November 21, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Gender Bending Madness!
- Surgery to change your eye color
- The conflict in Ukraine is draining US weapons stock
- Economic news is usually nuts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty Armstrong and Katty
and He.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yeddy. So breaking news story. I have no
idea why this has happened and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Illinois court has overturned Jesse Smolette's conviction. What I have
no idea why? It must be some technicality. What a
what a moron?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, no, kidding that whole He is the clown prince
of a whole period of American history that's not over yet,
which we're going to get to in a moment or two.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But I think it's on the wayne.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I think, yeah, yeah, And I do want to get
into that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
University of California Davis named the most anti smit A
campus in America, which I mean, come on, you look
at Columbia, you look at Harvard. That's some true division
one bigotry you've got going on there at UC Davis.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Way to go at UCLA, they weren't allowing Jewish kids
to go.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
To class, right, How do you outdo that?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Again?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I mean, that is some world class bigotry. Fantastic, he
says sarcastically. Obviously, in case you're a moron. Coming up
a troubling headline on a number of different levels. Escaped
primates open can of worms for South Carolina's Alpha Genesis
Research Lab. Will the judges permit that headline?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No? Because it makes me wonder is that a euphemism metaphor?
Or are they actually opening cans of worms? And that's
a great step forward for monkeys?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, plus just one animal metaphor describing another animal incident.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I just you know, escaped lion is the elephant in
the room.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I don't know. No, No, we won't have that also
coming up, and I find this so interesting. People are
risking their eyeballs to get different colored eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That dumb.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
They don't like their eye.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Color, that's dumb. I've got some interesting stats on eye
color that I think will make it clearly dumb.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
But first, gender bending madness.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I'm I'm unfortunately stuck on the last thing. Are baboons
fishing for a compliment by showing their red heinees?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Right right?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Too many animal met It's confusing. Yes, hungry lion in
the room. That's pretty for me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So i'd want to get to this story I'm about
to describe in full but we don't really have time
to segment. But it's about this college kid who held
a a what would you call it, a panel discussion
about protecting women's sports, in other words, only having girls
playing girls' sports and not dudes who are confused and
(03:25):
claim they're women. And one of the accounts of because
it melted down, it went sideways, this panel discussion, and
one of the things that happened was one of the
law professors, a dude ran to the stage and was
screaming with eyes wide and wild and spit flying.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Trans girls are girls, trades, girls are girls at this
law student. This is one of his professors. Number one,
these people are nuts. Number two.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You're a cultist, okay, radical gender theory, trans theory, Okay,
you're down with it. But if you like, are so
committed to the idea of I say, I'm a girl.
I got no fallopian tubes, I got X Y chromosomes,
I have the package, the male package, no extra charge,
(04:22):
I produce sperm. But I'm a woman. There's something wrong
with you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You're not well. They're getting that angry about it. Even
if you believe that is that I'm fully.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Right, acting as though there is no argument to be
made otherwise. Yeah, and anybody who does is merely a
crazy person. I'm really into this whole. It's their religion
thing that we're built.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We're built to protect a certain worldview, you know, with
our lives because we evolutionary wise feel like it's key
to a surviving as a species. And that's how you
get the crusades or people willing to die for the
religion or whatever. These people are willing to die for
the religion of trans and that's how they get so
(05:06):
incredibly worked up right as opposed to being a policy
decision right exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, I think it's absolutely correct. It is a cult
or a quasi religion and troubling. But the reason I
pointed that out is that guy going so nuts. Is
there a number of headlines from around the country that
you just will not hear in the mass media unless
it's derisive judgment. The Ohio Senate just passed the bill
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banning dudes in women's restrooms. Call them transgender people if
you want. The problem is their dudes. Call things what
they are. Don't be forced to use weird experimental phrases
just because the far left wants you to. So did
you hear that the Ohio Senate said, yeah, no, women's
spaces are for women.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Then you have this story.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
School board in Wisconsin, radical far right Wisconsin crack down
on boys and girls' bathroom in a big change vote.
They had a huge turnout at the school board meeting Riverside.
I'm sorry, what's the district name. Well, it's not like
it's Watertown Unified school board. And the school board voted
eight to one in favor of Plan C, which only
(06:21):
permits students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and play
on sports teams aligned with their There is biological sex.
That's the only kind of sex. There is biological sex.
So you don't need to see say biological it's redundant
and it just exists. So the activists can make you
admit that there are different kinds of sex. Are saying
edible food, right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, good point. So anyway, Yeah,
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overwhelming overwhelming sentiment to the people of the town in
the school board that no, no more dudes in girls' spaces.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So that's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is said no, you're
not going to have dudes in the women's bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That the Capital either.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Oh really, in spite of the fact that a quote
unquote transgender woman has been elected to the House o Representatives.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I thought they'd dodge this problem just by going gender
neutral bathrooms, so everybody can use every bathroom and then
you know, that's that's what they do it every restaurant
and coffee shop around here.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Uh yeah, yeah. I think what they'll probably do is
the third option. The airport strategy is you have a
non gendered bathroom. I suspect that they'll do that at
the Capitol. They'll have like one or two little rooms
at taxpair expence with as turlet and ass sink that
(07:39):
the gender bending congress person can use. So well, I'm
not sure that'll provoke some controversy, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The turnouts on those votes. Interesting and fits in with
this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today that
I was going to get to later. Shy conservatives are
key the left in its bubble, and I think that's true.
I think so many of us have been scared off
by thinking there's way more people in favor a lot
(08:10):
of these things. We just keep our mouths shut and
the just to avoid the you know, having to argue
with someone. And what that has caused is the people
who do believe in pronouns or whatever all these other
things are, they think there's way more of them than
there are because we all keep our mouth shut.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, and that's part of my continually bellowing cut the
crap lately, is that that's exactly what I'm talking about.
You're right, friends, in your attitudes about a couple of things.
I'm about to mention, you're absolutely right. Not only that,
but you're backed by the vast majority of the American people.
Being in the majority doesn't make you right, but you
happen to be the right and in the majority. And
(08:55):
you've been bullied into silence over the idea that people
who sneak into the country illegally should be showered with
all the rights and benefits of a citizen. And it's
immoral if you say, wait a minute, the idea that
we should crush our economy in the name of greens
something or other. The idea that, after a century and
(09:17):
a half of busting our asses to make this the
least country in the least racist country in the world,
all of a sudden, we're supposed to accept that, Oh
it was founded on racism, and there's more racist than ever. Yeah,
cut the crap, bull ass, the idea that children should
be mutilated and can choose their own quote unquote gender.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Cut the crap. It's crap, it's crap, that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But yeah, back to your point in the journal's point.
