October 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour two of the Monday October 13, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features...
- The Semicolon, The Economy & Student Drivers...
- Jack's Son Gets Braces...
- Political Violence & Young People Turn to Socialism...
- A Socialism Story Out of San Francisco!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Armstrong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
And while you're enjoying the Armstrong and Getty replay, don't
forget the reason for the season. That's European exployer's colonial settlers.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know. I don't know what the reason for
the season is.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's spices right looking for it's right?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was that it?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I feel like I have enough spices.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm not gonna anyway enjoy a carefully curated Armstrong and
Getty replay.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The writer Kurt Vonnegut, who I'm a big fan of,
said that the semi colon said of the semi colon,
it's showy. It's chiefly used to show you've been to college.
More than twos of young Americans say they know how
to use it. About the same number test prove actually don't.
That's pretty funny. Two thirds of people say they know
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how to use a sem and going two thirds actually don't.
Kurt Vonneget says, you only use it to show you've
been to college. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
U you know what, I actually use it semi frequently.
It to me takes the same role, has the same
role as like dot dot dot, it's it's it's well.
I've heard it described as a soft period, stronger than
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a comma, but not quite the full stop of a period.
I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon. I need
to prepare tonight, less cramping.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh you're an idiot.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So my dot dot, which I'm a big fan of,
is basically using a semi colon. Yeah, okay, I think
so that's fantastic. So I did want to talk about this.
This is actually important. So the stat from a week
or so ago really got my attention. Consumer spending is
doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there, because when consumer
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spending goes, the economy collapses, because two thirds of our
economy is consumer spending. But right now, half of consumer
spending is just the top ten percent. So the burden
of consumer spending is being is on a small number
of people.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
M I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage that's
the top ten percent?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Actions I actually they have more money.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah yeah, I actually had that and I don't remember
what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay,
because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that
stet up because that is important to the whole thing.
But so this news out of that is not that surprising.
While the wealthy prosper middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch.
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There is something called the Michigan Index, which i I've
heard before whenever you get into this topic. It's a
common and well respected consumer sentiment gauge that factors.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
In a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was at seventy not
that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed. It's down
to fifty five, where the number one hundred signals neutral
feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred, you're
just like, yeah, it's okay, and it's not great, it's
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not bad.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Below that, you're mostly negative. But it went from seventy,
which was already somewhat negative, to fifty five for the
middle class. Economic anxiety as running particularly strong among lower
and middle income consumers, and it fell off a cliff
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this summer. Higher income americans, and for this study, they're
calling anybody that makes more than one hundred thousand a year.
You make one hundred and one thousand dollars a year
in the Bay Area, you do not consider yourself a
higher income individual. Probably they have buoyant sentiments.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I rarely describe myself as Hey, Joe, how you doing buoyant?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should. How's
it going buoyant, af I'll say.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But in June, middle class confidence gave out and the
index went down a lot. And this concern is economists. Course,
everything concerns economists, and they disagree on everything.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But that doesn't surprise me. Really, things are still expensive.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, uh well, And as I've said before, doesn't everything
just feel a little precarious?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you
follow the stock market at all. My life experience is
when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a
correction coming. Like my dad, who's been retired for quite
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some time, says I've lost everything, I've half of everything
I've got like three times since I retired.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean, it happens now and then where you get
the big correction, and.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The correction isn't going to be like the gentle parenting craze.
It's going to be more like an angry Catholic school
nun in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is gonna come
down with a resounding smack.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
God, dang it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Have you all looked at your four to oh one k?
I rarely do. I just had to for some form
the other day. I looked at my phone kind of like,
holy crap. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised with
the stock market constantly setting records, and it's pretty tied
into that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But eh, should I be a hardcore long term investor guy?
If you miss the drop by a day and the
by a day, you will lose out on an enormous
amount of wealth. That's why you just ride it out.
On the other hand, I look at what's going on
right now, and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out,
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just cash out now, cash out? M my gold bars
or bitcoiner, doge coiner game stop stock? Is that still
going on?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't know, gold bars, Yeah, maybe that's the answer.
This is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnya, who
spoke on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar
and apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on Doha,
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and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari security
guard while they were taking out the various Hummas leaders.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
There. See, everybody's fine now, Netanya, who's sitting with the
president as right as we are?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
If that was that part of the deal, Trump said,
you gotta call him, apologize, tell him you're sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, tell him you're sorry and mean it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Someday.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I wish they would release the Trump Net and Yahoo
tapes like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know
if there are tapes, but you know, like after the
Katari attack, the word was Trump just let him up.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He yelled at him.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours
later or the next day, had a very good, calm,
productive chat. So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male,
hot tempered yelling at each other a relationship. I'd love
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to hear it someday or just read the transcripts, but
I don't know if that'll ever ask.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Semi colon, that would all be amusing, agreed.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her
car in park while yelling at agents, making interest of
an illegal alien and her car rolled into a lake
and sunk.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's disappointing. Fox News.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It happened Upton at Massachusett's a small, very blue town
in blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and
a clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks.
Look at that, Lucy, her car got lost, as the
woman's car drifts further into the water.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
A lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me.
I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We were
driving around on county highways in his truck as he
is coming up on getting his license, and so I
took him over to a friend's house and Saturday night,
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and his friend, who is a few months older than him,
has his license now. And I saw him pull up
and it was just like it was I'm sure you've
had this experience. Just it was so weird to see
this kid that I've known since he was in kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Driving a car. It's like, well, I knows, he's sure,
this is all right. This is really times change. People grow. Hey,
do you guys have a student driver on your on
your bumper? A little sign?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No, I don't. Can you get those? Are you supposed
to have those? I guess, I mean, I don't. Does
it carry any legal weight? Do you get any?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You give me? It doesn't care legal weight. But I
appreciate it honestly.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
If I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever goes
the speed limit, and somebody's going the speed limit and
I say, patients, please, student driver, I see that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You're oh, okay, got it, got it, got it, yep.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I won't get up on not that I would like
dangerously tailgate anyway, but I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So cool, you're cool. I'll just call it.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I pull around in front of my brake, check him.
Then I roll coal on them.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'll do everything you drive from me, not rolling coal.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
But yeah, that happened to me just the other day.
