December 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Nancy Mace airport meltdown, abuse of cops & the K shaped economy
- Open air drug market in Kensington, PA
- Weight loss obsessions & drugs
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty, I'm strong and
Getty and he I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm sick of your I'm tired of having to wait.
You guys are always effing late. This is effing ridiculous.
The newly obtained Charleston Airport investigation report says Republican congress
Member Nancy Mace repeatedly insulted security officers when her car
was not met and she was not immediately escorted to
her plane. In late October, Mace's office called a report
(00:45):
of full exoneration, even though it says she blew a
minor miscommunication into a spectacle.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's what Hexa did the area. I'm gonna start doing that.
That's what Trump does.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, something comes in and you know, says I'm guilty
or whatever. That completely cleared as I expected fully. Generation
Thank you, your honor. I just sentence you to eight years.
I'm totally innocent. We both agree, Thank you, sir. She's
half a job that, Nancy Mace. I'm sick of your ass.
(01:18):
I wasn't planning none more of this. But how about
seventy two. I just want to hear her deny that
because there's a video of it, right, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
The video, but you are you saying that you never
said any of these quotes, that every single one is
a lie.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You have to read it to me again.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I think idiots.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I did not, I did representative.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I did not say that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I did say I'm sick of your shoe.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm tired of having to wait.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
I should not have to wait.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You guys are always fing late. This is efing ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
No, I mean no, I did. I've never called a
cop an idiot. That is a remarkably false.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But you're saying these police officers are lying, then who spoke.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
To I am absolutely saying that that report was falsified,
one hundred percent fictitious, falsified.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Which is possible. I haven't seen the video or anything.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Seems an odd thing to do for a you know,
peace officer to think, you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna make stuff up against make stuff up about
a congress woman.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well she didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm sick of your ass. She was denying that she
called them idiots. She might have said I'm sick of
your ass. So I saw it reminded me for some reason.
I was thinking about this yesterday before the Nancy Mace
thing even came up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't know why this popped into my head. I
wonder why.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
AnyWho, many many many years ago, gladys, you got your
heart many many years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's probably late eighties, so we're all gonna dang. Near
forty years ago I had as at a lake with
a whole bunch of people, and everybody was hammered.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We'd been drinking all day out of their mind, hammered. Anyway,
these two dudes that most of us were with, they
were like the leader of this beach party at this lake,
were fairly well known and very wealthy, and everybody knew that,
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like their mom owned the big bar restaurant there at
the lake, and they both owned big night clubs themselves.
And anyway, the cops came by for some reason. I
don't remember how it started, but they didn't have the
proper stickers on their jet skis, whatever the regulations were.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Can't have that here in Hazard County.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Why the cops decided to make a thing of that,
and I don't know, but anyway they did, and man,
these two rich kids who at that time would have
been I mean young, pretty young, like twenty five and
twenty eight. Man, they were so brutal to the cop
(04:03):
who put up with it. I guess that's why it
stuck in my mind for a couple of reasons. First
of all, I'd never seen anybody talk to a cop
like that before. I would never talk to a cop
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I didn't dig it. I didn't think it was cool
at all. I thought it was awful.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And then I was amazed that the cop put up
with it, and that was its own kind of lesson
in life that he feels like he's got to take
this a level of s from these two dudes because
their mom owns half the company.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, yeah, so he yeah, Okay, I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I always just assumed that because there'd be no other
reason you would put up with that level of belligerent,
drunken calling you names and everything like that.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
But it was just sort of a place where you
would know that who the rich people in the county.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Absolutely yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, interest is small town American
and everything like that, And it was just it was
I'd never seen that sort of thing displayed before where
people of privilege and power don't feel like that they not.
I mean that's common, uh, privilege and power feeling like
that that the rules don't apply it to the but
the actually lighten up the cops when.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You're displeased with the way you're being treated. I had
never seen that before, and like I said, it was
it was a life lesson.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And I guess this can happen, and I guess cops
will put up with it if somebody is important enough
for whatever the way the world works, for whatever reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, be careful about playing that card though, Junior. Yeah,
no kidding.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I mean, I got admit, and these were friends of mine,
but I was I was thinking this guy.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Should freaking arrest these dudes. I absolutely Oh interesting, Hey.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You effing moron, You show me where these stickers should
go effing more on piece of ass? You know, that's
sort of wowoo And I got just put up with it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Wow wow. Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And so anyway, a US representative or senate or senator
or whatever, police know who that is, they might take
a hell of a.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Lot of crap from one of those people.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
For so, yeah, there are all sorts of examples of that,
the capital of people, bad mouth in the capitol, police
and that sort of thing, throwing them under the bus
for their own mistakes.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
God, you're really an awful person if you're a well,
if you have talked to really anybody like that, ing,
let alone a cop.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, speaking of the affluent, this is interesting reading more
about the It's become a cliche the K shaped economy,
a term I'd object to because A is a cliche
and B it ignores the vertical line in the K
completely got an important component of the K.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes, another thought popped in him out about my last
story that I go aheadship. That was an interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thing that I'd never seen before, and I don't know
if I've ever actually witnessed it ever or else in
my life.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
These two dudes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
A lot of what they were doing because there was
probably twenty five of us, including lots of really hot
girls standing around watching this. Their enjoyment was talking to
the cop that way and everybody's seeing it, and just
the display of look, look at the way I can
talk talk to a policeman. Oh yeah, and nothing is
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going to happen to me.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
That's like seven hundred pounds silver back pounding on its chest.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it's like, look at this, Look at this. I
can say anything I want to this guy. Nothing's going
to happen to me. That's how freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I am.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Interesting personality thing, very typical common human nature. It's just
like it's it's like the why the dictator claims they
shot a hole in one on every hole of the
golf course. She's like, I can say this and nobody's going.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
To stop me. Right. Yeah, that's a good point. Wow,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, that's disturbing because that sort of pre person rarely
ends up spreading more joy and goodness in their lives
than pain and misery and abusing. Anyway, back to the
so called K shaped economy, which again ignores the vertical
line in the K which is really critical. Uh So,
retail sales on Black Friday of four percent, similar to
last year's jump, but the datascued by wealthier families spending
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more while households at the bottom quintile spending notably less.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
According to Moodies.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
In the second quarter of the year, which has got
nothing to do with Black Friday, but the top ten
percent accounted for fifty percent of consumer spending forty nine
point two, but some argue this is somewhat misleading, but
we won't get into that consumption remains overall really robust.
According to this one economist, My question I first heard
(08:24):
that stat was what is it normally? I always feel
like you got to put that in there, right, that
would be handy. Nope, Nope, they don't have that in there.
