Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yetty. Hey are you thanks tun In'm glad
Speaker 1: you're here. Happy Friday friends. Coming up later in the show,
Speaker 1: looking forward to a discussion of the idea of abundance,
Speaker 1: meaning here in the US we have all sorts of
Speaker 1: wonderful imports choose from, and therefore the average working person
Speaker 1: has an incredibly high standard of living and we're living
Speaker 1: pretty high on the hog, you know, as human beings go.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we've offshored a lot of our manufacturing and
Speaker 1: that leaves us vulnerable to certain things. Where's the balance point?
Speaker 1: And are we happy with the idea of as Trump
Speaker 1: said the other day, Look, you're not gonna have thirty
Speaker 1: dollars on the shelves.
Speaker 3: You'll have a couple.
Speaker 1: It might be a few bucks more expensive, but we'll
Speaker 1: have more good manufacturing jobs in the country. You know,
Speaker 1: what's the Where's the proper balance point? So stay tuned
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Speaker 1: But first, it's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 3: So I kept hearing about this thing called.
Speaker 1: By the loco We're a brave world. We have a
Speaker 1: number of headlines to share with you today, working up
Speaker 1: to what I think is the most important story. But
Speaker 1: predictively and horrifyingly, California Democrats have killed a state senator's
Speaker 1: bill that would secure women's prisons from predatory trans women
Speaker 1: also known as men. Some of the stories, there's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 1: Rampant rape of women in women's prisons, not by guards
Speaker 1: or wardens or anything, but by these so called transgender people,
Speaker 1: to the point that the guards in some of these
Speaker 1: women's prisons are making condoms available and handing them out
Speaker 1: to the women inmates, saying, hey, you might need this.
Speaker 1: If somebody forces themselves upon you, maybe you can get
Speaker 1: them to put it on. And yet, because the radical
Speaker 1: transgender movement is so powerful in cal Unicornia, they can't
Speaker 1: even get a law passed that says, if you're a transgender,
Speaker 1: you're a dude, but you're claiming to be a woman.
Speaker 1: All right, you're in the woman's prison, but you got
Speaker 1: to be over here a specific place that doesn't interact
Speaker 1: with the women. That bill got crushed crushed by the
Speaker 1: Democrats and the legislation. It's unbelievable. In case, it's not obvious,
Speaker 1: even if you're not a would be rapist, the women's
Speaker 1: prisons are less secure and less dangerous, and so guys
Speaker 1: would just rather be there, so they declare, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: a girl, and the idiot state of California.
Speaker 3: That lets them in there.
Speaker 1: Another headline for you, A number of big time sponsors
Speaker 1: are rethinking their Pride marketing MasterCard not renewing its corporate
Speaker 1: sponsorship for the New York City Pride March, the city's
Speaker 1: annual march for LGBTQ plus rights for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: They had been sponsoring the events for around a decade.
Speaker 1: Decision puts it among a group of NYC Pride sponsors
Speaker 1: that are not returning this year. Others include sod snack
Speaker 1: maker Pepsi Coo automaker, Nissan, banking Giant, City Group, and
Speaker 1: consulting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers, among others. What's interesting about
Speaker 1: this article, and it's in the Wall Street Journal is
Speaker 1: in various quotes and in just the journalists writing, they
Speaker 1: refer to LGBTQ or lgbt QI A plus, depending on
Speaker 1: who they're quoting. And I'm reminded of the old saying
Speaker 1: I didn't leave the party of the party left me
Speaker 1: when it was lgb when it was gay rights. All
Speaker 1: of these corporations are like, yeah, you know, there's plenty
Speaker 1: of gay folks, and then we're up for them having rights,
Speaker 1: and so we'll sponsor. They're the big party in the march,
Speaker 1: but the party left them. It's now lgbt q I
Speaker 1: A plus, which includes cruel experiments, gender bending experiments on
Speaker 1: confused adolescents, which you've talked about a lot, whether it's
Speaker 1: the hormones or the surgeries or whatever. And saying I'm
Speaker 1: in favor of gay rights does not mean I'm in
Speaker 1: favor of taking a confused fourteen year old girl in
Speaker 1: feedner full of hormones and changing her body in her
Speaker 1: life forever. That's different the whole TEA thing. You know,
Speaker 1: you can comment on that whichever you want. But now
Speaker 1: the l g b t q I A plus community
Speaker 1: is actually and I'm not making this up, the fairly
Speaker 1: low level but increasing in volume messages about minor attracted
Speaker 1: individuals m AI's you can probably guess what that means.
