August 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Whooping cough, college sports & Caitlin Clark
- Democratic Socialists of America
- The summer of the tick, NY Post & the jobs numbers
- Final Thoughts!
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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):
Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Cases of whooping cough spreading across the US, especially the Carolinas.
It's technically called protessis and it's a bacterial infection causing
severe coughing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
More than six.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Times as many whooping cough cases were reported last year
compared to twenty twenty three, according to the Centers for
Disease Control.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So first of all, it's quite contagious.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
In very young children, as many as two thirds will
have periods where they stop breathing.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The rising cases comes as new data from the CDC
show a record number of children did not receive their
recommended vaccinations last school year.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
They want to make it about vaccinations, But I got
vaccinated as a tiny child against whooping cough, and I
got it. If you'll remember whenever, that was six months ago,
worst thing I've ever had in my life outside of cancer.
And you don't want to get it. So ask your
doctor if you should get an update on your whooping cough,
because that is no disease you want to have goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Sakes, I gotta go get the shot. Yeah, the booster. Anyway,
my house is a construction zone, and I think I'm
overdue for my titanous shot and I really ought to
get that completely. On related note, somewhat sportsy, I just
read that the college football season, whatever college sports is
(01:36):
at this point. Yeah, it's going to open in a
little less than a month in Texas, is number one
in the preseason Coaches Bowl. Holcome Horns. I remember it
was always the tradition among your bigger programs that their
first two or three games of the year would be
what my dad used to refer to as the powder
Puff Bowl, where they would go into Central Kansas Teachers
(01:59):
College and beat the but Jesus out of the poor lads,
you know, seventy four to three. But they would split
the revenue from the game, so the little Teachers College
would think, all right, what the heck, we got a
few grand out of it. But that was the tradition anyway.
But Texas, their first game of the year is going
to be against number two Ohio State. Wow. Yeah, so
(02:21):
a different philosophy there. I want don't find out how
good we are? Yeah, so that's exciting if you're into
college sports, whatever that is at this point. So again,
speaking sports, I found this intriguing. Jack and I have
both been following the Caitlin Clark story in the WNBA.
She is, you know, I've compared her to what Tiger
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Woods did to golf, but it's much more than that.
As monumental as Tiger Wood, Tiger Woods isn't on the
Mount Rushmore of golf. You might be Mount Rushmore of
the modern game and all the money involved, but golf
alls in respect to the stars of the past. Golf
was already popular though, Oh yeah, yeah, Like I say,
I think Katelyn's that the NBA was not listen to
(03:05):
this for a second. Caitlin Clark's impact merchandise sales have
soared six hundred and one percent. Her team, the Indiana Fevers,
viewership jumped one hundred and seventy percent. The team's value
has tripled. Wow. League pass TV subscriptions of climb three
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hundred and sixty six percent since she joined the league
last year. App Engagement is up six hundred and thirteen percent.
Her endorsements of top to eleven million dollars. Holy crap,
I was trying to find my quote from ice Cube.
Do you remember wrapper ice Cube?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
He had offered her, I think three million dollars to
play in this three x three league that he was
trying to start, and she decided to go into the
wa any w NBA anyway, And he was asked why
he didn't offer, you know, big money to what's her
rival's name, Reese Angela Reese, and he said, they're they're
(04:09):
in different Caitlin Clark's in a completely different stratosphere than Reese.
I mean, they're not even close to the same thing,
he said, as a you know, from the hood black
rapper who's always standing up for you know, the black community.
As a businessman, he said, they're not even close to
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Right right. So with that as the backdrop, I saw
with interest this piece by Sean McClain, who is you know,
he's actually got a history working for Ted Cruz and
Marsha Blackburn at Tennessee thinker, lobbyist, lawyer, et cetera. But anyway,
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his headline is the w NBA and Caitlin Clark's civil rights.
If the league won't act to protect its superstar from
a hostile work environment, the government should do so, and
he talks about in spite of her being the economic
engine of the entire league, now she routinely faces intentional hits,
excessive fouling, uncalled abuse while referees look away. Quotes one
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of her teammates and Caitlin Clark herself about how she
gets the hell beat out of her in a way
nobody else does in the league and the refs look
the other way. Did the players get away with it?
Why would the refs look the other way? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I get the players situation. I don't get the ref situation, well,
even the player situation. As Shaq and Charles Barklay and
as the others have said, what are you doing? This
is the best thing that has ever happened to you.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, here's where we're going. Is it because ms Clark
is white? A Jah Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces,
three time league MVP thinks. So she said that race
is a huge thing and that it boils my blood
when people say it's not about race, because it is. Wow,
she said, as a black woman. Under civil rights law,
race motivated patterns trigger scrutiny even without explicit discriminatory intent.
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And then he goes into missed calls include viral replays
of miss Clark being fouled multiple times in a single possession.
Analyst Rebecca Lobo said, every single one of those is
a foul. Miss Clark absorbed seventeen percent of the flagrant
fouls in the league wow last year. That is something
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the double the rate of anybody else who was flagrantly foul.
And they're claiming.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
The claim there is by people who know what they're
talking about, that she gets hard fouled a lot when
they don't call it. So of the ones she called
by one player, she took seventeen percent. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So this guy and we're not into like the excessive
lawsuits and that sort of thing around here. What we'd
like to do is dismantle a lot of the DEI garbage.
But he writes the league has fostered a hostile work
place for ms Clark through excessive fouling, targeting, and hostile
comments from other players and owners. These are not isolated,
they're documented, continued, and ignored by officials. The disparity in
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treatment invites real scrutiny. Not a single player has been
suspended for flagrantly fouling miss Clark. That's pretty interesting, and
he points out that, uh that professional sports are multi
billion dollar industries and they're subject to the same civil rights,
antitrust and labor laws as anybody else.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I've never thought about this either, because this seems
like a unnecessary remedy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But if you've got it, have given her money and
power and popularity and everything, I get it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But if you've got a white employee of a business
who's getting the hell beat out of them because of
their race, that seems like a thing.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah you see. Oh, Yukon Hall of Fame coach Gino
ari Ema says Miss Clark's treatment isn't merely rookie hazen quote.
She's also being targeted. I don't remember when Michael Jordan
came into the NBA guys looking to go out and
beat him up. Of course, everybody got beat up in
the NBA at that point. And then they get into
the Supreme Court rulings that it doesn't need to be deliberate.
