Unnamed Contributor (3:12)

This is two days contemporary. Two days ago. Yeah.

Unnamed Contributor (3:16)

Planning a Covid safe book launch took months and thousands of my own dollars. Ensuring testing outdoor space, UV lights, and a litany of other precautions. Okay, how insane is that?

Unnamed Contributor (3:30)

I didn't want to steal your thunder in case that's where it's going. But her main. What she's known for mostly am I still in your thunder?

Unnamed Contributor (3:37)

I don't know.

Unnamed Contributor (3:37)

Is absolutely rabid enforcement of online especially, never challenging the mainstream, especially during COVID If you dared suggest there was a problem with lockdowns or vaccines where she wanted you doxed, ruined deep, called out your career over. She's a freaking lunatic.

Unnamed Contributor (3:59)

God, that is crazy. So you're launching your book. You spend thousands of your own dollars to make sure everybody gets tested now, really, before they're allowed in the book thing. UV lights, whatever those are for, and a list of other precautions. Meanwhile, you dumb Fs. I'm glad I didn't actually say it. Meanwhile, you dumb Fs are out there raw dogging the air and spewing your disease laden breath all over your elderly neighbors.

Unnamed Contributor (4:26)

So that's a quote from Taylor Lorenz.

Unnamed Contributor (4:29)

Yeah, so that's where the phrase raw dogging the air comes from.

Unnamed Contributor (4:32)

Raw dogging the air.

Unnamed Contributor (4:35)

Lorenz claims that people who don't wear masks in public are quote, raw dogging the air, said this news account. That's usually a phrase.

Unnamed Contributor (4:44)

I. Obscene.

Unnamed Contributor (4:45)

That's usually a phrase that means you're having sex without a condom.

Unnamed Contributor (4:49)

Oh. Oh, I was right. It is quasi obscene.

Unnamed Contributor (4:53)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're. You're. You're raw dogging if you're having six thought of a problem, which is fine.

Unnamed Contributor (4:59)

It's also a viral tick tock trend where passengers on airplanes sit silently and without distractions on long flights. I like putty and Seinfeld.

Unnamed Contributor (5:08)

I've never heard that one before. Anyway, I don't know if I know anybody this crazy about COVID but I know some people that are still pretty damn masked up and won't shake hands and Stuff like that currently.

Unnamed Contributor (5:21)

So they really need to be analyzed. Wow.

Unnamed Contributor (5:24)

You have an event and you make everybody get tested, masked, and have special UV lights.

Unnamed Contributor (5:30)

Wow.

Unnamed Contributor (5:31)

You are an insane person.

Unnamed Contributor (5:32)

Yeah. Oh, yeah. She is mentally unbalanced. Absolutely true. And just absolutely vicious. Yeah. She's a terrible human being.

Unnamed Contributor (5:39)

So if you hear that, that's making the rounds around social media. The raw dogging the air is very popular right now. Probably since we're talking about COVID should throw this out. You know, Cash Patel, who might be the director of the FBI, last year he was selling some sort of pills on a website and on his Twitter feed that were for reversing the vax. If you wanted to cleanse your body of the COVID vaccine and worry about the damage it was doing to you and your children, you could take his pills to reverse any of the vaccines.

Unnamed Contributor (6:15)

Wow.

Unnamed Contributor (6:15)

Whatever it was doing to you, that's.

Unnamed Contributor (6:17)

Just stealing the money of the. The easily led suckers.

Unnamed Contributor (6:21)

That's just fraud.

Unnamed Contributor (6:23)

Wow. Well, yeah, that's fraud. He's a fraud merchant. You know what? I should have asked for the clip from Special Report with Bret Baer last night in which Trey Gowdy, former federal prosecutor and. And a guy I really like, said, as against the Matt Gates nomination as I was, I am for Cash Pat. I think he will do a great job. Cool.

Unnamed Contributor (6:45)

That means a lot to me. Did he get into specifics?

Unnamed Contributor (6:48)

Well, yeah, he just thought Patel did an absolutely fantastic, smart, aggressive job in countering the Russian collusion hoax. Oh, we do have that clip. Go ahead.

