Running A Mummy & Then A Moron Was A Bad Plan

Summary

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Episode: Running A Mummy & Then A Moron Was A Bad Plan
Date: August 20, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

Episode Overview

In this episode, Armstrong & Getty dive deep into the current state of American politics, focusing particularly on the Democratic Party's struggles with voter registration and identity, contrasting social and cultural trends, and the implications of recent data on youth mental health. The hosts provide their signature blend of pointed political commentary, dark humor, generational reflection, and candid storytelling about family life, mental health, and societal expectations.

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Key Topics & Discussions

1. The Crisis Within the Democratic Party

[04:00–16:30]

• Voter Registration Declines:
  The hosts analyze a New York Times piece reporting that the Democratic Party is in a “voter registration crisis”—heavily losing ground to Republicans across 30 tracked states. The shift, described as a "hemorrhage" and "stampede," is not limited to battleground states but is also evident in blue and red states.

• Media Spin & Perception:
  The contrast between media narratives (“Democrats as brave warriors” vs. internal disaster) and actual data is examined. Armstrong notes, “He will come across as the brave warrior for stem values. Correct. And what is the sound of very few hands clapping? The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters.” (Travis, 04:30)

• Disconnect From Voters:
  The hosts discuss how the image of a “few, very loud people” dominates perceptions of the Democratic Party, alienating mainstream voters. “People perceive the Democratic Party to be a few very loud people who believe things I don’t believe at all.” (Travis, 05:57)

• New Voter Trends:
  Striking stats from the Times reveal that only 48% of new voters registered as Democrats in the most recent cycle—down from 63% in 2018—and that, for the first time since 2018, more new registrations are going Republican. Democrats’ edge in key swing states is vanishing.

• Cultural & Leadership Problems:
  Armstrong and Getty suggest Democrats fail to counteract their fringe and question why more moderate voices don’t step forward. “I’m surprised that a John Fetterman…hasn’t been able to stand up and shout down that very small, very out of touch but very loud segment of their party.” (Rodney, 07:26)

Notable Quotes:

• “The only caveat I would throw into this story is that both parties are much smaller than they used to be because there are so many people that don’t want to identify with either party.” (Rodney, 09:12)
• “You realize you tried to run a mummy and then when people caught on to the fact that you had a mummy, you put in an idiot. I mean, that’s a, that’s a bad look.” (Rodney, 12:04)

2. Five Takeaways from the Democratic Decline

[10:19–16:30]
Travis breaks down the five takeaways from the Times’ companion story (paraphrased):

1. Democrats are losing ground with new voters—especially among young people.
2. Battleground states swing right: Dems lost registration edges in states like Florida and New Hampshire.
3. The gender gap problem: Republican strength among men outpaces the Dem edge among women.
4. Younger voters shifting right: Republicans have an outright majority among new young voters in 2024.
5. Outlook remains bleak: There’s no evidence of a reversal—Democrats are down hundreds of thousands of registrations even since last November.

3. The Social Contagion of Diagnoses: ADHD, Therapy & Kids’ Mental Health

[29:21–43:00]

• ADHD Prevalence & Medication:
  The hosts share personal stories about children’s ADHD diagnoses and medication debates. New Swedish research (150,000+ participants) finds that ADHD medication correlates with fewer negative life outcomes—lower rates of suicide attempts, substance abuse, and criminal convictions among medicated individuals.

  Armstrong reflects that “every kid is different” and that a one-size-fits-all approach can be misleading, while Getty points to difficulties with inconsistent medical diagnoses:
  “First of all, I've had a very respected doctor get one diagnosis and a different respected doctor have a completely different diagnosis, and then what in the hell are you supposed to do with that information. So they're guessing to a great extent.” (Rodney, 32:57)

• Critical Look at School Mental Health Screenings:
  The hosts cite Abigail Shrier’s reporting on widespread mental health screenings in schools—raising concerns about privacy, parental consent, and the potential for suggestibility among children.

  Shrier’s survey example:

  • “In the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead?”
  • “Are you thinking of killing yourself right now? If yes, please describe.”

  Rodney’s reaction:
  “If they declare your kid a threat to themselves, they 5150 that kid and your kid no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the county… I mean, zero say.” (Rodney, 35:16)

  The hosts question the ethics and efficacy of such screenings, highlighting risks of overdiagnosis, stigmatization, and false positives:
  “Most kids who screen positive will have transient problems, not mental disorders. Mislabeling stigmatizes and subjects them to unnecessary treatments while misdirecting very scarce resources away from kids who desperately need them. Don’t do it.” (Travis, quoting DSM-IV editor, 42:34)

  Memorable Quote:
  “If you haven’t spent a lot of time around kids, you don’t know this. Kids are wildly suggestible, especially where psychiatric symptoms are concerned.” (Travis, 39:54)

4. Social Commentary: Braces & Cultural Norms in America

[47:24–51:15]

• The hosts reflect on the cultural expectation that all children should have straight, gleaming white teeth, noting that 70% of U.S. children receive orthodontic treatment, though only about a third clinically require it.

