June 3, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Selling stolen merch & the abundance agenda
- Target's USA display & wrap wars
- Why won't Tim Walz go away & liberal ideals
- Living to 100 & student load borrowers
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Yahetty. Some
business news.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The maker of Nutter butters, Chips, Ahoy, and Oreos is
chewing Aldi for allegedly using packaging that blatantly copies their products. Yeah,
all the apologize and as a peace offering sent in
Tobisco a bunch of delicious prongles.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's interesting. You don't want to be eaten counterfeit Nutter butters,
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't want to get off on this, but I've
always wondered about like like you can get raisin bran,
you can get post raisin bran or cologgs raisin bran.
The boxes look almost exactly the same, the product is
the same.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, I have a feeling the court's rules that no,
that's just a simple statement of the two ingredients, and
you can't copyright that. You could have like brand raising Crunch,
that would probably be a copyrightable name. That's my guess.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You know what I'm enjoying right now is the weedy,
the old timey whedy that's a good Wow, that's a
good serial right there.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Like your boyhood hero Bruce Jenner. You're not sure if
you've heard about him. Yes, speaking of that sort of madness,
we give you a news report featuring radical leftist Marxist
California politician Scott Wiener.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
State Senator Scott Wiener is certain his bill will pass
allowing San Francisco police officers to cite these illegal vendors.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
This is for folks who are selling goods that have
been placed on a placed on a list of commonly
stolen goods, who don't have a permit and don't have
proof of purchase. Then the police will be able to
cite them, and on the third offense they can get
a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I want to make sure you understand what happened there.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So it's a regular thing, especially in California, to go
into a CBS or whatever store you want to go
into and just take your arm on the shelf and
sweep stuff into a grocery bag and walk out the
door and nobody arrests you. And then you set up
card tables out on the street and sell the stuff
right in front of the store. Sometimes and this Wiener, Dude,
(02:25):
Scott Wiener.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
He's gonna crack down on these people.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We're gonna get tough on him starting now.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
A policeman can excite them and on the third citation
they will get a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That is so hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That is so hilarious it would be impossible for me
running one of these rings to tell my various junkie friends,
all right, you've been busted for selling twice. You go
back to boosting from stores. Ew Hey, boostin, Jimmy, you
man the table.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Now, if you wonder why California is completely lawless, and
you've seen those videos flying around social media where they
just rob stores blind, and why so many CBS's and
Walgreens have had to close in LA and San Francisco
and Oakland and those that are open, everything costing more
than seventy five cents is locked up behind glass and
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you have to bother somebody to get it out for you.
You want to get some freaking deodorant, you have to
find some unhappy employee to come unlock it for you.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Excuse me, I need three dollars worth of band aids please.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Is because this counts as getting tough on crime. And
the third time we catch you selling this stuff, we're
gonna give y'all misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And he said that with that like tough guy voice.
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Scott Wiener is not only a Marxist, he is a
encourager of reaching across the generations for man boy love
and that sort of thing. He's sexual radical, he is
a He's a damn communist and has done enormous damage.
And he is the poster child for what got the
(04:02):
Democratic Parties heine kicked in the last election, certainly on
a national level. So the Democratic Party is trying to
figure out what to do with their left flank. The
lunatics like Scott Wiener and arrive at a message that
somebody might be willing to vote for. And what they've
come up with is the Abundance Agenda, which is based
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on a book by Ezra Klein and who's the co author,
Derek Thompson Surprise Hit Jack. Hundreds of thousands of copies sold.
The idea is kind of cut through all the red
tape and the regulations. They're well meaning, but it's metastasized
into choking the economy and making people's lives worse, we've
got to deregulate and free up the economy blah blah blah.
(04:43):
So they've to a large extent become moderate Republicans.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, well, to a certain extent. It's the sort of
thing Bill Maher's been talking about for a long time.
I think that's why I had Ezra clent On right
away to talk about this book. Is the idea that
lefties come up with in the These are their words,
not necessarily my thoughts on all these topics, but that
they Democrats come up with good ideas, but their ideas
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never reach the end point, and that's why people have
turned against the Democratic Party. Like bullet train, good idea,
but all of the waste and mess and everything like that,
they didn't actually get a bullet train. Spending money on
dealing with homelessness a good idea, but it gets all
wrapped up in waste and everything like that, and you
don't solve the homeless problem, you know, through all the
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money at housing and you build, you spend one hundred
million dollars to build five apartments, all that sort of stuff. Right,
they say their goal is okay, they just never get
to the end result. And they got to cut out
all the crap in between that stops them from accomplishing
what they want to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So, now as I'm trying to get a grasp of this,
they're trying to advocate for effective policies as opposed to
ineffective ones.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Hmm, now you have my attention.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
But still the same policies that they say people on
their side want. But that's that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Right, right, So the idea of efficient leftism.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
They're the thinking is of some people in the Democratic
Party is that our ideas are not unpopular, we just
don't implement them in a way that ever yields in results.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Which is certainly true. The second part is definitely true.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I would argue the
first part obviously, but the second part is absolutely unquestionably true,
particularly as you look at cal Unicornia. And interestingly enough,
Gavin Newsom was on or I'm Sorry, he had Ezra
Cline on his podcast for a ninety minute discussion about
the book and Gavey, who is trying desperately to thread
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the needle between running away from his record as the
ruiner of California, together with his political great granddad Jerry Brown,
trying to pretend he's not that, but indeed is the
brave knight in shining.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Armor who will confront the ills that have just been
visited upon him.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
So he was defensive about the way the book actually
depicts California's exhibit A for democratic dysfunction. Yes, as it
should be, but I'm quoting now from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
A Newsom nonetheless proclaimed.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
The book essential reading for Democrats, and he said he's
been handing out copies of the leaders of the state
legislature because they got to get effective cut those regulations
that I've been pushing my entire career.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's interesting. Here are some more quotes Richie Torus, Democrat,
New York. The system is broken. The government is too inefficient,
ineffective to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But the answer is not doge.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's abundance in all caps, cut red tape, unleashed the
state as a stimulant to growth and innovation, private enterprise
with the state.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I am not unhappy to have them come to this conclusion,
and then we can argue about policies, but at least
they won't be all bogged down in worthlessness.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Right if you say you're going to spend a billion
dollars to accomplish something, please accomplish it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
At least that's not a lot to ask.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
They're big on the yimbi push yes in my backyard,
you know, strict housing rules and zoning and clustering high
rises near train stations and all that. We want to
stick with those policies, as Jack was saying, good policies,
but we've got to eliminate the nimby types. We're looking
at you Malibu by the way, and and.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Scarsdale and fair Fax, Virgin yach.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Where they're as blue as the sapphire, and yet they
will Well, I'm in favor of multi family housing, just
not here.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
All the people that go to all the super expensive
A plate fundraisers and give the money, they don't want
it in their backyard.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I guarantee you right.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The protected class who advocate for these policies but are
never affected.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
By Yeah, does a teacher at your super expensive private school.
