Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Katty I know he Armstrong and Leddy.
Speaker 2: Illinois Governor j.
Speaker 3: Pritzker says he'll stand in the way of deportations that
Speaker 3: he feels break Illinois law. He also says he'll stand
Speaker 3: in the way of anyone who tries to cut in
Speaker 3: front of him at Sizzler.
Speaker 4: That's a fat joke.
Speaker 5: He's a big fat guy.
Speaker 4: Wow wow, you know the fit young Gutfeld Eastern media elite.
Speaker 4: I ought to resent that, but I despise JB. Pritzker.
Speaker 4: I think he's one of the most evil people on
Speaker 4: the scene.
Speaker 6: Speaking of eating in obesity, A lot of the questions
Speaker 6: are about that with RFK Junior today as he attempts
Speaker 6: to be confirmed as Secretary of the HHS. And we'll
Speaker 6: have some of the highlights. Oh, we got into it
Speaker 6: with squad Elizabeth Warren and we'll play that for you
Speaker 6: coming up.
Speaker 4: Oh, that was politically incorrect. Whether JFK is a savior
Speaker 4: or a con man, or some combination of all of
Speaker 4: the above, or something like that. We're having conversations we
Speaker 4: ought to be having, I'll give him that, speaking of
Speaker 4: which occurred to me in an odd way last hour.
Speaker 4: It reminded me of something I was thinking about when
Speaker 4: we were talking about how electric vehicles their net impact
Speaker 4: to the environment is far from clear. When you deal
Speaker 4: with all the mining and then the slave labor that
Speaker 4: it takes to mine it. What are you going to
Speaker 4: do with the batteries that the pollution made by acquiring
Speaker 4: the things that go into an electric car. Jack You've
Speaker 4: brought up the fact that they're so damn heavy they
Speaker 4: wear out roads faster.
Speaker 6: They go through tires. Really, I don't know how you
Speaker 6: measure tires against the environment. The number of tires I've
Speaker 6: put on my Tesla outnumbers like all my vehicle tires
Speaker 6: for the last twenty years.
Speaker 4: I think, bingo, gringo. That's exactly where I was going.
Speaker 4: And here's the thing. We've been talking on and off
Speaker 4: once in a while about microplastics in the environment, and
Speaker 4: this is all going to come together. Trust me on this.
Speaker 4: It's not like I've charted it out, So it might
Speaker 4: be a bit of a wandering path through the rhetorical woods.
Speaker 4: Enjoy the scenery.
Speaker 6: It's the weave.
Speaker 4: It's the yeah, yeah, it's not that I'm just coming
Speaker 4: off like half cocked. It's it the weave. So here's
Speaker 4: the deal. Couple of things. I realized at some point
Speaker 4: in the last few years that if I drink more
Speaker 4: than I should on a given evening, among the things
Speaker 4: that will plague me have a fun day depends sometimes fun.
Speaker 4: Sometimes just had another one because I felt like having
Speaker 4: another one interesting, and it wasn't more fun. I was
Speaker 4: just drunker anyway. But it became clear to me, and
Speaker 4: I looked this up and did a bunch of reading
Speaker 4: about it, and it turns out it's a well known
Speaker 4: medical phenomenon that that excess alcohol consumption can lead to
Speaker 4: excess production of cortisol, which is a fight or flight chemical.
Speaker 4: And in me, what I noticed was real feelings of
Speaker 4: anxiety or something was wrong, or that I wasn't just
Speaker 4: sluggish and hungover a little bit. That I wouldn't call
Speaker 4: it paranoia because it didn't get that far, but it
Speaker 4: was absolutely a feeling of anxiety that I never ever
Speaker 4: have unless I've overindulged. And then I was thinking about
Speaker 4: if you know anybody who's ever and I don't mean
Speaker 4: this in any sort of demeaning way. And I wish
Speaker 4: Katie was here to mock me. But if anybody's ever
Speaker 4: lived with a woman, raised girls the rest of it,
Speaker 4: you understand that hormonal changes can cause serious changes in
Speaker 4: a person's ability to take in the world emotionally, get
Speaker 4: out and deal with it. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: Wait what And it's absolutely undisputable biologically speaking that there
Speaker 4: are things there's always a better word than things. There
Speaker 4: are substances be they gas, liquid particles, whatever, in our
Speaker 4: environment that have the ability to change our production of
Speaker 4: various hormones. I mean everything from microplastics to like obesity
Speaker 4: lowers testosterone, it lowers in both sexes, it lowers the
Speaker 4: desire to reproduce the rest of it.
