WEBVTT - You Backstabbing Bastards 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:15.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Kaddy Armstrong and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:35.080 d and he Arms Drum Studio. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:40.400 See see signor rye dimly lit room deeper than the 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.239 bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. You can 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.080 smell the weekend from here. And today we're under the 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.919 tutelage of our general manager. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.640 The American Consumer. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.960 What I'm across the couple of really really interesting pieces 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.480 of journalism about the current state of the haves and 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.080 have nots and spending and holiday this and that, and 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:07.440 the economy and insurance. Trump's inheriting a bit of a 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.920 mess economically speaking. I mean, the economy is in decent 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.640 enough shape, but the swirling economic winds are swirling, swirlingly. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:15.160 Yeah. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.919 Still the things still haven't sorted out since COVID. Obviously 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.360 there's a lot of truth to that. Yeah, it's still 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.640 the weird. At the risk of throwing out another tortured metaphor, no. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.600 It's like the wake of a boat still, I mean, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.600 still sloshing back and forth and causing problems and may 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.039 well for the rest of our lives. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.560 I mean, if you look at the level of deficits 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:37.640 we're running right. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:46.160 My anecdotal evidences, man, places are poppin' malls and restaurants 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.960 and stuff like that, super super busy. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:50.440 Yeah, absolutely true. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.640 Although again one of the headlines is that businesses that 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:59.480 cater to the lower core tile, say of income shoppers, 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.760 are seeing those folks really cutting back on spending. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.320 Interesting And is that a canary in the coal mine 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.280 or not? I guess this is a swirling wake of 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.280 a ship. Did that crowd just run out of a 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.679 credit card space before the next quintile does. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.840 And stimmy money plus blue collar wages. And I've been 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.520 acutely aware of this because of a couple of things 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.200 I'm involved in. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.840 Rose very very steeply, Like. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.560 Four years ago to two years ago, you couldn't find waiters, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.320 you couldn't hire a dishwasher, and so businesses were thrown 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.640 crazy money just to get workers, blue collar workers. That 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.239 has leveled off now a good deal, so their wages 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.720 are not rising nearly as fast as the prices of 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.600 their food has, for instance. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.440 So I hate to bring up the drones again. Oh no, 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.799 do do we need to figure this out? But there's 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.680 a nation, But why have I not heard a single 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.400 person point out the logical fallacy of authorities saying, we 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.760 don't know what they are, but you're not at risk. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.280 They're not a danger. I know. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.480 I haven't heard one person say that makes no sense. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.720 If you don't know what they are, you can't state 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.200 they're not dangerous. It doesn't make any sense. With all 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.760 due modesty, that is why people join us for this 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.239 little proceeding that we do every weekday. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.760 How do you miss that? As a quote unquote journalist, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.680 I feel I have no idea what they are, but 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:26.920 you're going to be fine. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:32.280 What that is such classic doctor Fauci givings is the 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.680 information that he thinks we can handle a little bit 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.880 at a time. It's just a government trying to manipulate 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.280 is I hate that more than anything in the world 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.600 I have since I was a tiny child, when I 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.880 could tell that the teacher was doing that, I just 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.880 freaking hate that. Tell me what is true, I'll deal 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.720 with it, but don't do that. Oh God, that makes 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:51.240 me angry. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:52.000 You know. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.200 I was just discussing this with my wife, who has 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:59.360 a medical procedure. She's fine, but gotta be not have 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.120 anything in her stomach at all, like it's it's not 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.160 a surgery, but it's that sort of thing because you can't, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.760 you know, aspirate while you're under anesthesia, and so you know, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.600 as of midnight, no solids and no clear liquids after 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.160 seven am, whatever the guidelines are. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:13.920 And we're discussing the fact. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.200 That you can take little just to keep your mouth wet, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:19.200 SIPs of water. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:20.720 But if you. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.800 If you say what is the actual maximum you can do, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.200 the morons of the world will figure it's okay to 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.520 have a ham sand, what's in an extra large coke? 