Unnamed Contributor (6:56)

Michael worked elbow to elbow with Kash Patel for two years. You would not know the foundation or the funding of the Steele ca. You would not know about Pfizer abuse. You would not know about Fusion GPS had it not been for the hard work of a guy named Kash Patel. He is quite candidly the most unfairly maligned person that I worked with the entire eight years I was in Washington. So I know the left setting their hair on fire is because of what he found, not because of who he is, because of what he found. You would not know about the FISA abuse if it were not for Cash.

Unnamed Contributor (7:33)

Patel and his side hustle was selling snake oil.

Unnamed Contributor (7:36)

That I don't like that. But that's all I need to know. Because Trey Gowdy, as is pointed out, I mean, he was hardcore. Matt Gaetz shouldn't be Attorney General. Hardcore.

Unnamed Contributor (7:44)

Correct.

Unnamed Contributor (7:45)

So it's not like he's, you know, going along with whatever Trump wants. No. If former prosecutor like that is on his side, that's all I need to know.

Unnamed Contributor (7:56)

Cool.

Unnamed Contributor (7:57)

Glad to hear that.

Unnamed Contributor (7:58)

Yeah. I love Trey Gowdy. Yeah. Patel is clearly in that list of. I said yesterday, I think it was that 50% of Trump's nominations were rock solid. About 25% were. Were surprising and intriguing and 25% or so are bat poop nuts. And those are rough numbers, obviously. Yeah. Patel is clearly in that intriguing category.

Unnamed Contributor (8:21)

And since we brought you the phrase raw dogging the air that you might come across. Are you aware of the term hangxiety, which apparently is popular right now with some studies out on which alcohol is the best to drink to avoid hang anxiety. I don't know if Joe has suffered from this over the Thanksgiving break. There are a couple of drinks that make it worse than others. Apparently when you have a hangover and it makes you really, really anxious, some boozes do that and some don't.

Unnamed Contributor (8:47)

Does I just. Well, I don't know about that. I. I tend to think those distinctions. Alcohol is alcohol, right? Exactly. Yeah. But yes. I actually, I just happen to be reading about that. A guy quit drinking. He said one of the reasons was. Is it increases the production of cortisol. Was it. Which is a hormone that contributes to anxiety. Don't. Forgive me if it's. That's the wrong hormone. But.

Unnamed Contributor (9:08)

So you wake up.

Unnamed Contributor (9:08)

I thought that was interesting.

Unnamed Contributor (9:09)

Hungover and anxious. Although the anxiety might be the where's my car? Or who is she? I mean, that will make you anxious, right?

Unnamed Contributor (9:17)

Yeah. Yeah, right. Or I feel terrible. Am I having a heart attack? Or you know, is something wrong with my brain? I'm very far.

Unnamed Contributor (9:27)

Or. Or now I got to get a new job. That'll make you anxious too.

Unnamed Contributor (9:32)

I said what? Yeah, that'll make you anxious, all right.

Unnamed Contributor (9:36)

Or how long they going to leave me here before I get to see a lawyer? That'll make you anxious.

Unnamed Contributor (9:40)

I've told them three times, I gotta pee. Are they gonna let me pee? Yeah.

Unnamed Contributor (9:44)

Anxiety.

Unnamed Contributor (9:46)

Yes. Okay, great. And I've become aware through a bit of research, very little research, that raw dogging, which is fun to say because of the assimilation. Not assimilation. Assonance. And what word am I looking for?

Unnamed Contributor (10:02)

Alliteration.

Unnamed Contributor (10:02)

It's got alliteration. Except it's assonance. Yeah, it's. It's the vowel sound. Raw dogging. Raw dog. It's fun to say it be a number of things. It originated as having unprotected sex. But like if you have the flu, you don't take any medication and you just gut it out. That's Raw dogging the flu.

Unnamed Contributor (10:22)

I would purpose. I'm not going to say to my kids they have a headache, would you like some ibuprofen? I'm going to say, oh, so you're a raw dog in your headache. I'm not going to say that. Not going to use that in that way.

Unnamed Contributor (10:33)

Well you don't have to but it is multi, multi use. Very versatile.

Unnamed Contributor (10:38)

And then sitting on a plane and staring straight ahead that what you said.

Unnamed Contributor (10:42)

I guess it's evolved into. It just means dealing with something without any aid.

