December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Smart phones for kids under 12 & the effects
- Ukraine/Russia war & new Epstein photos
- TSA & how weight loss drugs are changing the economy
- 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 and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Thirteen point one miles to go, twelve minutes for one mile.
I can't actually get into my mouth. My right pinky
(00:30):
is asleep.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A little over an hour in my right shoulder is
the most painful thing right now.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Seven miles over halfway point. I'm getting hot, right shirts?
Are you wearing? Yeah, not dying, just fut heat joke.
Coming up on the twelve mile mark.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's most T shirts worn for half marathon previews record
one twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I've got one hundred thirty seven T shirts on my
back is solt sore. My hands are sold swool. Thirteen miles.
We're gonna make it, come on. What the hell was that?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's a guy running a marathon wearing one hundred and
thirty seven T shirts. I guess the previous record was
one hundred and thirty one. So he added six more
and random marathon and said again it's worth yeah a
half marathon.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah yeah. He's a content creator, and his content is
he does weird, freaky kind of funny things that are
also painful and strenuous.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, well, you know there's two ends of the equation
for the whole content creator thing. There have to be
people that watch and or listen to this stuff to
make it worthwhile, and apparently there are. Given the fact that,
you know what, the average kid spends seven hours on
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TikTok or whatever it is, you know that makes it
worthwhile because they did, then the advertisers get enough eyeballs
to pay money to the content creator. The vicious cycle
and stupidess like so so people screw rolling through their
phones all day long, taken in this crap leads to
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more of this crap, and it's just it'll never end.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
In a related story, a smartphone before age twelve could
carry health risks. According to a study, Researchers found higher
rates of depression, poor sleep, and obesity among tweens who
had early access to cell phones.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I think cell phones are horrible, and the younger the
kid the worst phone, but smartphones, But I would like
to know what other factors go with that. You know,
it's a parents who give their kids a smartphone at
age ten probably do other things in addition to giving
their kid a smartphone that aren't next necessarily in line
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with good parenting. In my mind, I think that is
entirely possible. Tough to tease that out of the study,
but an excellent point. The younger that children under twelve
were when they got their first smartphones that the study found,
the greater their risk of obesity and poor sleep. The
researchers also focused on a subset of children who had
not received a phone by eight twelve and found that
a year later, those who acquired one had more harmful
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mental health symptoms and worse sleep than those who hadn't.
For instance, yes, for instance, what I was just saying,
The parent that gives their ten year old a smartphone
probably doesn't give a crap what they eat, so the
obesity thing doesn't surprise me. The parent that gives their
ten year old a smartphone probably doesn't supervise it at all.
(03:26):
So the fact that they are spending more on time
on social media, which makes you depressed, it doesn't surprise me.
You mentioned earlier the intense pressure from the kid to
get a smartphone, partly because that's how tweens and teens
stay in touch and if they want to be part
of the group, which every adolescent desperately wants. It's tough
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if you don't have a smartphone counterbalance. And this is
the lead author of the study and A Child and
a Child, an adolescent psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Philadelphia, quote,
when you give if your kid a phone, you need
to think of it as something that is significant for
the kid's health and behave accordingly. Here's the upside of
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how much they want the phone, though it's the greatest.
I'm gonna take this away from you if you don't
get your grades up or whateverever. I mean, there's never
been a parenting stick as opposed to a carrot, as
great as taking away your phone for a week.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Because I've done it. I'm just taking away a care
at a stick. I don't know that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But man, you you have a kid or an adult,
anybody who's addicted to their smartphone, and it's so much
of your life, and you know you don't get that
until you get your grades up, or.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You start taking the trash out or whatever it is
your thing. It is powerful, powerful. What what percentage of
parents actually have the spine to to carry out that sanction?
Hanson does that.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I do that, and several several of my son's
friends do that also.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, I don't if the answer is ten percent or
ninety percent. I truly hate it interesting, but it's even
worse than it makes it difficult though for the parent.
I must say, when my kid didn't have his cell
phone for a couple of weeks, it changed everything in
terms of like trying to get a hold of him.
So putting aside depression, poor sleep, and obesity, which is
(05:20):
a hell of a phrase, how about this. Here is
a school teacher clip number fourteen talking about her classroom experience.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I think that you guys don't know what's going on
in education right now. That's fine, like, how could you
know unless you are working in it? But I think
that I think you need to know. So here is
exactly what it's like right now working in public education.
First of all, the kids have no ability to be
bored whatsoever. They live on their phones and they're just
fed a constant stream of dopemine from the minute their
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eyes wake up in the morning until they go to
sleep at night. Because they're in a constant state of dopamine.
With droald school, they behave like addicts. They're super emotional,
like the smallest thing sets them up, and when you
are standing in front of them trying to teach, they're vacant.
They have no ability to tune in if your communication
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isn't packaged in short little clips, or if it doesn't
have like bright flashing lights. That's actually the way harder
part for me than just the outright behaviors is just
being up at the front talking to a group of
kids who have their eyes open. They're looking at me,
but they're not there. They're not there, and they have
a level of apathy that I've never seen before in
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my whole career. Punishments don't work because they don't care
about them. They don't care about grades, they don't care
about college. It's like you are interacting with them briefly
in between hits of the internet, which is their real life.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Wow ah, that last part.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I've run into that not caring about stuff, and I
just don't quite get it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How does that?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
How did that come out of using cell phones in
the dopamine hit thing? So all I want that's interesting
because I've I've run into that and I've talked to
other parents who are having a bit of that problem too,
is like they just don't care. Like I cared when
I was in school about my grades, and they just
don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And I'm like, yeah, why don't you care. I don't
remember why I cared. I just did. That's interesting, Well,
that squares pretty comfortably with addiction in general, doesn't it.
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now, No, I was just trying to picture when she
was talking about the standing up there in front of
the class, and they're used to getting dopamine.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's all day long.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Remember if you're older, remember how incredibly boring your ninth
grade social studies teacher was. Now, try to imagine it
with your current brain that's used to getting you know,
bad bad bam bam, bam, bam bam all day long.
Not you're I was fifteen years old back in the
time when you know, my brain much was much you
(08:00):
were bored.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Then imagine it now, Oh my god, imagine you're a
child who's never gone through that stage of development that
we did. Yeah, that's worse than we can imagine. We
can take imagine it. Because I have a hard time
reading long form myself. I have to like really.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Discipline myself to make myself do it because it seems
so boring for a while until I get back in
the groove because I've ruined my brain, and my brain
worked fairly well up until two thousand and eight and
I started staring at a smartphone. So yeah, if you've
never had that, I don't know. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to figure out a way. They might
have to craft lessons in school to where they're all
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videos and they come at you're really really fast with
music and lights. That might be the only way to
reach kids.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, interesting, I mean, because I really do think it's
a if you can't beat them, join them sort of situation.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
There's no point in well.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're gonna sit here and you're gonna listen to me
drone on about the Stamp Act whether you like it
or not.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That ain't gonna work, no, because they won't absorb any
of it. Now, Yeah, you'll have lost the war. Yeah,
i'd agree. I don't know exactly what to do with it.