I was was that a weird four way stop situation?
And I said, what is that person doing? And Sam
said they got the student drivers sticker and I was like,
oh okay, yeah they're trying to figure it out, and yeah,
my patients went way, way.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Way up right.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mm. If
i'd seen the sign, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You know, my son, I think figured out the other day.
We were having a conversation about a particular group of
people that seemed to struggle with driving.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Oh, and I think he came upon the realization him.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, no, no, no, no, he was. He's very aware
of it. He's very aware of the existence of this.
And I won't say why, but I think he figured
out why. And it's always been a mystery. Why does
this particular group of people struggle with driving so much
when they seem to excel at other things.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I won't I won't name the group, but.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He's got a great punch line. But it would end
our careers today, and I can't. I can't explain why.
But it reminded me of one of the many Armstrong
and Getty I don't know, laws of social physics or
whatever things that we've come across over the years, the
fact that you can point out the strength of a
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racial group or ethnic group or whatever, or really any group.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You can point out their strengths as divided out from
other people, but not weaknesses. And it makes no sense
whatsoever that any group could have only positives and no negatives.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I mean, that does make sense on any face of
it whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
No, you want another layer of irony if you were
to say, because you want to say that group has
high home or owner owner high home owner rates less,
crime gets divorced less. But if there's a negative stat
you can't say that out louder. You're in trouble. Well,
so here's the extra load of irony for can't dry
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for instance, and particularly in particularly if if you were
to suggest that sort of thing, even a positive I
remember if you were to suggest that, yeah, Indian kids, uh,
you know, they work really hard and they value education.
And you weren't even supposed to say that, because that
reduces the individual to just his group. And that's ugly.
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That's a stereo tap type. Even positive stereotypes are a
racism and wrong. And then the woke crowd came along
and took over the left and they're like, everybody is
the stereotype of the race. All white people are evil
white supremacists, all black people are victims. There are no individuals.
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You will not be judged on your individual achievements or
efforts or character. You will be painted with the color
of your race.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Period. And that was the left again, but the new Left. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I wish I could talk about this more, but I can't.
Would end our careers.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And people so weak and stupid that they really they
ought to be at the end of the leash that
their dog is holding. People so damn stupid they couldn't
recognize what was going on Felford All And they're sick
in our nation's universities and schools and blue towns. Yes, indeed,
they believe every word of it. And when the new
new Left comes along and utterly contradicts that but yells
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at them a little bit, they'll go along with that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Next man man the Irish. The Irish can't drive And
I said it out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
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podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
When my son got My thirteen year old got braces yesterday,
and I was wondering what percentage of kids get braces
in the modern world. As we decided at some point
that everybody needs to have perfectly straight teeth and they
need to be as bright as the sun in terms
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of whiteness. Yes, that's what we decided. It's if you
watch a movie from the nineties, all the actors like
not bright white teeth or just kind of you know,
John Travolta's got kind of yellowish.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Teeth like people have normal colored teeth. Yeah, it's striking
and I love this. This is my favorite aspect of
modern movies. If the you got a movie, it's a Western,
it's set in eighteen forty, and you got a character
who's a town drunk who's dying of consumption, he's still
got gleaming white teeth.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
About seventy percent of kids in the US currently get
some sort of orthodonic treatment, braces being the number one,
and at least a third or only a third truly
need braces in the traditional sense, like it would be
a quality of life situation if you didn't get your
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teeth straightened out. It's cosmetic in other words, for two
thirds of them, which you know, if we've decided, you know,
I had a person really bere eating me for the
fact that I hadn't got my son braces yet yet. Uh,
if we've decided that you gotta have straight teeth, is
that kind of like we we use the example of
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the cracked phone screen, that's like the modern day missing tooth,
and that's because nobody's missing teeth anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So, uh, are you are?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Are you really setting yourself aside as you can't be
part of even mid level or above society if you
didn't get your teeth straightened.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't know what it's like out there. I have
straight teeth just naturally, so I don't know what it
would be like. I don't know how self conscious I
would be. Lots of people had crooked teeth when I
was younger, but like every kid has braces, and also socioeconomically,
depending on your you know, your social strata. The higher
you go up the income, the more. It's like one
hundred percent of the kids get braces for even mildly
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crooked teeth, according to this article, hence the social pressure.
Sure right, yeah, so it's kind of self reinforcing. I'll
be in Britain next week, so boy, well that'll be interesting. Yeah,
it's it's it's it's it is interesting that that is
it's not uniformly a Western society thing. I mean a
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United States that leads the way in like needing to
have perfectly straight teeth for cosmetic reasons, and it's expensive.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And painful, but yet we do it. And I just
find it interesting. You know, we did it, I'm doing it. Yeah,
that's it's a conundrum.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I mean, if you were a real activist, you'd say,
all right, this is an artificially imposed social norm a
status Norman eminence front is Pete Townsend who just turned eighty,
of the who Pete Townsend of the who is eighty?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Good lord anyway as he would put it. But if
indeed it is a barrier to.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Achievement, acceptance stating whatever relationships?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, and are you going to die on that hill?
As people like to say, far as you can?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And it's not even that. Am I going to have
my kid die on that hill? Because it's not me,
who's who's living with it?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So that's what every parent is dealing with. But it's
expensive menus shocked by the price yo.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
This is yet another message of it's not us in them,
it's us. It's a country, it's a people, and when
these things happen, instead of the divide, this is the
time to unite.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That is a sheriff in Michigan talking about how we've
got to do something about all this violence in the
wake of I don't know, pick your favorite bit of
horror of the last week and a half, two a month.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I didn't know where you were going to say there.
If it was somebody in North Carolina, from the guy
that shot up that bar, whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
So on the political violence stuff, it's easier because you
can talk about the rhetoric and how we're all Americans
and this is only going to get worse if we
don't blah blah blah on just the random I'm just
mad at this church, bar school, whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I don't know that life.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, we have in my mind two distinct things happening.
Number One, there is political violence that is the culmination
of a maybe stupid and crazy, but sought out formation
of a political philosophy. You got your Antifa violence, for instance.
They know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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They all talk about it all the time. They are
a group. You have various groups on campus. You got
the up with Hamas people committing various acts of violence.
