March 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Trump got the Panama Canal back & Covid 19 "workplace safety" money wasted
- Cutting off aid to Ukraine
- Sleep facts!
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jack Katie and no Hey Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Delta Airlines has importedly offered passengers on the flight that
Crass landed in Toronto thirty thousand dollars each in Delta credit,
with blackout dates excluded, and only on other upside down flights.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's pretty funny. That is funny.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yikes, how often you read those things. I'll give you
a free night's stay, not available around any holiday or
part of the year where you would ever travel. You
would have to dedicate like seventy two hours of your
life to taking advantage of that. General Yeah, exactly, speaking
of generous offers, this is breaking news, Michael, breaking news.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So much winning, you're gonna get tired of.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
All the winning.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And that's a burrow. Thank god, we've already got one.
If you had to import a burrow from Mexico, now,
what would that cost?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm telling you, my Huacimolei is going to be completely unaffordable.
An investment group led by Blackrock, the giant American asset manager,
which just abandoned all of their woke practices recently. Uh,
they've agreed to buy two ports in Panama that are
owned by a Hong Kong company, and it'd become the
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subject to tensions between Panama and the Trump administration. The
Blackrock will buy the ports, which sit at either end
of the Panama Canal and over forty others from the
Hong Kong conglomerate C K. Hutchinson for about nineteen billion dollars.
So Trump got the canal pack essentially from the evil
grips of China, just indirectly and through a business deal
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and through a bunch of while irresponsible by the mainstream
media's point of view, threats. Yeah, about pretending he was
on the table to use military force to take it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And all that sort of stuff. You know that he does.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right in Hutchinson, which is the It sounds very British,
but it was Hong Kong based, which of course taken
over by the communist Chinese who put their boot heel
on the throat of everyone there. But they're induced by
you know, it's a great opportunity. It looks like the
headwinds are starting to grow. The US is half crazy
they're offering a good price.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A lot of it is the art of the deal.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
It's Trump's negotiation style, which is not my favorite to
deal with with. Somebody on the other side, we had
an agent for a while who was a little trumpy
in his negotiation style, and we much preferred the agent
we currently have and who's been very very good to
us in many in many ways. But we had an
agent for a while. It would just make things so
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difficult on people, make him insane that he saw is
some sort of advantage by just refusing to call people back,
or just all kinds of different things. And I think that,
and he was a New Yorker, that just might be
the New York negotiating thing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Right, We're gonna have a tough guy contest before we
get down to brass tacks to take the measure of
each other.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Or you make people, you make people so discombobulated they
make mistakes, or I don't know exactly what all the.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Theories are, but yeah, yeah, well this one seems to
have borne some uh, you know, some great results, or
so it would seem so onward and upward.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You know, on the tariff thing, which we weren't going
to talk about. But last hour you had the Wall
Street Journal saying an SUV might cost nine thousand dollars
more with the tariffs that have kicked in. I mean,
holy crap, if that happens, that's not going to be
a subtle change.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Right right, Okay, well that's a biggie.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well okay, So in case you were getting bored with
the way the world was, this all got added overnight.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh so much stability, everything the same day after day.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, just just tiring. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You know, I'm kind of rejiggering what I wanted to
talk about and in what order because we kind of
covered that, and I do what was the hot to
trot about that for the first segment?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Was it that it might have been? Anyway? I wanted
to hit this really quickly. We'll get it out of
the way for you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Uh. Carl Demayo, who's the assemblyman San Diego, has been
going after Gavy and some of the incredibly wasteful spending,
which is just distribution of money to Crony's. Got to remember,
when you're talking about government spending, somebody is getting that
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money and it's not selected randomly. It's handing out money
to Crony's and supporters anyway. So Demayo, and this is
being reported by the fabulous Katie Grimes in the California Globe.
There is this twenty five million dollar program COVID nineteen
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workplace outreach program that Gavian Company and the Democrats just
asked a committee in the Assembly to fund all the
way through twenty twenty nine. Okay, twenty five million dollars
a year. They wanted to fund it through twenty twenty
nine a COVID program and then let me flip ahead
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because there's a lot to this. So Demayo and a
staff looked at each of the seventy six organizations that
this twenty five million dollars slush fund was funding. They
pulled their IRS filings and examined their websites. Shockingly or not,
Demayo found that most of the organizations did not have
the qualifications or performance criteria for labor relations or workplace
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safety or workplace outreach, the things that they were supposed
to be getting millions and millions of year dollars for
California taxpayers. Many of them are unions, he said, and
quote a special interest organization getting funding from taxpayers. Quote,
how can taxpayers conclude anything other than this is a
slush fund to fund left wing organizations, especially unions. I'm
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sure that's what it is. Oh yeah, Assemblymen Demio read aloud.
The organizations getting millions of taxpayer money, including congregations organized
for prophetic engagement. What which is engaged in ballot harvesting
during elections? Why are we funding that organization in the
name of COVID nineteen workplace safety or is the funding
going to politics? Gee?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Come on, Carl, is that a rhetorical question.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They're funding right to democracy quote, empowering youth through civic engagement.
Have a whole program that they fund on voter engagement
and empowerment campaigns. They're not COVID nineteen or healthcare experts,
they're not workforce safety experts.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They're a political organization.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Under the umbrella of this is because of COVID, you're
going to teach people you know about voting, and I'm
guessing the the method you're going to use highly pushes
people toward the Democratic.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Party, right, right, tens of millions of dollars of COVID
workplace safety money going to a vote harvesting organization or
here's the ACCE Alliance for Californias for Community Empowerment, a
rent control budyist group.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
What makes people like me so anti tax and why
you know, Milton Friedman said you should oppose all taxes always,
no matter what they're for, no matter how good it sounds.
For it might even be something you're one hundred percent agreement,
because the only way you can stop money from being
wasted is not give it to them in the first place.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's the only power you.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Have, right right, Yeah, the United Respect Education Fund, which
organizes protests in front of Amazon and Walmart saying they're
not ok enough.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
God, that's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
This is really a story in a lot of ways,
whether you're talking about California or Illinois or New York
or the Blue states around the country. And you know
it's COVID, but it's putting up with this stuff is stuff.