I keep here seeing this metal picture of a god
and I don't know what's your favorite talking to God
cliche Saint Peter, and God's saying, you know, the humans
had their run time to clear the way for the
(09:20):
ants or the beavers or whatever. Say Peter saying, how
are you going to get rid of the humans? And
God will say, don't worry about it, They'll do it themselves. God.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Sometimes school was so boring, and that was with my
pre smartphone brain. Sure, I can't imagine what it would
be like for your average junior in high school now
or college kid to have somebody up there droning on
and on versus the competition is your phone, Instagram or TikTok.
Holy crap, whoa, that's a problem. And then that don't
(09:53):
care part. I'd never heard anybody bring that up before,
at tying that into.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The Dopamina dict. Huh all fits, Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Uh. Putin said something really frightening yesterday that you go back,
you know once again, you go back a couple of decades,
the reaction would have been completely different. We're all so
used to bomb Bass now. I guess we don't react,
but you'll have to hear it, stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Crucially, there was no compromise deal on Ukraine, and few
here are surprised that that outcome, believing Putin doesn't really
want to end the war until he's achieved his goals.
The question now is how will President Trump respond. Wikoff
and Kushner leaving Moscow early today and they're going to
brief President Trump, and for Belieger Ukrainians it means more bombing,
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more fighting, more war and more death now.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Marco Rubio has been saying, We're not interested in any
peace deal that allows Russia to pull off a third invasion.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Of Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Ukraine needs to be, you know, in a stable place
or they are safe. On the other hand, a couple
of negative things that happened yesterday. First of all, Belgium
and a couple of other countries not on board with
the idea of taking frozen Russian assets and giving them
to Ukraine to help rebuild Ukraine. Belgium actually said, in
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the very probable event, Russia is ultimately not officially the
losing party. Okay, that's got to be a translation problem.
It's basically saying Russia is gonna win. They would be
legitimately asking for their sovereign assets to be returned, and
we think they should be so. Belgium and a couple
of other countries say Russia should get their money back.
(11:40):
It shouldn't go to Ukraine. So that's not a third
about It's hard to imagine why Russia would agree to that.
And just the whole you have an international monetary system
where sometimes because somebody pisses you off, you snatch their
money and keep it. You can't do that more than
a couple of times. But man, that's a bad reason
for Ukraine. If they have to give up their land,
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Russia gets to keep their money. All the various things. Oh,
that's an ugly situation. And then this Putin yesterday, and
there's a lot of back and forth with threats and
this and sort of stuff. Putin actually said, and Hansen said,
you watch the video. He looks more animated than this
even sounds and scary. Right, we are not planning to
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go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to
and starts, we are ready right now. And I made
the remark earlier. If that sort of comment had come
out of the Soviet premiere in the.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Eighties, the world would have stopped. I mean the world
would stop.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
When people would say vague things like you know, we
will not put up with this are just something really
soft by today's standards. Everybody'd be worried that nuclear holocaust
was about to be unleashed on the world.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now you got Putin saying, hey, we're ready to.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Go with where Europe anytime if it starts, and I
didn't even hear about it until like a half an
hour ago.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't know if Trump moved the Overton windows so
much on things you say, or social media did or what.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But that's a heck of a comment. I would point
out there already is war in Europe, including incursions into
the airspace of half a dozen countries by Russia, and
it's drones.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So yeah, but that's not the usual diplomatic a guy
saying the last thing we want is war. We want peace,
no matter what the cost, but we are prepared if.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
We have to. None on us. Not what he said right,
much more aggressive than that.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And that's just where we are with the biggest nuclear
powers on Earth, you know, staring at each other. So
there's your update on that. I want this update because
Katie just tweeted it out. Katie, what's this Epstein update?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Well, they just released new photos from Epstein Island. I
guess that the Democrats have found in the files and.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The plane Epstein Island the plane. Right, that's a really
really old TV reference. You got to at least sixty
to get go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Well, and I'm looking at the pictures and one of
them that stood out to me is this room where
there's a yellow dental chair and all over the walls
around it are just masks of men's faces.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, I agree, that's odd, decorps. It was obviously used
as dental office back in the day, probably from whoever
he bought it from. But this is this is a
nothing burger. This is nothing. This is funny. I saw
headline next to some story. It was, you know, obviously sarcastic.
So Democrats don't care about Epstein anymore because we haven't
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heard anything for a long time. No, they just leaked
out these completely innocuous pictures of storerooms and couches just
to get Epstein back in the news. Yeah, I mean nothing.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
The other pictures are really dumb, but that one creeps
me out of it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, I don't want to go to a dentist that's
got those masks on the wall.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That just seems weird.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Same.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh, it's nine on the weird ten scale. It just
absolutely odd. But hey, before I sit down in the.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Chair and you give me something that makes it impossible
for me to defend myself.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What's with all the weird faces on the wall? Yeah? Right,
this is an on atmosphere you're going for here, doc,
where's your diploma? I mean? Yeah, no kidding, Yeah, yeah,
I kind of, but yeah. Several of the other pictures
are literally of like a couch and chairs, and there's
a not in use steam room where various bathroom supplies
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were stored, literally towels and tp So is your.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Take that everything was wrung out of the Epstein story
that could be wrung out of it?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And now again they're just trying to keep it in
the news because it was hurting Trump, it was dividing
Mega blah blah blah blah blah. Everything we said at
the time. This is a sad tempt. Please what about
the names the list? All right now, I'm not going there,
forget it. They're actual, they're actual, uh, stuff to worry about, things,
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issues to be concerned with.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
For some reason, all I got was it reminded me
I should go to the dentist. Michael, when's the last
time you went.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
To the dentist? Actually about two months ago. Joe, when's
the last time you into the dentist? A few months ago?
I'm due to go again, Katie. Last time you went
to the dentist about five months ago.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Now, somebody asked me, when's the last time you went
to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Two thousand and two. I don't know. That's why you
got nothing but two brown nubs in your mouth. It's
been decades. Yeah. You you are seriously in the genetic
one percent in terms of teeth. You're not in tble.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You're not going because you need to go, right, You're
going because you're supposed to go on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What do you mean supposed to Hell? Yeah, I'm going
because I quote unquote need to go. So my teeth
are healthy and my gums.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I wonder ifault one day, I'm gonna wake up and
all my teeth have fallen out overnight and I'm just
in a pile in my bed.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That suit you serve your right, right, serve you right?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Switching Here's on Sunday, the TSA screen more than three
million people at US Airport, setting a new single day
record to release the video celebrating this achievement.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Check this out here at the TSA, we just set
a new single day screening record.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's because of you and your family's love of travel.
We're allowed to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
We do best and on behalf of everyone at the TSA.