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It's just letting employees get more favorable treatment than peers
due to race. The shifts the burden of the employer
to prove non discriminatory motives anyway, she won't do it,
but it's an interesting thow.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm just surprised that there aren't more of the athletes
or they haven't come to the conclusion like Shack and
Charles Barkley have said, you know, you want to beat her,
you're competitive and all that sort of stuff. But good lord,
let her bring in the ratings, so all of a sudden,
you're relevant and your league might actually have a shot.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'm making money right. Two things. She is also in
a smallest group of straight players. How big a role
that I really don't But much more importantly, the WNBA
players of today, unlike Shaq and Charles Barklay, for instance,
they are of the generation that has been schooled on
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systemic racism and DEI and the rest of it. They
believe that stuff. They're taught at their entire school careers,
so they see nothing but racism in Caitlin Clark's popularity.
I want to take it out on her head.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
She's the all time leading scorer men or women in
all of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Now people just like her because she's white. I know,
it's insane. It is It is ideological blindness that borders
on mental illness. Yeah, i'd say, and to your own detriment.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I know, sometimes it's bad just because it's immoral, but
when it's actually hurting your salary, that's nuts. Well right,
in fact, that might be like the key to the
diagnosis of mental illness is doctor Savage used to say,
liberalism is a mental disorder. If I'm so racially resentful,
(10:06):
I pretend that her popularity isn't that she's an incredibly
exciting player.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, all right, I'm kind of off kilter. But if
I do it to my own detriment and that of
my employer and my league and everything, that's when you're
into looney Tunesville.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So I've had this chart for a while that I
came across a couple of weeks ago about hunger and
what it costs to eat in America. And I saw
that dang TV commercial over the weekend again that PSA,
it's heartbreaking. If it were real, I don't think it's
real outside of like two cases in the whole country.
Have you seen that ad where looks like a middle
class dad is sitting there with this kid having dinner,
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clearly a single dad, because there's nobody else around. And
kid says are you not gonna eat?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Dad says, I'm not hungry. Hunger is a real thing,
So he's going hungry so his child can eat. That
ain't happening, people, is not happening now, Why do we
keep pretending that it is. It's good news that it
doesn't happen anyway. I've got a chart about that, among
other things.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
On the waystare.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh my gosh, you were out of the room, Joe.
I just met Michelle's daughter, salesperson. Michelle. We've known forever,
back when she was single and dating and trying to
find a guy. Now she's been married for years and
she brings her daughter. It's so interesting when you meet
people in that completely different role of parent.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's just oh, it's so fantastic. Her cute little girl.
Oh I love that. Yeah, beautiful. That's just just just awesome.
This is not awesome. In New York.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It looks like there's a decent chance they're gonna elect
a communist, which is so crazy. It's good for Republicans.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I think he's a communist and that you hate her, Jack,
I think overall it would be good for America.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's not overall gonna be good for New York. But overall,
I think it'd be good for America. Your whole thing
of the best way to discredit these ideas is to
enact them, right, So go ahead, give it a shot.
But this is kind of interesting. We just came across this.
This is new stuff. This is a group called the
Democratic Socialists of America that we're having their meeting. I
(12:21):
guess the other day their big bumper sticker behind them
or they're slogan behind them socialism twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
When will this idea die?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
How many times does it need to be tried and
fail and often kill millions of people.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Before people keep thinking it's a good idea?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anyway, it's amazing Democratic Socialists of America and they're talking
about mum Dami becoming New York and why they back him.
By the way, they're all sitting there at their tables
at their conference wearing COVID masks.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This is like days ago. What the hell the hell
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And what is it with lefty politics that goes with
COVID paranoia?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What is that? Somebody needs to study that and fully understand. Interesting,
it's like a cosplay thing or something. But why the mask?
I don't know. I know a few people that still
do it, and they're super lefties. The further left you are,
the more likely you are to have a mask on why.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I remember isn't when it was just Trump is anti mask,
But that's not it anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think it is just they like being under threat.
That motivates them, and it makes them feel good that
they are scared, so they can all be scared together
and banned together.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, it is something like that anyway. Here's a little
clip of the Democratic Socialist of America talking about their
hopeful hero mayor Mumdani Dude Zorn.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Is literally attempting to do what conservatives say, you know
we want to do, which is provide gender.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Her name's Carting and with.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
The laws that you're free and we're we're going to
find people in the case for their potomas. We're going
to do all of the late Fox News stuff like
we're getting ideas for conx news.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
I want to I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But most importantly, as we collaborated with his Rammdani campaign
on his trans rights platform, and what we explicitly wanted
to do was use the power of New York City
to provide free gender affirming care, and I say free.
In case of turns, companies decide to foot us off
free gender affirming care, not just the people in New
York City, but across the country.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So they're backing Mam Dami's promise if he's mayor, and
a lot of this stuff he's promising, I don't know
how if he's got the power as mayor to do.
I don't know how politics works in New York or
what the rules are. Can the mayor significantly in this
one the budget? Well right, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean,
all the money. Can the mayor of New York privatize
grocery stores? Can the Mayor of New York decide somebody's
(14:47):
paying for but anyway, it's just directionally the fact that
they are for free sex changes for children and anyone
else paid for by the tack, even if.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You're not from New York. Make it some sort of
mecha of confused people getting sex changes that will ruin
their lives.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Nice platform, And they take down their masks when they talk,
so they're wearing their COVID masks. They pull them down
when they talk. When you're expelling the most air and
COVID if you haven't bit then put the mask back up. Okay,
and the mask don't do much anyway. I don't know
if you've read about that. Yeah, that came up once
or twice, Okay, And then I wanted to hit this
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because it kind of fits in with the whole socialism thing.
Free market does a pretty good job of doing all
kinds of different stuff. In all of human history, it's
never been easier to feed yourself than at this very moment,
at least in terms of time and money that you
need to spend to feed yourself. As recently as nineteen fifty,
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the average person in America spent about a quarter of
their budget on food. As recently as nineteen fifty, a
quarter of if your budget was on food to feed
yourself and your family. Now it's down to about seven
percent of what you need to share of your home
consumption dollars to feed yourself cut by almost three quarters.
(16:16):
That's amazing. How do we still have PSA's running on
the radio about hunger in America? Combine you combine that
with all the programs that we've got for food. If
you are hungry, what do we do? So we pretend
all these different things, what helps which helps drive these
socialist nut jobs. They're crying themselves to sleep at night
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with the idea that there's all kinds of people that
are going to bed hungry, which is.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
True big government and those that support it and want,
you know, socialism for instance, they've got to constantly invent
reasons for the government to seize more power and seize
more money. That's a good one. Children are starving. Therefore,
dot dot dot, it's just the same old thing.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So Trump fired the lady that runs the Department of
Bureau of Labor thingy. What's that all about labor statistics? Yes,
that's good stuff right there. Why did he fire her?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well, we got an explanation. I think Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Kamala Harris was on Colebert's show and told Steven that quote.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Growing up, she never wanted to be the president.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
See kids, sometimes dreams do come true. Kamala says one
of her favorite quotes is from her mother, a quote
don't let people tell you who you are, Instead tell
them who you are. Her least favorite quote, by the way,
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you're adopted.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Looking up at the TV. They're calling it the summer
of the tick. Have you heard that before? I was unaware.
