Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he arm Strong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3: And here's a headline in the New York Times. Inflation
Speaker 3: is basically back to normal. Why do voters still feel blah, wow,
Speaker 3: that is just profoundly ignorant. I don't understand. I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe that reporters didn't get this at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the conversation.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I'm nonplussed about how they can still not get this.
Speaker 3: Let me read the opening paragraph from the New York Times.
Speaker 3: Can person Grocery inflation has been cooling sharply, but Tamarra
Speaker 3: Flamer twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Says she hasn't noticed.
Speaker 3: What she knows is that paper plates and meat remained
Speaker 3: more expensive than they were a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Yes, you freaking morons.
Speaker 3: You don't notice a decrease in the increase of prices.
Speaker 2: It would be impossible. Nobody would do of the rate.
Speaker 3: Yes, nobody would notice a slowing of the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to notice. It's just a it's a dumb concept. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah.
Speaker 3: It goes on the lingering. Pessimism is something of a puzzle,
Speaker 3: says The New York Times.
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it? Really? Do you know a single
Speaker 2: normal human being?
Speaker 3: You must not, or you would hear people say I
Speaker 3: went to Wendy's last night and it cost sixty bucks
Speaker 3: for me and the kids, or I.
Speaker 2: Filled up with gas yesterday. I don't know how.
Speaker 3: People do it.
Speaker 2: Or let me stop you there, Jim, let me stop
Speaker 2: you there.
Speaker 4: Now Wendy's went from fifty two dollars to sixty dollars
Speaker 4: in the course of seventeen months. Now it's only gone
Speaker 4: from sixty to sixty two.
Speaker 2: Dollars in the course of the last nine months.
Speaker 3: So as you can see, inflation is cooling a Janner
Speaker 3: Hamburger right.
Speaker 4: In your face if you tried that to somebody, what
Speaker 4: did band these people?
Speaker 2: Where do they live? Mars? I don't know.
Speaker 3: And like I said, do you not have a single
Speaker 3: normal friend? Not one in your circle? Whoever walks in
Speaker 3: and say, you know, at a party and says, man,
Speaker 3: I stop by the legerastore, I got this bottle of wine.
Speaker 3: It used to be eight bucks, now it's fifteen. I
Speaker 3: can't believe it. That's reality for everyone. But people who
Speaker 3: write economics stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not. There's more on this.
Speaker 3: The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, which makes
Speaker 3: you a moron. The job market has been chugging along,
Speaker 3: overall growth has been healthy, and inflation is back to normal.
Speaker 2: It's here. How is that a puzzle?
Speaker 3: Things cost more, way more than they did not very
Speaker 3: long ago.
Speaker 2: Period, you morons.
Speaker 4: And let me speak for thousands and thousands of people
Speaker 4: listening right now.
Speaker 2: The job market is hot.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've still got one job, or I used to
Speaker 4: have one, I still have one, and my money, my
Speaker 4: wages have not kept up with inflation, not even close.
Speaker 3: So and then I'll shut up about this because it's
Speaker 3: you know, I'm belaboring the.
Speaker 2: Point, but I just it's I actually can't believe it.
Speaker 3: I find it difficult to believe that the journalists who
Speaker 3: cover the economy are still saying this crap five days.
Speaker 2: Out from a presidential election that Trump.
Speaker 3: Is set to win, maybe mainly because of the price
Speaker 3: of stuff, and.
Speaker 2: They don't get it. I don't understand. Inflation's back to normal. God,
Speaker 2: you're so dumb. I don't even know where to start
Speaker 2: with you here.
Speaker 4: You are belaboring the point, which points to arise in
Speaker 4: the belaboring statistics like that the labor mark.
Speaker 3: You just can't be stopped today with your word play anyway.
Speaker 3: You're just a non stop fountain.
Speaker 2: Of wordplay, like an ego Montoya over here of my words.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know what you call the subheadline halfway
Speaker 3: through an article that's in bold or what.
Speaker 2: I don't know what do you call those things?
Speaker 3: But anyway, it says here consumers may focus more on
Speaker 3: price levels than price changes. Okay, all right, well that's
Speaker 3: that's correct. Yes, yes, it is incorrect and obvious to
Speaker 3: anyone over the age of five. Yes, good look, I
Speaker 3: can't I'm reeling from that one. You know, I thought
Speaker 3: it was the beating was about over, and you caught
Speaker 3: me right in the gyms with that. I mean, consumers
Speaker 3: worry more about fing prices than the rate of e
Speaker 3: fing change, which they can't observe day to day because
Speaker 3: they're busy with the real lives.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so funny. So I mentioned as a target.
