October 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Trump in Asia, Trump's entrance & Taiwan
- Accomplishments of the U.S.A.
- Longevity medicine
- A Scam: Homeless spending in LA
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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. Armstrong and Getty,
I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The administration says they've reached the framework of an agreement
that covers fatanol in tariffs and includes a pledge by
China to resume buying American agriculture like soybeans, and to
loosen restrictions on their sale of rare earth minerals critical
for making smartphones and cars.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, I got a theory about the whole rare earth
minerals thing and what might be we might be doing
in Venezuela. But I'll talk about my wild conspiracy theory later.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm gonna double down on the soybeans. But you do you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Trump is in Asia and he's visiting in all the
countries you visit over there, ending with China, which is
of course the biggest relationship for Planet Earth, the relationship
between China and the United States. Here's a little more
from Jackie Heinrich, who did Trump called a bad reporter
the other day, didn't like her for some reason.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Said you're bad at your job because she asks actually
difficult questions on Fox News. Yeah, anyway, here's her report
on what happened yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, if you're Japan, you're pretty happy with how things
have gone so far. At Japan's first female Prime Minister,
Sanai Takayishi, who just came into office a week ago,
does not have a long standing relationship with President Trump,
and she was navigating this deal that was arranged by
her predecessor to spend five hundred and fifty billion dollars
in the US that is about a tenth of Japan's economy,
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all that on projects chosen by Washington in order to
avert tariffs that were higher than fifteen percent for a
period of time. It was unclear whether she would uphold
this deal as it was written by her predecessor, but
she is, of course Shinzo AB's protege, and she sought
to use that connection to establish a strong relationship with
President Trump. She gifted him one of Abbe's golf clubs
(02:02):
that he used when they played together in twenty seventeen,
and that set the tone. Things really took off from there.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So that was pretty clever of her, Although world leaders
do that sort of thing all the time, give each
other gifts, little tokens of a we're friends.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, there's no chance they're going to invest ten percent
of their GDP in the United States based on this agreement.
She's just given Trump the look at the deal I made.
But they'll drag their feet. It's like slave reparations. They'll
form commissions about how to do it and when to
do it till la coows come home. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I heard some reporting yesterday on South Korea's pledges have
not come true.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, no, and they're not going to Well that's underreported.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So tell me about Trump's entrance before we play these clips,
because I did not see it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I was spectacular. So you've got the on an aircraft carry.
You got the big deck that they can lower so
the fighter jets and whatever else can come down into
the lower parts of the ship. And forgive me navy
guys for using silly villion speech, but I don't know
the proper terms. So they can bring them down for repair, storage,
badweather or whatever. Well something or other elevator, but anyway,
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So the elevator starts to come down to the lower
deck where all the troops are assembled, and there's Donald J.
Freakin Trump with his hand on a big missile and
the crowded guys just goes crazy, and Lee Greenwood is
blasting and ladies and gentlemen. The President of the United
States of America, Donald J. Trump, and he gets a
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huge crowd at a I gotta watch that.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You don't hang around DAYA the fighter jet and the
missiles with the sky in the background. Please, he doesn't
hang around Dana White and those WWE events without learning
a little something about showmanship. Now you come into an arena, right,
that is something I guess that gets repped. Here's a
couple of clips of Trump yesterday.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
This woman is a winner. So you know we've become
great toast friends. And all of a sudden because their
stock market today at our stock market today.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hit an all time high.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That means we're doing something right. But the cherished alliance
between the United States and Japan is one of the
most remarkable relationships in the entire world.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You made a good point earlier because I'm about to
talk about the whole spheres of influence thing, and China's
going to get that part of the world, and we're
going to get this part of the world, and that
might just be the direction history is going our relationship
with China certainly doesn't fit in with that, I mean
with it with Japan.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh yeah, and all the other Asian countries. Trump went to,
I mean the president of the United States going to Malaysia,
going to Korea, going to Japan, saying, hey, we're great buddies,
we're great trading partners, and we're going to stay that way.
In fact, let's solidify that relationship. Unless that's some sort
of weird pressure technique on China, and then he's going
to say never mind and striking the great bargain that's
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being rumored about the spheres of influence thing. It's just know,
it's a real counter to that idea.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, and Japan and China are historic enemies in a
way that few countries are.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, there are no countries we hate as much as
Japan and China hate each other. For good reason.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Trump goes on, I'm delighted to report that I've just
approved the first batch of missiles.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You saw a couple of them coming.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Down with me.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I hugged them. We need them. They're the best in
the world.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Nobody has them like we have them. They all want
our missiles.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's the problem. Everybody wants them.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
But it's the first batch of missiles to be delivered
to the Japanese Self Defense Forces for Japan's at thirty
fives and they're coming this week, so they're ahead of schedules.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, we are not abandoning Asia, not even close.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So this is what The New York Times wrote about
Trump's meeting with President sheiv China, which happens on when
China's leader Xijingping sits down with President Trump to address
their worsening trade tensions, he will also be pursuing another
longer goal, persuading the American president to soften US support
for Taiwan. Trump has said he wants to focus on
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trade when he meets Xi, even if the Chinese leader
presses him on Taiwan, the Democratic League governed island that
does one hundred miles off China's coast and Beijing claims
belongs to China. But the diplomatic maneuvering raises a crucial
question how negotiable is our support for Taiwan, especially given
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mister trump sometimes dismissive comments about the island. Trump has
reportedly said, if they decide to take Taiwan, they're.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Gonna get Taiwan. Nobody's gonna be able to stop them.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Chinese officials, analyst said, may seek this in other meetings
to draw mister Trump out on the issue, to have
him clarify his position on Taiwanji probably wants Trump to
state that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan.
Saying that would echo what previous US administrations have said.
That's what we always say, It's what Obama said, as
what Biden said with Bush ed we've been saying it
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for many, many, many years, that we don't advocate for
independence of Taiwan, while at the same time sort of
insinuating that if you try to take Taiwan, we're willing
to go to war with you over it anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right, it's really silly diplomatic speak.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
A clear statement of that by a US president would
be welcomed by Beijing, which for his years has accused
Washington of encouraging Taiwan toward independence. Earlier this year, the
State Department altered a web page about Taiwan, removing the
phrase we do not support Taiwan independence, drawing loud complaints
from China that was.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So odd, they are freaking independent. Well, I don't have
your political system. They don't follow your laws. They are independent.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, and we have war games all the time, and
so does Taiwan about keeping them independent. In Japan participants,
in Australia participates. Yeah, so all the diplomatic languages.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, how about that that we took one phrase off
of a website and China, who probably has some guy
whose job it is to monitor that website, Notice the
phrase is missing. The phrase is missing, and then throws
a big fit about the fact that we took that
one phrase off the website. Right, man, how about that
sort of thing. They've so hacked into all our systems,
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they've probably get an alert whenever anything like that happens. Yeah,
I know, I know to Does it have to do
with Asian saving face or something? I don't get their
obsession with that. Who's that for? We do not advocate
for Taiwanese independence?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Just like me saying I do not advocate for the
state of Indiana. But it's there, It's already there.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So I didn't realize until sixty minutes brought it up
the other night about Venezuela one. They've got the world's
largest oil reserves and they have a lot of the
rare earth stuff that China has the world market cornered on.