So I'm reminded of your story about an academic friend
who was a gas Well. Couldn't believe that people in
private enterprise don't always use their pronouns in their emails.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, nobody does. We're discussing the whole You sign off
on your email with your name and you put he
hamm or she heard whatever. And I said, who does that?
And they said who doesn't do that? I said, really, said,
doesn't everybody put the brons? And I said, basically nobody.
I don't think I've ever seen it out outside of
something from a university. So they had no idea. They're
(10:16):
in the bubble because we don't speak up. You know.
It's like with the the horrible ratings they're having on
MSNBC right now and Joe and Mika feeling like they
needed to go visit Trump to save their show or something.
Is how bubbled all the viewers of MSNBC have been
for the last couple of years. You don't know about
(10:37):
all these stories. You have no idea that the rest
of the country thinks a lot of this stuff is nuts,
or how bad the immigration problem is, or how much
people are hating inflation. You don't know all that stuff
because they weren't covering it on your favorite news channel.
It did you a disservice by keeping you in a
bubble so that you're shocked when Trump wins so easily
(11:00):
in a landslide, right exactly, so you attribute it to
racism or fascism. What I wouldn't want the reality of
stories kept from me so that a presidential election comes
along and the other side wins easily and I'm like,
how did that happen? Everything I hear is the opposite.
That doesn't do me any good.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Or you're running around spouting idiotic opinions. That's not a
good look, not to be desired. Speaking of opinions, speaker
Johnson was asked the key question and he dodged it.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And I think I know why.
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Speaker 3 (12:50):
I should have gotten the audio, but speaker Johnson was asked,
is freshman elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh? Really?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
In an effort to trap it.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Now, if you ask me, I'd say it's a man,
because that's easy for uh.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
And I love this this quote.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Up until about fifteen minutes ago, for the entire history
of mankind, every single person on earth could have answered
that question definitively and correctly. But all of a sudden,
we're like, I don't know what I'm subolished a sash.
He said, Look, I'm not going to get into this.
We treat all persons with dignity and respect. We will
(13:29):
I'm not going to engage in silly debates about this.
There's a concern about use as a restroom facilities and
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I understand your answer, but I also understand his answer
of just I'm not going to let you make this
into a story. I'm not going to energize the far left.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I got work to do. I think that's I
wish she had said it's a man. I get why
he didn't. Yeah, at some point we all got to
find our balls. Pardon me enough to state that which
is clearly true. You can't be forced under your knees
to say stuff you know is clearly not true.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's bad for your soul.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So Joe's got his eye color thing. People are getting
operations to change their eca and good news on the
four to one K front. Maybe you haven't heard about,
among other things on the way, Oh my god, have
you seen the new Jaguar ad campaign. Yes, Elon Musk
said this makes me want to sell my Jaguar and
I don't even own one. It may be the world
(14:32):
record for tone deaf, no kidding. How did you miss
the whole bud light story? Anyway? More on that later.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, Well, speaking of bad moves, there is a
twelve thousand dollars surgery to change your eye color that's
surging in popularity.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
First of all, twelve thousand dollars. Even if it wasn't
dangerous or painful, that seems crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, in an exchange that is utterly predictable, doctor say
it could be dangerous. Patients say it's worth the risks. Well,
that's obvious since they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
But patient, they.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Say, that's worth the risk to you have a different
eye color. WHOA, won't that change your life?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I would suggest maybe I don't know the Bible or
like literally any philosophical texts text from any civilization that's
ever been written, including like the Farmer's Almanac, and I
don't know, like a kid's book of knock Knock jokes.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I just I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Anyway, they start with this thirty nine year old real
estate agent, a dude who paid twelve grand to get
his brown eyes turned light gray.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Hmmm, doctor, who brown is by far the most common
eye color in the world, by far, far and away.
But if you ask women or men what's the most
attractive for women? They say gray number one, blue number two.
So this guy I wanted gray apparently he had seen
this list.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, and one young man changed one of his brown
eyes to blue to copy the eyes of his beloved
Siberian husky.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, that doesn't make you weird at all.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So these doctors, and there aren't many who will do this,
use a laser to cut donut like tunnels into his cornias,
clear outtermost layer. Ah surgeon used a tool to widen
the tunnels before filling them with dye. Takes about a
half an hour.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Women prefer gray number one, followed by blue, then green.
Men prefer green eyes in a girl, which is very uncommon.
Very few people have green eyes, followed by hazel, which
is kind of green also, So I guess we like
green eyes and girls.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I had beautiful hazel eyes as a child, Jack. They
were a brown and green kind of mixed, and they
turned brown as I aged. Only single digits of people
have hazel eyes. It would have ingrediably change my life.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Oh yeah, I think I'm much happier.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You'd be, Oh my god, I'd be a big star
now loved anyway, it could blind you. So you know
what I've found? You know, whose eyes look beautiful? Whoever
you're in love with? Yes, their eyes look beautiful.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Isn't that interesting? Always?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Doesn't matter what, It doesn't matter, the color doesn't matter,
the shape. Whoever you're in love with, their eyes look amazing. Yeah,
I'm happily hitched for the record, but brown take it
or leave it? No good move on, sweetheart. You're looking
for some green eyed dude. Good luck to you. See
yuh bye go Why haven't you left?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I'm glad my wife likes my eyes bloodshot exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, well, have beady little criminalized, so it's hard to
tell what color they are.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Anyway, people keep looking for happiness and uh yeah, I'll
just say interesting places.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, that's the main takeaway is jeez, you think that
is going to give you the happiness? There a lot
of other ways. Try try helping someone or praying or
doing something else.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Here's a chick who went twice to get aqua colored eyes.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, what color your eyes, Katie? I've never stared
that closely at you. They're blue green, they're mixed. There
you go. Yeah, good news for four one k users
are strong and getty. A bunch of different little news
nuggets for you. I find all interesting. I'll start with
this one because of teased a couple of times. The
irs is going to raise the four to one contribution limit,
(18:27):
I would freaking hope. So since we've all just lived
through about thirty percent inflation, obviously those old numbers would
be silly to stick to, right, right, And they didn't
raise it enough to compensate for all that. But starting
next year, it'll be up to twenty three five that
you can put aside. And if you're over fifty, if
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you're in the winter of your life, that stays at
seventy five hundred dollars. That's nuts. Given inflation, it's nuts
to keep any of those numbers the same. It just
a defies math.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I think late fall is good enough. I mean, you're
fifty one years old.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's not the winter of your in the winter of
your life, I am, you're fifty, you've got one foot
in the grave. I mean, it's just reality.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Wow, it's actually so the opposite. It's it's really interesting
in the modern world.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh yeah, anyway, Judy and I were just talking about
that the other day. It's amazing a seventy five year
old when we were kids was like, whoo still hanging
out that?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
My mom talks about who is uh? In her eighties,
just when she was a kid, somebody in their mid
sixties were they were done. They were done for a
couple of things for you here, let me find them all.