That's the worst slogan I've ever heard. That's not too
like lure end tourists is it probably not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's not a good one. And this is a terrible
movie too. I'm not going to it.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
A couple of things to mention before we get to
our main story. Do you see that this happened last week?
We didn't mention it, but apparently other inmates are now
unhappy about it. Glenne Maxwell, you all know who she is.
She got transferred to a much cushier prison last week. Yes,
her new prison piles are disgusted because this is the
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story you've always heard that even criminals don't particularly like
people who pray on children. That she was quietly transferred
to the cushy prison camp known as Club Fed next week,
and looking at it from above, it looks like a
community college, not a prison.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
There aren't even fences, right, Yeah, it's a minimum security
prison and sex offenders are almost never sent there. Why
did that happen? Because that was her negotiating point with
the h trumpet. Yeah, but what did somebody's saying it
out loud? What did she what did she give? Not
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clear to me or anyone. She may have said, I'm
not even sitting down with you people unless you transfer
me to this prison. They said, yeah, okay, we'll make
it work. She said, all right, what do you want
to know? Okay? What? That sucks.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
One other story, The New York Post is expanding to LA.
There's going to be an LA Post starting next year
in Los Angeles. Oh, they're going to have the West
Coast version of the show of the of the magazine
that because it's very New York. I mean there's national
news also, but it's a very New York newspaper. They're
going to do the same thing for LA. And LA
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is lacking a newspaper. Really, the La Times is so
weak compared to other big city newspapers. No, that is
exciting for us.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Happy to hear that. Yeah, Trump, they said my boobs
were too big to be a Disneyland tour guide. Right
a headline you look forward.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
To it, or shoheil Atani hits the fifth home run
in a row in a game some New West Coast
sports instead of always Yankees Red Sox. Come on, now,
I'm with you. Labor statistics don't compile themselves. It's not magic.
You gotta have a bureau. So you got a Bureau
(20:21):
of Labor Statistics, and the woman that ran it got
fired by Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And here's his explanation for why.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next
three four days.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We had no confidence.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I mean, the numbers were ridiculous what she announced, but
that was just one negative number. All the numbers seemed
to be great, and so we'll see how that comes out.
And if you remember, just before the election, this woman.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Came out with these phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy, phenomenal numbers,
and then right after the election they announced that those
numbers were wrong.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
And that's what they did the other day. So it's
a scam in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, I don't know why he had to present it
that way, because you're about to hear a different explanation
for why the Bureau Labor Statistics needs to be revamped
or come up with a new formula. Why he had
to present it as a like a conspiracy against him.
The Wall Street Journal has a whole bunch of quotes
of him saying good things about numbers when they're favorable,
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which I don't think he can blame him for what
kind of politician would come out when you got really
good economic news and say I don't believe it. I
think it's much worse than that. So, I mean, that's
kind of an odd knock.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It was funny how he argued against his cases. He
was making it they had rosy numbers that they had
downgraded later, and now this time they had rosy numbers
that they downgraded later. You see the difference. All the
difference is it either straddled the election or it was
during his term.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Kevin Hassett's one of his financial gurus speaking for the
White House, got asked about it on Meet the Press yesterday,
and I thought his explanation was interesting.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
What evidence does the administration have that she manipulated the
jobs numbers?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Right?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Well, what we've seen over the last few years is
massive revisions to the job numbers. In fact, they were
extremely reliable, the kind of numbers that you want to
guide policy decisions and markets through COVID. And then when
COVID happened, because response rates went down a lot, then
revision rates skyrocketed, so that the typical monthly revision often
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was bigger than the number itself. And now we had
a number that just came out. The actual number for
the month wasn't so bad, but the two months before
were revised down by more than it ever happened since
nineteen sixty eight. And in twenty fifteen, Alan Greenspan and
I were asked to attend a conference at BLS where
we're asked to give advice about how to modernize the data,
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and we warned that if they didn't try to let
the data collection and calculation keep up with the data
that was happening in the economy, that we would have
problems like this.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
So that's a much calmer explanation in that the model
for how they do this has been so off now
ever since twenty twenty. For instance, in July they claimed
one hundred and forty four thousand jobs, then revised it
downward Friday to nineteen thousand. I mean, when your numbers
are that far off, what's the point of even doing it?
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I mean, what sort of these numbers come out so
people can make decisions about raising or lowering interest rates
or investing in whatever, all kinds of differences. But if
they're that fall off far, if you can't make any decisions,
well no, it's foolish to even do the preliminary numbers.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
What's the point? Yeah, I would agree. So if they're
talking about a complete reset because of you know the
difficulties of polling these days, the way they get these stats,
all right, great, but you know.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Trump claiming it's a Biden conspiracy, that doesn't help anything.
It's a fix, it's a scam. They're trying to screw me.
All right, Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But he does so.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Does he like the heat that he brings on himself
because he could have explained it this way. Look, the
way they formulate the numbers obviously doesn't work. Look look
at all these months that they downgraded so much that
it's well, listen to this next clip Besson talking about
it were.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
The numbers wrong?
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Do you have any hard evidence that you can present
to the American public that these numbers, these revisions that
were reported, and there were plenty of revisions under former
President Biden, including right before the election, do you have
any hard evidence that these numbers were wrong?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Yeah, there are is very hard evidence that we're looking
at the biggest reversion sink the number of self It
is the evidence.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
But just saying it's an Outlier's not evidence.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
It's a historically important outlier. It's something that's unprecedented, So unprecedented.
I have asked that forty years and I'm like, it
must be a typo, right.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
She kept hammering on, though, what evidence do you have?
