Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jackie Enough he arms the drum studio. C say on
Speaker 1: what I like to call a little Wednesday in a
Speaker 1: dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty Communications Compound. And today we're under the tutelage
Speaker 1: of our general manager, Tariffs, recession, dahn a pe root angst.
Speaker 1: You know what I think I might do. I might
Speaker 1: led Dogs of the Apocalypse. Yes, I might get a
Speaker 1: I might get a cyberbeast and get a personalized license
Speaker 1: plate that says doge. And then just get ready to
Speaker 1: repair all the keying of my car and ilp to
Speaker 1: carry extra tires in the back because they're constantly being slashed.
Speaker 1: You'll be rolling and trolling in your monsters, rolling and trolling. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had heard. Uh Hannity said he's gonna buy a
Speaker 1: couple of tesla'sn't given to friends. Trump said he's gonna
Speaker 1: get one. So it's really becoming a statement sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Well I always was. It always was a statement thing,
Speaker 1: way more than a practical thing. For a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and so now it's just gone the other direction, but
Speaker 1: a wildly different statement. Yeah, I like this maneuver better
Speaker 1: when you're a little younger and you're fighting days, weren't
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he as far behind you. I don't
Speaker 1: think fighting of these. He's just gonna stand there some
Speaker 1: slashing your tie, hail eaten, probiotic taken, limp wristed lefties.
Speaker 1: But they might slash my tires. So you're thinking they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna have their little Linguini arms on away at
Speaker 1: your tires and you're gonna walk up and discover it.
Speaker 1: And just whoof aasses? You gotta admit though, the biggest,
Speaker 1: most ridiculous Tesla they make with a Doge license plate
Speaker 1: would be pretty good. From a distance, you could you
Speaker 1: can mistake one of the Tesla models for you know,
Speaker 1: a Toyota or so who knows what else? Not the
Speaker 1: cyber truck, No, no, no, no, definitely not. And and
Speaker 1: if it becomes like a rolling middle finger to the
Speaker 1: idea of big government, that might be my car, and
Speaker 1: that might be where it's going. Man. I watched the
Speaker 1: interview with Elon yesterday, and we're gonna have a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of clips of that. But first of all, my
Speaker 1: phone ding me tornetto please silence your devices. He was
Speaker 1: talking about the number of death threats he gets now
Speaker 1: and just how difficult it is to travel around and
Speaker 1: everything like that. And one of the reasons he's posting
Speaker 1: everything online is he wants people to say, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: so angry at me, you're hearing him a Nazi. You're
Speaker 1: hearing all these things. Go to the website and then
Speaker 1: tell me which of these things that I say we
Speaker 1: ought to cut that you disagree with and we'll argue
Speaker 1: about it. You know, which of these things do you
Speaker 1: think I'm wrong about, and then we can have a
Speaker 1: conversation about it. That's what I'm trying to do. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned somebody out there who doesn't pay attention to
Speaker 1: this is gonna hear I'm a Nazi and kill me. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's another great example. And this is so troubling. It
Speaker 1: makes me just want to vanish into the woods and
Speaker 1: watch the squirrels cowort as usual. But the idea of
Speaker 1: we choose a narrative and then we choose our facts
Speaker 1: based on our choice of narrative is so true in
Speaker 1: so many of the big topics going on right now,
Speaker 1: including the Doge thing, are the Ukraine thing, or the
Speaker 1: pro or the Israel Hamas thing, or even the tariff thing,
Speaker 1: which lefties usually are in favor of, but now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's definitely awful, right right? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: an interesting topic that is? That the whole tariffs and protectionism,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it that, or responding to
Speaker 1: the terrible disservice disservice globalism did to a lot of
Speaker 1: American workers. It's it's definitely a complex weave of predictions
Speaker 1: and economic principles which are imperfect at best. Hence the
Speaker 1: nickname for economics is the dismal science is and it
Speaker 1: has everything to do with the huge pivot in history
Speaker 1: that the globe might be taking, right right? Can you
Speaker 1: think of anything more provocative than Doge as a personalized
Speaker 1: license plate on the cyberbeast? That's pretty good. That's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good, especially where I live. How about t
Speaker 1: r MP Oh wow, four k n G or is
Speaker 1: that too many lotters? Trump for king? Oh my god? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be just being provocative. I couldn't back that
Speaker 1: up with my own rhetoric. I mean, I believe in Doge.
