July 29, 2025 • 35 mins
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- Democrat party is dead, the NYC shooting & Trump in Scotland
- Katie Green's Headlines
- The mainstream media & weak sleep cycles
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetta and he arms wrong and yet.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Live from studios C see Senior, a dimly lit room
deeper from the bowels.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Of the Armstrong in getting communications downbound and hey y'all,
today we're under the two legitimur general manager the Democratic
Party down but not out put practically out. Why is
that our general manager?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Most miserable approval ratings in a general two generations thirty
five years at least for several polls out Democratic Party
is dying for them.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Or for any party for them. I just wondered if
it ever been the Republicans have ever been that low? Oh
oh oh, I see what you're saying. An interesting question.
Let me check into that. I'm not sure any party
has ever been this low in my lifetime.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Uh no, that would be uh no, would be the answer.
In fact, not within well fourteen I'm sorry. The Democrats
are fourteen points.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Slower, nine points lower than the Republicans have ever been. Right,
So that's something that is amazing. Oh, it's miserable.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
U it's two thirds hold an unfavorable view of the
Democratic Party, a mere third hold a favorable view.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Just to get it out of the way, how do
you want to handle the shooting? The media is talking endlessly.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
About, Oh my gosh, very briefly, another mentally ill, crazy
person decided to hurt people on his way out.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's awful, it is you'd I don't know if this
is I don't know if this makes any sense or not.
But the fact that it happened like two blocks from
the NBC studios is oh part of the reason it's
getting so much coverage. A nut job in Reno and
(02:26):
a casino killed three people yesterday. This dude killed four people.
That's only one person difference. Have you even heard about
the Reno shooting? Does is anybody we know about it
because we live near Reno? But I think if you
lived anywhere else in the United States, you wouldn't even
have heard about it. So some of it. A lot
of the coverage has to do with the location, right,
(02:46):
And the reason I hesitate to bring this up is
kind of making the argument these shootings happen all the
time everywhere, which is not a good argument for not
talking about it. But a shooting very close to is bad.
Happened Reno in the afternoon and got no coverage. So
just everything is outsized in New York, is my point.
(03:07):
I'm slightly intrigued. I must admit I have not dug
into it, but I saw the headline that the guy
was actually targeting the NFL in that building and had
some sort of CTE. Really well, which is hard to say.
He seems to think he did. He was a high
school football star, that was the end of his career.
He could have CTE from that, or he could think
(03:27):
he has CTE. I'm sure they'll dig into whether he
had a diagnosis or not. He shot himself in the
chest when he did kill himself in the way that
a number of ex football players who believe they had
CTE have done. He asked in his note to have
his brain studied, so he thinks that's what's going on
that you know, other NFL stars who have had ct
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killed themselves. They didn't kill four innocent human beings, including
a woman cowering behind a pole hoping to live before the.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Comes, two little kids and one more on the way.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes, so that doesn't make any sense though, Yeah, just horrific.
It is horrific. And again my argument toward it's getting
it shouldn't obliterate all news coverage. That's my point. It
shouldn't obliterate all other news coverage. It doesn't make any sense,
right right, Well, yeah, I would agree completely. How do
you feel about I don't feel like my job is
(04:21):
breaking news anyway, just as a general How do you
feel about Donald Trump? This makes me uncomfortable, but I
have a caveat. I was just watching the video of
him making news, making world news with comments about Gaza,
(04:41):
Russian Ukraine tariffs, I mean world news, then with a
giant pair of scissors cutting a giant red ribbon at
his new golf course, because he was saying this in
his golf clothes, with his red, this white golf glob on,
making world news and then taking the giant scissors and
cutting the ribbon at his new golf course in Scotland.
(05:02):
Did he need the golf club to have a better
grip on the scissors or well he was then and
then he immediately hit the first shot. So but oh,
I see the inaugural ceremonial, right, Okay, No, My point is,
are we okay? It just seems a little weird. Here's
my caveat, very weird, very odd. Here's my caveat. Though
for people on the left to complain about the Trump
family and business, and the Biden family got rich also,
(05:26):
they just pretended it was government business at least Trump's making.
And this is my family business, which I'm sure benefits
from the fact that I'm president, but it's separate. The
Biden family got ungodly wealthy claiming it was government work.
Neither one of them may be good. I don't know.
I don't know the particulars of the Trump deal well
and or entirely climbdestinely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And the Democrats, I'm sure, in spite of their miserable
approval ratings, which were well earned, they are investigating as
hard as they can, trying to find mal seasons, illegalities,
constitutionalities wherever they may be.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So I wish them well on that endeavor. I don't
want anybody to violate the oths of office, but you know,
I'll hear about it if they come up with anything.
Over and over again, got a couple of big stories
that we're going to touch on throughout the day that
everybody's talking about. But the coverage is making me insane.
(06:23):
I looked at the breaking news. Joe just said, we
don't do breaking news, but here's the breaking news from
Washington Post that I woke up to today. Gaza's death
toll surpasses sixty thousand. Health officials. Say, yeah, that's your
headline health. Also what health? What health officials? Oh? The
Ministry of Health? Okay, So I go to chat GPT.
(06:45):
What is the Gosen Ministry of Health? Oh? What is
the health organization organized under Hamas and under the control
of AMAS. I'll be darned. So we're asking the Nazi
party for the official stats on how many Germans have
been killed by the Allied forces and taking their word
for it all more specifically, unspoken but unmistakably, we're asking
(07:10):
the Nazi health officials whether the Allied attacks are causing
more suffering among the German people than can possibly be justified.
And the Nazi health officials say yes, yes, and the
Allies should stop.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
NPR same thing today. I happen to be listening to
punish myself for my sins.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah. And MSNBC was huge on how Netnahu's a monster
and he's only doing this to stay in office, and
the military objectives were met a long time ago. Now
this is just, you know, something close to a genocide,
which is interesting. Then I flipped on NewsNation, which I'm
kind of a cheerleader for NewsNation. What do they call themselves?
What's their tagline? News for all Americans? Anyway, they're an
(07:50):
analyst guy man. He was, how that includes me? Go ahead?
Their analyst guy A. NewsNation was angry at the suggestion
that anybody would take these numbers at face value, and
he said, I have to get the clip of this.
