Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and.
Speaker 2: Arms from studio ce Ce Signor, a dimly lit room
Speaker 2: deeper than the bowels.
Speaker 1: Of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, midweek,
Speaker 1: we're under the two ledge of our general manager Shared values,
Speaker 1: as in, do we have any anymore? You've gone on
Speaker 1: OPRAH with the general managers? Yeah, you know, I have guilty.
Speaker 1: I said, nothing just jumped out, especially today Today's Shared Value,
Speaker 1: so which is very nice. It's a nice it's a
Speaker 1: nice impulse, charitable of you to say thank you. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just nothing. Nothing leapt out.
Speaker 3: In particular, I could have gone with Daniel Penny, who
Speaker 3: did an interview with Judge Janine of all people, but
Speaker 3: it was actually quite good and compelling, and we'll have
Speaker 3: some clips.
Speaker 1: For you a little bit later on. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you I've been having I having trouble with this
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours from the experience I had
Speaker 1: with a person very very much like the guy Penny
Speaker 1: ended up choking to death, coming on to my kids
Speaker 1: and me and my family one night, and maybe I'll
Speaker 1: retell that story later, just because it was so similar,
Speaker 1: and I mean, it was just this close, and I
Speaker 1: think about it way too often. I don't think about
Speaker 1: it every day, but I think about it a lot.
Speaker 1: In the last week or so, I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: it every day. And so I heard the Daniel Penny
Speaker 1: interview and he has talking about how he would have
Speaker 1: been able to live with himself if if the guy
Speaker 1: had hurt somebody and he hadn't done anything about it.
Speaker 1: And so I've gone back and forth over the last
Speaker 1: however many years, it's been of you know, did I overreact,
Speaker 1: did I underreact? All that sort of stuff. And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking I probably should have put my hands on the
Speaker 1: guy and not just hoped that he didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I was between him and my kids. But if he
Speaker 1: had moved fast, how would I been able to stop him?
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, And God dang it, I hope
Speaker 1: you never end up in that situation. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons that so many of us end up in those
Speaker 1: situations is we have so many dangerous, freaking people on
Speaker 1: the streets of our cities, correct and so you end
Speaker 1: up in a situation where you have to make a
Speaker 1: judgmentcall of do I instigate this and suffer whatever consequences
Speaker 1: might occur in a blue state or blue city because
Speaker 1: I'm afraid right now for me or my kids, Or
Speaker 1: do I wait until they stab, shoot, punch a woman,
Speaker 1: a kid or whatever and then try to subdue them.
Speaker 1: Horrible situation to be in, but it's much more likely
Speaker 1: when you got thousands upon thousands of these people walk
Speaker 1: in the streets. The guy that I was involved with
Speaker 1: ended up. He had.
Speaker 3: Smashed a woman's face in a drive through in a McDonald's,
Speaker 3: then beating up paramedics, and he'd done this in different states,
Speaker 3: and bet let go in blue states and travel around
Speaker 3: the country.
Speaker 1: He was exactly the same sort of guy as this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, God to help you again that you're
Speaker 1: never in that situation because you got to figure out
Speaker 1: what do I do here? Do I actually fight this
Speaker 1: person and then good?
Speaker 3: Then good luck, especially as a public figure like me,
Speaker 3: So I'm fighting a homeless person, he gets hurt. Imagine
Speaker 3: how that could be portrayed in the news, right, especially
Speaker 3: if he was physically smaller than you or something like that,
Speaker 3: or he was a noted, you know, Michael Jackson in
Speaker 3: or something right, right, they produced one picture of them
Speaker 3: looking gentle and innocent, and it could be a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm gonna read some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: was put out yesterday about this guy that Pennin choked
Speaker 1: out and his background and some of the things people
Speaker 1: are saying about him now. And the fund that is
Speaker 1: being a gather to go fund me to raise money
Speaker 1: for some sort of statue or fund or scholarship or
Speaker 1: whatever for this guy who lived a life of scumbaggery right,
Speaker 1: reminds me of George Floyd exactly.
Speaker 3: He didn't deserve to die, but the idea that it
Speaker 3: was some sort of hero is just ridiculous. It's astounding.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But we allow these to thing, we
Speaker 1: allow these people to be on the streets. There's gonna
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen more, not less. Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 3: What really really galls me is the inability or unwillingness
Speaker 3: to tell the truth about this so called homeless situation.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk Ashley if all people just had an excellent
Speaker 3: tweet about it to describing it, and we'll get to
Speaker 3: that in a little bit. But the I've got to
Speaker 3: believe either it's that ideology is so clouded the minds
Speaker 3: of people on the left, or there's so much damn
Speaker 3: money being made you cannot get them to say out
Speaker 3: loud it's primarily a drug addiction problem. The so called
Speaker 3: homeless problem is in vast measure a drug problem. We're
Speaker 3: not people who were working hard and paying the rent
Speaker 3: and then they had one medical pill and then they're
Speaker 3: out and they can't afford housing. I mean, there are
Speaker 3: people like that, and I'm more than happy to help them,
Speaker 3: but the vast majority.
