December 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- TX gerrymandering map & vaccine
- Trump impersonator Shawn Farash
- The Climate Scam!
- Corruption in Turkish soccer
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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 Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The Supreme Court now saying it will allow Texas to
move ahead with its controversial newly redrawn congressional map, favoring
Republicans in that state, potentially giving them five new House seats.
A lower court had ruled the map was unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah. Boy, that's a big story I missed somehow yesterday
because Texas did that whole thing to get five more
Republican seats, and then Gavin Newsoman in California reacted by
doing a similar thing. But then a court came in
and said no, Texas can't do that, and I thought,
oh boy, if that's the final word, that's a big deal.
(00:58):
But then the Supreme Court, sick three last night, decided
now Texas can do that. So I don't know where
we are in the race for the House for next year,
but gives her republic It's a couple of advantages. That's
a legal mess.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It all has to do with the tension between you know,
the the Voting Rights Act in the fourteenth Amendment. It's
just the Soups need to step in and this will
be hard, but they need to really rule on this stuff.
There's so much the courts guidelines they can follow. There's
so much jerry mandering so all across the country. I
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have for both parties to pretend that any jerry mandering
is new or unique as hilarious. Speaking of hilarious, I
have coming up unintentionally one of the funniest things I've
ever heard. Nate Bargatzi, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervai,
name your comedian. Wish they could come up with something
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as funny as I'm about to have for you in
this story about vaccines, So we got to break making
news story here. The RFK Junior Health Panel is voted
ald on about the cough.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Who knows what disease I got? Oh oh, oh, my god,
tried dying myself, probably because I didn't get enough vaccines
as a kid. They're going to end the Hepatitis B
shots for all newborns. A federal panel voted today to
recommend halting the at birth shots for all infants for
hepatitis B, ending the decades long recommendation that all newborns
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be immunized at birth against that and that leads to
chronic liver disease and most infected children. The vote was
a victory for Health Secretary of Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
I'm reading from the New York Times here, and you
need to keep that in mind, who has sought for
decades to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule. We all know
this fear following the news at all, but the divisiveness
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and dysfunction of the committee and making the decision raises
questions about the reliability of the process, and it left
at least one critic very concerned about the future. The
panel called the Advisory Committee on Inhuman Immunization Practices, which
I'm sure you're paying a lot of attention to, Katie,
cause you're gonna have a newborn here pretty soon and
you have to go through this whole thing. Yeah, voted
eight to three, pretty solid vote there, eight to three
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that women who test negative for the virus should consult
with the healthcare provider and decide when or if their
child will be vaccinated against the virus at birth. Have
be as opposed to it being mandatory. Are you ready
for the unintentionally hilarious quote here written as if it's
a joke. For many public health experts, the vote also
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marked the end of trust in the CDC.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Here's the quote that's already for him. That's already pretty good.
That's already a hotter than right, that's already a howler.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Here's some guy they're quoting, a public health expert at
the University of Minnesota. Today is a defining moment for
our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities
when it comes to vaccines. Oh jeerus god, how can
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you say that astonished coming out of the pandemic with
a straight face. Today's the day we question health officials.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You're kidding, right, come into vaccines for twenty year old soldiers.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
For kids. You can't you can't catch the virus if
you get the vaccine.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh my god, universal mandates.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Today is the day you must have a Netflix special coming.
You are hilarious.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You know, covids where a lot of the hesitation on
my end has come from. I mean, we've talked about
it and like the whole vaccine thing, but that really
was kind of where my brain went, what is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
In these things? And then at the very least, everybody's
brain went to, Oh, you're full of crap a lot, right, Okay,
you say all kinds of stuff that you know is
not true. Oh okay, well never mind my own good
as you see it, I won't pissention to you at
all anymore. Stand six feet away, Stand six feet away,
completely made up. You can't get COVID if you get
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the vaccine a lie, and they knew it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And it's been interesting going to you know, I have
several doctors that I go to, and I have one
that is pushing for me to because I didn't get
the COVID shot and I'm they're pushing for me to
get it while pregnant. And another doctor was like, don't
do that. So I'm I'm like, I'm obviously I'm not
going to. But it's just interesting to have two different
providers telling me opposite things.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
They want you to get a COVID shot, they want
me to get it now. Yeah. Is that a state
California thing or is that a federal thing?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
No, I don't know what it is, but and you know,
it's just interesting positions recommendation.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I don't think it has anything to do with the
government at all doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's just the doctor's like, because my other
doctor was like, duh, no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What the current CDC guideline is on that stuff because
I stopped paying attention to the long time.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know, it's just thank god, recommendations at this point.
But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Huh. I gotta read a young woman like yourself, I
gotta read this again, just because it is so funny
that they voted eight to three that you don't have
to get the B vaccine for your kid. Today is
a defining moment for our country. We can no longer
trust federal health authorities. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It's like the head of NASA coming out and saying
I believe someday man may land on the moon.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You'd be like, wait, how do you not know? That's
your feet?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's one of the greatest scandals in the history of medicine.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You know, Okay, that's it. I'm checking out. There's really
some good stuff right there. Remember when you eat, you
pull your mask down, take a few buys, then you
put your mask back up. Yes you can. You can.
You can eat at a restaurant. You gotta wear a
mask from the door to your booth, then you can
sit with a whole bunch of people with your mask down,
because it's.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Still got people wearing masks alone in their car who
really ought to be in statementtal health facilities. But uh, okay,
all right, I just say, you know what this is,
and this is what discourages me even more than I'm
already discouraged.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This has long been the goal.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Of the Kremlin to sew seeds of conflict and doubt,
not so that Americans believe a particular narrative, but that
we don't know what to believe, right, And the fact
that you know, if you are a person of decent,
you know, morals and intellect, you could easily say, all right,
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So a lot of these vaccines have been around for decades.
The number of them has gotten really impressive. What was
the original need for that vaccine? Do those circumstances still exist?
Would it hurt to hold off for a couple of months?
How often are kids likely to be infected? Blah blah blah.
Let's take a look at this thing, uh, top to bottom,
rejiggerate And I'm not an RFK vaccine causes the.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Autism guy at all, Nor am I the medical science
knows best.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We wouldn't want to shake people's iron clad faith in
the CDC sort.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Of jackass either. I would just like to know or have.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
A reasonable look taken at it. But no, it just
goes right to Trump and Mahan r F K Junior,
who's an ambulance chasing lawyer by the way.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Uh anyway, I just yell on this one. It sounds
to me like, and I don't know anything about this,
so I probably shouldn't be spouting off. But so women
who don't test who test negative, for me, you don't
have to get the shot. That's not that's much reasonable.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And women reasonable test positive or his status unknown probably
ought to be immunized.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Pretty reason. That doesn't seem crazy. I don't know. Oh,
this is a trade, This is a market.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
At the dark mark of the American soul, we could
no longer trusted worship the CDC. Alright, irony is dead,
Long live irony. That was just too ironic, Sorry, Dave Chappelle.