Rather than a Black Friday rush to mid price retailers
like Banana Republic, holiday shopping is clustered among budget options.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They mentioned Ross and Nordstrom rack. Oh, so you want
to sweater? The rack is more mid priced.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But he wanted a sweater from Banana Republic. I didn't
even get your gap.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I got you old. Maybe that's how bad it is oof.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
But the holiday shopping is clustered among budget budget options
like Ross et cetera, and luxury choices like mister Porter.
I don't know, mister Porter, mister Porter very very cool stuff.
And Sachs Fifth Avenue, Sachs, I know, uh. And then
the K shape extends beyond consumer spending. We've talked about this.
A handful of companies dominate business investment in corporate earnings
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up to half of the US's GDP growth in the
first half of twenty twenty five, which was not great
was by AI related spending. Bank of America predicts that Microsoft,
Amazon Meta platforms in alphabet. Well, I've collectively invested three
hundred and forty four billion dollars in capital expenditures during
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Just during twenty five, three hundred and forty four billion
dollars on AI.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
And as of this printing, in the stock market, the
magnificent seven of the aforementioned companies plus Apple In, Nvidia
and Tesla, accounted for more than a third of the
S and P five hundred's total market capitalization, not the growth,
both the total market capitalization those seven companies.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is a bubble. Wild. If it is a bubble,
when it pops, it's going to be noticeable. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
And the thing those of us who follow the market
like about the S and P is it's much much
broader and more relevant than the DOO. The Dow is
a ridiculous and antiquated measure of anything. But you got
seven companies accounting for more than a third. That's that's
out of whack. You gotta get it back in whack.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Bubble, it's a bubble.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He's afraid of that. Here's a shocking fact for you.
We'll pay this off in a minute. Colombia's anti Semitism
task for us Colembia University found that among its Middle
East faculty, zero of them were pro Israel. Nice faculty, Columbia,
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What a joke that more to come stay with us.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, I'll talk about this later.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
National Reviews got a story about about the Seattle school
district and all the questions that they're asking kids on surveys.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
In the schools without.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
The parents really knowing that it's happening about their sexual
orientation and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Way too young an age.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't know why you need to ask it at
any age really, because you're indoctrinating them.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
My god, I hate them.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Also, one of the most eloquent defenses of Zionism I've
run into coming up in a couple of minutes, and
the report from Columbia about how they have zero faculty
that have anything nice to say about Israel. That seems
perfectly reasonable and balanced for a public university anyway, or
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private whatever it is. First though, my eye was caught
by this. They're talking about the Kensington Avenue open air
drug market in Philadelphia, which they call the country's most
notorious San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I think had that.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Wrapped up for a while around the Civic center assists. Man,
you could get anything all the time. Junkies everywhere. Watch
out for the poop. So is it Salvadorans selling drugs openly?
Cops had walk by. It's amazing. But so they're talking
about this Kensington Avenue in Philly. For years, the street
ran on heroin. Then the gang started putting fentanyl or
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fetti in the dope. I didn't know fentanyl had any nickname,
but it's fetti.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Sounds cute. Get a little fetti in with your heroin.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Then came the animal tranquilizer zylazine jack, known simply as
tank trank. That's right, it'll rot your flesh right off
your limbs.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's the one that puts holes in your legs. Delightful.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
But wait, just when you thought there can't be any
more new drugs, there's a new one. Medatomidine medaomidine you know,
or something like that delivers a shorter, more powerful high
than the varieties of dope that preceded it, and the
crash is faster and more brutal. By some estimates, it's
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two hundred times stronger than the trunk.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I tried the trunk and it put holes in my legs.
I'm looking for something that burns my eyeballs out of
the sockets.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Do you have anything like that?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Junkie Tony, who they interview, says, there's no stages to
the high, you go straight to sleep.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well, wait a minute, I don't understand that.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's like the trunk with the lean where I've seen
him in San Francisco where they're just leaned over up
against a wall.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, what kind of party is that?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yeah, I don't know what the withdrawal is from these
various things. Either I don't know to make up a
hit or stamp. According to the junkies, the dealers mix
the let's just.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Call it med with fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
U have a jackhammer, which continues to be the leading
cause of overdose death in the US. The drugs are
then packed in small paper wraps, each stamped with a
Cruise brand.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Hot Sauce is one drug. Cruise brand Pringles.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
I see that's I'm sorry, that's a copyright infringement, Blackjack
or Sunshine. They cost two to five dollars depending on
the size.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Wow, you can get asleep, apparently is what their goal is,
leaning up against the wall with sores in your legs
for two bucks.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Right.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Then they talk to uh Christine, a forty one year
old Philadelphian who doesn't look at day over seventy. She's
more got more scabs than I have eyelashes. You, if
I do a certain stamp, I have to have that stamp,
she says. I try to do other stamps, it won't
get me. Well, wow, she's at that point of addiction
where she takes drugs just to feel even close to
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normal and not horribly sick.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But your physical addiction is you've got to have the
particular blend of that.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
By the way, she's suffered a mere five heart attacks
triggered by the med withdrawal. She said, so far forty
one she had five heart attacks.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So I'm doing the sunshine, and that's the kind that
I need to continue to do. I get a sunshine,
I'm getting notes of caramel, and then it's got a
chocolatey finish.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I'd throw up my back twisting my screen so that
you can see this poor woman. But she's sirious if
you were. It's like a stock photo from Soviet era
Russia where the seventy year old Babushka struggles to gather potatoes.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You know she looks like that, right. Five heart attacks? Yeah, wow,
good party.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
The effects of each stamp very slightly from block to
block due to a variety of other adulterants, but usually
a result in abrupt unconsciousness and extreme sedation. You do it,
you wake up, you're sick. You don't even know you're
passing out. But this isn't like nodding off long Kensington Avenue.
People shuffling near catatonic states, bent at right angles, some
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frozen mid stride.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
That's the lean I'm gonna gord. And you get.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Withdrawal symptoms within two hours, exponentially more punishing than heroin.