We just want to say all personal belongings in the
tray belt to Jews can stay on laptop in its
own trade choos off. Actually, laptop can stay in the bag. Actually,
chug your water. Still a little bit of buttter walk
through this lane?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
No, I mean this lay the sensor detected something on
your elbow. What's this in your bag?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Stand and wait while we ramsacked your luggage.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Okay, never mind, there's nothing. Good luck closing your bag again?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Is this a real idea?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Enjoy your flight? Oh you missed it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Sorry, Happy holidays from the TSA.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now I'm ahead that one. Good luck closing your bag again.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
They get everything and they mess it all up up,
like you can't possibly get your bag closed again quickly,
and then the uh and then you just gotta love
the It's different every single time.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, no, no electronics stay in.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Seriously, dude, seriously, do you not know that at other
airports they're saying take them out, or that you were saying,
take them out last week. Don't act like I've done
something wrong or I'm stupid for not knowing in advance.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They seriously every tsa guide. They ought to force them
to fly back and forth at least once. All right,
you're gonna connect through through Indianapolis, go to New York,
then come back again. Why trust me? And they get
through that experience to say, oh, oh, now I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh so at that airport they tell you leave your
belt on, but at this one we say take them off,
and we act like you're a moron if you didn't
automatically take it off.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What exactly?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Any Who, my son got pulled out a line when
we were flying, and I wish they could there was
some sort of just go ahead because the speech the
guy gave was so unbelievably long.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You are you the father?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm going to touch the back of his buttocks with
the backs of my gloved hands. I will slide down
the buttocks, i will go inside to the thighs. The
backs of my hands will then go down to the
middle of the knees. I'm going to go around to
the front. I will raise the backs. Just do it,
Just freaking do it, and I'm not standing right here.
You're not gonna molest him. I'm not worried about it.
(19:29):
He's not worried about it. Let's just get out of here.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
They didn't make that up, though. They do that for
a reason, I know, I know, because somebody would sue
or claim they got groped or whatever they'll light on.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So the New York Post, well, no, this was a
What he was doing was he's trying to avoid any
sort of.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You know, sexual impropriety claim. And you're going way too far.
I get it. You gotta touch his pants. Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So the New York Post built this story around super
thin is back in among celebrities, and they got these
pictures since ozempick and all these things around the market,
And they got a variety of celebrities including ari On
a Grande, who I've always found to be a skeleton.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't quite get her appeal as.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
A sex object because she is a skeleton, a skeleton
of a person.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And it might not be her fault, but she's podiator.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
It's it's gotten drastically worse since she has gotten wicked.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, it has.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
She this picture here, Oh my god, she is a
skeleton with hair, and same with LaToya Jackson and a
couple other people that don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh Megan Trainer who did not have LaToya Jackson on
my bingo card. Yeah me neither.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Mega Trainer, who kind of made her living as kind
of having a big booty, you know, that was her
claim to fame, is now just a stick person. Amy
Schumer has lost all her weight again, but heroin Chic
is back in. And I was wondering, stopping has got
to be tough if you lose weight, like knowing when
to stop. Like Katie, you lost eighty some pounds. How
(21:06):
did you know when to stop so you don't end
up in look crazy territory?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I just kind of talked to my doctor about what
a healthy weight for my height would be. And then
once I got there, I was like, all right, And
you know.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Because it seems to be a common things you you
go to you go from overweight, you know, like the
way you look to look fantastic to you look like
you're dying but you're still doing it.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Yeah, you're just kind of lighting up on the workouts
and whatnot to you know.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Call it good enough. Yeah, speaking of weight loss and
that sort of thing. It is really really interesting the
extent to which the super effective weight loss drugs ozempic, Wigovi, Munjaro,
and zep bound have affected the economy in all sorts
of ways. It's turned around the obesity rate for the
first time in history, certainly in the United States, and
(22:03):
companies are trying to adjust to the new realities. I
will give you a list.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, First of all, I can't imagine one, so I'm
interested in this.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I can't like even predict one.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Maybe close close sizes perhaps, But as we've been saying
for a while, this is a major cultural change, right
that's gonna become very obvious very soon.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Let's start with pharmacies. The drugs come with some uncomfortable
or harmful side effects, including indigestion, nausea, and loss of
hair and muscle mass. As a result, sales for supplements
vitamin rich beauty products have surged. Some studies suggest the
medication also might boost fertility. Purchases of pregnancy kits among
a cohort GLP one users surged one hundred and forty
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eight percent over the course of one year, according.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
To Nielsen Research. Loss of hair, yeah, some thinner, but
I lose my hair. I don't know if that's a
good deal. I mean, I'm already for normal.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
People supplements, electrolyte supplements, hair growth products, and I nauseamag
medications of skyrocketed among GLP one users. Some are marketing
directly to those folks grocery stores. The elimination of food noise,
which is constantly thinking about food and what you're gonna
eat next, can lead to binging and distracting thoughts about
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eating that's food noise can GLP one users are cutting
back on snacks, spending more unhealthy items compared with non
households GLP one households reduced. They're spending by ten percent
over a year across one hundred categories, including groceries, quick
service restaurants, tobacco, according to another consumer research firm. While
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the fallout could hurt the snack food industry, some companies
are innovating and acquiring health food brands. They're focused on
high protein items which support muscle mass or highly set
satiating and boost metabolism, as well as quick and healthy
frozen meals. I wonder what it's going to do to
close with go back to it? It was, you know
in the eighties and early nineties or whatever before we
all got fat.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
When you know, the bulk of the sweatshirts at the
Big five weren't all double XL to five XL.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yes, yeah, one hundred percent. Let's eat more fresh produce.
Over thirteen week period last year, they increased their spending
on fresh fruit by fourteen percent and on vegetables by
thirty eight percent compared with the year before. Healthy snacks
obviously are selling a lot better. Non alcoholic beverages have
exploded in use, as GLP one drugs can suppress alcohol
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cravings among heavy drinkers. Meanwhile, high protein drinks and probiotics
soda brands that promote gut health are seeing significant growth
strip malls. Weight loss drugs create an opportunity for clothing
brands as consumers refresh their wardrobe as they shed pounds
more beauty products, smaller sizes for men and women. Demand
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for women's tops in extra small and small rows two
points in the last two years, and we're down two
percentage points for large and extra large sizes, and formal
wear and sporting goods. Formal wear sales searched eighty percent
and sporting goods jump twenty four percent in the first
six months to twenty twenty five. This could indicate a
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need or desired to buy new clothing and accessories after
undergoing a positive life change. They go into thrift stores,
fast foods, and restaurants, obviously healthier options in all sorts
of different categories. Gyms with the risk of losing muscle mass,
GLP one users are encouraged to exercise and strength train.
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They're also spending more on items like wearable electronics and
exercise devices of all sorts. So these drugs cause you
to lose muscle mass. That's a problem. I don't know
how often that is. They call it a side effect,
and it's a risk of losing muscle mass. Is that
ten percent or ninety percent? I do not know. Training programs, clinics,
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travel with extra energy and confidence. GLP one users may
invest in more adventures outside the home. They saw fifteen
percent increase. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I wonder what it will do to social pressure if
you're overweight. There has been no social pressure about being
overweight for quite some time because we're all overweight. But
if soon you know you're three hundred pounds and you
really stand out in a group because everybody else is
on the ozepic, it be a lot more noticeable.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, I wonder, I wonder Rascal sales will go way down.