Unnamed Contributor (10:51)

First flight I got on, had life story person in front of me loud life story person. Oh, I didn't have any headphones or anything like that. I just gonna read but just. I just. I'm always amazed by that. The lack of self awareness for how loud you are or how much you're talking. Do you notice nobody else is talking? You've been talking for an hour and nobody else has been talking. That doesn't seem odd to you in any way?

Unnamed Contributor (11:20)

Nope, it doesn't to those people.

Unnamed Contributor (11:22)

How do you go through your whole life without. Without thinking, huh? There's a bunch of human beings here. We could either all not talk or we could all talk equally. Or I could talk the entire time while they listen. One of them seems odd.

Unnamed Contributor (11:37)

Yeah. It's impossible for me to imagine. I think one of the reasons I'm reasonably good at this is I'm very self conscious about what I say. So I tend to form it pretty carefully. I mean somebody can say Joe, what do you think? And I think is it appropriate for me to talk now? So I can't imagine somebody who's in that completely polar opposite headspace. I just can't.

Unnamed Contributor (11:56)

And then along with the volume just like so everybody in several rows can hear you. Yeah. And then when I got out of high school that's when the fun really started. So I joined the military.

Unnamed Contributor (12:07)

I don't recall asking sir, what the.

Unnamed Contributor (12:10)

Hell do you know anybody like that? And you have any explanation? I. I've been wondering about this my whole life.

Jack Armstrong (12:16)

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. The Armstrong and Getty showing.

Unnamed Contributor (12:28)

Nothing.

Unnamed Contributor (12:28)

If you're a sports fan, here's the latest. If you're a baseball fan, particularly latest sensation. Are you into Tugboat yet?

Unnamed Contributor (12:34)

I have read about tugboat.

Unnamed Contributor (12:36)

270 pound baseball player, big fat guy, really really good. And apparently his YouTube videos are very popular. So if you're a baseball fan and you like oddities, it's not like a bearded woman or something but it is a bigger guy than you usually see.

Unnamed Contributor (12:54)

Wow, that. That sounded transphobic to me. So back to this tugboat guy, though. He's, you know, he's at a low level of minor league ball at this point. Lowish. But he strikes out more than half the batters he faces. It's. His numbers are astonishing. I'm intrigued. I want to watch one of his games.

Unnamed Contributor (13:11)

By the way, Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day of Saturday Night Live are reprising their Beavis and Butthead act. It has become very popular, if you saw that sketch on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago. So they're making the rounds doing that, including at the premiere of his latest film. I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't somebody making a movie that will feature those two as Beavis and Butthead. It was pretty damned funny. But I wanted to get to this. The New York Times had this article over the weekend that I read because I'm always wondering about this. This is a classic, the food expiration dates. You should actually follow. This comes up all the time. The first thing you should know, said the New York Times, the dates as we know them have nothing to do with safety. I have.

Unnamed Contributor (13:55)

Thank you.

Unnamed Contributor (13:55)

I have been involved with people in my life at various points who followed these religiously as if they were God's own word. And if you were anywhere near the date, let alone past it, obviously that is something you shouldn't eat. It's not even based on safety. According to the U.S. department of Agriculture, it's completely voluntary for all products. Except for baby food. It's completely voluntary, and so there are no rules around it whatsoever. And it's got nothing to do with safety. And it's solely based on the manufacturer's best guess as to when the product will not be at peak quality, whatever that means. And of course, there is a financial incentive to imply that this isn't safe to eat it after a certain date. So you'll buy another one.

Unnamed Contributor (14:43)

Yeah. Throw it out and go to the store and buy another one. Yeah, exactly.

Unnamed Contributor (14:47)

Anyway, so it goes through in the New York Times, some of the things that never go bad. White flour never goes bad. Did you know that? Never goes bad. Keep that around forever. Talks about bread. I struggle with this. So I've been trying to eat more healthier bread. You know, I've been a Wonder bread guy my whole life. There's not a lot of nutrition in wonder Bread.

Unnamed Contributor (15:03)

It's a child's bread, but it does.

Unnamed Contributor (15:05)

Stay soft and edible for a very long time. And as it talks here, a lot of those breads, like, I get wonder bread. You got like a full week probably on that loaf where you get fresh bread from your bakery, which is so good, you know, an hour after it was baked is stale the next day.