They're super rich, lefty have to speak nine different languages
to accommodate all the immigrations. Oh they don't, that's interesting.
Could they have to in the public schools?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Josh Harder, who is a non lunatic Democrat from a
swing district in California, says the book has given voice
to a feeling people have had for a while that's
just too hard to build things.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
That's absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It is, you know, if this is a notable tech
to the center more or less certainly to effectiveness. Yeah,
that's a good thing, sure, absolutely, as opposed to AOC
you know, the Chae Guavera with the nicely formed boosoms
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leading the Democratic Party into a socialist future. If this
is the all, bring it on, fellows, good luck.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I'm pretty sure I heard Ezra or somebody who is
a proponent of this saying, like a lot of our
green stuff has not panned out the way we said
it would.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's good. That's hey, that is good. That's absolutely good.
It was phony from the beginning, but at least you're
admitting it. I was amused by a couple of things.
First of all, there is a backlash on the left
jack who've attacked the book in many essays, podcasts, and
book reviews. Critics argue the authors are blind to are
stooges of the corporate power that is the true culprit
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for the problems. The book lays out abundance right, a
couple of morons for the rolling Stone, encourages democrats to
focus on the wrong solutions, and elevates deregulatory narratives already
being weaponized by the right. Okay, we need more regulations
and then this kind of and you're right, Ezra obviously
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a tool of the right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Fascist.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Oh here's the other problem I got. Thirteen year old
asked me what's a fascist?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The other day? So, anybody you don't like?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So, mostly because he's fighting fascists in his new video game,
the Indiana Jones video Game, you fight fascists, He's fighting
Mussolini's fascists.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well, now, wait, did they actually did they identify them
as as like Italian fascists or they're just kind of yeah,
black uniforms.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh really yeah? Yeah, well, okay, I brought.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Up Mussolini said, yeah's Mussolini. They mentioned that in the game.
He said, okay, cool, he said, you see him learning
something we ought to pass.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I will over regulate the video game industry when
I am elected emperor. But you'll be fighting Chinese communists. No, kids,
not freaking Nazis no kidding anyway, I found.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This very amusing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Let me squeeze this, and they mentioned in the journal
in our short lived twenty twenty four campaign, Kamala Harris's
promised to build three million new homes in America was
the best testing of our several proposed I've got a
really funny note on that later too. But according to
both her campaign and Trump's a Yimbi's for Harris Zoom fundraiser,
they're talking about how popular this was. A Yimbi's for
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Harris Zoom fundraiser drew thirty thousand participants and raised more
than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Uh point of order,
mister chairman. It's like four dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Per at ten d wow. I mean, if that's a
success story, what does a failure look like.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I got a Kamala thing, a brief Kamala thing, because
I am sick of ever talking about her and hoping
she'll go away, though she's not. She's going to be
governor of California some more. I'll get to that at
some point. We also have a good nut picking thing.
It's nut picking, but it's entertaining, among other things, we
can get to stay here. So is this nut picking?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Nut picking as if you pick out a nut on
the other side and try to, you know, make blanket
judgments against a certain group of people. There are quite
a few people that think that this is. Like a
middle aged woman posted this on social media. She was
in her local target.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I'd be Pride month in my target that used to
have the pride section. It's now all USA.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yay.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
It's it's an American summer except for tourism because tourism
is down because no one wants to come here USA woo.
And honestly, my dad serves the military and I'd love
to be really proud of this nation, but it's hard
to be proud.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of it under Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But hey, you know, while you're here, pick up a
USA bikini.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Target's really taken this anti DEI thing.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
To another level.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
It's a woman who was very unhappy that her target
had a lot of red, white, blue stuff for Fourth
of July by the front door instead of all the
pride and trans stuff that they've had in previous years
and gotten some blowback for.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You now. She was less obnoxious than I expected I would.
I think the most notable thing she said, and the
only thing I want to respond to is the idea
that the country is the president.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, that's absurd. Where the country is.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The constitution and it's people and your town, your county,
your state, your region. I mean, the federal government certainly
has a role in the country, but the government isn't
the country, and the president certainly isn't the country. Sweetheart,
your dad is the country, Your.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Next or neighbor is the country. These are odd times.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Rap wars are going on. I don't know if you're
aware of the rap wars. So much conflict around the globe.
And I don't mean rap ribitty rou said a rip
rap riberty roo. I don't mean singing. I mean wr ap,
as in the kind of rap you eat in fast
food joints. Apparently McDonald's is bringing back They're very popular,
though I'd never heard of it, snack rap that was huge,
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and so their competitors are uh combating that. Popeyes has
launched a new chicken rap that actually in the picture
looks pretty freaking good. But anyway, so if you're into
that sort of thing, lots of restaurants are going to
have them. I don't know why, why things catch on
and some things don't. I'm a big fan of the
rap for the record.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
This headline from The Oregonian.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
How hookup apps help fuel the meth crisis.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Among gay men. What's your guests on that? There's a
lot there.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
How hookup apps fuel the meth crisis among gay men.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm sure they have little.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Code words that they use for this is actually connecting
for drugs, not to fornication and are both. I mean,
because tweakers famously want to fornicate all day and all night. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I remember one guy I knew who was a meth guy,
and he said it's like orgasm times with thousand or
something like that, which I thought, I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I can agnal that.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, I know I can't. And I remember talking to
to dea guys who said, I tell you what, you
bust a house that's producing bathroom people are using math,
You're gonna find three things porn and sex toys, clutter
and more porn and sex toys. You just turns you
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into it's just a flaming horn dog. I guess if
you know the average guy needs.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Any help American men are having a friend crisis. We'll
get to that story later in the show. I look
forward to it, but I came across this yesterday and
I found it was kind of hilarious. It was about
Kamala Harris and the decisions she needs to make. This
is Mark Calpern's newsletter, and he said all sources suggest
she remains undecided about running for governor, running for president,
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or neither, to which I say, I think she'll If
she wants to run for governor, she'll be governor. I
Thinkamala Harris can be governor of California. And who wouldn't
want to be governor of the biggest state in the Union.
If you're a politician, run for president. That is hilarious. Oh,
I know that is hilarious. Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That would be so gratifying if she did. Pro chance
of getting your own nomination, your own party zero.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And is governor California, You've got a pipeline of chardonay
coming your way.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Come on, arm Strong and.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Bill Mahr the other night, waxing hilarious on the Democratic
Party's efforts to get back to the American mainstream.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Then we'll move on from politics. How many know what
SAM stands for. It's a new phrase. It stands for
speaking with American men. Sam. This is the new movement
by the Democratic Party. They lost the men vote a
lot last time, and they have these these seminars.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Would you like to hear?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
What was sammy?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Ok? These are ways that they want to.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Seminars that they had to try to win back the
typical American Now, like how to keep your liberal base
while putting guns.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
On your Christmas card? That was warmer the best.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Protein powder for a clean bulk. An other dude conversation started.
