May 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Spirit Airlines & Biden's decline
- Dismantling the eyesore in D.C.
- Robot Rubik's Cube record & we're unhealthy
- Big Bear eagle cam & cost per song at concerts
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jettie and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Spirit Airlines will start offering premium seats with extra leg room.
Spirit was like, go ahead and stretch your legs out
the windows as far as you are.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Wow, have you flown Spirit? They get kicked a lot
by the comedians at night? Is that an East Coast thing?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It's primarily like Jet Blue, which is more or less
don't I don't know the super discount airlines. I'm at
the point in my life financially I don't. I don't
fly them.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
That's just never shown up as an option for me,
Like whenever I Expedia and it gives me different flights.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, Katie, I flew. I flew Spirit to Vegas.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
That's the big thing that it's used for is the
flights to Vegas. And my flight was delayed six hours
and the chick two rows in front of me puked
all of ourselfs.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So yeah, it was a bit not Spirit's fault.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
No, but that stuff just tends to happen on Spirit
flights for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, wha, wha, wha wah. Yeah, Jack,
I got to step in here.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You yourself have made parentheses hurtful and unfair comments about
Target people versus Walmart people. Yes, yeah, so you got
some spirit people versus I don't know, Delta people.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Makes Southwest seem like you're flying the concord.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm hinting at.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, So a couple of things to bring you up
to speed on before we get to yet another revelation
from the Jake Tapper book. This one's kind of interesting,
but Trump said this on Air Force one today. There
was hope, hope by me and people who would like
to see the war in Ukraine come to an end
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that Putin would show up in Istanbul, Turkey, as Zelensky
was showing up, and they would get together and actually
maybe have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
About winding the thing down.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But no smart person seemed to think Putin actually would
show up. I was kind of hoping that if Putin
didn't show up, Oh, there's Trump's escort there in the
Middle East, the bright red cyber trucks.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That was an interesting move by was it Katar? That
did that. I get those.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Areas mixed up? Or was it the UAE that was
pretty clever of them. Ah, he's friends with Elon get
cyber trucks. What cutter is something. It's a tiny country
with like no population. It just has gargantuan supplies of
natural gas, therefore trillions of dollars, and it throws them around.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's smart. Unfortunately, I think they're they're bent on evil,
at least to some extent.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So Zelensky showed up, Marco Rubio showed up, Russia sent
some peons, and Vladimir did not show up. I wish
that President Trump would come out and say, Vladimir Plutin
had an opportunity to discuss peace and bring this war
to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
He clearly does not want peace.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Therefore, the sanctions that the European leaders agreed to over
the weekend will go into effect with our blessing.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's what I.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Wish Trump had said, But he did not. He said this,
among other things, seventy five nothing's gonna happen until Puttin
did I get together.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, And obviously he wasn't to go.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He was gonna go, but he thought I was going
to go he wasn't going if I wasn't there. So
Trump bailed Putin out for whatever reason. Nothing's gonna happen
until he meets with me personally. Trump said, obviously he
wasn't gonna go. He wasn't gonna go, but he thought
I was going to go. He wasn't gonna go if
I wasn't there. And I don't believe anything's going to happen,
whether you like it or not, until he and I
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get together. We're gonna have to get it sold because
too many people are dying. I'm not just in the
last part that sounded like a comedy routine, and asked
if he was disappointed that Putin did show up. I'm
not disappointed in anything. Why would I be disappointed? So
why he won't call out Putin as the obvious stumbling
block to having any piece here?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I'm not exactly sure. Uh, I don't know. I don't
know what his strategy is. I don't either.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't know what happens now. Ze Zelensky's got to
be pretty disappointed that. Uh, I mean, this could be
the end of it. This could be the end of
any slight effort toward peace talks, right, I mean, but
just keep doing what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He just wants to keep going forward.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Well, right, and Zelinsky knows that, and Ukraine knows that.
My only equival with what you just said is I
don't think Zelensky is disappointed because he never had any
hope that this particular chapter would bear any fruit. The
math just doesn't work. It's hard to describe, but it's
like the same reason I predicted with utter certainty that
Joe Biden wouldn't be on the ticket, and you know
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last time in November. The math just doesn't work for
Putin and his aims, what he's being offered, what he's
being threatened with, which is practically nothing at this point,
him coming to the table and coming to an agreement
the Ukrainians can agree to.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The math doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So you're Russia is getting around many of the sanctions
that were put in place, so they're not being crippled
in the way that everybody wanted. All the big European
leaders Britain, Germany, France, Poland got together over the weekend,
sat there with Zelensky maybe you saw it on TV,
and agreed to really harsh sanctions that go after all
of these outs that Russia has been using for most
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of the war, going after the shipping and all these
different sorts of things, if there wasn't a thirty day
cease fire. Trump comes in and says, no, there shouldn't
be a ceasefire unless they meet first, and like cut
the rug from under pulled the rug out from underneath
the whole thing, and everybody thought, Okay, well, maybe this
is forcing a meeting. So Putin doesn't show up up.
Now where are the sanctions? And Trump's not making any
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noises that we would back Europe because we have to
back Europe on these sanctions to make them work. So
I think Trump putting wiggled out of the strongest pushback
that he's had practically the entire war that happened over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, and Trump's help. Well, right.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
My final statement on this, unless you want to talk
about it more, is I'm honestly, like I said, flabbergasted.
If I thought this was a bad strategy and wouldn't
work and Trump was wrong, I would say so, I
just don't get it at all. I don't even know
what it is, so I don't know if how to
criticize it. I suppose I could say this is an
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aimless and hapless the non policy, and it's outrageous because it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Seems to be.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
But part of me thinks he's got something in mind.
I just don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Anyway, It's something probably more interesting to you. What the
heck was going on in the Biden White House there,
especially that last year. According to the Jake Tapper book
that comes out next week, that I bought a month
ahead of time for some dumb reason, and I wish
I hadn't put money in his pocket. Some members of
Biden's cabinet, and I don't know if they let us
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know in the book or if the t's is often
the TS in a TV show. The little clip you
see for the commercial.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Is the whole thing. That's all I got.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But some members of former President Biden's cabinet did not
believe he could be relied on to perform at two
am during an emergency in the final year of his presidency,
and that their access had dropped off considerably.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh yeah, I was just going to say, the cabinet
members who never met with him.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The president had stopped meeting with the cabinet members, and
they didn't think he was capable of handling a middle
of the night emergency. If that's not twenty fifth Amendment stuff,
I don't know what is oh it is? I think
you're one hundred percent correct. I wonder if anybody, I
don't know if that's in the book, were they having
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the conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Somebody had to bring it up at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, if you don't think the guy could handle
and we said this through most of his presidency, what
if something happens at two o'clock in the morning, There's
no way Joe Biden's going to make that. China has
moved on Taiwan. Huh, who's Taiwan? Is Taiwan?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Here?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, how the hell was he going to make
the decision?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, and while I appreciate the classic two am phone
call scenario, six pm might have been out of the question, right, So,
I mean it was much worse than man. That is
no way to run a superpower. That is an incredible
lack of patriotism and moral courage by any serious person
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in power. The only thing, the only a fellow who
was talking openly about it was what's that congressman who
ran for press? Isn't it was one hundred percent right
of everything he said. Who they tried to railroad out
of the party. I don't even remember the guy's name right.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
An emailer said last hour that we, you know, our
anger should be at the people surrounding Biden and hiding
him and protecting me, and not Jake Tapper.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I think you're right. I am going to change
my fixation.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Whoever these cabinet members are, you are a traitor to
your nation that you were more concerned in keeping your
job for the rest of the year so you didn't
have to move out of town or something. You should
have if you actually believed the President of the United
States couldn't handle an emergency in the middle of the night,
you should have gone to the cameras right away. I'm
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a suncretary of the whoever was Secretary of State it
might have been, it might have been Anthony Blincoln, who knows,
but they should have gone to the cameras right away.
