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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Alexis McAdams
Authorities at the CDC are trying to explain what's behind new numbers showing that 1 out of every 31 children in America was diagnosed with some measure of autism in 2022, the latest figures available. And the report shows that autism was much more common in boys than girls. Other health officials are explaining that the larger numbers are because parents and doctors are now much more aware of the disease and are now correctly identifying more symptoms.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yeah, I might be biased in this just because I've known a couple of people that were in that world of researching that who really react like angrily to that notion that that is just a, just a distraction. Autism is so overwhelmingly a bigger deal now than it used to be. It may be around the edges, it's because of diagnosis, but it's not a factor in the whole thing at all. And it just, it just, you know, it just clouds, it just takes away the, the momentum you've got in the conversation.
Joe Getty
And you definitely thought that was righteous fervor as opposed to they didn't want their funding cut.
Dr. Nicole Safire
No, no, no, no, no. Absolutely. That's what they believe.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Well, that's, that's interesting and good to know. You know, my kid, we were told she was not autistic back in the pre history of knowing a damn thing about this, which was roughly the year 1998 or so. And now she absolutely is considered autistic. So there has been an evolution in recognition. And that's interesting, but is that 10% of the rise is it 50%? Is it 1? That's what makes so many of these discussions in the media especially so annoying to me, is people, oh, it's a rise in awareness. Okay, 10% or 100%.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yeah. I believe autism is a thing. I believe it exists and I believe it is way worse. Maybe it never existed in the past or at such small levels we didn't notice it. I think it's, you know, a big, giant concern. But I do know for a fact, because I'm in this world also, that there are parents who work hard to find a doctor who will say your kids on the spectrum because it gives you an out, an opportunity to get involved in all kinds of public school stuff.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Once you get that.
Joe Getty
Modern world, modern world one star cannot recommend. So Alexis McAdams on Fox News doing an extended report on autism research and politics and that sort of thing. Let's start with 90. Roll from there, Michael.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This week the CDC is expected to release data showing that the rate of autism spectrum disorder among children is now 1 in 31, up from 1 in 36 in 2023 and 1 in 150 in 2000. It's an increase met with a bold promise.
Joe Getty
By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Says an effort to pinpoint the cause of autism and its rise is now being led by the National Institutes of. Will involve hundreds of scientists worldwide.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Well, I'm glad we're giving it that kind of attention because we've been saying for a long time it should get that sort of attention.
Joe Getty
But what did he claim by September.
Dr. Nicole Safire
By September, we'll know the cause of autism.
Joe Getty
I find that hard to eliminate exposure to it.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I. Well, that suggests something that might not be the case.
Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. That is, that's. I think that's fairly easy to explain. He and people who think like him are going to present, quote, unquote, research that says it's vaccines and therefore we can stop autism by stopping the vaccines. It's a preordained outcome. That's what it sounds like to me.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I've been around to school. You have to. I've been around schools a lot with my 15 year old and a 13 year old. And I mean, I was there up until a couple of years ago. I was there every day picking one of them up and then at the playground with all the kids every single day and blah, blah, blah. That number sounds easily right to me. 1 out of 30.
Joe Getty
Interesting.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Based on looking at classrooms and that sort of stuff. That. That is not shocking to me at all.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you're around youngsters much more than I am these days. I mean, my info is out of date again, as you know, referencing my kid, Something that happened 25 years ago is just. Please, prehistory. Let's roll on with Alexis.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Existing research, including studies done on twins, show us that there's a huge genetic component. Fox News contributor Dr. Nicole Safire adds that the NIH has also identified potential environmental risk factors for autism. Kennedy believes a singular toxin could be found responsible.
Joe Getty
Everything is on the table. Our food system, our water, our air, different ways of parenting. Epidemics are not caused by Genesis.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy says vaccines are on the table as well. Despite widespread scientific evidence showing no link to autism, claims that autism is solely.
Jack Armstrong
Caused by environmental exposures, parenting style or vaccines is not only lacking scientific evidence, but it's also incredibly irresponsible.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Wow. That's the first time I've ever heard parenting styles thrown out there for the whole autism thing.
Joe Getty
What? Yeah. Yeah, what?
Dr. Nicole Safire
I loved him saying everything's on the table. Food, environment, vaccines, everything. That sounds good. Parenting styles.
Joe Getty
What parenting style?