Unnamed Contributor (15:22)

So. Well, this is the wonders of chemistry.

Unnamed Contributor (15:25)

So what do you do when you buy the fresh bread, which is delicious? You sit and eat it all. One. One afternoon or all in one sitting?

Unnamed Contributor (15:30)

That's right. I just eat it and eat it and eat it. Yeah.

Unnamed Contributor (15:34)

Spices last forever. I don't. I don't remember ever looking at the expiration date on my salt or pepper.

Unnamed Contributor (15:39)

Did you not discover the joys of the plastic bag that keeps bread fresh for days? Days and days?

Unnamed Contributor (15:46)

I always feel like it gets too moist. You put in a plastic bag. It gets, like, gooey. I don't like that.

Unnamed Contributor (15:52)

Like. Like real bread.

Unnamed Contributor (15:54)

Yeah.

Unnamed Contributor (15:54)

No, no.

Unnamed Contributor (15:55)

Why does that happen to me?

Unnamed Contributor (15:57)

I. I don't know. I can't imagine. I mean, I tend to eat, like, rye and pumpernickel and. And grown man's breads. Seven grain is my favorite. Six grain, maybe in a pinch, seven. It's what I require.

Unnamed Contributor (16:09)

I actually hate both of those. I would. I would not eat a sandwich. I would take the bread off if it had rye bread on it or pumpernick.

Unnamed Contributor (16:14)

Wow. Gross. What an odd character you are. Anyway, yeah, they last for a week, week and a half at least. Yeah, they last until I'm done eating them.

Unnamed Contributor (16:24)

Canned goods, jarred goods last for years if I haven't been.

Unnamed Contributor (16:29)

Oh, leaking. It's fine. Go ahead and eat them.

Unnamed Contributor (16:34)

Rusty. Smells weird. Don't worry about it. That's not what they said. As long as the can or jar is not touched in any way or it doesn't look damaged. It lasts forever. Must last forever. My yellow French's mustard that I get to go with my wonder bread lasts forever.

Unnamed Contributor (16:52)

You know, I'm gonna write a song about mustard today after the show. Mustards last forever. I'm a man who enjoys mustard. I have no less than 10 different mustards in my refrigerator, and I eat them gleefully on rye bread. What's your pinky in the air?

Unnamed Contributor (17:09)

Yeah. Disgusting. Excuse me.

Unnamed Contributor (17:12)

Do you have any gray Poupon? I do.

Unnamed Contributor (17:15)

Really? I've never even tasted grape Poupon. I don't even actually know what it is. I've only heard about it in advertisements. And then finally, milk. I wanted to get to that, just because that's one we worry about a lot, especially if you have kids. We've all accidentally poured some clumpy spoiled milk into our cereal bowls.

Unnamed Contributor (17:28)

I have done that.

Unnamed Contributor (17:29)

It is one of the worst smells on earth. That's like nature's own protective mechanism, right? It's letting our brains know this is not good. Don't eat it. It can seem like your milk is perfectly fine until it's suddenly not. How does it go bad overnight? The truth is, it doesn't. From the moment you open a carton of milk, bacteria starts to digest lactose and produce acidic byproducts. Anyway, if you want your milk to last longer, look for ultra high temperature or UHT labeled on the milk. I've never looked for that before, but some milks have it and some don't. Milk in these cartons have been pasteurized at a high temperature, hot enough to destroy, destroy all the bacteria and then in there. And they last a lot longer. I will start looking for that today because I feel like my milk goes bad fast, you know?

Unnamed Contributor (18:12)

Is that the same as ultra pasteurized?

Unnamed Contributor (18:14)

I guess.

Unnamed Contributor (18:15)

I've seen that label.

Unnamed Contributor (18:16)

You know whose milk is sucky? I won't mention a particular place, but like a lot of convenience store milk, I don't know how what they do on the trucks, but.

Unnamed Contributor (18:25)

Oh, I thought you were talking about a particular mother in your neighborhood or something. Do you know whose milk is quote unquote sucky? That's terrible. All right, who's what?

