Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Arm Strong and Jattie and Key Armstrong and Yetty. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this out loud because it makes it more
Speaker 1: likely that I will accomplish it, because I've got witnesses.
Speaker 1: So we're going to be off for a few days
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving, and I hope to get some reading done,
Speaker 1: hope to get further along in Ulysses that I'm reading,
Speaker 1: and a couple other things. But I'm going to go
Speaker 1: through my clothes and get rid of the stuff I
Speaker 1: don't wear. Instead of wrestling with the closet every day
Speaker 1: trying to get a shirt out because it's so squeezed
Speaker 1: in there by a bunch of clothes I may not
Speaker 1: have worn in ten years, I'm going to go through
Speaker 1: my closet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to do it. But I have a
Speaker 2: similar goal. Whilst visiting with family members. My house is
Speaker 2: going to be jammed stem to stern with brothers and
Speaker 2: sisters and kids and dad and all sorts. This should
Speaker 2: be fun, very festive. Yeah, uh so, got some good
Speaker 2: stuff coming up. Gender banning Madness update although we don't
Speaker 2: really need the it's it's this is entirely scientific and
Speaker 2: incredibly revealing. Plus the email Joe Gett he saved my life,
Speaker 2: which is very serious. But first, it's the Friday tradition.
Speaker 2: Let's take a fun look back at the week it was.
Speaker 2: It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 1: We got clip.
Speaker 3: Clips clips.
Speaker 1: This is chest boxing, likes popping and locking. Labors say
Speaker 1: the letter T is being dropped from words like kitten,
Speaker 1: mountain and into but.
Speaker 2: It's cloud in the mountains that Sidi in the valley
Speaker 2: and my true law asca.
Speaker 1: President Trump facing some backlash after accusing some Democrats of
Speaker 1: what he calls seditious behavior punishable by death.
Speaker 3: The words of the President chose not the ones that
Speaker 3: I would use. You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 1: You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 2: It was just a friendly reminder to build.
Speaker 1: Demanding that the Justice Department released the Epstein files is
Speaker 1: now law. I was called a trader by a man
Speaker 1: that I fought for five no actually six years for Frank.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody cares about her.
Speaker 1: President Trump says he plans to sell F thirty five
Speaker 1: fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 4: Your voice sounds all rough for your filmar I feel great.
Speaker 1: I was shouting at people because they were stupid.
Speaker 3: You're royal minus.
Speaker 2: The US intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder
Speaker 2: of a journalist.
Speaker 3: You should asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just a
Speaker 3: terrible question.
Speaker 2: I grab that hand.
Speaker 3: I don't give a hell way that hand's bent. I
Speaker 3: grabbed that hand amid.
Speaker 1: All this reports that you, a special envoy, Steve Whitgoff,
Speaker 1: had hashed out a twenty eight point piece plan for
Speaker 1: this Russian counterpart. It is a flying ID and so
Speaker 1: this id ied idea imprimist explosive device.
Speaker 2: They're cheap.
Speaker 3: You can three D print them at home.
Speaker 1: You guys are effing hacks. I hope you go off
Speaker 1: the air soon because radio is dead and you sucked. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's clips of the week. A Trump thing definitely needs
Speaker 1: to be up there for a maybe quote of the
Speaker 1: year candidate. I think I feel fine. Just voice is
Speaker 1: rough because I was yelling at people because they're stupid. Wow.