He says, The evidence is that they're so far off
that there's something.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Wrong, which makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
She's looking for the evidence of what Trump said though,
that there's a conspiracy by Biden people are someone to
make him look bad.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That does not exist. It's the same old Trump era
dance we see over and over again. Trump shoots off
his mouth, says something unsupportable, his aids go out and
say something that kinda is sort of arguing in favor
of Trump, but really kind of a different point with
the same conclusion and doing so fairly effectively. The point
they're making overall about the labor statistics is a good one, sure,
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But that's not what Trump said. That's not what he meant.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But so why did he do it? What do you
think he just likes utterly undisciplined. You don't think there's
a strategy. Maybe two and a half to mention.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Jess, uh, only that knee jerk constantly point out to
his fans how he's being attacked and screwed and a victim, which,
by the way, he was a lot for a very
long time. See Russia collusion hoax, See the Summer of
Law fair, see the entirety of the major media being
(26:24):
utterly unfair. So you know, I get it, Summer of
the tick. It would help me if Hassett and Bessent
didn't have such similar names, one being the Secretary of
Commerce and the other being the chairman of the Economic
Advisory Council. It's an excellent complaint their names are too similar. Yeah,
(26:45):
maybe they can be like an Angelina thing. We can
just hassebescent or something just to refer to them. But
they're both very very sharp guys, impressive.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Before we take a break, Maybe I'll get to this
on Wednesday, which will be the anniversary. Is that right,
the sixth of a eighty year anniversary of dropping the
atomic bomb? George F. Will with an opinion piece in
the Washington Post today, eighty years since Eroshima? How much
longer can.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
The world's luck hold out? Ooh boy, ain't that the truth?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's nobody nobody would have predicted. We go eighty years
without anybody using a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And as you've pointed out many times, those weapons to
the modern weapons are the same relationship as a a
pellet gun has to a cannon. Yeah. Yeah, and that's
the modern thermonuclear devices place make hiroshim wall look like,
you know, an unfortunate gas main.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Explosion, right and that. Yeah, that's another thing that people
don't recognize. So the weapons are so much more powerful.
Good lord. I have a lot on this. I've been
reading a lot about it. Uh, why we did it?
There's information, there's new information I didn't know that has
come out as recently as the nineties. I always talk
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about when something happens, I said, well, I can't wait
twenty five years from now, fifty years from now, we'll
get the real story why this happened. Real story on
why we didn't why we use the bomb as opposed
to an invasion, didn't come out till the nineties. I'd
never heard this before, but we'll get into that later
this week. We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
There's an old saying that progressives love humanity but they
hate people, and conservatives don't really like humanity, but they
like people. I'm definitely on that second tier, second group.
In that second group, I can't decide if this is
like one of these big meaningful stories or not. I'll
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just read it to you like a mystery to the
untrained eye. There was nothing nefarious about the packages that
arrived at kemp Kenny Brook, containing a Harry Potter bookamponds,
and a flashlight. Oh what Stacy Landman knew better. All
of the items were vehicles used by parents to smuggle
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food into the Monticello, New York camp she owns with
her family, something that's strictly forbidden since the contraband can
attract bugs and mice and cause allergic reactions. Sneaking food
outside food into camp summer camp is a tradition as
old as the Color War and canoeing. Generations of parents
and campers have rolled pringles tubes into towels, and stuffed
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candy into tissue boxes and sliced open tennis balls. Campers
hide the goods in laundry bags, lock boxes in pillowcases.
One more a little bit before he discussed it got
so bad at Camp West Mountain, Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains this
year that administrator's email parents on the second day of
camp about the shocking abundance of food found in bunks
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that could lead to an infestation of mice and allegedly
allergic reactions to nuts, which I think is probably overrated
these days, but I guess it's like an endemic problem
at summer camps, the kids insisting that their parents send
them cookies and candy and chips, and the parents doing it,
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including buying a Harry Potter book, hollowing it out and
filling it with candy, M and MS. Specifically, why would
you do this for your kid? See this? And my
family were law abiding generally speaking, but both my mom
and dad would have said, no, it's out of the question.
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It's a reasonable policy they have for a good reason. No,
I'm not sending you anything or just the time and effort.
I got other things to do than spend an hour.
How long would it take to hollow out a book
to put candy? Why do you need candy? Fill it
with M and MS? Then then go down to the
post office and put it in a box and ship
it and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
How about you go to camp and eat what they
give you and learn the last two weeks without pringles
you'll be fine and learn that a lot of life
is going to be like that.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
It all sounds like stuff you would do in prison. Yeah,
I know, each generation devises something new. Sites like Amazon
and Etsy offer modern smugglers cheap and easy access to
hollowed out bottles of sunblock and hairspray that are meant
to keep valuable save. Blah blah blah. We're on to you,
say the camp counselors. Wow, that's funny, Mike.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So my son did two boy Scout camps in which
there were some complaints about the food from all the scouts.
But to me, it was like, you know, getting a
lesson in what I was just talking about, you know,
learning to get by on what they give you, right,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I felt no need whatsoever to feel a figure out
a way to sneak in pringles well.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Right, and you know, the food back in the day
at the old college dorm was not exactly or may right.
But it's fine, you dealt with it. Of passage, it's
an incentive to do better in life, I think, but
I am.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But if somebody else's well, I suppose you know, if
you send your kid without that stuff, and the other
kids are eating Pringles and M and m's. But I'm
more annoyed by the parents who know the rules are
no electronics, but let their kid take their phone or whatever.
That That one drives me nuts.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
The tampon box was filled with chocolate bars and reglued
so it looked unopened.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Chocolate bars and tampons are kind of a perpetual motion machine.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It almost seems like, based on my experience, see what
your driving.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Check clock, GISs time stop.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Jack and Joe live, go go, and if they don't
give can they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Here's Joe's for final thoughts, Joe Getty. All right, let's
get a final thought from everybody in the crew. To
wrap up the day. There is Michaelangelo pressing the buttons. Michael,
my family never snucked food into camp, but we always
snuck food into the movie theaters. And that's different. That's
just being frugal.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They're changing you seven dollars for a bottle of water
and three dollars for candy bar and BRIDI thing.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
We always got caught though, because it's like Mexican food
with side dishes, and it's stuck up there.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
They set up a whole buffet. Yeah, Katie Greener Esteemed Newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
The go to movie theater food you sneak in is
always a sandwich and you can just put it in
the purse.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
A sandwich sandwich. Oh yeah, perse sandwich, love it yeah? Jack.
Final thought for us.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I ordered some of them Nazi jeans last commercial break,
so I'll be wearing my Oh look at my jeans,
blue eyed white supremacy American eagle jeans.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Here soon down with your fascist jeans? Nice? Nice. Here's
a mom first name and last proudly tells the paper
she taped airheads to the pages of books to make
her nine year old and eleven year old feel like
they're not really away from home.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I want my son to feel like he's away from home.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I want him to have that experience. It's interesting that
you want. I don't know. Okay, it's up to you.
But why do you want your kid eat more crap? Though?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Go to great links to make sure they get their
daily allotment of crap?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Deat. Here's a family that's that removed the stuffing from
a Teddy Bear and stuffed it full of candy. What
the hell? Is the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You're nuts and I'm you know I'm not perfect on
our eating habits, as all your.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Kids are gonna end up in prison. Armstrong in Getty
wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. There's a soccer
ball hollowed at what the hell? So many people? Thanks
a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Drop us note mail bag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
We will see tomorrow at the News of the Day
and everything else. Gott bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
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Speaker 6 (34:54):
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And Getdy on demand Armstrong and Getdy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Cases of whooping cough spreading across the US, especially the Carolinas.
