Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and no, he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3: You know, he has a mode that's engineering mode, where
Speaker 3: he can do things like figure out how to do
Speaker 3: a rocket landing up right and catch it with the arms.
Speaker 2: And he has a very getty mode and a silling mode.
Speaker 3: But he also has what one of his friends calls
Speaker 3: demon mode, which is when he gets really dark and
Speaker 3: he's really intense about something, there's no distracting him and
Speaker 3: he can leave a lot of rubble in his way.
Speaker 4: Now that's Walter Isisigson talking about Elon Musk. Walter Isikinson
Speaker 4: was the official biographer for Elon. He followed to Elon
Speaker 4: around for like six months or something, all day and night.
Speaker 4: And the bigerrapy is supposed to be great. I haven't
Speaker 4: read it, I mean to, but that probably fits in
Speaker 4: with a little bit of his Asperger's thing, where he
Speaker 4: can just lock in on something and really focus on
Speaker 4: it that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So. Elon Musk definitely one of the big personalities around
Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Another one of note would certainly be JD.
Speaker 1: Vance and Jack, you have been one of the few people,
Speaker 1: if not the only, one I've heard railing through the
Speaker 1: years about how poorly Republicans do defending a conservative governing
Speaker 1: philosophy when they go on the idiotic and hard to
Speaker 1: watch Sunday talk shows. Yeah, it's as if they feel like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be like unpopular or make anybody uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: so I'll just pretend like they're eighty percent right and
Speaker 1: maybe nip around the edges and then apologize for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true, profoundly annoying. Well, JD ain't that,
Speaker 1: and I have really enjoyed his aggressive spokesmanship for or
Speaker 1: Trump and conservative values. In the rest of it. I
Speaker 1: don't agree with him on everything. He's another guy that
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure what he believes it is core,
Speaker 1: but he's a wily operator and he's certainly on the rise. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he was on Face the Nation with the utterly insufferably smug,
Speaker 1: snotty lefty Margaret Brennan, and she, in her insufferable way,
Speaker 1: asked them several questions that I thought he parried with
Speaker 1: great skill.
Speaker 2: We'll start with the clip thirty four.
Speaker 5: Michael, you campaign on lowering prices for consumers. We've seen
Speaker 5: all of these executive orders, which one lowers prices.
Speaker 6: We have done a lot and there have been a
Speaker 6: number of executive orders that have caused already jobs to
Speaker 6: start coming back into our country, which is a core
Speaker 6: part of lowering prices. More capital investment, more job creation
Speaker 6: in our economy is one of the things that's going
Speaker 6: to drive down prices for all consumers, but also raised
Speaker 6: wages so that people can afford to buy the things
Speaker 6: that they need.
Speaker 2: If you look of.
Speaker 6: Executive orders, No, no, Margaret, prices are going to come down,
Speaker 6: but it's going to take a little bit of time.
Speaker 6: Right that the president has been president for all of
Speaker 6: five days, I think that in those five days he's
Speaker 6: accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years. It's
Speaker 6: been an incredible breakneck pace of activity.
Speaker 2: We're going to work with Congress.
Speaker 6: We're of course going to have more executive.
Speaker 2: Orders, so prices aren't going to come down.
Speaker 4: Margaret Brennan, who didn't understand what inflation even was during
Speaker 4: the entire inflationary period, all of a sudden now as
Speaker 4: that angle is an expert yet.
Speaker 1: He's had five days, so I haven't prices come down?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, these shows are so just shamelessly partisan,
Speaker 1: but everybody knows that, so I won't bother repeating it.
Speaker 2: But unbelievable.
Speaker 1: A Republican's on, it's one hundred percent adversarial, but Democrats
Speaker 1: on it's practically love making.
Speaker 2: I have to avert my eyes. It's embarrassing. Get a
Speaker 2: role you two. I love this though, he goes on
Speaker 2: next clip.
Speaker 6: One of the main drivers of increased prices under the
Speaker 6: Biden administration is that we had a massive increase in
Speaker 6: energy prices. Donald Trump has already taken multiple executive actions
Speaker 6: that are going to lower energy prices, and I do
Speaker 6: believe that means consumers are going to see lower prices
Speaker 6: at the pump and at the grocery store. But it's
Speaker 6: going to take a little bit of time. Rome wasn't
Speaker 6: built in a day, and while we've done a whole lot,
Speaker 6: we can't undo all of the damage of Joe Biden's presidency.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of things that contributed to higher
Speaker 5: energy prices, and there was record oil and gas production,
Speaker 5: bid many terrible.
Speaker 6: Things to lead to an increase in prices.
Speaker 1: I agree, Margaret, but still insisting that inflation can be
Speaker 1: turned round in a one week or less period.
Speaker 5: She plunged on, all the things you experienced at the
Speaker 5: grocery store are what people touch and field. This week
Speaker 5: you were talking about bacon on the campaign trail.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course those things.