I was going to do that. I'll do that later.
(19:45):
NBC might be getting rid of MSNBC because they don't
like having that hanging around their neck. They feel like
it's hurting them, and that's that's kind of an interesting development.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Might be the NBC News's main problem is they've got
NBC News hanging around their neck.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
There no treat either.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
What is going to be the biggest easiest way to
get rid of RFK Junior if Republican Senators has decided
they want to get rid of him, it's going to
be the whole abortion thing when they alert I was
just reading this a variety of Republican senators who are
pro life saying this is a huge concern. We'll get
to this in the hearing when they alert a lot
of Republican voters to how RFK Junior is an extremist
(20:27):
on the side of abortion up to the day of birth. Yeah,
I think the bloom is going to be off the
rows on that. I think.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, we'll say.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
This is the most troubling story I've come across today.
This is from Reuters but being reported a number of places,
and for a lot of you who are anti forever
wars or any of the terms that y'all use that
make you less interventionist than me. You complain about the
reduction in our stockpiles, which is a valid argument, especially today,
(21:00):
Conflicts in Ukraine in the Middle East are eating away
at US stockpiles of air defenses. The top US admiral
overseeing American forces in the Asia Pacific region said last night,
goes through some of the various weapons systems that you've
either heard haven't and how are running law on them. Inherently,
it imposes costs on the readiness of America to respond
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to in the Indo Pacific region, which is the most
stressing theater for the quantity and quality of munitions, because
the PRC is the most capable potential adversary in the world.
In other words, we're more scared of China than anybody
else in the world, and this is doing damage of
our ability to fight them. So something's got to be done.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I can't verify this personally, but I read the
other day in a worthy source that we could run
out of our anti aircraft missiles in two days in
a major conflict. Speaking of forever wars, they are ain't
no wars that are only two days. So anyway, yeah,
that's a great concern, absolute dang it. And then you'll
(22:03):
that makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But then you've always got the problem with the Pentagon
of if you can use any reason to increase your
budget and then throw more money around, you use that.
So it can be one hundred percent legit or eighty
percent legit or twenty percent legit. It's always hard to know.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Right right, By the way, I have a clarification on
the Jesse Smollette situation from Mike the Chicago lawyer.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Jesse Smollett, the actor most of us who had never
heard of, who claimed he was attacked by some guys
in maga hats who poured bleach on him and said
this is mega.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Country three am in the South side of Chicago, which
was from the first moment you heard it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But Kamala Harris, who was almost president, came to his
defense immediately talked about the racism that occurs in America.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Well, he was convicted of filing false complaints and all
sorts of different stuff, and that conviction was just over turned.
And Mike the lawyers qualified, has given us some information
on that. And now I'm going to keep it in
layman's terms because we lawyers and near lawyers use a
lot of you know, jargon habeas corpus rid of circus maximus.
(23:17):
I mean, there are all sorts of different terms. It
all goes back to the fact it's it's they cited
the Bill Cosby case where there was a plea agreement essentially,
and then the prosecutors changed their minds and went back again.
It goes to the fact that they entered into an
agreement with Smole before they turned around and decided to
(23:39):
prosecute him with something else, and it was a due
process violation, and Mike Lawyer agrees that it was. The
problem was the horrible Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox,
who entered into a horrible, indefensible agreement with him allowing
him to skate.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So this is one of those things that we dullards
would call got off on a technicality, But the technicality
is to strengthen our judicial system.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, and the problem being this is the unholy fruit
of the poisoned tree of Kim Fox, who tried to
skate around justice for one of her woke.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Allies and screwed up the whole system.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I tell you what, people of Chicago, you want gonna
hire a piece of garbage like her, You're gonna have
garbage results.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I don't know if you saw the story that roughly
one hundred food Aid trucks, that's one of the reasons
Benjamin Netanyah, who has gott an arrest warrant today from
whatever international court that is, And that's the lead story
for all of mainstream news. There's been an arrest warrant
put out for Benjamin Netanyah, who by the International Court
of we do nothing because of he's using starvation as
(24:49):
a tool in genocide against the Palestinians. Well over the weekend,
one hundred Food Aid trucks were robbed that were headed
into Gaza and so all the food was gone. And
this is from this morning talking to a UN spokesperson
journalist who looted the AID trucks. You and spokesman, we
(25:10):
don't know. Journalist. Are you trying to find out? You
and spokesman know? And one of my favorite pundits said,
in other words, the AID trucks were looted by Hamas,
which is guaranteed the situation. Sure, so if you send
in food aid, Hammas steals it, which strengthens them, and
that's the enemy you're at war with. If you don't
(25:31):
send in food aid, you're accused of using hunger as
a weapon and a genocide.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So yeah, nice, Yeah, And they say, we're in a
thousand year war to exterminate the Jews and then the
Christians and take over the whole world in the name
of Allah. And if lots and lots of Palestinians starve
to death and die terribly, that will help our cause
because that will fire up our fellow Muslims. So yeah,
we're stealing the food aid and eating it ourselves in
(25:58):
order to win the great battle. Why can people not
just say that and understand that. They write it themselves
Humas and similar groups, and they sign their names to it,
and they publish it in books, and they make speeches
where they say these things. It's not like a quote
unquote conspiracy theory. It's like a lot of the critical theory,
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postmodernism stuff. They wrote books and signed their name to it.
They told you precisely what they're trying to do. I
don't know, lack of curiosity or just in the United States,
just a terrified fear of being called a bigot.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Hey, to go back to the four to one K thing, briefly,
I left out one thing. So in the actual winter
winter of your life, when you're over sixty, you're starting
to head into the actual interview life once you hit
sixty four. Actually, they did up the amount that you
can use to catch up on your four oh one K.
So this is the I should have put money in
when I was thirty, but I didn't, So they're giving
(26:57):
me a chance to get caught up now that I'm bridge.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
But they get the ketchup in the super ketchup.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, apparently when you get to that age. But wouldn't
it be grand if you can come up with some
sort of system where you say, hey, can I all
that money you take out for my Social Security in
a program that's going broke? Yeah, that is earning zero
money turned anoven. Can I keep that and put it
(27:25):
in my four one K? Would you let me do that?
Because that would be I started doing that when I'm young.
That's going to add up to a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
We got a great email from a beloved listener the
other day saying how right George W.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Bush was.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, I privatize a portion of your Social Security contributions.