Is there any chance that some of this sending aircraft
carriers and marines and everything to Venezuela is a signal
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to she that We're going to get our rare earth
stuff one way or another.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So don't think that we're completely beholden to you and
you can just rake us over the coals on any
deal you might want to get something for this, because
we have other options and I'm willing to do it right.
We just signed a giant deal with the Australians too,
and there's been enormous piles of investment on rare earth
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development in the US and amongst our ally. So yeah,
I think that's a great point and exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And President she probably thinks I could see Trump taking Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He probably believes that's on the table as a passive. Yeah,
some sort of regime change is a lot more likely
with our backing, But that's a tough nut to crack too.
The I would love to see it, I just don't
know how it would happen. Yeah, the other thing I
wanted to mention, what's the other thing, I want to
mention is real quickly whill you're thinking about that. The
problem is there's been zero sign of any cracks in
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support from Maduro among the military. And unless you have that,
and maybe maybe our spooks have, uh you know, information
that I don't certainly. But if you don't have that,
you're really you're up against it. You're going to be
fighting a war for a long time. Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I know the other thing I wanted to bring up.
I remember listening to a National Review podcast year or
so ago, and all of the hosts on there, they're
asked the question. And the National Review is a right
wing publication, conservative publication, whatever you want to call Some
people get really worked up about these terms.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
But.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Republican public caad and pretty hawkish usually. And the question was,
if China decides to move on Taiwan, will we go
to war to stop that from happening? And every single
person on the panel said no, no, we're not going
to get involved in a ward to stop Taiwan from
being taken. And that changed my mind on it, because
I thought we were thoroughly committed as a country to
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know that ain't going to happen. But between like that
point of view from some of the biggest Republican thinkers
in America, and Trump supposedly saying.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
If China wants Taiwan, they're going to get Taiwan. Nobody
can stop them, which I think he's probably realistically true.
He got the one of the biggest military powers on
the planet an island one hundred miles from its shore.
If it really wants to take it, how's the rest
of the world going to stop them? Well, we both
read of pieces about simulations, computer simulations of how the
battles would unfold and that sort of thing. That our
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military is run and the best we can do is
slow them down a bit and assemble a giant, multinational
force and hope it gets there in time. Because this
sinus backyard, it's that a front yard, all right. And
our appetite for having soldiers die in great numbers is
not the same as China's. If they lost five thousand
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guys in the pursuit of Taiwan, that'd be nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
If they lost fifty thousand guys, President, she wouldn't blink
an eye. We lose five thousand guys defending it, that'd
be the biggest crisis in forever.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, agreed. Yeah, yes, I'll be interesting to see how
that plays out or if Trump gives any English. According
to The New York Times, she's going to try to
make Taiwan a topic. Trump's going to try to make
it not a topic. So we'll see how that plays out. Yeah,
interesting stuff. May you live in interesting times? Spicy times,
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no doubt. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did I need to watch all six hundred and nine
pitches last night? Probably not, But I.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Enjoyed so many pitches, so many pitches, nineteen pitchers, that's crazy.
We got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Insight on when music will well. Sean Diddy Combs could
be out of prison. He's serving a fifty month prison
sentence for interstate prostitution. Federal inmate records now reveal he's
set to be released on May eighth, twenty twenty eight.
Combs has been detained since his arrest in September of
last year. His attorneys say they expect to appeal his sentence.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, so get out in two and a half years.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And I'm glad the rumor didn't come true that Trump
was going to commute his sentence last week. Remember that
rumor was floating around from TMZ.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, yeah, why stop it? So I love Matt Tayebe.
I'm a big fan, even when I disagree with him.
His writing is terrific and he is definitely a man
of the left. He's a liberal as opposed to a progressive,
and he's like Bill Maher who understands that conservatism is
not going to be ruined by the commis. It's going
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to be you know, center leftism in America, and so
he's he's like a real battler against it, which is
kind of cool. He wrote this great piece the other day,
and I want to get to a response to it.
But he's talking about how the upper class lefties are
going for philosophies that are just suicidal, and to quote him,
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and that will force actual working class Americans to vote
them out and vote against them out of self preservation.
That the limousine, prep school, elite university, angry lefty crowd
is the last thing the actual working class in America needs.
It's great piece. It's long, as always. Matt is a
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man of many words, not few, But he got a
response to that, Calumn, are you a card carrying exceptionalist, Matt,
that you believe this capitalist whorehouse of a country to
be the most benign system for its citizens. Do you
really believe the vitriol you pour on Marxism and its
tenets and how terrible its effects have been in the world,
never mind that it has never once been implemented anywhere. Oh,
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that old argument, we haven't really tried real communism. Do
you believe America has been a great force for good
in the world? If Soware and Tayibe, man of the left, says,
let's see defeating the Nazis in Imperial Japan, accepting more
refugees from Nazi Germany than any other country, inventing polio vaccines, chemotherapy,
the Internet, nuclear power, cars, airplanes, movies, radio, electric light,
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frozen food, the photograph, both the telephone, cell phones, rock
and roll, jazz and hip hop TV, The Transistor of
the pill, basketball and volleyball, Star Trek and Star Wars.
Four hundred and twenty five Nobel Laureates, Free speech, free press,
freedom of religion, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Moby Did
The Invisible Man, Fear Loathing in Las Vegas, The Panama
Canal Transit, oceanic communication, the poems of Frost, Poe MacLeish,
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and Emily Dickinson, personal computers, the assembly Line, landing on
the Moon, rebuilding Europe. Off the top of my head,
I also like mounds bars, teios, and football. But what
do I know? I get it. You read Howard Zinn once.
But if we quote, if we did, what has America
done for the world besides X for real blah blah blah?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, I like, I mean, that's entertaining. I'm not sure
that my argument for why America's good would include Emily
Dickinson's poems. I think it's more about it keeping the
because you're a cad, keeping the world order what it
has been since the end of World War Two, because
somebody has to be the world's policeman, biggest, biggest bully
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on the block whatever to keep the world order going.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So billions of people could get lifted out of poverty
because of the functioning of free markets. Yes, that, and
you know, if you want a shortened ad list, free speech,
free press, and freedom of religion is a pretty good
place to start.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, because it would be if not us, and we
might get to live to see this. If not us,
it'll be one of your big communist countries deciding what.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The rules for the world are well and Paul Edwards
the reader who is questioning Matt tayebe hey, dude, in
your system, there will be no free speech, no free press,
and no freedom of religion. Idiot, not to mention, no innovation,
no prosperity, no upward mobility. Idiot. Good God, do you
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want to live to be one hundred and ten? I
hope you're rich. Stay tuned for that story, among other things.