Unnamed Contributor (18:34)

Milk from a convenience storage. It won't last like a day if it's any good at all. I don't know if the trucks sit there and get hot, but yeah, anytime I buy milk at a convenience store, I have. I have bad bad luck with it. I don't. I don't think they. See, they keep it cold all the way through like they do at the grocery stores.

Unnamed Contributor (18:49)

Yeah, I wonder. Oh, they're in the same fridge as the beer and the Pepsi.

Unnamed Contributor (18:54)

That might be my least favorite smell slash taste is spoiled milk.

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Unnamed Contributor (20:21)

Commercials the Armstrong and Getty Show. I love this from Andrew Stiles. The definitive list of winners and losers the 2024 election. Actually, much as I love Andrew, I'm going to quibble with his opening. He says the election's over. Donald Trump and the Republicans, excuse me, won a stunning, indecisive victory. I would say Donald Trump won a stunning, indecisive victory. The Senate performed very, very well and the House scraped by for the Republicans. Yeah, mentioned unified government.

Unnamed Contributor (20:53)

Mentioned this earlier. I hadn't thought about it until I heard a Democrat point it out. How can you call it a wave if you're going to have like a three seat majority in the House of Representatives? That ain't much of a wave. I mean, when Obama won, he had like an 80 seat majority.

Unnamed Contributor (21:08)

It's an itty bitty wave. Yeah, but anyway, winners and losers. Winner. Diversity. Actual diversity. All sorts of different people voted for Trump and got out of their electoral pens that the Democrat had told them they ought to stay in the Democrats. Rather, with the exception of seniors and college educated white women. Huzzah. Trump improved his margins in every group. Winner Hillary Clinton, no longer the only Democrat to lose to Trump. Trump Winner. Mental health professionals about to make a fortune treating the emotional breakdowns of college educated white women and deranged liberals and journalists who base their entire personalities on hating Trump and his supporters.

Unnamed Contributor (21:43)

Wow, what a way to live your life.

Unnamed Contributor (21:45)

The same people are cutting off friends and loved ones who care about them deeply as a human being because they've bought, I think, the most hyperbolic, ridiculous stuff about politics.

Unnamed Contributor (21:55)

Spend Thanksgiving alone and in in the comfort of knowing at least you're not hanging around with Trump voters, you weirdo.

Unnamed Contributor (22:02)

Evil. That's right. Another winner. Dean Phillips. Only Democrat with the balls to run against Biden in the Democratic primary and say he's too old. He was mocked and ridiculed at the time.

Unnamed Contributor (22:12)

Oh, man. And the Democratic Party cut his legs out from underneath and made it impossible for him to get anywhere. And he was a hundred percent right, it turns out.

Unnamed Contributor (22:19)

And telling the truth. Yeah. Which is not welcome in politics. Yeah. Another winner, Josh Shapiro. He dodged the bullet of being hitched to Kamala Harris's wall.

Unnamed Contributor (22:30)

Right.

Unnamed Contributor (22:31)

He looks smart for not taking the job, which he probably didn't want anyway. We've already forgotten the name of the guy she did pick. The guy in the camo hat who pranced around and lied about China. Yeah. What's his face? Wow.

Unnamed Contributor (22:43)

How about his weird five minutes of fame? That'll never. I mean, that'll be a trivia question.

Unnamed Contributor (22:49)

Please, let's begin laughing at the laughing stock. Jeff Bezos, the whole temper tantrum saying we got to be a reporter of news, not an opinion machine. Tony Hinchcliffe and garbage. He goes into how that was like the final week closing argument. Look at this monster. Trump amounted to nothing. Didn't amount to a pile of garbage in terms of electoral effect. Right. That was Elon Musk. Yes, Go ahead.

Unnamed Contributor (23:17)

That, that. Remember, we were counting the days. It had like five days of legs. That Puerto Rico joke as being one of the lead stories. What a stupid decision from the media who is hell bent on bringing down Trump. You thought that was your best argument. That comedian's joke apparently didn't work.