Speaker 5: When do consumers actually get to touch and feel a difference.
Speaker 2: In their lives?
Speaker 6: Well, Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store.
Speaker 6: It come on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel.
Speaker 6: If a diesel is way too expensive, the bacon's going
Speaker 6: to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon?
Speaker 6: Our farmers need energy to produce it. So if we
Speaker 6: lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices
Speaker 6: for consumers.
Speaker 2: And that is what we're trying to fight for. There
Speaker 2: you go, he's better at that than Pence was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you took one week Vicon one oh one,
Speaker 1: all that makes perfect sense to you.
Speaker 4: But it's far beyond Margaret's ken. Different topics, same show,
Speaker 4: same people. They got into the immigration stuff, and there's
Speaker 4: one particular clip I wanted to get on, but this
Speaker 4: is how it started.
Speaker 6: We're going to enforce immigration law. We're going to protect
Speaker 6: the American people. Donald Trump promised to do that, and
Speaker 6: I believe the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that they're
Speaker 6: worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement. Let them
Speaker 6: talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because
Speaker 6: of the wide open border of Joe Biden, talk about
Speaker 6: people like Blac and Riley who are brutally murdered. Support
Speaker 6: US doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether they are
Speaker 6: legal immigrants or anybody else, in a way that keeps
Speaker 6: us safe.
Speaker 4: So the sex trafficking thing which has happened, of course,
Speaker 4: because that's part of what cartels do and all that,
Speaker 4: but that is also a big topic for a certain
Speaker 4: segment of.
Speaker 2: The right that believes there.
Speaker 4: Are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of kids being sex
Speaker 4: trafficked by the Democratic Party because they're all pedophiles. That's
Speaker 4: part of that whole qnon thing, which I don't have
Speaker 4: a sense of how big that is, but it's out there.
Speaker 4: But anyway, back to the real world, here's a little
Speaker 4: more on that topic.
Speaker 6: Let me ask this question Mark, let's separate the immigration issue.
Speaker 2: If you had a.
Speaker 6: Violent murder in a school, of course, I want law
Speaker 6: enforcement to go and get that person.
Speaker 2: Out of cour It's the point of the question.
Speaker 5: You change the regulation this week, That's the point of.
Speaker 2: The question exactly.
Speaker 5: Giving the authority to go into church exact to school
Speaker 5: the empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to
Speaker 5: protect Americans. Fact a chilling effect, arguably to people to
Speaker 5: send their.
Speaker 2: Pods to desperately effect.
Speaker 5: The US Conference of Catholics bishops are actively hiding criminals.
Speaker 6: I think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly
Speaker 6: not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement
Speaker 6: that the American.
Speaker 2: People voted for.
Speaker 6: And I hope again as a devout Catholic, that they'll
Speaker 6: do better.
Speaker 4: He is a devout Catholic, and I guarantee you there
Speaker 4: are Catholic churches where they're hiding illegals and some.
Speaker 2: Of them are criminals. Garrant freak indeed, yes, correct, Ah,
Speaker 2: we were talking about this earlier. For whatever reason.
Speaker 4: Year by year, little by little, we built this idea
Speaker 4: that illegal immigrants are something I don't know, that they're
Speaker 4: just untouchable as a group because the Dreamers, and you
Speaker 4: know the poem at the bottom of the Statue of
Speaker 4: Liberty and all.
Speaker 2: These dracs way better than all.
Speaker 4: Of immigrants, and got away from the idea that if
Speaker 4: you had somebody in the mafia and you knew they
Speaker 4: were going to show up to a funeral of another
Speaker 4: mafia member, you'd show up with the freaking funeral and
Speaker 4: arrest them. But with the little immigrants, we decided we
Speaker 4: wouldn't do that for some reason. And Margaret Brennan, but
Speaker 4: the chilling it'll effect, it'll have on nut sending your
Speaker 4: kids to school.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you did nothing wrong, don't worry about it,
Speaker 2: send your kids to school. I wouldn't be killing her.
Speaker 1: We're just getting the criminals, just the criminals. I need
Speaker 1: to come up with this. Maybe y'all can help me
Speaker 1: with this. There's a term, there's and just the you know,
Speaker 1: a great term is always good because it's easier to
Speaker 1: sell an idea. But the idea is these people, be
Speaker 1: they Margaret Brennan or somebody in the media, they act
Speaker 1: like you coming in with the mop and the broom
Speaker 1: and cleaning up the terrible mess they made, that you're
Speaker 1: the bad guy. Call them antijenitorialists or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You understand what I'm.