You have some folks on the right who are loonies.
They they have their militia in the woods whatever. Once
in a great while they committed an act of violence.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
That is one thing.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Then the other thing is and we've got to recognize this,
and the half with jackasses in the mainstream media never
will because they have neither the capacity nor the desire
to understand anything, and they suck at their jobs and
I hate them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Wow anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Ah. The other thing that we have going is the
I'm angry, I'm probably suicidal. I think other people should
be hurt. And sometimes those people grasp onto an ideology,
like in the last four months before they commit their
glorified suicide.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, that's why most of these are glorified suicides.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And the way they get attention for their suicide is
to take a few or a bunch of people with them.
That is a different thing, and we need to recognize
that as a society, I think. But as far as
going over the details of the latest horrors and the
the suspected motivations and blah blah, I just don't have
it in me.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well, and there's there well not only that, is it
depressing and I don't have it in me. There's just
no there's no point. There's just no point in it.
So the Governor of Utah was the lead story on
the season premiere sixty minutes last night. You know that
got so much attention after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in
his state, and he was again on sixty minutes last
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night going on about social media and the evils of
it and how it's making us all insane and crazy.
Do you think that plays a role at all in
the glorified suicide stuff? I wonder if it does, just
because it makes the world seem worse than it is. Well,
and I think it is just.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I think the culture of this has got to be
posted online to validate the experience online is what life?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Is?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That a lot of the because you point out to me,
please the next time one of these shooters turns out
to be an outgoing person who is involved in several
civics organizations, right and not. He spent all his time online.
He smoked a lot of pott, he played a lot
of video games. So their worldview is it's got to
be big and be posted online to matter.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And I was listening to Governor what's his name? What's
the governor? You toaw his name? Cox? I can't remember
his name.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
For whatever, I was listening to Governor Cox last night
talk about the social media thing and the algorithms and
how it dominates our lives and how many hours a
day people spend on it and that sort of stuff,
And I was just thinking, is there a solution to this?
I'm not sure there is. He's right about all that.
I think he's one hundred percent right about the damage
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it's doing and how it's crazy. It's making us and
depressed and it seems like there's nothing good in the world.
And uh, but I don't know if there's anything that
can be done about that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Spreading awareness of what you just said through what Facebook exactly?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You got to post it online, post it on TikTok,
have a TikTok dance about this is.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Bad for you with the cat I had. The newest
trend is to reject all trends. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I'm not optimistic about that. Okay, So that's that. Here's
a different story. They got a lot of attention in
the last twenty four hours. It's you always go ahead,
you always say that, and you're right, But that is
the solution. It is clearly the solution. Anybody's looked at
it knows.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's the same. Well, yeah, but it's never going to happen.
That's why I dismiss it. It is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You think people are going to turn away from the Internet.
I think that people who turn away from the Internet
are going to turn away from the Internet. Maybe it's
going to be a small percentage of people and we'll
be very happy. Well, okay, you're talking about individuals. I'm
talking about society. I'm wanting society to get better. I'm
wanting all these shootings to stop, for instance. That's not
going to stop. True, Okay, well then reagree on that. Well,
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it's yeah, I know it's it's it's an entirely rhetorical
distinction in the same way that a corporation is people.
As Mitt Romney tried to point out too much mockery,
society is a collection of individuals. There is no fixing
society quote unquote, there's only fixing individuals.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
But that is doomed as well.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Why would anyone listen to this show? Can't imagine when
you have many other options out there. Listen to some
happy music or somebody talking about sports or something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Anyway, here's a different news story for you.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Just five weeks before election day, the scandal Scord Mayor
of New York City, Eric Adams is dropping out of
the race. Despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my
reelection campaign.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So the big question is who gave him one? Both
both Republicans and Democrats. Trump offered him a job a
while back, and Adam said he didn't want to take it. So,
but they're all kinds of people offering him jobs spots
on you know, a corporate board where you're not gonna
have to do anything, where you're gonna get paid a lot.
Just get out of the damn race. There's so many
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people left right and center who don't want the Communists
to become mayor. Democrats don't want it because it's gonna
they're gonna have that hung around their neck for however
long he's mayor of New York?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Is you want this this party this guy.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Republicans don't want it because he's gonna bring policies that
are gonna be awful. So no nobody wants this guy.
So I just wonder what did Eric Adams get to
drop out? That's one story. The immunity, Oh it could
be yeah. And then so you got the interesting thing
of one crook dropped out, so that it's now a
different crook can run alone against the communists to see
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is gonna be mayor New York.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
What a situation.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
But U the reason I wanted to bring this up
to this Wall Street Journal had an article of why
young people are turning to socialisms? What was socialism? What
is the moment that got them all interested in socialism?
And according to the Wall Street Journal, the main moment
for Momnami himself and a lot of his friends and
a lot of people of that ilk today, it was
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the two thousand and eight meltdown financial crisis.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
People that were.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Of the age that they were out and about and
new people who were losing their homes because the mortgage
rate jumped all all of a sudden, because you know,
you bought it at three percent and then it jumps
to whatever it was going to be after five years.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And people said they didn't know that or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But that whole thing where the world crashed, that's what
the Tea Party grew out of. When we had the
eight hundred billion dollar bailout for these companies that had
gone around ripping people off, they got bailed out. That
is the ground zero for all the socialist communists out
there of what turned them the direction they got turned.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, it's unfortunate that so much of the crash was
set up by stupid government policy messing with the free market.
Barney Frank and Bill Clinton telling the banks, you got
to lend to anybody who Fogg's a mirror, otherwise we'll
bring you down.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They said, all right, we'll go ahead.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
And then they lent to people who had no business
having a mortgage and it all went kurb bluey, credit
to fault swaps, et cetera. But the young people reacted
to that was we need more crappy government policy. In fact,
we need the government in charge of everything. That's how
we'll prevent this. It's like we were saying last week,
socialism is one of the greatest, most clever scams ever
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created by humankind because you can get young people to
fall for it over and over again.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It'll be interesting to see what the first polling is
with Eric Adams out and it's you know, well, some
of those people that were supporting him go to mom
Dom the COMI or will they all go over to
Andrew Cuomo the woman grabbing old person killing liar.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
And crook so and I Love you and That was
the short version of Cuomo's resume right there. Yeah yeah,
can we just call him the villain Cuomo or something
to summarize it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And he's the great hope to stop the awfulness of
the communists, Darling, I kissed a woman on the cheek,
right yeah, funny situation.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Here's the story I wanted to get on and this
is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and I couldn't. I'm
not wearing a hat, but if I were, I would
tip it as high as I could tip it, or
however you tip a hat for them doing this story
headline San Francisco's first equity weed store was an epic failure.