Withdrawal exponentially more punishing, And you gotta be on it
within one hundred and twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Here you get withdraws.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, and you got to use the same kind you
were using again, the blend that's got notes of chocolate
and a raspberry finish hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Christine describes brain zapps vomiting many seizures, paralysis and even
violent swings and heart rate and blood pressure, hence her
quintuple infections.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Good.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
She didn't mention scrammeting, though that is unique to that
one marijuana. It makes you scream and vomit at the
same time.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Oh more and more teens with that. I want to
talk about that maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
But if she.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Doesn't hustle enough cash to stay off withdrawal, she'll inevitably
have a heart attack and collapse on the street.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And you need it every two hours. Of course, the
upside is it's only two bucks. Nice lifestyle, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We can't go around just shooting people who are unarmed
adrift in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's a terrible thing. It's illegal, and it's in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Rand Paul doing lots of interviews making the rounds. He
really doesn't like our current policy of blasting people in
the water off of the coast of Venezuela, which is
a very random Paul thing to do. And he might
be right.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Some courts should make a decision. Just came across an
article about they may introduce those drugs, gop one drugs,
that's like ero zempic and your zip bound and your
what are some of the other brand names.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
It's like one Wigovy, Wigovy and.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Panera. Is that one of them? Now that's a bread
it is, that's right.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, No, they're coming up with one for pets. You
got a fat dog or a fat cat. But the
National Review has an article today for the people version,
the dangers of weight loss drugs going mainstream.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Wows just when it seemed like a great idea. I
think this is I guess it's just a journalism thing.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Something becomes popular. You write an article about how this
could be bad. All right, because I read the whole
article and it doesn't convince me. But it's some interesting
information in here. Because i'd forgotten some of this stuff.
I didn't remember that. Kate Moss, who was one of
your famous skinny models of like the eighties and nineties,
nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. She was famous
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for saying, I guess even though I've never heard that before.
The mattra, popularized by bone thin celebrities and touted by
teenagers with eating disorders, colored the way an entire generation
thought about weight, food, and exercise. Katie, you lost a
ton of weight yourself throughout the years. But you you've
I don't think you've ever said anything about like going
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too far, being too skinny, or were you ever.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
There was a point where yeah, I was a little
too skinny, but that was because I was so obsessed
with staying skinny and working out that it wasn't something
that I could continue to do.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
But you had been quite overweight and had health problems. Yeah,
so it's a pretty good reason to be pretty obsessed
with staying thin.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So that's the problem with all this. I mean, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Know, if you if you have a heart attack and
your doctor says you got to lose weight, being pretty
obsessed with losing weight is that doesn't make you Kate Moss.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Doesn't make you k Yeah, it doesn't make you Kate Moss.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
When models in the twenty tens eight calorie free cotton
balls dipped in juice or gelatin to make their slips
feel full, what I had missed this? What you take
a cotton ball and dip it in juice or jello
to make your stomach feel No?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't wow that. How did I never hear about that?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well? I don't know if lots of people were doing it.
See that's the thing you get. That's what I heard
about it. Yeah, yeah, you get six hipsters in the
New York or LA that are doing it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And women all across America.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No, no, not Actually, if you just look around, people
all across America are not overwhelmingly obsessed with being thin.
Based on my trip to Walmart last week. Well, I
do enjoy a nice mouthful of cotton balls, though. When
celebrities embarked on the Master Cleanse in the early two thousand,
a detox diet that consisted only of lemon juice, maple syrup, water,
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and cayenne pepper. Right, you remember that when our former
newswoman announced with great fans fair she was going to
do that and made it till eleven am.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I think it was she'd make it to lunch the
first day. I remember that. Yeah, Jamie, you're a good person.
Oh yeah, he ca bad diet.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I think Beyonce started that whole thing, the cleanse, the lemon, honey,
cayenne giasco.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
None of these crazes I'm reading from the National Review
provided enough essential nutrients to make her keep a person healthy.
Girls who ate cotton balls lost their hair and developed
gastro intestinal problems.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Master.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's surprising Master cleansers passed out in the middle.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Of the day. That's what Jamie had had going. She
was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's like an hour after we got off the air
the first day. Good for her, though she recognized it
was a bad idea. And then it talks about the
TV show The Biggest Loser in which all the contestants
game back the weight, which ended up being really really
good for the world because the studies they did on
The Biggest Loser stuff is what alerted us all to
the sad, sad fact that we have where we end
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up genetically programmed for a certain weight and your body
goes into all kinds of conniption fits to make sure
you stay it that weight. And it's some of the
most depressing news I've ever gotten in my life, but
it certainly seems to be true. Wow, gen Z has
inherited a weight obsessed culture, one that social media has
is exacerbated. Photos and videos of idyllic bodies are streamed
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into our mind so often. I mean, they've been saying
this since as a little kid, when those magazines on
the rack at the store.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And now it's social media stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I don't know, to girls willing to starve themselves, those
bodies are, at least for a time, an achievable norm.
I've always had a problem with animy because everybody on
every magazine cover has always been better looking than me.
And I don't know, I never thought about it that much,
and I wish to If you ask me, would you
like to look like them? Yeah, I'd really like to
look like them. But that's kind of the end of it. Yeah, yeah,
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And it is for most people. So the problem with
all these things is what percentage of people have to
go off the nutty deep end on something for it
to be something that the rest of society should.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
React to, right, or that the rest of us have
to refrain from from now on, you know, because some
people go way too far. I don't know, stupid, should
hurt buy the T shirt, armstrong and getdy dot com.
It's bad behavior leads to negative outcomes.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Enter weightlaw. It must enter weight loss drugs.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Gop Ones, originally intended to treat type two diabetes and
now used for weight loss, seem to su like a boon,
a game changer for obese people who need medical intervention.
To others, gop ones seemed like the next overhyped miracle drug.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Which I think it actually is. Yeah, how do you
talk over.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Hyped miracle drug when you're just talking about people eating
cotton balls tipped and kai and peppers or whatever. That's
not exactly an apples to apples comparison, all right, and
just overhyped miracles?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
What does that even mean? This eye of the behold,
I think you're right the first time. It's the whole
all right. We've put out six articles about how great
something is. Now we need to start the backlash. Jenny,
you write some backlashy articles, right, could we have gone
too far? Go ahead, we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Which, if marketed to the wrong subset of people, could
perpetuate the myth that's skinny is better than healthy skinny.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
So don't, yeah, so don't, And that's wrong. Read a book,
read a magazine, hell, read a tweet.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
If you don't know that, if.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
You need proper nutrition, even if you're losing weight, you
don't know that, you're dumb. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
To help you.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
And speaking of Kate Moss, her sister actually overdosed on ozempic.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Overdosed on yeah she was.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
She wasn't heavy and the dosage of ozempic was too
high and she ended up in the hospital because of it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Ugh. Well, my question remains, and this is not just
for this weight loss thing, it's really for everything. It's
just what percentage of people that are either nuts or
I don't know what it is, an addictive person, whatever
your deal is, have poor judgment or stupid What percentage
of people with anything does it need to reach before
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we should considered a problem for the masses who aren't going.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
To do this.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
The masses of us see attractive people on magazine covers
or TV shows and just think it'd be cool to
look like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You just don't really ever think about it. It doesn't
take over your life. Yeah, you might try to be
more good looking. Certainly everybody likes to present themselves the
best they can.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
But yeah, yeah, I think all of that's overblown it
and it just to even hint it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Therefore, these so called miracle drugs are really scourge or
I mean, they don't state that in the article, I'm sure,
but that's the hinting at it.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You know, It's just I'm just thinking out loud.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But wouldn't it make more sense to say America would
be better off if many, many, many more people looked
at magazine covers and became really interested in losing.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
The right Because the vast majority of those people would
end up in a much better place and be healthy.