Speaker 3: The other day, I get my normal allotment of stuff
Speaker 3: and it's two one hundred dollars. This is the first
Speaker 3: time it's ever open over two hundred dollars, and I
Speaker 3: said to the guy, two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I know everybody reacts that way.
Speaker 3: And I should have said to the guy, Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 3: whoa whoa, back off, buddy. The rate of change is lower,
Speaker 3: all right. The percentage increases lower than it was before,
Speaker 3: so you take it down a notch. I guess I
Speaker 3: should be happy that it's two hundred dollars because it's
Speaker 3: totally gone up two percent in the last month as
Speaker 3: opposed to the you know, between three and nine percent
Speaker 3: for the previous three years.
Speaker 4: I think that that that illustrates this case so beautifully.
Speaker 4: I mean, that would be absurdest humor for you to
Speaker 4: say that to the cashier. And yet that is essentially
Speaker 4: the inverse of what they're claiming with straight facing The
Speaker 4: New York Times. Oh, speaking of which, I'm so glad
Speaker 4: you brought this up, because I've been sitting on this
Speaker 4: for a while. Dave in Baltimore, I think, yeah, Dave
Speaker 4: and Baltimore sent us this and the title of the
Speaker 4: New York Times articles speaking of the old Gray Lady
Speaker 4: is which appears to be a senilist Joe Biden when
Speaker 4: it writes about economics is wages have been outpaced. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: let me do this again. The words are important. Wages
Speaker 4: have outpaced inflation, but not for everyone. And here is
Speaker 4: one of my favorite couple of sentences in the history
Speaker 4: of my reading newspapers. The bottom line, most American workers
Speaker 4: are probably making more money today adjusted for inflation than
Speaker 4: they were in twenty nineteen, but not all have seen
Speaker 4: their pay keep up with their own cost of living,
Speaker 4: and many, perhaps most, are lagging behind where they would
Speaker 4: be if pre pandemic trends had continued unabated. These complications
Speaker 4: may help explain why so many Americans believe they have
Speaker 4: fallen behind.
Speaker 2: They have fallen behind. Wow.
Speaker 4: The New York Times is saying most Americans are making
Speaker 4: more money today adjusted for inflation than they were pre pandemic.
Speaker 4: I have seen that statistic nowhere. I don't see how
Speaker 4: that's impossible. They're wrong on the fact. But the second part,
Speaker 4: which I've read a couple of times so I will
Speaker 4: parse for you, is claiming that in spite of that
Speaker 4: fact that y'all and we are making more money adjusted
Speaker 4: for inflation, bacon is easier to buy for.
Speaker 2: Us than it was pre pandemic. We're going out to
Speaker 2: eat and spending.
Speaker 4: Less relative to our incomes than we were a while ago.
Speaker 2: But in spite of that.
Speaker 4: Because we have somehow projected in our heads where we
Speaker 4: would be twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four if the
Speaker 4: inflation hadn't been so high for several years, we're coming
Speaker 4: up with some sort of fanciful Yes, bacon is easily
Speaker 4: affordable right now, but it would be even more easily
Speaker 4: affordable if not for the inflation of twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: through twenty twenty four. And I'm thinking, well, back to
Speaker 4: your question, do you know any human beings have.
Speaker 2: You spoken with them? That is?
Speaker 4: That is blindness that goes beyond galling and is absolutely
Speaker 4: in the realm of amazing, And I would like to
Speaker 4: hear scientists explain it.
Speaker 3: Here's a director of consumer surveys at the University of
Speaker 3: Michigan in the same New York Times article. It's not
Speaker 3: that consumers have lost touch with reality. It's just at
Speaker 3: high prices continue to weigh down their personal finances. Thank
Speaker 3: you for having you're a professor. I'm glad you're a
Speaker 3: university professor because none of us regular people could figure
Speaker 3: that out at all, and then they.
Speaker 4: beIN of medicine at the University of Michigan said, don't
Speaker 4: jam sharp objects into your eye.
Speaker 3: Where was your article from your nonsensical article? New York Times,
Speaker 3: New York Times. Yeah, so this says wages have climbed
Speaker 3: faster than prices for many consumers.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many?
Speaker 3: Not very I don't know anybody who got enough of
Speaker 3: a raise over the last several years to put them
Speaker 3: even even, let alone ahead.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the first time I've ever heard anybody
Speaker 4: claim that, and it's a couple of times in the
Speaker 4: New York Times when you had to that's the narrative.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't you had to have gotten like a twenty percent
Speaker 4: raise since twenty nineteen to keep up with the overall
Speaker 4: prices stuff?
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we could go on, because they quote
Speaker 4: a couple of more Harvard economists who study how people
Speaker 4: experience inflation.
