over again. It's a miracle of efficiency, 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 you play that last clip that
we played again? We won't play the whole thing, but
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I want to hear the first thing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Would you like them to leave? Representative Scott? Do you
think that Amazon and Microsoft are a net good for
our state?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Say more about that. When you say not good, what
do you mean?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think that workers or they goes off on his rant,
So it's just mind blowing to me. So you think
the state would be better off if Amazon and Microsoft
were somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Well, yes, because the workers could develop a perfect socialist Amazon.
Of course they would have, and they haven't just because
they've been held back by the evil capitalists.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That is so nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Wow, there are arguments where you know, you're I'm right,
but they got a twenty percent decent point of it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But this one is just this one's open and shut.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's fanciful. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, let's talk. That's fine, let's talk.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well yeah, it's a sympody to start with a jackass
like you don't need to go into all that. The answers. Yes,
is a net positive for the state to have Amazon
and Microsoft here?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yes, a freaking course, it is all right.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Every other state would crawl on their knees over broken
glass to have Amazon or Microsoft in their state.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Is it a good thing to saw off your hand
with a rusty saw.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What do you mean by good thing? Expound on that?
Would you?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, expound on that? But well, yeah, that's that's uh,
that's a person who has completely lost their head.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Wow, I would you know.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I'd like to ask a representative Scott. I'm not gonna
threaten him with a hammer or a sickle, but I'd
like to ask him. Why do you say, states, counties,
countries compete feverishly to get these companies to build a headquarters,
build a plant there?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What do you suppose that is? Is it possibly?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Because yes, it's an effing net positive jackass? But cloud, Wow,
there are some ideas so idiotic only an intellectual could
hold them Thomas Sewell. And there are intellectuals who heard
that answer and nodded their head because it made sense
to them. Collectivist Amazon, Yes, let's get to work on that,
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you weirdo.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It'd be like a Soviet you know, tank factory. Every
is efficient and profitable.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
More on the waist there, play it, Steve? Did you
hear the Steve from play It?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Steve died yesterday? Steve Proper? Oh oh no, I didn't. Yeah.
One of the great guitar players of all time. If
you're into guitar. He was old the Stax Record house band,
him and Duck Dunn.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, the Blues Brothers' core essentially was on the Stax
Records geniuses, you know them.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
As a little concerned that we haven't presented you with
enough things to be worried about today, So here's this.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Ke On Sadigi made headlines this year when his company,
Nucleus Genomics, offered discreen embryos for risk of disease and
much much more.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We look at something like height, even eye color, hair color,
intelligence intelligence, we give you acne acne.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
The idea, he says, is to help deliver not just
a healthier child, but a more desirable child too. At
this sprawling facility in central New Jersey, Nucleus scan samples
of embryos conceived through in vitro fertilization for about thirty
thousand dollars. Parents can see the results before picking one
to implant. But as his company grows, the field of
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reproductive genetics itself is an ethical mess.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
According to the MIT Technology Review, Well.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
The term desirable child is not troubling at all. Oh yeah,
no kidding, I think we all went can we talk
about that phrase it's horrifying. Yeah, it's horrifying. It really
is horrifying. Wow, And so kind of like with the
thing with braces, where it went from if you have
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really really cricket teeth, you get braces, but everybody else no,
to like practically everybody gets braces. And now if you
don't get braces with a minor thing, you stand.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Out blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So is that what it's going to be like for
kids in ten years? You're gonna let a kid come
into the world that has acne and is under six
foot tall.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Kind of horrible parent, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yeah, I feel like you need to have a more
desiring into something weird and awful as a race.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Of course, we have no idea, like they said there
at the end, it's got like just an endless list
of ethical problems. We have no idea from a evolutionary standpoint,
what this is going to do. If we start picking
out all six foot, blue eyed, blonde haired, no acne.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Children right right, and anybody who's not repulsed by the
phrase desirable child, you know, is going to go wild.
You know, we can give you the most attractive, intelligent
child that is up to our highest standard. There isn't
up charge, of course, But your neighbors are fathering, mothering,
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they're they're producing desirable children.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
If you want to go one level above, we can
help you do that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh that neighborhood over there, they can only afford undesirable children,
which is an awful thing to think.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We're heading for HG. Wells the time machine.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Right, you're your eloy and you're what's it's your brute creatures.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So I assume everybody would mostly pick tall as opposed
to not tall?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
What?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Hair color? Would people mostly pick blue eyes?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
They seemed to be popular and popular culture wouldn't be
as wouldn't be as universal as tall, because I don't
think anybody picked short.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But some people would pick brown. But be a lot
of blue, be a lot of blonde hair. I suppose,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I don't have an opinion on that, judging by the
hair dying industry, Yes, Katie, your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
This whole thing is sick to me. It is sick.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Yeah, I mean I I just did the IVF thing
for health reasons and the thought of, oh, well, I'm
going to pick his eye color and his hair color,
and how smart he's going to be because I want
him to be desirable.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You shouldn't be a parent.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Really well, yeah, and then the whole smart thing. I mean,
that's more. That's more complicated than eye color and hair color.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Smart. There's plenty of smart people were miserable. Oh yeah, yeah,
genius is just an other form of crazy. And I'll
be damned if my kid's gonna have a pimple. Come on.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And then, of course the flip side of desirable is undesirable,
so people are having undesirable children.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well that's the second Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Just in case you haven't heard it, there's a pretty
big revelation that came out yesterday around the whole Pete
hag Zed second strike on the Boat story thing. It
turns out there was a JAG officer there, a lawyer,
which is what a JAG officer is a military lawyer
who advises the commanders on whether or not what they
want to do is legal and signed off on yad.