There would be a very small minority who went too far,
starved themselves or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But that's no reason not to have you know.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
It's like saying, don't evacuate the building that's on fire
because a certain number of people might step on a
nail or trip and falls.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Better that we all remain in place. Now, that's just
dumb again, It's stupid, should hurt.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
You cannot regulate ninety five percent of society based on
the needs of the five percent who were too dumb
to help or crazy, you know, And I'm not and
I'm trying to be dismissive of like the young girl's
adolescents with eating disorders. It's a terrible, heartbreaking problem.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh, it is horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I got a friend and who have both their daughters
had eating distories, really really, really really awful.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
But what percentage of people die.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
From obesiti related illnesses every year compared to die from anarexia.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
It's roughly a million to one. Yeah, right, exactly right.
So I don't need some magazine guy telling me, Joe,
don't get too excited about these JLP ones because some
people might go too far. Well, I'm not going to,
so stop shouting at me.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And I don't think that you can take in no
nutrients and be perfectly okay.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
If I'm gobbling cotton balls and I'm beyond help from.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
The newspaper article or whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, I don't know that thing has been around for
ever my entire.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Radio career, These unrealistic images we put on television, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
The better people in the village got more attention to
and you wish you looked like them.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That reminds me of the ancient discussion about weather, and
I remember it was at the time Playboy magazine. If
some women really didn't like it because they felt like
all men would compare them to the chairy brushed right,
that's a small percentage of dope dudes don't deserve the
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love of a good woman anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, I just I don't know is how much.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
How many things like this were just invented for talk
radio fodder. Practically maybe we're the reason for it, turning
the way back talk radio something to talk about on
a you know, a Wednesday afternoon while people drive to work.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Unrealistic images Okay, but so that was your first blowback
article thus far on the new weight loss drugs, which
and I love National Review.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
That was freaking week. Oh that's try freaking week.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
We're probably going to prevent six hundred and fifty thousand
heart attacks this year, but there's five young women across
America who will take too much, like Kate Moss's dopey sister.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Fine.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Great, so a big country. We'll be okay, we'll finish strong, next.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Strong.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Australia just launched the world's first social media band for
everyone under sixteen years old, which includes TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.
That's yeah, it's a big deal. Who knew there was
someone under sixteen using Facebook?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
I had that same reaction when I saw that list.
Oh no, not my Facebook said, no fourteen year olds?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Right.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Speaking of kids' attitudes about thing things, a new Pew
research report came out comparing data from nineteen ninety three
and twenty twenty three about kids attitudes towards marriage, and
last month they put it out twelfth grade boys are
more likely than twelfth grade girls to say they want
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to get married someday, a serious flip from three decades ago.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Boys plans for marriage really haven't budged.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They went from seventy six to seventy four percent in
that thirty years, But the girls have gone from eighty
three percent to sixty one percent in that time. That's
a pretty big drop. Yeah, they're and the title of
this piece, written by Emily Joshinski's pretty cool, right. It's
a marriage gap is growing and a good spell disaster.
(30:38):
The war on boys could be resulting in some women
shunning marriage. And it gets into the whole college educated
women often don't want to marry non college educated men.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
But what just in culturally, who's pushing in a positive
way for women the idea of getting married and having kids?
Where where does that pop up in TV shows or
movies or classrooms or anywhere.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Oh yeah, it's practically practically a mono culture in that
way that it's all about staying independent and footloose and
not tying yourself to any man or kids in the
city interfere with your lifestyle and the rest of it,
and she goes into she actually worked with Christina Hoff
(31:26):
Summers on the re release of her landmark book The
War Against Boys, which came out in two thousand and
I read it, made a huge impression on me, and
they updated it in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
One of the reasons we're gonna be talking about the
boy Scotts a lot like.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Next week, right right, and she says, is Christina's intern
I was a university student surrounded by less rudderless men
with bubbling anger.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Rudderless men with bubbling anger.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, Hughes finding should be considered alongside an NBC
News survey published in September that found lifestyle preferences falling
along partisan lines.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I remember this.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Gen Z men who voted for Trump rate having children
is the most important thing in their personal different definition
of success number one. Gen Z women who voted for
Harris ranked having children as the second least important thing
in their personal definition of success.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Unsurprisingly, young women are also more likely to identify as liberal,
and the margin is widening.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Dang it. Hmm.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
You know I came across this other thing in a
related story. It's around here somewhere. But the antidepressants do
to teen sexual development, and girls are many times more
likely to be on antidepressants than boys. I like how
it opens. For once I thought it was you know.
(32:56):
Usually I hate when articles that they just present the facts.
Please and help me understand the story of I don't
need a personal anecdote. Usually Louisa's a single mother who
drives his Chevy. No, this article is about the price
of beans or whatever. I don't need to hear about Louisa.
Just tell me about the beans anyway. But this one
(33:17):
made an impression on me. Marie began taking a fluoxetine,
the generic form of prozac, when she was fifteen as
part of a treatment, and she talks about how she
was in touch with the initial sparks of sexual energy,
relatively young crushes on boys, posters on the pop stars,
(33:38):
the blue eyed hockey player at school.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh, she couldn't get enough of him.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Then she started on the drug and just lost any
interest at all in anything sexual.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wow, could that be a factor. Joe, and they've gotten
some final thoughts, No Armstrong and Clues show.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
a final thought from everybody on the crew. To wrap
up today, there is Michael Angelo pressing the buttons. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, yesterday I was at Ces Candy A man, it
was packed in, all these old ladies.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yelling for their chalcous. They take it seriously. I didn't
want to get in the way. So uh yeah, Grandma
takes her chocolate serious.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Crazy Katie, our esteemed newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I made a new Katie's Corner this morning, and there's
some good video up there.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Okay, what in particular give me something to be excited about.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
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Okay, okay, check it. I woke up irritated jacket final
thought for us. So I was at Black Bear Diner
last night, my son and I.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Eating, and their dessert list included seasonal candy Cane chalcolate cream.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Pie, candy Cane chocolate cream pie.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Getting back to the story from a little bit earlier, Yeah,
I don't think people getting too skinny.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's really our biggest problem.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Throw a little pumpkin spice on there, and you got
a deal my final thought and would take too long.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Your fun of the thoughts are too deep to fit
into this silly well I'm looking at the time and
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm sick of your I'm tired of having to wait.
You guys are always effing late. This is effing ridiculous.