It's technically called protessis and it's a bacterial infection causing
severe coughing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
More than six.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Times as many whooping cough cases were reported last year
compared to twenty twenty three, according to the Centers for
Disease Control.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So first of all, it's quite contagious.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
In very young children, as many as two thirds will
have periods where they stop breathing.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The rising cases comes as new data from the CDC
show a record number of children did not receive their
recommended vaccinations last school year.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
They want to make it about vaccinations, But I got
vaccinated as a tiny child against whooping cough, and I
got it. If you'll remember whenever, that was six months ago,
worst thing I've ever had in my life outside of cancer.
And you don't want to get it. So ask your
doctor if you should get an update on your whooping cough,
because that is no disease you want to have goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Sakes, I gotta go get the shot. Yeah, the booster. Anyway,
my house is a construction zone, and I think I'm
overdue for my titanous shot and I really ought to
get that completely. On related note, somewhat sportsy, I just
read that the college football season, whatever college sports is
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at this point. Yeah, it's going to open in a
little less than a month in Texas, is number one
in the preseason Coaches Bowl. Holcome Horns. I remember it
was always the tradition among your bigger programs that their
first two or three games of the year would be
what my dad used to refer to as the powder
Puff Bowl, where they would go into Central Kansas Teachers
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College and beat the but Jesus out of the poor lads,
you know, seventy four to three. But they would split
the revenue from the game, so the little Teachers College
would think, all right, what the heck, we got a
few grand out of it. But that was the tradition anyway.
But Texas, their first game of the year is going
to be against number two Ohio State. Wow. Yeah, so
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a different philosophy there. I want don't find out how
good we are? Yeah, so that's exciting if you're into
college sports, whatever that is at this point. So again,
speaking sports, I found this intriguing. Jack and I have
both been following the Caitlin Clark story in the WNBA.
She is, you know, I've compared her to what Tiger
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Woods did to golf, but it's much more than that.
As monumental as Tiger Wood, Tiger Woods isn't on the
Mount Rushmore of golf. You might be Mount Rushmore of
the modern game and all the money involved, but golf
alls in respect to the stars of the past. Golf
was already popular though, Oh yeah, yeah, Like I say,
I think Katelyn's that the NBA was not listen to
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this for a second. Caitlin Clark's impact merchandise sales have
soared six hundred and one percent. Her team, the Indiana Fevers,
viewership jumped one hundred and seventy percent. The team's value
has tripled. Wow. League pass TV subscriptions of climb three
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hundred and sixty six percent since she joined the league
last year. App Engagement is up six hundred and thirteen percent.
Her endorsements of top to eleven million dollars. Holy crap,
I was trying to find my quote from ice Cube.
Do you remember wrapper ice Cube?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
He had offered her, I think three million dollars to
play in this three x three league that he was
trying to start, and she decided to go into the
wa any w NBA anyway, And he was asked why
he didn't offer, you know, big money to what's her
rival's name, Reese Angela Reese, and he said, they're they're
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in different Caitlin Clark's in a completely different stratosphere than Reese.
I mean, they're not even close to the same thing,
he said, as a you know, from the hood black
rapper who's always standing up for you know, the black community.
As a businessman, he said, they're not even close to
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Right right. So with that as the backdrop, I saw
with interest this piece by Sean McClain, who is you know,
he's actually got a history working for Ted Cruz and
Marsha Blackburn at Tennessee thinker, lobbyist, lawyer, et cetera. But anyway,
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his headline is the w NBA and Caitlin Clark's civil rights.
If the league won't act to protect its superstar from
a hostile work environment, the government should do so, and
he talks about in spite of her being the economic
engine of the entire league, now she routinely faces intentional hits,
excessive fouling, uncalled abuse while referees look away. Quotes one
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of her teammates and Caitlin Clark herself about how she
gets the hell beat out of her in a way
nobody else does in the league and the refs look
the other way. Did the players get away with it?
Why would the refs look the other way? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I get the players situation. I don't get the ref situation, well,
even the player situation. As Shaq and Charles Barklay and
as the others have said, what are you doing? This
is the best thing that has ever happened to you.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, here's where we're going. Is it because ms Clark
is white? A Jah Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces,
three time league MVP thinks. So she said that race
is a huge thing and that it boils my blood
when people say it's not about race, because it is. Wow,
she said, as a black woman. Under civil rights law,
race motivated patterns trigger scrutiny even without explicit discriminatory intent.
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And then he goes into missed calls include viral replays
of miss Clark being fouled multiple times in a single possession.
Analyst Rebecca Lobo said, every single one of those is
a foul. Miss Clark absorbed seventeen percent of the flagrant
fouls in the league wow last year. That is something
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the double the rate of anybody else who was flagrantly foul.
And they're claiming.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
The claim there is by people who know what they're
talking about, that she gets hard fouled a lot when
they don't call it. So of the ones she called
by one player, she took seventeen percent. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So this guy and we're not into like the excessive
lawsuits and that sort of thing around here. What we'd
like to do is dismantle a lot of the DEI garbage.
But he writes the league has fostered a hostile work
place for ms Clark through excessive fouling, targeting, and hostile
comments from other players and owners. These are not isolated,
they're documented, continued, and ignored by officials. The disparity in
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treatment invites real scrutiny. Not a single player has been
suspended for flagrantly fouling miss Clark. That's pretty interesting, and
he points out that, uh that professional sports are multi
billion dollar industries and they're subject to the same civil rights,
antitrust and labor laws as anybody else.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I've never thought about this either, because this seems
like a unnecessary remedy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But if you've got it, have given her money and
power and popularity and everything, I get it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But if you've got a white employee of a business
who's getting the hell beat out of them because of
their race, that seems like a thing.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah you see. Oh, Yukon Hall of Fame coach Gino
ari Ema says Miss Clark's treatment isn't merely rookie hazen quote.
She's also being targeted. I don't remember when Michael Jordan
came into the NBA guys looking to go out and
beat him up. Of course, everybody got beat up in
the NBA at that point. And then they get into
the Supreme Court rulings that it doesn't need to be deliberate.
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It's just letting employees get more favorable treatment than peers
due to race. The shifts the burden of the employer
to prove non discriminatory motives anyway, she won't do it,
but it's an interesting thow.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm just surprised that there aren't more of the athletes
or they haven't come to the conclusion like Shack and
Charles Barkley have said, you know, you want to beat her,
you're competitive and all that sort of stuff. But good lord,
let her bring in the ratings, so all of a sudden,
you're relevant and your league might actually have a shot.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'm making money right. Two things. She is also in
a smallest group of straight players. How big a role
that I really don't But much more importantly, the WNBA
players of today, unlike Shaq and Charles Barklay, for instance,
they are of the generation that has been schooled on
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systemic racism and DEI and the rest of it. They
believe that stuff. They're taught at their entire school careers,
so they see nothing but racism in Caitlin Clark's popularity.