And the scare stories and the panic tactics that were
employed by the left because they want that money to
flow into the government because then they control it and
they use it for their own power.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
But the idea that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
You're better off, I mean it could be an affirmative
opt out. Sure, look, I know what I'm doing. I'm
opting out of Social Security. Show me the forms. I'll
put my Social Security number down, I'll sign the form. Okay,
it's not like you'll do that to people who don't
know better, are very brighter, not capable, or whatever.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Just those of us who choose to opt out will
opt out.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And if I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Starving as an ulster as a result of I bet
on doge coin and that bath and beyond stock, well.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Then I'll turn to my local church for charity.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Have that on me. That's where the rubber meets the road.
Though we're not a country like that. We are a
welfare state. And if you made decisions and you ran
out of money, we are going to step in with
tax payer money to make sure you've got someplace to
live and got some food regardless of the decisions you made.
And that's the problem. That's the whole damn problem.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh, which reminds me, I know what I should invest in,
never mind bitcoin, freaking lab monkeys. I was reading about
the South Carolina lab monkey escape.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
We should do that out at the farm, raise the
lab monk. Got plenty of space that big bar, and
I could have thousands of monkeys.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I was thinking of convert my suburban home into it,
which is exactly less advisable.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But the putt in the studio, Yeah, bring some of
them to work, Jack.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I'm telling you Bitcoin is a punk of investment compared
to breeding lab monkeys, the Great lab monkey Shortage of
twenty four The story's been untold until now.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't I don't really like the things they do
to monkeys. Yeah, I'm not the monkey's signer release. It's
like the opt out so secrety plan you're talking about.
They signed an opt out and here you go test
some things on me, and I get to go, well,
you know, live in a suburb somewhere. That's what they
tell the monkey.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
A lot of this stuff is incredibly important to medical science.
I get people squeamishness.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I respect it.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
On the other end, I'd rather have effective antibiotics.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
If you're testing antibiotics, yes, if you're testing deodoran by
spraying it in their eyes.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Over those that they don't do that. Any horrible stories
you hear are yeah, no, they were horrible. Yeah, absolutely,
I grant you that.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But research monkeys before the pandemic. And part of this
has to do with our schism with China.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Michael, I tell you what. You're a man of the world.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Guess what research monkeys were, what they cost. I'm running
Joe's medical research lab here, or testing just antibiotics to
save six children. Okay, I gotta have me some research monkeys.
Guess what I'm paying per monkey. Go ahead, take a
guess now in the back in the day, back in
the before.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
The pandemic, I must say ten grand. That's that's not
a bad guess.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Guess. I was going to guess a couple hundred dollars.
I would have guessed seven hundred and fifty bucks something
like that. It's actually four to six thousand dollars per
monkey pre pandemic.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Now, now, and you wish you'd bought bitcoin when it
was twenty dollars. You wish you'd bought apple stock in
two thousand and two, and you wish you'd started breeding
monkeys five years ago.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
It's thirty grand per monkey.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now, Wow, makes video look like inron.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
We think about that from it? Yes, you're right, it does.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
And and the US government is spending gobs of money,
including on this South car Carolina research lab that apparently
has an honor system for the monkey's team, but unbelievable
amounts of money on research monkeys. Now you tell the
monkeys at nine you stay put?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right? Huh we have a deal, all right, chee
chee Wow, Okay, Well I gotta go. We gotta start
breeding monkeys. Then that's where the money is. We got
more on the way. You can join us anytime you
got a comment like we got something wrong, or you
want to add two text line four one five, two
nine fifte barstraw.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yet I hate these floodpants.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Way they're working.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
My feet are soaked, well, my cups are bone dry.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Everything's coming up. Millhouse.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
One thing that I love about Milhouses. He's always getting
knocked down, but he keeps getting up.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I'm never giving up.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Here is not again.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I love the little guy.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's the seventy year old woman who does the voice
of Millhouse on The Simpsons who says she's retiring after
this season. She's been doing it for thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
The Simpsons debuted almost like exactly when I started my
radio career, and as I've told the story before, everybody
wanted a Bart's Simpson voice in their heads.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
And I was like, yeah, cut the crap man or
don't have a cow or whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's terrible, but everybody like, oh, that was great, So yeah,
it goes on. That's one of my favorite lines from
the show. It's a good one. Everything's coming up Millhouse Carson.
Millhouse's parents got a divorce later and it became rough
for the poor kid. But first, this kind of joke
(33:14):
thing that I came across yesterday. Before I get to
some economic news about Target. I love how the first
thing they do at the doctor's office is weigh you.
I was already nervous. Now I'm depressed. Maybe next time
they can bring up something I regret from my past
and really get this party started. That's funny. Target stock
(33:36):
plunged twenty one percent yesterday as a guy with a
chunk of Target stock. I wish I had put it
in something else. Monkeys maybe, But the retailers downbeat earnings report,
which included lower profit and larger inventory, fell well short
of all street expectations. But here's the interesting stuff. And
economic news is we mock it all the time. It's
(33:58):
economic news is nut. They always come up with explanations
for why stuff happened, which you rarely have. It's usually
I think usually it's unknown. And then sometimes it's like
a combination of fifty things and you don't know which
one was more important than the other. But to simplify
it into one or two things very very rare, but
they always do it in whatever article you're reading. Target's
(34:21):
results stand in sharp contrast to its rival Walmart, which
reported stronger than expected earnings on Tuesday and upgraded's full
of your forecast. That's worth knowing. Yes, Walmart had a
great quarter, while Target did not, So what gives. On
the call with analysts, Target's executives described a deceleration in
(34:43):
sales for high margin discretionary categories such as APPERIL and
home to Corp. They also said consumers were not purchasing
expensive products like televisions instead opting for smaller and more
affordable items like candles and vases. Yeah, don't that pretty hilarious.
So we're thinking about getting a big screen TV and
(35:04):
your wife says, maybe we should just get a candle instead,
and you go home with a candle.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Hey, honey, super Bowl's coming up. It'd be really great
if we had a big TV when folks come over.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah, but we can't afford it, so let's get a vise.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, that was funny.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I was reminded the other day that they lost something
like a billion dollars in value because they were selling
transgender clothes for children, so your little boy could tuck
his penis away and feel like a girl.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I know personally two people that stop shopping at Target
in the last couple of years because of their politics.
The fact that the article that I read, the Whole
Bang article, never mentioned that once, I think is pretty interesting,
since again, I know two people in my real life
that went from regular Target shoppers to never because of
their politics. That didn't play a role at all. Come on, yeah, yeah, week,
(36:00):
I was going to get the eight inch TV, but
I decided to get one of these vanilla scented candles.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Wow, it smells just like a rainforest or something.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
That's great. Well, we'll sit around watch the candle kids.
