August 2, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of the Friday August 2, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- BEV Realities
- Surge Pricing & Low Sophistication Voters
- Jay Cost Article Systems Not Designed for Constant Battle
- The High Cost of Insurance / Cost of Living
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Show a couple of significant, fairly significant pieces of electric
vehicle news. First of all, those of you who have
invested in the Tesla, and I will speak for Jack
boy here, who has one of those fine automobiles. It's
not about like you're some sort of Gretaituneberg cultist. It's
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that it's a fabulously engineered motor vehicle and it's the
fastest thing on the planet.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I think a lot of people, like in my town,
bought them to virtual signal how much they care about
the client. I bought it because I heard it was
I read it was the fastest car ever made, and
I thought, I want to have that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's why I bought the.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Plaid and it said it had the best steria they
I've ever heard, so fast and I had a nice sterio.
Give a crap about the fact that it was electric,
But I don't know. I'm probably not the regular buyer anyway.
It's a fine car.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And one of the advantages of being a Tesla owner
is that you have actual charging stations that work somewhat well.
The other manufacturers realize that, and there's very there are
very few other places to charge that are evs that
work worth a dam, and so they have put out
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adaptations to their software and like little adapter things. So
now you're going to see Ford's and Chevyes and everything
else charging at Tesla recharging and it's Tesla allowing that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, would they be doing that? Are they allowed
to do that? I don't, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The Wall Street Journal doesn't address quote unquote legality at all.
They just said, no, nobody beat me to death or
screened at me for having a non Tesla there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's fine. I charged it up and went.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I didn't think it was an adapter issue. I thought
it was a you're not supposed to use the Tesla
arging station's issue.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But who's gonna police that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, well, if they don't police armed robbery right
in California, right, they're gonna police. Excuse me, I'm going
to cite you for being a Chevy at a Tesla recharger.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Please.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, anyway, so look forward to longer lines and more misery.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, yeah, the only electric car that's even made a
dent in the ability for electric cars to overtake gas
powered cars are Tesla and it is the charging station thing,
and they already have gotten full. Tesla's have gotten popular
enough that when I pull up to one, now more
likely than not there are no stalls open and I
have to wait in line. How often do you have
to wait at a gas station for twenty minutes to
then fill up, which is going to take you half
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an hour?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
How do you ever have to do that with a
gas bar car? Never?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
But now if all vehicles are doing it, forget it.
That will kill the whole electric car experiment.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It'll kill right, It'll be Oh well, it's already dying
as the bottom is dropped out of the market, both
for the cars and the materials that go into it,
even the mining operations that mine for the materials for
the batteries. The bottom has dropped out of that market
like in six months, which just goes to show the
stupidity and capriciousness of central planning. Even if it's a
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noble goal that the electric vehicles were actually going to
help the environment, and that is not true, by the way,
and I I don't work for any big oil company.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't give a damn. I want the environment to
be clean.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I want there to be fish when I throw a
line in, and birds overhead, even though their government spies.
I want clean air and water, of course I do.
If you don't hear a scumbag.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
But I I was wearing a shell oil hat.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You can see it here in a SHOOTA meant to
turn that backward before I began my screen. It's all wrong, Yeah,
all right, Hormonal teenagers are not where I look for
my guidance on major political issues.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Anyway. Where was I? Eh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, So, if indeed electric cars were going to do
a lot of good, then I could see maybe some
incentives and disincentives from the government.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But it's it's phony.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
For instance, it turns out because the particulate matter that
comes out of gas powered cars has become incredibly small.
There's a very very very low amount turns out EV's
and particular matter is the biggest problem. That's the really
nasty stuff dust, dirt, soot that gets in the air.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
EV's put out more of them.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Because the vast majority of particulate matter that comes out
of motor vehicles at this point.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Is from their tires. Did you know this? I had no,
I did not. That was completely news to me.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The pollution, the main pollution problem is what's coming off
the tires, at least in terms of me particulate matter.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, And so the Biden administration is reviewing California's plan.
Cal Unicornia, as always out front and doing stupid stuff
that doesn't help anything, plans to ban the sale new
gas powered cars by twenty thirty five to get federal approval.
California claims it needs this ban to prevent harm from
to public health from particulate matter cited airborne particles, dust, dirt, so,
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but banning gasoline cars would do little reduced particulate emissions
and could even increase them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
New gas cars are very clean.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
According to the EPA, cars only emit one percent of
all direct fine particular matter in California, and most of
these emissions come from older models. The newer gasoline cars
that California wants to ban will often have particulate filters
that reduce emissions below one one thousand thousandth of a
grand per mile driven. Turns out, it's much more about
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the tires. We could get further into this, but you
get the idea and the rest of it is just
fleshing out this evidence. But here's the interesting part, and
kel Unicornians will recognize this how corrupt.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It all is.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
When California's Air Agency analyze the effects of its ban,
it used a model that assumes both kind of cars
cars have the same wear. When the public pointed out
the error that heavier electric vehicles have more tirewar the
agency double down, claiming it would be speculative to assume
that electric cars will continue to be heavier than gasoline cars.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The agency mewsed that in.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The future, automakers could probably offset the weight of heavy
batteries with unspecified weight reduction in other components or the
vehicle body.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But California's bureaucrats have it backward.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
There's speculative is assuming that electric cars will soon weigh
the same as gasoline cars they replaced.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
There's no reason to believe that now. Yeah, my Sedan
weighs as much as a giant SUV. So I'm agnostic
on electric cars. I don't have an emotional thing about
it either way, as opposed to like my brother and
my son, just hate kneeder, hate them, hate them, hate them.
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Just the idea of I don't know what it is,
moving away from the combustible engine because they're cool or
or culture or something like that. I would just drive
whichever is more practical and cheaper. And I got an
electric car and found it's not very damn practical. It's
just just not. It is for some things, but not
for a lot of other things. The tech part of it, though,
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that was kind of exciting and everybody thought was going
to take over the world a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Self driving.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
This self driving that has turned out to not even
be close to ready and may never be because of
the NHT National Highway Transportation Board or whatever they're called.
They cracked down hard on Tesla for a handful of
crashes around the country they could have. I mean, there
are crashes all the time for regular people driving, but
(07:31):
a handful of crashes from autopilot, and so Tesla has
really restricted the autopilot and it is unusable now. And
I thought it was just me complaining about it on
my car, but I went on to a Reddit thread.
It has completely taken the novelty away by a large margin.
I'm opened up other vehicles now. Sadly, I would have
never considered leading Tesla and now I'm going to Yeah,
(07:52):
I never use it. Now, what a waste of money
it was for me. These are all different comments. It
yells of that's.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Right, because you pay more for the software, right ten
dollars oh.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
For self driving car, And now they've made it unusable.
