October 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Prices going up & declining trans identification
- Grok fun & non alcoholic wine for dogs
- Drivers licenses, redistricting & tranq
- The 6 7 trend & AI
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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 Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
For the first time, the average price of a new
car in the US tops more than fifty thousand dollars.
That's according to Kelly Blue Book. The average loan rate
was up to about nine percent in August. Used vehicle
prices fell slightly as sales began to slow.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
The average new car now is fifty thousand dollars and
the average loan rate is nine percent.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
That's a different spot than we were in pre COVID.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Wow, you can buy a car at zero percent financing
probably and I don't know what the average new car
price was at that time. It was probably more like
thirty five or something, right, right, Yeah, nine percent oof.
And this headline from the Journal, Grocery prices keep rising.
Frustrated consumers are trying to adapt. Shoppers say they're cutting
back on purchases, stockpiling, certain foods, are exploring more affordable stores.
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We don't have the recent inflation numbers because that's because
of the government shut down.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But yeah, groceries are crazy right now?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
They mentioned now this guy's in I think New York City,
but he went to buy some steaks and a RIBI
was thirty two ninety nine pound.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yipes.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I know, I've been amazed when I see some of
the more expensive steaks at the store and it's in
the high twenties. I don't usually buy them, But how
much was that one?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Thirty two ninety nine pound?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Who?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I mean that's you're going out to a like high
end steakhouse and I gotta cook it right right?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Thirty two dollars a pound and I'm cooking it. I
don't want to think of that. I gotta start raising cattle.
How would a cow do indoors?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I probably have to get some area or it likes
a lot of area rugs to protect the hardwood.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But I gotta have a count.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I know the price of groceries isn't what caused the
Great Depression? But did you happen to see the second
story on sixty minutes with Andrew Ross Sorkin. He's, you know,
a well respected financial writer of the left, but they
featured him. He's getting me skipped it because it looked
too scary.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He's got a new book out about nineteen twenty nine,
and so he's got some reason selling his book about
the Great Depression and the Great crash that caused the
Great Depression, you know, to to talk about these times
are similar to those, because he's it's a great hook. Yeah,
it's a great hook to get on various shows and
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talk about his book. But he was going through a
lot of the things that we were discussing last week.
You know, the whenever you're setting a record in the
stock mart every single day, it's always you know, probably
a correction company. And then you got like five companies
are all responsible for it. Then you got people maxing
out their credit cards. And I had the stat last
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week that the largest number of people ever since they've
been keeping track, we're sixty days or more behind on
their car payments. There's just lots of stats like that
out there. Yeah, ooh, you're making me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So over the twelve months that ended last month, price
of coffee's up twenty one percent, beef is up thirteen
ground beef up thirteen percent, bananas up six and a
half percent. Haven't banana's been like skyrocketing in price now
for a couple.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Of years, I must admit with bananas.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I buy bananas regularly, but I don't do not pay
any attention to what they cost. I have no idea,
which man, I haven't got the slightest idea. What that
handful of bananas I buy costs? Well, I got to
plant a couple of banana plants. What do they grow on?
Trees or something? Right, maybe in the same room I
keep my cat. You're gonna have coffee beans and probably
(04:09):
some young brown skinned person to harvest them, and cow,
but probably a banana tree or bush whatever hoever they grow,
take ka of the stables.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's right, That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I hope my wife is listening, because I'm sure there's
gonna be a long conversation about my plan. But anyway,
I don't want to scare everybody to death. I promised
that we would pay off Brian, the plucky correspondent who
sent a positive story and challenged me to find a downside,
and I'm not going to just because I'm so interested
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in it. There are a number of different holes and
reports that make it clear that trans identification is in
freefall among young people.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Interesting down to the various trends interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Great news for young people, great news for parents, Terrible
news for the doctors who had begun to profit from
this madness. Let's see, here's one to count. Data from
the new Center for Heterodox Social Science report the Decline
of trans and queer identity among young Americans shows that
since twenty twenty three, both trans and queer identification. Of course,
queer just means I'm fighting against the man. Look at me,
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I'm cool, so it really doesn't mean anything. But they
both dropped sharply within Generation X. The Foundation for Individual
Rights and Expression FIRE, which conducts a large annual survey
of US undergrads, pulled over sixty thousand students, and the
analysis of the raw data shows that in that year
just three and a half percent of respondents identified as
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a gender other than male or female. By comparison, last year,
it was not three and a half, it was five
point two, and in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty
three it was six point eight. In other words, the
share of trans identified students has effectively have in just
two years. That is amazing and not surprising. Right, it
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was a social contagion. There's more, actually, but yeah, it
was absolutely a social contagion, largely among impressionable adolescent females.
Here's another survey in twenty twenty three. Nine plot was
not nine point two. You know what, I had this
rule that I came up with that neither one of
us ever does.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But it's handy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Tell me what the stat is before you tell me
the number, right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Ye are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And you can't comprehend the significance of the number, and
then when you hear the topic, you think, oh yeah,
what was that number?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Anyway, they polled students at a big school in Boston,
and nine point two percent of them identified as neither
male nor female.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That number sits at almost one in ten. That's crack.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
One in ten adults said I'm neither male nor female.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm students. That is unbelievable, right right?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That number that was nine point two percent is now
three percent. Brown University saw similar numbers, going from five
percent to just two point six percent in a year.
Not surprising. What's the correct number? It should be close
to zero, shouldn't it. Uh? Yes, yeah, But you know,
(07:27):
I think a significant chunk of that very small number
is hardcore activists who are going down with the sinking ship. Yeah,
you're super hardcore queer theory, you know, critical theory types.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
How about this?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
This is utterly, utterly unsurprising and at the risk of
wrenching my shoulder, patting myself and you and everybody listening
on the back, this is precisely what we.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Knew would happened.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Non Conforming, sexual identity, queer questioning, all that stuff is
in sharp decline. Gay and lesbian are stable because people
know they're gay. They were gay five years ago, they're
gay now. It's it wasn't hot like non conforming was.
And heterosexuality has rebounded by around ten points since twenty
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twenty three.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Man, we are going to look back on the three
to five year period as and wonder how did that
ever happen?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Just call it the madness. I don't know. There are
more status kind.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Somebody texted me the other day who was reading about
the Salem witch trials, and they're explaining how that contagion
caught on. If you've never read about it, it's very interesting.