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These two guys not clinging to the boat. People love
the word clinging because it sounds so helpless. They weren't
clinging to the boat. They were scrambling across the boat
while communicating. It looked like with somebody on land or
another boat to try to rescue the drugs. In other words,
they were still participating in the effort to transport drugs,
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and the jag officer, the lawyer there, told the commander,
you are within your.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Legal rights to blast them. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I don't know if that technically is true or not,
but the idea that it was just kill the ball
and we just went off half cocked, right, no lawyer involved,
is just And then they were clinging to the boat helpless.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
None of that is true.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Now, if you want to argue Rand Paul's style about
whether this is a legitimate use of the military at
all or killing people is justified, we can talk about that.
But yeah, I think to your point, the whole day
went wild and just wanted to snuff people out of
pure meanness. Is the narrative is just It's not true.
So again, let's let some facts come out, you know,
speaking of the drug thing, I was just reading how
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Venezuelan gangs and African jah hottists are flooding Europe with cocaine.
They're now, you know, making enormous profits and financing their
horrific Islamist activities and that sort of thing through selling
drugs to Europeans. And I'm reminded of was it Khrushchev
who said I will sell you the rope you used
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to hang yourself or whatever the heck it was back
in the day. The Kami's threatening us, the bastards. We
showed them for a while anyway, But that reminds me
that so we're we're financing the very Jihadis who will
bring down Western civilization with the Marxists. You know, I
tell you what, you're in a society that does that.
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You're reaping what you sewed, right, I mean, if you
won't protect yourself. All right, enough said I guess, okay,
total change of topic. I thought this was so interesting.
I am not a young woman. I want to make
that clear. I'm not even an old woman. Came across
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this piece, Katie by uh fraya India.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Her name is this an interesting name? It was in
the uh in the Free.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Press, and she she says, and jumping anytime I keep
hearing about how there's too much pressure to settle down.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
As a young woman.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Apparently everyone wants to know when you're getting married when
you're having kids. Being single is stigmatized, shamed, pitied. We
supposedly feel so rushed to find partners that we choose wrong,
and that's why relationships are fit.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
She write this in nineteen fifty. Well, that's kind of
her point.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's this pressure to couple up, this feeling of being alone,
blah blah blah. But this has never been my experience,
she writes, my whole life, I've only ever felt the opposite. Yeah,
an overwhelming pressure to be single. Yeah, and looking people
giving you the side eye. If you want to get
married young and have kids, definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right in the sec go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Well, I'm just thinking, like I mean, I know it
varies by age, you know. I know a bunch of
people that are in their twenties that that's the last
thing on their mind. And I also have friends that
are around my age that are like, I better get going.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah. But that's there.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's an internal feeling, isn't it as opposed to an
extra internal.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Post completely No, no, because you know, then there's the
pressure all your friends around your maryl When when are
you going to find your guy?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
You know?
Speaker 9 (21:12):
I mean that happens.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Well in societal pressure forms people's desires all the time.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, your clocks start to tick and scream really loud
when you get to be uh No, it's deafening, so
she writes, in the secular liberal world, I used to
think there were no expectations, no pressures.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
There is, though.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
The pressure today is to avoid anything that might stick,
to run through life without getting snagged on any responsibilities,
without getting tethered to someone else too early. I'm sure
in some cultures there's some pressure to find someone, but
I felt rushed to do many things in modern life,
and settling down has never been one of them.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, Well, I live in a liberal enclave, so I
don't know how much it represents the rest of the
United States on topic, but they're certainly not community pressure
to find a man, get married and have kids around here.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah, And she points out that in a recent podcast,
Emma Watson, the intelligent yet utterly unwise Harry Potter gal
who's been slandering JK rowling even utterly unjustifiable, said something
about women are made to feel like they have no
worth or haven't succeeded in life until they settle down
and fry again. Right, I have a hard time understanding this.
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In my world, it's the opposite. The young woman who
settles down has always been seen as wasting her potential. Right,
the single, child free, even divorced woman is strong, wise
and nose or worth.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Absolutely, Yeah, that is just completely made up scenario.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, most of the time, people aren't wondering why young
women aren't having kids, but why we would at all.
Nobody really mentions it. Let's let alone pushes it. And
I'm sure it wasn't always like this, but lately I
see young men praised for committing well, young women are warned.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
We are proud of young men, we pity young women.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
That's an interesting way to look at it, but I
can see I can see where she's coming from. Especially
you know that a lot of the people that are
or the women that are single, it's like that independent woman.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah right, you're calling your own shots.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You're not answering to the patriarchy who tells you need
to get married, Neviki.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Are you implying that the patriarchy is supposed to be
running the household, Because if that's the case, I've gotten
it wrong. Announce you're getting married in your twenties.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And complete.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Strangers will rush to tell you horror stories about affairs
and divorce and heartbreak.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Why would you do that to yourself? Don't do what
I did. Throw those years away.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
We don't scrutinize the twenty five year old who is
still single, but the one who settles down In practice
feels like the only life decision left to disapprove of,
the only one acceptable to judge. Wanting to commit is
the one desire that is discouraged. Treating with suspicion the
only thing in the modern world we're ever told to delay.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I agree with that based on my observation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Then you can add another layer too of it. As
a guy from the rural Midwest, there's the if you
you only do that because there's nothing else to do.