• They compare this to shifting social pressures, status norms, and the parallels between minor physical imperfections and social exclusion.

  “If you watch a movie from the 90s, all the actors like not bright white teeth...John Travolta’s got kind of yellowish teeth…People have normal colored teeth.” (Rodney, 47:48)

  “If indeed it is a barrier to achievement, acceptance, dating, whatever, certain relationships...are you gonna die on that hill, as people like to say, far too candidly.” (Travis, 51:00)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Party Leadership:
  “Somebody could emerge and say, as a Democrat, we gotta get control of our borders and dudes can’t be in girls’ sports and…there’d be all the, like 90% of regular Democrats and a whole bunch of people that are uncomfortable with Trump that would join onto that immediately.” (Rodney, 09:55)

• On Social Contagion and Kids:
  “If you introduce gender dysphoria into a peer group and a swath of seventh-grade girls are likely to decide they were born in the wrong body. Introduce testing anxiety or social phobia or suicidality to them and many teens are likely to decide, ‘I have that too.’” (Travis, 40:44)

• On Societal Pressure for Braces:
  “That’s like the modern day missing tooth. And that’s because nobody’s missing teeth anymore. So are you really setting yourself aside as you can’t be part of even mid-level or above society if you didn’t get your teeth straightened.” (Rodney, 48:32)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Democratic Party crisis and voter loss:
  [04:00–10:19]
• Five takeaways from the New York Times analysis:
  [10:19–16:30]
• Discussion about Elon Musk and third-party speculation:
  [16:28, 24:23]
• Home Depot/Trump’s tariffs impact on business:
  [28:39–29:21]
• Personal stories about ADHD diagnosis and medication:
  [29:21–32:57]
• Debate on mental health screening in schools:
  [33:29–43:00]
• Social norms: braces and expectations in the U.S.:
  [47:24–51:15]

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Memorable and Humorous Moments

• On the failed Democratic candidates:
  “You tried to run a mummy and then when people caught on to the fact that you had a mummy, you put in an idiot. I mean, that's a bad look." (Rodney, 12:04)
• Tongue-in-cheek reflection on party resilience:
  "One advantage of being old is you have seen both parties declared dead a handful of times... and then they control all three branches, like within a cycle or two." (Rodney, 10:42-11:06)
• Joke referencing Sarah Jessica Parker:
  “Authorities intervened when they realized it wasn’t a pony at all, but a confused and very lost Sarah Jessica Parker.” (Travis, 20:43)

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Conclusion

This episode offers a classic Armstrong & Getty blend of news analysis, cultural critique, and dark humor. From a hard look at shifting party politics and the echo chambers of American media to worries about the mental health-industrial complex and social pressures on kids, listeners are treated to a brisk, insightful, and occasionally irreverent conversation that never shies away from controversial opinions or the quirks of American society.

For further thought: The episode prompts listeners to question not just what’s happening in the culture and political parties, but why—and at what hidden costs to identity, community, and the next generation.

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Transcript

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[Travis Holloway]

And now he's Armstrong and Getty.

[News Reporter]

California's battle to redraw its congressional maps is headed to the state Supreme Court. California Republicans call Governor Newsom's plan unconstitutional.

[Travis Holloway]

Newsom insists California is only responding to.

[News Reporter]

What is happening in Texas.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah, and it's going to work.

[Travis Holloway]

What's going to work?

[Rodney Williams]

His response will what he's trying to do in California, which I don't think he'll be able to do, will look like a response to the awful thing Texas is doing because of the way the mainstream media is going to cover it.

[Travis Holloway]

Right. Okay. Yeah. Work on that level. I was going to say because he's not going to get that passed in California.

[Rodney Williams]

No, no, no.

[Travis Holloway]

But he will come across as the brave warrior for stem values. Correct. And what is the sound of very few hands clapping? The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters. According to the liberal New York Times, the Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis.

[Rodney Williams]

So this is a big, splashy front page story today in the New York Times.

[Travis Holloway]

It is their lead story and has the the companion story with it. Five takeaways from the Times analysis of Democratic decline. And I'm wondering why aren't the five takeaways in the main story? Why there gotta be two stories?

[Rodney Williams]

And the fact that they're using words like hemorrhaging and disaster.

[Travis Holloway]

So I flip on Stampede.

[Rodney Williams]

I flip on Morning Joe, MSNBC or Ms. Now or whatever it is today.

[Travis Holloway]

Now.