Speaker 1: Are a drug addict. The percentages are high enough of
Speaker 1: it being a drug problem that it did to be
Speaker 1: perfectly okay to only refer to it as a drug
Speaker 1: problem and not refer to it as an almost problem at all. Exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why are we doing the inverse of the truth.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I'm always railing about letting the
Speaker 3: left define the language that you use. We ought to
Speaker 3: be calling them drug addicts, and if ten to fifteen
Speaker 3: percent are not, then you throw the caveat in.
Speaker 1: We really should come up with a a societal decision
Speaker 1: on this. Mentally ill, okay, if you if you're mentally
Speaker 1: ill because you use so many drugs, or you use
Speaker 1: so many drugs your brain no longer works. What is that?
Speaker 3: What are we gonna call that? What are we gonna
Speaker 3: do with those people? So I heard you'll not let
Speaker 3: them run around on the streets hurting people for for
Speaker 3: certain I heard, uh, one of the best analogies I've
Speaker 3: ever heard on this. Yesterday I was listening to the
Speaker 3: National Review podcast. Rich Lowry said, can you imagine if
Speaker 3: we let people with Alzheimer's just walk wander the streets?
Speaker 1: Oh? Great point, and said, well, you know they have Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: It's not our job, to our business to put them
Speaker 1: in a home. What are we gonna against the is
Speaker 1: what is what is the literal difference between somebody with
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's or a different kind of mental illness caused by
Speaker 1: doing too much meth where they can't take care of themselves.
Speaker 1: Tell me what the difference is. But there's no way
Speaker 1: you'd let somebody with Alzheimer's just wander the streets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a shame.
Speaker 3: It's it's troubling because there's no constituency, there's no lobbyist
Speaker 3: for the mentally ill. They can't bribe any Congress people
Speaker 3: to find a way to thread the needle. And it's
Speaker 3: a difficult needle. Of the asylums of the past, with
Speaker 3: their excesses and their abuses, nobody disagrees that they had problems.
Speaker 3: But then this progressive view that took hold in the
Speaker 3: sixties that we don't need those anymore because the drugs
Speaker 3: are miraculous, the mental illness drugs, And so I'll give
Speaker 3: them lithium.
Speaker 1: They'll be great. We're gonna close all the mental hospitals.
Speaker 3: We'll just open a center on this corner, in this
Speaker 3: street corner, and people go. It failed miserably, completely miserably.
Speaker 3: But and this may ring a bell. Having instituted a
Speaker 3: government program that failed miserably, it remains in effect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, we've got a lot from that Daniel Penny interview,
Speaker 1: which is pretty darned interesting. So join me.
Speaker 3: Please, no more use in the term homeless bums and junkies.
Speaker 1: DJs, if you will. So we got a lot more
Speaker 1: on that later. What is the other big story that
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention? Oh, how about how about Israel?
Speaker 1: So Syria used to have a military, Like four days ago,
Speaker 1: Syria had a navy, an army, and an air force.
Speaker 1: Today they got none of those. They got no air bases,
Speaker 1: they got no ships. They're all at the bottom of
Speaker 1: some body of water over there. I don't know my geography.
Speaker 1: Army disappeared and all the stuff that the army had
Speaker 1: has all been blown up. Five hundred air strikes from
Speaker 1: Israel since Sunday has completely destroyed the Syrian military. Isn't
Speaker 1: that something?
Speaker 3: It is amazing Israel calculating that, Hey, if the lunatics
Speaker 3: take charge, we don't want them to have access to
Speaker 3: these weapons, So goodbye weapons.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I wonder if we're in favor of that
Speaker 1: or helping them out on that. We might be wrong.
Speaker 1: We might be giving them all the coordinates for all
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Oh probably yeah, yeah, Although with Biden you never or no,
Speaker 3: and this will be my final thought. Then we probably
Speaker 3: ought to start the show officially because Biden's FCC is
Speaker 3: still in charge and they are draconian. Uh Iran, who
Speaker 3: unleashed Hamas on October seventh, may have absolutely sowed the
Speaker 3: seeds of their own undoing Amalas.
