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Speaker 2: dogging the air?
Speaker 3: This is kind of funny and interesting in a couple
Speaker 3: of different ways. So it says Taylor Lorenz human being
Speaker 3: that we've talked about before.
Speaker 5: She was a.
Speaker 3: Washington Post columnist that was so over the top and
Speaker 3: nuts they had to let her go from the Washington
Speaker 3: bo start did she quit? Whichever one it was, They
Speaker 3: couldn't be They couldn't work together anymore. First of all,
Speaker 3: she's super crazy, pro Hamas and everything like that, and
Speaker 3: wrote a column for the WAPO accusing Joe Biden to
Speaker 3: being a war criminal for supporting blah blah blah all
Speaker 3: back crap. Anyway, she's got a book out to talk
Speaker 3: about her days in journalism at the Washington Post and
Speaker 3: stuff that no one will ever read. And she had
Speaker 3: a book event over the weekend in which, uh, and
Speaker 3: as this will become clear in a second, she was
Speaker 3: super worried about COVID for some reason this book event.
Speaker 3: Oh and well, I'll just read this tweet first, She
Speaker 3: tweets out, planning a COVID safe book launch took months.
Speaker 3: Why did it even cross your mind? This is this
Speaker 3: is too, this is contemporary. This was two days ago.
Speaker 3: Planning a COVID safe book launch took months and thousands
Speaker 3: of my own dollars, ensuring, testing outdoor space, uv lights
Speaker 3: and a lit other precautions.
Speaker 4: Okay, how insane is that? I didn't want to steal
Speaker 4: your thunder in case that's where it's going. But her
Speaker 4: main what she's known for mostly am I still in
Speaker 4: your thunder? I don't know, is absolutely rabid enforcement of
Speaker 4: online especially never challenging the mainstream, especially during COVID. If
Speaker 4: you dared suggest there was a problem with knockdowns or vaccines,
Speaker 4: were she wanted you docked ruined deep platform, called out
Speaker 4: your career.
Speaker 3: Over She's a freaking lunatic. God, that is crazy. So
Speaker 3: you're launching your book, you spend thousands of your own
Speaker 3: dollars to make sure everybody gets tested, now really before
Speaker 3: they're allowed in the book thing u V lights whatever
Speaker 3: those are for, and a little of other precautions. Mean, awhile,
Speaker 3: you dumb f's, I'm glad I didn't actually say it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: you dumb f's are out there raw dogging the air
Speaker 3: and spewing your disease laden breath all over your elderly neighbors.
Speaker 3: Quote from Taylor Lorenz. Yeah, so that's where the phrase
Speaker 3: raw dogging the air comes from.
Speaker 2: Raw dogging the air. Lorenz claims that people who don't
Speaker 2: wear masks in public are quote raw dogging the air.
Speaker 2: Said this music out. That's usually a phrase I obscene.
Speaker 3: That's usually a phrase that means you're having sex without
Speaker 3: a condom.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I was right, it is cause I have
Speaker 2: seen Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're you're raw dogging if you're
Speaker 2: having six, which is fine to me.
Speaker 4: It's also a viral TikTok trend where passengers on airplanes
Speaker 4: sit silently and without distractions on long flights. I like
Speaker 4: Putty and Seinfeldt I've never heard that one before anyway.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I know anybody this crazy about COVID,
Speaker 3: but I know some people that are still pretty damn
Speaker 3: masked up and won't shake hands and stuff like that currently,
Speaker 3: so they.
Speaker 2: Really need to be analyzed.
Speaker 3: Wow, you have an event and you make everybody get tested,
Speaker 3: masked and have special UV lights.
Speaker 2: Wow, you're an insane person. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she is mentally unbalanced, absolutely true, and just
Speaker 4: absolutely vicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a terrible human being.
Speaker 3: So if you hear that, that's making the rounds around
Speaker 3: social media, the raw dogging the air. It's very popular
Speaker 3: right now, since we're talking about COVID, should throw this out.
Speaker 3: You know old Cash Patel, who might be the director
Speaker 3: of the FBI. Last year, he was selling some sort
Speaker 3: of pills on a website and on his Twitter feed
Speaker 3: that were for reversing the vacs. If you want to
Speaker 3: cleanse your body of the COVID vaccine and worry about
Speaker 3: the damage it was doing to you and your children,
Speaker 3: you could take his pills to reverse any of the vaccines. Wow,
Speaker 3: whatever it was doing to.
Speaker 2: You, that's just stealing the money of the easily led suckers.
Speaker 2: That's just fraud. Wow. Well, yeah, that's fraud, merchant.
Speaker 4: You know what I should have asked for the clip
Speaker 4: from Special Report with Brett Beer last night, in which
Speaker 4: Trey Goudie, former federal prosecutor and a guy I really like, said,
Speaker 4: as against the Matt Gates nomination, as I was, I
Speaker 4: am for Cash Patel.