There's nothing better to do, Like the better things are.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
What, I don't know, more money for a corporation, having
exotic vacations, Well you can do.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You can make make money for a corporation anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So I think they mean, like the entertainment options that
exist on the coasts, like I don't know, concerts and ballgames.
Is a better thing to do than get married, to
have a kid, raise a family, right, yeah, and have
a career.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Yeah, yeah, uh yeah, it's funny. I don't I don't
feel that. I we have three kids, one is married,
one maybe at some point. Oh my dad who turned
eighty five on Thanksgiving Day. I don't know if he
has lost his filter or just doesn't give a crap,
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because those are two different things. If you think, you know,
this is gonna make people uncomfortable, but it needs to
be said, or you've just lost the sense of how
uncomfortable it's gonna make people, those are two different situations.
But he was utterly shameless in quizzing my youngest daughter,
Delaney and her man about what's going on here? What's
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the timetable? What are we thinking here? Are you gonna
make an honest woman of her?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Or what? Oh? That's always a good time.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And it was playful. It was definitely playful, but it
was it was It caused a great deal of rolling
of eyes and hands in heads in hands. How did
the male handle it with a pretty good sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, it's an uncomfort, which he's one of the reasons
I like him. Yeah, it was shameless. I can't wait any.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
What I like with those kinds of things is how
some people just look like couples. Like I got one
niece and she's had several long term boyfriends, but her
current long term boyfriend, they look like they've been married
for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They just do. They just they should.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They're they're probably gonna get married, and they just look
like they they are a married couple. It's funny up people,
some people just fit together.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You know, as this piece goes on, she gets more
philosophical about there's this pressure to delay, pressure to keep searching,
pressure to do life alone, don't fall too hard too fast,
not to intertwine and entangle, never to lose control, to
keep lives and hearts uncrossed. This impossible tightrope for trying
(26:56):
to walk, this vain attempt to fall in love while
standing perfectly upright without losing our footing depending on someone,
without losing an inch of independence, the pressure and pain
of holding each other at arm's length at all times,
our lives perfectly partitioned, the stakes permanently low.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's really good writing. When's the timetable changed? That?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Clearly they mean in your twenties at least. Yeah, really
making a mistake if you get married and have kids,
but so by forty two you should or what does
they get to that.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
There are well no, she doesn't really write about that.
But the lie, and it's interesting why people would would
be so inncuis about this lie, the lie that you
can wait as long as you want and have kids,
is that it's bad. It's damaging. It hurts people, particularly women.
(27:54):
It gets more and more difficult, it's more and more
prone to you know, trouble for you and the baby.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's long. We're made.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Look, we're made to have babies and start producing them
when we're like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, because we are eat
them by well right, we're.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
At the peak of our physical health.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
And did you tell you can't You can't kill an
eighteen year old if you want to. And granted, you know, okay,
society is changing, you can put that off. But the
idea that, oh, yeah, yeah, have your career, established your career,
then at age forty five, become a mommy. It happens,
and it's okay in a lot of cases, but as
plans go, it's not nearly the best one. But again,
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if that has been your plan, you have a child
and you love it, dearly and you're doing your best.
I bless you and wish you nothing but happiness because.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You can answer those emails all day long.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You'll get generalized, though, I'm telling you, generally speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
No are any ways it sounds like you're attacking them.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
To me, it's like no, it's like generally, it's like
generalizing about whether it's a good idea to run off
and join the circus or not. Generally speaking, no, it
is a good comparison, unless you're a dope.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh now I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Insulting my coworkers. Wow, I'm so sorry. I just I
out of control. No, you're taking a much higher set
of risks frozen cons.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
But you'll teach their own samity being a libertarian. I
speak my piece. Now you go, do you? And I
don't particularly care what you do.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So they arrested the pipe bomber from the January sixth thing.
If you remember that whole story. We'll see if there's
any new details on that, and we will finish strong.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Next major recall.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
More than two hundred and fifty thousand cases of shredded
cheese products sold at major retailers including allD, Target, and Walmart,
sold in thirty one states in Puerto Rico under different brands.
Great Lakes Cheese Company says that cheese may contain metal fragments.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
We are grateful for metal fragments and our grated cheese.
When I was a kid, our shredded cheese. Please our tacos,
our taco mix, ad DDT in it and a meat
had rats heads.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Was gone solved this country? Kids are there, weak.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Daddy, there's metal fragments and by taco, shut up and
enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Choke it town son. Yikes. For some reason, I.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Was reminded the other day of the cheese company made
me think of the butter company. Whichever butter company it
was that had an Indian on its logo, and during
Land Lakes right landa Lakes, it was the same company,
wasn't it wasn't that who they just mentioned? Anyway, the
during the Great Awokening? What what drove Lando Lakes to
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have to get rid of the Indian woman on there butter?