And I don't think the president currently can have a
handle an emergency, and that is not good for the
country and something needs to be done. That's what a
patriot would have done. Not tell Jake Tapper after the election.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And it's not like Biden was Saddam Hussein, who if
he got win that you were talking about and behind
his back, would have you dragged out and shot. As
an example, you could, as the secretary of this or that,
you could say to the other guy, boy, the president
does not seem sharp to me at all. Do you
worry about him? Yeah, you could say that. It's so
a couple of things. Number one, that's one hundred percent correct.
These people are to be deeply, deeply ashamed and cast
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into the dust bin of history because they risked the life,
liberty and pursuit a happiness of the American people just
to not ruffle any feathers in their political party in.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Spite of the obvious risk.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Secondly, and to jay T's point in yours, luckily, I
have plenty of hate in my heart for both the
cabinet and the insiders in Jill Biden and Jake Tapper.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's awful that Jill Biden do that.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But you can excuse a wife for not going to
the press and holding a press conference saying my husband
is not capable of being president. I'll give his wife
and excu but the cabinet members, come on, that's weak man.
Where's are there any even kind of profiles and even
mild courage that ever occur?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, no sickening.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
By the way, I hear folks yelling at the radio
doctor Jill fake doctor should have said, Joe, you can't run, sweetheart,
It's just you can't. Maybe she did, Maybe she did repeatedly,
and he flew into crazy ass rage with sometimes people
didn't like to do right exactly, and she thought, well,
you know what, I got to keep peace in the household.
(11:35):
Maybe somebody else will say it to him. I don't know.
She strikes me as a lunatic and a money hungry,
just utterly dishonest climber. And I already said lunatic, but
also half a nut.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Joe, you did great. You answered all the questions. Joe,
you did such a great job. You answered every question.
The fact that's bizarre.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So I my personal note on this would be, if
we get a chance to talk to Jake Tapper, rather
than beating him up, I would like to ask him,
don't you think those cabinet members, if you know who
they are, are traitors to their nation for keeping that
a secret.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Let's do that in the first half. Then let's kick
the hell out of them in the second you fuck,
it's gonna be a little more artful than that, but yeah,
that's gonna be long inshortance.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Will you sucking?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You're a gas lighting full You're either an idiot or
a liar.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh what Joe Biden's.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Declined with age, What he's got dementia?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
What he's not fit for another term?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh my god, he's just realized that in the last
six months.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You're either an idiot or a liar.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Please, I think you got to start the interview, Jake,
how do you sleep at night?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
There you go, that's a good start. How do you
sleep at night? That's a tone. I'll give you plenty
of I'm to answer the question more on the way
stay here. Changed my mind. The Biden mental health thing
has been talked about a lot, but a couple of
quick texts on the conversation we just had one. Maybe
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the our patriots and they thought were better off than
with Kamala Harris, that's true. Oh, that is actually true.
Where you think you know what, we'll work around it.
I'll make the decision, you make the decision, we'll sign.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Off or whatever. But we can't have Kamala be president.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Right, I understand the the counter argument, which is, no,
you can't have the president's people be the president.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The other might agree, I agreed if I was one
of the cabinet members.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Well, and it's even worse than that, because they might
have said Kamala Harris is a moron and the people
around her are.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Right right, she'll get rid in her circle. So I
changed my mind on that. And then the other thing
is Joe Biden Oi sounded like she was patting him
on the head for making a boom boom all on
his own.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Tell you made boom boom on your own?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Oh boy, all right, I'm waiting a long. I made
reference to this. If you've been to the White House
in recent years, not literally like to meet with the president,
but as a tourist like most of us.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It was not long ago, and I could barely see
it. It was covered with there's crap all around it. Well
and Europe the inauguration or what, and you're much farther
away than you used to be. Yeah, it's they've expanded
the security perimeter, you know, for obvious a lot crazy times.
But so right outside the fence, though, is this crappy
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tarp covered ramshackle half a tent hut with signs and
flags and a cooler and some sort of wood.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Placard just with various crap messages. That has been there
since nineteen eighty one. Oh really, it is believed to
be the longest running continuous protest in US history. And
it's a damned eye sore. There's a GOP lawmaker. The
reason this has come up is telling the Department of
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the Interior, he got rid of you gotta get rid
of this. The White House piece vigil. It was originally
set up to raise awareness about nuclear proliferation, but since
it just changes year by year, what far left caused
its expressing changes the stupid signs and just remains it
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looks like a junkie camp outside the White House. Jeff
Van Drew, Republican, New Jersey, wrote a letter to the
Doug Bergham he's doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
By the way, quote, let me.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Be clear, nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to
erect permanent structures and occupy public land day after day,
year after year in a manner that creates public safety hazards,
degrades the appearance of one of our most iconic parks
and burdens both the district and the National Park Service.
This isn't free speech, this is a failure of enforcement. Amen,
mister van Drew. Yeah, to keep my eye out for him.
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I like the cut of his jim.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I was highly disappointed.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Everything else was good, but we couldn't get anywhere close
to the White House. I mean you couldn't even really
hardly see any of it when I was there last
time with the kids, and I was looking forward to
showing that to him.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But I don't like that. There's that just a bad feeling.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I realize the security needs, but the idea, the people's
house where the president lives, you can't even like hardly
get a glimpse at it from a distance anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's no good. It is the symptom of a disease.
I think.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
So here's some of the signage currently flying outside this ice.
Or when a Bonana Republic's leader can openly defy to
return a wrongly deported person, do dat? Is this ethnic cleansing,
Palestinian loss of land, five million Palestinians classified as refugees.