Speaker 2: I really think he will do a great job.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 2: That means a lot to me.
Speaker 4: Did he get into specifics, Well, yeah, he just thought
Speaker 4: Patel did an absolutely fantastic, smart, aggressive job in countering
Speaker 4: the Russian collusion hoax.
Speaker 2: Oh, we do have that clip, Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Michael worked elbow to elbow with Cash Patel for two years.
Speaker 5: You would not know the foundation or the funding of
Speaker 5: the Steel dossier. You would not know him about five abuse,
Speaker 5: You would not know about Fusion GPS had it not
Speaker 5: been for the hard work of a guy named Cash Patel.
Speaker 5: He is quite candidly the most unfairly maligned person that
Speaker 5: I worked with the entire eight years I was in Washington.
Speaker 5: So I know the left setting their hair on fire
Speaker 5: is because of what he found, not because of who
Speaker 5: he is. Because of what he found, you would not
Speaker 5: know about the fives of views.
Speaker 2: If it were not for cash till and his side
Speaker 2: hustle was selling steak oil that.
Speaker 3: I don't like that, But that's all I need to know,
Speaker 3: because Trey Goudy has pointed out, I mean, he was hardcore.
Speaker 3: Matt Gates shouldn't be attorney general hardcore correct. So it's
Speaker 3: not like he's, you know, going along with it or
Speaker 3: whatever Trump wants. No, if former prosecutor like that is
Speaker 3: on his side, that's all I need to know. Cool,
Speaker 3: glad to hear that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Trey Goudy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Patel is clearly in that list of I said yesterday,
Speaker 4: I think it was that fifty percent of Trump's nominations
Speaker 4: were rock solid, about twenty five percent were surprising and intriguing,
Speaker 4: and twenty five percent or so or bat oop nuts
Speaker 4: And those are rough numbers obviously. Yeah, Patel's clearly in
Speaker 4: that intriguing category.
Speaker 3: And since we brought you the phrase raw dogging the
Speaker 3: air that you might come across, are you aware of
Speaker 3: the term anxiety, which apparently is popular right now with
Speaker 3: some studies out on which alcohol is the best to
Speaker 3: drink to avoid anxiety. I don't know if Joe has
Speaker 3: suffered from this over the Thanksgiving break. There are a
Speaker 3: couple of drinks that make it worse than others. Apparently,
Speaker 3: when you have a hangover and it makes you really,
Speaker 3: really anxious.
Speaker 4: Some boozeres do that in something does I just well,
Speaker 4: I don't know about that. I tend to think those distinctions.
Speaker 4: Alcohol is alcohoony, right exactly? Yeah, but yes, I actually
Speaker 4: I just happen to be reading about that.
Speaker 2: A guy quit drinking. He said.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons was is it increases the production
Speaker 4: of cortisol? Was it, which is a hormone that contributes
Speaker 4: to anxiety. Don't forgive me if that's the wrong hormone, but.
Speaker 2: So you wake up? I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3: Hungover and anxious, although the anxiety might be the where's
Speaker 3: my car?
Speaker 2: Or who is she? I mean, that will make you anxious, right, yeah? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4: Or I feel terrible? Am I having a heart attack?
Speaker 4: Or you know, is something wrong with my brain? I'm
Speaker 4: very far or or.
Speaker 3: Now I got to get a new job. That'll make
Speaker 3: you anxious too, I said, what, Yeah, that'll will make
Speaker 3: you anxious, all right?
Speaker 2: Or how long are they gonna leave me in here
Speaker 2: before I get to see a lawyer? That'll make you anxious.
Speaker 4: I've told them three times I got to pee or
Speaker 4: are they gonna let me pee? Ang soty, Yes, okay, great,
Speaker 4: And I've become aware through a bit of research, very
Speaker 4: little research.
Speaker 2: That raw dogging, which is fun to say because of
Speaker 2: the assimilation, not assimilation, assonance and is what what am
Speaker 2: I looking for?
Speaker 4: Alliterations? Alliteration except it's assonance. Yeah, it's it's the vowel
Speaker 4: sound raw dogging, raw dog.
Speaker 2: It's fun to say. It can be a number of things.
Speaker 2: It originated as having unprotected sex. But like if you
Speaker 2: have the flu, you don't take any medication and you
Speaker 2: just gut it out, that's raw dogging the flu. I
Speaker 2: would use a multi purpose.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say to my kids, they have
Speaker 3: a headache, would you like some mighty be proken. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say, oh so your raw dog and your headache.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say that. I'm not gonna use that
Speaker 3: in that way.
Speaker 2: Well you don't have to, but it is multi multi use,
Speaker 2: very fersatile.
Speaker 3: And then sitting on a plane and staring straight ahead
Speaker 3: that what he said.
Speaker 2: I guess it's evolved into just means dealing with something
Speaker 2: without any aid.
