March 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Tornado hits FL & Kamala's latest word salad
- Canada PM talking tough
- Coincidence or cosmic experience & subsidizing food
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong and Getta and
he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is a look at the live camera of a
tornado which could be passing by our station right now.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Take shelter.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Everybody in the Fox tirty five building gets your safe space.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We're catching debris right now on the roof. We're hearing it.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You can see a debris flying there on the camera.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This is a tornado.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Seek shelter, immediately, get under your desks, guys, anchors, under
the desks. Okay, we got power flickering out.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
This is a confirmed tornado. Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I've been doing this for a very long time. That's
the first time with tornado. He's hit while I'm doing
the weather.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
You're not the captain of the Titanic. You're a meteorologist
at a local TV station. You don't need to go
down with the ship, do.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You no, Although, as you know, I was the tornado
anchor at the Mighty KSA l and Solana, Kansas.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Straight toward the window. You feel like it's your duty
as a broadcaster stay on it, even if it risks
your life. No, I wouldn't pale.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'd stay there on the mic, playing sadly on my
violin as the radio station blew away to OZ. He
makes several different movies together.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So I got a quick question before we get to
our latest word salad, which from Kamlos may or may
not include seed oil. So yes, seed oil is the
hitler of foods, as far as I can tell, according
to R. F. K. Junior, and people I know who
swear that they've eliminated seed oil and now their joints
feel better, and I don't know, they dance better, and
(01:55):
all kinds of it was.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wheat two years ago. It's just every couple of years.
Maybe it's everything, maybe eating, maybe being alive is fatal.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know. Are you Have you looked in I
haven't looked into it at all, So I get.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did a little quick search on it a few
weeks ago, I guess, and came away from it unsatisfied
and uninformed.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Sea oil is in practically everything. I understand. It's in
a lot of stuff. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Like I said, it's like you and climate change. I
looked into it, said all this stuff is conflicting. That
doesn't sound very scientific. I don't know what to think.
Click and I was done.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
There you go. Ultra process foods have lots of seed oil.
I guess it's anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And on that topic, I tell you what I came across,
something very very persuasive. We need to stop subsidizing our
junk food culture.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Right, Yeah, that is interesting. Yeah, so we'll talk about
that in a little bit. But we have to get this.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We have all our agriculture subsidies and everything set up
to continue what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I know, I know, And it's unholy.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And conservatives who including Trump, who yell about waste of
money and subsidies and handouts and the rest of it
for the farmers, that's fine. If there are good reasons
for that, just go ahead and tell us, and we'll
vote in favor of it, and Congress will too. But anyway,
if social security is the third rail of American politics,
(03:24):
farm subsidies are I don't know. Being pushed off of
the platform in front of the train. She'd have gotten
to this earlier in the day. It's so exciting. She
has gone, but not forgotten. Ladies and gentlemen, world class
lunghead almost the president. Good God help us Kamala Harris
at an AI conference. We'll play it then try to
figure out what the hell she's talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Clip sixteen.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Michael, So, I was willing to give up whatever might
be the trackings of Kamala Harris's particular.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Fondness for Nacho.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
She's Torito's for.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
The sake of getting a big bag of Dorito's.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
As I watched the oscars. That's the consumer behavior, and
that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
But here's the thing, at what point do we also
uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And
you can.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Debate with me if it should be a right.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I think it should to expect that the innovation would
also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems,
which are beyond my craving for Dorito's.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
She's a moron, I think is the key issue. I
think she's got a brain processing disorder. That first part
I'm going to assume made more sense in context, although
it might not have.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What would lead you toward that conclusion been.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
But then when she launched into her and got I'd
forgotten it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It was like.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Slipping into a comfortable old pair of shoes, remembering when
she changes her tone and she goes into that here
I go to lay on the real wisdom of things
that matter, and we cannot be unburdened by the.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Thing, you know, and she and I and I fall
for it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Every time I think, Okay, here, here, here, Okay, I'm
not quite track, Okay, you've lost me.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, I don't even know what we're doing now.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Every time, yeah, yeah, we used to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I can't remember. Can I still do?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But I seriously think she might have a brain processing
disorder where she can't organize thoughts, or she's an idiot.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time, as every day.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
She's in the wrong line of work. Class a Laurn.
We worked with a guy years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I won't use his real name because he was a
nice fella and doesn't deserve a kicking all these years
later if he's even still with us. But he was
a would be sportscaster.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Michael and I are both trying to guess, Oh, it's
somebody not here. No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We worked with him in Wichita years and years ago,
and again, could not have been a nicer fella.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And very bright.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
We weren't the nicest to him in retrospect, well, mocking
in person. In person, we were, but mocking his name
on the air every single day probably wasn't the nicest
thing to do.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It was funny. It made me laugh. It makes me
laugh right now. I'm we all fall short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Shut up Gavin speaking a lunkhead. No, he's not dumb,
he's just evil. Ah. And this is older, merciful, raised
three kids, seen pain and Joe, and I still think
it's funny. So anyway, but this guy, who again was
a terrific guy. He would be attempting to do a
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sports report like ad lived and he would say, and
a fourth inning home run by Johnson, who, of course
just recently arrived at the Wranglers from Oklahoma where he
went to college.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The Sooners, who are soon to be the.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Number sevent team in the nation thanks to their coaching
change of Edwards taking the helm there after his briefront
at San Jose State. And then he'd be like nine
tangents down the line. You couldn't even remember.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What sport you're talking about, or what game or what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The guy could not resist a tangent and actually, you
know what, there's somebody I know who is exceptionally bright
and not a moron who has that same problem. And
I keep wanting to say to him, Look, I know
you want to be an effective speaker. When you feel
yourself tempted to throw in that tangential thought, resist it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Resist it. You can get to it later. I think
I found him on social media. No, yeah, well I'm
glad he's still around.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I might and it's him, and it looks like him
and his wife, and they looked very happy together all
the way.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He does have a BLM thing on his Oh no,
I'm turning on him again. That's funny. I was thinking
of maybe calling him. I'm apologizing years later making fun
of his name every day.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He's either a neo Marxist or the sort of fool
who doesn't understand he's being manipulated by them.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It was a running joke, it was a gag. Everyone
was in on it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Everyone had fun except for him.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well he needs to lighten up, huh.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It was just good sporting fun for everyone.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
But the target is it often the case, Oh well,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I do to know what's happened to you? It was fine.