Speaker 1: Talking about, Yeah, they create a horrifying mess. They put
Speaker 1: porn on school shelves, hardcore porn, and then you say, gosh,
Speaker 1: we got to get this porn out of here. And
Speaker 1: they say, you're a censor, you're hurting free speech, you're
Speaker 1: a buck burner because you're cleaning up the mess they made.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a way to convey that to
Speaker 1: people simply, and how how I'm tired of it.
Speaker 4: It's a damn good tactic from the left because it
Speaker 4: has worked pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, we've let in millions of illegal immigrants, including many
Speaker 1: who are very dangerous. They're known criminals. They did crimes
Speaker 1: in their country. They came here, they did more crimes.
Speaker 1: They're creating more and more victims. They're awful, awful human beings,
Speaker 1: but you doing anything to get rid of them is
Speaker 1: too ugly.
Speaker 2: We won't have it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish you would have just turned it on,
Speaker 4: or like, what, what's your reasoning for making schools and
Speaker 4: funerals off limits to arresting criminals? Of course she would
Speaker 4: say the chilling effected. But what you're talking about a
Speaker 4: chilling effect on people who are criminals.
Speaker 2: That's I don't know.
Speaker 4: I can't control the way they react, but they're not
Speaker 4: at fault and they don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: Chill the criminals all you want. I'm pro chill. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's get our chill on.
Speaker 4: And besides the fact that I wish, I wish, polls
Speaker 4: are always used by the left when they're in their favor,
Speaker 4: throw that New York Times poll letter. Hey, Margaret, eighty
Speaker 4: five percent of Americans want us to boot out illegals
Speaker 4: who have a criminal record. Eighty five percent. If you
Speaker 4: want to speak for the fifteen percent and present their side,
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 1: But you're doing that. But I'm on pretty solid ground here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And she's trying to in. The left is the far left,
Speaker 1: and nutty left is trying to portray it that Ice
Speaker 1: is gonna shoot their way into a second grade classroom
Speaker 1: to apprehend somebody.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Venezuel and gang member drops his kid off school and
Speaker 1: then heads on out. That's when they're gonna snatch them up. Anyway.
Speaker 1: So back to a question you post. It may have beenrhetorical,
Speaker 1: but I take everything literally. The more wacky dutally among us.
Speaker 1: How many people are there you know, some fairly simple
Speaker 1: mathematics would tell you that a tenth of a percent
Speaker 1: of the people of the United States is three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty thousand people, and if every single one of
Speaker 1: them is online tweeting constantly about some issue, you would
Speaker 1: get the idea that it's just everybody thinks it and
Speaker 1: it's of enormous importance. But that's the problem with the Internet.
Speaker 1: I think it gives you an outsized view of how
Speaker 1: many people believe something in a way that if you're
Speaker 1: just experiencing it in your own life, you'd never get
Speaker 1: that sense.
Speaker 4: There's bluing on and QAnon. They're both out there and
Speaker 4: they have outsized voices in social media. Yes, I wish
Speaker 4: we would all recognize that, but maybe we can't.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I hope we will. I hope we'll
Speaker 1: learn to deal with it and or just come join
Speaker 1: my Joe get back to nature camp where we get
Speaker 1: rid of our technology and smartphones and cavort in the woods.
Speaker 1: I mean, the cavorting is optional. It's not mandatory to
Speaker 1: cavort the fine covort.
Speaker 2: I don't gotta. I think it'd be to play happily.
Speaker 4: Woody Allen says in his fantastic memoir. I've never frolicked
Speaker 4: in a meadow, and I have no desire to. You know,
Speaker 4: frolicking is cavorting plus, but they're similar. I mean, one
Speaker 4: man's frolic is another's cavort. Who might have judged, Okay,
Speaker 4: we got more in the way. You stay here.
Speaker 7: The powerful winter storms striking southern California worries any heavy
Speaker 7: rain and burn scar areas could trigger mud slides. Crews
Speaker 7: deploying concrete barriers to protect homes. Making neighborhoods safe a
Speaker 7: painstaking process, including removing hazardous waste and dangers posed by
Speaker 7: damaged utility infrastructure.
Speaker 4: Hmm. Some of those dangers are why they tell you
Speaker 4: you can't go back to your house. I guess, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, absolutely. That's always cautious about that. That's always
Speaker 4: a tough one for me. The I mean, nothing is
Speaker 4: more individual freedom than me being able to go to
Speaker 4: my freaking house, right us A. That's a tough one,
Speaker 4: and the government steps in between those two things.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: Among the topics that came up between Donald Trump and
Speaker 4: Mayor Bass on Friday when he was in California, I
Speaker 4: haven't heard this yet, but I guess it's pretty jazzy.
Speaker 3: But the people are willing to clean out their own debris.
Speaker 3: They you should let them do it because another time
Speaker 3: you hire contractors, it's going to be two years.
Speaker 4: If a family.
Speaker 3: People are willing to get a dumpster and do it
Speaker 3: themselves and clean it out, and they can have not
Speaker 3: that much left. It's all incinerated, that's right, and you
Speaker 3: know it's just going to take a long time.