That's that's right, they got it was a caricature of
a native person who was exploded when there was a culture,
not a costume. How did that become such a point
for like twenty four hours that they got frightened into
changing their logo.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
So there's no Indian woman on there at the risk
concerning the too serious. That's what the postmodernists do. They
bully you into changing everything and so confuse you that
you just go ahead and take orders from them because.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You don't know what to do or what I was say.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That was on the list of the dumbest things that
happened during the Great Wokening, like the and Jemima Syrup
Lady having to oh look completely different even though it
was modeled after the actual person Uncle Ben's rice. Nobody
was damaged in any way by any of these things.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Nobody. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's a weird period. I
hope we don't ever do that again.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
If you ever read some of the original writings of
critical theory, the idea is you just pick out words
and explain to the poor son of a bit you
spoke them, how they're problematic and you need to uh
deproblematize them. And the point is to so confuse and
(31:56):
discourage people they don't resist anymore. That's the point of
quibbling with every word you use and calling it problematic.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's what the intellectuals do.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But then there's the crowd that goes along with it
and gets all worked up and ahead of steam. That's
like the French Revolution, where it's just like, on a
daily basis, you would change what you're.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
All hot for.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
We can't have clocks are evil, And they go around
all the churches and carved all the clocks out of
the churches because clocks were somehow, we need to come
up with a new way of keeping time one hundred
minutes in an hour or whatever. Right, you get these
fevers for these stupid things that last like a day.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's nuts, that's right.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
They erased the chef from cream of wheat.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yes, oh yeah, yeah, because the systemic raises. Oh and
they got rid of the eskimo and Eskimo pies.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
That's it. What it goes without saying, well, I don't
know if that guy is doing that. Joe Getty quotes
Twitter feed anyway, Oh he is good. Here's one for
you and get it right, would you do? Don't don't
paraphrase what I say. I am a wordsmith. Here it is,
and people don't. I don't think I've ever heard anybody
say this. Being part of an angry mob is fun
(33:08):
and exciting. That's true about human beings.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
They like it. They like I'm a dog. We like it,
we like being part of an angry group.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, there's something evolutionary beneficial to evolution there, obviously.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
But it's not just I'm pissed off. I let my
mask slift. I'm a space alien. I've been sent to
observe y'all, and I'm not impressed.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Admit me quordus to this history. Who prologue like your humble.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Patients, prey gently to hear, kindly, to judge the final
thoughts of Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And Jetty ten. Here's your host, Joe Genning.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
There he is Michaelangelow, pushing the buttons. Michael, final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, I've been writing these down jack. People are sending
in texts about how to get rid of your cold.
We got so far.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Sleep with onions on both ankles, take a bath and
tomato juice and put leeches.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
On your back. Leeches on my back, leeches on the back.
It's all free servery time. Katie Green are a stem Newswoman.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
As a final thought, Katie pregnancy problem nine hundred and
thirty six. You guys, mentioned McDonald's an hour two and
that's all I can think about eating now.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Oh boy boy, it's pretty good. Jack. Final thought for us.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, the only thing we know about this pipe bomb
suspect from January sixth that they finally arrested five years later.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Super wealthy family thirty years.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Old, still living with bomb and dad to rich Ninny anarchists.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh gully My final thought.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Zoo She the confusion philosopher of the twelfth century, felt
that he lived in an error characterized by a pressing
need to go out and act, to rule and manage
the world without first having ruled and manage the soul.
Take time to be morally serious before you would direct others.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'll work on it good. I'm gonna spend my afternoon.
Then I'll mold along. After being morally serious.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It is necessary to first to vote the heart and mind,
to knowing one's nature, understanding its roots, and after that
exerting the meritorious need of maintaining and cultivating.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
First Live on.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Armstrong and Getty wraping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Be bold, Okay, take the Armstrong and Getty challenge.
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I'm strong and get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Bleat Civilization fall apart. It's so much sheep.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Don't say anything, crazy man.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
That's Joe's impersonation of if a sheep could talk.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
I thought that was self evident and see, I think
my art speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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 (00:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Those aren't the entities that I center in my policymaking.
I believe that they're smoking for enough in Olympia.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
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 for Microsoft, new Washington state taxes
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trying to soak corporations in the quote unquote rich are
going to drive high paying jobs right out of the state.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And what did he say? I didn't understand what he said.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
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 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.
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Keep raising taxes and you risk driving companies and are
high paying jobs out of the state.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Brad Smith, I.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Don't center those people in my policies. Well maybe you
should start.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
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 Kati
Wilson have campaigned on raising taxes on wealthy residents and
large companies. Tech has become the political punching bag of choice.
(02:10):
Cast is the villain in the region's affordability crisis, even
as the industry powers Washington's economy.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You know, maybe it's because I'm sick, but I've got
I got less energy for this crowd right like, right
at this moment.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I hate what do you call them? Progressives? Is that
the right name? Or I don't even know where I
hate them? I hate you? Oh you dumb? Think you
hate them? You're dumb?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Wait till I play that. You're completely ignorant for how
the world works.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
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.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's just what the billionaires be.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Just indoctrinated into this fantasy view of how human works
by smart but in cities people and they swallow it
whole and they spout it out. They repeat the mantras.
There's no like original or a critical thought here. You're
just demand. It's just demanded of you that you repeat
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the mantras. So anyway, this Brandy Cruse, the reporter, continues
the conversation with the state Repshawn Scott.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Listen to this. Would you would you like them to leave?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Representative Scott? Do you think that Amazon and Microsoft are
a net good for our state?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Say more about that. When you say that good, what
do you mean?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
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 like
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 if they would
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like to.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Those 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.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Because creating one of the what two or three most
successful companies in the history of the world is easy.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, the workers can just band together and do it
instead of the evil capitalist.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
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. Unicorn, sir, because you
have no connection with reality. Does he believe no understanding
of how the world actually works?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think he believes that. S oh, he does one
hundred percent. Yeah, that's my point.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
He lives in a fantasy world. And he's, you know,
a popularly elected government official in Washington State. Even 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.