Speaker 2: I thought that reporter's obligatory koshoge question was stupid. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and just this whole thing is so overblown. But the
Speaker 2: President is saying that's an insubordinate question. I would have responded,
Speaker 2: I'm not his subordinate and I'm not yours either, So
Speaker 2: how can I be insubordinate? Exactly? The Department of Health
Speaker 2: and Human Services in May we talked about this at
Speaker 2: a fair length, published a review of the academic literature
Speaker 2: focused on gender affirming care for minors, and the conclusion
Speaker 2: was unequivocal that the overall quality of evidence concerning the
Speaker 2: effects of any information on psychological outcomes, quality of life, regret,
Speaker 2: or long term health is very low. There is no
Speaker 2: good science substantiating good outcomes for taking these poor confes
Speaker 2: used kids who were part of a social contagion mostly
Speaker 2: and altering their bodies forever. It's monsters. And on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: the HHS published responses to the peer reviews of the report,
Speaker 2: and there are a couple of minor corrections issued, but
Speaker 2: the report's major medical findings were not disproven. They were
Speaker 2: not even disputed in a substantive way. But what's really interesting,
Speaker 2: and this would take a long time to get into
Speaker 2: the details, some of the big medical associations which have
Speaker 2: been and you need to know this completely captured by
Speaker 2: the woke Your American Academy of Pediatrics is completely wildly
Speaker 2: captured by way left progressives neo Marxists, as is the
Speaker 2: American Medical Association. Just shocking. And they came out with
Speaker 2: study or statements saying this is an ill founded report
Speaker 2: and it's based on you know, poor science and blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. But they couldn't refute any of the science
Speaker 2: or any of the methodology. And like this one organization
Speaker 2: and who was it? I want to cast dispersions where
Speaker 2: they're due, said, yeah, you really should have consulted these
Speaker 2: Where is that? I've got to find it? Sorry. One
Speaker 2: of the disputes was from I think it was the
Speaker 2: A M A ah No. The American Psychiatric Association suggested
Speaker 2: that the AHHS report suffers from poor methodology and fails
Speaker 2: to clarify how the studies were selected for review, and
Speaker 2: the association concludes its peer review by listing sixteen studies
Speaker 2: that ought to be considered. In response. Oh, it's worth
Speaker 2: mentioning that they came out with their response like two
Speaker 2: hours after it was released, even though it was four
Speaker 2: hundred plus pages long. There must be some damn speed
Speaker 2: raiders over there or used AI but anyway, so they said, plus,
Speaker 2: you should have looked at these sixteen studies. In response,
Speaker 2: the AJHS said, twelve of the studies are in our report,
Speaker 2: so what are you talking about? Of the four, remaining,
Speaker 2: three do not pertain in any way to gender related medicine.
Speaker 2: This outcomes in youth, while the fourtham mentioned study was
Speaker 2: published after our report came out. So thanks for your input.
Speaker 1: My guess would be is that these organizations they might
Speaker 1: have some true believers in there, definitely, But yeah, I about
Speaker 1: a lot of it was they just need to look
Speaker 1: like they're fighting to keep their the crowd that supports
Speaker 1: them on their side.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And some of the responses like this one unsolicited
Speaker 2: review published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and that's
Speaker 2: people who make all of their money unleashing sex change
Speaker 2: operations on people, suggests that the HHS report promotes a
Speaker 2: harmful practice known as exploratory therapy, which has been described
Speaker 2: elsewhere as a form of conversion therapy, encouraging a child
Speaker 2: or adolescent to accept the gender associated with their sex
Speaker 2: designated to them at birth. So these people think it
Speaker 2: is extremely appropriate desirable to counsel a child. No, you're right,
Speaker 2: you're a boy, but you're really a girl, and somehow
Speaker 2: loathsome to counsel a child you're a boy, and of
Speaker 2: course you're a boy. How perverse is that? Yeah, the
Speaker 2: one is a good idea. The other is sick.
Speaker 1: Oh, just absolutely abhorrant. We've all heard that for years now.
Speaker 1: How the conversion therapy with gay people is just you're
Speaker 1: the worst kind of religious, zealoate, middle ages horrifable human.
Speaker 2: Being, right, which is try why they use the same terminology,
Speaker 2: which I.
Speaker 1: Would agree, I don't think it's going to work most
Speaker 1: of the time if somebody's gay convinced.
Speaker 2: Them, right, But to you, they intentionally use that same
Speaker 2: term to describe talking with the kid about his underlying
Speaker 2: psychological problems, maybe autism, maybe other pressures or whatever, and saying,
Speaker 2: you know, there are all sorts of different kinds of boys,
Speaker 2: from really tough and masculine, too effeminate to somewhere in between,
Speaker 2: and you can be whatever kind of boy you want. No,
Speaker 2: that's somehow monstrous according to these sick, sick efforts. Anyway, Oh,
Speaker 2: and we brought you the study. It came out just
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. I think that the number
Speaker 2: of what it was a twelve to twenty year olds
Speaker 2: identifying as transgender has been cut in half in two years. Okay,
Speaker 2: it was a social contagion. It was always a social contagion,
Speaker 2: which brings us to this email. Joe Getty saved my
Speaker 2: life from alien anonymous. You know, there's a vague suggestion
Speaker 2: at the end. I'll keep this vague because it's not
Speaker 2: clear to me whether this person does not want to
Speaker 2: us to use this on the air. But had a terrible,
Speaker 2: terrible anorexia problem for a very long time. We're talking
Speaker 2: five to six sixty eight pounds.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, five foot.
