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