Oh yeah, absolutely, sell your Rascal stock now or those
gradual they grab sticks where you picked up off up
the floor because you can't bend over anymore. Right, I
washed myself with a rag and a stick exactly. Yeah. Boy,
I don't want the hair loss or the muscle mass loss,
(26:56):
or the nausea really any of them. No.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well, and our people, so if you're not super overweight,
so originally all this stuff was for people who are
super overweight.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
If you're just like fifteen or just diabetic, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If you're twenty pounds overweight, thirty pounds overweight, do you
take a lower dose or something.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think that's on the way that's working on more
maintenance dose, just take the edge off type texas.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, that's what they need, and then I would assume
the side effects will be lower.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Also. Boy, that's gonna change the country. Well yeah, that's
the point. Yeah, economically and health wise as well, a
lot of underlying diseases, cancers, heart disease, all of it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, just all those years of we need to make
the airline seats wide or not, narrow or not.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
They're gonna make them even narrow. Orange Jam. No, No,
my shoulders haven't lost weight, my big, strapping, manly shoulders. Katie,
don't laugh, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
My youngest brother, who is a large man, was talking
about when he gets set next to somebody else his
size on a plane. Oh, it's just impossible. I mean
it's just physically impossible that they both share that spot.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah. Yeah, So you just press up against each other.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Or one of you kind of leans forward, you take
turns if you're buying the space, go like that.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The lean or the lean to the side, which kills
my back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, I don't know if the heroin chic look is
going to catch on with regular people as opposed to
just starlets. I don't like the super bony look. I mean,
if you're born that way, you're born away that's fine.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Sure, but.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's a heck of a thing to aspire to. I
want to be able to see your knee. I want
your knees to be whiter than the rest of your leg,
just the bone, bart like on Ariana Grande.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's a rough look. All right, Enough about Ariana Grande's bones.
That's enough of this. I just move on. That's Pete Davidson.
What do you find attractive about that?
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As I've said before, I don't wear stuff with the
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go the other direction. I might wear only stuff with
our name on it from here on out.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, I don't mind the hat because the logo's fairly subtle.
Plus I will wear the ruin the entire country. Knew
some twenty twenty eight T shirt as soon as I
receive it. Hanson War's my T shirt anyway. Ah. Those
familiar with Chicago Land recognized Evanston, Illinois. It is where
Northwestern University is located. It is wealthy and woke. At
(29:50):
a left wing church in Illinois, in Evanston put out
a Nativity scene with a zip tied baby Jesus Roman
soldiers depicted as US immigration and Customs enforcement agents. That's
Ice and Mary and Joseph wearing gas masks.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No, God, these people try so hard, I know.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
OK. So, this Lake Street Church in Evanston posted a
Facebook lass twoek that did display and I quote reimagines
the Nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing
direct parallels between the Holy Family's refugee experience and contemporary
immigration detention practices. Yeah, there's more. That's what I guessed.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
What I always wonder is when you do this sort
of thing, Am I supposed to just drop to my
knees devastated? Oh yeah, by your juxtaposition of the Nativity scene.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
With a modern political story.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Oh my god, the way you brought these two things together,
I am devastated.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
By placing the Christmas story Christianity is central narrative of refuge,
sanctuary and fa sacred family within the visual language of
immigration enforcement and detention. This work asks viewers to confront
the disconnect between professed religious or moral values and immigration policies.
The church explained in its post, the emergency blanket references
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the actual materials used in detention facilities. The zip ties
on the infants risks directly referenced the children who were
zip tied by agents storing a raid on a Chicago
apartment building earlier this year. They're not zip tie in
freaking infants or most residents were, us said, as a
stark reminder, blah blah blah. I do have a problem with.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I was at a couple of really cool churches in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is an awesome city if
you've never been. Their town, absolutely amazing, very very expensive.
But I was at a couple of really old timey
churches there, and their attitude toward the poor is certainly
different than mine, and I never have been able to
square that in my mind.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
They're all for.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Feeding drug addicts, giving them money, helping them out, just
I've never been able to square that with my beliefs.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I am out, we don't give the drug addicts food.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
We've got plenty of tax fair food going to the
drug addicts, and it's just allowing them to spend their
money on drugs and booze.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Right, There's an absolute power to the idea of feeding
the uh, you know, the hungry, et cetera, as an
act of charity one. But I think in a lot
of communities, including probably the one we're talking about. They
use that as an excuse to not confront the more
(32:32):
difficult realities of drug addiction. For instance, I mean, you
just need jerk. No, the Bible said feed the hungry,
So we're going to feed the hungry and give them
a ten to and give them a clean needle, and
you know, fadom and the rest of it. Ten free
medical care in short, make it super super easy to
die of drug abuse. That's my kindness. I'm supposed to
(32:55):
be easy, and it's lazy and it's dumb.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So I'm supposed to believe that Jesus would have if
you were confronted with a perfectly healthy twenty eight year
old male who had just decided, you know what, I'd
rather sit here and get drunk all day long than
work like all these other losers that I'm supposed to
give that Jesus would have given them that person food
and said cool, good for you.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I just find that hard to believe, or money to
get more drunks, yeah, or winked and said here, I'm
going to turn the water into myth for you. Yeah. No,
I don't believe that for a second. The church is
led by reverend doctor Michael Woolf, who authored a book
called Sanctuary and Subjectivity, thinking theologically about whiteness and sanctuary movements.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I got to come up with some sort of Nativity
scene in which they're all trans.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
People of color. The church has a bizarre covenant which
doesn't mention Christianity but focuses on social justice trainings, including
anti racism. Got it that.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Final thought?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, hey, your tax exempt status, yank it. Here's your
host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a final
thought from everybody on the crew, starting with our technical
director Michaelangelo in the control room. Michael Fireway, Well, it's
my own fault.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Last year during Black Friday, I signed up for a
streaming service for two ninety nine, you know, and for
like three months or whatever, I forgot about it and
it just renewed for seventy five dollars on my account.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I have done that roughly one million times with various things. Well,
I'll remember before it renews to cancel it.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh boy, Katie Green or Steve musewoman. As a final thought, Katie,
we were.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Talking about the Palisades fire earlier. It's pretty amazing. If
you go on like Google Maps or something, and you
drop the pin and look around. You can actually see
all the devastation that took place, and it's amazing that
they've just done nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, that should get more attention. You're right, Yeah, absolutely
crazy Jack. Do you have a final thought for Yeah?
Keep getting text? Why does my voice sound like this?
And I don't really know. I don't know why my
voice sounds it. I mean, I am pleased. Okay, I
hope I'm not dying. My final thought is now that
the New York Times has said it's okay to mention
(35:15):
that I don't know. The Somali community in Minneapolis is
stolen over a billion dollars. And of course it's not everybody,
but you're importing a bunch of people who can't stand
our culture, who come from a country this utterly corrupt.
We're stealing from the government is routine. You're gonna get
stealing from the government. Let's just say it's.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, we will see you tomorrow with all the latest.
God bless America to everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
But in case you're listed, is something important that got
erect arrested? Not the first time because he refuses to
use they them pronouns for children.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
He almost said a woman got erected, which in these
cases can happen. No, I said a teacher, which you
assumed was a woman, because you're sexist.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Thirteen point one miles to go, twelve minutes for one mile.
I can't actually get into my mouth. My right pinky
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
A little over an hour in my right shoulder is
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Seven miles over halfway point. I'm getting hot, right shirts?