War is not the answer. With a dove, US militarism
fuels climate crisis. Black fathers Matter, Black lives matter, no
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nuclear war, fifty seven years since the Israeli occupation, just
a misshmash of like angry stupid college girl rantings we
should do a Diddy trial update at some point.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
John Roberts interrupted Soda Moyer in arguments this morning, which
is exciting.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Among other things. On the way, God, enough of your travel.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Armstrong and Getty Gray set got.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The current world record is held by a team of
engineers at Mitsubishi Right Giant Multinational Corporation set a world record.
What's behind me right now is a team of Purdue
undergraduate students who said, you know what, I think we
can do better, and they did.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That is a group of produced students that built a
robot that can do a Rubik's cube. You handle the
robot an unsolved Rubik's cube and can do it. You
heard that sound there in a tenth of a second,
which is hard. It's not hard for me to imagine
the capability of the robot. Well, I guess it is
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pretty amazing because visually it has to be able to
look at it and then turn that into what that
means in like zeros and ones, how to solve the thing.
But then the physical part of grabbing it and turning
the little fairly delicate. If you've ever done a Rubik's
cube things, that's maybe even more amazing.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
They solved it, meaning put it in all the sides
are right in one hundred and three milliseconds, So that
is just over a tenth of a second.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And like I said, I'm not surprised robots can figure
out what you need to do to solve the puzzle
in that amount of time.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I am surprised that it's.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Physically capable of that delicate movements that quickly right.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
That is just well stunning and honestly not the gripe
of staff or anything. I found the video accompanying the article,
which you can find at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
I think it's in Katie's corner, but the video is
super crazy interesting there. Cut could have been longer, but
they point out, for among other things, that so it's
just over tenth of a second, it takes uh to
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blink your eyes takes twice that long just to blink once.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm a slow blinker, lazy eyelids.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's right, yeah, uh, And and again they cut almost
by two thirds the previous world record which was from Mitsubishi,
and these are I think it's four plucky young college
students at Purdue.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
If that makes you feel bad about yourself, it should
certainly had that effect on me.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, I haven't. I haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'm only been thinking about it from the aspect of
if robot can do that. It's not the speed again,
that's so amazing to me. It's a Then then what
kind of stuff can it do in a warehouse? You know,
fairly delicate, intricate, complicated things.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Wow, give it a full two and a half seconds,
and it could do it very gently. Because they did
have a problem with the rubik cubes flying apart, but you.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Know, that's it's a plastic kids to and the guy
sitting close to him lost two eyes, But oh.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So anyway, that's an amazing example of American ingenuity and engineering.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
My brother's been managing a warehouse for years and they
got forklifts and people moving stuff around and everything like that.
I gotta believe in a decade there ain't nobody doing that.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I would agree one hundred percent, as long as the
technology is reasonably affordable compared to a human staff, and
particularly given the rate of injuries in work like that.
So you've got high insurance premiums and liability.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Insurance eliminating health insurance. How much would that save a company?
Right right?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, Well, and those computer driven forklifts that read codes
and grab the boxes and bring them down, bring them
to the bay or whatever. But whatever, well they ought
to get the all out of the way. That's already happening.
So yeah, it's going to become cheaper and cheaper and
more and more common. So on the other side of
the human achievement scale is the fact that we are
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killing ourselves in this country, not literally, well part of
it is literally killing ourselves, but we are far less
healthy than people in other high income countries.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Here in comes RFK Junior.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Well yeah, kind of, although bringing him oil, don't think
it is bringing him into it clouds the waters in
my opinion. But this and this is really an interesting
piece of journalism. But it talks about how in the
first part of the twentieth century, if you're going to
die it was from an infection and influenza tuberculosis, then
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we had better.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Sanitation and swooping cough I have would have killed me
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I'm sure, uh probably, Yeah. Then you got better sanitation,
advances in antibiotics and vaccines that took that, medical innovations,
anti smoking campaigns for decades of progress against heart disease
and cancer. But chronic diseases, persistent or long term health
conditions are undermining the momentum stalled life expectancy. It's actually
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dropped now, and we trail other developed countries pretty significantly.
I mean, we're, you know, seventy eight ish years, and
you got plenty of countries that are at you know,
eighty one to eighty four years of average expectancy six
seven years, especially if it's reasonably healthy, happy life.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well you can just that's bad. Well you can just assume, can't.
You know?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I always assume, like, if you increase life expectancy somewhere
by five years, I assume I get five more years
of the leaders that I enjoy. In addition, right, yeah,
you would sing, I mean yeah, depending.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
On the yeah, yeah, in general, yeah, yeah. Much of
the gap in life expectancy is due to deaths in
America among working age adults. According to these researchers, Americans
die earlier and are sicker than people in other high
income countries. It's been true for a long time, and
the trend is getting worse. Here's some of the particulars.
Drug overdoses from opioids, alcohol over use, vaccine suicide, what vaccines,
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no no, no no, and.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Chronic diseases drive most of the early deaths.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
The US also took a bigger hit from COVID nineteen,
even among younger adults who are lower risk because we're
sedamn fat.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, I would like to know how much the math
is affected by all of the gazillions of people we
have dropped dead from fentanyl and trank on the streets
of San Francisco, in LA and everywhere else around the country.
Because you know you have a twenty five year old
die of fentanyl, that it has quite an effect on
the statistic of life expectancy.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And I'd almost like to see, I mean, in terms
of the health of the nation, because I care about
my country and its people. I want that big number.
But you're absolutely right. Can we break it out for
people who have never had an opioid addiction and never
will and would never touch a needle drug? As they
used to say back in the day. Yeah, I mean
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it's going to be a different picture. But putting that
excellent point aside, the US obesity rate has nearly double
the average of pure nations, which is knocked back all
of our progress against heart disease, or a lot of it.
Around a third of US adults have had multiple chronic conditions,
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the highest rate among the developed countries.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
A third of US adults have had multiple chronic conditions.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yes, that's quite a statement.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Rates for conditions including hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
have held relatively steady in recent decades, and the rising
prevalence of diabetes is in part because people are living
longer with the disease, but we still have higher rates
these conditions compared with pure nations.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I like the fact that the rest of the world
is catching up with us. Fat wise makes me feel better.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, that is the classic loser's philosophy, and when I
have felt at times in my life not proud of it. Look,
if I can't get ahead, let's drag other people down.
If I can't do well, let's impede others. Hey, look,
Malaysia's fat two. So we all feel better about ourselves.
All right, So many preventable chronic diseases related to four
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major risk factors. Here they are, folks, I'll bet you
could guess several of them. Cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol use,
physical inactivity, and eating crap, or as they put it
in this fancy article, poor nutrition.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, I would like to see a number where you
take out I don't smoke and I'm not going to,
and I don't do drugs and I'm not going to.
If you eliminate both of those, let's kind of have
a pretty significantly a fact on the number.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I would think for life expectancy, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And you know, there are a couple of components to
the obesity thing.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
In the US.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
People get less exercise, moving less than several European counterparts.