I think that the takeaway from this is we are
either so unaware or so passive that we don't punish
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just the most horrendous, felonious theft of tax money. Well
and or, as I pointed out a million times, they've
narrowed the tax base so much.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's so it's gonna be really footing the bill.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
They don't have the numbers, so at least on the
federal level, half people don't pay taxes, so there's half
you can wipe off of giving a crap, and then
you know, percentages smaller and smaller until you get to
high earners and then you get the Murney's or whoever
going out there, Gavin Newsom talking about the rich don't pay.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Their fair share. So, oh my god, it's just so maddening.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
All right, here's the punch line. Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves, Democrat,
of course, moved Assemblying Demayo's Budget committee meeting to Friday
at five pm the next meeting, so that it would
get no news coverage, and if it did, it would
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be on the Friday night news, nobody'd hear it, and
by Monday it'd be it had gone away.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, that's frustrating stuff right there.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It makes you want to, you know, do something impolite
to the structure of government.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
People really say that.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
If people, if taxpayers really paid attention to where their
tax money went, which there should be a revolution in
the streets.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yes, yes, I agree completely.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh all right, well, that would that didn't make me
happier for the day. I don't know what your goal
was there, make me angry and.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Exposing the sins of those who were a thieving taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The vision is righteous.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Hey, you ever listen to Armstrong and Getty, they'll make
you angry and sad. It's fantastic. Oh, it's great.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
If you're ever feeling too cheery you're optimistic, and tune
them in.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Trust me.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Hey, you're on your way to work or on your
home or whatever. It's a nice day, and you listen
to music and get the windows down. Flip over Armstrong
and Getty. You'll be angry and sad when you pull
in the driveway. All right now, I'm gonna flip a
little bit. Oh so, Jack's in favor of you being
blissfully ignorant and being stolen from sheeps to the slaughter.
Sheep to be shared, well, shared, then slaughtered. It doesn't
really matter whatever. No, I guess you'd want to share
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them first because they'd be all bloody anyway. The point
is Jack wants you to be ignorant. I've shared many
sheep in my life, and you do it whilst alive.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
In sheep sharing. I bow to your expertise.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, I did some polling earlier on people's attitudes about
Ukraine and that whole dust up and everything like that,
got some international polling. It's pretty interesting to check in
on that give you a better idea of the situation.
Zelensky is in whether or not people feel the same
way as you do, among other things on the way,
so stay here.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Ukraine and all its European allies clear that they need
to see a piece with guarantees, with enough Ukrainian strength
that Russia doesn't use or sees far as Ukraine says,
with factual backing, as they have done twenty five times
in the last decade, to refit, regroup, and then attack
Ukraine again. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
My current working theory is that. And I don't know
why this is unspoken. I would think they'd be having
these conversations behind the scene scenes, and maybe they are,
but that Trump and maybe the Europeans are saying, look,
shine the deal. We get some you know, troops there
to verify the deal. The United States is heavily involved
in your mining. Those are your guarantees, Those are your guarantees.
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This is way different than all the other guarantees or
all the other you know, agreements that Putin broke. You
didn't have European troops on the ground, and you know,
a whole bunch of US equipment and mine workers and
financial investment going.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
On at the time, right, But well, we explanation, they're
just hoping Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And as people pick up on the hints, why would
you just tell them that.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
All right, that's right. So I don't know. I have
no idea what's going on behind the scenes. I'm actually
kind of interested in hearing this. This is James Stravitus.
He used to run NATO. He is ahead of NATO
for the United States. His view of what this all
means since Trump announced yesterday cutting off all aid Ukraine
were done.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Gosh, let me think it's gotta be Vladimir Putin. And
by the way, we underestimate this, but it's also Shijingping
in China, who is looking covetously at that small democracy
nearby called Taiwan. It benefits Iran, which is pumping military
aid into Russia for the war in Ukraine. It benefits
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North Korea. Gosh, are those countries we want to be
aligned with?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I say no, I.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Set that up poorly, the question being who does it
benefit that Trump announced we're cutting off aid to Ukraine.
He believes it benefits putin president g in Iran. Trump
would say, well, he's trying to force Zelenski to the
you know, into a peace deal, and so then that
will end that war, which is good for everybody. I guess,
so wanted to get to this polling of is a
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Yugov poll of a whole bunch of European countries. Most
Europeans feel Ukraine is not getting enough Western support is
the headline of the pole. Are the current measures against
Russia and aid given to Ukraine enough to prevent a
Russian victory? Overwhelmingly these countries say it's not enough. Denmark
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two thirds, Sweden two third, Spain almost two thirds, Britain
almost sixty percent, Germany fifty four percent, Italy fifty three percent,
fifty two percent, so solid majorities in every country think
that we're not a Western support is not enough for
to stop Russia from winning. However, However, on the different
question of how should your country manage support, it's being
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it's giving to Ukraine currently, increase, reduce or maintain. Having
just heard that poll where two thirds to solid majorities
of all these countries say we're not giving them enough
to keep Russia from winning. They don't want to give more.
Only twenty nine percent of Swedes and that's the highest number.
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I want to give more twenty one percent, of Britain
twenty one percent, Germany seventeen percent, then Mark seventeen percent,
Spain fourteen percent, France eleven percent Italy. So while you
got solid majorities say we're not giving them enough to
keep Russia from winning, tiny percentages say let's give them more.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Does that not tell you everything you need to know
about Europe current to Europe. That's pathetic. Somebody should do something,
somebody should give more, somebody should help them. And now,
if you'll excuse me, I'm off to munch on a
baguette in my beret.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Well, and then how is from the world and the
mainstream media in the United States? The story always that
the United States is abandoning his friend is frent Trump
is abandoning our friends and blowing up, you know, a
relationship that has benefited the world since the end of
World War two, and blah blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Europe.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Who you can see I can see Russia from my house.
I mean, they're actually within shooting distance, many of these
countries of Russia, and they're not interested in increasing enough
to make sure Russa doesn't win. Why should we care
more than them? That's been my question for a long time.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think Europe has the character of a trust fund punk.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It absolutely does.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
In every way, soft, entitled, weak, resentful.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now I want to I want to support Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I believe it's important, and even if it only benefits us,
I still think it's worth it. And we're we're weakening
one of our biggest foes.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
On the planet. But uh, you know, that's been my
ultimate position.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
But the idea that we care more than Europe is very,
very frustrating. And your your example is right, trust fund kids. Yeah, yeah, frustrating.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
There are some in Trump's inner circle that are in
favor of giving Ukraine to Russia, giving Taiwan to China.
It'll be fine if you're on has a new we
can manage that. I need to pull back from the
Middle East, going to be just going to be a
different world.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And and even if you're right, even if you're one
hundred percent right, the getting there is going to be
really violent and turbulent.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Trump's argument, it might be that all that's going to
happen no matter what, whether we try to stop it
or don't try to stop it, that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Fascinating debate which we don't have nearly the time for,
but we will engage with the rest of the world
in the months to come. Much more to come about
your sleep, for instance, and how it affects your health.
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
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Speaker 2 (17:50):
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Speaker 8 (17:51):
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Speaker 2 (17:54):
He said, col yeah, nakdden yeah. The glue thing that
I forgot to mention it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I got Gorilla like their version of super glue on
my lips the other day. What now you and you're
doing in your private life. I am huffing gorilla glue.
