December 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack is ill, the economy, farmers & 6-7
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Australia social media ban & Canada's assisted suicide
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And now he.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Arms live from Studio C See Senior, A dimly led
room deep with them the Bowels and the Armstrong and
Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And hey, y'all, on Tuesday, we call it Little Wednesday
around here. We're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Kiss and Gloria Gaynor. What now Trump's Kennedy Center honors
honoring our greatest entertainers and contributors to our cultures? Singled
(00:52):
out the band Kiss, Gloria Gaynor, and I can't remember
somebody else, Charles Bronson, George Strait. Oh that's right, George Straight.
I knew it was somebody very traditionally in heart Landy.
God bless George Straight. Not everything he's done for the country.
Oh so you wanted to you always wanted to be
the liberal elite and not people that regular people like. Okay, fine,
(01:13):
that's right, that's I would prefer the liberal elite. Yes, no, oh,
I just find that such an interesting combination. Kissing Gloria
Gainer hilarious. Em how y'all doing just terrific. How are you, emil?
But what are you going to do? I went to
the doctor last night. They put me on antibotics. Now,
(01:33):
so now a month of my antibotic you gotta take
four times a day. Woof. For some reason, my wife
is just coming down with something. She's in this acapella choir.
Their members are dropping like flies. It's the season. Yeah,
things are going around. I am Mike. Colds often turned
into an infection for whatever reason. The hanger I am
(01:55):
somebody like that in the olden days, I would have
died young. I think it would have just turned into
an affection. In fact, and I would have died. He
was always sickly because for whatever reason, my body just
doesn't fight off colts anymore. Anyway, whatever, maybe it's my
all donut diet. Oh lookout, lookout coughing fit the gout below.
So I was just actually reading reading the Mark Alpern
(02:18):
morning newsletter every day, and I really enjoy it. And
he's quoting a bunch of people. Trump's given a speech
tonight in Pennsylvania. He's going on the road. He's going
to do his Trump style tours all over America. You
know his rallies today he hasn't done for a very
long time, all about trying to convince people that he
(02:39):
cares about their economic pain and he wants to do
something about it. And Halprin's writing that. See if you
agree or not that of all the times in the
past decade people have declared Trump dead from various this, that, misstep,
political wins, whatever, this time he might actually be done
(03:05):
as a political force if he can't turn around the perception,
at least right now by lots of people, including lots
of Republicans, that he's not doing enough for the economy
or doesn't care enough, or doesn't understand right. Yeah, I would,
I would agree with that assessment. It is so fundamental,
just in a couple of ways. Number One, on an
(03:27):
individual basis, your your financial you know, either comfort or fear,
because really those are the two emotions we all have
about our finances, right, either comfortable or afraid. And if
people are feeling that fear, nothing else matters. And so yeah,
(03:47):
if I think his messaging, the administration's messaging on economics
has been horrible, horrible, well since inauguration day, Yeah, I
mean that's just the in general. If you get to
a specific of last week where he said inflation is
a democratic hoax or affordability that that is rough. That
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is rough, and a lot of his long time supported
of no matter what, Josh Holley of Missouri, and lots
of we're like, whoa dude, No, Yeah, you know, he's
long been bad at explaining anything more complex than one sentence.
And the approach he the administration needed to take was, look,
(04:35):
here's how inflation works. Those prices are way up. There
are a few we might be able to bring down.
What we're gonna try, like crazy to do is stop
them from rising much more. We're gonna throw everything we've
got into stopping prices rising much more. But it's gonna
take six months to a year. Hang with us. We're
gonna bust our asses to do this for you. There
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was none of that, None of that. Yeah plus plus
be easier to do if you hadn't run around saying
you're going to bring prices down, and people who don't
understand the way inflation works thought that would actually happen. Well, right, yeah,
that's a trap of your own making. Not to mention
the tariffs, which are a massive tax they have not
had hugely disruptive effects yet, but they are. The effects
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are being felt throughout the economy. They're just more subtle
than a lot of economists expected. He announced a giant,
multi billion dollar farmer bailout yesterday to help them deal
with the tariffs. It's the messaging's a little complicated there also, obviously,
if you're claiming American citizens don't pay tariffs but on
a whole bunch of different industries, you've either gotten rid
(05:40):
of the tariffs because the price of coffee was so high,
or you're given a whole bunch of money to farmers
because the tariffs are affecting them. Kind of works counter
to your this doesn't come back to cost the American
tax payer money claim. I think the effect the tariffs
are having on farmers is mostly it's the trade war.
(06:01):
Although you know, there are equipment costs and that sort
of thing arising too, but it's mostly Chinese retaliation that
I think this bothering the farmers. But anyway, it's all related,
you know, And I don't want to just bash Trump
because we need to have harasslin match with China over
trade policy. Need it very very much. That relationship has
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been way out of whack for decades now. But it's
a tough road, no doubt, and it's got to be handled.
Back to the messaging thing, it's got to be handled
with a little sensitivity and skill understanding. You know, leading
your people through difficult times is real leadership. And there
are a bunch of examples of a three history those
who've done a good job, whether it's war or economic
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bad times or look, we've got to go through a
period of austerity to straighten out our budget. Here's why
we're doing it. You've got to be with me on this.
It's not been great lately. Well, no one, neither party
has any interest in that sort of thing. True. Yeah,
when inflation really spiked there during COVID, after we spend
(07:05):
all those trillions of dollars, that was so much worse
and so much bigger a story than people even appreciated.
Then the media covered it because they bought into the
Joe Biden thing as transitory or not that big a
deal or whatever. Everybody in the country took a giant
pay cut forever and had a giant chunk of our
(07:26):
savings appropriated by the government as well. And it doesn't
go away confiscated brutal, absolutely brutal, and whoever ended up
president after that was gonna was gonna be stuck with
those prices and have to, you know, deal with the
as we all get more and more weary, continue to
be weary every time we go out to either go
to the grocery store or do whatever we're gonna do,
(07:48):
so the you know, the the classic explanation of what
Trump and company are doing with these rallies is that
prior to the midterms, they want to get the word
out that, hey, we're on your side. We're working as
hard as we can to know, straighten out the economy
and lower inflation stuff like that, which is good. Those
are really really good messages. Is it too little, too late?
Is the question? Can a bunch of rallies sway people
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at Oh he does get it? I don't know. We'll see.
And you know, there are plenty of events that will
intervene between now and the midterms too. This is where
the politics doesn't work on me anyway, just because because
just because a politician goes out and says I care
about you and your problem with X doesn't work on me.
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I need to hear some sort of policy that's gonna
have some effect me. I don't the whole Bill Clinton,
I feel your pain. I know it works on millions
of people, it doesn't work on me. Whatever, you, politician,
Well that's a nice handshake, but all right, what do
you got for me? The compassion thing is not useless.
But that's just the that's just the opening word. Now
what happens to me. I'm very cynical about politicians in there.