Speaker 1: And soon maybe could be more on that later. So
Speaker 1: let's start the show officially. As Joe said, I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday. We're two
Speaker 1: weeks from Christmas today. I got to remind myself of this.
Speaker 1: You gotta quit screwing around man. Time is up. Gotta
Speaker 1: get your shopping done. Stop yelling at me. I'm yelling
Speaker 1: at me. All right, Oh god, I gotta get my
Speaker 1: act together. They're twenty twenty four. We are armstrong.
Speaker 3: Seriously, seriously, what was the first and name of the
Speaker 3: year you've first uttered that sentence to yourself?
Speaker 1: I was eight, Probably we are armstrong. You're getting we
Speaker 1: approve of this program? Yeah, me too.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go officially according to FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 3: This is exciting, isn't it. Let's start at Mark.
Speaker 1: I love company holiday parties.
Speaker 4: You get to be with people that you work with
Speaker 4: all day long for more hours, and you get to
Speaker 4: say I love your ugly Christmas sweater and they're like,
Speaker 4: that's just my sweater. And you get to be like, hey,
Speaker 4: remind me, do you go buy Steve or Steven? And
Speaker 4: he's like it's Mark, And your boss tries to crack
Speaker 4: a joke and everyone around them does the employment laughter, Like.
Speaker 1: There's more to that bit too.
Speaker 5: Employment oh that's clever stuff. Oh we haven't had Paul Tarro.
Speaker 5: We haven't had a real Christmas party in years. I
Speaker 5: miss him.
Speaker 1: Actually before the show we were talking about it and
Speaker 1: everybody was thankful, but we don't have them. But I
Speaker 1: miss him. I think it's good for the camaraderie. It
Speaker 1: changes everything, you know, that couple of hours of getting
Speaker 1: together and having a few drinks and meeting the wife
Speaker 1: or meeting the husband or whatever and talking to them
Speaker 1: about something other than work. Right, Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3: It was always one of those man we've got to go, honey,
Speaker 3: are you and then you get there and it's fun.
Speaker 1: Uh, you're right because we.
Speaker 3: Used to work with a lot of really cool, creative
Speaker 3: people and the Christmas party somewhat oh yeah, yeah, real ravers.
Speaker 1: I's around some people last couple of days who had
Speaker 1: these great Christmas parties they were telling stories about and
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, yeah, that still happened someplaces. Well, good
Speaker 1: for you. How does mailbag look? Oh? Very good? Quite strong?
Speaker 1: Was the general manager today? Coming together? Shared values? Okay?
Speaker 1: Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: I know you're trying to be christmasy, Michael, but I
Speaker 1: don't think Jesus likes this music.
Speaker 3: No, No, indeed, the three wise men, all three of
Speaker 3: them thumbs down. Got a lot of great stuff to
Speaker 3: talk about today. His usual first year freedom loving quote
Speaker 3: of the day. Loved this sent along by David and NAPA.
Speaker 3: Good call David.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: Listening to the show Slash podcast yesterday and he said,
Speaker 3: this is perfectly related to your discussion.
Speaker 1: I think you'll get the context. It's from C. S.
Speaker 3: Lewis in his fabulous book That Hate, Hideous Strength, from
Speaker 3: the antagonist, Why you fool? It's the educated reader who
Speaker 3: can be gulled. All of our difficulty comes with the others.
Speaker 3: When did you meet a workman who believes the papers?
Speaker 3: He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and
Speaker 3: skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the
Speaker 3: football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out
Speaker 3: of windows and the corpses found in Mayfair flats.
Speaker 1: He is our problem. We have to recondition him.
Speaker 3: But the educated public, the people who read the high
Speaker 3: brow weeklies, they don't need reconditioning. They're right, they're all right,
Speaker 3: all right already. They'll believe anything.
Speaker 1: Wow, what year was that ridden Oh gosh, the fifties
Speaker 1: probably CSL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are some ideas so crazy only an intellectual
Speaker 3: could believe them. Thomas Sowell. It's it's just it's it's
Speaker 3: a facet of humankind that's really interesting. Smart does not
Speaker 3: come close to equaling wise referring sometimes the greatest wisdom
Speaker 3: is from the simplest people who live the simplest.
Speaker 1: Lives, no doubt, referring, of course, to many things, including
Speaker 1: the valedictorian of the private school in Ivy League who
Speaker 1: murdered somebody is now in prison, right right, mailbag or
Speaker 1: in jail. He's played the clips of that yesterday when
Speaker 1: he was shouting out as he was led into the courthouse.