I'm sorry, Hati's making me. How did you get gorilla
glue on your lips?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Face? Yep, need to hear this story.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Authorities are unsure precisely how the gorilla glue got to
be on my lips, but it has to do with
the fact that I was eating breakfast. I got to
sing on my thumb. That kind of splits open and
it's painful, but if you can superglue it, it holds it
together and it heals. So I did that, and then
I wiped off the needle that I'd used, because after
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the first time you use the damn stuff, you gotta
remount the opening every time.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
That's the worst part of superglue and always has been,
is most of the time the containers are one use
container because you're never.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Going to be can't get any out of it ever again.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So again it was just the needle in the paper
town owl. And then assuming the glue was dry, so
I could go ahead and have the paper towel on
the table as I was eating my protein bar, completely worthless, tasteless,
trying to lose weight. Actually they're pretty good bars, but breakfast,
and I don't know if i'd like touched my finger
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to it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And then but I realized, wait a minute, what's that
weird feeling?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I've got like paper towel glued to my lips.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
So it was, but you didn't get your lips glued together.
No though, But that's what I was afraid of, Yeah,
because then you'd have had to do. Will the nail
polish remover work on gorilla glue the way it does
on super glue?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I suspect it would, But I don't want that in
my mouth either. No. I just want to let you know.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
For the small price of about four dollars, you can
get something called liquid skin at your local drug store.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's a reallyquid bit. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You put it over a little cuts like that and
it works like a band aid and it won't glue
your lips together.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, about your sores? What does your leprosy doctor recommend?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He won't see me except from a distance. I can't
hear him clearly.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
What.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
No, it's a I don't know if that would work, Katie.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's got to be sturdier than that, because there's a
lot of stress on my thumb right there.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's all means keep glowing your lips. Shut all right,
you shut up? Who asked you?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But that's a life hack, right. You get a paper cut,
you use super glue to glue it together.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah. Yeah, and it's super durable.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
If it's like on your thumb that you like play
golf with, and musical instruments and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's gotta be tough anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
An update to a previous story about Assemblymen of California
Carl Demayo uncovering the incredible waste and abuse. Alphons Nominus,
who's a friend, says, and this is worth keeping in
mind when you look at you know, or listen to
radio reporting and politics and stuff. I think Tomayo is
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correct about the twenty five million dollar stuff, but it's
worth noting that he also made a big deal about
wanting various organization to provide him with information. They pointed
out that the info was in the package of stuff
the committee members were given already. He also called it
the COVID, YadA, YadA, YadA, and they pointed out that
it was renamed already, and the sea stands for California.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Now, now that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, if it was COVID and you just change it
to California. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not still the same. Right,
I'm gonna call no harm, no foul on that one.
During the hearing, he said he might not attend future
hearings because he doesn't have faith in the accuracy of
the info department provided by the Department of Finance and
the legislative analyst, which is to say, he seems to
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be grand standing as much as legitimately asking questions, which
is his Here his modus operandi. Saying he might not
attend hearings, he makes it easier for the speaker to
replace him so he could grandstand some more. Those who
worked with him in San Diego say privately that while
he is right about most political stuff and is an
effective critic of waste, he is also all about taking
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credit for everything, with lots of grand standing and pissing
off every one of the encounters, including political allies, which
is definitely what I've heard through the years. And then
final note from mister Nanymous. It's pretty awesome though that
the Democrats punished a gay guy, a Muslim guy, and
a woman of color because they are Republicans who are
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taking on the bureaucracy shows how they only adhere to
identity politics when it aligns precisely with their bigger priority
of ruling with an iron fist.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That part is true, faux show. Moving along to what
I'd intended to talk about. You're not gonna like this,
but you're gonna take it like a man. Unless you're
a woman, then take it like a woman. New study
published in the Journal of Immunology finds a direct link
between poor sleep quality and significant changes and specialized immune
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cells called monocytes. These altered cells appear to drive widespread inflammation,
the same type of inflammation associated with obesity and numerous
chronic diseases. The research shows how even a nights sleep
deprivation triggers an increase in inflammatory non classical monocytes, immune
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cells that amplify inflammation. Study authors examined three factors increasingly
recognized as critical determinants of overall health, sleep, body weight,
and inflammation. Bah our findings underscore are growing public health challenge.
Advancements in technology, prolonged screen time, and shifting societal norms
are increasingly disruptive to regular sleeping hours. This disruption sleep
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has profound implications for immune health and overall well being.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So why did you say you're not going to like this?
Because practically everybody doesn't get as much sleep as.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
They're supposed to, and practically everybody knows they should and
struggles with it and probably doesn't want to hear about
it anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I'm going through the worst sleeping of my life last
several months. It's really frustrating. I dread going to bed,
and you're sick. But correlation does not prove causation.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It was going anyway, it was going on before I
was sick. Sure, yeah, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
The studies more compelling finding emerged when researchers discovered that
poor sleep quality correlated with increased non classical monocytes regardless
of body weight. Even lean participants who experienced sleep disruption
showed elevated levels of this, suggesting that sleep deprivation itself,
independent of obesity, may trigger inflammatory responses.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Wouldn't that be something if the whole obesity thing is
because we don't sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Enough, Oh my gosh, wow, Or even if it's forty
percent of it or you know, a third, that would
be something. Final note, these findings highlights sleep's crucial role
in immune regulation.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Where is it to.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Sleep quality matters as much as quantity.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
My guilt is a loves must gotch late in the evening,
you know. And there's just no doubt that alcohol use
reduces the quality of sleep, even if you're in bed
for a long time.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Sleep efficiency, I don't know about my sleep quality.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't have really any idea.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I got to get one of them apps or something.
Sleep efficiency the percentage of time in bed actually spent sleeping,
it was significantly lower, and obese individuals those with higher
body weights also experienced more wake after sleep onset periods,
indicating fragmented sleep patterns that may contribute to immune dysregulation. Anyway,
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we'll post this or repost this at armstrong and getty
dot com in Today's hot Links, and if you want
to read more about it, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But then I wanted to get to this too unless
you had another comment on it. This is also about
sleep and the whole blue light thing. Yeah, well, warning,
exposure to blue enriched light significantly improved sleep quality and
stability of daily activity patterns in older adults.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So they've tried.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
A news study from the University as Surius found that
the right light at the right time makes a significant
difference in adults older adults sleep and daily activity patterns.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Morning.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yes, I don't understand why the blue light things still
exists if it's so bad for us now. I remember
hearing once is this true or not that the blue
light only became a thing because of the movie. What
was that Harrison Ford movie about the future way back
in the day, blade Light Runner? That in Blade Runner
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they're super fancy computers. This is before everybody had a
computer had a blue glow come out of it. So
when the computers got started, they kind of like an
Elon Musk sort of way, thought it'd be cool to
have blue light coming out of the computers, just like
in the futuristic movies showed. And then that's where blue
light blue light came from originally. I don't know if
that's true or not. I remember reading that. But if
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blue light disrupts our sleep the way they say, then
get rid of it. Why do we have it in
all our screens? And I don't also know the answer
to this. On your iPhone for instance, or any Apple product,
I can go on there right now and turn my
blue light on or off. Look it's off. I keep
mine off all day long. If I have mine not now,
it distorts the colors so things don't look quite the
way they're supposed to. But I don't care if I
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have my blue light off all the time. Does that
does looking at my screen do the same kind of harm?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Or No? I haven't heard an answer to that question.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Uh No, I suspect from what I've heard that it's better.
