October 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Women touting anti depressants & mental illness identity
- Allergies & myths
- Mahomes' hot mic, subscriptions & millennials
- A little Columbus Day comedy
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms Strong
and get and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Kids don't like capitalism. And I think a lot of
it has to do with social media. The clickbait, right,
rage bait works better in social media and gets more
people's attention. And if Mundominie is out there saying you're
getting free housing, you're getting free transportation, you're getting cheaper groceries,
and that's what they're going to respond positively to.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Is there any way that can work? No? No, of
course not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We w estate in America. That's great. Mark Cuban, one
of the most successful capitalists in history as a billionaire,
saying to Bill Maher when Bill Maher asked of that
work in New York, saying no, of course not no.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The other guy, whoever it was, oh Andrew Ross Sorkin
talking about how we have a financial illiteracy problem. That's
one hundred percent correct. Yeah, absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, because the freaking teachers are socialists, so no, they're
not going to teach you the financial literacy. That says, no, capitalism,
free markets are good in this way, and here's why
rent control and government run grocery stores and all these
things have been tried don't work. Your teacher is not
going to do that because they believe in socialism. Right, God,
what's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You can talk people out of believing in rent control,
for instance, in three minutes. And three minutes is a
little luxurious. You give me two and a half. I'm
pretty sure I can get it done. But if you're
never exposed to that sort of thinking that again, socialism
is the greatest scam ever designed, I think. So I'm
on that topic kind of sorta in the next stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're going to talk about it. Andrew Ross Sorkin, who's
the hero of the left for you know, financial stuff,
said no, it can't work.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right right, Yeah, So this is kind of a looking
at the left thing having to do with online culture.
But I came across a piece, really well considered and
written piece in the Free Press about how a lot
of young conservatives are getting swept up in really ugly
stuff online into you know, neo fascism and the whole, like, uh,
(02:35):
the man is for the whole what's his name?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Cooper?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Who talks to a Tucker and tries to claim that
Churchill was a bad guy and Hitler was misunderstood all.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Those historian Darryl Cooper, who's not actually.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Not an effing historian, right exactly, And how a lot
of young people on the right are getting swayed by
this stuff too. So it's not entirely a lefty proposition.
But the headline in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Girl,
take your crazy pitch bills. Antidepressants recast is a hot
lifestyle accessory. Influencers taut the drugs, but many unsuspecting followers
(03:09):
find the side effects to take the fun out of life,
and they give a bunch of examples of like this
one stay at home mom she felt lonely, overwhelmed at times,
paralyzed with anxiety and self doubt, and so she heard
a former MTV star talk up lexa pro on a podcast.
She searched for the drug on TikTok. Her go to
(03:30):
information source and found hashtag lexapro talc and similar niche
online communities where women in their twenties and thirties praised
the benefits of antidepressants. She posted a video asking for help.
Someone recommended a telehealth company. She answered a quick questionnaire
and an online nurse protect practitioner slash drug dealer prescribed
a generic version of Lexi pro bottle arrived a couple
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of days later, and then this.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Gal, wo, that's that easy to get on the SSRIs.
I mean, most doctors are going to throw it at
you anyway, based on my experience. But she didn't even
have to leave her house.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So she immediately starts posting TikTok videos of herself running
to the mailbox for a pill package, taking a dose,
using such hashtags as lexapro batties and get help Mama.
In the months that followed, she gushed over the pills
to her thousands of followers. For a time, she belonged
to a social media movement that's given antidepressants a makeover
(04:25):
from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory, friend
lightened and empowered young women.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
When did it get stigmatized? I must have missed that
because gazillions of Americans are on it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, well it's gotten less stigmatized. But here's my favorite part.
Millennial and gen Z influencers, some paid by telehealth companies,
evangelize antidepressants on TikTok and Instagram using hashtags like live laugh, lexapro, lexipro, girly,
lexa ho and zooft gag lexaho. I know, recasting the
(04:58):
medications as popc alter touchstones, and on TikTok hashtag antidepressants
has surpassed one point three billion views, etc. Then they
go into this list of you know, attractive young women
and stato moms that tout the benefits of the medicine
and get thousands of followers and talk thousands of people
(05:19):
into doing it, who they then give them up and
wean themselves off because it makes them miserable and ruins
their lives. But they do that pretty quickly or quit
it pretty quietly. Rather and the videos of hey, here's
my actual long term experience, those don't.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Get nearly as many of you. I'm sure, that's sure.
I know plenty of people that are on SSRIs who
swear by them and are happy with them. But if
you are put on them or go on them and
you don't need it, I guess it makes you really
flat and life feels quite unpleasant.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Right, crushes your libido, weight gain, et cetera. Just yeah,
everything is kind of flattened. So anyway, I just thought again,
this is the democratization of ideas, where an idea can
reach millions of people worldwide, when if it was just
happening in your town, the person you know selling it
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would be told over and over again that's a bad idea,
and probably let it drop. And on a similar topic,
I found this really really interesting. Who did this twenty
twenty four presidential election study big survey mental health challenges
(06:36):
are an important part of my identity? Among boomer males,
seventy three percent of them essentially said, no matter what
psychological challenges I face, I will not let them define me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right. That used to be a feeling for most people
is like you, you would not allow yourself to believe
you have any of those things. And then even if
it were true, proven, you'd want to kind of keep
it on the down low because he didn't want it
to be your thing. Well, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Wouldn't want people to look at me and say, oh,
there's Joe he has anxiety.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, I know there's a dozen things, maybe fifty
things I'd rather have.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You say, and there's Joey's nahole.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I mean, for instance, it's better anyway there's Joe man.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Can he dance, so please like a stare please? Uh so.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Seventy three percent of boomer males essentially said, no matter
what psychological challenges I face, I will not let them
define me. Seventy two percent of gen Z females said essentially,
mental illness is an important part of my identity. Seventy
two percent said mental health challenges are an important part
of my identity.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah. That has been my experience in a variety of
ways with that generation, in hiring them for sitters in
a variety of different things. Is everybody explains really early
on what they're I have anxiety, so I have to
do this, or I've OCD or whatever it is, right right?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Both gen Z men and women view their mental health
as an important part of their identity at a rate
over five times that of boomers. For instance, Well, unless
you're older and you grew up in that culture, how
are you ever going to go through a rough patch
in your life now where you wouldn't take some sort
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of drug for it, Because, I mean, all your friends are.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And rough patches. I've had rough patches that last a
freaking long time. I'll tell you that. Sometimes they do.
Oh yeah, sometimes my own decisions.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I've witnessed young women bonding over their mental health challenges.