On the way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
At seventy five, both men and women fall off a
cliff at seventy five. It's a population level. It's unmistakable
what happens at the age of seventy five. That's what
we're up against. That's what I'm thinking about in the practice,
is how do I create an escape velocity that gets
somebody another fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
There.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Doctor Peter atya Attiya, however you pronounce his name, was
on sixty minutes on Sunday Night. He's very well known
for some of you because he's written some books that
have sold millions of millions copies about how to get
a little more enjoyment years out of your life.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right, not just prolonging life, but prolonging quality years. I immediately.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Put my hand over my watch in my wallet when
anybody ever starts talking about health stuff, because there's just
a lot of you know, very few people ever want
to come out and just say, well, you got to
eat less and exercise more would be the main way
to lose weight, as opposed to.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I've got a new way that nobody's ever thought of before.
You eat only things that match this paint chip that flows.
It's called beige eating. Only eat things that are beige
at the monochromatic time.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But this guy, I thought that was interesting. Of course,
your mileage may vary. It happens a little earlier for
some people, a little later like my dad for some people,
but in general, at seventy five you just go off
a cliff, and he wants to extend.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That out a little further.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Not your lifespan, but the years that you can actually
do stuff and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Right. Yeah, I'll hold my takeaway from that segment back.
I don't want to see everybody's thunder.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Here's Norah O'Donnell from sixty minutes talking to the doctor.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
And so is your goal to minimize or essentially erase
that marginal decade the.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Marginal decade's not going anywhere. We will all have a
final decade of life. My goal is to make the
marginal decade as enjoyable as possible. The way I explain
it to my patients is that last ten to fifteen
of your years, if you don't do anything about it,
you will fall to a level of about fifty percent
of your total capacity cognitively, physically.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
And when people hear that, you're like, I don't want
to be that. That's not how I want to spend
the last decade of my life.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
A lot of people respond that way as though they're
hearing this for the first time, although if you ask them,
haven't you seen people in this state, they'll say, well, yeah,
I guess I.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Have, likely their own relatives, sure, their run parents. Even well,
I am fairly functional on my best day, So you know,
fifty percent of that oo that's getting down there? Yeah, hey, iikes.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That is a funny aspect of human beings that even
though we most of us experience it with family members
or whatever, we feel like it's not going to happen
to us or something.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's yes, yeah, I don't. I don't have that old
guy attitude. I'm not going to be somewhat stooped over
and complain about arth.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Right, or we're and this is a slightly different topic,
but not completely. I was talking to a guy last
night who's a friend of mine, and he's dealing with his.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Mom's final years and how they're going to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Deal with it, and just that stat that I always
think about, where like ninety eight percent of people say
they want to die at home, ninety eight percent of
people don't die at home, right, And.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, for a variety of reasons. But anyway, let's hear
a little more of this before we discuss go on.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I think this is the neglected part of medical testing
is how fit are you?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
How strong are you?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
How well do you move and up overhead?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And in many ways these tests are even more predictive
of how long you're going to live than what I might.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Get out of your blood work.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
How do we know that?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
The data are pretty clear when you look at things
like cardio respiratory fitness, when you look at muscle mass,
when you look at strength, they have a much higher
association than things like even cholesterol and blood pressure.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
You think anyone whether they're forty five or sixty five
should be training like athletes, not for the Olympics, but
essentially for advanced age.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Absolutely, life is a sport ain thing of that idea.
I didn't hear anything that he said that contradicted things
that I've learned through the years about how to age well,
having to do with strength and flexibility and various measures.
The guy just struck me as a really high end,
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extremely thorough personal trainer with a medical background. You hear
a lot of faux medical crap, and that seemed to
be just I mean, essentially, he's going to turn you
into an Olympic athlete. Some of the exercise regimens and
tests they were gonna do it all. How could they
not help you live longer? It looked like an enormous
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amount of work. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
One of the reviews of one of his books, his
work has exploded in popularity amid the longevity boom, but
he stresses evidence over hype, urging people to train seriously
for vibrant old age rather than chasing quick fixes, which
was what I was talking about earlier. The crawl like
a dog exercise or whatever, the new things.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, and I know a couple of people who fly
to like South American capitals to get various infusions. You
know people who do that, Yes, infusions of what one
guy in particular, I can't remember exactly, the blood of
a thirteen year old, blood of a tamon serum, the
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plasma of the jaguar. I don't know exactly. Do you
know people who fly to other countries, Yes, to get infusions.
The guy is super into the anti aging thing, like
you know less about doctor Atilla, who again struck me
as a lot more legit than ninety percent of what
I hear about this stuff. But yeah, he's super into it.
He believes that. He's a very smart guy. He's been
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very successful, although you know, one sort of success doesn't
necessarily translate to good judgment in another way. But he's
a lovely guy.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
But if you got a lot of money, what are
you going to spend your money on that's better than
trying to have more enjoyable years of your life? And well,
you know, if there's a five percent chance that works,
if you've got a lot of money, it makes more
sense to do that than without cow which we were
talking about early exactly, you were talking about this four
hundred and fifty six thousand dollars chair and a what
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was the name of that? Again, you can take the
boy out of the working class, but you can't take
the work. And oh here it is a Jeanreer type
sofa for a million dollars. It makes sense to me
completely that we are designed to continue to work our
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minds and bodies, and then as soon as we stop,
they just decide, well, I guess, I guess we're.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Done, right, right, I think it just it helps to
remind yourself over and over again. You are an animal.
You are a biological being, no different than beavers. Beavers
don't have long, happy retirements. Look at my teeth where
they sit. Are those dentures beaver dentures? They look totally natural.
(24:27):
They don't look at you. I brought down a sapling yesterday.
Good man, you gotta stay in jap No. But the
invention of a I have reproduced. I have raised my
young I have functioned as the village elder, and now
I'm just I play golf and I watch movies. That
doesn't exist in the animal world. We invented that, right,
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So you got to think about, all right, what is
every other beast doing? Well, it's alive, it stays active.
You've got to stay active. I believe that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I don't want to be annoying works out guy. So
I probably shouldn't say this very I done, But I
go to the gym every single day, and I feel better.
I feel better now than I felt when I was forty.
I'm twenty years older than that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm way more uh in every way, feel better from
uh exercising regularly. I hope I can keep it up.
I probably can't. Like I said earlier, I'm doing it
only out of vanity. It can't hurt. No, it can't hurt.
I'm just worried about when, you know, like I said,
I finally get a mate.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'll just I'll become a you know, Jim Schmim. Huh,
Let's watch TV and that's all the way over. On
the other side, I'm gonna immediately go from going to
the gym every day to watching TV eating bowls of pudding.
That's the transition will be very seamless.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Riding around the grocery store on a rascal right exactly,
didn't I used to see you at the gym? Maybe
at it all by way? Wow? Wow, No, I'm from
predicting my future. There, your new bow is gonna sue
for fraud. Anyway, I thought that was I thought that
was a damn interesting story. Just the idea of looking
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at extending the enjoyable years the whole your your body
and mind drops off fifty percent after seventy five.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And in a similar vein the one medical story that's
caught my ear lately and really made an impression is
that study after study is coming back saying staying physically
active is good for your brain, for Vans, Alzheimer's and
that sort of thing. It's just it's undeniable. Jerry Seinfeld's
big on that.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
He says that's why he lifts weights is because all
the studies that show how what it does for your brain.