Speaker 6: What would I be like if it weren't for microplastics
Speaker 6: and beyond control, Well.
Speaker 4: You might be cheerious. Heck, you might be the life
Speaker 4: of the party. Anyway, I believe that the whole smartphone
Speaker 4: thing stirring, the phone's lack of connectedness with human beings
Speaker 4: is probably the number one factor in young people being
Speaker 4: so depressed and anxious and disconnected and suicidal and the
Speaker 4: rest of it. Sure, I'll sign on to that, But
Speaker 4: I would also that every dime I've ever made, and
Speaker 4: every dime my family is ever going to make for
Speaker 4: the next hundred years on the fact that at some point,
Speaker 4: fairly soon, we're going to realize that, oh, this which
Speaker 4: is like omnipresent in the environment, now, this particle or
Speaker 4: whatever is absolutely part of the rise in depressed and anxiety.
Speaker 4: It's got to be. Once you realize how delicate hormone
Speaker 4: production is and how strongly hormone production influences mood and
Speaker 4: mental health, it can't be anything else. That's got to
Speaker 4: be true.
Speaker 6: Boy, how heartbreaking will that be good information to have
Speaker 6: for the next crowd of people coming along?
Speaker 4: Right? At least?
Speaker 6: So heartbreaking to find out all this is why my kid,
Speaker 6: my uncle, my mom, whoever's dealing with all this is
Speaker 6: the plastic we put around sliced cheese or whatever it.
Speaker 4: Turns whatever, sure, right, Yeah, it reminds me of some
Speaker 4: of the realities that came about about fetal alcohol syndrome
Speaker 4: and smoking during pregnancy, and polidomide and some of the
Speaker 4: other drugs of the sixties that were touted as a
Speaker 4: great idea. Everybody thought they were a great idea, but
Speaker 4: they had terrible effects that you know, at least I
Speaker 4: almost said, nobody suspected, but at least very few people suspected.
Speaker 6: Wow Dylan movie. The other night, Henry said, did people
Speaker 6: really smoke that much? I said, yeah, because everybody's smoking
Speaker 6: all the time in that movie. I haven't seen it
Speaker 6: smoking his movie. That's smoking, and I don't know how long,
Speaker 6: but yeah, everybody did. And doctors were telling him it
Speaker 6: was good for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so true. Anyway, I just I wish we
Speaker 4: could get to the bottom of it, and I wish
Speaker 4: there was a Space race style effort, whether the federal
Speaker 4: government or whoever else, to answer these questions. It ought
Speaker 4: to be the only question worth thinking about. Movie.
Speaker 6: Certainly number one movie Popcorn Butter. That's what I'm putting
Speaker 6: my money on.
Speaker 4: So fabulous and so indefensible.
Speaker 6: So nothing like butter, but delicious, but fabulous. It's like
Speaker 6: McDonald's hamburgers. You show me another hamburger that tastes anything
Speaker 6: like that. No, if you're blindfolded and he gave it
Speaker 6: to somebody, if you mushed it up and he didn't
Speaker 6: know what food group is this.
Speaker 4: Boy, I don't know, you wouldn't get amberger. There seems
Speaker 4: to be meat present.
Speaker 6: I would like another one, but I don't know what
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 4: Is it a ve er schnitzel. I just don't know.
Speaker 4: There must be some foreign food I've never had before. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and yet delicious. I was speaking of RFK Junior because
Speaker 4: he was making McDonald's jokes earlier. Are we gonna get
Speaker 4: back to a little audio from the here? Right now?
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders is yelling at him for some reason, waving
Speaker 6: his arms around. I mean, Bertie Henders is like a
Speaker 6: caricature of himself.
Speaker 4: Waving his arms. Sat hold over that.
Speaker 5: What about the pharmaceutical companies?
Speaker 6: I'm sure he's I'm sure that phrase is coming up
Speaker 6: as about a couple of times.
Speaker 4: Already a million ha and all billion are what of it?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I tried.
Speaker 5: To maake case, said Kenny buck Thought, and they wrapped
Speaker 5: me out of town, out of the rail.
Speaker 6: Why I'll just mention briefly again, the one thing I
Speaker 6: do like about RFK Junior is the talking about our
Speaker 6: kids and their problems and what the hell is going on.
Speaker 6: I don't have the slightest idea if he has the
Speaker 6: right answers or any of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: But like I dealt all day yesterday, like every.