This person saying, if I take my eyes off of
the road for point three seconds to check my blind spot,
it yells at me, Yeah, you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You can't adjust your radio. It's now the time if.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You aren't just and nobody in real life drives like this,
if you don't keep your eyes straight ahead constantly, like
if you look away for a second, your car goes.
So it's just not usable at all anymore. So, so
much for self driving cars. That's the end of that.
It was fun, wht lesson. I loved it for a while.
It was great in stop and go traffic, and I
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flipped it on every day, check texts, see if I
got a phone call. But you can't do any of
that anymore. So what's the point. What are the best
most interesting things?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Tim Sander further great legal constitutional scholar and thinker from
the Goldwater Institute, longtime friend of the show. One of
the most important and interesting things he said was that
you will. It is an uncountable number the number of
jobs that are never created because of government red tape
and overregulation and.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I just find myself wondering whether the conditions that
made the United States the most innovative society that's ever
existed on the earth, I mean, bar none. I wonder
if those conditions have so changed that we just aren't anymore.
And I hear you shouting, what about AI, what about
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But that's why I led with that quote from Tim.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I think it's become so difficult to take chances and
be innovative and do something that hasn't been done before.
It's only a couple of like superstar innovations that actually
are able to fight their way through that that tar
pit of discouragement that we throw.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Up in innovators ways these days. And we really are
a perfect is the enemy of good enough. We better not.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That wouldn't be perfect. Let's just stay with the way
we used to do. That sounds a little dangerous.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I don't know know if it works, it'll save millions
of lives, Yeah, but it seems dangerous.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So no, Yeah, anyway, that's an update on that. If
you were thinking of that self driving car, ever, it
ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's over. It was a tiny golden period there for
a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I guess I'll just stick with Morgan Freeman driving me
around town and sharing various pearls of wisdom. Occasionally I'm
driving Miss Davy style.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh good for you, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong
and Getty Show, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Search pricing. That's interesting. So I was reading art about
like that last night.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
There's a bunch of different restaurants doing that in places,
and my only question was, how.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Did this never happen before? How is this not a
thing before? I'm surprised it wasn't it. You know, My
initial reaction to it is repugnance, is a little strong resentment. Oh,
you're gonna jack up the prices at meal times. The
other way to look at it, I suppose, is they're
discounting it at non meal times. That is very much
(11:21):
like the early Bird special or something like that. Yeah, exactly.
Or you.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Want the price on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to fly
to be the same as.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The Tuesday before.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
No, we have more demand, so we're charging for the
same they're doing the same thing with dinner at Wendy's.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, I'm just surprised it hasn't happened before.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And I mean, I guess that explains why I had
that eleven dollars bacon eter a couple of weeks ago
that I had right at dinner time. That must be
what it was, although we were the only people in
the restaurant, so I'm not sure how you what the
surge pricing is when we're the only people in the Wendy's.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, I'll keep my screen very very short. But this
is one of the things that happens. We need to
store to market through government policy, and you artificially jack
up wages. They're going to have to figure out something,
and sometimes it doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Speaking of eating, I heard this a couple of places
yesterday teased that the guy a Run's Kellogg's was suggesting
eating cereal for dinner, which I often do. I had
frosted many wheats for dinner last night, Well, frosted many wheats.
They don't treat me on my stomach, not good. Tony
trusted many weats. But anyway, I think that's all edge fiber.
Let's hear from this gentleman.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Some of the things that we're doing is first messaging.
We got to reach the consumer where they are. So
we're advertising about cereal for dinner. If you think about
the cost of cereal for a family versus what they
might otherwise do, that's going to be much more affordable.
The price of a bowl of cereal with milk and
with fruit is less than a dollar, So you can
imagine where a consumer under pressure.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Might find that to be a good place to go.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
The milk with fruit thing that they've been pushing for
for fifty years, they always did. They put they put
some fruit on there in the commercials box to make
it act like that's what everybody's doing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Nobody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Slice strawberries, nobody's I've never been anybody's house where mom
was like cutting up strawberries to put in the whatever materios,
and uh, we were pretty regular slice of banana consumers
are growing up.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I've seen that little in my life. And but then
they adjust their nutritional around that. Well, we're assuming you
put a slices of strawberry in there, so that's why
it's blah blah blah blah. That gets to the whole
shrink flation thing, which the cereal companies have been doing
more than anybody for, you know, for obvious reasons. I
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guess Joe Biden's going to make that essentral. But that's
been part of his stump speech as he goes around. Now,
the whole shrink flation thing, he's going to make that
part of the State of the Union, which is next Tuesday.
Next week, you talk about something I have no interest
in taking in the city.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You know, I probably won't watch it. I think it's
stupid that I should go away.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
But yeah, so he thinks that shrinkflation rap is really
working on people, that that the companies are ripping you off.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They made the box smaller.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah I'm not I'm not super smart, but I get
that they They could either raise the price, which would
made me go wah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Fifteen dollars for a box of frosted.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Many weeds, or they shrunk the box and get the
price the same. Those were their options.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So I okay, quickie text pole here four one five
two nine five KFTC. You ought to have it in
your phone just in case you want to text us
in the future market A and G have us in
your contacts whatever you could quickly you know, drive with
your knee and quickly dash off of You guys are
idiots anytime, anytime you need to, Brian, here's your quickie
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text pole. What percentage of what you hear in politics
is designed for stupid people? Or to be more charitable
low information voters? As the Great Russel Inball I would
have said, what percentage of popular politics is for?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Really?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And by low information I mean folks who don't understand
how inflation works in that sort of thing, which does
not make them bad people. They might be the best
people God has ever created. I'm not trying to be demeaning,
and they're probably happier. Yeah, So, so I apologize for
the use of the word stupid just low sophistication voters.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What percentage of stupid and stupid? Yeah, they're stupid people.
They're stupid people, you know, stupid people. Oh yeah, and
also stupid people.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I thought you meant and they're stupid none of all
other people who are talking about Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
No, they're low information people who don't live their lives
thinking about this, which, like I said, probably makes you
happier and stupid people. I was thinking about this yesterday.
That is the biggest piece that is missing in all
of these political conversations. You're listening to talk radio, you're
watching cable news or whatever. Everybody involved in that is
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just so immersed in all the topics, and most of
the viewers or listeners and all those.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
People have made up their mind.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
So the only way you can sway the election one
way or the other is the people that are by
definition not there.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They're not watching this or reading this or writing down this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Part of the reason I bring it up is I
was reminding myself yesterday as I was immersing myself and
my favorite sources of information and thinking, I thought, there's
practically nobody who does this, and I get so frustrated
with the politics of the day. But then I thought,
you know, it's not for me. It's it's hell, it's
barely for any of you folks, honestly a lot of it. Yeah,
because the millions and millions and millions of people have
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no idea what they're talking about. So anyway, I would
put the number somewhere around and I've got to I've
got to think about it hard because the stuff I
pursue is not really this is not accurate, it's not stupid,
but it's got to be eighty five percent something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Of the politics is for very low sophistication. Voter absolutely,
and I think they're smart.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
It should because the only people that can be influenced
when they're the only people that show up on some
sort of focus group is undecided.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Joe Biden seems like he cares about me more. You know,
those people who haven't made sure their mind one way
or another already? Right, yeah, agreed.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Uh. And you might say, well, then, what.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
The hell are we doing here exactly? Now, there's an
answer for that. The answer is what eat for dinner?