Speaker 3: What a progressive grad school egomaniac nonsense being praised by
Speaker 3: various quarters online people are nuts. I was thinking of
Speaker 3: him actually when I said our general manager was shared values. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you don't get to murder somebody in cold blood.
Speaker 1: That's one of them.
Speaker 3: Anyway. Drop his note mail back at Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: dot com. Scott from Pleasant Hill with some delightful sarcasm here,
Speaker 3: I must be having internet problems because I missed the
Speaker 3: calls for more gun control after the White CEO is killed,
Speaker 3: right after the haunter Biden pardon, can you guys fill
Speaker 3: us in?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Excellent point, my friend, well said Tom, and SoCal writes,
Speaker 3: Dear Jack and Joe, I believe I have come across
Speaker 3: a word that may explain Jack's eating habits. It is
Speaker 3: a Japanese word, and I'll do my best. Kutcha sabishi.
Speaker 3: It means when you're not hungry, but you eat because
Speaker 3: your mouth is lonely.
Speaker 1: Your mouth is lonely.
Speaker 3: I haven't been able to confirm yet whether or not
Speaker 3: the Japanese would apply this to grabbing the last package
Speaker 3: of grocery store sushi late at night. That's great, Tom,
Speaker 3: And then he says, not sure. When you're breaking for
Speaker 3: the holidays. One to wish you and your family's all
Speaker 3: the best, to say thanks for another great year of entertainment,
Speaker 3: learning and laughing. Thank you, Tom. That's very kind of you, indeed.
Speaker 3: And then I'll follow it.
Speaker 1: Up maybe in about a half an hour, I might
Speaker 1: just walk out of here.
Speaker 3: I'll follow it up with this from Tim, So Joe
Speaker 3: Petty hates the media, Well, just who is the media
Speaker 3: these days?
Speaker 1: Joseph?
Speaker 3: It's you me, and every other jackass with an opinion
Speaker 3: and a keyboard. Still, it must be nice to cast
Speaker 3: dispersions without worrying about getting bitch slapped. But that's the
Speaker 3: beauty of having studio courage.
Speaker 1: Isn't it.
Speaker 3: Don't have to face the consequences of your words. All right, A,
Speaker 3: what in the name of God are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Bee?
Speaker 3: I hope you get help with your anger problems. Moving along,
Speaker 3: Andy and beautiful Martinez, California guys, I'll keep a short
Speaker 3: T shirt idea for you Californians against cal Unicornia.
Speaker 1: Andy. That's brilliant.
Speaker 3: That's great because you know, it's not like anybody in
Speaker 3: the show hates California.
Speaker 1: It's that it's been.
Speaker 3: Taken over by a hostile regime. You know, the evil
Speaker 3: rebels took over the country.
Speaker 1: Yes, Governor Gavin Newsom on TV something he did yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he's got aviators on with his always slick back hair.
Speaker 1: He's too tan for winter, which is a phrase I
Speaker 1: just thought of an autobi a phrase too tan for
Speaker 1: winter and one too many buttons unbuttoned on his shirt,
Speaker 1: slick back hair. Aviator's unbuttoned shirt tan. That's how you
Speaker 1: look if you want to get laid by a certain
Speaker 1: kind of woman. That's not how you look if you
Speaker 1: want to be governor or president.
Speaker 3: Oh, he is such a I need to search my
Speaker 3: vocabulary for a word that's up to describing him that
Speaker 3: isn't obscene. But he's you fill in the blanket home, folks,
Speaker 3: in whatever way we but he's a big one about you.
Speaker 1: Laugh. I laughed. I love this.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, John from Colorado is in the Bay Area, California,
Speaker 3: is going to be riding the bart today, the Bay
Speaker 3: Area Rapid Transit, and he says, gentlemen taking Barton in
Speaker 3: the city today, Joe, you're a golfer. Should I menacingly
Speaker 3: clutch my three iron or five iron during the ride? John,
Speaker 3: I would suggest a sand wedge because of the weight
Speaker 3: in the head and the leading edge that's gonna do
Speaker 3: some serious damage.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. You gotta wait until the crazy
Speaker 1: person actually stabs somebody or punches somebody before you can
Speaker 1: do anything. You just have to listen to them and
Speaker 1: watch them stomp around angrily and threaten people before you
Speaker 1: do anything. Apparently, well, and.
Speaker 3: As a society, we'll watch them punch somebody over and
Speaker 3: over and over again, and do nothing until they kill
Speaker 3: somebody and then talk about what a shame it is
Speaker 3: that we don't have better rehabs.
Speaker 1: Or something something something. Yeah, we got a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about today, as we've already mentioned. Hope you can
Speaker 1: stick around if you missed our get the podcast. Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty on Demand.
