1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Getty. 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and He. 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yetty. Hey are you thanks tun In'm glad 5 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 1: you're here. Happy Friday friends. Coming up later in the show, 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: looking forward to a discussion of the idea of abundance, 7 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: meaning here in the US we have all sorts of 8 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: wonderful imports choose from, and therefore the average working person 9 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: has an incredibly high standard of living and we're living 10 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: pretty high on the hog, you know, as human beings go. 11 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: But yeah, we've offshored a lot of our manufacturing and 12 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: that leaves us vulnerable to certain things. Where's the balance point? 13 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: And are we happy with the idea of as Trump 14 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: said the other day, Look, you're not gonna have thirty 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: dollars on the shelves. 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 3: You'll have a couple. 17 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: It might be a few bucks more expensive, but we'll 18 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: have more good manufacturing jobs in the country. You know, 19 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: what's the Where's the proper balance point? So stay tuned 20 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: for that if you can. If not, grab it by 21 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand, subscribe wherever you get podcasts. 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: But first, it's a gender bending madness update. 23 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 3: So I kept hearing about this thing called. 24 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: By the loco We're a brave world. We have a 25 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: number of headlines to share with you today, working up 26 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: to what I think is the most important story. But 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: predictively and horrifyingly, California Democrats have killed a state senator's 28 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: bill that would secure women's prisons from predatory trans women 29 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: also known as men. Some of the stories, there's just unbelievable. 30 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 3: There is. 31 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: Rampant rape of women in women's prisons, not by guards 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: or wardens or anything, but by these so called transgender people, 33 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: to the point that the guards in some of these 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: women's prisons are making condoms available and handing them out 35 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: to the women inmates, saying, hey, you might need this. 36 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: If somebody forces themselves upon you, maybe you can get 37 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 1: them to put it on. And yet, because the radical 38 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: transgender movement is so powerful in cal Unicornia, they can't 39 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: even get a law passed that says, if you're a transgender, 40 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: you're a dude, but you're claiming to be a woman. 41 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: All right, you're in the woman's prison, but you got 42 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: to be over here a specific place that doesn't interact 43 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: with the women. That bill got crushed crushed by the 44 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: Democrats and the legislation. It's unbelievable. In case, it's not obvious, 45 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: even if you're not a would be rapist, the women's 46 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: prisons are less secure and less dangerous, and so guys 47 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: would just rather be there, so they declare, Hey, I'm 48 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: a girl, and the idiot state of California. 49 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 3: That lets them in there. 50 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: Another headline for you, A number of big time sponsors 51 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: are rethinking their Pride marketing MasterCard not renewing its corporate 52 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: sponsorship for the New York City Pride March, the city's 53 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: annual march for LGBTQ plus rights for twenty twenty five. 54 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: They had been sponsoring the events for around a decade. 55 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: Decision puts it among a group of NYC Pride sponsors 56 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: that are not returning this year. Others include sod snack 57 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: maker Pepsi Coo automaker, Nissan, banking Giant, City Group, and 58 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers, among others. What's interesting about 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: this article, and it's in the Wall Street Journal is 60 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: in various quotes and in just the journalists writing, they 61 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: refer to LGBTQ or lgbt QI A plus, depending on 62 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: who they're quoting. And I'm reminded of the old saying 63 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: I didn't leave the party of the party left me 64 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: when it was lgb when it was gay rights. All 65 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: of these corporations are like, yeah, you know, there's plenty 66 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: of gay folks, and then we're up for them having rights, 67 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: and so we'll sponsor. They're the big party in the march, 68 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: but the party left them. It's now lgbt q I 69 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: A plus, which includes cruel experiments, gender bending experiments on 70 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: confused adolescents, which you've talked about a lot, whether it's 71 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: the hormones or the surgeries or whatever. And saying I'm 72 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: in favor of gay rights does not mean I'm in 73 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: favor of taking a confused fourteen year old girl in 74 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: feedner full of hormones and changing her body in her 75 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: life forever. That's different the whole TEA thing. You know, 76 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: you can comment on that whichever you want. But now 77 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: the l g b t q I A plus community 78 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: is actually and I'm not making this up, the fairly 79 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: low level but increasing in volume messages about minor attracted 80 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: individuals m AI's you can probably guess what that means. 