The interesting part about oldsters, and it's not just blue
light at night, because you need it from like sunlight
in the morning. And you know, it's funny. I was
going to bring this up in a different context. We
are so designed to rise with the sunlight and get
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to work and shut it down when it's dark. All
of our body regular, our hormonal flow, are neurofunction. It's
all coded to daylight. My obvious reasons were diurnal.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
My dad's close to live that way his whole life
and certainly up until he left home because they didn't
have electricity. So that's what everybody did because you know
what else you get, Yeah, it's got.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
To be good for you.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So the idea of getting blue light in the morning,
extra blue light as an older person, here's why part
of the problem lies in the aging eye.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
As we get older, our eyes undergo natural changes.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The lenses yellow pupils get smaller, and we have fewer
photoreceptor cells as our bodies shut down to get us
out of the way. For the younger generation, all these
changes mean less light reaches the brain's master clock, located
in a tiny region called the hypothalamic super chismatic nuclei SCN.
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The yellowing lenses particularly problematic because it filters out blue
light wavelengths. Specifically, it's like wearing subtle yellow sunglasses all
the time. This matters because blue light is especially powerful
at regulating our body clocks. With less blue light reaching
their brains, older adults, internal clocks can become weaker and
more prone to disruption. And so if you have a
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specific program of exposing yourself to extra blue light at
specific times, your body says, oh, it's like you know, honestly,
as a musician, it's like when you lose the groove
of a song and the drummer's off a little bit,
everybody's like no, no, oh no, And then when you
find the groove again, it's like, oh, okay, all right,
everything's going to be okay, and that we actually have
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that as we get older with the way light.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Triggers are brains. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
So like, for instance, I got custom lens replacement thanks
to Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley, but I got
my lenses replaced, so the yellowing lenses I had removed,
I know, have perfectly clear lenses, made all the colors
better and everything like that. But that's also beneficial to
me from a blue light standpoint. Yeah, in the morning maybe,
So that might be a recommendation for avoiding the lenses
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yellowing over your lifetime right there. That's interesting, But that
that's always been true for human beings. But you weren't
staring at blue light screens prior to right, you know,
twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, but older folks having trouble speaking, not speaking sleeping,
is uh? I mean, that's been true like for all
of human existence. And this is part of the reason why,
because you know, we focus on the blue light keeping
us up at night, but the blue light waking us
up in the right way at the right time every day.
That goes backward in effect and helps us know when to.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Go to sleep. Huh.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
But so then my clear lens of making the blue
light worse at night better in the morning.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
It could, Yeah, depending on what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah, although I turn off my blue light on my
iPhone and I still have never heard an answer of
does that actually work or do any good? If you know,
any of you Silicon Valley geniuses, please text four one
five nine five KFTC. I'd like to actually know. We
should all be doing that. If it makes a difference anyway,
We will finish strong next.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Strong.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
The FBI hasn't had obviously, they haven't looked at the
thousands of pages of documents that they've just received Friday.
But Cash has a team going through them, and it's
always about protecting the victim. But you know what, we
believe in transparency, and America has the right to know
the Biden administration set on these documents, no one did
anything with them, and why were they sitting in the
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Southern District of New York. I want a full report
on that, and everything's going to come out to the public.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
The public has the right to know.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I feel like the Trump team kind of painted themselves
into a corner on the whole Epstein files thing, promising
some were insinuating there's some really exciting details that were
going to come out that we're being hidden from you,
and they ain't got the exciting details, as my guess.
And I mean, they were waving around some binders the
(31:52):
other day with the names are in here, and then
turned out there wasn't really anything and those binders specifically.
So I don't know how this is going to play out.
Are you how you're going to satisfy the crowd that
thinks there's really a giant scandal there, right?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And what I don't know enough about.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I suppose there's some people I could ask is the
ethics of if a person who is not guilty of
anything has their name come up in an investigation, what
are the ethics of putting that out, especially if that
brings them like harm and misery or lost a reputation,
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or god forbid, some lunatic you know, decides to attack
them or something. I don't know how that works.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Yeah, I saw some interesting stuff online yesterday about people
really upset about this Epstein file thing.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
So I don't know. Well, there's Jack Agan, there's show Man.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's kind of pus this show with Katie Green and
Michael Langelo.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
There are friends they're like mand again, they're our radios.
So look there they're final thought people where they have
to go. Hey, it's Stabby the clown. That thing is
so creepy.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Let's get to final thoughts with your host, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew.
There he is pressing the buttons are technical director Michaelangelo.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Michael final thought. I blame sporting events.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I should be getting a good night's sleep, but I
always always.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Get, you know, stuck watching a sporting event. I guess
I just got to turn them off. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Indeed, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
I have posted a new Katie's Corner at Armstrong and
Getty dot com And if you go there you can
see this live cam of the big Bear Bald Eagles.
Their babies are hatching right now and they're very cute.
These animals are majestic.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Majestic the national bird. Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Jack Gee? Yes, bigs, yep, that's gold shirts Jack. Final thought.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
You know, I've been saying for years that the State
of the Union address isn't even really worth watching, and
that's what Trump's basically doing tonight and guaranteed it's worth watching.
I mean, there's almost no chance that newsworthy stuff doesn't
come out of this one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Absolutely, it will be much more substantive than these things
virtually ever are. It's going to be fairly simple, straightforward
and according to the White House powerful, well.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
What the Resistance has planned, and just all the way
around the coverage of it. My final thought is it'll
be powerful.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Okay, Armstrong and Getty wraping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Buy your avocados while you can still afford them.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. He'll play though I'm
strong and get you.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Is our job to take the fun out of everything
for everyone, We're good at it. Okay, do you think
you just fell out of a coconut tree?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Try a time of blood for dam't play. Let's go
with a fine. What would James Madison say? I'm gonna
scratch my butt and where's my check? And I want
to watch the Real world right.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing note, thanks.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
All very much.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Delta Airlines has importedly offered passengers on the flight that
Crass landed in Toronto thirty thousand dollars each in Delta credit,
with blackout dates excluded, and only on other upside down flights.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's pretty funny. That is funny.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yikes, how often you read those things. I'll give you
a free night's stay, not available around any holiday or
part of the year where you would ever travel. You
would have to dedicate like seventy two hours of your
life to taking advantage of that. General Yeah, exactly, speaking
of generous offers, this is breaking news, Michael, breaking news.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So much winning, you're gonna get tired of.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
All the winning.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And that's a burrow. Thank god, we've already got one.
