January 7, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The super flu, new dietary guidelines & bacon vs. sex
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- U-Haul rental rankings
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty Armstrong and
Jack Katy and no Hee arm drawn yet.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Why them?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
From studio scene. It is a dimly lit room deeper
in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compounds
and products, surrounded by razor wire here Doberman pincers and
some sort of anti flu vaccine that were spraying on everything.
And today we were under the tutelage of our general
manager at Jack's request. The super flu. The superflu, which
(00:54):
I've heard. I've heard that term about eight hundred times
already today and I had. I don't think I've heard
of reference to any gathering without somebody saying Jim wasn't there,
he's got the flu. Oh really, you know, Betty missed
and really, Yeah, I'm hearing that a lot. Uh huh,
it's that time a year, of course. Yeah, so is
(01:14):
it a worse flu than usual? Is that why they're
calling it the superflu? I don't really know. I'm not
hip to that. I was hoping you had Are you
going to bring the goods? Well, yeah, they're saying that,
but every statistic coming out of COVID, every statistic that
they give, I know kind of the background of how
those are compiled. For instance, they did the deaths and
(01:37):
then it said something down in fine.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Print of with flu related in addition to flu related
symptoms or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So how many.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
People died of whatever and also had the flu? You
know that old question.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So I just died. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm just so skeptical about all the statistics. Obviously a
lot of people have the flu. Whether it's worse or not,
I don't I don't really quite understand that. Also a
lot of information contradicting each other about whether or not
getting the flu vaccine does any good on this the
superflu variant the vaccine doesn't really work on according to
the News Nation I was just watching. But the doctors
(02:14):
say it's still a good idea to get the flow.
Of course, they say that, Now, did you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Get any sense of what sort of superness are we
talking about it? I mean, it's just a super flu.
You don't feel bad at all. I doubt it's that.
I think it's probably like super nasty or super transmissible
or what it seems to be. And again, this is
just based on the news I'm following, whether it's not a.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
More easily spread it's just easier to catch and spread around,
and it seems to be moving looking at the map kind.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Of east to west across the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's another thing we learned right during COVID is you
know a state would have this, and state would have that,
and then be talking about what they're doing right or wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But then you'd realize eventually.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
All the other weeks later, Yeah, all the other states
get it to It just starts somewhere and then it
travels right right exactly if it is moving to the west.
According to you haul's that's the only thing moving to California.
As cal Unicornia has once again topped the biggest outflow
state statistics as people flee the crumbling util Really.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
What the hell is going on? Yeah, mismanagement, gavy, horrim fyingly,
mismanaged policy.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We're all human, we all fall short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And just the cost of living in California dumb as
an f and rock.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But looking at the flu map of where it's the worst,
it's the it's all your states that have all the
news channels have the worst flu right now. So that's
why they're going to talk about it so much, I suppose.
And it gets a little better as you move across
the United States, although the flu will probably travels as
these things do.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's short for influenza Jack. Okay, it's all I go.
That's fantastic, that's very helpful. Sorry, And you did get
the flu vac or didn't get the flu vaccine. I
don't think I did. I think we're a completely unvaccinated show.
Oh nokie, I would approve it. I didn't get it.
I didn't get it. Joe and Hans and none of
(04:12):
us got the flu vaccine. So I often do. I
just I don't think I did this here. I often don't.
I'm more of it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And I've always been an anti tax tasker, not an
anti vaxxer. I'm not as bothered by the vaccines as
I am about having to go in and get it
done and make time for that. The other hell thing,
speaking of the CDC and all that sort of stuff,
is RFK Juniors announcing the updated dietary guidelines today.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
We update them every five years, I guess, although they
usually just kind of leave it more or less the same,
but this year they're expecting some major changes, which is
very exciting and I'll tell you why I'm excited about it.
According to The New York Times, which of course is
presenting this all in a scary, scary music sort of
(05:00):
Godzilla's Coming because they hate RFK Junior so much. In
recent months, mister Kennedy and the Agricultural Secretary have suggested
the new guidelines would be would be recommending more red meat,
in particular beef. I'm very excited about the new guidelines, yes,
and of course if that's true, there will be talk.
(05:21):
Of of course, the Agricultural Secretary wanted the guidelines to
say eat more beef for all the farmers, et cetera. Right, right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The new guidelines also might encourage the consumption of saturated fats,
which has not been a thing recently encouraging. That doesn't
know whether or not the do guidelines will say anything
about ultraprocessed foods, which we've all decided.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
In the last year like the worst thing in the
world for us and we should stop eating them, right,
whether or not. And they watching the guidelines poison and suicide, Yes,
they'll be watching.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
The guidelines for what they say about alcohol. Given recent
evidence that no amount of drinking is safe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh no, shut all. Yeah. I had a conversation on
the golf course the other day with a friend of
mine about the question of the the decision, the choice
of waking up to sex or waking up to the
smell of bacon in the house, and and and how
(06:22):
that might change in life. And wow, we agreed that
that to awaken to one or the other is about
as good as life gets. Yeah, I would agree. I
certainly not at the age where I prefer bacon, though
I don't know if that happens at some point in
your life, but well, it's there was also the question
of likelihood that factored into the discussion. Yeah, right, right
(06:46):
there it was. It was a full full, you know,
exchange of ideas over the question of life. I can
make sure I'm going to have bacon. That's pretty easy
to do, right, yeah, exactly. But to wake up and
realize one significant other is already frying up God's gift
mankind and it's taking that smell and that's a good
(07:06):
start to the day. And then she gives you sex. Wow, Wow, honey,
I brought bacon, you're naked. I would go the other
way around. I would go the other way around. I
think bacon would be a great after sex snack. Well,
then where's the bacon. Well, the problem being, though, if
the smell of bacon was in the air, it might
even be hard to concentrate on loving because you keep thinking, wow, Wow,
(07:29):
there's fresh bacon. It's getting cold. I'm both there ruminating
about your prowess enjoying a stick of bacony. In ten minutes,
you'll still be warm, but the bacon will be cold.
I'm just pointing that out. So maybe we I don't
know you're going to bacon first. That's just I'm just analyzed.
I'm mean you. I don't want group think here. I'm
(07:49):
waiting the ideas. Yeah, you really like breakfast, I really do, Michael,
you're so rightly and combining these two thoughts alcohol and
that that sort of experiment there. I heard somebody say yesterday,
if i'd ever heard this before, i'd forgotten it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I guess it's a Frank Sinatra quote. He doesn't understand
people who don't drink, because that means when you get
up in the morning, that's the best you're gonna feel
all day long. Yeah, it's kind of funny, Like so
many folks, I'm drying out this January. And it's funny
because I remember in December when I was really I.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Was getting after it too much. It was terrible. I
was drinking too much, and I would get up in
the morning and think, God, you look terrible. But then
I realized, now that's just how I look in the morning. Oh,
sober or not? Are you doing terrible? I was gonna
ask this yesterday. You're doing dry January at least half
of it. I'm definitely gonna do two weeks. Yeah, you're
going to do what two weeks? Okay, at least Katie's
(08:45):
doing dry pregnancy. Michael.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Michael doesn't drink. I don't drink. Hanson, you're doing dry January.