City hall insiders still may pocket millions.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And the reason I wanted to do this story is
it's a classic socialism story. It's a classic the reason
socialism doesn't work will never work. And idiots like the
people that are supporting Mom Dami in New York just well,
you're just too young to know this or stupid or something.
The cannabis shop on story Hate Street had it all
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prime real estate, star power, political clout, and social justice.
Then things got ugly. The idea of it, to start
with is amazing. This was going to be the first
permit holder. Remember when we became legal, it was all about,
you know, who gets to have the permits to open
up weed stores and they're going to be limited on
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you know, how many per street and all that sort
of stuff, just like a liquor store or anything like that.
And hate in the hate Ashbury area, big tourist area.
If you've never been to San Francisco. Tons of foot traffic.
This would be a big hippieville. This would be a
big deal here. I mean, how many people would be
coming from around the world world that would love buying
weed on Hate in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Right, sad people who imagine some sort of hippie utopia
and just want to absorb a little bit of that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Three and a half generation later, the.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
First permit holder in the city's Social Equity program, which
reserved cannabis business licenses for people unfairly burdened by the
War on drugs. So the only way you could get
a license to open up one of these gold mine
weed stores was if you were part of the crowd
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unfairly burdened by the War on drugs, a drug dealer.
So they had experience. I liked the policy makes sense.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Well, it was just you.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
You had to be black because the idea were of
a POC, a person of color because throughout history, according
to this, people of color have been unfairly targeted in
the War on drugs and suffered and to and this
so social equity. Weird situation for people who believe this
is true that by helping some dude today that had
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nothing to do with what was going on thirty years ago,
you've somehow fixed the world.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I don't even.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Understand that concept. So people of color, how about like
dude's dresses trying to crowd? Did they get pot licenses too?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
This would be an experiment the Store on Hate to
see if legalization could atone for decades of racist law
enforcement accesses and empower small businesses, some owned by members
of the city's dwindling black populace.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You gotta like it already, right, this social experiment.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
There's another great example of luxury beliefs coming up in
a gender bending Madness update next hour, stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So this dude got the license and didn't sell it
as the only weed retailer that was going to be
allowed on the main drag of hate Asbury. Thanks to
the strict zoning laws, he resisted temptation to sell out.
He said he rejected cash offers from some really big
dogs out there that wanted to buy his permit. Once
he got it, well, he ended up being a big dog.
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Is the reason they hang on, hung onto it. We
find out at the end of this, I hope every
other person of color can look at this and see
that it can really happen. Yeah, if you grew up
with the mayor of San Francisco. So he literally was
friends with Mayor Breed since he was a kid, their
whole lives, Yeah, and his contacts in the UH Mayor's office.
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And so they're trying to figure out how are they
going to dole out these permits in a fair way,
And they came up with all kinds of different ways.
How you could do it and a lottery. Know, somebody
could rig a lottery. No, we could do it this way. No,
somebody could rig that.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I know what we'll do.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
We'll just make it whoever fills out the form the
fastest they get the license. And unbelievably, believe it or not,
they opened up the applications online in the city of
San Francisco for the form showed up at whatever it
was ten am on April first or whatever it was,
and immediately, you know, everybody is waiting around to click
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on the computer and get the forms and download them
and fill them out and get them back in his
fast they can. And just the craziest coincidence of all times,
this guy who.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Grew up with the mayor and is known for his
entire life and his friends got their application in first Wow,
those high school type and classes really paid off.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
And they got the license and they opened the store.
And then the I'm not gonna go through all because
it's a very very art long article, but the ending
is they made millions while the place went bankrupt and
it ended up closing, but they got millions and millions
of dollars through all kinds of different government things that
went on.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And the cronyism and the connected get rich that is socialism.
Every single every single time.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Amid the good vibes, there was little indicate what was
to come that the store would go belly up in
little more than four years, that the great expectations of
the equity program and legal cannabis would crumble along with it,
and that despite the failure Richard that's the guy's name
who grew up with Meyer Breed and his partners would
still be poised to pocket millions with taxpayers footing the bill.
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Good for the Chronicle for doing that story, but that
is what happens every single time. And socialism, the people
that claim that it's all about fairness and equity and
the downtrodden, it's always their buddies or somebody who bribes
them that gets the cool deal and gets rich and
it doesn't help.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Anybody, right.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
The whole argument of the reality of equity is it
is a quasi faith. It's a fake moral argument for
why some people should get special treatment from the government,
and that always turns out to them be the people
well connected with those in power for whatever reason, for
whatever kinship, whether it's skin color or political philosophy, or
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they're just cronies. But yeah, equity is a fake argument
for special favors from the government.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
They interviewed a whole bunch of people because there were
some big time people that were trying to get that
particular license to open up a weed store, and so
they were ready to log on and they had, you know,
all kinds of smart people there to jump into filling
out the forms and get them in as fasts possible
like that. And they didn't even come close to getting
it in as fast as this other guy did. And
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they're all like telling the San Francisco cronic. They're all
telling them, like, please give me a break. I mean,
don't even pretend that this was.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
On the up and up. Well, right, No, we can't
have a lottery because you could rig a lottery.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Let's have a speed typing context that our friends and
family happened to win. Yeah, good lord, and that something.
They don't even try to hide it any No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And they're the people that preach equity all the time
and how the systemic this and that.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
It's just it's amazing. And again, who got screwed tax pairs?