Speaker 2: Six sixty eight pounds. And indeed she hadn't even weighed
Speaker 2: herself in four years. Hardcore days, week's month would go by.
Speaker 2: I survived on water with Lemon, had children, and her
Speaker 2: kids saved her, she points out.
Speaker 1: And you still they still feel like they're overweight. That's
Speaker 1: why you keep going, even when you're obviously rhythically skinny.
Speaker 2: And I'm skipping ahead and just sharing the essential parts
Speaker 2: of it again to protect her privacy. But however, Joe
Speaker 2: said something that changed my life. I eat now. I'm
Speaker 2: almost at one hundred pounds. He said, along these lines,
Speaker 2: the whole transgender crap is another social contagion. It's just
Speaker 2: like anorexia in the eighties and nineties. You know, by
Speaker 2: the way, I did not make this stuff up, and
Speaker 2: I just try to find great ideas and share them
Speaker 2: with you, so these people get all the credit. But
Speaker 2: he said, it's just like anarexi in the eighties and nineties. Joe,
Speaker 2: you annoyingly lit a fire in me. Under no circumstances
Speaker 2: will I succumb to a social contagion, to be lumped
Speaker 2: into it with transgenders and other bs kids cutting themselves,
Speaker 2: social public suicide. No way. You put my whole image
Speaker 2: in a new and very ugly light. And I am
Speaker 2: eternally grateful for the first time I went to a doctor,
Speaker 2: got my vitals done, my blood work done, everything. Oh
Speaker 2: and then she talks about how old she is internally
Speaker 2: because she's really hurt her internal organs. But she says,
Speaker 2: thank you from the bottom of my heart. You truly
Speaker 2: did save my life.
Speaker 1: You know, it sounds to me like because it's like
Speaker 1: a lot of addictions and that sort of stuff, they
Speaker 1: had a moment of clarity for whatever reason, and that's
Speaker 1: why you got to keep telling the truth to people,
Speaker 1: whether it's you're starving yourself to death, drink too much,
Speaker 1: whatever the thing it is, when you catch them at
Speaker 1: the right moment, when they're having a moment of clarity,
Speaker 1: it can make all the difference in the world. And
Speaker 1: it's just kind of random when those moments of clarity occur.
Speaker 2: Right, although, as you said, you keep putting them in
Speaker 2: front of them and hoping. This was a few years ago.
Speaker 2: It was like at the dawn of the explosion of
Speaker 2: junkie camps in California, and we're talking about how incredibly
Speaker 2: unproductive and counterproductive it is to enable addiction like the
Speaker 2: current so called compassionate policies do. And we got so
Speaker 2: many emails and texts from people who said, I only
Speaker 2: got straight when I went to jail. The worst thing
Speaker 2: you could have conceivably done for me is to make
Speaker 2: it as easy and comfortable as possible to stay a junkie.
Speaker 2: Hitting bottom saved my life. And we have, as a society,
Speaker 2: at least in Blue States, designed a set of policies
Speaker 2: where people are never allowed to hit bottom. It is
Speaker 2: incredibly cruel, and the fact that it masquerades his compassion
Speaker 2: makes it crueler. Still is Trump.
Speaker 1: Going to pardon the turkeys this year or has he
Speaker 1: already done it? Heard anything on that story. That's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things that happens every years because it's
Speaker 1: so stupid that president turkeys are guilty a sedition.
Speaker 2: He knows what to do with them.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got more on the way you stay here.
Speaker 4: Recent Jet Blue flight had to make an emergency landing
Speaker 4: after a passenger smoked weed in the bathroom and the
Speaker 4: crew inhaled it.
Speaker 2: It was pretty wild.
Speaker 4: Just listen to some of the captain's announcements throughout the flight.
Speaker 1: Can the flat at himans please come up here and
Speaker 1: bring thirty bags and blue chips?
Speaker 2: Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Or does that cloud look like a duck?
Speaker 2: Okay, this is your speaking, captain. I mean I'm expecting
Speaker 2: some turbu.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 1: Life is like that sometimes take the good with the bad,
Speaker 1: I must say, yeah, very it was interesting, right. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Fallon could certainly do pot jokes as man. He was
Speaker 1: quite the pot enthusiast when he was younger. I remember
Speaker 1: seeing him on Larry King way back in the day
Speaker 1: when when Jimmy Fallon was on Saturday Night Live and
Speaker 1: he was like twenty years old, but he was on
Speaker 1: with the cast of Saturday Night Live, and he was
Speaker 1: so freaking high today that would have blown up into
Speaker 1: like a meme or something like that. That was back
Speaker 1: before you know, you could grab stuff like that and
Speaker 1: talk about it. But he was so out of his mind.