Speaker 3: Are strong and Getty.
Speaker 6: People are not thrilled with the Altuna McDonald's employees who
Speaker 6: mickfingered him. Several nasty Google reviews have been left of
Speaker 6: the Altuna location, including they got rats behind the counter,
Speaker 6: do not recommend, while many other simple left one star
Speaker 6: reviews citing bad service and so called snitches. You know
Speaker 6: what they say, snitches get filet of fishes.
Speaker 1: That's clever, It's yeah, it's troubling. It's interesting the lighthearted
Speaker 1: jokes about this, and I am not the humor police ever, etc.
Speaker 1: I've did that on their news segment. And then there's
Speaker 1: Colbert there Anywhoh, the fact that Google had to take
Speaker 1: down the place that you comment on that McDonald's like
Speaker 1: as a favorite of the McDonald's, because all these people
Speaker 1: were saying all these vile things about the McDonald's and
Speaker 1: trying to dos people who worked there in addition to
Speaker 1: that point.
Speaker 3: Of order, mister chairman, before we get to the serious stuff.
Speaker 3: Who reviews a freaking McDonald's. The food tastes like every
Speaker 3: other McDonald's on her.
Speaker 1: I know, everything gets reviewed, which is hilarious, and I
Speaker 1: do find it. We found this.
Speaker 3: Quarter pounded with cheese, consistent but unexceptional.
Speaker 1: Well it's all complaints, you know, So it's always the
Speaker 1: girl who worked there was, you know, drunk or whatever.
Speaker 3: Okay, fine, me too. You pull a devil's shift behind
Speaker 3: a fry machine, sa ie, you don't want to have
Speaker 3: a drink.
Speaker 1: So the people trying to docks the employees at McDonald's,
Speaker 1: who may have been the snitches who called the cops
Speaker 1: on their folk hero there, which is obviously cold.
Speaker 3: Blooded, self important, rich educated murderer, your hero fu boy,
Speaker 3: And I saw we got a little bit of the
Speaker 3: lawyer for this scumbag murderer.
Speaker 1: Later he's done an interview, so not surprisingly, his lawyer
Speaker 1: is a super activist also and was on CNN talking
Speaker 1: about billionaires this or whatever, some sort of class warfare.
Speaker 1: You're a rich lawyer representing a kid of like the
Speaker 1: highest privilege, I mean, like the elite of earth. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about. But what was my point?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: The lawyer mentioned that they've had so many people offer
Speaker 1: to pay the legal defense of this kid. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: money's just money's just rolling in to support this guy.
Speaker 1: And I should stop calling him a kid. You were
Speaker 1: right yesterday when I said that it is just because
Speaker 1: we're old and bitter, and because he's twenty six. He
Speaker 1: is like a child to me. But when we when
Speaker 1: Joe and I were twenty six, we were working together
Speaker 1: and at a radio station, and I did not feel
Speaker 1: like a child at that time. So I gotta quit
Speaker 1: calling him a kid. But this twenty six year old scumbag,
Speaker 1: life of privilege, murderous, just crazy person, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: give your money to his legal defense. What is wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Yeah? I know, I know.
Speaker 3: It's you know, the enemy of mine, enemy is my friend,
Speaker 3: no matter how awful he is and how over the
Speaker 3: top what he did is I just want to show
Speaker 3: which side of them on.
Speaker 1: But could there be a less sympathetic character. You're the
Speaker 1: sort of person that has money to throw around to help.
Speaker 1: I guess the downtrodden or the afflict you're gonna go
Speaker 1: with him? Went to a forty thousand dollars a here
Speaker 1: junior high and then an Ivy League school, and his
Speaker 1: parents own a country club. You're he's the guy you're
Speaker 1: gonna help? Wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would seriously, And again I get the very
Speaker 3: base animal instinct of all right, insurance companies are sometimes
Speaker 3: cruel and turning down care. There's documentation of them be
Speaker 3: behaving on ethically that sort of thing, and United Healthcare
Speaker 3: is certainly a giant one of those. And I get
Speaker 3: the initial impulse. But then if you can't let your
Speaker 3: frontal lobe take over and ask yourself, all right, are
Speaker 3: all the CEOs of all the insurance companies okay to murder?
Speaker 3: What if they are a woman? What if they're a
Speaker 3: black guy? Just to examine your own beliefs?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: What other industries are are not terribly a sympathetic these days?
Speaker 3: Can we murder all of their CEOs?