Speaker 3: First flight, I got on, had Life Story person in
Speaker 3: front of me, loud Life Story person. Oh, I didn't
Speaker 3: have any headphones or anything like that. I'm just gonna read.
Speaker 2: But just I just I'm always amazed.
Speaker 3: By that, the lack of self awareness for how loud
Speaker 3: you are or how much you're talking.
Speaker 2: Do you notice nobody else is talking. You've been talking for.
Speaker 3: An hour and nobody else has been talking. It doesn't
Speaker 3: seem odd to you in any way?
Speaker 2: Nope, it doesn't. How those people?
Speaker 3: How do you going through your whole life without without thinking, huh,
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of human beings here. We could either
Speaker 3: all not talk, or we could all talk equally, or
Speaker 3: I could talk the entire time while they listen. One
Speaker 3: of them seems odd. Yeah, it's impossible for me to imagine.
Speaker 3: And I think one of the reasons I'm reasonably good
Speaker 3: at this is I'm very self conscious about what I say, so.
Speaker 4: I tend to form it pretty carefully. I mean, somebody
Speaker 4: can say, Joe, what do you think? And I think
Speaker 4: is it appropriate for me to talk now? So I
Speaker 4: can't imagine somebody who's in that completely polar opposite headspace.
Speaker 2: I just can't.
Speaker 3: And then along with the volume, just like so everybody
Speaker 3: in several roles can hear you night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then when I got out of high school, that's
Speaker 3: when the fun really started.
Speaker 2: So I joined the military. I don't recall asking, sir,
Speaker 2: what the hell do you know anybody like that? And
Speaker 2: you have any explanation.
Speaker 3: I've been wondering about this my whole Life's.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty show them I'm
Speaker 1: getting shot apple.
Speaker 2: Pool and nothing.
Speaker 3: If you're a sports fan, here's the latest. If you're
Speaker 3: a baseball fan, particularly latest sensation. Are you into tugboat yet?
Speaker 3: I've read about tugboat two hundred and seventy pound baseball player,
Speaker 3: big fat guy, really really good, and apparently his YouTube
Speaker 3: videos are very popular. So if you're a baseball fan
Speaker 3: and you like oddities, it's not like a bearded woman
Speaker 3: or something, but it is a bigger guy usually.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 4: Wow, that that sounded transphobic to me. So back to
Speaker 4: this tugboat guy. Though he's you know, he's at a
Speaker 4: low level of a minor league ball at this point, lowish,
Speaker 4: but he strikes out more than half the batters he faces.
Speaker 4: It's his numbers are astonishing. I'm intrigued. I want to
Speaker 4: watch one of his games.
Speaker 3: By the way, Ryan Gosling and mikey Day of Saturday
Speaker 3: Night Live are reprising their Beavis and butt Head act.
Speaker 3: It has become very popular. If you saw that sketch
Speaker 3: on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: So they're making the rounds doing that, including at the
Speaker 3: premiere of his latest film. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 3: there isn't somebody making a movie that will feature those
Speaker 3: two as Beevis and but Hit.
Speaker 2: It was pretty damned funny. But I wanted to get
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 3: The New York Times had this article over the weekend
Speaker 3: that I read because I'm always wondering about this, and
Speaker 3: this is a classic the food expiration dates. You should
Speaker 3: actually follow. This comes up all the time. The first
Speaker 3: thing you should know, said the New York Times. The dates,
Speaker 3: as we know them have nothing to do with safety.
Speaker 2: I have thank you.
Speaker 3: I have been involved with people in my life at
Speaker 3: various points who followed these religiously, as if they were
Speaker 3: God's own word. And if you were anywhere near the date,
Speaker 3: let alone past it, obviously that is something you shouldn't eat.
Speaker 2: It's not even based on safety.
Speaker 3: According to the US Department of Agriculture, it's completely voluntary
Speaker 3: for all products except for baby food. It's completely voluntary,
Speaker 3: and so there are no rules around it whatsoever. And
Speaker 3: it's got nothing to do with safety. And it's solely
Speaker 3: based on the manufacturer's best guess as to when the
Speaker 3: product will not be at peak quality, whatever that means.
Speaker 3: And of course there is a financial incentive to imply
Speaker 3: that this isn't safe to eat it after a certain date,
Speaker 3: so you'll buy another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, throw it out and go to the store and
Speaker 2: buy another one. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So it goes through in the New York Times
Speaker 3: some of the things that never go bad. White flour
Speaker 3: never goes bad.
Speaker 2: Did you know?
Speaker 3: It never goes bad? Keep that around forever? Talks about bread.
Speaker 3: I struggle with this. So I've been trying to eat
Speaker 3: more healthier bread. You know, I've been a wonderbread guy
Speaker 3: my whole life. There's not a lot of nutrition in wonderbread.