Oh oh yeah, Oh, I'm too full of irony. I
over ate irony.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Nate Bargatzi will never craft a joke as good as
that one. Today's the day we lost trust in the CDC.
Oh my god, I'm crying with laughter.
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Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's code to be right. You're not gonna tell us
here a little bit later in the hour that we
can no longer trust climate scientists either, are you? Oh,
good lord?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Have you heard about the big retracted paper and nature
which is itself just a woke crock of crap?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Good lord? What can I believe in? Eyes lies? Sobody lies?
What what can I believe in? Anymore? You've been enjoying
that super moon, man, I have last couple of nights
that is a pretty good harvest December blue, super muskrat moon.
We got going catch it tickets, cloudy and it ruins everything,
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ruins everything, So I did. Actually, so this is two
moons in a row, So two months in a row
where they had teachers on TV talking about kids being
difficult to deal with. And remember last month I talked
about two different healthcare professionals that said to me, oh yeah,
it's gonna be a wild weekend because of the full moon.
When did that become? Has that always been? Everybody knew
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that and I just missed it or something. I didn't
know that it was solid science that when there's a
full moon people go nuts.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Solid science or just anecdotal statements by a couple of
health care well accepted.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like I said, I saw it mention yesterday that it's
just conventional wisdom. Now is it always better or is
it confirmation pious? I don't know. It could easily be
confirmation pious. Do you feel crazier this week? I might
feel crazier this week. I'd have to think about it.
And we've got a lot on the way here. You
know a group of people that need to be studied.
(12:06):
Those weirdos outside the Luigi Mangioni trial were in support
of him. Yeah, and mostly girls. And it's about his
hotness that is so freaking weird.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Cougar's for Luigi. There's the Mangionistas they call themselves. Yeah,
I know a bunch of weirdos. So that in the
great Climate change scam appears to be coming to an end.
Saying goodness coming up next segment. First, though, our favorite
Donald Trump impersonator, My.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Fellow Americans, it is my great honor, the greatest honor,
to announce and declare complete and total victory over the
twenty twenty five hurricane season. We had zero hurricanes in
the Gulf of America. Ever since we made the name change.
I got along very well with Mother Nature. I've heard
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of her. She's a tremendous person. I've known her for
a long time, and we get along well. And I
said to her, if you said any hurricanes into our country,
we're going to hit you with tariffs the like so
which nobody's ever seen before. We're going to tariff those
storms at one thousand, two thousand, three thousand percent. And
she said, sir, We're not going to send any hurricanes in.
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And we made a beautiful deal. Mother Nature a great person.
But yet a lot of people talking about it. It's
an El Nina year. It's a lot Inia year. You're
going to have hurricanes. We deported El Nino and we
deported La Nina too. They were in our country illegally.
We got rid of them, and we had the greatest
hurricane season the world has ever seen. No hurricanes in
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the Gulf of America. We did a tremendous job. So
thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The writing, so the voice is really good, but the
writing is stunningly good.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, really good. You know, as long as he's
rolling Sean, is it farash Katie?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah? Uh yeah, go ahead, hit number eleven.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Michael, you look at ill Han, you look at the brother.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Many people are saying it she married her brother and
very interesting if she did that.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You know, it's a raw deal for the brother.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
He divorced his first wife, which was probably a goat,
and while them marrying a pig in Ilano mar she's
a nasty person, very nasty.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Wow, you know that's not that far off something Trump
would say.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, no, no, he's He's gone after some female reporters
lately in a way that I am extremely uncomfortable with.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Speaking of extremely uncomfortable, it has been confirmed IRS agents
will have to look at porn to decide whether people
are entitled to having their taxes waived on their tips
pornographic creators and actors only fans type, where's the line?
Asks one person who works with only fans creators? Just
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because you're on only fans. It doesn't necessarily mean it's pornographic. Now,
I remember we talked about this the other day. So
if it is porn you it is a tip, so
you don't get taxes or no, no, if you get
the way around, the pornographic activity is excluded from the
tax exemption. Okay, you can get all the tips in
the world, but they're not taxis.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But strippers get tips, and is that porn that's not
porn So they get tips and you should should pay taxes.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, here's a tax repairer talking to the New York Times. Ultimately,
it would be the subjective determination of an IRS examiner
or a tax court judge. Something you look at. Sometimes
you look at something and it's clearly pornography. But sometimes
you look at something and you think, yeah, it's subjective.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Somebody might be really into it. But I generally get
the whole lot pornography when I see it. And but
strippers not being pornography, that's a little I don't know.
I don't understand that at all. Up I had gotten
to take this one call.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Professions that do enjoy tax exemptions on their tips include bartenders, waiters,
non radio DJs, aid plumbers.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You're supposed to tip your plumber. Wait a minute, what
they charge? Are you kidding me? Oh boy, wrong?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, golf caddies and several dozen more. Okay, fine, and
then this, and I hate the jack's missing this, but
he needs to deal with family stuff. Wild chimps consume
more alcohol than anyone expected. Brand new study out of
the University of cal Unicornia at berserk Lely chimpanzees naturally
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ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit. Careful
measurements show their typical fruit diet can equal one to
two human.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Drinks each day.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Whow chimps are taking the edge off getting a little
buzz on on a daily basis, considering the fact that
one chimpanzee could tear ten men apart who are trying
to fight it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, then get them drunk, Oh my god, drunk up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And you know, there's some actual science involved here, because
there's been what's called the drunken monkey hypothesis, hypothesis that
alcohol exposure is not a modern human invention, it's an
ancient primate habit, and this is really lending credence to that.
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So the science and the anthropology is pretty interesting. But
chimps are famously sometimes murderous and rapie. Is it because
they're drunk and they like they go off in a
way that normally they wouldn't. Just snap. I've known a
couple of people who were delightful people, but when they
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got drunk, they went dark. Yeah, in a way that
I'm such a happy drunk I can't I can't relate
to it at all. I love everybody. But yeah, interesting,
the drunken monkey hypothesis. All right, Well you'd have to
be a drunk monkey to be buying the climate scam
at this point. Yes, the climate is changing. Sure to
we spend trillions of dollars on crap that doesn't work
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just to please Greta Tunberg.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The activists don't seem to understand why everybody's changed their minds.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That coming up. Hope you can stay with us, Armstrong
and Getty and.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Cole Junior, a thirty year old white man from the
DC suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in
interstate commerce and with malicious destruction.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Why Jake Tapper said the bomber was a white man
when he's clearly a black man nobody's quite sure. It
was an odd moment. Did Jake ad live that? Was
it written for him? We don't know, and it has
nothing to do with this segment's topic. But it's an
opportunity to kick Jake Tapper in CNN. So having administered
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that kicking, I just I didn't want too many segments
to go by without getting back to that. A word
about the climate scam. Is the climate changing? Yes, yeah,
of course it is. The climate's always changing. Is it
man made or man cost Yeah? Part probably so yeah.