Speaker 1: Or what? Explain to me your moral code here? This
Speaker 1: one is tough because, like Joe Rogan on his Much
Speaker 1: Listen To Podcasts yesterday, for whatever reason, I never hear
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan's podcast, but he blasted the dirty healthcare industry
Speaker 1: as effing gross.
Speaker 3: A lot of truth to that, right.
Speaker 1: But I'm really uncomfortable with the conversation being had because
Speaker 1: a guy got murdered in cold blood, because it definitely
Speaker 1: sends the message that if you want to get an
Speaker 1: issue addressed, you murder so many in cold blood and
Speaker 1: then people will start discussing your issue. That's not good.
Speaker 3: Well, and I suspect very strongly, although I didn't hear
Speaker 3: it that Joe, like virtually everybody who talks about this,
Speaker 3: completely leaves out the fact that anything that's happening in
Speaker 3: healthcare right now, anything that's happening in health insurance, is
Speaker 3: happening because of government.
Speaker 1: Policy, right And as I keep saying, I assume most
Speaker 1: of these people, Luigi and others would be for government healthcare.
Speaker 1: And please do a little research about other countries that
Speaker 1: have government run healthcare and whether or not you get
Speaker 1: fair quick treatment then that you're always happy with and
Speaker 1: nobody gets denied or has to wait for care till
Speaker 1: they die. Happens all the time.
Speaker 3: People come from England, Canada, other places to the United
Speaker 3: States to get care because they can't get any through
Speaker 3: their government healthcare.
Speaker 1: Right, Yep, it's very frustrating. Okay, different topic just came
Speaker 1: across this poll first poll I've seen anyway on ap
Speaker 1: Nork poll. It's one of your believed in polls, credible polls.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden partning his son. Approval rating on Joe Biden
Speaker 1: Partning Hunter twenty two percent, twenty two percent, And the
Speaker 1: only reason it has twenty two percent is because you
Speaker 1: got like forty percent of Democrats say it's okay, really,
Speaker 1: and like zero percent of a Republican So you will
Speaker 1: justify any Yeah, yeah, everybody. If there's one thing I
Speaker 1: could get people to do, it's not say yes or no,
Speaker 1: right or wrong based on whether or not it's your side.
Speaker 1: Try as hard as you can to separate these things out.
Speaker 1: There's no way forty Democrats think Joe Biden Pardning Hunter
Speaker 1: was a good thing, not a chance Hanson label.
Speaker 3: This segment of the podcast, Jack Comma charmingly. Comma asks
Speaker 3: for moral consistency from mankind.
Speaker 1: Right, you're one hundred percent right? Of course, I know.
Speaker 1: Do we used to do better at this or not?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that? I feel like we used
Speaker 1: to do better at this at times. At times I
Speaker 1: think we did. There have definitely been eras.
Speaker 3: We'll just restrict our discussion to the us of a
Speaker 3: but there have been times in this country that yeah,
Speaker 3: unity and shared values were very important, and that if
Speaker 3: you violated those shared values, it didn't matter if you're
Speaker 3: on mis's hide or not for the vast majority of us.
Speaker 3: But that that's that that feeling of unity ebbs and flows,
Speaker 3: and it's it's at a low, low ebb right now
Speaker 3: in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Well, to argue with myself and I said this a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, but because I'm old, I'd forgotten it.
Speaker 1: Learning in the book Sapiens that that's one of the
Speaker 1: things evolutionary speaking, that has allowed Homo sapiens to survive,
Speaker 1: is that we go with we're gonna follow our leader,
Speaker 1: what right or wrong he's on it, We're on his side.
Speaker 1: Because if you have a whole bunch of people who
Speaker 1: are like, I don't know, I kind of agree with
Speaker 1: our leader, but you know he's not completely right about this.
Speaker 1: I'm about sixty forty, the other tribe that believes in
Speaker 1: their leader is going to come in whoop your ass. Wow.
Speaker 1: So there's a great advantage to right or wrong. It's
Speaker 1: my team, let's go. There's a big advantage.
Speaker 3: And in my head around good point Where does that
Speaker 3: leave us?
Speaker 1: I don't know, easton confused, morally unmoored.
Speaker 3: What now where do I turn? I guess you hope
Speaker 3: an interesting point.
Speaker 1: I guess you hope that our intellect is able to
Speaker 1: override that to a certain a certain extent.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think it's a There are a thousand
Speaker 3: examples of this. It's like the like during the worst
Speaker 3: moments of the way over the top me too movement
Speaker 3: or the BLM thing or whatever. But where these these
Speaker 3: lunatics were like condemning if you said, well, you look
Speaker 3: great today, or you know, out with a coworker, would
Speaker 3: you like to get coffee away from work someday? That
Speaker 3: was just a horrendous crime. Because all of human courtship
Speaker 3: is evil and leads to forcible rape. That was a
Speaker 3: crazy attitude. A certain amount of the natural course of
Speaker 3: human courtship, including the woman not refusing consent but delaying consent. Sure,
Speaker 3: that's part of our mating dance, has been for millions
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 1: Absolutely right.