Speaker 3: It's a child's bread, but it does stay soft and
Speaker 3: edible for a very long time. And as it talks here,
Speaker 3: a lot of those breads like I get wonderbread. You've
Speaker 3: got like a full week probably on that loaf where
Speaker 3: you get fresh bread from your bakery, which is so good,
Speaker 3: you know, an hour after it was baked to stale
Speaker 3: the next day. So well is the wonders of chemistry.
Speaker 3: So when you buy the fresh bread, which is delicious,
Speaker 3: you sit and eat it all one one afternoon or all.
Speaker 2: In one sitting. That's right. I just eat it and
Speaker 2: eat it and eat it. Yeah, spices last forever.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't remember ever looking at the expiration
Speaker 3: date on my salt or pepper, and.
Speaker 4: Do not discover the joys of the plastic bag. It
Speaker 4: keeps spread fresh for days days, and tastes.
Speaker 2: I always feel like.
Speaker 3: It gets too moist you put in a plastic bag,
Speaker 3: it gets like gooey.
Speaker 2: I don't like that, like like real bread. Yeah no, no,
Speaker 2: why does that happen to me? I don't know. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine.
Speaker 4: I mean, I tend to eat like rye and pumpernickel
Speaker 4: and grown man's breads. Seven grain is my favorite. Nos,
Speaker 4: it got six grain maybe in.
Speaker 2: A pinch seven that's what I require.
Speaker 3: I actually hate both of those. I would I would
Speaker 3: not eat a sandwich. I would take the bread off
Speaker 3: if it had rye bread on it or no. Grow
Speaker 3: What an odd character you are anyway? Yeah, they last
Speaker 3: for a week, week and half at least. Yeah, they last.
Speaker 2: Util them.
Speaker 3: Don't eat canned goods. Hard goods last for years.
Speaker 4: If I've met old tea leaking, it's fine, go ahead
Speaker 4: and eat them.
Speaker 3: Rusty smells weird. Don't worry about it. Now, that's not
Speaker 3: what they said. As long as the can or jar
Speaker 3: is not touched in any way or it doesn't look
Speaker 3: damage to last forever. Mustards last forever. My yellow French
Speaker 3: is mustard that I get to go with my wonderbread
Speaker 3: lasts forever.
Speaker 4: Would you know I'm going to write a song about
Speaker 4: mustard today after the show Mustards Last Forever.
Speaker 2: I'm a man who enjoys mustard. I have no less
Speaker 2: than ten different mustards in my refrigerator. I eat them
Speaker 2: gleefully on rye bread. It's your pinky in the air.
Speaker 4: Yeah, disgusting, because made you have any gray popon?
Speaker 3: I do, really, I've never even, of course, tasted gray popon.
Speaker 3: I don't even actually know what it is. I've only
Speaker 3: heard about it in advertisements. And then finally, milk I
Speaker 3: wanted to get to that, just because that's when we
Speaker 3: worry about lot, especially if you have kids. We've all
Speaker 3: accidentally poured some clumpy, spoiled milk into our cereal holes.
Speaker 3: I have done. It is one of the worst smells
Speaker 3: on earth. That's like nature's own protective mechanism, right, It's
Speaker 3: letting our brains know this is not good. Don't eat it.
Speaker 3: It can seem like your milk is perfectly fine until
Speaker 3: it's suddenly not.
Speaker 2: How does it go bad overnight? The truth is it doesn't.
Speaker 3: From the moment you open a carton of milk, bacteria
Speaker 3: starts to digest lactose and produce acidic byproducts. Anyway, if
Speaker 3: you want your milk to last longer, look for ultra
Speaker 3: high temperature or UHT labeled on the milk. I've never
Speaker 3: looked for that before, but some milks have it and
Speaker 3: some don't. Milk and these cartons have been pasteurized at
Speaker 3: a high temperature, hot enough to destroy destroy all the
Speaker 3: bacteria and then in there and they last a lot longer.
Speaker 3: I will start looking for that today because I feel
Speaker 3: like my milk goes bad fast.
Speaker 4: You know, that's the same as ultra pasteurized. I guess
Speaker 4: I've seen that label. You know whose milk is sucky?
Speaker 3: I won't mention a particular place, but like a lot
Speaker 3: of convenience store milk, I don't know how what they
Speaker 3: do on the trucks.
Speaker 4: But out you were talking about a particular mother in
Speaker 4: your neighborhood or something.
Speaker 2: Do you know whose milk is quote unquote sucky? It's terrible?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Who's what milk from a convenience story, it's it won't
Speaker 3: last like a day if it's any good at all.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the truck's sit there and get hot.
Speaker 3: But yeah, anytime I buy milk at a convenience store,
Speaker 3: I have I have bad, bad luck with it. I
Speaker 3: don't think they see keep it cold all the way
Speaker 3: through like they do.
Speaker 2: At the grocery stores. Yeah, I wonder. Oh they're in
Speaker 2: the same fridge as the beer and the PEPSI that
Speaker 2: might be my least favorite smell slash taste is spoiled milk.