Studies have shown good for the nation's Western style diet. Again,
if you can't get ahead, drag somebody else down. The
nation's Western style diet is heavy in sugars, processed meat,
and unhealthy fats sounds delicious. Americans also consume more ultraprocessed food,
surveys suggest, and such diets been linked to an increase
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in obesity, type two diabetes in some cancers, as I've
said before it is a dry attempt at humor, but
I like it. Any scientist studying any beast says, Wow,
these beasts are dying earlier, they're hugely fat, their health
is declining overall. Well, could it be that they're eating
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something completely different than they ever have before?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
No, that can't be it.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I mean, come on, this is uh, maybe your wisest
thing ever, this one. This might be called the Getty
principle or something someday. I mean, because that is that
is so obviously true, but overlooked in this conversation.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
All the time, they continue to have.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Hearings with you know, loads of experts and charts and everything.
When it's you can just boil it down to and
animals started eating a completely different diet. Now now it's unhealthy.
Now it's unhealthy. How about wes start there?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
So, and just in case you're not hipped to this
sort of thing or haven't been thinking about it a lot,
you can't look at it in like five year increments.
You've got to look at it in thousand year increments.
When you're talking about the ability of a beast to
adapt to a significant change in its environment, and what
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you shove down your gullet is you know, next to
what you breathe, like the most important environmental you know
factor there is. So yeah, we we have in the
last just seventy five years, yeah, not very many years,
which evolutionary is like faster than those produced students can
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do a Rubik's cube. We have completely changed our diets
and it's killing us.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh yeah, and here reason because my mom and dad
maybe your mom and dad too, but like my mom
and dad probably ate roughly the same thing as the
previous several hundred years of their families ate, whereas I
have not.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I think back to what I ate as a kid,
as a sixty year old man, incredibly youthful, but sixty
years old, and it was the ultra processed stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Number one. We couldn't afford it to the extent it existed.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
We just you cooked some sort of meat and not
a ton of it and generally not very fatty or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You had a vegetable, maybe a potato, and you ate
a home all the time. Yeah, every meal. My kids
are not eating like that, to my great shame, grow
u series prepared and put on the table. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So it's been just yeah, like the last fifty years
that things have really changed again. And then and then
you say, now you have a different people are dying
earlier and have all these different problems.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, that's a good place to start looking.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Not that microplastics aren't a thing, or sure they might
be terrivists die or whatever, but.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You don't need those.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, so maybe a corollary to the Getty principle. Well,
it's corollary to the or Well principle that I reread
that quote the other day that to see what is
in front of one's own eyes takes constant effort, was
his quote. A corollary to that might be to see
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what your society is doing and judging whether you want
to do it too, and not just going along with
it takes constant effort.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, I don't know this one. That's true in a
number of ways. But in the eating realm, it's just
you know, cheap and convenient is hard to overcome.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh yeah, it's well, I would say it's seductive.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I'd say, I mean, your your little presentation there, which
makes me feel incredibly guilty of me going to the
grocery store, getting all the stuff, taking it home, learning
how to prepare a meal because I don't know how
I've been preparing the meal and everything like that. It's
or you got to get a chef door dash uh chef.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Well, and last day and I last night Panda Express,
I draw so good.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So it was put out into a real Chinese person.
They'd say, what the hell is this? But it's it's
so good. The term seductive, I used that intentionally, but
the seduction is not of a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Sorry, I'm a straight guy. I'm gonna go with the beautiful.
Who's going to become your loving wife? I don't know
what a woman is.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Crack hoe, who's gonna whack you over the head and
take your watch and wallet?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Now, I'm as guilty as anybody. I'm yelling at me, folks. Yeah,
I'm trying to convince me. I'm not lecturing you.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Get four fingers pointing back at you because you're defeing. No,
look at that. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We got more on the ways there.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
All eyes on that eagle nest family of bald eagles
in southern California, San Bernadino Mountains, capturing the world's attention,
so many watching them online, and now about two and
a half months old. The two baby eagles, named Sonny
and Gizmo, are now getting ready to fly the nest.
Their wingspan more than five feet Already, the nests is
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getting crowded.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Biologists say they're now fully grown.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
The brother and sister are expected to fledge or fly
for the first.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Time any day.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know, I haven't logged any time with the I
don't they claw your eyes out?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
David Muir, Ah, you potts back to the eagles.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I haven't logged anytime with the baby eagle cam, and
I know some people that have, and I've heard it mocked.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
But how about the people who.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Are spending a little time looking at the baby eagles
are happier than I am?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
So who am? I? Did you just Katie?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I have it open on my computer right now and
I do feel happy watching it.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
I should do that more often. And yeah, it's the
national bird. They're a beautiful bird of prey. I'm I'm
super pro eagle and eagle cams. I've watched an owl cam.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Jack. Here you go. I'm pro babies. I'm the mighty
fledge fledge is David Muir told us.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, it's the term fledgling you know what, for just
this moment, retract my bitter hatred of David Muir. All right,
moving along, speaking of music, what, Katie, what what was
that thing? I didn't think you had to go that far.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
You can hate David Muir in appreciate and it's still
like like.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
That and the word fledgling. You're right, I've lost my edge.
David Muir is an a old All right, let's.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Let's take it easy, everybody. I found this interesting.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Any everybody knows concerts are more expensive these days.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I will probably remember on my deathbed when I was
I think I was like twelve years old, Gladys.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
It was way back in the seventies.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
That a friend of mine got some Rolling Stones tickets
and I decided not to pay twenty dollars to see
the Stones, even adjusted for inflation. That's well, you know
what's interesting. First of all, it's you know, I caddied
for money. I didn't have much money. We as a
family didn't have much money, and I thought, that's too
much money, even though I loved and continue to love
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the Stones. I just did the inflation calculator. If that
was nineteen seventy seven and I think it was roughly
that'd be one hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Now, okay, that's not nothing.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah anyway, So some some folks for some reason have
broken down concert tickets based on how much you're paying
per song or per minute. That's Lana del Rey whoever,
that is some sort of pop starlett who will be
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here today and gone today. Leeds is the priciest concert
performer at sixteen dollars and two cents per song, while
Charlie with No EXCX Somebody Anybody tops the per minute
cost at three dollars and fifty five cents per minute. Meanwhile,
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nineties sensations Oasis generate the most revenue per song for
themselves at eight hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars per song,
with nightly earnings of seventeen points sixteen million dollars across
their reunion tour shows. Wow wow, you're a budget conscious fan.
You want plenty of music per domin best value ed
(35:01):
Shearon just ninety one cents per minute and Usher three
dollars and seventy six per cents per song.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Fantastic deal.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Lady Gaga's latest tour is about fourteen dollars per song.
Let's see, I'll pay you fourteen song not to play.
We have a deal
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jettie and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Spirit Airlines will start offering premium seats with extra leg room.