Speaker 1: It means pedophiles, people might have sex with children, or
Speaker 1: at the very least sex with teenagers, underage people. And
Speaker 1: so if i'm City Bank MasterCard, virtually everybody but you know, well.
Speaker 3: That's not fair.
Speaker 1: It's not everybody but target is hanging in there, Anheuser
Speaker 1: Bush gay rights. Yeah, okay, experiments on children and yay
Speaker 1: for pedophiles.
Speaker 3: No, I'm out. Of course you're out. You should be out.
Speaker 1: And I feel bad for you know, good reasonable gay
Speaker 1: lesbian people or like, I am not down with all
Speaker 1: of this madness, and I wish I wasn't grouped with them,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately you are to some extent, which brings us
Speaker 1: to this headline Gaze Against Groomers, which is an organization
Speaker 1: with an online presence, and they're you know what I've described,
Speaker 1: they're they're gay people who think all of the T
Speaker 1: plus q I A minus over the power of three
Speaker 1: stuff is madness. And they just came across a White
Speaker 1: House briefing for l g B t q I plus
Speaker 1: leaders back in the Biden administration that branded Gaze Against
Speaker 1: Groomers as a hate group on an and an extremist organization.
Speaker 1: And as they commented online. Our crime believing children are
Speaker 1: perfect ex exactly as they are, no drugs or surgeries required.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat that. This is this gaze against Groomer's group.
Speaker 1: We believe children are perfect exactly as they are, no
Speaker 1: drugs or surgeries required, And for that stance, the Biden
Speaker 1: administration laid them, labeled them as extremists in.
Speaker 3: A hate group.
Speaker 1: Man, we've gone down the so far down the road
Speaker 1: to Crazyville. It's hard to believe, isn't it. A couple
Speaker 1: more stories, a man who identifies as a woman is
Speaker 1: set to become the first transgender individual, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: there are a handful of publications of a slightly more
Speaker 1: conservative bent than the liberal mainstream media who use quotes
Speaker 1: around transgender because the left in academia would have you
Speaker 1: believe that that is it's a solid term with a
Speaker 1: solid definition. Everybody knows what it means, and you dare
Speaker 1: not question. No, no, that's not true. It's a concept.
Speaker 1: The very concept of it is very, very controversial, but
Speaker 1: they act as if it's universally understood and accepted.
Speaker 3: Don't fall for that. It's not anyway.
Speaker 1: So again, transgenders and quotes and This happens to be Breitbarton.
Speaker 1: A man who identifies as a woman is set to
Speaker 1: become the first transgender individual to compete in the Miss
Speaker 1: Maine USA pageant in a couple of days. Twenty four
Speaker 1: year old Isabella Saint Sarah of Munson of one among
Speaker 1: several other biological males, just males.
Speaker 3: It's fine to just say males.
Speaker 1: See only kind of male there is biological It's redundant
Speaker 1: to say biological male and silly. It's redundant and silly
Speaker 1: to say biological woman or female female. That's enough, you've
Speaker 1: explained yourself anyway. One among several men who have been
Speaker 1: competing in beauty pageants across the nation and around the world.
Speaker 1: And this person is very happy with this. As you
Speaker 1: might guess. During an interview with the local paper, this
Speaker 1: man said he'd always wanted to compete in pageants. Out
Speaker 1: The outlet noted the farm owner, a farmer. That's interesting,
Speaker 1: began transitioning while he was in high school, started the
Speaker 1: medical transition when he was twenty. Okay, that's fine, but
Speaker 1: you don't get to be in a girl's beauty pageant
Speaker 1: nor a girls sports henry Ford Health, Detroit based healthcare
Speaker 1: agency henry Ford Health has been exposed for administering transgender
Speaker 1: treatments on minors, tainting care with diversity, equity and inclusion policies,
Speaker 1: and more by a nonprofit group accusing it of prioritizing
Speaker 1: politics over patient patients. This is Michigan's second largest health system.
Speaker 1: Dyve deleted web pages promoting childhood transgenderism and dei an
Speaker 1: attempt to scrub its far left footprints, but that's the
Speaker 1: services still exist. One deleted article on how to support
Speaker 1: a transgender team directed parents to get help to allow
Speaker 1: their child to transition.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 1: When they're not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety,
Speaker 1: and an increased risk of inflicting self harm. Unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: henry Ford pediatrician doctor Maureen Connelly radical lunatic said, we've
Speaker 1: latched onto this idea that gender is fixed, but we
Speaker 1: know now in medicine that exploring your identity as it
Speaker 1: relates to gender as a normal part of growing up. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: how masculine?