Speaker 6: Minute of my day was dealing with family members mental
Speaker 6: issues that are the very things Joe is talking about
Speaker 6: that didn't hardly ever used to exist at all, And
Speaker 6: now it seems like one out of four kids has
Speaker 6: and figuring that out. Holy crap, how are we not
Speaker 6: talking about this every day? And we get one step
Speaker 6: closer by talking to RFK Junior about it, whether he's
Speaker 6: the nominee or not.
Speaker 4: To be fine with me And at the risk of
Speaker 4: spreading this discussion to too many topics, but it always
Speaker 4: should come back to this. Anybody who says we don't
Speaker 4: have money to dot dot dot in a world where
Speaker 4: we're squandering just ginormous amounts of money on crap, I
Speaker 4: just I don't want to hear it. Yeah, yeah, state
Speaker 4: or federal.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gavin Newsom, take that one hundred sum billion dollars
Speaker 6: for the bullet train that will never exist and pour
Speaker 6: it all into why are all our kids anxious and suicidal?
Speaker 4: Either autistic or what have you. Yeah, we'll hear a
Speaker 4: little lot about that, Gavy.
Speaker 6: Bernie's really waving his arms around, so we'll have some
Speaker 6: of that. And Elizabeth Warren yelling at RFK Junior, among
Speaker 6: other things, on the way.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty where it begins.
Speaker 6: So we're getting up to some of the jazzier questioning
Speaker 6: with RFK Jr. This song, by the way, for his
Speaker 6: cousin Caroline.
Speaker 4: Why why the verse where where Neil Damon sings that
Speaker 4: he's a predator and a drug addict.
Speaker 6: I don't think this song has anything about that.
Speaker 4: Was gonna say.
Speaker 6: Oh, so RFK Jnr's real wife is Larry David's fake wife, right,
Speaker 6: Cheryl Hines from Curb Your Enthusiasm, And she's sitting right
Speaker 6: over his shoulder, and she decided to get her face
Speaker 6: all done up for the hearings, new botox and lips.
Speaker 6: She's almost unrecognizable. Isn't that weird that that's a culture. Oh,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be on TV. I better go in and
Speaker 6: get my face changed to something that nobody even can tell.
Speaker 6: It's me, all right, whatever, Your husband is like worried
Speaker 6: about all these different drugs and everything.
Speaker 4: Like that, but you're shooting all this stuff into your skull.
Speaker 6: Mustn't be worried about that to each their own exactly
Speaker 6: any who? Elizabeth Warren questioning RFK Junior during the hearing today.
Speaker 1: And I'm asking you to commit right now that you
Speaker 1: will not take a financial stake in every one of
Speaker 1: those lawsuits, so that what you do as secretary will
Speaker 1: also benefit you financially down the line.
Speaker 7: I'll with all the ethical guides.
Speaker 4: That's not the question.
Speaker 6: You and I.
Speaker 4: You have seen you're asking me.
Speaker 7: You're asking me not to serve vaccine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you are.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right you're doing.
Speaker 1: Look, no one should be fooled here a tearm of HHS.
Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut vaccines and
Speaker 1: vaccine manufacturing across our country. And for all of his
Speaker 1: talk about follow the science and his that he won't
Speaker 1: interfere with those of us who want to vaccinate his kids,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is the same. Kennedy can kill off
Speaker 1: access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he
Speaker 1: does it.
Speaker 4: Kids might die, but Robert.
Speaker 1: Kennedy can keep cashing in the Senator.
Speaker 7: I support vaccines, will I support the childhood schedule?
Speaker 4: I will do that.
Speaker 7: The only thing I want is good science, and that's it.
Speaker 6: First of all, I heard a noise there that I
Speaker 6: thought he was working up a Hawker to blow on
Speaker 6: Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 4: I don't know what that sound was. He's going to
Speaker 4: get a hatchet, he does.
Speaker 6: How odd again that this whole conversation's got twisted on
Speaker 6: its head as Elizabeth Warren's crowd has been the vaccines
Speaker 6: or evil crowd my entire life up until COVID. Now
Speaker 6: it's right wingers who want to do with way with vaccines.
Speaker 6: So it all got flipped on its head. My son's
Speaker 6: getting his t DAP today, I think, so he can
Speaker 6: take a class an independent studied school. Those aren't going away.
Speaker 6: I mean, you can claim that these childhood vaccinations that
Speaker 6: all our kids got are going away, but they aren't.
Speaker 6: I don't think so. I'm not worried about it, are you?