Speaker 3: You need you all, all of you, all, all y'all,
Speaker 3: as they say in the South, all y'all need to
Speaker 3: hang around any normal human beings, go down to your
Speaker 3: corner bar and have a conversation with some people, or
Speaker 3: turn to someone at a you know, a high school
Speaker 3: basketball game. Talk to any normal human being. All right,
Speaker 3: somebody who doesn't work for the New York Times live
Speaker 3: in Manhattan is a childish catwoman with an advanced degree.
Speaker 2: And see what think about prices?
Speaker 4: I tell you what, If you can bag this rare game,
Speaker 4: it would be rarer than having a panda head on
Speaker 4: your wall.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, you find somebody to your house and you
Speaker 3: got a panda head on your wall? Do I pretend
Speaker 3: I don't see it? I say, hey, Jim, I can't help,
Speaker 3: but notice.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm wondering what other as that person's up to me?
Speaker 2: Was that they'll do anything? Was that pad live at
Speaker 2: one point? This is rarer game.
Speaker 4: Still, you go down to the corner bar to this
Speaker 4: the soccer game, waiting for kids in line at school,
Speaker 4: and you find the person who says, in response to
Speaker 4: my god, prices are so high it's still shocking. They say, yes,
Speaker 4: but the rate of increase has slowed, and that's what's important.
Speaker 4: You bag that rare game, and I will salute you
Speaker 4: a mighty hunter.
Speaker 1: In the Strong Congetti Show.
Speaker 3: This is from a guy I don't know, journalist in Australia. Dude,
Speaker 3: Nobody on the left knows how to speak to young
Speaker 3: men because every five seconds this has had why so
Speaker 3: many young men voted for Trump and are moving away
Speaker 3: from the Democratic Party, where the younger people used to
Speaker 3: all flock to the Democrats. Nobody on the left knows
Speaker 3: how to speak to young men because every five seconds
Speaker 3: at a leftist meeting, you have to either do a
Speaker 3: land acknowledgment, or go around in a circle and pay
Speaker 3: homage to the power of queer joy or some crap.
Speaker 2: He actually says, yes, it's briefly.
Speaker 3: I know this because I used to be a socialist,
Speaker 3: and this is how all these organizations act.
Speaker 2: I saw all this with my own eyes.
Speaker 3: You have to literally be self flagellating to be in
Speaker 3: the left as a young man these days, and this
Speaker 3: is probably the understanding and experience in perspective of ninety
Speaker 3: percent of young men. The feeling is that you have
Speaker 3: to always constantly apologize for effing existing and just the
Speaker 3: crime of being born. And this is why the right
Speaker 3: is so effective at hoovering all these people up, because
Speaker 3: the experience of constant self flagellation and self criticism is
Speaker 3: effing exhausting and annoying. And nobody wants to wake up
Speaker 3: every day feeling like they are an a s person
Speaker 3: just for the crime of being born.
Speaker 2: I like that. Amen to that.
Speaker 3: He also goes on, we have to fix this because
Speaker 3: I hate watching young guys fall into the Andrew Tait masculinity,
Speaker 3: and then he goes through a couple of examples of that.
Speaker 3: Because they got nowhere to turn to, They're going to
Speaker 3: these like super over the top extremist weirdos just to
Speaker 3: find somebody that's you know, appealing to them and not criticize, Yeah,
Speaker 3: not criticizing them for being a man. This is an
Speaker 3: existential threat for the Left and even an existential threat
Speaker 3: for humanity itself, because the end result if we don't
Speaker 3: fix these gender warfare dynamics is South Korea style gender
Speaker 3: hyper war and a total fertility rate of point four
Speaker 3: and humanity just gets wiped out. That is absolutely I mean,
Speaker 3: that is absolutely true. On the left, if you're going
Speaker 3: to continue to make U males feel bad about even
Speaker 3: being born, you're not gonna win a lot of elections.
Speaker 2: Or ever get that crowd.
Speaker 4: My heart bleeds for the little boys in public schools
Speaker 4: or continually treated as if their maleness is a defect.
Speaker 2: I know, it's horrorbies.
Speaker 4: It's their energy, their boundless energy is a misbehavior. Oh,
Speaker 4: I just you want to get me going.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: I came across some schoolwork the other day and my uh,
Speaker 3: my son is homeschooled. But so much of the teaching
Speaker 3: material out there is put out there by publishing companies
Speaker 3: that are so left I mean, you really have to
Speaker 3: work at getting the right stuff. But anyway, this particular
Speaker 3: thing was all about how women can be doctors.
Speaker 2: You know, freaking kidding.
Speaker 3: At this point in my life, when somebody says the
Speaker 3: doctor will see you, I assume.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a woman. I'm surprised if it's
Speaker 2: a man. So what do you what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: You won?