[Rodney Williams]

And they led with another one of those Republican town halls where the Democrats show up and scream at the. Scream at the person. And, and they portrayed it as all across America Republicans are on the back foot and this and that. And I thought. And they went on and I thought, aren't we involved in a war in Ukraine? Like why is this your lead story? Now I know they had to for their crowd and everybody in D.C. that's a Democrat watches that show. They had to for that crowd. Have a response to this New York Times story because this is such a big deal.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah. Interestingly it that what you just mentioned reinforces to me what I think the greater narrative is. And that is that people perceive the Democratic Party to be a few very loud people who believe things I don't believe at all.

[Rodney Williams]

Right.

[Travis Holloway]

And the town halls is a large number of people who are willing to bellow and shout down speakers.

[Rodney Williams]

You know why that narrative is out there?

[Travis Holloway]

Why do you suppose? Yeah, no kidding. So some facts and then we can continue the discussion. Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls. Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, the other 20 don't ask your party when you register. But of the 30 that do, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between 2024, 2020 and 2024 elections, and often by a lot. That four year swing toward Republicans adds up to four and a half million voters. A deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from the stampede. So it's a hemorrhaging stampede. Good Lord. The stampede away from the Democratic Party is incurring in battleground states, the bluest states and the reddest states, according to a new analysis of voter registration data by the New York Times.

[Rodney Williams]

I'm surprised.

[Travis Holloway]

It must be the power of.

[Rodney Williams]

The online world, Twitter, TikTok and that. Cause I'm surprised that a John Fetterman or, or whoever who's more of a mainstream normal human being, but a Democrat hasn't been able to stand up and shout down that very small, very out of touch but very loud segment of their party.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, I think there's been a slow recognition process because a lot of us on the right or just confused moderate folks or whomever have taken a while to realize, oh my gosh, it's not a huge majority of people that believes boys should be able to whoop up on girls in girls sports. It's practically nobody around here. Everybody was convinced that you had to think that and everybody was afraid to say something. So if, you know, conservative people and kind of centrist people took a long time to figure that out, it's going to take forever for Democrats to recognize that in themselves and say, yeah, you know, the people we really need to stand up against to win elections. It's not the evil orange guy and it's not the mean, cruel Republicans who are trying to redistrict Texas. It's our own lunatics. Here's some more facts. Few measurements reflect the luster of a political party's brand more clearly than the voters. The choice by voters to identify with it. Fewer and fewer Americans choosing to be Democrats. More new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year. It's the first time that's happened since 2018. Democrats actually still outnumber Republicans registered nationwide. But that is in large measure because giant blue states like California allow people to register by party and big red states like Texas do not.

[Rodney Williams]

The only caveat I would throw into this story is that both parties are much smaller than they used to be because there are so many people that don't want to identify with either party.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, yeah. Final note on this then. I want to jump over to the five takeaways because they are pretty interesting. Says an election analysis site head, Michael Pruser, who, you know, if you're in politics in D.C. he said, I don't want to say the death cycle of the Democratic Party, but there seems to be no end to this. There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year. It's an unbroken trend line according to these people. So.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah, well, that's true.

[Travis Holloway]

Until it's not.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah, exactly, that's true. Looking backwards. But just somebody could emerge and say, as a Democrat, we gotta get control of our borders and dudes can't be in girls, sports and, you know, and a couple other things. There'd be all the, like 90% of regular Democrats and a whole bunch of people that are uncomfortable with Trump that would join onto that immediately.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, there's a bloke running for governor in Iowa. I don't recall his name, but he's. He might as well be a Republican. He's running as a Democrat for some reason, but he's, again, he might as well be a Republican if, you know, if they can get, you know, the momentum around that sort of Democrat. All of these numbers will change very quickly. But I found this very interesting nonetheless. Here are five big takeaways.

[Rodney Williams]

Yes, I will interrupt the last time before you do this. If you're old One advantage of being old is you have seen both parties declared dead a handful of times.

[Travis Holloway]

Yes.

[Rodney Williams]

And then like a cycle or two.

[Travis Holloway]

Later and then been disappointed to find out that like you know, Frankenstein's monster, they have risen from the grave.

[Rodney Williams]

And then, and then they control all three branches, like within a cycle or two.

[Travis Holloway]

So here are your five big takeaways. Democrats are losing ground with new voters. Some of the decline was voters switching parties. Some was older Democrats died or people who didn't vote for so long they fell off the rolls. But one of the more striking findings is the trend among newly registered voters from the Democratic Party in the last six years. Many voters choosing to be political independents by not registering with either. But of the people who do choose between the two main parties, this is new voters, young voters. The Democratic share has been cratering. According to the analysis, in 2018, 63% of new voters were Democrats. 63%. Last year was 48%. That is cratering. Battleground states are swinging to the right. Between the 2020 and 2024 elections, Dem party lost its long held registration edge in states such as Florida and New Hampshire. That means registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats in those states.