They all got rich. Keep falling for it, Blue cities idiots.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Why does the term crony capitalism exist but not the
term crony socialism? Maybe because you don't need it, because
all socialism is crony. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah, but you're right, that is that is useful though,
because that's exactly what that used to be tattooed with
that that was crony socialism.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gretty, Armstrong and Getty Show
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Armstrong and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
And while you're enjoying the Armstrong and Getty replay, don't
forget the reason for the season. That's European exployer's colonial settlers.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know. I don't know what the reason for
the season is.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's spices right looking for it's right?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was that it?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I feel like I have enough spices.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm not gonna anyway enjoy a carefully curated Armstrong and
Getty replay.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The writer Kurt Vonnegut, who I'm a big fan of,
said that the semi colon said of the semi colon,
it's showy. It's chiefly used to show you've been to college.
More than twos of young Americans say they know how
to use it. About the same number test prove actually don't.
That's pretty funny. Two thirds of people say they know
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how to use a sem and going two thirds actually don't.
Kurt Vonneget says, you only use it to show you've
been to college. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
U you know what, I actually use it semi frequently.
It to me takes the same role, has the same
role as like dot dot dot, it's it's it's well.
I've heard it described as a soft period, stronger than
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a comma, but not quite the full stop of a period.
I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon. I need
to prepare tonight, less cramping.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh you're an idiot.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So my dot dot, which I'm a big fan of,
is basically using a semi colon. Yeah, okay, I think
so that's fantastic. So I did want to talk about this.
This is actually important. So the stat from a week
or so ago really got my attention. Consumer spending is
doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there, because when consumer
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spending goes, the economy collapses, because two thirds of our
economy is consumer spending. But right now, half of consumer
spending is just the top ten percent. So the burden
of consumer spending is being is on a small number
of people.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
M I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage that's
the top ten percent?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Actions I actually they have more money.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah yeah, I actually had that and I don't remember
what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay,
because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that
stet up because that is important to the whole thing.
But so this news out of that is not that surprising.
While the wealthy prosper middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch.
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There is something called the Michigan Index, which i I've
heard before whenever you get into this topic. It's a
common and well respected consumer sentiment gauge that factors.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
In a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was at seventy not
that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed. It's down
to fifty five, where the number one hundred signals neutral
feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred, you're
just like, yeah, it's okay, and it's not great, it's
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not bad.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Below that, you're mostly negative. But it went from seventy,
which was already somewhat negative, to fifty five for the
middle class. Economic anxiety as running particularly strong among lower
and middle income consumers, and it fell off a cliff
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this summer. Higher income americans, and for this study, they're
calling anybody that makes more than one hundred thousand a year.
You make one hundred and one thousand dollars a year
in the Bay Area, you do not consider yourself a
higher income individual. Probably they have buoyant sentiments.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I rarely describe myself as Hey, Joe, how you doing buoyant?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should. How's
it going buoyant, af I'll say.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But in June, middle class confidence gave out and the
index went down a lot. And this concern is economists. Course,
everything concerns economists, and they disagree on everything.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
But that doesn't surprise me. Really, things are still expensive.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, uh well, And as I've said before, doesn't everything
just feel a little precarious?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you
follow the stock market at all. My life experience is
when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a
correction coming. Like my dad, who's been retired for quite
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some time, says I've lost everything, I've half of everything
I've got like three times since I retired.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean, it happens now and then where you get
the big correction, and.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The correction isn't going to be like the gentle parenting craze.
It's going to be more like an angry Catholic school
nun in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is gonna come
down with a resounding smack.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
God, dang it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Have you all looked at your four to oh one k?
I rarely do. I just had to for some form
the other day. I looked at my phone kind of like,
holy crap. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised with
the stock market constantly setting records, and it's pretty tied
into that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But eh, should I be a hardcore long term investor guy?
If you miss the drop by a day and the
by a day, you will lose out on an enormous
amount of wealth. That's why you just ride it out.
On the other hand, I look at what's going on
right now, and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out,
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just cash out now, cash out? M my gold bars
or bitcoiner, doge coiner game stop stock? Is that still
going on?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't know, gold bars, Yeah, maybe that's the answer.
This is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnya, who
spoke on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar
and apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on Doha,
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and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari security
guard while they were taking out the various Hummas leaders.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
There. See, everybody's fine now, Netanya, who's sitting with the
president as right as we are?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
If that was that part of the deal, Trump said,
you gotta call him, apologize, tell him you're sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, tell him you're sorry and mean it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Someday.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I wish they would release the Trump Net and Yahoo
tapes like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know
if there are tapes, but you know, like after the
Katari attack, the word was Trump just let him up.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He yelled at him.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours
later or the next day, had a very good, calm,
productive chat. So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male,
hot tempered yelling at each other a relationship. I'd love
(07:40):
to hear it someday or just read the transcripts, but
I don't know if that'll ever ask.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Semi colon, that would all be amusing, agreed.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her
car in park while yelling at agents, making interest of
an illegal alien and her car rolled into a lake
and sunk.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's disappointing. Fox News.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It happened Upton at Massachusett's a small, very blue town
in blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and
a clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks.
Look at that, Lucy, her car got lost, as the
woman's car drifts further into the water.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
A lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me.
I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We were
driving around on county highways in his truck as he
is coming up on getting his license, and so I
took him over to a friend's house and Saturday night,
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and his friend, who is a few months older than him,
has his license now. And I saw him pull up
and it was just like it was I'm sure you've
had this experience. Just it was so weird to see
this kid that I've known since he was in kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Driving a car. It's like, well, I knows, he's sure,
this is all right. This is really times change. People grow. Hey,
do you guys have a student driver on your on
your bumper? A little sign?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No, I don't. Can you get those? Are you supposed
to have those? I guess, I mean, I don't. Does
it carry any legal weight? Do you get any?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You give me? It doesn't care legal weight. But I
appreciate it honestly.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
If I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever goes
the speed limit, and somebody's going the speed limit and
I say, patients, please, student driver, I see that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You're oh, okay, got it, got it, got it, yep.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I won't get up on not that I would like
dangerously tailgate anyway, but I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So cool, you're cool. I'll just call it.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I pull around in front of my brake, check him.
Then I roll coal on them.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'll do everything you drive from me, not rolling coal.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
But yeah, that happened to me just the other day.
I was was that a weird four way stop situation?
And I said, what is that person doing? And Sam
said they got the student drivers sticker and I was like,
oh okay, yeah they're trying to figure it out, and yeah,
my patients went way, way.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Way up right.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mm. If
i'd seen the sign, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You know, my son, I think figured out the other day.