Maybe I have low t It was silly.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's not like we're calling him dumb ass Jones, true,
the world's worst.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It was a silly little nickname. You're right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
We called him Glaring Emo because it sounded kind of
like his name, But glaring Emu there was sports glaring Emu.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Right, It's as if his name was Gary.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, I don't know what the last name would
because I don't want to use his actual yes name,
but it sounded somewhat like glaring Emu.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, the look on his face every day when I
introduced him was not that he enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, he needed to lighten the hell in the entertainment business.
Glaring the new Canadian.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Prime Minister is talking talk, talking tough to the United States,
among other things.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
On the way, stay here.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
America is not Canada and Canada never ever will be
part of America in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
We didn't ask for this fight. We didn't ask for
this fight.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
The Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves,
so the Americans, they should make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
In trade.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
As in hockey, Canada will win.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Mark Karney, new Prime Minister of Canada sounding a lot
more alpha than the beta Justine Trudeau.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
More like a babe than a babe.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I uh er, I'm not sure that's a great it's
a great tone for domestic politics. I mean, it could
not be better for Canadians. I'm not sure I would
like threaten trumpet that.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I was thinking that too. It just seems like a
much better angle. I mean, because you are You're still
Canada and we're still the United States, and it just
seems like it'd be a good idea to say we
look forward to working with the Trump administration and starting
a new or something like that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Right, Yeah, do the tough stuff behind the scenes. Although
again I get it for domestic politics. I just the
whole we're out of nowhere dropping our gloves with Canada.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's just it's crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I wish Trump would explain what he's trying to do,
although that's part of his thing is to get everybody
so off guard because they don't know what the hell's
going on that he gets what he's looking.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
For well, and announced today he's doubling the tariffs on
Canada aluminum something else from twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Five to fifty fifty tariff.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I mean, if that doesnan change your business model, holy cow.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, and that could cause I mean, if it's if
it's good for the United States, we need to talk
about why it is, especially because they're a close trading
partner and Trump signed the trading deal with them. And
I've heard it characterized as you are stupid to trust us. Oh,
and I don't think that's entirely wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
No, And I mentioned this earlier. I was happy to.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
See you, and I was gonna say, and this could
this could cause serious, serious economic pain in Canada and
cause wounds that would take generations to close for not
clear reasons.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Why do you want your sons and daughters boots on
the ground in Calgary at.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Some point the big war comes goodness sake? I mentioned
this earlier.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Happy to see the New York Posts say the same
thing because it makes me feel smarter. The Post editorial board,
as Wall Street panics, Trump should share his Main Street
long term vision, come out and give a speech explaining
why this is a good idea and why people should
put up with some maybe semi serious economic pain for
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a long time to reshape the world the way Trump
things it needs to be maybe explaining it to people
would be a good idea. Also in the New York Post,
though Charles Gasparino would ignore the stock market Wall Street
dealing with painful detox from government spending addiction and making
the argument that, yeah, well, we kind of got our
whole economy used to a certain amount of government spending
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in this and that, and it's going to be hard unwinded,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And global free trade which served corporations and not workers.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh, yeah, it's going to be a detox from that too.
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm not blind to that, but you've got to do
the right thing in the right way.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So I don't I've never read much about economics. It's
not my preferred area of study like some other things are.
But so maybe this is obvious to a lot of people.
But I was reading Scott Linsekm in the Dispatch yesterday
talking about why one of the reasons lefties generally are
the people that really like tariffs to try to reshape
the world the big government crowd is because it always
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ends up being a you do favors to certain companies
or certain aspects of the economy and don't include tariffs
for them, it's a better way for the government to
get really involved in the private sector. You announce the tariffs,
and then except for you, except for you, except for
you who donate to our party, blah blah blah, and
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some accusation of that's already happened with Trump and the
car companies.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I think it has to some extent. And it's also
got an aspect of it'd be a shame of something
nasty happened to your sector of the economy.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Right, Maybe a little support in the next election, Yeah,
if one if one guy. So far we've only had
men presidents.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
If some guy can immediately say tariffs are back on.
If you come out boldly against something.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You're gonna keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, Yeah, Which doesn't mean it's not a good idea
to cut the government spending and reform trade in some ways,
so we're not dependent on China in particular. It's just,
you know, it's one of those all of these things
are true at once situations, which makes it harder to
yell at each other online since.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
There are subtleties here. But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Hey, one other complicated thing. They we had some Marco
Ruby's in Saudi Arabia, and they're still trying to renegotiate
or restart the Ukrainian Russia peace talks or were there ever.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Russia Ukraine peace talks? Have there been?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Does Russia have any interests going? Does Russia have any
interest in stopping?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Not if we're disarming Ukraine and holding back on intelligence.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, they will keep grinding anyway. I keep saying, I'm
reading this book thirteen days in uh. It's about the
Middle East peace process back in nineteen seventy eight, Egypt Israel, Carter, Began,
Saddad any who. It's amazing behind the scenes stuff on
these sorts of deals. How much of it comes down
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to individual personalities in their quirks. You can talk about
all kinds of giant tectonic plates and pieces and this
and that, but a lot of it is just Carter
trying to schmooth Saddad and then go over to Began's
little hut there at Camp David, and Began's mad about
something that happened thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And just.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
There's a lot of that that you don't understand behind
the scenes. You don't understand as you're watching it unfold.
You don't find out for decades later that that was
the hold up.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think we need an exception of the
First Amendment to outlaw titles like thirteen days because it's
supposed to be intriguing. But to me, it's just I
have no idea what the books about. It might be
about the Green Bay Packers getting ready for Super Bowl
number one. It might have been about the last two
weeks of filming apocalypse now, I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It could be leading up to someone's wedding, right right indeed.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, so it's got to be Carter's efforts to bring
Bagan and Sitat together in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That needs to be the title.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
So Dots, one of his main advisors, was a complete
crazy person, I mean completely freaking fruit loops and nuts
and couldn't.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Help and trying to figure out how to deal with that.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
He claimed he could stop his heart beat with his
mind at one of the big at one of the
big get togethers where they're trying to talk about peace,
I can stop my herbie.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh yeh, I've been able to do it for years. Like,
how do you deal with somebody like that?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why are we subsidizing fast food junk food that more
to come, stay.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
With us, are strong and any research suggest that men
with stronger sperm may live longer than men with weaker sperm.
So you know what that means, Dick Van Dyke buss rackets?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh my god, what with the what that's the worst
term out?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, Michael, we gotta we gotta approve these jokes before
they write the air.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Michael, I'm sorry about that. Wow, that is highly unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh why are we subsidizing junk food and ruining people's
health at taxpayer expense?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Coming up in a moment or.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Two quickly, though, I would like to know from everybody,
and don't worry what I think the question is cosmic
significance or coincidence. Very brief story. Jack knows this story.