Times are tough, or we'll go to Walmart and buy
a TV.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Our four will include an analysis of what the artificial
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Ketty Armstrong and Katty
and He.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yeddy. So breaking news story. I have no
idea why this has happened and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Illinois court has overturned Jesse Smolette's conviction. What I have
no idea why? It must be some technicality. What a
what a moron?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, no, kidding that whole He is the clown prince
of a whole period of American history that's not over yet,
which we're going to get to in a moment or two.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But I think it's on the wayne.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I think, yeah, yeah, And I do want to get
into that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
University of California Davis named the most anti smit A
campus in America, which I mean, come on, you look
at Columbia, you look at Harvard. That's some true division
one bigotry you've got going on there at UC Davis.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Way to go at UCLA, they weren't allowing Jewish kids
to go.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
To class, right, How do you outdo that?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Again?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I mean, that is some world class bigotry. Fantastic, he
says sarcastically. Obviously, in case you're a moron. Coming up
a troubling headline on a number of different levels. Escaped
primates open can of worms for South Carolina's Alpha Genesis
Research Lab. Will the judges permit that headline?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No? Because it makes me wonder is that a euphemism metaphor?
Or are they actually opening cans of worms? And that's
a great step forward for monkeys?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, plus just one animal metaphor describing another animal incident.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I just you know, escaped lion is the elephant in
the room.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I don't know. No, No, we won't have that also
coming up, and I find this so interesting. People are
risking their eyeballs to get different colored eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That dumb.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
They don't like their eye.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Color, that's dumb. I've got some interesting stats on eye
color that I think will make it clearly dumb.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
But first, gender bending madness.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I'm I'm unfortunately stuck on the last thing. Are baboons
fishing for a compliment by showing their red heinees?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Right right?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Too many animal met It's confusing. Yes, hungry lion in
the room. That's pretty for me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So i'd want to get to this story I'm about
to describe in full but we don't really have time
to segment. But it's about this college kid who held
a a what would you call it, a panel discussion
about protecting women's sports, in other words, only having girls
playing girls' sports and not dudes who are confused and
(03:25):
claim they're women. And one of the accounts of because
it melted down, it went sideways, this panel discussion, and
one of the things that happened was one of the
law professors, a dude ran to the stage and was
screaming with eyes wide and wild and spit flying.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Trans girls are girls, trades, girls are girls at this
law student. This is one of his professors. Number one,
these people are nuts. Number two.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You're a cultist, okay, radical gender theory, trans theory, Okay,
you're down with it. But if you like, are so
committed to the idea of I say, I'm a girl.
I got no fallopian tubes, I got X Y chromosomes,
I have the package, the male package, no extra charge,
(04:22):
I produce sperm. But I'm a woman. There's something wrong
with you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You're not well. They're getting that angry about it. Even
if you believe that is that I'm fully.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Right, acting as though there is no argument to be
made otherwise. Yeah, and anybody who does is merely a
crazy person. I'm really into this whole. It's their religion
thing that we're built.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We're built to protect a certain worldview, you know, with
our lives because we evolutionary wise feel like it's key
to a surviving as a species. And that's how you
get the crusades or people willing to die for the
religion or whatever. These people are willing to die for
the religion of trans and that's how they get so
(05:06):
incredibly worked up right as opposed to being a policy
decision right exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, I think it's absolutely correct. It is a cult
or a quasi religion and troubling. But the reason I
pointed that out is that guy going so nuts. Is
there a number of headlines from around the country that
you just will not hear in the mass media unless
it's derisive judgment. The Ohio Senate just passed the bill
(05:33):
banning dudes in women's restrooms. Call them transgender people if
you want. The problem is their dudes. Call things what
they are. Don't be forced to use weird experimental phrases
just because the far left wants you to. So did
you hear that the Ohio Senate said, yeah, no, women's
spaces are for women.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Then you have this story.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
School board in Wisconsin, radical far right Wisconsin crack down
on boys and girls' bathroom in a big change vote.
They had a huge turnout at the school board meeting Riverside.
I'm sorry, what's the district name. Well, it's not like
it's Watertown Unified school board. And the school board voted
eight to one in favor of Plan C, which only
(06:21):
permits students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and play
on sports teams aligned with their There is biological sex.
That's the only kind of sex. There is biological sex.
So you don't need to see say biological it's redundant
and it just exists. So the activists can make you
admit that there are different kinds of sex. Are saying
edible food, right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, good point. So anyway, Yeah,
(06:46):
overwhelming overwhelming sentiment to the people of the town in
the school board that no, no more dudes in girls' spaces.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So that's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is said no, you're
not going to have dudes in the women's bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That the Capital either.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Oh really, in spite of the fact that a quote
unquote transgender woman has been elected to the House o Representatives.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I thought they'd dodge this problem just by going gender
neutral bathrooms, so everybody can use every bathroom and then
you know, that's that's what they do it every restaurant
and coffee shop around here.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Uh yeah, yeah. I think what they'll probably do is
the third option. The airport strategy is you have a
non gendered bathroom. I suspect that they'll do that at
the Capitol. They'll have like one or two little rooms
at taxpair expence with as turlet and ass sink that
(07:39):
the gender bending congress person can use. So well, I'm
not sure that'll provoke some controversy, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The turnouts on those votes. Interesting and fits in with
this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today that
I was going to get to later. Shy conservatives are
key the left in its bubble, and I think that's true.
I think so many of us have been scared off
by thinking there's way more people in favor a lot
(08:10):
of these things. We just keep our mouths shut and
the just to avoid the you know, having to argue
with someone. And what that has caused is the people
who do believe in pronouns or whatever all these other
things are, they think there's way more of them than
there are because we all keep our mouth shut.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, and that's part of my continually bellowing cut the
crap lately, is that that's exactly what I'm talking about.
You're right, friends, in your attitudes about a couple of things.
I'm about to mention, you're absolutely right. Not only that,
but you're backed by the vast majority of the American people.
Being in the majority doesn't make you right, but you
happen to be the right and in the majority. And
(08:55):
you've been bullied into silence over the idea that people
who sneak into the country illegally should be showered with
all the rights and benefits of a citizen. And it's
immoral if you say, wait a minute, the idea that
we should crush our economy in the name of greens
something or other. The idea that, after a century and
(09:17):
a half of busting our asses to make this the
least country in the least racist country in the world,
all of a sudden, we're supposed to accept that, Oh
it was founded on racism, and there's more racist than ever. Yeah,
cut the crap, bull ass, the idea that children should
be mutilated and can choose their own quote unquote gender.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Cut the crap. It's crap, it's crap, that's right.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But yeah, back to your point in the journal's point.