Speaker 3: It's that last percent that turns ugly that we've got
Speaker 3: to rein in with our intellect. We're better than chimps. Well,
Speaker 3: some of us are better. A few of us are
Speaker 3: better than chimps. And it's that last bit of my
Speaker 3: leader right or wrong, even as he gases ten million
Speaker 3: Jews for instance, or you know, whatever example you'd like
Speaker 3: to give.
Speaker 1: And then a science story before we take a break
Speaker 1: that I read yesterday about how we kind of have
Speaker 1: a brain in our stomach. Scientists have discovered down at
Speaker 1: Caltech or tiny little portions of a brain. And it's first.
Speaker 3: Only has my schwunstick have been attempting to take control
Speaker 3: and make the decisions in my life. Now my stomach
Speaker 3: is swighing in his way.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what they got to discover, is the leader's
Speaker 1: a really unwise brain down there in your genitals.
Speaker 3: Kind of single minded, yes, a bit myopic. Yeah, as
Speaker 3: I think you're leading up to a point.
Speaker 1: There are similar neurons in our gut as there are
Speaker 1: into our brain. And they're saying there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of difference between just being a tiny little brain that
Speaker 1: makes various decisions on situations. So should we be digesting
Speaker 1: the food and doing the normal thing, or are we
Speaker 1: in a crisis now where we better hold back, slow
Speaker 1: everything down so you can deal with things.
Speaker 3: Sure, we don't need the muscle I'm sorry. The blood
Speaker 3: flow to our digestion digestive tract. We need it in
Speaker 3: our muscles right now. Yeah, you also don't need to
Speaker 3: be sing your p while you're I don't know what
Speaker 3: phrase you losing your mud? We you know when you're
Speaker 3: when you're in a crucial situation. Well, right, that's that's
Speaker 3: weird Freudian slip right there, Michael, am I wrong? Did
Speaker 3: I just hear that or the way he pronounced the situation?
Speaker 3: I think was all right? If it makes you a grain,
Speaker 3: leave it in. Yeah, that's a fascinating thought. We have
Speaker 3: neuron networks that make decisions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then many many brains, right, and they discovered
Speaker 1: in the and they think it might be more places
Speaker 1: in the body, meaning the whole brain system is more
Speaker 1: complex and spread out than they'd ever thought before. Now
Speaker 1: that's thought provoking. Is the genital's angles pretty funny? All right?
Speaker 1: You know it doesn't need a brain because it's it's
Speaker 1: always Yes, it's not like he's making a lot of decisions. Yes,
Speaker 1: but the circuit I'm seeing some red flags being waved.
Speaker 1: Nat forget about it. Yes, well let's do it. I'm
Speaker 1: all in, who's in, who's with?
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 1: She's clearly nuts.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've got Oh, I a downer after all this laughing.
Speaker 3: I want to get to some of the commentary around
Speaker 3: the dude that got choked to death by Daniel Penny, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and trying to make you hear out of him yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was just amazing, amazing. Can't wait to read this
Speaker 1: to you. You'll be amazed yourself. And other stuff. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to Katie's headlines on the way, shoy. I'm
Speaker 1: not stealing one of your headlines, Katie, but inflation ticked
Speaker 1: up in November two point seven percent first time line, Jack,
Speaker 1: Did I steal one of your headlines?
Speaker 3: Total?
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Well, and I want to talk about Crooner's and he
Speaker 3: brings up inflation.
Speaker 1: God, you're a drag. I am. I am no fun.
Speaker 1: I am no fun.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Dean Martin's boozy warblings and
Speaker 3: you want to talk about inflation?
Speaker 1: What next?
Speaker 3: The Federal Reserve?
Speaker 1: Are you a Frank Sinatra fan? I've never really gotten
Speaker 1: into Frank Sinatra. I shouldn't take some time on it.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those bands I like, but I
Speaker 1: don't love. Yeah, I just I don't think I've taken
Speaker 1: the time I should take the time. There's got to
Speaker 1: be a reason. Do you're not that big a deal
Speaker 1: by accident. Yes, phrasing is cool if you're into that
Speaker 1: sort of thing.