81 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: It means pedophiles, people might have sex with children, or 82 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: at the very least sex with teenagers, underage people. And 83 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: so if i'm City Bank MasterCard, virtually everybody but you know, well. 84 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 3: That's not fair. 85 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: It's not everybody but target is hanging in there, Anheuser 86 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: Bush gay rights. Yeah, okay, experiments on children and yay 87 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: for pedophiles. 88 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: No, I'm out. Of course you're out. You should be out. 89 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: And I feel bad for you know, good reasonable gay 90 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: lesbian people or like, I am not down with all 91 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: of this madness, and I wish I wasn't grouped with them, 92 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: but unfortunately you are to some extent, which brings us 93 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: to this headline Gaze Against Groomers, which is an organization 94 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: with an online presence, and they're you know what I've described, 95 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: they're they're gay people who think all of the T 96 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: plus q I A minus over the power of three 97 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,799 Speaker 1: stuff is madness. And they just came across a White 98 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: House briefing for l g B t q I plus 99 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: leaders back in the Biden administration that branded Gaze Against 100 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: Groomers as a hate group on an and an extremist organization. 101 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: And as they commented online. Our crime believing children are 102 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: perfect ex exactly as they are, no drugs or surgeries required. 103 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat that. This is this gaze against Groomer's group. 104 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: We believe children are perfect exactly as they are, no 105 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: drugs or surgeries required, And for that stance, the Biden 106 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: administration laid them, labeled them as extremists in. 107 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 3: A hate group. 108 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: Man, we've gone down the so far down the road 109 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: to Crazyville. It's hard to believe, isn't it. A couple 110 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: more stories, a man who identifies as a woman is 111 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: set to become the first transgender individual, and I appreciate 112 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: there are a handful of publications of a slightly more 113 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: conservative bent than the liberal mainstream media who use quotes 114 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: around transgender because the left in academia would have you 115 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: believe that that is it's a solid term with a 116 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: solid definition. Everybody knows what it means, and you dare 117 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: not question. No, no, that's not true. It's a concept. 118 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: The very concept of it is very, very controversial, but 119 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: they act as if it's universally understood and accepted. 120 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: Don't fall for that. It's not anyway. 121 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: So again, transgenders and quotes and This happens to be Breitbarton. 122 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: A man who identifies as a woman is set to 123 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: become the first transgender individual to compete in the Miss 124 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: Maine USA pageant in a couple of days. Twenty four 125 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: year old Isabella Saint Sarah of Munson of one among 126 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 1: several other biological males, just males. 127 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 3: It's fine to just say males. 128 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: See only kind of male there is biological It's redundant 129 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: to say biological male and silly. It's redundant and silly 130 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: to say biological woman or female female. That's enough, you've 131 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: explained yourself anyway. One among several men who have been 132 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: competing in beauty pageants across the nation and around the world. 133 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: And this person is very happy with this. As you 134 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: might guess. During an interview with the local paper, this 135 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: man said he'd always wanted to compete in pageants. Out 136 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: The outlet noted the farm owner, a farmer. That's interesting, 137 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: began transitioning while he was in high school, started the 138 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: medical transition when he was twenty. Okay, that's fine, but 139 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: you don't get to be in a girl's beauty pageant 140 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: nor a girls sports henry Ford Health, Detroit based healthcare 141 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: agency henry Ford Health has been exposed for administering transgender 142 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: treatments on minors, tainting care with diversity, equity and inclusion policies, 143 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: and more by a nonprofit group accusing it of prioritizing 144 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: politics over patient patients. This is Michigan's second largest health system. 145 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: Dyve deleted web pages promoting childhood transgenderism and dei an 146 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: attempt to scrub its far left footprints, but that's the 147 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: services still exist. One deleted article on how to support 148 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: a transgender team directed parents to get help to allow 149 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: their child to transition. 150 00:09:58,880 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 3: Quote. 151 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: When they're not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety, 152 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: and an increased risk of inflicting self harm. Unbelievable. And 153 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: henry Ford pediatrician doctor Maureen Connelly radical lunatic said, we've 154 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: latched onto this idea that gender is fixed, but we 155 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: know now in medicine that exploring your identity as it 156 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: relates to gender as a normal part of growing up. Well, yeah, 157 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: how masculine? 158 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 3: Am I? How feminine? 