Are you wearing? Yeah, not dying, just fut heat joke.
Coming up on the twelve mile mark.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's most T shirts worn for half marathon previews record
one twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I've got one hundred thirty seven T shirts on my
back is solt sore. My hands are sold swool. Thirteen miles.
We're gonna make it, come on. What the hell was that?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's a guy running a marathon wearing one hundred and
thirty seven T shirts. I guess the previous record was
one hundred and thirty one. So he added six more
and random marathon and said again it's worth yeah a
half marathon.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah yeah. He's a content creator, and his content is
he does weird, freaky kind of funny things that are
also painful and strenuous.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, well, you know there's two ends of the equation
for the whole content creator thing. There have to be
people that watch and or listen to this stuff to
make it worthwhile, and apparently there are. Given the fact that,
you know what, the average kid spends seven hours on
(01:43):
TikTok or whatever it is, you know that makes it
worthwhile because they did, then the advertisers get enough eyeballs
to pay money to the content creator. The vicious cycle
and stupidess like so so people screw rolling through their
phones all day long, taken in this crap leads to
(02:03):
more of this crap, and it's just it'll never end.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
In a related story, a smartphone before age twelve could
carry health risks. According to a study, Researchers found higher
rates of depression, poor sleep, and obesity among tweens who
had early access to cell phones.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I think cell phones are horrible, and the younger the
kid the worst phone, but smartphones, But I would like
to know what other factors go with that. You know,
it's a parents who give their kids a smartphone at
age ten probably do other things in addition to giving
their kid a smartphone that aren't next necessarily in line
(02:41):
with good parenting. In my mind, I think that is
entirely possible. Tough to tease that out of the study,
but an excellent point. The younger that children under twelve
were when they got their first smartphones that the study found,
the greater their risk of obesity and poor sleep. The
researchers also focused on a subset of children who had
not received a phone by eight twelve and found that
a year later, those who acquired one had more harmful
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mental health symptoms and worse sleep than those who hadn't.
For instance, yes, for instance, what I was just saying,
The parent that gives their ten year old a smartphone
probably doesn't give a crap what they eat, so the
obesity thing doesn't surprise me. The parent that gives their
ten year old a smartphone probably doesn't supervise it at all.
(03:26):
So the fact that they are spending more on time
on social media, which makes you depressed, it doesn't surprise me.
You mentioned earlier the intense pressure from the kid to
get a smartphone, partly because that's how tweens and teens
stay in touch and if they want to be part
of the group, which every adolescent desperately wants. It's tough
(03:46):
if you don't have a smartphone counterbalance. And this is
the lead author of the study and A Child and
a Child, an adolescent psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Philadelphia, quote,
when you give if your kid a phone, you need
to think of it as something that is significant for
the kid's health and behave accordingly. Here's the upside of
(04:08):
how much they want the phone, though it's the greatest.
I'm gonna take this away from you if you don't
get your grades up or whateverever. I mean, there's never
been a parenting stick as opposed to a carrot, as
great as taking away your phone for a week.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Because I've done it. I'm just taking away a care
at a stick. I don't know that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But man, you you have a kid or an adult,
anybody who's addicted to their smartphone, and it's so much
of your life, and you know you don't get that
until you get your grades up, or.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You start taking the trash out or whatever it is
your thing. It is powerful, powerful. What what percentage of
parents actually have the spine to to carry out that sanction?
Hanson does that.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I do that, and several several of my son's
friends do that also.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, I don't if the answer is ten percent or
ninety percent. I truly hate it interesting, but it's even
worse than it makes it difficult though for the parent.
I must say, when my kid didn't have his cell
phone for a couple of weeks, it changed everything in
terms of like trying to get a hold of him.
So putting aside depression, poor sleep, and obesity, which is
(05:20):
a hell of a phrase, how about this. Here is
a school teacher clip number fourteen talking about her classroom experience.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I think that you guys don't know what's going on
in education right now. That's fine, like, how could you
know unless you are working in it? But I think
that I think you need to know. So here is
exactly what it's like right now working in public education.
First of all, the kids have no ability to be
bored whatsoever. They live on their phones and they're just
fed a constant stream of dopemine from the minute their
(05:50):
eyes wake up in the morning until they go to
sleep at night. Because they're in a constant state of dopamine.
With droald school, they behave like addicts. They're super emotional,
like the smallest thing sets them up, and when you
are standing in front of them trying to teach, they're vacant.
They have no ability to tune in if your communication
(06:11):
isn't packaged in short little clips, or if it doesn't
have like bright flashing lights. That's actually the way harder
part for me than just the outright behaviors is just
being up at the front talking to a group of
kids who have their eyes open. They're looking at me,
but they're not there. They're not there, and they have
a level of apathy that I've never seen before in
(06:32):
my whole career. Punishments don't work because they don't care
about them. They don't care about grades, they don't care
about college. It's like you are interacting with them briefly
in between hits of the internet, which is their real life.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Wow ah, that last part.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I've run into that not caring about stuff, and I
just don't quite get it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How does that?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
How did that come out of using cell phones in
the dopamine hit thing? So all I want that's interesting
because I've I've run into that and I've talked to
other parents who are having a bit of that problem too,
is like they just don't care. Like I cared when
I was in school about my grades, and they just
don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And I'm like, yeah, why don't you care. I don't
remember why I cared. I just did. That's interesting, Well,
that squares pretty comfortably with addiction in general, doesn't it.
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now, No, I was just trying to picture when she
was talking about the standing up there in front of
the class, and they're used to getting dopamine.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's all day long.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Remember if you're older, remember how incredibly boring your ninth
grade social studies teacher was. Now, try to imagine it
with your current brain that's used to getting you know,
bad bad bam bam, bam, bam bam all day long.
Not you're I was fifteen years old back in the
time when you know, my brain much was much you
(08:00):
were bored.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Then imagine it now, Oh my god, imagine you're a
child who's never gone through that stage of development that
we did. Yeah, that's worse than we can imagine. We
can take imagine it. Because I have a hard time
reading long form myself. I have to like really.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Discipline myself to make myself do it because it seems
so boring for a while until I get back in
the groove because I've ruined my brain, and my brain
worked fairly well up until two thousand and eight and
I started staring at a smartphone. So yeah, if you've
never had that, I don't know. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to figure out a way. They might
have to craft lessons in school to where they're all
(08:40):
videos and they come at you're really really fast with
music and lights. That might be the only way to
reach kids.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, interesting, I mean, because I really do think it's
a if you can't beat them, join them sort of situation.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
There's no point in well.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're gonna sit here and you're gonna listen to me
drone on about the Stamp Act whether you like it
or not.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That ain't gonna work, no, because they won't absorb any
of it. Now, Yeah, you'll have lost the war. Yeah,
i'd agree. I don't know exactly what to do with it.
I keep here seeing this metal picture of a god
and I don't know what's your favorite talking to God
cliche Saint Peter, and God's saying, you know, the humans
had their run time to clear the way for the
(09:20):
ants or the beavers or whatever. Say Peter saying, how
are you going to get rid of the humans? And
God will say, don't worry about it, They'll do it themselves. God.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Sometimes school was so boring, and that was with my
pre smartphone brain. Sure, I can't imagine what it would
be like for your average junior in high school now
or college kid to have somebody up there droning on
and on versus the competition is your phone, Instagram or TikTok.