I want to take it out on her head.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
She's the all time leading scorer men or women in
all of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Now people just like her because she's white. I know,
it's insane. It is It is ideological blindness that borders
on mental illness. Yeah, i'd say, and to your own detriment.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I know, sometimes it's bad just because it's immoral, but
when it's actually hurting your salary, that's nuts. Well right,
in fact, that might be like the key to the
diagnosis of mental illness is doctor Savage used to say,
liberalism is a mental disorder. If I'm so racially resentful,
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I pretend that her popularity isn't that she's an incredibly
exciting player.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, all right, I'm kind of off kilter. But if
I do it to my own detriment and that of
my employer and my league and everything, that's when you're
into looney Tunesville.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So I've had this chart for a while that I
came across a couple of weeks ago about hunger and
what it costs to eat in America. And I saw
that dang TV commercial over the weekend again that PSA,
it's heartbreaking. If it were real, I don't think it's
real outside of like two cases in the whole country.
Have you seen that ad where looks like a middle
class dad is sitting there with this kid having dinner,
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clearly a single dad, because there's nobody else around. And
kid says are you not gonna eat?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Dad says, I'm not hungry. Hunger is a real thing,
So he's going hungry so his child can eat. That
ain't happening, people, is not happening now, Why do we
keep pretending that it is. It's good news that it
doesn't happen anyway. I've got a chart about that, among
other things.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
On the waystare.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh my gosh, you were out of the room, Joe.
I just met Michelle's daughter, salesperson. Michelle. We've known forever,
back when she was single and dating and trying to
find a guy. Now she's been married for years and
she brings her daughter. It's so interesting when you meet
people in that completely different role of parent.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's just oh, it's so fantastic. Her cute little girl.
Oh I love that. Yeah, beautiful. That's just just just awesome.
This is not awesome. In New York.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It looks like there's a decent chance they're gonna elect
a communist, which is so crazy. It's good for Republicans.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I think he's a communist and that you hate her, Jack,
I think overall it would be good for America.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's not overall gonna be good for New York. But overall,
I think it'd be good for America. Your whole thing
of the best way to discredit these ideas is to
enact them, right, So go ahead, give it a shot.
But this is kind of interesting. We just came across this.
This is new stuff. This is a group called the
Democratic Socialists of America that we're having their meeting. I
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guess the other day their big bumper sticker behind them
or they're slogan behind them socialism twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
When will this idea die?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
How many times does it need to be tried and
fail and often kill millions of people.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Before people keep thinking it's a good idea?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anyway, it's amazing Democratic Socialists of America and they're talking
about mum Dami becoming New York and why they back him.
By the way, they're all sitting there at their tables
at their conference wearing COVID masks.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This is like days ago. What the hell the hell
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And what is it with lefty politics that goes with
COVID paranoia?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
What is that? Somebody needs to study that and fully understand. Interesting,
it's like a cosplay thing or something. But why the mask?
I don't know. I know a few people that still
do it, and they're super lefties. The further left you are,
the more likely you are to have a mask on why.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I remember isn't when it was just Trump is anti mask,
But that's not it anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think it is just they like being under threat.
That motivates them, and it makes them feel good that
they are scared, so they can all be scared together
and banned together.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, it is something like that anyway. Here's a little
clip of the Democratic Socialist of America talking about their
hopeful hero mayor Mumdani Dude Zorn.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Is literally attempting to do what conservatives say, you know
we want to do, which is provide gender.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Her name's Carting and with.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
The laws that you're free and we're we're going to
find people in the case for their potomas. We're going
to do all of the late Fox News stuff like
we're getting ideas for conx news.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
I want to I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But most importantly, as we collaborated with his Rammdani campaign
on his trans rights platform, and what we explicitly wanted
to do was use the power of New York City
to provide free gender affirming care, and I say free.
In case of turns, companies decide to foot us off
free gender affirming care, not just the people in New
York City, but across the country.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So they're backing Mam Dami's promise if he's mayor, and
a lot of this stuff he's promising, I don't know
how if he's got the power as mayor to do.
I don't know how politics works in New York or
what the rules are. Can the mayor significantly in this
one the budget? Well right, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean,
all the money. Can the mayor of New York privatize
grocery stores? Can the Mayor of New York decide somebody's
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paying for but anyway, it's just directionally the fact that
they are for free sex changes for children and anyone
else paid for by the tack, even if.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You're not from New York. Make it some sort of
mecha of confused people getting sex changes that will ruin
their lives.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Nice platform, And they take down their masks when they talk,
so they're wearing their COVID masks. They pull them down
when they talk. When you're expelling the most air and
COVID if you haven't bit then put the mask back up. Okay,
and the mask don't do much anyway. I don't know
if you've read about that. Yeah, that came up once
or twice, Okay, And then I wanted to hit this
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because it kind of fits in with the whole socialism thing.
Free market does a pretty good job of doing all
kinds of different stuff. In all of human history, it's
never been easier to feed yourself than at this very moment,
at least in terms of time and money that you
need to spend to feed yourself. As recently as nineteen fifty,
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the average person in America spent about a quarter of
their budget on food. As recently as nineteen fifty, a
quarter of if your budget was on food to feed
yourself and your family. Now it's down to about seven
percent of what you need to share of your home
consumption dollars to feed yourself cut by almost three quarters.
(16:16):
That's amazing. How do we still have PSA's running on
the radio about hunger in America? Combine you combine that
with all the programs that we've got for food. If
you are hungry, what do we do? So we pretend
all these different things, what helps which helps drive these
socialist nut jobs. They're crying themselves to sleep at night
(16:37):
with the idea that there's all kinds of people that
are going to bed hungry, which is.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
True big government and those that support it and want,
you know, socialism for instance, they've got to constantly invent
reasons for the government to seize more power and seize
more money. That's a good one. Children are starving. Therefore,
dot dot dot, it's just the same old thing.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So Trump fired the lady that runs the Department of
Bureau of Labor thingy. What's that all about labor statistics? Yes,
that's good stuff right there. Why did he fire her?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well, we got an explanation. I think Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Kamala Harris was on Colebert's show and told Steven that quote.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Growing up, she never wanted to be the president.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
See kids, sometimes dreams do come true. Kamala says one
of her favorite quotes is from her mother, a quote
don't let people tell you who you are, Instead tell
them who you are. Her least favorite quote, by the way,
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you're adopted.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Looking up at the TV. They're calling it the summer
of the tick. Have you heard that before? I was unaware.