I texted him yesterday. Heard a song I haven't heard
a long time. Loved it back in the day, love
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it even more now, listen to it twenty five times
working on a cover version. I mean, I've fallen in
love with this song like I'm a teenager. So I
start to think, you know, I was aware of this band,
and I'm not going to tell you who because it's
a distraction.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
It doesn't matter. But I thought you know, I was
aware of them, but I wasn't exactly into a show.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It's Harry Styles.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It is Harry Styles, and I'm now wearing a skirt
as we speak.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But no. And so I thought I should listen to
some of their other music and dig into it. And
I didn't. I thought, oh my god, I love this.
This is great.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's like I'm discovering a new band, except they're an
old band and just you know, really fun, accessible but
weird songs in a way, and the tune and full
blah blah blah. And so I started to think, because
I do this occasionally, I will reach out to people
whose careers have waned or are over, and I'll find
him online or whatever, and I'll just say, hey, I
want you to know I've discovered your music and sorry
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I wasn't there originally, but people are still discovering it
and loving it, and you did some great work and
best wishes. And I thought that I should do it
to the guy who was essentially the entire band.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
He wrote the songs, he was the band.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And I just clicked around online and found out he
had died precisely a year ago yesterday, at age sixty
six from a stroke, and I was I'd spent the
day full of admiration for the guy in wanting to
reach out to him before I figure that out. Coincidence
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or cosmic significance, something to do with the universe and
life after death, or he's a psychic power, his musician
ghost spirit thing is out there floating around. Was aware
that Hey, somebody's really digging my music or would dig
my music, or I'm gonna I'm going to reignite his
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muse to pursue his music or something like that. Or
is it just you know, there's only three hundred and
sixty five days in the year, or it's a one
in three sixty five and he passed last year.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I had a feeling, Katie that you would you would
crush my joy.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Mike, I think, oh, that's right. I wasn't going to
rejudic itse the argument, what, Michael, coincidence? I think, yeah, yeah,
it's weird. Though it isn't weird. That's very strange.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I decide I'm going to reach out to a guy
who I haven't thought about really ever, died a year
ago today.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Wow coincidence? Yeah? Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough, Well,
I see, I got one of those. Here come the
angry emails. I got one of those, sort of similar.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I bought this mandolin many many years ago that I
really liked, and like, I started doing some research into
the dude who made it and everything like that. Oh cool,
he was killed by a drunk driver the day I
quit drinking. Oh well, I thought that's gotta be something.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Doesn't it. And now you cherish the instrument.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah, also a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yes, clearly mine was weird and cosmic? Heurious is I
don't know? Okay, your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Mail bag and armstrong in getty dot com or if
you'd prefer to text four one five nine five KFTC.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Well, it's kind of interesting because I absolutely one one
hundred percent a believer that there's something beyond our lives,
Like one hundred percent. I'm gonna be so disappointed if
I'm wrong, which is kind.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Of a funny phrase paradox.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, but I'm one hundred percent, Like I don't have
any doubt whatsoever that there is something else. I don't
know what it is, but there's something else, And I
don't know why I don't have any doubt. But if
I do believe that. Then then why not there's something
you know, try to get in touch with us or
influences now, and why not?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But why would that Whatever that connection was, And as
a musician and.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Somebody obsessed with music, it was more powerful than oh
that's a nice tune because I was really appreciated. I
read all about the guy's careers and the ups and
downs and his health problems and stuff like that. That's
how I had to reach out to this guy. It
was like a human, you know, compassion connection thing. But
to assume that it's something cosmic would be also to
assume that like that sort of thing observes the Julian
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calendar or you know, or like is big on anniversaries
like on March ninth, the cosmos didn't give a crap
whether I connected with this.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Guy nor today on the eleventh.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So I have no problem with attaching significance to these
sorts of things. At the same time, it is true
that like people overreact to running into somebody who's got
the same birthday as them. Yes, when just mathematically, if
you're in a room full of three, six and fifty people,
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there are.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A lot of people in.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
There with the same birthday as you just statistically right
and it shouldn't be that shocking.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, yeah, and you know, one final note and then
we can move on. Is that human beings. It's an adaptation.
We try to find patterns. Og crouched at the edge
of the pond and an alligator ate him. Oog crunch
crouched at the edge of the pond, and an alligator
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ate him. I am starting to think crouching by the
edge of the pond is a bad idea. That's we
do that. Our brains are made to work with that
work like that. The problem is that explains all of superstition.
Every time, you know, somebody fails to to throw salt
in the air and chant to ooga booga, we have
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a bad crop because people are looking for patterns.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Anyway, the name of this podcast hands and Joe doesn't
believe in God.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And or Joe is really high and wants to talk
about cosmic crap. Either way, your choice. I'm not, but
so I thought this was so interesting. This is a
classic example of the government reality that you wonder how
the hell did this get going? And let's see John
Fund wrote this for what it's worth. A good policy
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idea can languish for years, even decades, before it's suddenly
pushed forward with the right timing proposal to and federal
subsidies of unhealthy junk food is an idea whose time
has come. The most frequently purchased item by the forty
one a million Americans who benefit from the SNAP programs,
that's food stamps, essentially, the most frequently purchased item is
(24:58):
so depop Wow, end it today?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Sugary? Freaking end it today? God dang it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
So the endless ads about kids going hungry, how can
they learn when they're hungry? The number one purchase thing
is freaking pop well, And the obesity problem is especially
among the poor and food deserts, and the reason is
because they don't have grocery stores. You're you're using your
Snap money on pop primarily because you got plenty of food.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's why you do that. And if you're starving, you
would be using on pop.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Almost a quarter of food stamp dollars are used to
buy foods such as sweetened beverages, candy, desserts, and salty
snacks okay, tater chips, et cetera. Not surprisingly, the adults
who are on Snap have a higher obesity rate than
those with similar incomes who are not. A stunning forty
two percent of American adults are obese, and much of
our gargantuan government spending aimed at battling diabetes, heart disease,
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and chronic conditions is driven by the fact and we're
subsidizing the foods that do Did you.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Already say this, The snap is in the Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Uh? No, is it? I don't actually know that at all.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Better, Well, let's see two Cabinet secretaries r of k
Junior at the Department of Health and Human Services and
Brook Rollins at the Agriculture Department appear to be targeting
junk food. Yeah, I'm sure it is under the Agriculture Department.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Our most socialized portion of our government, and totally under
the radar. Nobody talks about her, nobody votes on it. Yeah, wow,
that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Let's see Rollins, who's the agriculture guy. Girl whoops Brook
to what from lady driving the tractor of the government.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She's from small town, Wisconsin or something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And and that was at Joe Clady's us whether wonders
whether we should quote be using tax dollars to feed
really bad food and sugary drinks to children who perhaps
need something more nutritious.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Jay Batticharia Stanford, one of the heroes of covid enslavement
resistance and about to be the head of the National
Institute's Health, was lead author of a paper that estimated
that cutting out sugary drinks from the food stamp program
would save one hundred and forty one thousand kids from
obesity and two hundred and eighty one thousand adults from
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type two diabetes. I don't know what the timetable involved
there was, but Jay is a straight shooter, and I
admire the hell out of them.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
The high cost of good intentions, that is something and
just the whole thing. The most worn out phrase from
people who talk about politics and government is if the
Founding Fathers were alive today. But seriously, I'd like to
have the Founding Fathers alive and on different sides of
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the isle there, you know, Adam Z and Jefferson and whatever,
and tell them all the things the government is into.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And see how they react.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
They'd have to be no, no, no, no, that'll never work,
that'll never last.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You can't do the again.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
We have the government involved in every aspect of your
life like this, and redistributing wealth like this, and deciding
who eats what.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And George Washington would slap you with the broad side
of his sword if you're lucky, or.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Maybe he'll reach out to you in your dreams. Ooga booga, booga. Wow.