And I said, that sounds a lot like the old
trans thing, right, And it was similar in that it
was a lot of younger women who were struggling with
whatever and wanted to present as a witch and get
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their parents all worked up or a witch victim. So
and you know, it's incredibly frustrating, and I know a
lot of you good people share this. This frustration is
you know, like I'm trying to think of another trend
or craze, like the shoes, the high dollar.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What do you call them, tennis shoes, sneakers, whatever. It's
if all the alphabet news networks were reporting as fact
these shoes are the coolest shoes ever, as if it's
scientifically unquestionable.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
No, no, not, It's just a craze.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's something the kids are into and you shouldn't be,
you know, mortgaging your house to buy them shoes, and
you shouldn't be taking them to the gender clinic to
get pump full of chemicals and.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Get carved up.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And my heart breaks for the parents who got blackmailed, terrorized,
forced into you know, pushing their kid along in their
temporary mental you know, struggles about gender and now have
done irreversible things to their children.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
My heartbreaks for them. We're clearly on the other side
of the peak of this. But as you keep pointing out,
it's pretty lodged in certain parts of the country, and
then you got a bunch of young people who grew
up with it. It's going to be pretty hard to
turn them around at this point. As we had this
story yesterday out all Washington with the poor girl that
was expected to compete against an adult man in JV
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high school basketball, right right, and then when she said no,
because that's a man, she was the one who was
in trouble for being a bigot and a bully. One
more interesting set of stats. What explains all of this?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Eric Kaufman, who's writing about it, says it's not because
the kids became less woke, more religious, and more conservative.
Those beliefs seem to have remained stable throughout the twenty twenties.
Is it improved mental health? Yes, in part, less anxious
and especially less depressed students are linked with a smaller
share identifying as trans, queer or bisexual.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, And the vast majority of the media and all
of our educational complexial virtually all of it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We're supporting.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
This is absolute, undebatable scientific fact. And anybody who debated
a single aspect of it was a hater and a transphobe.
And going to cause suicides, including our major medical associations,
which ought to be torn down and rebuilt again if
there's any need to have them.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
We out Europe to Europe on this whole topic for
whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, Europe threw it into reverse and stomped
on the gas several years back.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Having a lot of fun yesterday with a new AI
tool that landed that I highly recommend. I'll tell you
about that coming up, among other things in the news.
Stay tuned, had.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
A swing at a mess and Yoshi Yamamoto with his
crown jewel as a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It is a complete game.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Wow, you don't see that very much in Major League
Baseball anymore. They brought that guy over from Japan, just
like they brought over, you know, so many stars over
the years. And he threw a complete game last night.
And the Dodgers are up to nothing, and now they
come back to Los Angeles, So there you go. Might
be Dodgers Mariners who are up to nothing. The interesting
part about that is the Dodgers have the highest payroll
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in baseball and the Mariners are less than half of
the Dodgers' salary.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
So if you're like my story, that would be a
good one.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Find myself wondering what the pitch count was because I
love the idea of a complete game so much I
can't believe my ears. So before we get to Alec
non alcoholic wines for your pets, which is a hilarious idea,
I wanted to.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Tell you about this. So Grock is one of the
AI apps you can get out there. I just have
it on my phone as an app, and it's I'm
using the free version and like Chat, GPT or you know,
any of them, Clawed, any of them that you're using.
But I have Grok that's Elon's and they launched their
new video thing yesterday in which you can take any
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image and give it to Groc and it will put
it in motion. And I started messing around with that
and we had so much fun with that at my
house yesterday. I highly recommend it. You take an old
family picture of all of you standing up against a
wall with a smile on your face and give it
to Groc and tell it what to do, and you
have your whole family all of a sudden in a fight.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Or dance, write or whatever. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's so funny. A friend of mine brought this up
to me yesterday. It was the first time I knew
it existed. They'd just done a little wine trip to
Napa with some friends and had a picture of themselves
in one of the wine cellar areas, and they animated
it so that they did like an acrobat act, and
the gals jumped up on the guy's shoulders.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And they formed a pyramid. I'm like, wait, what.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, And you know, it depends on the personalities of
your family members and all that sort of stuff. But
like my younger brother, who is this always because stoic
can be. We had a video of him dancing around that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Was just so funny.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
We're sending around to every family member, his daughter, cousins, everyone,
everybody was loving.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
And it's just it's effortless to do.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And I started going back through It's also can be
really like emotionally touching. You can go back to pictures
from many, many years ago, and you take a still
photo and you put it in there, and then all
of a sudden they're smiling and waving to you and stuff,
and it's like, whoa, it's in mind.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Blowing gosh, I've got to do that. Oh man, how
I'd love to see my mom because we didn't. I
got to go back to some of the family videos.
We don't have all that much, and yeah, that'd be great, Wow, amazing.
But the silliness is just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It is great.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
It is great, and I did it with we at
the radio station party we had a couple of weeks ago.
I took the big photo we took and had us
all I don't know what we were doing, got into
a fight or something like, but it's just it's it's
the technology where it is right now.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I mean for free.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
If somebody wanted to spend money and time and had
talent on it, obviously you could get any video to
occur that you want.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is as we all write, so right we are in
a post. I have to see it to believe it.
World I'd say it doesn't he any good.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So I'll just read this as it's written here in
the Dispatch newsletter. If you have a beloved dog or
cat and more money than since, here's the good news.
A New Zealand wine company now sells you might like this, Katie,
I know how much you like your dog now sells
non alcoholic wine for the pets. The bottles have names
like shampon, champagne spelled with the paw per, I get it,
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per nor nor, I don't know how you pronounce all
lines seven yon bark, that's cute, and other names.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't sure.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Why is it juice? I don't understand if it's non
alcoholic wine. Yeah, I assume it's either just juice or
or water.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Katie, you wouldn't understand because you're not sophisticated. When Judy
and I are tasting fine wines, baxters looking up at
us with his sad eyes, wishing that he could be
a part of it. And now he can be, thanks
to more money than sense wines from New Zealand. Ah,
you know, and getting back to the Grock video thing.
My uh, Henry, my thirteen year old, was taking pictures
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of our dog and making him talk.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And that was pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
You can just take a picture of your dog and
have it say anything you want. It's pretty hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Since time immemorial that the talking dog has been like
the symbol of something that can't happen.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, and now it can.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Trump threatened Hummas yesterday. We will disarm you if you
do not disarm who's we in this question? Is a
good is a good thing to take a look at?
Among other things. We can get to next hour seven
Yon bark you see, it's a pun.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's kind of a po like Savignon Blanc but with
the reference. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
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Speaker 4 (17:19):
In the world of the chattering classes that usually lean left.
Tom Friedman in the New York Times is a highly
respected columnist about all things Middle East. His praise of
what Trump has accomplished an optimism for how this is
going to turn out, is quite amazing and striking, even
with what's happened in the last twenty four hours. We'll
get into that summon hour three of the Armstrong and
(17:42):
Getty show.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, all sorts of interesting developments on that front. So
looking forward to that. I hope you can stick around.