Speaker 1: It was very funny. I was actually embarrassed for him
Speaker 1: because he's a very clever guy, and he came off
Speaker 1: as an idiot speaking of pot rappers. So I was
Speaker 1: just brought up my Apple Music yesterday. I was going
Speaker 1: to listen to some music and it had our Artist
Speaker 1: of the Year. So they announced the artist that the
Speaker 1: year for Apple Music, and they they you know, they
Speaker 1: lean young in terms of who they're trying to satisfy.
Speaker 1: I guess because their artist of the Year was Tyler
Speaker 1: the Creator, which might be the most listened to artists
Speaker 1: on Apple Music for all the young people that listen
Speaker 1: to their music that way. Tyler the Creator a rapper.
Speaker 1: But so I thought, well, okay, I'll listen to the
Speaker 1: big album with the kids. As we're driving to the restaurant,
Speaker 1: I put on the first song and it is filthy,
Speaker 1: I mean filthy, sexually filthy, and it's okay with that
Speaker 1: for my sophomore, not so okay with that with my
Speaker 1: eighth grader. So we turned that off and listen to
Speaker 1: something else. But I was thinking about that, and you know,
Speaker 1: I've been on this thing lately about cultural decay in
Speaker 1: America and all that sort of stuff. And I'm almost
Speaker 1: gonna sound like I'm arguing against myself here, because I
Speaker 1: kind of am. But is it really bad? I guess
Speaker 1: I'm trying to justify the fact that I let my
Speaker 1: high school listen to these sexually filthy songs. But they're
Speaker 1: just saying what was implied strongly, and they all knew
Speaker 1: what we meant. When we're in younger generations, like you've
Speaker 1: talked about songs from the fifties, when they talk about
Speaker 1: dancing they mean sex. Well, you know i'm gonna dance rock, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rock you all night long. It means I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have I'm gonna blank you all night long. And
Speaker 1: basically everybody knew that's what we meant, and you know,
Speaker 1: you're famous B B king blues songs and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. They just didn't say it out loud,
Speaker 1: but that's what we knew about then. Got a little
Speaker 1: more aggressive about it. Children didn't through the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: On her counter argument, through the eighties and nineties, it
Speaker 1: became even a little more explicit than that, we're talking
Speaker 1: about sex, give you every inch of my love, but
Speaker 1: still not as explicit. And now they just say it
Speaker 1: out loud. So I don't know if it's changed that much.
Speaker 2: It has, Like I said, it's because you could. That's
Speaker 2: just being restrained, gentlemanly decent to not be explicit in
Speaker 2: front of children and people who don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and then you know, he's sixteen, so I'm
Speaker 1: letting him listen to sex songs. But uh, you can't
Speaker 1: go any further. I'll tell you that I've listened to
Speaker 1: the latest stuff. There is no more ground ahead. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've reached the end of the road. It would be
Speaker 1: impossible to go any further than they go in your
Speaker 1: typical songs.
Speaker 2: Now simultaneously bad news and good news.
Speaker 1: Yea, we're at the end of the road. Let's see
Speaker 1: how it turns out.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Reading a tweet from the Great Charles Murray. The more
Speaker 1: video I saw of Charlie Kirk after his death. The
Speaker 1: better I liked him. The more video I see of
Speaker 1: Nick Fuentes, the more I wonder how anyone could like him. Smirky, infantile, vapid.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One reason I bring up Charles Murray is I just
Speaker 1: finished his book last night, Taking Religion Seriously, which I
Speaker 1: really really liked. So if you're he spent all his
Speaker 1: time as an academic atheist because he realized that's what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do when you get to fancy pants colleges,
Speaker 1: is not believing that crap, and he's changed his mind,
Speaker 1: and he wrote a book about it, and it's damned
Speaker 1: interesting and it's very short, so I recommend it if
Speaker 1: you're in that stage of your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. One of the problems with the new right,
Speaker 2: the online right, is that it's all really young dudes.
Speaker 2: And whether it's young dudes or young women or anybody,
Speaker 2: they certainly have plenty to contribute. But trust me, life
Speaker 2: experience matters. It really, really really.
Speaker 1: Can get something to contribute. How about you do it
Speaker 1: over there?