Speaker 2: Wow? That's just again a head scratcher. What wow? Wow.
Speaker 4: I thought I would feel differently after the election.
Speaker 2: I thought there would be.
Speaker 4: At the very least fairly widespread recognition to some of
Speaker 4: the simple realities of the thing, which is that Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris was a weak candidate, always was weak candidate. Is
Speaker 4: that putting it out before hapes? You all rejected her,
Speaker 4: as I said, like a rabbit raccoon when she was
Speaker 4: in the primary was that sexism and racism when you
Speaker 4: did that, well, I haven't no. Okay, Well, then when
Speaker 4: the same thing happened the presidential election, why is your
Speaker 4: explanation completely different?
Speaker 3: That is funny that that has never really been put
Speaker 3: to anybody. Your party rejected her when she ran before,
Speaker 3: not like right wing, your own party, like the most
Speaker 3: active people in your party. Primary voters said no to
Speaker 3: her before she even got to the first contest. So wow,
Speaker 3: how is it shocking that she got rejected by a
Speaker 3: larger group of people?
Speaker 4: And it's become a so oft observed fact, it's a truism.
Speaker 4: It's working its way toward being a cliche that when
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris on the View then Colbert? Was it Colbert
Speaker 4: or Kimmel, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Could not say how she would be different than the
Speaker 3: extremely unpopular Biden administration. That that was one of the
Speaker 3: most pivotal political moments in any campaign. I mean, that
Speaker 3: is so widely discussed right now, there's no point in
Speaker 3: bringing it up.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows it. But as I was reading the.
Speaker 4: Long top tier editorial writer editorial writers of the Washington
Speaker 4: Post dialogue about what happened, how did we get this
Speaker 4: result that didn't come up.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen any criticism of Kamala Harris as a
Speaker 3: candidate from the left at all. Maybe that's coming. I
Speaker 3: don't know. But I have seen more than I have
Speaker 3: ever seen before, and more than I expected of people
Speaker 3: saying we have Democrats have gone too far down the
Speaker 3: road of progressiveness in the culture wars. I have seen
Speaker 3: a fair amount of that. Yes, yeah, yeah, your.
Speaker 4: Old school liberals are finally finding the courage or the
Speaker 4: cover to stand up and say, hey, y'all, all that
Speaker 4: stuff is madness.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, is the way you win the
Speaker 3: political arguments. That's when you've won. That's a good Other
Speaker 3: side of it would be on gay marriage, where you know,
Speaker 3: if you're old enough to remember this whole battle and
Speaker 3: discussion in America, it got to the point to where
Speaker 3: Republicans realized we got to stop being anti gay marriage.
Speaker 2: It's just a losing issue. I mean, we just can't
Speaker 2: be and you stop talking about it.
Speaker 3: And hopefully that's going to start on the left with
Speaker 3: the you know, boys playing girls' sports or all kinds
Speaker 3: of different things, where they realize this is we're gonna lose.
Speaker 3: We nobody wants to hear this or not enough people
Speaker 3: want to hear this right right, Our academic left wing
Speaker 3: is just completely wildly out of touch with Americans. That
Speaker 3: latinex and herstry Herkstreet and that sort of stuff is.
Speaker 1: Insane, absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: Are Strong the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 5: President Elect Trump with Elon Musk in Texas there for
Speaker 5: the sixth test launch of the SpaceX starship meant to
Speaker 5: eventually take humans to the Moon and Mars. The launch
Speaker 5: itself successful, the booster even detaching as it's supposed to,
Speaker 5: but then SpaceX seeing some issue with the booster booster
Speaker 5: offshore divert Unfortunately, that means that we are our no
Speaker 5: go for the catch. It was supposed to land back
Speaker 5: in Texas, but to save it from potentially destroying the
Speaker 5: SpaceX launch facility or endangering lives on land, the booster's
Speaker 5: shifting course and heading to the Gulf instead for a splashdack.
Speaker 2: So they didn't catch this rocket with them. What does
Speaker 2: he call it?
Speaker 3: The megasuthan or other is what he calls the giant
Speaker 3: arm that catches the rocket booster.
Speaker 2: I still feel like.
Speaker 3: The media has not caught on to the way Elon
Speaker 3: looks at these things.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, agreed.
Speaker 3: The whole fail fast theory or there's no fast and
Speaker 3: learn faster, isn't that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: In this thing which you can apply to your own life,
Speaker 3: I've tried to apply it to mine. Is just there's
Speaker 3: no such thing as failure. It's just information. Okay, I
Speaker 3: tried this, this is the result. There's information about so
Speaker 3: now I'll try to try it this way right.