Speaker 4: I was struck by. We've received several emails people pointing
Speaker 4: out how many more there are now than there were
Speaker 4: when my kids were little. And my oldest kid is
Speaker 4: what thirty two going to be thirty three? This right?
Speaker 6: So I guess this is somewhat odd. Bernie Sanders is
Speaker 6: now questioning RFK Junior.
Speaker 8: Now you're coming before this committee and you say you're
Speaker 8: pro vaccine, just want to ask some questions, and yet
Speaker 8: your organization is making money selling a child's product to
Speaker 8: parents for twenty six bucks, which cast fundamental out on
Speaker 8: you on the usefulness of vaccines. Can you tell us
Speaker 8: now that you will, now that you are pro vaccine,
Speaker 8: that you're going to have your organization take these products
Speaker 8: off the market?
Speaker 4: Senator, I have no power over that organization. Not you've
Speaker 4: heard of it. Resigned from the board.
Speaker 8: I was just a few months ago you founded that.
Speaker 4: You certainly have power you can make that. How are
Speaker 4: you supportive of this?
Speaker 7: I have had nothing to do with you supportive of
Speaker 7: these onesies?
Speaker 4: I'm supportive of vaccines.
Speaker 8: Are you supportive of these this clothing which is militantly
Speaker 8: anti vaccine?
Speaker 7: I am supportive of vaccines. Well, I want good science
Speaker 7: and I want to protect But you will not tell.
Speaker 8: The organization you founded not to continue by selling that product.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Miss Jim.
Speaker 5: Now they have velcrow in the cross. What's wrong with snaps?
Speaker 5: Snaps have been good enough for previous generations.
Speaker 6: I wanted to hear him say onesie again, Will well
Speaker 6: you stop selling these onesies? So what's the onesie RFK
Speaker 6: Junior sells that is anti vax Is it having a
Speaker 6: clogan on it?
Speaker 4: Or oh, yeah, I'm sure it does.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll have to google that.
Speaker 4: No vax is for me, I'm a healthy baby, or whatever.
Speaker 4: Who freaking knows, gotcha. RFK Junior's deal is he makes
Speaker 4: zillions of dollars on class action lawsuits, including against pharmaceutical companies,
Speaker 4: and he wants to weaken the protections for them, and
Speaker 4: he will make lots and lots of money. It also
Speaker 4: could be suggested by people of good conscience that the
Speaker 4: protections are too strong and too much and they ought
Speaker 4: to be re examined.
Speaker 6: Well. So he's currently being questioned on his abortion stance
Speaker 6: by Democrats because he is a lifelong pro choice guy
Speaker 6: up until.
Speaker 4: You know the very end.
Speaker 6: And as CNN sat up there, RFK Junior says he
Speaker 6: will follow the guidance of President Trump. That's really the
Speaker 6: where the rubber meets the road on most of these nominees,
Speaker 6: isn't it. They're going to fulfill the wishes of President
Speaker 6: Trump or they won't get to stay in the job.
Speaker 4: Correct. Yeah, So I.
Speaker 6: Guess that's why I don't get as worried about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those questions ought to be coming from conservatives, from Republicans,
Speaker 4: because Trump is essentially moderate pro life, clearly his whole life.
Speaker 4: His recent statements make it clear that that's his thing.
Speaker 4: And RFK Junior has been like way out their lefty
Speaker 4: pro abortion up until the last second. I mean, the
Speaker 4: kid was like ready to be born, which is abhorrent.
Speaker 4: It's infanticide. So I am a little concerned about that
Speaker 4: which way that goes, although I don't think that either
Speaker 4: one of them is an activist on the topic. Are
Speaker 4: you supportive of these onesies?
Speaker 6: Are you supportive of these onesies? You put your feet
Speaker 6: at them, you pull them up on your knees them up.
Speaker 6: It is one piece of clothing that satisfies the needs
Speaker 6: of your entire baby.
Speaker 4: Are you in favor of this or not?
Speaker 6: I wish I was wearing a onesie right now. I'm
Speaker 6: surprised that they haven't caught on as the modern clothing.
Speaker 6: We should all be wearing onesies.
Speaker 4: Wow. Wow, too difficult to get to to get into.
Speaker 6: Will you come up with a flap or a slot
Speaker 6: or something, depending on your your gender?
Speaker 4: With this weekend, Armstrong and Getty? What top?
Speaker 6: How's your life?