The newly obtained Charleston Airport investigation report says Republican congress
Member Nancy Mace repeatedly insulted security officers when her car
was not met and she was not immediately escorted to
her plane. In late October, Mace's office called a report
(00:45):
of full exoneration, even though it says she blew a
minor miscommunication into a spectacle.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's what Hexa did the area. I'm gonna start doing that.
That's what Trump does.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, something comes in and you know, says I'm guilty
or whatever. That completely cleared as I expected fully. Generation
Thank you, your honor. I just sentence you to eight years.
I'm totally innocent. We both agree, Thank you, sir. She's
half a job that, Nancy Mace. I'm sick of your ass.
(01:18):
I wasn't planning none more of this. But how about
seventy two. I just want to hear her deny that
because there's a video of it, right, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
The video, but you are you saying that you never
said any of these quotes, that every single one is
a lie.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You have to read it to me again.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I think idiots.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I did not, I did representative.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I did not say that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I did say I'm sick of your shoe.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm tired of having to wait.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
I should not have to wait.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You guys are always fing late. This is efing ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
No, I mean no, I did. I've never called a
cop an idiot. That is a remarkably false.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But you're saying these police officers are lying, then who spoke.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
To I am absolutely saying that that report was falsified,
one hundred percent fictitious, falsified.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Which is possible. I haven't seen the video or anything.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Seems an odd thing to do for a you know,
peace officer to think, you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna make stuff up against make stuff up about
a congress woman.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well she didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm sick of your ass. She was denying that she
called them idiots. She might have said I'm sick of
your ass. So I saw it reminded me for some reason.
I was thinking about this yesterday before the Nancy Mace
thing even came up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't know why this popped into my head. I
wonder why.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
AnyWho, many many many years ago, gladys, you got your
heart many many years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's probably late eighties, so we're all gonna dang. Near
forty years ago I had as at a lake with
a whole bunch of people, and everybody was hammered.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We'd been drinking all day out of their mind, hammered. Anyway,
these two dudes that most of us were with, they
were like the leader of this beach party at this lake,
were fairly well known and very wealthy, and everybody knew that,
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like their mom owned the big bar restaurant there at
the lake, and they both owned big night clubs themselves.
And anyway, the cops came by for some reason. I
don't remember how it started, but they didn't have the
proper stickers on their jet skis, whatever the regulations were.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Can't have that here in Hazard County.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Why the cops decided to make a thing of that,
and I don't know, but anyway they did, and man,
these two rich kids who at that time would have
been I mean young, pretty young, like twenty five and
twenty eight. Man, they were so brutal to the cop
(04:03):
who put up with it. I guess that's why it
stuck in my mind for a couple of reasons. First
of all, I'd never seen anybody talk to a cop
like that before. I would never talk to a cop
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I didn't dig it. I didn't think it was cool
at all. I thought it was awful.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And then I was amazed that the cop put up
with it, and that was its own kind of lesson
in life that he feels like he's got to take
this a level of s from these two dudes because
their mom owns half the company.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, yeah, so he yeah, Okay, I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I always just assumed that because there'd be no other
reason you would put up with that level of belligerent,
drunken calling you names and everything like that.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
But it was just sort of a place where you
would know that who the rich people in the county.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Absolutely yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, interest is small town American
and everything like that, And it was just it was
I'd never seen that sort of thing displayed before where
people of privilege and power don't feel like that they not.
I mean that's common, uh, privilege and power feeling like
that that the rules don't apply it to the but
the actually lighten up the cops when.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You're displeased with the way you're being treated. I had
never seen that before, and like I said, it was
it was a life lesson.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And I guess this can happen, and I guess cops
will put up with it if somebody is important enough
for whatever the way the world works, for whatever reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, be careful about playing that card though, Junior. Yeah,
no kidding.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I mean, I got admit, and these were friends of mine,
but I was I was thinking this guy.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Should freaking arrest these dudes. I absolutely Oh interesting, Hey.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You effing moron, You show me where these stickers should
go effing more on piece of ass? You know, that's
sort of wowoo And I got just put up with it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Wow wow. Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And so anyway, a US representative or senate or senator
or whatever, police know who that is, they might take
a hell of a.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Lot of crap from one of those people.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
For so, yeah, there are all sorts of examples of that,
the capital of people, bad mouth in the capitol, police
and that sort of thing, throwing them under the bus
for their own mistakes.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
God, you're really an awful person if you're a well,
if you have talked to really anybody like that, ing,
let alone a cop.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, speaking of the affluent, this is interesting reading more
about the It's become a cliche the K shaped economy,
a term I'd object to because A is a cliche
and B it ignores the vertical line in the K
completely got an important component of the K.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes, another thought popped in him out about my last
story that I go aheadship. That was an interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thing that I'd never seen before, and I don't know
if I've ever actually witnessed it ever or else in
my life.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
These two dudes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
A lot of what they were doing because there was
probably twenty five of us, including lots of really hot
girls standing around watching this. Their enjoyment was talking to
the cop that way and everybody's seeing it, and just
the display of look, look at the way I can
talk talk to a policeman. Oh yeah, and nothing is
(07:02):
going to happen to me.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
That's like seven hundred pounds silver back pounding on its chest.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it's like, look at this, Look at this. I
can say anything I want to this guy. Nothing's going
to happen to me. That's how freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I am.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Interesting personality thing, very typical common human nature. It's just
like it's it's like the why the dictator claims they
shot a hole in one on every hole of the
golf course. She's like, I can say this and nobody's going.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
To stop me. Right. Yeah, that's a good point. Wow,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, that's disturbing because that sort of pre person rarely
ends up spreading more joy and goodness in their lives
than pain and misery and abusing. Anyway, back to the
so called K shaped economy, which again ignores the vertical
line in the K which is really critical. Uh So,
retail sales on Black Friday of four percent, similar to
last year's jump, but the datascued by wealthier families spending
(07:54):
more while households at the bottom quintile spending notably less.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
According to Moodies.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
In the second quarter of the year, which has got
nothing to do with Black Friday, but the top ten
percent accounted for fifty percent of consumer spending forty nine
point two, but some argue this is somewhat misleading, but
we won't get into that consumption remains overall really robust.
According to this one economist, My question I first heard
(08:24):
that stat was what is it normally? I always feel
like you got to put that in there, right, that
would be handy. Nope, Nope, they don't have that in there.
Rather than a Black Friday rush to mid price retailers
like Banana Republic, holiday shopping is clustered among budget options.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They mentioned Ross and Nordstrom rack. Oh, so you want
to sweater? The rack is more mid priced.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But he wanted a sweater from Banana Republic. I didn't
even get your gap.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I got you old. Maybe that's how bad it is oof.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
But the holiday shopping is clustered among budget budget options
like Ross et cetera, and luxury choices like mister Porter.
