December 24, 2024 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaking of more substances than you need.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm going to make this very brief, because just trust
me that it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
The number of teens.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Dying from fentanyl overdoses has tripled in the last couple
of years from comparatively few to a horrifying number because
they're buying fake pills sold online, phony opioids that look
like oxyconton but were cut with fentanyl, not oxycodone. Bonus xanax,
but with fentanyl not the drug it's supposed to have
(00:33):
on board. Name any pharmaceutical with a foothold on campus, adderall, valium, suboxone,
what have you, and it was instantly available via social
media and delivered to your door like Papa John's.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I hope your kids not wanting to take oxy whether
it's real or not, but they certainly could end up
thinking an adderall or a xanax is a good idea,
either to calm down or wake up to study for
a test. For all of their sins in recent years
and over reporting this, that or the other. Rolling Stone
has a big piece which will link to inside Snapchat's
(01:06):
teen opioid overdose crisis. You gotta tell your kids, it's cool.
My kids don't do drugs. No, No, tell your kids.
People are selling drugs on Snapchat and other social media
and they have fentanyl in them and they can kill you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Don't do it. Here, here's a bottle of whiskey. Don't drive.
I mean, how you're going to and.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
How young are you handed out these bottles whiskey? Eleven
year old? It'll be an airline bottle obviously. What's the
matter with you? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Kids?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
For God's drugs, here's a bottle of whiskey.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's a controversial method. One more.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh wait, I thought I had two put on your
lunch with a peanut butter sandwich instead of a juice box.
It's not an airline bottle of whick Daniel, Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
How about this headline Midtown Manhattan's Eights Avenue Corridor plagued
by junkies lying at tourists feet and fighting in the streets.
(02:12):
One shop owner till the New York post of the
so called the Eights Avenue Corridor in your Penn station,
I see a lot of things around here. Fights, drugs,
Oh my god, bad things. I don't know if they
have knives or guns, she said, explaining how people who
appear to be both extremely high and very disturbed, regularly
barge into or shop near the Port Authority bus terminal,
demanding money and harassing tourists.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's a ten blocks.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Stretch now of Manhattan that's just lined with junkies, and
you can't, well, it looks like San Francisco, and you
can't fight people that are on some of these drugs.
I mean, not that you know, really looking to fight anyone,
but if you have to fight some of these people
that are on these drugs that make them super human
strong and don't feel pain. Yeah, they talk about there
was a night and day difference is starting in twenty twenty,
(03:00):
partly with I think the new administration there in New York.
But she described how all of our employees now have
to be extra cautious. Got a bunch of different quotes
from folks saying I've learned to be vigilant when walking
the streets. I don't feel good about it. Pay a
lot in taxes for city services. I'd like to see
the city step in so we could walk down the
street lunch. Your quotes like that, Wow, Yeah, people are
(03:24):
getting fed up.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Two more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Colorado's weed market is coming down, according to Politico, and
it's making other states nervous. There's been a plunge in
revenue and taxes and they're laying people off right and
left because of and California was the worst at this,
of course, but you can get unregulated, untaxed weed on
(03:49):
the streets easy as can be. So people aren't buying
the so called legit stuff. Are they getting it out
of state or what have you? It's cheaper, Oh yeah, yeah,
because they're enormous taxes and fees and regulatory costs and
the rest for the so called legit growers and dispensaries.
I still I don't know if I ever will at
this point in my life, but I still haven't adjusted.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
To the weed is legal world.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is that there was a music fest in my town
over the weekend, and my son rode bikes over to
this one bar that has a patio to watch a band,
and I'm always caught off guardowick, I smell wheat and
other there's somebody smoking dope right next to me, and think.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Of course they are. Of course they are everyone. It's
perfectly legal. I can't well. What was I reading the
other day might have been National Review.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Somebody said if you if you walk down the street
and you smell dope, it's a democratic precinct. If you
see American flags, it's a Republican it's red.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Let's see, what was I gonna say about the pot thing?
How real is the whole contact high thing?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How much how much weed from someone else do you
have to breathe in before I would have any effect
on you? Uh, if you don't smoke at all, I
mean you would have to, like the if you just
smell it. No, not really, That's what I've always thought,
similar to the secondhand smoke is way overblown as a thing. Yeah, Now,
if you're a small child, I don't know how much
(05:09):
THHC it actually because you're obviously you're smelling it, which
means the particles are in the air, which means you're
inhaling it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So you're getting a little THHC.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I suppose, but I don't know anyway, So the legal
pot thing is going sideways in most of the states.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's happening. I should have terms of revenue in the
rest of it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I should have asked all the drug fiends around me
watching the band, did you buy that from a dispensary?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Or from gym over there.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, probably gim it depends anyway. And then finally this,
and I'll keep this brief. Wall Street Journal trank is
turning more illicit drug users into amputees. Ooh, millions of people,
millions are using drugs that leave them serious, seriously disabled.
And they start with the story of this pathetic junkie
(05:59):
dude who's now got I have his dad take care
of him all the time because he's a triple amputee.
Oh my god, yeah, Oh my god. Man, when you
started the party, you didn't start with the plan of
I'm gonna lose three I'm gonna lose seventy five percent
of my limbs.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So xylazine is this trank. It's an animal tranquilizer. It's
in the illicit drug supplies, creating a generation of permanently
disabled amputees. Hospitals in Philadelphia, which is a hot spot
for xylazine contamination. It's similar to the fentanyl thing because
it makes you super wasted. Cartels and drug dealers of
(06:36):
all sorts put it in drugs you don't think it's in,
so you get more wasted.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It saves them money.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's cheap anyway, the hospitals in Philadelphia are overwhelmed with
patients that require costly and complicated care. Three quarters of
the residents at Beacon House, an emergency shelter at the
city's Kensington neighbor three quarters have crippling wounds or amputations
resulting from xylazine wounds that doctors don't fully understand.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I assume the taxpayer is paying for all that. Well, yeah,
one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I mean, there might be some charities involved, but it's
it's the vast majority is taxpayers. Do we have any
Do we have any limit to how much I got
to help somebody? You've you've lost three of your limbs
because you won't stop doing drugs. How much am I
on the hook for the rest of your life? You
want the red state answer, the Blue state answer. Xylazine
(07:27):
is spreading as dealers purchase it from China and Puerto
Rico to mix in a fentanyl and other drugs. Zalazine
was detected at about forty percent of urine samples from
Pennsylvania that contained fentanyl in the year through April, according
to drug testing company Millennial Health.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It's just it's horrible. It causes horrifying bone deep sores.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But so did the person do all that damage and
end up losing the three limbs more or less at
the same time, or did you use a leg lose
a leg and then the doctor says, you know, I
don't like to tell people what to do, but I
just amputated your leg. I think you should stop doing drugs.