I thought it was amazing to hear, having flipped around
like you did, hearing NPR's version and all that different
sort of stuff. He said, Well, for Hamas, the deaths
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of Palestinians is a feature, not a bug. Their goal
is to have as many Palestinians die. Well, good for
you for pointing out what is obviously true and what
Democrats used to say out loud, like Bill Clinton and
Hillary Clinton. They would say that out loud because it's
so obviously true. Sure well, and I would put it
that Hamas cannot defeat Israel with arms, so they are
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attempting to defeat them with misinformation and propaganda.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Is there suffering and horror and hunger. Of course there is,
of course there is, but the idea.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Of quoting one of the combatants without disclosing that it's
one of the combatants.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I happen to be back on the elliptical yesterday. My
back is healed. I feel great and kicking ass and
I'm dropping way. I'm getting strong, and my ticker takers
like that of a forty year old.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Are you yoked?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm not yet, but I'm working on it. I'm still
in my pre yoked state.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
The yoking has begun, yes, So anyway, I'm on the
elliptical watching my news is and I watched The Five
for a little bit, as it was that time of day,
and it was good until it just became mindless pro
Trump cheerleading, which is fine. I just don't need that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And then so I switched over to Jake Tapper on
CNN and the Five having led with stuff about the
trade deal and a couple of other significant stories. Jake
Tapper on the unwatchable and unwatched CNN. The first ten
minutes I think, was all on the horrible cruel Israeli
(09:48):
caused starvation of the poor people in Gaza, made heavy
use of the Health ministries statistics had Hot and Cold
running a sad footage of starving looking people in violence,
and that was like, it's the only story on Earth.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
NPR likewise, when I was listening before the show and
do we have time for this? Yeah, I'll make this
very brief.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
According to you know, the very people, these sort of
people generally quote, the situation in Yemen over the last
several years has been the greatest humanitarian disaster on planet Earth.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
For quite some time. Wild levels of actual starvation, attempted genocides,
blah blah blah. A couple of Africa similar Oh yeah, yeah,
I was gonna get to those, but yeah, you're you're
absolutely right. Because it is.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Brownish people against Brownish people, or in the case of Africa,
Blackish people against Brownish people, or Blackish people against Blackish people.
No interest in it, none, no coverage, despite the multiples
and multiples of more people starving in the Yemen situation,
I mean, not even close to the extent that the
(11:05):
goals the thing can be documented at all. They have
no interest in it because it is not the primarily
white Western civilization against the poor, colonialized, down trodden brown
people that's why this is getting so much attention, even
if the media jackasses don't know that, because that's the
schooling they got from K through grad school is that's
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the only thing that matters on earth.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Cudiculous, you know, that's a good idea pointing that out.
That's what should be pointed out all the time. Hey,
there's a bunch of these going on around the world.
Why do we only focus on one and demand in
one instance that the one side should stop? How come
you're not yelling at whoever's in charge in Yemen and
killing and starving people or in this particular African nation.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, and there was just going back a few years,
the whole situation in the Balkans with the Servs and
the Crots and the Muslims and all, when all the
white people were slaughtering each other, and it was unspeakable horror,
the whole thing. When white people were killing each other,
no one cared. It's when they started killing vaguely Brownish
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people for precisely the same reasons and precisely the same place,
then that became a cause celeb That.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Is the most underappreciated part of this whole story. We
should talk about that more later, but we got to
start the show. Officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty
on this It is Tuesday, July twenty ninth. We're almost
out of July people there twenty twenty five or Armstrong
and getting we approve of this program. Okay, let's begin then. Officially,
according to FCC rules and rags, the show starts at mark.
Our biggest problem is we have so much growth at
the fed one cut. What the oh my, I'm so sorry.
(12:42):
Oh I just feel like enough with the white cut.
The comm's Boomleck. That's Jim Kramer, the economist. Jim Kramer
on CNBC dropping an F bomb because he was so
excited about the Trump economy and he's not a Trump fan,
dropped an F bomb. Ain't apologizes endlessly. His co host said,
(13:02):
it's okay, we're on cable, It's okay. He just felt horrible,
and then he tweeted about it later in the day.
I'd like to apologize to all the listeners, like Deally
look around quite hinged, but do you walk around to
the world. I don't like it either, but he gets
thrown around a fair amount. I appreciate the apology. Jim
(13:23):
but you're okay, try not to do it again. We're okay.
We got Katie's headlines on the way more news of
the day. I hope you can stay here. I'm not
sure I completely made my point. Here comes some salty
language from the text line. Somebody texted Jack, you're an
ass licking Israeli shill, which is pretty hard. Good lord,
(13:43):
Wait a minute, I agree, it's harsh, but I my uh,
maybe I didn't make this clear. I don't know what's
happening in Gaza, but neither do you. If you're quoting
the Gaza Health Ministry, you can't use that is your
statistic and tell me you know what's going on. That
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doesn't work. That's your source, says the Alis. I will
be starting all slams with ass licking. If you're sore, no, no, no, no,
that's enough of that. Seriously. If you're seriously, if your
source is Hamas, you don't get to make an argument
about what's happening and tell me I'm a shill for
the other side. Are you kidding? I mean that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, okay, no, I agree completely. Yeah, all right, let's
figure out who's reporting what it's the lead stories.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Katie Green hit it well.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Right in that with ABC News quote worst case scenario,
famine unfolding in gossip.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Right, that is the big headline because a couple of
organizations who are aligned against all these world organizations are
aligned against Israel, and they take Gaza numbers verbatim, no
matter how many times they turn out not to be true.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
From The New York Times, Starmer edging closer to rec
uganizing Palestinian statehood.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh, I didn't know that McCrone did in France last week.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I didn't even mean they don't have an intech government.
You never you never do that if there's not an
identifiable government with whom you've established relations.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, practically, yes, that is true. I think the what
it means is we've all held together for all these
years and not recognizing them, and now it's starting to break. Apart.
From Breitbart dot Com, two hundred.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Illegal alien child sex offenders arrested in Houston in six months.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Wow, Pikes, we'll have to break into that story. Yeah,
I want to know more about that.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
From Reuters, Trump sets the new deadline for putin for
ten to twelve days, not.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Fifty, right, right, what's the next we'll find out in
a few days.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Wall Street Journal AI is wrecking an already fragile job
market for college graduates.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah I read that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
No go ahead, Yeah no, just chat GVT at other bots.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Can do the entry level jobs.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, and the statistics are already pretty striking.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It's begun, So we got to go into that story
in depth more too. That sounds really interesting now your
previous story. I want to mention about Trump and the
sanctions around Russia again, watching News Nation, their analysis was
if Trump follows through on this, it'll be the harshest
penalty on Russia. Wavy on anything Biden Obama ever even
(16:35):
hinted it doing for the so called Putin shill from
steady fines.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Major study warns that weak sleep rhythm is linked to
eighty three diseases.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I want to get into that story. You can bring
in us lots of good stories today.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Katies well on finally the Babylon b Trump secures fifteen
percent tariff on extra U in British spelling.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I agree, hilarious. What's weak sleep rhythm? I don't even
know what that means. Oh boy, you're probably a victim
of it, then, boy, I live it every night, you're
completely Yeah, I don't know what a week. I'm guessing
it's just you don't get into the normal going into
rim and out thing that you're supposed to do. And
it's probably a character flaw. So we'll get into a
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lot of those stories coming up. Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You probably heard that you're supposed to get like ten
thousand steps a day, but according to new research, just
seven thousand steps a day could be enough to improve
your health.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Do I hear six?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It really sounds like scientists have lowered their expectations for us.