We were having a conversation about a particular group of
people that seemed to struggle with driving.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Oh, and I think he came upon the realization him.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, no, no, no, no, he was. He's very aware
of it. He's very aware of the existence of this.
And I won't say why, but I think he figured
out why. And it's always been a mystery. Why does
this particular group of people struggle with driving so much
when they seem to excel at other things.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I won't I won't name the group, but.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He's got a great punch line. But it would end
our careers today, and I can't. I can't explain why.
But it reminded me of one of the many Armstrong
and Getty I don't know, laws of social physics or
whatever things that we've come across over the years, the
fact that you can point out the strength of a
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racial group or ethnic group or whatever, or really any group.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You can point out their strengths as divided out from
other people, but not weaknesses. And it makes no sense
whatsoever that any group could have only positives and no negatives.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I mean, that does make sense on any face of
it whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
No, you want another layer of irony if you were
to say, because you want to say that group has
high home or owner owner high home owner rates less,
crime gets divorced less. But if there's a negative stat
you can't say that out louder. You're in trouble. Well,
so here's the extra load of irony for can't dry
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for instance, and particularly in particularly if if you were
to suggest that sort of thing, even a positive I
remember if you were to suggest that, yeah, Indian kids, uh,
you know, they work really hard and they value education.
And you weren't even supposed to say that, because that
reduces the individual to just his group. And that's ugly.
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That's a stereo tap type. Even positive stereotypes are a
racism and wrong. And then the woke crowd came along
and took over the left and they're like, everybody is
the stereotype of the race. All white people are evil
white supremacists, all black people are victims. There are no individuals.
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You will not be judged on your individual achievements or
efforts or character. You will be painted with the color
of your race.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Period. And that was the left again, but the new Left. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I wish I could talk about this more, but I can't.
Would end our careers.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And people so weak and stupid that they really they
ought to be at the end of the leash that
their dog is holding. People so damn stupid they couldn't
recognize what was going on Felford All And they're sick
in our nation's universities and schools and blue towns. Yes, indeed,
they believe every word of it. And when the new
new Left comes along and utterly contradicts that but yells
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at them a little bit, they'll go along with that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Next man man the Irish. The Irish can't drive And
I said it out.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Loudt the Armstrong and Getdy show. Yeah, more Jack Morgio
podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
When my son got My thirteen year old got braces yesterday,
and I was wondering what percentage of kids get braces
in the modern world. As we decided at some point
that everybody needs to have perfectly straight teeth and they
need to be as bright as the sun in terms
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of whiteness. Yes, that's what we decided. It's if you
watch a movie from the nineties, all the actors like
not bright white teeth or just kind of you know,
John Travolta's got kind of yellowish.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Teeth like people have normal colored teeth. Yeah, it's striking
and I love this. This is my favorite aspect of
modern movies. If the you got a movie, it's a Western,
it's set in eighteen forty, and you got a character
who's a town drunk who's dying of consumption, he's still
got gleaming white teeth.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
About seventy percent of kids in the US currently get
some sort of orthodonic treatment, braces being the number one,
and at least a third or only a third truly
need braces in the traditional sense, like it would be
a quality of life situation if you didn't get your
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teeth straightened out. It's cosmetic in other words, for two
thirds of them, which you know, if we've decided, you know,
I had a person really bere eating me for the
fact that I hadn't got my son braces yet yet. Uh,
if we've decided that you gotta have straight teeth, is
that kind of like we we use the example of
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the cracked phone screen, that's like the modern day missing tooth,
and that's because nobody's missing teeth anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So, uh, are you are?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Are you really setting yourself aside as you can't be
part of even mid level or above society if you
didn't get your teeth straightened.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't know what it's like out there. I have
straight teeth just naturally, so I don't know what it
would be like. I don't know how self conscious I
would be. Lots of people had crooked teeth when I
was younger, but like every kid has braces, and also socioeconomically,
depending on your you know, your social strata. The higher
you go up the income, the more. It's like one
hundred percent of the kids get braces for even mildly
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crooked teeth, according to this article, hence the social pressure.
Sure right, yeah, so it's kind of self reinforcing. I'll
be in Britain next week, so boy, well that'll be interesting. Yeah,
it's it's it's it's it is interesting that that is
it's not uniformly a Western society thing. I mean a
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United States that leads the way in like needing to
have perfectly straight teeth for cosmetic reasons, and it's expensive.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And painful, but yet we do it. And I just
find it interesting. You know, we did it, I'm doing it. Yeah,
that's it's a conundrum.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I mean, if you were a real activist, you'd say,
all right, this is an artificially imposed social norm a
status Norman eminence front is Pete Townsend who just turned eighty,
of the who Pete Townsend of the who is eighty?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Good lord anyway as he would put it. But if
indeed it is a barrier to.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Achievement, acceptance stating whatever relationships?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, and are you going to die on that hill?
As people like to say, far as you can?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And it's not even that. Am I going to have
my kid die on that hill? Because it's not me,
who's who's living with it?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So that's what every parent is dealing with. But it's
expensive menus shocked by the price yo.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
This is yet another message of it's not us in them,
it's us. It's a country, it's a people, and when
these things happen, instead of the divide, this is the
time to unite.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That is a sheriff in Michigan talking about how we've
got to do something about all this violence in the
wake of I don't know, pick your favorite bit of
horror of the last week and a half, two a month.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I didn't know where you were going to say there.
If it was somebody in North Carolina, from the guy
that shot up that bar, whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
So on the political violence stuff, it's easier because you
can talk about the rhetoric and how we're all Americans
and this is only going to get worse if we
don't blah blah blah on just the random I'm just
mad at this church, bar school, whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I don't know that life.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, we have in my mind two distinct things happening.
Number One, there is political violence that is the culmination
of a maybe stupid and crazy, but sought out formation
of a political philosophy. You got your Antifa violence, for instance.
They know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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They all talk about it all the time. They are
a group. You have various groups on campus. You got
the up with Hamas people committing various acts of violence.
You have some folks on the right who are loonies.