(08:53):
Throw on your barn jacket, staying on a baila hey,
and tell me how much you care about my life. Whatever,
Get the f out of here, right right. Tell you
that's the spirit. Um. But I'll be interesting to see
what Trump says tonight at the speech if he dials
back the whole all this is a hoax thing, which
is probably a good idea because it's not a hoax.
Well end up, god Scott, he's so incapable of.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Explaining it tough.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
If you want to say, blaming me for the price
of meat in the grocery store right now is a hoax.
It went up under Biden. We're trying to hold the
line here, but I haven't even heard an explanation that good.
It's a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax. What is well?
(09:35):
Hopefully when we're at war with Venezuela, all this will
be forgotten. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's jojetting. I'm wearing a Santa hat again today helps
me feel better. My son took the good Santa hat.
We got a good Santa Hattan, a cheap, crappy Santa hat.
I'm wearing the cheap, crappy Santa hat. Probably made in China.
They don't care about Santa. That's Tuesday, December night with
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a wigers exactly, probably made with slave labor. This Santa
at so here twenty twenty five, where I'm strong and getting.
We approve of this program. All right, let's begin officially then,
according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at mark,
Are you actually well? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Taking sixty seven ho So, whenever we're taking orders, they
go sixty six to sixty eight because of people like you.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Because of people like you. That's the nice girl at
the in and out Burger where they had to stop
having sixty seven as a number because then I've actually
seen this in my own real life. You get a
bunch of young people come in and they realize that
it's at like fifty two or whatever the number they're
calling out. They all do an individual order of like
(10:40):
one thing. I'll get a milkshake, I would like a fry,
I would like whatever. To get through enough numbers to
get it up to sixty seven so they can all
cheer like crazy when they call out sixty seven. This
is so strange, and we talked about this before the show.
As a guy with grown kids, I have no experience
of this in real life none. But for a lot
(11:04):
of the population, it's like omnipresent, right, oh, abso frequent. Anyway,
my brother, who works for the city, was talking about
how he constantly works it in with his boss just
to annoy him. Wow. My parents, who are grandparents of
my kids, just became aware of the whole sixty seven
phenomenon and were somewhat confused by it. Explain it to someone,
(11:26):
you have to say, it doesn't make any sense, so
don't try to figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
It is. It is a fad without a fad. If
you want to see the I mean, go on YouTube.
You can look for any sports game in the country,
any high school basketball game when a team hit sixty seven.
Crowd goes wild. Oh my god, I just say, we're
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easily amused as an understatement. Well, that's the thing, it seems.
And again, I don't want to be bitter old guy
shouting at clouds, but it is so devoid of any
substance whatsoever. It seems like the sort of thing that
would entertain like a severely mentally retarded Wow person, Wow,
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I mean just fascination with the combination of numbers. There's
nothing there. You haven't revealed your baby name, Katie, but
you might have to consider six seven. I'm I'm just say,
with the babies being born, if you want to murder him, Katie,
I won't say a word thank you. I'll hang to
the god. The kid's six pounds seven ounces. I had thought,
oh my god, well that would be just the weight
(12:33):
and it has no significant The doctor would come in
and say, here's your baby.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It's six seven, and then I would knock that doctor
the f out. I am praying that this trend is
gone by the time my kid is old enough to
figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, well, the war in Venezuela will wipe this all
from our memory. We do need to talk about that,
as we had quite quite the military exercises yesterday, and
so did Venezuela, as they're prepared for our invasion and
are vowing to fight to the last man to defend
their socialist utopia. Yes. Uh so, we got Katie's headlines
on the way, lots of news to get you up on.
Our text line is four one five two ftc our
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goal needs to be interesting as always, just need stuff
that's interesting. Who freaking cares if it's got anything to
do with the news of day. This actually kind of
has something to do with the news of the day.
I've got a stat for you out of Canada around
their euthanasia that's mind blowing. Oh yeah, good. Good for
a discussion. So we'll have to get to that at
some point. Yeah, I'm delighted to do that. We can
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talk about ideas all day long and ignore the news
if you'd like. I'm one hundred percent on board. That's
probably a poor lead into this feature. It's the case
reporting one. Hey, thanks, we could story with Katie Green Katie,
go ahead, No, nobody wants your crap, but go ahead, Jai, Katie.
Somebody sent me this. Okay, this is my This is
(13:56):
my step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Wow, child's depressing joke.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
All right, Well, the boat strike's at the top. So
we've got three of the top headlines on that. From ABC.
Lawmakers move to compel heg seth to release military video
of September second boat strike. Politico Congress to withhold Pentagon
travel funds until it sees the.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Boat strike video. Wow. And from watching the Republican dominated Congress. Yeah,
and the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Trump says heg set will decide whether to release the
boat by boat strike video.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That is something I didn't hear that about Congress saying
we're gonna yank your funds. Show us the damn video.
There's no there's no excuse for not releasing that video. Yeah, well,
it's there's something going on here. They're the easiest, easiest
thing to do is just say, here's the video. Look
at it. It's like all those videos there, you go,
(14:56):
are we done here? That would be the easy thing
to Acquiren't they doing the easy thing now? It's not
to protect methods and sources or whatever else.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
From Newsweek. Trump now open to drug strikes on Mexico
and Colombia Mexico.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Wow, that's getting pretty close to home.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
From BBC, Ukraine prepares for new peace plan as Zelensky
rules out giving up any Land.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I have no idea where this is going. More grinding
war probably, and Trump is more or less saying yeah,
we're pulling out a funding Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
We'll see for the Wall Street Journal, an unusually divided
FED is expecting to deliver a rate cut.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh are they okay? Quarter point and then say that's
it for a long time, so don't ask for anymore.
We'll see they're a little troubled. Inflation is still as
as it is. You're a mean one.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Mister from NBC Australia launches youth social media ban as
it says it will be the world's first. They're deactivating
over a million accounts for anyone under the age of sixteen.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Well, it'll be interesting to see how that well that works.
I don't know how how functionally, how well it worked
to stop kids for big on social media. Of course,
if it's a lot harder to get to and there's
not as much around, fewer people are on it, it'll
have less appeal. I think it's an experiment. Well, worth trying? Sure,
why not?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
From the New York Post, RFK Junior and Sean Duffy
have a pull up competition while touting a one billion
dollar bid to add mini gyms and healthier food options
at airports.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You're like the only two guys over forty in America
that can do pull ups and you're just very happy
about that at an airport.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
At an airport, RFK did twenty, Defy did ten And
finally from the Babylon Bittie.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Pull ups is what is he?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Seventy unbelievable roids from the Babylon be elan Omar argues
she should be able to stay in the horrible country
that she hates so much.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, no kidding, you need to shout ut yeah, shut up, Illin,
We'll catch you up on more news of the day.
There's some interesting stuff out there, I promise you and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Any new law is set to take effect this week
in Australia to keep children under sixteen on social media,
which means millions of children in Australia will finally put
their phones down, go outside, get bit by something and.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I should have given them any bad That's an excellent
Australia is full of nasty animals. Joke. It is. My
niece just spent a whole summer there doing a medical
internship and there's all kinds of crazy spiders and crap.