Speaker 1: I do not believe Trump should be king. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: all right, you've got to be more specific in your instructions.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see now. Oh my god, yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be horrible if something uh how about something that's
Speaker 1: spelled out lib tears where you live, big college town?
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, sorry, back to back to a sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say something dark. We don't want something dark.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 1: Getty on this it is Tuesday. We're already into March eleventh,
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five, where I'm strong in getting
Speaker 1: we approved of this program. Let's begin then, officially, according
Speaker 1: to FCC rules and regulations, the show starts at Mark
Speaker 1: and I guess we're going to find out who was right.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: If Donald Trump is right, then over the course of
Speaker 3: the next couple of years, this thing will end up
Speaker 3: paying off. And if he's wrong, then voters are going
Speaker 3: to say, I elected you to bring down prices. You're
Speaker 3: clearly fixing the border. That's good, but you're not bringing
Speaker 3: down prices. You're making my life harder. And I'm upset
Speaker 3: with that. And there's an election coming out next year,
Speaker 3: and that's when people can register their disagreement.
Speaker 1: So that was on MSNBC last night. Our old friend
Speaker 1: David Drucker, who's now with the Dispatch we used to
Speaker 1: have on all the time. They weren't really digging some
Speaker 1: of the things he was saying, because he was giving
Speaker 1: out the possibility that this might work and be a
Speaker 1: good idea, And of course they were not digging that
Speaker 1: on MSNBC, but in the way that David Drunker always
Speaker 1: did on this show, he laid it out pretty plainly. Well,
Speaker 1: if Trump is right, in a couple of years we
Speaker 1: see that this works, it's going to be really great,
Speaker 1: right right. I was actually quite pleasantly surprised on a
Speaker 1: similar topic. I was listening to NPR briefly to punish
Speaker 1: myself for the terrible things I've done, and they had
Speaker 1: a surprisingly frank, non partisan guest on who explained, you know,
Speaker 1: in similar fashion, that look, this may well be a
Speaker 1: very successful strategy, but we need to find what we're
Speaker 1: seeking is a new equilibrium, which I thought was a
Speaker 1: good term to throw around in that we're going to
Speaker 1: restructure the nature of imports and exports domestic production and
Speaker 1: consumer spending in a way that does not you know,
Speaker 1: necessitate being dependent on China, and it will absolutely be disruptive,
Speaker 1: but eventually we'll come to a new equilibrium. And the
Speaker 1: trick is to convince people that that investments and the
Speaker 1: you know, chaos too strong a word, but well, you know,
Speaker 1: the upheaval that comes with it will pay off in
Speaker 1: the long term and we'll all be better off and
Speaker 1: hang in there. The problem being the timetable though, you know,
Speaker 1: I said a couple of years. Can that even conceive it?
Speaker 1: I don't. I doubt it. I doubt it. And I
Speaker 1: think Trump's argument would be, or the people that are
Speaker 1: backing this would be, this is going to happen anyway,
Speaker 1: just in a different way. We're going to be forced
Speaker 1: into it suddenly at some point when the big dust
Speaker 1: up with China comes, or we can kind of do
Speaker 1: it on our own and have more control over it,
Speaker 1: I think would be the argument. Having said that, just briefly,
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're jacking Canada around, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's hard. That's one that one's a little hard to agree.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's his trade agreement that he's saying is
Speaker 1: wildly crazy and we've got to punish Canada and whipsaw
Speaker 1: and ally back and forth. Trump he did that agreement.