It's it's part of the whole you know, lionization of
the victim, victim culture in essence, and it's supported online
in a lot of ways that are really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Maybe I don't be a lesson that they teach you
more people as you might go through not might. You
will go through many periods of your life where there
are weeks or months or maybe half a year where
you're really down because this or that happened, and then
you'll come out of it right, but you'll feel like,
I don't know what the point is because you're on
(09:30):
a journey to discovering what the point is, and sometimes
that takes a long time. That's not mental illness, that's life.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, but I think it's worth going back to the
previous article that was pointing out that a lot of
these people are sponsored by the people selling the pills.
Of course, yeah, but they dress it up in like
there's this one influencer, what's her name, cute chick, you know,
dressed kind of sexy, she's funny, she's wacky. Elena Davis,
(10:02):
thirty five year old influencer, made this video in twenty
twenty three of her dress like she's going out to
the club, laughing and taking her pills and making a
big deal of how great it is. She weaned herself
completely off them a couple of years later because they
essentially screwed.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Up her life. Yeah, good lord, the internet is a
bad place to be. Did plug it? Did the laws
change around medicine somewhere where these doctors that have never
met you can prescribe you things that you used to
have to go see here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, there's been kind of an evolution through the de
evolution because there's.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
All kinds of drugs you can get on just by
basically you just pay for them and you check some
boxes on a form and they say, sure, we'll send
them to you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You've never met me, you haven't taken any blood work.
That reminds me, I gotta pop my daily VIAGRAA. I
like to be ready, you know, like the boy scouts say,
be prepared.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Huh, Well that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Okay, oh speeding young woman thing. Thank you everybody for
recommending it. I've already seen it. I'm editing it. An
absolutely brilliant piece about the feminization of America and the
effect that that has had and it is well. I
just called it brilliant already. I will reaffirm it's brilliant,
and we'll bring it to you tomorrow, maybe in this
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Speaker 1 (12:34):
Like I know the weather's nice and maybe they're biting,
but don't go fishing off the coast of Venezuela right now.
Trump had some strong words for the president down there.
Also some new news about peanut allergies. It's good news
for the first time in the long time. And a
bunch of other stuff on the way. So stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Are you strong?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That Maduro offered everything in its in his country, all
their natural resources.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He even recorded a message to you in English recently
offering mediation. He has offered everything. He's offered everything.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You're right, you know why, because he doesn't want to
fay around with the United States.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Thank everybody, Thank you, thank you, everybody. Lange from the
President of the United States saying that President Maduur of
Venezuela does not want to blank f around with the
United States, which he probably doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Actually, no indeed, he's making a show of toughness, but
behind the scenes, of course, he's saying, hey, let's ratchet this,
oh buddy.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So we blew another drug boat out of the water
the other day. Two people survived, and they were sending
them back to their countries of origin or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Uh yeah, yeah, and talking tough to the good folks
in Colombia as well, really tough. We used to have
a pretty decent relationship with him, but then they start
to electing leftists and going back to the whole coca
production thing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So, yeah, it's a different story. Last week, we were
mocking health advice that experts had been giving us throughout
the years. It turned out to be not only wrong,
but the exact opposite of what we should have been doing.
Each trans fat, Yeah, eat trans fat instead of butter.
(14:25):
Is like, you would only give that device advice to
someone if you wanted to kill them, or if you
hated them. You didn't have the nerve to shoot them,
so you try to kill them with art attack, right,
So we've been doing the same with kids and peanuts
for twenty years. It turns out, actually you've known this
for a while. The rest of the world has known
this for quite a long time. I will read I
(14:47):
think we had this guy on back in the day.
He wrote a book called an Abundance of Caution. Anyway,
he said, and this comes out of the headline peanut
allergies have plummeted in children. Study shows why is that?
According to this guy who wrote this book, they're out
of fashion. American pediatricians, the experts recommended against early exposure
to peanuts for kids. Do not give little kids peanuts,
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do not let them eat anything with peanuts in case
they have analogy. And we've been doing this for twenty years,
which was the opposite of what we should have been doing,
causing great harmed, untold numbers of kids. They did this
because despite the facts that for decades, for instance, Israeli
kids had been eating peanuts from a young age in
a very low incident of pena analogy in lots of
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other countries, and even despite a belated shift in US guidance,
evidence was there in the open that exposure was exposure
to peanuts was preventative, yes, Yet out in an abundance
of caution we went the other direction, leading kids to
live lives where you have to be scared to death
of ever come in contact with one molecule of peanuts,
or it will kill you. Right.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well, that reminds me so much of study after study
has shown this. I mean, it's absolutely unmistakable. Kids who
live in societies where they're not hyper clean, they let
the kid crawl around on the floor, they got animals
coming in and out of the house or whatever. They
have far far fewer allergies and much more robust immune systems.
(16:13):
Keeping kids hyper clean doesn't do them any favors. I'm
not in favor of letting your kid crawl around in
an outhouse or whatever, but you dive down into it
particularly bad example.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't think anybody was going to do that. Well,
I picked an.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Extreme, but yeah, it's that's not doing your kid any favors,
keeping them hyper clean. But zillions of dollars worth of
products are sold to you, and they convince you that
to be a good parent, you should never expose your
child to any dirt or grime or germs, or certainly
not peanuts.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So so what happened here? You had so some people
are allergic to peanuts, very rare in its natural setting,
it would seem so. But then so you had a
couple of kids got die, and then we went crazy
the other direction, like some people well of peanut or allergies,
we don't have why, so don't let any kid eat peanuts.
And then you created this allergy yes, and lots of
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kids to where you can have peanut butter sandwiches at
school and people live in fear for their kids' lives
because they actually have been an analogy.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Now you get pretzels on airplanes, which is fine because
I like pretzels. That's that's why, probably a.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Lower concern with me, kids living their lives of fear
of dying. But Joe did not get peanuts on airplanes.
So let's I.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Found them very satisfying. You snacks go, I don't appreciate
they are.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I eat lots of nuts. We might actually start endorsing
a particular nut company because they are an appetite suppressant.
I really like that about nuts. Oh, I eat nuts
all the time. I love them. Yeah, Katie, grow up. No,
I will not grow up. You're about to be a mother. Yeah, exactly,
You're about to be a mother, and a kid's gonna
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be hilarious. Probably, I bet my bottom dollar Armstrong and getdy.
So it's fourth down and one yard, fourth and one.
The Chiefs at least pretend they're going to go for
it in the football game yesterday against the Oakland or sorry,
the LA Raiders. Even Tony Romo, the announcer, though new
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they weren't actually gonna go for it. They were gonna
do what they call a hard count. The quarterback goes
up there and goes hike, and you try to get
the other side to jump off sides because they get
all excited. And then you get a penalty, and then
you get.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Tossed out, and so you have the guys shift around,
and then you go again. Then you have them shift
around again. The defense is like, would you stop it?