Speaker 2: It's it's difficult to convince young people of that. That's
Speaker 2: been true from you know, time memorial. I'm tempted to
Speaker 2: go into detail about how the Global Climate Change conference
Speaker 2: is getting rained out, or the part of the conference
Speaker 2: that had no air conditioning and two people fainted. It's
Speaker 2: either proof that they're right or proof that they're wrong.
Speaker 2: But the key sentence here, the key phrase was that
Speaker 2: it was breaking up the meetings where they were trying
Speaker 2: to decide how to spread out the billions and billions
Speaker 2: of dollars that governments have given them to quote unquote
Speaker 2: fight climate.
Speaker 1: Change, offset carbon footprints.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, that'll work. I'd also like it at some
Speaker 2: point to talk about the what are they calling the
Speaker 2: big scandal where the Special Council Jack Smith siphoned up
Speaker 2: everybody's phone records and it's just an astonishing overreach. Operation
Speaker 2: Arctic Frost was that in.
Speaker 1: I keep seeing that and I haven't looked into it.
Speaker 2: It's a gigantic scandal, but we just don't have time.
Speaker 2: We don't have the bandwidth these days. There's too much
Speaker 2: craziness going on. So I don't know, maybe another time,
Speaker 2: or maybe it'll just go away with impunity. A bunch
Speaker 2: of senators got to insert it into the recent Epstein bill,
Speaker 2: half a million dollars each that goes to them to
Speaker 2: find the government for doing that, but that comes out
Speaker 2: of taxpayers, and they just I curmb I don't have
Speaker 2: the time anyway. I want to get a little bit
Speaker 2: more into this. We talked about this earlier. Part of
Speaker 2: the reason we've allowed rampant illegal immigration is there's so
Speaker 2: many unfilled jobs in America. Yet another study has come out,
Speaker 2: this one by the Center for Immigration stuf udi's Steve Camerat,
Speaker 2: a friend of the Armstrung and Getty Show, and Karen Ziegler,
Speaker 2: who I'm sure pushing back against the notion that we
Speaker 2: have to import all these people illegally or legally because
Speaker 2: we need to fill these jobs. Going from nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: to today, the percentage of men of prime working age
Speaker 2: not in the labor force has gone from eleven percent
Speaker 2: to twenty two percent. It has doubled the number of
Speaker 2: all men who could be working who are not working.
Speaker 2: And that's many millions of people. Obviously. Among bachelor's degree
Speaker 2: or more education, it's gone from four percent to nine percent.
Speaker 2: Nine percent is not that much, but it's more than
Speaker 2: double what it was. And then among a no bachelor's degree.
Speaker 1: God, you get a bachelor's degree in college and you're
Speaker 1: you're not working at all, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Among men no bachelor's degree, that's gone from a very
Speaker 2: modest twelve percent to almost twenty eight percent. Now, is
Speaker 2: some of this the nature of the workplace maybe? I know,
Speaker 2: if you were like in favor of giant, bloated social programs,
Speaker 2: you'd say, well, these folks without a high school education,
Speaker 2: it's the information economy these days, and it's hard for them,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But no, No, the jobs that are
Speaker 2: going to illegals are not in you know, AI.
Speaker 1: Clean and hoxel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're cleaning hotels, they're janitorial, they're uh manufacturing construction.
Speaker 2: How it's not the next construction site I see where
Speaker 2: they're playing American music and not Mexican music. Call me
Speaker 2: anytime night or day and let me come by and
Speaker 2: check it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How you can simultaneously having have a you know,
Speaker 1: you go to any hotel or struner or workside or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's all people obviously from other countries doing the
Speaker 1: job because nobody speaking English. And have this many million
Speaker 1: US born men of working age who aren't working. I mean,
Speaker 1: if that ain't socialism, I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and they make the point that it ticks
Speaker 2: up a little bit and a little bit and a
Speaker 2: little bit, then in the last you know, twenty years
Speaker 2: or so, it goes way up. And they make the
Speaker 2: point in the study that uh, blah blah blah, if
Speaker 2: the same share of US born men were in the
Speaker 2: labor force this year is in nineteen sixty, there would
Speaker 2: be almost nine million more US born men in the
Speaker 2: labor force. Wow, US born men in the labor force.
Speaker 2: Even if we just go back to two thousand, the
Speaker 2: year two thousand, it would still add four point one
Speaker 2: million US born men to the labor force.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: It is, it's really is. And then surely you.