Dr. Nicole Safire
Maybe he had to say that to satisfy some group that thinks it's that. And he doesn't think it's that, but he's just saying we're gonna look at everything. But have you. Had you heard that before?
Joe Getty
No, no, no. That's out of left field. And him saying genetics doesn't cause epidemics, that's. That's an interesting point. No, it doesn't, but it absolutely plays a role in autism. It's indisputable. And sometimes it's epigenetics, which means if you have a particular gene and it is exposed to a particular environmental factor that will. It's a genetic issue, but it's epigenetic. It means it's one step removed.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I never heard that word before. But that makes sense that, you know, if you're. You could have this particular genetic makeup all throughout human history, but now that particular genetic makeup comes in contact with certain amount of plastics or cell phone towers or whatever we decide it is.
Joe Getty
Right.
Dr. Nicole Safire
You have this thing called autism.
Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. Just for instance, it is absolutely indisputable that my kid's grandfather, my wife's dad, was autistic. Oh, wow.
Dr. Nicole Safire
That is interesting. Did not know that. Okay, that's really interesting.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And, yeah, on my side of the family, there's definitely evidence of it as well.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Huh.
Joe Getty
Could be a certain combination of genes. It's like, you Know, husband a and wife A together might have a kid who has a genetic syndrome, but if they're not, if they married somebody else, the kid wouldn't have. Anyway, I don't want to get too far afield.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I would.
Joe Getty
Genetics.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Probably worth throwing this out there because my, my son has a variety of things that I've talked about a lot on the air, and I talk about him less as he's getting older. But always, every time we're with psychiatrist, psychologist, doctor, whatever, dealing with this stuff through his life, somebody throws out, you know, has he been tested for autism or have they looked at autism or whatever? I've had, I don't know, 15 to 20. I mean, that's not an exaggeration. 15 to 20 different medical professionals look into it and all say, no, he's not autistic. So they will say, no with similar characteristics. At least that has been my experience. So they're not like using that as a easy blanket catch all for anything they can't figure out. At least not my kid or like.
Joe Getty
ADHD for every restless little boy, you know? Yeah. Finally, this from Alexis McAdams on Fox News.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's former top vaccine official, forced to resign last month, spoke out yesterday against Kennedy's September promise, saying autism is just too complex.
Ryan Seacrest
You can be incredibly supportive, supportive of.
Alexis McAdams
People, but giving them false hope is wrong.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The cause of autism and the rise in the number of cases are largely seen as two separate issues. Most experts feel the rate increases due to greater awareness and expanded criteria.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Expanded criteria is a different thing. That's a problem. And then, see, that's why you said the modern world. The modern world is a problem. There is so much benefit to expand the criteria for money that you get for either your research institution or your school, your classroom, whatever. Then like I said, if you can get your kid diagnosed by somebody on some level of the spectrum, then you qualify for all these different things. All these things have the unfortunate, you know, ability to, like, mislead us on actually trying to figure out how many autistic kids we have and how do we fix it.
Joe Getty
We're swimming in a miasma of ulterior motives.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Wow. A miasma.
Joe Getty
Was that flowery enough for you? If you came for flowery boy, you got it there.
Dr. Nicole Safire
What is a miasma? It's like something you can swim in.
Joe Getty
Confusing mix. You can't breathe, right? Exactly. No, that's, that's just regular asthma. So finally, this, I want to throw this in. That, that whole, the origin of the. It's vaccines thing is from a since retracted 1998 study which was based on fraudulent data from 12 children that gave rise to the vaccine. Autism theory continues to fuel conspiracy theories. Here's the director of the center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University, who I have a feeling is sincere in wanting to figure out what's going on. We will learn absolutely nothing with another study about vaccines. We've ruled it out.
Dr. Nicole Safire
That's interesting. I don't really mind anything rfk jr said there other than the fact that we will figure out what's causing this by September.
Joe Getty
And maybe it's parenting styles and not.