159 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: Am I? 160 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 3: Am I? 161 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: Girly girl? Am I A tomboy? Am I A tough guy? 162 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: Am I? 163 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 3: Sensitive? Poet? Guy? Yes? 164 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: That is a normal part of growing up. Having activists 165 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: lunatics pump you full of chemicals and remove healthy body 166 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: parts that is not normal, not even close. All right, 167 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: More on this to come in a second. After a 168 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: word from our friend's said, Prize Picks the action is 169 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: heating up. 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At the beginning 192 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: of the year, President Trump announced in an executive order 193 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 194 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: publish a review of the egg existing literature on best 195 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender 196 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: dysphoria rapid onset gender dysphoria, which I could talk about 197 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: for a week, but I mean, the classic example of 198 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: gender dysphoria is a grown man who says, I've always 199 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: felt like a girl. I've always known I was a girl. 200 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: I want to present as a woman and get surgery. 201 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: You know, that's one thing. If you're a grown person, 202 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: you get to do what you want. In my country, certainly, 203 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: But this rapid onset youth gender dysphoria thing is a 204 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: wildly different proposition. And it turns out that the best 205 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: practices quote unquote for so called gender firm and care 206 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: are simply to not do it at all. If you 207 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: take activism out of this and actually look at the science. 208 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: The conclusions are clear. The AHHS review was published a 209 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: couple of days ago, and the results should not be surprising. 210 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: The researchers found that the available studies on gender firm 211 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: and care quote unquote for minors are poorly conducted, and 212 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: there is not evidence to show that such interventions effectively 213 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: treat gender dysfort or improve mental health. More importantly, the 214 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: researchers note what has not been published in the scientific literature. 215 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: The studies largely fail to appropriately consider the possible harms 216 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: of these medical interventions. And since we're about out of town, 217 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: time will cut this short for now. We'll come back 218 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 1: to it later. But the other thing that they never 219 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: consider is that, yeah, if you have a delusion and 220 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: the people around you confirm that delusion as an impressional adolescent, 221 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: that will for the short term make you feel better 222 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: about everything. But in the long term the results are 223 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: horrifying and devastating. So these studies have been absolute bunk. Anyway, 224 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: that's your gender bending madness update. 225 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 3: The loco. We're in a brave new world. Much more to. 226 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: Come, stay with us. Brett Phar had an interesting interview 227 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: with JDV. Yesterday on special report in which they talked 228 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: about a handful of different things, including the situation with 229 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: the Houthis bombing shipping and the US, unlike under the Mummy, 230 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: Biden lashing back and pounding them for their trouble many many, 231 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: many strikes over a period of months. We'll let Breton 232 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: JD continue the conversation. First clip, Michael, the Hoothy campaign. 233 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 4: I mean, I think you know, we're already seeing signs 234 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 4: that the Houthis are saying no moss. They've been bombed, 235 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 4: They've recognized that there are serious consequences to firing on. 236 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 3: American and other ships. 237 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 5: And I actually think we're in a good place for 238 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 5: the Houthis to stop attacking civilian vessels, to go back 239 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 5: to doing whatever it is they were doing before they 240 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 5: were attacking civilian vessels. And I think that if fat 241 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 5: were happening, then this bombing campaign would be over the 242 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 5: next day. 243 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth also sent a strong message, excuse me to 244 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: Iran and the Hoothies. You know very well what the 245 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: US military is capable of. You will pay warning that 246 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: Iran would pay consequences for its lethal support of the 247 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: Houthis terrorist organization. We know exactly what you are doing, 248 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: you know very well with the US military is capable 249 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: of and you were warned you will pay the consequence 250 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: at the time in place of your choosing. Let's press 251 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: on with Brett Bearen VP Vans. 252 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 6: Do you hear the criticism though from libertarians from the 253 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 6: left that this is the new Vietnam? This is forty 254 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 6: eight days of bombing. People are in the middle of 255 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 6: the country. May not know that we're in the middle 256 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 6: of a hot war with Yemen. 257 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 4: What do you say, Well, not with Yemen with a 258 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 4: terrorist organization inside yet has been firing on American ships. 