Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm.
Speaker 2: Strong and Getty and Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Zoo announced last week that a pair of nearly
Speaker 3: one hundred year old tortoises recently welcome their first hatchlings.
Speaker 3: You may have seen the tortoises on the MTV show
Speaker 3: ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Pregnant markets are surging if you're listening to us live,
Speaker 4: so the bounce back has begun. And get into that later. Also,
Speaker 4: latest polling on the whole tariff thing, get into that
Speaker 4: later also. And oh and I just saw the real
Speaker 4: ID deadline is a month away. This is going to
Speaker 4: be my all time greatest hit screw up because it's
Speaker 4: been I've seen it coming for so long and known
Speaker 4: the entire time for years that at some point I
Speaker 4: will be at an airport ready to get on a
Speaker 4: plane someplace I need to go, yes, and they'll say
Speaker 4: we no longer accept your driver's license, you need your
Speaker 4: real ID, even though I knew it for years, I
Speaker 4: am that is going to happen to me.
Speaker 5: I'll like your high school teacher assigned you a book
Speaker 5: report due in twenty years and you waited until the
Speaker 5: last night and you're up all night, right, that is
Speaker 5: going to happen to me? Yeah, it's funny, Judy, And
Speaker 5: I heard that report, and I have a feeling. I
Speaker 5: spoke for many, many millions of Americans when I said,
Speaker 5: do we have real IDs? I've completely lost track? Is
Speaker 5: ours real? She looked at it and said, yeah, yes
Speaker 5: we do. How that happened?
Speaker 2: I don't recall, but I sure don't have one? Are
Speaker 2: you sure? I'm positive you might. When did you last
Speaker 2: for new year license?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 2: So, so your driver's license?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh it is?
Speaker 5: Well, maybe I did have a real like the updated
Speaker 5: does it have like a hologrammy looking thing on there?
Speaker 4: Or yeah? Yeah, there you go. Maybe I do have.
Speaker 2: It done and done, sir. That's my point. Nobody has
Speaker 2: any idea. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, speaking of economics and that sort of thing, which
Speaker 5: a lot of people are doing these days in reference
Speaker 5: to the tariffs.
Speaker 2: But to this too shall pass, I hope eventually. Uh
Speaker 2: And and some of.
Speaker 5: The support and lack of support are coming from some
Speaker 5: interesting areas for the tariffs, and we can talk about
Speaker 5: that more later, but I'm kind of tariffed out.
Speaker 2: We brought this up kind of briefly at the end
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 4: So you see I could talk about tariffs for many
Speaker 4: more hours.
Speaker 5: Well you should feel free. How about one room over anyway?
Speaker 5: I found this so interesting, big survey of America's employers,
Speaker 5: especially manufacturers. They cannot find reliable, conscientious workers who can
Speaker 5: pass a drug test. A good worker, like a good man,
Speaker 5: can be hard to find these days. And who is
Speaker 5: this writing in the Alicia Finley, who I think is
Speaker 5: a terrific writer, But she says, blame government, which showers
Speaker 5: benefits on able bodied people who don't work well at
Speaker 5: the same time subsidizing college degrees that don't lead to
Speaker 5: productive employment, and the result is millions of idle men
Speaker 5: and millions of unfilled jobs, what an economist would call
Speaker 5: a dead weight loss to society.
Speaker 4: So failing the drug test, is it mostly the marijuana,
Speaker 4: the Mary Jane, the lettuce, the hippie let?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I suspect so though. Sure I
Speaker 5: think it's mostly pot. But I think that it's just
Speaker 5: brilliantly simply put, we are showering benefits on able bodied
Speaker 5: people and subsidizing useless college degrees as as a people
Speaker 5: because the government is theoretically doing our work right.
Speaker 2: Well, I for one, don't like either end of that anyway.
Speaker 5: Forty percent of small business owners and March reported job
Speaker 5: openings they could not fill. Construction companies fifty six percent said, yeah,
Speaker 5: we have unfilled jobs and we can't find anybody. Transportation,
Speaker 5: I have a feeling that's mostly truck drivers fifty three
Speaker 5: percent manufacturing, which the President is, according to many people,
Speaker 5: admirably trying to shepherd back inside the country. More forty
Speaker 5: seven percent of manufacturers say, no, we've got openings we
Speaker 5: can't fill.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: So, according to the last week's National Federation of Independent
Speaker 5: Business survey, that might.
Speaker 4: Be a flaw in the president's plan that hasn't been
Speaker 4: discussed enough. He wants to bring back the fifties or
Speaker 4: seventies or whatever golden era of manufacturing that we used
Speaker 4: to have.