I believe that was mockery.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So such estimates explain why at least ten states are
moving to ask Secretary Rawlins to let them end to
federal subsidies of unhealthy foods. You get the argument from
the left of oh my god, you're gonna micromanage what
people eat just because they're poor. It's insulting and humiliating
to the poor and making them jump through hoops and
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Now, I don't even think it will be that. If
you're just cutting back on the food program from hungry children,
what could be more evil than that? Leaving out the
fact that the number one purchase thing is pop This.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Reminds me of the infamous example not too long ago
where the government was spending whatever it was, ten million
dollars to promoe people eating more cheese and simultaneously spending
ten million dollars to discourage people from eating cheese. This
is the same sort of thing, but with much higher
human consequence. We're subsidizing the foods that make them obese
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and then desperately spend money to help them with their obesity.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Hey, we had an interesting Joe brought us some interesting
stuff about the legal pot business. Earlier, we got a
text from somebody who was in the legal pop business.
It's really interesting, that kind of counterintuitive. I think, similar
to the Snap program, mostly making sure poor people can
get fat drinking pop.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
What.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
We got a lot on the way. We'll finished strong.
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I've got a couple of things jam in here at
the end. If I just come across all of them,
I find verdi are interesting. I just came across this
idea of getting a bathroom divorce. A bathroom divorce is
seems like a pretty good idea if you can ford
it depending on your lifestyle needs or whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I mean, if you got multiple bathrooms.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Obviously, it's the idea of this is your bathroom, this
is my bathroom, and we don't use each other's bathrooms.
And there's just this article about how that's made some
married couples much happier.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
The bathroom divorce.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
What's the main bone of contention, man, Well, I think
it's fairly obvious that in generally speaking, men are not
as tidy as women. And one of the wife would
like the bathroom to be cleaner, and the dude might
look like, I'm not cleaning this up because I care
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about it.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I'm cleaning, but because I want to make sure she's happy.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If you have your own bathroom and just do your
own thing, I don't know, try the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Divorce if you're having problems with that.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I mostly grew up in one bathroom homes, so everybody
just had to figure it out, I mentioned earlier in
the show. Then I was considering buying a cyberbeast, which
is the cyber truck that has three motors in it
so it's extra fast and you can drive over a
you know, priuses or whatever, and if you so choose,
(31:12):
because it's I was looking at this story. So Tesla
dealership in San Diego charging stations ELI is Elon is
Nazi scum.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
They spray painted all over it.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Damages to Tesla dealerships and charging stations skyrocketing all around
the world, not just the United States. Why is the
rest of the globe taking on Tesla like that because
some of the things Elon's saying about Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Don't know. I don't know either, but case by case,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I was talking about getting a cyberbeast with a personalized
plate that says doge on it because it's becoming such
a statement.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I guess for a certain crowd.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I don't know how many people attach politics to their
cars like this, but this might actually become a thing,
like a significant thing with one of the most valuable
companies in the world. It's one of the what do
they call the seven Dwarves or the seven giants or
whatever that dominate the stock market over the last several years, Google, Apple, Facebook, right,
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you know all them videos and Tesla is one of them.
And currently I was just looking at the market cap
as of today, Tesla is worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Honda, Ford,
and Chevy added together.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
No, yes, it's so in say it'll be a thing,
you mean, attacks on Tesla and Tesla dealers and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I think it's gonna really affect the sales.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I mean, I it.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Was it was mostly a carp mostly purchased by lefties.
I don't think they're going to buy him anymore. At
some point. It's just anti Trump hatret.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
This whatever it is. The stock's down fifty percent since December.
I don't know if this is going to turn around.
Its final thought?
Speaker 8 (33:09):
How bys so well your comments and tinas yess closure
for the.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Show is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty stirring, Let's
get a final thought from everybody on the crew to
wrap up the show.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
There is our technical director, Michael Aangelo. Michael final thought.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, last week I called a friend I hadn't talked
to in a year, and I had to go to
Costco that day.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It turns out he had to go to Costco as well.
Coincidence or universe.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Stock cosmic significance clearly, Yes, that's amazing. Katie Green are
esteemed newswoman. Has a final thought, Katie, hef.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
You good Armstrong on getty dot com.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
I have a brand new Katie's Corner up today with
some fun videos and stuff, pictures and photos that we
talked about.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Excellent.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Jack a final thought for us, continuing my thought with
the old Tesla, saying, I don't know if normal past
economic ways of looking at stocks. You know, what's their
profit and expense and blah blah blah, like you'd have
done General Motors fifty years ago. Because now Republicans might
rush in and buy Tesla stock for their virtue signal
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and keep it up or something.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
In a way that I don't know. These are odd times.
I don't know if you've noticed.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
My final thought is, man, you go online. The propagandists
and disinformationers are as skilled as the people tell them
the truth. On some topics, it's nearly impossible to figure
out what's what way.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Which will lead to a lot of people checking out,
which is not good for the evil doers we will
see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
God bless America. I'm strong and getty. So what's different
with you? Well, I would say this a mattoi. You
appends I'm not going to jump in. You made it right,
moders riding a long time?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yep, absolutely, So let's go with the bingle.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
He's a bit limp of wrist and delicate of panty
and feathery of hair. Does that make him a bad leader?