Explains why the new Surgeon General warning on cigarettes says
do not smoke during pregnancy unless it's your second kid.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Then what else? Yeah, I like the jokes, but the
problem is the original ten thousand step thing was completely
made up them with a lot of health stats, and
we're about to get into some here. Is Uh, they're
misinterpreted regularly. Oftentimes they're very very small, preliminary studies that
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the researchers themselves would never put out there as a
national story to talk about. But it's something exciting about
something that can cause cancer or eliminate cancer or whatever,
and so the media goes crazy with it. And then
there's studies that are paid for by like, you know,
mattress companies or candy bars or whatever, and lo and
(18:33):
behold the study says eating more chocolate leads to better
sex life or whatever. You know, So sure you gotta
watch out for that. Before we get to that stuff,
a couple of things real quick. First of all, can
we make a vow? We need to make a vow.
I don't think we can keep it, but we should try.
We should make a vow every day and work toward
this goal. To stop talking about cable news as if
(18:54):
anybody's watching it because nobody is. So that's so fine
with me. Yeah, I agree. But anytime let me talk
about Jake Tapper said this or whatever. It might be
interesting for some reason, but nobody is watching that show. Nobody.
I'm just I'm looking at the stats that Byron York
just put out from Fox. It's more likely you're watching
(19:15):
a Fox show, certainly, but uh, CNN's total audience during
their five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven PM hours.
Your cherry picking added together don't beat one showing of
the five, which is not even one in Fox's highly
rated shows oh, so talking about anything on CNN or MSNBC,
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really is you? Who are you talking to? Boy?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It is the ultimate example of something holding on to
just any reputation based entirely on its gloried pass and.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
By people who are old enough to remember when it mattered.
If you're younger, you don't even know what it is.
So right, Well, it's on in airports and explic complete.
We got this CNN have a picture of the head
of the FAA with a mule or something. I mean,
how is CNN on an airport's all over America? That
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is almost that is almost certainly the explanation. Well, there
you go. Anyway, moving along, we got this text about
that horrible story in New York, the shooting. I just
wanted to deal with it real quick in case I
did use sloppy language. You're putting out fake news again.
The shooter in New York never played in the NFL.
I didn't mean to imply that he did. I thought
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I said he was a high school star and that's
where his current You never stated anything that could be
taken to indicate that he played in the NFL. Well,
I guess you made reference to other Okay, Yeah, whatever,
that's fine, Okay, fine, he didn't play in the NFL,
but he he did see some budsman weighing in there.
He did seem to be blaming that brain mouth function
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that you can get from playing football, though, as he
had a note about that and shot himself in the
chest and wants his brain to be studied, Which doesn't
make him some sort of anybody to look up to
because he killed a bunch of innocent people like a scumbag. Right,
if you didn't get enough sleep last night, you've doubled
your chance of ganggreen. I hope you're happy.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh no, not another bout of gang creen, another bout.
It ruined my summer vacation. Oh wow, it certainly ruined
my beach.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Look my beach body getting to big studies. This is
pretty damned interesting and a bit of a breakthrough. I
think we've been talking about sleep stuff a lot. Everybody
that I know deals with sleep issues or if you're
getting enough sleep. They found a way pretty simple with
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having instead of self reporting about sleep, which is all
you had to really go on up until fairly recently,
now you can have everybody wear these little devices that
report on how much sleep you're actually getting. And there
are way too many fake long sleepers in all studies
we've ever heard. They actually that's what they actually call them,
fake long sleepers in studies that we've heard about through
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our whole lives. It's people maybe like me, who report
a certain number of hours asleep but actually get much less.
If you actually wear a device that measures how much
you're sleeping, just because you're in bed and semi unconscious,
that amount of time doesn't mean you're actually sleep sleeping.
And so they had people wear these devices trying to
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track how much like actually you were a sleep sleep
you got. The numbers are a lot lower, and so
those other numbers skewed everything we've ever had about sleep
because you got a whole bunch of people in there
claiming they sleep eight hours a night and they're actually
sleeping six. Is anybody struck?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Anybody else struck by the hilarious irony of self reporting
sleeping habits. I mean, if there's one one period of
my life I can't really account for, it's when I'm asleep.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
True. It's the largest study of its kind ever. Researchers
strapped fitness trackers on nearly ninety thousand adults for a
week followed their health for almost seven years. Among people
who claimed to sleep more than eight hours nightly, nearly
a twenty two percent, so a fifth we're actually getting
six or less. That's a big chunk of people who
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thought they were getting eight hours of sleep and are
getting six or less. That's that's enormous.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes, statistically, that's like, why are you even talking about
the previous numbers?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They're ridiculous, right, But let me jump to the headlines
from it, other than the headline that everything you've ever
heard about sleep studies is fake because of what do
they call them, lying bastards. That's not what they called them,
fake long sleepers. Lying bastards would be too harsh. That'd
be appropriate. Sleep rhythm matters more than sleep duration. Inconsistent
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or weak daily sleep rhythms were linked to eighty three diseases,
and then they list them and we could get into
that later. With the sleep rhythm mean when you're going
in and out of ram like happens. If you've ever
learned anything about sleep disease, burden is comparable to smoking
or obesity. Up to thirty seven percent of Parkinson's these
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numbers can't be true, can they? Up to thirty seven
percent of Parkinson's and thirty six percent of type two
diabetes could be attributed to disrupted sleep patterns. That's a
lot that that's an extraordinary claim. I am, I got
my fur up p too. I'm very free. Wow. What's
what's our source here? What's our publication? Is this? Uh?
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It's a dirty Chinese research led by doctor Quinn Chen
Army Medical University and Cheng Wang Peck Peaking University. Okay,
are you concerned that the Chinese are trying to infiltrate
our sleep device? Yeah, I'm I'm highly skeptical about all
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of this. The idea that that bad sleep rhythms are
more serious a problem than we understand, that's perfectly reasonable.
But a bunch of commies there at p King. I
thought we were supposed to say Beijing these days. Maybe
they kept the name for the university, that's a good question.
The study linked various sleep problems to one hundred and
seventy two different diseases across virtually every system in the
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human body. Some diseases showed dramatic associations. For example, people
with the most disrupted sleep rhythms faced more than triple
the risk of age related physical debility. I don't really
doubt that. Well, yeah, but triple, but I don't doubt that. Yeah.
Your previous sentence about Parkinson's caught my ear, partly because
both my mom and my grandfather died of complications from Parkinson's.
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But so little is known about what causes Parkinson's. I mean,
could there be some correlation without causation or half and half?
That's that's utterly unclear to me. But my guess would
be that whoever wrote this article took the numbers and
presented it as if its causation, when it could just
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be those two things to go together for unknown reasons.
But I want to get back this because I thought
it was funny. Paul be You've got a gene mutation
that causes poor sleep rhythms and parkinson for instance, Parkinson's
for instance. Sure, so people with the bad sleep triple
the risk of age related physical debility. Also, you doubled
the risk of gang green compared to those with the
robust sleep patterns. Yeah. Again, don't I eliminate the any
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chance of gangreen by getting a tennis shot ruin my
beach vacation it's it's it's hurt my golf game. The
gang Green. It's terrible. How many people have you ever
known gotten Gangreen? Unless you're one hundred and eighty years old.