Eat more carbs and sugar for dinner. Clearly it's good
for you and for your kids.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Shirt.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
J Cost argues in National Review.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
That what we're currently doing defies how the US system
was a design to work. Quoting him, Now, Republicans and
Democrats today conceive of each other other is totally irredeemably corrupted.
And this is all from his new book, Democracy or Republic.
The People in the Constitution. The two sides fight over
everything large and small, from major problems to utter trivialities.
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To borrow a phrase from Madison's Federalist number ten, where
no substantial occasion presents itself. Boy, that sounds right right now.
No substantial occasion presents itself. They fight both tooth and
nail over the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions. The mutual
hatred between the left and the right leaves little political
space for compromise. Fundamentally, they do not wish to compromise.
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They want to destroy each other. So it is little
wonder that our government has been so frequently halted by gridlock.
The left and right wish to be hegemonic, but the
constitution is designed to prevent factional hegemens from emerging in
our country. In other words, you can't accomplish what you're
trying to accomplish. If the two sides enter the government
not with a spirit of compromise, but with a spirit
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of destruction, they should expect to be blocked in virtually
every turn. That's the way it's set up, which is
precisely what has happened. This is no way to run
a country, any country, but it certainly dooms us to
failure under a consensus based regime like the United States Constitution.
If we want to rail against the evils of our
opponents for nothing more than the sheer pleasure of the
cathartic reliefs, so be it. But nothing will get done
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while we spew our splenetic bile, bile from our spleen
at one another.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's the best kind splenetic bile.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, but if we actually want to solve problems in
this country, we need to recognize that under our system
of government, working together is the only way to do that.
That is an interesting point that gets left out a lot.
We have a system that doesn't allow for what both
sides are currently trying to do.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Right. Yeah, in fact, it specifically disallows it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
The problem is, and I'm sure he gets to this
elsewhere in the book, is even if you're not actually
sincerely bent on destroying your opponent. As Mark Leibovich's fabulous
book This Town pointed out, these people pretend to go
at it, hammer and tongs, right, and then laugh in
the green room, then go to the same cocktail parties
and pick up their kids at the same schools. But
you know, our system is not designed for that. But
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our fundraising is yeah, that's an ex specific god boom dunked.
That is kitty for the win. It's good stuff. Well
you need what what's the after?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You need to write the afterword for his paperback version
of that book, because that might Sorry James Madison, I'm
James Madison.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Wow, So Kenny, just because he's short, you take a
he's one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, you jackass.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Sorry James Madison, your system for government might be trumped
if you pardon the expression, by the way, we got
our donor situation set up and cable news and media
and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Sorry. Sorry, I can stay in office. You know somebody
would raise their hand. They would.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Can I say this anonymously because I don't want anybody
to hear this in my district. I can stay in
office for the rest of my life, eat at the
finest restaurant, send my kids to the coolest private schools,
live a really fun lifestyle, flying around private jets, doing
all this cool stuff by never compromising on anything.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Correct, So you tell me why I should compromise.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I got both my kids on my payroll, my wife's
my campaign consultant. We live in a giant house right
on the Potomac, and you're telling me to compromise for
the good of the country. Ah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Now, I used to be a guy who would yell
on this very radio show before all this craziness started that, yeah, well,
the compromising has got us three trillion dollars in debt
and this is unsustainable. Well three yeah, oh dad, that's
back when I was saying that. So that's why I
was for the whole break it. Whatever's next has got
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to be better than this. We're headed off a cliff
and nobody seems to care when they were compromising. Now
with the nobody compromises, ever, we're thirty three trillion dollars
in debt with no end in sight, and nobody really cares.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
How about about where we're headed. Other than that, things
are going fine. From my perspective, everything's great. Oh, speaking
of reaching across the aisle, I'm gonna say something nice
about John Fetterman.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Believe it or not, I think ever since he started
wearing a suit, he's cleaned up his act, the behoodied
bohemoth from Pennsylvania. You know, it doesn't help that the
guy who got elected president, and I think a lot
of people were hoping.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I was hoping that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
He was going to try to bring us back toward
the madisona Madisonian view of government, because he did that
for many, many years. But no, he looked, he saw
which way the wind was blowing, and rightly or wrongly determined,
and I better get on board with the other side
is evil. We need to destroy him, crowd, and that's
what he has done. So we've gone further down that road.
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Somebody needs to stand up at some point say, look,
our government is designed to work only if we compromise,
and if we don't, it's it's just not gonna work
at all.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, aside from a small handful of jackasses like ourselves,
virtually everybody in media who could carry that message forward
has gone with the same plan as the politicians because
it helps for clicks, it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Helps for ring, absolutely does, absolutely does. We've had this
conversation many times behind the scenes that you know, the
other sides always wrong, our side's always right. There's a
lot of people making a lot of money with that. Yeah,
it's gonna have a shelf life, like as in the
country is going to have a shelf life but man, currently,
(23:45):
the absolutely no compromise. Ever, if you're seen going out
to dinner with the other side, you're ruined. Somebody will
run to your left or right, depending on your party,
and beat you because you set a load to somebody on.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The other side.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's just that's never gonna work. No, it's suicidal as
a country. But I feel like I'm standing on the
beach yelling at the tide.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah so, and it fits within it's within the Republican
Party itself also, so Matt Gates and a handful of
others are.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So we're not going to compromise on this.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
On the whole speaker thing, well, man, your your hope
for legislation that reforms entitlements and all that sort of
stuff can't get through the Senate and get signed by
the president. Currently, you gotta win more elections.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I don't know. You're right, we're yelling at the tide. Shockingly,
I have a kind word about John Fetterman. He's the
loser socialist from Pennsylvania. That's the fella who only one
because he's running against doctor Oz. That's right, carpetbagging quack.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, I could become senator if I could run against
gonna rhea or something else unpopular.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, that's uncharitable toward doctor Oz. I thought you were
calling for civility just a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
With doctor Oz mortal enemy. Fair enough.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
It goes back to something he did to us in
our own studio. If you haven't ever heard that story,
really be.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Hoodied behemoth bum trust funder communist from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Hi, good night everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Hello, you know what Michael's let's set the scene here
with just a little bit of Yeah. I know that
doesn't really enter into any of the things I said,
but give us a little clip sixty one, would you
come on? You know what's so hard sometimes it is
watching those videos and the people telling the kids don't cry,
and like.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Let them cry. So that's Rashida tale.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
But hours and hours after it became generally known that
the Israelis did not bomb a hospital a hospital and
five hundred plus were not killed. All of it was
Hama's lies, she was still saying that that was the case.