Bud light etiquette, when to drink it, when to shoot it, fishing,
the bizarre hobby working class.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Men enjoy instead of pickleball, Bruce Lee versus Bigfoot, mythical
fight scenarios to man up here, Joe Rogan appearance.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
That's pretty funny, speaking of the whole manly thing. Why
is Tim Walls on my television like every day somewhere?
What a nothing burger he is? Why is he around
in various things?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Any I don't want to talk about ball famous for
being famous at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Coming up, I'm a knucklehead at times. Coming up, return
policies are such a big, a bigger part of retail
than I realized, and the way.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
We use and sometimes abuse them. And two, just a
quick question. I'll have the answer next segment. What percentage
of us want to live to one hundred? It's surprisingly low.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So I promised we'd move on from politics, and we
certainly will after this mention because it's Kamala Harris related.
We were just talking about Kamala and I'd like not
to bring her up again later. Nelly Bowles, writing in
The Free Press a post mortem on Kamala Harris's campaign,
cited up perception gap as one of the reasons she lost,
saying voters believe she held positions that she didn't. And
this is a quote from the post mortem. Over eighty
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percent of swing voters who chose Trump believed Harris held
positions she did not campaign on in twenty twenty four,
supporting what I'm already troubled by that phrase, but go on,
including supporting taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for undocumented immigrants.
Eighty three percent believe that yeah, mandatory election.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
She didn't run on it, but she said it and
then years ago and never denounced it during a campaign.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
An eighty two percent misperceived that she was backing mandatory
electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
By twenty thirty five.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Seventy seven percent believed erroneously that she believed in decriminalizing
border crossings and defunding the police. That's seventy two percent,
she said, getting back to Nelly Bowles. But Harris had
in fact supported all of these positions, like she is
on the record supporting every one of them here, here, here,
and here, and all of those are links. Of course
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they're saying that, So it's not really a perception problem
so much as a reception problem, like these ideas are
not popular even though I support them.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, it's true she didn't run on them. I've heard
though the Harris people say that before. We didn't run
on them. Well, no, but you said them before, and
you never explained that you don't believe them anymore. So, yes,
you were painted with your own words.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Advocated for them forcefully for years. All right, now we'll
move on from politic handful of things that are good news,
some of them somewhat politically related. But it's been a
little gloomy and doomy so far, and I didn't want
to go all negative story in who is right, and
this might be the free press too, come to think
of it. Unbelievable story begins with a couple who faced
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a parents' nightmare. Their son kJ was born and when
he was just days old, doctors diagnosed kJ with an
incredibly rare genetic disorder that had to do with breaking
down proteins and they build up in the body in
a toxic level. Babies like kJ lacked the necessary enzyme
to convert ammonia to urea that's then excreted in the
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europe urine and it doesn't breathe. It doesn't, I'm sorry,
build up in your bloodstream. Very very very rare. But
because of leaps forward in the Crisper gene editing world,
kJ became the first patient to ever receive a Crisper
treatment customized specifically for him, done by a team of
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doctors and researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perlman School
of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and UC Berkeley, among several
other institutions. After ten months and three courses of the treatment,
kJ is doing well and able to handle more protein
in his diet, heading in a really good direction.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That's awesome and miraculous. But the whole Crisper thing is
a lot like AI. There are all kinds of examples
of wonderful positive you can't argue with them things it
can do. But then people are gonna use Crisper to
have taller, blue eyed only boy or only girl or
whatever is popular at the time. You know, all kinds
of different things that are going to ruin mankind.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hollywood types are going to say, can you give me
a kid that decides he's a boy in about sixth grade?
Can we have a gender bending Madnesteine.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, it is. It's amazing, But yeah, I didn't. I would.
I'm trying to be positive, folks.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Just for the record, positive scientific breakthrough saving the life
of a baby, and Jack took it negative.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Just if you're keeping score at home, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Moving along, headline from the National Review, Progressive activists broke
Corporate America, shareholders putting it back together. There's now a
cottage industry, which is kind of funny of guys like
this David Boonsen, who's a financial advisor who worked to
reel companies back from the brinks of woke madness and
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is now advising them on how to be normal again.
He's leaned into the authority that shareholders have to help
keep major companies focused on what they're supposed to be
focused on financial returns as opposed to social justice issues
that are not core to their business. The lead of
this article is at the height of the COVID pandemic
in America's so called racial reckoning, Marxism, activist groups infiltrated
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major corporations and pressured executives to promote niche, left wing
social causes. But in the years since, consumers and shareholders,
sick of having progressive dogma forced on them, have begun
to exert pressure of their own and it is working,
and he is reeling a bunch of companies back from
the brank who are now saying and doing normal things again.
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Bowyer Research Macroeconomic Consulting f him this recently taken on
the role of helping shareholders push this sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
In short, said quote, the.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Thing we're countering was a crazy social mania which came
up very quickly and formed a bubble, and corporations fell
all over themselves to embrace unpopular policies promoted by activists.
After a few years of corporate backlash, think bud Light,
Disney Target, coupled with Supreme Court ruling.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Every story I was in there for a while.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I remember there was a period of time you couldn't
go in a store that didn't have you know, black
lives matter, or we stand with this or that. Somewhere.
It was a craze that that writing is exactly right.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Here.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
He says, quote, it's become obvious to companies that they
probably should not have made these commitments and political gestures
in this pandering in the first place. So they were
ready to get back to sanity because they saw what
they had done was not in their interests or their shareholders' interests.
And one thing, he's had a big victory at Pepsi Co,
the food giant filed a shareholders solution calling on the
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company to account for its discriminatory ad buying under the
Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I don't know if you've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
GARM left wing group formed in twenty nineteen to promote
digital safety and combat disinformation, misinformation, hate speech. And what
these GARM people did was label anybody to the right
of The New York Times as hate speech outlets and
misinformation disinformation outlets. So Pepsi COO would not advertise on
the Armstrong and Getty Show. They wouldn't advertise on Fox
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News or News Nation or the or the Washington Free
Beacon or anything like that. And they finally convinced Pepsi
Coo this isn't has nothing to do with misinformation. Disinformation.
It's trying to unplatform anybody to the right of Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Right and all kinds of people you might not like
their politics, like syrupy sugar water that they shouldn't drink.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Right. So again, this is a little political, but this
is positive.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The Justice Department has expanded its efforts against discrimination by
invoking the False Claims Act. It announced in May the
Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act,
which encourage encourages whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of
illegal activity. Specifically, universities, corporations, and nonprofits have established diversity, equity,
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and inclusion policies that violate the plain language of civil
rights laws. All racism is racism, All discrimination is discrimination.