[Rodney Williams]

You realize you tried to run a mummy and then when people caught on to the fact that you had a mummy, you put in an idiot. I mean, that's a, that's a bad look.

[Travis Holloway]

With all Due respect to 6 foot 4 inch, fully intact males saying I'm a woman and the university saying that's a woman, which struck like 90% of America as effing lunacy. Okay, running a mummy than a moron was really important. It's a good point, Jack. So if the current trend holds, more states will similarly flip to those I mentioned. Nevada briefly tipped into the Republican column this year. It's been see sawing in the months since, it's very, very close. Simply put, the Democratic edge in the swing states has been vanishing. 5.3% gone in Pennsylvania, 3.5% gone in North Carolina. Four and a half percent gone in Nevada. In Arizona, the only swing state where Republicans held a registration edge already in 2020, the GOP advantage has swelled by 4 percentage points. In 2024. There's more. The gender gap is a growing problem for Democrats. Women have tended to support Democrats at higher rates. Men have backed Republicans by similar margins in the past. But the analysis of registration data tells different story. Long story short, Republican strength among men far outpaces the Democratic edge among women.

[Rodney Williams]

Did I mention this? I know a woman. I was Talking to the other day, who's hardcore, I mean, she, she knows this would never happen, but she says, you know, it would fix everything if they took away our right to vote. Women are the whole problem, she said we're the whole problem. A whole bunch of emotional nut jobs that are causing all these problems.

[Travis Holloway]

I would she's never paint women with that broad a brush. Certainly it is unquestionable, according to all voting data that exists, that women in general tend toward more socialist policies and less self reliance and that sort of thing. They uniform not uniformly in enormous numbers vote for more government, more programs, more spending. That is undeniable. If that leads you to the conclusion your friend came to, it's an interesting conclusion. I would not say those words out loud. It would change the face of the. Sorry, sweetheart. It would change the face of the electorate and the government in a very, very short.

[Rodney Williams]

In a much better way. Yes.

[Travis Holloway]

Whoa. Moving along. More younger voters are voting for. Are opting for the gop. The numbers look terrible for Democrats. Among younger voters, people under 45 years old accounted for 65% of new registrations in the last seven years. Two thirds. And a once sizable Democratic edge among those new younger voters has disappeared entirely. In 2018, those youngsters, 2/3 of them went Democrat. In 2024, Republicans had an outright majority in new young voters. A couple of more. It isn't getting any better for Democrats. Yet there's been some hope in Democratic circles that the movement away from the party will reverse itself. Now that Trump is back in the White House, a backlash to his orange Hitler isms will show up on the registration rolls. But it has not happened, though it's still pretty early. Across 30 states and D.C. there are now roughly 160,000 fewer registered Democrats than election day last year and 200,000 more Republicans again just since election day. 160,000 fewer Democrats and 200,000 more Republicans. Wow. And that story would be even bleaker for Democrats if New York and New Jersey, which just held robust Democratic primaries for mayor and governor, that probably increased registrations were excluded. Outside those two states, Democrats are down roughly 430,000 registered voters since November. Doldrums need a leader deep in suckitude. They really do need a leader to emerge, an identity to emerge. What are you people?

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[Travis Holloway]

Yes, I'm going to join his new party. That's my plan.

[Rodney Williams]

A little bit later. We'll get into that. Among other things.

[Travis Holloway]

Stay here.

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[Travis Holloway]

Authorities intervened when they realized it wasn't a pony at all, but a confused and very lost Sarah Jessica Parker.

[Rodney Williams]

Oh, my God.

[Travis Holloway]

Wow. Wow.

[Rodney Williams]

No, no, Greg, he just traffics in your. He just finds you not a tr. He doesn't. He thinks you're fat or ugly or what?

[Travis Holloway]

I don't. I. I don't think there's much better humor than that.

[Rodney Williams]

Okay, so quick question. There's a story in the news.

[Travis Holloway]

About.

[Rodney Williams]

A radio colleague, radio legend, who we are friends with. Do we talk about it or not on the air?

[Travis Holloway]

Oh, boy. I think you do. I think it's interesting with some sensitivity, certainly. Yeah. Given the realities of it. Yeah. Yeah. Especially on today, which I'm told is National Radio Day. National Radio Day.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah. Gonna be talking about that during the One More Thing podcast. Got some interesting info for you for National Radio Day.

[Travis Holloway]

Had a. A gent say, you know, you guys really ought to be in the National Radio hall of Fame. And I said, oh, I'd forgotten there was one.