Speaker 2: But back then people would do those jobs.
Speaker 4: If half the manufacturing jobs out there or you can't fill.
Speaker 2: Now, what if manufacturing did come.
Speaker 4: Back to the United States, who, in theory is going
Speaker 4: to do those jobs?
Speaker 5: Well, not illegal immigrants, because thank god, the border has
Speaker 5: been closed and the statistics are astounding.
Speaker 2: Biden was a scoundrel anyway.
Speaker 4: Was it going to be the woman who studies major
Speaker 4: from your local university that goes works, They're probably not well.
Speaker 5: It could well be the dudes who have no disability
Speaker 5: on disability who are heaved off of that system, but
Speaker 5: that would take some tough love, and that's not very
Speaker 5: popular politically speaking. I mean, if you go into one
Speaker 5: of the districts of the rust Belty places or Appalachia
Speaker 5: or whatever where you have just ludicrous levels of people
Speaker 5: on disability. Happened to read a couple things about this recently.
Speaker 5: Didn't flog you with it on the air. But and
Speaker 5: if you go into those places and say we're kicking
Speaker 5: it off everybody on disability who's not like missing a limb,
Speaker 5: you will lose an election by seventy points.
Speaker 2: That's even possible.
Speaker 5: Once people are on the toll man, once people have
Speaker 5: a benefit, whether legitimate or perhaps questionable, taking it away
Speaker 5: as political poison as you know, Labor Department's job openings
Speaker 5: and labor turnover survey of businesses tell a similar story.
Speaker 5: There are twice as many job openings in manufacturing now
Speaker 5: than in the mid two thousands as a share of employment.
Speaker 5: Save for the pandemic, America's workers shortage is the worst
Speaker 5: in fifty years. Decades ago, productivity, enhancing technology and yes,
Speaker 5: inexpensive imports costed men who worked on shop floors to
Speaker 5: lose their jobs and drop out of the workforce. But
Speaker 5: that generation is sailing into the sunset, and there are
Speaker 5: many fewer young Americans who want to work in factories.
Speaker 5: Listen to this now, the labor force participation rate among
Speaker 5: young among working age men is now about five percentage
Speaker 5: points lower than in the early eighties. Okay, this is
Speaker 5: not like the nineteen tens. This is the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 5: five points lower. As a result, there are about three
Speaker 5: and a half million fewer men between the ages twenty
Speaker 5: five and fifty four in the workforce, and one point
Speaker 5: three million between the ages of twenty five and thirty
Speaker 5: four in a significantly bigger population than we had in
Speaker 5: the eighties. Right then there would have been were it
Speaker 5: not for this decline. Labor participation among working age women,
Speaker 5: on the other hand, recently hit a record in part
Speaker 5: because they are having fewer children, and then people aren't
Speaker 5: coupling and that sort of thing at the risk of
Speaker 5: stereotyping women are more inclined toward helping professions such as
Speaker 5: services than those that require physical labor.
Speaker 2: Well, that's just true. It's undeniable.
Speaker 4: So I've not done a manufacturing sort of job before,
Speaker 4: so I don't know what it's like, but I certainly
Speaker 4: feel like there's a social stigma around it that doesn't
Speaker 4: help true.
Speaker 2: Why it is?
Speaker 4: Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless,
Speaker 4: soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle, I don't
Speaker 4: know why that is. I mean, maybe the other way
Speaker 4: around should be. There shuldn't be any stigma around any jobs.
Speaker 4: Working for a living is considerably better than not whatever
Speaker 4: the hell you're doing.
Speaker 5: So why at least the vestige of the twentieth century
Speaker 5: where a job where you used your brain as opposed
Speaker 5: to your back was seen as a higher status job.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know some of these jobs or you
Speaker 2: use your brain.
Speaker 4: That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't
Speaker 4: seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs.
Speaker 2: Right, Tedious is tedious.
Speaker 5: I had a sort of manufacturing job for one summer,
Speaker 5: and it was pretty tedious. Honestly, but I'm sure it is.
Speaker 5: You know why I go went ahead and took it
Speaker 5: and kept it. It was because it paid pretty good.
Speaker 5: It was my best hop right. So yeah, and well
Speaker 5: you should have to make a living. You got to
Speaker 5: support yourself somehow.