So if you see discrimination against Asian people or white
people or whomever, you can let the Justice Department know
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these entities. The corporations, the universities and nonprofits have received
billions of dollars in federal funding by falsely certifying that
they are in compliance with federal law.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
They are violating the plain language of civil rights laws.
And they've got a hotline established and going to bring
them to hill that way too. Progress is being made,
my friends.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
That thing on the company is you know, losing their
their their woke messaging. And that's a good example of
the free market reflecting what almost everybody feels.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That that was a good result right there.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, and it's it's interesting to have observed what we're
just talking about. And I wonder if now a lot
of these companies will be inoculated from doing it again.
Kind of a knee jerk. Oh this is hot. People
are mad, people are threatening. We got to do this,
We got to do this and a little more. All right,
Steady as she goes. We make fun of saw drinks,
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Let's make food and soft drinks, and just everybody keep going.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I would hope that the next time there's some big thing,
you know, Nike says, we sell shoes. We're not getting
involved with this. You want to hear about our new
running shoe. It's really springy. But we're not going to
get involved in the political issue.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Or when some twenty nine year old you know, marketing exects. Hey,
I tell you what, show that you're down with the
people will sell more workout clothes and running shoes if
you like, come out and favor of black lives matter. Nike,
for instance, although Nike's unforgivably woke, but some of the
other companies we've talked about might say, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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there's an upside, but there's a downside.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Why don't you call bud Light and ask them about
that doutside you get out of this baby.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You know, HW to their core purpose.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Like Chris Rock talking about Lulu Lemon. We don't discriminate.
What the hell are you talking about? And yes, you
do discriminate against the poor. You're here, how many people
want to live to be one hundred not nere as
many as you would think. I need to think about
that for a second myself, among other things coming up,
stay here.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
Strong he YETIDNN is announceable air live performance of the
play good Night and Good Luck, which will be the
first time the Broadway show will be televised live and
simulate the experience of seeing it live. An old person
will come here and forget to turn off the.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ringer on their phone. Here for the show. I brought
tiny candies.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I'm constantly amazed how many people can't you know to
forget and leave your ringer ons? One thing, I don't
think I've ever done it one time in my life
where my phone has gone off in a situation where
you wouldn't want your phone to go off. But I'm
amazed by when people's phone does go off. I don't
think that's, you know, immediately like a capital offense or
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anything like that. But not knowing how to turn it
off drives me crazy that people who just like look
at their phone confused and pressing a million buttons. You
don't know how to turn it off. You don't know
what there's one button, just hit it once and it's off.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Crazy. Please silence your devices? Right? Do you want to
live to be one hundred years old? Only about a
quarter of.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
A stew which is kind of surprising to me, And
the number goes down as you get older. If you
ask people when they're older, how interesting, h I wonder
what that's all about. It's not that unlikely that will
happen if you're in good health at sixty five and
you financially can pull it off, I mean, your decent
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financial shape. For a woman, it's a thirteen percent chance
you'll make it to one hundred, for a man it's
an eight percent chance, and for a couple, so it's
a twenty percent chance one in five that one of
you will make it to one hundred. Doesn't that seem
surprising to you that only a quarter of people want
to live to be one hundred. I'm not exactly sure
what my answer is that I think I'm enough to
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see the same question asked of ninety five or ninety
or eighty five.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think you'd find a sweet spot somewhere around ninety,
that's my guess.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, I think I'm a definite yes on ninety and
I'd probably go with no. One one hundred, which is
just an assumption that I wouldn't be that enjoying life
that much.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Right, you're basing it on the averages. Yeah, and when
you don't really have any idea no, no, indeed, because
you know your health could failure. You know, a younger
age doesn't have to be one hundred.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
But at that you know, like, like I've repeated many times,
my doctor's saying to me. One time we were having a
discussion about this and that in medicine everything. He said,
sometimes I wonder.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
What the goal is here?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
What is the goal, like just to extend your life,
even though in many cases it's not you know that great?
What what what are we trying to pull off? Interesting?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I've got a great doctor, a general practitioner or primary
care doctor, whatever you call him. These days I live
in fear that he's going to leave or go do
something else. But he once said to me, Joe, our
goal is to get you to ninety nine years of
age healthy, with using as little medication as possible. Well, yeah,
which in my case is more than a little. But yeah,
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of course that is the goal.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
But if for in reality most people are not that
healthy toward the end, what extending that?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What is that all about? Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It's about defying what's natural and unavoidable, I think, or
being pushed by a train that makes a profit.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I mean there's got to be some of that in there, right.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well yeah, yeah, I mean our health system and how
doctors in hospitals and you know, big pharma whomever how
they're compensated is just horrific, unholy, dishonest, twisted, complex, incomprehensible.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I didn't mean to get off on that. I want
to mention this. So, yeah, kids had to start paying
their student loans back. I shouldn't say kid. Just plenty
of forty year olds out there who had student loans
and they got delayed for what four or five years,
a really long time, and they were lied to by
the President of the United States who said, I'm gonna
wipe them out and you're not going to have to
pay them.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Because there was a bad flu from China for a
little while.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Unfortunately, in my mind, that did happen for a whole
bunch of people, Like to the tune of gazillions of dollars,
we redistributed wealth to the most privileged among US, people
with college degrees. AnyWho not to get off on that.
One out of four student loan borrowers are behind on
their payments since they started back up here not too
long ago. One out of wow wow hadn't planned ahead
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or thought it they would. You know, you can't blame
a young person for thinking, cool, I'm never gonna have
to pay this again, because that guy ran for president
on this issue and told me that I was not
going to have to pay for right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, and I had to tell my kids in their
twenties and thirties, Look, this is not going to happen.
It's it's false, it's just politicking. The courts are going
to overturn it. Don't make plans.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, if you didn't have a wise parent, if you
had a parent, you know, lean's left who thinks, yes,
the government not only should, but is going to pay
off those student loans because you got ripped off some Wow,
as opposed to those people over there who have a
car payment and didn't go to college. Have never understood
the argument on this. But yeah, one out of four
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and rising. Speaking of COVID, I got a question for you.
It's an ethical question.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
We both don't believe in harassing public figures like senators
or whatever when they're out to eat you harass them
while they're at work, if they're with their family or
whatever that did, leave them alone, just be decent. On
the other hand, there's part of me, and this is
what you need to rule on, Jack that wants every
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time Anthony Fauci is out in public for the rest
of his life. He hears gain a function, gain of
function everywhere he goes, every single time.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I got to admit there are murdered millions and then
denied it.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Worse than that what's her name that ran the schools,
that kept them closed for so many years, Brandy Garden.