We're not gonna jump it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Basically never works. But anyway, this is how it unfolded
yesterday on fourth and a foot, try to draw them
off side. Sorry my home, says coach.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It doesn't they go yeah, they got Yeah, you would
get up on that one.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You thought for sure it was a draw. Didn't you
read drop off side? I believe Peter Carelly even knows this.
So what happened there was it was a fake play.
It was a fake hard count. Patrick Mahones goes up
to the line and says loud enough for the microphones
to pick up effing never effing works.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And he's looking toward a sideline like, why are you
making us to this stupid thing?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Bad? And then when the Raiders are probably either laughing
or relaxing or whatever, they do hike the ball and
run the guy and then they make the first down.
That's a pretty funny play to run, especially when you
win forty one to nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, I'd have kept that one under wraps for when
you really needed it. But the fake, fake play.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, no kidding, Save that one for a serious game
where you actually need it. Anyway, that was fun reading
this in Bloomberg yesterday, Bloomberg, which I just subscribed to
cat Can I do this? Y'all? Who can do this?
You're better than me? So the world is crafted this
(20:04):
way in so many different ways. Like Amazon suggests go
ahead and buy whatever you want to buy because our
return policy is so great. But a lot of it
is thinking that people like me will never get around
returning it a healthy enough percentage. It's a winner for them.
Lots of businesses are you can return the same time
you want, but you know, I'll even send you the label,
(20:27):
but they think you'll never get around to it. A
lot of subscriptions are We're going to give you an
incredibly low price to subscribe to this. Now it goes
up at the end of the month, but the first
month is so cheap. How could you not? Right? And
I think, you know what, that's perfect, like I just
did with Bloomberg Bloomberg News dollar ninety nine for the
first two months. Then it goes to forty dollars a month,
(20:50):
which is a lot change. We have forty forty dollars
a month after the other news. After the first two months.
All I gotta do is reach remember to cancel it
before the two months are up? Now, will I remember? No?
But I'm gonna try very hard this time. Set yourself
a calendar alert, an alarm, I do that sort of thing.
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But I'm such an f up that, oh yeah, there's
the alert. Good for me. So as soon as I
get home, I'm gonna go or whatever. But so they
were talking about this article from several years ago that
got a tremendous amount of attention about avocado toast. If
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millennials are so poor, is all the millennials talking about
we can't own homes, we can't make it like you could,
and blah blah blah. If millennials are so poor, how
come they eat avocado toast? It was this guy who
writes an economic column was always out to brunch on
a Saturday or Sunday morning into place is packed with
millennials eating twenty dollars toast, And he said, this doesn't
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fit in with is it just life decisions? Why you
don't have any money? There's an there's a certain amount
of truth to that. You've been to Europe, you eat
avocado toast, but you don't have a down payment for
a house. Do you think any of those things fit
together at all anyway? No? No, Okay. When I was
your age, I hadn't been to Europe, but you've been
all over Europe. Okay, what it is. But the point
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in Bloomberg is that those days are no longer true anymore.
The statistics for American millennials have changed rapidly. Some fifty
five percent of millennials now own homes. On average, millennials,
and this is the stat that blew me away. On average,
millennials are now nearly a third richer than baby boomers
were at the same point in their lives adjusted for inflation. Wow.
(22:43):
So it's just not factually true that millennials are so
much poorer than previous generations. Are behind the eight ball.
I think the expectations are way different. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Probably, But well, the oldest millennials at this point are
in the forties.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Is that right? I can never remember the two machine
GPT what the millennial age is there, forced Katie, Millennials
are from Wonderever. It's funny. I did this just yesterday
with gen Z because my kids were wondering if they
were gen Z or not, and they both are, and
then they got into an argument because my fifteen year
old said, you're not gen Z. I mean, technically you are,
but clearly not. You watched completely different YouTube videos than
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I did when we were kids and stuff like that. Wow.
Slicing it very thing. That's something to gauge it on.
Millennials are from eighty one to ninety six. Well it is,
actually if you were born in eighty one. Yeah, heck,
mid forties. Yeah you so you're forty four. But so
fifty five percent of millennials now on a home and
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on average, millennials are now now nearly a third richer
than baby boomers were at the same point in their lives.
The Federal Reserve Bank found that millennials own one point
three five dollars for every dollar boom did at that age. Okay, boomer, uh.
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Millennial household's average net worth was around ninety dollars in
twenty sixteen, but it's now estimated to be four times
that size, having ballooned at an unusually fast pace. A
lot of it having to do with where the stock
market is now versus where it was twenty sixteen when
that article came out about avocado toast and whatnot. One
of the interesting things about this, though, is that the
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gap between the richest and poorest millennials is now sixty
four thousand dollars wider than it was for boomers when
they were the same age. Oh my, so there's a
real have and have nots among millennials now. I like
to just because it reinforces my own life choices, like
to believe that a lot of your financial situation has
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to do with the choices you've made, not only like
education and employment, but how you spend your money specifically.
And again, this is a burn my saddle because every
poor person I know, and I've hired many of them,
who complains about being broke has been to freaking Europe.
I had been to Europe when I was that age.
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You maxed out your credit card, you backed pack across Europe,
and now you can't afford I almost dropped an SMO.
Now you can't afford us. That's not my fault. I
wanted to go to Paris too, but I didn't. You
know why, because I didn't think I could afford it.
And you know what, I was right, I couldn't afford it. Yeah,
so true. Oh boy, do you know how often I
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ate out? And we didn't have avocado toast back then?
Being how often I ate out at restaurants? And as
that age zero zero, I never ate out at a restaurant.
Why I heard of restaurants? Did you not know they're there?
I couldn't afford it? Yeah, yeah, Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I came across just a great indictment of cal Unicornia,
and it's kind of a warning for Mamdani voters about
how it's so called progressive policies have absolutely you know,
how do you want to put this in case? Income
inequality in cement? They make upward mobility impossible. Progressive policies
(26:17):
paralyze upward mobility super interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Maybe squeeze that in next segment. Let me read just
a little more from this because it's interesting. And I
ended up getting in a conversation with my kids about
how the whole generation thing has a lot of flaws,
because I mean, you can't cut it off right at
nineteen eighty one, like Joe and I are gen Z
by one year. But the idea that we're drastically different
gen X, the idea that were drastically different than the
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people one year older than us.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Is of course silly. I can't even talk to my sister,
she is a year older than they. I don't even
know what the hell she's talking about, going on about
Hitler and winning the Great War and.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
The rest of good exucid. I don't even know that's funny.