Speaker 2: No, you don't. What kind of monster are you listen
Speaker 2: to this? Would you?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 5: Where have all the good working men gone? Some are
Speaker 5: subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents. About
Speaker 5: seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid, seventeen percent,
Speaker 5: seven and a half percent on food stamps, and six
Speaker 5: point three percent on Social Security, many claiming disability payouts.
Speaker 2: According to the Census Bureau.
Speaker 5: Many spend their days playing video games and day trading, well,
Speaker 5: day trading hilarious, speculating on meme stocks, or you tell
Speaker 5: somebody your day trading. I don't know how often you're
Speaker 5: actually trading and making any money, because you don't want
Speaker 5: to say I just play video games and live in
Speaker 5: my parents' basement, so you say you're your day trader.
Speaker 5: So I don't remember our a good friend, Craig the
Speaker 5: healthcare Genius's statistics. But if I remember correctly, originally Medicaid
Speaker 5: was only supposed to cover like a tiny percentage people period.
Speaker 2: Now it's covering percent.
Speaker 4: Now it's covering And that would have been like the
Speaker 4: old and you know people that I got all kinds
Speaker 4: of physical or mental problems.
Speaker 2: Now it's seventeen percent of.
Speaker 4: Working age men, not not like senior citizens.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple more stats. Other missing men are taking
Speaker 5: longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about
Speaker 5: forty one percent amen complete a bachelor's degree in four years,
Speaker 5: even though study after study shows they don't teach, you
Speaker 5: don't have to work.
Speaker 2: There's great inflation. It's dopey.
Speaker 5: Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than
Speaker 5: six years.
Speaker 4: Wow, because you're in no hurry to get out of college.
Speaker 4: My dad used to comment about perpetual college students, and
Speaker 4: I never really understood what he was talking about. And
Speaker 4: I'm sure it was a small number of people back
Speaker 4: when he was in college, but now it is a lot. Apparently,
Speaker 4: I'll just stay in college. I'll just keep borrowing money.
Speaker 4: And because I'm too young or unwise to understand what
Speaker 4: I'm doing, and I'll just keep this game going. Of
Speaker 4: I get to sit around with my friends and discuss
Speaker 4: the world without ever having to engage in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I have disability. My thumb hurts on Thursdays.
Speaker 5: Final stat Then will I will stop? We're just we
Speaker 5: are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're headed to front denial, right,
Speaker 5: we are headed straight toward France.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads
Speaker 5: with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their
Speaker 5: median wage, if they do have a gig, is forty
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: According to the Federal Reserve Bank.
Speaker 5: Social grads could earn twice as much working on an
Speaker 5: auto assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 5: a year. Good gig, but not many want it. The
Speaker 5: reality is that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, who,
Speaker 5: again as a genius, has been taught that capitalism is exploitive.
Speaker 5: They don't want to work in factories. They'd rather mooch
Speaker 5: off to their parents. How CHORL Marx is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of it is that, I'm sure, But I
Speaker 4: just I think a lot of it is just the
Speaker 4: cultural that would be embarrassing for your parents and for
Speaker 4: you if you worked over at the whatever factory yeah,
Speaker 4: more embarrassing in our current society than if you just
Speaker 4: live at home and you know, you say you're a
Speaker 4: day trader. It should be more embarrassing to have a
Speaker 4: job at a plant than to live with your parents,
Speaker 4: but I think it is.
Speaker 5: Or having taken six years to get an undergrad degree
Speaker 5: in gender studies, you're now getting a master's degree in
Speaker 5: the theoretical decolonialization of art, or whatever the s.
Speaker 2: Wait they.
Speaker 5: Sometimes think for soft people. Man, there is no more
Speaker 5: iron law of humanity than that.
Speaker 2: The armstrong and getting shot.
Speaker 6: So I've waited on more people at this restaurant than
Speaker 6: you have in your goddamn life, say the waiters and
Speaker 6: waitresses of Washington, DC, Jack, where you just were.
Speaker 5: The Washingtonian, which is read in the self obsessed Nation's Capital,
Speaker 5: has a piece about how DC restaurants have long been
Speaker 5: like politically neutral spaces. Obviously, to cite the cliched example,
Speaker 5: you got Reagan coming in, you got Tip O'Neil coming in, right,
Speaker 5: so you treat everybody with respectfully.
Speaker 2: But that changed during the Trump years.
Speaker 5: Restaurant owners became much more politically outspoken.
Speaker 2: They were part of the resistance, and Trump.