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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 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,
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if you want to tax the rich, you have to
have rich people to tax. If you want to protect workers,
they have to have jobs to work in.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's a good point.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Great coverage as usual from our colleagues at Seattle read
seven to seventy am Jalens.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Tip my cap to whoever that reporter was.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
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
their own nonsense, because any answer other than yes is moronic.
I mean, even if they were like relatively abusive, I mean,
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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
amount of tax money you're getting jobs and tax money
you're getting it overwhelming.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Microsoft is not enslaving people, all right.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
The Microsoft cavalry didn't come across the hills conquer Seattle
and has now enslaved the poor residence.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
They're there voluntarily.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You check ass, you know, Jack, where to even start
with somebody that, well, he's a cultist. He's been convinced
of reality that is not real, which reminds me.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I read a great piece I think it was in you.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It was in the Dispatch talking about one of Friedrich
Hayek's books, which I haven't read, and I'm gonna buy
it and add it to the stack of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And at some point, which one I'm gonna go wild?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
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 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 economic challenge quite clear. It's
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not merely a problem of how to allocate given resources,
in other words, settling the usual who gets what and
how debate.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's a knowledge problem.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
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 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,
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what it will do next if it can't find that price,
and what every employee or steel using industry and those
companies employees will do once they are affected. The ripple
effects are endless and unknowable. As Pete Bultkey writes in
The Dispatch and Planners can't know what firms employees are
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willing to pay for a sandwich outside the plant, or
what the sandwich maker, breadmaker, and meat supplier, each with
their own set of countless unknowable circumstances, are willing and.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Able to do to meet the worker's price.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
There's simply too much information underlying even the simplest seeming
economic transactions, and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The free market solves.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All of that and nearly instantaneously, over and over and
over again. It's a miracle of efficiency, 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 you play that last clip that
we played again? We won't play the whole thing, but
(09:40):
I want to hear the first thing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Would you like them to leave? Representative Scott? Do you
think that Amazon and Microsoft are a net good for
our state?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Say more about that. When you say not good, what
do you mean?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Do you think they contribute and add more value to
our state than they detract?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think that workers or they goes off on his rant,
So it's just mind blowing to me. So you think
the state would be better off if Amazon and Microsoft
were somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Well, yes, because the workers could develop a perfect socialist Amazon.
Of course they would have, and they haven't just because
they've been held back by the evil capitalists.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That is so nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Wow, there are arguments where you know, you're I'm right,
but they got a twenty percent decent point of it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But this one is just this one's open and shut.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's fanciful. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, let's talk. That's fine, let's talk.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well yeah, it's a sympody to start with a jackass
like you don't need to go into all that. The answers. Yes,
is a net positive for the state to have Amazon
and Microsoft here?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yes, a freaking course, it is all right.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Every other state would crawl on their knees over broken
glass to have Amazon or Microsoft in their state.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Is it a good thing to saw off your hand
with a rusty saw.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What do you mean by good thing? Expound on that?
Would you?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, expound on that? But well, yeah, that's that's uh,
that's a person who has completely lost their head.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Wow, I would you know.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I'd like to ask a representative Scott. I'm not gonna
threaten him with a hammer or a sickle, but I'd
like to ask him. Why do you say, states, counties,
countries compete feverishly to get these companies to build a headquarters,
build a plant there?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What do you suppose that is? Is it possibly?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Because yes, it's an effing net positive jackass? But cloud, Wow,
there are some ideas so idiotic only an intellectual could
hold them Thomas Sewell. And there are intellectuals who heard
that answer and nodded their head because it made sense
to them. Collectivist Amazon, Yes, let's get to work on that,
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you weirdo.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It'd be like a Soviet you know, tank factory. Every
is efficient and profitable.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
More on the waist there, play it, Steve? Did you
hear the Steve from play It?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Steve died yesterday? Steve Proper? Oh oh no, I didn't. Yeah.
One of the great guitar players of all time. If
you're into guitar. He was old the Stax Record house band,
him and Duck Dunn.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, the Blues Brothers' core essentially was on the Stax
Records geniuses, you know them.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
As a little concerned that we haven't presented you with
enough things to be worried about today, So here's this.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Ke On Sadigi made headlines this year when his company,
Nucleus Genomics, offered discreen embryos for risk of disease and
much much more.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We look at something like height, even eye color, hair color,
intelligence intelligence, we give you acne acne.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
The idea, he says, is to help deliver not just
a healthier child, but a more desirable child too. At
this sprawling facility in central New Jersey, Nucleus scan samples
of embryos conceived through in vitro fertilization for about thirty
thousand dollars. Parents can see the results before picking one
to implant. But as his company grows, the field of
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reproductive genetics itself is an ethical mess.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
According to the MIT Technology Review, Well.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
The term desirable child is not troubling at all. Oh yeah,
no kidding, I think we all went can we talk
about that phrase it's horrifying. Yeah, it's horrifying. It really
is horrifying. Wow, And so kind of like with the
thing with braces, where it went from if you have
(14:27):
really really cricket teeth, you get braces, but everybody else no,
to like practically everybody gets braces. And now if you
don't get braces with a minor thing, you stand.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Out blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So is that what it's going to be like for
kids in ten years? You're gonna let a kid come
into the world that has acne and is under six
foot tall.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Kind of horrible parent, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Yeah, I feel like you need to have a more
desiring into something weird and awful as a race.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Of course, we have no idea, like they said there
at the end, it's got like just an endless list
of ethical problems. We have no idea from a evolutionary standpoint,
what this is going to do. If we start picking
out all six foot, blue eyed, blonde haired, no acne.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Children right right, and anybody who's not repulsed by the
phrase desirable child, you know, is going to go wild.