Speaker 1: Oh do we have that new guy that it's gonna
Speaker 1: be prime minister? Man, he's us. He's way better spokesman
Speaker 1: for Canada than Justine Trudeau was crazy smart guy. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and just he just sounds like a man. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hate to be just that base, but he sounds
Speaker 1: like a man. He said, Canada stands up for Canada.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna push us around. When Justin Trudeau says that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, he's like, yeah, whatever, I can't call
Speaker 1: you a homophobic because Trudeau is is straight allegedly, you're
Speaker 1: a whatsophobic. I am wassophobic, especially for national leaders man,
Speaker 1: for leader of a country. Yeah, so he's a bit
Speaker 1: limp of wrist and delicate of pante and feathery off hair.
Speaker 1: Does that make him a bad leader? So he's so
Speaker 1: he's somewhat laced of undergarments. So I got headlines on
Speaker 1: the way from Katie. You got mail bag this hour,
Speaker 1: and we'll hear from some of Elon and his interview,
Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting stuff. There's so many big the
Speaker 1: crane thing they're they're meeting and where are they meet?
Speaker 1: In Saudi Arabia or some place to try to work
Speaker 1: on that. So many big things going on right now,
Speaker 1: and who knows how they're gonna turn out, But anyway,
Speaker 1: stick around. Our text line is four one five two
Speaker 1: nine five kftc Armstrong, on recommendation from I don't remember who.
Speaker 1: I've been having the worst sleep of my life. Just
Speaker 1: can't sleep at all. I can sleep, get to sleep,
Speaker 1: but I wake up and then I'm wake for hours
Speaker 1: and hours an hours, sometimes all the way till morning.
Speaker 1: And it's been driving me absolutely not that dreg going
Speaker 1: a bit anyway. On the suggestion, I'd ordered some Valerian root,
Speaker 1: which is a popular thing to take in magnesium, which
Speaker 1: is a pipler thing to take anyway. I don't know
Speaker 1: which of those are both in combination, but two nights
Speaker 1: in a row, I've slept the entire night with just that.
Speaker 1: No no, no doctor prescribed drugs, no, you know, giant
Speaker 1: pharmacy company something or other. What is this called valerian root?
Speaker 1: Is it valarium or valerian vlarium? I think with im
Speaker 1: am anyway, they smell my My son has been taking
Speaker 1: him for a while. It's funny. He's been taking him
Speaker 1: for sleeping and I never thought maybe I should try it,
Speaker 1: because it is. I do have an anti hippie bias.
Speaker 1: It's weird. I'm way more likely to take something that
Speaker 1: comes from some big pharmacy company then Sackler family. Then
Speaker 1: I am, yeah than I am for something that you know,
Speaker 1: hippies recommend me that you can get it to G
Speaker 1: and C. Anyway, So is the other one magnesium magnesium,
Speaker 1: But my son calls it stinky feet the vlarium root
Speaker 1: because it smells awful. You open up the bottle and
Speaker 1: you think, I don't even know if I can take
Speaker 1: this bill. You're gonna get it down fast. But I've
Speaker 1: slept all night long. It's been awesome. Good. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: Well I am. I hope that's today. Yeah, I hope
Speaker 1: it's news you can use. I hope it doesn't cause,
Speaker 1: you know, brain bleed or anything to mention that I'm
Speaker 1: bleeding out a number of orifices. God, I was just
Speaker 1: going to ignore that side effect. I woke up.
Speaker 2: Twice last night, once in the middle of the night
Speaker 2: and the second time fifteen minutes before the alarm was.
Speaker 1: Supposed to go off. That's so maddening. Oh no, you
Speaker 1: feel like you're cheated. Yeah, yeah, damn it. Hey, let's
Speaker 1: figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green. Katie, Well, we'll start with NBC.
Speaker 2: The White House is using tariffs to restore manufacturing, and
Speaker 2: data suggests it will take some time.
Speaker 1: I yeah, Trump is both the greatest political messenger of
Speaker 1: all time and then sometimes the worst. I wish he
Speaker 1: would in a maybe you should have somebody else do it,
Speaker 1: give a speech like really explaining the plan, how long
Speaker 1: it's going to take, you know, don't be frightened off
Speaker 1: by the you know, the six month longer year long
Speaker 1: or whatever, disruption of the stock market or something. I
Speaker 1: wish he'd give a speech like that. Yeah, exactly, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and why it's worth it, Just what this great endeavor
Speaker 1: is that we're doing. I've read an interesting account of
Speaker 1: a couple of builders, like small time builders, court just
Speaker 1: get whip sawed by the tariffs and there they come.