Speaker 5: Officials became social pariahs when dining out. You remember several
Speaker 5: incidents involving Ted Cruz and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who got
Speaker 5: kicked out of a restaurant in West Lexington, Virginia. Homeland
Speaker 5: Secretary Kirsten Nielsen's dinner at a DC Mexican resta Mexican
Speaker 5: restaurant was interrupted as.
Speaker 2: They yelled shame.
Speaker 5: Steven Miller tossing eighty dollars worth of takeout sushi after
Speaker 5: somebody cursed him and flipped him off at a sushi place,
Speaker 5: somebody on the staff. But anyway, in the Washington Washingtonian, anyway,
Speaker 5: you got all these restaurant tours and waiters and bartenders saying,
Speaker 5: we're not going to be silent, We're not going to
Speaker 5: be quote unquote civil.
Speaker 2: Let's see, here's this guy.
Speaker 5: What does he do. He's a DC restaurant. He's a
Speaker 5: manager at a club, big club in DC. If you're
Speaker 5: just going out for a nice dinner at your anniversary,
Speaker 5: your birthday, and God forbid, RFK Junior is sitting X
Speaker 5: to you now, you're going to be dealing with whatever
Speaker 5: repercussions happened from that. He's saying all this restaurant staff
Speaker 5: is justified into cursing these people out and yelling at
Speaker 5: him and kicking him out.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see if this actually happens or not. Like
Speaker 4: I said, bumping around d C, it was quite a
Speaker 4: bit different than the last time I was in DC
Speaker 4: when Trump got elected, he was being treated like a
Speaker 4: regular president. I mean, the number of Trump shirts, hats, pins,
Speaker 4: inauguration forty seventh president stuff that I saw. There was
Speaker 4: nothing like that in twenty seventeen when I was there
Speaker 4: for the inauguration.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In fact, that was my question. I wonder if this
Speaker 5: is just big talk by little people.
Speaker 2: I'd be my guess.
Speaker 5: Here's a woman who's a server and manager at a
Speaker 5: saloon on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 5: People were a lot more motivated the first time around
Speaker 5: to do these kinds of shows of passion. This time around,
Speaker 5: there's kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance. But
Speaker 5: I hope that people will still do stand up to
Speaker 5: this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior
Speaker 5: as they're trying.
Speaker 2: To get a ham sandwich at lunchtime.
Speaker 4: Here's my biggest question about restaurants DC restaurants, because I
Speaker 4: had this and I tweeted it out and it's the
Speaker 4: most controversial tweet I've ever put out ever. It got
Speaker 4: more responses than anything I've ever tweeted this question. So
Speaker 4: I mean it in Gordon Ramsey's restaurant, which I wish
Speaker 4: i'd ha spent the time to look into what it
Speaker 4: costs to eat there, because it's the most expensive meal
Speaker 4: I've ever paid for for me and my two kids.
Speaker 2: Partially because.
Speaker 4: There was the we've added to twenty percent already thing
Speaker 4: that restaurants are doing sometimes now.
Speaker 2: And so service charge is that what they call it?
Speaker 4: Earth It just said, yeah, we've we've added to twenty
Speaker 4: percent service charge to your bill, and then it's got
Speaker 4: the line for the tip, and I thought, do I
Speaker 4: tip on top of this or not? And I tweeted
Speaker 4: that out. I googled it and tweeted it, and same
Speaker 4: result either way. Plenty of people say, absolutely, that's not
Speaker 4: the tip. You need to tip on top of that
Speaker 4: ere screwing your server or one hundred percent that's the tip,
Speaker 4: No way you should give any more money. I still
Speaker 4: don't know what the answer is on that, but obviously
Speaker 4: if they add twenty percent, and I didn't know they
Speaker 4: were going to do that, or I wouldn't have gone.
Speaker 4: If they add twenty percent and I'm supposed to tip
Speaker 4: twenty percent, that's.
Speaker 2: Forty percent on top of my meal to no go.
Speaker 4: That's that second group that that is the tip. No
Speaker 4: freaking way I'm eating there. A whole bunch of people
Speaker 4: adamantly said, no, that goes to the restaurant. The server
Speaker 4: will get nothing, and you absolutely need to tip on
Speaker 4: top of that. Maybe that's true, but I'll never eat
Speaker 4: at a restaurant that does that. You can't pay forty
Speaker 4: percent on top of your bill. Nobody's doing that. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: It is ridiculous. Well, I don't know what the correct
Speaker 4: answer is either, or if it varies from restaurant to restaurant,
Speaker 4: if you know text line four one five two nine
Speaker 4: five KFTC. But what the hell are Strong.
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty shirt?