Speaker 4: Failure will ever hold you back. Fear of failure is crippling.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 3: And Elon expressed again yesterday that he plans to have
Speaker 3: a rocket reach Mars in twenty twenty six. Now he
Speaker 3: promises a lot of things, it often comes up short.
Speaker 3: I think that's part of his whole success thing. Is
Speaker 3: he he hits he sets aggressive deadlines.
Speaker 2: Yeahs over understrives.
Speaker 3: No, But I mean if he's if he's off by
Speaker 3: several years, that'd be quite amazing. I hope it happens
Speaker 3: in my lifetime. What just a stunning thing to even
Speaker 3: think about.
Speaker 4: And this isn't aside and we'll dig into this more
Speaker 4: thoroughly later on, but compare that idea of we're gonna
Speaker 4: set a goal that's probably not reachable, but we're gonna
Speaker 4: go nuts trying to get there. Who's in compared to
Speaker 4: government right where I'd like to see that memo filled
Speaker 4: out by the end of the months.
Speaker 2: There's seven of you working.
Speaker 3: Have we run that through the Environmental Agency to make
Speaker 3: sure we're not a foul of any this or that.
Speaker 2: Have the application done by next March.
Speaker 3: So speaking of mankind and the amazing thing that Homo
Speaker 3: sapiens have been into outer space and are going to
Speaker 3: go further and further versus many of the other humans
Speaker 3: that have existed on planet Earth that didn't make it
Speaker 3: out of the Stone Age?
Speaker 2: Why is that?
Speaker 3: So you might be familiar with the book Sapiens that
Speaker 3: came out several years back. It was a big giant
Speaker 3: hit and it's just a fascinating freaking book. But I'd
Speaker 3: only read the first chapter before, and I'm into the
Speaker 3: deeper chapters. At one time, there were six different kinds
Speaker 3: of humans existing on the planet at the same time,
Speaker 3: and it's still not completely known why Homo sapiens this
Speaker 3: is what we are, emerged and all the other ones
Speaker 3: didn't make it. But one of the genocide against my people,
Speaker 3: the Neanderthals.
Speaker 2: Could be or all kinds of different things could happen.
Speaker 3: But one of the beliefs is, and I've never heard
Speaker 3: this before, is Homo sapiens are the only beast that
Speaker 3: has ever existed on Earth that can believe fictions. And
Speaker 3: uh and and fully embraced them. And I didn't quite
Speaker 3: understand what he meant by fictions when he started in
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 2: But he uses all different kinds of examples.
Speaker 3: For instance, and if you're a religious person, you will
Speaker 3: be bothered by him using the word fiction. But he
Speaker 3: doesn't mean fiction as in uh fake, as much. Is
Speaker 3: it something that's in your mind. I'll start with this
Speaker 3: and said before I get to religion.
Speaker 2: Uh. Money, money is a fiction. I mean it is
Speaker 2: it is. You know.
Speaker 3: You you take a piece of paper, It doesn't it's
Speaker 3: just a piece of paper. So you have to have
Speaker 3: all the belief that goes in with a five dollars
Speaker 3: bill of what what the value of it is, how
Speaker 3: it's backed up by the US government, how it can
Speaker 3: be exchanged for something. And then you give the five
Speaker 3: dollars bill to somebody at the store who also believes
Speaker 3: the fiction of this piece of paper, and so you
Speaker 3: can trade goods and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: No other beast.
Speaker 3: Probably no other human ever had the mental ability to
Speaker 3: do that, so you couldn't trade. For instance, some might
Speaker 3: prefer the term abstraction. Maybe yeah, you know, maybe that
Speaker 3: would be better.
Speaker 4: Believing something or understanding it in the abstract, but yeah,
Speaker 4: what an interesting principle.
Speaker 2: Same with the idea of a nation.
Speaker 3: So Homo sapiens could and do band together over the
Speaker 3: idea of a nation, a country, a belief, a culture
Speaker 3: that's worth fighting for, and so you can get a
Speaker 3: very large number of people together to fight for it.
Speaker 3: It seems that every other animal, including apes, you use
Speaker 3: the example of sometimes apes do want to take another group,
Speaker 3: you know, apes, territory because they think they got better
Speaker 3: mangos over there or whatever. But they can't do it
Speaker 3: more than a very large group because it's over a
Speaker 3: very specific thing. The mangoes. As opposed to being able
Speaker 3: to band together millions of people over an idea of
Speaker 3: fiction or whatever you want to call it, an idea
Speaker 3: of we are a nation, no animal has shown the
Speaker 3: ability to do that, and they think perhaps Neanderthals or
Speaker 3: homoerectus or any of the other humans couldn't do that.