Americans all ages have a penchant for latching on to
stories that label the generations neatly. It's an inclination that
can veer into tribalism, which is why Harvard professor Lewis
Mendend has compared generation this is this is up our
Alley has compared generational analysis to astrology. It is practically that.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, gen Z came up with that whole generational analysis
because they're so stupid.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Generations do play an important role in our lives, but
not a solely determinative one, of course. And while it's
easier to blame older people for an economy's failings and
simpler to use averages to frame an unexpected recovery, broad
generalizations distract us from the two challenges, true challenges of
the world with live and blah blah blah. I like
this one. Avocado toast wasn't the first trope millennials were
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fed about themselves. In the years just after the two
thousand and eight financial crash, the predominant narrative about millennials
was one of laziness and entitlement. Their supposed intellectual failings
were profiled and a famous book called The Dumbest Generation.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yes, well, we let the schools get away with not
teaching them anymore. So to what extent that is true?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You know? Word of blame and Time magazine had back
in the day about millennials the me me me generation.
Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.
What's just fact what's not true in that headline. So
a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I've always hated the whole generational analysis thing, honestly, because
you know, I look at my so called generation. You
put me in a room with nine other gen X people.
The number of people I'm willing to say I'm just
like them is it might be one, and I probably.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Shouldn't because that person's better than me. Well, I mean,
it's just silly.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
A bunch of their cultural commonalities, but a bunch of
them would be twenty years younger than you, so you
would not have a lot of commonality on a bunch
of things. The second thing is, I've learned so much
from the world of sport, and you know, I tried
to teach my kids this, but no longer am E
their sole influence, and it's too bad. And at least
(28:59):
one or two cases, we would show up to a
baseball field and I was often playing third base at
that time, and the infield would suck. It was uneven,
there were rocks in it. I was gonna be getting
ground balls in the teeth all day long. It was like,
oh my god, here we go. Both teams were playing
(29:20):
on the same field. What are you going to do?
You're there, that's your situation, that's your reality. Or like
in golf, it's a miserable, cold, rainy day, somebody is
going to walk away with the trophy in their hands
and be able to talk about it for the rest
of their life.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Show up and play. So the field the other guys
played on was better. What do you do now? Show
up and play? I say you go to the latest
brunch place and have some avocado toast. I do enjoy.
Show people pictures of your backpacking around Europe. Then talk
about how you can't afford a car.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
My yarco was so amazing. It was so amazed. Was
a little spicy there. That's the Spanish though, they're spicy cooking.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right, I've probably made you so.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
How California has kept the people down, that's weird. That's
the opposite of what the Gavenuseman progressive say they're doing.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And this is pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't want to give it away, but a belated
Happy Columbus Day slash Indigenous People's Day to everyone. A
humorous note on that celebration coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And you are right. The key to the Patrick Mahomes
thing is that he had two f words. Yes, this
is effing never effing worse. Makes it so much better?
All right, you got lots on the way, stay here.
Hundreds of people in Portland sent a message to Ice
(30:56):
to leave their city by riding their bikes naked through
the rain. And you're not going to believe this. It
didn't work. Portland's going to Portland, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So a belated happy Columbus data all who celebrate maybe
it's Indigenous People's Day to you. I love this from
the Beacon, Washington Free Beacon. A lot of Democrats burnished
their woke credentials course by celebrating about and talking about
Indigenous People's Day.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And they have a list.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
The official ex account for House Democrats posted a picture
of a bison.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Governor Tim Waltz of Minnesota, remember he was going to
teach America the new version of masculinity. He attended a
Native American ceremony, according to his website, on the shore
of Bidimachaska, which is probably just some suburb of Minneapolis.
Representative Ayana Presley declared, we are all on stolen land,
(31:57):
alas the esteemed Congress show. That is true, but so
is everybody else. Yeah, so's everyone else.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So we stole it from stole it from somebody else. Yeah, exactly.
That's the main thing is whoever we stole it from,
stole it from somebody else.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
So here's the business end. Anna Presley declared, we were
all on stolen land. Alas, the esteemed congresswoman declined to
set a timetable for vacating her million dollar plus vacation
home on Martha's.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Vineyard or noepe as.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
The island is known by its rightful owners, the Wampanogu
tribe of gay Head who need to change that name.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Not a good name anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Some Democrats weren't so keen to acknowledge the made up holiday.
Barack Obama, who owns a nineteen million dollar waterfront mansion
on stolen wampanog Land, declined to comment. Elizabeth Warren, the
Pow Wow Chow cookbook contributor who made history as the
first woman of color on the Harvard Law School faculty,
was also eerily silent. Could have something to do with
(32:53):
the fact that Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas or
foca Hontis, advanced her career by falsely identifying as a
native American.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
If anyone exists on stolen Land, it's Warren, the fake
Indian white lady who amassed a fortune by exploiting affirmative action.
She lives in a four million dollar Victorian mansion near
the Harvard campus, founded on the ancestral lands of the
Massachusetts tribe.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
She lives in as a socialist, lives in a four
million dollar house. That is correct. Wow, that's absolutely I
think I'm going to have a beer.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah, I would do drink up. Hell, you got you
fooled everybody. So do we have time for this barely
great piece by John Fund National Review. He's talking about
The Road to Serfdom, the brilliant work by Friedrich Hayek
middle of the twentieth century. It warned that socialism, which
he saw really taking hold in Europe Britain in particular,
if it took hold in centralized economic planning and control,
(33:49):
it would lead inevitably to the erosion of individual freedom
and opportunity. And sure enough, he's right to the people
in Eastern Europe took fifty years to successfully revolt against
their masters. And they segue in this discussion to a
demographer at California's Chapman University, Joel Katkin, who's written some
(34:11):
really interesting stuff. This model could best be described. He's
talking about California as oligarchical socialism, the redistribution of resources
that would meet the basic material needs of the working
class and the declining middle class, but it would not
promote upward mobility or threaten the dominance of the oligarchs.
(34:33):
This represents a sea change from the old industrial economy.
Rather than acquiring property and gaining some self sufficiency, workers
can now expect a surf like future of rented apartments
and frozen prospects. Unable to grow into property owning adults,
they depend on subsidies to meet their basic needs. And
he's describing how California now makes it super easy to live,
(35:00):
you know, subsidized rents, rent control, whatever, you know, lots
of generous social programs.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Food.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
But they've crushed business. They've crushed on for entrepreneurialism. It's
you can't start a business in grow it in California
unless you've got superhuman stick to itiveness. They've crushed upward
mobility while waving the flag of look at us taking
care of the downtrodden. They've done the worst thing you
could do to the downtrodden. Keep them down trodden.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Text We got about the last segment before we take
a break. Yeah, I'm changing the radio station. Too much
yelling and screaming, too much coffee. You think it's entertaining,
it's not. It's irritating. I'm gone, Okay, I apologize for that.
Have a good day, yo, Come dee o, go with God.
My friend Armstrong Engeddy on Demand is the name of
(35:51):
our podcast. Sorry for the yelling and screaming. Maybe they'll
be less in the future, or turn down the volume.