Speaker 1: So they buy up a bunch of lumber and have
Speaker 1: to store it. Then the terriff are pulled back again.
Speaker 1: And these are small business people who are just you know,
Speaker 1: they're not at despair at this point. But they're highly
Speaker 1: discouraged and confused what Trump's doing or why he's doing it.
Speaker 2: It sticking with tariffs from bright bart dot com. Ontario
Speaker 2: imposes twenty five percent tariffs on electricity exports to United
Speaker 2: States in response to trump planned tariffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I was saying that incoming new prime ministers
Speaker 1: to talking tough. You want to fight, whether it's he said,
Speaker 1: you want to fight, whether it's hockey or tariffs. We're
Speaker 1: gonna win. And everybody cheered like grade o oh gloating
Speaker 1: from Fox News.
Speaker 2: Ukraine launches biggest drone attack on Moscow, killing two as
Speaker 2: US talks begin.
Speaker 1: From CNN.
Speaker 2: Iran, China and Russia launch annual joint naval drills as
Speaker 2: Trump up ends Western alliances.
Speaker 1: Wait, I ran, god, like half a dozen you know
Speaker 1: speedboats headline from CNN up ends Western alliances. God, that
Speaker 1: makes me so mad. So they haven't participated in NATO
Speaker 1: in decades. And then when you call him out on it,
Speaker 1: you've up indoed the alliance. Whatever? Yeah? Yeah. From The
Speaker 1: Free Beacon.
Speaker 2: Columbia University professors cancel classes in solidarity with pro hamas
Speaker 2: activist in Ice custody.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one. I saw a good deep dive
Speaker 1: on the whole you know, free speech on campus versus
Speaker 1: what this guy's been saying thing yesterday. It's to me,
Speaker 1: it's not one clear cut what do you think though, No,
Speaker 1: it's not. Actually you've anticipated one of the conversations. I
Speaker 1: wanted to have our friends that fire the Foundation for
Speaker 1: Individual Rights and Expression are protecting this guy saying what
Speaker 1: he said does not cross the line. Interesting, I think,
Speaker 1: and it's funny. This is always presented as zero sum.
Speaker 1: It's a battle in the media. I think asking the
Speaker 1: question when do people on visas cross the line into
Speaker 1: advocating for terrorist organizations and can we boot their ass out?
Speaker 1: This is part of the process of answering that question.
Speaker 1: So it's not necessarily about this guy. Let's work through
Speaker 1: it then start booting people out. That takes a couple
Speaker 1: of hearings or court rulings or whatever. That's fine.
Speaker 2: From The New York Post, Dylan Mulvaney's shallow, narcissistic, nauseatingly
Speaker 2: pink memoir is an insult to women.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I read that review. I'm surprised. I would think
Speaker 1: if Dylan mulvaney wrote a memoir, it would be like
Speaker 1: a tree falling in the forest, you know, knock yourself out,
Speaker 1: have a good time with your garage full of unsold books.
Speaker 1: But CBS gave him five and a half him her
Speaker 1: whatever em she was a dude. Now as a girl,
Speaker 1: I am this is a time to become a girl.
Speaker 1: It's impossible. This in the time change. I can't remember
Speaker 1: which you do not have a uterus. But the CBS
Speaker 1: gave the book full coverage like it was a major
Speaker 1: literary moment. Dylan Mulaney's memoir. There is nobody who is
Speaker 1: honestly motivated to read that book because they want to
Speaker 1: know about that person's life. It is all tribal signaling. Sure, Katie,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the term uterine? Uterine can
Speaker 1: describe what you are? You're a uterine. Just shove it. No,
Speaker 1: it's not sexy. I'm trying.
Speaker 2: For the Wall Street Journal. The hologram doctor will see
Speaker 2: you now, this is a story about a Tennessee cancer
Speaker 2: clinic that is beaming doctors out to rural areas using holograms.