I don't know if I could keep my mouth shut
if I see her and her husband over there in
the corner of the restaurant. You don't actually care about children,
You destroyed their lives for profit.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
How do you sleep at night? You horrible, horrible human.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I don't think I could keep myself from saying that
that's a good rough draft, perfect Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Yahetty. Some
business news.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The maker of Nutter butters, Chips, Ahoy, and Oreos is
chewing Aldi for allegedly using packaging that blatantly copies their products. Yeah,
all the apologize and as a peace offering sent in
Tobisco a bunch of delicious prongles.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's interesting. You don't want to be eaten counterfeit Nutter butters,
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't want to get off on this, but I've
always wondered about like like you can get raisin bran,
you can get post raisin bran or cologgs raisin bran.
The boxes look almost exactly the same, the product is
the same.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, I have a feeling the court's rules that no,
that's just a simple statement of the two ingredients, and
you can't copyright that. You could have like brand raising Crunch,
that would probably be a copyrightable name. That's my guess.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You know what I'm enjoying right now is the weedy,
the old timey whedy that's a good Wow, that's a
good serial right there.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Like your boyhood hero Bruce Jenner. You're not sure if
you've heard about him. Yes, speaking of that sort of madness,
we give you a news report featuring radical leftist Marxist
California politician Scott Wiener.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
State Senator Scott Wiener is certain his bill will pass
allowing San Francisco police officers to cite these illegal vendors.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
This is for folks who are selling goods that have
been placed on a placed on a list of commonly
stolen goods, who don't have a permit and don't have
proof of purchase. Then the police will be able to
cite them, and on the third offense they can get
a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I want to make sure you understand what happened there.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So it's a regular thing, especially in California, to go
into a CBS or whatever store you want to go
into and just take your arm on the shelf and
sweep stuff into a grocery bag and walk out the
door and nobody arrests you. And then you set up
card tables out on the street and sell the stuff
right in front of the store. Sometimes and this Wiener, Dude,
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Scott Wiener.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
He's gonna crack down on these people.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We're gonna get tough on him starting now.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
A policeman can excite them and on the third citation
they will get a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That is so hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That is so hilarious it would be impossible for me
running one of these rings to tell my various junkie friends,
all right, you've been busted for selling twice. You go
back to boosting from stores. Ew Hey, boostin, Jimmy, you
man the table.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Now, if you wonder why California is completely lawless, and
you've seen those videos flying around social media where they
just rob stores blind, and why so many CBS's and
Walgreens have had to close in LA and San Francisco
and Oakland and those that are open, everything costing more
than seventy five cents is locked up behind glass and
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you have to bother somebody to get it out for you.
You want to get some freaking deodorant, you have to
find some unhappy employee to come unlock it for you.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Excuse me, I need three dollars worth of band aids please.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Is because this counts as getting tough on crime. And
the third time we catch you selling this stuff, we're
gonna give y'all misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And he said that with that like tough guy voice.
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Scott Wiener is not only a Marxist, he is a
encourager of reaching across the generations for man boy love
and that sort of thing. He's sexual radical, he is
a He's a damn communist and has done enormous damage.
And he is the poster child for what got the
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Democratic Parties heine kicked in the last election, certainly on
a national level. So the Democratic Party is trying to
figure out what to do with their left flank. The
lunatics like Scott Wiener and arrive at a message that
somebody might be willing to vote for. And what they've
come up with is the Abundance Agenda, which is based
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on a book by Ezra Klein and who's the co author,
Derek Thompson Surprise Hit Jack. Hundreds of thousands of copies sold.
The idea is kind of cut through all the red
tape and the regulations. They're well meaning, but it's metastasized
into choking the economy and making people's lives worse, we've
got to deregulate and free up the economy blah blah blah.
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So they've to a large extent become moderate Republicans.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, well, to a certain extent. It's the sort of
thing Bill Maher's been talking about for a long time.
I think that's why I had Ezra clent On right
away to talk about this book. Is the idea that
lefties come up with in the These are their words,
not necessarily my thoughts on all these topics, but that
they Democrats come up with good ideas, but their ideas
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never reach the end point, and that's why people have
turned against the Democratic Party. Like bullet train, good idea,
but all of the waste and mess and everything like that,
they didn't actually get a bullet train. Spending money on
dealing with homelessness a good idea, but it gets all
wrapped up in waste and everything like that, and you
don't solve the homeless problem, you know, through all the
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money at housing and you build, you spend one hundred
million dollars to build five apartments, all that sort of stuff. Right,
they say their goal is okay, they just never get
to the end result. And they got to cut out
all the crap in between that stops them from accomplishing
what they want to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So, now as I'm trying to get a grasp of this,
they're trying to advocate for effective policies as opposed to
ineffective ones.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Hmm, now you have my attention.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
But still the same policies that they say people on
their side want. But that's that's the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Right, right, So the idea of efficient leftism.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
They're the thinking is of some people in the Democratic
Party is that our ideas are not unpopular, we just
don't implement them in a way that ever yields in results.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Which is certainly true. The second part is definitely true.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Right, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I would argue the
first part obviously, but the second part is absolutely unquestionably true,
particularly as you look at cal Unicornia. And interestingly enough,
Gavin Newsom was on or I'm Sorry, he had Ezra
Cline on his podcast for a ninety minute discussion about
the book and Gavey, who is trying desperately to thread
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the needle between running away from his record as the
ruiner of California, together with his political great granddad Jerry Brown,
trying to pretend he's not that, but indeed is the
brave knight in shining.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Armor who will confront the ills that have just been
visited upon him.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
So he was defensive about the way the book actually
depicts California's exhibit A for democratic dysfunction. Yes, as it
should be, but I'm quoting now from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
A Newsom nonetheless proclaimed.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
The book essential reading for Democrats, and he said he's
been handing out copies of the leaders of the state
legislature because they got to get effective cut those regulations
that I've been pushing my entire career.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's interesting. Here are some more quotes Richie Torus, Democrat,
New York. The system is broken. The government is too inefficient,
ineffective to meet the challenges of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But the answer is not doge.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's abundance in all caps, cut red tape, unleashed the
state as a stimulant to growth and innovation, private enterprise
with the state.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I am not unhappy to have them come to this conclusion,
and then we can argue about policies, but at least
they won't be all bogged down in worthlessness.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Right if you say you're going to spend a billion
dollars to accomplish something, please accomplish it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
At least that's not a lot to ask.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
They're big on the yimbi push yes in my backyard,
you know, strict housing rules and zoning and clustering high
rises near train stations and all that. We want to
stick with those policies, as Jack was saying, good policies,
but we've got to eliminate the nimby types. We're looking
at you Malibu by the way, and and.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Scarsdale and fair Fax, Virgin yach.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Where they're as blue as the sapphire, and yet they
will Well, I'm in favor of multi family housing, just
not here.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
All the people that go to all the super expensive
A plate fundraisers and give the money, they don't want
it in their backyard.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I guarantee you right.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
The protected class who advocate for these policies but are
never affected.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
By Yeah, does a teacher at your super expensive private school.
They're super rich, lefty have to speak nine different languages
to accommodate all the immigrations. Oh they don't, that's interesting.