Speaker 3: But anyway, let's talk about including the Biden administration taking
Speaker 3: a victory lap on their great win in Syria, which
Speaker 3: is beyond inappropriate. I mean, it's practically bizarre. But first
Speaker 3: let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Speaker 3: Katie Green.
Speaker 7: Katie, thank you guys USA today CEO Gunman Merchandise raises controversy,
Speaker 7: claims of glorifying violence.
Speaker 1: What's the merchandise?
Speaker 3: Oh, people are making.
Speaker 7: Shirts with his face on Etsy and posting.
Speaker 3: BDI delayed defend shirts and sweatshirts and hats.
Speaker 1: And I'm starting to agree with people who think this
Speaker 1: is a like turning point, watershed moment, something or other
Speaker 1: inflection point in terms of our going off the rails
Speaker 1: as a country.
Speaker 3: It's nineteen sixty eight to seventy three. Again, We're going
Speaker 3: to see bombings and assassinations and god knows what else
Speaker 3: because everybody's going to be so still justified in their
Speaker 3: own heads that their gripe is the gripe and I'm
Speaker 3: so right, I get to hurt people.
Speaker 1: CNN.
Speaker 7: Syrians celebrate falla facade as Israel strikes nearly five hundred targets.
Speaker 1: They thought, here's our opportunity. This is a tree, that's
Speaker 1: a tact us we've been worried about. They no longer
Speaker 1: have an army, navy, or military or the ability to
Speaker 1: produce anything for a military. In four days, it's all gone.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the main rebel guys are continuing to say the
Speaker 3: right things about human rights and then freedom and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing. We'll keep an eye on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows, this guy might the leader, whatever his
Speaker 1: name is. He might turn out to be an islamis
Speaker 1: horrifying job. But his body language and the way he
Speaker 1: talks is definitely different than most of these people.
Speaker 7: From the Washington Post, Ukraine races to develop its own
Speaker 7: long range weapons to counter Russia. From the New York Times,
Speaker 7: Biden administration looks to reinforce US China ties ahead of
Speaker 7: Trump's return ties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the bidens the problem now.
Speaker 1: And I hate all these New York Times stories where
Speaker 1: they they're like the Gavin Newsom trump proofing California. Everything
Speaker 1: he's got to come from the angle of gotta get
Speaker 1: this done before the evil Trump comes in. Oh, shut
Speaker 1: up with that.
Speaker 7: From the New York Post, women are getting quote designer
Speaker 7: nipple fillers for Perkier bosoms.
Speaker 1: Saw that.
Speaker 7: What is that true? Well, going brawless is becoming a thing.
Speaker 1: I live in college town. I've become aware of that.
Speaker 7: Kim Kardashian released a bra that had a nipple built in,
Speaker 7: and then it just kind of took off from there.
Speaker 1: Your meme of the Yeah, your meme of the day,
Speaker 1: think about.
Speaker 3: This nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 7: Don't get into a car with strangers two thousand and eight.
Speaker 7: Don't meet people from the internet alone twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: Order yourself the stranger from the internet and get into
Speaker 7: a car alone with them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty funny. Yeah.
Speaker 7: And finally, the Babylon be Biden cancels aid to Syria
Speaker 7: after finding out some needy Americans live there.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, Hey, Katie, I used bad form in
Speaker 3: the gym yesterday and strained my shoulder, and this morning
Speaker 3: I have to pick up my left arm to reach
Speaker 3: for the mouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Boy, you gotta stay out of the gym. It's dangerous
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: The public service announcement.
Speaker 3: Right, I never strained my shoulder like laying around on
Speaker 3: a couch.
Speaker 1: I did this. I did this the other day.
Speaker 7: I was lifting at the gym and then I went
Speaker 7: to change the toilet paper roll and it was lights
Speaker 7: out for my shoulder.
Speaker 3: And it's still not all the way.
Speaker 1: Back to normal. That sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, welcome to something like middle age. You're too young
Speaker 3: to be described as middle aged. You're no longer a
Speaker 3: kid officially, right. Weird injuries you get reaching into the
Speaker 3: back seat, for instance, you're not a kid anymore.
Speaker 1: Some high school kid almost dropped a thirty five pound
Speaker 1: plate on my foot the other day, just missed it.
Speaker 1: I would have been in an ambulance and never walked
Speaker 1: correctly again. If that had landed on the top of
Speaker 1: my foot, you really would have had Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're dangers of the gym.
Speaker 1: Stay you never get hurt like that. If you all,
Speaker 1: you can eat the feet. I'm just saying we've got
Speaker 1: a lot more news on the way. I hope you
Speaker 1: can stay. Well.
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