Speaker 1: Wow. Cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And finally the Babylon b quote.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we.
Speaker 2: Got him RFK Junior announces Seal Team six is neutralized.
Speaker 1: The kool Aid man wow like double tap right above
Speaker 1: his big black eye. Oh wow, Oh that's horrible. We've
Speaker 1: got some more news of the day. Stock market had
Speaker 1: a bumpy, bumpy day yesterday. We'll see how to day starts.
Speaker 1: It wasn't fumpy, it was just straight down. Much more
Speaker 1: to come, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: They're setting fire to various Tesla charging stations near Boston.
Speaker 4: Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon. Various
Speaker 4: non violences.
Speaker 1: Fired, not a metaphor. Shots fired.
Speaker 4: Yes, downtown New York marching, marching against the Tesla's showroom.
Speaker 4: You're a stock is way down. You've been criticized left
Speaker 4: and right.
Speaker 1: Look on the right side. I mean what, it's just
Speaker 1: funny for me personally as a guy who drives a Tesla. Uh,
Speaker 1: I got so much crap from all my right wing
Speaker 1: you know, friends and family members, and now it's gonna
Speaker 1: flip completely all politically. Just it's interesting, yeah, I mean political,
Speaker 1: and now the they hatred on the other side is political,
Speaker 1: and the love's gonna remember people taking like really mean
Speaker 1: public shots at you, and now those very people are
Speaker 1: rushing out to buy them to show they're loyal and
Speaker 1: you just wanted to really fast talk. They had a
Speaker 1: good stereo and it was super fast. How dare you
Speaker 1: don't you know? That cause them from political signaling strange times. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of uh transportation, a handful of stories from the
Speaker 1: domestic scene that I thought were interesting. Bags no longer
Speaker 1: fly free on Southwest Airlines. Very soon they will start
Speaker 1: charging passengers for check luggage, sell basic economy tickets as
Speaker 1: Southwest is becoming much much more like it's competitor airlines
Speaker 1: and just wasn't making money. Yeah, and I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's going to work for them. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: So well, the one thing they aren't like other airlines
Speaker 1: is there's no you know, business class, first class, anything
Speaker 1: like that. So what you could do prior, if you're
Speaker 1: rich or a business person or whatever you know, is
Speaker 1: get some sort of get on the plane first thing.
Speaker 1: But if that goes out the window, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. There was still loyalty status
Speaker 1: and if you're in whatever tier, you can get one
Speaker 1: bag free, or if you buy the priceist tickets, you'll
Speaker 1: get two bags free. But that's if you're a child
Speaker 1: or a fool, if you don't understand the flaw in
Speaker 1: that sentence, Yes, if you buy our priceier ticket, you
Speaker 1: can have bags for free. Now anyway, moving along completely
Speaker 1: different topic, Baseball has a fastball problem. Namely, it's become
Speaker 1: infinitely clear statistically speaking. And if you're a longtime baseball fan,
Speaker 1: you know baseball is utterly fascinated and fixated on statistics,
Speaker 1: always has been for whatever reason. It's one of the
Speaker 1: rembatting average is figured to a thousandth of a percentage
Speaker 1: or whatever. That's one of the reasons. A lot of
Speaker 1: people really like it. Yes, but so they've decided that
Speaker 1: absolutely throwing very very hard is the most effective way
Speaker 1: to pitch. You know, I just worshiped guys like Greg Maddox,
Speaker 1: who baseball fans remember, who didn't throw terribly hard, but
Speaker 1: he is a master of deception and breaking pitches and
Speaker 1: hitting his spots and that sort of thing is his
Speaker 1: sort of pitching is a rarity these days. They just
Speaker 1: want guys who are who can just bring fire to
Speaker 1: a problem with that is, the human arm has limits,
Speaker 1: and so these young hard throwers are just ruining their
Speaker 1: arms one after the other and they're not sure what
Speaker 1: to do about it. Also, batting averages are dropping enough
Speaker 1: that the offense is going out at the game because
Speaker 1: I mean, for instance, well they point out that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's getting too much into the weeds. I'll just go
Speaker 1: with these stats. At the Perfect Game National Showcase, which
Speaker 1: is America's biggest gathering of high school talent, it's like
Speaker 1: where all the scouts are. Okay, In twenty fifteen, there
Speaker 1: were five guys who could throw even a single pitch
Speaker 1: at ninety five miles per or five guys, and I
Speaker 1: guarantee you in nineteen ninety it was zero anyway, or
Speaker 1: maybe one freak five guys. Last year was thirty six.