[Rodney Williams]

I think we should be. I mean, if, you know, I don't.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, it's. It sounds terrible to say out loud.

[Rodney Williams]

Well, yeah, but I mean, what standard are you using?

[Travis Holloway]

Like I use all the time. Fairly low. Anyway, so rate San Francisco Bay area.

[Rodney Williams]

Ron Owens, legend in radio. And like, if you live somewhere else and you've never heard of him, I get it. Back when not everybody was syndicated all across the country, he was like the biggest thing in the fourth biggest radio market in America for decades. I mean, just owned the town, talk radio. And he has fallen upon some really, really hard financial times and declaring bankruptcy and stuff like that and the mess with his family and all these different sorts of things. But it's just, it's a, it's a big, it's a big radio story in the. Well, the number four market in America.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah. It appears his daughter is half a nut and faked the pregnancy and got her dad to endorse a GoFundMe and a couple other things. But poor Ron has Parkinson's and has survived four bouts of cancer. He was always very kind to us, very generous to us, and. And so we wish him well.

[Rodney Williams]

His daughter faked a prison pregnancy?

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah. She claimed that contestant on the Bachelor had impregnated her, even lied under oath. She doctored a sonogram and a pregnancy video and even lied under oath as she tried to get former Bachelor style Clayton Etchard to take a paternity test.

[Rodney Williams]

Had they been together.

[Travis Holloway]

Court records in both Arizona and San Francisco show that Laura had previously made similar, similar allegations against three other men since 2014, claiming each time that she either had abortions or miscarriages.

[Rodney Williams]

Oh, boy. Well, I, I never held Joe Biden to account for Hunter or. You know, if you have kids, you don't know how your kids are gonna go.

[Travis Holloway]

It just.

[Rodney Williams]

You just do not.

[Travis Holloway]

You do your best and anybody with multiple kids knows often they are very, very, very different from each other.

[Rodney Williams]

You can have a role, you can have a role in them going off the rails, but you don't always.

[Travis Holloway]

Right. Indeed.

[Rodney Williams]

Elon was talking about starting a third party. He's not going to now, but he is going to throw a tremendous amount of money behind one particular dude for president, which is interesting. Among other things we can talk about coming up.

[Travis Holloway]

Stay with us.

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[Travis Holloway]

Ugh. Come on. Why Is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.

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[Travis Holloway]

Home Depot revealing plans to raise some prices because of President Trump's tariffs. Executives announcing the decision after quarterly sales reports came in lower than expected. John Deere says it will lay off more than 230 employees at three factories because the demand for equipment is down, calling it, quote, a challenging time for many farmers.

[Rodney Williams]

So this is just, you know, anecdotal stuff there, but there's always the possibility that we're the biggest story in America. Blotting out every other story is going to be tariff related here in a couple months.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, I've predicted somewhere around the end of October we're all going to be talking about that. I. I hope not. Unfortunate.

[Rodney Williams]

I would love it if that's not the case.

[Travis Holloway]

Oh yeah, here, here. Yeah, I'd love to be wrong. So I got at least one kid.

[Rodney Williams]

Diagnosed with ADHD and one certainly might have it and I know how some people react to this with this is just the way kids have always been and now they're putting a name on it and.

[Travis Holloway]

I think there's some truth there.

[Rodney Williams]

I think there is too.

[Travis Holloway]

Depends on the kid obviously.

[Rodney Williams]

I know in at least one of my cases it's definitely not that but.

[Travis Holloway]

Right.

[Rodney Williams]

There's so many different medications out there and it's interesting. I've known a couple of really successful people, scholastically successful people that had ADHD and were able to focus better than normal people in certain situations. That's one of the weird things about adhd. But like several femmes I know who have ADHD can drink coffee, like a big cup of coffee before they go to bed. It helps calm them down. Stimulates, calm them down. So energy drinks, coffee. It's like how you exhale and focus.

[Travis Holloway]

And Ritalin, famously, is a stimulant.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah. Yeah. And so anyway, for all kinds of different reasons, there's this giant Swedish study that's out right now. They followed 150,000 people with ADHD for two years on ADHD medication. And based on their analysis with this very big study, the medicated group experienced an estimated 17% fewer suicidal behaviors, 15% fewer cases of substance abuse, 13% fewer criminal convictions, and a dozen percent fewer traffic accidents compared to people that didn't take ADHD medication. So I don't know if that informs anybody who's in the, you know, I'm not going to do medication for my kid crowd. That's a tough.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, I just. Just because that is something that improves outcomes, or so it would seem from that study, you know, with the usual grains of salt, doesn't mean it's the best solution. That would be my. My only quibble. And again, it varies kid to kid. But that's interesting. I mean, if that's helping people be happier and all, I'm in favor of it. I just. I know. I am certain I would have been diagnosed as a. As a boy with adhd. Do you think my problem was the pace of school was so slow it made me insane.