Unnamed Contributor (23:38)

Why? Because they see everything through the lens of identity politics. So this looked like an enormous faux pas and a great brick bat to beat Trump with the rest of us normal people, including plenty of Democrats and lefties, many of whom are listening right now. They're like, yeah, I can't afford my groceries. I don't care what some obscure comedian said about Puerto Rico. All the new media, alternative media, including ourselves, big winners in the election. Sunny Hoston and the other ladies of the View for syncing the Harris campaign with the what would you do differently than Biden? There is not a thing that comes to mind. Harris said in a breathtaking display of unpreparedness, is Sunny Hosten a lock for journalist of the year?

Unnamed Contributor (24:24)

Well, as she has come out and said she was shocked to that answer. So she was trying to throw Kamala a life preserver because she had flubbed the answer the day before and instead of throwing her life preserver, she threw a cinder block that took her under the water.

Unnamed Contributor (24:40)

Yes. Yeah. Well said another winner. Women. Trump's victory will usher in a golden era of women's rights in spite of the mewling and screeching of college educated white women of a certain age. His chief of staff, Susie Wiles, will be the first woman to hold a job. It'll soon be safe to play sports again. Women can say merry Christmas and be attractive without getting publicly shamed, et cetera, et cetera.

Unnamed Contributor (25:02)

When are you gonna learn, ladies, America does not want a female president? I think that's. They'll take away.

Unnamed Contributor (25:08)

Oh, my God. That was an attempt. And I. I emphasize attempt at humor, ladies, and I apologize for it. Scott Jennings, great on the. Yeah.

Unnamed Contributor (25:19)

I heard somebody say the other day, how about try something different than pantsuits? Two pantsuit ladies who bring in effeminate men to be their underlings. Try something different.

Unnamed Contributor (25:33)

Yeah. Yeah. Margaret Thatcher wore dresses, didn't she? I don't remember. I don't care what they wear. Wear anything. I don't wear nothing. Scott Jennings, great on cnn. Very reasonable, smart, conservative. Mark Halperin, who's independent reporting and sober analysis, much of which you heard mentioned here on the Armstrong and Getty show, is vastly superior and more informative than the mainstream media's hackish hyperventilating. Another example of new media just whooping the old and then some other obscure stuff. Is real. A winner.

Unnamed Contributor (26:07)

The pantsuit thing is actually interesting, and I learned this from listening to Sarah Isger in the Dispatch. I hadn't known about level one, level two, level three feminism, but, like, level two feminism or whatever. Maybe one was the pants suit. It's like, see, we can be just like men. We've got our version of suits, and here we are in the workplace and then like the next level of feminism. No, I can dress, like, kind of hot, like a woman likes to sometimes in a skirt and high heels, and also be effective. And I think that would be helpful to get away from that old level of pantsuit thingy. I think there is sort of a subliminal thing going on there. Yeah.

Unnamed Contributor (26:47)

We're gonna free you by demanding you adhere to our stereotypes and our orders. You will work outside the home. You will turn your nose up at raising children and being the leader of the family. Make money for a corporation, and you will wear pants in the name of freedom. Right? Right. Yeah. Level threes. Wear whatever you want. Do whatever you want. And I tell you what, that's. And. And I don't know if there's a name for guys like. I'll just speak for myself, who are like, women can do whatever they want and achieve whatever they want, and who the hell am I to tell them that. That. That it's more Satisfying to make another half of a percent for your corporation as opposed to raising children and being the. The actual functional chief operating officer. As a family, you do what you want. I trust you to make the decision. I don't believe in brow beating people to conform to some sort of, you know, prefab image of what they ought to be. I find it disgusting no matter what, you know, label it puts on itself. We're going over the winners and losers from the recent election. Loser number one. Come on. Joe Biden. The experts told us Sleepy Joe would be the most consequential president since fdr. When he dropped out in July, those same experts compared Biden to George Washington, praising his selfless act as political courage.

Unnamed Contributor (28:10)

He will not be remembered that way. No.

Unnamed Contributor (28:13)

In reality, Biden's decision to run for reelection. Rice Andrew Stiles will be remembered as one of the most reckless acts of political hubris in American history. His selection of Kamala Harris as a running mate in 2020, his decision to immediately endorse her, also regarded as monumental blunders. This is the legacy Biden deserves.

Unnamed Contributor (28:30)

They met. Trump and Biden met for two hours yesterday. I find that pretty interesting alone. What were they talking about? Trump says they talked a lot about Ukraine and talked a lot about Israel. But two hours, That's a pretty serious conversation.