So I'm reminded of your story about an academic friend
who was a gas Well. Couldn't believe that people in
private enterprise don't always use their pronouns in their emails.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, nobody does. We're discussing the whole You sign off
on your email with your name and you put he
hamm or she heard whatever. And I said, who does that?
And they said who doesn't do that? I said, really, said,
doesn't everybody put the brons? And I said, basically nobody.
I don't think I've ever seen it out outside of
something from a university. So they had no idea. They're
(10:16):
in the bubble because we don't speak up. You know.
It's like with the the horrible ratings they're having on
MSNBC right now and Joe and Mika feeling like they
needed to go visit Trump to save their show or something.
Is how bubbled all the viewers of MSNBC have been
for the last couple of years. You don't know about
(10:37):
all these stories. You have no idea that the rest
of the country thinks a lot of this stuff is nuts,
or how bad the immigration problem is, or how much
people are hating inflation. You don't know all that stuff
because they weren't covering it on your favorite news channel.
It did you a disservice by keeping you in a
bubble so that you're shocked when Trump wins so easily
(11:00):
in a landslide, right exactly, so you attribute it to
racism or fascism. What I wouldn't want the reality of
stories kept from me so that a presidential election comes
along and the other side wins easily and I'm like,
how did that happen? Everything I hear is the opposite.
That doesn't do me any good.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Or you're running around spouting idiotic opinions. That's not a
good look, not to be desired. Speaking of opinions, speaker
Johnson was asked the key question and he dodged it.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And I think I know why.
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I should have gotten the audio, but speaker Johnson was asked,
is freshman elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh? Really?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
In an effort to trap it.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Now, if you ask me, I'd say it's a man,
because that's easy for uh.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
And I love this this quote.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Up until about fifteen minutes ago, for the entire history
of mankind, every single person on earth could have answered
that question definitively and correctly. But all of a sudden,
we're like, I don't know what I'm subolished a sash.
He said, Look, I'm not going to get into this.
We treat all persons with dignity and respect. We will
(13:29):
I'm not going to engage in silly debates about this.
There's a concern about use as a restroom facilities and
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I understand your answer, but I also understand his answer
of just I'm not going to let you make this
into a story. I'm not going to energize the far left.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I got work to do. I think that's I
wish she had said it's a man. I get why
he didn't. Yeah, at some point we all got to
find our balls. Pardon me enough to state that which
is clearly true. You can't be forced under your knees
to say stuff you know is clearly not true.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's bad for your soul.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So Joe's got his eye color thing. People are getting
operations to change their eca and good news on the
four to one K front. Maybe you haven't heard about,
among other things on the way, Oh my god, have
you seen the new Jaguar ad campaign. Yes, Elon Musk
said this makes me want to sell my Jaguar and
I don't even own one. It may be the world
(14:32):
record for tone deaf, no kidding. How did you miss
the whole bud light story? Anyway? More on that later.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, Well, speaking of bad moves, there is a
twelve thousand dollars surgery to change your eye color that's
surging in popularity.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
First of all, twelve thousand dollars. Even if it wasn't
dangerous or painful, that seems crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Well, in an exchange that is utterly predictable, doctor say
it could be dangerous. Patients say it's worth the risks. Well,
that's obvious since they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
But patient, they.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Say, that's worth the risk to you have a different
eye color. WHOA, won't that change your life?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I would suggest maybe I don't know the Bible or
like literally any philosophical texts text from any civilization that's
ever been written, including like the Farmer's Almanac, and I
don't know, like a kid's book of knock Knock jokes.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I just I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Anyway, they start with this thirty nine year old real
estate agent, a dude who paid twelve grand to get
his brown eyes turned light gray.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Hmmm, doctor, who brown is by far the most common
eye color in the world, by far, far and away.
But if you ask women or men what's the most
attractive for women? They say gray number one, blue number two.
So this guy I wanted gray apparently he had seen
this list.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, and one young man changed one of his brown
eyes to blue to copy the eyes of his beloved
Siberian husky.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, that doesn't make you weird at all.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So these doctors, and there aren't many who will do this,
use a laser to cut donut like tunnels into his cornias,
clear outtermost layer. Ah surgeon used a tool to widen
the tunnels before filling them with dye. Takes about a
half an hour.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Women prefer gray number one, followed by blue, then green.
Men prefer green eyes in a girl, which is very uncommon.
Very few people have green eyes, followed by hazel, which
is kind of green also, So I guess we like
green eyes and girls.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I had beautiful hazel eyes as a child, Jack. They
were a brown and green kind of mixed, and they
turned brown as I aged. Only single digits of people
have hazel eyes. It would have ingrediably change my life.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Oh yeah, I think I'm much happier.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You'd be, Oh my god, I'd be a big star
now loved anyway, it could blind you. So you know
what I've found? You know, whose eyes look beautiful? Whoever
you're in love with? Yes, their eyes look beautiful.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Isn't that interesting? Always?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Doesn't matter what, It doesn't matter, the color doesn't matter,
the shape. Whoever you're in love with, their eyes look amazing. Yeah,
I'm happily hitched for the record, but brown take it
or leave it? No good move on, sweetheart. You're looking
for some green eyed dude. Good luck to you. See
yuh bye go Why haven't you left?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I'm glad my wife likes my eyes bloodshot exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, well, have beady little criminalized, so it's hard to
tell what color they are.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Anyway, people keep looking for happiness and uh yeah, I'll
just say interesting places.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, that's the main takeaway is jeez, you think that
is going to give you the happiness? There a lot
of other ways. Try try helping someone or praying or
doing something else.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Here's a chick who went twice to get aqua colored eyes.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, what color your eyes, Katie? I've never stared
that closely at you. They're blue green, they're mixed. There
you go. Yeah, good news for four one k users
are strong and getty. A bunch of different little news
nuggets for you. I find all interesting. I'll start with
this one because of teased a couple of times. The
irs is going to raise the four to one contribution limit,
(18:27):
I would freaking hope. So since we've all just lived
through about thirty percent inflation, obviously those old numbers would
be silly to stick to, right, right, And they didn't
raise it enough to compensate for all that. But starting
next year, it'll be up to twenty three five that
you can put aside. And if you're over fifty, if
(18:49):
you're in the winter of your life, that stays at
seventy five hundred dollars. That's nuts. Given inflation, it's nuts
to keep any of those numbers the same. It just
a defies math.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I think late fall is good enough. I mean, you're
fifty one years old.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's not the winter of your in the winter of
your life, I am, you're fifty, you've got one foot
in the grave. I mean, it's just reality.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Wow, it's actually so the opposite. It's it's really interesting
in the modern world.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh yeah, anyway, Judy and I were just talking about
that the other day. It's amazing a seventy five year
old when we were kids was like, whoo still hanging
out that?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
My mom talks about who is uh? In her eighties,
just when she was a kid, somebody in their mid
sixties were they were done. They were done for a
couple of things for you here, let me find them all.