John Fetterman oddly tweeted out, yes, socialist loser, John Fetterman,
I think we covered that. But anyway, yes, the same
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fella said, it's truly disturbing that members of Congress rushed
to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who
would take the word of a group that just massacred Inno,
Senator's Raeli citizens over our key? Ally the New York
Times would several Congress people would, Yeah, it's troubling, but
good question.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I'm on your side on this one. Now, get a job.
Get a job ever in your life, have one job.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Well, he's got a job now us Senator fabulous bringing
his wit and wisdom to the halls of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Everybody, good night.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
New open letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, signed by
over seventy faculty members, we call on you and the
Harvard leadership to publicly and unequivocally condemn the intimidation and
harassment of Palestinian, Arab, Black, and Muslim students and other
supporters of Palestinian liberation at Harvard. The leadership should denounce
all forms of racism, Islamophobia, and Zemenophobia, including anti Semitism
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and anti Palestinian racism. Okay, you know, I'm glad you
mentioned anti semitism, because there's a hell of a deal
Jewish Harvard students right now. Are afraid to come out
of their dorms because you have mobs dressed as Palestinians
chanting death to Israel.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Now, the Palestinians elected Hamas back in two thousand and six.
I heard somebody reference polling that would show that they
would reelect Hamas again if you had an election today.
I don't know if that's accurate or how good the polling.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Is, but I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
But for the sake of this conversation, assuming that would
be true. Now, it is true that they elected Hamas
the one and only time they've ever had open on elections,
but if they would elect them again.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
So how far do you go with the and children.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Are never to blame for anything. Uh, you can't put
it on them, But how far do you go with
the it's not their fault. See, you can't attack Hamas
and kill Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
If you vote, would vote for the Jummas to be
your government. Yeah, that's complicated, just because ethically. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, and you know, Hamas, after being elected by a
very very narrow margin, essentially ended democracy and took over
as dictators. And I haven't seen those polls, but yeah,
I just the whole thing. So much of what's being
said on the pro Palestinian side requires putting aside your
morality completely, just making it absolutely clear all of these
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moral claims I'm making are entirely conditional on what side
we're talking about, Just so you know, right, appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Collective punishment for Palestinians is awful, and I might agree
with you, but collective punishment for Israelis was okay because
Hamas went in and killed a bunch of babies that
didn't vote for nothing, And so you're okay with collective
punishment on that side. Collective punishment going the other way
is wrong. And then you've got the other thing of
Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinians. But then in the same
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breath you make the argument of it was just them
reacting to decades of oppression.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well, okay, which is it? Right? Well, I don't mean
to suggest that anybody who's pro better a better deal.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
For the Palestinians is a monster or anything like that,
or of course thinks the Israel has been unfair at times,
or maybe even now. That's absolutely an argument that could
and should be heard. On the other hand, the whole
when you impose the victim oppressor framework on every single question,
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which is what the radicals in American universities have been
doing for a couple of decades.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Now it turns off.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It obviates it to avoids the need to think every
Every single question is pre decided for you up to
and I know this thing sounds like an insane example,
even up to it's okay if they slaughter babies in
their cribs because they're the victim and the babies were
part of the oppressors, so it's okay. It turns you
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into a stupid, vicious beast when you look at everything
through the victim oppressor lens.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You no longer have to think it all.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
You no longer have to exercise anything approaching morality anymore.
That's why it's so appealing to people, because they don't
have to wrestle.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
With anything difficult. That's one of the reasons I despise
it so much.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
It turns people into vicious, bloodthirsty mobs who are completely
convinced of their own righteousness.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
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Speaker 3 (31:09):
The Armstrong and Getty Show Texas was so interesting the
taking a look at insurance right now? Oh boy, I
mean you talk about inflationary pressures and holy crap, look
at this bill. Insurance is absolutely at the top of
the list of you know, parts of your life where
you say that maybe second only to groceries because you
(31:29):
have to shop more often, but is up twenty percent.
Auto insurance rates are up forty six point two percent
since January twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Since twenty twenty, it's up almost fifty percent.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
That is correct, sir, Holy more than in the eight
previous years combined. Homeowner home owner premiums have increased by
about thirty eight percent since twenty nineteen, about six percent
in the first three months of this year.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Now, you don't understand.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
We have record low unemployment, the stock market is up,
inflation slowing.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Why are you not happy? I don't understand why you're
not happy?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
And interestingly enough, the rates are even higher in many
of the states in which The Armstrong and Getty Show
has most listened to, including Arizona, Illinois, Texas, California, and Florid.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Why is this one sector not discussed more?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is a bigger deal than the price of gas.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, I would agree, And it's interesting people are looking
around saying essentially what the heck is going on? Well,
progressives are blaming, of course, climate change in corporate greed.
Elizabeth Warren was jabbering the other day, Man, is she
a treat? She says, I'm gonna quote her. Now, insurance
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have underwritten financing fossil fuels, and then they profit from
selling protection from the impacts of those fossil fuels on
climate trying to say that because insurance companies have some
money and energy, the energy has caused rapid climate change
and that's why insurance premiums are high.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Blah blah blah. Wow, and listen, here's where it really
gets good.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
And now when climate risks arising, they're trying to hang
American families out to dry here and demanding either higher premiums.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Or to get out of the market all together.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
On fifty nearly fifty percent increase since pre pandemic on
auto insurance I remember when I was younger, I wanted
to get like a cool fast car. I realized I
can afford the car, I can't afford the car insurance.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well that's got to be doubly true.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Now can I what kind of carke and a young
person drive that they can afford the insurance on it?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
So what's actually happening is in here the sort of
person who would like to know what's actually happenings opposed
to just getting spun. The actual culprit is a bad
storm of inflation, litigation, abuse, and government made dysfunctions, according
to Wall Street Journal, which had been exacerbated by a
string of bad weather. So you start with auto insurance
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rates used in new vehicle prices have increased thirty percent
and twenty one percent, respectively since January twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
More expensive cars cost more to ensure. Duh.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Prices for vehicle parts have risen twenty two percent since
the start of the pandemic, while repair costs are up
fifty percent. Absolutely none of that having anything to do
with corporate greed or climate check.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Now, the parts are up the same amount that overall
inflation's up roughly twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So yeah, and I'm so glad they bring this up
because and I wish I could get to the litigation abuse,
because that's important. But this is one of my favorite
aspects of life in America that nobody is talking about.