So that's good too, because my brain answered, hot, I
got it. I'm so damn lazy, I gotta get it
at anyway.
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Speaker 3 (27:52):
To admit I was rooting for Toronto even though I'm
wearing a Dodger's hat. Will relive the big Giant ending
home run that happened in the middle of the night
briefly when we come back, among other things, to hear.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Marshy swig and a high flyve wall center field car
show back near the wall at the track.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Pretty Freemid, Oh run to center field. Freemid locks it
up in the eighteenth Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
One of the reasons the announcers didn't get immediately excited
like you usually hear when there's a big hit, because
there's been like five.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
It's like that that got caught at the wall because
everybody is waiting for that game to end. It's deep,
it's deep, and they catch it with six inches to go,
so they waited to see what it actually left. Freaking show.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Heyo, Tony got them based nine times. He spends more
time trying to fix his hair just the way he
wants it than most athletes.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You see, I've noticed it's very boyish and uh teen treay. Yeah,
he gets it just right. Maybe that's the key to
his success. Well, it doesn't hurt, and he's nine times
and he's the starting pitcher tonight. Yeah, it's just incredible.
They're gonna have to wheel himunta on a wheelchair. He's
so tired unbelievable anyway, so wanted to get to this
(29:10):
squeeze it in almost forgot great reporting by Steve Williams.
He posted it at RedState dot com. We can't get
to the whole thing, so we'll post it at Armstrong
and Getty dot com under hot links. LA's latest housing scandal,
the homeless industrial Complex unbelievable, he writes. The recent federal
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arrests tied to a senior housing project have exposed a
pattern in a series of earlier transactions quietly approved by
the City of La. Key to this scheme is the
twenty twenty two purchase of four Extended Stay America hotels
from Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm. These acquisitions,
totally more than one hundred and eighty million dollars were
financed through Project Home key Gavin Newsom's California Pandemic here
(29:56):
a program to convert hotels into homeless housing, but analysis
shows the city was not addressing homelessness. They sit almost empty. Instead,
it created a real estate windfall for politically connected developers
and what of Wall Street's most powerful landlords. The four
Extended State properties were sold for staggering amounts far far
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above market value. Wow. Each was bought from Blackstone, which
it acquired the Extended State America brand in twenty twenty
one through adventure Blah blah blah. Less than a year later,
Blackstone was cashing out of its LA holdings, not to
private investors, but to city hall, flush with emergency homeless funds.
According to records, each purchase included architectural fees, zoning, CEQA reviews,
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environmental assessments, and a two percent administrative fee, all build
to taxpayers, totally more than four point two million dollars
in added costs besides the incredibly bloated prices. Three years later,
most of these hotels remain largely empty. They're part of
a growing portfolio of home key funded properties that have
failed to house significant numbers of homeless residents despite costing
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taxpayers billions. Then he writes sound familiar because it is.
Back in August, I reported how Torrance officials stopped La
County from spending thirty million dollars on a hotel valued
at just ten million dollars, a near copy of the
scheme the City of La ran three years earlier. The
steps were nearly identical. Find a hotel inflate its value,
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declare an emergency purchase using homelessness funds, moved taxpayer money
quickly before anyone asks questions. But the problem was the
City of Torrance is run by Republicans, and suspecting that
the county's price was inflated, the city commission an independent
third party appraisal which confirmed that the true value was
not thirty million dollars, it was ten million dollars. Under
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public scrutiny, the deal collapsed with the Republican led city
government preventing another multi multimillion dollar misuse of public funds.
And he goes into describing of how it's all built
on secrecy. Secrecy, everything moves quickly, the figures are never
known to the public. Project home Key was designed for speed,
not scrutiny. Cities are allowed to bypass competitive bidding and
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public hearings if they labeled their purchases emergency acquisitions.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
God, how did the Bernie crowd get away with the
tax the rich rich not paying their for fair share
all the time without ever getting into this stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
This is where the money is, Bernie AOC. You want
more money for all the stuff you care about? This
is where it is, right right, absolutely true. And you
know what really pisses me off is that the media,
they have completely lost their taste for finding and disclosing
government waste or lavish programs like this because they're all
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generated by the left, and so they think, well, homelessness
is a terrible problem. I don't want to be seen
as criticized them. I mean, they may have overpaid a little,
but it was an emergency, after all, after all, architect fees,
It's already existed for a very long time. I'm sure
it's fine.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And hack Law, which is the acronym for the uh
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, acts as
broker administrator, handles all the transactions internally, then builds the
city for staffing and overhead millions and millions of dollars.
You know, this reminds me of how much time I got, Michael,
depends on how you kept Now we got three minutes, okay,
(33:31):
So similar to this.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I heard this story twice over the weekend, just coincidentally,
from people that work in schools in California. How much
food they're wasting at their school. Somebody brought it up,
and then another person because.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
During the pandemic somebody was able to jam through the no, no,
everybody should get breakfast and lunch. It used to be
just like need based, and then somebody decided the crisis
now everybody. And so it continued after the pandemic's over,
as these programs always do. And these teachers, who I
assume are probably lefties, were horrified by how much food
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they're throwing away every day. They said, like half the kids.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Bring their own lunch, or don't eat lunch or breakfast
or show up. They eat breakfast at home.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And they make all of these meals for every single
kid in the school, breakfast and lunch, and most of
them they throw away. And I wanted to say to them,
but I didn't want to jump into the story. The
spending is the point. It's not about anybody getting any food.
It's about spending money. And it's the same with this
homeless thing. When will liberals understand the spending is the point,
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not fixing your causes that you care about. You know
Steve Williams who wrote this article, you read his mind
or vice versa. He writes every wasted dollars one that
could have gone toward mental health treatment, addiction recovery, job, training,
new housing construction. Instead, those dollars slowed to brokers, bureaucrats
and Blackstones balance sheet. And then then he points out
to your point. When the leaders of Torrance rejected these
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thirty million dollar extended state proposal, they were immediately hammered
with accusations being anti homeless, right, or insensitive to the
almlessness problem? Mean conservatives? Yeah, like, I assume these teachers
can come up with all kinds of places that money
ought to be spent, whether it's books or whatever. The
hell tutors to make education better. Raise your hand and say, hey,
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we're throwing away food like crazy. This program was designed,
probably by the Department of Agriculture, just to get money
flowing various places. It had nothing to do with feeding anybody.
How do you not get this right? Invent an emergency, appropriate, appropriate,
just wildly excessive amounts of money, and then accuse anybody
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who calls you on it of being anti child, or
anti homeless, or islamophobic or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
The first person I heard say this, Norah Rothman, wrote
this in the National Review.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
It's such a great line. The spending is the point. Yes,
with all of these things, you get so far off
track if you start thinking about solving a problem. There
is no problem. The spending is the point. People get
this money place Stacy Abrams getting one point eight billion
dollars or whatever it was for green inner city initiatives.