I was going to do that. I'll do that later.
(19:45):
NBC might be getting rid of MSNBC because they don't
like having that hanging around their neck. They feel like
it's hurting them, and that's that's kind of an interesting development.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Might be the NBC News's main problem is they've got
NBC News hanging around their neck.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
There no treat either.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
What is going to be the biggest easiest way to
get rid of RFK Junior if Republican Senators has decided
they want to get rid of him, it's going to
be the whole abortion thing when they alert I was
just reading this a variety of Republican senators who are
pro life saying this is a huge concern. We'll get
to this in the hearing when they alert a lot
of Republican voters to how RFK Junior is an extremist
(20:27):
on the side of abortion up to the day of birth. Yeah,
I think the bloom is going to be off the
rows on that. I think.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, we'll say.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
This is the most troubling story I've come across today.
This is from Reuters but being reported a number of places,
and for a lot of you who are anti forever
wars or any of the terms that y'all use that
make you less interventionist than me. You complain about the
reduction in our stockpiles, which is a valid argument, especially today,
(21:00):
Conflicts in Ukraine in the Middle East are eating away
at US stockpiles of air defenses. The top US admiral
overseeing American forces in the Asia Pacific region said last night,
goes through some of the various weapons systems that you've
either heard haven't and how are running law on them. Inherently,
it imposes costs on the readiness of America to respond
(21:20):
to in the Indo Pacific region, which is the most
stressing theater for the quantity and quality of munitions, because
the PRC is the most capable potential adversary in the world.
In other words, we're more scared of China than anybody
else in the world, and this is doing damage of
our ability to fight them. So something's got to be done.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I can't verify this personally, but I read the
other day in a worthy source that we could run
out of our anti aircraft missiles in two days in
a major conflict. Speaking of forever wars, they are ain't
no wars that are only two days. So anyway, yeah,
that's a great concern, absolute dang it. And then you'll
(22:03):
that makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But then you've always got the problem with the Pentagon
of if you can use any reason to increase your
budget and then throw more money around, you use that.
So it can be one hundred percent legit or eighty
percent legit or twenty percent legit. It's always hard to know.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Right right, By the way, I have a clarification on
the Jesse Smollette situation from Mike the Chicago lawyer.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Jesse Smollett, the actor most of us who had never
heard of, who claimed he was attacked by some guys
in maga hats who poured bleach on him and said
this is mega.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Country three am in the South side of Chicago, which
was from the first moment you heard it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But Kamala Harris, who was almost president, came to his
defense immediately talked about the racism that occurs in America.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Well, he was convicted of filing false complaints and all
sorts of different stuff, and that conviction was just over turned.
And Mike the lawyers qualified, has given us some information
on that. And now I'm going to keep it in
layman's terms because we lawyers and near lawyers use a
lot of you know, jargon habeas corpus rid of circus maximus.
(23:17):
I mean, there are all sorts of different terms. It
all goes back to the fact it's it's they cited
the Bill Cosby case where there was a plea agreement essentially,
and then the prosecutors changed their minds and went back again.
It goes to the fact that they entered into an
agreement with Smole before they turned around and decided to
(23:39):
prosecute him with something else, and it was a due
process violation, and Mike Lawyer agrees that it was. The
problem was the horrible Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox,
who entered into a horrible, indefensible agreement with him allowing
him to skate.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So this is one of those things that we dullards
would call got off on a technicality, But the technicality
is to strengthen our judicial system.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, and the problem being this is the unholy fruit
of the poisoned tree of Kim Fox, who tried to
skate around justice for one of her woke.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Allies and screwed up the whole system.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I tell you what, people of Chicago, you want gonna
hire a piece of garbage like her, You're gonna have
garbage results.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I don't know if you saw the story that roughly
one hundred food Aid trucks, that's one of the reasons
Benjamin Netanyah, who has gott an arrest warrant today from
whatever international court that is, And that's the lead story
for all of mainstream news. There's been an arrest warrant
put out for Benjamin Netanyah, who by the International Court
of we do nothing because of he's using starvation as
(24:49):
a tool in genocide against the Palestinians. Well over the weekend,
one hundred Food Aid trucks were robbed that were headed
into Gaza and so all the food was gone. And
this is from this morning talking to a UN spokesperson
journalist who looted the AID trucks. You and spokesman, we
(25:10):
don't know. Journalist. Are you trying to find out? You
and spokesman know? And one of my favorite pundits said,
in other words, the AID trucks were looted by Hamas,
which is guaranteed the situation. Sure, so if you send
in food aid, Hammas steals it, which strengthens them, and
that's the enemy you're at war with. If you don't
(25:31):
send in food aid, you're accused of using hunger as
a weapon and a genocide.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So yeah, nice, Yeah, And they say, we're in a
thousand year war to exterminate the Jews and then the
Christians and take over the whole world in the name
of Allah. And if lots and lots of Palestinians starve
to death and die terribly, that will help our cause
because that will fire up our fellow Muslims. So yeah,
we're stealing the food aid and eating it ourselves in
(25:58):
order to win the great battle. Why can people not
just say that and understand that. They write it themselves
Humas and similar groups, and they sign their names to it,
and they publish it in books, and they make speeches
where they say these things. It's not like a quote
unquote conspiracy theory. It's like a lot of the critical theory,
(26:20):
postmodernism stuff. They wrote books and signed their name to it.
They told you precisely what they're trying to do. I
don't know, lack of curiosity or just in the United States,
just a terrified fear of being called a bigot.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Hey, to go back to the four to one K thing, briefly,
I left out one thing. So in the actual winter
winter of your life, when you're over sixty, you're starting
to head into the actual interview life once you hit
sixty four. Actually, they did up the amount that you
can use to catch up on your four oh one K.
So this is the I should have put money in
when I was thirty, but I didn't, So they're giving
(26:57):
me a chance to get caught up now that I'm bridge.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
But they get the ketchup in the super ketchup.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, apparently when you get to that age. But wouldn't
it be grand if you can come up with some
sort of system where you say, hey, can I all
that money you take out for my Social Security in
a program that's going broke? Yeah, that is earning zero
money turned anoven. Can I keep that and put it
(27:25):
in my four one K? Would you let me do that?
Because that would be I started doing that when I'm young.
That's going to add up to a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
We got a great email from a beloved listener the
other day saying how right George W.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Bush was.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, I privatize a portion of your Social Security contributions.