Is it worth spending trillions and trillions of dollars on
insufficient technologies that won't do any good and will decimate economies?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Good lord? No, yeah, say what you want.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Al you got fat and rich on this stuff, and
I you know, I admire your cleverness you got in
early on the scam. But some great coverage. I'm gonna
go from the Free Press to RedState dot Com, to
the Free Beacon to the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
God help us. Great piece in the press.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
First, have you heard how by the end of the century,
climate change will cut the world's economic output by two thirds?
Big giant paper in the journal Nature came out not
long ago, two thirds of the world's economic output will
be eliminated. How Australia is great barrier rape, one of
the natural wonders of the world is disappearing. How the
island nations of the Pacific are sinking into the sea.
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If you've even glanced at reporting on climate change, you've
heard all these things and more. It's always a minute
to midnight, and we're looking at the barren desert of
the world where humanity's last stragglers will scrape proceeds in
the grid of the hot wind.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That's some good writing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I like that, But these grim predictions are almost always
based on crappy science. And while we hear a great
deal about the cost of climate change, we hear far
less about the cost of climate hysteria, both the direct
financial costs of all the programs meant to save us
from it and the damage it flicks on the proper practice.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Of science, which I thought was a.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Great point, and I'd love to I'd love to go
deep on that, but you know, you know, we got
it to move on, always, the never ending hurtling forward.
So the leading science journal Nature two days ago retracted
a paper that had made enormous impact on the Climate
Science World. It claimed that climate change will reduce global
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economic output by sixty two percent by the end of
the century. It was, as the Washington Post re the
second most cited climate paper of the year and the
one that helped define the debate. But when skeptical researchers
took a look at the math, they found that the
underlying data indicated not a sixty two percent loss, but
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maybe a twenty three percent loss, And by twenty fifty
it wasn't going to be a twenty percent loss of
economic activity.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It was barely going to be six percent. Michael, can
you play the door open? Hey, everybody, I'm back. Jack's back.
I left a few minutes ago. My son is in
the hospital, and the hospital called, and uh, I don
know what your experience has been, mine has been. If
you don't take those calls when you get him, it
is going to be really, really, really hard to talk
to that doctor later.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Oh yeah, you could get the president on the line
more quickly than you could get that doctor on the one.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And I always like how they if they do leave
you message, Y'll call me back. We missed you. Yeah,
I'd like to what number?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh no, I wasn't. I wasn't implying that I would
ever pick up or talk to you. You should just
call me back.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah. Anyway, so we're talking about climate change, if I
remember it correctly, well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Right, And this writer makes a great point. I think
that these numbers may have already made your eyes glaze over.
And that's part of the point in climate science. So
you're not supposed to look too closely at the details.
For too many researchers. The goal the researchers, the goal
is to produce the biggest numbers and galvanize action. And
then when peers check their work closely, they often find howlers.
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In the Nature paper, a series of dead eras linked
to temperature in Uzbekistan appears to have tripled the projections.
And then they go into the bleaching, the Great Barrier
reef and all this other stuff that's just not happening.
And man, one of the best pieces of journalism I've
read on this recently was a Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
We talked about this, talking about the price of Europe's
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green energy overhaul and how they were told it would
lower costs, save the environment, and stimulate the economy and
costs of skyrocket. It wrecked the economy and done as
worth a good anyway. The folks at RedState dot com
pointing out this Nature retracting that paper.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Early two thousands, Tom Friedman in the New York Times
was really big on Ryton. So this is early two thousands,
you know, after Al Gore decided, well, I guess I'm
not going to be president. I'll become a billionaire by
getting involved in this whole climate thing. And Tom Friedman
used to write right column after column about the green
energy economy and how much money there is going to
be made, and now that's the future of the world
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and everything like that. Well, there was a lot of
money to be made, and it was a future for
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But it was a scam and it was taxpayer money primarily,
and it didn't do any good. They actually mentioned Bill
Gates softening his language in October at that COP thirty
summit cut down on the doomsday rhetoric. But Nature said
in a statement on their website explaining this retraction, the
authors acknowledged that these changes are too substantial for correction,
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leading to the retraction of the paper. Their predictions are
still We're all going.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
To die variety.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
However, even with the updated day, it's hard to take
what they say at face value when they just screwed
this one up so badly in one of the major
scientific journals in the world.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
On the topic of the journal.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Nature, which was like so many institutions like the American
Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, used to be respected,
but now it's been captured by wocists. There's a great
story in the Free Beacon about this professor at the
University of Southern California, an Ar Krylov, who's an immigrant
from Russia and a respected chemist, who blew the whistle
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that Nature announced in October. This October it was explicitly
encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement in their articles.
The statement would affirm that they had made an effort
to cite from a diverse group of researchers and acknowledged
citation and balances based on race and gender. Wow, so
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the world is going to come to an end in
your world because of client change. But still the most
important thing before we can even take a look at
those numbers is making sure you have the right ratio
of male female different skin colors and sex orientations.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Right, yeah, still prioritize that. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I noticed there are no trans scientists cited in this study.
Can you go back please and work on it? Some
are Yeah, this is the journal Nature, which is utterly
a joke at this point and good for antacryl often
in blowing the whistle on it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But it's kind of a sidelight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So my final note on this is an absolutely head
slapping long piece in the New York Times. Who wrote
this tripe let's name names, let's see Lisa Friedman and
Stephen Lee Myers. It is a long article entitled many
fighting climate change worry they are losing the information war.