My ass was just a handout.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
The administration says they've reached the framework of an agreement
that covers fatanol in tariffs and includes a pledge by
China to resume buying American agriculture like soybeans, and to
loosen restrictions on their sale of rare earth minerals critical
for making smartphones and cars.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, I got a theory about the whole rare earth
minerals thing and what might be we might be doing
in Venezuela. But I'll talk about my wild conspiracy theory later.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm gonna double down on the soybeans. But you do you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Trump is in Asia and he's visiting in all the
countries you visit over there, ending with China, which is
of course the biggest relationship for Planet Earth, the relationship
between China and the United States. Here's a little more
from Jackie Heinrich, who did Trump called a bad reporter
the other day, didn't like her for some reason.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Said you're bad at your job because she asks actually
difficult questions on Fox News. Yeah, anyway, here's her report
on what happened yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah, if you're Japan, you're pretty happy with how things
have gone so far. At Japan's first female Prime Minister,
Sanai Takayishi, who just came into office a week ago,
does not have a long standing relationship with President Trump,
and she was navigating this deal that was arranged by
her predecessor to spend five hundred and fifty billion dollars
in the US that is about a tenth of Japan's economy,
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all that on projects chosen by Washington in order to
avert tariffs that were higher than fifteen percent for a
period of time. It was unclear whether she would uphold
this deal as it was written by her predecessor, but
she is, of course Shinzo AB's protege, and she sought
to use that connection to establish a strong relationship with
President Trump. She gifted him one of Abbe's golf clubs
(02:02):
that he used when they played together in twenty seventeen,
and that set the tone. Things really took off from there.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So that was pretty clever of her, Although world leaders
do that sort of thing all the time, give each
other gifts, little tokens of a we're friends.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, there's no chance they're going to invest ten percent
of their GDP in the United States based on this agreement.
She's just given Trump the look at the deal I made.
But they'll drag their feet. It's like slave reparations. They'll
form commissions about how to do it and when to
do it till la coows come home. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I heard some reporting yesterday on South Korea's pledges have
not come true.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, no, and they're not going to Well that's underreported.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So tell me about Trump's entrance before we play these clips,
because I did not see it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I was spectacular. So you've got the on an aircraft carry.
You got the big deck that they can lower so
the fighter jets and whatever else can come down into
the lower parts of the ship. And forgive me navy
guys for using silly villion speech, but I don't know
the proper terms. So they can bring them down for repair, storage,
badweather or whatever. Well something or other elevator, but anyway,
(03:18):
So the elevator starts to come down to the lower
deck where all the troops are assembled, and there's Donald J.
Freakin Trump with his hand on a big missile and
the crowded guys just goes crazy, and Lee Greenwood is
blasting and ladies and gentlemen. The President of the United
States of America, Donald J. Trump, and he gets a
(03:39):
huge crowd at a I gotta watch that.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You don't hang around DAYA the fighter jet and the
missiles with the sky in the background. Please, he doesn't
hang around Dana White and those WWE events without learning
a little something about showmanship. Now you come into an arena, right,
that is something I guess that gets repped. Here's a
couple of clips of Trump yesterday.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
This woman is a winner. So you know we've become
great toast friends. And all of a sudden because their
stock market today at our stock market today.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hit an all time high.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That means we're doing something right. But the cherished alliance
between the United States and Japan is one of the
most remarkable relationships in the entire world.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You made a good point earlier because I'm about to
talk about the whole spheres of influence thing, and China's
going to get that part of the world, and we're
going to get this part of the world, and that
might just be the direction history is going our relationship
with China certainly doesn't fit in with that, I mean
with it with Japan.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh yeah, and all the other Asian countries. Trump went to,
I mean the president of the United States going to Malaysia,
going to Korea, going to Japan, saying, hey, we're great buddies,
we're great trading partners, and we're going to stay that way.
In fact, let's solidify that relationship. Unless that's some sort
of weird pressure technique on China, and then he's going
to say never mind and striking the great bargain that's
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being rumored about the spheres of influence thing. It's just know,
it's a real counter to that idea.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, and Japan and China are historic enemies in a
way that few countries are.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, there are no countries we hate as much as
Japan and China hate each other. For good reason.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Trump goes on, I'm delighted to report that I've just
approved the first batch of missiles.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You saw a couple of them coming.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Down with me.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I hugged them. We need them. They're the best in
the world.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Nobody has them like we have them. They all want
our missiles.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
That's the problem. Everybody wants them.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
But it's the first batch of missiles to be delivered
to the Japanese Self Defense Forces for Japan's at thirty
fives and they're coming this week, so they're ahead of schedules.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, we are not abandoning Asia, not even close.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So this is what The New York Times wrote about
Trump's meeting with President sheiv China, which happens on when
China's leader Xijingping sits down with President Trump to address
their worsening trade tensions, he will also be pursuing another
longer goal, persuading the American president to soften US support
for Taiwan. Trump has said he wants to focus on
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trade when he meets Xi, even if the Chinese leader
presses him on Taiwan, the Democratic League governed island that
does one hundred miles off China's coast and Beijing claims
belongs to China. But the diplomatic maneuvering raises a crucial
question how negotiable is our support for Taiwan, especially given
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mister trump sometimes dismissive comments about the island. Trump has
reportedly said, if they decide to take Taiwan, they're.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Gonna get Taiwan. Nobody's gonna be able to stop them.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Chinese officials, analyst said, may seek this in other meetings
to draw mister Trump out on the issue, to have
him clarify his position on Taiwanji probably wants Trump to
state that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan.
Saying that would echo what previous US administrations have said.
That's what we always say, It's what Obama said, as
what Biden said with Bush ed we've been saying it
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for many, many, many years, that we don't advocate for
independence of Taiwan, while at the same time sort of
insinuating that if you try to take Taiwan, we're willing
to go to war with you over it anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right, it's really silly diplomatic speak.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
A clear statement of that by a US president would
be welcomed by Beijing, which for his years has accused
Washington of encouraging Taiwan toward independence. Earlier this year, the
State Department altered a web page about Taiwan, removing the
phrase we do not support Taiwan independence, drawing loud complaints
from China that was.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So odd, they are freaking independent. Well, I don't have
your political system. They don't follow your laws. They are independent.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, and we have war games all the time, and
so does Taiwan about keeping them independent. In Japan participants,
in Australia participates. Yeah, so all the diplomatic languages.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, how about that that we took one phrase off
of a website and China, who probably has some guy
whose job it is to monitor that website, Notice the
phrase is missing. The phrase is missing, and then throws
a big fit about the fact that we took that
one phrase off the website. Right, man, how about that
sort of thing. They've so hacked into all our systems,
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they've probably get an alert whenever anything like that happens. Yeah,
I know, I know to Does it have to do
with Asian saving face or something? I don't get their
obsession with that. Who's that for? We do not advocate
for Taiwanese independence?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Just like me saying I do not advocate for the
state of Indiana. But it's there, It's already there.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So I didn't realize until sixty minutes brought it up
the other night about Venezuela one. They've got the world's
largest oil reserves and they have a lot of the
rare earth stuff that China has the world market cornered on.