Speaker 1: And pitchers are getting hurt at an alarming rate. So
Speaker 1: are you saying that, dudes? So when people weren't throwing
Speaker 1: that hard, they just weren't trying putting fitness technique and
Speaker 1: just you know, more or less throwing as hard as
Speaker 1: you possibly can, which feet always do. Just throw as
Speaker 1: you don't swing a golf club, just as hard as
Speaker 1: you can, or you know, because it's hard to keep
Speaker 1: it under control. Well right, yeah, and there's something to
Speaker 1: be said for having, you know, one little more gear
Speaker 1: in case you need overpower somebody. But the problem is
Speaker 1: if you did that all the time, you ruin your
Speaker 1: arm and everybody knew it. Well, like did you see
Speaker 1: And again that if you're not a baseball fan, you
Speaker 1: don't of this means. But Garrett Cole, who the Yankee
Speaker 1: spent a gazillion dollars on, he threw like five pitches
Speaker 1: the other day in uh, you know, before Baseball League
Speaker 1: whatever they call it, the Grapefruit League. And he's out
Speaker 1: out for the year. Tommy John surgery, may never pitch again.
Speaker 1: That is the lead of this story. Yeah. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, Yeah, the total number of pitches recorded
Speaker 1: at one hundred miles per hour or more has gone
Speaker 1: from two hundred and fourteen in two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: to thirty three hundred last season. Oh wow, that's a
Speaker 1: major change in the game. And I remember when it
Speaker 1: was a really big deal if anybody could throw one hundred. Ever,
Speaker 1: so that's going on thirty times as many. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: and it's changed the game, and not necessarily for the better,
Speaker 1: you know what they do about always wanted I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to see one hundred mile an
Speaker 1: hour pitch but it's got to be some sort of
Speaker 1: machine that I can guarantee isn't going to hit me.
Speaker 1: But I would love to stand there in the plate
Speaker 1: and see a hundred mile in hour pitch, just see
Speaker 1: what it looks like. Yeah, yeah, I don't seem like
Speaker 1: ninety three ninety four and as like an eighteen year old.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh lord, I mean it was
Speaker 1: terrifying and Nihon unhittable. Well, the idea of being able
Speaker 1: to pick up the spin of the ball and make
Speaker 1: a decision whether I'm going to swing or not, it
Speaker 1: just seems crazy. Yeah, it's an instantaneous judgment that one
Speaker 1: one hundredth of percent of the population can do effectively.
Speaker 1: It's a hitting a major league pitch is way harder
Speaker 1: than it looks. Anyway of more significance, perhaps to us
Speaker 1: in our real lives. The new weight loss drugsure ozimpics
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Speaker 1: I almost said magical, but I'm a grown ass man.