If you had to import a burrow from Mexico, now,
what would that cost?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm telling you, my Huacimolei is going to be completely unaffordable.
An investment group led by Blackrock, the giant American asset manager,
which just abandoned all of their woke practices recently. Uh,
they've agreed to buy two ports in Panama that are
owned by a Hong Kong company, and it'd become the
(01:36):
subject to tensions between Panama and the Trump administration. The
Blackrock will buy the ports, which sit at either end
of the Panama Canal and over forty others from the
Hong Kong conglomerate C K. Hutchinson for about nineteen billion dollars.
So Trump got the canal pack essentially from the evil
grips of China, just indirectly and through a business deal
(01:58):
and through a bunch of while irresponsible by the mainstream
media's point of view, threats. Yeah, about pretending he was
on the table to use military force to take it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And all that sort of stuff. You know that he does.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right in Hutchinson, which is the It sounds very British,
but it was Hong Kong based, which of course taken
over by the communist Chinese who put their boot heel
on the throat of everyone there. But they're induced by
you know, it's a great opportunity. It looks like the
headwinds are starting to grow. The US is half crazy
they're offering a good price.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A lot of it is the art of the deal.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
It's Trump's negotiation style, which is not my favorite to
deal with with. Somebody on the other side, we had
an agent for a while who was a little trumpy
in his negotiation style, and we much preferred the agent
we currently have and who's been very very good to
us in many in many ways. But we had an
agent for a while. It would just make things so
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difficult on people, make him insane that he saw is
some sort of advantage by just refusing to call people back,
or just all kinds of different things. And I think that,
and he was a New Yorker, that just might be
the New York negotiating thing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Right, We're gonna have a tough guy contest before we
get down to brass tacks to take the measure of
each other.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Or you make people, you make people so discombobulated they
make mistakes, or I don't know exactly what all the.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Theories are, but yeah, yeah, well this one seems to
have borne some uh, you know, some great results, or
so it would seem so onward and upward.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You know, on the tariff thing, which we weren't going
to talk about. But last hour you had the Wall
Street Journal saying an SUV might cost nine thousand dollars
more with the tariffs that have kicked in. I mean,
holy crap, if that happens, that's not going to be
a subtle change.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Right right, Okay, well that's a biggie.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well okay, So in case you were getting bored with
the way the world was, this all got added overnight.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh so much stability, everything the same day after day.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, just just tiring. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You know, I'm kind of rejiggering what I wanted to
talk about and in what order because we kind of
covered that, and I do what was the hot to
trot about that for the first segment?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Was it that it might have been? Anyway? I wanted
to hit this really quickly. We'll get it out of
the way for you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Uh. Carl Demayo, who's the assemblyman San Diego, has been
going after Gavy and some of the incredibly wasteful spending,
which is just distribution of money to Crony's. Got to remember,
when you're talking about government spending, somebody is getting that
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money and it's not selected randomly. It's handing out money
to Crony's and supporters anyway. So Demayo, and this is
being reported by the fabulous Katie Grimes in the California Globe.
There is this twenty five million dollar program COVID nineteen
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workplace outreach program that Gavian Company and the Democrats just
asked a committee in the Assembly to fund all the
way through twenty twenty nine. Okay, twenty five million dollars
a year. They wanted to fund it through twenty twenty
nine a COVID program and then let me flip ahead
(05:35):
because there's a lot to this. So Demayo and a
staff looked at each of the seventy six organizations that
this twenty five million dollars slush fund was funding. They
pulled their IRS filings and examined their websites. Shockingly or not,
Demayo found that most of the organizations did not have
the qualifications or performance criteria for labor relations or workplace
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safety or workplace outreach, the things that they were supposed
to be getting millions and millions of year dollars for
California taxpayers. Many of them are unions, he said, and
quote a special interest organization getting funding from taxpayers. Quote,
how can taxpayers conclude anything other than this is a
slush fund to fund left wing organizations, especially unions. I'm
(06:18):
sure that's what it is. Oh yeah, Assemblymen Demio read aloud.
The organizations getting millions of taxpayer money, including congregations organized
for prophetic engagement. What which is engaged in ballot harvesting
during elections? Why are we funding that organization in the
name of COVID nineteen workplace safety or is the funding
going to politics? Gee?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Come on, Carl, is that a rhetorical question.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They're funding right to democracy quote, empowering youth through civic engagement.
Have a whole program that they fund on voter engagement
and empowerment campaigns. They're not COVID nineteen or healthcare experts,
they're not workforce safety experts.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They're a political organization.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Under the umbrella of this is because of COVID, you're
going to teach people you know about voting, and I'm
guessing the the method you're going to use highly pushes
people toward the Democratic.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Party, right, right, tens of millions of dollars of COVID
workplace safety money going to a vote harvesting organization or
here's the ACCE Alliance for Californias for Community Empowerment, a
rent control budyist group.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
What makes people like me so anti tax and why
you know, Milton Friedman said you should oppose all taxes always,
no matter what they're for, no matter how good it sounds.
For it might even be something you're one hundred percent agreement,
because the only way you can stop money from being
wasted is not give it to them in the first place.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's the only power you.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Have, right right, Yeah, the United Respect Education Fund, which
organizes protests in front of Amazon and Walmart saying they're
not ok enough.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
God, that's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
This is really a story in a lot of ways,
whether you're talking about California or Illinois or New York
or the Blue states around the country. And you know
it's COVID, but it's putting up with this stuff is stuff.
I think that the takeaway from this is we are
either so unaware or so passive that we don't punish
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just the most horrendous, felonious theft of tax money. Well
and or, as I pointed out a million times, they've
narrowed the tax base so much.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's so it's gonna be really footing the bill.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
They don't have the numbers, so at least on the
federal level, half people don't pay taxes, so there's half
you can wipe off of giving a crap, and then
you know, percentages smaller and smaller until you get to
high earners and then you get the Murney's or whoever
going out there, Gavin Newsom talking about the rich don't pay.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Their fair share. So, oh my god, it's just so maddening.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
All right, here's the punch line. Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves, Democrat,
of course, moved Assemblying Demayo's Budget committee meeting to Friday
at five pm the next meeting, so that it would
get no news coverage, and if it did, it would
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be on the Friday night news, nobody'd hear it, and
by Monday it'd be it had gone away.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, that's frustrating stuff right there.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It makes you want to, you know, do something impolite
to the structure of government.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
People really say that.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
If people, if taxpayers really paid attention to where their
tax money went, which there should be a revolution in
the streets.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yes, yes, I agree completely.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh all right, well, that would that didn't make me
happier for the day. I don't know what your goal
was there, make me angry and.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Exposing the sins of those who were a thieving taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The vision is righteous.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Hey, you ever listen to Armstrong and Getty, they'll make
you angry and sad. It's fantastic. Oh, it's great.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
If you're ever feeling too cheery you're optimistic, and tune
them in.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Trust me.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Hey, you're on your way to work or on your
home or whatever. It's a nice day, and you listen
to music and get the windows down. Flip over Armstrong
and Getty. You'll be angry and sad when you pull
in the driveway. All right now, I'm gonna flip a
little bit. Oh so, Jack's in favor of you being
blissfully ignorant and being stolen from sheeps to the slaughter.