Holy crap, whoa, that's a problem. And then that don't
(09:53):
care part. I'd never heard anybody bring that up before,
at tying that into.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The Dopamina dict. Huh all fits, Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Uh. Putin said something really frightening yesterday that you go back,
you know once again, you go back a couple of decades,
the reaction would have been completely different. We're all so
used to bomb Bass now. I guess we don't react,
but you'll have to hear it, stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Crucially, there was no compromise deal on Ukraine, and few
here are surprised that that outcome, believing Putin doesn't really
want to end the war until he's achieved his goals.
The question now is how will President Trump respond. Wikoff
and Kushner leaving Moscow early today and they're going to
brief President Trump, and for Belieger Ukrainians it means more bombing,
(10:44):
more fighting, more war and more death now.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Marco Rubio has been saying, We're not interested in any
peace deal that allows Russia to pull off a third invasion.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Of Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Ukraine needs to be, you know, in a stable place
or they are safe. On the other hand, a couple
of negative things that happened yesterday. First of all, Belgium
and a couple of other countries not on board with
the idea of taking frozen Russian assets and giving them
to Ukraine to help rebuild Ukraine. Belgium actually said, in
(11:19):
the very probable event, Russia is ultimately not officially the
losing party. Okay, that's got to be a translation problem.
It's basically saying Russia is gonna win. They would be
legitimately asking for their sovereign assets to be returned, and
we think they should be so. Belgium and a couple
of other countries say Russia should get their money back.
(11:40):
It shouldn't go to Ukraine. So that's not a third
about It's hard to imagine why Russia would agree to that.
And just the whole you have an international monetary system
where sometimes because somebody pisses you off, you snatch their
money and keep it. You can't do that more than
a couple of times. But man, that's a bad reason
for Ukraine. If they have to give up their land,
(12:01):
Russia gets to keep their money. All the various things. Oh,
that's an ugly situation. And then this Putin yesterday, and
there's a lot of back and forth with threats and
this and sort of stuff. Putin actually said, and Hansen said,
you watch the video. He looks more animated than this
even sounds and scary. Right, we are not planning to
(12:21):
go to war with Europe, but if Europe wants to
and starts, we are ready right now. And I made
the remark earlier. If that sort of comment had come
out of the Soviet premiere in the.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Eighties, the world would have stopped. I mean the world
would stop.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
When people would say vague things like you know, we
will not put up with this are just something really
soft by today's standards. Everybody'd be worried that nuclear holocaust
was about to be unleashed on the world.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now you got Putin saying, hey, we're ready to.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Go with where Europe anytime if it starts, and I
didn't even hear about it until like a half an
hour ago.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't know if Trump moved the Overton windows so
much on things you say, or social media did or what.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But that's a heck of a comment. I would point
out there already is war in Europe, including incursions into
the airspace of half a dozen countries by Russia, and
it's drones.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So yeah, but that's not the usual diplomatic a guy
saying the last thing we want is war. We want peace,
no matter what the cost, but we are prepared if.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
We have to. None on us. Not what he said right,
much more aggressive than that.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And that's just where we are with the biggest nuclear
powers on Earth, you know, staring at each other. So
there's your update on that. I want this update because
Katie just tweeted it out. Katie, what's this Epstein update?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Well, they just released new photos from Epstein Island. I
guess that the Democrats have found in the files and.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The plane Epstein Island the plane. Right, that's a really
really old TV reference. You got to at least sixty
to get go ahead, Katie.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Well, and I'm looking at the pictures and one of
them that stood out to me is this room where
there's a yellow dental chair and all over the walls
around it are just masks of men's faces.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, I agree, that's odd, decorps. It was obviously used
as dental office back in the day, probably from whoever
he bought it from. But this is this is a
nothing burger. This is nothing. This is funny. I saw
headline next to some story. It was, you know, obviously sarcastic.
So Democrats don't care about Epstein anymore because we haven't
(14:44):
heard anything for a long time. No, they just leaked
out these completely innocuous pictures of storerooms and couches just
to get Epstein back in the news. Yeah, I mean nothing.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
The other pictures are really dumb, but that one creeps
me out of it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, I don't want to go to a dentist that's
got those masks on the wall.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That just seems weird.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Same.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh, it's nine on the weird ten scale. It just
absolutely odd. But hey, before I sit down in the.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Chair and you give me something that makes it impossible
for me to defend myself.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What's with all the weird faces on the wall? Yeah? Right,
this is an on atmosphere you're going for here, doc,
where's your diploma? I mean? Yeah, no kidding, Yeah, yeah,
I kind of, but yeah. Several of the other pictures
are literally of like a couch and chairs, and there's
a not in use steam room where various bathroom supplies
(15:38):
were stored, literally towels and tp So is your.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Take that everything was wrung out of the Epstein story
that could be wrung out of it?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And now again they're just trying to keep it in
the news because it was hurting Trump, it was dividing
Mega blah blah blah blah blah. Everything we said at
the time. This is a sad tempt. Please what about
the names the list? All right now, I'm not going there,
forget it. They're actual, they're actual, uh, stuff to worry about, things,
(16:13):
issues to be concerned with.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
For some reason, all I got was it reminded me
I should go to the dentist. Michael, when's the last
time you went.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
To the dentist? Actually about two months ago. Joe, when's
the last time you into the dentist? A few months ago?
I'm due to go again, Katie. Last time you went
to the dentist about five months ago.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Now, somebody asked me, when's the last time you went
to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Two thousand and two. I don't know. That's why you
got nothing but two brown nubs in your mouth. It's
been decades. Yeah. You you are seriously in the genetic
one percent in terms of teeth. You're not in tble.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You're not going because you need to go, right, You're
going because you're supposed to go on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What do you mean supposed to Hell? Yeah, I'm going
because I quote unquote need to go. So my teeth
are healthy and my gums.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I wonder ifault one day, I'm gonna wake up and
all my teeth have fallen out overnight and I'm just
in a pile in my bed.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That suit you serve your right, right, serve you right?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Switching Here's on Sunday, the TSA screen more than three
million people at US Airport, setting a new single day
record to release the video celebrating this achievement.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Check this out here at the TSA, we just set
a new single day screening record.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's because of you and your family's love of travel.
We're allowed to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
We do best and on behalf of everyone at the TSA.