Speaker 3: A contrast, they couldn't buy into a concept like that.
Speaker 3: So you're not going to have like West Side of
Speaker 3: the Rainforest apes kick ass manasiders, they're not even real apes,
Speaker 3: right right, So, and the same with refuse me apes,
Speaker 3: and the same with creating a religion that you buy
Speaker 3: into that you could all band together around and protect
Speaker 3: yourself in very very large groups in a way that
Speaker 3: no other animal or human has ever been able to do.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a fascinating thing to think about.
Speaker 3: That's what separates us from all other living creatures on Earth.
Speaker 2: Perhaps that's as good a definition or distinction as I
Speaker 2: have ever come across. Yeah, I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 4: I too, started that book in kind of an interested way.
Speaker 4: I need to dive back into it.
Speaker 3: It's amazing how much is not known. That's one of
Speaker 3: the things that's really stuck out to me. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of guessing going on in that field, and many
Speaker 3: many others.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Lex Friedman had on a guy the other day
Speaker 3: who's kind of like an out there, controversial sort of
Speaker 3: anthropologist dude who has a belief that there was a
Speaker 3: major lost civilization somewhere on planet Earth that we haven't
Speaker 3: discovered yet. That explains the giant leap from hunter gathering
Speaker 3: to agriculture and civilization that happened simultaneously around the world
Speaker 3: kind of all of a sudden ish in historical terms.
Speaker 3: I mean, it happened over tens of thousands of years.
Speaker 3: But given the fact that were humans around for like
Speaker 3: two million years, why all of a sudden, all of a.
Speaker 2: Sudden, were we able to create civilization.
Speaker 3: There was a civiilation that grew very solely maybe in Antarctica,
Speaker 3: and we just have never discovered that it has existence,
Speaker 3: and it had spread around the world, but then it disappeared,
Speaker 3: was covered up with ice, and.
Speaker 2: Then the Lost Atlantis.
Speaker 3: The new idea of the way to live as humans
Speaker 3: got out there and started.
Speaker 2: I don't know who knows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, if you've studied this stuff at all, you
Speaker 4: know that some of the ancient civilizations and cities and
Speaker 4: all are super well documented and some aren't. Some you know,
Speaker 4: it's fairly fragmentary. But clearly there was a giant city
Speaker 4: and I have not studied this much. Er was one
Speaker 4: of the first civilized areas in Iraq, I believe, but
Speaker 4: it's not like a ton is known about it.
Speaker 2: So it's yeah, it's absolutely.
Speaker 4: Imaginable that there was a big, important civilization and the
Speaker 4: only records that were kept of it were over here,
Speaker 4: and oh gully of volcano just went off.
Speaker 2: Wrecking the only records that have ever existed. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's also highly unfortunate that most of the oldest
Speaker 3: civilizations in Egypt and Iraq, and maybe the oldest civilization
Speaker 3: is in turn, are in places where everything's so effed
Speaker 3: up the world can't really get there and explore it
Speaker 3: in the way you could if it were like found
Speaker 3: in Nebraska speaking of certain religions.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also, taking in all that information and thinking about these
Speaker 3: spreads of time, I don't know, it kind of weirds
Speaker 3: you out from a getting so worked up about your
Speaker 3: current situation.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, that's another.
Speaker 4: Version of the Atlanta on your back and looking at
Speaker 4: the stars for twenty minutes experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I go back and forth on that one. So the so,
Speaker 3: if human beings have been modern humans have been around
Speaker 3: for let's say seventy thousand years, thinking and acting exactly
Speaker 3: like we do.
Speaker 2: And why are you so worried about your today day?
Speaker 3: Well, because I'm me and my kids are them, and
Speaker 3: I worry about you know, I want them to be
Speaker 3: happy and not miserable or in pain. So that seems
Speaker 3: like a pretty good reason to be concerned about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: question of balance, I think perspective, no balance, all or nothing,
Speaker 3: one hundred percent or zero. That's the way I do it.
Speaker 4: So all of that was really interesting in thought provoking,
Speaker 4: and I thank you for bringing it to us.
Speaker 2: But what does that have to do with doctor Oz beingpoint?
Speaker 2: That's what I was trying to avoid having the conversation.
Speaker 4: Leads doctor Oz bad days blah blah blah, Pete Hexith,
Speaker 4: sexual assault, blah blah.
Speaker 3: So just briefly for those of you who don't know,
Speaker 3: and I won't go into it, but we had a
Speaker 3: personal interaction with doctor Oz that made me hate him
Speaker 3: for the rest of my life. He is a and
Speaker 3: I don't like him at all, But that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: he wouldn't be good at this job. I don't actually
Speaker 3: have any idea whether or not he's qualified to do
Speaker 3: this particular job. I doubt that he is because it's
Speaker 3: a running Medicaid medicare I mean, what.