Sheep to be shared, well, shared, then slaughtered. It doesn't
really matter whatever. No, I guess you'd want to share
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them first because they'd be all bloody anyway. The point
is Jack wants you to be ignorant. I've shared many
sheep in my life, and you do it whilst alive.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
In sheep sharing. I bow to your expertise.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, I did some polling earlier on people's attitudes about
Ukraine and that whole dust up and everything like that,
got some international polling. It's pretty interesting to check in
on that give you a better idea of the situation.
Zelensky is in whether or not people feel the same
way as you do, among other things on the way,
so stay here.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Ukraine and all its European allies clear that they need
to see a piece with guarantees, with enough Ukrainian strength
that Russia doesn't use or sees far as Ukraine says,
with factual backing, as they have done twenty five times
in the last decade, to refit, regroup, and then attack
Ukraine again. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
My current working theory is that. And I don't know
why this is unspoken. I would think they'd be having
these conversations behind the scene scenes, and maybe they are,
but that Trump and maybe the Europeans are saying, look,
shine the deal. We get some you know, troops there
to verify the deal. The United States is heavily involved
in your mining. Those are your guarantees, Those are your guarantees.
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This is way different than all the other guarantees or
all the other you know, agreements that Putin broke. You
didn't have European troops on the ground, and you know,
a whole bunch of US equipment and mine workers and
financial investment going.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
On at the time, right, But well, we explanation, they're
just hoping Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And as people pick up on the hints, why would
you just tell them that.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
All right, that's right. So I don't know. I have
no idea what's going on behind the scenes. I'm actually
kind of interested in hearing this. This is James Stravitus.
He used to run NATO. He is ahead of NATO
for the United States. His view of what this all
means since Trump announced yesterday cutting off all aid Ukraine
were done.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Gosh, let me think it's gotta be Vladimir Putin. And
by the way, we underestimate this, but it's also Shijingping
in China, who is looking covetously at that small democracy
nearby called Taiwan. It benefits Iran, which is pumping military
aid into Russia for the war in Ukraine. It benefits
(12:57):
North Korea. Gosh, are those countries we want to be
aligned with?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I say no, I.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Set that up poorly, the question being who does it
benefit that Trump announced we're cutting off aid to Ukraine.
He believes it benefits putin president g in Iran. Trump
would say, well, he's trying to force Zelenski to the
you know, into a peace deal, and so then that
will end that war, which is good for everybody. I guess,
so wanted to get to this polling of is a
(13:29):
Yugov poll of a whole bunch of European countries. Most
Europeans feel Ukraine is not getting enough Western support is
the headline of the pole. Are the current measures against
Russia and aid given to Ukraine enough to prevent a
Russian victory? Overwhelmingly these countries say it's not enough. Denmark
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two thirds, Sweden two third, Spain almost two thirds, Britain
almost sixty percent, Germany fifty four percent, Italy fifty three percent,
fifty two percent, so solid majorities in every country think
that we're not a Western support is not enough for
to stop Russia from winning. However, However, on the different
question of how should your country manage support, it's being
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it's giving to Ukraine currently, increase, reduce or maintain. Having
just heard that poll where two thirds to solid majorities
of all these countries say we're not giving them enough
to keep Russia from winning. They don't want to give more.
Only twenty nine percent of Swedes and that's the highest number.
(14:37):
I want to give more twenty one percent, of Britain
twenty one percent, Germany seventeen percent, then Mark seventeen percent,
Spain fourteen percent, France eleven percent Italy. So while you
got solid majorities say we're not giving them enough to
keep Russia from winning, tiny percentages say let's give them more.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Does that not tell you everything you need to know
about Europe current to Europe. That's pathetic. Somebody should do something,
somebody should give more, somebody should help them. And now,
if you'll excuse me, I'm off to munch on a
baguette in my beret.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Well, and then how is from the world and the
mainstream media in the United States? The story always that
the United States is abandoning his friend is frent Trump
is abandoning our friends and blowing up, you know, a
relationship that has benefited the world since the end of
World War two, and blah blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Europe.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Who you can see I can see Russia from my house.
I mean, they're actually within shooting distance, many of these
countries of Russia, and they're not interested in increasing enough
to make sure Russa doesn't win. Why should we care
more than them? That's been my question for a long time.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think Europe has the character of a trust fund punk.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It absolutely does.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
In every way, soft, entitled, weak, resentful.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now I want to I want to support Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I believe it's important, and even if it only benefits us,
I still think it's worth it. And we're we're weakening
one of our biggest foes.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
On the planet. But uh, you know, that's been my
ultimate position.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
But the idea that we care more than Europe is very,
very frustrating. And your your example is right, trust fund kids. Yeah, yeah, frustrating.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
There are some in Trump's inner circle that are in
favor of giving Ukraine to Russia, giving Taiwan to China.
It'll be fine if you're on has a new we
can manage that. I need to pull back from the
Middle East, going to be just going to be a
different world.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And and even if you're right, even if you're one
hundred percent right, the getting there is going to be
really violent and turbulent.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Trump's argument, it might be that all that's going to
happen no matter what, whether we try to stop it
or don't try to stop it, that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Fascinating debate which we don't have nearly the time for,
but we will engage with the rest of the world
in the months to come. Much more to come about
your sleep, for instance, and how it affects your health.
Armstrong and Getty.
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I forgot to mention it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I got Gorilla like their version of super glue on
my lips the other day. What now you and you're
doing in your private life. I am huffing gorilla glue.