We just want to say all personal belongings in the
tray belt to Jews can stay on laptop in its
own trade choos off. Actually, laptop can stay in the bag. Actually,
chug your water. Still a little bit of buttter walk
through this lane?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
No, I mean this lay the sensor detected something on
your elbow. What's this in your bag?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Stand and wait while we ramsacked your luggage.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Okay, never mind, there's nothing. Good luck closing your bag again?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Is this a real idea?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Enjoy your flight? Oh you missed it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Sorry, Happy holidays from the TSA.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now I'm ahead that one. Good luck closing your bag again.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
They get everything and they mess it all up up,
like you can't possibly get your bag closed again quickly,
and then the uh and then you just gotta love
the It's different every single time.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, no, no electronics stay in.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Seriously, dude, seriously, do you not know that at other
airports they're saying take them out, or that you were saying,
take them out last week. Don't act like I've done
something wrong or I'm stupid for not knowing in advance.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They seriously every tsa guide. They ought to force them
to fly back and forth at least once. All right,
you're gonna connect through through Indianapolis, go to New York,
then come back again. Why trust me? And they get
through that experience to say, oh, oh, now I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh so at that airport they tell you leave your
belt on, but at this one we say take them off,
and we act like you're a moron if you didn't
automatically take it off.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
What exactly?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Any Who, my son got pulled out a line when
we were flying, and I wish they could there was
some sort of just go ahead because the speech the
guy gave was so unbelievably long.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You are you the father?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm going to touch the back of his buttocks with
the backs of my gloved hands. I will slide down
the buttocks, i will go inside to the thighs. The
backs of my hands will then go down to the
middle of the knees. I'm going to go around to
the front. I will raise the backs. Just do it,
Just freaking do it, and I'm not standing right here.
You're not gonna molest him. I'm not worried about it.
(19:29):
He's not worried about it. Let's just get out of here.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
They didn't make that up, though. They do that for
a reason, I know, I know, because somebody would sue
or claim they got groped or whatever they'll light on.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So the New York Post, well, no, this was a
What he was doing was he's trying to avoid any
sort of.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You know, sexual impropriety claim. And you're going way too far.
I get it. You gotta touch his pants. Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So the New York Post built this story around super
thin is back in among celebrities, and they got these
pictures since ozempick and all these things around the market,
And they got a variety of celebrities including ari On
a Grande, who I've always found to be a skeleton.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't quite get her appeal as.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
A sex object because she is a skeleton, a skeleton
of a person.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And it might not be her fault, but she's podiator.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
It's it's gotten drastically worse since she has gotten wicked.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, it has.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
She this picture here, Oh my god, she is a
skeleton with hair, and same with LaToya Jackson and a
couple other people that don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh Megan Trainer who did not have LaToya Jackson on
my bingo card. Yeah me neither.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Mega Trainer, who kind of made her living as kind
of having a big booty, you know, that was her
claim to fame, is now just a stick person. Amy
Schumer has lost all her weight again, but heroin Chic
is back in. And I was wondering, stopping has got
to be tough if you lose weight, like knowing when
to stop. Like Katie, you lost eighty some pounds. How
(21:06):
did you know when to stop so you don't end
up in look crazy territory?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I just kind of talked to my doctor about what
a healthy weight for my height would be. And then
once I got there, I was like, all right, And
you know.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Because it seems to be a common things you you
go to you go from overweight, you know, like the
way you look to look fantastic to you look like
you're dying but you're still doing it.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Yeah, you're just kind of lighting up on the workouts
and whatnot to you know.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Call it good enough. Yeah, speaking of weight loss and
that sort of thing. It is really really interesting the
extent to which the super effective weight loss drugs ozempic, Wigovi, Munjaro,
and zep bound have affected the economy in all sorts
of ways. It's turned around the obesity rate for the
first time in history, certainly in the United States, and
(22:03):
companies are trying to adjust to the new realities. I
will give you a list.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, First of all, I can't imagine one, so I'm
interested in this.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I can't like even predict one.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Maybe close close sizes perhaps, But as we've been saying
for a while, this is a major cultural change, right
that's gonna become very obvious very soon.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Let's start with pharmacies. The drugs come with some uncomfortable
or harmful side effects, including indigestion, nausea, and loss of
hair and muscle mass. As a result, sales for supplements
vitamin rich beauty products have surged. Some studies suggest the
medication also might boost fertility. Purchases of pregnancy kits among
a cohort GLP one users surged one hundred and forty
(22:47):
eight percent over the course of one year, according.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
To Nielsen Research. Loss of hair, yeah, some thinner, but
I lose my hair. I don't know if that's a
good deal. I mean, I'm already for normal.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
People supplements, electrolyte supplements, hair growth products, and I nauseamag
medications of skyrocketed among GLP one users. Some are marketing
directly to those folks grocery stores. The elimination of food noise,
which is constantly thinking about food and what you're gonna
eat next, can lead to binging and distracting thoughts about
(23:17):
eating that's food noise can GLP one users are cutting
back on snacks, spending more unhealthy items compared with non
households GLP one households reduced. They're spending by ten percent
over a year across one hundred categories, including groceries, quick
service restaurants, tobacco, according to another consumer research firm. While
(23:43):
the fallout could hurt the snack food industry, some companies
are innovating and acquiring health food brands. They're focused on
high protein items which support muscle mass or highly set
satiating and boost metabolism, as well as quick and healthy
frozen meals. I wonder what it's going to do to
close with go back to it? It was, you know
in the eighties and early nineties or whatever before we
all got fat.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
When you know, the bulk of the sweatshirts at the
Big five weren't all double XL to five XL.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yes, yeah, one hundred percent. Let's eat more fresh produce.
Over thirteen week period last year, they increased their spending
on fresh fruit by fourteen percent and on vegetables by
thirty eight percent compared with the year before. Healthy snacks
obviously are selling a lot better. Non alcoholic beverages have
exploded in use, as GLP one drugs can suppress alcohol
(24:37):
cravings among heavy drinkers. Meanwhile, high protein drinks and probiotics
soda brands that promote gut health are seeing significant growth
strip malls. Weight loss drugs create an opportunity for clothing
brands as consumers refresh their wardrobe as they shed pounds
more beauty products, smaller sizes for men and women. Demand
(25:00):
for women's tops in extra small and small rows two
points in the last two years, and we're down two
percentage points for large and extra large sizes, and formal
wear and sporting goods. Formal wear sales searched eighty percent
and sporting goods jump twenty four percent in the first
six months to twenty twenty five. This could indicate a
(25:21):
need or desired to buy new clothing and accessories after
undergoing a positive life change. They go into thrift stores,
fast foods, and restaurants, obviously healthier options in all sorts
of different categories. Gyms with the risk of losing muscle mass,
GLP one users are encouraged to exercise and strength train.
(25:42):
They're also spending more on items like wearable electronics and
exercise devices of all sorts. So these drugs cause you
to lose muscle mass. That's a problem. I don't know
how often that is. They call it a side effect,
and it's a risk of losing muscle mass. Is that
ten percent or ninety percent? I do not know. Training programs, clinics,
(26:06):
travel with extra energy and confidence. GLP one users may
invest in more adventures outside the home. They saw fifteen
percent increase. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I wonder what it will do to social pressure if
you're overweight. There has been no social pressure about being
overweight for quite some time because we're all overweight. But
if soon you know you're three hundred pounds and you
really stand out in a group because everybody else is
on the ozepic, it be a lot more noticeable.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, I wonder, I wonder Rascal sales will go way down.