Dr. Nicole Safire
From a false hope standpoint because, well, I don't know. But most parents I know who have tested kids would roll their eyes at that. They're not going to think, oh good, we're going to have it cured by September. No, no, no you're not.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Unless they're on the verge of some mind blowing breakthrough, having been in the the position now for what, two months? Seems unlikely anyway.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yeah, well, I am glad that it's being treated like a crisis because it is a freaking crisis.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Amen to that. Wherever the road leads, let's get there as fast as possible. Please, can we? You know what? And here you go. Here you here's the same old song. Here's my free bird. Here's my stairway to heaven. You came to hear this, you're going to hear it. If we would quit wasting money as a government on stupid crap or buying votes in spending far more than we take in, we would have plenty of money to do important scientific research. End of screed.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Speaking of wasting money, there is a survey done by the Cato Institute about people's attitudes. Shocking results to me. Happy about Happy to be shocked about how many people think the government wastes money. There's something they can do about it. We got to do something about it. Happy to hear that. We'll get to that later. It's really good stuff. Stay here.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Dr. Nicole Safire
I got it.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Seriously, I insist.
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Dr. Nicole Safire
Don't be silly.
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Joe Getty
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Oh, but then again, you could look at Odoo in terms of how its individual software programs are a lot like building blocks. Whatever your business needs, manufacturing, accounting, HR programs, you can build a custom software suite that's perfect for your company. So what does Odoo? Well, Odoo is a bit of everything. Odoo is a fertilizer, magic beanstalk building blocks for business. Yeah, that's it.
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Dr. Nicole Safire
They'Re a think tank we like. They did a survey along with YouGov asking all kinds of questions about tax cuts and spending in the federal government and that sort of stuff. I'll hit you with one number and then get to a whole bunch more. Next segment. Only 15% of Americans think the massive increase in federal spending over the last decade has improved their quality of life.
Joe Getty
Huh?
Dr. Nicole Safire
15%. With the headline being mass vast majorities, including Democrats, think we spend too much. We got to spend less. They want the tax cuts permanent, that the government is ripping us off. We're not getting any bang for our buck. It's like it's. It's a settled issue. You wouldn't grasp that from taking in politics through mainstream media, but it is a settled issue. But we get more of that coming up.
Joe Getty
Yeah, boy. I have thoughts on that, but we'll delve into them later. For no particular reason other than we enjoy it. Now let's continue our series of neighbors screaming at each other like lunatics. Apparently, the guy started taping the guy with his phone. And here we go.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I'm gonna come up there right now and I'm gonna stuff that thing up your. Go yourself. The most disrespectful son of a. Go yourself, guppy.
Joe Getty
You.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I find that on YouTube and it's gonna go right up your. Go yourself. Say it again. Go yourself. Come on, let's go. Come say it to my face, you f. Ing idiot. Go yourself. Next time I see you face to face, you're the one that's gonna Go yourself.
Joe Getty
Wow. Wow.
Dr. Nicole Safire
We have any idea what their argument is about? What their beef is or the plural? Beeves. Maybe they have multiple beeves.
Joe Getty
I just don't think they get along. Jack. That didn't have quite the manic delightfulness of mashed potato on Tesla.
Dr. Nicole Safire
No, but the interaction, the accents and the speaking styles in the mild speech impediments, I thought made it very charming. Yeah, on YouTube.
Joe Getty
I'm gonna shove it right up y'all. Right. Yeah, we get it.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I think we need to use more I statements, less you statements.
Joe Getty
Tell him how you feel. Don't accuse. Okay. I feel like I would like to put your phone up your arse.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I feel like If I see this on YouTube, I am going to kill you.
Joe Getty
Ah, now I understand. Beautiful. Still like the other one better. You sit here, you drive in, you drive out. You have junk cars all over. What do you do? You drive in and you drive out. That's what people do in their driveways. You. Oh, that's one of the funniest things ever. And now, Michael, you've. You've derailed a segment I was going to get to. A trio of fascinating baseball stories, only one of which has anything to do with baseball. Do we have any time? Yeah, we got about a minute 40. All right, play. This is clip number 16. This is a Red Sox game.
Dr. Nicole Safire
A little buzz in the ballpark. And it's not the fans. They've halted play. But there's a whistling effect in the sound system.
Joe Getty
There we go. Whatever they had to do, they did it. That was so weird. That sound was giving me nausea. Katie.
Dr. Nicole Safire
It.
Joe Getty
It just did the exact same thing to me. That's weird. I felt like I was gonna throw up. Yeah, I'm sorry if that. If it actually made anybody regurgitate. I don't know if that was because.
Dr. Nicole Safire
It was, like, directly because the headphones or what, but.
Joe Getty
Wow, that was.
Dr. Nicole Safire
And I'll bet it was a lot louder for the people in the stands there.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Wow. Okay. Do we have time for this? This is from the Atlanta Braves game.
Lauren
Who do we got here? What's your name?
Joe Getty
My name's Lauren.
Kayla
And I'm Kayla.
Lauren
You guys hang out the rooftop lounge often?
Kayla
Once a year I come out to visit.
Lauren
Okay.
Joe Getty
Wiley got four innings to get the numbers.
Lauren
All right? So they want me to get your number.
Dr. Nicole Safire
They want you to get my number.
Lauren
I'm dead serious.
Joe Getty
So the best part of this right now is that Wiley could totally be faking it. This might be the new move. Just walk around with a fanduel microphone and an earpiece in and convince fans that they're actually on tv. I should have thought of this years ago.
Lauren
I got the number.
Dr. Nicole Safire
We're good.
Joe Getty
Hey. What?
Dr. Nicole Safire
That is toxic masculinity.
Joe Getty
It's misogyny, Jack. I can't believe a young man would want to be with a young woman and ask her to be with him. It's sickening. There's actually a third baseball story that's about baseball. Could be a major change in pitching.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Most of America agrees with you. Taxes and spending.
Joe Getty
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Dr. Nicole Safire
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Joe Getty
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Dr. Nicole Safire
Biden made his first appearance in public since he left office. Biden spoke at a bipartisan event to encourage Democrats and Republicans to to work to protect Social Security together. Which seems about as likely to happen as a reboot of Fiddler on the Roof starring Kanye West. But Social Security is number one for Joe Biden. Literally his Social Security number is one that's kind of interesting as a lead into this, Republicans and Democrats not being able to work together. It would seem that they could work together on cutting spending based on this polling that just came out from the Cato Institute. Cato is a serious think tank. It's a conservative think tank. They worked with YouGov on this survey and it's one of your, you know, really big, large number of people, wide reaching, lots of questions sort of survey that comes out every once in a while from these think tanks. I don't know which of these numbers is my favorite. There's a lot of them that are just mind blowingly make me happy. But I can't believe because public will is a real big part of getting anything done in a democracy. Obviously if if you got big majorities of people that want something to happen, you should be able to get it to happen and run on it. Here's my favorite of all the spending we've done in the last 10 years and we've done a lot of spending in the last 10 years. 85%. Now that's a big number. Whenever you get 85% of people in agreement on something you think you could get political will do something, 85% say that spending is either not helped them or made their lives worse. 85%. That's astounding. You wouldn't get that from taking it in through the mainstream media who feels like all government programs are wonderful and Doge. Trying to cut back on any of them is a horror. 85% of Americans say all that spending is either not done anything for me or actually made my life worth worse. 42%, no impact. 43% say it reduced their quality of life.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's got to be inflation, which is the greatest teacher of economic principles in the history of mankind.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Well, or is it just. I. I regularly say, and this. I. This is true for me in my own personal life, I believe the government stops me from doing things more than it helps me?
Joe Getty
Yeah, Yeah, I think so. I mean, and, and, well, do you drive on the roads? Yeah, we. We know you're an idiot. Listen to something else.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Don't listen to music. You.
Joe Getty
I'm not even going to explain why. You're a moron. You moron.
Dr. Nicole Safire
And by the way, this is a nonpartisan observation. Eight in 10 Democrats and nine in 10 Republicans believe that the increase in federal spending has either made their lives not better or worse.
Joe Getty
Boy, this is really heartening.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I know.
Joe Getty
If the Republican. If the Republicans can keep between the ditches and not roll the car of their messaging over, it seems to me like the. The ground is super fertile for some good solid conservatism in the years to come.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Three quarters of Americans say the government spends too much.
Joe Getty
Love that.
Dr. Nicole Safire
76% the government spends too much. And again, it's not a partisan thing at all. Majorities of Democrats, 59% of Democrats think the government spends too much money. Well, you'd never get that from the main. From your mainstream media coverage.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And the question of what do you cut and how and how much? That's, you know, the devil is in the details. But we do have an enormous generalized agreement that, yeah, we need to cut again, 2/3. You get the opposite message from all of the coverage of Doge, for instance.
Dr. Nicole Safire
So almost everyone agrees there is waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. The number is 98%. I don't know if I've ever seen a poll that reached 98%. Usually you have more than 2%. They're like, no opinion or, I don't know, refused to answer.
Joe Getty
Yeah, but would you like me to stab you right now? You might get 98% saying, no, no opinion.
Dr. Nicole Safire
90.
Joe Getty
I'm not sure. Stab me with what?
Dr. Nicole Safire
98% broadly agree there is waste, fraud or abuse in the federal government. Of course, to say no, you'd be a crazy person. About half say there is a great deal. Oh, yeah, and 20%, a moderate amount.
Joe Getty
If hundreds of millions of dollars isn't a great deal to you. What are you, Elon Musk or something, man?
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yeah. Like I said, there's so many good numbers here, I don't even know which ones to pick out the most. This one. One of the reasons this got attention was some of the tax stuff yesterday. 55% of Americans think their taxes are too high, which I thought was really interesting, especially.
Joe Getty
Especially given what we were talking about yesterday on tax day, that the top 40% or so of income levels pay all of the income tax, but 55%.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Of Americans think their taxes are too high. 55%. Same number believe they pay more than their fair share in taxes. That obviously is interesting given the fact that half the country does not pay federal taxes.
Joe Getty
Federal income tax, although you have to remember, you know, a property tax hammers a lot of people. Sales tax.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Sales tax, I think, is probably what gets a lot of people.
Joe Getty
Sure.
Dr. Nicole Safire
How about the controversial Trump tax cuts from 2017 and whether they should be extended or not? According to this, 85% of Americans support extending the 2017 tax cuts. 85%.
Joe Getty
It's a gift to millionaires and billionaires.
Dr. Nicole Safire
How is this a controversial issue?
Joe Getty
If the mainstream media was not what they are, could Democrats win a single election as they're currently constituted? I don't think so. They need some of the best wordsmiths. Well, actually, most journalists aren't wordsmiths at all. They're parrots. But they need the power of the media colossus to polish their. Their. Their poop, if you will. I'm sorry, I just didn't want to use that common expression, polishing a turd, because it's disgusting. But that's essentially. But it's good, though. It's illustrative, Jack. I mean, it really makes the point there's got to be a better doing.
Dr. Nicole Safire
There's got to be a better one.
Joe Getty
Is there? There's got to be.
Dr. Nicole Safire
That doesn't include the T word.
Joe Getty
Thoroughly lipsticking the pig of their policies. I don't know.
Dr. Nicole Safire
So three quarters of people agree with the statement the 2017 tax cuts should be made permanent because businesses and families need stability of the tax code to plan for the future. 3/4 agree with that. Also, 3/4 agree that tax cuts should be made permanent because taxes are too high. Three quarters of Americans think the Trump tax cuts should be made permanent because taxes are too high.
Joe Getty
Wow. Did you hear the part about the millionaire? Oh, you did? You're rejecting it?
Dr. Nicole Safire
I got to get to that, then, since you brought that up, do the spending because you'll that fits in perfectly what you just said. A majority of Americans Admire the rich. 65%. Two thirds disagree with the statement wealth should be taken from the rich and given to the poor. Two thirds of Americans disagree with that.
Joe Getty
Wow. This is a different country than the media would have you believe. Vastly different.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Three out of five Americans strongly agree, 90% strongly or somewhat agree that quote. There is nothing wrong with trying to make as much money as you can. 90% strongly or somewhat agree with that.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Dr. Nicole Safire
When asked specifically about billionaires, 71% disagree that it's immoral for society to allow people to become billionaires. 71% don't agree with that statement. You hear it all the time from the aoc, Bernie crowd, Elizabeth Warren crowd, and they put it on the news like that's, you know, representing half of America.
Joe Getty
Right? Right. Yeah. And anybody who does think we should make it impossible to, you know, become a billionaire, you, you just, you so dumb. You are so dumb. We just need you to get out of the way, please. As you come up with a great idea that one person likes and it makes you a dollar, that's fine. If a million people like that idea and give you a dollar, that's fine. But if a billion people like that idea and give you a dollar, that's wrong.
Jack Armstrong
It's immoral.
Joe Getty
Again, you're just so dumb, you need to get out of the way.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Well, not near as many people agree with that as I thought and I've been misled myself and you know, we're in the industry and, and taking lots of media and read lots of polls, but I've been misled to think there's that in modern America there were way more people that hate the rich and think something is wrong there, then it seems to be true. Two thirds think wealth should not be taken from the rich and given to the poor.
Joe Getty
I'm sorry, I just didn't know. So I think part of the reason that our perception might be a little warped is that even some of my favorite conservative journalists are of the coastal elite variety. And they're nice fellas and they have great principles, but I don't think they know America. And listen, this is absolutely.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Do not.
Joe Getty
This is gonna sound awfully like self back patting, but I think as a couple of guys from, you know, fairly average families in the Midwest, I don't feel like an elite anything. I've never hung out with those people. I wouldn't be comfortable there. I would much rather, you know, drink beer with my neighbor Larry the truck driver. I just And I think maybe we have that advantage. And we, all of us friends, have to trust our own perceptions instead of that of the bizarro funhouse mirror of the media. I know a lot of you already.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Believe that the fact that 85% of people say all that government spending has done nothing for them or made their lives worse is amazing something.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Dr. Nicole Safire
And, you know, over half of people saying my taxes are too high, all that fitting together. How do we not get a government that spends less and keeps taxes low?
Joe Getty
Well, I think, you know, part of the answer would be the swamp, which includes many Republicans and Democrats who have a enormous financial interest in keeping government huge.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Right. There are solid majorities, and I could do more of the numbers, but I don't want to bore you to death, but the solid majorities of people that think it's the spending, it's not the taxing. I mean, that. That is. That is a settled issue in this country. It's the spending, not the taxing. And we need to deal with it from a spending standpoint. So we're not getting the government we deserve on this front.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. So true. It's. It's encouraging. People believe that in the numbers that they do, it is discouraging that we are fighting to make any progress in reining in the insanity. But I don't know.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
Because it's our duty as citizens. So I guess we keep trying.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Sometimes it's barely. You're barely able to believe that democracy works. I mean, you know, look at the border issue. That's the one I've been saying for years. It's not controversial at all either. Like 90% of people want a secure border, but we haven't been able to do it in my entire adult lifetime.
Joe Getty
Right, right.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Very frustrating.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Nice job of those of you out there who agree that all this spending has made your life worse. If anything. That's amazing.
Joe Getty
You know what else is amazing, Jack? Gayle King's belief that she needs to fight back against the mockery of all girl space flight. And has decided it would be better for her to continue this topic in the public arena. But continue it we will. Gail, my darling, stay with us.
Dr. Nicole Safire
We got that coming up. That's awesome. Stay here.
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Dr. Nicole Safire
You are officially an astronaut.
Joe Getty
How do you feel? I still can't accept that word. I just feel a renewed connection to.
Jack Armstrong
Everything in life and where we are.
Dr. Nicole Safire
And I can't wait to go back out there.
Joe Getty
It is the highest high and it.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Is surrender to the unknown.
Joe Getty
Trust. God.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I just, I just like my main goal in life is to be self aware. Just, I don't. I guess that's part of the whole to your own self, be true or whatever. I mean, I'm having trouble accepting the word astronaut. Yeah. So is everybody else in America watching you?
Joe Getty
All right, Nobody feels like calling you an astronaut is an incredible insult to astronauts.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yeah, nobody thinks you're an astronaut. Nobody's like impressed by what you just did. They think you went on a really cool like amusement park ride. All right, so take it easy.
Joe Getty
Yeah, you observed a surgery and now it's not your fault because the nice lady from Blue Origin just declared you an astronaut. But observing surgery doesn't make you a surgeon, right? Good lord. So the mockery of the galstronauts, the chickstronauts and their pronouncements of their wonder and awe about counting on each other and being there for each other. And Katy Perry said it's second to being a mom. The rest of it. Gayle King has unwisely decided to clap back at people making fun of the whole deal. Here she is. I really resent that people are calling it a ride. We duplicated the trajectory of Alan Shepard flight back in the day. No one called that a ride. A ride sounds frivolous. It sounds insignificant. This was a bona fide flight. So, you know, I say, have you been to space? Have you seen what Blue Origin does to get these machines up, get them up and get them down with the precision that they do? I'm sorry, there are haters. There's always going to be haters.
Dr. Nicole Safire
It's a whole.
Joe Getty
Your role in it is silly and furious.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we. We get the whole. The. Having a rocket that goes into space and back is cool. What you did is 100% frivolous and insignificant. That is a perfect description of what you just did.
Joe Getty
Indeed.
Dr. Nicole Safire
That's not being a hater. That's just describing accurately what you did. Yes, Katie, Big shout out to listener.
Joe Getty
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Dr. Nicole Safire
He's calling them the broad Stronauts.
Joe Getty
All right. There are many variations.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I just again, to being self aware. How do. How do you not take. How do you not say, look, I. All I did was go for ride. It was really cool. I'm honored that I got to be on the list. It's one of the coolest things I've ever got to do. But, I mean, I'm not an astronaut. How do you not say that?
Joe Getty
I know, I know. It's just ridiculous. It's hilarious. These people are so pompous. But wait, it gets better. The women's quick trip to space was not exactly well received, with a slew of stars publicly slamming it, including Emily Ratter Jakowski. She of bikini model fame, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer. So on the show, King responded to some of the criticism it's the trip has received. This is what bothers me. I've certainly read some of the stuff being said online. It's coming from people I know, people I consider friends. Space is not an either or. Just because you do something in space doesn't mean you're taking anything away from Earth. Ah, so her star friends were accusing her of abusing the. By taking an unnecessary space flight.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Okay, you just added. You just spread another layer of stupid on top of this.
Joe Getty
Oh, my gosh. I know.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Another good, thick layer of stupid.
Joe Getty
It's stupid on stupid. Violence. Yeah. I'm disappointed and saddened by the hate, what it's doing to inspire other women and young girls. Please don't ignore that. Oh, give me a inspiring women and girls to drop their STEM studies and become pop stars so they can get into space. Because if you're a pop star and you float for 15 seconds in space, that makes you an astronaut.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Most. Holy cow.
Joe Getty
This is multiple layers of stupid.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Most actual astronauts were in some sort of, like, really difficult military service. And then fighter pilots and all kinds of different things like that.
Joe Getty
And they're mathematicians or physicists or engineers or pop stars. I'm sorry, not that last one.
Dr. Nicole Safire
There's always gonna be haters. People are acting like this is insignificant and frivolous.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we are.
Dr. Nicole Safire
We are.
Joe Getty
Gayle King floating in space for 20 seconds is the very definition of insignificant. Good Lord, girl. Wow. I hope there's. I hope there's another round.
Dr. Nicole Safire
I know. Keep fighting back, Gail.
Joe Getty
Don't put up with this.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Don't put up with the haters. Try to put them in their place.
Joe Getty
So delightful. So how much do time do we have, Michael? One minute, you said. Oh, man. It's just. I'm not sure I have time for this. No, I don't. I just. I don't want to rush through. I hate when we rush through stuff. So we'll just sit here and contemplate the passage of time. Oh. Leading activist in San Francisco who is in favor of drug addicts ruling the city is dead of an overdose. So that takes care of that. I guess this guy was the guy who'd go around demonstrating with signs that says downtown is for drug users. And it became a movement of junkies.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Now he's dead.
Joe Getty
A short lived movement of junkies, apparently.
Dr. Nicole Safire
Yes. That seems like math. It seems like a math equation.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, kind of. I threw the ball up in the air and guess what happened next type of thing.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand – Episode: "If You Came For Flowery, You Got It!"
Release Date: April 16, 2025
Hosted by Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty under the banner of iHeartPodcasts, the episode titled "If You Came For Flowery, You Got It!" delves into pressing societal issues, primarily focusing on the rising autism diagnosis rates in America and the public's perception of government spending and taxation. Interspersed with light-hearted segments and community anecdotes, the hosts engage in a candid and insightful conversation alongside Dr. Nicole Safire, offering listeners a comprehensive exploration of these topics.
Introduction to the Issue
The episode opens with Alexis McAdams from Fox News presenting alarming CDC statistics: in 2022, 1 in every 31 children in America was diagnosed with some measure of autism, a significant increase from 1 in 36 in 2023 and 1 in 150 in 2000. The data also reveals a higher prevalence of autism in boys compared to girls.
Expert Insights and Controversial Claims
Dr. Nicole Safire lends her expertise, emphasizing the gravity of the autism surge. At [00:53], she states:
“Autism is so overwhelmingly a bigger deal now than it used to be. It may be around the edges, it's because of diagnosis, but it's not a factor in the whole thing at all.”
Joe Getty challenges the notion that increased awareness solely accounts for the rise, sharing a personal narrative about his daughter's evolving diagnosis over the years. At [02:34], Dr. Safire adds:
“I've been around schools a lot with my 15-year-old and a 13-year-old... That number sounds easily right to me. 1 out of 30.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Assertions
The conversation shifts to political figures, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that a singular toxin, including vaccines, could be responsible for autism's rise—a theory widely debunked by scientific evidence. At [04:15], Kennedy confidently states:
“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.”
However, Dr. Safire and Getty express skepticism. At [06:40], Dr. Safire remarks:
“That's the first time I've ever heard parenting styles thrown out there for the whole autism thing.”
Genetics vs. Environmental Factors
Discussing the interplay of genetics and environment, Dr. Safire introduces the concept of epigenetics:
“If you have a particular gene and it is exposed to a particular environmental factor, that will... It's a genetic issue, but it's epigenetic.”
Getty concurs, highlighting the complexity of attributing autism to singular causes.
Conclusion on Autism Discussion
The segment underscores the multifaceted nature of autism diagnosis rates, balancing between genetic predispositions and environmental influences while critiquing oversimplified causative claims. The hosts emphasize the importance of accurate diagnosis and the potential ramifications of politicizing health issues.
Cato Institute Survey Findings
Transitioning from health issues to economic concerns, Dr. Safire presents findings from a Cato Institute and YouGov survey. A staggering 85% of Americans believe that the massive increase in federal spending over the last decade has either done nothing for them or worsened their quality of life.
At [16:46], Dr. Safire shares:
“85% of Americans say all that government spending has done nothing for them or made their lives worse.”
Taxation Sentiments
Delving deeper, 55% of Americans feel that their taxes are too high, with an equal percentage believing they pay more than their fair share. This sentiment persists despite the fact that approximately half of the population does not pay federal income taxes.
At [29:30], Dr. Safire notes:
“55% of Americans think their taxes are too high. 55% same number believe they pay more than their fair share in taxes.”
Support for Tax Cuts
A significant 85% of Americans support making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, viewing them as essential for economic stability and financial fairness. Dr. Safire emphasizes:
“Three quarters of Americans agree that tax cuts should be made permanent because taxes are too high.”
Wealth Redistribution Views
Contrary to prevalent media narratives suggesting widespread disdain for the wealthy, 65% of Americans admire the rich, and 71% disagree with the notion that allowing individuals to become billionaires is immoral.
At [32:31], Dr. Safire asserts:
“71% disagree that it's immoral for society to allow people to become billionaires.”
Implications and Policy Considerations
The discussion highlights a disconnect between media portrayals and public opinion, suggesting that substantially conservative fiscal policies might find fertile ground. Dr. Safire underscores the consensus on prevalent government overspending and the public's desire for fiscal restraint.
Neighbors in Conflict
In a humorous interlude, Armstrong and Getty recount a viral YouTube clip of neighbors in a heated argument. Dr. Safire playfully critiques the aggressiveness displayed, advocating for more constructive communication methods.
At [18:07], Dr. Safire muses:
“I find that on YouTube and it's gonna go right up your... Come say it to my face, you f. Ing idiot.”
Baseball Game Anecdotes
The hosts share amusing anecdotes from baseball games, including a peculiar sound effect causing discomfort among fans and a jest about a fan attempting to engage with players using a microphone and earpiece.
At [20:17], Joe Getty comments:
“That sound was giving me nausea.”
Optimism Amidst Challenges
Despite the daunting statistics and economic concerns, Armstrong and Getty express a sense of optimism, emphasizing the importance of grassroots efforts and informed citizenry in effectuating change.
Dr. Safire concludes with a call to action:
“We need to deal with it from a spending standpoint. So we're not getting the government we deserve on this front.”
Final Remarks
The episode wraps up with reminders of upcoming segments and a nod to ongoing societal debates, leaving listeners with food for thought on the interplay between public perception, policy, and personal narratives.
Dr. Nicole Safire [01:53]:
“Autism is so overwhelmingly a bigger deal now than it used to be... It just takes away the momentum you've got in the conversation.”
Joe Getty [03:16]:
“But is that 10% rise, is it 50%? Is it 100%? That's what makes so many of these discussions in the media especially so annoying to me.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [04:15]:
“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.”
Dr. Nicole Safire [29:44]:
“One of the reasons this got attention was some of the tax stuff yesterday... 85% say all that government spending has done nothing for them or made their lives worse.”
Joe Getty [33:15]:
“Anybody who does think we should make it impossible to become a billionaire, you, you just, you so dumb.”
In "If You Came For Flowery, You Got It!", Armstrong and Getty navigate complex topics with a blend of expertise, personal anecdotes, and relatable humor. By addressing the surge in autism diagnoses and the stark public opinion on government spending, the episode invites listeners to critically assess prevailing narratives and consider the underlying factors shaping contemporary America.