And the scare stories and the panic tactics that were
employed by the left because they want that money to
flow into the government because then they control it and
they use it for their own power.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
But the idea that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
You're better off, I mean it could be an affirmative
opt out. Sure, look, I know what I'm doing. I'm
opting out of Social Security. Show me the forms. I'll
put my Social Security number down, I'll sign the form. Okay,
it's not like you'll do that to people who don't
know better, are very brighter, not capable, or whatever.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Just those of us who choose to opt out will
opt out.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And if I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Starving as an ulster as a result of I bet
on doge coin and that bath and beyond stock, well.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Then I'll turn to my local church for charity.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Have that on me. That's where the rubber meets the road.
Though we're not a country like that. We are a
welfare state. And if you made decisions and you ran
out of money, we are going to step in with
tax payer money to make sure you've got someplace to
live and got some food regardless of the decisions you made.
And that's the problem. That's the whole damn problem.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh, which reminds me, I know what I should invest in,
never mind bitcoin, freaking lab monkeys. I was reading about
the South Carolina lab monkey escape.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
We should do that out at the farm, raise the
lab monk. Got plenty of space that big bar, and
I could have thousands of monkeys.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I was thinking of convert my suburban home into it,
which is exactly less advisable.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But the putt in the studio, Yeah, bring some of
them to work, Jack.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I'm telling you Bitcoin is a punk of investment compared
to breeding lab monkeys, the Great lab monkey Shortage of
twenty four The story's been untold until now.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't I don't really like the things they do
to monkeys. Yeah, I'm not the monkey's signer release. It's
like the opt out so secrety plan you're talking about.
They signed an opt out and here you go test
some things on me, and I get to go, well,
you know, live in a suburb somewhere. That's what they
tell the monkey.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
A lot of this stuff is incredibly important to medical science.
I get people squeamishness.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I respect it.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
On the other end, I'd rather have effective antibiotics.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
If you're testing antibiotics, yes, if you're testing deodoran by
spraying it in their eyes.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Over those that they don't do that. Any horrible stories
you hear are yeah, no, they were horrible. Yeah, absolutely,
I grant you that.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But research monkeys before the pandemic. And part of this
has to do with our schism with China.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Michael, I tell you what. You're a man of the world.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Guess what research monkeys were, what they cost. I'm running
Joe's medical research lab here, or testing just antibiotics to
save six children. Okay, I gotta have me some research monkeys.
Guess what I'm paying per monkey. Go ahead, take a
guess now in the back in the day, back in
the before.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
The pandemic, I must say ten grand. That's that's not
a bad guess.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Guess. I was going to guess a couple hundred dollars.
I would have guessed seven hundred and fifty bucks something
like that. It's actually four to six thousand dollars per
monkey pre pandemic.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Now, now, and you wish you'd bought bitcoin when it
was twenty dollars. You wish you'd bought apple stock in
two thousand and two, and you wish you'd started breeding
monkeys five years ago.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
It's thirty grand per monkey.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now, Wow, makes video look like inron.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
We think about that from it? Yes, you're right, it does.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
And and the US government is spending gobs of money,
including on this South car Carolina research lab that apparently
has an honor system for the monkey's team, but unbelievable
amounts of money on research monkeys. Now you tell the
monkeys at nine you stay put?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right? Huh we have a deal, all right, chee
chee Wow, Okay, Well I gotta go. We gotta start
breeding monkeys. Then that's where the money is. We got
more on the way. You can join us anytime you
got a comment like we got something wrong, or you
want to add two text line four one five, two
nine fifte barstraw.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yet I hate these floodpants.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Way they're working.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
My feet are soaked, well, my cups are bone dry.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Everything's coming up. Millhouse.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
One thing that I love about Milhouses. He's always getting
knocked down, but he keeps getting up.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I'm never giving up.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Here is not again.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I love the little guy.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's the seventy year old woman who does the voice
of Millhouse on The Simpsons who says she's retiring after
this season. She's been doing it for thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
The Simpsons debuted almost like exactly when I started my
radio career, and as I've told the story before, everybody
wanted a Bart's Simpson voice in their heads.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
And I was like, yeah, cut the crap man or
don't have a cow or whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's terrible, but everybody like, oh, that was great, So yeah,
it goes on. That's one of my favorite lines from
the show. It's a good one. Everything's coming up Millhouse Carson.
Millhouse's parents got a divorce later and it became rough
for the poor kid. But first, this kind of joke
(33:14):
thing that I came across yesterday. Before I get to
some economic news about Target. I love how the first
thing they do at the doctor's office is weigh you.
I was already nervous. Now I'm depressed. Maybe next time
they can bring up something I regret from my past
and really get this party started. That's funny. Target stock
(33:36):
plunged twenty one percent yesterday as a guy with a
chunk of Target stock. I wish I had put it
in something else. Monkeys maybe, But the retailers downbeat earnings report,
which included lower profit and larger inventory, fell well short
of all street expectations. But here's the interesting stuff. And
economic news is we mock it all the time. It's
(33:58):
economic news is nut. They always come up with explanations
for why stuff happened, which you rarely have. It's usually
I think usually it's unknown. And then sometimes it's like
a combination of fifty things and you don't know which
one was more important than the other. But to simplify
it into one or two things very very rare, but
they always do it in whatever article you're reading. Target's
(34:21):
results stand in sharp contrast to its rival Walmart, which
reported stronger than expected earnings on Tuesday and upgraded's full
of your forecast. That's worth knowing. Yes, Walmart had a
great quarter, while Target did not, So what gives. On
the call with analysts, Target's executives described a deceleration in
(34:43):
sales for high margin discretionary categories such as APPERIL and
home to Corp. They also said consumers were not purchasing
expensive products like televisions instead opting for smaller and more
affordable items like candles and vases. Yeah, don't that pretty hilarious.
So we're thinking about getting a big screen TV and
(35:04):
your wife says, maybe we should just get a candle instead,
and you go home with a candle.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Hey, honey, super Bowl's coming up. It'd be really great
if we had a big TV when folks come over.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah, but we can't afford it, so let's get a vise.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, that was funny.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I was reminded the other day that they lost something
like a billion dollars in value because they were selling
transgender clothes for children, so your little boy could tuck
his penis away and feel like a girl.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I know personally two people that stop shopping at Target
in the last couple of years because of their politics.
The fact that the article that I read, the Whole
Bang article, never mentioned that once, I think is pretty interesting,
since again, I know two people in my real life
that went from regular Target shoppers to never because of
their politics. That didn't play a role at all. Come on, yeah, yeah, week,
(36:00):
I was going to get the eight inch TV, but
I decided to get one of these vanilla scented candles.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Wow, it smells just like a rainforest or something.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
That's great. Well, we'll sit around watch the candle kids.
Times are tough, or we'll go to Walmart and buy
a TV.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
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