259 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 4: And I think that people, you know, we want to 260 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 4: compare this to Vietnam, and come on. I think that 261 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 4: the President has made it very clear that one of 262 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 4: his core national security priorities is that if you load 263 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 4: stuff onto a ship and you send it to the 264 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 4: United States, we want to make sure that it shows 265 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 4: up without the sailors getting killed, without the ship being destroyed. 266 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 4: That is an objective that we're going to pursue forcefully if. 267 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 3: We have to. 268 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an account in Fox News of the USS 269 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: Harry Truman aircraft carrier that was the same that the 270 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: F eighteen super Hornet fell off of It's possible it 271 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: was making an emergency turn to avoid Hoothy attack. It's 272 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: all classified and should be. And that's fine and recent 273 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: and thanks to listeners who sent us video of giant 274 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: aircraft carriers making those emergency turns. It's quite astounding to 275 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: witness how quickly and with what energy they can turn. 276 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: But anyway, the aircraft carrier has been operating in the 277 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: Red season September where it has launched strikes against the Houthis, 278 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: and they have claimed it is they have attacked the 279 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: Harry Truman and the accompanying warships in recent weeks, so 280 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: that may well be what happened. Meanwhile, Marco Ruby from 281 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet talking more generally about Iran and its 282 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: recent actions, and. 283 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 3: Look, there's a win here for Iran. 284 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 7: Okay, they can actually have real economic development, Okay, real 285 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 7: investment in their country. But they have to walk away 286 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 7: from sponsoring terrorists, they have to walk away from helping 287 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 7: the Houthies, they have to walk away from building long 288 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 7: range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than 289 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 7: having nuclear weapons, and they have to walk away from enrichment. 290 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 3: These are not unreasonable requests. 291 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 7: There are countries all over the world that have nuclear 292 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 7: energy and don't enrich and don't have long range missiles 293 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 7: and don't sponsor terrorism. That path is there for them. 294 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 7: It's the path of peace. And frankly, I pray and 295 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 7: hope and we'll do everything we can to hope convince 296 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 7: them that they should take it. 297 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio there, it will be so interesting to see 298 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: the next six months or so unfold. According to the reports, 299 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: which may or may not be accurate. You never know 300 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: who floats what and for what reason. But Israel was 301 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: ready to go ahead and strike Iran and take their 302 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: nuclear program down to whatever extent is possible, and we 303 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: told them to wait, wait, wait, to hold it back. 304 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: Their negotiations allegedly happening. Soon It's going to turn one 305 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: way or the other, and in dramatic fashion. 306 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 3: Soon. Much more to come. 307 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: Stay with us if you can't grab the podcast Armstrong and. 308 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 3: Getty, onto me Armstrong and Getty. 309 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 8: According to a new study, drinking champagne could reduce the 310 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 8: risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, it increases the risk 311 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 8: of hitting wasted at brunch and spending your Sunday afternoon 312 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 8: passed out on one of the IKEA sample beds. 313 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 3: There you go. 314 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never enjoyed the mimosa or the the brunch drink. 315 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 9: It only if I'm planning to keep her going all day. 316 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 9: And that's, you know, a rare occurrence. 317 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: You're always a much better distance athlete than I was. 318 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 3: I can't do it two times. So I had a 319 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: doctor's appointment. I wasn't hear the last hour. 320 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 9: You probably didn't even notice me missing, which makes you 321 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 9: wonder why I get paid to do this. 322 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 3: But so I noticed, Jack, I noticed, all right. 323 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 9: So I've had this cough thing for three weeks long 324 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 9: outside of cancer, longest time I've been sick with the 325 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 9: same thing ever in my wife. I just went to 326 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 9: the doctor and apparently there's a whole bunch of these 327 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 9: or one I don't know, flying around the country. So 328 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 9: if you got something where it just keeps hanging on, 329 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 9: it's a thing. Right now, three to five weeks of 330 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 9: the same cough before it goes away, which. 331 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 3: Is abow five weeks. Is that's too much what I 332 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 3: would like to know? 333 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 9: Well, three weeks sure feels like a long time. It's 334 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 9: been three weeks in two days. But what I'd like 335 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 9: to know if this has anything to do with covid. 336 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 3: Did covid do anything to our immune system? 337 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 9: Or is this some sort of merged with a cold 338 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 9: variant something I don't know, No problem, and. 339 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: It is doctor Fauci behind it all. Yeah, no kidding, 340 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: Never forget two things. First of all, I always asked 341 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: this question of doctors. 