Unnamed Contributor (28:47)

Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I have no doubt. I'm glad to hear it, honestly. Another loser. Of course. Tim Waltz. Oh, right, the camo hat guy who pranced around on stage and lied constantly about China and other weird things. He was supposed to help the Harris campaign appeal to men. He pretended to go pheasant hunting, cackled with the ladies of the U, and played video games with aoc. He said Republicans were weird. Trump won male voters by 13 points.

Unnamed Contributor (29:13)

Right. And obviously, if you're gonna pick somebody out of the whole crowd, that was weird. He was almost certainly the weirdest.

Unnamed Contributor (29:20)

And I'm a knucklehead at times. Another losers. Other losers. The Obamas. And, you know, you talked about various things, but they tried to shame black men into voting for. Yeah, Kamala. Scolding the brothers for hating women and. Oh, go away. Please go away. Other losers. Alex Soros, who's the son of billionaire George Soros, who funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the Democrats in 2024. Hanging out with him at elite conferences, inviting them to his swanky Manhattan pad, et cetera. And some other people you've never heard of. The mainstream media. Journalists are the worst. They scolded the American people for feeling stressed about the economy and thinking Biden was too old to run for reelection. They still don't understand why no one trusts them or takes them seriously. They tried to put their thumbs on the scale for Harris, but it made no difference. Due to their rapidly diminishing credibility and relevance, they will learn nothing and carry on into the void.

Unnamed Contributor (30:19)

Speaking of spending money, did you see that Kamala Harris's campaign gave Al Sharpton a half a million dollars? $500,000 they gave to Kamala before he did the glowing interview with her.

Unnamed Contributor (30:32)

Wow. How?

Unnamed Contributor (30:33)

What kind of shakedown is that? And I can't believe that they play that game without freaking Sharpton. You gave him a half a million dollars so he'd do a softball interview with you?

Unnamed Contributor (30:45)

Yep. More losers. The Lincoln Project. Go away. Shameless grifters, criminals, terrorists in Iran. Not even Ben Rhodes can save you now. Losers.

Unnamed Contributor (30:58)

That Al Sharpton thing pisses me off because that interview got a fair amount of play in mainstream media. Media. Because she was addressing, you know, the black community and all that sort of stuff. He wouldn't do the interview unless he got a half a million dollars. Oh my God.

Unnamed Contributor (31:12)

Can we have some sort of giant statement from, you know, the black folks in America, Fabulous, loyal Americans who disavow the very concept of Hal Sharpton being a spokesperson for anybody.

Jack Armstrong (31:26)

Armstrong and Getty.

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Unnamed Contributor (32:50)

The Armstrong and Getty show is interesting and not terribly shocking. Well, I guess when you get down to the granular details, it is fairly shocking, but Americans are more reliant than ever on government aid. An aging population, economic distress raised, dependence on federal and state support, and it matters a hell of a lot for our elections, as you might guess. Wall Street Journal looking into a major study. This is a little graphics heavy, but I can interpret it for you. You. They're talking about the share of personal income from government assistance. How in how many counties is it? 25% or more. In 1970, government safety net money accounted for significant income. That's more than 25%. 25% or more in fewer than 1% of America's counties.

Unnamed Contributor (33:46)

So say that again. In what year?

Unnamed Contributor (33:48)

In 1970, it was less than 1%. Okay, okay. In 2000, it went from less than 1% to roughly 10%, which that's the.

Unnamed Contributor (34:01)

Year 2010%, which a tenfold increase is not minor.

Unnamed Contributor (34:06)

In the year 2022, 53%, more than half of U.S. counties drew at least a quarter of their income from government aid.

Unnamed Contributor (34:16)

So this is. We were talking about this last week, and now that it's the average person in the bottom quintile. I know this is a lot of complicated talk here, but the bottom 20% of income earners in America get on average $68,000 per household of transfer payments. And that's left out of every argument about we have the highest inequality of any nation in the world. They never include this stuff. And what you just talked about there, that's never included in these conversations from Bernie Sanders or probably Tim Walls tonight in the debate. People living paycheck to paycheck. Well, more people are getting handouts from the government than ever before by a lot.