Speaker 3: Am I? How feminine?
Speaker 1: Am I?
Speaker 3: Am I?
Speaker 1: Girly girl? Am I A tomboy? Am I A tough guy?
Speaker 1: Am I?
Speaker 3: Sensitive? Poet? Guy? Yes?
Speaker 1: That is a normal part of growing up. Having activists
Speaker 1: lunatics pump you full of chemicals and remove healthy body
Speaker 1: parts that is not normal, not even close. All right,
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Speaker 3: Run your game. A couple more quick stories. What time
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we really ought to take a break, But there's
Speaker 1: a terrific editorial in the National Review. At the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, President Trump announced in an executive order
Speaker 1: that directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to
Speaker 1: publish a review of the egg existing literature on best
Speaker 1: practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender
Speaker 1: dysphoria rapid onset gender dysphoria, which I could talk about
Speaker 1: for a week, but I mean, the classic example of
Speaker 1: gender dysphoria is a grown man who says, I've always
Speaker 1: felt like a girl. I've always known I was a girl.
Speaker 1: I want to present as a woman and get surgery.
Speaker 1: You know, that's one thing. If you're a grown person,
Speaker 1: you get to do what you want. In my country, certainly,
Speaker 1: But this rapid onset youth gender dysphoria thing is a
Speaker 1: wildly different proposition. And it turns out that the best
Speaker 1: practices quote unquote for so called gender firm and care
Speaker 1: are simply to not do it at all. If you
Speaker 1: take activism out of this and actually look at the science.
Speaker 1: The conclusions are clear. The AHHS review was published a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, and the results should not be surprising.
Speaker 1: The researchers found that the available studies on gender firm
Speaker 1: and care quote unquote for minors are poorly conducted, and
Speaker 1: there is not evidence to show that such interventions effectively
Speaker 1: treat gender dysfort or improve mental health. More importantly, the
Speaker 1: researchers note what has not been published in the scientific literature.
Speaker 1: The studies largely fail to appropriately consider the possible harms
Speaker 1: of these medical interventions. And since we're about out of town,
Speaker 1: time will cut this short for now. We'll come back
Speaker 1: to it later. But the other thing that they never
Speaker 1: consider is that, yeah, if you have a delusion and
Speaker 1: the people around you confirm that delusion as an impressional adolescent,
Speaker 1: that will for the short term make you feel better
Speaker 1: about everything. But in the long term the results are
Speaker 1: horrifying and devastating. So these studies have been absolute bunk. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's your gender bending madness update.
Speaker 3: The loco. We're in a brave new world. Much more to.
Speaker 1: Come, stay with us. Brett Phar had an interesting interview
Speaker 1: with JDV. Yesterday on special report in which they talked
Speaker 1: about a handful of different things, including the situation with
Speaker 1: the Houthis bombing shipping and the US, unlike under the Mummy,
Speaker 1: Biden lashing back and pounding them for their trouble many many,
Speaker 1: many strikes over a period of months. We'll let Breton
Speaker 1: JD continue the conversation. First clip, Michael, the Hoothy campaign.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think you know, we're already seeing signs
Speaker 4: that the Houthis are saying no moss. They've been bombed,
Speaker 4: They've recognized that there are serious consequences to firing on.
Speaker 3: American and other ships.
Speaker 5: And I actually think we're in a good place for
Speaker 5: the Houthis to stop attacking civilian vessels, to go back
Speaker 5: to doing whatever it is they were doing before they
Speaker 5: were attacking civilian vessels. And I think that if fat
Speaker 5: were happening, then this bombing campaign would be over the
Speaker 5: next day.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth also sent a strong message, excuse me to
Speaker 1: Iran and the Hoothies. You know very well what the
Speaker 1: US military is capable of. You will pay warning that
Speaker 1: Iran would pay consequences for its lethal support of the
Speaker 1: Houthis terrorist organization. We know exactly what you are doing,
Speaker 1: you know very well with the US military is capable
Speaker 1: of and you were warned you will pay the consequence
Speaker 1: at the time in place of your choosing. Let's press
Speaker 1: on with Brett Bearen VP Vans.
Speaker 6: Do you hear the criticism though from libertarians from the
Speaker 6: left that this is the new Vietnam? This is forty
Speaker 6: eight days of bombing. People are in the middle of
Speaker 6: the country. May not know that we're in the middle
Speaker 6: of a hot war with Yemen.