I don't know, mister Porter, mister Porter very very cool stuff.
And Sachs Fifth Avenue, Sachs, I know, uh. And then
the K shape extends beyond consumer spending. We've talked about this.
A handful of companies dominate business investment in corporate earnings
(09:17):
up to half of the US's GDP growth in the
first half of twenty twenty five, which was not great
was by AI related spending. Bank of America predicts that Microsoft,
Amazon Meta platforms in alphabet. Well, I've collectively invested three
hundred and forty four billion dollars in capital expenditures during
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Just during twenty five, three hundred and forty four billion
dollars on AI.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
And as of this printing, in the stock market, the
magnificent seven of the aforementioned companies plus Apple In, Nvidia
and Tesla, accounted for more than a third of the
S and P five hundred's total market capitalization, not the growth,
both the total market capitalization those seven companies.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is a bubble. Wild. If it is a bubble,
when it pops, it's going to be noticeable. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
And the thing those of us who follow the market
like about the S and P is it's much much
broader and more relevant than the DOO. The Dow is
a ridiculous and antiquated measure of anything. But you got
seven companies accounting for more than a third. That's that's
out of whack. You gotta get it back in whack.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Bubble, it's a bubble.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
He's afraid of that. Here's a shocking fact for you.
We'll pay this off in a minute. Colombia's anti Semitism
task for us Colembia University found that among its Middle
East faculty, zero of them were pro Israel. Nice faculty, Columbia,
(10:56):
What a joke that more to come stay with us.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, I'll talk about this later.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
National Reviews got a story about about the Seattle school
district and all the questions that they're asking kids on surveys.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
In the schools without.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
The parents really knowing that it's happening about their sexual
orientation and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Way too young an age.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't know why you need to ask it at
any age really, because you're indoctrinating them.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
My god, I hate them.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Also, one of the most eloquent defenses of Zionism I've
run into coming up in a couple of minutes, and
the report from Columbia about how they have zero faculty
that have anything nice to say about Israel. That seems
perfectly reasonable and balanced for a public university anyway, or
(11:44):
private whatever it is. First though, my eye was caught
by this. They're talking about the Kensington Avenue open air
drug market in Philadelphia, which they call the country's most
notorious San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I think had that.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Wrapped up for a while around the Civic center assists. Man,
you could get anything all the time. Junkies everywhere. Watch
out for the poop. So is it Salvadorans selling drugs openly?
Cops had walk by. It's amazing. But so they're talking
about this Kensington Avenue in Philly. For years, the street
ran on heroin. Then the gang started putting fentanyl or
(12:23):
fetti in the dope. I didn't know fentanyl had any nickname,
but it's fetti.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Sounds cute. Get a little fetti in with your heroin.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Then came the animal tranquilizer zylazine jack, known simply as
tank trank. That's right, it'll rot your flesh right off
your limbs.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's the one that puts holes in your legs. Delightful.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
But wait, just when you thought there can't be any
more new drugs, there's a new one. Medatomidine medaomidine you know,
or something like that delivers a shorter, more powerful high
than the varieties of dope that preceded it, and the
crash is faster and more brutal. By some estimates, it's
(13:05):
two hundred times stronger than the trunk.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I tried the trunk and it put holes in my legs.
I'm looking for something that burns my eyeballs out of
the sockets.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Do you have anything like that?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Junkie Tony, who they interview, says, there's no stages to
the high, you go straight to sleep.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well, wait a minute, I don't understand that.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's like the trunk with the lean where I've seen
him in San Francisco where they're just leaned over up
against a wall.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, what kind of party is that?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yeah, I don't know what the withdrawal is from these
various things. Either I don't know to make up a
hit or stamp. According to the junkies, the dealers mix
the let's just.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Call it med with fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
U have a jackhammer, which continues to be the leading
cause of overdose death in the US. The drugs are
then packed in small paper wraps, each stamped with a
Cruise brand.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Hot Sauce is one drug. Cruise brand Pringles.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
I see that's I'm sorry, that's a copyright infringement, Blackjack
or Sunshine. They cost two to five dollars depending on
the size.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Wow, you can get asleep, apparently is what their goal is,
leaning up against the wall with sores in your legs
for two bucks.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Right.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Then they talk to uh Christine, a forty one year
old Philadelphian who doesn't look at day over seventy. She's
more got more scabs than I have eyelashes. You, if
I do a certain stamp, I have to have that stamp,
she says. I try to do other stamps, it won't
get me. Well, wow, she's at that point of addiction
where she takes drugs just to feel even close to
(14:51):
normal and not horribly sick.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But your physical addiction is you've got to have the
particular blend of that.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
By the way, she's suffered a mere five heart attacks
triggered by the med withdrawal. She said, so far forty
one she had five heart attacks.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So I'm doing the sunshine, and that's the kind that
I need to continue to do. I get a sunshine,
I'm getting notes of caramel, and then it's got a
chocolatey finish.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I'd throw up my back twisting my screen so that
you can see this poor woman. But she's sirious if
you were. It's like a stock photo from Soviet era
Russia where the seventy year old Babushka struggles to gather potatoes.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You know she looks like that, right. Five heart attacks? Yeah, wow,
good party.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
The effects of each stamp very slightly from block to
block due to a variety of other adulterants, but usually
a result in abrupt unconsciousness and extreme sedation. You do it,
you wake up, you're sick. You don't even know you're
passing out. But this isn't like nodding off long Kensington Avenue.
People shuffling near catatonic states, bent at right angles, some
(16:05):
frozen mid stride.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
That's the lean I'm gonna gord. And you get.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Withdrawal symptoms within two hours, exponentially more punishing than heroin.
Withdrawal exponentially more punishing, And you gotta be on it
within one hundred and twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Here you get withdraws.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, and you got to use the same kind you
were using again, the blend that's got notes of chocolate
and a raspberry finish hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Christine describes brain zapps vomiting many seizures, paralysis and even
violent swings and heart rate and blood pressure, hence her
quintuple infections.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Good.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
She didn't mention scrammeting, though that is unique to that
one marijuana. It makes you scream and vomit at the
same time.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Oh more and more teens with that. I want to
talk about that maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
But if she.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Doesn't hustle enough cash to stay off withdrawal, she'll inevitably
have a heart attack and collapse on the street.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And you need it every two hours. Of course, the
upside is it's only two bucks. Nice lifestyle, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We can't go around just shooting people who are unarmed
adrift in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's a terrible thing. It's illegal, and it's in the world.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Rand Paul doing lots of interviews making the rounds. He
really doesn't like our current policy of blasting people in
the water off of the coast of Venezuela, which is
a very random Paul thing to do. And he might
be right.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Some courts should make a decision. Just came across an
article about they may introduce those drugs, gop one drugs,
that's like ero zempic and your zip bound and your
what are some of the other brand names.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
It's like one Wigovy, Wigovy and.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Panera. Is that one of them? Now that's a bread
it is, that's right.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, No, they're coming up with one for pets. You
got a fat dog or a fat cat. But the
National Review has an article today for the people version,
the dangers of weight loss drugs going mainstream.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Wows just when it seemed like a great idea. I
think this is I guess it's just a journalism thing.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Something becomes popular. You write an article about how this
could be bad. All right, because I read the whole
article and it doesn't convince me. But it's some interesting
information in here. Because i'd forgotten some of this stuff.