[Rodney Williams]

But do you think it would have helped you if you'd have had something that would taken the edge off?

[Travis Holloway]

No. What really helped me was getting into a program that lets you learn at your own speed. I loved it. Absolutely loved it. Happy as a clam.

[Rodney Williams]

And it didn't exhibit itself in any other ways?

[Travis Holloway]

Oh, I don't think so. Not that I'd have to think about that for a while.

[Rodney Williams]

There's also degrees because it's.

[Travis Holloway]

Of course they do.

[Rodney Williams]

Diagnosis as mild, moderate, or severe.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah. And I want to make it clear, I come to this conversation humbly because every kid is different. And I don't know your kid or your kid or your kid. And. And some people absolutely need the help. Well, yeah, that.

[Rodney Williams]

Well, that's the problem you have. If you run into people that have very strong opinions on this is all. First of all, I've had a very respected doctor get one diagnosis and a different respected doctor have a completely different diagnosis, and then what in the hell are you supposed to do with that information. So they're guessing to a great extent. It's all on a continuum line between zero and a thousand. And it's also combined with all the other personality factors that you have that are somewhere in the range of normal or not.

[Travis Holloway]

So yeah, it's complicated in their environment. Yeah. So speaking of kids mental health, I absolutely love Abigail Shrier. She wrote a couple of books, Irreversible Damage, about the unspeakably cruel, experimenting on confused adolescents who momentarily believe they're a different gender because activists have convinced them that they might be or that they are. And kids are so impressionable, it led kids down what I've called the high speed conveyor belt of activism toward irreversible damage to their bodies. Terrible. She also wrote a book, Bad Therapy, which she references here. And I'm just gonna read something she wrote briefly. While I was writing my book, Bad Therapy, my middle school aged son returned home from sleepaway camp with a persistent stomachache. I took him to urgent care where a nurse asked me to leave the room. I know you love this, Jack. So he could administer a mental health screening tool put out by our National Institutes of Mental Health. Afterward, I received a copy of the survey and photographed it. Here, verbatim are the five questions the nurse intended to ask my son in private.

[Rodney Williams]

And what was the age of the kid again?

[Travis Holloway]

Middle school.

[Rodney Williams]

Okay.

[Travis Holloway]

In the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead? 2. In the past few weeks, have you felt that you or your family would be better off if you were dead? 3. In the past week have you been having thoughts about killing yourself?

[Rodney Williams]

Why can't I be in the room for these questions, by the way?

[Travis Holloway]

Because they don't want you, the parent, interfering with they, the government, getting the truth from your kid. 4. Have you ever tried to kill yourself? If yes, how? When? And five, are you thinking of killing yourself right now? If yes, please describe keeping in mind.

[Rodney Williams]

And I know more about this than I wish I knew, but keeping in mind, if they declare your kid a threat to themselves, they 5150 that kid and your kid no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the county. They are in the government's control. You get no say at that point. I mean, zero say.

[Travis Holloway]

Wow. So Abigail writes, children across America are being asked these questions by doctors because this is explicit protocol from the nim, the National Institute of Mental Health. Ask parents to leave so that you can administer the following questions to kids age 8 and up who have not shown any signs of mental distress. There are so many problems with this the main one is kids are wildly suggestible, especially where psychiatric symptoms are concerned.

[Rodney Williams]

Oh, my God.

[Travis Holloway]

Ask a kid repeatedly if he might be depressed. How about now? Are you sure? And he just might decide that he is sure. Or she writes that. Yeah.

[Rodney Williams]

Be in a position at that moment that day where they want attention.

[Travis Holloway]

Oh, sure. Yeah. And she writes now, thanks to Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker, tens of thousands of Illinois kids will be encouraged to think of themselves as sick. Many or most will be false positives.

[Rodney Williams]

How do you freaking nutjobs think you're making the world better with this stuff? I'll never understand it.

[Travis Holloway]

I just think there are. There is a huge share of people that thinks in terms of feelings and not outcomes. Does this. Does this make me feel. Does this sound good? Does this seem concerned? And they don't even ask. All right. Every action has reactions, both intended and unintended. Let's think about what they might be thinking. Progressives don't say those things.

[Rodney Williams]

It's also a weird tendency on the left to.

[Travis Holloway]

Feel like they're.

[Rodney Williams]

I don't know if.

[Travis Holloway]

Because they come from.

[Rodney Williams]

Tend to come from dysfunctional families or what it is, but they kind of want it not to be true that there are functioning families out there.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah.

[Rodney Williams]

It bothers them that sometimes. We got it. If things are fine, I'm okay. I don't need your help. They hate that.