Speaker 4: How are things going? I'm good, glad to hear it,
Speaker 4: glad to hear it. That's good, really good, just super
Speaker 4: thanks for asking. According to who is this bloke Christopher
Speaker 4: Caldwell at The Free Press, Trump's recent chucking out of
Speaker 4: affirmative action is the biggest policy change of the century.
Speaker 6: That's funny that he said that, you bring that up.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you listened to last week's National
Speaker 6: Review podcast, but Rich Lowry kept saying, guy runs National Review.
Speaker 6: People have not grasped how huge this is. This is
Speaker 6: one of the biggest things that's happened in my lifetime.
Speaker 4: Partly because it reinstates the original intent of virtually all
Speaker 4: of our civil rights laws, the really foundational ones, like
Speaker 4: the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty four. It reminds
Speaker 4: us all with utter clarity, and it's shocking that this
Speaker 4: was ever lost. The idea is, you can't discriminate based
Speaker 4: on race, period, not unless it's white people, or not
Speaker 4: unless it makes you feel good, or unless you think
Speaker 4: it's really important or it'll accomplish some other good. No,
Speaker 4: we as a society realized it's a lot like censorship
Speaker 4: or a lot of other things. There aren't any human
Speaker 4: beings who are so wise and wonderful that you can
Speaker 4: bestow such a power on them. None. In any circumstance,
Speaker 4: We're done with it. I remember that guy.
Speaker 6: We used to have on in California, Ward Connory, back
Speaker 6: in the day. Sure, yeah, he was a black gentleman
Speaker 6: who was arguing hard to try to do away with
Speaker 6: racial preferences in California, and his argument was always you
Speaker 6: can make the argument that at the time, in nineteen
Speaker 6: sixty four, and I'm in the middle of the latest
Speaker 6: Martin Luther King biography, it's just it's unbelievable that in
Speaker 6: my lifetime black people, any race were denied the opportunity
Speaker 6: the pursuit of happiness in the United States the way
Speaker 6: they were. I mean, absolutely unbelievable. You couldn't get jobs,
Speaker 6: you couldn't stay at a hotel, you couldn't drink out
Speaker 6: of that water fountain. He had to stand up on
Speaker 6: the bus. I mean, it's just incredible that that was
Speaker 6: going on in the United States America. But anyway, the
Speaker 6: point being, you can make the argument that coming out
Speaker 6: of that, you needed some sort of forcing mechanism to
Speaker 6: make certain organizations higher enough black people or it was
Speaker 6: just never going to happen. But that was a long
Speaker 6: time ago, and it's very difficult to make that argument now.
Speaker 6: And as John Roberts said in the latest Supreme Court decision,
Speaker 6: as I mentioned yesterday, John Roberts said, the best way
Speaker 6: to end racism is to end racism racial preference.
Speaker 4: Stop it right right, and don't let me forget to
Speaker 4: get back to the idea of affirmative action. But the
Speaker 4: free press rights rip affirmative action. But that's only part
Speaker 4: of the story. A curious element of Trump's third Executive
Speaker 4: Order is its invocation of the President's Solemn duty. That's
Speaker 4: a quote to enforce longstanding federal civil rights laws and
Speaker 4: mentions the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four. And
Speaker 4: they point out this is not a concession, it's a threat.
Speaker 4: While the Civil Rights Act mentioned affirmative action, and we'll
Speaker 4: get back to that in a second, it attached no
Speaker 4: specific meaning to the term, and the law was resolutely colorblind.
Speaker 4: Affirmative action programs, with their differing treatments of race, are
Speaker 4: intension with it, at least I'd say they're in open
Speaker 4: definance of it. But DEI programs, many of which scapegoat
Speaker 4: white people, are even more so. It is Trump's assertion
Speaker 4: the DEI programs quote violate the text and spirit of
Speaker 4: our long standing federal civil rights laws. He's absolutely correct.
Speaker 4: Trump is doing more than reforming the public sector. He
Speaker 4: is signaling to the private sector that certain kinds of
Speaker 4: programs are liable to prosecution, even asking each federal agency
Speaker 4: to name up to nine large private sector or organizations
Speaker 4: that might be engaged in discrimination. In other words, this
Speaker 4: perversion of the nineteen sixty four civil rights law, which
Speaker 4: and again I will tip my Captain Rich Lowry, who
Speaker 4: talked about this a little bit. The federal government has
Speaker 4: fairly limited resources and ability to enforce discrimination in private enterprise,
Speaker 4: just because it doesn't have like a police force in
Speaker 4: every office in America. But it can, through its laws
Speaker 4: and regulation of private enterprise, change the culture in that
Speaker 4: Ford Motor Company just to pick something out of the air.