Oh yeah, absolutely, sell your Rascal stock now or those
gradual they grab sticks where you picked up off up
the floor because you can't bend over anymore. Right, I
washed myself with a rag and a stick exactly. Yeah. Boy,
I don't want the hair loss or the muscle mass loss,
(26:56):
or the nausea really any of them. No.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well, and our people, so if you're not super overweight,
so originally all this stuff was for people who are
super overweight.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
If you're just like fifteen or just diabetic, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If you're twenty pounds overweight, thirty pounds overweight, do you
take a lower dose or something.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think that's on the way that's working on more
maintenance dose, just take the edge off type texas.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, that's what they need, and then I would assume
the side effects will be lower.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Also. Boy, that's gonna change the country. Well yeah, that's
the point. Yeah, economically and health wise as well, a
lot of underlying diseases, cancers, heart disease, all of it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, just all those years of we need to make
the airline seats wide or not, narrow or not.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
They're gonna make them even narrow. Orange Jam. No, No,
my shoulders haven't lost weight, my big, strapping, manly shoulders. Katie,
don't laugh, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
My youngest brother, who is a large man, was talking
about when he gets set next to somebody else his
size on a plane. Oh, it's just impossible. I mean
it's just physically impossible that they both share that spot.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah. Yeah, So you just press up against each other.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Or one of you kind of leans forward, you take
turns if you're buying the space, go like that.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
The lean or the lean to the side, which kills
my back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, I don't know if the heroin chic look is
going to catch on with regular people as opposed to
just starlets. I don't like the super bony look. I mean,
if you're born that way, you're born away that's fine.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Sure, but.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's a heck of a thing to aspire to. I
want to be able to see your knee. I want
your knees to be whiter than the rest of your leg,
just the bone, bart like on Ariana Grande.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's a rough look. All right, Enough about Ariana Grande's bones.
That's enough of this. I just move on. That's Pete Davidson.
What do you find attractive about that?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
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Maybe it's you. Perhaps several products are flying off the shelves.
No do I go the other director. I'm strung in
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Speaker 1 (29:22):
As I've said before, I don't wear stuff with the
arm name on it because it feels weird. I might
go the other direction. I might wear only stuff with
our name on it from here on out.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, I don't mind the hat because the logo's fairly subtle.
Plus I will wear the ruin the entire country. Knew
some twenty twenty eight T shirt as soon as I
receive it. Hanson War's my T shirt anyway. Ah. Those
familiar with Chicago Land recognized Evanston, Illinois. It is where
Northwestern University is located. It is wealthy and woke. At
(29:50):
a left wing church in Illinois, in Evanston put out
a Nativity scene with a zip tied baby Jesus Roman
soldiers depicted as US immigration and Customs enforcement agents. That's
Ice and Mary and Joseph wearing gas masks.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No, God, these people try so hard, I know.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
OK. So, this Lake Street Church in Evanston posted a
Facebook lass twoek that did display and I quote reimagines
the Nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing
direct parallels between the Holy Family's refugee experience and contemporary
immigration detention practices. Yeah, there's more. That's what I guessed.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
What I always wonder is when you do this sort
of thing, Am I supposed to just drop to my
knees devastated? Oh yeah, by your juxtaposition of the Nativity scene.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
With a modern political story.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Oh my god, the way you brought these two things together,
I am devastated.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
By placing the Christmas story Christianity is central narrative of refuge,
sanctuary and fa sacred family within the visual language of
immigration enforcement and detention. This work asks viewers to confront
the disconnect between professed religious or moral values and immigration policies.
The church explained in its post, the emergency blanket references
(31:16):
the actual materials used in detention facilities. The zip ties
on the infants risks directly referenced the children who were
zip tied by agents storing a raid on a Chicago
apartment building earlier this year. They're not zip tie in
freaking infants or most residents were, us said, as a
stark reminder, blah blah blah. I do have a problem with.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I was at a couple of really cool churches in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is an awesome city if
you've never been. Their town, absolutely amazing, very very expensive.
But I was at a couple of really old timey
churches there, and their attitude toward the poor is certainly
different than mine, and I never have been able to
square that in my mind.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
They're all for.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Feeding drug addicts, giving them money, helping them out, just
I've never been able to square that with my beliefs.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I am out, we don't give the drug addicts food.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
We've got plenty of tax fair food going to the
drug addicts, and it's just allowing them to spend their
money on drugs and booze.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Right, There's an absolute power to the idea of feeding
the uh, you know, the hungry, et cetera, as an
act of charity one. But I think in a lot
of communities, including probably the one we're talking about. They
use that as an excuse to not confront the more
(32:32):
difficult realities of drug addiction. For instance, I mean, you
just need jerk. No, the Bible said feed the hungry,
So we're going to feed the hungry and give them
a ten to and give them a clean needle, and
you know, fadom and the rest of it. Ten free
medical care in short, make it super super easy to
die of drug abuse. That's my kindness. I'm supposed to
(32:55):
be easy, and it's lazy and it's dumb.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So I'm supposed to believe that Jesus would have if
you were confronted with a perfectly healthy twenty eight year
old male who had just decided, you know what, I'd
rather sit here and get drunk all day long than
work like all these other losers that I'm supposed to
give that Jesus would have given them that person food
and said cool, good for you.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I just find that hard to believe, or money to
get more drunks, yeah, or winked and said here, I'm
going to turn the water into myth for you. Yeah. No,
I don't believe that for a second. The church is
led by reverend doctor Michael Woolf, who authored a book
called Sanctuary and Subjectivity, thinking theologically about whiteness and sanctuary movements.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I got to come up with some sort of Nativity
scene in which they're all trans.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
People of color. The church has a bizarre covenant which
doesn't mention Christianity but focuses on social justice trainings, including
anti racism. Got it that.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Final thought?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, hey, your tax exempt status, yank it. Here's your
host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a final
thought from everybody on the crew, starting with our technical
director Michaelangelo in the control room. Michael Fireway, Well, it's
my own fault.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Last year during Black Friday, I signed up for a
streaming service for two ninety nine, you know, and for
like three months or whatever, I forgot about it and
it just renewed for seventy five dollars on my account.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I have done that roughly one million times with various things. Well,
I'll remember before it renews to cancel it.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh boy, Katie Green or Steve musewoman. As a final thought, Katie,
we were.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Talking about the Palisades fire earlier. It's pretty amazing. If
you go on like Google Maps or something, and you
drop the pin and look around. You can actually see
all the devastation that took place, and it's amazing that
they've just done nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, that should get more attention. You're right, Yeah, absolutely
crazy Jack. Do you have a final thought for Yeah?
Keep getting text? Why does my voice sound like this?
And I don't really know. I don't know why my
voice sounds it. I mean, I am pleased. Okay, I
hope I'm not dying. My final thought is now that
the New York Times has said it's okay to mention
(35:15):
that I don't know. The Somali community in Minneapolis is
stolen over a billion dollars. And of course it's not everybody,
but you're importing a bunch of people who can't stand
our culture, who come from a country this utterly corrupt.
We're stealing from the government is routine. You're gonna get
stealing from the government. Let's just say it's.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, we will see you tomorrow with all the latest.
God bless America to everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
But in case you're listed, is something important that got
erect arrested? Not the first time because he refuses to
use they them pronouns for children.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
He almost said a woman got erected, which in these
cases can happen. No, I said a teacher, which you
assumed was a woman, because you're sexist.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
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