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Shifting politics, intense lobbying and surging disinformation online have under
international efforts to respond.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
To the threat.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And they go on paragraph after paragraph after paragraph explaining
why the bloom is off the climate change fighting rose,
and they never even not their tip their cap at
the notion that, well, as we've been explaining, the science
is crap. The technologies that have been adopted have been
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incredibly expensive and.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Ineffective.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Mitigation is a much better answer, and taxpayers are realized
they've gotten hoed host they never even recognize that in
the giant New York Times article, and as Andrew follow
points out in The National Review, blaming messaging difficulties and
conservative misinformation for the movement's retreat, is exactly backward. The
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New York Times recently told readers that declining worldwide interest
in global warming is due to an alleged shadowy conspiracy
by the oil, gas and industries, which continue to downplay
the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is
dangerously heating the planet. The Gray Lady then goes on
to complain that Russia, Saudi Arabia, and of course Donald
Trump promoted disinformation on social media platforms quote that have
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long been dismissed as conspiracy theories, and they blame the
misinformation for the failure of a recent global warming summit
in Brazil. Yet about the only thing the summit could
agree on was hating climate deniers. Than they put out
a big statement about misinformation, denialism and how governments needed
to attack that. In other words, all the world's environmentalist
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minded politicians could do was make a statement encouraging removing
their political opposition from social media, and many of the
environmentalists among American academics and politicians agreed with them in
terms of expenses. Oh, the irony is that environmentalists spend
orders of magnitude more on what was caused disinformation and
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corruption than their opposition. The largest US anti climate alarmism
think tanks are the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute the CI,
which spent eight point six million dollars last year total
on all of their programs eight point six and the
Heartland Institute, which spent three point seven million dollars again
on all of their causes, including anti climate change hysteria.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
In contrast, so that's.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
A total of about fourteen million bucks. In contrast, environmental
groups are spectacularly well funded. Last year, the Sierra Club
spent one hundred and seventy three million dollars alone, the
National Resources Defense Council spent two hundred and twenty million dollars,
and Earth Justice spent one hundred and fifty two million
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dollars funding which was almost exclusively dedicated to energy or
environmental issues.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So the so called disinformation.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Groups are are little iputians compared to the herd of elephants,
which is the anti climate change spend trillions of dollars
lobbying groups.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So where do you think this is? Do you think
it's dying out? And like ten years from now, not
a lot of people will be talking about the threat
of climate change and trying to raise money for it
and get people all worked up about it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Or I will answer that question decisively and completely.
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is people are going to realize a lot of the
harem scarm stuff is not true. A lot of the
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we have to spend trillions of dollars was to profit cronies.
A lot of the measures that have been taken of
decimated economies and not really done any good. And so
they will the concentration will be and should be should
always have been actual advanced technologies that can provide energy
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without carbon emissions nuclear for instance, and future technologies that
we can't even imagine, and mitigation. You know, I'm always
saying cell your park, buy some shorts. I'm only half kidding.
Russia and India and Singapore your third Indonesia, You're gigantic.
Third world countries that can barely feed their people. Are like,
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wait a minute, you want me to kneecap my economy,
which we've barely got going in the name of climate change.
Screw that will build a jetty or two to hold
back the water. We got to feed our people, and
that'll be the emphasis mitigation. And you know what, honestly,
ten fifteen years from now, who knows, we may discover
something new about the climate that says, oh, turns out
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the effect of this it kind of double reverses, and
now we're getting colder.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
So yeah, mitigation smart investments. Always wish show was on
the take from the oil companies. I could use the
spend in cash, but I'm not. This is just it's
it's the truth as I see it, and I'm pretty
confident it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's gonna be hard for some of the diehards to
give up on it, oh yeah, because it's like a
religion for that. And I don't mean they are I
don't even mean people profiting from it. People that just
personally care so much about climate change.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, I heard a great discussion of that, just more
generally in terms of politics, that people's politics is their
identity now, and to convince them that their politics are
wrong is incredibly dislocating. It's like finding out you're adopted
or or something. It's it's very difficult for people to
do in a way that's probably not healthy.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Now we've got a soccer betting scandal, fixing games and whatnot.
This has become a real problem worldwide.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, teams scored twice in an hour, and everybody said
that's impost can't this is exciting that and other stuff
on the waist, dude, are strong?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well everybody.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
This week everyone's been sharing their Spotify raft you know
I'm talking about. Yeah, that's when Spotify puts together a
little recap of your listening stats for the whole year.
But Spotify isn't the only app that does this. Oh now,
check out what people got in their phones earlier today.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Your calculator wrapped is ready. You had a busy year.
You calculated restaurant tips eighty six times. Because you can't
do basic math. You accidentally opened the app seventeen times
when you meant to open the one next to it.
You're in the top one percent of people who typed
boobs upside down. You typed sixty seven and showed your
son in a desperate attempt to connect three times. You
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accidentally typed six thirty when you were drunk and trying
to set an alarm for work twice, and you calculated
how much more money you need to quit your job
forty five, six.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Hundred and seventy one times.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
Wow, don't forget to share with your friends.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Wow. This made me sad for some reason. I'm thankful
that I did not have a job. I every day
calculate how many more days do I have to do
this because I've had jobs like that. Oh yeah, it sucks.
I'm glad I wasn't betting on Turkish soccer. This is
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fairly corrupt. The bust this week of a massive betting
investigation into Turkish professional soccer. It's the biggest sport in
that country, as it is in most countries around the
world that aren't the United States. Over one thousand players
have been suspended, including top tier players from the major clubs.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
How many players are there in this league? One hundred
and forty nine referees.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Oh boy. Arrest warrants have been issued for dozens of individuals,
including club presidents, referees, and commentators. So you had soccer
matches where the president of the club is corrupt, the
players are corrupt, the referees corrupt, and then the guy
announcing the game it's corrupt.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I'm at a loss for how they guy announcing the game.
Maybe maybe he just has to be bought off, not
to say, you know, keeper, clearly let that ball in.
Wait a minute, what just happened here? Or that you
want him on the tape That wasn't a foul. What
the hell are you talking about? They just don't want
that right to what extent? Was it real at all?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
If the owner, the player, the ref and the guy
announcing it are all in on the on the fix,
it's really wwe at that point.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, For all I know, the fans are getting ten
bucks apiece to keep their mouths shut sheer or boo
at the right time, right, yeah, yeah, wow, Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
How long would it take to turn that around and
have anybody believe it's real and continue to bet? But
obviously people were betting to the extent that it was
worth paying off a thousand players and owners and referees
and announcers and everything like that. The scandal is caused
serious disruption. Lower division matches have been postponed. There's a
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growing concern over integrity in Turkish and European football broadly
just because the owners, the players, the refs and the announcers,
we're all on the dick.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
It's the guy mowing the field on the up and
up right. Yeah, wow, growing concern. Yeah, it ought to
be guy out there parking the cars in the furthest
away a lot. You you got to back end well,
back in. He's on the take. If I had the time,
I would love to study Turkish culture and politics more.
(36:36):
There at the nexus between the European world and the
Muslim world really really interesting and Airdowan is half a
dictator and it's just really really good stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Oh, which reminds me.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I heard some really really thought provoking talk about the
nature of Islam in Europe that I'd love to get
to next hour.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
If you don't get next hour, you got to go somewhere.
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
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Speaker 2 (37:13):
Huh, that's some good stuff. Armstrong on getting on demand.
We have a fourth hour coming? Is that true? Is
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
The Supreme Court now saying it will allow Texas to
move ahead with its controversial newly redrawn congressional map, favoring
Republicans in that state, potentially giving them five new House seats.