Is there any chance that some of this sending aircraft
carriers and marines and everything to Venezuela is a signal
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to she that We're going to get our rare earth
stuff one way or another.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So don't think that we're completely beholden to you and
you can just rake us over the coals on any
deal you might want to get something for this, because
we have other options and I'm willing to do it right.
We just signed a giant deal with the Australians too,
and there's been enormous piles of investment on rare earth
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development in the US and amongst our ally. So yeah,
I think that's a great point and exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And President she probably thinks I could see Trump taking Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He probably believes that's on the table as a passive. Yeah,
some sort of regime change is a lot more likely
with our backing, But that's a tough nut to crack too.
The I would love to see it, I just don't
know how it would happen. Yeah, the other thing I
wanted to mention, what's the other thing, I want to
mention is real quickly whill you're thinking about that. The
problem is there's been zero sign of any cracks in
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support from Maduro among the military. And unless you have that,
and maybe maybe our spooks have, uh you know, information
that I don't certainly. But if you don't have that,
you're really you're up against it. You're going to be
fighting a war for a long time. Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I know the other thing I wanted to bring up.
I remember listening to a National Review podcast year or
so ago, and all of the hosts on there, they're
asked the question. And the National Review is a right
wing publication, conservative publication, whatever you want to call Some
people get really worked up about these terms.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
But.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Republican public caad and pretty hawkish usually. And the question was,
if China decides to move on Taiwan, will we go
to war to stop that from happening? And every single
person on the panel said no, no, we're not going
to get involved in a ward to stop Taiwan from
being taken. And that changed my mind on it, because
I thought we were thoroughly committed as a country to
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know that ain't going to happen. But between like that
point of view from some of the biggest Republican thinkers
in America, and Trump supposedly saying.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
If China wants Taiwan, they're going to get Taiwan. Nobody
can stop them, which I think he's probably realistically true.
He got the one of the biggest military powers on
the planet an island one hundred miles from its shore.
If it really wants to take it, how's the rest
of the world going to stop them? Well, we both
read of pieces about simulations, computer simulations of how the
battles would unfold and that sort of thing. That our
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military is run and the best we can do is
slow them down a bit and assemble a giant, multinational
force and hope it gets there in time. Because this
sinus backyard, it's that a front yard, all right. And
our appetite for having soldiers die in great numbers is
not the same as China's. If they lost five thousand
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guys in the pursuit of Taiwan, that'd be nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
If they lost fifty thousand guys, President, she wouldn't blink
an eye. We lose five thousand guys defending it, that'd
be the biggest crisis in forever.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, agreed. Yeah, yes, I'll be interesting to see how
that plays out or if Trump gives any English. According
to The New York Times, she's going to try to
make Taiwan a topic. Trump's going to try to make
it not a topic. So we'll see how that plays out. Yeah,
interesting stuff. May you live in interesting times? Spicy times,
(12:43):
no doubt. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did I need to watch all six hundred and nine
pitches last night? Probably not, But I.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Enjoyed so many pitches, so many pitches, nineteen pitchers, that's crazy.
We got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Insight on when music will well. Sean Diddy Combs could
be out of prison. He's serving a fifty month prison
sentence for interstate prostitution. Federal inmate records now reveal he's
set to be released on May eighth, twenty twenty eight.
Combs has been detained since his arrest in September of
last year. His attorneys say they expect to appeal his sentence.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, so get out in two and a half years.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And I'm glad the rumor didn't come true that Trump
was going to commute his sentence last week. Remember that
rumor was floating around from TMZ.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, yeah, why stop it? So I love Matt Tayebe.
I'm a big fan, even when I disagree with him.
His writing is terrific and he is definitely a man
of the left. He's a liberal as opposed to a progressive,
and he's like Bill Maher who understands that conservatism is
not going to be ruined by the commis. It's going
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to be you know, center leftism in America, and so
he's he's like a real battler against it, which is
kind of cool. He wrote this great piece the other day,
and I want to get to a response to it.
But he's talking about how the upper class lefties are
going for philosophies that are just suicidal, and to quote him,
(14:14):
and that will force actual working class Americans to vote
them out and vote against them out of self preservation.
That the limousine, prep school, elite university, angry lefty crowd
is the last thing the actual working class in America needs.
It's great piece. It's long, as always. Matt is a
(14:34):
man of many words, not few, But he got a
response to that, Calumn, are you a card carrying exceptionalist, Matt,
that you believe this capitalist whorehouse of a country to
be the most benign system for its citizens. Do you
really believe the vitriol you pour on Marxism and its
tenets and how terrible its effects have been in the world,
never mind that it has never once been implemented anywhere. Oh,
(14:58):
that old argument, we haven't really tried real communism. Do
you believe America has been a great force for good
in the world? If Soware and Tayibe, man of the left, says,
let's see defeating the Nazis in Imperial Japan, accepting more
refugees from Nazi Germany than any other country, inventing polio vaccines, chemotherapy,
the Internet, nuclear power, cars, airplanes, movies, radio, electric light,
(15:22):
frozen food, the photograph, both the telephone, cell phones, rock
and roll, jazz and hip hop TV, The Transistor of
the pill, basketball and volleyball, Star Trek and Star Wars.
Four hundred and twenty five Nobel Laureates, Free speech, free press,
freedom of religion, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Moby Did
The Invisible Man, Fear Loathing in Las Vegas, The Panama
Canal Transit, oceanic communication, the poems of Frost, Poe MacLeish,
(15:44):
and Emily Dickinson, personal computers, the assembly Line, landing on
the Moon, rebuilding Europe. Off the top of my head,
I also like mounds bars, teios, and football. But what
do I know? I get it. You read Howard Zinn once.
But if we quote, if we did, what has America
done for the world besides X for real blah blah blah?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, I like, I mean, that's entertaining. I'm not sure
that my argument for why America's good would include Emily
Dickinson's poems. I think it's more about it keeping the
because you're a cad, keeping the world order what it
has been since the end of World War Two, because
somebody has to be the world's policeman, biggest, biggest bully
(16:23):
on the block whatever to keep the world order going.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So billions of people could get lifted out of poverty
because of the functioning of free markets. Yes, that, and
you know, if you want a shortened ad list, free speech,
free press, and freedom of religion is a pretty good
place to start.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, because it would be if not us, and we
might get to live to see this. If not us,
it'll be one of your big communist countries deciding what.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The rules for the world are well and Paul Edwards
the reader who is questioning Matt tayebe hey, dude, in
your system, there will be no free speech, no free press,
and no freedom of religion. Idiot, not to mention, no innovation,
no prosperity, no upward mobility. Idiot. Good God, do you
(17:06):
want to live to be one hundred and ten? I
hope you're rich. Stay tuned for that story, among other things.
On the way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
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cliff at seventy five. It's a population level. It's unmistakable
what happens at the age of seventy five. That's what
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is how do I create an escape velocity that gets
somebody another fifteen years?
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There.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Doctor Peter atya Attiya, however you pronounce his name, was
on sixty minutes on Sunday Night. He's very well known
for some of you because he's written some books that
have sold millions of millions copies about how to get
a little more enjoyment years out of your life.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right, not just prolonging life, but prolonging quality years. I immediately.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Put my hand over my watch in my wallet when
anybody ever starts talking about health stuff, because there's just
a lot of you know, very few people ever want
to come out and just say, well, you got to
eat less and exercise more would be the main way
to lose weight, as opposed to.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I've got a new way that nobody's ever thought of before.