There they got snakes, there's the frogs that will kill you.
It's insane. But just so Katie had that in her headlines,
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the idea that Australia is going to try banning social
media for teens. How will they go about doing that?
Do they have any different control over their Internet than
we do here in the United States where the government
can step in or is it the ridiculous click this
if you're eighteen to prove that you're eighteen. Yeah, I
don't recall reading anything about the mechanics of it. I
(18:28):
think it might just be really harshly enforced regulations to
make sure the social media companies themselves check ages and
stuff that's worth looking into, because whether the stuff works
or not is of concern. I think to virtually everybody,
as the Internet is ruining children, ruining our children, no doubt,
you'll get no argument out of me.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yes, Katie, I'm seeing that they're going to use quote
age assurance tech like facial facial scans.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And ID checks. That's interesting because you have to.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Get your idea over there apparently by the time you're sixteen,
so they're going to have you scan your ID.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Show it's not bad because I like, the only thing
we have in the United States I think so far
is porn, and it's you know, click this if you're eighteen.
If you're not eighteen, don't click yes, which is silly,
but if you had to show your driver's license or idea.
So of course, who wants to put their ID into
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a porn site? Probably not a lot of people. Your
kid who's porn addicted grabs yours awesome for instance. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know, but yeah, like you said, I have
no problem with them trying. For whatever reason, my boys
are not interested in social media stuff, but there's plenty
of other things on the Internet that they do and
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spend a lot of time on that is awful. They just,
for whatever reason, they don't care about the social stuff.
This is a bit of a tangent, but it's a
bunch of stuff we've talked about already so far kind
of coming together in my head. And one thing we've
become very bad at politically are politicians and just as
a people is understanding if you let a problem go
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past a certain point, if you let it grow, fixing
it is going to be painful, and everybody acts as
if well undergoing the pain of say, budget cuts and
serious welfare reforms and the rest of it is unfair.
How dare you do that to me? Or you know
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it's going to cause a lot of stress in families,
detoxing kids from their social media addictions. That's why you
nip things in the bud, as they say. Anyway, Moving
from Australia, where they speak English, to Canada, where they
speak English, a different former colony of Great Britain, they
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have set a new record with their killing people through euthanasia.
I didn't realize Canada is approaching the ten year mark
of practicing legalized the assistant suicide man. Time goes by
when you get older, but they've been at it for
almost ten years now. A total of sixteen four hundred
and ninety nine people let's call it seventeen thousand people
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were put to death by euthanasia last year. That's one
in twenty deaths. According to many estimates in the entire
country were euthanasia now the largest jump in numbers came
from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. For some reason, there
was almost a forty percent jump that year. COVID it
is slowed down. People killing themselves because they have COVID. Well, no,
(21:36):
because they're depressed in the freaking leftist government locked them
down and wouldn't let them do the things human beings
need to do to be happy. The increases have slowed.
It'll take more years to determine, you know, how many
what percentage of population's actually interested in this in any
given time. U There's a lot of interesting stuff in here.
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About four percent of people who were approved for assistance suicide.
Just the idea that you apply to a government building
to whether or not somebody is going to kill me
at my wish, and they determine whether or not I
get to I find abhorrent. The whole thing's pretty abhorrent.
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In the real world, a bunch of bureaucrats in a
building are going to decide whether or not I get
to kill myself or not. The hell is that anyway,
About four percent of the people who were approved for
assistant suicide did not have a terminal diagnosis or reasonable
reasonably foreseeable death. Nearly twenty three percent of people overall
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reported isolation or loneliness as their main reason for seeking euthanasia.
I'm lonely, so i'd like to die. I'd like the
government to come kill me. And whether you're looking at
the say the bullet Trainer, a thousand other government programs.
The numbers have turned out to be way, way, way
way bigger than the legislators said they would be when
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they passed this thing a decade ago. They said it'd
be extremely rare. There'd just be a few people every year,
in the most miserable of circumstances. It's the merciful thing
to do. A lot of people said, yeah, I get that,
it's their life, it's their choice, okay, And the numbers
have just exploded, and the guidelines have gotten looser and
looser and more and more vague. Well, how do you
(23:27):
square this with some sort of libertarian personal freedom? If
I want to kill myself, I should be able to
kill myself. Thing. I still don't have the right name
for this principle. You impose a limit so you achieve
a different limit. My favorite is the speed limit. The
(23:47):
speed limits seventy not so everybody who goes seventy, but
so nobody goes ninety outlaw prostitution, so there's not prostitution everywhere.
It exists, but it's limited by that other limit and
the suicide thing, euthanasia thing you say, no, no way
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in a society, So only those who are really, really,
really serious about it end up going that route. Because
Canada has proven if you make it, you know, fairly
easy and an official procedure and everybody knows how to
do it, the numbers explode far beyond what you thought
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they would. It's like the the you know, legalizing pot
or whatever. I remember thinking and hearing people say, you know,
pot is easy enough to get even though it's illegal
right now, we don't expect to see any significant growth
in pot use if it's legalized. That turned out to
be completely wrong. Our growing concerns is eligibility for this
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program is expected to expand next year to people whose
underlying condition is mental illness, and they joy House of
Common Senate committees recommend extending it to mature miners from
just a dull my lord mature miners as a god okay,
or a Wellian phrase that makes me want to go militant. Well,
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it's like the progressives who think a twelve year old
can consent to life altering chemical treatments and surgeries. That's it, sure, miners.
What a great Orwellian phrase. So the government's gonna decide
whether this sixteen year old is mature enough to be
considered an eighteen year old. Let me guess a lot
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of the times you're gonna say yes if it's you know,
for the program that you created. Wow, this depressed sixteen
year old is really articulate, and that brought us some
evidence from other countries they're a mature miner, and so
I think we ought to let that sixteen year old
kill themselves. In fact, we're going to help. I'm telling you,
(25:54):
I don't know exactly how to articulate this. As a
lover of liberty, but unless you are going to let
people fully carry the weight of all of their choices,
you know, eliminate the welfare state for everybody but the
most miserable among us, you know. And there's a dozen
(26:15):
examples of what you would have to do. But we
need limits. It's clear, we need guidelines as human beings.
Otherwise crazy stuff takes root and you get these social
contagions and they're just unhealthy. It's the balance is tough.
I'm not saying it's easy, man. You expand it to
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I mean, it's already really disturbing the idea of eighteen, nineteen,
twenty year olds being able to make this lifetime decision.
You expand it to fifteen sixteen year olds or whatever
they're planning to do. God, that's horrifying. One out of
twenty deads is people killing themselves. That ain't normal. Do
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you think throughout the history of mankind that percentage of
people killed themselves? Of course not. Now that's insane Canada,
all of our hardware programming, all right, we need something.
We need a mood changer of some sort of Michael,
I don't know what it'd be. I transition music or
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have any wacky audio or something. The electric pan of
the saxophone jazzy drums just went in. This is cheerful
enough to even rescue a Canadian from their suicidal impulses.