If you can't, just subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 2 (17:51):
So what you're about to hear is the fabulously.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Lame former vice presidential candidate mister Wallas have ben so
to excuse me, uh, celebrating the signing of the licenses
for all act in Woke, Minnesota, and then it will
transition to a hearing before one of the committees. They're
at their state house where a Republican is asking some
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very appropriate questions and holy cow, the answers hit it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Michael, Okay, So the answer to my question is yes,
under that scenario, whoa.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa? Did somebody edit
that or what? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
All right, never mind, so we don't get the walls
part of it, No problem, this is a right to
the hearing, go ahead, okay.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
So the answer to my question is yes, under that scenario,
someone could they get their driver's license again, because we
give them to anybody here they registered a vote, it
doesn't match with the solid security numbers, so they're flagged.
But they come in as long as they have an
ID which is that driver's license, and they sign that
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they're eligible to vote, they can vote and then no
longer flagged, they're on the system.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is that correct, mister.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Leanl Madam chair, if I could add the and maybe
stepping back from those that are flagged as a CID
on the roster for anyone that's presenting documentation to register
to vote, that is affirmation of their identity. The driver's
license has not been used as proof of citizenship for
the purposes of registering to vote. It's it's affirming that
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they are who they say they are, so in any
of these cases where someone were to cast a ballot
if they were ineligible to vote. There are also reports
that are generated post election for voters that are challenged
that counties will run to show status of voters that
have been updated due to the fact that they've now
cast a ballot that can be reviewed and referred to
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the county attorney.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Okay, so the answer is yes to my question.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, that's funny. That was not the clip that we
were kicking around everybody. I'm a little confused, but yeah,
you can show up, show your driver's license as in
illegal with a license, and they will let you vote,
and only if you know in the future. Somebody says,
wait a minute, that fellow I met him last year
and he said he's not a citizen and he mentioned voting.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Will anything be done about it? Do you think that's
on purpose?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I think for some activists, yes, it's on purpose. I
think for others they just have the fuzzy headed, emotional
thinking of the progressive and they don't know how to
square that circle, so they don't.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
All they know is that people have a right to drive.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Because that guy explaining it just seemed like he was
caught up in the I don't know the bureaucracy of
the way it works, and I don't know, I don't
know what is on his mind, how he doesn't recognize
what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So people can vote then.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
If they're illegal, right, And in another clip he says, well,
you gotta sign a paper that says I'm eligible to vote,
so I guess. So that's the fence you have to clear.
You have to be willing to lie or vote inappropriately.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You have to sign tell you well, then well yeah,
and please?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
How easy would it be in a world where the
Democrats in California, for instance, vote harvest like maniacs, of
blanketing apartment complexes with ballots, then collecting them helpfully and
turning them in and and maybe the signatures get checked,
maybe they don't, et cetera, et cetera. How easy would
it be to recruit a bunch of recent immigrants whose
English ain't so bueno and get them to sign it
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and show up and vote in droves, and when was
the last time anybody got busted for that in Minnesota?
Which reminds me of the great old lie that the
the voter fraud is vanishingly small. Yeah, that's because we
have no chanism to check.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
For it really in a systematic way anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So yeah, illegals will be voting in Minnesota in a
election soon to come. And then I thought this was
an interesting story and kind of related. Supreme Court is
hearing oral arguments today in that big racial Jerry manderin
case out of Louisiana, and I came across a great
opinion piece written by Niki Torres, who is I think
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the first Hispanic woman to represent her district in the
eastern half of Washington, Washington State, and the district was
seventy three percent Hispanic, with a Hispanic majority of eligible voters,
and it leaned Republican well. Democrats in Washington State sued
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a couple of years ago claiming the district cracked the
Latino vote whatever that means, in violation of Voting Rights
Act of nineteen sixty five. In November of twenty two,
she became the first ever elected in the Conserva at
first Hispanic state senator ever elected in the conservative rural
of Washington, but a Democrat appointed federal judge ruled in
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flavor in favor of the plaintiffs. They carve that district
up in a in a really clever way, and now
it's Democrat. It went from a like half a percent
or one percent, one point eight percent Republican margin to
a twelve point Democratic one and absolutely screwed all of
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the conservative leaning Hispanic people in that in that district.
So anytime a Democrat comes to you and says, yes,
we want to redraw the lines to ensure racial justice,
bull crap. They just want to win elections. It's about
the raw exercise of power as usual, dressed up in
a moral argument that they don't mean and divrant. So
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Katie brought us this story earlier about how trank is
still a thing on the streets. The drug which we've
been talking about for a couple of years. Now, do
we have that that headline? Yes, I did sentence.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
The headline.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Here's the headline from the story. Horrifying images show how
flesh eating zombie drug mummifies addicts and causes their limbs
to auto amputate, a term I've never amputated term I'd
never heard before. That would be arms and legs saying
I'm getting out of the here because you're but it
gets here really hot poisoning.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's like a mister potato head situation. Just pop them off.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, I'll read the first sentence here. This is really gross.
If you're eating mister potato head, can pop them back on.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Katie good point. This first sentence is super gross.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So if you're bothered by gross talking, you're about to
eat this exposed tendons and bones, wounds that attract maggots,
and a foul smell for dead tissue.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh you didn't lie?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Is the key that you've got somebody who's doing the trank,
an illegal sedative often mixed with fentanyl to enhance and
extend highs. Most recent stud show a lot of it,
a lot of Even if you think you're like, I'm
being a responsible drug user, trank that's for weirdos.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I just do fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Even if you just do fentanyl, thirty percent of fentanyl
powder has has got trank in it, and six percent
of fentanyl pills have drank in it.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What wow wow.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
So if you're intentionally taking fentanyl, it's infected with trank.
And if you don't think you're taking fentanyl, and the
excellent candidate for a fatal overdose that fentanyl you don't
know about is probably a stepped.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
On with trank. Two beautiful.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
So, the most recent numbers they have in Philadelphia, which
for some reason is ground zero for the trank crisis.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's where it caught hold first.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
The most recent numbers they have are from twenty twenty three,
two years.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Ago or a year and a half ago, year and
three quarters ago.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Of all unintentional overdose deaths, almost forty percent involved trank.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Almost forty percent. That's amazing anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Philadelphia orthopedic surgeon warning that the crisis is showing no
signs of abating, even as it continues to get mixed
with other drugs and kills lots of people we're seeing
at the larger university hospitals around Philadelphia, Lots of patients
with these problems. It's found to cause severe side effects,
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including central nervous system depression, very low blood pressure.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
That's the least of my problems. Well, oh, my blood
pressure seems kind of low. How about the fact that
my limbs are self amputating that. It seems like the
lead to me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Like blood pressure where it's not getting from your heart
to your lungs is a problem.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
So within a few minutes of injecting this, in case
you're wondering what it does for you, it releases, It
relaxes all your muscles, relieves any discomfort you have, and
triggers a zombie like trance by decreasing your fight or
flight neurotransmitter system. So your fight or flight thing gets
turned off. And apparently when you turn that off, you
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just get super relaxed and calm and feel good.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Right high In other words, Yeah, well they must be
in a way that other highs aren't though, right, must
be or somebody who's been doing fentanyl and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What would would bring you to trank? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Some days you get tired of chardonay you want to
sell on your own bonk. Okay, I'm not a trank addict. Well,
at least they're not bluetoothing.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Jack. If you heard about bluetoothing, I have not.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I can't anything get worse than because it says here
about the trunk. The worst case is the limbs literally
auto amputate all of the soft tissue necrosises off the bones,
and patients will come in essentially mummified on their limbs
as they're auto amputated before they even get to the
hospital rooms fall off. Ah huh, sounds like a party anyway.