342 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 3: I don't know why. I just am fascinated by this. 343 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 9: I said, So, if I'd got and this because they're 344 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 9: putting me on pregnizone to try to knock out the 345 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 9: end of it because I got. 346 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 3: Fluid in my lungs or whatever. 347 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 9: I said, if this is going on one hundred years ago, 348 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 9: what would happen? And she said, you'd probably get deemonia 349 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 9: and die most likely. That's just amazing to me that 350 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 9: how many things. You know, That's why life expectancy was 351 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,919 Speaker 9: like thirty eight not that long ago, because there are 352 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 9: just so many things that would come along and kill. 353 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 3: You right right. 354 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: You know, I find myself wondering and I'm completely unqualified 355 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: to even consider this question, So this should be fun. 356 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 3: Would we well, I think I know the answer. 357 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 1: Would we have developed the population density that we have 358 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: now as modern humans in the absence of modern medicine. Uh, 359 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: I mean, because a lot of people would be dropping 360 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: dead like crazy of these respiratory diseases that we all 361 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: trade back and forth because we're you know, in buildings 362 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: and offices and schools all the time. 363 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 9: London was pretty dense long before antibotics came along. 364 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and people lived to thirty eight if they were lucky. 365 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, we would have a lot different population, no doubt. 366 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 9: But so some of you heard when we brought this 367 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 9: up the other day. So I was talking to somebody 368 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 9: I know in my personal life and about being sick, 369 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 9: and they said, you get sick a lot. And I said, no, 370 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 9: not really, And they said, and for whatever reason they 371 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 9: had in their mind when I've been sick, they said, yeah, 372 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 9: well you had this and then like a month ago 373 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 9: you had and you missed work and blahlah blah. And 374 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 9: I and for the first time in my life, which 375 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 9: is absolutely amazing, that I've been able to live in 376 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 9: denial all this time. It's shocking. What else am I 377 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 9: in denial about or anybody I had to admit? Yeah, 378 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 9: I get sick a lot. I get sick more than 379 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 9: the average person. I've never admitted that out loud, but 380 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 9: it's clearly statistically true, and I've never seen myself that way. 381 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 9: So now I've I've got to realize, like my parents 382 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 9: eighty two and eighty. 383 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 3: Seven eighty eight. 384 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 9: Almost never get sick, like ever, my whole life, including 385 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 9: now I, on the other hand, would be I would die. 386 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 3: I would have already been dead a long time ago. 387 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 9: I'm a person who gets sick, and without modern medicine, 388 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 9: I would have been dead a long time ago. I'm 389 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 9: not cut out for, you know, life, apparently probably lack 390 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 9: of character. 391 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 3: Is that what the doctor say or you know? Because 392 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 3: that's why I've. 393 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 9: Been That's why I've wanted to deny getting sick a lot, 394 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 9: because I do feel like it's people who get sick 395 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 9: a lot I've just always. 396 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 3: Looked down on. You're just like a weak person. You 397 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 3: get sick of Wow. 398 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: I know I'm not proud of it, but that's cruelty 399 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: on one end of your personality and delusion on the other. 400 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: This is troubling people who get sick a lot. 401 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 9: I don't want them around me. I don't want to 402 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 9: work with them. I don't I just yeah, you're just 403 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 9: you're weak. You're a weak person. I've always felt that way. 404 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 9: Maybe that's where the denial comes from because I had 405 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 9: that aks. But I get sick a lot, and I would. 406 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: Have been a compensating one hundred years ago, I would 407 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: have been dead. 408 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 3: Huh. 409 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 9: So what do you do with that information? Nothing, that's 410 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 9: just your deal. Like some people have better eyesight or taller. 411 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: Oh about not the psychological part, but the reality of 412 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: getting sick. 413 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 3: I don't know. You try to take care of yourself. 414 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 3: I suppose I don't do. 415 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: You're quit acting like the precautions to prevent illness are 416 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: stupid and only practiced by weak people. 417 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose. 418 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 9: Okay, I'm going to go on the pregni zone, which 419 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 9: is a steroid, so I'm going to get swoll. So 420 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 9: look forward to me. Just I'm gonna be RFK Junior 421 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 9: ripped by the way. He just announced he's getting feetest 422 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 9: parts out of all the vaccines. 