I don't know so much yelling. Armstrong and getting Onto
is the podcast? Bring up more in the way. Stay
with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Mm hmm
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms Strong
and get and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Kids don't like capitalism. And I think a lot of
it has to do with social media. The clickbait, right,
rage bait works better in social media and gets more
people's attention. And if Mundominie is out there saying you're
getting free housing, you're getting free transportation, you're getting cheaper groceries,
and that's what they're going to respond positively to.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Is there any way that can work? No? No, of
course not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We w estate in America. That's great. Mark Cuban, one
of the most successful capitalists in history as a billionaire,
saying to Bill Maher when Bill Maher asked of that
work in New York, saying no, of course not no.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The other guy, whoever it was, oh Andrew Ross Sorkin
talking about how we have a financial illiteracy problem. That's
one hundred percent correct. Yeah, absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, because the freaking teachers are socialists, so no, they're
not going to teach you the financial literacy. That says, no, capitalism,
free markets are good in this way, and here's why
rent control and government run grocery stores and all these
things have been tried don't work. Your teacher is not
going to do that because they believe in socialism. Right, God,
what's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You can talk people out of believing in rent control,
for instance, in three minutes. And three minutes is a
little luxurious. You give me two and a half. I'm
pretty sure I can get it done. But if you're
never exposed to that sort of thinking that again, socialism
is the greatest scam ever designed, I think. So I'm
on that topic kind of sorta in the next stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're going to talk about it. Andrew Ross Sorkin, who's
the hero of the left for you know, financial stuff,
said no, it can't work.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right right, Yeah, So this is kind of a looking
at the left thing having to do with online culture.
But I came across a piece, really well considered and
written piece in the Free Press about how a lot
of young conservatives are getting swept up in really ugly
stuff online into you know, neo fascism and the whole, like, uh,
(02:35):
the man is for the whole what's his name?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Cooper?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Who talks to a Tucker and tries to claim that
Churchill was a bad guy and Hitler was misunderstood all.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Those historian Darryl Cooper, who's not actually.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Not an effing historian, right exactly, And how a lot
of young people on the right are getting swayed by
this stuff too. So it's not entirely a lefty proposition.
But the headline in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Girl,
take your crazy pitch bills. Antidepressants recast is a hot
lifestyle accessory. Influencers taut the drugs, but many unsuspecting followers
(03:09):
find the side effects to take the fun out of life,
and they give a bunch of examples of like this
one stay at home mom she felt lonely, overwhelmed at times,
paralyzed with anxiety and self doubt, and so she heard
a former MTV star talk up lexa pro on a podcast.
She searched for the drug on TikTok. Her go to
(03:30):
information source and found hashtag lexapro talc and similar niche
online communities where women in their twenties and thirties praised
the benefits of antidepressants. She posted a video asking for help.
Someone recommended a telehealth company. She answered a quick questionnaire
and an online nurse protect practitioner slash drug dealer prescribed
a generic version of Lexi pro bottle arrived a couple
(03:51):
of days later, and then this.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Gal, wo, that's that easy to get on the SSRIs.
I mean, most doctors are going to throw it at
you anyway, based on my experience. But she didn't even
have to leave her house.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So she immediately starts posting TikTok videos of herself running
to the mailbox for a pill package, taking a dose,
using such hashtags as lexapro batties and get help Mama.
In the months that followed, she gushed over the pills
to her thousands of followers. For a time, she belonged
to a social media movement that's given antidepressants a makeover
(04:25):
from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory, friend
lightened and empowered young women.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
When did it get stigmatized? I must have missed that
because gazillions of Americans are on it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, well it's gotten less stigmatized. But here's my favorite part.
Millennial and gen Z influencers, some paid by telehealth companies,
evangelize antidepressants on TikTok and Instagram using hashtags like live laugh, lexapro, lexipro, girly,
lexa ho and zooft gag lexaho. I know, recasting the
(04:58):
medications as popc alter touchstones, and on TikTok hashtag antidepressants
has surpassed one point three billion views, etc. Then they
go into this list of you know, attractive young women
and stato moms that tout the benefits of the medicine
and get thousands of followers and talk thousands of people
(05:19):
into doing it, who they then give them up and
wean themselves off because it makes them miserable and ruins
their lives. But they do that pretty quickly or quit
it pretty quietly. Rather and the videos of hey, here's
my actual long term experience, those don't.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Get nearly as many of you. I'm sure, that's sure.
I know plenty of people that are on SSRIs who
swear by them and are happy with them. But if
you are put on them or go on them and
you don't need it, I guess it makes you really
flat and life feels quite unpleasant.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Right, crushes your libido, weight gain, et cetera. Just yeah,
everything is kind of flattened. So anyway, I just thought again,
this is the democratization of ideas, where an idea can
reach millions of people worldwide, when if it was just
happening in your town, the person you know selling it
(06:16):
would be told over and over again that's a bad idea,
and probably let it drop. And on a similar topic,
I found this really really interesting. Who did this twenty
twenty four presidential election study big survey mental health challenges
(06:36):
are an important part of my identity? Among boomer males,
seventy three percent of them essentially said, no matter what
psychological challenges I face, I will not let them define me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right. That used to be a feeling for most people
is like you, you would not allow yourself to believe
you have any of those things. And then even if
it were true, proven, you'd want to kind of keep
it on the down low because he didn't want it
to be your thing. Well, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Wouldn't want people to look at me and say, oh,
there's Joe he has anxiety.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, I know there's a dozen things, maybe fifty
things I'd rather have.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You say, and there's Joey's nahole.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I mean, for instance, it's better anyway there's Joe man.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Can he dance, so please like a stare please? Uh so.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Seventy three percent of boomer males essentially said, no matter
what psychological challenges I face, I will not let them
define me. Seventy two percent of gen Z females said essentially,
mental illness is an important part of my identity. Seventy
two percent said mental health challenges are an important part
of my identity.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah. That has been my experience in a variety of
ways with that generation, in hiring them for sitters in
a variety of different things. Is everybody explains really early
on what they're I have anxiety, so I have to
do this, or I've OCD or whatever it is, right right?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Both gen Z men and women view their mental health
as an important part of their identity at a rate
over five times that of boomers. For instance, Well, unless
you're older and you grew up in that culture, how
are you ever going to go through a rough patch
in your life now where you wouldn't take some sort
(08:42):
of drug for it, Because, I mean, all your friends are.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And rough patches. I've had rough patches that last a
freaking long time. I'll tell you that. Sometimes they do.
Oh yeah, sometimes my own decisions.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I've witnessed young women bonding over their mental health challenges.