The progressive anti police movement fueled by George Floyd, the
Ferguson effect, et cetera, has seriously reduced traffic enforcement, resulting
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in more reckless driving in accidents. Deaths from alcohol related
crashes have risen by a third since twenty nineteen, even
as arrests for driving under the influence and traffic citations
have fallen by twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
If effect meat calls Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Show a couple of significant, fairly significant pieces of electric
vehicle news. First of all, those of you who have
invested in the Tesla, and I will speak for Jack
boy here, who has one of those fine automobiles. It's
not about like you're some sort of Gretaituneberg cultist. It's
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that it's a fabulously engineered motor vehicle and it's the
fastest thing on the planet.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I think a lot of people, like in my town,
bought them to virtual signal how much they care about
the client. I bought it because I heard it was
I read it was the fastest car ever made, and
I thought, I want to have that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's why I bought the.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Plaid and it said it had the best steria they
I've ever heard, so fast and I had a nice sterio.
Give a crap about the fact that it was electric,
But I don't know. I'm probably not the regular buyer anyway.
It's a fine car.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And one of the advantages of being a Tesla owner
is that you have actual charging stations that work somewhat well.
The other manufacturers realize that, and there's very there are
very few other places to charge that are evs that
work worth a dam, and so they have put out
(01:26):
adaptations to their software and like little adapter things. So
now you're going to see Ford's and Chevyes and everything
else charging at Tesla recharging and it's Tesla allowing that.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, would they be doing that? Are they allowed
to do that? I don't, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The Wall Street Journal doesn't address quote unquote legality at all.
They just said, no, nobody beat me to death or
screened at me for having a non Tesla there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's fine. I charged it up and went.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I didn't think it was an adapter issue. I thought
it was a you're not supposed to use the Tesla
arging station's issue.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But who's gonna police that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, well, if they don't police armed robbery right
in California, right, they're gonna police. Excuse me, I'm going
to cite you for being a Chevy at a Tesla recharger.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Please.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Well, anyway, so look forward to longer lines and more misery.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, yeah, the only electric car that's even made a
dent in the ability for electric cars to overtake gas
powered cars are Tesla and it is the charging station thing,
and they already have gotten full. Tesla's have gotten popular
enough that when I pull up to one, now more
likely than not there are no stalls open and I
have to wait in line. How often do you have
to wait at a gas station for twenty minutes to
then fill up, which is going to take you half
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an hour?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
How do you ever have to do that with a
gas bar car? Never?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
But now if all vehicles are doing it, forget it.
That will kill the whole electric car experiment.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It'll kill right, It'll be Oh well, it's already dying
as the bottom is dropped out of the market, both
for the cars and the materials that go into it,
even the mining operations that mine for the materials for
the batteries. The bottom has dropped out of that market
like in six months, which just goes to show the
stupidity and capriciousness of central planning. Even if it's a
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noble goal that the electric vehicles were actually going to
help the environment, and that is not true, by the way,
and I I don't work for any big oil company.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't give a damn. I want the environment to
be clean.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I want there to be fish when I throw a
line in, and birds overhead, even though their government spies.
I want clean air and water, of course I do.
If you don't hear a scumbag.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
But I I was wearing a shell oil hat.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You can see it here in a SHOOTA meant to
turn that backward before I began my screen. It's all wrong, Yeah,
all right, Hormonal teenagers are not where I look for
my guidance on major political issues.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Anyway. Where was I? Eh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, So, if indeed electric cars were going to do
a lot of good, then I could see maybe some
incentives and disincentives from the government.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But it's it's phony.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
For instance, it turns out because the particulate matter that
comes out of gas powered cars has become incredibly small.
There's a very very very low amount turns out EV's
and particular matter is the biggest problem. That's the really
nasty stuff dust, dirt, soot that gets in the air.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
EV's put out more of them.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Because the vast majority of particulate matter that comes out
of motor vehicles at this point.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Is from their tires. Did you know this? I had no,
I did not. That was completely news to me.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The pollution, the main pollution problem is what's coming off
the tires, at least in terms of me particulate matter.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, And so the Biden administration is reviewing California's plan.
Cal Unicornia, as always out front and doing stupid stuff
that doesn't help anything, plans to ban the sale new
gas powered cars by twenty thirty five to get federal approval.
California claims it needs this ban to prevent harm from
to public health from particulate matter cited airborne particles, dust, dirt, so,
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but banning gasoline cars would do little reduced particulate emissions
and could even increase them.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
New gas cars are very clean.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
According to the EPA, cars only emit one percent of
all direct fine particular matter in California, and most of
these emissions come from older models. The newer gasoline cars
that California wants to ban will often have particulate filters
that reduce emissions below one one thousand thousandth of a
grand per mile driven. Turns out, it's much more about
(05:30):
the tires. We could get further into this, but you
get the idea and the rest of it is just
fleshing out this evidence. But here's the interesting part, and
kel Unicornians will recognize this how corrupt.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It all is.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
When California's Air Agency analyze the effects of its ban,
it used a model that assumes both kind of cars
cars have the same wear. When the public pointed out
the error that heavier electric vehicles have more tirewar the
agency double down, claiming it would be speculative to assume
that electric cars will continue to be heavier than gasoline cars.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The agency mewsed that in.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The future, automakers could probably offset the weight of heavy
batteries with unspecified weight reduction in other components or the
vehicle body.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But California's bureaucrats have it backward.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
There's speculative is assuming that electric cars will soon weigh
the same as gasoline cars they replaced.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
There's no reason to believe that now. Yeah, my Sedan
weighs as much as a giant SUV. So I'm agnostic
on electric cars. I don't have an emotional thing about
it either way, as opposed to like my brother and
my son, just hate kneeder, hate them, hate them, hate them.
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Just the idea of I don't know what it is,
moving away from the combustible engine because they're cool or
or culture or something like that. I would just drive
whichever is more practical and cheaper. And I got an
electric car and found it's not very damn practical. It's
just just not. It is for some things, but not
for a lot of other things. The tech part of it, though,
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that was kind of exciting and everybody thought was going
to take over the world a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Self driving.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
This self driving that has turned out to not even
be close to ready and may never be because of
the NHT National Highway Transportation Board or whatever they're called.
They cracked down hard on Tesla for a handful of
crashes around the country they could have. I mean, there
are crashes all the time for regular people driving, but
(07:31):
a handful of crashes from autopilot, and so Tesla has
really restricted the autopilot and it is unusable now. And
I thought it was just me complaining about it on
my car, but I went on to a Reddit thread.
It has completely taken the novelty away by a large margin.
I'm opened up other vehicles now. Sadly, I would have
never considered leading Tesla and now I'm going to Yeah,
(07:52):
I never use it. Now, what a waste of money
it was for me. These are all different comments. It
yells of that's.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Right, because you pay more for the software, right ten
dollars oh.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
For self driving car, And now they've made it unusable.
This person saying, if I take my eyes off of
the road for point three seconds to check my blind spot,
it yells at me, Yeah, you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You can't adjust your radio. It's now the time if.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You aren't just and nobody in real life drives like this,
if you don't keep your eyes straight ahead constantly, like
if you look away for a second, your car goes.
So it's just not usable at all anymore. So, so
much for self driving cars. That's the end of that.