Speaker 5: So this is so interesting. I came across this the
Speaker 5: other day. A couple of scientists writers commentaries who ran
Speaker 5: into each other after the one published a piece on
Speaker 5: why young men have turned against the Democratic Party, and
Speaker 5: this other guy, this other researcher, said, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: I've actually been doing studies in that area, let's get
Speaker 5: together and talk about it and compare notes. And they came,
Speaker 5: They've come out with a really, really interesting report. Young
Speaker 5: people in general report fairly miserable mental health, with high
Speaker 5: rates of anxiety and depression. But this is particularly true
Speaker 5: for young women. And they make the point that assumptions
Speaker 5: democrats make about how to attract younger voters may not
Speaker 5: appeal to men for various reasons.
Speaker 2: But they point out that this.
Speaker 5: That it the one report they looked at very the
Speaker 5: most interesting finding, which is that conservatives have much higher
Speaker 5: self reported mental health than liberals.
Speaker 4: Is this surprising to anyone?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, The really interesting part is still to come self
Speaker 5: reporting grain assault, but just a grain, not a shaker.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 4: I don't know on self reporting on your mental health.
Speaker 5: It could be that in certain communities it is taboo
Speaker 5: to be honest about your mental health.
Speaker 4: I think it's more likely the other direction, But yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to be in there that in more communities,
Speaker 4: it's the greatest prize of all to explain how I
Speaker 4: have anxiety and depression and OCD and all these other things.
Speaker 2: I agree with you completely, and I'm glad you pointed
Speaker 2: that out.
Speaker 5: Blah, blah blah.
Speaker 2: It's a wide gap.
Speaker 5: Too between conservatives and liberals, according to this giant study
Speaker 5: with sixty thousand respondents that provides the opportunity for highly
Speaker 5: detailed democratic demographic analysis. Among people who report excellent mental health,
Speaker 5: conservatives outnumber liberals fifty one to twenty as a ratio,
Speaker 5: but liberals out number conservatives forty five to nineteen among
Speaker 5: those voters who say they have poor mental health. This
Speaker 5: isn't the least bit surprising to me. What's interesting? And
Speaker 5: they assigned points, So one hundred points scale zero is
Speaker 5: poor mental health, twenty five is fair, fifty is good,
Speaker 5: seventy five is very good, one hundred is excellent.
Speaker 4: I think i'd go, what would you say for yourself?
Speaker 4: I'm going I would say very good. Oh, there's might
Speaker 4: disagree with me who know me, but I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm very good.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Can we have a round of rating where we
Speaker 5: rate each other too? Even a town full of people
Speaker 5: who are crazy? So that helps me stand out? I
Speaker 5: feel like, are you graded on a curve in this?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: So here's the first thing that popped in on my
Speaker 5: mind is and part of the reason I leapt to
Speaker 5: this thought was because we came across an absolutely fantastic
Speaker 5: quote which I've misplaced, damn it, that women more than men,
Speaker 5: not all women, but women in general, and like effeminate men,
Speaker 5: filter information through a process not of is this true?
Speaker 5: But will believing this gain me social currency and acceptance?
Speaker 5: Will the group accept me for adopting this attitude? And
Speaker 5: so the first thing I thought was, Okay, maybe people
Speaker 5: of an unhappy or mentally fragile bent need more support,
Speaker 5: and so they tend toward liberalism. Well, it's funny I
Speaker 5: had that thought, and the guys immediately got to the question.
Speaker 5: They said, could this reflect a spurious correlation? In other words,
Speaker 5: that voters with characteristics associated with lower happiness tend to
Speaker 5: be attracted to liberalism, but that political attitudes themselves don't
Speaker 5: tell you much on their own. In short, no, they're right,
Speaker 5: or at least probably not. The difference between liberals and
Speaker 5: conservatives is remarkably persistent, even once you control for those factors.
Speaker 5: Then they explain, going to give you a long chart
Speaker 5: with those point values that I talked about. The average
Speaker 5: American self reports at sixty on the scale, somewhere between
Speaker 5: good and very good mental health, but.
Speaker 4: That's roughly where I would be.
Speaker 5: But liberals report an average score of fifty three and
Speaker 5: conservatives sixty eight.
Speaker 2: Moderates not shockingly right in the middle at fifty eight.
Speaker 5: Anyway, they take advantage of that's a moderate for you,
Speaker 5: always moderating anyway, take advantage of the large sample size
Speaker 5: in this CEES study. Let's see how this difference holds
Speaker 5: up against a wide array of demographic and political characteristics.