You know, we can give you the most attractive, intelligent
child that is up to our highest standard. There isn't
up charge, of course, But your neighbors are fathering, mothering,
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they're they're producing desirable children.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
If you want to go one level above, we can
help you do that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh that neighborhood over there, they can only afford undesirable children,
which is an awful thing to think.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We're heading for HG. Wells the time machine.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Right, you're your eloy and you're what's it's your brute creatures.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So I assume everybody would mostly pick tall as opposed
to not tall?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
What?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Hair color? Would people mostly pick blue eyes?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
They seemed to be popular and popular culture wouldn't be
as wouldn't be as universal as tall, because I don't
think anybody picked short.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But some people would pick brown. But be a lot
of blue, be a lot of blonde hair. I suppose,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I don't have an opinion on that, judging by the
hair dying industry, Yes, Katie, your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
This whole thing is sick to me. It is sick.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Yeah, I mean I I just did the IVF thing
for health reasons and the thought of, oh, well, I'm
going to pick his eye color and his hair color,
and how smart he's going to be because I want
him to be desirable.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
You shouldn't be a parent.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Really well, yeah, and then the whole smart thing. I mean,
that's more. That's more complicated than eye color and hair color.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Smart. There's plenty of smart people were miserable. Oh yeah, yeah,
genius is just an other form of crazy. And I'll
be damned if my kid's gonna have a pimple. Come on.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And then, of course the flip side of desirable is undesirable,
so people are having undesirable children.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well that's the second Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Just in case you haven't heard it, there's a pretty
big revelation that came out yesterday around the whole Pete
hag Zed second strike on the Boat story thing. It
turns out there was a JAG officer there, a lawyer,
which is what a JAG officer is a military lawyer
who advises the commanders on whether or not what they
want to do is legal and signed off on yad.
(17:38):
These two guys not clinging to the boat. People love
the word clinging because it sounds so helpless. They weren't
clinging to the boat. They were scrambling across the boat
while communicating. It looked like with somebody on land or
another boat to try to rescue the drugs. In other words,
they were still participating in the effort to transport drugs,
(18:00):
and the jag officer, the lawyer there, told the commander,
you are within your.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Legal rights to blast them. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I don't know if that technically is true or not,
but the idea that it was just kill the ball
and we just went off half cocked, right, no lawyer involved,
is just And then they were clinging to the boat helpless.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
None of that is true.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Now, if you want to argue Rand Paul's style about
whether this is a legitimate use of the military at
all or killing people is justified, we can talk about that.
But yeah, I think to your point, the whole day
went wild and just wanted to snuff people out of
pure meanness. Is the narrative is just It's not true.
So again, let's let some facts come out, you know,
speaking of the drug thing, I was just reading how
(18:43):
Venezuelan gangs and African jah hottists are flooding Europe with cocaine.
They're now, you know, making enormous profits and financing their
horrific Islamist activities and that sort of thing through selling
drugs to Europeans. And I'm reminded of was it Khrushchev
who said I will sell you the rope you used
(19:04):
to hang yourself or whatever the heck it was back
in the day. The Kami's threatening us, the bastards. We
showed them for a while anyway, But that reminds me
that so we're we're financing the very Jihadis who will
bring down Western civilization with the Marxists. You know, I
tell you what, you're in a society that does that.
(19:27):
You're reaping what you sewed, right, I mean, if you
won't protect yourself. All right, enough said I guess, okay,
total change of topic. I thought this was so interesting.
I am not a young woman. I want to make
that clear. I'm not even an old woman. Came across
(19:49):
this piece, Katie by uh fraya India.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Her name is this an interesting name? It was in
the uh in the Free.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Press, and she she says, and jumping anytime I keep
hearing about how there's too much pressure to settle down.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
As a young woman.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Apparently everyone wants to know when you're getting married when
you're having kids. Being single is stigmatized, shamed, pitied. We
supposedly feel so rushed to find partners that we choose wrong,
and that's why relationships are fit.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
She write this in nineteen fifty. Well, that's kind of
her point.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's this pressure to couple up, this feeling of being alone,
blah blah blah. But this has never been my experience,
she writes, my whole life, I've only ever felt the opposite. Yeah,
an overwhelming pressure to be single. Yeah, and looking people
giving you the side eye. If you want to get
married young and have kids, definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right in the sec go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Well, I'm just thinking, like I mean, I know it
varies by age, you know. I know a bunch of
people that are in their twenties that that's the last
thing on their mind. And I also have friends that
are around my age that are like, I better get going.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah. But that's there.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's an internal feeling, isn't it as opposed to an
extra internal.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Post completely No, no, because you know, then there's the
pressure all your friends around your maryl When when are
you going to find your guy?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
You know?
Speaker 9 (21:12):
I mean that happens.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Well in societal pressure forms people's desires all the time.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, your clocks start to tick and scream really loud
when you get to be uh No, it's deafening, so
she writes, in the secular liberal world, I used to
think there were no expectations, no pressures.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
There is, though.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
The pressure today is to avoid anything that might stick,
to run through life without getting snagged on any responsibilities,
without getting tethered to someone else too early. I'm sure
in some cultures there's some pressure to find someone, but
I felt rushed to do many things in modern life,
and settling down has never been one of them.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, Well, I live in a liberal enclave, so I
don't know how much it represents the rest of the
United States on topic, but they're certainly not community pressure
to find a man, get married and have kids around here.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah, And she points out that in a recent podcast,
Emma Watson, the intelligent yet utterly unwise Harry Potter gal
who's been slandering JK rowling even utterly unjustifiable, said something
about women are made to feel like they have no
worth or haven't succeeded in life until they settle down
and fry again. Right, I have a hard time understanding this.