423 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 3: So that's something to be excited about. Next vaccine, you 424 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 3: got no feetest parts in it? Wait, what I know? 425 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 3: I thought the same thing. What the hell does that mean? 426 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: All right, we'll dig into that and figure out how 427 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: significant it is. So you have probably had this same conversation, 428 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: at least internally, as I have watching traffic go by. 429 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: Everybody is driving little SUVs. Now every damn car is 430 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: a crossover suv. 431 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 3: There's a lot of them. 432 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: And I remember back when this phenomenon was first beginning, 433 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: I would always be a little i don't know, perturbed, intrigued, confused, 434 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: because I would say, so you got a little hatchback, 435 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: whatever happened to the trunk, the great American trunk you 436 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: could stole, like, you know, a couch in three bodies 437 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: in a trunk I have, And now you've got this 438 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: little space. 439 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 3: Why are people preferring these things now? 440 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: Of course I've been driving one mostly for the last 441 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: several years, a kind of mid sized suv. 442 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 3: Well. 443 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: Interestingly, in the National Review, Chad Hagen observed first that 444 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 1: the American car market has undergone a huge shift in 445 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: recent years. It used to be Sedan after Sedan after 446 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: Stan on American roads, two to four doors and a trunk. 447 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 3: Great. 448 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 9: I don't know why they went away, but anyway back 449 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 9: to your statistics, Yeah. 450 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 1: They practically vanished and replaced by an endless parade of 451 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: oversized SUVs and crossovers. 452 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 3: He wrote, what happened. 453 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: It was not consumer demand alone that drove this transformation. 454 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: Although I do kind of like sitting up high. 455 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 3: Sitting up hi, you start doing. 456 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 9: It, it it, I don't know, you just feel more 457 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 9: protected or the view or whatever. But yeah, when I 458 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 9: got my sedan, it had been a long time since 459 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 9: i'd sat down low. 460 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 3: You have a different view of the world down there. 461 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I went with like what you might call a 462 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: sports sedan for a while, and I really liked the car. 463 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: But in a land of SUVs and pickup trucks, you constantly, 464 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: you constantly got their headlights directly into your eyeball right, 465 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: because of the way they're focused anyway. 466 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 3: But it was not consumer demand alone that drove the transfer. Transformation. 467 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: Policy played a pivot, an ironic role, how well, under 468 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: the revised corporate average fuel economy those are the Cafe standards. 469 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: Perhaps you've heard of. Fuel efficiency targets were tied to 470 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: a vehicle's physical footprint. The larger the vehicle, the easier 471 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: the target began it became to meet. Right so called 472 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: light trucks, a category that miraculously expanded to include nearly 473 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: anything with four wheels and a squarish back end. Were 474 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: given significantly lower efficiency requirements than passenger cars. As a result, 475 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: automakers responded exactly as rational actors do under irrational government regulations. 476 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: They made everything bigger. Traditional sedans were bulked up into crossovers, 477 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: ground clearance was raised, carbon go space was squared off, 478 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: and the vehicles were quietly reclassified as trucks to game 479 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: the system that Washington had so thoughtfully built for them. 480 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 9: That is funny on a number of ends. So first 481 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 9: of all, government trying to force us to live certain 482 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 9: ways almost never works. Almost never works. 483 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: To find relate the free market one. 484 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 3: We find our way around it. 485 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 9: We do what we want to do, So we figure 486 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 9: out a way around it. Our business figures out a 487 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,719 Speaker 9: way around it. And then you got the other end 488 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 9: of it. And I've talked about this a million times. 489 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 9: I know it annoys, it hurts some people's feelings. But 490 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 9: the whole truck thing is so much image, and I 491 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 9: have I have many many trucks, But it's an image 492 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 9: they sell you that we all like. 493 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 3: I'm perfectly fine with that. I like the image. 494 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 9: I know they're selling me in an image, but almost 495 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 9: nobody statistically ever puts their four wheel drive in four 496 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 9: wheel drive and all the towing capacity stuff that they 497 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 9: put in, all the ads to make you feel a 498 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 9: certain way. Almost nobody ever pulls anything with their truck. 499 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 9: I know plenty of you do, and you're listening right now, 500 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 9: and you feel offended that I said that, But just statistically, 501 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 9: it's true. Not talking about you, right right. You work 502 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 9: on a farm and you pull a big truck, fine, 503 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 9: you need a certain or a big wagon or whatever, 504 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 9: you need a certain kind of truck, but most people don't. 505 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 9: Most people are picking up their kids from school in 506 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 9: their truck that can pull fifteen thousand pounds up a hill, 507 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 9: but they never ever do. 508 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 3: But so you know, it fits in with what you 509 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 3: were just talking about. 