You eat only things that match this paint chip that flows.
It's called beige eating. Only eat things that are beige
at the monochromatic time.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But this guy, I thought that was interesting. Of course,
your mileage may vary. It happens a little earlier for
some people, a little later like my dad for some people,
but in general, at seventy five you just go off
a cliff, and he wants to extend.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That out a little further.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Not your lifespan, but the years that you can actually
do stuff and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Right. Yeah, I'll hold my takeaway from that segment back.
I don't want to see everybody's thunder.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Here's Norah O'Donnell from sixty minutes talking to the doctor.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
And so is your goal to minimize or essentially erase
that marginal decade the.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Marginal decade's not going anywhere. We will all have a
final decade of life. My goal is to make the
marginal decade as enjoyable as possible. The way I explain
it to my patients is that last ten to fifteen
of your years, if you don't do anything about it,
you will fall to a level of about fifty percent
of your total capacity cognitively, physically.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
And when people hear that, you're like, I don't want
to be that. That's not how I want to spend
the last decade of my life.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
A lot of people respond that way as though they're
hearing this for the first time, although if you ask them,
haven't you seen people in this state, they'll say, well, yeah,
I guess I.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Have, likely their own relatives, sure, their run parents. Even well,
I am fairly functional on my best day, So you know,
fifty percent of that oo that's getting down there? Yeah, hey, iikes.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That is a funny aspect of human beings that even
though we most of us experience it with family members
or whatever, we feel like it's not going to happen
to us or something.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's yes, yeah, I don't. I don't have that old
guy attitude. I'm not going to be somewhat stooped over
and complain about arth.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Right, or we're and this is a slightly different topic,
but not completely. I was talking to a guy last
night who's a friend of mine, and he's dealing with his.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Mom's final years and how they're going to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Deal with it, and just that stat that I always
think about, where like ninety eight percent of people say
they want to die at home, ninety eight percent of
people don't die at home, right, And.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, for a variety of reasons. But anyway, let's hear
a little more of this before we discuss go on.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I think this is the neglected part of medical testing
is how fit are you?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
How strong are you?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
How well do you move and up overhead?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And in many ways these tests are even more predictive
of how long you're going to live than what I might.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Get out of your blood work.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
How do we know that?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
The data are pretty clear when you look at things
like cardio respiratory fitness, when you look at muscle mass,
when you look at strength, they have a much higher
association than things like even cholesterol and blood pressure.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
You think anyone whether they're forty five or sixty five
should be training like athletes, not for the Olympics, but
essentially for advanced age.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Absolutely, life is a sport ain thing of that idea.
I didn't hear anything that he said that contradicted things
that I've learned through the years about how to age well,
having to do with strength and flexibility and various measures.
The guy just struck me as a really high end,
(21:44):
extremely thorough personal trainer with a medical background. You hear
a lot of faux medical crap, and that seemed to
be just I mean, essentially, he's going to turn you
into an Olympic athlete. Some of the exercise regimens and
tests they were gonna do it all. How could they
not help you live longer? It looked like an enormous
(22:05):
amount of work. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
One of the reviews of one of his books, his
work has exploded in popularity amid the longevity boom, but
he stresses evidence over hype, urging people to train seriously
for vibrant old age rather than chasing quick fixes, which
was what I was talking about earlier. The crawl like
a dog exercise or whatever, the new things.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, and I know a couple of people who fly
to like South American capitals to get various infusions. You
know people who do that, Yes, infusions of what one
guy in particular, I can't remember exactly, the blood of
a thirteen year old, blood of a tamon serum, the
(22:47):
plasma of the jaguar. I don't know exactly. Do you
know people who fly to other countries, Yes, to get infusions.
The guy is super into the anti aging thing, like
you know less about doctor Atilla, who again struck me
as a lot more legit than ninety percent of what
I hear about this stuff. But yeah, he's super into it.
He believes that. He's a very smart guy. He's been
(23:08):
very successful, although you know, one sort of success doesn't
necessarily translate to good judgment in another way. But he's
a lovely guy.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
But if you got a lot of money, what are
you going to spend your money on that's better than
trying to have more enjoyable years of your life? And well,
you know, if there's a five percent chance that works,
if you've got a lot of money, it makes more
sense to do that than without cow which we were
talking about early exactly, you were talking about this four
hundred and fifty six thousand dollars chair and a what
(23:38):
was the name of that? Again, you can take the
boy out of the working class, but you can't take
the work. And oh here it is a Jeanreer type
sofa for a million dollars. It makes sense to me
completely that we are designed to continue to work our
(23:59):
minds and bodies, and then as soon as we stop,
they just decide, well, I guess, I guess we're.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Done, right, right, I think it just it helps to
remind yourself over and over again. You are an animal.
You are a biological being, no different than beavers. Beavers
don't have long, happy retirements. Look at my teeth where
they sit. Are those dentures beaver dentures? They look totally natural.
(24:27):
They don't look at you. I brought down a sapling yesterday.
Good man, you gotta stay in jap No. But the
invention of a I have reproduced. I have raised my
young I have functioned as the village elder, and now
I'm just I play golf and I watch movies. That
doesn't exist in the animal world. We invented that, right,
(24:48):
So you got to think about, all right, what is
every other beast doing? Well, it's alive, it stays active.
You've got to stay active. I believe that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I don't want to be annoying works out guy. So
I probably shouldn't say this very I done, But I
go to the gym every single day, and I feel better.
I feel better now than I felt when I was forty.
I'm twenty years older than that.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I'm way more uh in every way, feel better from
uh exercising regularly. I hope I can keep it up.
I probably can't. Like I said earlier, I'm doing it
only out of vanity. It can't hurt. No, it can't hurt.
I'm just worried about when, you know, like I said,
I finally get a mate.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'll just I'll become a you know, Jim Schmim. Huh,
Let's watch TV and that's all the way over. On
the other side, I'm gonna immediately go from going to
the gym every day to watching TV eating bowls of pudding.
That's the transition will be very seamless.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Riding around the grocery store on a rascal right exactly,
didn't I used to see you at the gym? Maybe
at it all by way? Wow? Wow, No, I'm from
predicting my future. There, your new bow is gonna sue
for fraud. Anyway, I thought that was I thought that
was a damn interesting story. Just the idea of looking
(26:06):
at extending the enjoyable years the whole your your body
and mind drops off fifty percent after seventy five.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And in a similar vein the one medical story that's
caught my ear lately and really made an impression is
that study after study is coming back saying staying physically
active is good for your brain, for Vans, Alzheimer's and
that sort of thing. It's just it's undeniable. Jerry Seinfeld's
big on that.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
He says that's why he lifts weights is because all
the studies that show how what it does for your brain.