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What was bluetoothing jack?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
The practice in which users inject the blood of already
intoxicated individuals, as fueled one of the fastest growing HIV
epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa.
So your buddy is high, but you're not, so you
take a syringe and suck blood out of him and
inject it into yourself.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
God, how broke are you? From what I understand? Drugs
or the All these drugs are so cheap, right, um man,
you're really lazy.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
You're almost passed out, buddy.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm gonna suck some of your blood out put it
in me so I don't even have to go, you know, uh,
steal something from the target. I guess this is a
getting hot in high poverty areas in Africa and Asia,
driven by tougher policing, spiking prices, and falling drug supplies.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
So wow, um want to tell you a way to
protect yourself not from trank, but from people trying to
steal your identity or hack into your computer or do
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Uh, you don't want that.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
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Speaker 4 (29:54):
So has Sam Altman, the guy who runs open ais
chat gpt, crossed the rubicon on adupe content for AI.
This may be a day historians look back on things
the bubacan.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Huh? Has he crossed the bubacan? Wow? Hey, that is childish.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Speaking of childish, we've got an update on something schools
are banning. Stay tuned all on the way.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Armstrong and Getty Savanna six seven six seven.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
You've got the toned down anything good morning. You gotta
do the hand motion with it. So this first went
viral last year. Here's the thing, though, it really means
nothing at all. But like most Internet trends, this one
seems to be sticking around, prompting some teachers to set
some new rules in the classroom.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Six seven. I mean kids can't.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Get enough of and teachers can't get away from.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
We are not saying the word sixty seven anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
If you do, you have to write a sixty seven
word essay.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
Some schools even banning phrasing classrooms.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
You are no longer allowed to say what number do
you think I'm gonna say?
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Caitlin Soriano is a seventh grade math teacher, how much
are you hearing and seeing six seven in here classroom
all day every day?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I just I just don't know what to do. So
we talked about this yesterday. I think we got it
nailed down.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It's human beings seek common experiences so that we feel
like we're part of a community, which makes us feel
protected in our animal brain. We don't have shared experiences
anymore because nobody watches the same TV shows, listen to
the same music, blah blah blah. So we've created these
things that have no meaning or value. But just because
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you know what it means if I say six well
not what it means, but you've heard it before six seven.
Now we feel like we're a part of something, and
it's got a right no more meaning than that. I mean,
it's both very meaningful and not the least bit meaningful
at the same right. It's like distilled down to its
purest essence. It's merely a common experience, not a common
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experience of enjoying a show or seeing a sunset or whatever. No,
it's just a signal that I know what you're talking about.
You know what I'm talking about. It's interesting right, and
I haven't heard anybody, but really you talking about that
to explain the phenomena.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I brought it up to my son last night and
he said, it's just like skippity and I said, that's
what I said, skippity toilet from a couple of years ago.
And uh so there's there's gonna be no putting an
end to this. Oh we're gonna get young people are
going to continue to seek out common experiences to bond
around that are meaningless because they don't have any other
common experiences to bonder.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Got a great email from Kathy and Spain as we
are truly international now you got Bury in Tile and
people all over the world.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Thank you for listening wherever, wherever you are. Let's see
here it is listening to yesterday I talk to foreigners.
He talked slowly and loudly, very loudly.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Elish anyway, talking about the lack of shared experience leading
to the emergence of nonsense memes like six seven Scivity
and My Kid's Favorite Chick and Jockey could probably be
applied to adults as well. Jack's point about not having
a common show to watch it can expand to not
going to the same church sermon on Sunday and the
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block party on Saturday. And that can certainly explain the
country's obsession with politics. When I was younger, we never
discussed politics. We had enough shared experiences to bond over. Now,
politics are one of the few things about which people
can connect.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yep, that's absolutely true. The Trump TV show is the
one show everybody's watching, so you can bond around that.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Right, which is good.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Other TV shows or movies that are described as polarizing,
very polarizing, well, politics is by definition polarizing, so our
only real shared experience is designed to be as polarizing
as possible. I think we've solved it, We've figured out
the modern world.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
It's yeah, I agree, we have figured it out and
solved it. But watching it, it's just so weird because
I saw the skivity thing in person, where there'd be
a group of kids like my son and his friend,
and somebody would just say skivity toilet and everybody would
burst out laughing. It's like there's nothing, there's no there there.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
And the same thing with the six seven is you
just saw up there somebody in a classroom just says
six seven and everybody goes, aha, what are.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
We doing here? Dam is very very odd.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Again, we've explained it. It's both very meaningful and least
bit not the least bit meaningful, but oh banning.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Less from Kathy and Spain Good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I mistakenly thought the pandemic pandemic would have a unifying effect,
but it pushed the country further into Silo's We're screwed.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
We absolutely are an another follow up, because we talked
about six to seven yesterday follow up. Joe was talking
about sexpots and all that sort of thing. Sam Altman
of Chat, GPT and open Ai has said that he's
gonna allow adult contact on his AI platform, and that
popped into my head yesterday. I talked earlier about having
fun with the groc video thing. My brothers and I
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were taking family photos and having Groc turned the videos
into fun stuff, but you couldn't do anything the least
bit nasty. I thought it'd be funny to take our
Christmas family picture and have everybody flipping off the camera,
I mean my mom flipping off the camera. My brothers
and I would howl it laughter at that because it
is so you know, out of character.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
But it wouldn't allow it.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
GROC would not allow that, or a bunch of other
things I suggested, but Sam Altman at chat GPT, the
rival is now allowing, gonna allow sexy stuff. So that's
you know, it'll be another race to the bottom because
you know Elon can try to hold the line on
decent content, but his competitors are not.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
A race to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Probably a poor choice of words, but I understand what
you're saying. I see your point. Yeah, crossed the Bubbacan.
Did you hear that one?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Apparently you have.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
To do your hands like this and the tone of
voice is six seven, And so if you want to
be cool with a I.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Don't thirteen year old, then that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
For the first time, the average price of a new
car in the US tops more than fifty thousand dollars.