That's the worst slogan I've ever heard. That's not too
like lure end tourists is it probably not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's not a good one. And this is a terrible
movie too. I'm not going to it.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
A couple of things to mention before we get to
our main story. Do you see that this happened last week?
We didn't mention it, but apparently other inmates are now
unhappy about it. Glenne Maxwell, you all know who she is.
She got transferred to a much cushier prison last week. Yes,
her new prison piles are disgusted because this is the
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story you've always heard that even criminals don't particularly like
people who pray on children. That she was quietly transferred
to the cushy prison camp known as Club Fed next week,
and looking at it from above, it looks like a
community college, not a prison.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
There aren't even fences, right, Yeah, it's a minimum security
prison and sex offenders are almost never sent there. Why
did that happen? Because that was her negotiating point with
the h trumpet. Yeah, but what did somebody's saying it
out loud? What did she what did she give? Not
(19:07):
clear to me or anyone. She may have said, I'm
not even sitting down with you people unless you transfer
me to this prison. They said, yeah, okay, we'll make
it work. She said, all right, what do you want
to know? Okay? What? That sucks.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
One other story, The New York Post is expanding to LA.
There's going to be an LA Post starting next year
in Los Angeles. Oh, they're going to have the West
Coast version of the show of the of the magazine
that because it's very New York. I mean there's national
news also, but it's a very New York newspaper. They're
going to do the same thing for LA. And LA
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is lacking a newspaper. Really, the La Times is so
weak compared to other big city newspapers. No, that is
exciting for us.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Happy to hear that. Yeah, Trump, they said my boobs
were too big to be a Disneyland tour guide. Right
a headline you look forward.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
To it, or shoheil Atani hits the fifth home run
in a row in a game some New West Coast
sports instead of always Yankees Red Sox. Come on, now,
I'm with you. Labor statistics don't compile themselves. It's not magic.
You gotta have a bureau. So you got a Bureau
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of Labor Statistics, and the woman that ran it got
fired by Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And here's his explanation for why.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
We'll be announcing a new statistician sometime over the next
three four days.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We had no confidence.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I mean, the numbers were ridiculous what she announced, but
that was just one negative number. All the numbers seemed
to be great, and so we'll see how that comes out.
And if you remember, just before the election, this woman.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Came out with these phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy, phenomenal numbers,
and then right after the election they announced that those
numbers were wrong.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
And that's what they did the other day. So it's
a scam in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, I don't know why he had to present it
that way, because you're about to hear a different explanation
for why the Bureau Labor Statistics needs to be revamped
or come up with a new formula. Why he had
to present it as a like a conspiracy against him.
The Wall Street Journal has a whole bunch of quotes
of him saying good things about numbers when they're favorable,
(21:31):
which I don't think he can blame him for what
kind of politician would come out when you got really
good economic news and say I don't believe it. I
think it's much worse than that. So, I mean, that's
kind of an odd knock.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
It was funny how he argued against his cases. He
was making it they had rosy numbers that they had
downgraded later, and now this time they had rosy numbers
that they downgraded later. You see the difference. All the
difference is it either straddled the election or it was
during his term.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Kevin Hassett's one of his financial gurus speaking for the
White House, got asked about it on Meet the Press yesterday,
and I thought his explanation was interesting.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
What evidence does the administration have that she manipulated the
jobs numbers?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Right?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Well, what we've seen over the last few years is
massive revisions to the job numbers. In fact, they were
extremely reliable, the kind of numbers that you want to
guide policy decisions and markets through COVID. And then when
COVID happened, because response rates went down a lot, then
revision rates skyrocketed, so that the typical monthly revision often
(22:40):
was bigger than the number itself. And now we had
a number that just came out. The actual number for
the month wasn't so bad, but the two months before
were revised down by more than it ever happened since
nineteen sixty eight. And in twenty fifteen, Alan Greenspan and
I were asked to attend a conference at BLS where
we're asked to give advice about how to modernize the data,
(23:02):
and we warned that if they didn't try to let
the data collection and calculation keep up with the data
that was happening in the economy, that we would have
problems like this.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
So that's a much calmer explanation in that the model
for how they do this has been so off now
ever since twenty twenty. For instance, in July they claimed
one hundred and forty four thousand jobs, then revised it
downward Friday to nineteen thousand. I mean, when your numbers
are that far off, what's the point of even doing it?
(23:35):
I mean, what sort of these numbers come out so
people can make decisions about raising or lowering interest rates
or investing in whatever, all kinds of differences. But if
they're that fall off far, if you can't make any decisions,
well no, it's foolish to even do the preliminary numbers.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
What's the point? Yeah, I would agree. So if they're
talking about a complete reset because of you know the
difficulties of polling these days, the way they get these stats,
all right, great, but you know.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Trump claiming it's a Biden conspiracy, that doesn't help anything.
It's a fix, it's a scam. They're trying to screw me.
All right, Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But he does so.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Does he like the heat that he brings on himself
because he could have explained it this way. Look, the
way they formulate the numbers obviously doesn't work. Look look
at all these months that they downgraded so much that
it's well, listen to this next clip Besson talking about
it were.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
The numbers wrong?
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Do you have any hard evidence that you can present
to the American public that these numbers, these revisions that
were reported, and there were plenty of revisions under former
President Biden, including right before the election, do you have
any hard evidence that these numbers were wrong?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Yeah, there are is very hard evidence that we're looking
at the biggest reversion sink the number of self It
is the evidence.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
But just saying it's an Outlier's not evidence.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
It's a historically important outlier. It's something that's unprecedented, So unprecedented.
I have asked that forty years and I'm like, it
must be a typo, right.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
She kept hammering on, though, what evidence do you have?