Could they have to in the public schools?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Josh Harder, who is a non lunatic Democrat from a
swing district in California, says the book has given voice
to a feeling people have had for a while that's
just too hard to build things.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
That's absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It is, you know, if this is a notable tech
to the center more or less certainly to effectiveness. Yeah,
that's a good thing, sure, absolutely, as opposed to AOC
you know, the Chae Guavera with the nicely formed boosoms
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leading the Democratic Party into a socialist future. If this
is the all, bring it on, fellows, good luck.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I'm pretty sure I heard Ezra or somebody who is
a proponent of this saying, like a lot of our
green stuff has not panned out the way we said
it would.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's good. That's hey, that is good. That's absolutely good.
It was phony from the beginning, but at least you're
admitting it. I was amused by a couple of things.
First of all, there is a backlash on the left
jack who've attacked the book in many essays, podcasts, and
book reviews. Critics argue the authors are blind to are
stooges of the corporate power that is the true culprit
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for the problems. The book lays out abundance right, a
couple of morons for the rolling Stone, encourages democrats to
focus on the wrong solutions, and elevates deregulatory narratives already
being weaponized by the right. Okay, we need more regulations
and then this kind of and you're right, Ezra obviously
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a tool of the right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Fascist.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Oh here's the other problem I got. Thirteen year old
asked me what's a fascist?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The other day? So, anybody you don't like?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So, mostly because he's fighting fascists in his new video game,
the Indiana Jones video Game, you fight fascists, He's fighting
Mussolini's fascists.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well, now, wait, did they actually did they identify them
as as like Italian fascists or they're just kind of yeah,
black uniforms.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh really yeah? Yeah, well, okay, I brought.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Up Mussolini said, yeah's Mussolini. They mentioned that in the game.
He said, okay, cool, he said, you see him learning
something we ought to pass.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I will over regulate the video game industry when
I am elected emperor. But you'll be fighting Chinese communists. No, kids,
not freaking Nazis no kidding anyway, I found.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This very amusing.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Let me squeeze this, and they mentioned in the journal
in our short lived twenty twenty four campaign, Kamala Harris's
promised to build three million new homes in America was
the best testing of our several proposed I've got a
really funny note on that later too. But according to
both her campaign and Trump's a Yimbi's for Harris Zoom fundraiser,
they're talking about how popular this was. A Yimbi's for
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Harris Zoom fundraiser drew thirty thousand participants and raised more
than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Uh point of order,
mister chairman. It's like four dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Per at ten d wow. I mean, if that's a
success story, what does a failure look like.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I got a Kamala thing, a brief Kamala thing, because
I am sick of ever talking about her and hoping
she'll go away, though she's not. She's going to be
governor of California some more. I'll get to that at
some point. We also have a good nut picking thing.
It's nut picking, but it's entertaining, among other things, we
can get to stay here. So is this nut picking?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Nut picking as if you pick out a nut on
the other side and try to, you know, make blanket
judgments against a certain group of people. There are quite
a few people that think that this is. Like a
middle aged woman posted this on social media. She was
in her local target.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I'd be Pride month in my target that used to
have the pride section. It's now all USA.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yay.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
It's it's an American summer except for tourism because tourism
is down because no one wants to come here USA woo.
And honestly, my dad serves the military and I'd love
to be really proud of this nation, but it's hard
to be proud.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of it under Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
But hey, you know, while you're here, pick up a
USA bikini.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Target's really taken this anti DEI thing.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
To another level.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
It's a woman who was very unhappy that her target
had a lot of red, white, blue stuff for Fourth
of July by the front door instead of all the
pride and trans stuff that they've had in previous years
and gotten some blowback for.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You now. She was less obnoxious than I expected I would.
I think the most notable thing she said, and the
only thing I want to respond to is the idea
that the country is the president.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, that's absurd. Where the country is.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The constitution and it's people and your town, your county,
your state, your region. I mean, the federal government certainly
has a role in the country, but the government isn't
the country, and the president certainly isn't the country. Sweetheart,
your dad is the country, Your.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Next or neighbor is the country. These are odd times.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Rap wars are going on. I don't know if you're
aware of the rap wars. So much conflict around the globe.
And I don't mean rap ribitty rou said a rip
rap riberty roo. I don't mean singing. I mean wr ap,
as in the kind of rap you eat in fast
food joints. Apparently McDonald's is bringing back They're very popular,
though I'd never heard of it, snack rap that was huge,
(14:56):
and so their competitors are uh combating that. Popeyes has
launched a new chicken rap that actually in the picture
looks pretty freaking good. But anyway, so if you're into
that sort of thing, lots of restaurants are going to
have them. I don't know why, why things catch on
and some things don't. I'm a big fan of the
rap for the record.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
This headline from The Oregonian.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
How hookup apps help fuel the meth crisis.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Among gay men. What's your guests on that? There's a
lot there.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
How hookup apps fuel the meth crisis among gay men.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'm sure they have little.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Code words that they use for this is actually connecting
for drugs, not to fornication and are both. I mean,
because tweakers famously want to fornicate all day and all night. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I remember one guy I knew who was a meth guy,
and he said it's like orgasm times with thousand or
something like that, which I thought, I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I can agnal that.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, I know I can't. And I remember talking to
to dea guys who said, I tell you what, you
bust a house that's producing bathroom people are using math,
You're gonna find three things porn and sex toys, clutter
and more porn and sex toys. You just turns you
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into it's just a flaming horn dog. I guess if
you know the average guy needs.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Any help American men are having a friend crisis. We'll
get to that story later in the show. I look
forward to it, but I came across this yesterday and
I found it was kind of hilarious. It was about
Kamala Harris and the decisions she needs to make. This
is Mark Calpern's newsletter, and he said all sources suggest
she remains undecided about running for governor, running for president,
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or neither, to which I say, I think she'll If
she wants to run for governor, she'll be governor. I
Thinkamala Harris can be governor of California. And who wouldn't
want to be governor of the biggest state in the Union.
If you're a politician, run for president. That is hilarious. Oh,
I know that is hilarious. Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That would be so gratifying if she did. Pro chance
of getting your own nomination, your own party zero.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And is governor California, You've got a pipeline of chardonay
coming your way.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Come on, arm Strong and.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Bill Mahr the other night, waxing hilarious on the Democratic
Party's efforts to get back to the American mainstream.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Then we'll move on from politics. How many know what
SAM stands for. It's a new phrase. It stands for
speaking with American men. Sam. This is the new movement
by the Democratic Party. They lost the men vote a
lot last time, and they have these these seminars.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Would you like to hear?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
What was sammy?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Ok? These are ways that they want to.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Seminars that they had to try to win back the
typical American Now, like how to keep your liberal base
while putting guns.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
On your Christmas card? That was warmer the best.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Protein powder for a clean bulk. An other dude conversation started.