(27:39):
You know, no, no, I whoops, I screwed up. You
know what. I was gonna go down to the hospital,
but I'm gonna clip on a hockey game, grab myself
a Molson like my COOOKI Canadian hat. I enjoy my
life a little now that I've heard this music. Yeah,
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Sam Waltman made up giant announcement yesterday in the direction
of the company Huge, So I'll talk about that. Just
seeing them money at football last night? Man that the
fourth quarter in overtime? Wow? Was that something? With defending
(29:27):
Super Bowl champs losing on an interception at the very
end of the game to the Sorry I called them
the San Diego Chargers, Yes, chargers, it's an obscenity. I'd
rather hear the F word on the air than the
phrase Los Angeles Chargers discussing. Man, that was a fun game. No,
I didn't see a second of it, unfortunately. H And
speaking of the kids and tech and that sort of thing,
(29:48):
how do you like this headline? We gave students laptops
and took away their brains. Decades of data show a
clear pattern the more schools digitize the worst students perform.
That doesn't surprise me at all. Correlation or causation, We'll
take a look at it. I'm leaning causation. Okay, timing suspicious,
(30:11):
So yeah, we'll see. Oh my gosh, I saw another graphic.
I'll explain it to you. I think again pretty effectively
about how Americans spend their time from oh boy, the
early twentieth century to now. Is this going to make
me want to move to Canada and buy a rope
and a creaky stool. No, no, that's not how they
do it up there anyway. But uh no, but it
(30:32):
may motivate you to join Joe Getty's new back to
the woods fundamentalist civilization that I'm gonna found. Okay, cool,
I'm gonna be like the Amish, but with like cocktails.
I want to hear that the Omish with cocktails. I
want to hear that an hour or two. We got
mail bag on the way next day. Here. The long
(30:54):
and short of it is, probably the leading AI company
in the world has decided, Yeah, we're gonna put off
the trying to get to AI superintelligence for a while,
which is, you know, pretty big news. We'll talk about
that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Love this one as wise as as it is simple,
simple as it is wise from the great tim of Sowel.
(31:19):
What exactly is your fair share of what someone else
has worked for?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
So obviously true question. You've been asking for many years
that rich need to pay their fair share? Okay, what's
that share? How much you tell me? Currently they're funding
everything practically, so what would be fair? What exactly is
your fair share of what someone else has worked for?
That's great, Mailbag. If you would like to correspond to,
(31:46):
please do email addresses. Mailbag at Armstrong Egeddy dot com,
mail bag at Armstrongyiety dot com. Jeff Listener from Day
one Rights. I'm disappointed in Katie. Your headline yesterday from
the backbon Bee husband issues travel ban on any structurerom
Amazon was good, but she missed this one. How could
she Nigerian prince scammed by Somali immigrants. Oh, that's pretty funny.
(32:11):
That is pretty good. That's a funny joke. I will
not hear Katie called into question our skittles. Thank you.
I think that one might have come up later in
the day. Yeah, I think it probably did. Yeah. Oh,
let's see, I had learned to hug people rights, I'll
say anonymous listen to podcast Jack said he'd rather get
(32:35):
in a fight than fistfight than hug someone. I shouted yes.
When I left home and moved to California at the
age of eighteen, I was very confused by all the hugging.
I felt like people were constantly hugging say hello, goodbye,
or just because, and I hated it. I really had
to observe other people and just bite the bullet to
fit in. Handshakes are so underrated. And then she mentioned
that she married into a family of huggers and kissers egad,
(32:58):
but learned to adjust. Well, okay, that's that's a different situation.
You're married into a family of huggers, then you gotta
But before that, I feel no need to fit in.
So uh. And then this is my favorite part. I
will never initiate a hug, but I'll go along if
it's clear the other person wants to hug, unless it's
a man I don't know well and I think he's
just moving into cop of feel. Then he gets the cold,
(33:18):
hard handshake of death. Ladies, I'm telling you, I know guys,
like this. I've known my whole life. Lots of them
are huggers because they want to hug young women. That's
why they're huggers. Oh man, I just find that so
off putting. I do too. Uh yeah, if yes, if
I'm yes, you're you are a young woman, so you
should weigh in. Well. Just a tip for hugging a guy.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Always hug down around their waist so they can't do
that creepy rubbing along your hip line move.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Of course, is their arm to go up? Is that
a thing?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
She many Christmas See, it's funny. I have enjoyed nothing
more in my life, I think than being inside the
zone of intimacy with the females. It does have its pauses.
Uh yeah, yeah, very big fan of that. But the
idea of being in that zone like uninvited, Yeah, horrifies me.
(34:15):
Oh yeah, and having them talking to their friends about it,
oh mynding being the creepy guy horrifies me. Anyway, horrifies
us too, Sure it does. I'm gonna keep it light
in this male bag. I made the decision. Uh Eric
Eric hop sing from Astoria, Oregon. Beautiful Astoria. Y'all mentioned
(34:36):
Christmas music mentioned some of your favorites like Michael Bouble,
Harry Connock, Junior Philistines, the lot of you. There's only
one appropriate music for the ule Tide season, to wit,
Christmas on the Ponderosa from nineteen sixty three, Christmas without
the dulcet tones of Lorne Green and Dan Blocker. That's
in America I don't want to live in. Have I
(34:57):
heard that? Is that something we used to play years ago? Ah?
That sounds vaguely familiar. Christmas on the Ponderosa with the
cast of Ponza Bonanza. Right, yeah, let's see, Ryan from
Houston is just spitting mad. Problems with our spitty Congress
are worthless. Congress has trillions these issues. But the main
(35:18):
reason I can't trust any of them is this. It's
amazing that the stupid Party in the evil Party all
say the same thing on an issue. For instance, they
all see hideous war crimes in the Venezuelan and drug
boat thing, or clearly an action that was justified. I
can't trust any of them because these lying liars, all
they do is lie. And then he throws in in
a different email, the video could have shown a guy
(35:40):
with the rocket launcher in one hand and holding a
scarface level of cocaine, or two people creating Jack and
Rose from the Titanic while holding their detached limb, and
those lying liars would still spew the same bs. You're right.
You're right. They would have stuck to their scripts no
matter what they saw. Yeah. I tend to only pay
it if people have a comment that runs against their
(36:03):
type or party. That's about the only time you can
get my interest and me thinking I believe you, which
is unfortunate. Yeah, unless it's somebody making an especially eloquent argument,
but that's increasingly rare. In our instagrammy politics world, Boy, Joe,
TI's so many good things that I can't wait to
hear myself. I hope you feel the same. And it's
coming up an hour two. If you miss a segment,
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
And hey, y'all, on Tuesday, we call it Little Wednesday
around here. We're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Kiss and Gloria Gaynor. What now Trump's Kennedy Center honors
honoring our greatest entertainers and contributors to our cultures? Singled
(00:52):
out the band Kiss, Gloria Gaynor, and I can't remember
somebody else, Charles Bronson, George Strait. Oh that's right, George Straight.
I knew it was somebody very traditionally in heart Landy.