Speaker 4: What do you say, Well, not with Yemen with a
Speaker 4: terrorist organization inside yet has been firing on American ships.
Speaker 4: And I think that people, you know, we want to
Speaker 4: compare this to Vietnam, and come on. I think that
Speaker 4: the President has made it very clear that one of
Speaker 4: his core national security priorities is that if you load
Speaker 4: stuff onto a ship and you send it to the
Speaker 4: United States, we want to make sure that it shows
Speaker 4: up without the sailors getting killed, without the ship being destroyed.
Speaker 4: That is an objective that we're going to pursue forcefully if.
Speaker 3: We have to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an account in Fox News of the USS
Speaker 1: Harry Truman aircraft carrier that was the same that the
Speaker 1: F eighteen super Hornet fell off of It's possible it
Speaker 1: was making an emergency turn to avoid Hoothy attack. It's
Speaker 1: all classified and should be. And that's fine and recent
Speaker 1: and thanks to listeners who sent us video of giant
Speaker 1: aircraft carriers making those emergency turns. It's quite astounding to
Speaker 1: witness how quickly and with what energy they can turn.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the aircraft carrier has been operating in the
Speaker 1: Red season September where it has launched strikes against the Houthis,
Speaker 1: and they have claimed it is they have attacked the
Speaker 1: Harry Truman and the accompanying warships in recent weeks, so
Speaker 1: that may well be what happened. Meanwhile, Marco Ruby from
Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet talking more generally about Iran and its
Speaker 1: recent actions, and.
Speaker 3: Look, there's a win here for Iran.
Speaker 7: Okay, they can actually have real economic development, Okay, real
Speaker 7: investment in their country. But they have to walk away
Speaker 7: from sponsoring terrorists, they have to walk away from helping
Speaker 7: the Houthies, they have to walk away from building long
Speaker 7: range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than
Speaker 7: having nuclear weapons, and they have to walk away from enrichment.
Speaker 3: These are not unreasonable requests.
Speaker 7: There are countries all over the world that have nuclear
Speaker 7: energy and don't enrich and don't have long range missiles
Speaker 7: and don't sponsor terrorism. That path is there for them.
Speaker 7: It's the path of peace. And frankly, I pray and
Speaker 7: hope and we'll do everything we can to hope convince
Speaker 7: them that they should take it.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio there, it will be so interesting to see
Speaker 1: the next six months or so unfold. According to the reports,
Speaker 1: which may or may not be accurate. You never know
Speaker 1: who floats what and for what reason. But Israel was
Speaker 1: ready to go ahead and strike Iran and take their
Speaker 1: nuclear program down to whatever extent is possible, and we
Speaker 1: told them to wait, wait, wait, to hold it back.
Speaker 1: Their negotiations allegedly happening. Soon It's going to turn one
Speaker 1: way or the other, and in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 3: Soon. Much more to come.
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Speaker 8: According to a new study, drinking champagne could reduce the
Speaker 8: risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, it increases the risk
Speaker 8: of hitting wasted at brunch and spending your Sunday afternoon
Speaker 8: passed out on one of the IKEA sample beds.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never enjoyed the mimosa or the the brunch drink.
Speaker 9: It only if I'm planning to keep her going all day.
Speaker 9: And that's, you know, a rare occurrence.
Speaker 1: You're always a much better distance athlete than I was.
Speaker 3: I can't do it two times. So I had a
Speaker 3: doctor's appointment. I wasn't hear the last hour.
Speaker 9: You probably didn't even notice me missing, which makes you
Speaker 9: wonder why I get paid to do this.
Speaker 3: But so I noticed, Jack, I noticed, all right.
Speaker 9: So I've had this cough thing for three weeks long
Speaker 9: outside of cancer, longest time I've been sick with the
Speaker 9: same thing ever in my wife. I just went to
Speaker 9: the doctor and apparently there's a whole bunch of these
Speaker 9: or one I don't know, flying around the country. So
Speaker 9: if you got something where it just keeps hanging on,
Speaker 9: it's a thing. Right now, three to five weeks of
Speaker 9: the same cough before it goes away, which.
Speaker 3: Is abow five weeks. Is that's too much what I
Speaker 3: would like to know?
Speaker 9: Well, three weeks sure feels like a long time. It's
Speaker 9: been three weeks in two days. But what I'd like
Speaker 9: to know if this has anything to do with covid.
Speaker 3: Did covid do anything to our immune system?