Speaker 1: Understand how this works. So obviously these people aren't starving
Speaker 1: to death, so they're on some sort of government program,
Speaker 1: in some cases living with their parents, but on some
Speaker 1: sort of government program to where they can live. Then
Speaker 1: you got people from other countries doing the jobs, which
Speaker 1: drives down wages because you don't need to pay them
Speaker 1: as much, especially when the borders were open, because there's
Speaker 1: another wave of people willing to work for even cheaper
Speaker 1: coming next year. That's why it's been for a long time.
Speaker 1: So it drives down wages. So they end up with
Speaker 1: the US born dude saying I'm not working for that
Speaker 1: amount of money because the wages are so low.
Speaker 2: And if you just narrow it down to prime time
Speaker 2: working age twenty five to fifty four, No, bachelor's degree
Speaker 2: has gone from four percent to fifteen percent. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, bachelor's degree or more has gone from two
Speaker 2: percent to five and a half percent. It's not a
Speaker 2: huge number, but again that's two and a half times
Speaker 2: as many and all education levels gone from four percent
Speaker 2: to a little over eleven percent. How does this happen?
Speaker 2: There's some camer Oda and Ziegler in their conclusion, and
Speaker 2: some of it.
Speaker 1: Is the shame thing that what's her name, Berne Brown? Anyway,
Speaker 1: she was one of the therapist people out there that
Speaker 1: wrote books about shame and that we should you should
Speaker 1: not shame anybody for blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: You should be ashamed of your book shame shame. Back
Speaker 2: in the day, we'll ring in the shame.
Speaker 1: Though, back in the day, you'd be ashamed to be unemployed,
Speaker 1: living on the dole out with your friends. You'd be
Speaker 1: ashamed no longer.
Speaker 2: So they conclude, well, they mentioned that the Trump administration
Speaker 2: in Congress can undertake a variety of fixes, including welfare reforms,
Speaker 2: combatting the opioid crisis.
Speaker 1: That's why I brought up shame. It's always some sort
Speaker 1: of policy as opposed to the culture. The culture of
Speaker 1: this has changed so much, well, right, and politics is
Speaker 1: downstream of culture.
Speaker 2: As they say, you can hang. Politics doesn't make the culture.
Speaker 2: The culture creates the politics mostly.
Speaker 1: And I'm not ninety years old. I'm old, but I'm
Speaker 1: not ninety years old. Wouldn't that long ago I was
Speaker 1: in college people that like lived with their parents still
Speaker 1: when I was twenty five, I didn't know anybody, no man,
Speaker 1: it would be crazy if you said you still lived
Speaker 1: with your parents. And now it's perfectly acceptable and there's
Speaker 1: no shame in it.
Speaker 2: It was all due respect to the skyrocketing housing prices,
Speaker 2: which is a factor, but it's not everything. So their conclusion,
Speaker 2: and this will be our conclusion, I think, is we
Speaker 2: have a choice as a country. We can either adopt
Speaker 2: policies designed to get more working age Americans currently on
Speaker 2: the economic sidelines into jobs, or we can ignore the
Speaker 2: pro and continue to bring in evermore immigrants and then
Speaker 2: try to manage all the pathologies associating with our higher
Speaker 2: rate of the working age, not in the labor force.
Speaker 2: You know. John Kennedy's ask not what your country can
Speaker 2: do for you, ask what you can do for your
Speaker 2: country was often cited as a wonderful thing to say.
Speaker 2: There's a bit of debate about that in libertarian circles,
Speaker 2: but I think the modern translation of that would be
Speaker 2: for politicians ask never for anybody to do anything for
Speaker 2: their country or themselves. Ask only what they can be
Speaker 2: given so they will vote for you.
Speaker 1: That's pretty accurate. I want to tell you, Boo, since
Speaker 1: we're going on vacation, I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving meal a little bit when we come back stay here.
Speaker 1: So obviously it's the getting together that's really the big part,
Speaker 1: more than the food. I mean, it'll be me and
Speaker 1: my boys and Grandma and Grandpa and both my brothers
Speaker 1: and maybe a cousin uh there. But as far as
Speaker 1: food goes, what do you look forward to the most?
Speaker 3: Michael mashed potatoes and gravy along with the turkey.
Speaker 2: M double answer their triple answer according.
Speaker 1: To some, although you have mashed potatoes and gravy other
Speaker 1: times during the year.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Thanksgiving that's about it.