A lower court had ruled the map was unconstitutional.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah. Boy, that's a big story I missed somehow yesterday
because Texas did that whole thing to get five more
Republican seats, and then Gavin Newsoman in California reacted by
doing a similar thing. But then a court came in
and said no, Texas can't do that, and I thought,
oh boy, if that's the final word, that's a big deal.
(00:58):
But then the Supreme Court, sick three last night, decided
now Texas can do that. So I don't know where
we are in the race for the House for next year,
but gives her republic It's a couple of advantages. That's
a legal mess.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It all has to do with the tension between you know,
the the Voting Rights Act in the fourteenth Amendment. It's
just the Soups need to step in and this will
be hard, but they need to really rule on this stuff.
There's so much the courts guidelines they can follow. There's
so much jerry mandering so all across the country. I
(01:34):
have for both parties to pretend that any jerry mandering
is new or unique as hilarious. Speaking of hilarious, I
have coming up unintentionally one of the funniest things I've
ever heard. Nate Bargatzi, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervai,
name your comedian. Wish they could come up with something
(01:54):
as funny as I'm about to have for you in
this story about vaccines, So we got to break making
news story here. The RFK Junior Health Panel is voted
ald on about the cough.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Who knows what disease I got? Oh oh, oh, my god,
tried dying myself, probably because I didn't get enough vaccines
as a kid. They're going to end the Hepatitis B
shots for all newborns. A federal panel voted today to
recommend halting the at birth shots for all infants for
hepatitis B, ending the decades long recommendation that all newborns
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be immunized at birth against that and that leads to
chronic liver disease and most infected children. The vote was
a victory for Health Secretary of Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
I'm reading from the New York Times here, and you
need to keep that in mind, who has sought for
decades to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule. We all know
this fear following the news at all, but the divisiveness
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and dysfunction of the committee and making the decision raises
questions about the reliability of the process, and it left
at least one critic very concerned about the future. The
panel called the Advisory Committee on Inhuman Immunization Practices, which
I'm sure you're paying a lot of attention to, Katie,
cause you're gonna have a newborn here pretty soon and
you have to go through this whole thing. Yeah, voted
eight to three, pretty solid vote there, eight to three
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that women who test negative for the virus should consult
with the healthcare provider and decide when or if their
child will be vaccinated against the virus at birth. Have
be as opposed to it being mandatory. Are you ready
for the unintentionally hilarious quote here written as if it's
a joke. For many public health experts, the vote also
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marked the end of trust in the CDC.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Here's the quote that's already for him. That's already pretty good.
That's already a hotter than right, that's already a howler.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Here's some guy they're quoting, a public health expert at
the University of Minnesota. Today is a defining moment for
our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities
when it comes to vaccines. Oh jeerus god, how can
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you say that astonished coming out of the pandemic with
a straight face. Today's the day we question health officials.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You're kidding, right, come into vaccines for twenty year old soldiers.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
For kids. You can't you can't catch the virus if
you get the vaccine.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh my god, universal mandates.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Today is the day you must have a Netflix special coming.
You are hilarious.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You know, covids where a lot of the hesitation on
my end has come from. I mean, we've talked about
it and like the whole vaccine thing, but that really
was kind of where my brain went, what is.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
In these things? And then at the very least, everybody's
brain went to, Oh, you're full of crap a lot, right, Okay,
you say all kinds of stuff that you know is
not true. Oh okay, well never mind my own good
as you see it, I won't pissention to you at
all anymore. Stand six feet away, Stand six feet away,
completely made up. You can't get COVID if you get
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the vaccine a lie, and they knew it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And it's been interesting going to you know, I have
several doctors that I go to, and I have one
that is pushing for me to because I didn't get
the COVID shot and I'm they're pushing for me to
get it while pregnant. And another doctor was like, don't
do that. So I'm I'm like, I'm obviously I'm not
going to. But it's just interesting to have two different
providers telling me opposite things.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
They want you to get a COVID shot, they want
me to get it now. Yeah. Is that a state
California thing or is that a federal thing?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
No, I don't know what it is, but and you know,
it's just interesting positions recommendation.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I don't think it has anything to do with the
government at all doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's just the doctor's like, because my other
doctor was like, duh, no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What the current CDC guideline is on that stuff because
I stopped paying attention to the long time.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know, it's just thank god, recommendations at this point.
But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Huh. I gotta read a young woman like yourself, I
gotta read this again, just because it is so funny
that they voted eight to three that you don't have
to get the B vaccine for your kid. Today is
a defining moment for our country. We can no longer
trust federal health authorities. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It's like the head of NASA coming out and saying
I believe someday man may land on the moon.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You'd be like, wait, how do you not know? That's
your feet?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's one of the greatest scandals in the history of medicine.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You know, Okay, that's it. I'm checking out. There's really
some good stuff right there. Remember when you eat, you
pull your mask down, take a few buys, then you
put your mask back up. Yes you can. You can.
You can eat at a restaurant. You gotta wear a
mask from the door to your booth, then you can
sit with a whole bunch of people with your mask down,
because it's.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Still got people wearing masks alone in their car who
really ought to be in statementtal health facilities. But uh, okay,
all right, I just say, you know what this is,
and this is what discourages me even more than I'm
already discouraged.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This has long been the goal.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Of the Kremlin to sew seeds of conflict and doubt,
not so that Americans believe a particular narrative, but that
we don't know what to believe, right, And the fact
that you know, if you are a person of decent,
you know, morals and intellect, you could easily say, all right,
(07:42):
So a lot of these vaccines have been around for decades.
The number of them has gotten really impressive. What was
the original need for that vaccine? Do those circumstances still exist?
Would it hurt to hold off for a couple of months?
How often are kids likely to be infected? Blah blah blah.
Let's take a look at this thing, uh, top to bottom,
rejiggerate And I'm not an RFK vaccine causes the.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Autism guy at all, Nor am I the medical science
knows best.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We wouldn't want to shake people's iron clad faith in
the CDC sort.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Of jackass either. I would just like to know or have.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
A reasonable look taken at it. But no, it just
goes right to Trump and Mahan r F K Junior,
who's an ambulance chasing lawyer by the way.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Uh anyway, I just yell on this one. It sounds
to me like, and I don't know anything about this,
so I probably shouldn't be spouting off. But so women
who don't test who test negative, for me, you don't
have to get the shot. That's not that's much reasonable.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And women reasonable test positive or his status unknown probably
ought to be immunized.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Pretty reason. That doesn't seem crazy. I don't know. Oh,
this is a trade, This is a market.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
At the dark mark of the American soul, we could
no longer trusted worship the CDC. Alright, irony is dead,
Long live irony. That was just too ironic, Sorry, Dave Chappelle.