Speaker 4: There's no reason to pick them specifically if they make
Speaker 4: it clear that whether in your federal contracting, which is
Speaker 4: an enormous part of so many companies bottom line, or
Speaker 4: just in your day to day operation, if we find
Speaker 4: you in violation of federal civil rights laws, we will
Speaker 4: bring you to your knees. And because every corporation in
Speaker 4: America goes along with that stuff just because they have
Speaker 4: to to be careful and you know, avoid lawsuits and
Speaker 4: the rest of it. It changes the culture and people
Speaker 4: get the idea, well everybody agrees with this because everywhere
Speaker 4: I go, everybody's enforcing this. But the problem was the
Speaker 4: civil rights that got perverted into the new DEI thing,
Speaker 4: and everybody's just started to think, Oh, everybody thinks teaching
Speaker 4: white fragility and all white people are racists and all
Speaker 4: everybody must think that because everywhere I go companies are
Speaker 4: teaching this and enforcing it. No, it's just because those
Speaker 4: companies were terrified of the Obama and or Biden administration.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't understand, especially coming out of Mlka's federal Holiday
Speaker 6: where his maybe most famous phrase from the I Have
Speaker 6: a Dream speech is you know, I envision a day
Speaker 6: where people are judged by the content of their character,
Speaker 6: not the color of their skin. I don't understand how
Speaker 6: we haven't had to have a conversation around how does
Speaker 6: that fit in with Ebramex Kennedy who says you absolutely
Speaker 6: judge people by the color of their skin and that's
Speaker 6: all the time, way from birth, they're bad because their
Speaker 6: skin is this color. How does that we not put
Speaker 6: those two things together and discussed how does this fit?
Speaker 4: Because it doesn't fit? And I think if Americans hadn't
Speaker 4: been bullied into silence, we could have reasonably asked, Hey,
Speaker 4: you either square that those two things, or be quiet
Speaker 4: and go away if you can't explain that paradox, be
Speaker 4: quiet anyway. They go on to write, excuse me, I
Speaker 4: sound like RFK Junior. There can be little doubt of
Speaker 4: the general effectiveness of such methods. In twenty twenty and
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, as excuse me, civil rights regulators in
Speaker 4: the Biden administration rallied behind it. DEI went from the
Speaker 4: hobby of a handful of quirky CEOs to the unanimous
Speaker 4: policy of corporate America. Today, the rush in the opposite
Speaker 4: direction is just as precipitous. Among the new foes of
Speaker 4: DEI or some of its erstwhile champions, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta
Speaker 4: Walmarts and even Target, home of the Tuck friendly bathing suit.
Speaker 4: More will follow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, God dang it, the election was too close given
Speaker 6: some of the states with some of these issues like
Speaker 6: this one.
Speaker 4: And just one more final point, there are a few
Speaker 4: things we could do better than read this entire essay
Speaker 4: by Coleman Hughes, the brilliant black scholar who is staunchly
Speaker 4: anti DEI, anti Ibram, X Candy and all that crap,
Speaker 4: because he understod he's a wise man. In fact, he
Speaker 4: just published last year, almost exactly years ago, a year ago,
Speaker 4: the book The End of Race Politics, Arguments for a
Speaker 4: Color Blind America. He is also a great student and
Speaker 4: writer about history. And one thing that's I found just
Speaker 4: really really interesting is he's talking about Trump's recent executive
Speaker 4: orders ending DEI the rest of it. He says, the
Speaker 4: most controversial part of this executive order is that it
Speaker 4: repeals the storied sixty year old Executive Order eleven two
Speaker 4: four six signed by LBJ in nineteen sixty five. Johnson's
Speaker 4: original order mandated that government quote the government contractors quote,
Speaker 4: take affirmative action to ensure that employees are hired. This
Speaker 4: is the only use of the term affirmative action in
Speaker 4: the actual law. They take affirmative action to ensure that
Speaker 4: employees are hired without regard to their race, color, religion,
Speaker 4: or national origin. So once again the Left, which are
Speaker 4: absolutely brilliant at the ju jitsu of manipulating language and
Speaker 4: changing it, took a phrase that specifically said don't look
Speaker 4: at race, and they changed it and told you all
Speaker 4: and us that know that phrase in the nineteen sixty
Speaker 4: four Civil Rights Act that meant you should absolutely look
Speaker 4: at everybody's race and hire them or not hire them
Speaker 4: based on it. Yes, that's what it meant.