So he's a soy somewhat lace of undergarments. It's all
very much armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
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the first time with tornado. He's hit while I'm doing
the weather.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
You're not the captain of the Titanic. You're a meteorologist
at a local TV station. You don't need to go
down with the ship, do.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You no, Although, as you know, I was the tornado
anchor at the Mighty KSA l and Solana, Kansas.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Straight toward the window. You feel like it's your duty
as a broadcaster stay on it, even if it risks
your life. No, I wouldn't pale.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'd stay there on the mic, playing sadly on my
violin as the radio station blew away to OZ. He
makes several different movies together.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
So I got a quick question before we get to
our latest word salad, which from Kamlos may or may
not include seed oil. So yes, seed oil is the
hitler of foods, as far as I can tell, according
to R. F. K. Junior, and people I know who
swear that they've eliminated seed oil and now their joints
feel better, and I don't know, they dance better, and
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all kinds of it was.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wheat two years ago. It's just every couple of years.
Maybe it's everything, maybe eating, maybe being alive is fatal.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know. Are you Have you looked in I
haven't looked into it at all, So I get.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did a little quick search on it a few
weeks ago, I guess, and came away from it unsatisfied
and uninformed.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Sea oil is in practically everything. I understand. It's in
a lot of stuff. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Like I said, it's like you and climate change. I
looked into it, said all this stuff is conflicting. That
doesn't sound very scientific. I don't know what to think.
Click and I was done.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
There you go. Ultra process foods have lots of seed oil.
I guess it's anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And on that topic, I tell you what I came across,
something very very persuasive. We need to stop subsidizing our
junk food culture.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Right, Yeah, that is interesting. Yeah, so we'll talk about
that in a little bit. But we have to get this.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We have all our agriculture subsidies and everything set up
to continue what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I know, I know, And it's unholy.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And conservatives who including Trump, who yell about waste of
money and subsidies and handouts and the rest of it
for the farmers, that's fine. If there are good reasons
for that, just go ahead and tell us, and we'll
vote in favor of it, and Congress will too. But anyway,
if social security is the third rail of American politics,
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farm subsidies are I don't know. Being pushed off of
the platform in front of the train. She'd have gotten
to this earlier in the day. It's so exciting. She
has gone, but not forgotten. Ladies and gentlemen, world class
lunghead almost the president. Good God help us Kamala Harris
at an AI conference. We'll play it then try to
figure out what the hell she's talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Clip sixteen.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Michael, So, I was willing to give up whatever might
be the trackings of Kamala Harris's particular.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Fondness for Nacho.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
She's Torito's for.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
The sake of getting a big bag of Dorito's.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
As I watched the oscars. That's the consumer behavior, and
that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
But here's the thing, at what point do we also
uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And
you can.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Debate with me if it should be a right.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I think it should to expect that the innovation would
also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems,
which are beyond my craving for Dorito's.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
She's a moron, I think is the key issue. I
think she's got a brain processing disorder. That first part
I'm going to assume made more sense in context, although
it might not have.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What would lead you toward that conclusion been.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
But then when she launched into her and got I'd
forgotten it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It was like.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Slipping into a comfortable old pair of shoes, remembering when
she changes her tone and she goes into that here
I go to lay on the real wisdom of things
that matter, and we cannot be unburdened by the.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Thing, you know, and she and I and I fall
for it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Every time I think, Okay, here, here, here, Okay, I'm
not quite track, Okay, you've lost me.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, I don't even know what we're doing now.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Every time, yeah, yeah, we used to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I can't remember. Can I still do?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But I seriously think she might have a brain processing
disorder where she can't organize thoughts, or she's an idiot.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
It is time for us to do what we have
been doing in that time, as every day.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
She's in the wrong line of work. Class a Laurn.
We worked with a guy years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I won't use his real name because he was a
nice fella and doesn't deserve a kicking all these years
later if he's even still with us. But he was
a would be sportscaster.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Michael and I are both trying to guess, Oh, it's
somebody not here. No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We worked with him in Wichita years and years ago,
and again, could not have been a nicer fella.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And very bright.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
We weren't the nicest to him in retrospect, well, mocking
in person. In person, we were, but mocking his name
on the air every single day probably wasn't the nicest
thing to do.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It was funny. It made me laugh. It makes me
laugh right now. I'm we all fall short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Shut up Gavin speaking a lunkhead. No, he's not dumb,
he's just evil. Ah. And this is older, merciful, raised
three kids, seen pain and Joe, and I still think
it's funny. So anyway, but this guy, who again was
a terrific guy. He would be attempting to do a
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sports report like ad lived and he would say, and
a fourth inning home run by Johnson, who, of course
just recently arrived at the Wranglers from Oklahoma where he
went to college.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
The Sooners, who are soon to be the.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Number sevent team in the nation thanks to their coaching
change of Edwards taking the helm there after his briefront
at San Jose State. And then he'd be like nine
tangents down the line. You couldn't even remember.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What sport you're talking about, or what game or what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The guy could not resist a tangent and actually, you
know what, there's somebody I know who is exceptionally bright
and not a moron who has that same problem. And
I keep wanting to say to him, Look, I know
you want to be an effective speaker. When you feel
yourself tempted to throw in that tangential thought, resist it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Resist it. You can get to it later. I think
I found him on social media. No, yeah, well I'm
glad he's still around.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I might and it's him, and it looks like him
and his wife, and they looked very happy together all
the way.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He does have a BLM thing on his Oh no,
I'm turning on him again. That's funny. I was thinking
of maybe calling him. I'm apologizing years later making fun
of his name every day.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He's either a neo Marxist or the sort of fool
who doesn't understand he's being manipulated by them.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It was a running joke, it was a gag. Everyone
was in on it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Everyone had fun except for him.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well he needs to lighten up, huh.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It was just good sporting fun for everyone.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
But the target is it often the case, Oh well,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I do to know what's happened to you? It was fine.
Maybe I have low t It was silly.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's not like we're calling him dumb ass Jones, true,
the world's worst.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It was a silly little nickname. You're right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
We called him Glaring Emo because it sounded kind of
like his name, But glaring Emu there was sports glaring Emu.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Right, It's as if his name was Gary.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know, I don't know what the last name would
because I don't want to use his actual yes name,
but it sounded somewhat like glaring Emu.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, the look on his face every day when I
introduced him was not that he enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, he needed to lighten the hell in the entertainment business.