Speaker 4: Forgive me, friends for using Jack's vocabulary.
Speaker 2: We should all be better than that. But it's possible.
Speaker 4: It takes a dick to go into those agencies and
Speaker 4: turn them around possible. Oz's great sin which offended mister Armstrong.
Speaker 2: It mostly amused me, but was.
Speaker 4: That he came in and just tried to take control
Speaker 4: of the radio show. He was there as a guest
Speaker 4: and said, our screener will screens calls, you sit down,
Speaker 4: here's the way it's gonna go. We're like, wait a minute, no,
Speaker 4: but he just seized control.
Speaker 2: So he's a leader. He's a leader.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's a leader and a dick, but apparently he
Speaker 4: is used to people saying yes, doctor Oz, yes, sir right,
Speaker 4: and he gets.
Speaker 2: Things that go the way he wants them to go.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, one thing, it ain't gonna be as boring, friends,
Speaker 4: isn't that the one sin that cannot be forgiven boring?
Speaker 2: The next couple of years will be interesting.
Speaker 3: And Bremer made a decent point on his Twitter feed
Speaker 3: yesterday that before you get two worked up about a
Speaker 3: lot of these choices, confirmed or not, they won't be
Speaker 3: around long based on recent history. So whatever you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's not like it's for the rest of our
Speaker 3: lives or all eternity.
Speaker 2: It's probably a year or two.
Speaker 4: For what it's worth. I love Linda McMahon at the
Speaker 4: Education Department. I want to talk about that because our
Speaker 4: education system in the US seriously has it is diseased,
Speaker 4: seriously diseased, and obviously you know me, I'm on about
Speaker 4: the radicalization of our children and doctrination in schools which
Speaker 4: is horrific and horrifically inappropriate. But you know you don't
Speaker 4: even need to go there. They ain't teach and the
Speaker 4: kids to read and write, the do arithmetic. Good lord,
Speaker 4: what are they? What are those buildings there for? Just
Speaker 4: to keep the rain off the kids' heads. The turn
Speaker 4: has happened with college education. Polling shows that now most
Speaker 4: people realize, wait a second, and it's these places are crazy.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure this is a good idea that the
Speaker 4: tide turned a lot. Where do you think we are
Speaker 4: with public school K through twelve?
Speaker 3: We still have work to do to get people to
Speaker 3: realize this is way way, way off time.
Speaker 2: Sure are a lot.
Speaker 3: There are more people that ever homeschooling or doing private
Speaker 3: schools and have ever been before. COVID hastens that right, right,
Speaker 3: and that's a big factor. I was just going to say,
Speaker 3: there's an awareness campaign that needs to be done.
Speaker 2: It's growing.
Speaker 4: But then the fact is that there are not the
Speaker 4: same alternatives, or the alternatives aren't as easy to take
Speaker 4: advantage of in elementary education for working families, they got
Speaker 4: little kids, they're paying their taxes. They think the government
Speaker 4: set up these schools. I want my kid to learn,
Speaker 4: you know, homeschooling, private schooling. It's expensive and door time consuming.
Speaker 4: Whereas I've came across another great article from this guy
Speaker 4: who counsels like the elite high school students of the
Speaker 4: Northeast who all wanted to go to the Ivy League forever,
Speaker 4: and he reaffirmed what I saw in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: We talked about a little bit.
Speaker 3: He said, Now, all the lots and lots of these kids,
Speaker 3: huge numbers of them, they're parents are like, Hey, how
Speaker 3: about Georgia, how about South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, where kids
Speaker 3: go to school to learn and like drink a little
Speaker 3: beer on the weekend and try to get laid. How
Speaker 3: about that as opposed to marching in favor of Hamas
Speaker 3: all the damn time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Plus, your future employer has not seen this campus on
Speaker 3: the evening news being nuts.
Speaker 4: Right, which they assume you went to Tennessee to get
Speaker 4: a degree in whatever you got a degree in, not
Speaker 4: in radical studies.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Hating capitalism, Jack Armstrong and Joe, the Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 1: The arms Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Show twicey times.
Speaker 4: Indeed, friends, here's your freedom living Quote of the day
Speaker 4: from GK. Chesterton contemplate this, will you. The most extraordinary
Speaker 4: thing in the world is an ordinary man and an
Speaker 4: ordinary women, not women women. It's not polyamory, you idiot.
Speaker 4: He's not in some sort of weird open marriage.
Speaker 2: I ruined G. K. Chesterdan's quote. He had such a
Speaker 2: role going there too, sonorous tones really was going well
Speaker 2: there right until that word right there? Do we have
Speaker 2: enough tape to do a second tape?