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Speaker 1: you're overweight. So if you're not overweight, all of those
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Speaker 1: of this is that and this is partly because it
Speaker 1: helps with weight loss and eliminating obesity. Is that excess
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Speaker 1: taken texts on this over the last year or so,
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Speaker 1: a knee replacement or blood pressure medicine or whatever the
Speaker 1: hell it is. It might be in their best interest
Speaker 1: to have everybody not being overweight. That's fantastic. And then
Speaker 1: I was also thinking four figures a month, who would
Speaker 1: spend that Well, there's a lot of people with car
Speaker 1: payments that high, are approaching that high. Would you rather
Speaker 1: drive a nice car or be thin every day? I'd
Speaker 1: drive a crappy car and go with the thinner. Well
Speaker 1: and getting back to the you know, because it's much
Speaker 1: more than being thin at this point. Researchers at Case
Speaker 1: Western Reserve University, which sounds more like a wine than
Speaker 1: the university, Case Western Reserve, they tried eighteen. I'll have
Speaker 1: the case. This is a special evening. Let's have the
Speaker 1: Case Western Reserve. They found it among older patients with
Speaker 1: type two diabetes, semi glue tide, semi glue tide, these
Speaker 1: drugs were was associated with a forty to seventy percent
Speaker 1: lower risk of Alzheimer's diagnosis over three years than other
Speaker 1: diabetes medications. You know, it's funny yesterday when we were
Speaker 1: talking about kids and all their problems with you know,
Speaker 1: what caused autism and all these different things and someday
Speaker 1: throughout obesity, and I thought, yeah, it could be maybe
Speaker 1: obesity is the Alzheimer's or anxiety and depression in kids,
Speaker 1: or all these different bags. This is a new way
Speaker 1: for the species to live and procreate. For what it's worth,
Speaker 1: they quote a couple of scientists saying, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: this has a drawback or two that are fairly significant,
Speaker 1: so we need to study it in healthy populations and
Speaker 1: get an idea. Can't hold your mud? Is that the drama? Wow?
Speaker 1: Wow to the toilet humor? They don't say that specifically,
Speaker 1: lean muscle mass loss, et cetera, but it's certainly a
Speaker 1: promising area for research. You're much less likely to have
Speaker 1: type two diabetes. On the other hand, you can't hold
Speaker 1: your mud? Okay, g may get a cork or something. Wow,
Speaker 1: what's the matter with you? This is find important medical
Speaker 1: breakthrough talk? All right, but I find you're dressing me
Speaker 1: down much more disgusting than my original comments. What I
Speaker 1: will let the people be the judge of that, you
Speaker 1: crack pot. And one more brief story the Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security back to the whole doge thing and then
Speaker 1: Trump and the rest of it. Some of it has
Speaker 1: making me nuts, but a lot of it is making
Speaker 1: me very happy. The DHS said, is it is ending
Speaker 1: collective bargaining for TSA officers. In a release obtained by
Speaker 1: Fox Business, DHS said the TSA has more people doing
Speaker 1: full time union work rather than performing screening functions at
Speaker 1: eighty six percent of US airports, so these because of
Speaker 1: federal worker laws. And sixty minutes had an awful piece.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even watch it on Up with the Public
Speaker 1: Employee Unions the other night. But these people are paid
Speaker 1: by tax payers to work full time on union matters.
Speaker 1: It's part of the collective bargaining agreement. And the department
Speaker 1: cited a recent TSA employee survey which found that more
Speaker 1: than sixty percent of poor performers are allowed to stay
Speaker 1: employed and not surprisingly, continue to not perform. And a
Speaker 1: lot of them just work on union stuff anyway at
Speaker 1: taxpayer expense. And they're mean and surly, and it takes
Speaker 1: forever to get through security, so they're working on it. Interesting.
Speaker 1: We've got mail bag on the way, and of course
Speaker 1: you can text anytime. I just have. I can feel
Speaker 1: it in my bones. It's gonna be a good show today.
Speaker 1: Stay here, talk a little of the reaction to stock
Speaker 1: market punditry things. The new Prime Minister of Canada said
Speaker 1: yesterday around all the tariffs and the stock market drop
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. In hour two, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting information out there. I'll give the
Speaker 1: Canucks this man. They decide we need a new leader.