Speaker 1: Ugh Armstrong, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4: I love this from Andrew Styles the Definitive List of
Speaker 4: winners and losers the twenty twenty four election, and actually,
Speaker 4: much as I love andrewing it, to Quipple with his opening,
Speaker 4: he says, the election's over. Donald Trump and the Republicans,
Speaker 4: excuse me, want a stunning and decide of victory. I
Speaker 4: would say Donald Trump won a stunning in decisive victory.
Speaker 4: The Senate performed very very well, and the House scraped.
Speaker 2: By for the Republicans. Yeah, mentioned certified government mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about it until I heard a Democrat
Speaker 3: pointed out, how can you call it a wave if
Speaker 3: you're going to have like a three seat majority in
Speaker 3: the House of Representatives, that ain't much of a wave.
Speaker 3: I mean, when Obama won, he had like an eighty
Speaker 3: seat majority.
Speaker 2: It's an indy bitty wave. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But anyway, winners and losers. Winner diversity, actual diversity. All
Speaker 4: sorts of different people voted for Trump and got out
Speaker 4: of their electoral pens that the Democrat had told them
Speaker 4: they ought to stay in the Democrats rather, with the
Speaker 4: exception of seniors and college educated white women. Huzzah, Trump
Speaker 4: improved his margins in every group. Winner Hillary Clinton no
Speaker 4: longer the only Democrat to lose to Trump.
Speaker 2: Winner.
Speaker 4: Mental health professionals about to make a fortune treating the
Speaker 4: emotional breakdowns of college educated white women and deranged liberals
Speaker 4: and journalists who base their entire personalities on hating Trump.
Speaker 2: And his Wow, what a way to live your life.
Speaker 4: All the same people who are cutting off friends and
Speaker 4: loved ones who care about them deeply as a human
Speaker 4: being because they because they've bought I think the most
Speaker 4: hyperbolic and ridiculous stuff about the politics.
Speaker 3: Spend Thanksgiving alone and in the comfort of knowing at
Speaker 3: least you're not hanging around with Trump voters.
Speaker 2: You weirdo are evil, That's right. Another winner Dean Phillips.
Speaker 4: Only Democrat with the balls to run against Biden in
Speaker 4: the Democratic primary and say he's too old.
Speaker 2: He was mocked and ridiculed at the time.
Speaker 3: Oh Man in the Democratic Party cut his legs out
Speaker 3: from underneath him, made it impossible for him to get anywhere.
Speaker 3: And he was a one hundred percent right it turns.
Speaker 2: Out, and telling the truth. Yeah, he's not welcome in politics. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Another winner Josh Shapiro. He dodged the bullet of being
Speaker 4: a hitched to Kamala Harris's w right. He looks smart
Speaker 4: for not taking the job, which he probably didn't want anyway,
Speaker 4: we've already forgotten the name of the guy she did
Speaker 4: pick the guy in the camo had who pranced around
Speaker 4: and lied about China.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's his face? Tap on? How about his weird
Speaker 3: five minutes of fame? That'll never I mean, it'll be
Speaker 3: a trivia question.
Speaker 4: Please, let's begin laughing at the laughing stock. Jeff Bezos
Speaker 4: the whole temper tantrum, saying we got to be a
Speaker 4: reporter of news, not an opinion machine. Tony Hitchcliff and garbage.
Speaker 4: He goes into how that was like the final week
Speaker 4: closing argument, look at this monster Trump mounted to nothing,
Speaker 4: didn't amount to a pile of garbage in terms of
Speaker 4: electoral effect, right, yes, go ahead that.
Speaker 3: Remember we were counting the days it had, like five
Speaker 3: days of legs. That Puerto Rico joke as being one
Speaker 3: of the lead stories. What a stupid decision from the
Speaker 3: media who was hell bent on bringing down Trump. You
Speaker 3: thought that was your best argument. That comedian's joke apparently
Speaker 3: didn't work.
Speaker 4: Why because they see everything through the lens of identity politics.
Speaker 4: So this looked like an enormous faux paw and a
Speaker 4: great break bet to beat Trump with the rest of
Speaker 4: us normal people, including plenty of Democrats and lefties, as
Speaker 4: many of whom are listening right now. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't afford my groceries. I don't care what some
Speaker 4: obscure comedians said about Puerto Rico alts the new media
Speaker 4: alternative meetia, including ourselves big winners in the election, Sonny
Speaker 4: Hostin and the other ladies of the view for sinking
Speaker 4: the Harris campaign with the what would you do differently
Speaker 4: than Biden? There is not a thing that comes to mind,
Speaker 4: Harris said, in a breathtaking display of unpreparedness.
Speaker 2: Is Sonny Hosten a lock for Journalist of the Year?