God bless George Straight. Not everything he's done for the country.
Oh so you wanted to you always wanted to be
the liberal elite and not people that regular people like. Okay, fine,
(01:13):
that's right, that's I would prefer the liberal elite. Yes, no, oh,
I just find that such an interesting combination. Kissing Gloria
Gainer hilarious. Em how y'all doing just terrific. How are you, emil?
But what are you going to do? I went to
the doctor last night. They put me on antibotics. Now,
(01:33):
so now a month of my antibotic you gotta take
four times a day. Woof. For some reason, my wife
is just coming down with something. She's in this acapella choir.
Their members are dropping like flies. It's the season. Yeah,
things are going around. I am Mike. Colds often turned
into an infection for whatever reason. The hanger I am
(01:55):
somebody like that in the olden days, I would have
died young. I think it would have just turned into
an affection. In fact, and I would have died. He
was always sickly because for whatever reason, my body just
doesn't fight off colts anymore. Anyway, whatever, maybe it's my
all donut diet. Oh lookout, lookout coughing fit the gout below.
So I was just actually reading reading the Mark Alpern
(02:18):
morning newsletter every day, and I really enjoy it. And
he's quoting a bunch of people. Trump's given a speech
tonight in Pennsylvania. He's going on the road. He's going
to do his Trump style tours all over America. You
know his rallies today he hasn't done for a very
long time, all about trying to convince people that he
(02:39):
cares about their economic pain and he wants to do
something about it. And Halprin's writing that. See if you
agree or not that of all the times in the
past decade people have declared Trump dead from various this, that, misstep,
political wins, whatever, this time he might actually be done
(03:05):
as a political force if he can't turn around the perception,
at least right now by lots of people, including lots
of Republicans, that he's not doing enough for the economy
or doesn't care enough, or doesn't understand right. Yeah, I would,
I would agree with that assessment. It is so fundamental,
just in a couple of ways. Number One, on an
(03:27):
individual basis, your your financial you know, either comfort or fear,
because really those are the two emotions we all have
about our finances, right, either comfortable or afraid. And if
people are feeling that fear, nothing else matters. And so yeah,
(03:47):
if I think his messaging, the administration's messaging on economics
has been horrible, horrible, well since inauguration day, Yeah, I
mean that's just the in general. If you get to
a specific of last week where he said inflation is
a democratic hoax or affordability that that is rough. That
(04:12):
is rough, and a lot of his long time supported
of no matter what, Josh Holley of Missouri, and lots
of we're like, whoa dude, No, Yeah, you know, he's
long been bad at explaining anything more complex than one sentence.
And the approach he the administration needed to take was, look,
(04:35):
here's how inflation works. Those prices are way up. There
are a few we might be able to bring down.
What we're gonna try, like crazy to do is stop
them from rising much more. We're gonna throw everything we've
got into stopping prices rising much more. But it's gonna
take six months to a year. Hang with us. We're
gonna bust our asses to do this for you. There
(04:56):
was none of that, None of that. Yeah plus plus
be easier to do if you hadn't run around saying
you're going to bring prices down, and people who don't
understand the way inflation works thought that would actually happen. Well, right, yeah,
that's a trap of your own making. Not to mention
the tariffs, which are a massive tax they have not
had hugely disruptive effects yet, but they are. The effects
(05:18):
are being felt throughout the economy. They're just more subtle
than a lot of economists expected. He announced a giant,
multi billion dollar farmer bailout yesterday to help them deal
with the tariffs. It's the messaging's a little complicated there also, obviously,
if you're claiming American citizens don't pay tariffs but on
a whole bunch of different industries, you've either gotten rid
(05:40):
of the tariffs because the price of coffee was so high,
or you're given a whole bunch of money to farmers
because the tariffs are affecting them. Kind of works counter
to your this doesn't come back to cost the American
tax payer money claim. I think the effect the tariffs
are having on farmers is mostly it's the trade war.
(06:01):
Although you know, there are equipment costs and that sort
of thing arising too, but it's mostly Chinese retaliation that
I think this bothering the farmers. But anyway, it's all related,
you know, And I don't want to just bash Trump
because we need to have harasslin match with China over
trade policy. Need it very very much. That relationship has
(06:21):
been way out of whack for decades now. But it's
a tough road, no doubt, and it's got to be handled.
Back to the messaging thing, it's got to be handled
with a little sensitivity and skill understanding. You know, leading
your people through difficult times is real leadership. And there
are a bunch of examples of a three history those
who've done a good job, whether it's war or economic
(06:43):
bad times or look, we've got to go through a
period of austerity to straighten out our budget. Here's why
we're doing it. You've got to be with me on this.
It's not been great lately. Well, no one, neither party
has any interest in that sort of thing. True. Yeah,
when inflation really spiked there during COVID, after we spend
(07:05):
all those trillions of dollars, that was so much worse
and so much bigger a story than people even appreciated.
Then the media covered it because they bought into the
Joe Biden thing as transitory or not that big a
deal or whatever. Everybody in the country took a giant
pay cut forever and had a giant chunk of our
(07:26):
savings appropriated by the government as well. And it doesn't
go away confiscated brutal, absolutely brutal, and whoever ended up
president after that was gonna was gonna be stuck with
those prices and have to, you know, deal with the
as we all get more and more weary, continue to
be weary every time we go out to either go
to the grocery store or do whatever we're gonna do,
(07:48):
so the you know, the the classic explanation of what
Trump and company are doing with these rallies is that
prior to the midterms, they want to get the word
out that, hey, we're on your side. We're working as
hard as we can to know, straighten out the economy
and lower inflation stuff like that, which is good. Those
are really really good messages. Is it too little, too late?
Is the question? Can a bunch of rallies sway people
(08:10):
at Oh he does get it? I don't know. We'll see.
And you know, there are plenty of events that will
intervene between now and the midterms too. This is where
the politics doesn't work on me anyway, just because because
just because a politician goes out and says I care
about you and your problem with X doesn't work on me.
(08:31):
I need to hear some sort of policy that's gonna
have some effect me. I don't the whole Bill Clinton,
I feel your pain. I know it works on millions
of people, it doesn't work on me. Whatever, you, politician,
Well that's a nice handshake, but all right, what do
you got for me? The compassion thing is not useless.
But that's just the that's just the opening word. Now
what happens to me. I'm very cynical about politicians in there.
(08:53):
Throw on your barn jacket, staying on a baila hey,
and tell me how much you care about my life. Whatever,
Get the f out of here, right right. Tell you
that's the spirit. Um. But I'll be interesting to see
what Trump says tonight at the speech if he dials
back the whole all this is a hoax thing, which
is probably a good idea because it's not a hoax.
Well end up, god Scott, he's so incapable of.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Explaining it tough.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
If you want to say, blaming me for the price
of meat in the grocery store right now is a hoax.
It went up under Biden. We're trying to hold the
line here, but I haven't even heard an explanation that good.
It's a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax. What is well?