It's it's part of the whole you know, lionization of
the victim, victim culture in essence, and it's supported online
in a lot of ways that are really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Maybe I don't be a lesson that they teach you
more people as you might go through not might. You
will go through many periods of your life where there
are weeks or months or maybe half a year where
you're really down because this or that happened, and then
you'll come out of it right, but you'll feel like,
I don't know what the point is because you're on
(09:30):
a journey to discovering what the point is, and sometimes
that takes a long time. That's not mental illness, that's life.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, but I think it's worth going back to the
previous article that was pointing out that a lot of
these people are sponsored by the people selling the pills.
Of course, yeah, but they dress it up in like
there's this one influencer, what's her name, cute chick, you know,
dressed kind of sexy, she's funny, she's wacky. Elena Davis,
(10:02):
thirty five year old influencer, made this video in twenty
twenty three of her dress like she's going out to
the club, laughing and taking her pills and making a
big deal of how great it is. She weaned herself
completely off them a couple of years later because they
essentially screwed.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Up her life. Yeah, good lord, the internet is a
bad place to be. Did plug it? Did the laws
change around medicine somewhere where these doctors that have never
met you can prescribe you things that you used to
have to go see here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, there's been kind of an evolution through the de
evolution because there's.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
All kinds of drugs you can get on just by
basically you just pay for them and you check some
boxes on a form and they say, sure, we'll send
them to you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You've never met me, you haven't taken any blood work.
That reminds me, I gotta pop my daily VIAGRAA. I
like to be ready, you know, like the boy scouts say,
be prepared.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Huh, Well that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Okay, oh speeding young woman thing. Thank you everybody for
recommending it. I've already seen it. I'm editing it. An
absolutely brilliant piece about the feminization of America and the
effect that that has had and it is well. I
just called it brilliant already. I will reaffirm it's brilliant,
and we'll bring it to you tomorrow, maybe in this
(11:20):
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Speaker 1 (12:34):
Like I know the weather's nice and maybe they're biting,
but don't go fishing off the coast of Venezuela right now.
Trump had some strong words for the president down there.
Also some new news about peanut allergies. It's good news
for the first time in the long time. And a
bunch of other stuff on the way. So stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Are you strong?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That Maduro offered everything in its in his country, all
their natural resources.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He even recorded a message to you in English recently
offering mediation. He has offered everything. He's offered everything.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You're right, you know why, because he doesn't want to
fay around with the United States.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Thank everybody, Thank you, thank you, everybody. Lange from the
President of the United States saying that President Maduur of
Venezuela does not want to blank f around with the
United States, which he probably doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Actually, no indeed, he's making a show of toughness, but
behind the scenes, of course, he's saying, hey, let's ratchet this,
oh buddy.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
So we blew another drug boat out of the water
the other day. Two people survived, and they were sending
them back to their countries of origin or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Uh yeah, yeah, and talking tough to the good folks
in Colombia as well, really tough. We used to have
a pretty decent relationship with him, but then they start
to electing leftists and going back to the whole coca
production thing.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So, yeah, it's a different story. Last week, we were
mocking health advice that experts had been giving us throughout
the years. It turned out to be not only wrong,
but the exact opposite of what we should have been doing.
Each trans fat, Yeah, eat trans fat instead of butter.
(14:25):
Is like, you would only give that device advice to
someone if you wanted to kill them, or if you
hated them. You didn't have the nerve to shoot them,
so you try to kill them with art attack, right,
So we've been doing the same with kids and peanuts
for twenty years. It turns out, actually you've known this
for a while. The rest of the world has known
this for quite a long time. I will read I
(14:47):
think we had this guy on back in the day.
He wrote a book called an Abundance of Caution. Anyway,
he said, and this comes out of the headline peanut
allergies have plummeted in children. Study shows why is that?
According to this guy who wrote this book, they're out
of fashion. American pediatricians, the experts recommended against early exposure
to peanuts for kids. Do not give little kids peanuts,
(15:11):
do not let them eat anything with peanuts in case
they have analogy. And we've been doing this for twenty years,
which was the opposite of what we should have been doing,
causing great harmed, untold numbers of kids. They did this
because despite the facts that for decades, for instance, Israeli
kids had been eating peanuts from a young age in
a very low incident of pena analogy in lots of
(15:31):
other countries, and even despite a belated shift in US guidance,
evidence was there in the open that exposure was exposure
to peanuts was preventative, yes, Yet out in an abundance
of caution we went the other direction, leading kids to
live lives where you have to be scared to death
of ever come in contact with one molecule of peanuts,
or it will kill you. Right.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Well, that reminds me so much of study after study
has shown this. I mean, it's absolutely unmistakable. Kids who
live in societies where they're not hyper clean, they let
the kid crawl around on the floor, they got animals
coming in and out of the house or whatever. They
have far far fewer allergies and much more robust immune systems.
(16:13):
Keeping kids hyper clean doesn't do them any favors. I'm
not in favor of letting your kid crawl around in
an outhouse or whatever, but you dive down into it
particularly bad example.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't think anybody was going to do that. Well,
I picked an.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Extreme, but yeah, it's that's not doing your kid any favors,
keeping them hyper clean. But zillions of dollars worth of
products are sold to you, and they convince you that
to be a good parent, you should never expose your
child to any dirt or grime or germs, or certainly
not peanuts.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So so what happened here? You had so some people
are allergic to peanuts, very rare in its natural setting,
it would seem so. But then so you had a
couple of kids got die, and then we went crazy
the other direction, like some people well of peanut or allergies,
we don't have why, so don't let any kid eat peanuts.
And then you created this allergy yes, and lots of
(17:07):
kids to where you can have peanut butter sandwiches at
school and people live in fear for their kids' lives
because they actually have been an analogy.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Now you get pretzels on airplanes, which is fine because
I like pretzels. That's that's why, probably a.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Lower concern with me, kids living their lives of fear
of dying. But Joe did not get peanuts on airplanes.
So let's I.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Found them very satisfying. You snacks go, I don't appreciate
they are.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I eat lots of nuts. We might actually start endorsing
a particular nut company because they are an appetite suppressant.
I really like that about nuts. Oh, I eat nuts
all the time. I love them. Yeah, Katie, grow up. No,
I will not grow up. You're about to be a mother. Yeah, exactly,
You're about to be a mother, and a kid's gonna
(17:54):
be hilarious. Probably, I bet my bottom dollar Armstrong and getdy.
So it's fourth down and one yard, fourth and one.
The Chiefs at least pretend they're going to go for
it in the football game yesterday against the Oakland or sorry,
the LA Raiders. Even Tony Romo, the announcer, though new
(18:19):
they weren't actually gonna go for it. They were gonna
do what they call a hard count. The quarterback goes
up there and goes hike, and you try to get
the other side to jump off sides because they get
all excited. And then you get a penalty, and then
you get.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Tossed out, and so you have the guys shift around,
and then you go again. Then you have them shift
around again. The defense is like, would you stop it?