[Travis Holloway]

In a way. Yes. Because nothing makes them feel better than helping. I just feel like. Go back to the great C.S. lewis quote about the worst sort of oppression is from Do Gooders, because they will never stop. Right.

[Rodney Williams]

I just feel like it's been more prevalent of people I've known that were super progressive, that nobody's actually happily married. That's. No. They're all faking it or lying or, you know, there are no families that are okay. Just in a voice that. That's so weird. Why do. Why do you have that view of the world?

[Travis Holloway]

So.

[Rodney Williams]

And if you have that view of the world, you'd be more likely to want this sort of stuff.

[Travis Holloway]

So getting back to JD Pritzker signing mandatory mental health screenings for little kids.

[Rodney Williams]

Into law, and you're not in the room for it. That's unbelievable.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah. Yeah. And actually, Abigail Schreier mentions, if basic literacy hadn't already collapsed in Illinois, kids might pose spirited objections to Pritzker's sales pitch. But in fact, nobody learns anything in Illinois. But her experience talking to parents of such kids right afterward. From Simplisafe. Home Security. Feeling safe at home. Speaking of functional families, I mean, actually safe. Whether you're going to sleep at night or leaving for the day and leaving your home empty, you want Simplisafe's new Active Guard Outdoor Protection. It helps stop break ins before they happen.

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[Travis Holloway]

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[Rodney Williams]

Hate this story you brought us.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, sorry about that. So Abigail writes, I've spoken to hundreds of parents of such kids. In 2024, I published Bad Therapy, an investigation into the surge in adolescent mental health diagnoses and psychiatric prescription drug use. Many young people without serious mental illness nonetheless spend languishing with a diagnosis, alternately cursing it and embracing it, believing they have a broken brain, convincing themselves that their struggles are insurmountable because of the disorder's constraints. They meet regularly with a therapist or school counselor on whom they become increasingly reliant, losing a sense of efficacy, unable to navigate on their own, even minor setbacks in interpersonal conflicts. They begin courses of antidepressants that carry all kinds of side effects. Suppressed libido, fatigue, muffling of all emotion, and even an increase in depression. Anti anxiety drugs and stimulants given to kids diagnosed with ADHD are both addictive and ubiquitously abused. And often that tragic descent begins with a simple mental health survey. Then she tells the story of her son. And this is, this is maybe the key takeaway. If you haven't spent a lot of time around kids, you don't know this. Kids are wildly suggestible, especially where psychiatric symptoms are concerned. As a kid repeatedly if he might be depressed, how about now? Are you sure? And he might just decide that he is introduce gender dysphoria into a peer group and a swath of seventh grade girls are likely to decide they were born in the wrong body. Introduce testing anxiety or social phobia or suicidality to them and many teams are likely to decide. I have that too. There is a reason clinicians keep anorexia patients from socializing unsupervised in a hospital ward. Anorexia is a profoundly socially contagious, contagious mental illness.

[Sports Broadcaster]

Wow.

[Rodney Williams]

That is, I think obviously true and so troubling. Yeah. Testing anxiety is a great example. I mean they, I think they talk about that in classes openly all the time now. And you know, if you.

[Travis Holloway]

Everybody gets a free pass. Yeah.

[Rodney Williams]

And then of course, I mean who, who doesn't get anxious when you've got a test? Anybody?

[Travis Holloway]

One more note in do you want to squeeze it in now or after the break? It's the guy who writes the giant psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition. I'll just do it real quick now. He says. Mandatory school. Mandatory school screenings of kids for mental illness is great in theory and terrible in practice.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah.

[Travis Holloway]

Most kids who screen positive will have transient problems, not mental disorders. Mislabeling stigmatizes and subjects them to unnecessary treatments while misdirecting very scarce resources away from kids who desperately need them. Don't do it.

[Rodney Williams]

Then you've got the added problem of some parents. I'm definitely not this. Who love the idea of having a kid who has some sort of special problem to get to talk about and everything.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah. Syndrome. And it's various variations. That's brutal.

[Rodney Williams]

You have any thoughts on this, text us 415295KFTC ARMSTRONG and Getty.

[News Reporter]

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[Sports Broadcaster]

The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's Big three is the surprise hit of the summer and to cap off the season, iHeart presents the Big Three basketball playoffs this Sunday at 3pm Eastern. The remaining four teams battle it out for the right to make the Big three Championship in the most physical, fierce and competitive basketball basketball league in the world. The action starts with the Big three Monster Energy Celebrity game where your favorite stars compete in Big three three on three basketball. Then the first of two semifinal games features Dwight Howard and the LA Riot taking on Montrez Harrell and Dr. J's first place Chicago triplets. The finale will see popular Miami 305 with Stars MVP Michael Beasley and last will make you Dan Stevenson take on Nancy Lieberman's Dallas power who finished the season winning five straight weeks to capture second place. Can Glenn Rice, Greg Monroe and Paul Millsap stop Miami's physical assault? Or will Miami and Beasley put an end to Dallas winning ways? Who will make it to the big three championship? This no holds barred action starts Sunday at 3:00pm Eastern, 12 Pacific only on CBS.