They they have their militia in the woods whatever. Once
in a great while they committed an act of violence.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
That is one thing.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Then the other thing is and we've got to recognize this,
and the half with jackasses in the mainstream media never
will because they have neither the capacity nor the desire
to understand anything, and they suck at their jobs and
I hate them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Wow anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Ah. The other thing that we have going is the
I'm angry, I'm probably suicidal. I think other people should
be hurt. And sometimes those people grasp onto an ideology,
like in the last four months before they commit their
glorified suicide.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, that's why most of these are glorified suicides.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And the way they get attention for their suicide is
to take a few or a bunch of people with them.
That is a different thing, and we need to recognize
that as a society, I think. But as far as
going over the details of the latest horrors and the
the suspected motivations and blah blah, I just don't have
it in me.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well, and there's there well not only that, is it
depressing and I don't have it in me. There's just
no there's no point. There's just no point in it.
So the Governor of Utah was the lead story on
the season premiere sixty minutes last night. You know that
got so much attention after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in
his state, and he was again on sixty minutes last
(20:24):
night going on about social media and the evils of
it and how it's making us all insane and crazy.
Do you think that plays a role at all in
the glorified suicide stuff? I wonder if it does, just
because it makes the world seem worse than it is. Well,
and I think it is just.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I think the culture of this has got to be
posted online to validate the experience online is what life?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Is?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That a lot of the because you point out to me,
please the next time one of these shooters turns out
to be an outgoing person who is involved in several
civics organizations, right and not. He spent all his time online.
He smoked a lot of pott, he played a lot
of video games. So their worldview is it's got to
be big and be posted online to matter.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And I was listening to Governor what's his name? What's
the governor? You toaw his name? Cox? I can't remember
his name.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
For whatever, I was listening to Governor Cox last night
talk about the social media thing and the algorithms and
how it dominates our lives and how many hours a
day people spend on it and that sort of stuff,
And I was just thinking, is there a solution to this?
I'm not sure there is. He's right about all that.
I think he's one hundred percent right about the damage
(21:46):
it's doing and how it's crazy. It's making us and
depressed and it seems like there's nothing good in the world.
And uh, but I don't know if there's anything that
can be done about that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Spreading awareness of what you just said through what Facebook exactly?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You got to post it online, post it on TikTok,
have a TikTok dance about this is.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Bad for you with the cat I had. The newest
trend is to reject all trends. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I'm not optimistic about that. Okay, So that's that. Here's
a different story. They got a lot of attention in
the last twenty four hours. It's you always go ahead,
you always say that, and you're right, But that is
the solution. It is clearly the solution. Anybody's looked at
it knows.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's the same. Well, yeah, but it's never going to happen.
That's why I dismiss it. It is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You think people are going to turn away from the Internet.
I think that people who turn away from the Internet
are going to turn away from the Internet. Maybe it's
going to be a small percentage of people and we'll
be very happy. Well, okay, you're talking about individuals. I'm
talking about society. I'm wanting society to get better. I'm
wanting all these shootings to stop, for instance. That's not
going to stop. True, Okay, well then reagree on that. Well,
(23:02):
it's yeah, I know it's it's it's an entirely rhetorical
distinction in the same way that a corporation is people.
As Mitt Romney tried to point out too much mockery,
society is a collection of individuals. There is no fixing
society quote unquote, there's only fixing individuals.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
But that is doomed as well.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Why would anyone listen to this show? Can't imagine when
you have many other options out there. Listen to some
happy music or somebody talking about sports or something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Anyway, here's a different news story for you.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Just five weeks before election day, the scandal Scord Mayor
of New York City, Eric Adams is dropping out of
the race. Despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my
reelection campaign.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So the big question is who gave him one? Both
both Republicans and Democrats. Trump offered him a job a
while back, and Adam said he didn't want to take it. So,
but they're all kinds of people offering him jobs spots
on you know, a corporate board where you're not gonna
have to do anything, where you're gonna get paid a lot.
Just get out of the damn race. There's so many
(24:18):
people left right and center who don't want the Communists
to become mayor. Democrats don't want it because it's gonna
they're gonna have that hung around their neck for however
long he's mayor of New York?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Is you want this this party this guy.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Republicans don't want it because he's gonna bring policies that
are gonna be awful. So no nobody wants this guy.
So I just wonder what did Eric Adams get to
drop out? That's one story. The immunity, Oh it could
be yeah. And then so you got the interesting thing
of one crook dropped out, so that it's now a
different crook can run alone against the communists to see
(24:56):
is gonna be mayor New York.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
What a situation.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
But U the reason I wanted to bring this up
to this Wall Street Journal had an article of why
young people are turning to socialisms? What was socialism? What
is the moment that got them all interested in socialism?
And according to the Wall Street Journal, the main moment
for Momnami himself and a lot of his friends and
a lot of people of that ilk today, it was
(25:20):
the two thousand and eight meltdown financial crisis.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
People that were.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Of the age that they were out and about and
new people who were losing their homes because the mortgage
rate jumped all all of a sudden, because you know,
you bought it at three percent and then it jumps
to whatever it was going to be after five years.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And people said they didn't know that or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But that whole thing where the world crashed, that's what
the Tea Party grew out of. When we had the
eight hundred billion dollar bailout for these companies that had
gone around ripping people off, they got bailed out. That
is the ground zero for all the socialist communists out
there of what turned them the direction they got turned.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, it's unfortunate that so much of the crash was
set up by stupid government policy messing with the free market.
Barney Frank and Bill Clinton telling the banks, you got
to lend to anybody who Fogg's a mirror, otherwise we'll
bring you down.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They said, all right, we'll go ahead.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
And then they lent to people who had no business
having a mortgage and it all went kurb bluey, credit
to fault swaps, et cetera. But the young people reacted
to that was we need more crappy government policy. In fact,
we need the government in charge of everything. That's how
we'll prevent this. It's like we were saying last week,
socialism is one of the greatest, most clever scams ever
(26:45):
created by humankind because you can get young people to
fall for it over and over again.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
It'll be interesting to see what the first polling is
with Eric Adams out and it's you know, well, some
of those people that were supporting him go to mom
Dom the COMI or will they all go over to
Andrew Cuomo the woman grabbing old person killing liar.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
And crook so and I Love you and That was
the short version of Cuomo's resume right there. Yeah yeah,
can we just call him the villain Cuomo or something
to summarize it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And he's the great hope to stop the awfulness of
the communists, Darling, I kissed a woman on the cheek,
right yeah, funny situation.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Here's the story I wanted to get on and this
is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and I couldn't. I'm
not wearing a hat, but if I were, I would
tip it as high as I could tip it, or
however you tip a hat for them doing this story
headline San Francisco's first equity weed store was an epic failure.