Speaker 2: If you do, you can do some of it. But
Speaker 2: a lot of these people. I know that guy right
Speaker 2: there that's talking. I know my people.
Speaker 3: You'll be in that thing tonight throwing the stuff away,
Speaker 3: and your site will be it'll look perfect within twenty
Speaker 3: four hours.
Speaker 2: And that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till
Speaker 3: the city hires some demolition contract.
Speaker 2: That's it's going to charge him twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: To do his lot.
Speaker 2: I think you have to.
Speaker 3: You have emergency powers, just like I do, and I'm
Speaker 3: exercising my emergency powers.
Speaker 2: You have to exercise them also.
Speaker 3: I did exercise them because I look, I mean, you
Speaker 3: have a very powerful emergency power and you can do
Speaker 3: everything within twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: Yes, that is so awesome. You never hear politicians talk
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: That is fantastic, only Karen Bass claiming people can clean
Speaker 1: up their own property.
Speaker 2: It's fine. Yeah, well, I'm sure, no problem. That's also
Speaker 2: I'll bet that was a glimpse into way back in
Speaker 2: the day eighties Trump being at some meeting where they're
Speaker 2: trying to build something somewhere in New York when he
Speaker 2: was just a developer. But that was a good glimpse
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: And somebody's trying to give him the old Jimmy Jack,
Speaker 1: the old Heidi Ho trying to you know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's fast talking, and he's like, no, no, I want
Speaker 1: to see it happen.
Speaker 2: It needs to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, here's a resident of Pacific Palisades responding to
Speaker 1: the people can go back to their home site and
Speaker 1: clean it up.
Speaker 4: I haven't been able to get to the house since
Speaker 4: January seventh.
Speaker 2: Fis January twenty fifth. President Trump said that we could go.
Speaker 4: Now, what's going on, I'm not too sure.
Speaker 2: So unfortunately with us we play that year with LAPD.
Speaker 4: They kind of talked to our command in our command's house,
Speaker 4: is what LAPD says. So LAPD is saying I can't
Speaker 4: go to my house.
Speaker 2: Without a police escort. Yeah, you could get to your house,
Speaker 2: but you can need a police house by stuff. And
Speaker 2: how long does that take? I'm not too sure. So
Speaker 2: there's a lot of folks running against the US right now,
Speaker 2: so it could even be like a hour or two
Speaker 2: trying to get to the US. But why can't I
Speaker 2: just drive up there? Because it's a hard letter. Like
Speaker 2: I said, there's only escorts going that care. It's not
Speaker 2: that I'm preventing you from going to.
Speaker 6: I know you literally are preventing you from going mouse.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you you can go get a police escort
Speaker 2: to get to your office. I'm not telling you can't. Okay,
Speaker 2: where do I go the police escort store?
Speaker 4: That's cutting pretty thin. No, no, No, you're free to
Speaker 4: go to your house. You just need to police escort.
Speaker 4: And then how do I get that? You go over
Speaker 4: there and you gotta can in line, and yeah you can't.
Speaker 4: They're gonna tell you no, give you the old Jimmy Jack.
Speaker 2: That's what they did, all right. I hate that.
Speaker 4: I hope I never in that situation. Could I would
Speaker 4: lose my ass. That's my freaking house. I have to
Speaker 4: pay ten property taxes on this thing.
Speaker 2: It's all my stuff. Let me go.
Speaker 1: I'm a grown ass man. I can properly appraise whether
Speaker 1: it's safe or not. I'm pretty good at it. You'll
Speaker 1: notice I'm still alive. So yeah, but you know, the
Speaker 1: individual cops are in a bad position.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sure, No, no, no, no, that individual guy,
Speaker 4: he's got no choice. He'd lose his job if he
Speaker 4: doesn't do what he's told. So no, I get the
Speaker 4: mayor claiming, of course she's claiming that.
Speaker 1: Oh god, dang it, lion liar go back to visit
Speaker 1: to Cuban Castro again.
Speaker 8: Karen Armstrong and Geeddy hurts.
Speaker 2: I'veer settling the first down. He pitches it out to Parkley,
Speaker 2: takes off to the outside. He's at the fifty, he's
Speaker 2: at the forty, he's at the thirty.
Speaker 1: He's gonna down fifty ten fuck touch down sequent Parkley
Speaker 1: sixty yards.
Speaker 2: But was opening touched. He touched it, and he took
Speaker 2: it to the house. It's as simple.
Speaker 4: As that, as the Eagles call. Obviously, the Philadelphia Eagle
Speaker 4: is going to be in the Super Bowl against the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs in two weeks.