Bud light etiquette, when to drink it, when to shoot it, fishing,
the bizarre hobby working class.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Men enjoy instead of pickleball, Bruce Lee versus Bigfoot, mythical
fight scenarios to man up here, Joe Rogan appearance.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
That's pretty funny, speaking of the whole manly thing. Why
is Tim Walls on my television like every day somewhere?
What a nothing burger he is? Why is he around
in various things?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Any I don't want to talk about ball famous for
being famous at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Coming up, I'm a knucklehead at times. Coming up, return
policies are such a big, a bigger part of retail
than I realized, and the way.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
We use and sometimes abuse them. And two, just a
quick question. I'll have the answer next segment. What percentage
of us want to live to one hundred? It's surprisingly low.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So I promised we'd move on from politics, and we
certainly will after this mention because it's Kamala Harris related.
We were just talking about Kamala and I'd like not
to bring her up again later. Nelly Bowles, writing in
The Free Press a post mortem on Kamala Harris's campaign,
cited up perception gap as one of the reasons she lost,
saying voters believe she held positions that she didn't. And
this is a quote from the post mortem. Over eighty
(19:26):
percent of swing voters who chose Trump believed Harris held
positions she did not campaign on in twenty twenty four,
supporting what I'm already troubled by that phrase, but go on,
including supporting taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for undocumented immigrants.
Eighty three percent believe that yeah, mandatory election.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
She didn't run on it, but she said it and
then years ago and never denounced it during a campaign.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
An eighty two percent misperceived that she was backing mandatory
electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
By twenty thirty five.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Seventy seven percent believed erroneously that she believed in decriminalizing
border crossings and defunding the police. That's seventy two percent,
she said, getting back to Nelly Bowles. But Harris had
in fact supported all of these positions, like she is
on the record supporting every one of them here, here, here,
and here, and all of those are links. Of course
(20:22):
they're saying that, So it's not really a perception problem
so much as a reception problem, like these ideas are
not popular even though I support them.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, it's true she didn't run on them. I've heard
though the Harris people say that before. We didn't run
on them. Well, no, but you said them before, and
you never explained that you don't believe them anymore. So, yes,
you were painted with your own words.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Advocated for them forcefully for years. All right, now we'll
move on from politic handful of things that are good news,
some of them somewhat politically related. But it's been a
little gloomy and doomy so far, and I didn't want
to go all negative story in who is right, and
this might be the free press too, come to think
of it. Unbelievable story begins with a couple who faced
(21:07):
a parents' nightmare. Their son kJ was born and when
he was just days old, doctors diagnosed kJ with an
incredibly rare genetic disorder that had to do with breaking
down proteins and they build up in the body in
a toxic level. Babies like kJ lacked the necessary enzyme
to convert ammonia to urea that's then excreted in the
(21:27):
europe urine and it doesn't breathe. It doesn't, I'm sorry,
build up in your bloodstream. Very very very rare. But
because of leaps forward in the Crisper gene editing world,
kJ became the first patient to ever receive a Crisper
treatment customized specifically for him, done by a team of
(21:48):
doctors and researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perlman School
of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and UC Berkeley, among several
other institutions. After ten months and three courses of the treatment,
kJ is doing well and able to handle more protein
in his diet, heading in a really good direction.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That's awesome and miraculous. But the whole Crisper thing is
a lot like AI. There are all kinds of examples
of wonderful positive you can't argue with them things it
can do. But then people are gonna use Crisper to
have taller, blue eyed only boy or only girl or
whatever is popular at the time. You know, all kinds
of different things that are going to ruin mankind.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hollywood types are going to say, can you give me
a kid that decides he's a boy in about sixth grade?
Can we have a gender bending Madnesteine.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
No, it is. It's amazing, But yeah, I didn't. I would.
I'm trying to be positive, folks.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Just for the record, positive scientific breakthrough saving the life
of a baby, and Jack took it negative.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Just if you're keeping score at home, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Moving along, headline from the National Review, Progressive activists broke
Corporate America, shareholders putting it back together. There's now a
cottage industry, which is kind of funny of guys like
this David Boonsen, who's a financial advisor who worked to
reel companies back from the brinks of woke madness and
(23:10):
is now advising them on how to be normal again.
He's leaned into the authority that shareholders have to help
keep major companies focused on what they're supposed to be
focused on financial returns as opposed to social justice issues
that are not core to their business. The lead of
this article is at the height of the COVID pandemic
in America's so called racial reckoning, Marxism, activist groups infiltrated
(23:34):
major corporations and pressured executives to promote niche, left wing
social causes. But in the years since, consumers and shareholders,
sick of having progressive dogma forced on them, have begun
to exert pressure of their own and it is working,
and he is reeling a bunch of companies back from
the brank who are now saying and doing normal things again.
(23:56):
Bowyer Research Macroeconomic Consulting f him this recently taken on
the role of helping shareholders push this sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
In short, said quote, the.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Thing we're countering was a crazy social mania which came
up very quickly and formed a bubble, and corporations fell
all over themselves to embrace unpopular policies promoted by activists.
After a few years of corporate backlash, think bud Light,
Disney Target, coupled with Supreme Court ruling.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Every story I was in there for a while.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I remember there was a period of time you couldn't
go in a store that didn't have you know, black
lives matter, or we stand with this or that. Somewhere.
It was a craze that that writing is exactly right.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Here.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
He says, quote, it's become obvious to companies that they
probably should not have made these commitments and political gestures
in this pandering in the first place. So they were
ready to get back to sanity because they saw what
they had done was not in their interests or their shareholders' interests.
And one thing, he's had a big victory at Pepsi Co,
the food giant filed a shareholders solution calling on the
(25:00):
company to account for its discriminatory ad buying under the
Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I don't know if you've heard of them.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
GARM left wing group formed in twenty nineteen to promote
digital safety and combat disinformation, misinformation, hate speech. And what
these GARM people did was label anybody to the right
of The New York Times as hate speech outlets and
misinformation disinformation outlets. So Pepsi COO would not advertise on
the Armstrong and Getty Show. They wouldn't advertise on Fox
(25:30):
News or News Nation or the or the Washington Free
Beacon or anything like that. And they finally convinced Pepsi
Coo this isn't has nothing to do with misinformation. Disinformation.
It's trying to unplatform anybody to the right of Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Right and all kinds of people you might not like
their politics, like syrupy sugar water that they shouldn't drink.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Right. So again, this is a little political, but this
is positive.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The Justice Department has expanded its efforts against discrimination by
invoking the False Claims Act. It announced in May the
Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act,
which encourage encourages whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of
illegal activity. Specifically, universities, corporations, and nonprofits have established diversity, equity,
(26:19):
and inclusion policies that violate the plain language of civil
rights laws. All racism is racism, All discrimination is discrimination.