He says, The evidence is that they're so far off
that there's something.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Wrong, which makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
She's looking for the evidence of what Trump said though,
that there's a conspiracy by Biden people are someone to
make him look bad.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That does not exist. It's the same old Trump era
dance we see over and over again. Trump shoots off
his mouth, says something unsupportable, his aids go out and
say something that kinda is sort of arguing in favor
of Trump, but really kind of a different point with
the same conclusion and doing so fairly effectively. The point
they're making overall about the labor statistics is a good one, sure,
(25:48):
But that's not what Trump said. That's not what he meant.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But so why did he do it? What do you
think he just likes utterly undisciplined. You don't think there's
a strategy. Maybe two and a half to mention.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Jess, uh, only that knee jerk constantly point out to
his fans how he's being attacked and screwed and a victim, which,
by the way, he was a lot for a very
long time. See Russia collusion hoax, See the Summer of
Law fair, see the entirety of the major media being
(26:24):
utterly unfair. So you know, I get it, Summer of
the tick. It would help me if Hassett and Bessent
didn't have such similar names, one being the Secretary of
Commerce and the other being the chairman of the Economic
Advisory Council. It's an excellent complaint their names are too similar. Yeah,
(26:45):
maybe they can be like an Angelina thing. We can
just hassebescent or something just to refer to them. But
they're both very very sharp guys, impressive.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Before we take a break, Maybe I'll get to this
on Wednesday, which will be the anniversary. Is that right,
the sixth of a eighty year anniversary of dropping the
atomic bomb? George F. Will with an opinion piece in
the Washington Post today, eighty years since Eroshima? How much
longer can.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
The world's luck hold out? Ooh boy, ain't that the truth?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's nobody nobody would have predicted. We go eighty years
without anybody using a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And as you've pointed out many times, those weapons to
the modern weapons are the same relationship as a a
pellet gun has to a cannon. Yeah. Yeah, and that's
the modern thermonuclear devices place make hiroshim wall look like,
you know, an unfortunate gas main.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Explosion, right and that. Yeah, that's another thing that people
don't recognize. So the weapons are so much more powerful.
Good lord. I have a lot on this. I've been
reading a lot about it. Uh, why we did it?
There's information, there's new information I didn't know that has
come out as recently as the nineties. I always talk
(28:05):
about when something happens, I said, well, I can't wait
twenty five years from now, fifty years from now, we'll
get the real story why this happened. Real story on
why we didn't why we use the bomb as opposed
to an invasion, didn't come out till the nineties. I'd
never heard this before, but we'll get into that later
this week. We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
There's an old saying that progressives love humanity but they
hate people, and conservatives don't really like humanity, but they
like people. I'm definitely on that second tier, second group.
In that second group, I can't decide if this is
like one of these big meaningful stories or not. I'll
(28:48):
just read it to you like a mystery to the
untrained eye. There was nothing nefarious about the packages that
arrived at kemp Kenny Brook, containing a Harry Potter bookamponds,
and a flashlight. Oh what Stacy Landman knew better. All
of the items were vehicles used by parents to smuggle
(29:08):
food into the Monticello, New York camp she owns with
her family, something that's strictly forbidden since the contraband can
attract bugs and mice and cause allergic reactions. Sneaking food
outside food into camp summer camp is a tradition as
old as the Color War and canoeing. Generations of parents
and campers have rolled pringles tubes into towels, and stuffed
(29:32):
candy into tissue boxes and sliced open tennis balls. Campers
hide the goods in laundry bags, lock boxes in pillowcases.
One more a little bit before he discussed it got
so bad at Camp West Mountain, Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains this
year that administrator's email parents on the second day of
camp about the shocking abundance of food found in bunks
(29:53):
that could lead to an infestation of mice and allegedly
allergic reactions to nuts, which I think is probably overrated
these days, but I guess it's like an endemic problem
at summer camps, the kids insisting that their parents send
them cookies and candy and chips, and the parents doing it,
(30:13):
including buying a Harry Potter book, hollowing it out and
filling it with candy, M and MS. Specifically, why would
you do this for your kid? See this? And my
family were law abiding generally speaking, but both my mom
and dad would have said, no, it's out of the question.
(30:34):
It's a reasonable policy they have for a good reason. No,
I'm not sending you anything or just the time and effort.
I got other things to do than spend an hour.
How long would it take to hollow out a book
to put candy? Why do you need candy? Fill it
with M and MS? Then then go down to the
post office and put it in a box and ship
it and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
How about you go to camp and eat what they
give you and learn the last two weeks without pringles
you'll be fine and learn that a lot of life
is going to be like that.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
It all sounds like stuff you would do in prison. Yeah,
I know, each generation devises something new. Sites like Amazon
and Etsy offer modern smugglers cheap and easy access to
hollowed out bottles of sunblock and hairspray that are meant
to keep valuable save. Blah blah blah. We're on to you,
say the camp counselors. Wow, that's funny, Mike.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So my son did two boy Scout camps in which
there were some complaints about the food from all the scouts.
But to me, it was like, you know, getting a
lesson in what I was just talking about, you know,
learning to get by on what they give you, right,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I felt no need whatsoever to feel a figure out
a way to sneak in pringles well.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Right, and you know, the food back in the day
at the old college dorm was not exactly or may right.
But it's fine, you dealt with it. Of passage, it's
an incentive to do better in life, I think, but
I am.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But if somebody else's well, I suppose you know, if
you send your kid without that stuff, and the other
kids are eating Pringles and M and m's. But I'm
more annoyed by the parents who know the rules are
no electronics, but let their kid take their phone or whatever.
That That one drives me nuts.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
The tampon box was filled with chocolate bars and reglued
so it looked unopened.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Chocolate bars and tampons are kind of a perpetual motion machine.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It almost seems like, based on my experience, see what
your driving.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Check clock, GISs time stop.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Jack and Joe live, go go, and if they don't
give can they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Here's Joe's for final thoughts, Joe Getty. All right, let's
get a final thought from everybody in the crew. To
wrap up the day. There is Michaelangelo pressing the buttons. Michael,
my family never snucked food into camp, but we always
snuck food into the movie theaters. And that's different. That's
just being frugal.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They're changing you seven dollars for a bottle of water
and three dollars for candy bar and BRIDI thing.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
We always got caught though, because it's like Mexican food
with side dishes, and it's stuck up there.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
They set up a whole buffet. Yeah, Katie Greener Esteemed Newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
The go to movie theater food you sneak in is
always a sandwich and you can just put it in
the purse.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
A sandwich sandwich. Oh yeah, perse sandwich, love it yeah? Jack.
Final thought for us.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I ordered some of them Nazi jeans last commercial break,
so I'll be wearing my Oh look at my jeans,
blue eyed white supremacy American eagle jeans.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Here soon down with your fascist jeans? Nice? Nice. Here's
a mom first name and last proudly tells the paper
she taped airheads to the pages of books to make
her nine year old and eleven year old feel like
they're not really away from home.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I want my son to feel like he's away from home.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I want him to have that experience. It's interesting that
you want. I don't know. Okay, it's up to you.
But why do you want your kid eat more crap? Though?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Go to great links to make sure they get their
daily allotment of crap?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Deat. Here's a family that's that removed the stuffing from
a Teddy Bear and stuffed it full of candy. What
the hell? Is the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You're nuts and I'm you know I'm not perfect on
our eating habits, as all your.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Kids are gonna end up in prison. Armstrong in Getty
wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. There's a soccer
ball hollowed at what the hell? So many people? Thanks
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Drop us note mail bag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
We will see tomorrow at the News of the Day
and everything else. Gott bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
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Speaker 6 (34:54):
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