Speaker 1: They got one like next week. It's amazing the way
Speaker 1: you agonize it for a year. You got to have
Speaker 1: a three year election. Oh here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 1: of the day, said along by DH. We're departing from
Speaker 1: Teddy Roosevelt temporarily just because I like this from Tom
Speaker 1: Soul so much. It would never occur to people with
Speaker 1: academic degrees and professorships that they are both ignorant and
Speaker 1: incompetent in vast areas of human life, much less that
Speaker 1: they should keep that in mind before they vent their
Speaker 1: emotions and wax self righteous. Man Ah, this hits me. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know a couple of people
Speaker 1: actually with really prestigious degrees, and I mean this, how
Speaker 1: do I not sound like could jerk saying this? But
Speaker 1: they aren't near as smart about things as they think
Speaker 1: they are, because they they because they're absolute top of
Speaker 1: the world. Experts in a very specific thing that doesn't
Speaker 1: give you any insight about anything else. I mean none,
Speaker 1: maybe less, because you spend your whole life focused on
Speaker 1: this other little thing. And indeed, since what ninety six
Speaker 1: percent of the population maybe ninety nine it makes their
Speaker 1: living not in academia and are lives are very, very
Speaker 1: different from you in innumerable ways. Yeah, you just have
Speaker 1: no idea what it's like out here. Mail bag, drop
Speaker 1: us note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 1: I thought this flowed beautifully from the freedom loving quote
Speaker 1: of the day. Jeremy sent this along. I thought you'd
Speaker 1: get a kick out of the events that you see
Speaker 1: Berkeley these days. The School of Social Sciences, some of
Speaker 1: the upcoming events decolonizing gender and sexualities, epistomes, subjects, rationalities, arctivisms, practices,
Speaker 1: and movements. Oh good, I was afraid they'd have practices
Speaker 1: but not movements. Yeah, man, some in you know, some
Speaker 1: parent is paying for the kid to go to those classes,
Speaker 1: thinking that prepares them for the world. Another of the lectures,
Speaker 1: the Yellow Sparrow Memoir of a Transgender Then you have
Speaker 1: my favorite theory of the theory of water uses unpronounceable
Speaker 1: consciousness to dismantle and think beyond the present moment in
Speaker 1: the face of ongoing genocides, extinct glaciers, police killings, children
Speaker 1: alone in cages at borders, the resurgence of fascist states,
Speaker 1: and a dying planet. Simson, that's the lecturer asks, what
Speaker 1: does it mean? As Rebecca Belmore asks us in waves
Speaker 1: sound to listen to water? What does it mean? As
Speaker 1: Dion Brand writes through a diaspora consciousness and by inventoring
Speaker 1: the quotidian disasters of our time in a epic poem
Speaker 1: Nomencletcher to quote believe in water. There's more that that's
Speaker 1: like half of it. You know. The beauty of those
Speaker 1: things is they invent all of their own terminology, then
Speaker 1: define it, then make you memorize it all. And that
Speaker 1: becomes the kind of the fences of the discussion. And
Speaker 1: anybody who comes in like your parents and says, you know,
Speaker 1: your spout and crap, I haven't learned anything useful. Well,
Speaker 1: they're obviously a fascist or a neo colonializer or something
Speaker 1: or other. Yeah, And then they have kind of a
Speaker 1: pact with each other. The different professors and everything go
Speaker 1: to each other's classes and lectures and put blurbs on
Speaker 1: each other's books and that sort of stuff, and it's
Speaker 1: all so incestuous. D and Sacramento Rits. Remember when Biden
Speaker 1: said inflation is down. Here's the difference between Trump and Biden.
Speaker 1: Trump said we might have to hurt for a while.
Speaker 1: Can Trump at least get points for honesty. I'm Facebook
Speaker 1: friends with several of my former high school teachers. They're
Speaker 1: extremely liberal, so I like to see their online posts
Speaker 1: for perspective. I've noticed that these teachers have really been
Speaker 1: struggling with inflation for the past couple of months. Yet
Speaker 1: I've been struggling with it for the past four years.
Speaker 1: How bizarre. Yeah, all of a sudden they're worried about
Speaker 1: it and think they're coming in how to do so?
Speaker 1: Right about it? Right now? I love this. It's a
Speaker 1: bit of a meme. Uh. I'm from Germany and I
Speaker 1: want to make sure I understand Europe wants Germany to rearm,
Speaker 1: march through Poland and attack Russia. I want to make
Speaker 1: this clear so there are no understandings misunderstandings. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got a couple more great emails. Maybe we'll stuff them
Speaker 1: in next hour. Yeah, that's funny. The tweet I saw
Speaker 1: last week where you know, maybe the world didn't want
Speaker 1: Germany rearming for a reason. Has anybody thought about that?
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