I'm sorry, Hati's making me. How did you get gorilla
glue on your lips?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Face? Yep, need to hear this story.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Authorities are unsure precisely how the gorilla glue got to
be on my lips, but it has to do with
the fact that I was eating breakfast. I got to
sing on my thumb. That kind of splits open and
it's painful, but if you can superglue it, it holds it
together and it heals. So I did that, and then
I wiped off the needle that I'd used, because after
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the first time you use the damn stuff, you gotta
remount the opening every time.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
That's the worst part of superglue and always has been,
is most of the time the containers are one use
container because you're never.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Going to be can't get any out of it ever again.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So again it was just the needle in the paper
town owl. And then assuming the glue was dry, so
I could go ahead and have the paper towel on
the table as I was eating my protein bar, completely worthless, tasteless,
trying to lose weight. Actually they're pretty good bars, but breakfast,
and I don't know if i'd like touched my finger
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to it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And then but I realized, wait a minute, what's that
weird feeling?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I've got like paper towel glued to my lips.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
So it was, but you didn't get your lips glued together.
No though, But that's what I was afraid of, Yeah,
because then you'd have had to do. Will the nail
polish remover work on gorilla glue the way it does
on super glue?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I suspect it would, But I don't want that in
my mouth either. No. I just want to let you know.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
For the small price of about four dollars, you can
get something called liquid skin at your local drug store.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's a reallyquid bit. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You put it over a little cuts like that and
it works like a band aid and it won't glue
your lips together.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, about your sores? What does your leprosy doctor recommend?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He won't see me except from a distance. I can't
hear him clearly.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
What.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
No, it's a I don't know if that would work, Katie.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's got to be sturdier than that, because there's a
lot of stress on my thumb right there.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's all means keep glowing your lips. Shut all right,
you shut up? Who asked you?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But that's a life hack, right. You get a paper cut,
you use super glue to glue it together.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah. Yeah, and it's super durable.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
If it's like on your thumb that you like play
golf with, and musical instruments and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's gotta be tough anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
An update to a previous story about Assemblymen of California
Carl Demayo uncovering the incredible waste and abuse. Alphons Nominus,
who's a friend, says, and this is worth keeping in
mind when you look at you know, or listen to
radio reporting and politics and stuff. I think Tomayo is
(20:54):
correct about the twenty five million dollar stuff, but it's
worth noting that he also made a big deal about
wanting various organization to provide him with information. They pointed
out that the info was in the package of stuff
the committee members were given already. He also called it
the COVID, YadA, YadA, YadA, and they pointed out that
it was renamed already, and the sea stands for California.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Now, now that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, if it was COVID and you just change it
to California. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not still the same. Right,
I'm gonna call no harm, no foul on that one.
During the hearing, he said he might not attend future
hearings because he doesn't have faith in the accuracy of
the info department provided by the Department of Finance and
the legislative analyst, which is to say, he seems to
(21:38):
be grand standing as much as legitimately asking questions, which
is his Here his modus operandi. Saying he might not
attend hearings, he makes it easier for the speaker to
replace him so he could grandstand some more. Those who
worked with him in San Diego say privately that while
he is right about most political stuff and is an
effective critic of waste, he is also all about taking
(21:59):
credit for everything, with lots of grand standing and pissing
off every one of the encounters, including political allies, which
is definitely what I've heard through the years. And then
final note from mister Nanymous. It's pretty awesome though that
the Democrats punished a gay guy, a Muslim guy, and
a woman of color because they are Republicans who are
(22:21):
taking on the bureaucracy shows how they only adhere to
identity politics when it aligns precisely with their bigger priority
of ruling with an iron fist.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That part is true, faux show. Moving along to what
I'd intended to talk about. You're not gonna like this,
but you're gonna take it like a man. Unless you're
a woman, then take it like a woman. New study
published in the Journal of Immunology finds a direct link
between poor sleep quality and significant changes and specialized immune
(22:55):
cells called monocytes. These altered cells appear to drive widespread inflammation,
the same type of inflammation associated with obesity and numerous
chronic diseases. The research shows how even a nights sleep
deprivation triggers an increase in inflammatory non classical monocytes, immune
(23:15):
cells that amplify inflammation. Study authors examined three factors increasingly
recognized as critical determinants of overall health, sleep, body weight,
and inflammation. Bah our findings underscore are growing public health challenge.
Advancements in technology, prolonged screen time, and shifting societal norms
are increasingly disruptive to regular sleeping hours. This disruption sleep
(23:39):
has profound implications for immune health and overall well being.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So why did you say you're not going to like this?
Because practically everybody doesn't get as much sleep as.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
They're supposed to, and practically everybody knows they should and
struggles with it and probably doesn't want to hear about
it anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I'm going through the worst sleeping of my life last
several months. It's really frustrating. I dread going to bed,
and you're sick. But correlation does not prove causation.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It was going anyway, it was going on before I
was sick. Sure, yeah, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
The studies more compelling finding emerged when researchers discovered that
poor sleep quality correlated with increased non classical monocytes regardless
of body weight. Even lean participants who experienced sleep disruption
showed elevated levels of this, suggesting that sleep deprivation itself,
independent of obesity, may trigger inflammatory responses.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Wouldn't that be something if the whole obesity thing is
because we don't sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Enough, Oh my gosh, wow, Or even if it's forty
percent of it or you know, a third, that would
be something. Final note, these findings highlights sleep's crucial role
in immune regulation.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Where is it to.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Sleep quality matters as much as quantity.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
My guilt is a loves must gotch late in the evening,
you know. And there's just no doubt that alcohol use
reduces the quality of sleep, even if you're in bed
for a long time.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Sleep efficiency, I don't know about my sleep quality.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't have really any idea.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I got to get one of them apps or something.
Sleep efficiency the percentage of time in bed actually spent sleeping,
it was significantly lower, and obese individuals those with higher
body weights also experienced more wake after sleep onset periods,
indicating fragmented sleep patterns that may contribute to immune dysregulation. Anyway,
(25:39):
we'll post this or repost this at armstrong and getty
dot com in Today's hot Links, and if you want
to read more about it, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But then I wanted to get to this too unless
you had another comment on it. This is also about
sleep and the whole blue light thing. Yeah, well, warning,
exposure to blue enriched light significantly improved sleep quality and
stability of daily activity patterns in older adults.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So they've tried.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
A news study from the University as Surius found that
the right light at the right time makes a significant
difference in adults older adults sleep and daily activity patterns.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Morning.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yes, I don't understand why the blue light things still
exists if it's so bad for us now. I remember
hearing once is this true or not that the blue
light only became a thing because of the movie. What
was that Harrison Ford movie about the future way back
in the day, blade Light Runner? That in Blade Runner
(26:42):
they're super fancy computers. This is before everybody had a
computer had a blue glow come out of it. So
when the computers got started, they kind of like an
Elon Musk sort of way, thought it'd be cool to
have blue light coming out of the computers, just like
in the futuristic movies showed. And then that's where blue
light blue light came from originally. I don't know if
that's true or not. I remember reading that. But if
(27:04):
blue light disrupts our sleep the way they say, then
get rid of it. Why do we have it in
all our screens? And I don't also know the answer
to this. On your iPhone for instance, or any Apple product,
I can go on there right now and turn my
blue light on or off. Look it's off. I keep
mine off all day long. If I have mine not now,
it distorts the colors so things don't look quite the
way they're supposed to. But I don't care if I
(27:25):
have my blue light off all the time. Does that
does looking at my screen do the same kind of harm?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Or No? I haven't heard an answer to that question.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Uh No, I suspect from what I've heard that it's better.