Glaring the new Canadian.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Prime Minister is talking talk, talking tough to the United States,
among other things.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
On the way, stay here.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
America is not Canada and Canada never ever will be
part of America in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
We didn't ask for this fight. We didn't ask for
this fight.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
The Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves,
so the Americans, they should make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
In trade.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
As in hockey, Canada will win.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Mark Karney, new Prime Minister of Canada sounding a lot
more alpha than the beta Justine Trudeau.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
More like a babe than a babe.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I uh er, I'm not sure that's a great it's
a great tone for domestic politics. I mean, it could
not be better for Canadians. I'm not sure I would
like threaten trumpet that.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I was thinking that too. It just seems like a
much better angle. I mean, because you are You're still
Canada and we're still the United States, and it just
seems like it'd be a good idea to say we
look forward to working with the Trump administration and starting
a new or something like that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Right, Yeah, do the tough stuff behind the scenes. Although
again I get it for domestic politics. I just the
whole we're out of nowhere dropping our gloves with Canada.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's just it's crazy. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I wish Trump would explain what he's trying to do,
although that's part of his thing is to get everybody
so off guard because they don't know what the hell's
going on that he gets what he's looking.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
For well, and announced today he's doubling the tariffs on
Canada aluminum something else from twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Five to fifty fifty tariff.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I mean, if that doesnan change your business model, holy cow.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, and that could cause I mean, if it's if
it's good for the United States, we need to talk
about why it is, especially because they're a close trading
partner and Trump signed the trading deal with them. And
I've heard it characterized as you are stupid to trust us. Oh,
and I don't think that's entirely wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
No, And I mentioned this earlier. I was happy to.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
See you, and I was gonna say, and this could
this could cause serious, serious economic pain in Canada and
cause wounds that would take generations to close for not
clear reasons.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Why do you want your sons and daughters boots on
the ground in Calgary at.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Some point the big war comes goodness sake? I mentioned
this earlier.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Happy to see the New York Posts say the same
thing because it makes me feel smarter. The Post editorial board,
as Wall Street panics, Trump should share his Main Street
long term vision, come out and give a speech explaining
why this is a good idea and why people should
put up with some maybe semi serious economic pain for
(12:40):
a long time to reshape the world the way Trump
things it needs to be maybe explaining it to people
would be a good idea. Also in the New York Post,
though Charles Gasparino would ignore the stock market Wall Street
dealing with painful detox from government spending addiction and making
the argument that, yeah, well, we kind of got our
whole economy used to a certain amount of government spending
(13:02):
in this and that, and it's going to be hard unwinded,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
And global free trade which served corporations and not workers.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh, yeah, it's going to be a detox from that too.
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm not blind to that, but you've got to do
the right thing in the right way.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So I don't I've never read much about economics. It's
not my preferred area of study like some other things are.
But so maybe this is obvious to a lot of people.
But I was reading Scott Linsekm in the Dispatch yesterday
talking about why one of the reasons lefties generally are
the people that really like tariffs to try to reshape
the world the big government crowd is because it always
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ends up being a you do favors to certain companies
or certain aspects of the economy and don't include tariffs
for them, it's a better way for the government to
get really involved in the private sector. You announce the tariffs,
and then except for you, except for you, except for
you who donate to our party, blah blah blah, and
(14:01):
some accusation of that's already happened with Trump and the
car companies.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I think it has to some extent. And it's also
got an aspect of it'd be a shame of something
nasty happened to your sector of the economy.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Right, Maybe a little support in the next election, Yeah,
if one if one guy. So far we've only had
men presidents.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
If some guy can immediately say tariffs are back on.
If you come out boldly against something.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You're gonna keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, Yeah, Which doesn't mean it's not a good idea
to cut the government spending and reform trade in some ways,
so we're not dependent on China in particular. It's just,
you know, it's one of those all of these things
are true at once situations, which makes it harder to
yell at each other online since.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
There are subtleties here. But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Hey, one other complicated thing. They we had some Marco
Ruby's in Saudi Arabia, and they're still trying to renegotiate
or restart the Ukrainian Russia peace talks or were there ever.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Russia Ukraine peace talks? Have there been?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Does Russia have any interests going? Does Russia have any
interest in stopping?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Not if we're disarming Ukraine and holding back on intelligence.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, they will keep grinding anyway. I keep saying, I'm
reading this book thirteen days in uh. It's about the
Middle East peace process back in nineteen seventy eight, Egypt Israel, Carter, Began,
Saddad any who. It's amazing behind the scenes stuff on
these sorts of deals. How much of it comes down
(15:40):
to individual personalities in their quirks. You can talk about
all kinds of giant tectonic plates and pieces and this
and that, but a lot of it is just Carter
trying to schmooth Saddad and then go over to Began's
little hut there at Camp David, and Began's mad about
something that happened thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And just.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
There's a lot of that that you don't understand behind
the scenes. You don't understand as you're watching it unfold.
You don't find out for decades later that that was
the hold up.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think we need an exception of the
First Amendment to outlaw titles like thirteen days because it's
supposed to be intriguing. But to me, it's just I
have no idea what the books about. It might be
about the Green Bay Packers getting ready for Super Bowl
number one. It might have been about the last two
weeks of filming apocalypse now, I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It could be leading up to someone's wedding, right right indeed.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, so it's got to be Carter's efforts to bring
Bagan and Sitat together in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That needs to be the title.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
So Dots, one of his main advisors, was a complete
crazy person, I mean completely freaking fruit loops and nuts
and couldn't.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Help and trying to figure out how to deal with that.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
He claimed he could stop his heart beat with his
mind at one of the big at one of the
big get togethers where they're trying to talk about peace,
I can stop my herbie.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh yeh, I've been able to do it for years. Like,
how do you deal with somebody like that?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why are we subsidizing fast food junk food that more
to come, stay.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
With us, are strong and any research suggest that men
with stronger sperm may live longer than men with weaker sperm.
So you know what that means, Dick Van Dyke buss rackets?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh my god, what with the what that's the worst
term out?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, Michael, we gotta we gotta approve these jokes before
they write the air.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Michael, I'm sorry about that. Wow, that is highly unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh why are we subsidizing junk food and ruining people's
health at taxpayer expense?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Coming up in a moment or.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Two quickly, though, I would like to know from everybody,
and don't worry what I think the question is cosmic
significance or coincidence. Very brief story. Jack knows this story.