And then they kept doing it until I don't know
what came next to the armor leg. Oh boy, I'm
(08:10):
torn on this next little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh it's worse than the losing three of your four limbs.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Hey, brace yourselves, folks, help But notice she only got
one limb.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Seated in a wheelchair on the shelter's bottom floor, Shahadeen
Craig called, she's thirty two.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's a He called Xylazine's infiltration of the drug supply
chemical warfares. Right leg was amputated in November. Heroin was strong,
but it wasn't taking limbs, he said. Kim Broskas, aged
fifty four, changes the bandages on wounds on her legs
every other day before pulling on shoes from a collection
she keeps up a by at the shelter. She lost
four fingers on one hand after injecting drugs she knew
(08:58):
contains ilazine into an artery. Her fingers shrank to dead
sticks over nine months before doctors amputated them. Earlier this year,
wounds started appearing on her legs.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It doesn't seem like much of a party boy. And
she's not a youthful looking fifty four either. Man oh man.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh head on collision lifter with a herniated disk and
pinched nerve in her neck.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And so she started on pain pills.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or sulpioids, heroin fentanyl. Pain from her injuries was so
crippling she couldn't function.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Blob.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh my god, what a sad story. Don't do straight drugs, kids.
Here's another bottle of whiskey. Joe's handing them out left
and right.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Ah yea yi, I eh, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I've always laughed at people who are like end
of the Earth or end of the worlders, armageddon believers,
because it's a weird sort of egotism that oh, these
are the times, the times I'm in, that God is
going to end the world, that it's all going to
whatever the prophecy will come my time, and it's it's
just I think those people are pathetic. I think we
(10:10):
lived to see humanity peak. It's certainly possible you you
combine AI to all that. Uh yeah, perhaps Joe's new charity,
Old Crow for Kids, dont now meeting on school Generously
get on a school bus with a big bag full
of the little bottle of Old Crow and hand them
out to the kids. Take this huh buying any xanax
(10:32):
on Instagram or Snapchat.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right, kids, now here's some whiskey. If you need more,
you know where to find me. It burns. You'll get
used to it. You think that burns? Try some tryanqu
you want your fingers to be dead little sticks? No,
you know, drink it? Wow? Wow parody, folks, parody. Is
(10:58):
there a trying time? Exactly? We're looking for solutions. Stay
with us. Here's your freedom moving quota of the day oddly.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
From Grout Show Marx set along by Dick in Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Might be the might be what talk radio is also uh,
although uh with uh with politics, all of it results
in raiding the treasury to hand out money to your cronies.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
She's previous The world go around see previous segment. Yeah, yeah,
no kidding mailbag dods or no would you mail bag
at Armstrong and Giddy dot com Jay Dog in the
State of Jefferson rights new t shirt idea for you guys.
GMO's equals bad, chemical castrations equals good.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I love that. That's a good sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The progressives have no philosophy, only slogans.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And then he signs off, Katie.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
He signs off with keep up the fight boys and
the assigned female at birth boy too.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
There you go, well played, eh boy.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Speaking of dry and humor, guys, your discussion of people
whose stories stay the same versus those who change constantly.
We're talking about the irs, whistleblowers versus the Biden family.
Reminded of a phrase Elizabeth Warren, of all people, once
said that we should all know and remember in terms
of the credulity of a consistent story compared.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
To a changing one.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
In a storm, some men are the are branches clinging
to leaves, and others are a trunk tied to its roots.
Is truth found in the wind? Or the earth now,
he writes, paint with all the colors of the wind. Wow,
a reference, of course to Elizabeth Warren's Native American culture
(12:59):
background heritage. Let's see, Russ from Portland, I should have
had you get this ready, Michael. He is nominating Michaelangelo's
clip yesterday of I pede in your Rice as clip
of the year.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It was a that's a good, whisical and.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Somewhat distasteful joke about Jack.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Beating at the and express right. That was a good joke, Michael,
thank you is yeah, you got a bad fortune cookie?
Oh yeah, how dumb the fortunes are.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And Michael was speculating that perhaps a discrumpled employee would
put a note to Jack informing them that he had indeed,
and I quote pete in his right and the key
to the jet being, Michael said, a handwritten note which
lets you know it's current.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Anyway, Rus from Portland says that should be the clip
of the year.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Hear me out.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I pede in your Rice is basically a culmination of
everything that's happened in the last election cycle. Biden Justice
Department going after Trump time and time again, multiple indictments,
law fair Biden just saying that Trump, I am peen
in your rice. Trump successfully wiggling out of it. Is
Trump saying to Biden, I pede in your rice, back
and forth of it, until finally, collectively the American people
saying to Kamala and Biden on November fifth, we just
(14:06):
pede in your rice. And now with Biden pardoning his
criminal loser son and flying off to Africa to give
away seven hundred and twenty eight skillion dollars to some
s whole country's never any one's ever heard of. After
Kamalain Nancy Pete and his rice finally out the door
with two middle fingers held high, saying to all of America,
I just peed in your rice. It's poetic. Michaelangelo is
truly a national treasure. F you China Russ from Portland,
(14:29):
I She'll take there, think all of us. There will
be blood. Fans would prefer the I drink your milkshake
as a little classier version of that, but same little
class same idea, I drink your milkshake. One of the
greatest scenes ever, uh, Doctor Cy says, listening to Grandpa's
(14:49):
Biden's new reasoning for the pardon of his boy, you'd
think since they lie twenty four to seven, they'd be
better at it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Wow, that's some fine sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
How about this from Aaron I personally, I know a
few common ANTIFA level leftists. They're actually talking about this
like it's a major victory for their side, if only
because it made the right melt down or clutch their pearls,
et cetera. But you have to understand is that these
are the simple folk, soft headed grad degree zero children
at forty type folks, the people of the cities, you know, morons. Aaron,
(15:21):
that's practically poetry. It's a little rambling, a nod, but
if I enjoyed it. Let's see Jim from Kansas City, right, Jack, Joe.
Jack is right on the peat hegzeth story. Joe is
out to launch. Real issue is whether we're going to
have a consistent standard of behavior for our public servants
and have so what the standards to be, And he
gives a couple of examples, including Kamala Harris sleeping her
(15:45):
way to the top, as he puts it, well, Katie
Grimes puts it the same way. It's well known anyway,
if Democrats gave an airborne fornication about extramarital affairs, Gavin
Newsom would be on the library board in San Francisco
instead of governor of the largest state. I fear you're
right that this issue will be mooted soon by Hegsat's withdrawal.
(16:07):
And like Joe, however, I'm just made by the withdrawal
because it robs us of the opportunity to highlight the
Blaytant double standard here once again, soft headed Republicans let
the Democrats act as judge and jury. Then wonder why
it's only there people who get convicted. Then he says
he really likes to show Jim, I think that's an
excellent point, and thanks for making it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I concede the point.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Now, Hegseth is not going to borrow Lago today. That
doesn't seem like a good sign. No, He's got a
piece in the Wall Street Journal that is really really good.
I mean it's an A plus defending himself and his
candidacy or his appointed say or whatever you call it.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty. Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Working hard or hardly working. The Left says the forty
hour workweek is antiquated. Senator Bernie Sanders introducing a bill
push for thirty two hours a week.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is not a rodical idea. Time is money and finite.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
When my members look back on their lives, they never
say I wish I would have worked more.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What they wish for is they wish they had more time.
What the hell's that got to do with anything?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Get to the point where the governments involved, Well, yeah,
there's I was.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I wasn't even thinking of that, which is the ultimate
trump point on this.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But yeah, yeah, I mean we'd all like to work less.