Speaker 6: Uh, How the hell is that not more discussed?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. Then he gets into
Speaker 4: it again. This is just a historical curiosity. This is
Speaker 4: not an effort to win any sort of argument. I
Speaker 4: just love this sort of thing. He points out that
Speaker 4: Richard Nixon was one of the great like liberals of
Speaker 4: all time. Yeah. A lot of people make that argument.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Yeah, he grew all sorts of lefty plans
Speaker 4: and quotas. He was big into quotas and funeracial quotas,
Speaker 4: among other.
Speaker 6: Things, a lot of environmental regulations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't blame him for that stuff so much
Speaker 4: because that kind of burgoned out of control. Again, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure he's to blame for all of that stuff,
Speaker 4: because the environmental situation in the early seventies was a nightmare.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 6: I hate fish, I hate clean water.
Speaker 4: Wow, And I know, I tell you what days Michael
Speaker 4: will tell you this days because on clear days you
Speaker 4: can see beautiful mountain ranges in both directions from the radio.
Speaker 4: Rang maddening. That's like one day out of fish. But yeah,
Speaker 4: those days to look out for Jack because oh he's raging.
Speaker 4: Look at those stupid mountains with their ugly snow caps.
Speaker 4: Somebody out of bull doze. No, it's it's the environmental
Speaker 4: thing has gotten a lot better. But boy, has our
Speaker 4: racial stuff gotten out of control. And it's a shame too,
Speaker 4: because we've made enormous progress as a society.
Speaker 6: For some reason, I'm thinking of the Kanye West lyric
Speaker 6: where he's basically in one of his songs, lots of
Speaker 6: his songs, talking about how black culture has fallen too
Speaker 6: much for the importance of buying stuff like clothes, watches, cars,
Speaker 6: you know, that being the meaning of your existence and
Speaker 6: everything like that, where he says I'm like a fly
Speaker 6: Malcolm X by any genes necessary, which I think is
Speaker 6: very clever.
Speaker 4: Line. That is a really good line. Yeah, that's hard,
Speaker 4: that's crazy, is oo al, but that's ourd And one
Speaker 4: final thing, Coleman Hughes talks about people who went on
Speaker 4: twenty three in May and discovered they are four percent black,
Speaker 4: demanding to be included in government programs for minority ownership
Speaker 4: of businesses, for contracting and stuff like that, and he
Speaker 4: points out it's got an absurd anyway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say we'll finish strong next are strong. We
Speaker 6: were actually talking about this topic earlier in the show.
Speaker 6: RFK Junior getting grilled in his confirmation process today to
Speaker 6: see if he's going to be Secretary of HHS Health
Speaker 6: and Human Services.
Speaker 7: I had eleven brothers and sisters. I had dozens of
Speaker 7: first cousins. I was raised in a time who we
Speaker 7: did not have a chronic disease epidemic on. My uncle
Speaker 7: was president two percent of American kids at chronic disease.
Speaker 7: Today he's sixty six percent have chronic disease. You spend
Speaker 7: a zero on chronic disease during the Kennedy administration. Today
Speaker 7: we spend four point three trillion dollars a year with
Speaker 7: seventy seven percent of our kids cannot qualify for military service.
Speaker 7: When I was a kid, the typical pediatrician was the
Speaker 7: one case of diabetes and his or her lifetime for
Speaker 7: forty or fifty year career. Today, one out of every
Speaker 7: three kids who walks through his her office door, is
Speaker 7: diabetic or pre diabetic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some of the stats, And I mean I don't
Speaker 6: even need stats just looking around me in my own
Speaker 6: personal life experience, things that were unheard of are incredibly
Speaker 6: common now.
Speaker 4: And what's especially crazy about that is our knowledge of
Speaker 4: health and nutrition and exercise and a dozen other ships
Speaker 4: are so much more sophisticated than they were at the time.
Speaker 6: And the ability to identify problems way better than it
Speaker 6: was in the sixties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of it.
Speaker 6: People would say, well, you had kids that had that,
Speaker 6: but they just thought they were quirky. Okay, I've heard
Speaker 6: that sort of thing. I've made that argument. But like
Speaker 6: I know plenty of people, including me, you have kids.