(09:35):
Hopefully when we're at war with Venezuela, all this will
be forgotten. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's jojetting. I'm wearing a Santa hat again today helps
me feel better. My son took the good Santa hat.
We got a good Santa Hattan, a cheap, crappy Santa hat.
I'm wearing the cheap, crappy Santa hat. Probably made in China.
They don't care about Santa. That's Tuesday, December night with
(09:59):
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Are you actually well? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Taking sixty seven ho So, whenever we're taking orders, they
go sixty six to sixty eight because of people like you.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Because of people like you. That's the nice girl at
the in and out Burger where they had to stop
having sixty seven as a number because then I've actually
seen this in my own real life. You get a
bunch of young people come in and they realize that
it's at like fifty two or whatever the number they're
calling out. They all do an individual order of like
(10:40):
one thing. I'll get a milkshake, I would like a fry,
I would like whatever. To get through enough numbers to
get it up to sixty seven so they can all
cheer like crazy when they call out sixty seven. This
is so strange, and we talked about this before the show.
As a guy with grown kids, I have no experience
of this in real life none. But for a lot
(11:04):
of the population, it's like omnipresent, right, oh, abso frequent. Anyway,
my brother, who works for the city, was talking about
how he constantly works it in with his boss just
to annoy him. Wow. My parents, who are grandparents of
my kids, just became aware of the whole sixty seven
phenomenon and were somewhat confused by it. Explain it to someone,
(11:26):
you have to say, it doesn't make any sense, so
don't try to figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
It is. It is a fad without a fad. If
you want to see the I mean, go on YouTube.
You can look for any sports game in the country,
any high school basketball game when a team hit sixty seven.
Crowd goes wild. Oh my god, I just say, we're
(11:52):
easily amused as an understatement. Well, that's the thing, it seems.
And again, I don't want to be bitter old guy
shouting at clouds, but it is so devoid of any
substance whatsoever. It seems like the sort of thing that
would entertain like a severely mentally retarded Wow person, Wow,
(12:12):
I mean just fascination with the combination of numbers. There's
nothing there. You haven't revealed your baby name, Katie, but
you might have to consider six seven. I'm I'm just say,
with the babies being born, if you want to murder him, Katie,
I won't say a word thank you. I'll hang to
the god. The kid's six pounds seven ounces. I had thought,
oh my god, well that would be just the weight
(12:33):
and it has no significant The doctor would come in
and say, here's your baby.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It's six seven, and then I would knock that doctor
the f out. I am praying that this trend is
gone by the time my kid is old enough to
figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, well, the war in Venezuela will wipe this all
from our memory. We do need to talk about that,
as we had quite quite the military exercises yesterday, and
so did Venezuela, as they're prepared for our invasion and
are vowing to fight to the last man to defend
their socialist utopia. Yes. Uh so, we got Katie's headlines
on the way, lots of news to get you up on.
Our text line is four one five two ftc our
(13:14):
goal needs to be interesting as always, just need stuff
that's interesting. Who freaking cares if it's got anything to
do with the news of day. This actually kind of
has something to do with the news of the day.
I've got a stat for you out of Canada around
their euthanasia that's mind blowing. Oh yeah, good. Good for
a discussion. So we'll have to get to that at
some point. Yeah, I'm delighted to do that. We can
(13:35):
talk about ideas all day long and ignore the news
if you'd like. I'm one hundred percent on board. That's
probably a poor lead into this feature. It's the case
reporting one. Hey, thanks, we could story with Katie Green Katie,
go ahead, No, nobody wants your crap, but go ahead, Jai, Katie.
Somebody sent me this. Okay, this is my This is
(13:56):
my step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Wow, child's depressing joke.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
All right, Well, the boat strike's at the top. So
we've got three of the top headlines on that. From ABC.
Lawmakers move to compel heg seth to release military video
of September second boat strike. Politico Congress to withhold Pentagon
travel funds until it sees the.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Boat strike video. Wow. And from watching the Republican dominated Congress. Yeah,
and the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Trump says heg set will decide whether to release the
boat by boat strike video.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That is something I didn't hear that about Congress saying
we're gonna yank your funds. Show us the damn video.
There's no there's no excuse for not releasing that video. Yeah, well,
it's there's something going on here. They're the easiest, easiest
thing to do is just say, here's the video. Look
at it. It's like all those videos there, you go,
(14:56):
are we done here? That would be the easy thing
to Acquiren't they doing the easy thing now? It's not
to protect methods and sources or whatever else.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
From Newsweek. Trump now open to drug strikes on Mexico
and Colombia Mexico.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Wow, that's getting pretty close to home.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
From BBC, Ukraine prepares for new peace plan as Zelensky
rules out giving up any Land.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I have no idea where this is going. More grinding
war probably, and Trump is more or less saying yeah,
we're pulling out a funding Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
We'll see for the Wall Street Journal, an unusually divided
FED is expecting to deliver a rate cut.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh are they okay? Quarter point and then say that's
it for a long time, so don't ask for anymore.
We'll see they're a little troubled. Inflation is still as
as it is. You're a mean one.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Mister from NBC Australia launches youth social media ban as
it says it will be the world's first. They're deactivating
over a million accounts for anyone under the age of sixteen.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Well, it'll be interesting to see how that well that works.
I don't know how how functionally, how well it worked
to stop kids for big on social media. Of course,
if it's a lot harder to get to and there's
not as much around, fewer people are on it, it'll
have less appeal. I think it's an experiment. Well, worth trying? Sure,
why not?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
From the New York Post, RFK Junior and Sean Duffy
have a pull up competition while touting a one billion
dollar bid to add mini gyms and healthier food options
at airports.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You're like the only two guys over forty in America
that can do pull ups and you're just very happy
about that at an airport.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
At an airport, RFK did twenty, Defy did ten And
finally from the Babylon Bittie.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Pull ups is what is he?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Seventy unbelievable roids from the Babylon be elan Omar argues
she should be able to stay in the horrible country
that she hates so much.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, no kidding, you need to shout ut yeah, shut up, Illin,
We'll catch you up on more news of the day.
There's some interesting stuff out there, I promise you and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Any new law is set to take effect this week
in Australia to keep children under sixteen on social media,
which means millions of children in Australia will finally put
their phones down, go outside, get bit by something and.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I should have given them any bad That's an excellent
Australia is full of nasty animals. Joke. It is. My
niece just spent a whole summer there doing a medical
internship and there's all kinds of crazy spiders and crap.
There they got snakes, there's the frogs that will kill you.
It's insane. But just so Katie had that in her headlines,
(18:03):
the idea that Australia is going to try banning social
media for teens. How will they go about doing that?
Do they have any different control over their Internet than
we do here in the United States where the government
can step in or is it the ridiculous click this
if you're eighteen to prove that you're eighteen. Yeah, I
don't recall reading anything about the mechanics of it. I
(18:28):
think it might just be really harshly enforced regulations to
make sure the social media companies themselves check ages and
stuff that's worth looking into, because whether the stuff works
or not is of concern. I think to virtually everybody,
as the Internet is ruining children, ruining our children, no doubt,
you'll get no argument out of me.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yes, Katie, I'm seeing that they're going to use quote
age assurance tech like facial facial scans.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And ID checks. That's interesting because you have to.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Get your idea over there apparently by the time you're sixteen,
so they're going to have you scan your ID.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Show it's not bad because I like, the only thing
we have in the United States I think so far
is porn, and it's you know, click this if you're eighteen.