But yeah, well, so on my deathbed, I should wish
I had won the lottery at some point and I
didn't have to work so much. Had it been cool
or Bernie Sanders freed me from the the you know,
the yoke of having to work? How did we decide
(17:43):
on the first of all, I'd like to hear more
of an explanation. Explanation, not an exclamation, oh my god.
An explanation is on the ways there an explanation of
why is the forty hour work week antiquated?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
In what way?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Please?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It's all just help them. Chad Pergram rolls on with
eighty two Please, Michael, the.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Terms which slash the work week claim and extended weekend
supercharges employees.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Workers are much more focused that they are better arrested.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You aren't churning through them.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Less work means more leisure time. Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy
questioned if more hours on the job explains why fewer
people attend church these days twenty percent fewer than a
quarter century ago.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
You don't have time to go to Wednesday night Bible study.
You might not have the ability to even attend church
services on a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So much to unpack. First of all, I like acting
like the forty hour work week is a new phenomenon
and we're just arguing about it now. People can't go
to church in the year twenty twenty four like they
could in the year nineteen eighty. Oh my god, when
we also had the forty hour work week. But I
can write down that one part. If you work less,
you have more leisure time. You say, I'm gonna have
(19:01):
to do something. Get a chalkboard and some mad be like,
I'll be like Oppenheimer up on the board working out
inflation to see.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
If that is true or not right.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, how about Chris coons, you don't have time to
go to a Bible study.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I understay either maybe even shirt on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
That's how we're all going to do if if you
that's what happened to church membership, If we just worked
a thirty hour work week, we'd all be at Bible study.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You just know it. That's hilarious. It is.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh and one of the voices you heard in the
clip was that that firebrand head of the afl CIO
who was saying about nobody ever wished they'd work more
on their death true. Okay, yeah, So Hillary Vaughan, who's
also with Fox News, confronted old socialist Bernie Sanders outside
of his office and try to get to the bottom
of what's going.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
On here eighty three and we'll go from there.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Can I talk to you about the thirty two hour
work week? It seems like Fox Business, it seems like
Democrats want businesses to be.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Taxed more pay their workers. Is that what do you
think pay? I didn't get to ask the question. Okay,
thank you, senator. You want to hold it?
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, absolutely, I wanted to pause on point out that,
all right, the combative old fart really wouldn't even let
her ask the question, well, that's what you believe, that's
what you believe.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
All she said was Democrats want to tax businesses more.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I don't think that's controversial. It was not what you believe,
not what you believe, Yeah, bitter old fruitcake.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Next clip, we held a hearing on a thirty two
hour work week, because what we have seen is that
over the last fifty years, despite a huge increase in
work of productivity, almost all of the New Wealth has
gone to the top one percent, while sixty percent of
the people living paycheck to paycheck. Many of our people
are cost We worked the longest hours of any people
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in the industrialized world.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think it's high for a shortened work week. I mean,
a lot of what he said is just not factual, right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And then a lot of the countries you'd point to
where they work less hours, it's because they have such
a giant social safety net that they can afford, because
we at least up until recently, have paid for their
military events. Yeah, and they're completely unproductive, not innovating, not
growing the rest of it. I also want to make
the point that, oh, I would say on Bernie's behalf
almost that if AI goes in the direction, virtually everybody
(21:35):
thinks it is not the cataclysmic stuff we were talking
about earlier, but replacing so many white collar jobs especially,
and quite a few blue collar too. The concept of
universal basic income is going to move to the forefront
of our discussions, and work weeks will get quite short
where they exist at all for millions and millions of people,
(21:56):
And there is going to be a serious restructuring of
society because if you have those tools, you will be
able to accumulate all of the wealth that would have
been going to the lawyers and accountants and tax people
and administrative assistants and the rest of it. They won't
be getting their pay anymore. So, yeah, that will be
a change. But the our people are exhausted. Like go
(22:21):
back to pick a decade when when the people were
well rested and didn't feel exhausted from their work week.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
People more exhausted.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now than they were in the thirties or forties or
fifties or six the come on, Yeah, I'm a big
believer in work life balance, but I've been working since
I was eleven years old, and I like taking on challenges,
and I like making money, So how about I figure
that out? Bernie, Hey, when people say that, it hurts
my heart talk about that. I've been working. Somebody said
(22:48):
to me the other day, I've been working since I
was thirteen. You said, you've been working since you're eleven.
I've been working since last twelve. My kids both want
to work, they asked me all the time. I wish
I could get a job. So I'd like to make money.
But we've crafted a society where you can't. Really frustrates me. Yeah, yeah,
starter jobs, learning the skills, building those muscles, that's important. No,
it's child child labor exploitation. You want to take us
(23:10):
back to the coal mines or something. That's the argument
that it was great I worked and I got spending money.
It made me happy. Both my kids wish they had
jobs they could do this weekend to make money.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Next clip, I asked you a question about that.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It seems like Democrats want businesses to be tax for
pay their more lower prices, pay people not to work.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
You know what, I would like to see.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
How our business is going to survive that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's the question. How can businesses survive all of those proposals.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
And Bezos pays an effective tax rate lower than the
average work I think we have a real problem.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
In our taxes.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
I think that billionaires have got to stop paying that
fair share of taxes.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know, I could go ahead again with the I
don't have it in front of me, but if the
total wealth of every billionaire in the United States was
confiscated by the government, that would cover our bills for
what is it, a day and a half or something
longer than that, but not very long. And then you
know that that doesn't make sense if because the whole
(24:13):
tax rate thing is such a shame, but that doesn't
make sense if you're the person who runs your business
as a billionaire, but not every business is boss is
a billionaire. I was just gonna say every time the
tax rates for the gal who has been an account
in her whole career and her practice has grown, and
now she has two accountants under her, and she's got
(24:35):
a nice house in the suburbs, and you know what,
she's always wanted that car, she.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Can go ahead and buy it.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
And if she starts saying, why is half of my
income disappearing to the government, Bernie Sanders comes back.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
With Jeff Beziel sneazz to pay us fast.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, you know, it's like, I'm not a freaking billionaire
over here, what are you talking about? But he's a socialist.
Socialists fly, they lie routinely. But I feel like that, man,
I feel like I've read about this before. But obviously
the number forty is somewhat arbitrary, not an exact science.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Could be less, could be more.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't know why it would be the same forever
as you get over time over forty, but not under
or whatever. I mean, a lot has changed since the
forty hour work week was the standard, and I just
wonder is there a reason it should be longer or
shorter or the same.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, I like a five day work week.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I think we're all pretty happy with that idea, although
I certainly love to go Johnny Carson if you're old
enough to remember that and shorten it further. But so
let's agree that two days on the weekend is cool.
People like that, right, So you get breakfast, and you
get the kids off to school, then you get yourself
to work, and by the time the kids are home
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and done with practice and it's time for dinner, you're
done with work.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Just eight hours. It's pretty good. It's works.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Worked at least one day on the weekend for the
first half of my work life. Third, certainly you don't die.
It's not pleasant. When I was a kid, I always
tell my kids this when they're complaining about me being busy.
My dad worked till noon on Saturdays a lot when
I was a kid. Wait till he got home on
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Saturday after lunch was when he was available for the weekend.