So if you see discrimination against Asian people or white
people or whomever, you can let the Justice Department know
(26:41):
these entities. The corporations, the universities and nonprofits have received
billions of dollars in federal funding by falsely certifying that
they are in compliance with federal law.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
They are violating the plain language of civil rights laws.
And they've got a hotline established and going to bring
them to hill that way too. Progress is being made,
my friends.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
That thing on the company is you know, losing their
their their woke messaging. And that's a good example of
the free market reflecting what almost everybody feels.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That that was a good result right there.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, and it's it's interesting to have observed what we're
just talking about. And I wonder if now a lot
of these companies will be inoculated from doing it again.
Kind of a knee jerk. Oh this is hot. People
are mad, people are threatening. We got to do this,
We got to do this and a little more. All right,
Steady as she goes. We make fun of saw drinks,
(27:38):
Let's make food and soft drinks, and just everybody keep going.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I would hope that the next time there's some big thing,
you know, Nike says, we sell shoes. We're not getting
involved with this. You want to hear about our new
running shoe. It's really springy. But we're not going to
get involved in the political issue.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Or when some twenty nine year old you know, marketing exects. Hey,
I tell you what, show that you're down with the
people will sell more workout clothes and running shoes if
you like, come out and favor of black lives matter. Nike,
for instance, although Nike's unforgivably woke, but some of the
other companies we've talked about might say, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(28:16):
there's an upside, but there's a downside.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Why don't you call bud Light and ask them about
that doutside you get out of this baby.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You know, HW to their core purpose.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Like Chris Rock talking about Lulu Lemon. We don't discriminate.
What the hell are you talking about? And yes, you
do discriminate against the poor. You're here, how many people
want to live to be one hundred not nere as
many as you would think. I need to think about
that for a second myself, among other things coming up,
stay here.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
Strong he YETIDNN is announceable air live performance of the
play good Night and Good Luck, which will be the
first time the Broadway show will be televised live and
simulate the experience of seeing it live. An old person
will come here and forget to turn off the.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ringer on their phone. Here for the show. I brought
tiny candies.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I'm constantly amazed how many people can't you know to
forget and leave your ringer ons? One thing, I don't
think I've ever done it one time in my life
where my phone has gone off in a situation where
you wouldn't want your phone to go off. But I'm
amazed by when people's phone does go off. I don't
think that's, you know, immediately like a capital offense or
(29:32):
anything like that. But not knowing how to turn it
off drives me crazy that people who just like look
at their phone confused and pressing a million buttons. You
don't know how to turn it off. You don't know
what there's one button, just hit it once and it's off.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Crazy. Please silence your devices? Right? Do you want to
live to be one hundred years old? Only about a
quarter of.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
A stew which is kind of surprising to me, And
the number goes down as you get older. If you
ask people when they're older, how interesting, h I wonder
what that's all about. It's not that unlikely that will
happen if you're in good health at sixty five and
you financially can pull it off, I mean, your decent
(30:19):
financial shape. For a woman, it's a thirteen percent chance
you'll make it to one hundred, for a man it's
an eight percent chance, and for a couple, so it's
a twenty percent chance one in five that one of
you will make it to one hundred. Doesn't that seem
surprising to you that only a quarter of people want
to live to be one hundred. I'm not exactly sure
what my answer is that I think I'm enough to
(30:42):
see the same question asked of ninety five or ninety
or eighty five.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think you'd find a sweet spot somewhere around ninety,
that's my guess.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, I think I'm a definite yes on ninety and
I'd probably go with no. One one hundred, which is
just an assumption that I wouldn't be that enjoying life
that much.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Right, you're basing it on the averages. Yeah, and when
you don't really have any idea no, no, indeed, because
you know your health could failure. You know, a younger
age doesn't have to be one hundred.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
But at that you know, like, like I've repeated many times,
my doctor's saying to me. One time we were having a
discussion about this and that in medicine everything. He said,
sometimes I wonder.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
What the goal is here?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
What is the goal, like just to extend your life,
even though in many cases it's not you know that great?
What what what are we trying to pull off? Interesting?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I've got a great doctor, a general practitioner or primary
care doctor, whatever you call him. These days I live
in fear that he's going to leave or go do
something else. But he once said to me, Joe, our
goal is to get you to ninety nine years of
age healthy, with using as little medication as possible. Well, yeah,
which in my case is more than a little. But yeah,
(31:59):
of course that is the goal.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
But if for in reality most people are not that
healthy toward the end, what extending that?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What is that all about? Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It's about defying what's natural and unavoidable, I think, or
being pushed by a train that makes a profit.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I mean there's got to be some of that in there, right.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well yeah, yeah, I mean our health system and how
doctors in hospitals and you know, big pharma whomever how
they're compensated is just horrific, unholy, dishonest, twisted, complex, incomprehensible.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I didn't mean to get off on that. I want
to mention this. So, yeah, kids had to start paying
their student loans back. I shouldn't say kid. Just plenty
of forty year olds out there who had student loans
and they got delayed for what four or five years,
a really long time, and they were lied to by
the President of the United States who said, I'm gonna
wipe them out and you're not going to have to
pay them.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Because there was a bad flu from China for a
little while.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Unfortunately, in my mind, that did happen for a whole
bunch of people, Like to the tune of gazillions of dollars,
we redistributed wealth to the most privileged among US, people
with college degrees. AnyWho not to get off on that.
One out of four student loan borrowers are behind on
their payments since they started back up here not too
long ago. One out of wow wow hadn't planned ahead
(33:27):
or thought it they would. You know, you can't blame
a young person for thinking, cool, I'm never gonna have
to pay this again, because that guy ran for president
on this issue and told me that I was not
going to have to pay for right.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, and I had to tell my kids in their
twenties and thirties, Look, this is not going to happen.
It's it's false, it's just politicking. The courts are going
to overturn it. Don't make plans.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, if you didn't have a wise parent, if you
had a parent, you know, lean's left who thinks, yes,
the government not only should, but is going to pay
off those student loans because you got ripped off some Wow,
as opposed to those people over there who have a
car payment and didn't go to college. Have never understood
the argument on this. But yeah, one out of four
(34:11):
and rising. Speaking of COVID, I got a question for you.
It's an ethical question.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
We both don't believe in harassing public figures like senators
or whatever when they're out to eat you harass them
while they're at work, if they're with their family or
whatever that did, leave them alone, just be decent. On
the other hand, there's part of me, and this is
what you need to rule on, Jack that wants every
(34:36):
time Anthony Fauci is out in public for the rest
of his life. He hears gain a function, gain of
function everywhere he goes, every single time.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I got to admit there are murdered millions and then
denied it.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Worse than that what's her name that ran the schools,
that kept them closed for so many years, Brandy Garden.
I don't know if I could keep my mouth shut
if I see her and her husband over there in
the corner of the restaurant. You don't actually care about children,
You destroyed their lives for profit.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
How do you sleep at night? You horrible, horrible human.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I don't think I could keep myself from saying that
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