So that's good too, because my brain answered, hot, I
got it. I'm so damn lazy, I gotta get it
at anyway.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
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Speaker 3 (26:55):
How about how many times show hey, Tani will end
up on base? If you had more than eight? Yes,
you were right nine. Holy crap.
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Speaker 3 (27:52):
To admit I was rooting for Toronto even though I'm
wearing a Dodger's hat. Will relive the big Giant ending
home run that happened in the middle of the night
briefly when we come back, among other things, to hear.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Marshy swig and a high flyve wall center field car
show back near the wall at the track.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Pretty Freemid, Oh run to center field. Freemid locks it
up in the eighteenth Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
One of the reasons the announcers didn't get immediately excited
like you usually hear when there's a big hit, because
there's been like five.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
It's like that that got caught at the wall because
everybody is waiting for that game to end. It's deep,
it's deep, and they catch it with six inches to go,
so they waited to see what it actually left. Freaking show.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Heyo, Tony got them based nine times. He spends more
time trying to fix his hair just the way he
wants it than most athletes.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You see, I've noticed it's very boyish and uh teen treay. Yeah,
he gets it just right. Maybe that's the key to
his success. Well, it doesn't hurt, and he's nine times
and he's the starting pitcher tonight. Yeah, it's just incredible.
They're gonna have to wheel himunta on a wheelchair. He's
so tired unbelievable anyway, so wanted to get to this
(29:10):
squeeze it in almost forgot great reporting by Steve Williams.
He posted it at RedState dot com. We can't get
to the whole thing, so we'll post it at Armstrong
and Getty dot com under hot links. LA's latest housing scandal,
the homeless industrial Complex unbelievable, he writes. The recent federal
(29:33):
arrests tied to a senior housing project have exposed a
pattern in a series of earlier transactions quietly approved by
the City of La. Key to this scheme is the
twenty twenty two purchase of four Extended Stay America hotels
from Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm. These acquisitions,
totally more than one hundred and eighty million dollars were
financed through Project Home key Gavin Newsom's California Pandemic here
(29:56):
a program to convert hotels into homeless housing, but analysis
shows the city was not addressing homelessness. They sit almost empty. Instead,
it created a real estate windfall for politically connected developers
and what of Wall Street's most powerful landlords. The four
Extended State properties were sold for staggering amounts far far
(30:17):
above market value. Wow. Each was bought from Blackstone, which
it acquired the Extended State America brand in twenty twenty
one through adventure Blah blah blah. Less than a year later,
Blackstone was cashing out of its LA holdings, not to
private investors, but to city hall, flush with emergency homeless funds.
According to records, each purchase included architectural fees, zoning, CEQA reviews,
(30:42):
environmental assessments, and a two percent administrative fee, all build
to taxpayers, totally more than four point two million dollars
in added costs besides the incredibly bloated prices. Three years later,
most of these hotels remain largely empty. They're part of
a growing portfolio of home key funded properties that have
failed to house significant numbers of homeless residents despite costing
(31:05):
taxpayers billions. Then he writes sound familiar because it is.
Back in August, I reported how Torrance officials stopped La
County from spending thirty million dollars on a hotel valued
at just ten million dollars, a near copy of the
scheme the City of La ran three years earlier. The
steps were nearly identical. Find a hotel inflate its value,
(31:26):
declare an emergency purchase using homelessness funds, moved taxpayer money
quickly before anyone asks questions. But the problem was the
City of Torrance is run by Republicans, and suspecting that
the county's price was inflated, the city commission an independent
third party appraisal which confirmed that the true value was
not thirty million dollars, it was ten million dollars. Under
(31:49):
public scrutiny, the deal collapsed with the Republican led city
government preventing another multi multimillion dollar misuse of public funds.
And he goes into describing of how it's all built
on secrecy. Secrecy, everything moves quickly, the figures are never
known to the public. Project home Key was designed for speed,
not scrutiny. Cities are allowed to bypass competitive bidding and
(32:11):
public hearings if they labeled their purchases emergency acquisitions.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
God, how did the Bernie crowd get away with the
tax the rich rich not paying their for fair share
all the time without ever getting into this stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
This is where the money is, Bernie AOC. You want
more money for all the stuff you care about? This
is where it is, right right, absolutely true. And you
know what really pisses me off is that the media,
they have completely lost their taste for finding and disclosing
government waste or lavish programs like this because they're all
(32:50):
generated by the left, and so they think, well, homelessness
is a terrible problem. I don't want to be seen
as criticized them. I mean, they may have overpaid a little,
but it was an emergency, after all, after all, architect fees,
It's already existed for a very long time. I'm sure
it's fine.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And hack Law, which is the acronym for the uh
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, acts as
broker administrator, handles all the transactions internally, then builds the
city for staffing and overhead millions and millions of dollars.
You know, this reminds me of how much time I got, Michael,
depends on how you kept Now we got three minutes, okay,
(33:31):
So similar to this.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I heard this story twice over the weekend, just coincidentally,
from people that work in schools in California. How much
food they're wasting at their school. Somebody brought it up,
and then another person because.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
During the pandemic somebody was able to jam through the no, no,
everybody should get breakfast and lunch. It used to be
just like need based, and then somebody decided the crisis
now everybody. And so it continued after the pandemic's over,
as these programs always do. And these teachers, who I
assume are probably lefties, were horrified by how much food
(34:07):
they're throwing away every day. They said, like half the kids.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Bring their own lunch, or don't eat lunch or breakfast
or show up. They eat breakfast at home.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And they make all of these meals for every single
kid in the school, breakfast and lunch, and most of
them they throw away. And I wanted to say to them,
but I didn't want to jump into the story. The
spending is the point. It's not about anybody getting any food.
It's about spending money. And it's the same with this
homeless thing. When will liberals understand the spending is the point,
(34:36):
not fixing your causes that you care about. You know
Steve Williams who wrote this article, you read his mind
or vice versa. He writes every wasted dollars one that
could have gone toward mental health treatment, addiction recovery, job, training,
new housing construction. Instead, those dollars slowed to brokers, bureaucrats
and Blackstones balance sheet. And then then he points out
to your point. When the leaders of Torrance rejected these
(35:00):
thirty million dollar extended state proposal, they were immediately hammered
with accusations being anti homeless, right, or insensitive to the
almlessness problem? Mean conservatives? Yeah, like, I assume these teachers
can come up with all kinds of places that money
ought to be spent, whether it's books or whatever. The
hell tutors to make education better. Raise your hand and say, hey,
(35:23):
we're throwing away food like crazy. This program was designed,
probably by the Department of Agriculture, just to get money
flowing various places. It had nothing to do with feeding anybody.
How do you not get this right? Invent an emergency, appropriate, appropriate,
just wildly excessive amounts of money, and then accuse anybody
(35:45):
who calls you on it of being anti child, or
anti homeless, or islamophobic or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
The first person I heard say this, Norah Rothman, wrote
this in the National Review.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
It's such a great line. The spending is the point. Yes,
with all of these things, you get so far off
track if you start thinking about solving a problem. There
is no problem. The spending is the point. People get
this money place Stacy Abrams getting one point eight billion
dollars or whatever it was for green inner city initiatives.
My ass was just a handout.
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