Speaker 6: It ain't just quirky. They got something wrong with them,
Speaker 6: caused by something that ain't their fault in our environment
Speaker 6: or who knows what, but its it exists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. And whether you love RFK or
Speaker 4: hate them or like a lot of us are a
Speaker 4: little ambivalent and confused. I like the fact that we're
Speaker 4: having this discussion. Yeah, when Vivek Mrthy was being considered
Speaker 4: for Surgeon General or whoever was doing HHS under Biden,
Speaker 4: were we having this conversation. I don't I don't remember it.
Speaker 6: Right, You've been making the point that you don't have
Speaker 6: to jump to therefore URFK Junior should be confirmed. But yeah,
Speaker 6: how this isn't like the top couple of discussions we
Speaker 6: have constantly. Why why is everybody got one K that
Speaker 6: needs to be on medicine?
Speaker 4: Frustrating?
Speaker 6: And why it has to be political? Why does it
Speaker 6: have to fall into the camp of politics? Which side
Speaker 6: am I supposed to be on this?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: No, don't put this in.
Speaker 4: That category, right right, that's the danger of politics being everything.
Speaker 4: Identifying ourselves, I mean literally our self identity. Who am I? Well,
Speaker 4: I'm a conservative. I mean that's fine, I am staunchly so,
Speaker 4: but I'm a Republican. That if that's third or fourth
Speaker 4: or fifth on your list of who you are, I
Speaker 4: think that's probably healthier.
Speaker 6: I heard from a guy the other day. He's probably
Speaker 6: fifty or something like, I don't know how old he is,
Speaker 6: but he's talking about being ADHD and he was diagnosed, like,
Speaker 6: I don't know, in his twenties or something like that,
Speaker 6: and he's put on a medication for it, and then
Speaker 6: he had to take a different medication to fix something
Speaker 6: that that medication cost, and then you got another medication
Speaker 6: and just how it just and I've lived that myself
Speaker 6: and our own family. Oh yeah, second, there's already and.
Speaker 4: Now not stung.
Speaker 2: Get fine.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm gonna do to get away from it.
Speaker 6: I'm going to join a band that sings like that.
Speaker 6: We're gonna play, oh, play on street corners. Here's your
Speaker 6: host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we combine the best of disco with throats singing.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thong from everybody on the crew
Speaker 4: to wrap things up for the day. There is our
Speaker 4: technical director of Mike Langelo, Michael final thong. My wife
Speaker 4: and I are putting our trust together. So I'm trying
Speaker 4: to decide what I wanted to happen to me when
Speaker 4: I pass away, and I suggested cremating me and then donating,
Speaker 4: dumping my ashes in a Costco. So just go to
Speaker 4: Costco and donate me, you know, from the food court
Speaker 4: to the TV section. Sure, I'll offer free samples of
Speaker 4: yourself to passers by. Katie Green has the day off.
Speaker 4: She's ailing Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 6: I wasn't going to talk about this, But just since
Speaker 6: you brought up Costco, is at Costco the other day.
Speaker 4: They are so damned deficient. I wish every store was
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 6: Man. They get you through that line so fast and
Speaker 6: packed up and checked out.
Speaker 4: But they said, do you want anything from the concession stand?
Speaker 4: I'll take the hot dog. He wrings it up on
Speaker 4: your bill.
Speaker 6: They called out my name before I even put my
Speaker 6: card back in my pocket.
Speaker 4: You're hod dogs ready walk over grabb a hot dog.
Speaker 6: And just the government needs to study Costco and become
Speaker 6: more like Costco.
Speaker 4: By the way, damn good hot dog. First of all,
Speaker 4: yes they do. And secondly, RFK Junior would slap that
Speaker 4: nitrate rocket right out of your hand. Jumbo, What do
Speaker 4: you think you'd eating that?
Speaker 6: Here's my argument, Junior, It was a dollar fifty and
Speaker 6: it's a quarter pound hot dog. Armstrong and getdy wrabbing
Speaker 6: up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4: I weep for your colon. So many people to thanks,
Speaker 4: so little time. Good Armstrong, you getdy dot com, drop
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Speaker 6: See you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 4: I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 6: The country is on edge.
Speaker 4: Have any of you guys asked him to step down
Speaker 4: and resign for their job? I mean, if anyone think
Speaker 4: that's bonkers, it's like, well, we're on the brink.
Speaker 5: So let's go with a fine supportive of these ones.
Speaker 5: Here we have Velcrowle in the cross. What's strong with snatch?
Speaker 5: You pull them up over your knees, you zip them up.
Speaker 6: It is one piece of clothing that satisfies the needs
Speaker 6: of your entire baby.
Speaker 4: Are you in favor of this or not? By Armstrong
Speaker 4: and Getty