We're not gonna jump it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Basically never works. But anyway, this is how it unfolded
yesterday on fourth and a foot, try to draw them
off side. Sorry my home, says coach.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It doesn't they go yeah, they got Yeah, you would
get up on that one.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You thought for sure it was a draw. Didn't you
read drop off side? I believe Peter Carelly even knows this.
So what happened there was it was a fake play.
It was a fake hard count. Patrick Mahones goes up
to the line and says loud enough for the microphones
to pick up effing never effing works.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And he's looking toward a sideline like, why are you
making us to this stupid thing?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Bad? And then when the Raiders are probably either laughing
or relaxing or whatever, they do hike the ball and
run the guy and then they make the first down.
That's a pretty funny play to run, especially when you
win forty one to nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, I'd have kept that one under wraps for when
you really needed it. But the fake, fake play.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, no kidding, Save that one for a serious game
where you actually need it. Anyway, that was fun reading
this in Bloomberg yesterday, Bloomberg, which I just subscribed to
cat Can I do this? Y'all? Who can do this?
You're better than me? So the world is crafted this
(20:04):
way in so many different ways. Like Amazon suggests go
ahead and buy whatever you want to buy because our
return policy is so great. But a lot of it
is thinking that people like me will never get around
returning it a healthy enough percentage. It's a winner for them.
Lots of businesses are you can return the same time
you want, but you know, I'll even send you the label,
(20:27):
but they think you'll never get around to it. A
lot of subscriptions are We're going to give you an
incredibly low price to subscribe to this. Now it goes
up at the end of the month, but the first
month is so cheap. How could you not? Right? And
I think, you know what, that's perfect, like I just
did with Bloomberg Bloomberg News dollar ninety nine for the
first two months. Then it goes to forty dollars a month,
(20:50):
which is a lot change. We have forty forty dollars
a month after the other news. After the first two months.
All I gotta do is reach remember to cancel it
before the two months are up? Now, will I remember? No?
But I'm gonna try very hard this time. Set yourself
a calendar alert, an alarm, I do that sort of thing.
(21:12):
But I'm such an f up that, oh yeah, there's
the alert. Good for me. So as soon as I
get home, I'm gonna go or whatever. But so they
were talking about this article from several years ago that
got a tremendous amount of attention about avocado toast. If
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millennials are so poor, is all the millennials talking about
we can't own homes, we can't make it like you could,
and blah blah blah. If millennials are so poor, how
come they eat avocado toast? It was this guy who
writes an economic column was always out to brunch on
a Saturday or Sunday morning into place is packed with
millennials eating twenty dollars toast, And he said, this doesn't
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fit in with is it just life decisions? Why you
don't have any money? There's an there's a certain amount
of truth to that. You've been to Europe, you eat
avocado toast, but you don't have a down payment for
a house. Do you think any of those things fit
together at all anyway? No? No, Okay. When I was
your age, I hadn't been to Europe, but you've been
all over Europe. Okay, what it is. But the point
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in Bloomberg is that those days are no longer true anymore.
The statistics for American millennials have changed rapidly. Some fifty
five percent of millennials now own homes. On average, millennials,
and this is the stat that blew me away. On average,
millennials are now nearly a third richer than baby boomers
were at the same point in their lives adjusted for inflation. Wow.
(22:43):
So it's just not factually true that millennials are so
much poorer than previous generations. Are behind the eight ball.
I think the expectations are way different. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Probably, But well, the oldest millennials at this point are
in the forties.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Is that right? I can never remember the two machine
GPT what the millennial age is there, forced Katie, Millennials
are from Wonderever. It's funny. I did this just yesterday
with gen Z because my kids were wondering if they
were gen Z or not, and they both are, and
then they got into an argument because my fifteen year
old said, you're not gen Z. I mean, technically you are,
but clearly not. You watched completely different YouTube videos than
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I did when we were kids and stuff like that. Wow.
Slicing it very thing. That's something to gauge it on.
Millennials are from eighty one to ninety six. Well it is,
actually if you were born in eighty one. Yeah, heck,
mid forties. Yeah you so you're forty four. But so
fifty five percent of millennials now on a home and
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on average, millennials are now now nearly a third richer
than baby boomers were at the same point in their lives.
The Federal Reserve Bank found that millennials own one point
three five dollars for every dollar boom did at that age. Okay, boomer, uh.
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Millennial household's average net worth was around ninety dollars in
twenty sixteen, but it's now estimated to be four times
that size, having ballooned at an unusually fast pace. A
lot of it having to do with where the stock
market is now versus where it was twenty sixteen when
that article came out about avocado toast and whatnot. One
of the interesting things about this, though, is that the
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gap between the richest and poorest millennials is now sixty
four thousand dollars wider than it was for boomers when
they were the same age. Oh my, so there's a
real have and have nots among millennials now. I like
to just because it reinforces my own life choices, like
to believe that a lot of your financial situation has
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to do with the choices you've made, not only like
education and employment, but how you spend your money specifically.
And again, this is a burn my saddle because every
poor person I know, and I've hired many of them,
who complains about being broke has been to freaking Europe.
I had been to Europe when I was that age.
(25:12):
You maxed out your credit card, you backed pack across Europe,
and now you can't afford I almost dropped an SMO.
Now you can't afford us. That's not my fault. I
wanted to go to Paris too, but I didn't. You
know why, because I didn't think I could afford it.
And you know what, I was right, I couldn't afford it. Yeah,
so true. Oh boy, do you know how often I
(25:33):
ate out? And we didn't have avocado toast back then?
Being how often I ate out at restaurants? And as
that age zero zero, I never ate out at a restaurant.
Why I heard of restaurants? Did you not know they're there?
I couldn't afford it? Yeah, yeah, Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I came across just a great indictment of cal Unicornia,
and it's kind of a warning for Mamdani voters about
how it's so called progressive policies have absolutely you know,
how do you want to put this in case? Income
inequality in cement? They make upward mobility impossible. Progressive policies
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paralyze upward mobility super interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Maybe squeeze that in next segment. Let me read just
a little more from this because it's interesting. And I
ended up getting in a conversation with my kids about
how the whole generation thing has a lot of flaws,
because I mean, you can't cut it off right at
nineteen eighty one, like Joe and I are gen Z
by one year. But the idea that we're drastically different
gen X, the idea that were drastically different than the
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people one year older than us.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Is of course silly. I can't even talk to my sister,
she is a year older than they. I don't even
know what the hell she's talking about, going on about
Hitler and winning the Great War and.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
The rest of good exucid. I don't even know that's funny.