Speaker 2: In Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 4: Nine, and uh, one of my somebody I'm friends with
Speaker 4: who actually works in the NFL said, it seems like
Speaker 4: the Chiefs like weren't really paying attention until the playoffs started,
Speaker 4: which might be true.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think anybody who's ever observed your dynasty
Speaker 1: teams knows it gets it gets tougher and tougher to
Speaker 1: focus in the games that don't matter that much.
Speaker 4: Right, and get yourself worked up to that fever pitch
Speaker 4: you have to be in professional athletes to like really
Speaker 4: compete anyway, that could be a pretty exciting game. I'm
Speaker 4: excited because Tom Brady is announcing the Super Bowl. He's
Speaker 4: the color commentator for the Super Bowl. I heard him
Speaker 4: for the first time last week. I had, you know,
Speaker 4: he signed this one hundred million dollar contract or whatever
Speaker 4: it was for Fox, and then I heard a lot
Speaker 4: of negative comments about him early on. And I heard
Speaker 4: him the first time last week. I thought he was great.
Speaker 4: As a casual fan. He told me all kinds of
Speaker 4: things that I didn't know and wouldn't know unless he
Speaker 4: was letting me know.
Speaker 2: So I enjoyed it a lot. And then I said,
Speaker 2: I don't love him, don't hate him. You don't like him.
Speaker 2: You don't know, I thought, I really enjoyed it. I
Speaker 2: didn't even know who it was.
Speaker 4: I was listened to the whole thing and just kept thinking, Oh,
Speaker 4: that's really interesting, that's really And then I figured out
Speaker 4: it was Don Brady.
Speaker 2: I thought, oh cool.
Speaker 1: I also understand that that job, as other jobs that
Speaker 1: are in the same industry, are harder than they look.
Speaker 1: And I think he'll grow into it. I just I
Speaker 1: can't work up like hating somebody because I don't love
Speaker 1: their color commentaries.
Speaker 2: Just he's okay.
Speaker 4: One thing he does, though, that I'd never heard an
Speaker 4: announcer do, and I didn't think this was particularly good.
Speaker 4: Is he just he's so cruel to the people when
Speaker 4: they make mistakes. Oh, And I thought, I don't know
Speaker 4: that you need to do that. Everybody's not you, dude.
Speaker 4: And what it reminded me of is when Michael Jordan
Speaker 4: left basketball to go play baseball and he didn't really
Speaker 4: succeed at it. Then he came back to basketball and
Speaker 4: they asked some of the players on the team, is
Speaker 4: he any different since he came back, And some of
Speaker 4: the players, I think, even Steve Kurruz, the coach for
Speaker 4: the Warriors now said yeah, he's a little more forgiving now.
Speaker 4: He used to think like if if somebody made a mistake,
Speaker 4: it's because they weren't trying hard. And now he realized
Speaker 4: you can be trying really, really hard sometimes and not succeed, right,
Speaker 4: it's not effort. And I think Tom Brady's that way
Speaker 4: because I heard him make a couple of comments about players,
Speaker 4: and it's like, dude.
Speaker 2: Everybody's not you.
Speaker 4: Everybody doesn't see everything all the time before it happens.
Speaker 4: You're won in a gazillion even other pro athletes might
Speaker 4: miss something now and then take it easy, Michael.
Speaker 1: You know what we're listening to right now, don't you
Speaker 1: the sound of a loser?
Speaker 2: That's right, a loser.
Speaker 1: If you want to build a merciless football machine that
Speaker 1: snaps up Super Bowl trophies like average teams snaps up wins,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be merciless.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, to be the player, but not the announcer.
Speaker 4: I think so, like this cornerback missed something like that,
Speaker 4: and Tom Brady on the replace said, dude, you had
Speaker 4: one job, and I thought, that's not what Troy Aikman
Speaker 4: would have said. Trouckman, who said he missed on that play.
Speaker 4: He didn't see him, he didn't he was looked the
Speaker 4: other way or something like that. Yeah, not like how
Speaker 4: could you possibly screw that up?
Speaker 2: Which is hurtful anyway. Yeah, I find it entertaining. You
Speaker 2: do you like it? Yeah? A little bit. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I just like to hear standards.
Speaker 1: In Jack Armstrong's America, every game would end one hundred
Speaker 1: to one hundred or zero to zero, just just soft, softest.
Speaker 2: He did that.
Speaker 4: Brady did that with some of the calls Detroit coaches made,
Speaker 4: like how do you not call a time out there?
Speaker 4: What are you thinking?
Speaker 8: It?
Speaker 2: Just oop?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's probably the best ever. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: has high standards. Yeah. So on a completely unrelated note,
Speaker 1: got this from alert listener PJ and I just sent
Speaker 1: it hands and so we can post it at Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Geeddy dot com. It's one of the strangest and
Speaker 1: most disturbing things I've seen, certainly in the last little bit.