It was fun, wht lesson. I loved it for a while.
It was great in stop and go traffic, and I
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flipped it on every day, check texts, see if I
got a phone call. But you can't do any of
that anymore. So what's the point. What are the best
most interesting things?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Tim Sander further great legal constitutional scholar and thinker from
the Goldwater Institute, longtime friend of the show. One of
the most important and interesting things he said was that
you will. It is an uncountable number the number of
jobs that are never created because of government red tape
and overregulation and.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I just find myself wondering whether the conditions that
made the United States the most innovative society that's ever
existed on the earth, I mean, bar none. I wonder
if those conditions have so changed that we just aren't anymore.
And I hear you shouting, what about AI, what about
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But that's why I led with that quote from Tim.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I think it's become so difficult to take chances and
be innovative and do something that hasn't been done before.
It's only a couple of like superstar innovations that actually
are able to fight their way through that that tar
pit of discouragement that we throw.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Up in innovators ways these days. And we really are
a perfect is the enemy of good enough. We better not.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That wouldn't be perfect. Let's just stay with the way
we used to do. That sounds a little dangerous.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I don't know know if it works, it'll save millions
of lives, Yeah, but it seems dangerous.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So no, Yeah, anyway, that's an update on that. If
you were thinking of that self driving car, ever, it
ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's over. It was a tiny golden period there for
a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I guess I'll just stick with Morgan Freeman driving me
around town and sharing various pearls of wisdom. Occasionally I'm
driving Miss Davy style.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh good for you, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong
and Getty Show, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Search pricing. That's interesting. So I was reading art about
like that last night.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
There's a bunch of different restaurants doing that in places,
and my only question was, how.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Did this never happen before? How is this not a
thing before? I'm surprised it wasn't it. You know, My
initial reaction to it is repugnance, is a little strong resentment. Oh,
you're gonna jack up the prices at meal times. The
other way to look at it, I suppose, is they're
discounting it at non meal times. That is very much
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like the early Bird special or something like that. Yeah, exactly.
Or you.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Want the price on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to fly
to be the same as.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
The Tuesday before.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
No, we have more demand, so we're charging for the
same they're doing the same thing with dinner at Wendy's.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, I'm just surprised it hasn't happened before.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And I mean, I guess that explains why I had
that eleven dollars bacon eter a couple of weeks ago
that I had right at dinner time. That must be
what it was, although we were the only people in
the restaurant, so I'm not sure how you what the
surge pricing is when we're the only people in the Wendy's.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, I'll keep my screen very very short. But this
is one of the things that happens. We need to
store to market through government policy, and you artificially jack
up wages. They're going to have to figure out something,
and sometimes it doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Speaking of eating, I heard this a couple of places
yesterday teased that the guy a Run's Kellogg's was suggesting
eating cereal for dinner, which I often do. I had
frosted many wheats for dinner last night, Well, frosted many wheats.
They don't treat me on my stomach, not good. Tony
trusted many weats. But anyway, I think that's all edge fiber.
Let's hear from this gentleman.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Some of the things that we're doing is first messaging.
We got to reach the consumer where they are. So
we're advertising about cereal for dinner. If you think about
the cost of cereal for a family versus what they
might otherwise do, that's going to be much more affordable.
The price of a bowl of cereal with milk and
with fruit is less than a dollar, So you can
imagine where a consumer under pressure.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Might find that to be a good place to go.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
The milk with fruit thing that they've been pushing for
for fifty years, they always did. They put they put
some fruit on there in the commercials box to make
it act like that's what everybody's doing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Nobody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Slice strawberries, nobody's I've never been anybody's house where mom
was like cutting up strawberries to put in the whatever materios,
and uh, we were pretty regular slice of banana consumers
are growing up.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I've seen that little in my life. And but then
they adjust their nutritional around that. Well, we're assuming you
put a slices of strawberry in there, so that's why
it's blah blah blah blah. That gets to the whole
shrink flation thing, which the cereal companies have been doing
more than anybody for, you know, for obvious reasons. I
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guess Joe Biden's going to make that essentral. But that's
been part of his stump speech as he goes around. Now,
the whole shrink flation thing, he's going to make that
part of the State of the Union, which is next Tuesday.
Next week, you talk about something I have no interest
in taking in the city.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You know, I probably won't watch it. I think it's
stupid that I should go away.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
But yeah, so he thinks that shrinkflation rap is really
working on people, that that the companies are ripping you off.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They made the box smaller.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah I'm not I'm not super smart, but I get
that they They could either raise the price, which would
made me go wah.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Fifteen dollars for a box of frosted.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Many weeds, or they shrunk the box and get the
price the same. Those were their options.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So I okay, quickie text pole here four one five
two nine five KFTC. You ought to have it in
your phone just in case you want to text us
in the future market A and G have us in
your contacts whatever you could quickly you know, drive with
your knee and quickly dash off of You guys are
idiots anytime, anytime you need to, Brian, here's your quickie
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text pole. What percentage of what you hear in politics
is designed for stupid people? Or to be more charitable
low information voters? As the Great Russel Inball I would
have said, what percentage of popular politics is for?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Really?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And by low information I mean folks who don't understand
how inflation works in that sort of thing, which does
not make them bad people. They might be the best
people God has ever created. I'm not trying to be demeaning,
and they're probably happier. Yeah, So, so I apologize for
the use of the word stupid just low sophistication voters.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What percentage of stupid and stupid? Yeah, they're stupid people.
They're stupid people, you know, stupid people. Oh yeah, and
also stupid people.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I thought you meant and they're stupid none of all
other people who are talking about Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
No, they're low information people who don't live their lives
thinking about this, which, like I said, probably makes you
happier and stupid people. I was thinking about this yesterday.
That is the biggest piece that is missing in all
of these political conversations. You're listening to talk radio, you're
watching cable news or whatever. Everybody involved in that is
(15:57):
just so immersed in all the topics, and most of
the viewers or listeners and all those.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
People have made up their mind.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
So the only way you can sway the election one
way or the other is the people that are by
definition not there.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They're not watching this or reading this or writing down this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Part of the reason I bring it up is I
was reminding myself yesterday as I was immersing myself and
my favorite sources of information and thinking, I thought, there's
practically nobody who does this, and I get so frustrated
with the politics of the day. But then I thought,
you know, it's not for me. It's it's hell, it's
barely for any of you folks, honestly a lot of it. Yeah,
because the millions and millions and millions of people have
(16:38):
no idea what they're talking about. So anyway, I would
put the number somewhere around and I've got to I've
got to think about it hard because the stuff I
pursue is not really this is not accurate, it's not stupid,
but it's got to be eighty five percent something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Of the politics is for very low sophistication. Voter absolutely,
and I think they're smart.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
It should because the only people that can be influenced
when they're the only people that show up on some
sort of focus group is undecided.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Joe Biden seems like he cares about me more. You know,
those people who haven't made sure their mind one way
or another already? Right, yeah, agreed.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Uh. And you might say, well, then, what.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
The hell are we doing here exactly? Now, there's an
answer for that. The answer is what eat for dinner?