Speaker 5: Let's see gender men tend to be conservative men at
Speaker 5: a sixty nine giggity liberal men of fifty six. Conservative
Speaker 5: women up there at sixty six, liberal women way down
Speaker 5: at fifty one. Average mental health score white fault. That's that.
Speaker 4: I realize what you just said about all these things.
Speaker 4: But man, because I'm surrounded by this world, you would
Speaker 4: really stand out as like you might be kicked out
Speaker 4: of the herd if you were to say, you know,
Speaker 4: I think I'm perfectly fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Whereas I live in a world of hey, we're
Speaker 5: all here for you. Have a drink, you'll be fine,
Speaker 5: and most people are. Let's see black in his I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: white black and Hispanic and Asian conservatives are virtually.
Speaker 2: Tied at sixty eight. Sixty eight sixty five sixty five.
Speaker 5: Liberal, White, Black, Hispanic and Asians is fifty two sixty
Speaker 5: fifty one fifty one, like a fairly consistent fourteen point gap.
Speaker 5: Young people age gen Z that's ninety seven or later,
Speaker 5: it's fifty six to forty gen Zers. Liberal gen zers
Speaker 5: are among the most miserable people in America. The older
Speaker 5: you get, the highers, the scores get on both ends
Speaker 5: of the scale, and we could get into education that
Speaker 5: sort of gen zers report the most.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough to break all this stuff down. And
Speaker 4: I realize they tried to control for all these things,
Speaker 4: But I can't imagine being a twenty year old in
Speaker 4: a lot of your blue cities and telling your parents
Speaker 4: not I think I'm fine. You wouldn't want to disappoint
Speaker 4: your parents like that by telling them you don't have
Speaker 4: anxiety or depression or any of those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your parents are horrified.
Speaker 5: I know several young people, some of whom I may
Speaker 5: be genetically related to, who are seem to be very bright,
Speaker 5: very well adjusted, happy with their lives, but have some
Speaker 5: of these modern emotional problems, and it makes me really curious.
Speaker 5: As we've discussed many times through the years, what environmental
Speaker 5: causes are going on. Is that the never ending barrage
Speaker 5: of inputs, that's my greatest suspicion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, we're.
Speaker 2: Never quiet, we're never alone, we're never bored.
Speaker 4: You're right in presenting this information, we're kind of or
Speaker 4: I was kind of presenting it like this is all
Speaker 4: somewhat imagined. But we have talked a lot about it,
Speaker 4: and I know, I got one kid who has for
Speaker 4: real anxiety depression OCD all that sort of stuff, and
Speaker 4: it's been struggling with it his whole life and on medication,
Speaker 4: and I've seen a gazillion psychiatrist and doctors and blah
Speaker 4: blah blah. So yeah, there's something going on that is
Speaker 4: causing problems, right, Yeah, so separating out that the real
Speaker 4: from the just culturally, you live in a town where
Speaker 4: everybody's supposed to have some of this stuff because life
Speaker 4: is so hard and the world is.
Speaker 5: So bad if you're keeping track at home. Just for
Speaker 5: the record, Jack came to judge, Joe came to understand.
Speaker 2: Damn right, I came to judge and then brag about it.
Speaker 2: So let's be fair. I bragged about it anyway.
Speaker 5: Uh So this is as I as I mentioned last segment,
Speaker 5: the most miserable pastors in America appear to be progressive bisexuals.
Speaker 5: If you are bisexual or other, and apparently there are
Speaker 5: some conservatives there are at a fifty nine, which ain't great.
Speaker 5: But if you're a progressive bisexual, you're at you selfrate
Speaker 5: yourself at thirty five, which is I mean, like, by
Speaker 5: far the most miserable people in America. I heard one
Speaker 5: prominent lesbian writer. I read her right, well, what do
Speaker 5: you want? These people want everything from the world, both sexes.
Speaker 5: You know, everything goes with a How can the world
Speaker 5: not disappoint them? Hmm?
Speaker 4: I feel like I know a lot of baristas that
Speaker 4: meet that description and they look unhappy. I don't know
Speaker 4: that that's our facial expression anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and their voice buncle fry fizes. Interestingly, people who
Speaker 5: have high interest in news and politics on both sides
Speaker 5: of the aisle tend to be more happy with their
Speaker 5: mental health.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm somewhat surprised by that, because it's enough to
Speaker 5: make you insane.
Speaker 2: Trust me, I do it for a living.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 5: And it declines low news and political interests significantly lower
Speaker 5: on both sides.