Oh oh yeah, Oh, I'm too full of irony. I
over ate irony.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Nate Bargatzi will never craft a joke as good as
that one. Today's the day we lost trust in the CDC.
Oh my god, I'm crying with laughter.
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Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's code to be right. You're not gonna tell us
here a little bit later in the hour that we
can no longer trust climate scientists either, are you? Oh,
good lord?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Have you heard about the big retracted paper and nature
which is itself just a woke crock of crap?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Good lord? What can I believe in? Eyes lies? Sobody lies?
What what can I believe in? Anymore? You've been enjoying
that super moon, man, I have last couple of nights
that is a pretty good harvest December blue, super muskrat moon.
We got going catch it tickets, cloudy and it ruins everything,
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ruins everything, So I did. Actually, so this is two
moons in a row, So two months in a row
where they had teachers on TV talking about kids being
difficult to deal with. And remember last month I talked
about two different healthcare professionals that said to me, oh yeah,
it's gonna be a wild weekend because of the full moon.
When did that become? Has that always been? Everybody knew
(11:29):
that and I just missed it or something. I didn't
know that it was solid science that when there's a
full moon people go nuts.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Solid science or just anecdotal statements by a couple of
health care well accepted.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like I said, I saw it mention yesterday that it's
just conventional wisdom. Now is it always better or is
it confirmation pious? I don't know. It could easily be
confirmation pious. Do you feel crazier this week? I might
feel crazier this week. I'd have to think about it.
And we've got a lot on the way here. You
know a group of people that need to be studied.
(12:06):
Those weirdos outside the Luigi Mangioni trial were in support
of him. Yeah, and mostly girls. And it's about his
hotness that is so freaking weird.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Cougar's for Luigi. There's the Mangionistas they call themselves. Yeah,
I know a bunch of weirdos. So that in the
great Climate change scam appears to be coming to an end.
Saying goodness coming up next segment. First, though, our favorite
Donald Trump impersonator, My.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Fellow Americans, it is my great honor, the greatest honor,
to announce and declare complete and total victory over the
twenty twenty five hurricane season. We had zero hurricanes in
the Gulf of America. Ever since we made the name change.
I got along very well with Mother Nature. I've heard
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of her. She's a tremendous person. I've known her for
a long time, and we get along well. And I
said to her, if you said any hurricanes into our country,
we're going to hit you with tariffs the like so
which nobody's ever seen before. We're going to tariff those
storms at one thousand, two thousand, three thousand percent. And
she said, sir, We're not going to send any hurricanes in.
(13:21):
And we made a beautiful deal. Mother Nature a great person.
But yet a lot of people talking about it. It's
an El Nina year. It's a lot Inia year. You're
going to have hurricanes. We deported El Nino and we
deported La Nina too. They were in our country illegally.
We got rid of them, and we had the greatest
hurricane season the world has ever seen. No hurricanes in
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the Gulf of America. We did a tremendous job. So
thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The writing, so the voice is really good, but the
writing is stunningly good.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, really good. You know, as long as he's
rolling Sean, is it farash Katie?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah? Uh yeah, go ahead, hit number eleven.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Michael, you look at ill Han, you look at the brother.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Many people are saying it she married her brother and
very interesting if she did that.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You know, it's a raw deal for the brother.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
He divorced his first wife, which was probably a goat,
and while them marrying a pig in Ilano mar she's
a nasty person, very nasty.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Wow, you know that's not that far off something Trump
would say.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, no, no, he's He's gone after some female reporters
lately in a way that I am extremely uncomfortable with.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Speaking of extremely uncomfortable, it has been confirmed IRS agents
will have to look at porn to decide whether people
are entitled to having their taxes waived on their tips
pornographic creators and actors only fans type, where's the line?
Asks one person who works with only fans creators? Just
(15:00):
because you're on only fans. It doesn't necessarily mean it's pornographic. Now,
I remember we talked about this the other day. So
if it is porn you it is a tip, so
you don't get taxes or no, no, if you get
the way around, the pornographic activity is excluded from the
tax exemption. Okay, you can get all the tips in
the world, but they're not taxis.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But strippers get tips, and is that porn that's not
porn So they get tips and you should should pay taxes.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, here's a tax repairer talking to the New York Times. Ultimately,
it would be the subjective determination of an IRS examiner
or a tax court judge. Something you look at. Sometimes
you look at something and it's clearly pornography. But sometimes
you look at something and you think, yeah, it's subjective.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Somebody might be really into it. But I generally get
the whole lot pornography when I see it. And but
strippers not being pornography, that's a little I don't know.
I don't understand that at all. Up I had gotten
to take this one call.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Professions that do enjoy tax exemptions on their tips include bartenders, waiters,
non radio DJs, aid plumbers.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You're supposed to tip your plumber. Wait a minute, what
they charge? Are you kidding me? Oh boy, wrong?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, golf caddies and several dozen more. Okay, fine, and
then this, and I hate the jack's missing this, but
he needs to deal with family stuff. Wild chimps consume
more alcohol than anyone expected. Brand new study out of
the University of cal Unicornia at berserk Lely chimpanzees naturally
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ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit. Careful
measurements show their typical fruit diet can equal one to
two human.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Drinks each day.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Whow chimps are taking the edge off getting a little
buzz on on a daily basis, considering the fact that
one chimpanzee could tear ten men apart who are trying
to fight it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, then get them drunk, Oh my god, drunk up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And you know, there's some actual science involved here, because
there's been what's called the drunken monkey hypothesis, hypothesis that
alcohol exposure is not a modern human invention, it's an
ancient primate habit, and this is really lending credence to that.
(17:20):
So the science and the anthropology is pretty interesting. But
chimps are famously sometimes murderous and rapie. Is it because
they're drunk and they like they go off in a
way that normally they wouldn't. Just snap. I've known a
couple of people who were delightful people, but when they
(17:40):
got drunk, they went dark. Yeah, in a way that
I'm such a happy drunk I can't I can't relate
to it at all. I love everybody. But yeah, interesting,
the drunken monkey hypothesis. All right, Well you'd have to
be a drunk monkey to be buying the climate scam
at this point. Yes, the climate is changing. Sure to
we spend trillions of dollars on crap that doesn't work
(18:03):
just to please Greta Tunberg.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The activists don't seem to understand why everybody's changed their minds.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That coming up. Hope you can stay with us, Armstrong
and Getty and.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Cole Junior, a thirty year old white man from the
DC suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in
interstate commerce and with malicious destruction.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Why Jake Tapper said the bomber was a white man
when he's clearly a black man nobody's quite sure. It
was an odd moment. Did Jake ad live that? Was
it written for him? We don't know, and it has
nothing to do with this segment's topic. But it's an
opportunity to kick Jake Tapper in CNN. So having administered
(18:50):
that kicking, I just I didn't want too many segments
to go by without getting back to that. A word
about the climate scam. Is the climate changing? Yes, yeah,
of course it is. The climate's always changing. Is it
man made or man cost Yeah? Part probably so yeah.