Don't know if Hanson's doing druk.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
He doesn't drink much at all. No, Hanson said he's
drunk right now. Who can blame him? Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Let's start to show if I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe
Getty on this. It is Wednesday, January seventh, year, twenty
twenty five. Oh, twenty twenty six. We're arms strung and geddy,
and I approve of this program, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Let's begin now. Officially, according to FCC rules regulations, the
show must start at mark in this.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Two year, there's three things that you best love doing.
But you wake up, make sure you're breathing, and then
where you're going the bathroom, look at the beer, look
at your teeth, and brush your teeth. And the third
thing you need to get dressed. And then the fourth
thing you do is say what a great day is
going to be?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
America's philosopher King Garrie Busey with the three things you
need to do every morning to start the new year,
and then he lists four things. Verry Joe Biden like, yeah,
no kidding, Well, wake make sure you're breathing. Yeah, that's
well okay, brush was brush your teeth? The third one second?
(09:58):
One seconde Then get dressed, Get dressed, yes, and then
tip good tip and say what a great day or
whatever he said, what a great day is going give
me right right? Yeah, I should try that. Maybe put
(10:18):
that on the mirror every morning, say this is going
to be a fantastic day. Be one of those people.
See if it has the effect on my mood. That's
too jiv for you, I know you. It's got to
be more reasonable. Maybe I'll have a little bacon sex
start the day. Wow. No, I was working on the
other project. Now you're jerking me around something like, great
(10:42):
things could happen today, So we have it that we
have a Yeah, I like that, great though, this is
going to be a wonderful day. I'm like, what going
give me right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I don't see myself saying that in the morning. It's
not a me sort of thing to do.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We do have kind of a breaking news as we
go on there. It looks like we seized a tanker
there in off the coast of Venezuelan that belongs to
the Russians. My tanker get in to the whole. This
is going to have an effect on the world oil wise. Thing.
I just heard this morning that China gets a third
of their oil from Venezuela. Yes, we could have a
great effect on them. And Venezuelan oil props up the
(11:25):
evil communist Cuban regime. It is their life's blood. Well
it's oil, but it's it keeps them afloat. Yeah, what's
that off? I sort of a teaseers listened to a
podcast yesterday from The Dispatch and they are they do
not like Trump. Over the dispatch at all. But they're
(11:46):
expert that they are interviewed about the whole Maduro Venezuela thing.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Was this was going to happen eventually. It should have
happened a long time ago, and only Trump was the
person that had the balls to actually do it. Yeah,
We've had enough sanctions and indictments and bounties on the
guy's head, but nobody was ever going to make anybody
pay a price, and finally we did, right for the
reasons you just said. So, we got a lot of
(12:11):
good stuff on that Katie's news on the waistay here,
some interesting leaks about the peace negotiations going on, the
whole Russia Ukraine thing, and surprising too.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We'll have to talk about that later. Yeah, all sorts
of good stuff to talk about today, including the fact
maybe the kickoff next hour. We'll talk about it. But Jack,
you framed the whole Nika not Nicaragua Venezuela situation as
very game of throny yesterday, game of thronesy, and digging
into it earlier today, I think you're absolutely right. It's
(12:47):
really really interesting the different centers of power competing to
run that place, and the foreign influence and the rest
of it. So we'll be taking a look at Venezuela
of Thrones or something. I've come up with a name
for it, but super interesting. Anyway, Hope you can stay
tuned right now, Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Already well start with the alphabet networks on the Greenland issue,
ABC Denmark and Greenland seek talks with Rubio after white
House again says it wants Iland.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We're gonna buy that thing, NBC.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
US military action is an option to acquire Greenland, according
to the White House and CBS white House discussing quote
range of options for acquiring Greenland, including US military takeover by.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Force, as we discussed yesterday. Why he pretends that's an option,
I don't know why he thinks that helps. It's horrible.
It's like somebody comes to buy your car or something
and you say, I'm gonna beat you into the hospital
if you don't buy this car. Now, will you pay
twelve grand for it? I mean, don't start that way.
Don't humiliate people unnecessarily, especially your friends. How about a
(13:59):
casual argue with your.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Husband or wife and you say and I'm not taking
divorce off the table.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What yes? Yeah, what this ends wrong? I'm gonna physically
remove you from the house and we're divorced anywhere? Why
did you want to Where did you want to go
to dinner? I mean that's gez Louise the New York
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
DOJ says it has released less than one percent of
Epstein files, with more than two million documents under review.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Did you hear that? All of this nonsense? And it's
been nonsense the last month, all.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Of these releases that they get all excited about it,
we've seen less than one percent.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
We could do this one hundred more times. Oh my god,
kill me.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
From Vice, Canadian artist has show canceled after AI labeled
him a sex offender, preparing to sue Google.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, I need you know more about this story. Yeah,
it's a it's an example of a gossip it's called
in some situations, and just the hallucinations whoa about specific people? Wow?
Because the big the platforms, they trade information back and forth,
they read from each other, and so it's like a
rumor mill or son of a gun.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Jam from the Washington Post, The Soaring Price of Youth sports,
fifty dollars to try out, three thousand dollars to play.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Wow, that's a good one. We should talk about that
more later.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
This one from the Independent New Musical lollipops play music
in your head as you eat them.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Just what I want. I don't, I don't need that.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
They use something called bone induction technology.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh okay, it's like the headphones I got. All right.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
This one, also from the New York Post phone.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Induction sounds like a euphemism. I'm sorry, go on, sorry,
it just does. I'm afraid and I'm looking for a
little bone.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh no, easy, good, goody, all right, New York Post.
I eat two pounds of raw meat a day, including ground,
chuck and steak.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Shockingly, it led to.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
A bizarre antibiotic resistant infection.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah there is Uh, we don't have time for this
right now, but there is a kind of like a
growing Republican right wing maga. Eating red meat thing is a.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Big deal, and that's one of the reasons the FDA
they think the guidelines might be eat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
A lot more red meat. People want to beef, join
a church and have some kids, people, please.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And finally, this one from the Babylon Bee Mom Donnie
turns to the view to receive his morning classified briefing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Wow, so we can update you on a whole bunch
of those news stories of the day. I do want
to hit you at the rumor around the peace deal
in Ukraine because it's pretty surprising, hmmm, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You know, I was just thinking back to the Epstein thing,
very very briefly. I'll tell you what. I'll make you
a deal. I'm going to ignore the next three rounds
of headlines about it. Then we'll compare notes and see
if I missed anything significant. Right, Well, I ignored the last
three rounds. So that's where we are now. If you
missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Cabello or Kabello, that's going to be a name everybody
knows soon. He's the big military leader down in there
in Venezuela. We may try to take over as the dictator,
and we'll talk about that more a little bit later.
It's leaking out about the new dietary guidelines for Americans
as if any of us follow them, although they will
probably force them into.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The schools somehow, which is kind of the way it works.
Oh boy, yeah, great, and more from the Mamdani administration
and his band of insane communists. And I'm not being
hyperbolic calling them communists. They're communists. They're in favor of communism,
is how I know. Oh yeah, update on that chick
(18:02):
who believes that you shouldn't be able to own a
home owning a homeless waiver. Yes, home owning a homeless
white supremacy. Yeah, an update on her. That's not surprising. Yeah, yeah,
home ownership should be collective, not personal. Anyway, it's that
sort of governance that's driving people out of blue states primarily.