Spirit was like, go ahead and stretch your legs out
the windows as far as you are.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Wow, have you flown Spirit? They get kicked a lot
by the comedians at night? Is that an East Coast thing?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It's primarily like Jet Blue, which is more or less
don't I don't know the super discount airlines. I'm at
the point in my life financially I don't. I don't
fly them.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
That's just never shown up as an option for me,
Like whenever I Expedia and it gives me different flights.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, Katie, I flew. I flew Spirit to Vegas.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
That's the big thing that it's used for is the
flights to Vegas. And my flight was delayed six hours
and the chick two rows in front of me puked
all of ourselfs.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So yeah, it was a bit not Spirit's fault.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
No, but that stuff just tends to happen on Spirit
flights for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, wha, wha, wha wah. Yeah, Jack,
I got to step in here.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You yourself have made parentheses hurtful and unfair comments about
Target people versus Walmart people. Yes, yeah, so you got
some spirit people versus I don't know, Delta people.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Makes Southwest seem like you're flying the concord.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm hinting at.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Okay, So a couple of things to bring you up
to speed on before we get to yet another revelation
from the Jake Tapper book. This one's kind of interesting,
but Trump said this on Air Force one today. There
was hope, hope by me and people who would like
to see the war in Ukraine come to an end
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that Putin would show up in Istanbul, Turkey, as Zelensky
was showing up, and they would get together and actually
maybe have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
About winding the thing down.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
But no smart person seemed to think Putin actually would
show up. I was kind of hoping that if Putin
didn't show up, Oh, there's Trump's escort there in the
Middle East, the bright red cyber trucks.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That was an interesting move by was it Katar? That
did that. I get those.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Areas mixed up? Or was it the UAE that was
pretty clever of them. Ah, he's friends with Elon get
cyber trucks. What cutter is something. It's a tiny country
with like no population. It just has gargantuan supplies of
natural gas, therefore trillions of dollars, and it throws them around.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's smart. Unfortunately, I think they're they're bent on evil,
at least to some extent.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So Zelensky showed up, Marco Rubio showed up, Russia sent
some peons, and Vladimir did not show up. I wish
that President Trump would come out and say, Vladimir Plutin
had an opportunity to discuss peace and bring this war
to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
He clearly does not want peace.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Therefore, the sanctions that the European leaders agreed to over
the weekend will go into effect with our blessing.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's what I.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Wish Trump had said, But he did not. He said this,
among other things, seventy five nothing's gonna happen until Puttin
did I get together.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, And obviously he wasn't to go.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He was gonna go, but he thought I was going
to go he wasn't going if I wasn't there. So
Trump bailed Putin out for whatever reason. Nothing's gonna happen
until he meets with me personally. Trump said, obviously he
wasn't gonna go. He wasn't gonna go, but he thought
I was going to go. He wasn't gonna go if
I wasn't there. And I don't believe anything's going to happen,
whether you like it or not, until he and I
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get together. We're gonna have to get it sold because
too many people are dying. I'm not just in the
last part that sounded like a comedy routine, and asked
if he was disappointed that Putin did show up. I'm
not disappointed in anything. Why would I be disappointed? So
why he won't call out Putin as the obvious stumbling
block to having any piece here?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I'm not exactly sure. Uh, I don't know. I don't
know what his strategy is. I don't either.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't know what happens now. Ze Zelensky's got to
be pretty disappointed that. Uh, I mean, this could be
the end of it. This could be the end of
any slight effort toward peace talks, right, I mean, but
just keep doing what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He just wants to keep going forward.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Well, right, and Zelinsky knows that, and Ukraine knows that.
My only equival with what you just said is I
don't think Zelensky is disappointed because he never had any
hope that this particular chapter would bear any fruit. The
math just doesn't work. It's hard to describe, but it's
like the same reason I predicted with utter certainty that
Joe Biden wouldn't be on the ticket, and you know
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last time in November. The math just doesn't work for
Putin and his aims, what he's being offered, what he's
being threatened with, which is practically nothing at this point,
him coming to the table and coming to an agreement
the Ukrainians can agree to.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The math doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So you're Russia is getting around many of the sanctions
that were put in place, so they're not being crippled
in the way that everybody wanted. All the big European
leaders Britain, Germany, France, Poland got together over the weekend,
sat there with Zelensky maybe you saw it on TV,
and agreed to really harsh sanctions that go after all
of these outs that Russia has been using for most
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of the war, going after the shipping and all these
different sorts of things, if there wasn't a thirty day
cease fire. Trump comes in and says, no, there shouldn't
be a ceasefire unless they meet first, and like cut
the rug from under pulled the rug out from underneath
the whole thing, and everybody thought, Okay, well, maybe this
is forcing a meeting. So Putin doesn't show up up.
Now where are the sanctions? And Trump's not making any
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noises that we would back Europe because we have to
back Europe on these sanctions to make them work. So
I think Trump putting wiggled out of the strongest pushback
that he's had practically the entire war that happened over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, and Trump's help. Well, right.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
My final statement on this, unless you want to talk
about it more, is I'm honestly, like I said, flabbergasted.
If I thought this was a bad strategy and wouldn't
work and Trump was wrong, I would say so, I
just don't get it at all. I don't even know
what it is, so I don't know if how to
criticize it. I suppose I could say this is an
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aimless and hapless the non policy, and it's outrageous because it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Seems to be.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
But part of me thinks he's got something in mind.
I just don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Anyway, It's something probably more interesting to you. What the
heck was going on in the Biden White House there,
especially that last year. According to the Jake Tapper book
that comes out next week, that I bought a month
ahead of time for some dumb reason, and I wish
I hadn't put money in his pocket. Some members of
Biden's cabinet, and I don't know if they let us
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know in the book or if the t's is often
the TS in a TV show. The little clip you
see for the commercial.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Is the whole thing. That's all I got.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But some members of former President Biden's cabinet did not
believe he could be relied on to perform at two
am during an emergency in the final year of his presidency,
and that their access had dropped off considerably.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh yeah, I was just going to say, the cabinet
members who never met with him.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The president had stopped meeting with the cabinet members, and
they didn't think he was capable of handling a middle
of the night emergency. If that's not twenty fifth Amendment stuff,
I don't know what is oh it is? I think
you're one hundred percent correct. I wonder if anybody, I
don't know if that's in the book, were they having
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the conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Somebody had to bring it up at some point.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, if you don't think the guy could handle
and we said this through most of his presidency, what
if something happens at two o'clock in the morning, There's
no way Joe Biden's going to make that. China has
moved on Taiwan. Huh, who's Taiwan? Is Taiwan?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Here?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, how the hell was he going to make
the decision?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, and while I appreciate the classic two am phone
call scenario, six pm might have been out of the question, right, So,
I mean it was much worse than man. That is
no way to run a superpower. That is an incredible
lack of patriotism and moral courage by any serious person
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in power. The only thing, the only a fellow who
was talking openly about it was what's that congressman who
ran for press? Isn't it was one hundred percent right
of everything he said. Who they tried to railroad out
of the party. I don't even remember the guy's name right.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
An emailer said last hour that we, you know, our
anger should be at the people surrounding Biden and hiding
him and protecting me, and not Jake Tapper.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I think you're right. I am going to change
my fixation.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Whoever these cabinet members are, you are a traitor to
your nation that you were more concerned in keeping your
job for the rest of the year so you didn't
have to move out of town or something. You should
have if you actually believed the President of the United
States couldn't handle an emergency in the middle of the night,
you should have gone to the cameras right away. I'm
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a suncretary of the whoever was Secretary of State it
might have been, it might have been Anthony Blincoln, who knows,
but they should have gone to the cameras right away.