It's not the end of the world. It's not what
you want.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But right, you might not choose it. But again, it's
not like horror. It's okay, but you figure that out.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I got to read that book full time, I think,
is the main title of it, like every book now.
It has a lengthy subtitle, but about the psychological, spiritual
value of work and how it's not a necessary evil
at all. It's why we're here, to a large extent,
(26:55):
defining work however you want. Now. Maybe it's going to
work for a corporation. Maybe it's raising your chill ldren,
maybe it's ministering to the poor. But doing something is
not unevil No, and the idea that everybody will flourish
in the arts if they don't have something they are
(27:16):
being productive at is yeah, you hand me a paint
brush in the canvas. I'll disprove that notion in a hurry.
All right, Well, even more than how good your art
would be, people tend to go nutso or end up alcoholics,
drug addicted, or kill themselves or whatever. Right if they're
ye read from the horrifying shackles of having to do
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something productive.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe arm Strong and.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Getty show.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
How much have you paid people to pull out customers
who are in line with a bag that's two sentimentters
too big because a shutter.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well, we recognize this as a hard job, and so
therefore we incentivize them to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's ten dollars per bag.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Wow, ten dollars per bag. I mean, you guys do
appreciate that flying on your airlines is a disaster, don't you.
I'm slightly amazed by the general attitude of all of
you here.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Flying on your airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
I mean, I say this as a father of three
young children, but I can't tell you nobody enjoys flying
on your airlines.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's a disaster. Sometimes I go back and forth on this.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's Josh Holly, Senator yelling at the people that run
the airlines. I go back and forth between absolutely loving
populism because of the way it makes me feel. Yeah,
let's yell at the people that run the airlines and
just tell them it sucks and how populism is bad
and not a way to accomplish anything, and it's a
trans For some reason, I took great joy as also
(28:47):
a father, a father of two, and the difficulties flying
just over the last week just happened getting a chance,
he yelled, those people.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Say it sucks, it sucks.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Is fatherhood a greater and just in terms of your
slepting kids around and they get searched and stuff, or
just just you know, all the slepping through the airport
with the kids and all the stuff, and it's just
it's a pain in the ass and you're mad about it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And do you need to yell at someone about it?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, that's populous, but it's best great, hope you
feel better.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Super no, slowly is brilliant. I'm not offering a solution.
I'm not even saying there's any way to do any better.
And it's a free market, and you know, you get
to compete against each other. But this makes me feel good.
It sucks. I forget hate this. Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Wow, oh my god. I was watching the airport because
my kids are older now. I was watching people to the
airport with the little kids. That is a chore flying
with small children. And I was actually seeing somebody with
a baby, and I was thinking to myself, you think
it's bad with the baby.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You know when it gets really hard when they get
out of diapers. You think it's harder the baby.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
It's actually harder when they need to use the bathroom
all the time. Oh boy, it was the chance.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To yell at the people that run all the airlines
and just tell them I hate this. It would be uh.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Mentioned bitcoin hit one hundred thousand dollars for the first
time for an individual bitcoin, which this is one of
the many things in the modern world that I don't
understand at all, And I was thinking about you wouldn't
have to go back very many years where I think
I understood pretty much everything that was going on in
the world, even if I didn't specifically know how to
(30:32):
do brain surgery.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I mean, I got the basics of what it was yes.
But now with bitcoin and AI.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And a number of other things, I don't even know.
I don't have the slightest idea of what's happening. I
do know this that bitcoin hitting the record high of
one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Two weeks ago that bitcoin had skyrocketed so much after
the presidential electionized.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Saying why didn't I invest in bitcoin? Damn it?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And it's gone up twenty percent since then. If I
I've gotten in that day, I would have made a mint.
Well you should have, or maybe I should get in today.
I don't know, or that's the worst idea you've ever had. Abslally,
that is the problem with the whole bitcoin thing is
timing it. That is definitely the problem. You're saying the
problem with investing is risk. Well, this is agreed. This
(31:23):
is this is different than other normal risk though. I mean,
this is they're not waiting for the reporters out and
it turns out GM trucks are. Now this is just
who knows what's going on. I'm just reading something about
Elon's ability to manipulate bitcoin with this or that, and
it says, yeah, yeah, I don't. Number one most forwarded
story we got and folks love this. You see something,
(31:44):
you say, the fella has got to talk about this,
and the fella assigned female at birth as well, Katie,
and people forward it to mail bag at Armstrong and
Giddy dot com, which is appreciated.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You guys have very great eyes and ears and awareness
of good stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Number one story today by far British rock band robbed
it gunpoint on day one of their US tour because
they started their tour.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
In San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh, they hit the shores, they load the van, they
stop for coffee, and gunmen loot their van that quick.
Welcome to America, Welcome to the Bay Area of California,
fellas well. Yeah, technically true, Welcome to America, but most
of America is not like that. You're not going to
get robbed ever, let alone moments after you arrive. But
(32:37):
there's a good chance of that happening in San Francisco.
On happened to your brother?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
They stopped to see the Golden gate Bridge, walked around
for half an hour. All their stuff was gone, all
of it, their kids' backpacks, their stuffed animals. Oh yeah,
Broad daylight, crowded place. But the guys they pull up,
they smash it into cars or vans. In this case,
somebody tries to stop them, they wave a gun at them,
They take what they want, they drive off with no repercussions. Anyway,
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as the band tweeted, just been robbed at gunpoint ten
minutes into the US tour stop for coffee, man runs
in saying guys are smashing into a van. You know what,
let me make sure I got this right. Where were they?
Specifically Vallejo, California. Yeah, beautiful Valeo. I impugned San Francisco,
and properly I apologize. The streets of San Francisco are
(33:26):
so selected with pooh the robbers can't get good enough
footing to rob rock bands, so they've moved out to Vallejo.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Again.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I apologize to the great city and County of San Francisco,
part of.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
The whole Bay Area thing.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Sure, sure, yeah, indeed. Luckily they didn't steal the instruments.
They just wanted laptops and backpacks and then game boys
or switches or whatever, and they left the guys guitars
and drums. So they play their show. But welcome to
the Bay area of California. You can stop sending it.
Here's a random thing before we take a break. One
of my favorite musical groups you've never heard of, and
(34:05):
I can't remember the name of it's got frogs in
the title.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Anyway you heard of them, Yeah, I have. I listened
to them all the time. Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
They're like really like bluegrassy acoustic fiddles and guitars sort
of band.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
They were a speed metal band, but they.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Had their van broken into and all of their equipment stolen,
and they didn't have any money, so they started playing
acoustic music and it caught on and he became a
thing that way.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
One of their songs was featured in the TV show
that Henry and I watch all the.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Time, so I got back on their bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But we're relating frogs, Locks of Frogs, Plague of Frogs, Frogman,
the O. J. Simpsons movie Classic Frogs. It's turtles Trampled
by Turtles, Trampled by Turtles fan. But they were a
speed metal ban and they got all their stuff stolen,
so well, we still have acoustic guitars. Let's try to
into something with that proof of the old saying when
God closes the door and sticks his gun in your
(34:56):
face or something.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
He opens a window.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty The Armstrong and Gatty Show
Speaking of more substances than you need.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm going to make this very brief, because just trust
me that it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
The number of teens.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Dying from fentanyl overdoses has tripled in the last couple
of years from comparatively few to a horrifying number because
they're buying fake pills sold online, phony opioids that look
like oxyconton but were cut with fentanyl, not oxycodone. Bonus xanax,
but with fentanyl not the drug it's supposed to have
(00:33):
on board. Name any pharmaceutical with a foothold on campus, adderall, valium, suboxone,
what have you, and it was instantly available via social
media and delivered to your door like Papa John's.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I hope your kids not wanting to take oxy whether
it's real or not, but they certainly could end up
thinking an adderall or a xanax is a good idea,
either to calm down or wake up to study for
a test. For all of their sins in recent years
and over reporting this, that or the other. Rolling Stone
has a big piece which will link to inside Snapchat's
(01:06):
teen opioid overdose crisis. You gotta tell your kids, it's cool.