Speaker 9: Or is this some sort of merged with a cold
Speaker 9: variant something I don't know, No problem, and.
Speaker 1: It is doctor Fauci behind it all. Yeah, no kidding,
Speaker 1: Never forget two things. First of all, I always asked
Speaker 1: this question of doctors.
Speaker 3: I don't know why. I just am fascinated by this.
Speaker 9: I said, So, if I'd got and this because they're
Speaker 9: putting me on pregnizone to try to knock out the
Speaker 9: end of it because I got.
Speaker 3: Fluid in my lungs or whatever.
Speaker 9: I said, if this is going on one hundred years ago,
Speaker 9: what would happen? And she said, you'd probably get deemonia
Speaker 9: and die most likely. That's just amazing to me that
Speaker 9: how many things. You know, That's why life expectancy was
Speaker 9: like thirty eight not that long ago, because there are
Speaker 9: just so many things that would come along and kill.
Speaker 3: You right right.
Speaker 1: You know, I find myself wondering and I'm completely unqualified
Speaker 1: to even consider this question, So this should be fun.
Speaker 3: Would we well, I think I know the answer.
Speaker 1: Would we have developed the population density that we have
Speaker 1: now as modern humans in the absence of modern medicine. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, because a lot of people would be dropping
Speaker 1: dead like crazy of these respiratory diseases that we all
Speaker 1: trade back and forth because we're you know, in buildings
Speaker 1: and offices and schools all the time.
Speaker 9: London was pretty dense long before antibotics came along.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and people lived to thirty eight if they were lucky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we would have a lot different population, no doubt.
Speaker 9: But so some of you heard when we brought this
Speaker 9: up the other day. So I was talking to somebody
Speaker 9: I know in my personal life and about being sick,
Speaker 9: and they said, you get sick a lot. And I said, no,
Speaker 9: not really, And they said, and for whatever reason they
Speaker 9: had in their mind when I've been sick, they said, yeah,
Speaker 9: well you had this and then like a month ago
Speaker 9: you had and you missed work and blahlah blah. And
Speaker 9: I and for the first time in my life, which
Speaker 9: is absolutely amazing, that I've been able to live in
Speaker 9: denial all this time. It's shocking. What else am I
Speaker 9: in denial about or anybody I had to admit? Yeah,
Speaker 9: I get sick a lot. I get sick more than
Speaker 9: the average person. I've never admitted that out loud, but
Speaker 9: it's clearly statistically true, and I've never seen myself that way.
Speaker 9: So now I've I've got to realize, like my parents
Speaker 9: eighty two and eighty.
Speaker 3: Seven eighty eight.
Speaker 9: Almost never get sick, like ever, my whole life, including
Speaker 9: now I, on the other hand, would be I would die.
Speaker 3: I would have already been dead a long time ago.
Speaker 9: I'm a person who gets sick, and without modern medicine,
Speaker 9: I would have been dead a long time ago. I'm
Speaker 9: not cut out for, you know, life, apparently probably lack
Speaker 9: of character.
Speaker 3: Is that what the doctor say or you know? Because
Speaker 3: that's why I've.
Speaker 9: Been That's why I've wanted to deny getting sick a lot,
Speaker 9: because I do feel like it's people who get sick
Speaker 9: a lot I've just always.
Speaker 3: Looked down on. You're just like a weak person. You
Speaker 3: get sick of Wow.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not proud of it, but that's cruelty
Speaker 1: on one end of your personality and delusion on the other.
Speaker 1: This is troubling people who get sick a lot.
Speaker 9: I don't want them around me. I don't want to
Speaker 9: work with them. I don't I just yeah, you're just
Speaker 9: you're weak. You're a weak person. I've always felt that way.
Speaker 9: Maybe that's where the denial comes from because I had
Speaker 9: that aks. But I get sick a lot, and I would.
Speaker 1: Have been a compensating one hundred years ago, I would
Speaker 1: have been dead.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 9: So what do you do with that information? Nothing, that's
Speaker 9: just your deal. Like some people have better eyesight or taller.
Speaker 1: Oh about not the psychological part, but the reality of
Speaker 1: getting sick.
Speaker 3: I don't know. You try to take care of yourself.
Speaker 3: I suppose I don't do.
Speaker 1: You're quit acting like the precautions to prevent illness are
Speaker 1: stupid and only practiced by weak people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm going to go on the pregni zone, which
Speaker 9: is a steroid, so I'm going to get swoll. So
Speaker 9: look forward to me. Just I'm gonna be RFK Junior
Speaker 9: ripped by the way. He just announced he's getting feetest
Speaker 9: parts out of all the vaccines.