If you're not eighteen, don't click yes, which is silly,
but if you had to show your driver's license or idea.
So of course, who wants to put their ID into
(19:25):
a porn site? Probably not a lot of people. Your
kid who's porn addicted grabs yours awesome for instance. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know, but yeah, like you said, I have
no problem with them trying. For whatever reason, my boys
are not interested in social media stuff, but there's plenty
of other things on the Internet that they do and
(19:46):
spend a lot of time on that is awful. They just,
for whatever reason, they don't care about the social stuff.
This is a bit of a tangent, but it's a
bunch of stuff we've talked about already so far kind
of coming together in my head. And one thing we've
become very bad at politically are politicians and just as
a people is understanding if you let a problem go
(20:07):
past a certain point, if you let it grow, fixing
it is going to be painful, and everybody acts as
if well undergoing the pain of say, budget cuts and
serious welfare reforms and the rest of it is unfair.
How dare you do that to me? Or you know
(20:28):
it's going to cause a lot of stress in families,
detoxing kids from their social media addictions. That's why you
nip things in the bud, as they say. Anyway, Moving
from Australia, where they speak English, to Canada, where they
speak English, a different former colony of Great Britain, they
(20:50):
have set a new record with their killing people through euthanasia.
I didn't realize Canada is approaching the ten year mark
of practicing legalized the assistant suicide man. Time goes by
when you get older, but they've been at it for
almost ten years now. A total of sixteen four hundred
and ninety nine people let's call it seventeen thousand people
(21:12):
were put to death by euthanasia last year. That's one
in twenty deaths. According to many estimates in the entire
country were euthanasia now the largest jump in numbers came
from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. For some reason, there
was almost a forty percent jump that year. COVID it
is slowed down. People killing themselves because they have COVID. Well, no,
(21:36):
because they're depressed in the freaking leftist government locked them
down and wouldn't let them do the things human beings
need to do to be happy. The increases have slowed.
It'll take more years to determine, you know, how many
what percentage of population's actually interested in this in any
given time. U There's a lot of interesting stuff in here.
(21:57):
About four percent of people who were approved for assistance suicide.
Just the idea that you apply to a government building
to whether or not somebody is going to kill me
at my wish, and they determine whether or not I
get to I find abhorrent. The whole thing's pretty abhorrent.
(22:18):
In the real world, a bunch of bureaucrats in a
building are going to decide whether or not I get
to kill myself or not. The hell is that anyway,
About four percent of the people who were approved for
assistant suicide did not have a terminal diagnosis or reasonable
reasonably foreseeable death. Nearly twenty three percent of people overall
(22:42):
reported isolation or loneliness as their main reason for seeking euthanasia.
I'm lonely, so i'd like to die. I'd like the
government to come kill me. And whether you're looking at
the say the bullet Trainer, a thousand other government programs.
The numbers have turned out to be way, way, way
way bigger than the legislators said they would be when
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they passed this thing a decade ago. They said it'd
be extremely rare. There'd just be a few people every year,
in the most miserable of circumstances. It's the merciful thing
to do. A lot of people said, yeah, I get that,
it's their life, it's their choice, okay, And the numbers
have just exploded, and the guidelines have gotten looser and
looser and more and more vague. Well, how do you
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square this with some sort of libertarian personal freedom? If
I want to kill myself, I should be able to
kill myself. Thing. I still don't have the right name
for this principle. You impose a limit so you achieve
a different limit. My favorite is the speed limit. The
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speed limits seventy not so everybody who goes seventy, but
so nobody goes ninety outlaw prostitution, so there's not prostitution everywhere.
It exists, but it's limited by that other limit and
the suicide thing, euthanasia thing you say, no, no way
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in a society, So only those who are really, really,
really serious about it end up going that route. Because
Canada has proven if you make it, you know, fairly
easy and an official procedure and everybody knows how to
do it, the numbers explode far beyond what you thought
(24:31):
they would. It's like the the you know, legalizing pot
or whatever. I remember thinking and hearing people say, you know,
pot is easy enough to get even though it's illegal
right now, we don't expect to see any significant growth
in pot use if it's legalized. That turned out to
be completely wrong. Our growing concerns is eligibility for this
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program is expected to expand next year to people whose
underlying condition is mental illness, and they joy House of
Common Senate committees recommend extending it to mature miners from
just a dull my lord mature miners as a god okay,
or a Wellian phrase that makes me want to go militant. Well,
(25:14):
it's like the progressives who think a twelve year old
can consent to life altering chemical treatments and surgeries. That's it, sure, miners.
What a great Orwellian phrase. So the government's gonna decide
whether this sixteen year old is mature enough to be
considered an eighteen year old. Let me guess a lot
(25:34):
of the times you're gonna say yes if it's you know,
for the program that you created. Wow, this depressed sixteen
year old is really articulate, and that brought us some
evidence from other countries they're a mature miner, and so
I think we ought to let that sixteen year old
kill themselves. In fact, we're going to help. I'm telling you,
(25:54):
I don't know exactly how to articulate this. As a
lover of liberty, but unless you are going to let
people fully carry the weight of all of their choices,
you know, eliminate the welfare state for everybody but the
most miserable among us, you know. And there's a dozen
(26:15):
examples of what you would have to do. But we
need limits. It's clear, we need guidelines as human beings.
Otherwise crazy stuff takes root and you get these social
contagions and they're just unhealthy. It's the balance is tough.
I'm not saying it's easy, man. You expand it to
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I mean, it's already really disturbing the idea of eighteen, nineteen,
twenty year olds being able to make this lifetime decision.
You expand it to fifteen sixteen year olds or whatever
they're planning to do. God, that's horrifying. One out of
twenty deads is people killing themselves. That ain't normal. Do
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you think throughout the history of mankind that percentage of
people killed themselves? Of course not. Now that's insane Canada,
all of our hardware programming, all right, we need something.
We need a mood changer of some sort of Michael,
I don't know what it'd be. I transition music or
(27:18):
have any wacky audio or something. The electric pan of
the saxophone jazzy drums just went in. This is cheerful
enough to even rescue a Canadian from their suicidal impulses.
(27:39):
You know, no, no, I whoops, I screwed up. You
know what. I was gonna go down to the hospital,
but I'm gonna clip on a hockey game, grab myself
a Molson like my COOOKI Canadian hat. I enjoy my
life a little now that I've heard this music. Yeah,
I'm in a better friend of mine. Oh and look
at that box that just showed up. It's a fabulous
gift from Omaha Steaks. During the Sizzle All the Way sale,
(28:04):
you can get fifty percent off sitewide at Omaha Steaks
dot Com for your loved one who doesn't need stuff.