Speaker 2: It's certainly rare at our place too. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 2: It's a totally legitimate question. I might go with my
Speaker 2: wife stuffing. But it's almost like, uh, you know in
Speaker 2: Jimmy Page's guitar solo for Stairway to Heaven, which notes
Speaker 2: do you like the best? The a's, the bees, the
Speaker 2: g sharps. It's a it's a concert. It's a symphony
Speaker 2: of taste and texture.
Speaker 1: This is Joe Getty overthinking the world's simplest question. Katiuh, well,
Speaker 1: since Joe's going stuff I really like the green bean
Speaker 1: cast role. Really, aren't you help?
Speaker 2: Really? I love it. That's at the caboose of my
Speaker 2: I'll eat.
Speaker 1: Some because somebody made it and I don't want to
Speaker 1: hurt their feelings.
Speaker 2: Oh wife stuff and has apple and sausage.
Speaker 1: Oh I think I've had it. Yes, that's pretty good, Hanson.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite stuffing? Yeah, yeah, I yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: Actually what Joe said, it's whatever that flavor is. And
Speaker 1: I only get it once a year, or actually five
Speaker 1: times a year, because I'll eat it Thanksgiving Day and
Speaker 1: then several days after. But uh, whatever that flavor is
Speaker 1: of stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, all kind of mixed together
Speaker 1: with some turkey. That flavor that you can't get anywhere else.
Speaker 1: That's the flavor I like.
Speaker 2: Then there's the leftover sandwich h featuring toast, turkey, stuffing, cranberry,
Speaker 2: and mayonnaise.
Speaker 1: Yes, now you are speaking my language, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I might have set myself up for disaster. I had
Speaker 1: a very good day on the scale this morning. We
Speaker 1: really should see who gains the most weight till we
Speaker 1: come back the next Monday.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could have disadvantaged yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I had a really good day on the scale.
Speaker 2: So well, that's all right. It's like what they call
Speaker 2: uh before I had some of my joint replacements worked
Speaker 2: out really hard, they called it prehab. That's what you've done.
Speaker 2: You've lost some weight to be in better shape, to
Speaker 2: gain some weight. Well, you don't want to gain on
Speaker 2: top of gain, right.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, it really was. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: scale today had a good number, and it's like really
Speaker 1: opened me up. We got a little driving here, a
Speaker 1: little traveling, a little leating on the road, a little
Speaker 1: being at an airport, little thanksgiving. Would you like to
Speaker 1: know the p pie. Little of that going on?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Nobody even mentioned pie, which is interesting.
Speaker 3: H yeah. Well do you like pumpkin or apple?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, correct, correct, all of it?
Speaker 2: What are your children? Is your favorite? Yes? Is the answer? Gime.
Speaker 2: We're having both of those, by the way, a couple
Speaker 2: of classic pies. Michael. Although I like Jack, am very
Speaker 2: open minded when it could pie diversity is our greatest strength.
Speaker 2: Are you a blueberry person? Cherry like a humble strawberry rhubarb?
Speaker 2: Your pie is my pie. We have big tent here.
Speaker 3: We do banana cream too.
Speaker 2: That's a pervert pie. Sorry, that's the one pie. Were
Speaker 2: you rooting for the Indians? What do you mean you
Speaker 2: get banana cream pie? Oh?
Speaker 3: We have half over.
Speaker 2: Took a nod turn. Wow, banana cream that's that is
Speaker 2: a that's a fringe pie, but a delicious one.
Speaker 1: What other weird things do you do?
Speaker 3: Good lord? We have cream spinach, cheesy potatoes.
Speaker 2: Oh, the cheesy potatoes are good. Cracked potato.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like if I'm in a
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving me dinner and somebody brings out of an ana
Speaker 1: cream pie, flip over the table and storm out. It's
Speaker 1: a really weird things reasonable?
Speaker 2: How about woman meringue long time, my favorite pie, that's
Speaker 2: a good pie.
Speaker 1: I will be in Salina, Kansas, at Russell's truck stop
Speaker 1: at some point over the next week, where Joe and
Speaker 1: I used to get together and eat lemon pie and
Speaker 1: work on the show Oh my God. And the slices were,
Speaker 1: you know, half an acre, and often that second slice
Speaker 1: would seem like a good ideas we're sipping round the memories.
Speaker 1: And I will post a picture, as I do every year.
Speaker 1: I think I got a street going to like fifteen
Speaker 1: years in a row of posting a picture of me
Speaker 1: lying on the floor after the Thanksgiving meal, which is
Speaker 1: not like an act. I have to lay down on
Speaker 1: the floor after I because it's the only place that's comfortable.