That's according to Kelly Blue Book. The average loan rate
was up to about nine percent in August. Used vehicle
prices fell slightly as sales began to slow.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
The average new car now is fifty thousand dollars and
the average loan rate is nine percent.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
That's a different spot than we were in pre COVID.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Wow, you can buy a car at zero percent financing
probably and I don't know what the average new car
price was at that time. It was probably more like
thirty five or something, right, right, Yeah, nine percent oof.
And this headline from the Journal, Grocery prices keep rising.
Frustrated consumers are trying to adapt. Shoppers say they're cutting
back on purchases, stockpiling, certain foods, are exploring more affordable stores.
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We don't have the recent inflation numbers because that's because
of the government shut down.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But yeah, groceries are crazy right now?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
They mentioned now this guy's in I think New York City,
but he went to buy some steaks and a RIBI
was thirty two ninety nine pound.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yipes.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I know, I've been amazed when I see some of
the more expensive steaks at the store and it's in
the high twenties. I don't usually buy them, But how
much was that one?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Thirty two ninety nine pound?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Who?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I mean that's you're going out to a like high
end steakhouse and I gotta cook it right right?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Thirty two dollars a pound and I'm cooking it. I
don't want to think of that. I gotta start raising cattle.
How would a cow do indoors?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I probably have to get some area or it likes
a lot of area rugs to protect the hardwood.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But I gotta have a count.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I know the price of groceries isn't what caused the
Great Depression? But did you happen to see the second
story on sixty minutes with Andrew Ross Sorkin. He's, you know,
a well respected financial writer of the left, but they
featured him. He's getting me skipped it because it looked
too scary.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He's got a new book out about nineteen twenty nine,
and so he's got some reason selling his book about
the Great Depression and the Great crash that caused the
Great Depression, you know, to to talk about these times
are similar to those, because he's it's a great hook. Yeah,
it's a great hook to get on various shows and
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talk about his book. But he was going through a
lot of the things that we were discussing last week.
You know, the whenever you're setting a record in the
stock mart every single day, it's always you know, probably
a correction company. And then you got like five companies
are all responsible for it. Then you got people maxing
out their credit cards. And I had the stat last
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week that the largest number of people ever since they've
been keeping track, we're sixty days or more behind on
their car payments. There's just lots of stats like that
out there. Yeah, ooh, you're making me uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So over the twelve months that ended last month, price
of coffee's up twenty one percent, beef is up thirteen
ground beef up thirteen percent, bananas up six and a
half percent. Haven't banana's been like skyrocketing in price now
for a couple.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Of years, I must admit with bananas.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I buy bananas regularly, but I don't do not pay
any attention to what they cost. I have no idea,
which man, I haven't got the slightest idea. What that
handful of bananas I buy costs? Well, I got to
plant a couple of banana plants. What do they grow on?
Trees or something? Right, maybe in the same room I
keep my cat. You're gonna have coffee beans and probably
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some young brown skinned person to harvest them, and cow,
but probably a banana tree or bush whatever hoever they grow,
take ka of the stables.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's right, That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I hope my wife is listening, because I'm sure there's
gonna be a long conversation about my plan. But anyway,
I don't want to scare everybody to death. I promised
that we would pay off Brian, the plucky correspondent who
sent a positive story and challenged me to find a downside,
and I'm not going to just because I'm so interested
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in it. There are a number of different holes and
reports that make it clear that trans identification is in
freefall among young people.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Interesting down to the various trends interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Great news for young people, great news for parents, Terrible
news for the doctors who had begun to profit from
this madness. Let's see, here's one to count. Data from
the new Center for Heterodox Social Science report the Decline
of trans and queer identity among young Americans shows that
since twenty twenty three, both trans and queer identification. Of course,
queer just means I'm fighting against the man. Look at me,
(05:20):
I'm cool, so it really doesn't mean anything. But they
both dropped sharply within Generation X. The Foundation for Individual
Rights and Expression FIRE, which conducts a large annual survey
of US undergrads, pulled over sixty thousand students, and the
analysis of the raw data shows that in that year
just three and a half percent of respondents identified as
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a gender other than male or female. By comparison, last year,
it was not three and a half, it was five
point two, and in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty
three it was six point eight. In other words, the
share of trans identified students has effectively have in just
two years. That is amazing and not surprising. Right, it
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was a social contagion. There's more, actually, but yeah, it
was absolutely a social contagion, largely among impressionable adolescent females.
Here's another survey in twenty twenty three. Nine plot was
not nine point two. You know what, I had this
rule that I came up with that neither one of
us ever does.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
But it's handy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Tell me what the stat is before you tell me
the number, right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Ye are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And you can't comprehend the significance of the number, and
then when you hear the topic, you think, oh yeah,
what was that number?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Anyway, they polled students at a big school in Boston,
and nine point two percent of them identified as neither
male nor female.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That number sits at almost one in ten. That's crack.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
One in ten adults said I'm neither male nor female.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm students. That is unbelievable, right right?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That number that was nine point two percent is now
three percent. Brown University saw similar numbers, going from five
percent to just two point six percent in a year.
Not surprising. What's the correct number? It should be close
to zero, shouldn't it. Uh? Yes, yeah, But you know,
(07:27):
I think a significant chunk of that very small number
is hardcore activists who are going down with the sinking ship. Yeah,
you're super hardcore queer theory, you know, critical theory types.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
How about this?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
This is utterly, utterly unsurprising and at the risk of
wrenching my shoulder, patting myself and you and everybody listening
on the back, this is precisely what we.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Knew would happened.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Non Conforming, sexual identity, queer questioning, all that stuff is
in sharp decline. Gay and lesbian are stable because people
know they're gay. They were gay five years ago, they're
gay now. It's it wasn't hot like non conforming was.
And heterosexuality has rebounded by around ten points since twenty
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twenty three.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Man, we are going to look back on the three
to five year period as and wonder how did that
ever happen?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Just call it the madness. I don't know. There are
more status kind.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Somebody texted me the other day who was reading about
the Salem witch trials, and they're explaining how that contagion
caught on. If you've never read about it, it's very interesting.
And I said, that sounds a lot like the old
trans thing, right, And it was similar in that it
was a lot of younger women who were struggling with
whatever and wanted to present as a witch and get
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their parents all worked up or a witch victim. So
and you know, it's incredibly frustrating, and I know a
lot of you good people share this. This frustration is
you know, like I'm trying to think of another trend
or craze, like the shoes, the high dollar.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What do you call them, tennis shoes, sneakers, whatever. It's
if all the alphabet news networks were reporting as fact
these shoes are the coolest shoes ever, as if it's
scientifically unquestionable.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
No, no, not, It's just a craze.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's something the kids are into and you shouldn't be,
you know, mortgaging your house to buy them shoes, and
you shouldn't be taking them to the gender clinic to
get pump full of chemicals and.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Get carved up.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And my heart breaks for the parents who got blackmailed, terrorized,
forced into you know, pushing their kid along in their
temporary mental you know, struggles about gender and now have
done irreversible things to their children.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
My heartbreaks for them. We're clearly on the other side
of the peak of this. But as you keep pointing out,
it's pretty lodged in certain parts of the country, and
then you got a bunch of young people who grew
up with it. It's going to be pretty hard to
turn them around at this point. As we had this
story yesterday out all Washington with the poor girl that
was expected to compete against an adult man in JV
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high school basketball, right right, and then when she said no,
because that's a man, she was the one who was
in trouble for being a bigot and a bully. One
more interesting set of stats. What explains all of this?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Eric Kaufman, who's writing about it, says it's not because
the kids became less woke, more religious, and more conservative.
Those beliefs seem to have remained stable throughout the twenty twenties.
Is it improved mental health? Yes, in part, less anxious
and especially less depressed students are linked with a smaller
share identifying as trans, queer or bisexual.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, And the vast majority of the media and all
of our educational complexial virtually all of it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We're supporting.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
This is absolute, undebatable scientific fact. And anybody who debated
a single aspect of it was a hater and a transphobe.
And going to cause suicides, including our major medical associations,
which ought to be torn down and rebuilt again if
there's any need to have them.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
We out Europe to Europe on this whole topic for
whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, Europe threw it into reverse and stomped
on the gas several years back.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Having a lot of fun yesterday with a new AI
tool that landed that I highly recommend. I'll tell you
about that coming up, among other things in the news.
Stay tuned, had.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
A swing at a mess and Yoshi Yamamoto with his
crown jewel as a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It is a complete game.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Wow, you don't see that very much in Major League
Baseball anymore. They brought that guy over from Japan, just
like they brought over, you know, so many stars over
the years. And he threw a complete game last night.
And the Dodgers are up to nothing, and now they
come back to Los Angeles, So there you go. Might
be Dodgers Mariners who are up to nothing. The interesting
part about that is the Dodgers have the highest payroll
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in baseball and the Mariners are less than half of
the Dodgers' salary.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
So if you're like my story, that would be a
good one.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Find myself wondering what the pitch count was because I
love the idea of a complete game so much I
can't believe my ears. So before we get to Alec
non alcoholic wines for your pets, which is a hilarious idea,
I wanted to.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Tell you about this. So Grock is one of the
AI apps you can get out there. I just have
it on my phone as an app, and it's I'm
using the free version and like Chat, GPT or you know,
any of them, Clawed, any of them that you're using.
But I have Grok that's Elon's and they launched their
new video thing yesterday in which you can take any
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image and give it to Groc and it will put
it in motion. And I started messing around with that
and we had so much fun with that at my
house yesterday. I highly recommend it. You take an old
family picture of all of you standing up against a
wall with a smile on your face and give it
to Groc and tell it what to do, and you
have your whole family all of a sudden in a fight.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Or dance, write or whatever. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's so funny. A friend of mine brought this up
to me yesterday. It was the first time I knew
it existed. They'd just done a little wine trip to
Napa with some friends and had a picture of themselves
in one of the wine cellar areas, and they animated
it so that they did like an acrobat act, and
the gals jumped up on the guy's shoulders.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And they formed a pyramid. I'm like, wait, what.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, And you know, it depends on the personalities of
your family members and all that sort of stuff. But
like my younger brother, who is this always because stoic
can be. We had a video of him dancing around that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Was just so funny.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
We're sending around to every family member, his daughter, cousins, everyone,
everybody was loving.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
And it's just it's effortless to do.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And I started going back through It's also can be
really like emotionally touching. You can go back to pictures
from many, many years ago, and you take a still
photo and you put it in there, and then all
of a sudden they're smiling and waving to you and stuff,
and it's like, whoa, it's in mind.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Blowing gosh, I've got to do that. Oh man, how
I'd love to see my mom because we didn't. I
got to go back to some of the family videos.
We don't have all that much, and yeah, that'd be great, Wow, amazing.
But the silliness is just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It is great.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
It is great, and I did it with we at
the radio station party we had a couple of weeks ago.
I took the big photo we took and had us
all I don't know what we were doing, got into
a fight or something like, but it's just it's it's
the technology where it is right now.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I mean for free.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
If somebody wanted to spend money and time and had
talent on it, obviously you could get any video to
occur that you want.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Is as we all write, so right we are in
a post. I have to see it to believe it.
World I'd say it doesn't he any good.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So I'll just read this as it's written here in
the Dispatch newsletter. If you have a beloved dog or
cat and more money than since, here's the good news.
A New Zealand wine company now sells you might like this, Katie,
I know how much you like your dog now sells
non alcoholic wine for the pets. The bottles have names
like shampon, champagne spelled with the paw per, I get it,
(15:47):
per nor nor, I don't know how you pronounce all
lines seven yon bark, that's cute, and other names.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't sure.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Why is it juice? I don't understand if it's non
alcoholic wine. Yeah, I assume it's either just juice or
or water.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Katie, you wouldn't understand because you're not sophisticated. When Judy
and I are tasting fine wines, baxters looking up at
us with his sad eyes, wishing that he could be
a part of it. And now he can be, thanks
to more money than sense wines from New Zealand. Ah,
you know, and getting back to the Grock video thing.
My uh, Henry, my thirteen year old, was taking pictures
(16:30):
of our dog and making him talk.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And that was pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
You can just take a picture of your dog and
have it say anything you want. It's pretty hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Since time immemorial that the talking dog has been like
the symbol of something that can't happen.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, and now it can.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Trump threatened Hummas yesterday. We will disarm you if you
do not disarm who's we in this question? Is a
good is a good thing to take a look at?
Among other things. We can get to next hour seven
Yon bark you see, it's a pun.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's kind of a po like Savignon Blanc but with
the reference. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
If you misses like me, get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
In the world of the chattering classes that usually lean left.
Tom Friedman in the New York Times is a highly
respected columnist about all things Middle East. His praise of
what Trump has accomplished an optimism for how this is
going to turn out, is quite amazing and striking, even
with what's happened in the last twenty four hours. We'll
get into that summon hour three of the Armstrong and
(17:42):
Getty show.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, all sorts of interesting developments on that front. So
looking forward to that. I hope you can stick around.
If you can't, just subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and
Getdy on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So what you're about to hear is the fabulously.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Lame former vice presidential candidate mister Wallas have ben so
to excuse me, uh, celebrating the signing of the licenses
for all act in Woke, Minnesota, and then it will
transition to a hearing before one of the committees. They're
at their state house where a Republican is asking some
(18:16):
very appropriate questions and holy cow, the answers hit it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Michael, Okay, So the answer to my question is yes,
under that scenario, whoa.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa? Did somebody edit
that or what? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
All right, never mind, so we don't get the walls
part of it, No problem, this is a right to
the hearing, go ahead, okay.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
So the answer to my question is yes, under that scenario,
someone could they get their driver's license again, because we
give them to anybody here they registered a vote, it
doesn't match with the solid security numbers, so they're flagged.
But they come in as long as they have an
ID which is that driver's license, and they sign that
(19:00):
they're eligible to vote, they can vote and then no
longer flagged, they're on the system.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is that correct, mister.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Leanl Madam chair, if I could add the and maybe
stepping back from those that are flagged as a CID
on the roster for anyone that's presenting documentation to register
to vote, that is affirmation of their identity. The driver's
license has not been used as proof of citizenship for
the purposes of registering to vote. It's it's affirming that
(19:33):
they are who they say they are, so in any
of these cases where someone were to cast a ballot
if they were ineligible to vote. There are also reports
that are generated post election for voters that are challenged
that counties will run to show status of voters that
have been updated due to the fact that they've now
cast a ballot that can be reviewed and referred to
(19:54):
the county attorney.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Okay, so the answer is yes to my question.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, that's funny. That was not the clip that we
were kicking around everybody. I'm a little confused, but yeah,
you can show up, show your driver's license as in
illegal with a license, and they will let you vote,
and only if you know in the future. Somebody says,
wait a minute, that fellow I met him last year
and he said he's not a citizen and he mentioned voting.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Will anything be done about it? Do you think that's
on purpose?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I think for some activists, yes, it's on purpose. I
think for others they just have the fuzzy headed, emotional
thinking of the progressive and they don't know how to
square that circle, so they don't.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
All they know is that people have a right to drive.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Because that guy explaining it just seemed like he was
caught up in the I don't know the bureaucracy of
the way it works, and I don't know, I don't
know what is on his mind, how he doesn't recognize
what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So people can vote then.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
If they're illegal, right, And in another clip he says, well,
you gotta sign a paper that says I'm eligible to vote,
so I guess. So that's the fence you have to clear.
You have to be willing to lie or vote inappropriately.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You have to sign tell you well, then well yeah,
and please?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
How easy would it be in a world where the
Democrats in California, for instance, vote harvest like maniacs, of
blanketing apartment complexes with ballots, then collecting them helpfully and
turning them in and and maybe the signatures get checked,
maybe they don't, et cetera, et cetera. How easy would
it be to recruit a bunch of recent immigrants whose
English ain't so bueno and get them to sign it
(21:46):
and show up and vote in droves, and when was
the last time anybody got busted for that in Minnesota?
Which reminds me of the great old lie that the
the voter fraud is vanishingly small. Yeah, that's because we
have no chanism to check.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
For it really in a systematic way anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So yeah, illegals will be voting in Minnesota in a
election soon to come. And then I thought this was
an interesting story and kind of related. Supreme Court is
hearing oral arguments today in that big racial Jerry manderin
case out of Louisiana, and I came across a great
opinion piece written by Niki Torres, who is I think
(22:25):
the first Hispanic woman to represent her district in the
eastern half of Washington, Washington State, and the district was
seventy three percent Hispanic, with a Hispanic majority of eligible voters,
and it leaned Republican well. Democrats in Washington State sued
(22:46):
a couple of years ago claiming the district cracked the
Latino vote whatever that means, in violation of Voting Rights
Act of nineteen sixty five. In November of twenty two,
she became the first ever elected in the Conserva at
first Hispanic state senator ever elected in the conservative rural
of Washington, but a Democrat appointed federal judge ruled in
(23:07):
flavor in favor of the plaintiffs. They carve that district
up in a in a really clever way, and now
it's Democrat. It went from a like half a percent
or one percent, one point eight percent Republican margin to
a twelve point Democratic one and absolutely screwed all of
(23:28):
the conservative leaning Hispanic people in that in that district.
So anytime a Democrat comes to you and says, yes,
we want to redraw the lines to ensure racial justice,
bull crap. They just want to win elections. It's about
the raw exercise of power as usual, dressed up in
a moral argument that they don't mean and divrant. So
(23:50):
Katie brought us this story earlier about how trank is
still a thing on the streets. The drug which we've
been talking about for a couple of years. Now, do
we have that that headline? Yes, I did sentence.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
The headline.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Here's the headline from the story. Horrifying images show how
flesh eating zombie drug mummifies addicts and causes their limbs
to auto amputate, a term I've never amputated term I'd
never heard before. That would be arms and legs saying
I'm getting out of the here because you're but it
gets here really hot poisoning.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's like a mister potato head situation. Just pop them off.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, I'll read the first sentence here. This is really gross.
If you're eating mister potato head, can pop them back on.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Katie good point. This first sentence is super gross.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So if you're bothered by gross talking, you're about to
eat this exposed tendons and bones, wounds that attract maggots,
and a foul smell for dead tissue.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh you didn't lie?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Is the key that you've got somebody who's doing the trank,
an illegal sedative often mixed with fentanyl to enhance and
extend highs. Most recent stud show a lot of it,
a lot of Even if you think you're like, I'm
being a responsible drug user, trank that's for weirdos.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I just do fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Even if you just do fentanyl, thirty percent of fentanyl
powder has has got trank in it, and six percent
of fentanyl pills have drank in it.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What wow wow.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
So if you're intentionally taking fentanyl, it's infected with trank.
And if you don't think you're taking fentanyl, and the
excellent candidate for a fatal overdose that fentanyl you don't
know about is probably a stepped.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
On with trank. Two beautiful.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
So, the most recent numbers they have in Philadelphia, which
for some reason is ground zero for the trank crisis.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's where it caught hold first.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
The most recent numbers they have are from twenty twenty three,
two years.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Ago or a year and a half ago, year and
three quarters ago.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Of all unintentional overdose deaths, almost forty percent involved trank.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Almost forty percent. That's amazing anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Philadelphia orthopedic surgeon warning that the crisis is showing no
signs of abating, even as it continues to get mixed
with other drugs and kills lots of people we're seeing
at the larger university hospitals around Philadelphia, Lots of patients
with these problems. It's found to cause severe side effects,
(26:25):
including central nervous system depression, very low blood pressure.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
That's the least of my problems. Well, oh, my blood
pressure seems kind of low. How about the fact that
my limbs are self amputating that. It seems like the
lead to me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Like blood pressure where it's not getting from your heart
to your lungs is a problem.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
So within a few minutes of injecting this, in case
you're wondering what it does for you, it releases, It
relaxes all your muscles, relieves any discomfort you have, and
triggers a zombie like trance by decreasing your fight or
flight neurotransmitter system. So your fight or flight thing gets
turned off. And apparently when you turn that off, you
(27:03):
just get super relaxed and calm and feel good.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Right high In other words, Yeah, well they must be
in a way that other highs aren't though, right, must
be or somebody who's been doing fentanyl and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
What would would bring you to trank? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Some days you get tired of chardonay you want to
sell on your own bonk. Okay, I'm not a trank addict. Well,
at least they're not bluetoothing.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Jack. If you heard about bluetoothing, I have not.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
I can't anything get worse than because it says here
about the trunk. The worst case is the limbs literally
auto amputate all of the soft tissue necrosises off the bones,
and patients will come in essentially mummified on their limbs
as they're auto amputated before they even get to the
hospital rooms fall off. Ah huh, sounds like a party anyway.
(27:59):
What was bluetoothing jack?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
The practice in which users inject the blood of already
intoxicated individuals, as fueled one of the fastest growing HIV
epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa.
So your buddy is high, but you're not, so you
take a syringe and suck blood out of him and
inject it into yourself.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
God, how broke are you? From what I understand? Drugs
or the All these drugs are so cheap, right, um man,
you're really lazy.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
You're almost passed out, buddy.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm gonna suck some of your blood out put it
in me so I don't even have to go, you know, uh,
steal something from the target. I guess this is a
getting hot in high poverty areas in Africa and Asia,
driven by tougher policing, spiking prices, and falling drug supplies.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
So wow, um want to tell you a way to
protect yourself not from trank, but from people trying to
steal your identity or hack into your computer or do
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
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Speaker 4 (29:54):
So has Sam Altman, the guy who runs open ais
chat gpt, crossed the rubicon on adupe content for AI.
This may be a day historians look back on things
the bubacan.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Huh? Has he crossed the bubacan? Wow? Hey, that is childish.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Speaking of childish, we've got an update on something schools
are banning. Stay tuned all on the way.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Armstrong and Getty Savanna six seven six seven.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
You've got the toned down anything good morning. You gotta
do the hand motion with it. So this first went
viral last year. Here's the thing, though, it really means
nothing at all. But like most Internet trends, this one
seems to be sticking around, prompting some teachers to set
some new rules in the classroom.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Six seven. I mean kids can't.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Get enough of and teachers can't get away from.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
We are not saying the word sixty seven anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
If you do, you have to write a sixty seven
word essay.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
Some schools even banning phrasing classrooms.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
You are no longer allowed to say what number do
you think I'm gonna say?
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Caitlin Soriano is a seventh grade math teacher, how much
are you hearing and seeing six seven in here classroom
all day every day?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I just I just don't know what to do. So
we talked about this yesterday. I think we got it
nailed down.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It's human beings seek common experiences so that we feel
like we're part of a community, which makes us feel
protected in our animal brain. We don't have shared experiences
anymore because nobody watches the same TV shows, listen to
the same music, blah blah blah. So we've created these
things that have no meaning or value. But just because
(31:54):
you know what it means if I say six well
not what it means, but you've heard it before six seven.
Now we feel like we're a part of something, and
it's got a right no more meaning than that. I mean,
it's both very meaningful and not the least bit meaningful
at the same right. It's like distilled down to its
purest essence. It's merely a common experience, not a common
(32:15):
experience of enjoying a show or seeing a sunset or whatever. No,
it's just a signal that I know what you're talking about.
You know what I'm talking about. It's interesting right, and
I haven't heard anybody, but really you talking about that
to explain the phenomena.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I brought it up to my son last night and
he said, it's just like skippity and I said, that's
what I said, skippity toilet from a couple of years ago.
And uh so there's there's gonna be no putting an
end to this. Oh we're gonna get young people are
going to continue to seek out common experiences to bond
around that are meaningless because they don't have any other
common experiences to bonder.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Got a great email from Kathy and Spain as we
are truly international now you got Bury in Tile and
people all over the world.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Thank you for listening wherever, wherever you are. Let's see
here it is listening to yesterday I talk to foreigners.
He talked slowly and loudly, very loudly.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Elish anyway, talking about the lack of shared experience leading
to the emergence of nonsense memes like six seven Scivity
and My Kid's Favorite Chick and Jockey could probably be
applied to adults as well. Jack's point about not having
a common show to watch it can expand to not
going to the same church sermon on Sunday and the
(33:34):
block party on Saturday. And that can certainly explain the
country's obsession with politics. When I was younger, we never
discussed politics. We had enough shared experiences to bond over. Now,
politics are one of the few things about which people
can connect.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yep, that's absolutely true. The Trump TV show is the
one show everybody's watching, so you can bond around that.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Right, which is good.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Other TV shows or movies that are described as polarizing,
very polarizing, well, politics is by definition polarizing, so our
only real shared experience is designed to be as polarizing
as possible. I think we've solved it, We've figured out
the modern world.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
It's yeah, I agree, we have figured it out and
solved it. But watching it, it's just so weird because
I saw the skivity thing in person, where there'd be
a group of kids like my son and his friend,
and somebody would just say skivity toilet and everybody would
burst out laughing. It's like there's nothing, there's no there there.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
And the same thing with the six seven is you
just saw up there somebody in a classroom just says
six seven and everybody goes, aha, what are.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
We doing here? Dam is very very odd.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Again, we've explained it. It's both very meaningful and least
bit not the least bit meaningful, but oh banning.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Less from Kathy and Spain Good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I mistakenly thought the pandemic pandemic would have a unifying effect,
but it pushed the country further into Silo's We're screwed.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
We absolutely are an another follow up, because we talked
about six to seven yesterday follow up. Joe was talking
about sexpots and all that sort of thing. Sam Altman
of Chat, GPT and open Ai has said that he's
gonna allow adult contact on his AI platform, and that
popped into my head yesterday. I talked earlier about having
fun with the groc video thing. My brothers and I
(35:25):
were taking family photos and having Groc turned the videos
into fun stuff, but you couldn't do anything the least
bit nasty. I thought it'd be funny to take our
Christmas family picture and have everybody flipping off the camera,
I mean my mom flipping off the camera. My brothers
and I would howl it laughter at that because it
is so you know, out of character.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
But it wouldn't allow it.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
GROC would not allow that, or a bunch of other
things I suggested, but Sam Altman at chat GPT, the
rival is now allowing, gonna allow sexy stuff. So that's
you know, it'll be another race to the bottom because
you know Elon can try to hold the line on
decent content, but his competitors are not.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
A race to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Probably a poor choice of words, but I understand what
you're saying. I see your point. Yeah, crossed the Bubbacan.
Did you hear that one?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Apparently you have.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
To do your hands like this and the tone of
voice is six seven, And so if you want to
be cool with a I.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Don't thirteen year old, then that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
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