The interesting part about oldsters, and it's not just blue
light at night, because you need it from like sunlight
in the morning. And you know, it's funny. I was
going to bring this up in a different context. We
are so designed to rise with the sunlight and get
(27:55):
to work and shut it down when it's dark. All
of our body regular, our hormonal flow, are neurofunction. It's
all coded to daylight. My obvious reasons were diurnal.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
My dad's close to live that way his whole life
and certainly up until he left home because they didn't
have electricity. So that's what everybody did because you know
what else you get, Yeah, it's got.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
To be good for you.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So the idea of getting blue light in the morning,
extra blue light as an older person, here's why part
of the problem lies in the aging eye.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
As we get older, our eyes undergo natural changes.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The lenses yellow pupils get smaller, and we have fewer
photoreceptor cells as our bodies shut down to get us
out of the way. For the younger generation, all these
changes mean less light reaches the brain's master clock, located
in a tiny region called the hypothalamic super chismatic nuclei SCN.
(28:49):
The yellowing lenses particularly problematic because it filters out blue
light wavelengths. Specifically, it's like wearing subtle yellow sunglasses all
the time. This matters because blue light is especially powerful
at regulating our body clocks. With less blue light reaching
their brains, older adults, internal clocks can become weaker and
more prone to disruption. And so if you have a
(29:11):
specific program of exposing yourself to extra blue light at
specific times, your body says, oh, it's like you know, honestly,
as a musician, it's like when you lose the groove
of a song and the drummer's off a little bit,
everybody's like no, no, oh no, And then when you
find the groove again, it's like, oh, okay, all right,
everything's going to be okay, and that we actually have
(29:31):
that as we get older with the way light.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Triggers are brains. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
So like, for instance, I got custom lens replacement thanks
to Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley, but I got
my lenses replaced, so the yellowing lenses I had removed,
I know, have perfectly clear lenses, made all the colors
better and everything like that. But that's also beneficial to
me from a blue light standpoint. Yeah, in the morning maybe,
So that might be a recommendation for avoiding the lenses
(30:00):
yellowing over your lifetime right there. That's interesting, But that
that's always been true for human beings. But you weren't
staring at blue light screens prior to right, you know,
twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, but older folks having trouble speaking, not speaking sleeping,
is uh? I mean, that's been true like for all
of human existence. And this is part of the reason why,
because you know, we focus on the blue light keeping
us up at night, but the blue light waking us
up in the right way at the right time every day.
That goes backward in effect and helps us know when to.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Go to sleep. Huh.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
But so then my clear lens of making the blue
light worse at night better in the morning.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
It could, Yeah, depending on what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Yeah, although I turn off my blue light on my
iPhone and I still have never heard an answer of
does that actually work or do any good? If you know,
any of you Silicon Valley geniuses, please text four one
five nine five KFTC. I'd like to actually know. We
should all be doing that. If it makes a difference anyway,
We will finish strong next.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Strong.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
The FBI hasn't had obviously, they haven't looked at the
thousands of pages of documents that they've just received Friday.
But Cash has a team going through them, and it's
always about protecting the victim. But you know what, we
believe in transparency, and America has the right to know
the Biden administration set on these documents, no one did
anything with them, and why were they sitting in the
(31:22):
Southern District of New York. I want a full report
on that, and everything's going to come out to the public.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
The public has the right to know.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I feel like the Trump team kind of painted themselves
into a corner on the whole Epstein files thing, promising
some were insinuating there's some really exciting details that were
going to come out that we're being hidden from you,
and they ain't got the exciting details, as my guess.
And I mean, they were waving around some binders the
(31:52):
other day with the names are in here, and then
turned out there wasn't really anything and those binders specifically.
So I don't know how this is going to play out.
Are you how you're going to satisfy the crowd that
thinks there's really a giant scandal there, right?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And what I don't know enough about.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I suppose there's some people I could ask is the
ethics of if a person who is not guilty of
anything has their name come up in an investigation, what
are the ethics of putting that out, especially if that
brings them like harm and misery or lost a reputation,
(32:28):
or god forbid, some lunatic you know, decides to attack
them or something. I don't know how that works.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Yeah, I saw some interesting stuff online yesterday about people
really upset about this Epstein file thing.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
So I don't know. Well, there's Jack Agan, there's show Man.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's kind of pus this show with Katie Green and
Michael Langelo.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
There are friends they're like mand again, they're our radios.
So look there they're final thought people where they have
to go. Hey, it's Stabby the clown. That thing is
so creepy.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Let's get to final thoughts with your host, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew.
There he is pressing the buttons are technical director Michaelangelo.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Michael final thought. I blame sporting events.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I should be getting a good night's sleep, but I
always always.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Get, you know, stuck watching a sporting event. I guess
I just got to turn them off. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Indeed, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
I have posted a new Katie's Corner at Armstrong and
Getty dot com And if you go there you can
see this live cam of the big Bear Bald Eagles.
Their babies are hatching right now and they're very cute.
These animals are majestic.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Majestic the national bird. Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Jack Gee? Yes, bigs, yep, that's gold shirts Jack. Final thought.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
You know, I've been saying for years that the State
of the Union address isn't even really worth watching, and
that's what Trump's basically doing tonight and guaranteed it's worth watching.
I mean, there's almost no chance that newsworthy stuff doesn't
come out of this one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Absolutely, it will be much more substantive than these things
virtually ever are. It's going to be fairly simple, straightforward
and according to the White House powerful, well.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
What the Resistance has planned, and just all the way
around the coverage of it. My final thought is it'll
be powerful.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Okay, Armstrong and Getty wraping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So many people will think so a little time good
Armstrong yetdy dot com. Those two sleeve studies we posted
them anew under hot links. Drop this note mail bag
at armstrong yedtdy dot com. If you have a perspective
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Speaker 2 (34:41):
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Speaker 1 (34:43):
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Speaker 2 (34:49):
Tariffs turn effect.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Buy your avocados while you can still afford them.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. He'll play though I'm
strong and get you.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Is our job to take the fun out of everything
for everyone, We're good at it. Okay, do you think
you just fell out of a coconut tree?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Try a time of blood for dam't play. Let's go
with a fine. What would James Madison say? I'm gonna
scratch my butt and where's my check? And I want
to watch the Real world right.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing note, thanks.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
All very much.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Have a terrific day, Armstrong and Getty
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