Speaker 1: Sitting is too uncomfortable, even like in relaxing in a couch.
Speaker 2: It's too much. I need to hear something. It needs
Speaker 2: to be studied at the university level. I would chunder
Speaker 2: before I got to that point.
Speaker 1: Well, you should try laying down on the floor. It
Speaker 1: helps you digest.
Speaker 2: I'm good, thank you, I'll remain upright. Oh you do
Speaker 2: you the being completely full?
Speaker 1: And then somebody says pie and then you can somehow
Speaker 1: manage to force down that piece of pie. Is just
Speaker 1: it's one of the wonders of being a human.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, the whole roles you got like warm
Speaker 2: homemade rosa exactly, soppinges with gravy. Is it all needed?
Speaker 1: I suppose we should throw in a little give thanks
Speaker 1: for this or that at some point in the little
Speaker 1: conversation whatever. Okay, I like doing that before the meal though,
Speaker 1: always do that. Oh yeah, and you know, always interested
Speaker 1: in what my kids were gonna say. Oh the kids.
Speaker 1: It reminds me. I'll think about this every year because
Speaker 1: the first time one of the kids was like old
Speaker 1: enough to even though it was a holiday. You know,
Speaker 1: when they're three, I don't even know what's going on,
Speaker 1: but they're old enough. You got to build up to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. People,
Speaker 1: you know, people are coming blah blah blah, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: all this talk about Thanksgiving, and then you get there
Speaker 1: and we eat the meal. I remember, I think it
Speaker 1: was everything, So is this it is?
Speaker 2: This? Is it's just a meal because.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the food at all as a kid,
Speaker 1: all right, So it's like all this talk and build
Speaker 1: a hot dog. It was about this. We're going to
Speaker 1: have a meal. This is there's no presence, we're not
Speaker 1: going anywhere, no rides the hell. But now they're old
Speaker 1: enough that they really look forward to the food. So
Speaker 1: that's cool.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice, and it's great. You're going to see family.
Speaker 2: Our family's coming here should be terrific. My dad's celebrating
Speaker 2: his eighty fifth birthday on Thanksgiving Day. Really, that's pretty
Speaker 2: part of the big family gathering. Yeah, everybody's coming in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a cool thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How often does his birthday land on Thanksgiving? Probably every
Speaker 1: now now.
Speaker 2: And you'd have to check your local astronomical chart. I
Speaker 2: guess I don't know a handful of times.
Speaker 1: Do you pull the wishbone apart make away?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's only one. Unfortunately, the science needs to
Speaker 2: get work breeding a freak turkey with lots of wishbone
Speaker 2: so everybody can enjoy themselves.
Speaker 1: Does anybody's phone?
Speaker 2: Is interesting? And often you got the big thick end
Speaker 2: and you think, op, lee, this is great, and then
Speaker 2: oh snap, you're a loser. That's what life is.
Speaker 1: I got one more comment on this. I'll put it
Speaker 1: in Final Thoughts. Here's your host for Final thoughts.
Speaker 2: The turkey's thinking, Yeah, I wish you wouldn't like kill
Speaker 2: me and dismember me a sweet grip. It's wishbone. Hey,
Speaker 2: let's get a final thought from ember being on the crew.
Speaker 2: Mike Langelo lead us off with I gotta be.
Speaker 3: Quick, but I gotta go out and buy my eating
Speaker 3: pants or just jogging pants. But I can get stains
Speaker 3: all over them and throw them away.
Speaker 2: There you go, put on your eating pirates.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea to stain yourself.
Speaker 2: Katie Green are a steam muswoman. As a final thought, Katie,
Speaker 2: you mentioned the warm roles.
Speaker 3: Make a little miniature Thanksgiving sandwich.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Thanksgiving slider? Yeah yes, Jack. Final thought I
Speaker 2: feel like is those who grow up in the Great
Speaker 2: Depression die off. There'll be fewer people like my dad
Speaker 2: eating the gizzards and the heart and.
Speaker 1: The stuff that you take in it. A little back, my
Speaker 1: dad boys eat thatself. Nobody else wants it.
Speaker 2: My vital thought will be my little wishbone joke. Plus,
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Speaker 1: In the next decade, the last person who ever wanted
Speaker 1: to eat the heart from the turkey will have died
Speaker 1: off and that will just go away as a thing.
Speaker 1: God bless America. I'm strong and kattake.
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