510 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 9: So you come up with an image to sell this 511 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 9: kind of vehicle that gets around the cafe standards, and 512 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 9: then everybody's driving this. 513 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: This is an unfair characterization, which is why I enjoy 514 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: it so much. But in general, progressive types, liberals in general, 515 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: including you know, fairly moderate liberals back in the day, 516 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: they pass policies and a praise them on how they 517 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: make them feel and whether they make them look enlightened, 518 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: whether they get social payoff from it. Do you praise 519 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: me for passing these policies. That is the standard. If 520 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: you're a good, smart conservative and you understand the way 521 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: the world really works works, you propose policies, but then 522 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: you think hard about, Okay, how will people's behaviors change 523 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: because of this policy, how will people try to get 524 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: around it? 525 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 3: Is this worth the trouble? 526 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: Are we, for instance, helping the poor single mother. Yes, 527 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: but we're also encouraging people not to get married in 528 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,479 Speaker 1: the first place. For instance, that taken from the LBJ 529 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: is so called great society and the sixties that decimated 530 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: the black family. If you're a good conservative, you think 531 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: hard about the way the world and humans really work, 532 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: and you take a much lighter hand in trying to 533 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: manipulate the levers of life and love in the economy, 534 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: because it never works out the way you think it will. 535 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: People adjust, they change, they do different things, or companies say, oh, 536 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: bigger vehicles have lower standards. Let's make bigger vehicle. And literally, 537 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: that's how long the conversation was. Right to get around 538 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: your brilliant regulations. 539 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 9: And while you and your friends in Brooklyn who never 540 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 9: drive at you don't even own cars. 541 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: And can totally not understand how anybody would want to 542 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: own a car. 543 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 9: I think we're all gonna start driving some sort of 544 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 9: tiny little thing because we care about the environment. No, 545 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 9: we went out and bought the great, big giant SUVs 546 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 9: because we like big vehicles. 547 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 3: Yep, the end. Yeah, that's funny. 548 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 9: And then Katie had this story earlier about how the 549 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 9: federal government's proposing some sort of tax for electric cars 550 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 9: that will start happening, and you said it's to make 551 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 9: up for the gas taxes. That's another perfect example of 552 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 9: how it makes you feel versus reality. 553 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 3: Everybody starts driving electric cars, all that gas. 554 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 9: Tax that you used to fund tons of big blue 555 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 9: projects in your state are gonna go away. How are 556 00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 9: you gonna fix it? You gotta make up for that, 557 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 9: So where you gotta have an answer for that somewhere. 558 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 9: You can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. 559 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 3: Right. 560 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: You try mightily to limit the miles people drive, and 561 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: then you profit from those miles, and then when those 562 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: miles actually drop, you go into a panic and you 563 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: have to tax something else. 564 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 9: Lovely, I'm gonna go to a movie tonight, very excited 565 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 9: about a movie that hits the theaters tonight. I'll tell 566 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 9: you about, among other things, on the ways to hear Armstrong. 567 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 2: And yet we can't starting alone, no one can, and 568 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 2: we can find a way together. 569 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 3: Marvel Studios, Thunderballs, oh man I Hanson. 570 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 9: I asked Canton to grab a trailer from Thunderbolts, which 571 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 9: comes out tonight, new Marvel movie, which I'm very excited about. 572 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 9: It's hilarious. Many of the trailers are freaking hilarious. That 573 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 9: was not one of them, but it is a it's 574 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 9: a like Avengers type movie, and it looks really really good, 575 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 9: and it's got a bunch of the stars. If you've 576 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 9: watched these or watch them with your kids or whatever. Bucky, 577 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 9: you know, Captain America's friend who died during World War Two. 578 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 9: Bucky's back. And this guy David Harbor. Do you know 579 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 9: David Harbor by name Joe. He's spend so many things. 580 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 9: He was a sheriff in Stranger Things. But he plays 581 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 9: this Russian super soldier that he's been in the Marvel series. 582 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 9: Really badass, very cool. I mean, just a great character 583 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 9: actor and he's great in this role. But anyway, now 584 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 9: he's in this that's kind of a half a comedy. 