And I don't think the president currently can have a
handle an emergency, and that is not good for the
country and something needs to be done. That's what a
patriot would have done. Not tell Jake Tapper after the election.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
And it's not like Biden was Saddam Hussein, who if
he got win that you were talking about and behind
his back, would have you dragged out and shot. As
an example, you could, as the secretary of this or that,
you could say to the other guy, boy, the president
does not seem sharp to me at all. Do you
worry about him? Yeah, you could say that. It's so
a couple of things. Number one, that's one hundred percent correct.
These people are to be deeply, deeply ashamed and cast
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into the dust bin of history because they risked the life,
liberty and pursuit a happiness of the American people just
to not ruffle any feathers in their political party in.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Spite of the obvious risk.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Secondly, and to jay T's point in yours, luckily, I
have plenty of hate in my heart for both the
cabinet and the insiders in Jill Biden and Jake Tapper.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's awful that Jill Biden do that.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But you can excuse a wife for not going to
the press and holding a press conference saying my husband
is not capable of being president. I'll give his wife
and excu but the cabinet members, come on, that's weak man.
Where's are there any even kind of profiles and even
mild courage that ever occur?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, no sickening.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
By the way, I hear folks yelling at the radio
doctor Jill fake doctor should have said, Joe, you can't run, sweetheart,
It's just you can't. Maybe she did, Maybe she did repeatedly,
and he flew into crazy ass rage with sometimes people
didn't like to do right exactly, and she thought, well,
you know what, I got to keep peace in the household.
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Maybe somebody else will say it to him. I don't know.
She strikes me as a lunatic and a money hungry,
just utterly dishonest climber. And I already said lunatic, but
also half a nut.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Joe, you did great. You answered all the questions. Joe,
you did such a great job. You answered every question.
The fact that's bizarre.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So I my personal note on this would be, if
we get a chance to talk to Jake Tapper, rather
than beating him up, I would like to ask him,
don't you think those cabinet members, if you know who
they are, are traitors to their nation for keeping that
a secret.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Let's do that in the first half. Then let's kick
the hell out of them in the second you fuck,
it's gonna be a little more artful than that, but yeah,
that's gonna be long inshortance.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Will you sucking?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You're a gas lighting full You're either an idiot or
a liar.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh what Joe Biden's.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Declined with age, What he's got dementia?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
What he's not fit for another term?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh my god, he's just realized that in the last
six months.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You're either an idiot or a liar.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Please, I think you got to start the interview, Jake,
how do you sleep at night?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
There you go, that's a good start. How do you
sleep at night? That's a tone. I'll give you plenty
of I'm to answer the question more on the way
stay here. Changed my mind. The Biden mental health thing
has been talked about a lot, but a couple of
quick texts on the conversation we just had one. Maybe
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the our patriots and they thought were better off than
with Kamala Harris, that's true. Oh, that is actually true.
Where you think you know what, we'll work around it.
I'll make the decision, you make the decision, we'll sign.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Off or whatever. But we can't have Kamala be president.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Right, I understand the the counter argument, which is, no,
you can't have the president's people be the president.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The other might agree, I agreed if I was one
of the cabinet members.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Well, and it's even worse than that, because they might
have said Kamala Harris is a moron and the people
around her are.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Right right, she'll get rid in her circle. So I
changed my mind on that. And then the other thing
is Joe Biden Oi sounded like she was patting him
on the head for making a boom boom all on
his own.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Tell you made boom boom on your own?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Oh boy, all right, I'm waiting a long. I made
reference to this. If you've been to the White House
in recent years, not literally like to meet with the president,
but as a tourist like most of us.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It was not long ago, and I could barely see
it. It was covered with there's crap all around it. Well
and Europe the inauguration or what, and you're much farther
away than you used to be. Yeah, it's they've expanded
the security perimeter, you know, for obvious a lot crazy times.
But so right outside the fence, though, is this crappy
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tarp covered ramshackle half a tent hut with signs and
flags and a cooler and some sort of wood.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Placard just with various crap messages. That has been there
since nineteen eighty one. Oh really, it is believed to
be the longest running continuous protest in US history. And
it's a damned eye sore. There's a GOP lawmaker. The
reason this has come up is telling the Department of
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the Interior, he got rid of you gotta get rid
of this. The White House piece vigil. It was originally
set up to raise awareness about nuclear proliferation, but since
it just changes year by year, what far left caused
its expressing changes the stupid signs and just remains it
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looks like a junkie camp outside the White House. Jeff
Van Drew, Republican, New Jersey, wrote a letter to the
Doug Bergham he's doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
By the way, quote, let me.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Be clear, nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to
erect permanent structures and occupy public land day after day,
year after year in a manner that creates public safety hazards,
degrades the appearance of one of our most iconic parks
and burdens both the district and the National Park Service.
This isn't free speech, this is a failure of enforcement. Amen,
mister van Drew. Yeah, to keep my eye out for him.
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I like the cut of his jim.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I was highly disappointed.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Everything else was good, but we couldn't get anywhere close
to the White House. I mean you couldn't even really
hardly see any of it when I was there last
time with the kids, and I was looking forward to
showing that to him.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But I don't like that. There's that just a bad feeling.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I realize the security needs, but the idea, the people's
house where the president lives, you can't even like hardly
get a glimpse at it from a distance anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's no good. It is the symptom of a disease.
I think.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
So here's some of the signage currently flying outside this ice.
Or when a Bonana Republic's leader can openly defy to
return a wrongly deported person, do dat? Is this ethnic cleansing,
Palestinian loss of land, five million Palestinians classified as refugees.
War is not the answer. With a dove, US militarism
fuels climate crisis. Black fathers Matter, Black lives matter, no
(16:53):
nuclear war, fifty seven years since the Israeli occupation, just
a misshmash of like angry stupid college girl rantings we
should do a Diddy trial update at some point.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
John Roberts interrupted Soda Moyer in arguments this morning, which
is exciting.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Among other things. On the way, God, enough of your travel.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Armstrong and Getty Gray set got.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The current world record is held by a team of
engineers at Mitsubishi Right Giant Multinational Corporation set a world record.