My kids don't do drugs. No, No, tell your kids.
People are selling drugs on Snapchat and other social media
and they have fentanyl in them and they can kill you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Don't do it. Here, here's a bottle of whiskey. Don't drive.
I mean, how you're going to and.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
How young are you handed out these bottles whiskey? Eleven
year old? It'll be an airline bottle obviously. What's the
matter with you? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Kids?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
For God's drugs, here's a bottle of whiskey.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's a controversial method. One more.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh wait, I thought I had two put on your
lunch with a peanut butter sandwich instead of a juice box.
It's not an airline bottle of whick Daniel, Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
How about this headline Midtown Manhattan's Eights Avenue Corridor plagued
by junkies lying at tourists feet and fighting in the streets.
(02:12):
One shop owner till the New York post of the
so called the Eights Avenue Corridor in your Penn station,
I see a lot of things around here. Fights, drugs,
Oh my god, bad things. I don't know if they
have knives or guns, she said, explaining how people who
appear to be both extremely high and very disturbed, regularly
barge into or shop near the Port Authority bus terminal,
demanding money and harassing tourists.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's a ten blocks.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Stretch now of Manhattan that's just lined with junkies, and
you can't, well, it looks like San Francisco, and you
can't fight people that are on some of these drugs.
I mean, not that you know, really looking to fight anyone,
but if you have to fight some of these people
that are on these drugs that make them super human
strong and don't feel pain. Yeah, they talk about there
was a night and day difference is starting in twenty twenty,
(03:00):
partly with I think the new administration there in New York.
But she described how all of our employees now have
to be extra cautious. Got a bunch of different quotes
from folks saying I've learned to be vigilant when walking
the streets. I don't feel good about it. Pay a
lot in taxes for city services. I'd like to see
the city step in so we could walk down the
street lunch. Your quotes like that, Wow, Yeah, people are
(03:24):
getting fed up.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Two more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Colorado's weed market is coming down, according to Politico, and
it's making other states nervous. There's been a plunge in
revenue and taxes and they're laying people off right and
left because of and California was the worst at this,
of course, but you can get unregulated, untaxed weed on
(03:49):
the streets easy as can be. So people aren't buying
the so called legit stuff. Are they getting it out
of state or what have you? It's cheaper, Oh yeah, yeah,
because they're enormous taxes and fees and regulatory costs and
the rest for the so called legit growers and dispensaries.
I still I don't know if I ever will at
this point in my life, but I still haven't adjusted.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
To the weed is legal world.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is that there was a music fest in my town
over the weekend, and my son rode bikes over to
this one bar that has a patio to watch a band,
and I'm always caught off guardowick, I smell wheat and
other there's somebody smoking dope right next to me, and think.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Of course they are. Of course they are everyone. It's
perfectly legal. I can't well. What was I reading the
other day might have been National Review.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Somebody said if you if you walk down the street
and you smell dope, it's a democratic precinct. If you
see American flags, it's a Republican it's red.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Let's see, what was I gonna say about the pot thing?
How real is the whole contact high thing?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How much how much weed from someone else do you
have to breathe in before I would have any effect
on you? Uh, if you don't smoke at all, I
mean you would have to, like the if you just
smell it. No, not really, That's what I've always thought,
similar to the secondhand smoke is way overblown as a thing. Yeah, Now,
if you're a small child, I don't know how much
(05:09):
THHC it actually because you're obviously you're smelling it, which
means the particles are in the air, which means you're
inhaling it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So you're getting a little THHC.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I suppose, but I don't know anyway, So the legal
pot thing is going sideways in most of the states.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's happening. I should have terms of revenue in the
rest of it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I should have asked all the drug fiends around me
watching the band, did you buy that from a dispensary?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Or from gym over there.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, probably gim it depends anyway. And then finally this,
and I'll keep this brief. Wall Street Journal trank is
turning more illicit drug users into amputees. Ooh, millions of people,
millions are using drugs that leave them serious, seriously disabled.
And they start with the story of this pathetic junkie
(05:59):
dude who's now got I have his dad take care
of him all the time because he's a triple amputee.
Oh my god, yeah, Oh my god. Man, when you
started the party, you didn't start with the plan of
I'm gonna lose three I'm gonna lose seventy five percent
of my limbs.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So xylazine is this trank. It's an animal tranquilizer. It's
in the illicit drug supplies, creating a generation of permanently
disabled amputees. Hospitals in Philadelphia, which is a hot spot
for xylazine contamination. It's similar to the fentanyl thing because
it makes you super wasted. Cartels and drug dealers of
(06:36):
all sorts put it in drugs you don't think it's in,
so you get more wasted.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It saves them money.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's cheap anyway, the hospitals in Philadelphia are overwhelmed with
patients that require costly and complicated care. Three quarters of
the residents at Beacon House, an emergency shelter at the
city's Kensington neighbor three quarters have crippling wounds or amputations
resulting from xylazine wounds that doctors don't fully understand.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I assume the taxpayer is paying for all that. Well, yeah,
one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I mean, there might be some charities involved, but it's
it's the vast majority is taxpayers. Do we have any
Do we have any limit to how much I got
to help somebody? You've you've lost three of your limbs
because you won't stop doing drugs. How much am I
on the hook for the rest of your life? You
want the red state answer, the Blue state answer. Xylazine
(07:27):
is spreading as dealers purchase it from China and Puerto
Rico to mix in a fentanyl and other drugs. Zalazine
was detected at about forty percent of urine samples from
Pennsylvania that contained fentanyl in the year through April, according
to drug testing company Millennial Health.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It's just it's horrible. It causes horrifying bone deep sores.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But so did the person do all that damage and
end up losing the three limbs more or less at
the same time, or did you use a leg lose
a leg and then the doctor says, you know, I
don't like to tell people what to do, but I
just amputated your leg. I think you should stop doing drugs.