Speaker 4: Wow. Hmm. So they just take in the information about
Speaker 4: the world just kind of the way they hear it
Speaker 4: from people and get despondent over it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, having more income does seem to make you more
Speaker 5: positive about your mental health.
Speaker 2: That could be the other carosation correlation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, reverse, Yeah, you're much more likely to make more
Speaker 4: money if you're mentally Okay.
Speaker 5: No meaningful difference in mental health between Catholics, Protestants, and
Speaker 5: adherents of other organized religions. The differences between liberalists and
Speaker 5: conservatives persist there, but religious adherence does soften them somewhat.
Speaker 4: I'm glad to see there's not a big breakdown between
Speaker 4: Protestants and Catholics.
Speaker 5: Married people and people, and well, I know you want
Speaker 5: to start another Holy war.
Speaker 2: You're a big fan of Joan of arc.
Speaker 5: But married people and people in domestic partnerships are happier
Speaker 5: than those who are separated, widow, divorced, or who have
Speaker 5: never been married.
Speaker 4: That has been true for as long as we've been
Speaker 4: doing radio and reading these studies that married people tend
Speaker 4: to report being happier more than single people, which is
Speaker 4: interesting given that so much of the single world looks
Speaker 4: at married people. Is like, I'm glad I'm not in
Speaker 4: that prison when statistically that is not born out at all.
Speaker 2: Oh, not at all.
Speaker 5: It's interesting they phrased it as happier when it's self
Speaker 5: reported mental health. I'm not sure those are synonyms, but
Speaker 5: I guess they're close.
Speaker 4: I make they're pretty close.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, those are the main takeaways. Why are young
Speaker 5: liberals so depressed? Matt Iglesia showed about.
Speaker 4: You'd be depressed to the.
Speaker 5: Part of it, the weird hair color and the thing
Speaker 5: through their nose, old white couple, old white men. I
Speaker 5: can't stand it, and he points out, Jack, you'll be
Speaker 5: gratified by this that there may be a performative axed
Speaker 5: aspect to this. Yes, liberals may express negative sentiment as
Speaker 5: a sign of solidarity with the movement that thinks there
Speaker 5: is profound injustice in the world. How can I act
Speaker 5: happy with all this injustice?
Speaker 4: You shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Everybody will judge me.
Speaker 4: You think you could walk into your hipster coffee shop
Speaker 4: where you're a barista and there's like nine other employees
Speaker 4: and be a everything's fine. You know, life is what
Speaker 4: life is. I just I roll with the punches. You
Speaker 4: think you could be that person?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, good days, bad days. What are you gonna do.
Speaker 5: Let's make some coffee. Right, he's gonna be drummed out.
Speaker 5: Let's just see what Trump did.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it is so clearly a fascist dictatorship.
Speaker 2: Right to live. I've considered moving to Belgium.
Speaker 4: I couldn't find a parking spot because of the patriarchy.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 5: Here's your freedom living quota today is from a gentleman
Speaker 5: who celebrated his seventy seventh birth day yesterday. And he
Speaker 5: should be a hero to young children, particularly black children,
Speaker 5: all across America.
Speaker 2: That's Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 5: But he's been so denigrated in bad mouthed by the
Speaker 5: liberal media.
Speaker 2: He's not, but he was talking.
Speaker 5: He gave a speech not too long ago about the
Speaker 5: importance of standing up for truth, even if you're the
Speaker 5: only one doing so. And here's the quote. You can
Speaker 5: be in the middle of a hurricane, or you can
Speaker 5: be on a calm day. North is still North. You
Speaker 5: could be in a thunderstorm. North is still North. People
Speaker 5: can yell at you. North is still North. It doesn't
Speaker 5: change fundamental things. And in this business right is still
Speaker 5: right even if you stand by yourself. Yeah, different version
Speaker 5: of two plus two equals four.
Speaker 4: No matter what, anybody else is.
Speaker 5: Right exactly, Well said Clarence, and happy birthday, sir, mail bag.
Speaker 2: I've got a couple more later in the.
Speaker 5: Week from Clarence Thomas drops a note mail bag at
Speaker 5: Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 2: Dirk's the German Rights It was a mostly peaceful bombing.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 5: Iran is a nation of over six hundred one thousand
Speaker 5: square miles. The US bomb three small nuclear sites to
Speaker 5: protest Iran's nuclear ambitions. It was clearly a mostly peaceful protest.
Speaker 5: That's fantastic, Well done, Dirk.