Americans all ages have a penchant for latching on to
stories that label the generations neatly. It's an inclination that
can veer into tribalism, which is why Harvard professor Lewis
Mendend has compared generation this is this is up our
Alley has compared generational analysis to astrology. It is practically that.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, gen Z came up with that whole generational analysis
because they're so stupid.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Generations do play an important role in our lives, but
not a solely determinative one, of course. And while it's
easier to blame older people for an economy's failings and
simpler to use averages to frame an unexpected recovery, broad
generalizations distract us from the two challenges, true challenges of
the world with live and blah blah blah. I like
this one. Avocado toast wasn't the first trope millennials were
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fed about themselves. In the years just after the two
thousand and eight financial crash, the predominant narrative about millennials
was one of laziness and entitlement. Their supposed intellectual failings
were profiled and a famous book called The Dumbest Generation.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yes, well, we let the schools get away with not
teaching them anymore. So to what extent that is true?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You know? Word of blame and Time magazine had back
in the day about millennials the me me me generation.
Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.
What's just fact what's not true in that headline. So
a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I've always hated the whole generational analysis thing, honestly, because
you know, I look at my so called generation. You
put me in a room with nine other gen X people.
The number of people I'm willing to say I'm just
like them is it might be one, and I probably.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Shouldn't because that person's better than me. Well, I mean,
it's just silly.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
A bunch of their cultural commonalities, but a bunch of
them would be twenty years younger than you, so you
would not have a lot of commonality on a bunch
of things. The second thing is, I've learned so much
from the world of sport, and you know, I tried
to teach my kids this, but no longer am E
their sole influence, and it's too bad. And at least
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one or two cases, we would show up to a
baseball field and I was often playing third base at
that time, and the infield would suck. It was uneven,
there were rocks in it. I was gonna be getting
ground balls in the teeth all day long. It was like,
oh my god, here we go. Both teams were playing
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on the same field. What are you going to do?
You're there, that's your situation, that's your reality. Or like
in golf, it's a miserable, cold, rainy day, somebody is
going to walk away with the trophy in their hands
and be able to talk about it for the rest
of their life.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Show up and play. So the field the other guys
played on was better. What do you do now? Show
up and play? I say you go to the latest
brunch place and have some avocado toast. I do enjoy.
Show people pictures of your backpacking around Europe. Then talk
about how you can't afford a car.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
My yarco was so amazing. It was so amazed. Was
a little spicy there. That's the Spanish though, they're spicy cooking.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right, I've probably made you so.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
How California has kept the people down, that's weird. That's
the opposite of what the Gavenuseman progressive say they're doing.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And this is pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I don't want to give it away, but a belated
Happy Columbus Day slash Indigenous People's Day to everyone. A
humorous note on that celebration coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And you are right. The key to the Patrick Mahomes
thing is that he had two f words. Yes, this
is effing never effing worse. Makes it so much better?
All right, you got lots on the way, stay here.
Hundreds of people in Portland sent a message to Ice
(30:56):
to leave their city by riding their bikes naked through
the rain. And you're not going to believe this. It
didn't work. Portland's going to Portland, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
So a belated happy Columbus data all who celebrate maybe
it's Indigenous People's Day to you. I love this from
the Beacon, Washington Free Beacon. A lot of Democrats burnished
their woke credentials course by celebrating about and talking about
Indigenous People's Day.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And they have a list.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
The official ex account for House Democrats posted a picture
of a bison.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Governor Tim Waltz of Minnesota, remember he was going to
teach America the new version of masculinity. He attended a
Native American ceremony, according to his website, on the shore
of Bidimachaska, which is probably just some suburb of Minneapolis.
Representative Ayana Presley declared, we are all on stolen land,
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alas the esteemed Congress show. That is true, but so
is everybody else. Yeah, so's everyone else.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So we stole it from stole it from somebody else. Yeah, exactly.
That's the main thing is whoever we stole it from,
stole it from somebody else.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
So here's the business end. Anna Presley declared, we were
all on stolen land. Alas, the esteemed congresswoman declined to
set a timetable for vacating her million dollar plus vacation
home on Martha's.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Vineyard or noepe as.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
The island is known by its rightful owners, the Wampanogu
tribe of gay Head who need to change that name.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Not a good name anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Some Democrats weren't so keen to acknowledge the made up holiday.
Barack Obama, who owns a nineteen million dollar waterfront mansion
on stolen wampanog Land, declined to comment. Elizabeth Warren, the
Pow Wow Chow cookbook contributor who made history as the
first woman of color on the Harvard Law School faculty,
was also eerily silent. Could have something to do with
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the fact that Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas or
foca Hontis, advanced her career by falsely identifying as a
native American.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
If anyone exists on stolen Land, it's Warren, the fake
Indian white lady who amassed a fortune by exploiting affirmative action.
She lives in a four million dollar Victorian mansion near
the Harvard campus, founded on the ancestral lands of the
Massachusetts tribe.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
She lives in as a socialist, lives in a four
million dollar house. That is correct. Wow, that's absolutely I
think I'm going to have a beer.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah, I would do drink up. Hell, you got you
fooled everybody. So do we have time for this barely
great piece by John Fund National Review. He's talking about
The Road to Serfdom, the brilliant work by Friedrich Hayek
middle of the twentieth century. It warned that socialism, which
he saw really taking hold in Europe Britain in particular,
if it took hold in centralized economic planning and control,
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it would lead inevitably to the erosion of individual freedom
and opportunity. And sure enough, he's right to the people
in Eastern Europe took fifty years to successfully revolt against
their masters. And they segue in this discussion to a
demographer at California's Chapman University, Joel Katkin, who's written some
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really interesting stuff. This model could best be described. He's
talking about California as oligarchical socialism, the redistribution of resources
that would meet the basic material needs of the working
class and the declining middle class, but it would not
promote upward mobility or threaten the dominance of the oligarchs.
(34:33):
This represents a sea change from the old industrial economy.
Rather than acquiring property and gaining some self sufficiency, workers
can now expect a surf like future of rented apartments
and frozen prospects. Unable to grow into property owning adults,
they depend on subsidies to meet their basic needs. And
he's describing how California now makes it super easy to live,
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you know, subsidized rents, rent control, whatever, you know, lots
of generous social programs.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Food.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
But they've crushed business. They've crushed on for entrepreneurialism. It's
you can't start a business in grow it in California
unless you've got superhuman stick to itiveness. They've crushed upward
mobility while waving the flag of look at us taking
care of the downtrodden. They've done the worst thing you
could do to the downtrodden. Keep them down trodden.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Text We got about the last segment before we take
a break. Yeah, I'm changing the radio station. Too much
yelling and screaming, too much coffee. You think it's entertaining,
it's not. It's irritating. I'm gone, Okay, I apologize for that.
Have a good day, yo, Come dee o, go with God.
My friend Armstrong Engeddy on Demand is the name of
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our podcast. Sorry for the yelling and screaming. Maybe they'll
be less in the future, or turn down the volume.
I don't know so much yelling. Armstrong and getting Onto
is the podcast? Bring up more in the way. Stay
with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Mm hmm
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