I didn't remember that. Kate Moss, who was one of
your famous skinny models of like the eighties and nineties,
nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. She was famous
(18:53):
for saying, I guess even though I've never heard that before.
The mattra, popularized by bone thin celebrities and touted by
teenagers with eating disorders, colored the way an entire generation
thought about weight, food, and exercise. Katie, you lost a
ton of weight yourself throughout the years. But you you've
I don't think you've ever said anything about like going
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too far, being too skinny, or were you ever.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
There was a point where yeah, I was a little
too skinny, but that was because I was so obsessed
with staying skinny and working out that it wasn't something
that I could continue to do.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
But you had been quite overweight and had health problems. Yeah,
so it's a pretty good reason to be pretty obsessed
with staying thin.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So that's the problem with all this. I mean, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Know, if you if you have a heart attack and
your doctor says you got to lose weight, being pretty
obsessed with losing weight is that doesn't make you Kate Moss.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Doesn't make you k Yeah, it doesn't make you Kate Moss.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
When models in the twenty tens eight calorie free cotton
balls dipped in juice or gelatin to make their slips
feel full, what I had missed this? What you take
a cotton ball and dip it in juice or jello
to make your stomach feel No?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't wow that. How did I never hear about that?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well? I don't know if lots of people were doing it.
See that's the thing you get. That's what I heard
about it. Yeah, yeah, you get six hipsters in the
New York or LA that are doing it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And women all across America.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No, no, not Actually, if you just look around, people
all across America are not overwhelmingly obsessed with being thin.
Based on my trip to Walmart last week. Well, I
do enjoy a nice mouthful of cotton balls, though. When
celebrities embarked on the Master Cleanse in the early two thousand,
a detox diet that consisted only of lemon juice, maple syrup, water,
(20:49):
and cayenne pepper. Right, you remember that when our former
newswoman announced with great fans fair she was going to
do that and made it till eleven am.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I think it was she'd make it to lunch the
first day. I remember that. Yeah, Jamie, you're a good person.
Oh yeah, he ca bad diet.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I think Beyonce started that whole thing, the cleanse, the lemon, honey,
cayenne giasco.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
None of these crazes I'm reading from the National Review
provided enough essential nutrients to make her keep a person healthy.
Girls who ate cotton balls lost their hair and developed
gastro intestinal problems.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Master.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's surprising Master cleansers passed out in the middle.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Of the day. That's what Jamie had had going. She
was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's like an hour after we got off the air
the first day. Good for her, though she recognized it
was a bad idea. And then it talks about the
TV show The Biggest Loser in which all the contestants
game back the weight, which ended up being really really
good for the world because the studies they did on
The Biggest Loser stuff is what alerted us all to
the sad, sad fact that we have where we end
(22:07):
up genetically programmed for a certain weight and your body
goes into all kinds of conniption fits to make sure
you stay it that weight. And it's some of the
most depressing news I've ever gotten in my life, but
it certainly seems to be true. Wow, gen Z has
inherited a weight obsessed culture, one that social media has
is exacerbated. Photos and videos of idyllic bodies are streamed
(22:28):
into our mind so often. I mean, they've been saying
this since as a little kid, when those magazines on
the rack at the store.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And now it's social media stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I don't know, to girls willing to starve themselves, those
bodies are, at least for a time, an achievable norm.
I've always had a problem with animy because everybody on
every magazine cover has always been better looking than me.
And I don't know, I never thought about it that much,
and I wish to If you ask me, would you
like to look like them? Yeah, I'd really like to
look like them. But that's kind of the end of it. Yeah, yeah,
(23:00):
And it is for most people. So the problem with
all these things is what percentage of people have to
go off the nutty deep end on something for it
to be something that the rest of society should.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
React to, right, or that the rest of us have
to refrain from from now on, you know, because some
people go way too far. I don't know, stupid, should
hurt buy the T shirt, armstrong and getdy dot com.
It's bad behavior leads to negative outcomes.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Enter weightlaw. It must enter weight loss drugs.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Gop Ones, originally intended to treat type two diabetes and
now used for weight loss, seem to su like a boon,
a game changer for obese people who need medical intervention.
To others, gop ones seemed like the next overhyped miracle drug.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Which I think it actually is. Yeah, how do you
talk over.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Hyped miracle drug when you're just talking about people eating
cotton balls tipped and kai and peppers or whatever. That's
not exactly an apples to apples comparison, all right, and
just overhyped miracles?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
What does that even mean? This eye of the behold,
I think you're right the first time. It's the whole
all right. We've put out six articles about how great
something is. Now we need to start the backlash. Jenny,
you write some backlashy articles, right, could we have gone
too far? Go ahead, we'll do that.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Which, if marketed to the wrong subset of people, could
perpetuate the myth that's skinny is better than healthy skinny.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
So don't, yeah, so don't, And that's wrong. Read a book,
read a magazine, hell, read a tweet.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
If you don't know that, if.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
You need proper nutrition, even if you're losing weight, you
don't know that, you're dumb. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
To help you.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
And speaking of Kate Moss, her sister actually overdosed on ozempic.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Overdosed on yeah she was.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
She wasn't heavy and the dosage of ozempic was too
high and she ended up in the hospital because of it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Ugh. Well, my question remains, and this is not just
for this weight loss thing, it's really for everything. It's
just what percentage of people that are either nuts or
I don't know what it is, an addictive person, whatever
your deal is, have poor judgment or stupid What percentage
of people with anything does it need to reach before
(25:27):
we should considered a problem for the masses who aren't going.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
To do this.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
The masses of us see attractive people on magazine covers
or TV shows and just think it'd be cool to
look like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You just don't really ever think about it. It doesn't
take over your life. Yeah, you might try to be
more good looking. Certainly everybody likes to present themselves the
best they can.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
But yeah, yeah, I think all of that's overblown it
and it just to even hint it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Therefore, these so called miracle drugs are really scourge or
I mean, they don't state that in the article, I'm sure,
but that's the hinting at it.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You know, It's just I'm just thinking out loud.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But wouldn't it make more sense to say America would
be better off if many, many, many more people looked
at magazine covers and became really interested in losing.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
The right Because the vast majority of those people would
end up in a much better place and be healthy.