They want to think of you every time they've got
sizzlin steaks and burgers on the grill. It's such a
great gift. Yeah. I know this is probably true for
all food, but like a lot of stuff, then you
know this is farm grown or this is fresh from
the field or whatever, and I can't tell the difference
(28:25):
between other stuff. Not true with meat, man meat, huge
difference in quality of meat. And Omaha Steaks is the
absolute best out there, whether you're talking about the steaks
or the burgers or whatever. We absolutely love it all
and I'm happy anytime we got a box showing up.
And I love this sale that they've going on, got
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off sitewide and use that code armstrong at checkout. I
(29:06):
will attack you with some AA stuff later as open Ai,
which has really been the leading AI company out there.
Sam Waltman made up giant announcement yesterday in the direction
of the company Huge, So I'll talk about that. Just
seeing them money at football last night? Man that the
fourth quarter in overtime? Wow? Was that something? With defending
(29:27):
Super Bowl champs losing on an interception at the very
end of the game to the Sorry I called them
the San Diego Chargers, Yes, chargers, it's an obscenity. I'd
rather hear the F word on the air than the
phrase Los Angeles Chargers discussing. Man, that was a fun game. No,
I didn't see a second of it, unfortunately. H And
speaking of the kids and tech and that sort of thing,
(29:48):
how do you like this headline? We gave students laptops
and took away their brains. Decades of data show a
clear pattern the more schools digitize the worst students perform.
That doesn't surprise me at all. Correlation or causation, We'll
take a look at it. I'm leaning causation. Okay, timing suspicious,
(30:11):
So yeah, we'll see. Oh my gosh, I saw another graphic.
I'll explain it to you. I think again pretty effectively
about how Americans spend their time from oh boy, the
early twentieth century to now. Is this going to make
me want to move to Canada and buy a rope
and a creaky stool. No, no, that's not how they
do it up there anyway. But uh no, but it
(30:32):
may motivate you to join Joe Getty's new back to
the woods fundamentalist civilization that I'm gonna found. Okay, cool,
I'm gonna be like the Amish, but with like cocktails.
I want to hear that the Omish with cocktails. I
want to hear that an hour or two. We got
mail bag on the way next day. Here. The long
(30:54):
and short of it is, probably the leading AI company
in the world has decided, Yeah, we're gonna put off
the trying to get to AI superintelligence for a while,
which is, you know, pretty big news. We'll talk about
that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Love this one as wise as as it is simple,
simple as it is wise from the great tim of Sowel.
(31:19):
What exactly is your fair share of what someone else
has worked for?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
So obviously true question. You've been asking for many years
that rich need to pay their fair share? Okay, what's
that share? How much you tell me? Currently they're funding
everything practically, so what would be fair? What exactly is
your fair share of what someone else has worked for?
That's great, Mailbag. If you would like to correspond to,
(31:46):
please do email addresses. Mailbag at Armstrong Egeddy dot com,
mail bag at Armstrongyiety dot com. Jeff Listener from Day
one Rights. I'm disappointed in Katie. Your headline yesterday from
the backbon Bee husband issues travel ban on any structurerom
Amazon was good, but she missed this one. How could
she Nigerian prince scammed by Somali immigrants. Oh, that's pretty funny.
(32:11):
That is pretty good. That's a funny joke. I will
not hear Katie called into question our skittles. Thank you.
I think that one might have come up later in
the day. Yeah, I think it probably did. Yeah. Oh,
let's see, I had learned to hug people rights, I'll
say anonymous listen to podcast Jack said he'd rather get
(32:35):
in a fight than fistfight than hug someone. I shouted yes.
When I left home and moved to California at the
age of eighteen, I was very confused by all the hugging.
I felt like people were constantly hugging say hello, goodbye,
or just because, and I hated it. I really had
to observe other people and just bite the bullet to
fit in. Handshakes are so underrated. And then she mentioned
that she married into a family of huggers and kissers egad,
(32:58):
but learned to adjust. Well, okay, that's that's a different situation.
You're married into a family of huggers, then you gotta
But before that, I feel no need to fit in.
So uh. And then this is my favorite part. I
will never initiate a hug, but I'll go along if
it's clear the other person wants to hug, unless it's
a man I don't know well and I think he's
just moving into cop of feel. Then he gets the cold,
(33:18):
hard handshake of death. Ladies, I'm telling you, I know guys,
like this. I've known my whole life. Lots of them
are huggers because they want to hug young women. That's
why they're huggers. Oh man, I just find that so
off putting. I do too. Uh yeah, if yes, if
I'm yes, you're you are a young woman, so you
should weigh in. Well. Just a tip for hugging a guy.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Always hug down around their waist so they can't do
that creepy rubbing along your hip line move.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Of course, is their arm to go up? Is that
a thing?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
She many Christmas See, it's funny. I have enjoyed nothing
more in my life, I think than being inside the
zone of intimacy with the females. It does have its pauses.
Uh yeah, yeah, very big fan of that. But the
idea of being in that zone like uninvited, Yeah, horrifies me.
(34:15):
Oh yeah, and having them talking to their friends about it,
oh mynding being the creepy guy horrifies me. Anyway, horrifies
us too, Sure it does. I'm gonna keep it light
in this male bag. I made the decision. Uh Eric
Eric hop sing from Astoria, Oregon. Beautiful Astoria. Y'all mentioned
(34:36):
Christmas music mentioned some of your favorites like Michael Bouble,
Harry Connock, Junior Philistines, the lot of you. There's only
one appropriate music for the ule Tide season, to wit,
Christmas on the Ponderosa from nineteen sixty three, Christmas without
the dulcet tones of Lorne Green and Dan Blocker. That's
in America I don't want to live in. Have I
(34:57):
heard that? Is that something we used to play years ago? Ah?
That sounds vaguely familiar. Christmas on the Ponderosa with the
cast of Ponza Bonanza. Right, yeah, let's see, Ryan from
Houston is just spitting mad. Problems with our spitty Congress
are worthless. Congress has trillions these issues. But the main
(35:18):
reason I can't trust any of them is this. It's
amazing that the stupid Party in the evil Party all
say the same thing on an issue. For instance, they
all see hideous war crimes in the Venezuelan and drug
boat thing, or clearly an action that was justified. I
can't trust any of them because these lying liars, all
they do is lie. And then he throws in in
a different email, the video could have shown a guy
(35:40):
with the rocket launcher in one hand and holding a
scarface level of cocaine, or two people creating Jack and
Rose from the Titanic while holding their detached limb, and
those lying liars would still spew the same bs. You're right.
You're right. They would have stuck to their scripts no
matter what they saw. Yeah. I tend to only pay
it if people have a comment that runs against their
(36:03):
type or party. That's about the only time you can
get my interest and me thinking I believe you, which
is unfortunate. Yeah, unless it's somebody making an especially eloquent argument,
but that's increasingly rare. In our instagrammy politics world, Boy, Joe,
TI's so many good things that I can't wait to
hear myself. I hope you feel the same. And it's
coming up an hour two. If you miss a segment,
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