Speaker 4: Michael, the most extraordinary thing in the world is an
Speaker 4: ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about that. I'm not sure precisely what he
Speaker 4: meant by that. I've long believed that while someone who
Speaker 4: reacts to danger or need or something in the split
Speaker 4: second and runs into the building and saves the children,
Speaker 4: it's over and begins in forty five seconds, that person
Speaker 4: is indeed a hero, and we should use that word
Speaker 4: but how about somebody who shows up day after day
Speaker 4: after day, be it difficult and heartbreaking and painful and whatever,
Speaker 4: and just keeps showing up.
Speaker 2: That's pretty damned heroic too, in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to living in an adult life with a
Speaker 3: family is quite the thing. So I think maybe I
Speaker 3: do understand that quote.
Speaker 2: I think that's what he meant. Mail bag. If you
Speaker 2: know what GK.
Speaker 4: Chesterton meant by that, drop us a note mail bag
Speaker 4: at Armstrong and Getty dot com. John in Southampton, England, rights,
Speaker 4: Good morning, Jack and Joe. Can I suggest a UK
Speaker 4: US exchange we have where you have citizens who are
Speaker 4: desperate to leave the US because you have elected a
Speaker 4: strong leader who it seems is only interested in improving
Speaker 4: your country. Myself and others are unhappy with the UK
Speaker 4: Prime Minister and Labor Party are extremely left and are
Speaker 4: already running our country into the ground with high taxes
Speaker 4: and unreasonable climate change targets.
Speaker 2: I would like to offer my two.
Speaker 4: Bet apartment in Southampton in exchange for a home in
Speaker 4: the US.
Speaker 2: Love the show I listen every day. Thanks John.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let me speak for my fellow Americans. We've
Speaker 4: kicked it around and appointed me as the spokesman Fall Americans, John,
Speaker 4: we would love to have you. Please come on over.
Speaker 4: Get the immigration paperwork.
Speaker 2: Nobody even looks at it.
Speaker 3: It just goes into a shredder. It's just a big
Speaker 3: elaborate joke.
Speaker 2: Good, just come on over.
Speaker 3: A good feature on illegal immigrant farm workers on.
Speaker 2: Sixty minutes last night? Is that what it was on
Speaker 2: some show no ABC this week? Man? Was that interesting?
Speaker 2: We got to talk about that later.
Speaker 4: Oh h sounds good, Mikey North Carolina rights guys in
Speaker 4: light of the Tyson fight, man suggest the general manager
Speaker 4: could have been father time. As you pointed out, all
Speaker 4: the time remains undefeated.
Speaker 3: And that was rough as a guy roughly the same
Speaker 3: age as Mike Tyson realizing, okay, you can get the
Speaker 3: base best shape your life.
Speaker 2: You're still old. Mike Tyson second round, walking back to
Speaker 2: his chair looking eighty years old.
Speaker 4: Dr okay uh dh in San Diego at the other
Speaker 4: end of the country. I also watched the Tyson fight.
Speaker 4: He said, Holy cow, was that boring? The eight rounds
Speaker 4: of an old man who didn't want to be hit,
Speaker 4: But the ladies had a bloody slugfest.
Speaker 2: That was a man peak.
Speaker 4: Execs may need to rel look at his arguments against
Speaker 4: women in combat.
Speaker 3: That was some fight that was the best female fighter
Speaker 3: in the world. I didn't know this to I watched
Speaker 3: the fight and a challenger who should have won, and
Speaker 3: it reminded my reminded me of why boxing fell off
Speaker 3: the map like it did so often.
Speaker 2: You want to boxing match.
Speaker 3: The crowd, the fighters, the announcers all saw it one way,
Speaker 3: but the three judges saw it another way, And you think,
Speaker 3: why did I even.
Speaker 2: Watch this six?
Speaker 4: Dave writes, With around fifty percent of the country voting
Speaker 4: for Trump, why is the dominant media dominant? I ask
Speaker 4: a as a long term A and G listener and
Speaker 4: a middle of the road democrat, seems to me that
Speaker 4: the free market is missing an opportunity. Well, Dave, I
Speaker 4: would suggest that the media is the dominant media is
Speaker 4: less and less dominant. They are dying slowly, partly because
Speaker 4: of their ideological bias.
Speaker 2: That doesn't reflect America. We got so much good stuff
Speaker 2: to talk about on the way.
Speaker 3: If you mess an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and
Speaker 3: Getty on the Man Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Getty, They're gonna wear fast. Don't you think that's
Speaker 2: a little odd? Absolutely, there's no doubt in my mind,
Speaker 2: this is the Armstrong and Getty show.