Eat more carbs and sugar for dinner. Clearly it's good
for you and for your kids.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Shirt.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
J Cost argues in National Review.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
That what we're currently doing defies how the US system
was a design to work. Quoting him, Now, Republicans and
Democrats today conceive of each other other is totally irredeemably corrupted.
And this is all from his new book, Democracy or Republic.
The People in the Constitution. The two sides fight over
everything large and small, from major problems to utter trivialities.
(18:14):
To borrow a phrase from Madison's Federalist number ten, where
no substantial occasion presents itself. Boy, that sounds right right now.
No substantial occasion presents itself. They fight both tooth and
nail over the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions. The mutual
hatred between the left and the right leaves little political
space for compromise. Fundamentally, they do not wish to compromise.
(18:38):
They want to destroy each other. So it is little
wonder that our government has been so frequently halted by gridlock.
The left and right wish to be hegemonic, but the
constitution is designed to prevent factional hegemens from emerging in
our country. In other words, you can't accomplish what you're
trying to accomplish. If the two sides enter the government
not with a spirit of compromise, but with a spirit
(18:58):
of destruction, they should expect to be blocked in virtually
every turn. That's the way it's set up, which is
precisely what has happened. This is no way to run
a country, any country, but it certainly dooms us to
failure under a consensus based regime like the United States Constitution.
If we want to rail against the evils of our
opponents for nothing more than the sheer pleasure of the
cathartic reliefs, so be it. But nothing will get done
(19:20):
while we spew our splenetic bile, bile from our spleen
at one another.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's the best kind splenetic bile.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, but if we actually want to solve problems in
this country, we need to recognize that under our system
of government, working together is the only way to do that.
That is an interesting point that gets left out a lot.
We have a system that doesn't allow for what both
sides are currently trying to do.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Right. Yeah, in fact, it specifically disallows it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
The problem is, and I'm sure he gets to this
elsewhere in the book, is even if you're not actually
sincerely bent on destroying your opponent. As Mark Leibovich's fabulous
book This Town pointed out, these people pretend to go
at it, hammer and tongs, right, and then laugh in
the green room, then go to the same cocktail parties
and pick up their kids at the same schools. But
you know, our system is not designed for that. But
(20:14):
our fundraising is yeah, that's an ex specific god boom dunked.
That is kitty for the win. It's good stuff. Well
you need what what's the after?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
You need to write the afterword for his paperback version
of that book, because that might Sorry James Madison, I'm
James Madison.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Listen to me.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Wow, So Kenny, just because he's short, you take a
he's one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, you jackass.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Sorry James Madison, your system for government might be trumped
if you pardon the expression, by the way, we got
our donor situation set up and cable news and media
and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Sorry. Sorry, I can stay in office. You know somebody
would raise their hand. They would.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Can I say this anonymously because I don't want anybody
to hear this in my district. I can stay in
office for the rest of my life, eat at the
finest restaurant, send my kids to the coolest private schools,
live a really fun lifestyle, flying around private jets, doing
all this cool stuff by never compromising on anything.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Correct, So you tell me why I should compromise.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I got both my kids on my payroll, my wife's
my campaign consultant. We live in a giant house right
on the Potomac, and you're telling me to compromise for
the good of the country. Ah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Now, I used to be a guy who would yell
on this very radio show before all this craziness started that, yeah, well,
the compromising has got us three trillion dollars in debt
and this is unsustainable. Well three yeah, oh dad, that's
back when I was saying that. So that's why I
was for the whole break it. Whatever's next has got
(21:54):
to be better than this. We're headed off a cliff
and nobody seems to care when they were compromising. Now
with the nobody compromises, ever, we're thirty three trillion dollars
in debt with no end in sight, and nobody really cares.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
How about about where we're headed. Other than that, things
are going fine. From my perspective, everything's great. Oh, speaking
of reaching across the aisle, I'm gonna say something nice
about John Fetterman.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Believe it or not, I think ever since he started
wearing a suit, he's cleaned up his act, the behoodied
bohemoth from Pennsylvania. You know, it doesn't help that the
guy who got elected president, and I think a lot
of people were hoping.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I was hoping that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
He was going to try to bring us back toward
the madisona Madisonian view of government, because he did that
for many, many years. But no, he looked, he saw
which way the wind was blowing, and rightly or wrongly determined,
and I better get on board with the other side
is evil. We need to destroy him, crowd, and that's
what he has done. So we've gone further down that road.
(22:58):
Somebody needs to stand up at some point say, look,
our government is designed to work only if we compromise,
and if we don't, it's it's just not gonna work
at all.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, aside from a small handful of jackasses like ourselves,
virtually everybody in media who could carry that message forward
has gone with the same plan as the politicians because
it helps for clicks, it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Helps for ring, absolutely does, absolutely does. We've had this
conversation many times behind the scenes that you know, the
other sides always wrong, our side's always right. There's a
lot of people making a lot of money with that. Yeah,
it's gonna have a shelf life, like as in the
country is going to have a shelf life but man, currently,
(23:45):
the absolutely no compromise. Ever, if you're seen going out
to dinner with the other side, you're ruined. Somebody will
run to your left or right, depending on your party,
and beat you because you set a load to somebody on.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
The other side.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's just that's never gonna work. No, it's suicidal as
a country. But I feel like I'm standing on the
beach yelling at the tide.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah so, and it fits within it's within the Republican
Party itself also, so Matt Gates and a handful of
others are.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So we're not going to compromise on this.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
On the whole speaker thing, well, man, your your hope
for legislation that reforms entitlements and all that sort of
stuff can't get through the Senate and get signed by
the president. Currently, you gotta win more elections.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I don't know. You're right, we're yelling at the tide. Shockingly,
I have a kind word about John Fetterman. He's the
loser socialist from Pennsylvania. That's the fella who only one
because he's running against doctor Oz. That's right, carpetbagging quack.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, I could become senator if I could run against
gonna rhea or something else unpopular.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, that's uncharitable toward doctor Oz. I thought you were
calling for civility just a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
With doctor Oz mortal enemy. Fair enough.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
It goes back to something he did to us in
our own studio. If you haven't ever heard that story,
really be.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Hoodied behemoth bum trust funder communist from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Hi, good night everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Hello, you know what Michael's let's set the scene here
with just a little bit of Yeah. I know that
doesn't really enter into any of the things I said,
but give us a little clip sixty one, would you
come on? You know what's so hard sometimes it is
watching those videos and the people telling the kids don't cry,
and like.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Let them cry. So that's Rashida tale.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
But hours and hours after it became generally known that
the Israelis did not bomb a hospital a hospital and
five hundred plus were not killed. All of it was
Hama's lies, she was still saying that that was the case.