I texted him yesterday. Heard a song I haven't heard
a long time. Loved it back in the day, love
(18:14):
it even more now, listen to it twenty five times
working on a cover version. I mean, I've fallen in
love with this song like I'm a teenager. So I
start to think, you know, I was aware of this band,
and I'm not going to tell you who because it's
a distraction.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
It doesn't matter. But I thought you know, I was
aware of them, but I wasn't exactly into a show.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It's Harry Styles.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It is Harry Styles, and I'm now wearing a skirt
as we speak.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But no. And so I thought I should listen to
some of their other music and dig into it. And
I didn't. I thought, oh my god, I love this.
This is great.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's like I'm discovering a new band, except they're an
old band and just you know, really fun, accessible but
weird songs in a way, and the tune and full
blah blah blah. And so I started to think, because
I do this occasionally, I will reach out to people
whose careers have waned or are over, and I'll find
him online or whatever, and I'll just say, hey, I
want you to know I've discovered your music and sorry
(19:05):
I wasn't there originally, but people are still discovering it
and loving it, and you did some great work and
best wishes. And I thought that I should do it
to the guy who was essentially the entire band.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
He wrote the songs, he was the band.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And I just clicked around online and found out he
had died precisely a year ago yesterday, at age sixty
six from a stroke, and I was I'd spent the
day full of admiration for the guy in wanting to
reach out to him before I figure that out. Coincidence
(19:41):
or cosmic significance, something to do with the universe and
life after death, or he's a psychic power, his musician
ghost spirit thing is out there floating around. Was aware
that Hey, somebody's really digging my music or would dig
my music, or I'm gonna I'm going to reignite his
(20:02):
muse to pursue his music or something like that. Or
is it just you know, there's only three hundred and
sixty five days in the year, or it's a one
in three sixty five and he passed last year.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I had a feeling, Katie that you would you would
crush my joy.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Mike, I think, oh, that's right. I wasn't going to
rejudic itse the argument, what, Michael, coincidence? I think, yeah, yeah,
it's weird. Though it isn't weird. That's very strange.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I decide I'm going to reach out to a guy
who I haven't thought about really ever, died a year
ago today.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Wow coincidence? Yeah? Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough, Well,
I see, I got one of those. Here come the
angry emails. I got one of those, sort of similar.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I bought this mandolin many many years ago that I
really liked, and like, I started doing some research into
the dude who made it and everything like that. Oh cool,
he was killed by a drunk driver the day I
quit drinking. Oh well, I thought that's gotta be something.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Doesn't it. And now you cherish the instrument.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah, also a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yes, clearly mine was weird and cosmic? Heurious is I
don't know? Okay, your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Mail bag and armstrong in getty dot com or if
you'd prefer to text four one five nine five KFTC.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Well, it's kind of interesting because I absolutely one one
hundred percent a believer that there's something beyond our lives,
Like one hundred percent. I'm gonna be so disappointed if
I'm wrong, which is kind.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Of a funny phrase paradox.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, but I'm one hundred percent, Like I don't have
any doubt whatsoever that there is something else. I don't
know what it is, but there's something else, And I
don't know why I don't have any doubt. But if
I do believe that. Then then why not there's something
you know, try to get in touch with us or
influences now, and why not?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But why would that Whatever that connection was, And as
a musician and.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Somebody obsessed with music, it was more powerful than oh
that's a nice tune because I was really appreciated. I
read all about the guy's careers and the ups and
downs and his health problems and stuff like that. That's
how I had to reach out to this guy. It
was like a human, you know, compassion connection thing. But
to assume that it's something cosmic would be also to
assume that like that sort of thing observes the Julian
(22:35):
calendar or you know, or like is big on anniversaries
like on March ninth, the cosmos didn't give a crap
whether I connected with this.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Guy nor today on the eleventh.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
So I have no problem with attaching significance to these
sorts of things. At the same time, it is true
that like people overreact to running into somebody who's got
the same birthday as them. Yes, when just mathematically, if
you're in a room full of three, six and fifty people,
(23:11):
there are.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A lot of people in.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
There with the same birthday as you just statistically right
and it shouldn't be that shocking.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, yeah, and you know, one final note and then
we can move on. Is that human beings. It's an adaptation.
We try to find patterns. Og crouched at the edge
of the pond and an alligator ate him. Oog crunch
crouched at the edge of the pond, and an alligator
(23:43):
ate him. I am starting to think crouching by the
edge of the pond is a bad idea. That's we
do that. Our brains are made to work with that
work like that. The problem is that explains all of superstition.
Every time, you know, somebody fails to to throw salt
in the air and chant to ooga booga, we have
(24:03):
a bad crop because people are looking for patterns.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Anyway, the name of this podcast hands and Joe doesn't
believe in God.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And or Joe is really high and wants to talk
about cosmic crap. Either way, your choice. I'm not, but
so I thought this was so interesting. This is a
classic example of the government reality that you wonder how
the hell did this get going? And let's see John
Fund wrote this for what it's worth. A good policy
(24:36):
idea can languish for years, even decades, before it's suddenly
pushed forward with the right timing proposal to and federal
subsidies of unhealthy junk food is an idea whose time
has come. The most frequently purchased item by the forty
one a million Americans who benefit from the SNAP programs,
that's food stamps, essentially, the most frequently purchased item is
(24:58):
so depop Wow, end it today?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Sugary? Freaking end it today? God dang it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
So the endless ads about kids going hungry, how can
they learn when they're hungry? The number one purchase thing
is freaking pop well, And the obesity problem is especially
among the poor and food deserts, and the reason is
because they don't have grocery stores. You're you're using your
Snap money on pop primarily because you got plenty of food.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's why you do that. And if you're starving, you
would be using on pop.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Almost a quarter of food stamp dollars are used to
buy foods such as sweetened beverages, candy, desserts, and salty
snacks okay, tater chips, et cetera. Not surprisingly, the adults
who are on Snap have a higher obesity rate than
those with similar incomes who are not. A stunning forty
two percent of American adults are obese, and much of
our gargantuan government spending aimed at battling diabetes, heart disease,
(25:54):
and chronic conditions is driven by the fact and we're
subsidizing the foods that do Did you.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Already say this, The snap is in the Department of Agriculture.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Uh? No, is it? I don't actually know that at all.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Better, Well, let's see two Cabinet secretaries r of k
Junior at the Department of Health and Human Services and
Brook Rollins at the Agriculture Department appear to be targeting
junk food. Yeah, I'm sure it is under the Agriculture Department.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Our most socialized portion of our government, and totally under
the radar. Nobody talks about her, nobody votes on it. Yeah, wow,
that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Let's see Rollins, who's the agriculture guy. Girl whoops Brook
to what from lady driving the tractor of the government.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She's from small town, Wisconsin or something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And and that was at Joe Clady's us whether wonders
whether we should quote be using tax dollars to feed
really bad food and sugary drinks to children who perhaps
need something more nutritious.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Jay Batticharia Stanford, one of the heroes of covid enslavement
resistance and about to be the head of the National
Institute's Health, was lead author of a paper that estimated
that cutting out sugary drinks from the food stamp program
would save one hundred and forty one thousand kids from
obesity and two hundred and eighty one thousand adults from
(27:19):
type two diabetes. I don't know what the timetable involved
there was, but Jay is a straight shooter, and I
admire the hell out of them.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
The high cost of good intentions, that is something and
just the whole thing. The most worn out phrase from
people who talk about politics and government is if the
Founding Fathers were alive today. But seriously, I'd like to
have the Founding Fathers alive and on different sides of
(27:47):
the isle there, you know, Adam Z and Jefferson and whatever,
and tell them all the things the government is into.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And see how they react.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
They'd have to be no, no, no, no, that'll never work,
that'll never last.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You can't do the again.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
We have the government involved in every aspect of your
life like this, and redistributing wealth like this, and deciding
who eats what.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And George Washington would slap you with the broad side
of his sword if you're lucky, or.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Maybe he'll reach out to you in your dreams. Ooga booga, booga. Wow.