Speaker 3: Well, as she has come out and said she was
Speaker 3: shocked to that answer. So she was trying to throw
Speaker 3: Kamala a life preserver because she had flubbed the answer
Speaker 3: the day before, and instead of the life preserver she
Speaker 3: threw a cinder block that took her under the water.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, well, said another winter women. Trump's victory Russia
Speaker 4: in a golden era of women's rights, in spite of
Speaker 4: the muling and screeching of the college educated white women
Speaker 4: of a certain age, his chief of staff, Susie Wiles,
Speaker 4: would be the first woman to hold a job. It'll
Speaker 4: soon be safe to play sports again. Women can say
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas and be attractive without getting publicly shamed, etcetera.
Speaker 3: So wonder you're gonna learn, ladies America does not want
Speaker 3: a female president.
Speaker 2: I think that's they'll take away.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that was an attempt, and I emphasize
Speaker 4: attempt at humor, ladies, and I apologize for it.
Speaker 2: Scott jameson Great on the Yeah.
Speaker 3: I heard somebody say the other day, how about try
Speaker 3: something different than pantsuits? Two pantsuit ladies who bring in
Speaker 3: effeminate men to be their underlings, try something different?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Uh, Margaret thatcher or dresses didn't she I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I don't care what they wear, wear anything at and
Speaker 2: wear nothing.
Speaker 4: Scott Jennings Great on CNN, Very reasonable, smart conservative, Mark Halperin,
Speaker 4: who's independent reporting in sober analysis, much of which you
Speaker 4: heard mentioned here on The Armstrong and Getty Show is
Speaker 4: vastly superior and more informative than the mainstream media is hackish, hyperventilating,
Speaker 4: another example of new media just whooping the old.
Speaker 2: Then some other obscure stuff.
Speaker 3: The pig reel winner, the pant suit thing is actually interesting,
Speaker 3: and I learned this from listening to Sarah I isiger
Speaker 3: in the Dispatch. I hadn't known about level one, level two,
Speaker 3: level three feminism, but like level two feminism or whatever,
Speaker 3: maybe one was the pants suit. It's like, see, we
Speaker 3: can be just like men. We've got our version of
Speaker 3: suits and here we are in the workplace. And then
Speaker 3: like the next level of feminism, No, I can dress
Speaker 3: like kind of hot, like a woman likes two sometimes
Speaker 3: in a skirt and high heels, and also be effective.
Speaker 3: And I think that would be helpful to get away
Speaker 3: from that old level of pants suit thingy. I think
Speaker 3: there is sort of a subliminal thing going on there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to free you by demanding you adhere
Speaker 4: to our stereotypes and our orders. You will work outside
Speaker 4: the home. You will turn your nose up at raising
Speaker 4: children and being the leader of the family. You will
Speaker 4: make money for a corporation, and you will wear pants.
Speaker 2: In the name of freedom, right right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Level threes where whatever you want, do whatever you want,
Speaker 4: and I tell you what that's And I don't know
Speaker 4: if there's a name for guys like I'll just speak
Speaker 4: for myself, who are like women can do whatever they
Speaker 4: want and achieve whatever they want, and who the hell
Speaker 4: am I to tell them that it's more satisfying to
Speaker 4: make another half of a percent for your corporation as
Speaker 4: opposed to raising children and being the actual functional chief
Speaker 4: operating officer as a family.
Speaker 2: You do what you want. I trust you to make
Speaker 2: the decision.
Speaker 4: I don't believe in browbeating people to conform to some
Speaker 4: sort of, you know, prefab image of.
Speaker 2: What they ought to be.
Speaker 4: I find it disgusting no matter what you know label
Speaker 4: it puts on itself. We're going over the winners and
Speaker 4: losers from the recent election. Loser number one, Come on,
Speaker 4: Joe Biden. The experts told us sleepy Joe would be
Speaker 4: the most consequential president since FDR.
Speaker 2: When he dropped out in July.
Speaker 4: Those same experts compared Biden to George Washington, praising his
Speaker 4: selfless act as political courage.
Speaker 2: He will not be remembered that way now.
Speaker 4: In reality, Biden's decision to run for reelection rights Andrew
Speaker 4: Styles will be remembered as one of the most reckless
Speaker 4: acts of political hubris and American history. His selection of
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris as a running mate in twenty twenty, his
Speaker 4: decision to immediately endorse her also regarded as monumental blunders.
Speaker 4: This is the legacy Biden deserves.
Speaker 3: They met Trump and Biden met for two hours yesterday.
Speaker 2: I find that pretty interesting alone. What were they talking about?
Speaker 3: Trump says they talked a lot about Ukraine and talked
Speaker 3: a lot about Israel. But two hours, that's a pretty
Speaker 3: serious conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, I have no doubt. I'm glad
Speaker 2: to hear it. Honestly.