Speaker 3: So that's something to be excited about. Next vaccine, you
Speaker 3: got no feetest parts in it? Wait, what I know?
Speaker 3: I thought the same thing. What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll dig into that and figure out how
Speaker 1: significant it is. So you have probably had this same conversation,
Speaker 1: at least internally, as I have watching traffic go by.
Speaker 1: Everybody is driving little SUVs. Now every damn car is
Speaker 1: a crossover suv.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of them.
Speaker 1: And I remember back when this phenomenon was first beginning,
Speaker 1: I would always be a little i don't know, perturbed, intrigued, confused,
Speaker 1: because I would say, so you got a little hatchback,
Speaker 1: whatever happened to the trunk, the great American trunk you
Speaker 1: could stole, like, you know, a couch in three bodies
Speaker 1: in a trunk I have, And now you've got this
Speaker 1: little space.
Speaker 3: Why are people preferring these things now?
Speaker 1: Of course I've been driving one mostly for the last
Speaker 1: several years, a kind of mid sized suv.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, in the National Review, Chad Hagen observed first that
Speaker 1: the American car market has undergone a huge shift in
Speaker 1: recent years. It used to be Sedan after Sedan after
Speaker 1: Stan on American roads, two to four doors and a trunk.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 9: I don't know why they went away, but anyway back
Speaker 9: to your statistics, Yeah.
Speaker 1: They practically vanished and replaced by an endless parade of
Speaker 1: oversized SUVs and crossovers.
Speaker 3: He wrote, what happened.
Speaker 1: It was not consumer demand alone that drove this transformation.
Speaker 1: Although I do kind of like sitting up high.
Speaker 3: Sitting up hi, you start doing.
Speaker 9: It, it it, I don't know, you just feel more
Speaker 9: protected or the view or whatever. But yeah, when I
Speaker 9: got my sedan, it had been a long time since
Speaker 9: i'd sat down low.
Speaker 3: You have a different view of the world down there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went with like what you might call a
Speaker 1: sports sedan for a while, and I really liked the car.
Speaker 1: But in a land of SUVs and pickup trucks, you constantly,
Speaker 1: you constantly got their headlights directly into your eyeball right,
Speaker 1: because of the way they're focused anyway.
Speaker 3: But it was not consumer demand alone that drove the transfer. Transformation.
Speaker 1: Policy played a pivot, an ironic role, how well, under
Speaker 1: the revised corporate average fuel economy those are the Cafe standards.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you've heard of. Fuel efficiency targets were tied to
Speaker 1: a vehicle's physical footprint. The larger the vehicle, the easier
Speaker 1: the target began it became to meet. Right so called
Speaker 1: light trucks, a category that miraculously expanded to include nearly
Speaker 1: anything with four wheels and a squarish back end. Were
Speaker 1: given significantly lower efficiency requirements than passenger cars. As a result,
Speaker 1: automakers responded exactly as rational actors do under irrational government regulations.
Speaker 1: They made everything bigger. Traditional sedans were bulked up into crossovers,
Speaker 1: ground clearance was raised, carbon go space was squared off,
Speaker 1: and the vehicles were quietly reclassified as trucks to game
Speaker 1: the system that Washington had so thoughtfully built for them.
Speaker 9: That is funny on a number of ends. So first
Speaker 9: of all, government trying to force us to live certain
Speaker 9: ways almost never works. Almost never works.
Speaker 1: To find relate the free market one.
Speaker 3: We find our way around it.
Speaker 9: We do what we want to do, So we figure
Speaker 9: out a way around it. Our business figures out a
Speaker 9: way around it. And then you got the other end
Speaker 9: of it. And I've talked about this a million times.
Speaker 9: I know it annoys, it hurts some people's feelings. But
Speaker 9: the whole truck thing is so much image, and I
Speaker 9: have I have many many trucks, But it's an image
Speaker 9: they sell you that we all like.
Speaker 3: I'm perfectly fine with that. I like the image.
Speaker 9: I know they're selling me in an image, but almost
Speaker 9: nobody statistically ever puts their four wheel drive in four
Speaker 9: wheel drive and all the towing capacity stuff that they
Speaker 9: put in, all the ads to make you feel a
Speaker 9: certain way. Almost nobody ever pulls anything with their truck.