I believe that was mockery.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So such estimates explain why at least ten states are
moving to ask Secretary Rawlins to let them end to
federal subsidies of unhealthy foods. You get the argument from
the left of oh my god, you're gonna micromanage what
people eat just because they're poor. It's insulting and humiliating
to the poor and making them jump through hoops and
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Now, I don't even think it will be that. If
you're just cutting back on the food program from hungry children,
what could be more evil than that? Leaving out the
fact that the number one purchase thing is pop This.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Reminds me of the infamous example not too long ago
where the government was spending whatever it was, ten million
dollars to promoe people eating more cheese and simultaneously spending
ten million dollars to discourage people from eating cheese. This
is the same sort of thing, but with much higher
human consequence. We're subsidizing the foods that make them obese
(29:15):
and then desperately spend money to help them with their obesity.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Hey, we had an interesting Joe brought us some interesting
stuff about the legal pot business. Earlier, we got a
text from somebody who was in the legal pop business.
It's really interesting, that kind of counterintuitive. I think, similar
to the Snap program, mostly making sure poor people can
get fat drinking pop.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
What.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
We got a lot on the way. We'll finished strong.
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I've got a couple of things jam in here at
the end. If I just come across all of them,
I find verdi are interesting. I just came across this
idea of getting a bathroom divorce. A bathroom divorce is
seems like a pretty good idea if you can ford
it depending on your lifestyle needs or whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I mean, if you got multiple bathrooms.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Obviously, it's the idea of this is your bathroom, this
is my bathroom, and we don't use each other's bathrooms.
And there's just this article about how that's made some
married couples much happier.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
The bathroom divorce.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
What's the main bone of contention, man, Well, I think
it's fairly obvious that in generally speaking, men are not
as tidy as women. And one of the wife would
like the bathroom to be cleaner, and the dude might
look like, I'm not cleaning this up because I care
(30:38):
about it.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I'm cleaning, but because I want to make sure she's happy.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If you have your own bathroom and just do your
own thing, I don't know, try the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Divorce if you're having problems with that.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
I mostly grew up in one bathroom homes, so everybody
just had to figure it out, I mentioned earlier in
the show. Then I was considering buying a cyberbeast, which
is the cyber truck that has three motors in it
so it's extra fast and you can drive over a
you know, priuses or whatever, and if you so choose,
(31:12):
because it's I was looking at this story. So Tesla
dealership in San Diego charging stations ELI is Elon is
Nazi scum.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
They spray painted all over it.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Damages to Tesla dealerships and charging stations skyrocketing all around
the world, not just the United States. Why is the
rest of the globe taking on Tesla like that because
some of the things Elon's saying about Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Don't know. I don't know either, but case by case,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I was talking about getting a cyberbeast with a personalized
plate that says doge on it because it's becoming such
a statement.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I guess for a certain crowd.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I don't know how many people attach politics to their
cars like this, but this might actually become a thing,
like a significant thing with one of the most valuable
companies in the world. It's one of the what do
they call the seven Dwarves or the seven giants or
whatever that dominate the stock market over the last several years, Google, Apple, Facebook, right,
(32:21):
you know all them videos and Tesla is one of them.
And currently I was just looking at the market cap
as of today, Tesla is worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Honda, Ford,
and Chevy added together.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
No, yes, it's so in say it'll be a thing,
you mean, attacks on Tesla and Tesla dealers and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I think it's gonna really affect the sales.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I mean, I it.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Was it was mostly a carp mostly purchased by lefties.
I don't think they're going to buy him anymore. At
some point. It's just anti Trump hatret.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
This whatever it is. The stock's down fifty percent since December.
I don't know if this is going to turn around.
Its final thought?
Speaker 8 (33:09):
How bys so well your comments and tinas yess closure
for the.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Show is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty stirring, Let's
get a final thought from everybody on the crew to
wrap up the show.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
There is our technical director, Michael Aangelo. Michael final thought.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, last week I called a friend I hadn't talked
to in a year, and I had to go to
Costco that day.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It turns out he had to go to Costco as well.
Coincidence or universe.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Stock cosmic significance clearly, Yes, that's amazing. Katie Green are
esteemed newswoman. Has a final thought, Katie, hef.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
You good Armstrong on getty dot com.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
I have a brand new Katie's Corner up today with
some fun videos and stuff, pictures and photos that we
talked about.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Excellent.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Jack a final thought for us, continuing my thought with
the old Tesla, saying, I don't know if normal past
economic ways of looking at stocks. You know, what's their
profit and expense and blah blah blah, like you'd have
done General Motors fifty years ago. Because now Republicans might
rush in and buy Tesla stock for their virtue signal
(34:25):
and keep it up or something.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
In a way that I don't know. These are odd times.
I don't know if you've noticed.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
My final thought is, man, you go online. The propagandists
and disinformationers are as skilled as the people tell them
the truth. On some topics, it's nearly impossible to figure
out what's what way.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Which will lead to a lot of people checking out,
which is not good for the evil doers we will
see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
God bless America. I'm strong and getty. So what's different
with you? Well, I would say this a mattoi. You
appends I'm not going to jump in. You made it right,
moders riding a long time?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Yep, absolutely, So let's go with the bingle.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
He's a bit limp of wrist and delicate of panty
and feathery of hair. Does that make him a bad leader?
So he's a soy somewhat lace of undergarments. It's all
very much armstrong and Getty
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