My dating life has been poorer for it. Listen that
you're a great guy, but you you're gangrenous. Well I
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saw you, I saw your hinge profile, and you mentioned
the Gangreen right up toward top. So it shouldn't have
been a surprise anyone. Oh my goodness. So this sentence,
this is the one you're having trouble with. And researchers
estimated that up to thirty seven percent of parkinson Parkinson's
disease risk. I exactly shoot them. That means nothing. Sorry,
I hate to be a kill joy, killing anything for me.
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I didn't write this study. I have no investment in this.
Brought it to us. We need a meeting, A long meeting, okay,
sort of questions, long meeting, prolonging questions. I would not
be surprised if a lot of the problems we have,
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though in the modern world, is people not getting decent sleep. Yeah. Yeah,
And I've become re re re re re re reconvinced
about the omnipresence of screens and smartphones being a reason
for people's mental problems. Recently, Yeah, I heard it presented
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in a religious context by a man of the cloth
who was repeating what I think man is known for
thousands of years. But well, I'll just say what he said.
Leave time in your life for God, Leave time in
your life for prayer and meditation and contemplation. Put down
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your damn screen. You know. I didn't even do this
on purpose. It has just kind of happened for a
variety of reasons. But I've been on this kick all
summer long. Of at sunset, I schedule my evening around this.
At sunset, I ride my bike to the edge of town.
It's about two and a half miles, and then I'm
in a looking at a wheat field. I'm from Kansas,
so I like seeing the sunset over wheatfields. So I'm there,
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I'm looking at this wheatfield with the sunset, and I
do this combination of prayer and affirmations and just kind
of talking to myself or whatever. I don't bring my
voe in and I do it every night, and it
has become like my favorite part of the day. Like
I just say, oh boy, I gotta get this done
because the sunset's coming, because it's just there's clearly some
like nourish I'm getting from that that I look forward
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to it, and I really go out of my way
to make sure I've arranged so that I can do it. Yeah. Wow,
I mean it's just organically making me want to do it.
Every night. Yeah, I have a similar ritual. I drink
myself incoherent and fall asleep muttering angrily about the people
who wronged me with fox on really loud some nights. Yes,
(29:28):
you do you, man, you do you. I've actually been
lately thinking how am I going to keep this going
when the days are shorter and the sun setting at
five point thirty and dinner and blah blah blah it's rain.
I don't know, but I'm going to miss it. I
got to come up with a substitute for when the
beautiful weather is over because it has become super important
to me. It's not as good videotape it and watch
(29:51):
it on your screen carried around on my phone, but
don't like say, wow, that was really good. That was
really soothing. Now that I have screen open, though, let's
do a little dum scrolling no, no, right, we got
mail bag on the way and some more news of
the day. Trump said, I think Israel's being unfairly criticized
(30:19):
for what's going on in Gaza. I'll say that, I
think all the news organizations taking the health Ministry of
Hamas at face value is ridiculous. But Trump said something
so dang stupid last night, the whole thing, about the
whole thing, Are you kidding me? Sorry? Trump fans, we
know he's doing great stuff, doing great stuff, but he
(30:42):
said some dumb stuff. Anyway, So we got mail bag
on the way. Stay here, man, We've got some pretty
good stuff today. Hard News got a funny comedy thing
about what kids read in school today versus what we
write as kids and why they're so weak. That is
very funny. Yeah, I've got a.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Great school related feature myself. Later on, let's get a
freedom loving quote of the day. Was going to continue
on with the big man William Howard Taft, but got
a nice note from Jan who was enjoying our series
of Thomas Soul quotes and sent along a couple of
her own.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So I thought, with the heck top of mind, I'll
do it today.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Two quotes Number one when people get used to preferential treatment,
equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Absolutely true. Witness the universities and the second one, which
I love. If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness
of human beings, just try raising children. The great Thomas
soul with a tip of the cap to his fellow
parents God, particularly as I go through the I mean,
(31:46):
I'm deep into the heart of teenagerdom. What a wild
ride that is. Oh yeah, and so different than all
the other parenting. It's a completely different thing. Yeah, ye
here here mailbag.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You may communicate with us via text, of course, and
also email mailbag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Keep
it shortish if you can, but you know, if it's
eloquent and brilliant and interesting, let it stretch a little bit.
Day from South Carolina Wrights stop mentioning cable news. Yes,
finally you've realized that you guys give them.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
The air they need to keep breathing. Knock it off.
Oh yeah, that or we're just talking about something that's irrelevant.
So right, No, what's the point.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Let's see on the topic, the unfortunate topic, the regrettable
topic of the so called the.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Burbank butt sniffer.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yesterday, guys been repeatedly arrested for squatting behind women and
apparently smelling them.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Arrested over and over again.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Turd loose on the streets, over and over, Bill in
Central Mexico. Right, well, bitos die this, Bill, Hey, give
the guy a break. If a male or female can
identify as the opposite sex, then a man can self
identify as a dog. Haven't you seen dogs sniffing people's
and other dogs?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Butts? Uh. It's a course point, Bill, but a fair one.
I was just reading how the polygamy movement is really
taken hold. If you can have gay marriage, you ought
to be able to have a threuttle or a quadruple,
or two moms and one dad in a couple of
different states. There are court rulings out and the argument
during the argument about gay marriage that was made was that, well,
(33:29):
this will lead to marriage being anything you want it
to be. You know, I always thought not necessarily. But
Bill's point is a bill, yeah, is that if I
can identify as a different sex completely in defiance of
the biological reality, well why can't I claim to be
a different species with straight face?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
It seems like that would never happen. But I've seen
a similar movie before.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Isn't this the kind of the argument though? What's next?
Marrion dogs about gay marriage? Yeah, but a different degree.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wouldn't you say a thruple is between like gay marriage
and marrying dogs?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Definitely? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Okay, let's see this from Aaron on the same topic
of the b s ing and from Burbank, You guys
can joke all you on on your rarely funny fascist
adjacent AM radio show.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, that's a rod phrase. Don't let that one slip
by too quick. Funny fascist fascist.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Adjacent Okay, Yeah, you had some good writing all all through.
But rising aggression, boundary violations, and bizarre dominance rituals are
in fact increasing under ecological and social collapse. What you're
calling quote butt sniffing is just one expression of how
climate driven stress, economic instability, and collapsing norms hit vulnerable
group's hardest, especially men who are condition to ascertain power
(34:58):
when everything else is out of control.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Ignoring this link isn't humor.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It's part of the same colonial, white, supreme capitalist mindset
that created the climate crisis in the first place. Deny
the science, mock vulnerable groups, pretend individual behavior exists outside
of systemic collapse. Pretending this isn't happening is a white
denial privilege.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I get it. That is some fine parody here. It
has well written sir fascist adjacent to II oughta. I
don't agree with Donald Trump's view of the so called
famine that's going on in Gaza, among other things we'll
get into an hour two Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetta and he arms wrong and yet.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Live from studios C see Senior, a dimly lit room
deeper from the bowels.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Of the Armstrong in getting communications downbound and hey y'all,
today we're under the two legitimur general manager the Democratic
Party down but not out put practically out. Why is
that our general manager?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Most miserable approval ratings in a general two generations thirty
five years at least for several polls out Democratic Party
is dying for them.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Or for any party for them. I just wondered if
it ever been the Republicans have ever been that low? Oh
oh oh, I see what you're saying. An interesting question.