Speaker 4: Another loser, of course, Tim Walltz oh right, the camo
Speaker 4: hat guy who around pranced around on stage and lied
Speaker 4: constantly about China and other weird things. He was supposed
Speaker 4: to help the Hair's campaign appeal to men. He pretended
Speaker 4: to go pheasant hunting, cackled with the ladies of the U,
Speaker 4: and played video games with AOC.
Speaker 2: He said Republicans were weird. Trump won mail voters by thirteen.
Speaker 3: Points, right, And obviously, if you're going to pick somebody
Speaker 3: out of the whole crowd, that was weird. He was
Speaker 3: almost certainly the weirdest.
Speaker 2: And I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 4: Another losers, other losers, the Obamas, and you know, he
Speaker 4: talked about various things, but they tried to shame black
Speaker 4: men into voting for Kamala scolding the brothers for hating women.
Speaker 2: Oh, go away, please go away.
Speaker 4: Other losers Alex Sorosho, the son of billionaire George Soros,
Speaker 4: who funneled hundreds of million dollars of dollars into the
Speaker 4: Democrats in twenty twenty four, hanging out with him at
Speaker 4: elite conferences, inviting them to his swanky Manhattan pad, et cetera.
Speaker 4: And some other people you've never heard of. The mainstream
Speaker 4: media journalists are the worst. They scolded the American people
Speaker 4: for feeling stressed about the economy and thinking, but Biden
Speaker 4: was too old to run for reelection. They still don't
Speaker 4: understand why no one trusts them or takes them seriously.
Speaker 4: They try to put their thumbs on the scale for Harris,
Speaker 4: but it made no difference due to their rapidly diminishing
Speaker 4: credibility and relevance. They will learn nothing and carry on
Speaker 4: into the void.
Speaker 3: Speaking of spending money, did you see that Kamala Harris's
Speaker 3: campaign gave Al Sharpton a half a million dollars five
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars they gave to Kamala before he did
Speaker 3: the glowing interview with her. Wow, what kind of shakedown
Speaker 3: is that? And I can't believe that they play that
Speaker 3: game with Al freaking Sharpton. You gave him a half
Speaker 3: a million dollars so he do a softball interview with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, more losers, the Lincoln Project go away, shameless griff.
Speaker 4: There's criminals, terrorists in Iran. Not even Ben Rhodes can
Speaker 4: save you. Now, losers.
Speaker 3: That Al Sharpton thing pisses me off because that interview
Speaker 3: got a fair amount of play in mainstream media because
Speaker 3: she was addressing, you know, all the black community and all.
Speaker 2: That sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't do the interview unless he got a half a
Speaker 3: million dollars.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, can we have some sort of giant
Speaker 4: statement from you know, the black folks in America, fabulous
Speaker 4: loyal Americans who disavow the very concept of Al Sharpton
Speaker 4: being a spokesperson for anybody.
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2: This is interesting and not terribly shocking. Well, I guess
Speaker 2: when you get down.
Speaker 4: To the the granular detail, it is fairly shocking. But
Speaker 4: Americans are more reliant than ever on government aid. An
Speaker 4: aging population, economic distress raised dependence on federal and state support,
Speaker 4: and it matters a hell of a lot for our elections.
Speaker 4: As you might guess Wall Street Journal looking into a
Speaker 4: major study. This is little graphics heavy, but I can
Speaker 4: interpret it for you. They're talking about the share of
Speaker 4: personal income from government assistance. How in how many counties
Speaker 4: is it twenty five percent or more? In nineteen seventy,
Speaker 4: government safety net money accounted for significant income. That's more
Speaker 4: than twenty five percent. Twenty five percent or more in
Speaker 4: fewer than one percent of America's counties.
Speaker 2: So say that again, in what year?
Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy it was less than one percent? Okay,
Speaker 4: in two thousand it went from less than one percent
Speaker 4: to roughly ten percent. That's the year twenty ten percent,
Speaker 4: which a tenfold increase is not minor. In the year
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, fifty three percent, more than half of
Speaker 4: US counties drew at least a quarter of their income
Speaker 4: from government aid.
Speaker 3: So this is we were talking about this last week,
Speaker 3: and now that it's the average person in the bottom quintile.
Speaker 3: I know this is a lot of complicated talking, but
Speaker 3: the bottom twenty percent of income earners in America get
Speaker 3: on average sixty eight thousand dollars per household of transfer payments,
Speaker 3: and that's left out of every argument about we have the.
Speaker 2: Highest inequality of any nation in the world.
Speaker 3: They never include this stuff and what you just talked
Speaker 3: about there, that's never included in these conversations from Bernie
Speaker 3: Sanders or probably Tim Walls tonight in the debate. People
Speaker 3: live in paycheck to paycheck. Well, more people are getting
Speaker 3: the handouts from the government than ever before.
Speaker 2: A lot.
Speaker 4: And as we've discussed with Craig the healthcare Guru, socialism
Speaker 4: is not a light switch. It's a it's a fungus
Speaker 4: oh that spreads across a country, and it's programmed benefits
Speaker 4: and yeah, yeah, sure, there's just no stopping it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the big reasons for this dramatic growth are interesting.