Unnamed Contributor (35:02)

And as we've discussed with Craig, the healthcare guru, socialism is not a light switch. It's a. It's a fungus.

Unnamed Contributor (35:10)

Oh, absolutely.

Unnamed Contributor (35:11)

Spreads across a country and its programs, benefits and. Yeah, yeah, sure. Starts getting across.

Unnamed Contributor (35:17)

There's just no stopping it.

Unnamed Contributor (35:18)

Yeah. So the big reasons for this dramatic growth are interesting. Some of them I think most conservatives would reject out of hand. But it gets a little complicated when you dig into it. There are a much larger share of Americans who are seniors, period. We're living longer and we've aged as a population. We're not having kids anymore. And health care, I'm sorry, Health care costs have risen fairly dramatically as they've gotten more. Fantastic. The technology we have at our disposal to keep ourselves healthy and alive is truly awe inspiring. But it costs.

Unnamed Contributor (35:54)

Yeah. And as, as my doctor said last week. What exactly is the point? Sometimes he wonders is we just get, you know, our brains don't work, our bodies don't work, but we hang around longer at a great expense.

Unnamed Contributor (36:08)

Right? Well, could be the money is the point in at least some situations. Although it's. I understand it's an odd conundrum that a person could sit around rubbing their chin thinking about for a long time. You're not going to turn down medical advances. No, because it's. Every advance is an incremental step. It can lead toward other advances or cures or what have you. But at the same time you and your doctor are quite right. Hey, good news. We can keep Alzheimer suffering granny alive for one more year. We can stave off her cancer with this new gene therapy. Blah, blah, blah. What are we doing here? Yeah, anyway, to get back to the major threat of the thing Aruni here, blah blah, blah. At the same time many communities. So it's the aging and the development of medical technology, number one. At the same time, many communities have suffered from economic decline because of the challenges including the loss of manufacturing, leaving government money as a larger share of people's income. In such places, you know, I could bore you to death. I won't because I do this for a living and kind of enjoy getting the paycheck. But one of the big debates in conservative circles these days is the question of the Reagan esque free trade global economy, conservatives versus what's being called the new conservatism or, or whatever you want to call it.

Unnamed Contributor (37:42)

And everybody's always government conservatism.

Unnamed Contributor (37:44)

Some people call it, yeah, industrial planning. You know, sometimes people even call it central planning, what have you. And are bellowing at each other about it as if the solutions and the questions and answers are very simple. They're not at all. There's. There are trillions of dollars at stake. So I understand why the people making lots and lots of money want to keep that money flowing. They don't care how much unemployment there is in rural Pennsylvania for instance. At the same time. Oh, oh, and the other point I was going to make on the side of the new conservatives. Back in Reagan's day, we didn't have the situation where our chief global adversary is our, one of our chief trading partners, technology partners and practically indispensable to the world economy. So if you are pitching free global trade of a Reagan esque sort, your pitching continued interaction slash dependence with China, which is just a bad idea. Times have changed. The arguments have to change too. So I have sympathy with both sides, but it is not simple. So for its analysis of government spending, eig, which is the folks doing the analysis used a government definition of income that includes spending on programs that Americans pay into, such as Medicare and Social Security. Another major government health program, Medicaid is counted. The analysis also includes unemployment insurance, food stamps, the earned Income Tax credit, veterans benefits, Pell grants, Covid era payments, and other income supports. States help pay for some of these programs, like Medicaid, but the federal government covers roughly 70% of the cost, and it doesn't include other ways government spending floods into corners of America, such as farm subsidies or military bases.

Unnamed Contributor (39:31)

Huh.

Unnamed Contributor (39:33)

So this spending accounts for a big and growing share of not only the income of the nation, but also our national debt. We are addicted to government spending sl social programs as a country.

Unnamed Contributor (39:46)

There's no weaning off that either. I don't believe you can go backwards. I don't think it's possible.

Unnamed Contributor (39:50)

No. But you do have to be honest about the dollars and cents coming and going and we're headed for a cliff.

Unnamed Contributor (39:55)

So we went from 1% 1970 to over half now?

Unnamed Contributor (39:59)

Correct?

Unnamed Contributor (40:00)

That's unbelievable. Not very many people could tell you that.

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