Speaker 4: How come nobody's commenting on the rest of Iran the
Speaker 4: vast ninety nine percent of Iran that was untouched by bombs.
Speaker 2: It RAN's a very big country.
Speaker 5: It was just downtown Nukeville that had the problems.
Speaker 2: Well play. Dirk uh Don writes.
Speaker 5: If President Trump Wonseranian women's support of regime change, could
Speaker 5: she should offer swapping their burkes and other oppressive head
Speaker 5: coverings for red make around Great again ball caps. Wow,
Speaker 5: just ship cases of those over to Iran. Yeah, my
Speaker 5: hair's covered with this truvy redhead. I just got take
Speaker 5: that secret police. Of course, they've probably got the hell
Speaker 5: beat out.
Speaker 2: Of them for that, and then you'd be tortured and
Speaker 2: then executed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see why I am not stressed out by
Speaker 5: Steve and Everett Washington. Seems to me that two very
Speaker 5: important metrics should be considered whether or not we're at
Speaker 5: peace with the regional conflicts in the Middle East. One
Speaker 5: did oil prices increase or decrease? It decreased significantly more
Speaker 5: than ten bucks in barrel. Two did the Dow Jones
Speaker 5: increase or don't look at the Dow, look at the
Speaker 5: S and P five hundred? Did the S and P
Speaker 5: increase or decrease? It increased the better part of one percent.
Speaker 5: I'm not one to engage in industrial espionage, but I
Speaker 5: trust the fact that Wall Street has those resources. If
Speaker 5: the market seem to think things have calmed down, I'm
Speaker 5: inclined to agree with them.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Up again today on the ceasepire talks, although might
Speaker 4: have more to do with the FED chair and what
Speaker 4: he said about interest rates.
Speaker 5: I was just reading about how uncertainty affects hiring and
Speaker 5: investment in business, and I find myself wondering whether at
Speaker 5: some point we become just more comfortable with a higher
Speaker 5: level of volatility uncertainty as a culture.
Speaker 4: Get we better get used to it or we're going
Speaker 4: to go crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Poollo with an interesting topic. It looks like Iran
Speaker 5: has at least a fly in the ointment of its
Speaker 5: nuclear ambitions. It's probably only a bump in the road
Speaker 5: for them. But it's not just Iran and nukes. We
Speaker 5: have to worry about the development of technology and learning
Speaker 5: generally is snowballing, and eventually just about everybody will have
Speaker 5: the capacity to do great harm. May take a while,
Speaker 5: I hope, very long while, but it's inevitable. How can
Speaker 5: we avoid it except by our destruction or some sort
Speaker 5: of great reset that sets us back centuries. We'll have
Speaker 5: to hope that we get a lot wiser before our
Speaker 5: knowledge progresses to the point where the power to destroy
Speaker 5: ourselves is ubiquitous and available to just about everyone. JT
Speaker 5: and Livermore makes the point that none of the former
Speaker 5: presidents have come out and said, nice job Donald j getting,
Speaker 5: you know, taking the nuclear capabilities away from Iraq.
Speaker 4: That's a decent point considering I saw a montage of
Speaker 4: Clinton Obama, Biden all saying Iran will never get a
Speaker 4: nuclear weapon and doing very little about it, doing very
Speaker 4: little about it in some cases helping them come along.
Speaker 2: Let's see Tim who hates US rights?
Speaker 5: Yay ww three a disgusting escalation guaranteed to give J
Speaker 5: and J little chubbies in their dockers. Wow, that's unnecessarily
Speaker 5: a graphic. And I'm not wearing docers sir as they
Speaker 5: bloviate with that special studio.
Speaker 2: Courage they're known for. Yeah, okay, your type.
Speaker 4: So we have less of a chance of World War
Speaker 4: three if Iran has a nuclear weapon. Explain that to me.
Speaker 5: Well in the false arguments and bad faith arguments in
Speaker 5: a very short email.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 5: I respect your ability to cram so many bad faith
Speaker 5: arguments into the sentence and a half.
Speaker 2: A chubby in my dockers.
Speaker 5: Let's see Byron rights and there have invariations on this
Speaker 5: attempt at humor. Trump's newest golf project is coming together.
Speaker 5: He just established the first three holes of his new
Speaker 5: eighteen hole golf CORER.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 5: That would be the nuclear facility as of Iran. Jack
Speaker 5: the holes in the ground.
Speaker 4: I was tracking instead of yes, okay, It wasn't that
Speaker 4: I didn't laugh, because understand it. I understood how I
Speaker 4: see Armstrong and Getty