(22:30):
In my world, it's the opposite. The young woman who
settles down has always been seen as wasting her potential. Right,
the single, child free, even divorced woman is strong, wise
and nose or worth.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Absolutely, Yeah, that is just completely made up scenario.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, most of the time, people aren't wondering why young
women aren't having kids, but why we would at all.
Nobody really mentions it. Let's let alone pushes it. And
I'm sure it wasn't always like this, but lately I
see young men praised for committing well, young women are warned.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
We are proud of young men, we pity young women.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
That's an interesting way to look at it, but I
can see I can see where she's coming from. Especially
you know that a lot of the people that are
or the women that are single, it's like that independent woman.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah right, you're calling your own shots.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You're not answering to the patriarchy who tells you need
to get married, Neviki.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Are you implying that the patriarchy is supposed to be
running the household, Because if that's the case, I've gotten
it wrong. Announce you're getting married in your twenties.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And complete.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Strangers will rush to tell you horror stories about affairs
and divorce and heartbreak.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Why would you do that to yourself? Don't do what
I did. Throw those years away.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
We don't scrutinize the twenty five year old who is
still single, but the one who settles down In practice
feels like the only life decision left to disapprove of,
the only one acceptable to judge. Wanting to commit is
the one desire that is discouraged. Treating with suspicion the
only thing in the modern world we're ever told to delay.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I agree with that based on my observation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Then you can add another layer too of it. As
a guy from the rural Midwest, there's the if you
you only do that because there's nothing else to do.
There's nothing better to do, Like the better things are.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
What, I don't know, more money for a corporation, having
exotic vacations, Well you can do.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You can make make money for a corporation anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
So I think they mean, like the entertainment options that
exist on the coasts, like I don't know, concerts and ballgames.
Is a better thing to do than get married, to
have a kid, raise a family, right, yeah, and have
a career.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Yeah, yeah, uh yeah, it's funny. I don't I don't
feel that. I we have three kids, one is married,
one maybe at some point. Oh my dad who turned
eighty five on Thanksgiving Day. I don't know if he
has lost his filter or just doesn't give a crap,
(25:12):
because those are two different things. If you think, you know,
this is gonna make people uncomfortable, but it needs to
be said, or you've just lost the sense of how
uncomfortable it's gonna make people, those are two different situations.
But he was utterly shameless in quizzing my youngest daughter,
Delaney and her man about what's going on here? What's
(25:34):
the timetable? What are we thinking here? Are you gonna
make an honest woman of her?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Or what? Oh? That's always a good time.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And it was playful. It was definitely playful, but it
was it was It caused a great deal of rolling
of eyes and hands in heads in hands. How did
the male handle it with a pretty good sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, it's an uncomfort, which he's one of the reasons
I like him. Yeah, it was shameless. I can't wait any.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
What I like with those kinds of things is how
some people just look like couples. Like I got one
niece and she's had several long term boyfriends, but her
current long term boyfriend, they look like they've been married
for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They just do. They just they should.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They're they're probably gonna get married, and they just look
like they they are a married couple. It's funny up people,
some people just fit together.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You know, as this piece goes on, she gets more
philosophical about there's this pressure to delay, pressure to keep searching,
pressure to do life alone, don't fall too hard too fast,
not to intertwine and entangle, never to lose control, to
keep lives and hearts uncrossed. This impossible tightrope for trying
(26:56):
to walk, this vain attempt to fall in love while
standing perfectly upright without losing our footing depending on someone,
without losing an inch of independence, the pressure and pain
of holding each other at arm's length at all times,
our lives perfectly partitioned, the stakes permanently low.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's really good writing. When's the timetable changed? That?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Clearly they mean in your twenties at least. Yeah, really
making a mistake if you get married and have kids,
but so by forty two you should or what does
they get to that.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
There are well no, she doesn't really write about that.
But the lie, and it's interesting why people would would
be so inncuis about this lie, the lie that you
can wait as long as you want and have kids,
is that it's bad. It's damaging. It hurts people, particularly women.
(27:54):
It gets more and more difficult, it's more and more
prone to you know, trouble for you and the baby.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's long. We're made.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Look, we're made to have babies and start producing them
when we're like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, because we are eat
them by well right, we're.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
At the peak of our physical health.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
And did you tell you can't You can't kill an
eighteen year old if you want to. And granted, you know, okay,
society is changing, you can put that off. But the
idea that, oh, yeah, yeah, have your career, established your career,
then at age forty five, become a mommy. It happens,
and it's okay in a lot of cases, but as
plans go, it's not nearly the best one. But again,
(28:33):
if that has been your plan, you have a child
and you love it, dearly and you're doing your best.
I bless you and wish you nothing but happiness because.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You can answer those emails all day long.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You'll get generalized, though, I'm telling you, generally speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
No are any ways it sounds like you're attacking them.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
To me, it's like no, it's like generally, it's like
generalizing about whether it's a good idea to run off
and join the circus or not. Generally speaking, no, it
is a good comparison, unless you're a dope.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh now I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Insulting my coworkers. Wow, I'm so sorry. I just I
out of control. No, you're taking a much higher set
of risks frozen cons.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
But you'll teach their own samity being a libertarian. I
speak my piece. Now you go, do you? And I
don't particularly care what you do.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So they arrested the pipe bomber from the January sixth thing.