585 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 3: And Henry and are going to go tonight. 586 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 9: I'll let you know what I think of it. They're 587 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 9: hoping it's going to revitalize the Marvel thing. Interesting that 588 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 9: they're going to try to go with a comedy bent 589 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 9: to bring it back after it kind of dying off 590 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 9: over the last several years. 591 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 3: Interesting, by the way. 592 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: I was going to tout and Door, which is one 593 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: of your Star Wars spinoffs on Disney Plus, and I 594 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: read an article the other day. 595 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 3: I kind of heard of it, but I never tuned in. 596 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: But the article was talking about Tony Gilroy, who's the 597 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: guy who like is behind it, the showrunner, the writer, 598 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: and how disappointed he was that it wasn't a bigger hit. 599 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: Uh and and the critic was saying, and it should be, 600 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: because it's so good. 601 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 3: He's the guy. 602 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: Who wrote like all of the Bourne Identity movies and 603 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: directed several of them. And and the point of the 604 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: article was that it's not very Star Wars y. It's 605 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: a political espionage thriller and and with really interesting deep 606 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: characters and twists and stuff like that. 607 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 3: And I thought, oh, okay, I'll give it a try. 608 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 3: I've been binging it. Oh I love it. It is 609 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 3: so good. 610 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: Oh really, check door on Disney Plus if you get that. 611 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 3: He loves that sort of thing. 612 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 9: On Thunderbolts, there's one of the trailers where he say, 613 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,239 Speaker 9: I think we should call ourselves thunderbolts if we If 614 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 9: you're gonna call thunderbolts, I quit. So this is some 615 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 9: breaking news and kind of interesting of things that are 616 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 9: happening right now. So the jobs numbers came out today. 617 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 9: So we had the GDP number that came out a 618 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 9: couple of days ago in the economy shrank, and then 619 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 9: Joe explained how that that's misleading, like a lot misleading. 620 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 3: But then the jobs. 621 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 9: Numbers out today, which exceeding expectations. 622 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 3: So the Financial Times headline. 623 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 9: Is US stocks wipe out losses from Liberation Day. US 624 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 9: stocks rallied today on the news of one hundred and 625 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 9: seventy seven thousand jobs and that was enough to cause 626 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,280 Speaker 9: the S and P at least to gain back everything 627 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 9: that has been lost since Liberation Day. 628 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 3: And so there you go. 629 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: Check. 630 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 3: Go ahead and check your four oh one k as 631 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 3: they say. 632 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 9: That's why that whole thing is so stupid every single time, and. 633 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 3: People are worried about their foreum case. 634 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 9: First of all, unless you're like retiring tomorrow and even then, 635 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 9: Like my dad always talks about how many times he's 636 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 9: lost half of what he's got since he's been retired. 637 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 3: It comes back unless you're right. 638 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 9: I don't know, planning to buy a house to with 639 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,359 Speaker 9: your four oh one k, which would be a bad plan. 640 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you act like all of the talking hands 641 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,320 Speaker 1: on the news, think you act, you're doing it wrong. 642 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,760 Speaker 1: Get a financial advisor, read a book or something. 643 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,839 Speaker 9: Read a book or something, but like all that stuff, 644 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 9: or this is the worst stock market decline since April 645 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,439 Speaker 9: of twenty twenty three. 646 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 3: That's two years ago, and I don't even remember it. 647 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 3: I mean, why are you acting like this? 648 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: You don't remember twenty twenty three? The blood running in 649 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,280 Speaker 1: the streets, the cannibalism, parents eating their own children. 650 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 3: Is there? Oh wow? 651 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 9: You'd have thought that had stuck in my mind, right? 652 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,439 Speaker 3: I didn't see this. Maybe you talked about it while 653 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 3: I was at the doctor. 654 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 9: The U United States announced yesterday we're stepping back from 655 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 9: the peace talks, and you brought Russia and Ukraine. 656 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,479 Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I missed this story. 657 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 9: Yesterday We're no longer going to be involved in the 658 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,280 Speaker 9: peace talks. It's up to them. The White House announced yesterday. Okay, 659 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,239 Speaker 9: I'd missed that too. Yeah, seems like big news. Well 660 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 9: what peace talks? 661 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 3: I mean maybe maybe that's the ye. We do four 662 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,359 Speaker 3: hours every day. 663 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 9: If you don't get all four hours or every segment, 664 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 9: or there's segments you'd like to listen to multiple times 665 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 9: or share with your friends, you can check out the 666 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 9: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand 667 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty