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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Unknown
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. And now here. Here's Armstrong and Yeti. Hey, how are you? Thanks for tuning in. Glad you're here. Happy Friday, friends. Coming up later in the show, looking forward to a discussion of the idea of abundance, meaning here in the US we have all sorts of wonderful imports to choose from and therefore, the average working person has an incredibly high standard of living. And we're living pretty high on the hog, you know, as human beings go. But yeah, we've offshored a lot of our manufacturing and that leaves us vulnerable to certain things. Where's the balance point? And are we happy with the idea of, as Trump said the other day, look, you're not gonna have $30 on the shelves. You'll have a couple. It might be a few bucks more expensive, but we'll have more good manufacturing jobs in the country. You know, what's the, where's the proper balance point? So stay tuned for that if you can. If not, grab it via podcast. Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts. But first, it's a gender bending madness update. So I kept hearing about this thing.
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Unknown
Called gender bending madness. They're locos. We're in a brave new world.
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Jack Armstrong
We have a number of headlines to share with you today. Working up to what I think is the most important story. But predictably and horrifyingly, California Democrats have killed a state senator's bill that would secure women's prisons from predatory trans women, also known as men. Some of the stories are just unbelievable. There is rampant rape of women in women's prisons, not by guards or wardens or anything, but by these so called transgender people to the point that the, the, the guards in some of these women's prisons are making condoms available and handing them out to the women inmates saying, hey, you might need this. If somebody forces themself upon you, maybe you can get them to put it on. And yet, because the radical transgender movement is so powerful in Cal Unicornia, they can't even get a law passed that says if you're a transgender, you're a dude, but you're claiming to be a woman. All right, you're in the woman's prison, but you gotta be over here. A specific place that doesn't interact with the women. That bill got crushed. Crushed by the Democrats in legislature. It's unbelievable. In case it's not obvious, even if you're not a would be rapist, the women's prisons are less secure and less dangerous. And so guys would just rather be there. So they declare, hey, I'm a girl. And the idiot state of California lets them in there. Another headline for you. A number of big time sponsors are rethinking their pride marketing. MasterCard not renewing its corporate sponsorship for the New York City Pride March, the city's annual march for LGBTQ rights for 2025. They had been sponsoring the events for around a decade. This decision puts it among a group of NYC Pride sponsors that are not returning this year. Others include soda and snack maker PepsiCo, automaker Nissan, banking giant Citi Group, and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, among others. What's interesting about this article, and it's in the Wall Street Journal, is in various quotes and in just the journalist's writing, they refer to LGBTQ or LGBTQ A plus, depending on who they're quoting. And I'm reminded of the old saying, I didn't leave the party. The party left me when it was lgb, when it was gay rights. All of these corporations are like, yeah, you know, there's plenty of gay folks. And then we're up for them having rights. And so we'll sponsor their the big party in the march. But the party left them. It's now LGBT Q I A plus, which includes cruel experiments, gender bending experiments on confused adolescents, which we've talked about a lot, whether it's the hormones or the surgeries or whatever. And saying I'm in favor of gay rights does not mean I'm in favor of taking a confused 14 year old girl and feeding her full of hormones and changing her body and her life forever. That's different. The whole T thing, you know, you can comment on that whichever you want. But now the LGBTQIA plus community is actually, and I'm not making this up, the fairly low level, but increasing in volume messages about minor attracted individuals. Mais, you can probably guess what that means. It means pedophiles. People want to have sex with children, or at the very least, sex with teenagers. Underage people. And so If I'm Citibank, MasterCard, virtually everybody. But, you know, well, that's not fair. It's not everybody. But Target is hanging in there. Anheuser Busch. Gay rights. Yeah, okay. Experiments on children. And yay for pedophiles. No, I'm out. Of course you're out. You should be out. And I feel bad for. For, you know, good, reasonable gay, lesbian people who are like, I am not down with all of this madness, and I wish I wasn't grouped with them, but unfortunately, you are to some extent. Which brings us to this headline, gays Against Groomers, which is an organization with an online presence. And they're, you know, what I've described. They're. They're gay people who think all of the T +QIA minus over the power of three stuff is madness. And they just came across a White House briefing for LGBTQI plus leaders back in the Biden administration that branded Gays Against Groomers as a hate group on an end, an extremist organization. And as they commented online, our crime, believing children are perfect exactly as they are, no drugs or surgeries required. I'm going to repeat that. This is this Gays Against Groomers group. We believe children are perfect exactly as they are, no drugs or surgeries required. And for that stance, the Biden administration labeled them as extremists and a hate group. Man, we've gone down the so far. Down the road to Crazyville. It's hard to believe, isn't it? A couple more stories. A man who identifies as a woman is set to become the first transgender individual. And I appreciate there are a handful of publications of a slightly more conservative bent than the liberal mainstream media who use quotes around transgender, because the left in academia would have you believe that that is. It's a solid term with a solid definition. Everybody knows what it means, and you dare not question it. No, no, that's not true. It's a concept. The very concept of it is very, very controversial. But they act as if it's universally understood and accepted. Don't. Don't fall for that. It's not. Anyway, so again, transgenders in quotes. And this happened as it happens to be Breitbart A man who identifies as a woman is set to become the first transgender individual to compete in the Miss Maine USA pageant in a couple of days. 24 year old Isabella Saint Ser of Munson, one of one among several other biological males. Just males. It's fine to just say males. See only kind of male there is. Biological. It's redundant to say biological male and silly. It's redundant and silly to say biological woman or female. The female. That's enough. You've explained yourself. Anyway. One among several men who have been competing in beauty pageants across the nation and around the world. And this person is very happy with this, as you might guess. During an interview with local paper, this man said he'd always wanted to compete in pageants out the outlet noted the farm owner farmer. That's interesting. Began transitioning while he was in high school. Started the medical transition when he was 20. Okay, that's fine. But you don't get to be in a girls beauty pageant nor girls sports. Henry Ford Health Detroit based health care agency Henry Ford Health has been exposed for administering transgender treatments on minors, tainting care with diversity, equity and inclusion policies and more by a nonprofit group accusing it of prioritizing politics over patient patients. This is Michigan's second largest health system. They've deleted web pages promoting childhood transgenderism and DEI in an attempt to scrub its far left footprints, but that the services still exist. One deleted article on how to support a transgender teen directed parents to get help to allow their child to transition. Quote, when they're not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety and an increased risk of inflicting self harm. Unbelievable. And Henry Ford pediatrician Dr. Maureen Connolly, radical lunatic, said, we've latched onto this idea that gender is fixed, but we know now in medicine that it exploring your identity as it relates to gender is a normal part of growing up. Well, yeah. How masculine am I? How feminine am I? Am I girly girl? Am I a tomboy? Am I a tough guy? Am I sensitive poet guy? Yes, that is a normal part of growing up. Having activist lunatics pump you full of chemicals and remove healthy body parts. That is not normal. Not even close. All right, more on this to come in a second after a word from our friends had Prize picks the action is heating up. Prize picks the best place to get in on the action. Don't miss your chance to pick your favorite players during the basketball playoffs. Super easy to understand and do. Whether it's points, rebounds or assists, just choose more or less on 2 to 6 players stat projections for your chance to win up to 2000 times your cash. Turn your playoff hot takes into tickets to basketball's championship series. Start with the playing round. Every lineup you make on Prize Picks will enter you in the takes two ticket sweepstakes where which could get you and a plus one a VIP trip to the championship. 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You know, that's one thing. If you're a grown person, you get to do what you want in my country, certainly. But this rapid onset youth gender dysphoria thing is a wildly different proposition. And it turns out that the best practices, quote unquote for so called gender affirming care are simply to not do it at all. If you take activism out of this and actually look at the science, the conclusions are clear. The HHS review was published a couple of days ago and the results should not be surprising. The researchers found that the available studies on gender affirming care for minors are poorly conducted and there is not evidence to show that such interventions effectively treat gender dysphoria or improve mental health. More importantly, the researchers note what has not been published in the scientific literature. The studies largely fail to appropriately consider the possible harms of these medical interventions. And since we're about out of town time, we'll cut this short for now. We'll come back to it later. But the other thing that they never consider is that yeah, if you have a delusion and the people around you confirm that delusion as an impressionable adolescent, that will for the short term make you feel better about everything. But in the long term, the results are horrifying and devastating. So these studies have been absolute bunk. Anyway, that's your gender bending Madness update.
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Unknown
Gender Bending Madness Del Loco we're in.
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Jack Armstrong
A brave new world. Much more to come.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Brett Baer had an interesting interview with JD Vance yesterday on Special Report in which they they talked about a handful of different things, including the situation with the Houthis bombing shipping and the US Unlike under the mummy Biden lashing back and pounding them for their trouble, many, many, many strikes over a period of months. We'll let Brett and JD Continue the conversation. First clip Michael the Houthi campaign, I.
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Unknown
Mean, I think, you know, we're already seeing signs that the Houthis are saying no mas. They've been bombed. They've recognized that there are serious consequences to firing on American and other ships. And I actually think we're in a good place for the Houthis to stop attacking civilian vessels, to go back to doing whatever it is they were doing before they were attacking civilian vessels. And I think that if that were happening, then this bombing campaign would be over the next day.
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Jack Armstrong
Pete Hegseth also sent a strong message, excuse me, to Iran and the Houthis. You know very well what the US Military is capable of. You will pay. Warning that Iran would pay consequences for its lethal support of the Houthis terrorist organization. We know exactly what you are doing. You know very well what the US Military is capable of and you are warned. You'll pay the consequence at the time in place of your choosing. Let's press on with Brett Baron, VP Vance.
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Unknown
You hear the criticism, though, from libertarians from the left that this is the new Vietnam. This is 48 days of bombing people in the Middle of the country may not know that we're in the middle of a hot war with Yemen. What do you say to that?
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Well, not with Yemen, with a terrorist organization that has been firing on American ships. And I think that people, you know, want to compare this to Vietnam.
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Jack Armstrong
Come on.
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Unknown
I think that the president has made it very clear that one of his core national security priorities is that if you load stuff onto a ship and you send it to the United States, we want to make sure that it shows up without the sailors getting killed, without the ship being destroyed. That is an objective that we're going to pursue forcefully if we have to.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. There's an account in Fox News of the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier that was the same that the F18 Super Hornet fell off of. It's possible it was making an emergency turn to avoid Houthi attack. It's all classified and should be and that's fine. And thanks to listeners who sent us video of giant aircraft carriers making those emergency turns. It's quite astounding to witness how quickly and with what energy they can turn. But anyway, the aircraft carrier has been operating in the Red Sea since September where it has launched strikes against the Houthis and they have claimed they have attacked the Harry Truman and the accompanying warships in recent weeks. So that may well be what happened. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio from 30,000ft talking more generally about Iran and its recent actions.
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Marco Rubio
And look, there's a win here for Iran, okay? They can actually have real economic development, real investment in their country, but they have to walk away from sponsoring terrorists. They have to walk away from helping the Houthis. They have to walk away from building long range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than having nuclear weapons. And they have to walk away from enrichment. These are not unreasonable requests. There are countries all over the world that have nuclear energy and don't enrich and don't have long range missiles and don't sponsor terrorism. That path is there for them. It's the path of peace. And frankly, I pray and hope and we'll do everything we can to hope, convince them that they should take it.
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Jack Armstrong
Marco Rubio there. It will be so interesting to see the next six months or so unfold according to the reports, which may or may not be accurate. You never know who floats what and for what reason. But Israel was ready to go ahead and strike Iran and take their nuclear program down to whatever extent is possible. And we told them to wait, wait, wait, hold back. There are negotiations allegedly happening soon. It's going to turn One way or the other, and in dramatic fashion soon. Much more to come. Stay with us. If you can grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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Jack Armstrong
According to a new study, drinking champagne could reduce the risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, it increases the risk of getting wasted at brunch and spending your Sunday afternoon passed out. One of the IKEA sample beds.
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Unknown
There you go.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I've never enjoyed the mimosa or the, the, the brunch drink. It just.
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Unknown
Only if I'm planning to keep her going all day. And that's, you know, a rare occurrence.
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Jack Armstrong
You're always a much better distanced athlete than I was. I can't do it.
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Unknown
Too tired. So I had a doctor's appointment. I wasn't here the last hour. You probably didn't even notice me missing, which makes you wonder why I get paid to do this, but so I noticed, Jack.
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Jack Armstrong
I noticed.
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Unknown
All right, so I've had this cough thing for three weeks long outside of cancer, longest time I've been sick with the same thing ever in my life. I just went to the doctor and apparently there's a whole bunch of these or one, I don't know, flying around the country. So if you got something where it just keeps hanging on, it's a thing right now. Three to five weeks of the same cough before it goes away, which is.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, five weeks is. That's. That's too much.
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Unknown
What I would like to know. Well, three weeks sure feels like a long time. It's been three weeks and two days. But what I'd like To know if this has anything to do with COVID Did covet do anything to our immune system or is this some sort of merged with a cold variant, something? I don't know. No problem.
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Jack Armstrong
And is Dr. Fauci behind at all?
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Unknown
Yeah, no kidding. Never forget two things. First of all, I always ask this question to doctors. I don't know why. I just am fascinated by this. I said, so if I'd have gotten this because they're putting me on prednisone to try to knock out the end of it because I got fluid in my lungs or whatever. I said, if. If this is going on 100 years ago, what would happen? And she said, you'd probably get demonia and die, most likely. That's just amazing to me that how many. You know, that's why life expectancy was like 38 not that long ago. Because there's just so many things that would come along and kill you.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, right. You know, I find myself wondering, and I'm completely unqualified to even consider this question, so this should be fun. Would we. Well, I think I know the answer. Would we have developed the population density that we have now as modern humans in the absence of modern medicine? Because people would be dropping dead like crazy of these respiratory diseases that we all trade back and forth because we're, you know, in buildings and offices and schools all the time.
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Unknown
London was pretty dense long before antibiotics came along. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
And people live to 38 if they were lucky.
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Unknown
Yeah. We would have a lot different population, no doubt. But so some of you heard when we brought this up the other day. So I was talking to somebody I know in my personal life and about being sick, and they said, you get sick a lot? And I said, no, not really. And they said. And for whatever reason they had in their mind, when I've been sick, they said, yeah, we had this. And then like a month ago, you had. Then you missed work and blah, blah. And I. And for the first time in my life, which is absolutely amazing, that I've been able to live in denial all this time. It's shocking. What else am I in denial about? Or anybody? I had to admit, yeah, I get sick a lot. I get sick more than the average person. I've never admitted that out loud, but it's clearly statistically true. And I've never seen myself that way. So now I've got to realize, like, my parents, 82 and 87, 88, almost never get sick, like, ever my whole life, including now. I, on the other hand, would be. I would Die, I would have already been dead a long time ago. I'm a person that gets sick, and without modern medicine, I would have been dead a long time ago. I'm not cut out for, you know, life, apparently.
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Jack Armstrong
Probably lack of character. Is that what the doctors say? Or. You know, because.
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Unknown
Well, that's why I've done. Why I've wanted to deny getting sick a lot, because I do feel like it's people who get sick a lot. I've just always looked down on. You're just like a weak person.
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Jack Armstrong
You get sick a lot.
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Unknown
I know.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm not proud of it, but that's cruelty on one end of your personality and delusion on the other.
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Unknown
That's.
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Jack Armstrong
This is. This is troubling.
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Unknown
People who get sick a lot.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't want them around me.
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Unknown
I don't want to work with them. I don't. I just. Yeah, you're just. You're weak. You're a weak person. I've always felt that way. Maybe that's where the denial comes from.
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Jack Armstrong
Because I had that axe.
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Unknown
But I get sick a lot, and.
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Jack Armstrong
I would have been very compensating. Yeah.
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Unknown
100 years ago, I would have been dead.
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Jack Armstrong
Huh.
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Unknown
So what do you do with that information? Nothing.
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Jack Armstrong
Just.
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Unknown
That's just your deal. Like, some people have better eyesight or taller or.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I. I. About. Not the psychological part, but the reality of getting sick more. I don't know. You try to take care of yourself.
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Unknown
I suppose I don't. Do it.
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Jack Armstrong
Quit acting like the precautions to prevent illness are stupid and only. Only practiced by weak people.
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Unknown
Yeah, I suppose.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay.
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Unknown
I'm gonna go on the prednisone, which is a steroid, so I'm gonna get swole. So look forward to me. Just. I'm gonna be RFK Jr. Ripped, by the way, he just announced he's getting fetus parts out of all the vaccines. So that's something to be excited about. Next vaccine. You got no fetus parts in it.
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Jack Armstrong
Wait, what?
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Unknown
I. I know. I thought the same thing. What the hell does that mean?
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Jack Armstrong
All right, we'll dig into that and figure out how significant it is. So you have probably had the same conversation, at least internally, as I have watching traffic go by. Everybody is driving little SUVs now. Every damn car is a crossover SUV.
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Unknown
There's a lot of them.
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Jack Armstrong
And I remember back when this phenomenon was first beginning, I would always be a little. I don't know. Perturbed. Intrigued. Confused. Because I would say so. You got a little hatchback. Whatever happened to the Trunk, the great American trunk.
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Unknown
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
You could stow like, you know, a couch and three bodies in a trunk.
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Unknown
I have.
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Jack Armstrong
And now you've got this little space. Why are people preferring these things now? Of course, I've been driving one mostly for the last several years. A kind of mid sized suv. Well, interestingly, in the National Review, Chad Hagen observed first that the American car market has undergone a huge shift in recent years. It used to be sedan after sedan after stand on American roads. Two to four doors and a trunk. Sedans are great.
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Unknown
I don't know why they went away, but anyway, back to your statistics.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they practically vanished and replaced by an endless parade of oversized SUVs and crossovers. He wrote. What happened? It was not consumer demand alone that drove this transformation. Although I do kind of like sitting up high.
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Unknown
Sitting up high, you start doing.
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Jack Armstrong
I.
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Unknown
Don'T know, you just feel more protected or the view or whatever. But yeah, when I got my sedan, it'd been a long time since I'd sat down low. You have a different view of the world down there.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I went with like what you might call a sports sedan for a while. And I really like the car. But in a land of SUVs and pickup trucks, you're. You constantly got their headlights directly into your eyeballs.
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Unknown
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Because of the way they're focused anyway. But it was not consumer demand alone that drove the transformation. Policy played a pivotal and ironic role. How? Well, under the revised corporate average fuel economy, those are the CAFE standards perhaps you've heard of. Fuel efficiency targets were tied to a vehicle's physical footprint. The larger the vehicle, the easier the target became to meet.
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Unknown
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
So, so, so called light trucks, a category that miraculously expanded to include nearly anything with four wheels and a squarish back end, were given significantly lower efficiency requirements than passenger cars. As a result, automakers responded exactly as rational actors do under irrational government regulations. They made everything bigger. Traditional sedans were bulked up into crossovers, ground clearance was raised, cargo space was squared off, and the vehicles were quietly reclassified as trucks to game the system that Washington had so thoughtfully built for them.
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Unknown
That is funny on a number of ends. So first of all, government trying to force us to live certain ways almost never works. Almost never works.
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Jack Armstrong
The free market, one way or another.
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Unknown
We find our way around it. We do what we want to do, so we figure out a way around it, or business figures out a way around it, and then you got the other end of it. And I've talked about this a million times, I know it Annoys, it hurts some people's feelings. But the whole truck thing is so much image. And I have, I have many, many trucks. But it's an image they sell you that we all like. I'm perfectly fine with that. I like the image. I know they're selling me in an image. But almost nobody statistically ever puts their four wheel drive in. Four wheel drive. And all the towing capacity stuff that they put in all the ads to make you feel a certain way, almost nobody ever pulls anything with their truck. I know plenty of you do and you're listening right now and you feel offended that I said that. But just statistically it's true.
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Jack Armstrong
We're not talking about you.
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Unknown
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Unknown
You work on a farm and you pull a big truck, fine, you need a certain, a big wagon or whatever, you need a certain kind of truck. But most people don't. Most people are picking up their kids from school in their truck that can pull £15,000 of bale, but they never ever do. But so you know, it fits in with what you were just talking about. So you come up with an image to sell this kind of vehicle that gets around the CAFE standards and then everybody's driving this.
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Jack Armstrong
This is an unfair characterization, which is why I enjoy it so much. But in general, progressive types, liberals in general, including, you know, fairly moderate liberals back in the day, they pass policies and appraise them on how they make them feel and whether they make them look enlightened, whether they get social payoff from it. Do you praise me for passing these policies? That is the standard. If you're a good, smart conservative and you understand the way the world really works, you propose policies. But then you think hard about, okay, how will people's behaviors change because of this policy? How will people try to get around it? Is this worth the trouble? Are we, for instance, helping the poor single mother? Yes, but we're also encouraging people not to get married in the first place. For instance, that taken from the LBJ so called Great Society in the 60s that decimated the black family. If you're a good conservative, you think hard about the way the world and humans really work and you take a much lighter hand in trying to manipulate the levers of life and love and the economy because it never works out the way you think it will. People adjust, they change, they do different things. Or companies say, oh, bigger vehicles have lower standards, let's make bigger vehicles. And literally that's how long the conversation was, right, to get around your brilliant regulations.
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Unknown
And while you and your friends in Brooklyn, who never drive at. You don't even own cars and can.
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Jack Armstrong
Totally not understand how anybody would want to own a car.
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Unknown
Think we're all going to start driving some sort of tiny little thing because we care about the environment? No. We went out and bought the great big giant SUVs because we like big vehicles.
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Jack Armstrong
Yep.
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Unknown
The end. Yeah, that's funny. And then Katie had the story earlier about how the federal government's proposing some sort of tax for electric cars that will start happening. And you said it's to make up for the gas taxes. That's another perfect example of how it makes you feel versus reality. If people, everybody starts driving electric cars, all that gas tax that you use to fund tons of big blue projects in your state are going to go away. How you, how are you going to fix it? You got to make up for that somewhere. You got to have an answer for that somewhere. You can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. You try mightily to limit the miles people drive and then you profit from those miles. And then when those miles actually drop, you go into a panic and you have to tax something else. Lovely.
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Unknown
Gonna go to a movie tonight. Very excited about a movie that hits the theaters tonight. I'll tell you about, among other things, on the ways to hear Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
No one can. But we can find a way together. Marvel Studios Thunderballs.
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Unknown
Oh, Manson. I asked Hanson to grab a trailer from Thunderbolts, which comes out tonight. New Marvel movie, which I'm very excited about. It's hilarious. Many of the, the trailers are freaking hilarious. That was not one of them. But it is a, it's a comedy like Avengers type movie and it looks really, really good and it's got a bunch of the stars. If you, if you've watched these or watching with your kids or whatever. Bucky, you know, Captain America's friend who died during World War II. Bucky's back. And, and this guy, David Harbour. Do you know David Harbour by name? Joe? He's been.
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Jack Armstrong
No, I do not.
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Unknown
So many things. He was a sheriff in Stranger Things. But he plays this Russian super soldier that he's been in the Marvel series. Really badass. Very cool. I mean, just a great character actor and he's great in this role. But anyway, now he's in this. That's kind of a half a comedy. And Henry and I are gonna go tonight. I'll let you know what I think of it. They're hoping it's gonna revitalize the Marvel thing. Interesting that they're gonna try to go with a comedy bent to bring it back after it kind of dying off over the last several years.
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Jack Armstrong
Interesting. By the way, I was going to tout andor which is one of your Star wars spin offs on Disney plus and I read an article the other day. I kind of heard of it, but I never tuned in. But the article was talking about Tony Gilroy, who's the guy who like is behind it, the showrunner, the writer, and how disappointed he was that it wasn't a bigger hit. And the critic was saying, and it should be because it's so good. He's the guy who wrote like all of the Bourne Identity movies and directed several of them. And the point of the article was that it's not very Star Warsy. It's a political espionage thriller and with really interesting deep characters and twists and stuff like that. And I thought, oh, okay, I'll give it a try. I've been binging it. Oh, I love it. It. It is so good.
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Unknown
Oh really?
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Jack Armstrong
I'll have to check on Disney plus if you get that he loves that.
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Unknown
Sort of thing on Thunderbolts. There's one of the trailers where you say, I think we should call ourselves Thunderbolts if we. If you're going to call us Thunderbolts, I quit. So this is some breaking news and kind of interesting number of things that are happening right now.
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Jack Armstrong
So the.
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Unknown
Jobs numbers came out today. So we had the GDP number that came out a couple of days ago. And the economy shrank and then Joe explained how that. That's misleading. Like, a lot misleading. But then the jobs numbers out today, which exceeding expectations. So the Financial Times headline is, U.S. stocks wipe out losses from Liberation Day. U.S. stocks rallied today on the news of 177,000 jobs. And that was enough to cause the S P at least to gain back everything that has been lost since Liberation Day. And so there you go.
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Jack Armstrong
Go ahead and check your 401k, as they say.
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Unknown
That's why that whole thing is so stupid. Every single time.
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Jack Armstrong
All people are worried about their 401ks.
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Unknown
First of all, unless you're, like, retiring tomorrow. And even then, like, my dad always talks about how many times he's lost half of what he's got since he's been retired, it comes back. Unless you're like, I don't know, planning to buy a house tomorrow with your 401k, which would be a bad plan, right?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, if you act like all of the talking heads on the news think you act, you're doing it wrong. Get a financial advisor. Read a book or something.
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Unknown
Read a book or something. But, like, all that stuff or. This is the worst stock market decline since April of 2023. That's two years ago. And I don't even remember it. I mean, why are you acting like this?
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Jack Armstrong
You don't remember 2023? The blood running in the streets, the cannibalism, Parents eating their own children is terrible. Wow.
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Unknown
You know, you'd have thought that has stuck in my mind, right? I didn't see this. Maybe you talked about it while I was at the doctor. The United States announced yesterday we're stepping back from the peace talks. And you brought Russia and Ukraine. I didn't know that. I didn't. I missed this story yesterday. We're no longer going to be involved in the peace talks. It's up to them. The White House announced yesterday.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, I'd miss that, too.
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Unknown
Yeah. Seems like big news.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, what. What peace talks? I mean, really, Maybe that's.
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Unknown
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