Let me check into that. I'm not sure any party
has ever been this low in my lifetime.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Uh no, that would be uh no, would be the answer.
In fact, not within well fourteen I'm sorry. The Democrats
are fourteen points.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Slower, nine points lower than the Republicans have ever been. Right,
So that's something that is amazing. Oh, it's miserable.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
U it's two thirds hold an unfavorable view of the
Democratic Party, a mere third hold a favorable view.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Just to get it out of the way, how do
you want to handle the shooting? The media is talking endlessly.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
About, Oh my gosh, very briefly, another mentally ill, crazy
person decided to hurt people on his way out.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's awful, it is you'd I don't know if this
is I don't know if this makes any sense or not.
But the fact that it happened like two blocks from
the NBC studios is oh part of the reason it's
getting so much coverage. A nut job in Reno and
(02:26):
a casino killed three people yesterday. This dude killed four people.
That's only one person difference. Have you even heard about
the Reno shooting? Does is anybody we know about it
because we live near Reno? But I think if you
lived anywhere else in the United States, you wouldn't even
have heard about it. So some of it. A lot
of the coverage has to do with the location, right,
(02:46):
And the reason I hesitate to bring this up is
kind of making the argument these shootings happen all the
time everywhere, which is not a good argument for not
talking about it. But a shooting very close to is bad.
Happened Reno in the afternoon and got no coverage. So
just everything is outsized in New York, is my point.
(03:07):
I'm slightly intrigued. I must admit I have not dug
into it, but I saw the headline that the guy
was actually targeting the NFL in that building and had
some sort of CTE. Really well, which is hard to say.
He seems to think he did. He was a high
school football star, that was the end of his career.
He could have CTE from that, or he could think
(03:27):
he has CTE. I'm sure they'll dig into whether he
had a diagnosis or not. He shot himself in the
chest when he did kill himself in the way that
a number of ex football players who believe they had
CTE have done. He asked in his note to have
his brain studied, so he thinks that's what's going on
that you know, other NFL stars who have had ct
(03:49):
killed themselves. They didn't kill four innocent human beings, including
a woman cowering behind a pole hoping to live before the.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Comes, two little kids and one more on the way.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes, so that doesn't make any sense though, Yeah, just horrific.
It is horrific. And again my argument toward it's getting
it shouldn't obliterate all news coverage. That's my point. It
shouldn't obliterate all other news coverage. It doesn't make any sense,
right right, Well, yeah, I would agree completely. How do
you feel about I don't feel like my job is
(04:21):
breaking news anyway, just as a general How do you
feel about Donald Trump? This makes me uncomfortable, but I
have a caveat. I was just watching the video of
him making news, making world news with comments about Gaza,
(04:41):
Russian Ukraine tariffs, I mean world news, then with a
giant pair of scissors cutting a giant red ribbon at
his new golf course, because he was saying this in
his golf clothes, with his red, this white golf glob on,
making world news and then taking the giant scissors and
cutting the ribbon at his new golf course in Scotland.
(05:02):
Did he need the golf club to have a better
grip on the scissors or well he was then and
then he immediately hit the first shot. So but oh,
I see the inaugural ceremonial, right, Okay, No, My point is,
are we okay? It just seems a little weird. Here's
my caveat, very weird, very odd. Here's my caveat. Though
for people on the left to complain about the Trump
family and business, and the Biden family got rich also,
(05:26):
they just pretended it was government business at least Trump's making.
And this is my family business, which I'm sure benefits
from the fact that I'm president, but it's separate. The
Biden family got ungodly wealthy claiming it was government work.
Neither one of them may be good. I don't know.
I don't know the particulars of the Trump deal well
and or entirely climbdestinely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And the Democrats, I'm sure, in spite of their miserable
approval ratings, which were well earned, they are investigating as
hard as they can, trying to find mal seasons, illegalities,
constitutionalities wherever they may be.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So I wish them well on that endeavor. I don't
want anybody to violate the oths of office, but you know,
I'll hear about it if they come up with anything.
Over and over again, got a couple of big stories
that we're going to touch on throughout the day that
everybody's talking about. But the coverage is making me insane.
(06:23):
I looked at the breaking news. Joe just said, we
don't do breaking news, but here's the breaking news from
Washington Post that I woke up to today. Gaza's death
toll surpasses sixty thousand. Health officials. Say, yeah, that's your
headline health. Also what health? What health officials? Oh? The
Ministry of Health? Okay, So I go to chat GPT.
(06:45):
What is the Gosen Ministry of Health? Oh? What is
the health organization organized under Hamas and under the control
of AMAS. I'll be darned. So we're asking the Nazi
party for the official stats on how many Germans have
been killed by the Allied forces and taking their word
for it all more specifically, unspoken but unmistakably, we're asking
(07:10):
the Nazi health officials whether the Allied attacks are causing
more suffering among the German people than can possibly be justified.
And the Nazi health officials say yes, yes, and the
Allies should stop.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
NPR same thing today. I happen to be listening to
punish myself for my sins.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah. And MSNBC was huge on how Netnahu's a monster
and he's only doing this to stay in office, and
the military objectives were met a long time ago. Now
this is just, you know, something close to a genocide,
which is interesting. Then I flipped on NewsNation, which I'm
kind of a cheerleader for NewsNation. What do they call themselves?
What's their tagline? News for all Americans? Anyway, they're an
(07:50):
analyst guy man. He was, how that includes me? Go ahead?
Their analyst guy A. NewsNation was angry at the suggestion
that anybody would take these numbers at face value, and
he said, I have to get the clip of this.