What's behind me right now is a team of Purdue
undergraduate students who said, you know what, I think we
can do better, and they did.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That is a group of produced students that built a
robot that can do a Rubik's cube. You handle the
robot an unsolved Rubik's cube and can do it. You
heard that sound there in a tenth of a second,
which is hard. It's not hard for me to imagine
the capability of the robot. Well, I guess it is
(18:01):
pretty amazing because visually it has to be able to
look at it and then turn that into what that
means in like zeros and ones, how to solve the thing.
But then the physical part of grabbing it and turning
the little fairly delicate. If you've ever done a Rubik's
cube things, that's maybe even more amazing.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
They solved it, meaning put it in all the sides
are right in one hundred and three milliseconds, So that
is just over a tenth of a second.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And like I said, I'm not surprised robots can figure
out what you need to do to solve the puzzle
in that amount of time.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I am surprised that it's.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Physically capable of that delicate movements that quickly right.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
That is just well stunning and honestly not the gripe
of staff or anything. I found the video accompanying the article,
which you can find at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
I think it's in Katie's corner, but the video is
super crazy interesting there. Cut could have been longer, but
they point out, for among other things, that so it's
just over tenth of a second, it takes uh to
(19:09):
blink your eyes takes twice that long just to blink once.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm a slow blinker, lazy eyelids.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's right, yeah, uh, And and again they cut almost
by two thirds the previous world record which was from Mitsubishi,
and these are I think it's four plucky young college
students at Purdue.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
If that makes you feel bad about yourself, it should
certainly had that effect on me.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, I haven't. I haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'm only been thinking about it from the aspect of
if robot can do that. It's not the speed again,
that's so amazing to me. It's a Then then what
kind of stuff can it do in a warehouse? You know,
fairly delicate, intricate, complicated things.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Wow, give it a full two and a half seconds,
and it could do it very gently. Because they did
have a problem with the rubik cubes flying apart, but you.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Know, that's it's a plastic kids to and the guy
sitting close to him lost two eyes, But oh.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So anyway, that's an amazing example of American ingenuity and engineering.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
My brother's been managing a warehouse for years and they
got forklifts and people moving stuff around and everything like that.
I gotta believe in a decade there ain't nobody doing that.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I would agree one hundred percent, as long as the
technology is reasonably affordable compared to a human staff, and
particularly given the rate of injuries in work like that.
So you've got high insurance premiums and liability.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Insurance eliminating health insurance. How much would that save a company?
Right right?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, Well, and those computer driven forklifts that read codes
and grab the boxes and bring them down, bring them
to the bay or whatever. But whatever, well they ought
to get the all out of the way. That's already happening.
So yeah, it's going to become cheaper and cheaper and
more and more common. So on the other side of
the human achievement scale is the fact that we are
(21:12):
killing ourselves in this country, not literally, well part of
it is literally killing ourselves, but we are far less
healthy than people in other high income countries.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Here in comes RFK Junior.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Well yeah, kind of, although bringing him oil, don't think
it is bringing him into it clouds the waters in
my opinion. But this and this is really an interesting
piece of journalism. But it talks about how in the
first part of the twentieth century, if you're going to
die it was from an infection and influenza tuberculosis, then
(21:48):
we had better.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Sanitation and swooping cough I have would have killed me
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I'm sure, uh probably, Yeah. Then you got better sanitation,
advances in antibiotics and vaccines that took that, medical innovations,
anti smoking campaigns for decades of progress against heart disease
and cancer. But chronic diseases, persistent or long term health
conditions are undermining the momentum stalled life expectancy. It's actually
(22:15):
dropped now, and we trail other developed countries pretty significantly.
I mean, we're, you know, seventy eight ish years, and
you got plenty of countries that are at you know,
eighty one to eighty four years of average expectancy six
seven years, especially if it's reasonably healthy, happy life.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well you can just that's bad. Well you can just assume, can't.
You know?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I always assume, like, if you increase life expectancy somewhere
by five years, I assume I get five more years
of the leaders that I enjoy. In addition, right, yeah,
you would sing, I mean yeah, depending.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
On the yeah, yeah, in general, yeah, yeah. Much of
the gap in life expectancy is due to deaths in
America among working age adults. According to these researchers, Americans
die earlier and are sicker than people in other high
income countries. It's been true for a long time, and
the trend is getting worse. Here's some of the particulars.
Drug overdoses from opioids, alcohol over use, vaccine suicide, what vaccines,
(23:23):
no no, no no, and.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Chronic diseases drive most of the early deaths.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
The US also took a bigger hit from COVID nineteen,
even among younger adults who are lower risk because we're
sedamn fat.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, I would like to know how much the math
is affected by all of the gazillions of people we
have dropped dead from fentanyl and trank on the streets
of San Francisco, in LA and everywhere else around the country.
Because you know you have a twenty five year old
die of fentanyl, that it has quite an effect on
the statistic of life expectancy.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And I'd almost like to see, I mean, in terms
of the health of the nation, because I care about
my country and its people. I want that big number.
But you're absolutely right. Can we break it out for
people who have never had an opioid addiction and never
will and would never touch a needle drug? As they
used to say back in the day. Yeah, I mean
(24:15):
it's going to be a different picture. But putting that
excellent point aside, the US obesity rate has nearly double
the average of pure nations, which is knocked back all
of our progress against heart disease, or a lot of it.
Around a third of US adults have had multiple chronic conditions,
(24:36):
the highest rate among the developed countries.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
A third of US adults have had multiple chronic conditions.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yes, that's quite a statement.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Rates for conditions including hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
have held relatively steady in recent decades, and the rising
prevalence of diabetes is in part because people are living
longer with the disease, but we still have higher rates
these conditions compared with pure nations.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I like the fact that the rest of the world
is catching up with us. Fat wise makes me feel better.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, that is the classic loser's philosophy, and when I
have felt at times in my life not proud of it. Look,
if I can't get ahead, let's drag other people down.
If I can't do well, let's impede others. Hey, look,
Malaysia's fat two. So we all feel better about ourselves.
All right, So many preventable chronic diseases related to four
(25:31):
major risk factors. Here they are, folks, I'll bet you
could guess several of them. Cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol use,
physical inactivity, and eating crap, or as they put it
in this fancy article, poor nutrition.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, I would like to see a number where you
take out I don't smoke and I'm not going to,
and I don't do drugs and I'm not going to.
If you eliminate both of those, let's kind of have
a pretty significantly a fact on the number.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I would think for life expectancy, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And you know, there are a couple of components to
the obesity thing.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
In the US.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
People get less exercise, moving less than several European counterparts.