Speaker 9: I know plenty of you do, and you're listening right now,
Speaker 9: and you feel offended that I said that, But just statistically,
Speaker 9: it's true. Not talking about you, right right. You work
Speaker 9: on a farm and you pull a big truck, fine,
Speaker 9: you need a certain or a big wagon or whatever,
Speaker 9: you need a certain kind of truck, but most people don't.
Speaker 9: Most people are picking up their kids from school in
Speaker 9: their truck that can pull fifteen thousand pounds up a hill,
Speaker 9: but they never ever do.
Speaker 3: But so you know, it fits in with what you
Speaker 3: were just talking about.
Speaker 9: So you come up with an image to sell this
Speaker 9: kind of vehicle that gets around the cafe standards, and
Speaker 9: then everybody's driving this.
Speaker 1: This is an unfair characterization, which is why I enjoy
Speaker 1: it so much. But in general, progressive types, liberals in general,
Speaker 1: including you know, fairly moderate liberals back in the day,
Speaker 1: they pass policies and a praise them on how they
Speaker 1: make them feel and whether they make them look enlightened,
Speaker 1: whether they get social payoff from it. Do you praise
Speaker 1: me for passing these policies. That is the standard. If
Speaker 1: you're a good, smart conservative and you understand the way
Speaker 1: the world really works works, you propose policies, but then
Speaker 1: you think hard about, Okay, how will people's behaviors change
Speaker 1: because of this policy, how will people try to get
Speaker 1: around it?
Speaker 3: Is this worth the trouble?
Speaker 1: Are we, for instance, helping the poor single mother. Yes,
Speaker 1: but we're also encouraging people not to get married in
Speaker 1: the first place. For instance, that taken from the LBJ
Speaker 1: is so called great society and the sixties that decimated
Speaker 1: the black family. If you're a good conservative, you think
Speaker 1: hard about the way the world and humans really work,
Speaker 1: and you take a much lighter hand in trying to
Speaker 1: manipulate the levers of life and love in the economy,
Speaker 1: because it never works out the way you think it will.
Speaker 1: People adjust, they change, they do different things, or companies say, oh,
Speaker 1: bigger vehicles have lower standards. Let's make bigger vehicle. And literally,
Speaker 1: that's how long the conversation was. Right to get around
Speaker 1: your brilliant regulations.
Speaker 9: And while you and your friends in Brooklyn who never
Speaker 9: drive at you don't even own cars.
Speaker 1: And can totally not understand how anybody would want to
Speaker 1: own a car.
Speaker 9: I think we're all gonna start driving some sort of
Speaker 9: tiny little thing because we care about the environment. No,
Speaker 9: we went out and bought the great, big giant SUVs
Speaker 9: because we like big vehicles.
Speaker 3: Yep, the end. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 9: And then Katie had this story earlier about how the
Speaker 9: federal government's proposing some sort of tax for electric cars
Speaker 9: that will start happening, and you said it's to make
Speaker 9: up for the gas taxes. That's another perfect example of
Speaker 9: how it makes you feel versus reality.
Speaker 3: Everybody starts driving electric cars, all that gas.
Speaker 9: Tax that you used to fund tons of big blue
Speaker 9: projects in your state are gonna go away. How are
Speaker 9: you gonna fix it? You gotta make up for that,
Speaker 9: So where you gotta have an answer for that somewhere.
Speaker 9: You can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You try mightily to limit the miles people drive, and
Speaker 1: then you profit from those miles, and then when those
Speaker 1: miles actually drop, you go into a panic and you
Speaker 1: have to tax something else.
Speaker 9: Lovely, I'm gonna go to a movie tonight, very excited
Speaker 9: about a movie that hits the theaters tonight. I'll tell
Speaker 9: you about, among other things, on the ways to hear Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And yet we can't starting alone, no one can, and
Speaker 2: we can find a way together.
Speaker 3: Marvel Studios, Thunderballs, oh man I Hanson.
Speaker 9: I asked Canton to grab a trailer from Thunderbolts, which
Speaker 9: comes out tonight, new Marvel movie, which I'm very excited about.
Speaker 9: It's hilarious. Many of the trailers are freaking hilarious. That
Speaker 9: was not one of them, but it is a it's
Speaker 9: a like Avengers type movie, and it looks really really good,
Speaker 9: and it's got a bunch of the stars. If you've
Speaker 9: watched these or watch them with your kids or whatever. Bucky,
Speaker 9: you know, Captain America's friend who died during World War Two.