I thought it was amazing to hear, having flipped around
like you did, hearing NPR's version and all that different
sort of stuff. He said, Well, for Hamas, the deaths
(08:14):
of Palestinians is a feature, not a bug. Their goal
is to have as many Palestinians die. Well, good for
you for pointing out what is obviously true and what
Democrats used to say out loud, like Bill Clinton and
Hillary Clinton. They would say that out loud because it's
so obviously true. Sure well, and I would put it
that Hamas cannot defeat Israel with arms, so they are
(08:36):
attempting to defeat them with misinformation and propaganda.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Is there suffering and horror and hunger. Of course there is,
of course there is, but the idea.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Of quoting one of the combatants without disclosing that it's
one of the combatants.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I happen to be back on the elliptical yesterday. My
back is healed. I feel great and kicking ass and
I'm dropping way. I'm getting strong, and my ticker takers
like that of a forty year old.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Are you yoked?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm not yet, but I'm working on it. I'm still
in my pre yoked state.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
The yoking has begun, yes, So anyway, I'm on the
elliptical watching my news is and I watched The Five
for a little bit, as it was that time of day,
and it was good until it just became mindless pro
Trump cheerleading, which is fine. I just don't need that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And then so I switched over to Jake Tapper on
CNN and the Five having led with stuff about the
trade deal and a couple of other significant stories. Jake
Tapper on the unwatchable and unwatched CNN. The first ten
minutes I think, was all on the horrible cruel Israeli
(09:48):
caused starvation of the poor people in Gaza, made heavy
use of the Health ministries statistics had Hot and Cold
running a sad footage of starving looking people in violence,
and that was like, it's the only story on Earth.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
NPR likewise, when I was listening before the show and
do we have time for this? Yeah, I'll make this
very brief.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
According to you know, the very people, these sort of
people generally quote, the situation in Yemen over the last
several years has been the greatest humanitarian disaster on planet Earth.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
For quite some time. Wild levels of actual starvation, attempted genocides,
blah blah blah. A couple of Africa similar Oh yeah, yeah,
I was gonna get to those, but yeah, you're you're
absolutely right. Because it is.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Brownish people against Brownish people, or in the case of Africa,
Blackish people against Brownish people, or Blackish people against Blackish people.
No interest in it, none, no coverage, despite the multiples
and multiples of more people starving in the Yemen situation,
I mean, not even close to the extent that the
(11:05):
goals the thing can be documented at all. They have
no interest in it because it is not the primarily
white Western civilization against the poor, colonialized, down trodden brown
people that's why this is getting so much attention, even
if the media jackasses don't know that, because that's the
schooling they got from K through grad school is that's
(11:27):
the only thing that matters on earth.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Cudiculous, you know, that's a good idea pointing that out.
That's what should be pointed out all the time. Hey,
there's a bunch of these going on around the world.
Why do we only focus on one and demand in
one instance that the one side should stop? How come
you're not yelling at whoever's in charge in Yemen and
killing and starving people or in this particular African nation.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, and there was just going back a few years,
the whole situation in the Balkans with the Servs and
the Crots and the Muslims and all, when all the
white people were slaughtering each other, and it was unspeakable horror,
the whole thing. When white people were killing each other,
no one cared. It's when they started killing vaguely Brownish
(12:11):
people for precisely the same reasons and precisely the same place,
then that became a cause celeb That.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Is the most underappreciated part of this whole story. We
should talk about that more later, but we got to
start the show. Officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty
on this It is Tuesday, July twenty ninth. We're almost
out of July people there twenty twenty five or Armstrong
and getting we approve of this program. Okay, let's begin then. Officially,
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Our biggest problem is we have so much growth at
the fed one cut. What the oh my, I'm so sorry.
(12:42):
Oh I just feel like enough with the white cut.
The comm's Boomleck. That's Jim Kramer, the economist. Jim Kramer
on CNBC dropping an F bomb because he was so
excited about the Trump economy and he's not a Trump fan,
dropped an F bomb. Ain't apologizes endlessly. His co host said,
(13:02):
it's okay, we're on cable, It's okay. He just felt horrible,
and then he tweeted about it later in the day.
I'd like to apologize to all the listeners, like Deally
look around quite hinged, but do you walk around to
the world. I don't like it either, but he gets
thrown around a fair amount. I appreciate the apology. Jim
(13:23):
but you're okay, try not to do it again. We're okay.
We got Katie's headlines on the way more news of
the day. I hope you can stay here. I'm not
sure I completely made my point. Here comes some salty
language from the text line. Somebody texted Jack, you're an
ass licking Israeli shill, which is pretty hard. Good lord,
(13:43):
Wait a minute, I agree, it's harsh, but I my uh,
maybe I didn't make this clear. I don't know what's
happening in Gaza, but neither do you. If you're quoting
the Gaza Health Ministry, you can't use that is your
statistic and tell me you know what's going on. That
(14:03):
doesn't work. That's your source, says the Alis. I will
be starting all slams with ass licking. If you're sore, no, no, no, no,
that's enough of that. Seriously. If you're seriously, if your
source is Hamas, you don't get to make an argument
about what's happening and tell me I'm a shill for
the other side. Are you kidding? I mean that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, okay, no, I agree completely. Yeah, all right, let's
figure out who's reporting what it's the lead stories.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Katie Green hit it well.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Right in that with ABC News quote worst case scenario,
famine unfolding in gossip.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Right, that is the big headline because a couple of
organizations who are aligned against all these world organizations are
aligned against Israel, and they take Gaza numbers verbatim, no
matter how many times they turn out not to be true.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
From The New York Times, Starmer edging closer to rec
uganizing Palestinian statehood.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh, I didn't know that McCrone did in France last week.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I didn't even mean they don't have an intech government.
You never you never do that if there's not an
identifiable government with whom you've established relations.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, practically, yes, that is true. I think the what
it means is we've all held together for all these
years and not recognizing them, and now it's starting to break. Apart.
From Breitbart dot Com, two hundred.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Illegal alien child sex offenders arrested in Houston in six months.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Wow, Pikes, we'll have to break into that story. Yeah,
I want to know more about that.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
From Reuters, Trump sets the new deadline for putin for
ten to twelve days, not.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Fifty, right, right, what's the next we'll find out in
a few days.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Wall Street Journal AI is wrecking an already fragile job
market for college graduates.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah I read that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
No go ahead, Yeah no, just chat GVT at other bots.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Can do the entry level jobs.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, and the statistics are already pretty striking.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
It's begun, So we got to go into that story
in depth more too. That sounds really interesting now your
previous story. I want to mention about Trump and the
sanctions around Russia again, watching News Nation, their analysis was
if Trump follows through on this, it'll be the harshest
penalty on Russia. Wavy on anything Biden Obama ever even
(16:35):
hinted it doing for the so called Putin shill from
steady fines.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Major study warns that weak sleep rhythm is linked to
eighty three diseases.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I want to get into that story. You can bring
in us lots of good stories today.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Katies well on finally the Babylon b Trump secures fifteen
percent tariff on extra U in British spelling.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I agree, hilarious. What's weak sleep rhythm? I don't even
know what that means. Oh boy, you're probably a victim
of it, then, boy, I live it every night, you're
completely Yeah, I don't know what a week. I'm guessing
it's just you don't get into the normal going into
rim and out thing that you're supposed to do. And
it's probably a character flaw. So we'll get into a
(17:23):
lot of those stories coming up. Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You probably heard that you're supposed to get like ten
thousand steps a day, but according to new research, just
seven thousand steps a day could be enough to improve
your health.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Do I hear six?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It really sounds like scientists have lowered their expectations for us.