Speaker 1: It is Harry Potter, The Harry Potter Movies recast as
Speaker 1: a North Korean propaganda music video, The Harry Potter Stories
Speaker 1: recast as a North Korean propaganda music video.
Speaker 2: Again, that tired job.
Speaker 1: I know why, who thinks of these things? Why who
Speaker 1: bothers to do them? But it is a measure of
Speaker 1: how wonderfully disturbingly strange technology is getting. And all the
Speaker 1: characters kind of look like the characters, but if they
Speaker 1: were North Koreans and full of bizarro Kim Jong Uni
Speaker 1: patriotic fervor. It's so freaking strange. And it'll be under
Speaker 1: hotlinks at Armstrong and giddy dot com.
Speaker 2: Check that out.
Speaker 1: The other thing I wanted to talk about, and this
Speaker 1: is somewhat surprising that NPR would be writing about this,
Speaker 1: although they probably have some angle that I just haven't
Speaker 1: discovered yet. But in the past three decades, the number
Speaker 1: of Americans who are on disability has skyroted.
Speaker 4: Is that whole thing is so out of control, the
Speaker 4: world of disability. It's just completely out of control.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, we need to trot
Speaker 1: out this topic, maybe get some emails and some texts,
Speaker 1: and then bring it up in full tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bop.
Speaker 1: The rise is come even as medical advances have allowed
Speaker 1: many more people to remain on the job and new
Speaker 1: laws have banned workplace discriminations against the disabled. Every month,
Speaker 1: fourteen million people now get a disability check from the
Speaker 1: government fourteen million. Federal government spends more money each year
Speaker 1: on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends
Speaker 1: on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet relying on disability
Speaker 1: payments and people who do are often overlooked and discussions
Speaker 1: of the social safety net.
Speaker 2: And often, because I know this is true, often at
Speaker 2: your back in your neck, which is something they can't
Speaker 2: really tell you.
Speaker 4: Your back and neck don't hurt. If you say you're
Speaker 4: back and neck new hurt right, Nobody, no doctor can
Speaker 4: say near back doesn't hurt that bad. If you say
Speaker 4: it really really hurts, it really really hurts, and you're
Speaker 4: on disability.
Speaker 1: As I've recently discovered in my journey through back problems
Speaker 1: and treatment, Yeah, there's a lot of gray area, tremendous
Speaker 1: gray area. As one well respected back doctor said to me,
Speaker 1: I have patients whose spines are a mess and they're
Speaker 1: mildly uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: And I have patients too.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look that bad on the X rays, on
Speaker 1: the catscans whatever, and they can barely walk.
Speaker 2: There are also patient mystery.
Speaker 4: As I work the cruel side of the street, the
Speaker 4: uncool side of the street, there are also patients who
Speaker 4: don't really have any pain, but they're claiming their back
Speaker 4: hurts so they can get a disability.
Speaker 2: Check and then they're right going to go scheme.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, because people who get disability checks or technically not
Speaker 1: part of labor force, they're not counted among the unemployed,
Speaker 1: so they don't show up when you're looking at how
Speaker 1: the economy is doing. And again, interestingly, as in pr
Speaker 1: of all places puts it, the story is not only
Speaker 1: of an aging workforce but also of a hidden, increasingly
Speaker 1: expensive safety net. Uh yeah, yeah, so you know, I
Speaker 1: will dig into this more thoroughly and we can follow
Speaker 1: up on it. But yeah, what's your experience? What do
Speaker 1: you as an employer? As an employee is someone to
Speaker 1: who's got a disabling injury?
Speaker 2: Whatever's what's the reality mail.
Speaker 1: Bag at armstrong in getty dot com if you want
Speaker 1: to drop us an email.
Speaker 4: My dad was big on this when he first retired,
Speaker 4: and they were in kind of a community where most
Speaker 4: of the people owned the homes around there just were
Speaker 4: retired and so many of them were disabled on disability
Speaker 4: is how they retired, and from him's observation, they seemed
Speaker 4: to be living life like everybody else, I mean perfectly fine,
Speaker 4: mowing the lawn, going on hikes, riding bikes, whatever else.
Speaker 4: Which you know, how disabled should you be to get
Speaker 4: a government check?
Speaker 2: I guess it's a question. Well, yeah, you can't work
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: At all, And they introduce you to a twenty three
Speaker 1: year old guy who flipped his jeep ah several ways,
Speaker 1: then flew one hundred and sixty five feet from it,
Speaker 1: going through twelve to fourteen thousand volts of electrical lines,
Speaker 1: then landing in a briar patch. He says, I broke
Speaker 1: all five of my right toes, my right hips, seven
Speaker 1: of my vertebrae, shattering one, breaking a right rib, puncturing
Speaker 1: my lung, and then I cracked my neck.
Speaker 2: Other stories seemed less clear, and he.