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:32.320 Okay? 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:32.560 Right? 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.560 Or surgery. I don't like I don't like that. I 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.760 don't like that. I don't let the morons die. Tell 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.160 everybody the truth, all the hard. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.560 Hearted Jack Armstrong folks showing his true colors there. But yeah, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.040 that's the point. I've had nurses say, no, this is okay, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.640 and this is okay. Just don't do any more than that, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.360 because I know I'm a non moron, but that there's 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.159 so much of life that's like that, you know, the 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.360 from official pronouncements like you're talking about, to medical advice 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.680 to is it okay to have a glass of chardney 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:00.480 while I'm pregnant. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.360 Yes, the baby will be perfectly fine. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.280 But some people will take that advice and shot gun 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.000 an entire bottle of wild turkey. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:08.080 So I will tell them. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.200 That not even a single drop must passion, and so 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:10.919 don't even. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.839 Look at a bottle of wine. This pregnant. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.040 This pregnant woman went to Octoberfest because the doctor said 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.120 one glass of wine per week would be okay exactly. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.680 Can we have some sort of test? It can be 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.320 administered as early as age twelve. I think you either. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.840 Get a an M card that you have to show 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:36.240 at all official proceedings M for Mara. We're an M card. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.880 So this this conversation driven out of the how do 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.279 journalists stand there while a mayor or a governor, or 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.880 a house wrepper whatever says we don't know what they are, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.000 but you're in no danger. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.240 They're no threat to anyone, and say that makes no sense. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:57.480 Nine one one. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.760 There's a man in my headache. I heard him up there. Well, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.720 we have no idea who he is, but you're in 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.160 no danger. Rust assured, everything is. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.960 Fine, right, it'll be fine. Oh man, we should start 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.599 the show officially. It fits in with that. We also 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.279 have a Salem witch trial thing happening here, clearly, clearly, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:17.920 if you've ever. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.000 Read about that, that is occurring. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.520 So that after the opening clip, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.320 Joe Getty on this it is. How did it already 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.400 get to be Friday December thirteenth? Oh my god, it's 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.160 Friday the thirteenth, and we have unidentified objects in the sky. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.200 You're twenty twenty four. We are Armstrong and Getty, and 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.320 we approve of this program. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.000 All right, let's begin cracking down on which is apparently 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.120 according to FCC rules and regulations. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.279 Here we go, at Mark, we have. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.839 No evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.479 pose a national security or a public safety threat. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.520 Thank you, thank you. That was shortly after he said 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:56.080 we don't know what they are? What Sorry, that's laughable. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.400 I started to laugh at you, but you just said 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.560 something hilarious like you're a stand up comedian. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:02.640 Yeah, well I get it. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.880 You can state we have no evidence that they are 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:10.160 a national security threat, but when coupled with on the 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.240 other hand, we got no stinking idea what they are, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.920 and that that's rather colors the first statement. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.440 So people are starting to see them all around the country. Now. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.880 I think that's a yes, full on Salem witch trial 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.720 situation if you've ever read about that way. The difference 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.320 being there apparently are some sort of flying objects in 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.720 the sky. There were never actually any witches, but now 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.640 everything everybody sees in the sky they called the news 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.520 or a copper or whatever, and it's a plain you 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:39.320 live near an airport. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:40.480 They've been there for years, So. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:48.920 Yeah, you're right, which could well cloud the ability to 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.960 get to the bottom of what I think is actually 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:55.880 a significant, you know, set of activities there in New 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.040 Jersey and previously at Langley in Virginia. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:04.920 Iranian mothership, you think mostly whatever that is, I'll tell 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.960 you what, uh. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.920 Iran can't afford a mothership, right, no kidding. They're hurting, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.320 for certain, but are they a dangerous cornered beast? More 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.320 on that to come step. That's a good point. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:14.800 They had to. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.520 They couldn't come to the aid of Syria because they're 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.720 stretched so thin with Hesbel and Hamas being devastated. And 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.800 one thing I got from that Bob Woodward book is 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:31.000 the Israel Israeli response, which was kind of treated as well. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.040 They had to they had to gesture that they. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.640 Won't put up with this, and Iran had to make 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.920 some noises and everything it's calling down and then so 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.080 Israel didn't gloat about it because they didn't want to 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.200 put Iran in a bad position. But they took around, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.680 they took out Iran's best technology, and then they went 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:50.000 to where Iran has their very top stuff to be 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.320 able to avoid being attacked. Israel went inside that and 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.240 blew up a couple inconsequential things. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.040 But just to say you can't stop us. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.800 You couldn't see us, you didn't even know we were there, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.400 So look f around and find out if you keep 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.240 doing this, because we could blow up anything. And they 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.440 and they didn't brag about that, and it wasn't really 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.720 reported on to not put Iran in an uncomfortable position 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.920 where they have to defend themselves. But Israel really really 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:24.640 exposed Iran as defenseless. They're defenseless right now, essentially, Yeah, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.160 which is I've been listening to a couple of different 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.280 podcasts where, you know, not crazy people are making the argument, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.120 why aren't we taking out It's been our policy in 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.600 the United States has been regime change in Iran, say, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.880 with Israel for forever now. Is the best time that's 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.839 ever ever going to happen. They're defenseless, they're catering. Why 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:45.800 wouldn't you take them out? 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.680 I don't know. I don't know. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.400 Why wouldn't we I think I think we had such 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.160 a bad experience with some resume changes that went wrong 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.480 that there's not a big appetite for that. Yeah, it's 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.840 it's one would hope we learned some of the lessons 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:04.760 from our absolutely horrific, insane, idiotic administration of Iraq. But yeah, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.600 it's easy to kick the old guy out, but to 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.960 organize the new thing is an incredible amount of work. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:16.280 Although the Iranian people are not the Afghan people, very 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.480 different culture, very very Iraqi people, right, yeah, yeah, although 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.160 they're more similar certainly to Iraq. Anyway, Having said that, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.520 there is zero chance, and Donald J knows this, there 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.400 is zero chance that the next two years do not 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:37.520 bring an enormous change in Iran's relationship with the world. Right, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.839 there is going to be big, big change one way 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.280 or the other. They're closer to getting a bomb than 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.600 they've ever been, and they might be in a situation 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.560 where they need a bomb more than they ever do. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.120 For the reasons I just laid out that they're completely vulnerable. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.920 we should talk about that more later. That's quite the 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:57.480 situation that Trump's gonna inherit. How does mailbag look? That's good, good, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:05.640 very insightful. Cool, and our text line is KFTC. Brian 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.720 Setzer should really be on the list of all time 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:14.080 great guitar players. Oh ridiculous. Love his plant and the stride. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.360 To be able to play like that, But I'd have 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.440 to practice a lot. Who has the time straight? Cats 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.920 are touring the whole the whole group. Really Yeah, next year, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:26.920 little game. I keep a good plan. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:33.280 If you're old enough, you remember the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.199 which not was not known as a hoax in the beginning. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.520 Slash lynching, high tech media lynching, Yeah, no kidding. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.679 The woman that made the claims did an interview yesterday 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.760 where she finally admits on camera to having made the 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:47.320 whole thing up. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:48.560 We'll talk more about that later. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.880 I think it may have been one of the lead 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.199 moments in the country going crazy. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:54.839 I think it was one of the one of the 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.880 first leading us down that path, and I. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.599 Think it it was a pivotal moment in people understanding 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:08.439 that activists will lie, and the media will accept their 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.360 lies and hurt people for their preferred causes. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.840 Opened a lot of eyes. Here's your freedom loving No. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.600 Oh no, no, I didn't get through the phrase, Michael, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.280 I stopped myself. No, no, Katie, don't you put your 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.079 finger at me? No, like your finger at his wrists. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:27.520 To a Friday slip. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.600 He broke his wrists. It's a strike. It was a sweating. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:35.560 I'm I know. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:37.839 No, when you don't. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.520 Tease cow on a Friday, we all get so excited. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.120 And you know what, I'm here to bring joy to teacher, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.439 and I'm glad that I have. You sure did having bass. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.520 All right, all that to come, Let's take a fond 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.840 look back at the week that was. It's cow clips 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.360 of the Week. I want to give it to me. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:01.400 I don't care how long it is. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:09.280 What's the movie Syria? He's a dangerous cocktail? What the 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:15.240 hell happened here? So fat? The moment is just utterly surreal. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.760 The tells him there's no more army, no more prisons. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:20.640 Are you serious? 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:25.800 He says, this is an amazing geopolitical disaster, particularly for 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:26.480 the Russians. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.240 You know, twenty five percent chance it turns. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.719 Out really well, and Luis G. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:40.440 Mangione, they ask him, have you been to New York recently? 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.360 And he starts shaking. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.679 People are selling things or we're selling things with Mangoni's 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:47.880 image on Etsy. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.720 Hear me on this, he is no hero. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.200 People are not thrilled with the Altoona McDonald's employees who 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.360 mickfingered him. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.800 Some of the comments worth thoughts and deductibles to the family. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:08.280 Why I felt joy unfortunately, you know, because serious. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:13.880 I mean, I love that the CEOs are afraid right now. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:24.240 You should be those mysterious drones in the skies for 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:24.920 weeks now. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.560 At this point, nobody's seen any of these units taking 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:29.360 off or landing. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.440 Are they testing our ability to respond to this? I'm 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.040 going to tell you the real deal. I ran launched 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:44.160 a mothership. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you the deal. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.160 It's off the east coast of the United States of America. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.440 There is no evidence of any foreign based involvement from 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.360 coastal vessels. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.520 I promise you this is our top priority. We are 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:57.400 such potential. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.880 If you could be just just non biased, you hurt 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:02.920 yourself so badly. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.960 The new rage item this season is a pardon. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.560 President issue clemency for nearly fifteen hundred Americans. The right 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.360 thing for the bureau is for me to serve until 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.800 the end of the current administration in January, and then stepped. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:24.080 Down, Trump bluntly declaring the resignation of Christopher Ray is 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.600 a great day for America. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.120 I want it. Give it to me. I don't care 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:29.360 how long it is. Wow. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.880 That was really an unfortunate tanform phrases prasing use that 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.560 for some sort of drop there. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:42.760 Handsome, well done and done. Yes, yeah, yeah, all right, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:43.880 here's your freedom loving quote. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.360 Beck. This is actually paraphrasing Craig. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:52.800 The healthcare guru Brian in beautiful Haettisburg, Mississippi noted it, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.880 and this is actually a fairly popular phrase or thought 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.440 among those of us who are trying to preserve sanity 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.360 and limited government. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.040 And what Craig said essentially yesterday is. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:12.240 No individual right exists that depends on the labor of another. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:13.000 That was good. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.000 Yeah, And that's again I've come across that thought, and 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.600 it's a good one, the concept. And we're not gonna 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.040 have time for meal bag and it's fine. I'd rather 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.040 talk about this anyway, at least for the moment. The 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:31.080 concept of a right, which is a sacred, inviolable thing 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.720 that human beings must have, has gotten dumbed down and 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.480 spread out to that which would be really nice or 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.280 is maybe even really really important, like housing a roof 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.240 over your head, but if somebody else has to pay 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.760 for it and do the work, that's not a right. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.720 That's just something that's very important that you would like. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.920 That's definitely a different category. That's a good one. That's 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:55.560 a good one. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.960 And look, if you want government policy that includes that 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.800 second category of stuff too, that's fine, we can talk 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.800 about that. But do not dumb down the concept of 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.040 a natural right, or it'll be much easier to wipe 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:07.480 them away. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:08.240 You could wipe. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.040 Away the free speech with the idea that if I 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.840 don't get a house in the suburbs, then I don't 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:13.800 get free speech either. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:14.920 Don't blur those lines. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.080 Yeah, you don't want the Second Amendment to get thrown 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.960 out with healthcare as a right. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.479 Mailbag on the way to a bunch of other stuff. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.520 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.600 Time magazine named Donald Trump. They're twenty twenty four Person 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.000 of the Year. Trump is the first man in history 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.520 being Times Person of the Year and McDonald's Employee of. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:41.760 The Month history is me. Time also announced. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.560 Some additional categories. Athlete of the Year is Caitlyn Clark 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.600 and Offward. Question of the Year is your grandma asking 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:48.560 me what is huktua? 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.800 And you go, yeah, oh oh. That reminds me. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.040 We've got to bring back the audio of Caitlin Clark 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:00.320 expressing her regret for her white privilege. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.960 Um So on Trump being Time magazine Person of the Year. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.119 I haven't read the article, but Mark Alpern mentioned on 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:10.480 his podcast the other day he said, the article about 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.960 Trump in Time is like an article about an incoming 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.360 president who was duly elected should be and just how 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.159 differently Trump is being treated than he was first time around. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.520 Yeah, Yeah, it's it's interesting too. Trump is different than 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.800 he was first time around. Yeah, and this transition is 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.399 just crazy. I want to talk about the unprecedented, really 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.760 amazing way he is being treated as the president already 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.840 all around the world. And I will quote the great 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.280 Peggy Noonan at times as well, because she's been writing 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.040 about this man. 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.480 I just saw the Fox poll has seventy seven percent 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.959 of Americans say the economy is fair or poor. Seventy 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.720 seven percent Wow, so interesting. That's a heck of a 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:54.560 thing to walk into. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.720 I think it was the great economist Joe Getty who 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.200 once said, if inflation is nothing, else matters. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:02.760 Yeah. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:08.640 So, speaking of the Time article, this is devastating. This 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:15.280 is this is Trump effortlessly devastating Kamala Harris Time asked 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.320 Trump about Kamala and what he thought were the worst 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.280 mistakes in her campaign. Trump's response, writes Andrew Styles, was 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.160 one of the most devastating accurate assessments delivered to date. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.800 What Trump said was, quote. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.800 The biggest mistake was taking the assignment number one, because 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.960 you have to know what you're good at. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.920 He's right, that's pretty that's pretty good. That's that's just 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.800 pretty good all the way around. Just then life, right. 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.320 Yeah, her biggest mistake was running because she's a terrible 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.439 candidate and nobody likes her anyway. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:47.960 We've been saying that for quite some time. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.679 This is your dessert after Joe does whatever he's gonna do. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.080 One of the funniest texts we've ever gotten. Yes, although 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.280 it's a bit insider, not everybody will get it. But 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.439 if you're a longtime listener and you know all the 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.040 particulars it's very very funny. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.960 So stay don okay, very good. So do we need 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.119 the mail bag music? I don't know. People like it. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.960 I don't care. I don't need it. People like it? Yeah? 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:12.040 Did you take a poll? 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:13.280 Well? 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.600 No, Occasionally I've said, let's leave it out in people. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.520 Right now, you kind of play the music, all right? 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.720 So all right, mail Bag drops a note mail Bag 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.040 at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.600 One of our best bosses, smartest barsons we ever said 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.120 about listeners, people don't know what they like, but they 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:28.760 like what they know. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.480 And that's true. I'm the same way. Yeah. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.360 To a large extent, we humans are looking for patterns 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.600 and comfort food or whatever. 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:38.840 Yeah. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.840 So this note from side Joe Bob. I have a 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.560 feeling this joke is at least one hundred years old. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.119 Side Shoe Bob, who is worth noting, served in the 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.000 United States Marine Corps, God bless him. I heard that 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.080 Army is only going to dress fifteen players for tomorrow's 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.760 game against Navy. The rest are able to dress themselves. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.680 Go Navy, beat on me. 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:01.679 Wow, that's funny. 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.120 Yeah, and it's a good excuse to mention that that 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.040 great tradition that game is happening this weekend. The President 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:13.040 elect is going to be there with Elon Musk. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.919 And the crowd is going to cheer him like, oh 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.320