Speaker 4: Some of them I think most conservatives would jacked out
Speaker 4: of hand. But it gets a little complicated when you
Speaker 4: dig into it. There are much larger share of Americans
Speaker 4: who are seniors. Period, We're living longer, and we've aged
Speaker 4: as a population, we're not having kids anymore. And healthcare raw, sorry,
Speaker 4: healthcare costs have risen fairly dramatically as they've gotten more fantastic.
Speaker 4: The technology we have at our disposal to keep ourselves
Speaker 4: healthy and alive is truly awe inspiring.
Speaker 2: But it costs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as my doctor said last week, what exactly
Speaker 3: is the point? Sometimes he wonders, is would you get
Speaker 3: You know, our brains don't work, our bodies don't work,
Speaker 3: but we hang around longer at a great expense.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, it could be the money is the point
Speaker 4: in at least some situations. Although it's I understand it's
Speaker 4: an odd conundrum that a person could sit around rubbing
Speaker 4: their chin thinking about for a long time. You're not
Speaker 4: going to turn down medical advances because it's every advance
Speaker 4: is an incremental step. It can lead toward other advances
Speaker 4: or cures or what have you. But at the same
Speaker 4: time you and your doctor are quite right, Hey, good news,
Speaker 4: we can keep alzheimer suffering Granny alive for one more year.
Speaker 4: We can stave off for cancer with this new gene therapy.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. What are we doing here anyway? To
Speaker 4: get back to the major thread of the thing, AROUNI
Speaker 4: here At the same time, many communities, so it's the
Speaker 4: aging and the development of medical technology number one. At
Speaker 4: the same time, any communities have suffered from economic client
Speaker 4: because of the challenges including the loss of manufacturing, leaving
Speaker 4: government money is the larger share of people's income in
Speaker 4: such places. You know, I could bore you to death.
Speaker 4: I won't because I do this for a living and
Speaker 4: kind of enjoy getting the paycheck. But one of the
Speaker 4: big debates in conservative circles these days is the question
Speaker 4: of the reagan Esque free trade global economy conservatives versus
Speaker 4: what's being called the new conservatism or whatever you want.
Speaker 2: To call it.
Speaker 3: And everybody's always government conservatism. Some people call it, yeah,
Speaker 3: industrial planning, you know.
Speaker 4: Sometimes people even call it central planning what have you,
Speaker 4: and are bellowing at each other about it, as if
Speaker 4: the solutions and the questions and answers are very simple.
Speaker 4: They're not at all. They're trillions of dollars at sake.
Speaker 4: So I understand why the people making lots and lots
Speaker 4: of money want to keep that money flowing. They don't
Speaker 4: care how much unemployment there is in rural Pennsylvania, for instance.
Speaker 4: At the same time, oh oh, and the other point
Speaker 4: I was going to make on the side of the new.
Speaker 2: Conservatives.
Speaker 4: Back in Reagan's day, we didn't have the situation where
Speaker 4: our chief global adversary is our one of our chief
Speaker 4: trading partners, technology partners, and practically indispensable to the world economy.
Speaker 4: So if you are pitching free global trade of a
Speaker 4: reaganesque sort, your pitching continued interaction slash dependence with China,
Speaker 4: which is just a bad idea. Times have changed, the
Speaker 4: arguments have to change too, So I have sympathy with
Speaker 4: both sides, but it is not simple. So for its
Speaker 4: analysis of government spending, EIG, which is the folks doing
Speaker 4: the analysis, used a government definition of income that includes
Speaker 4: spending on programs Americans pay into, such as Medicare and
Speaker 4: Social Security. Another major government health program, Medicaid, is counted.
Speaker 4: The analysis also includes unemployment insurance, food stamps, the Earned
Speaker 4: Income Tax credit, veterans benefits, PELL grants, COVID era payments,
Speaker 4: and other income supports. States helped pay for some of
Speaker 4: these programs, like Medicaid, but the federal government covers roughly
Speaker 4: seven seventy percent of the cost, and it doesn't include
Speaker 4: other ways government spending floods into corners of America, such
Speaker 4: as farm subsidies or military bases. So this spending accounts
Speaker 4: for big and growing share of not only the income
Speaker 4: of the nation, but also our national debt. We are
Speaker 4: addicted to government spending slash social programs as a country.
Speaker 3: There's no weaning off that either. I don't believe you
Speaker 3: know backwards. I don't think it's possible, but you do have.
Speaker 4: To be honest about the dollars and cents coming and going,
Speaker 4: and we're headed for a cliff.
Speaker 3: So we went from one percent nineteen seventy to over
Speaker 3: half now correct.
Speaker 2: Believable.
Speaker 3: Not very many people could tell you that Armstrong and
Speaker 3: Getty