Speaker 9: Bucky's back. And this guy David Harbor. Do you know
Speaker 9: David Harbor by name Joe. He's spend so many things.
Speaker 9: He was a sheriff in Stranger Things. But he plays
Speaker 9: this Russian super soldier that he's been in the Marvel series.
Speaker 9: Really badass, very cool. I mean, just a great character
Speaker 9: actor and he's great in this role. But anyway, now
Speaker 9: he's in this that's kind of a half a comedy.
Speaker 3: And Henry and are going to go tonight.
Speaker 9: I'll let you know what I think of it. They're
Speaker 9: hoping it's going to revitalize the Marvel thing. Interesting that
Speaker 9: they're going to try to go with a comedy bent
Speaker 9: to bring it back after it kind of dying off
Speaker 9: over the last several years.
Speaker 3: Interesting, by the way.
Speaker 1: I was going to tout and Door, which is one
Speaker 1: of your Star Wars spinoffs on Disney Plus, and I
Speaker 1: read an article the other day.
Speaker 3: I kind of heard of it, but I never tuned in.
Speaker 1: But the article was talking about Tony Gilroy, who's the
Speaker 1: guy who like is behind it, the showrunner, the writer,
Speaker 1: and how disappointed he was that it wasn't a bigger hit.
Speaker 1: Uh and and the critic was saying, and it should be,
Speaker 1: because it's so good.
Speaker 3: He's the guy.
Speaker 1: Who wrote like all of the Bourne Identity movies and
Speaker 1: directed several of them. And and the point of the
Speaker 1: article was that it's not very Star Wars y. It's
Speaker 1: a political espionage thriller and and with really interesting deep
Speaker 1: characters and twists and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And I thought, oh, okay, I'll give it a try.
Speaker 3: I've been binging it. Oh I love it. It is
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 1: Oh really, check door on Disney Plus if you get that.
Speaker 3: He loves that sort of thing.
Speaker 9: On Thunderbolts, there's one of the trailers where he say,
Speaker 9: I think we should call ourselves thunderbolts if we If
Speaker 9: you're gonna call thunderbolts, I quit. So this is some
Speaker 9: breaking news and kind of interesting of things that are
Speaker 9: happening right now. So the jobs numbers came out today.
Speaker 9: So we had the GDP number that came out a
Speaker 9: couple of days ago in the economy shrank, and then
Speaker 9: Joe explained how that that's misleading, like a lot misleading.
Speaker 3: But then the jobs.
Speaker 9: Numbers out today, which exceeding expectations.
Speaker 3: So the Financial Times headline.
Speaker 9: Is US stocks wipe out losses from Liberation Day. US
Speaker 9: stocks rallied today on the news of one hundred and
Speaker 9: seventy seven thousand jobs and that was enough to cause
Speaker 9: the S and P at least to gain back everything
Speaker 9: that has been lost since Liberation Day.
Speaker 3: And so there you go.
Speaker 1: Check.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and check your four oh one k as
Speaker 3: they say.
Speaker 9: That's why that whole thing is so stupid every single time, and.
Speaker 3: People are worried about their foreum case.
Speaker 9: First of all, unless you're like retiring tomorrow and even then,
Speaker 9: Like my dad always talks about how many times he's
Speaker 9: lost half of what he's got since he's been retired.
Speaker 3: It comes back unless you're right.
Speaker 9: I don't know, planning to buy a house to with
Speaker 9: your four oh one k, which would be a bad plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you act like all of the talking hands
Speaker 1: on the news, think you act, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 1: Get a financial advisor, read a book or something.
Speaker 9: Read a book or something, but like all that stuff,
Speaker 9: or this is the worst stock market decline since April
Speaker 9: of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: That's two years ago, and I don't even remember it.
Speaker 3: I mean, why are you acting like this?
Speaker 1: You don't remember twenty twenty three? The blood running in
Speaker 1: the streets, the cannibalism, parents eating their own children.
Speaker 3: Is there? Oh wow?
Speaker 9: You'd have thought that had stuck in my mind, right?
Speaker 3: I didn't see this. Maybe you talked about it while
Speaker 3: I was at the doctor.
Speaker 9: The U United States announced yesterday we're stepping back from
Speaker 9: the peace talks, and you brought Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I missed this story.
Speaker 9: Yesterday We're no longer going to be involved in the
Speaker 9: peace talks. It's up to them. The White House announced yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 9: I'd missed that too. Yeah, seems like big news. Well
Speaker 9: what peace talks?
Speaker 3: I mean maybe maybe that's the ye. We do four
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