(18:23):
The big U Haul Growth Index rankings of net migration
between states has come out. It takes like a year
and a half for the census to come out, but
U Haul hits you with it on January seventh or
the sixth, and I think this came out. As the
company explains, you Haul rank states by their net gain
or loss of customers who rent a one way truck
(18:43):
trailer or U box moving container in one state and
drop off their equipment in another state. The U Haul
Growth Index is compiled from well over two and a
half million annual one way transactions across the US and Canada. Really, yeah,
that's pretty good. Sample size rankings may not correlate directly
to population or economic growth. The U Haul of Growth
(19:04):
index is an effective gauge of how well states, metros,
and cities are attracting and maintaining residents. I think is
kind of freakonomics, you know, measures. It's a pretty good one.
It's got to be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I've done a lot of U haul rentals in my life,
and I don't think I've ever done a one way
I mean just moving stuff around when I take it
back to the same place.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Oh. I did a couple of one ways moving in
state to state. But yeah, I've never heard anybody question this.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
As my point was, I don't know how often you
would ever do that when you're not moving state to state.
Oh I see, yeah, I've done it a bunch of
times where I have to move something around, then I
bring the truck back because I wasn't moving right right.
So the worst performers were mostly familiar deep blue faces,
with California ranking dead last for the sixth consecutive year.
(19:53):
Although U haul notes it's a net loss was smaller
in twenty twenty five than it was in twenty twenty
four the.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Biggest state with the biggest population.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So I mean, if all, if you had the same
percentage of people move it every from every state, you'd
have a higher number for California because we got more nobody.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Remember, it's a net measure people moving away, people moving there, right,
So it's a plus or minus certain number of points.
Good point. So California dead last for the six consecutive year.
Of the eleven biggest losers, eight have completely blue governments California, Illinois,
New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island,
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and two others, Pennsylvania and Michigan, have had democratic governors
and largely democratic governance for some time. The lone red
exception is Ohio, which also had the biggest one year
drop off. Then they mentioned that there are obviously a
number of variables that work here beyond simple party control.
Not every red or blue state pursues the same mix
(20:53):
of policies, has the same weather or demographics, or relies
upon the same mix of industries. What else those people
are retiring that that are you know, as our population
gets older and then deciding where to move how often
in your life, Do you just get to choose wherever
you're going to go? Got into this conversation with my
big family gathering for Christmas in Kansas, and got a
(21:14):
couple of people who are at that age they're out
of college and kind of deciding where they want to
be and I and I said, I've never gotten decide
had the chance to decide where I was going to
live at one time in my life. So far, it's
always been the best job that became available. That's where
I'm living all of a sudden, Right, Yeah, all I
(21:35):
can give you is anecdotal evidence that the many many
emails we receive from people who've made this move or
that move willingly. And you know, we've known a handful
of folks just that we've worked with that have decided
I don't want to raise my kids here and ride
blah blah blah people with good jobs. Yeah, yeah, indeed,
(21:55):
because it's a heck of a thing to pick up
and change your jobs, maybe your career if that job
doesn't exist where you're going, and you know, start over
again with all your friends and everything like that, that's
a big deal. Well, right, And I think your question
about have you ever been able to. That's more. I
think that more illustrates how important it is to people,
as opposed to denying that it's happening, because people self
(22:18):
segregating by geography to red states and blue states is
unquestionably happening. Well, that'ssutely happening.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Even if it was retirees who have the choice of
the whole country, it means a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
If you're deciding not to California, I would agree. I
would agree. But if you are a person of the left,
first of all, thanks for listening to the show. You
must be very patient. Secondly, don't turn your new home
into your old, crappy home. Okay, you left it. Why
do you think that is because you didn't like it
enough to stay, So don't change the new place into
the old place. Don't California, my Idaho. I don't live
(22:52):
in Idaho or Texas or whatever. It's not it right.
You get to the new state and you think, wait
a second, they don't have helmet laws for kids, blah blah.
You just let people have plastic bags at your grocery stores. Oh,
we've got a path a measure. Oh my lord, Oh
I made myself angry. That's weird. Let's see, Oh, okay,
(23:16):
up about the demographics, the weather industries, blah blah blah. Still,
the overall pattern remains clear and consistent has for some time.
States with solidly read governance make up seven of the
top ten states for gaining people Texas and Florida being
first and second again, and six of the next eight.
Among the top ten, there's only one blue state. That's Washington,
(23:38):
which is very very blue and also very very beautiful
and has no sales tax am I correct, Yeah, blah
blah blah blah bah, and two with democratic governors North
Carolina Arizona have long head solidly republican legislatures. Florida, as
the company notes, has ranked in the top four every
year since the index started in twenty fifteen. And then
(23:58):
they get into the probably the most compelling stat which
is that three of the top four states attracting movers
had no personal income tax Texas, Florida and Tennessee. California,
ranked dead last in the index, imposes the highest top
personal income tax rate in the nation at thirteen and
a third percent. Oh is that what it is? Yeah,
(24:20):
that's the top incremental rate. Yeah, or marginal rate. The
ten best ranked states in the index have significantly lower
personal income taxes than the indexes ten worst rank states.
Three and a half percent is the average income tax
of the top ten three and a half percent among
the bottom ten ats seven point two percent average top
(24:42):
state personal income tax rate of the ten worst strength. Oh,
I'm sorry they read that backwards. Anyway, As a group,
the ten worst rank states impose a top personal income
tax rate more than twice as high as the ten
best rank states. Yeah, I've heard. I've got a friend
who regularly says, like, are enjoy in California, and this
is why we pay taxes. And my argument would be
(25:06):
so they can be squandered on junkies. Well, you could
make the argument that that's why you're willing to put
up with the high taxes is the weather, the parks,
the whatever. But they don't have to go together.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You can still have nice weather and fantastic mountains and
oceans and stuff like that and have lower taxes.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They didn't cause the mountains and the Ocean's right, it's
not state funded beaches. I mean the sand was there, right.
And so finally, the conclusion, the general trend of people
moving from colder northern to warmer sunnier southern states makes
California's perennial dead last ranking all the more appalling. No
(25:44):
kid in good point. It takes a lot to alienate
people from California's glorious climate and scenery, and they are
both absolutely glorious. But it's politicians have been up to
the task. Yeah, you know, if you're leaving Minnesota for
someplace warmer, everybody understands that if you're leaving the most
one of the most beautiful places on earth, gotta be
(26:07):
a reason. There are push factors. Yeah. Well, And as
Dan McLaughlin points out in The National Review, states that
have a persistent outflow of their own residents can stave
off collapsing population only by parentally importing foreigners. That ring
a bell anybody. If that's bigot tries up, the bluest
of the blue state models are in even more trouble
than before. What is he going to do? Yeah, what
(26:32):
an interesting thing. But follow this migration year by year
by year. By the way, I'm very excited about this
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(26:54):
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Speaker 3 (27:11):
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good to be right. Just because I tease this. I'll
(27:41):
jam this in before we take a break and get
the mail bag. According to open source the website, the
negotiations yesterday with the Coalition of the Willing in Paris
and the European leaders about the whole rush of Ukraine thing,
they observed a significant shift in the United States stance
toward both Russia and Ukraine. You got Steve Whitkoff there,
(28:04):
and you got Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner there
as the main negotiators took a notably more assertive position
against Russia during the talks with European allies. According to
people that were in the meetings, Wow, I know, isn't
that interesting. I don't know what's driving that. I had
no idea whether you were gonna say Russia or Ukraine
(28:25):
at the end of that one sentence. When I was
reading the story, I had no idea how it was
gonna end. It was like a suspense thriller. For the
first time expressing strong and solid port for support for
deploying a multinational peacekeeping force and proposing robust security guarantees
along the lines of NATO's Article five, What where did
this come from? Whoa? Hey, hang on, plus the Game
(28:46):
of Thrones playing out in Venezuela. Can't wait to talk
about that good stuff and mail bag on the way
stay here. Every mail is obsessed with World War I
two or the Roman Empire. We all learned that last year.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I took a vacation just to go to the World
War Two Museum and I have a bunch of notes
on that that I wanted to talk about. I haven't
gotten around to yet, so maybe in coming hours things
I learned or relearned.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, every man over the age of what it is
forty either chooses the Roman Empire or World War Two.
I would like to throw in the Civil War for consideration.
I'm kind of into that. But yeah, it's true. It's
absolutely true, and we've talked about why that is. And
I think it's not a joke. No, it's not a
joke at all. Yeah, here's your freedom hating quote of
the day. Continuing on that theme, taking a break from
(29:39):
freedom loving quotes to look at people who really despise
liberty and see what sort of things they say. In
this case, yet another one of Zora Mumdani's cabinet. This
happens to be one al Monte da Costa, who is
his director of appointments whatever. That is. First of all,
(30:03):
back in the day, not long ago. She's not an
old person, but about a decade ago, she unleashed a
torrent of absolutely unbelievable Nazi level anti jew statements online,
just unbelievable anti Semite. She now says she doesn't think
that way. In fact, she's married to a Jewish fellow,
and she's very very sorry. So I don't know. You're young,
(30:25):
you're stupid, you shoot off your mouth. But she is
a communist. So here's your freedom hating quote of the day.
When Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen, she said,
this was a harsh blow. But it's not time, not
the first time this country has let me down. It's
important that white people feel defeated. Wow, for so long
power has been in the hands of men and or
(30:47):
white people. It has brought us to ruin. It's important
that white people feel defeated. That is something, it's your
freedom hating quote of the day.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That you can get away with saying that at any
point your life and then end.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Up in public office. It's just astounding to me. Yeah,
his his Cabala communists is going to be making some
serious headlines and uh, we're watching it. Mailbag. Drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong in getty dot com.
You're blaming a race. You think the country's in a
bad shape, and you're blaming a race, and you can
(31:23):
get away with that if it's white. Yeah. I love
and respect people of whatever race or color or creed
if they're good people and they do great things. But no,
she hates white people. Hey. By the way, you know, uh,
we did come up with like most of the philosophies
that run the world in Western civilization and most of
the science and the rest of it. Not all of it, certainly,
but a lot of it. So maybe I ought to
cut us a little slack. It's the if you're going
(31:45):
to sit assign collective blame and credit. It's also the
definition of racism too. Yes it is, Yes, it is.
It's like distilled down to its essence. Anyway, Drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
I mentioned yesterday that I asked Google Gemini to designed
me a First Amendment tattoo. It was absolutely hilarious, riddled
with misspellings and typos and that sort of thing which
(32:06):
we talked about. Rich writes, Joe, the check is in
the mail, please get that tattoo. I assume he ma
he means the floundering typo riddled one. Jack to your
story of not tipping the maid, even though she dug
through the garbage like the big garbage to find your
dirty clothes. Good lord, even just in the retelling, it's disgusting.
(32:33):
Sean points out if this were George Costanzo instead of Jack,
you would have felt guilty about not tipping and not
wanting to see the maid again and feel bad. He
would have called Ice and had her rendition to an L.
Salvador in prison. The last shot would have been her
dressed like Maduro on the plane.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I thought I was going to get most of my
hate for running through n Frank's bedroom, but I got
it for not tipping the maid. Neither one of them
are something i I'm proud of. Well, yeah, when you
gotta go, you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Alex the Marine writes Pete Hegseeth is incompetent. Remember how
we were told again and again how incompetent sec def
Pete Taggseeth. Is this incredible rate into Caracas was executed
by Pete's war department. Let's compare this rate to Lloyd
Austin's Afghanistan withdrawal. You know, sec def How much credit
do they deserve?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Some?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Certainly, But you know it's funny. I'm not seeing a
lot of headlines in the New York Times, for instance,
saying we were wrong about Pete. Hegseeth his war department
is running like clockwork. That's good point, Alex. Thanks. Let's say,
Stephen on the topic of Trump in Venezuela, for the
way that Trump used all of his high tech resources
to swoop in quickly and capture a villain without anyone
(33:42):
knowing it until it was over, Can you please, please
please start referring to him as President Batman. Well, the
Cuban security forces knew what was going on, because forty
three of them are croaked, and Cuba's vaunted intelligence and
security forces have been pansed in front of the world
to you what, keep your eye on Cuba. Those commies
(34:02):
are shaken in their COMMI boots, yeah, and rightfully so.
And the human heels I'm guessing on those boots. I
mean the fact that Russia's air defense systems that they
sell the countries around the world because they're supposed to
be so great, we're just dismantled and we got buying
them easily. That's a big story. That is big, you're right.
(34:25):
And then this, it's a screen capture from Charlotte's x
feed and it is of the demonstrators in Iran, And
that's another story we really need to tune into, at
least to some extent. But it's a protester just going
by a sign that says, allegedly in Persian in Farsi,
Trump Street, and sure enough she verified it says Trump
(34:49):
seat Street waiting for the YMCA dance. Cheers Charlotte. So wow.
So the good folks in Iran, like the good folks
in Venezuela, are like yay Trump Yah.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
According to the Associated Press, the Ayatola is in hiding
because he's concerned that we or Israel Is gonna snatch
him up, just like we snatched up Maduro.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah. Yeah, And then we don't have a lot of
time for this, but twenty year school marm who is
a Minnesotan, makes a couple of points about thank goodness
for Nick Shirley and the investigation into the Minnesota fraud cartels,
and it's just enormous and as we've known it for
a long time in Minnesota, she says, But it didn't
(35:30):
really get much of attention. She says, I will never
forget as long as I lived, the moment I heard
on the radio that Kamala had picked Tim Here's a
real man. Waltz is her VP. Dear reader, I along
with all others, saying Minnesotan's guffaud, How in the world
did her team make such an absurd choice, right with
the scandal being out there for people who were paying attention. Yeah,
(35:53):
how did Kamala's campaign not know he had that? You
know what's interesting in Waltz's debate with Jade Evans didn't
even come up once, even though there were already multiple prosecutions. Yeah, yeah,
just taxpayers waisted tax payer money. As you've pointed out,
people just don't pay much attention to it, or they
don't feel like they can do anything about it. I
guess ah, that could be. These scandals come and go
(36:16):
and nobody really pays a price, and everybody just moves
on shrugs their shoulders. If you miss a segment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand, Lots on the
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Jack Katy and no Hee arm drawn yet.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Why them?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
From studio scene. It is a dimly lit room deeper
in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compounds
and products, surrounded by razor wire here Doberman pincers and
some sort of anti flu vaccine that were spraying on everything.
And today we were under the tutelage of our general
manager at Jack's request. The super flu. The superflu, which
(00:54):
I've heard. I've heard that term about eight hundred times
already today and I had. I don't think I've heard
of reference to any gathering without somebody saying Jim wasn't there,
he's got the flu. Oh really, you know, Betty missed
and really, Yeah, I'm hearing that a lot. Uh huh,
it's that time a year, of course. Yeah, so is
(01:14):
it a worse flu than usual? Is that why they're
calling it the superflu? I don't really know. I'm not
hip to that. I was hoping you had Are you
going to bring the goods? Well, yeah, they're saying that,
but every statistic coming out of COVID, every statistic that
they give, I know kind of the background of how
those are compiled. For instance, they did the deaths and
(01:37):
then it said something down in fine.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Print of with flu related in addition to flu related
symptoms or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So how many.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
People died of whatever and also had the flu? You
know that old question.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So I just died. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm just so skeptical about all the statistics. Obviously a
lot of people have the flu. Whether it's worse or not,
I don't I don't really quite understand that. Also a
lot of information contradicting each other about whether or not
getting the flu vaccine does any good on this the
superflu variant the vaccine doesn't really work on according to
the News Nation I was just watching. But the doctors
(02:14):
say it's still a good idea to get the flow.
Of course, they say that, Now, did you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Get any sense of what sort of superness are we
talking about it? I mean, it's just a super flu.
You don't feel bad at all. I doubt it's that.
I think it's probably like super nasty or super transmissible
or what it seems to be. And again, this is
just based on the news I'm following, whether it's not a.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
More easily spread it's just easier to catch and spread around,
and it seems to be moving looking at the map kind.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Of east to west across the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That's another thing we learned right during COVID is you
know a state would have this, and state would have that,
and then be talking about what they're doing right or wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But then you'd realize eventually.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
All the other weeks later, Yeah, all the other states
get it to It just starts somewhere and then it
travels right right exactly if it is moving to the west.
According to you haul's that's the only thing moving to California.
As cal Unicornia has once again topped the biggest outflow
state statistics as people flee the crumbling util Really.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
What the hell is going on? Yeah, mismanagement, gavy, horrim fyingly,
mismanaged policy.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We're all human, we all fall short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And just the cost of living in California dumb as
an f and rock.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But looking at the flu map of where it's the worst,
it's the it's all your states that have all the
news channels have the worst flu right now. So that's
why they're going to talk about it so much, I suppose.
And it gets a little better as you move across
the United States, although the flu will probably travels as
these things do.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's short for influenza Jack. Okay, it's all I go.
That's fantastic, that's very helpful. Sorry, And you did get
the flu vac or didn't get the flu vaccine. I
don't think I did. I think we're a completely unvaccinated show.
Oh nokie, I would approve it. I didn't get it.
I didn't get it. Joe and Hans and none of
(04:12):
us got the flu vaccine. So I often do. I
just I don't think I did this here. I often don't.
I'm more of it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And I've always been an anti tax tasker, not an
anti vaxxer. I'm not as bothered by the vaccines as
I am about having to go in and get it
done and make time for that. The other hell thing,
speaking of the CDC and all that sort of stuff,
is RFK Juniors announcing the updated dietary guidelines today.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
We update them every five years, I guess, although they
usually just kind of leave it more or less the same,
but this year they're expecting some major changes, which is
very exciting and I'll tell you why I'm excited about it.
According to The New York Times, which of course is
presenting this all in a scary, scary music sort of
(05:00):
Godzilla's Coming because they hate RFK Junior so much. In
recent months, mister Kennedy and the Agricultural Secretary have suggested
the new guidelines would be would be recommending more red meat,
in particular beef. I'm very excited about the new guidelines, yes,
and of course if that's true, there will be talk.
(05:21):
Of of course, the Agricultural Secretary wanted the guidelines to
say eat more beef for all the farmers, et cetera. Right, right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The new guidelines also might encourage the consumption of saturated fats,
which has not been a thing recently encouraging. That doesn't
know whether or not the do guidelines will say anything
about ultraprocessed foods, which we've all decided.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
In the last year like the worst thing in the
world for us and we should stop eating them, right,
whether or not. And they watching the guidelines poison and suicide, Yes,
they'll be watching.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
The guidelines for what they say about alcohol. Given recent
evidence that no amount of drinking is safe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh no, shut all. Yeah. I had a conversation on
the golf course the other day with a friend of
mine about the question of the the decision, the choice
of waking up to sex or waking up to the
smell of bacon in the house, and and and how
(06:22):
that might change in life. And wow, we agreed that
that to awaken to one or the other is about
as good as life gets. Yeah, I would agree. I
certainly not at the age where I prefer bacon, though
I don't know if that happens at some point in
your life, but well, it's there was also the question
of likelihood that factored into the discussion. Yeah, right, right
(06:46):
there it was. It was a full full, you know,
exchange of ideas over the question of life. I can
make sure I'm going to have bacon. That's pretty easy
to do, right, yeah, exactly. But to wake up and
realize one significant other is already frying up God's gift
mankind and it's taking that smell and that's a good
(07:06):
start to the day. And then she gives you sex. Wow, Wow, honey,
I brought bacon, you're naked. I would go the other
way around. I would go the other way around. I
think bacon would be a great after sex snack. Well,
then where's the bacon. Well, the problem being, though, if
the smell of bacon was in the air, it might
even be hard to concentrate on loving because you keep thinking, wow, Wow,
(07:29):
there's fresh bacon. It's getting cold. I'm both there ruminating
about your prowess enjoying a stick of bacony. In ten minutes,
you'll still be warm, but the bacon will be cold.
I'm just pointing that out. So maybe we I don't
know you're going to bacon first. That's just I'm just analyzed.
I'm mean you. I don't want group think here. I'm
(07:49):
waiting the ideas. Yeah, you really like breakfast, I really do, Michael,
you're so rightly and combining these two thoughts alcohol and
that that sort of experiment there. I heard somebody say yesterday,
if i'd ever heard this before, i'd forgotten it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I guess it's a Frank Sinatra quote. He doesn't understand
people who don't drink, because that means when you get
up in the morning, that's the best you're gonna feel
all day long. Yeah, it's kind of funny, Like so
many folks, I'm drying out this January. And it's funny
because I remember in December when I was really I.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Was getting after it too much. It was terrible. I
was drinking too much, and I would get up in
the morning and think, God, you look terrible. But then
I realized, now that's just how I look in the morning. Oh,
sober or not? Are you doing terrible? I was gonna
ask this yesterday. You're doing dry January at least half
of it. I'm definitely gonna do two weeks. Yeah, you're
going to do what two weeks? Okay, at least Katie's
(08:45):
doing dry pregnancy. Michael.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Michael doesn't drink. I don't drink. Hanson, you're doing dry January.
Don't know if Hanson's doing druk.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
He doesn't drink much at all. No, Hanson said he's
drunk right now. Who can blame him? Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Let's start to show if I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe
Getty on this. It is Wednesday, January seventh, year, twenty
twenty five. Oh, twenty twenty six. We're arms strung and geddy,
and I approve of this program, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Let's begin now. Officially, according to FCC rules regulations, the
show must start at mark in this.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Two year, there's three things that you best love doing.
But you wake up, make sure you're breathing, and then
where you're going the bathroom, look at the beer, look
at your teeth, and brush your teeth. And the third
thing you need to get dressed. And then the fourth
thing you do is say what a great day is
going to be?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
America's philosopher King Garrie Busey with the three things you
need to do every morning to start the new year,
and then he lists four things. Verry Joe Biden like, yeah,
no kidding, Well, wake make sure you're breathing. Yeah, that's
well okay, brush was brush your teeth? The third one second?
(09:58):
One seconde Then get dressed, Get dressed, yes, and then
tip good tip and say what a great day or
whatever he said, what a great day is going give
me right right? Yeah, I should try that. Maybe put
(10:18):
that on the mirror every morning, say this is going
to be a fantastic day. Be one of those people.
See if it has the effect on my mood. That's
too jiv for you, I know you. It's got to
be more reasonable. Maybe I'll have a little bacon sex
start the day. Wow. No, I was working on the
other project. Now you're jerking me around something like, great
(10:42):
things could happen today, So we have it that we
have a Yeah, I like that, great though, this is
going to be a wonderful day. I'm like, what going
give me right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I don't see myself saying that in the morning. It's
not a me sort of thing to do.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We do have kind of a breaking news as we
go on there. It looks like we seized a tanker
there in off the coast of Venezuelan that belongs to
the Russians. My tanker get in to the whole. This
is going to have an effect on the world oil wise. Thing.
I just heard this morning that China gets a third
of their oil from Venezuela. Yes, we could have a
great effect on them. And Venezuelan oil props up the
(11:25):
evil communist Cuban regime. It is their life's blood. Well
it's oil, but it's it keeps them afloat. Yeah, what's
that off? I sort of a teaseers listened to a
podcast yesterday from The Dispatch and they are they do
not like Trump. Over the dispatch at all. But they're
(11:46):
expert that they are interviewed about the whole Maduro Venezuela thing.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Was this was going to happen eventually. It should have
happened a long time ago, and only Trump was the
person that had the balls to actually do it. Yeah,
We've had enough sanctions and indictments and bounties on the
guy's head, but nobody was ever going to make anybody
pay a price, and finally we did, right for the
reasons you just said. So, we got a lot of
(12:11):
good stuff on that Katie's news on the waistay here,
some interesting leaks about the peace negotiations going on, the
whole Russia Ukraine thing, and surprising too.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We'll have to talk about that later. Yeah, all sorts
of good stuff to talk about today, including the fact
maybe the kickoff next hour. We'll talk about it. But Jack,
you framed the whole Nika not Nicaragua Venezuela situation as
very game of throny yesterday, game of thronesy, and digging
into it earlier today, I think you're absolutely right. It's
(12:47):
really really interesting the different centers of power competing to
run that place, and the foreign influence and the rest
of it. So we'll be taking a look at Venezuela
of Thrones or something. I've come up with a name
for it, but super interesting. Anyway, Hope you can stay
tuned right now, Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Already well start with the alphabet networks on the Greenland issue,
ABC Denmark and Greenland seek talks with Rubio after white
House again says it wants Iland.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We're gonna buy that thing, NBC.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
US military action is an option to acquire Greenland, according
to the White House and CBS white House discussing quote
range of options for acquiring Greenland, including US military takeover by.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Force, as we discussed yesterday. Why he pretends that's an option,
I don't know why he thinks that helps. It's horrible.
It's like somebody comes to buy your car or something
and you say, I'm gonna beat you into the hospital
if you don't buy this car. Now, will you pay
twelve grand for it? I mean, don't start that way.
Don't humiliate people unnecessarily, especially your friends. How about a
(13:59):
casual argue with your.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Husband or wife and you say and I'm not taking
divorce off the table.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What yes? Yeah, what this ends wrong? I'm gonna physically
remove you from the house and we're divorced anywhere? Why
did you want to Where did you want to go
to dinner? I mean that's gez Louise the New York
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
DOJ says it has released less than one percent of
Epstein files, with more than two million documents under review.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Did you hear that? All of this nonsense? And it's
been nonsense the last month, all.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Of these releases that they get all excited about it,
we've seen less than one percent.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
We could do this one hundred more times. Oh my god,
kill me.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
From Vice, Canadian artist has show canceled after AI labeled
him a sex offender, preparing to sue Google.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, I need you know more about this story. Yeah,
it's a it's an example of a gossip it's called
in some situations, and just the hallucinations whoa about specific people? Wow?
Because the big the platforms, they trade information back and forth,
they read from each other, and so it's like a
rumor mill or son of a gun.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Jam from the Washington Post, The Soaring Price of Youth sports,
fifty dollars to try out, three thousand dollars to play.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Wow, that's a good one. We should talk about that
more later.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
This one from the Independent New Musical lollipops play music
in your head as you eat them.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Just what I want. I don't, I don't need that.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
They use something called bone induction technology.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh okay, it's like the headphones I got. All right.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
This one, also from the New York Post phone.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Induction sounds like a euphemism. I'm sorry, go on, sorry,
it just does. I'm afraid and I'm looking for a
little bone.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh no, easy, good, goody, all right, New York Post.
I eat two pounds of raw meat a day, including ground,
chuck and steak.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Shockingly, it led to.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
A bizarre antibiotic resistant infection.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah there is Uh, we don't have time for this
right now, but there is a kind of like a
growing Republican right wing maga. Eating red meat thing is a.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Big deal, and that's one of the reasons the FDA
they think the guidelines might be eat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
A lot more red meat. People want to beef, join
a church and have some kids, people, please.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And finally, this one from the Babylon Bee Mom Donnie
turns to the view to receive his morning classified briefing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Wow, so we can update you on a whole bunch
of those news stories of the day. I do want
to hit you at the rumor around the peace deal
in Ukraine because it's pretty surprising, hmmm, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You know, I was just thinking back to the Epstein thing,
very very briefly. I'll tell you what. I'll make you
a deal. I'm going to ignore the next three rounds
of headlines about it. Then we'll compare notes and see
if I missed anything significant. Right, Well, I ignored the last
three rounds. So that's where we are now. If you
missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Cabello or Kabello, that's going to be a name everybody
knows soon. He's the big military leader down in there
in Venezuela. We may try to take over as the dictator,
and we'll talk about that more a little bit later.
It's leaking out about the new dietary guidelines for Americans
as if any of us follow them, although they will
probably force them into.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The schools somehow, which is kind of the way it works.
Oh boy, yeah, great, and more from the Mamdani administration
and his band of insane communists. And I'm not being
hyperbolic calling them communists. They're communists. They're in favor of communism,
is how I know. Oh yeah, update on that chick
(18:02):
who believes that you shouldn't be able to own a
home owning a homeless waiver. Yes, home owning a homeless
white supremacy. Yeah, an update on her. That's not surprising. Yeah, yeah,
home ownership should be collective, not personal. Anyway, it's that
sort of governance that's driving people out of blue states primarily.
(18:23):
The big U Haul Growth Index rankings of net migration
between states has come out. It takes like a year
and a half for the census to come out, but
U Haul hits you with it on January seventh or
the sixth, and I think this came out. As the
company explains, you Haul rank states by their net gain
or loss of customers who rent a one way truck
(18:43):
trailer or U box moving container in one state and
drop off their equipment in another state. The U Haul
Growth Index is compiled from well over two and a
half million annual one way transactions across the US and Canada. Really, yeah,
that's pretty good. Sample size rankings may not correlate directly
to population or economic growth. The U Haul of Growth
(19:04):
index is an effective gauge of how well states, metros,
and cities are attracting and maintaining residents. I think is
kind of freakonomics, you know, measures. It's a pretty good one.
It's got to be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I've done a lot of U haul rentals in my life,
and I don't think I've ever done a one way
I mean just moving stuff around when I take it
back to the same place.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Oh. I did a couple of one ways moving in
state to state. But yeah, I've never heard anybody question this.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
As my point was, I don't know how often you
would ever do that when you're not moving state to state.
Oh I see, yeah, I've done it a bunch of
times where I have to move something around, then I
bring the truck back because I wasn't moving right right.
So the worst performers were mostly familiar deep blue faces,
with California ranking dead last for the sixth consecutive year.
(19:53):
Although U haul notes it's a net loss was smaller
in twenty twenty five than it was in twenty twenty
four the.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Biggest state with the biggest population.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So I mean, if all, if you had the same
percentage of people move it every from every state, you'd
have a higher number for California because we got more nobody.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Remember, it's a net measure people moving away, people moving there, right,
So it's a plus or minus certain number of points.
Good point. So California dead last for the six consecutive year.
Of the eleven biggest losers, eight have completely blue governments California, Illinois,
New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island,
(20:33):
and two others, Pennsylvania and Michigan, have had democratic governors
and largely democratic governance for some time. The lone red
exception is Ohio, which also had the biggest one year
drop off. Then they mentioned that there are obviously a
number of variables that work here beyond simple party control.
Not every red or blue state pursues the same mix
(20:53):
of policies, has the same weather or demographics, or relies
upon the same mix of industries. What else those people
are retiring that that are you know, as our population
gets older and then deciding where to move how often
in your life, Do you just get to choose wherever
you're going to go? Got into this conversation with my
big family gathering for Christmas in Kansas, and got a
(21:14):
couple of people who are at that age they're out
of college and kind of deciding where they want to
be and I and I said, I've never gotten decide
had the chance to decide where I was going to
live at one time in my life. So far, it's
always been the best job that became available. That's where
I'm living all of a sudden, Right, Yeah, all I
(21:35):
can give you is anecdotal evidence that the many many
emails we receive from people who've made this move or
that move willingly. And you know, we've known a handful
of folks just that we've worked with that have decided
I don't want to raise my kids here and ride
blah blah blah people with good jobs. Yeah, yeah, indeed,
(21:55):
because it's a heck of a thing to pick up
and change your jobs, maybe your career if that job
doesn't exist where you're going, and you know, start over
again with all your friends and everything like that, that's
a big deal. Well, right, And I think your question
about have you ever been able to. That's more. I
think that more illustrates how important it is to people,
as opposed to denying that it's happening, because people self
(22:18):
segregating by geography to red states and blue states is
unquestionably happening. Well, that'ssutely happening.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Even if it was retirees who have the choice of
the whole country, it means a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
If you're deciding not to California, I would agree. I
would agree. But if you are a person of the left,
first of all, thanks for listening to the show. You
must be very patient. Secondly, don't turn your new home
into your old, crappy home. Okay, you left it. Why
do you think that is because you didn't like it
enough to stay, So don't change the new place into
the old place. Don't California, my Idaho. I don't live
(22:52):
in Idaho or Texas or whatever. It's not it right.
You get to the new state and you think, wait
a second, they don't have helmet laws for kids, blah blah.
You just let people have plastic bags at your grocery stores. Oh,
we've got a path a measure. Oh my lord, Oh
I made myself angry. That's weird. Let's see, Oh, okay,
(23:16):
up about the demographics, the weather industries, blah blah blah. Still,
the overall pattern remains clear and consistent has for some time.
States with solidly read governance make up seven of the
top ten states for gaining people Texas and Florida being
first and second again, and six of the next eight.
Among the top ten, there's only one blue state. That's Washington,
(23:38):
which is very very blue and also very very beautiful
and has no sales tax am I correct, Yeah, blah
blah blah blah bah, and two with democratic governors North
Carolina Arizona have long head solidly republican legislatures. Florida, as
the company notes, has ranked in the top four every
year since the index started in twenty fifteen. And then
(23:58):
they get into the probably the most compelling stat which
is that three of the top four states attracting movers
had no personal income tax Texas, Florida and Tennessee. California,
ranked dead last in the index, imposes the highest top
personal income tax rate in the nation at thirteen and
a third percent. Oh is that what it is? Yeah,
(24:20):
that's the top incremental rate. Yeah, or marginal rate. The
ten best ranked states in the index have significantly lower
personal income taxes than the indexes ten worst rank states.
Three and a half percent is the average income tax
of the top ten three and a half percent among
the bottom ten ats seven point two percent average top
(24:42):
state personal income tax rate of the ten worst strength. Oh,
I'm sorry they read that backwards. Anyway, As a group,
the ten worst rank states impose a top personal income
tax rate more than twice as high as the ten
best rank states. Yeah, I've heard. I've got a friend
who regularly says, like, are enjoy in California, and this
is why we pay taxes. And my argument would be
(25:06):
so they can be squandered on junkies. Well, you could
make the argument that that's why you're willing to put
up with the high taxes is the weather, the parks,
the whatever. But they don't have to go together.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You can still have nice weather and fantastic mountains and
oceans and stuff like that and have lower taxes.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They didn't cause the mountains and the Ocean's right, it's
not state funded beaches. I mean the sand was there, right.
And so finally, the conclusion, the general trend of people
moving from colder northern to warmer sunnier southern states makes
California's perennial dead last ranking all the more appalling. No
(25:44):
kid in good point. It takes a lot to alienate
people from California's glorious climate and scenery, and they are
both absolutely glorious. But it's politicians have been up to
the task. Yeah, you know, if you're leaving Minnesota for
someplace warmer, everybody understands that if you're leaving the most
one of the most beautiful places on earth, gotta be
(26:07):
a reason. There are push factors. Yeah. Well, And as
Dan McLaughlin points out in The National Review, states that
have a persistent outflow of their own residents can stave
off collapsing population only by parentally importing foreigners. That ring
a bell anybody. If that's bigot tries up, the bluest
of the blue state models are in even more trouble
than before. What is he going to do? Yeah, what
(26:32):
an interesting thing. But follow this migration year by year
by year. By the way, I'm very excited about this
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(27:41):
jam this in before we take a break and get
the mail bag. According to open source the website, the
negotiations yesterday with the Coalition of the Willing in Paris
and the European leaders about the whole rush of Ukraine thing,
they observed a significant shift in the United States stance
toward both Russia and Ukraine. You got Steve Whitkoff there,
(28:04):
and you got Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner there
as the main negotiators took a notably more assertive position
against Russia during the talks with European allies. According to
people that were in the meetings, Wow, I know, isn't
that interesting. I don't know what's driving that. I had
no idea whether you were gonna say Russia or Ukraine
(28:25):
at the end of that one sentence. When I was
reading the story, I had no idea how it was
gonna end. It was like a suspense thriller. For the
first time expressing strong and solid port for support for
deploying a multinational peacekeeping force and proposing robust security guarantees
along the lines of NATO's Article five, What where did
this come from? Whoa? Hey, hang on, plus the Game
(28:46):
of Thrones playing out in Venezuela. Can't wait to talk
about that good stuff and mail bag on the way
stay here. Every mail is obsessed with World War I
two or the Roman Empire. We all learned that last year.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I took a vacation just to go to the World
War Two Museum and I have a bunch of notes
on that that I wanted to talk about. I haven't
gotten around to yet, so maybe in coming hours things
I learned or relearned.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, every man over the age of what it is
forty either chooses the Roman Empire or World War Two.
I would like to throw in the Civil War for consideration.
I'm kind of into that. But yeah, it's true. It's
absolutely true, and we've talked about why that is. And
I think it's not a joke. No, it's not a
joke at all. Yeah, here's your freedom hating quote of
the day. Continuing on that theme, taking a break from
(29:39):
freedom loving quotes to look at people who really despise
liberty and see what sort of things they say. In
this case, yet another one of Zora Mumdani's cabinet. This
happens to be one al Monte da Costa, who is
his director of appointments whatever. That is. First of all,
(30:03):
back in the day, not long ago. She's not an
old person, but about a decade ago, she unleashed a
torrent of absolutely unbelievable Nazi level anti jew statements online,
just unbelievable anti Semite. She now says she doesn't think
that way. In fact, she's married to a Jewish fellow,
and she's very very sorry. So I don't know. You're young,
(30:25):
you're stupid, you shoot off your mouth. But she is
a communist. So here's your freedom hating quote of the day.
When Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen, she said,
this was a harsh blow. But it's not time, not
the first time this country has let me down. It's
important that white people feel defeated. Wow, for so long
power has been in the hands of men and or
(30:47):
white people. It has brought us to ruin. It's important
that white people feel defeated. That is something, it's your
freedom hating quote of the day.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That you can get away with saying that at any
point your life and then end.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Up in public office. It's just astounding to me. Yeah,
his his Cabala communists is going to be making some
serious headlines and uh, we're watching it. Mailbag. Drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong in getty dot com.
You're blaming a race. You think the country's in a
bad shape, and you're blaming a race, and you can
(31:23):
get away with that if it's white. Yeah. I love
and respect people of whatever race or color or creed
if they're good people and they do great things. But no,
she hates white people. Hey. By the way, you know, uh,
we did come up with like most of the philosophies
that run the world in Western civilization and most of
the science and the rest of it. Not all of it, certainly,
but a lot of it. So maybe I ought to
cut us a little slack. It's the if you're going
(31:45):
to sit assign collective blame and credit. It's also the
definition of racism too. Yes it is, Yes, it is.
It's like distilled down to its essence. Anyway, Drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
I mentioned yesterday that I asked Google Gemini to designed
me a First Amendment tattoo. It was absolutely hilarious, riddled
with misspellings and typos and that sort of thing which
(32:06):
we talked about. Rich writes, Joe, the check is in
the mail, please get that tattoo. I assume he ma
he means the floundering typo riddled one. Jack to your
story of not tipping the maid, even though she dug
through the garbage like the big garbage to find your
dirty clothes. Good lord, even just in the retelling, it's disgusting.
(32:33):
Sean points out if this were George Costanzo instead of Jack,
you would have felt guilty about not tipping and not
wanting to see the maid again and feel bad. He
would have called Ice and had her rendition to an L.
Salvador in prison. The last shot would have been her
dressed like Maduro on the plane.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I thought I was going to get most of my
hate for running through n Frank's bedroom, but I got
it for not tipping the maid. Neither one of them
are something i I'm proud of. Well, yeah, when you
gotta go, you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Alex the Marine writes Pete Hegseeth is incompetent. Remember how
we were told again and again how incompetent sec def
Pete Taggseeth. Is this incredible rate into Caracas was executed
by Pete's war department. Let's compare this rate to Lloyd
Austin's Afghanistan withdrawal. You know, sec def How much credit
do they deserve?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Some?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Certainly, But you know it's funny. I'm not seeing a
lot of headlines in the New York Times, for instance,
saying we were wrong about Pete. Hegseeth his war department
is running like clockwork. That's good point, Alex. Thanks. Let's say,
Stephen on the topic of Trump in Venezuela, for the
way that Trump used all of his high tech resources
to swoop in quickly and capture a villain without anyone
(33:42):
knowing it until it was over, Can you please, please
please start referring to him as President Batman. Well, the
Cuban security forces knew what was going on, because forty
three of them are croaked, and Cuba's vaunted intelligence and
security forces have been pansed in front of the world
to you what, keep your eye on Cuba. Those commies
(34:02):
are shaken in their COMMI boots, yeah, and rightfully so.
And the human heels I'm guessing on those boots. I
mean the fact that Russia's air defense systems that they
sell the countries around the world because they're supposed to
be so great, we're just dismantled and we got buying
them easily. That's a big story. That is big, you're right.
(34:25):
And then this, it's a screen capture from Charlotte's x
feed and it is of the demonstrators in Iran, And
that's another story we really need to tune into, at
least to some extent. But it's a protester just going
by a sign that says, allegedly in Persian in Farsi,
Trump Street, and sure enough she verified it says Trump
(34:49):
seat Street waiting for the YMCA dance. Cheers Charlotte. So wow.
So the good folks in Iran, like the good folks
in Venezuela, are like yay Trump Yah.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
According to the Associated Press, the Ayatola is in hiding
because he's concerned that we or Israel Is gonna snatch
him up, just like we snatched up Maduro.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah. Yeah, And then we don't have a lot of
time for this, but twenty year school marm who is
a Minnesotan, makes a couple of points about thank goodness
for Nick Shirley and the investigation into the Minnesota fraud cartels,
and it's just enormous and as we've known it for
a long time in Minnesota, she says, But it didn't
(35:30):
really get much of attention. She says, I will never
forget as long as I lived, the moment I heard
on the radio that Kamala had picked Tim Here's a
real man. Waltz is her VP. Dear reader, I along
with all others, saying Minnesotan's guffaud, How in the world
did her team make such an absurd choice, right with
the scandal being out there for people who were paying attention. Yeah,
(35:53):
how did Kamala's campaign not know he had that? You
know what's interesting in Waltz's debate with Jade Evans didn't
even come up once, even though there were already multiple prosecutions. Yeah, yeah,
just taxpayers waisted tax payer money. As you've pointed out,
people just don't pay much attention to it, or they
don't feel like they can do anything about it. I
guess ah, that could be. These scandals come and go
(36:16):
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