If you remember that whole story. We'll see if there's
any new details on that, and we will finish strong.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Next major recall.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
More than two hundred and fifty thousand cases of shredded
cheese products sold at major retailers including allD, Target, and Walmart,
sold in thirty one states in Puerto Rico under different brands.
Great Lakes Cheese Company says that cheese may contain metal fragments.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
We are grateful for metal fragments and our grated cheese.
When I was a kid, our shredded cheese. Please our tacos,
our taco mix, ad DDT in it and a meat
had rats heads.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Was gone solved this country? Kids are there, weak.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Daddy, there's metal fragments and by taco, shut up and
enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Choke it town son. Yikes. For some reason, I.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Was reminded the other day of the cheese company made
me think of the butter company. Whichever butter company it
was that had an Indian on its logo, and during
Land Lakes right landa Lakes, it was the same company,
wasn't it wasn't that who they just mentioned? Anyway, the
during the Great Awokening? What what drove Lando Lakes to
(30:38):
have to get rid of the Indian woman on there butter?
That's that's right, they got it was a caricature of
a native person who was exploded when there was a culture,
not a costume. How did that become such a point
for like twenty four hours that they got frightened into
changing their logo.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
So there's no Indian woman on there at the risk
concerning the too serious. That's what the postmodernists do. They
bully you into changing everything and so confuse you that
you just go ahead and take orders from them because.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You don't know what to do or what I was say.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That was on the list of the dumbest things that
happened during the Great Wokening, like the and Jemima Syrup
Lady having to oh look completely different even though it
was modeled after the actual person Uncle Ben's rice. Nobody
was damaged in any way by any of these things.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Nobody. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's a weird period. I
hope we don't ever do that again.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
If you ever read some of the original writings of
critical theory, the idea is you just pick out words
and explain to the poor son of a bit you
spoke them, how they're problematic and you need to uh
deproblematize them. And the point is to so confuse and
(31:56):
discourage people they don't resist anymore. That's the point of
quibbling with every word you use and calling it problematic.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's what the intellectuals do.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But then there's the crowd that goes along with it
and gets all worked up and ahead of steam. That's
like the French Revolution, where it's just like, on a
daily basis, you would change what you're.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
All hot for.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
We can't have clocks are evil, And they go around
all the churches and carved all the clocks out of
the churches because clocks were somehow, we need to come
up with a new way of keeping time one hundred
minutes in an hour or whatever. Right, you get these
fevers for these stupid things that last like a day.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's nuts, that's right.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
They erased the chef from cream of wheat.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yes, oh yeah, yeah, because the systemic raises. Oh and
they got rid of the eskimo and Eskimo pies.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
That's it. What it goes without saying, well, I don't
know if that guy is doing that. Joe Getty quotes
Twitter feed anyway, Oh he is good. Here's one for
you and get it right, would you do? Don't don't
paraphrase what I say. I am a wordsmith. Here it is,
and people don't. I don't think I've ever heard anybody
say this. Being part of an angry mob is fun
(33:08):
and exciting. That's true about human beings.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
They like it. They like I'm a dog. We like it,
we like being part of an angry group.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, there's something evolutionary beneficial to evolution there, obviously.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
But it's not just I'm pissed off. I let my
mask slift. I'm a space alien. I've been sent to
observe y'all, and I'm not impressed.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Admit me quordus to this history. Who prologue like your humble.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Patients, prey gently to hear, kindly, to judge the final
thoughts of Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And Jetty ten. Here's your host, Joe Genning.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
There he is Michaelangelow, pushing the buttons. Michael, final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, I've been writing these down jack. People are sending
in texts about how to get rid of your cold.
We got so far.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Sleep with onions on both ankles, take a bath and
tomato juice and put leeches.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
On your back. Leeches on my back, leeches on the back.
It's all free servery time. Katie Green are a stem Newswoman.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
As a final thought, Katie pregnancy problem nine hundred and
thirty six. You guys, mentioned McDonald's an hour two and
that's all I can think about eating now.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Oh boy boy, it's pretty good. Jack. Final thought for us.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, the only thing we know about this pipe bomb
suspect from January sixth that they finally arrested five years later.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Super wealthy family thirty years.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Old, still living with bomb and dad to rich Ninny anarchists.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh gully My final thought.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Zoo She the confusion philosopher of the twelfth century, felt
that he lived in an error characterized by a pressing
need to go out and act, to rule and manage
the world without first having ruled and manage the soul.
Take time to be morally serious before you would direct others.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'll work on it good. I'm gonna spend my afternoon.
Then I'll mold along. After being morally serious.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It is necessary to first to vote the heart and mind,
to knowing one's nature, understanding its roots, and after that
exerting the meritorious need of maintaining and cultivating.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
First Live on.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Armstrong and Getty wraping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
So many people who thanks so a little time go
to Armstrong and Geeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Free shipping from the ang Store. Will you get it
for Christmas? Probably?
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Maybe that's why we're offering free shipping rolled at Ice.
Be bold, Okay, take the Armstrong and Getty challenge.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm strong and get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Bleat Civilization fall apart. It's so much sheep.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Don't say anything, crazy man.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
That's Joe's impersonation of if a sheep could talk.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
I thought that was self evident and see, I think
my art speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
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