Is it worth spending trillions and trillions of dollars on
insufficient technologies that won't do any good and will decimate economies?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Good lord? No, yeah, say what you want.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Al you got fat and rich on this stuff, and
I you know, I admire your cleverness you got in
early on the scam. But some great coverage. I'm gonna
go from the Free Press to RedState dot Com, to
the Free Beacon to the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
God help us. Great piece in the press.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
First, have you heard how by the end of the century,
climate change will cut the world's economic output by two thirds?
Big giant paper in the journal Nature came out not
long ago, two thirds of the world's economic output will
be eliminated. How Australia is great barrier rape, one of
the natural wonders of the world is disappearing. How the
island nations of the Pacific are sinking into the sea.
(19:57):
If you've even glanced at reporting on climate change, you've
heard all these things and more. It's always a minute
to midnight, and we're looking at the barren desert of
the world where humanity's last stragglers will scrape proceeds in
the grid of the hot wind.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That's some good writing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I like that, But these grim predictions are almost always
based on crappy science. And while we hear a great
deal about the cost of climate change, we hear far
less about the cost of climate hysteria, both the direct
financial costs of all the programs meant to save us
from it and the damage it flicks on the proper practice.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Of science, which I thought was a.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Great point, and I'd love to I'd love to go
deep on that, but you know, you know, we got
it to move on, always, the never ending hurtling forward.
So the leading science journal Nature two days ago retracted
a paper that had made enormous impact on the Climate
Science World. It claimed that climate change will reduce global
(20:53):
economic output by sixty two percent by the end of
the century. It was, as the Washington Post re the
second most cited climate paper of the year and the
one that helped define the debate. But when skeptical researchers
took a look at the math, they found that the
underlying data indicated not a sixty two percent loss, but
(21:13):
maybe a twenty three percent loss, And by twenty fifty
it wasn't going to be a twenty percent loss of
economic activity.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It was barely going to be six percent. Michael, can
you play the door open? Hey, everybody, I'm back. Jack's back.
I left a few minutes ago. My son is in
the hospital, and the hospital called, and uh, I don
know what your experience has been, mine has been. If
you don't take those calls when you get him, it
is going to be really, really, really hard to talk
to that doctor later.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Oh yeah, you could get the president on the line
more quickly than you could get that doctor on the one.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And I always like how they if they do leave
you message, Y'll call me back. We missed you. Yeah,
I'd like to what number?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh no, I wasn't. I wasn't implying that I would
ever pick up or talk to you. You should just
call me back.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah. Anyway, so we're talking about climate change, if I
remember it correctly, well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Right, And this writer makes a great point. I think
that these numbers may have already made your eyes glaze over.
And that's part of the point in climate science. So
you're not supposed to look too closely at the details.
For too many researchers. The goal the researchers, the goal
is to produce the biggest numbers and galvanize action. And
then when peers check their work closely, they often find howlers.
(22:22):
In the Nature paper, a series of dead eras linked
to temperature in Uzbekistan appears to have tripled the projections.
And then they go into the bleaching, the Great Barrier
reef and all this other stuff that's just not happening.
And man, one of the best pieces of journalism I've
read on this recently was a Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
We talked about this, talking about the price of Europe's
(22:43):
green energy overhaul and how they were told it would
lower costs, save the environment, and stimulate the economy and
costs of skyrocket. It wrecked the economy and done as
worth a good anyway. The folks at RedState dot com
pointing out this Nature retracting that paper.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Early two thousands, Tom Friedman in the New York Times
was really big on Ryton. So this is early two thousands,
you know, after Al Gore decided, well, I guess I'm
not going to be president. I'll become a billionaire by
getting involved in this whole climate thing. And Tom Friedman
used to write right column after column about the green
energy economy and how much money there is going to
be made, and now that's the future of the world
(23:28):
and everything like that. Well, there was a lot of
money to be made, and it was a future for
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But it was a scam and it was taxpayer money primarily,
and it didn't do any good. They actually mentioned Bill
Gates softening his language in October at that COP thirty
summit cut down on the doomsday rhetoric. But Nature said
in a statement on their website explaining this retraction, the
authors acknowledged that these changes are too substantial for correction,
(23:52):
leading to the retraction of the paper. Their predictions are
still We're all going.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
To die variety.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
However, even with the updated day, it's hard to take
what they say at face value when they just screwed
this one up so badly in one of the major
scientific journals in the world.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
On the topic of the journal.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Nature, which was like so many institutions like the American
Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, used to be respected,
but now it's been captured by wocists. There's a great
story in the Free Beacon about this professor at the
University of Southern California, an Ar Krylov, who's an immigrant
from Russia and a respected chemist, who blew the whistle
(24:33):
that Nature announced in October. This October it was explicitly
encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement in their articles.
The statement would affirm that they had made an effort
to cite from a diverse group of researchers and acknowledged
citation and balances based on race and gender. Wow, so
(24:54):
the world is going to come to an end in
your world because of client change. But still the most
important thing before we can even take a look at
those numbers is making sure you have the right ratio
of male female different skin colors and sex orientations.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Right, yeah, still prioritize that. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I noticed there are no trans scientists cited in this study.
Can you go back please and work on it? Some
are Yeah, this is the journal Nature, which is utterly
a joke at this point and good for antacryl often
in blowing the whistle on it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But it's kind of a sidelight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So my final note on this is an absolutely head
slapping long piece in the New York Times. Who wrote
this tripe let's name names, let's see Lisa Friedman and
Stephen Lee Myers. It is a long article entitled many
fighting climate change worry they are losing the information war.