Speaker 1: Was talking to people in Hale County, Alabama, who are
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, my back hurts when I try to work,
Speaker 1: so it don't work anymore. But no specific you know,
Speaker 1: injury or whatever.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: People don't seem to be faking this pain, but it
Speaker 1: gets confusing. I have back pain. My editor has a
Speaker 1: herniated disk, and he works harder than anyone I know.
Speaker 1: There must be millions of people with asthmen diabetes, who
Speaker 1: go to work every day. Who gets to decide whether, say,
Speaker 1: back pain makes someone disabled.
Speaker 4: I don't know many dudes who don't have back pain,
Speaker 4: who aren't doing some sort of stretching regimen or taking
Speaker 4: some sort of drug or handsome. You might practically everybody
Speaker 4: I know who's over forty Yeah, So how much you
Speaker 4: want to emphasize that or if you really want to
Speaker 4: get out of working, I don't know how hard it
Speaker 4: would be to get on disability.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 1: Stretch, friends, stretch, stretch as much as you can stand.
Speaker 2: It is the key.
Speaker 1: Share of newly disabled workers by diagnosis. In nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 1: back pain and other muscular little skeletal problems was eight
Speaker 1: percent of disabled workers new disabled workers.
Speaker 2: Now it's thirty four percent.
Speaker 4: Part of it is cultural too, and I don't want
Speaker 4: to be super hard ass, but there was a time
Speaker 4: when as a guy, you wouldn't want to admit pain.
Speaker 2: Now it's kind of a badge of honor.
Speaker 4: It's like a lot of things where you wouldn't want
Speaker 4: to admit your depressed, wouldn't want admit your anxious, wouldn't
Speaker 4: want to admit you know, maybe we were too far
Speaker 4: in the other direction at one point, I don't know, boy,
Speaker 4: we aren't now you like to be. I'm overwhelmed by.
Speaker 1: This person, right right, Mental illness, developmental disability, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Nine and a half percent back in the day. Now
Speaker 1: it's nineteen percent, and heart disease, stroke, etc. As shrunk
Speaker 1: from twenty six percent to about eleven percent.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's on the other hand, though, I'll make the other
Speaker 4: side of the argument. Specifically around kids, I've noticed, and
Speaker 4: I've noticed this for a long time, and I has
Speaker 4: noticed this specific yesterday as we're runing to mans. My
Speaker 4: kids have levels of anxiety that were unthinkable for me
Speaker 4: and my brothers. The things that they worry about just
Speaker 4: I never did. I just never worried about it, and
Speaker 4: they worry about it. And I don't know, like if
Speaker 4: it's something I passed on to them environmentally by good
Speaker 4: living in my house, or if it's the food they
Speaker 4: eat or cell.
Speaker 2: Phone towers, you know, the same questions we always have
Speaker 2: around there.
Speaker 4: But it's clearly they have anxiety about things that I
Speaker 4: just never did.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking a lot about that yesterday. Where
Speaker 2: does that come from? And it's such an enormous phenomenon.
Speaker 1: You'd think we'd have more serious inquiries into it going on.
Speaker 1: It's tough because your memory gets you know, shifted and
Speaker 1: clouded and all as you age. We've talked about that
Speaker 1: many times and it's fascinating and troubling. But let's have
Speaker 1: a round table of gen xers about childhood and what
Speaker 1: they worried about and what they didn't worry about, and
Speaker 1: friends and activities, and then have you know, the youngsters
Speaker 1: of today do it.
Speaker 2: Let's compare and contrast and have our greatest minds trying
Speaker 2: to figure this out.
Speaker 1: We've made our kids nuts, including you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of my kids in particular, struggle with a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff. And they were very, very free rangey kids
Speaker 1: by modern standards, because I'm always talking about how being
Speaker 1: a free range kid is incredibly important to building resilience
Speaker 1: and confidence and problem solving and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: My kids were, but they struggled with a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff too.
Speaker 2: And I'm.
Speaker 1: I microplastic very very good. If we could figure it out,
Speaker 1: it might be microplastics, sure could be.
Speaker 4: We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 8: President Trump was sworn back into office on Monday, but
Speaker 8: he appeared to not place his hand on the Bible. Well,
Speaker 8: he tried to, but the Bible screamed. The bible Trump
Speaker 8: used was the same one him. Lincoln used that his inauguration,
Speaker 8: And man, I wish those two could talk to each other.
Speaker 2: Lincoln could teach.
Speaker 8: Trump a lot about the importance of preserving our union,
Speaker 8: and Trump could teach Lincoln how to turn your head
Speaker 8: at the exact right moment.
Speaker 2: That is an edge of joke. I'll admit that's a
Speaker 2: dark joke. Too soon, I'm looking up at Fox growing
Speaker 2: calls to add Trump's face to Mount Rushmore. Come on, I'm.
Speaker 4: Glad Trump won, even more glad a week into it.