There would be a very small minority who went too far,
starved themselves or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But that's no reason not to have you know.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
It's like saying, don't evacuate the building that's on fire
because a certain number of people might step on a
nail or trip and falls.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Better that we all remain in place. Now, that's just
dumb again, It's stupid, should hurt.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
You cannot regulate ninety five percent of society based on
the needs of the five percent who were too dumb
to help or crazy, you know, And I'm not and
I'm trying to be dismissive of like the young girl's
adolescents with eating disorders. It's a terrible, heartbreaking problem.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh, it is horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I got a friend and who have both their daughters
had eating distories, really really, really really awful.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
But what percentage of people die.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
From obesiti related illnesses every year compared to die from anarexia.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
It's roughly a million to one. Yeah, right, exactly right.
So I don't need some magazine guy telling me, Joe,
don't get too excited about these JLP ones because some
people might go too far. Well, I'm not going to,
so stop shouting at me.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And I don't think that you can take in no
nutrients and be perfectly okay.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
If I'm gobbling cotton balls and I'm beyond help from.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
The newspaper article or whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, I don't know that thing has been around for
ever my entire.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Radio career, These unrealistic images we put on television, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
The better people in the village got more attention to
and you wish you looked like them.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That reminds me of the ancient discussion about weather, and
I remember it was at the time Playboy magazine. If
some women really didn't like it because they felt like
all men would compare them to the chairy brushed right,
that's a small percentage of dope dudes don't deserve the
(28:18):
love of a good woman anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, I just I don't know is how much.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
How many things like this were just invented for talk
radio fodder. Practically maybe we're the reason for it, turning
the way back talk radio something to talk about on
a you know, a Wednesday afternoon while people drive to work.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Unrealistic images Okay, but so that was your first blowback
article thus far on the new weight loss drugs, which
and I love National Review.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
That was freaking week. Oh that's try freaking week.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
We're probably going to prevent six hundred and fifty thousand
heart attacks this year, but there's five young women across
America who will take too much, like Kate Moss's dopey sister.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Fine.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Great, so a big country. We'll be okay, we'll finish strong, next.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Strong.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
Australia just launched the world's first social media band for
everyone under sixteen years old, which includes TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.
That's yeah, it's a big deal. Who knew there was
someone under sixteen using Facebook?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
I had that same reaction when I saw that list.
Oh no, not my Facebook said, no fourteen year olds?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Right.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Speaking of kids' attitudes about thing things, a new Pew
research report came out comparing data from nineteen ninety three
and twenty twenty three about kids attitudes towards marriage, and
last month they put it out twelfth grade boys are
more likely than twelfth grade girls to say they want
(30:07):
to get married someday, a serious flip from three decades ago.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Boys plans for marriage really haven't budged.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They went from seventy six to seventy four percent in
that thirty years, But the girls have gone from eighty
three percent to sixty one percent in that time. That's
a pretty big drop. Yeah, they're and the title of
this piece, written by Emily Joshinski's pretty cool, right. It's
a marriage gap is growing and a good spell disaster.
(30:38):
The war on boys could be resulting in some women
shunning marriage. And it gets into the whole college educated
women often don't want to marry non college educated men.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
But what just in culturally, who's pushing in a positive
way for women the idea of getting married and having kids?
Where where does that pop up in TV shows or
movies or classrooms or anywhere.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Oh yeah, it's practically practically a mono culture in that
way that it's all about staying independent and footloose and
not tying yourself to any man or kids in the
city interfere with your lifestyle and the rest of it,
and she goes into she actually worked with Christina Hoff
(31:26):
Summers on the re release of her landmark book The
War Against Boys, which came out in two thousand and
I read it, made a huge impression on me, and
they updated it in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
One of the reasons we're gonna be talking about the
boy Scotts a lot like.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Next week, right right, and she says, is Christina's intern
I was a university student surrounded by less rudderless men
with bubbling anger.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Rudderless men with bubbling anger.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, Hughes finding should be considered alongside an NBC
News survey published in September that found lifestyle preferences falling
along partisan lines.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I remember this.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Gen Z men who voted for Trump rate having children
is the most important thing in their personal different definition
of success number one. Gen Z women who voted for
Harris ranked having children as the second least important thing
in their personal definition of success.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Unsurprisingly, young women are also more likely to identify as liberal,
and the margin is widening.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Dang it. Hmm.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
You know I came across this other thing in a
related story. It's around here somewhere. But the antidepressants do
to teen sexual development, and girls are many times more
likely to be on antidepressants than boys. I like how
it opens. For once I thought it was you know.
(32:56):
Usually I hate when articles that they just present the facts.
Please and help me understand the story of I don't
need a personal anecdote. Usually Louisa's a single mother who
drives his Chevy. No, this article is about the price
of beans or whatever. I don't need to hear about Louisa.
Just tell me about the beans anyway. But this one
(33:17):
made an impression on me. Marie began taking a fluoxetine,
the generic form of prozac, when she was fifteen as
part of a treatment, and she talks about how she
was in touch with the initial sparks of sexual energy,
relatively young crushes on boys, posters on the pop stars,
(33:38):
the blue eyed hockey player at school.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh, she couldn't get enough of him.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Then she started on the drug and just lost any
interest at all in anything sexual.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wow, could that be a factor. Joe, and they've gotten
some final thoughts, No Armstrong and Clues show.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
a final thought from everybody on the crew. To wrap
up today, there is Michael Angelo pressing the buttons. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, yesterday I was at Ces Candy A man, it
was packed in, all these old ladies.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yelling for their chalcous. They take it seriously. I didn't
want to get in the way. So uh yeah, Grandma
takes her chocolate serious.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Crazy Katie, our esteemed newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I made a new Katie's Corner this morning, and there's
some good video up there.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Okay, what in particular give me something to be excited about.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Just like something that's really going to irritate you. Some
really good information for TJ Max shoppers.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay, okay, check it. I woke up irritated jacket final
thought for us. So I was at Black Bear Diner
last night, my son and I.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Eating, and their dessert list included seasonal candy Cane chalcolate cream.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Pie, candy Cane chocolate cream pie.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Getting back to the story from a little bit earlier, Yeah,
I don't think people getting too skinny.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's really our biggest problem.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Throw a little pumpkin spice on there, and you got
a deal my final thought and would take too long.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Your fun of the thoughts are too deep to fit
into this silly well I'm looking at the time and
be absurd to even try. But stay tuned. Join us
tomorrow for my final thought. Okay, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Wrapping up another grueling four hour work. There so many
people to think, so little time.
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