Studies have shown good for the nation's Western style diet. Again,
if you can't get ahead, drag somebody else down. The
nation's Western style diet is heavy in sugars, processed meat,
and unhealthy fats sounds delicious. Americans also consume more ultraprocessed food,
surveys suggest, and such diets been linked to an increase
(26:34):
in obesity, type two diabetes in some cancers, as I've
said before it is a dry attempt at humor, but
I like it. Any scientist studying any beast says, Wow,
these beasts are dying earlier, they're hugely fat, their health
is declining overall. Well, could it be that they're eating
(26:55):
something completely different than they ever have before?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
No, that can't be it.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I mean, come on, this is uh, maybe your wisest
thing ever, this one. This might be called the Getty
principle or something someday. I mean, because that is that
is so obviously true, but overlooked in this conversation.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
All the time, they continue to have.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Hearings with you know, loads of experts and charts and everything.
When it's you can just boil it down to and
animals started eating a completely different diet. Now now it's unhealthy.
Now it's unhealthy. How about wes start there?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
So, and just in case you're not hipped to this
sort of thing or haven't been thinking about it a lot,
you can't look at it in like five year increments.
You've got to look at it in thousand year increments.
When you're talking about the ability of a beast to
adapt to a significant change in its environment, and what
(27:51):
you shove down your gullet is you know, next to
what you breathe, like the most important environmental you know
factor there is. So yeah, we we have in the
last just seventy five years, yeah, not very many years,
which evolutionary is like faster than those produced students can
(28:11):
do a Rubik's cube. We have completely changed our diets
and it's killing us.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh yeah, and here reason because my mom and dad
maybe your mom and dad too, but like my mom
and dad probably ate roughly the same thing as the
previous several hundred years of their families ate, whereas I
have not.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I think back to what I ate as a kid,
as a sixty year old man, incredibly youthful, but sixty
years old, and it was the ultra processed stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Number one. We couldn't afford it to the extent it existed.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
We just you cooked some sort of meat and not
a ton of it and generally not very fatty or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You had a vegetable, maybe a potato, and you ate
a home all the time. Yeah, every meal. My kids
are not eating like that, to my great shame, grow
u series prepared and put on the table. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So it's been just yeah, like the last fifty years
that things have really changed again. And then and then
you say, now you have a different people are dying
earlier and have all these different problems.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, that's a good place to start looking.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Not that microplastics aren't a thing, or sure they might
be terrivists die or whatever, but.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You don't need those.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, so maybe a corollary to the Getty principle. Well,
it's corollary to the or Well principle that I reread
that quote the other day that to see what is
in front of one's own eyes takes constant effort, was
his quote. A corollary to that might be to see
(29:48):
what your society is doing and judging whether you want
to do it too, and not just going along with
it takes constant effort.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, I don't know this one. That's true in a
number of ways. But in the eating realm, it's just
you know, cheap and convenient is hard to overcome.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh yeah, it's well, I would say it's seductive.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I'd say, I mean, your your little presentation there, which
makes me feel incredibly guilty of me going to the
grocery store, getting all the stuff, taking it home, learning
how to prepare a meal because I don't know how
I've been preparing the meal and everything like that. It's
or you got to get a chef door dash uh chef.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Well, and last day and I last night Panda Express,
I draw so good.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So it was put out into a real Chinese person.
They'd say, what the hell is this? But it's it's
so good. The term seductive, I used that intentionally, but
the seduction is not of a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Sorry, I'm a straight guy. I'm gonna go with the beautiful.
Who's going to become your loving wife? I don't know
what a woman is.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Crack hoe, who's gonna whack you over the head and
take your watch and wallet?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Now, I'm as guilty as anybody. I'm yelling at me, folks. Yeah,
I'm trying to convince me. I'm not lecturing you.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Get four fingers pointing back at you because you're defeing. No,
look at that. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We got more on the ways there.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
All eyes on that eagle nest family of bald eagles
in southern California, San Bernadino Mountains, capturing the world's attention,
so many watching them online, and now about two and
a half months old. The two baby eagles, named Sonny
and Gizmo, are now getting ready to fly the nest.
Their wingspan more than five feet Already, the nests is
(31:48):
getting crowded.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Biologists say they're now fully grown.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
The brother and sister are expected to fledge or fly
for the first.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Time any day.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know, I haven't logged any time with the I
don't they claw your eyes out?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
David Muir, Ah, you potts back to the eagles.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I haven't logged anytime with the baby eagle cam, and
I know some people that have, and I've heard it mocked.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
But how about the people who.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Are spending a little time looking at the baby eagles
are happier than I am?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
So who am? I? Did you just Katie?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I have it open on my computer right now and
I do feel happy watching it.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
I should do that more often. And yeah, it's the
national bird. They're a beautiful bird of prey. I'm I'm
super pro eagle and eagle cams. I've watched an owl cam.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Jack. Here you go. I'm pro babies. I'm the mighty
fledge fledge is David Muir told us.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, it's the term fledgling you know what, for just
this moment, retract my bitter hatred of David Muir. All right,
moving along, speaking of music, what, Katie, what what was
that thing? I didn't think you had to go that far.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
You can hate David Muir in appreciate and it's still
like like.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
That and the word fledgling. You're right, I've lost my edge.
David Muir is an a old All right, let's.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Let's take it easy, everybody. I found this interesting.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Any everybody knows concerts are more expensive these days.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I will probably remember on my deathbed when I was
I think I was like twelve years old, Gladys.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
It was way back in the seventies.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
That a friend of mine got some Rolling Stones tickets
and I decided not to pay twenty dollars to see
the Stones, even adjusted for inflation. That's well, you know
what's interesting. First of all, it's you know, I caddied
for money. I didn't have much money. We as a
family didn't have much money, and I thought, that's too
much money, even though I loved and continue to love
(33:46):
the Stones. I just did the inflation calculator. If that
was nineteen seventy seven and I think it was roughly
that'd be one hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Now, okay, that's not nothing.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah anyway, So some some folks for some reason have
broken down concert tickets based on how much you're paying
per song or per minute. That's Lana del Rey whoever,
that is some sort of pop starlett who will be
(34:18):
here today and gone today. Leeds is the priciest concert
performer at sixteen dollars and two cents per song, while
Charlie with No EXCX Somebody Anybody tops the per minute
cost at three dollars and fifty five cents per minute. Meanwhile,
(34:38):
nineties sensations Oasis generate the most revenue per song for
themselves at eight hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars per song,
with nightly earnings of seventeen points sixteen million dollars across
their reunion tour shows. Wow wow, you're a budget conscious fan.
You want plenty of music per domin best value ed
(35:01):
Shearon just ninety one cents per minute and Usher three
dollars and seventy six per cents per song.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Fantastic deal.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Lady Gaga's latest tour is about fourteen dollars per song.
Let's see, I'll pay you fourteen song not to play.
We have a deal
Speaker 1 (35:23):
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