John Fetterman oddly tweeted out, yes, socialist loser, John Fetterman,
I think we covered that. But anyway, yes, the same
(26:08):
fella said, it's truly disturbing that members of Congress rushed
to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who
would take the word of a group that just massacred Inno,
Senator's Raeli citizens over our key? Ally the New York
Times would several Congress people would, Yeah, it's troubling, but
good question.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I'm on your side on this one. Now, get a job.
Get a job ever in your life, have one job.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Well, he's got a job now us Senator fabulous bringing
his wit and wisdom to the halls of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Everybody, good night.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
New open letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, signed by
over seventy faculty members, we call on you and the
Harvard leadership to publicly and unequivocally condemn the intimidation and
harassment of Palestinian, Arab, Black, and Muslim students and other
supporters of Palestinian liberation at Harvard. The leadership should denounce
all forms of racism, Islamophobia, and Zemenophobia, including anti Semitism
(27:07):
and anti Palestinian racism. Okay, you know, I'm glad you
mentioned anti semitism, because there's a hell of a deal
Jewish Harvard students right now. Are afraid to come out
of their dorms because you have mobs dressed as Palestinians
chanting death to Israel.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Now, the Palestinians elected Hamas back in two thousand and six.
I heard somebody reference polling that would show that they
would reelect Hamas again if you had an election today.
I don't know if that's accurate or how good the polling.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Is, but I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
But for the sake of this conversation, assuming that would
be true. Now, it is true that they elected Hamas
the one and only time they've ever had open on elections,
but if they would elect them again.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
So how far do you go with the and children.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Are never to blame for anything. Uh, you can't put
it on them, But how far do you go with
the it's not their fault. See, you can't attack Hamas
and kill Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
If you vote, would vote for the Jummas to be
your government. Yeah, that's complicated, just because ethically. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, and you know, Hamas, after being elected by a
very very narrow margin, essentially ended democracy and took over
as dictators. And I haven't seen those polls, but yeah,
I just the whole thing. So much of what's being
said on the pro Palestinian side requires putting aside your
morality completely, just making it absolutely clear all of these
(28:43):
moral claims I'm making are entirely conditional on what side
we're talking about, Just so you know, right, appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Collective punishment for Palestinians is awful, and I might agree
with you, but collective punishment for Israelis was okay because
Hamas went in and killed a bunch of babies that
didn't vote for nothing, And so you're okay with collective
punishment on that side. Collective punishment going the other way
is wrong. And then you've got the other thing of
Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinians. But then in the same
(29:13):
breath you make the argument of it was just them
reacting to decades of oppression.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well, okay, which is it? Right? Well, I don't mean
to suggest that anybody who's pro better a better deal.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
For the Palestinians is a monster or anything like that,
or of course thinks the Israel has been unfair at times,
or maybe even now. That's absolutely an argument that could
and should be heard. On the other hand, the whole
when you impose the victim oppressor framework on every single question,
(29:49):
which is what the radicals in American universities have been
doing for a couple of decades.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Now it turns off.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
It obviates it to avoids the need to think every
Every single question is pre decided for you up to
and I know this thing sounds like an insane example,
even up to it's okay if they slaughter babies in
their cribs because they're the victim and the babies were
part of the oppressors, so it's okay. It turns you
(30:18):
into a stupid, vicious beast when you look at everything
through the victim oppressor lens.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You no longer have to think it all.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
You no longer have to exercise anything approaching morality anymore.
That's why it's so appealing to people, because they don't
have to wrestle.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
With anything difficult. That's one of the reasons I despise
it so much.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
It turns people into vicious, bloodthirsty mobs who are completely
convinced of their own righteousness.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
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Speaker 3 (31:09):
The Armstrong and Getty Show Texas was so interesting the
taking a look at insurance right now? Oh boy, I
mean you talk about inflationary pressures and holy crap, look
at this bill. Insurance is absolutely at the top of
the list of you know, parts of your life where
you say that maybe second only to groceries because you
(31:29):
have to shop more often, but is up twenty percent.
Auto insurance rates are up forty six point two percent
since January twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Since twenty twenty, it's up almost fifty percent.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
That is correct, sir, Holy more than in the eight
previous years combined. Homeowner home owner premiums have increased by
about thirty eight percent since twenty nineteen, about six percent
in the first three months of this year.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Now, you don't understand.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
We have record low unemployment, the stock market is up,
inflation slowing.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Why are you not happy? I don't understand why you're
not happy?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
And interestingly enough, the rates are even higher in many
of the states in which The Armstrong and Getty Show
has most listened to, including Arizona, Illinois, Texas, California, and Florid.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Why is this one sector not discussed more?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is a bigger deal than the price of gas.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, I would agree, And it's interesting people are looking
around saying essentially what the heck is going on? Well,
progressives are blaming, of course, climate change in corporate greed.
Elizabeth Warren was jabbering the other day, Man, is she
a treat? She says, I'm gonna quote her. Now, insurance
(32:44):
have underwritten financing fossil fuels, and then they profit from
selling protection from the impacts of those fossil fuels on
climate trying to say that because insurance companies have some
money and energy, the energy has caused rapid climate change
and that's why insurance premiums are high.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Blah blah blah. Wow, and listen, here's where it really
gets good.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
And now when climate risks arising, they're trying to hang
American families out to dry here and demanding either higher premiums.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Or to get out of the market all together.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
On fifty nearly fifty percent increase since pre pandemic on
auto insurance I remember when I was younger, I wanted
to get like a cool fast car. I realized I
can afford the car, I can't afford the car insurance.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well that's got to be doubly true.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Now can I what kind of carke and a young
person drive that they can afford the insurance on it?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
So what's actually happening is in here the sort of
person who would like to know what's actually happenings opposed
to just getting spun. The actual culprit is a bad
storm of inflation, litigation, abuse, and government made dysfunctions, according
to Wall Street Journal, which had been exacerbated by a
string of bad weather. So you start with auto insurance
(33:56):
rates used in new vehicle prices have increased thirty percent
and twenty one percent, respectively since January twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
More expensive cars cost more to ensure. Duh.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Prices for vehicle parts have risen twenty two percent since
the start of the pandemic, while repair costs are up
fifty percent. Absolutely none of that having anything to do
with corporate greed or climate check.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Now, the parts are up the same amount that overall
inflation's up roughly twenty percent.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
So yeah, and I'm so glad they bring this up
because and I wish I could get to the litigation abuse,
because that's important. But this is one of my favorite
aspects of life in America that nobody is talking about.
The progressive anti police movement fueled by George Floyd, the
Ferguson effect, et cetera, has seriously reduced traffic enforcement, resulting
(34:46):
in more reckless driving in accidents. Deaths from alcohol related
crashes have risen by a third since twenty nineteen, even
as arrests for driving under the influence and traffic citations
have fallen by twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
If effect meat calls Armstrong and Getty
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