Speaker 4: But that's just a dumb conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that could go side by side with the story
Speaker 1: impeach Trump movement is back in raising money right.
Speaker 2: Right, right right.
Speaker 4: So I think this week they're going to get around
Speaker 4: to RFK Junior and his nomination for Health and Human
Speaker 4: Services or whatever he's up for. Some things you might
Speaker 4: not know about RFK Junior. For instance, he did an
Speaker 4: interview with Michael Steele, former Republican Committee Chairman. I think
Speaker 4: this was on MSNBC the r NC. Yeah, when RFK
Speaker 4: said he was asked about abortion and limits on abortion,
Speaker 4: RFK said, I believe we should leave it to the woman.
Speaker 4: We shouldn't have the government involved. Steele said, even if
Speaker 4: it's full term. RFK said, even if it's full term, okay,
Speaker 4: that's quite a stance.
Speaker 2: That's infanticide, okay.
Speaker 4: He tweeted out Parkland students are right, the NRA is
Speaker 4: a terror group. That's an RFK Junior tweet still on
Speaker 4: his site. Do you you okay with that? If you're
Speaker 4: a Trump support and right leaning gun ontoker, you probably
Speaker 4: are in a on our n RA a fan call
Speaker 4: him a terror group. RFK Junior once said farmers were
Speaker 4: worse than Ben and Laden, and that was just months
Speaker 4: after nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: What was his point there?
Speaker 4: The damage they do to UH, to society and killing
Speaker 4: people with the food. More people are killed by farmers,
Speaker 4: farmers and our food.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to say, like the big
Speaker 1: food manufacturers, maybe, but the farmers.
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal with the peace out about that? How
Speaker 4: to rationalize a nominee who rejects basic science, who labels
Speaker 4: US farmers a greater threat than al Qaeda, who wants
Speaker 4: to punish climate deniers through government action, loves big government
Speaker 4: and believes abortion should be okay up until full term.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a hard thing to get through,
Speaker 4: I think with the Republicans.
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 9: Down strong, Down strong. Ready.
Speaker 2: I love that one. Here's your host for final thoughts
Speaker 2: to Joe Geddy. It's perfect.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 1: crew to wrap things up.
Speaker 2: There he is back in his post, Michael Angelo. Michael
Speaker 2: final thought.
Speaker 10: So I to make it clear, I was gone because
Speaker 10: it was cataract surgery. My eyes are I'm getting a
Speaker 10: lot of texts about people accusing me of having certain
Speaker 10: enlargements or weird operations and just knock it off.
Speaker 4: You're gonna explain some of that during the One More
Speaker 4: Thing podcast, are you not?
Speaker 2: I am? Yeah? Cool, And he's not Michelle Angelo.
Speaker 1: In spite of the rumors I may have started Katie
Speaker 1: Greener esteemed news person as a final thought for us.
Speaker 11: Katie, the fact that they want to think that the
Speaker 11: farmers are making us fat and killing us is hilarious
Speaker 11: to me because unfortunately my algorithm online has been showing
Speaker 11: me feeders lately.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know what these are.
Speaker 11: There are women that are gorging themselves with fast food
Speaker 11: or likes.
Speaker 2: That's called a feeder. H what I'll elaborate later. What
Speaker 2: are I to get turned on by good old fashioned secks? Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's let's get into that during the One More Thing podcast.
Speaker 4: Also JACKI thought, yeah, speaking of that, why are we overweight?
Speaker 2: I was at a breakfast place yesterday.
Speaker 4: Their big advertisement on the chalkboard outside pumpkin pancakes topped
Speaker 4: with torch to marshmallows and pumpkin syrup to your coffee.
Speaker 2: That's plenty of pumpkin in my morning. Yikes.
Speaker 1: My final thought is, you know, I don't really have
Speaker 1: time to explain it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: If your doesn't matter for putting pumpkin syrup in your coffee,
Speaker 2: Armstrong gettum plate up pancakes with syrup all over, you
Speaker 2: eat more in your coffee.
Speaker 4: Jumbo, Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people think so little all the time. Go
Speaker 1: to Armstrong e Giddy dot com man some of the
Speaker 1: hot links. You gotta go watch that Harry Potty Harry
Speaker 1: Potter North Korean video thing.
Speaker 2: It's just it's bizarre.
Speaker 4: You don't need more Jumbo, see you tomorrow, God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty. I can imagine what can be
Speaker 2: and be unburdened by what has been. You've got to
Speaker 2: be kidding me. Yeah, it's absolutely Oh okay, it's one
Speaker 2: hundred on the crazy meter.
Speaker 8: Away.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call my lawyer. Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 4: I haven't said a word, so stop yelling at me.
Speaker 2: You can't handle for disc I can't handle the volume.
Speaker 2: This is no time for mamby pambyasm. You're at one
Speaker 2: birthponent that I know. They are very armstrong and getty