City hall insiders still may pocket millions.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And the reason I wanted to do this story is
it's a classic socialism story. It's a classic the reason
socialism doesn't work will never work. And idiots like the
people that are supporting Mom Dami in New York just well,
you're just too young to know this or stupid or something.
The cannabis shop on story Hate Street had it all
(28:23):
prime real estate, star power, political clout, and social justice.
Then things got ugly. The idea of it, to start
with is amazing. This was going to be the first
permit holder. Remember when we became legal, it was all about,
you know, who gets to have the permits to open
up weed stores and they're going to be limited on
(28:45):
you know, how many per street and all that sort
of stuff, just like a liquor store or anything like that.
And hate in the hate Ashbury area, big tourist area.
If you've never been to San Francisco. Tons of foot traffic.
This would be a big hippieville. This would be a
big deal here. I mean, how many people would be
coming from around the world world that would love buying
weed on Hate in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Right, sad people who imagine some sort of hippie utopia
and just want to absorb a little bit of that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Three and a half generation later, the.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
First permit holder in the city's Social Equity program, which
reserved cannabis business licenses for people unfairly burdened by the
War on drugs. So the only way you could get
a license to open up one of these gold mine
weed stores was if you were part of the crowd
(29:35):
unfairly burdened by the War on drugs, a drug dealer.
So they had experience. I liked the policy makes sense.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Well, it was just you.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
You had to be black because the idea were of
a POC, a person of color because throughout history, according
to this, people of color have been unfairly targeted in
the War on drugs and suffered and to and this
so social equity. Weird situation for people who believe this
is true that by helping some dude today that had
(30:07):
nothing to do with what was going on thirty years ago,
you've somehow fixed the world.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I don't even.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Understand that concept. So people of color, how about like
dude's dresses trying to crowd? Did they get pot licenses too?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
This would be an experiment the Store on Hate to
see if legalization could atone for decades of racist law
enforcement accesses and empower small businesses, some owned by members
of the city's dwindling black populace.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You gotta like it already, right, this social experiment.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
There's another great example of luxury beliefs coming up in
a gender bending Madness update next hour, stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So this dude got the license and didn't sell it
as the only weed retailer that was going to be
allowed on the main drag of hate Asbury. Thanks to
the strict zoning laws, he resisted temptation to sell out.
He said he rejected cash offers from some really big
dogs out there that wanted to buy his permit. Once
he got it, well, he ended up being a big dog.
(31:09):
Is the reason they hang on, hung onto it. We
find out at the end of this, I hope every
other person of color can look at this and see
that it can really happen. Yeah, if you grew up
with the mayor of San Francisco. So he literally was
friends with Mayor Breed since he was a kid, their
whole lives, Yeah, and his contacts in the UH Mayor's office.
(31:35):
And so they're trying to figure out how are they
going to dole out these permits in a fair way,
And they came up with all kinds of different ways.
How you could do it and a lottery. Know, somebody
could rig a lottery. No, we could do it this way. No,
somebody could rig that.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I know what we'll do.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
We'll just make it whoever fills out the form the
fastest they get the license. And unbelievably, believe it or not,
they opened up the applications online in the city of
San Francisco for the form showed up at whatever it
was ten am on April first or whatever it was,
and immediately, you know, everybody is waiting around to click
(32:07):
on the computer and get the forms and download them
and fill them out and get them back in his
fast they can. And just the craziest coincidence of all times,
this guy who.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Grew up with the mayor and is known for his
entire life and his friends got their application in first Wow,
those high school type and classes really paid off.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
And they got the license and they opened the store.
And then the I'm not gonna go through all because
it's a very very art long article, but the ending
is they made millions while the place went bankrupt and
it ended up closing, but they got millions and millions
of dollars through all kinds of different government things that
went on.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And the cronyism and the connected get rich that is socialism.
Every single every single time.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Amid the good vibes, there was little indicate what was
to come that the store would go belly up in
little more than four years, that the great expectations of
the equity program and legal cannabis would crumble along with it,
and that despite the failure Richard that's the guy's name
who grew up with Meyer Breed and his partners would
still be poised to pocket millions with taxpayers footing the bill.
(33:22):
Good for the Chronicle for doing that story, but that
is what happens every single time. And socialism, the people
that claim that it's all about fairness and equity and
the downtrodden, it's always their buddies or somebody who bribes
them that gets the cool deal and gets rich and
it doesn't help.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Anybody, right.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
The whole argument of the reality of equity is it
is a quasi faith. It's a fake moral argument for
why some people should get special treatment from the government,
and that always turns out to them be the people
well connected with those in power for whatever reason, for
whatever kinship, whether it's skin color or political philosophy, or
(34:06):
they're just cronies. But yeah, equity is a fake argument
for special favors from the government.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
They interviewed a whole bunch of people because there were
some big time people that were trying to get that
particular license to open up a weed store, and so
they were ready to log on and they had, you know,
all kinds of smart people there to jump into filling
out the forms and get them in as fasts possible
like that. And they didn't even come close to getting
it in as fast as this other guy did. And
(34:34):
they're all like telling the San Francisco cronic. They're all
telling them, like, please give me a break. I mean,
don't even pretend that this was.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
On the up and up. Well, right, No, we can't
have a lottery because you could rig a lottery.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Let's have a speed typing context that our friends and
family happened to win. Yeah, good lord, and that something.
They don't even try to hide it any No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And they're the people that preach equity all the time
and how the systemic this and that.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
It's just it's amazing. And again, who got screwed tax pairs?
They all got rich. Keep falling for it, Blue cities idiots.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Why does the term crony capitalism exist but not the
term crony socialism? Maybe because you don't need it, because
all socialism is crony. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah, but you're right, that is that is useful though,
because that's exactly what that used to be tattooed with
that that was crony socialism.
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