And then they kept doing it until I don't know
what came next to the armor leg. Oh boy, I'm
(08:10):
torn on this next little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh it's worse than the losing three of your four limbs.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Hey, brace yourselves, folks, help But notice she only got
one limb.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Seated in a wheelchair on the shelter's bottom floor, Shahadeen
Craig called, she's thirty two.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's a He called Xylazine's infiltration of the drug supply
chemical warfares. Right leg was amputated in November. Heroin was strong,
but it wasn't taking limbs, he said. Kim Broskas, aged
fifty four, changes the bandages on wounds on her legs
every other day before pulling on shoes from a collection
she keeps up a by at the shelter. She lost
four fingers on one hand after injecting drugs she knew
(08:58):
contains ilazine into an artery. Her fingers shrank to dead
sticks over nine months before doctors amputated them. Earlier this year,
wounds started appearing on her legs.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It doesn't seem like much of a party boy. And
she's not a youthful looking fifty four either. Man oh man.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh head on collision lifter with a herniated disk and
pinched nerve in her neck.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And so she started on pain pills.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or sulpioids, heroin fentanyl. Pain from her injuries was so
crippling she couldn't function.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Blob.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh my god, what a sad story. Don't do straight drugs, kids.
Here's another bottle of whiskey. Joe's handing them out left
and right.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Ah yea yi, I eh, I think.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I've always laughed at people who are like end
of the Earth or end of the worlders, armageddon believers,
because it's a weird sort of egotism that oh, these
are the times, the times I'm in, that God is
going to end the world, that it's all going to
whatever the prophecy will come my time, and it's it's
just I think those people are pathetic. I think we
(10:10):
lived to see humanity peak. It's certainly possible you you
combine AI to all that. Uh yeah, perhaps Joe's new charity,
Old Crow for Kids, dont now meeting on school Generously
get on a school bus with a big bag full
of the little bottle of Old Crow and hand them
out to the kids. Take this huh buying any xanax
(10:32):
on Instagram or Snapchat.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
All right, kids, now here's some whiskey. If you need more,
you know where to find me. It burns. You'll get
used to it. You think that burns? Try some tryanqu
you want your fingers to be dead little sticks? No,
you know, drink it? Wow? Wow parody, folks, parody. Is
(10:58):
there a trying time? Exactly? We're looking for solutions. Stay
with us. Here's your freedom moving quota of the day oddly.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
From Grout Show Marx set along by Dick in Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Might be the might be what talk radio is also uh,
although uh with uh with politics, all of it results
in raiding the treasury to hand out money to your cronies.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
She's previous The world go around see previous segment. Yeah, yeah,
no kidding mailbag dods or no would you mail bag
at Armstrong and Giddy dot com Jay Dog in the
State of Jefferson rights new t shirt idea for you guys.
GMO's equals bad, chemical castrations equals good.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I love that. That's a good sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The progressives have no philosophy, only slogans.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And then he signs off, Katie.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
He signs off with keep up the fight boys and
the assigned female at birth boy too.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
There you go, well played, eh boy.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Speaking of dry and humor, guys, your discussion of people
whose stories stay the same versus those who change constantly.
We're talking about the irs, whistleblowers versus the Biden family.
Reminded of a phrase Elizabeth Warren, of all people, once
said that we should all know and remember in terms
of the credulity of a consistent story compared.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
To a changing one.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
In a storm, some men are the are branches clinging
to leaves, and others are a trunk tied to its roots.
Is truth found in the wind? Or the earth now,
he writes, paint with all the colors of the wind. Wow,
a reference, of course to Elizabeth Warren's Native American culture
(12:59):
background heritage. Let's see, Russ from Portland, I should have
had you get this ready, Michael. He is nominating Michaelangelo's
clip yesterday of I pede in your Rice as clip
of the year.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It was a that's a good, whisical and.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Somewhat distasteful joke about Jack.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Beating at the and express right. That was a good joke, Michael,
thank you is yeah, you got a bad fortune cookie?
Oh yeah, how dumb the fortunes are.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And Michael was speculating that perhaps a discrumpled employee would
put a note to Jack informing them that he had indeed,
and I quote pete in his right and the key
to the jet being, Michael said, a handwritten note which
lets you know it's current.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Anyway, Rus from Portland says that should be the clip
of the year.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Hear me out.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I pede in your Rice is basically a culmination of
everything that's happened in the last election cycle. Biden Justice
Department going after Trump time and time again, multiple indictments,
law fair Biden just saying that Trump, I am peen
in your rice. Trump successfully wiggling out of it. Is
Trump saying to Biden, I pede in your rice, back
and forth of it, until finally, collectively the American people
saying to Kamala and Biden on November fifth, we just
(14:06):
pede in your rice. And now with Biden pardoning his
criminal loser son and flying off to Africa to give
away seven hundred and twenty eight skillion dollars to some
s whole country's never any one's ever heard of. After
Kamalain Nancy Pete and his rice finally out the door
with two middle fingers held high, saying to all of America,
I just peed in your rice. It's poetic. Michaelangelo is
truly a national treasure. F you China Russ from Portland,
(14:29):
I She'll take there, think all of us. There will
be blood. Fans would prefer the I drink your milkshake
as a little classier version of that, but same little
class same idea, I drink your milkshake. One of the
greatest scenes ever, uh, Doctor Cy says, listening to Grandpa's
(14:49):
Biden's new reasoning for the pardon of his boy, you'd
think since they lie twenty four to seven, they'd be
better at it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Wow, that's some fine sarcasm.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
How about this from Aaron I personally, I know a
few common ANTIFA level leftists. They're actually talking about this
like it's a major victory for their side, if only
because it made the right melt down or clutch their pearls,
et cetera. But you have to understand is that these
are the simple folk, soft headed grad degree zero children
at forty type folks, the people of the cities, you know, morons. Aaron,
(15:21):
that's practically poetry. It's a little rambling, a nod, but
if I enjoyed it. Let's see Jim from Kansas City, right, Jack, Joe.
Jack is right on the peat hegzeth story. Joe is
out to launch. Real issue is whether we're going to
have a consistent standard of behavior for our public servants
and have so what the standards to be, And he
gives a couple of examples, including Kamala Harris sleeping her
(15:45):
way to the top, as he puts it, well, Katie
Grimes puts it the same way. It's well known anyway,
if Democrats gave an airborne fornication about extramarital affairs, Gavin
Newsom would be on the library board in San Francisco
instead of governor of the largest state. I fear you're
right that this issue will be mooted soon by Hegsat's withdrawal.
(16:07):
And like Joe, however, I'm just made by the withdrawal
because it robs us of the opportunity to highlight the
Blaytant double standard here once again, soft headed Republicans let
the Democrats act as judge and jury. Then wonder why
it's only there people who get convicted. Then he says
he really likes to show Jim, I think that's an
excellent point, and thanks for making it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I concede the point.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Now, Hegseth is not going to borrow Lago today. That
doesn't seem like a good sign. No, He's got a
piece in the Wall Street Journal that is really really good.
I mean it's an A plus defending himself and his
candidacy or his appointed say or whatever you call it.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty. Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Working hard or hardly working. The Left says the forty
hour workweek is antiquated. Senator Bernie Sanders introducing a bill
push for thirty two hours a week.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is not a rodical idea. Time is money and finite.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
When my members look back on their lives, they never
say I wish I would have worked more.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What they wish for is they wish they had more time.
What the hell's that got to do with anything?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Get to the point where the governments involved, Well, yeah,
there's I was.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I wasn't even thinking of that, which is the ultimate
trump point on this.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
But yeah, yeah, I mean we'd all like to work less.
But yeah, well, so on my deathbed, I should wish
I had won the lottery at some point and I
didn't have to work so much. Had it been cool
or Bernie Sanders freed me from the the you know,
the yoke of having to work? How did we decide
(17:43):
on the first of all, I'd like to hear more
of an explanation. Explanation, not an exclamation, oh my god.
An explanation is on the ways there an explanation of
why is the forty hour work week antiquated?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
In what way?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Please?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It's all just help them. Chad Pergram rolls on with
eighty two Please, Michael, the.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Terms which slash the work week claim and extended weekend
supercharges employees.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Workers are much more focused that they are better arrested.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You aren't churning through them.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Less work means more leisure time. Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy
questioned if more hours on the job explains why fewer
people attend church these days twenty percent fewer than a
quarter century ago.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
You don't have time to go to Wednesday night Bible study.
You might not have the ability to even attend church
services on a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So much to unpack. First of all, I like acting
like the forty hour work week is a new phenomenon
and we're just arguing about it now. People can't go
to church in the year twenty twenty four like they
could in the year nineteen eighty. Oh my god, when
we also had the forty hour work week. But I
can write down that one part. If you work less,
you have more leisure time. You say, I'm gonna have
(19:01):
to do something. Get a chalkboard and some mad be like,
I'll be like Oppenheimer up on the board working out
inflation to see.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
If that is true or not right.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, how about Chris coons, you don't have time to
go to a Bible study.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I understay either maybe even shirt on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
That's how we're all going to do if if you
that's what happened to church membership, If we just worked
a thirty hour work week, we'd all be at Bible study.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You just know it. That's hilarious. It is.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh and one of the voices you heard in the
clip was that that firebrand head of the afl CIO
who was saying about nobody ever wished they'd work more
on their death true. Okay, yeah, So Hillary Vaughan, who's
also with Fox News, confronted old socialist Bernie Sanders outside
of his office and try to get to the bottom
of what's going.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
On here eighty three and we'll go from there.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Can I talk to you about the thirty two hour
work week? It seems like Fox Business, it seems like
Democrats want businesses to be.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Taxed more pay their workers. Is that what do you
think pay? I didn't get to ask the question. Okay,
thank you, senator. You want to hold it?
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, absolutely, I wanted to pause on point out that,
all right, the combative old fart really wouldn't even let
her ask the question, well, that's what you believe, that's
what you believe.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
All she said was Democrats want to tax businesses more.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I don't think that's controversial. It was not what you believe,
not what you believe, Yeah, bitter old fruitcake.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Next clip, we held a hearing on a thirty two
hour work week, because what we have seen is that
over the last fifty years, despite a huge increase in
work of productivity, almost all of the New Wealth has
gone to the top one percent, while sixty percent of
the people living paycheck to paycheck. Many of our people
are cost We worked the longest hours of any people
(21:03):
in the industrialized world.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think it's high for a shortened work week. I mean,
a lot of what he said is just not factual, right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And then a lot of the countries you'd point to
where they work less hours, it's because they have such
a giant social safety net that they can afford, because
we at least up until recently, have paid for their
military events. Yeah, and they're completely unproductive, not innovating, not
growing the rest of it. I also want to make
the point that, oh, I would say on Bernie's behalf
almost that if AI goes in the direction, virtually everybody
(21:35):
thinks it is not the cataclysmic stuff we were talking
about earlier, but replacing so many white collar jobs especially,
and quite a few blue collar too. The concept of
universal basic income is going to move to the forefront
of our discussions, and work weeks will get quite short
where they exist at all for millions and millions of people,
(21:56):
And there is going to be a serious restructuring of
society because if you have those tools, you will be
able to accumulate all of the wealth that would have
been going to the lawyers and accountants and tax people
and administrative assistants and the rest of it. They won't
be getting their pay anymore. So, yeah, that will be
a change. But the our people are exhausted. Like go
(22:21):
back to pick a decade when when the people were
well rested and didn't feel exhausted from their work week.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
People more exhausted.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now than they were in the thirties or forties or
fifties or six the come on, Yeah, I'm a big
believer in work life balance, but I've been working since
I was eleven years old, and I like taking on challenges,
and I like making money, So how about I figure
that out? Bernie, Hey, when people say that, it hurts
my heart talk about that. I've been working. Somebody said
(22:48):
to me the other day, I've been working since I
was thirteen. You said, you've been working since you're eleven.
I've been working since last twelve. My kids both want
to work, they asked me all the time. I wish
I could get a job. So I'd like to make money.
But we've crafted a society where you can't. Really frustrates me. Yeah, yeah,
starter jobs, learning the skills, building those muscles, that's important. No,
it's child child labor exploitation. You want to take us
(23:10):
back to the coal mines or something. That's the argument
that it was great I worked and I got spending money.
It made me happy. Both my kids wish they had
jobs they could do this weekend to make money.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Next clip, I asked you a question about that.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It seems like Democrats want businesses to be tax for
pay their more lower prices, pay people not to work.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
You know what, I would like to see.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
How our business is going to survive that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's the question. How can businesses survive all of those proposals.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
And Bezos pays an effective tax rate lower than the
average work I think we have a real problem.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
In our taxes.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
I think that billionaires have got to stop paying that
fair share of taxes.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know, I could go ahead again with the I
don't have it in front of me, but if the
total wealth of every billionaire in the United States was
confiscated by the government, that would cover our bills for
what is it, a day and a half or something
longer than that, but not very long. And then you
know that that doesn't make sense if because the whole
(24:13):
tax rate thing is such a shame, but that doesn't
make sense if you're the person who runs your business
as a billionaire, but not every business is boss is
a billionaire. I was just gonna say every time the
tax rates for the gal who has been an account
in her whole career and her practice has grown, and
now she has two accountants under her, and she's got
(24:35):
a nice house in the suburbs, and you know what,
she's always wanted that car, she.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Can go ahead and buy it.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
And if she starts saying, why is half of my
income disappearing to the government, Bernie Sanders comes back.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
With Jeff Beziel sneazz to pay us fast.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, you know, it's like, I'm not a freaking billionaire
over here, what are you talking about? But he's a socialist.
Socialists fly, they lie routinely. But I feel like that, man,
I feel like I've read about this before. But obviously
the number forty is somewhat arbitrary, not an exact science.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Could be less, could be more.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't know why it would be the same forever
as you get over time over forty, but not under
or whatever. I mean, a lot has changed since the
forty hour work week was the standard, and I just
wonder is there a reason it should be longer or
shorter or the same.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, I like a five day work week.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I think we're all pretty happy with that idea, although
I certainly love to go Johnny Carson if you're old
enough to remember that and shorten it further. But so
let's agree that two days on the weekend is cool.
People like that, right, So you get breakfast, and you
get the kids off to school, then you get yourself
to work, and by the time the kids are home
(25:50):
and done with practice and it's time for dinner, you're
done with work.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Just eight hours. It's pretty good. It's works.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Worked at least one day on the weekend for the
first half of my work life. Third, certainly you don't die.
It's not pleasant. When I was a kid, I always
tell my kids this when they're complaining about me being busy.
My dad worked till noon on Saturdays a lot when
I was a kid. Wait till he got home on
(26:20):
Saturday after lunch was when he was available for the weekend.