Explains why the new Surgeon General warning on cigarettes says
do not smoke during pregnancy unless it's your second kid.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Then what else? Yeah, I like the jokes, but the
problem is the original ten thousand step thing was completely
made up them with a lot of health stats, and
we're about to get into some here. Is Uh, they're
misinterpreted regularly. Oftentimes they're very very small, preliminary studies that
(18:11):
the researchers themselves would never put out there as a
national story to talk about. But it's something exciting about
something that can cause cancer or eliminate cancer or whatever,
and so the media goes crazy with it. And then
there's studies that are paid for by like, you know,
mattress companies or candy bars or whatever, and lo and
(18:33):
behold the study says eating more chocolate leads to better
sex life or whatever. You know, So sure you gotta
watch out for that. Before we get to that stuff,
a couple of things real quick. First of all, can
we make a vow? We need to make a vow.
I don't think we can keep it, but we should try.
We should make a vow every day and work toward
this goal. To stop talking about cable news as if
(18:54):
anybody's watching it because nobody is. So that's so fine
with me. Yeah, I agree. But anytime let me talk
about Jake Tapper said this or whatever. It might be
interesting for some reason, but nobody is watching that show. Nobody.
I'm just I'm looking at the stats that Byron York
just put out from Fox. It's more likely you're watching
(19:15):
a Fox show, certainly, but uh, CNN's total audience during
their five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven PM hours.
Your cherry picking added together don't beat one showing of
the five, which is not even one in Fox's highly
rated shows oh, so talking about anything on CNN or MSNBC,
(19:41):
really is you? Who are you talking to? Boy?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It is the ultimate example of something holding on to
just any reputation based entirely on its gloried pass and.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
By people who are old enough to remember when it mattered.
If you're younger, you don't even know what it is.
So right, Well, it's on in airports and explic complete.
We got this CNN have a picture of the head
of the FAA with a mule or something. I mean,
how is CNN on an airport's all over America? That
(20:15):
is almost that is almost certainly the explanation. Well, there
you go. Anyway, moving along, we got this text about
that horrible story in New York, the shooting. I just
wanted to deal with it real quick in case I
did use sloppy language. You're putting out fake news again.
The shooter in New York never played in the NFL.
I didn't mean to imply that he did. I thought
(20:36):
I said he was a high school star and that's
where his current You never stated anything that could be
taken to indicate that he played in the NFL. Well,
I guess you made reference to other Okay, Yeah, whatever,
that's fine, Okay, fine, he didn't play in the NFL,
but he he did see some budsman weighing in there.
He did seem to be blaming that brain mouth function
(20:58):
that you can get from playing football, though, as he
had a note about that and shot himself in the
chest and wants his brain to be studied, Which doesn't
make him some sort of anybody to look up to
because he killed a bunch of innocent people like a scumbag. Right,
if you didn't get enough sleep last night, you've doubled
your chance of ganggreen. I hope you're happy.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh no, not another bout of gang creen, another bout.
It ruined my summer vacation. Oh wow, it certainly ruined
my beach.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Look my beach body getting to big studies. This is
pretty damned interesting and a bit of a breakthrough. I
think we've been talking about sleep stuff a lot. Everybody
that I know deals with sleep issues or if you're
getting enough sleep. They found a way pretty simple with
(21:47):
having instead of self reporting about sleep, which is all
you had to really go on up until fairly recently,
now you can have everybody wear these little devices that
report on how much sleep you're actually getting. And there
are way too many fake long sleepers in all studies
we've ever heard. They actually that's what they actually call them,
fake long sleepers in studies that we've heard about through
(22:10):
our whole lives. It's people maybe like me, who report
a certain number of hours asleep but actually get much less.
If you actually wear a device that measures how much
you're sleeping, just because you're in bed and semi unconscious,
that amount of time doesn't mean you're actually sleep sleeping.
And so they had people wear these devices trying to
(22:33):
track how much like actually you were a sleep sleep
you got. The numbers are a lot lower, and so
those other numbers skewed everything we've ever had about sleep
because you got a whole bunch of people in there
claiming they sleep eight hours a night and they're actually
sleeping six. Is anybody struck?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Anybody else struck by the hilarious irony of self reporting
sleeping habits. I mean, if there's one one period of
my life I can't really account for, it's when I'm asleep.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
True. It's the largest study of its kind ever. Researchers
strapped fitness trackers on nearly ninety thousand adults for a
week followed their health for almost seven years. Among people
who claimed to sleep more than eight hours nightly, nearly
a twenty two percent, so a fifth we're actually getting
six or less. That's a big chunk of people who
(23:23):
thought they were getting eight hours of sleep and are
getting six or less. That's that's enormous.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes, statistically, that's like, why are you even talking about
the previous numbers?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They're ridiculous, right, But let me jump to the headlines
from it, other than the headline that everything you've ever
heard about sleep studies is fake because of what do
they call them, lying bastards. That's not what they called them,
fake long sleepers. Lying bastards would be too harsh. That'd
be appropriate. Sleep rhythm matters more than sleep duration. Inconsistent
(23:52):
or weak daily sleep rhythms were linked to eighty three diseases,
and then they list them and we could get into
that later. With the sleep rhythm mean when you're going
in and out of ram like happens. If you've ever
learned anything about sleep disease, burden is comparable to smoking
or obesity. Up to thirty seven percent of Parkinson's these
(24:12):
numbers can't be true, can they? Up to thirty seven
percent of Parkinson's and thirty six percent of type two
diabetes could be attributed to disrupted sleep patterns. That's a
lot that that's an extraordinary claim. I am, I got
my fur up p too. I'm very free. Wow. What's
what's our source here? What's our publication? Is this? Uh?
(24:33):
It's a dirty Chinese research led by doctor Quinn Chen
Army Medical University and Cheng Wang Peck Peaking University. Okay,
are you concerned that the Chinese are trying to infiltrate
our sleep device? Yeah, I'm I'm highly skeptical about all
(24:54):
of this. The idea that that bad sleep rhythms are
more serious a problem than we understand, that's perfectly reasonable.
But a bunch of commies there at p King. I
thought we were supposed to say Beijing these days. Maybe
they kept the name for the university, that's a good question.
The study linked various sleep problems to one hundred and
seventy two different diseases across virtually every system in the
(25:16):
human body. Some diseases showed dramatic associations. For example, people
with the most disrupted sleep rhythms faced more than triple
the risk of age related physical debility. I don't really
doubt that. Well, yeah, but triple, but I don't doubt that. Yeah.
Your previous sentence about Parkinson's caught my ear, partly because
both my mom and my grandfather died of complications from Parkinson's.
(25:37):
But so little is known about what causes Parkinson's. I mean,
could there be some correlation without causation or half and half?
That's that's utterly unclear to me. But my guess would
be that whoever wrote this article took the numbers and
presented it as if its causation, when it could just
(26:00):
be those two things to go together for unknown reasons.
But I want to get back this because I thought
it was funny. Paul be You've got a gene mutation
that causes poor sleep rhythms and parkinson for instance, Parkinson's
for instance. Sure, so people with the bad sleep triple
the risk of age related physical debility. Also, you doubled
the risk of gang green compared to those with the
robust sleep patterns. Yeah. Again, don't I eliminate the any
(26:23):
chance of gangreen by getting a tennis shot ruin my
beach vacation it's it's it's hurt my golf game. The
gang Green. It's terrible. How many people have you ever
known gotten Gangreen? Unless you're one hundred and eighty years old.