[Jacob Goldstein]

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[Travis Holloway]

Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.

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[Travis Holloway]

Whoa, this thing moves.

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[Podcast Announcer]

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[Travis Holloway]

The Princeton Review recently named Syracuse University, America's number one party school. Said people at Syracuse, this is a school consumer. Oh my.

[Rodney Williams]

So my son got, my 13 year old got braces yesterday. And I was wondering what percentage of kids get braces in the modern world? As we decided at some point that everybody needs to have perfectly straight teeth and they need to be as bright as the sun in terms of whiteness?

[Travis Holloway]

Yes.

[Rodney Williams]

Just. That's what we decided. It's. If you watch a movie from the 90s, all the actors like not bright white teeth. They're just kind of, you know, John Travolta's got kind of yellowish teeth like.

[Travis Holloway]

People have normal colored teeth.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's striking.

[Travis Holloway]

And I love this, this is my favorite aspect of modern movies. If the, you got a movie, it's a western, it's set in 1840 and you got a character who's a town drunk who's dying of consumption. He's still got gleaming white teeth.

[Rodney Williams]

Right. About 70% of kids in the US currently get some sort of orthodontic treatment, braces being the number one. And at least a third or only a third truly need braces in, in the traditional sense. Like it would be a quality of life situation if you didn't get your teeth straightened out. It's, it's cosmetic. In other words, for two thirds of them. Which, you know, if we've decided, you know, I had a person really berating me for the fact that I hadn't got my sun braces yet. Yet. If we've decided that you gotta have straight teeth, is that kind of like we, we use the example of the, the cracked phone screen. That's like the modern day missing tooth. And that's because nobody's missing teeth anymore. So are you, are you, are you really setting yourself aside as you can't be part of even mid level or above Society if you didn't get your teeth straightened. I don't know, I don't know what it's like out there. I have straight teeth just naturally, so I don't know what it would be like. I don't know how self conscious I would be. Lots of people had crooked teeth when I was younger. But like every kid has braces. And also socio economically depending on your, you know, your social strata, the higher you go up the income, the more it's like a hundred percent of the kids get braces for even mildly crooked teeth according to this article.

[Travis Holloway]

Hence the social pressure.

[Rodney Williams]

Sure, right. Yeah. So it's kind of self reinforcing.

[Travis Holloway]

I'll be in Britain next week, so. Oh boy.

[Rodney Williams]

Well that'll be interesting.

[Travis Holloway]

Bring your report.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it is interesting that that is, it's not uniformly a western society thing. I mean United States leads the way in like needing to have perfectly straight teeth for cosmetic reasons. And it's expensive and painful, but yet we do it. And I just find it interesting, you know, we did it, I'm doing it.

[Travis Holloway]

Yeah, that's, it's a conundrum. I mean if you were a real activist you'd say, all right, this is an artificially imposed social norm, Right. A status Norman eminence front is Pete Townsend who just turned 80. Of the who. Pete Townsend of the who is 80. Good Lord. Anyway, as he would put it. But if indeed it is a barrier to achievement, acceptance, dating, whatever, certain relationships.

[Rodney Williams]

Yeah.

[Travis Holloway]

And are you gonna die on that hill, as people like to say, far too candidate.

[Rodney Williams]

And it's not even that am I gonna have my kid die on that hill because it's not me who's, who's living with it, right? So that's what every parent is dealing with. But it's expensive, man.

[Travis Holloway]

I was shocked by the price. Yow. Are you a baseball fan? I love the baseball. Have you heard the new challenge? The viral trend? He says, rolling his eyes. Nine beers and nine hot dogs in nine innings.

[Rodney Williams]

Oh, if I was younger. I'm all over that challenge. Oh, what today?

[Travis Holloway]

What?

[Rodney Williams]

Oh yes. We gotta talk more about that.

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[Sports Broadcaster]

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[Rodney Williams]

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[Travis Holloway]

And I'm Travis Holloway. Welcome to the wealthbreak podcast, a real conversation about finance.

[Sports Broadcaster]

Let's be honest, building wealth doesn't look the same for everyone.

[Travis Holloway]

I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories.

[News Reporter]

What happens when it doesn't go right? How do you cope with it?

[Travis Holloway]

Because wealth isn't just about money.

[Sports Broadcaster]

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[Rodney Williams]

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