It's not the end of the world. It's not what
you want.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But right, you might not choose it. But again, it's
not like horror. It's okay, but you figure that out.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I got to read that book full time, I think,
is the main title of it, like every book now.
It has a lengthy subtitle, but about the psychological, spiritual
value of work and how it's not a necessary evil
at all. It's why we're here, to a large extent,
(26:55):
defining work however you want. Now. Maybe it's going to
work for a corporation. Maybe it's raising your chill ldren,
maybe it's ministering to the poor. But doing something is
not unevil No, and the idea that everybody will flourish
in the arts if they don't have something they are
(27:16):
being productive at is yeah, you hand me a paint
brush in the canvas. I'll disprove that notion in a hurry.
All right, Well, even more than how good your art
would be, people tend to go nutso or end up alcoholics,
drug addicted, or kill themselves or whatever. Right if they're
ye read from the horrifying shackles of having to do
(27:37):
something productive.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Right, Jack Armstrong and Joe arm Strong and.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Getty show.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
How much have you paid people to pull out customers
who are in line with a bag that's two sentimentters
too big because a shutter.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well, we recognize this as a hard job, and so
therefore we incentivize them to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's ten dollars per bag.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Wow, ten dollars per bag. I mean, you guys do
appreciate that flying on your airlines is a disaster, don't you.
I'm slightly amazed by the general attitude of all of
you here.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Flying on your airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
I mean, I say this as a father of three
young children, but I can't tell you nobody enjoys flying
on your airlines.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
It's a disaster. Sometimes I go back and forth on this.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's Josh Holly, Senator yelling at the people that run
the airlines. I go back and forth between absolutely loving
populism because of the way it makes me feel. Yeah,
let's yell at the people that run the airlines and
just tell them it sucks and how populism is bad
and not a way to accomplish anything, and it's a
trans For some reason, I took great joy as also
(28:47):
a father, a father of two, and the difficulties flying
just over the last week just happened getting a chance,
he yelled, those people.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Say it sucks, it sucks.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Is fatherhood a greater and just in terms of your
slepting kids around and they get searched and stuff, or
just just you know, all the slepping through the airport
with the kids and all the stuff, and it's just
it's a pain in the ass and you're mad about it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And do you need to yell at someone about it?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, that's populous, but it's best great, hope you
feel better.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Super no, slowly is brilliant. I'm not offering a solution.
I'm not even saying there's any way to do any better.
And it's a free market, and you know, you get
to compete against each other. But this makes me feel good.
It sucks. I forget hate this. Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Wow, oh my god. I was watching the airport because
my kids are older now. I was watching people to the
airport with the little kids. That is a chore flying
with small children. And I was actually seeing somebody with
a baby, and I was thinking to myself, you think
it's bad with the baby.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You know when it gets really hard when they get
out of diapers. You think it's harder the baby.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
It's actually harder when they need to use the bathroom
all the time. Oh boy, it was the chance.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To yell at the people that run all the airlines
and just tell them I hate this. It would be uh.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Mentioned bitcoin hit one hundred thousand dollars for the first
time for an individual bitcoin, which this is one of
the many things in the modern world that I don't
understand at all, And I was thinking about you wouldn't
have to go back very many years where I think
I understood pretty much everything that was going on in
the world, even if I didn't specifically know how to
(30:32):
do brain surgery.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I mean, I got the basics of what it was yes.
But now with bitcoin and AI.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And a number of other things, I don't even know.
I don't have the slightest idea of what's happening. I
do know this that bitcoin hitting the record high of
one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Two weeks ago that bitcoin had skyrocketed so much after
the presidential electionized.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Saying why didn't I invest in bitcoin? Damn it?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And it's gone up twenty percent since then. If I
I've gotten in that day, I would have made a mint.
Well you should have, or maybe I should get in today.
I don't know, or that's the worst idea you've ever had. Abslally,
that is the problem with the whole bitcoin thing is
timing it. That is definitely the problem. You're saying the
problem with investing is risk. Well, this is agreed. This
(31:23):
is this is different than other normal risk though. I mean,
this is they're not waiting for the reporters out and
it turns out GM trucks are. Now this is just
who knows what's going on. I'm just reading something about
Elon's ability to manipulate bitcoin with this or that, and
it says, yeah, yeah, I don't. Number one most forwarded
story we got and folks love this. You see something,
(31:44):
you say, the fella has got to talk about this,
and the fella assigned female at birth as well, Katie,
and people forward it to mail bag at Armstrong and
Giddy dot com, which is appreciated.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You guys have very great eyes and ears and awareness
of good stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Number one story today by far British rock band robbed
it gunpoint on day one of their US tour because
they started their tour.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
In San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh, they hit the shores, they load the van, they
stop for coffee, and gunmen loot their van that quick.
Welcome to America, Welcome to the Bay Area of California,
fellas well. Yeah, technically true, Welcome to America, but most
of America is not like that. You're not going to
get robbed ever, let alone moments after you arrive. But
(32:37):
there's a good chance of that happening in San Francisco.
On happened to your brother?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
They stopped to see the Golden gate Bridge, walked around
for half an hour. All their stuff was gone, all
of it, their kids' backpacks, their stuffed animals. Oh yeah,
Broad daylight, crowded place. But the guys they pull up,
they smash it into cars or vans. In this case,
somebody tries to stop them, they wave a gun at them,
They take what they want, they drive off with no repercussions. Anyway,
(33:04):
as the band tweeted, just been robbed at gunpoint ten
minutes into the US tour stop for coffee, man runs
in saying guys are smashing into a van. You know what,
let me make sure I got this right. Where were they?
Specifically Vallejo, California. Yeah, beautiful Valeo. I impugned San Francisco,
and properly I apologize. The streets of San Francisco are
(33:26):
so selected with pooh the robbers can't get good enough
footing to rob rock bands, so they've moved out to Vallejo.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Again.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I apologize to the great city and County of San Francisco,
part of.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
The whole Bay Area thing.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Sure, sure, yeah, indeed. Luckily they didn't steal the instruments.
They just wanted laptops and backpacks and then game boys
or switches or whatever, and they left the guys guitars
and drums. So they play their show. But welcome to
the Bay area of California. You can stop sending it.
Here's a random thing before we take a break. One
of my favorite musical groups you've never heard of, and
(34:05):
I can't remember the name of it's got frogs in
the title.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Anyway you heard of them, Yeah, I have. I listened
to them all the time. Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
They're like really like bluegrassy acoustic fiddles and guitars sort
of band.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
They were a speed metal band, but they.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Had their van broken into and all of their equipment stolen,
and they didn't have any money, so they started playing
acoustic music and it caught on and he became a
thing that way.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
One of their songs was featured in the TV show
that Henry and I watch all the.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Time, so I got back on their bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But we're relating frogs, Locks of Frogs, Plague of Frogs, Frogman,
the O. J. Simpsons movie Classic Frogs. It's turtles Trampled
by Turtles, Trampled by Turtles fan. But they were a
speed metal ban and they got all their stuff stolen,
so well, we still have acoustic guitars. Let's try to
into something with that proof of the old saying when
God closes the door and sticks his gun in your
(34:56):
face or something.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
He opens a window.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
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