(25:55):
Shifting politics, intense lobbying and surging disinformation online have under
international efforts to respond.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
To the threat.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And they go on paragraph after paragraph after paragraph explaining
why the bloom is off the climate change fighting rose,
and they never even not their tip their cap at
the notion that, well, as we've been explaining, the science
is crap. The technologies that have been adopted have been
(26:26):
incredibly expensive and.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Ineffective.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Mitigation is a much better answer, and taxpayers are realized
they've gotten hoed host they never even recognize that in
the giant New York Times article, and as Andrew follow
points out in The National Review, blaming messaging difficulties and
conservative misinformation for the movement's retreat, is exactly backward. The
(26:53):
New York Times recently told readers that declining worldwide interest
in global warming is due to an alleged shadowy conspiracy
by the oil, gas and industries, which continue to downplay
the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is
dangerously heating the planet. The Gray Lady then goes on
to complain that Russia, Saudi Arabia, and of course Donald
Trump promoted disinformation on social media platforms quote that have
(27:14):
long been dismissed as conspiracy theories, and they blame the
misinformation for the failure of a recent global warming summit
in Brazil. Yet about the only thing the summit could
agree on was hating climate deniers. Than they put out
a big statement about misinformation, denialism and how governments needed
to attack that. In other words, all the world's environmentalist
(27:34):
minded politicians could do was make a statement encouraging removing
their political opposition from social media, and many of the
environmentalists among American academics and politicians agreed with them in
terms of expenses. Oh, the irony is that environmentalists spend
orders of magnitude more on what was caused disinformation and
(27:58):
corruption than their opposition. The largest US anti climate alarmism
think tanks are the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute the CI,
which spent eight point six million dollars last year total
on all of their programs eight point six and the
Heartland Institute, which spent three point seven million dollars again
on all of their causes, including anti climate change hysteria.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
In contrast, so that's.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
A total of about fourteen million bucks. In contrast, environmental
groups are spectacularly well funded. Last year, the Sierra Club
spent one hundred and seventy three million dollars alone, the
National Resources Defense Council spent two hundred and twenty million dollars,
and Earth Justice spent one hundred and fifty two million
(28:45):
dollars funding which was almost exclusively dedicated to energy or
environmental issues.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So the so called disinformation.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Groups are are little iputians compared to the herd of elephants,
which is the anti climate change spend trillions of dollars
lobbying groups.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So where do you think this is? Do you think
it's dying out? And like ten years from now, not
a lot of people will be talking about the threat
of climate change and trying to raise money for it
and get people all worked up about it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Or I will answer that question decisively and completely.
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is armstrong. So in ten years, here's where we're going
to be. It's the way I started the segment, which
is people are going to realize a lot of the
harem scarm stuff is not true. A lot of the
(30:46):
we have to spend trillions of dollars was to profit cronies.
A lot of the measures that have been taken of
decimated economies and not really done any good. And so
they will the concentration will be and should be should
always have been actual advanced technologies that can provide energy
(31:06):
without carbon emissions nuclear for instance, and future technologies that
we can't even imagine, and mitigation. You know, I'm always
saying cell your park, buy some shorts. I'm only half kidding.
Russia and India and Singapore your third Indonesia, You're gigantic.
Third world countries that can barely feed their people. Are like,
(31:27):
wait a minute, you want me to kneecap my economy,
which we've barely got going in the name of climate change.
Screw that will build a jetty or two to hold
back the water. We got to feed our people, and
that'll be the emphasis mitigation. And you know what, honestly,
ten fifteen years from now, who knows, we may discover
something new about the climate that says, oh, turns out
(31:51):
the effect of this it kind of double reverses, and
now we're getting colder.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
So yeah, mitigation smart investments. Always wish show was on
the take from the oil companies. I could use the
spend in cash, but I'm not. This is just it's
it's the truth as I see it, and I'm pretty
confident it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's gonna be hard for some of the diehards to
give up on it, oh yeah, because it's like a
religion for that. And I don't mean they are I
don't even mean people profiting from it. People that just
personally care so much about climate change.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, I heard a great discussion of that, just more
generally in terms of politics, that people's politics is their
identity now, and to convince them that their politics are
wrong is incredibly dislocating. It's like finding out you're adopted
or or something. It's it's very difficult for people to
do in a way that's probably not healthy.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Now we've got a soccer betting scandal, fixing games and whatnot.
This has become a real problem worldwide.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, teams scored twice in an hour, and everybody said
that's impost can't this is exciting that and other stuff
on the waist, dude, are strong?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Well everybody.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
This week everyone's been sharing their Spotify raft you know
I'm talking about. Yeah, that's when Spotify puts together a
little recap of your listening stats for the whole year.
But Spotify isn't the only app that does this. Oh now,
check out what people got in their phones earlier today.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Your calculator wrapped is ready. You had a busy year.
You calculated restaurant tips eighty six times. Because you can't
do basic math. You accidentally opened the app seventeen times
when you meant to open the one next to it.
You're in the top one percent of people who typed
boobs upside down. You typed sixty seven and showed your
son in a desperate attempt to connect three times. You
(33:38):
accidentally typed six thirty when you were drunk and trying
to set an alarm for work twice, and you calculated
how much more money you need to quit your job
forty five, six.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Hundred and seventy one times.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
Wow, don't forget to share with your friends.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Wow. This made me sad for some reason. I'm thankful
that I did not have a job. I every day
calculate how many more days do I have to do
this because I've had jobs like that. Oh yeah, it sucks.
I'm glad I wasn't betting on Turkish soccer. This is
(34:13):
fairly corrupt. The bust this week of a massive betting
investigation into Turkish professional soccer. It's the biggest sport in
that country, as it is in most countries around the
world that aren't the United States. Over one thousand players
have been suspended, including top tier players from the major clubs.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
How many players are there in this league? One hundred
and forty nine referees.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Oh boy. Arrest warrants have been issued for dozens of individuals,
including club presidents, referees, and commentators. So you had soccer
matches where the president of the club is corrupt, the
players are corrupt, the referees corrupt, and then the guy
announcing the game it's corrupt.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I'm at a loss for how they guy announcing the game.
Maybe maybe he just has to be bought off, not
to say, you know, keeper, clearly let that ball in.
Wait a minute, what just happened here? Or that you
want him on the tape That wasn't a foul. What
the hell are you talking about? They just don't want
that right to what extent? Was it real at all?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
If the owner, the player, the ref and the guy
announcing it are all in on the on the fix,
it's really wwe at that point.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, For all I know, the fans are getting ten
bucks apiece to keep their mouths shut sheer or boo
at the right time, right, yeah, yeah, wow, Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
How long would it take to turn that around and
have anybody believe it's real and continue to bet? But
obviously people were betting to the extent that it was
worth paying off a thousand players and owners and referees
and announcers and everything like that. The scandal is caused
serious disruption. Lower division matches have been postponed. There's a
(36:04):
growing concern over integrity in Turkish and European football broadly
just because the owners, the players, the refs and the announcers,
we're all on the dick.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
It's the guy mowing the field on the up and
up right. Yeah, wow, growing concern. Yeah, it ought to
be guy out there parking the cars in the furthest
away a lot. You you got to back end well,
back in. He's on the take. If I had the time,
I would love to study Turkish culture and politics more.
(36:36):
There at the nexus between the European world and the
Muslim world really really interesting and Airdowan is half a
dictator and it's just really really good stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Oh, which reminds me.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I heard some really really thought provoking talk about the
nature of Islam in Europe that I'd love to get
to next hour.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
If you don't get next hour, you got to go somewhere.
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
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Huh, that's some good stuff. Armstrong on getting on demand.
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