My dating life has been poorer for it. Listen that
you're a great guy, but you you're gangrenous. Well I
(26:44):
saw you, I saw your hinge profile, and you mentioned
the Gangreen right up toward top. So it shouldn't have
been a surprise anyone. Oh my goodness. So this sentence,
this is the one you're having trouble with. And researchers
estimated that up to thirty seven percent of parkinson Parkinson's
disease risk. I exactly shoot them. That means nothing. Sorry,
I hate to be a kill joy, killing anything for me.
(27:07):
I didn't write this study. I have no investment in this.
Brought it to us. We need a meeting, A long meeting, okay,
sort of questions, long meeting, prolonging questions. I would not
be surprised if a lot of the problems we have,
(27:30):
though in the modern world, is people not getting decent sleep. Yeah. Yeah,
And I've become re re re re re re reconvinced
about the omnipresence of screens and smartphones being a reason
for people's mental problems. Recently, Yeah, I heard it presented
(27:51):
in a religious context by a man of the cloth
who was repeating what I think man is known for
thousands of years. But well, I'll just say what he said.
Leave time in your life for God, Leave time in
your life for prayer and meditation and contemplation. Put down
(28:17):
your damn screen. You know. I didn't even do this
on purpose. It has just kind of happened for a
variety of reasons. But I've been on this kick all
summer long. Of at sunset, I schedule my evening around this.
At sunset, I ride my bike to the edge of town.
It's about two and a half miles, and then I'm
in a looking at a wheat field. I'm from Kansas,
so I like seeing the sunset over wheatfields. So I'm there,
(28:39):
I'm looking at this wheatfield with the sunset, and I
do this combination of prayer and affirmations and just kind
of talking to myself or whatever. I don't bring my
voe in and I do it every night, and it
has become like my favorite part of the day. Like
I just say, oh boy, I gotta get this done
because the sunset's coming, because it's just there's clearly some
like nourish I'm getting from that that I look forward
(29:03):
to it, and I really go out of my way
to make sure I've arranged so that I can do it. Yeah. Wow,
I mean it's just organically making me want to do it.
Every night. Yeah, I have a similar ritual. I drink
myself incoherent and fall asleep muttering angrily about the people
who wronged me with fox on really loud some nights. Yes,
(29:28):
you do you, man, you do you. I've actually been
lately thinking how am I going to keep this going
when the days are shorter and the sun setting at
five point thirty and dinner and blah blah blah it's rain.
I don't know, but I'm going to miss it. I
got to come up with a substitute for when the
beautiful weather is over because it has become super important
to me. It's not as good videotape it and watch
(29:51):
it on your screen carried around on my phone, but
don't like say, wow, that was really good. That was
really soothing. Now that I have screen open, though, let's
do a little dum scrolling no, no, right, we got
mail bag on the way and some more news of
the day. Trump said, I think Israel's being unfairly criticized
(30:19):
for what's going on in Gaza. I'll say that, I
think all the news organizations taking the health Ministry of
Hamas at face value is ridiculous. But Trump said something
so dang stupid last night, the whole thing, about the
whole thing, Are you kidding me? Sorry? Trump fans, we
know he's doing great stuff, doing great stuff, but he
(30:42):
said some dumb stuff. Anyway, So we got mail bag
on the way. Stay here, man, We've got some pretty
good stuff today. Hard News got a funny comedy thing
about what kids read in school today versus what we
write as kids and why they're so weak. That is
very funny. Yeah, I've got a.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Great school related feature myself. Later on, let's get a
freedom loving quote of the day. Was going to continue
on with the big man William Howard Taft, but got
a nice note from Jan who was enjoying our series
of Thomas Soul quotes and sent along a couple of
her own.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So I thought, with the heck top of mind, I'll
do it today.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Two quotes Number one when people get used to preferential treatment,
equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Absolutely true. Witness the universities and the second one, which
I love. If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness
of human beings, just try raising children. The great Thomas
soul with a tip of the cap to his fellow
parents God, particularly as I go through the I mean,
(31:46):
I'm deep into the heart of teenagerdom. What a wild
ride that is. Oh yeah, and so different than all
the other parenting. It's a completely different thing. Yeah, ye
here here mailbag.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You may communicate with us via text, of course, and
also email mailbag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. Keep
it shortish if you can, but you know, if it's
eloquent and brilliant and interesting, let it stretch a little bit.
Day from South Carolina Wrights stop mentioning cable news. Yes,
finally you've realized that you guys give them.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
The air they need to keep breathing. Knock it off.
Oh yeah, that or we're just talking about something that's irrelevant.
So right, No, what's the point.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Let's see on the topic, the unfortunate topic, the regrettable
topic of the so called the.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Burbank butt sniffer.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yesterday, guys been repeatedly arrested for squatting behind women and
apparently smelling them.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Arrested over and over again.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Turd loose on the streets, over and over, Bill in
Central Mexico. Right, well, bitos die this, Bill, Hey, give
the guy a break. If a male or female can
identify as the opposite sex, then a man can self
identify as a dog. Haven't you seen dogs sniffing people's
and other dogs?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Butts? Uh. It's a course point, Bill, but a fair one.
I was just reading how the polygamy movement is really
taken hold. If you can have gay marriage, you ought
to be able to have a threuttle or a quadruple,
or two moms and one dad in a couple of
different states. There are court rulings out and the argument
during the argument about gay marriage that was made was that, well,
(33:29):
this will lead to marriage being anything you want it
to be. You know, I always thought not necessarily. But
Bill's point is a bill, yeah, is that if I
can identify as a different sex completely in defiance of
the biological reality, well why can't I claim to be
a different species with straight face?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
It seems like that would never happen. But I've seen
a similar movie before.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Isn't this the kind of the argument though? What's next?
Marrion dogs about gay marriage? Yeah, but a different degree.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wouldn't you say a thruple is between like gay marriage
and marrying dogs?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Definitely? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Okay, let's see this from Aaron on the same topic
of the b s ing and from Burbank, You guys
can joke all you on on your rarely funny fascist
adjacent AM radio show.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, that's a rod phrase. Don't let that one slip
by too quick. Funny fascist fascist.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Adjacent Okay, Yeah, you had some good writing all all through.
But rising aggression, boundary violations, and bizarre dominance rituals are
in fact increasing under ecological and social collapse. What you're
calling quote butt sniffing is just one expression of how
climate driven stress, economic instability, and collapsing norms hit vulnerable
group's hardest, especially men who are condition to ascertain power
(34:58):
when everything else is out of control.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Ignoring this link isn't humor.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It's part of the same colonial, white, supreme capitalist mindset
that created the climate crisis in the first place. Deny
the science, mock vulnerable groups, pretend individual behavior exists outside
of systemic collapse. Pretending this isn't happening is a white
denial privilege.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I get it. That is some fine parody here. It
has well written sir fascist adjacent to II oughta. I
don't agree with Donald Trump's view of the so called
famine that's going on in Gaza, among other things we'll
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