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Published May 29, 2024, 3:43 PM

Hour 2 of A&G features...

  • The Israel/Hamas war continues
  • Can money buy happiness?
  • The Trump Trial and Robert De Niro gets heckled
  • The trauma of getting blood drawn

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Tanks have moved into the center of Ruffa following an air strike Sunday evening that triggered a catastrophic inferno at a refugee camp there. Fifty Palestinians were killed, about half of them women and children, according to the Hamas run health ministry. The IDF said that the fire ignited due to unforeseen consequences. Israeli officials say the strike that killed two Hermus leaders may have triggered secondary explosions, possibly from stored weapons or fuel canisters nearby the White House, saying it does not believe any red lines have been crossed because it's not a full scale ground invasion in Rufa, adding that it sees nothing to prompt a change in US policy towards Israel.

Is what is going on with what a silly discussion it is?

It really credited, there's a horror surrounding it, but it's not a full scale ground in vision.

Therefore, it has not crossed our red line, which we can't enforce out here and won't. First of all, the attack on that the things they were calling it there. Reporting there from yesterday I liked a lot better than the reporting the day before, where it was all either hinting at or sometimes just openly stating that Israel had targeted a refugee camp like that was the goal, to kill hungry Palestinians as they waited in line for food and water. We got around to yesterday a little more of the reality of it, and the fact that you had two high ranking Hamas operatives who were, as usual, hiding among civilians, and if you wanted to take them out, this was the only We're going to take them out. And it would seem that they had also surrounded themselves with the whole bunch of explosives, as they regularly do, so that if you do attack them, it's going to blow up and kill a whole bunch more people. That's what they do. It's what they've always done. And the political headline is you just heard there from that report, deadly rof A strike doesn't cross Biden's red line, whatever the hell that means. A senior Administration official granted to anonymity to detail sensitive and eternal thinking, said the attack that successfully took out two high level Hamas operatives while killing forty five civilians and injuring dozens more, did not cross Biden's red line described first on March ninth. I do like the Politico at least mentioned the fact that they were targeting Hamas people and not targeting hungry Palestinians as the news was over a Memorial Day weekend, and the whole red line thing. I don't even know what to do with that. The main theme I want to get into here is hitting the three hotspots is I just think Joe Biden's foreign policy is horrible for the world. What I'm trying to do personally in my own mind is justify how I can say I think Trump should be president over Biden. And this is one of the reasons Joe Biden's foreign policy is disastrous for planet Earth. Right.

It's incoherent, it's inconsistent, it flows with the wind, which is the worst thing. Better to be decisive and wrong in a lot of ways, because at least everybody knows what's up.

I want knows where they stand. I don't exactly know what Donald Trump's foreign policy is going to be because he hasn't said much about it, and he makes it up on the fly, and he makes it up on the fly, and he doesn't care about it much, I don't think, but Joe Biden's so wrong on so many of these issues. So we'll probably get back to Israel later, but let's check in on Ukraine real quick.

Mounting pressure to lift restrictions that ban Ukraine from using Western weapons to strike Russian soil, Native's chief says it's self defense.

And the right of self defense includes also striking targets outside Ukraine legitimate minitary targets inside Russian.

The UK and Sweden are on board. Today, the leaders of France and Germany announced they now support Ukraine in neutralizing Russian military sites from which Ukraine is attacked. The US Department says it does not agree, citing concerns of escalation.

We don't encourage or enable strikes outside Ukraine's borders. The Secretary of State does not agree with that. We found that out last week, as Anthony Blincoln said that I think it's time we let Ukraine strike inside Russia, since they're getting just devastated from right across the border. Because Russia knows we can just park our, you know whatever, right here on the border and just fire at you kill all those people at the Home Depot the other day and all that sort of stuff, because this is not gonna be any retaliation. When the head of the UN says, yeah, I think you ought to let them go ahead and shoot into Russia, that's when you know you're really out of step.

Agreed, And it's a measure of how you get sucked into the weirdness of say the Biden foreign policy, which is again indecisive, weak, effeckless, et cetera. You have to almost step back and remind yourself the notion that Ukraine or any country cannot fire into their border country who is attacking them and has been for some time and has a mass troops to come destroy their country, kill their people and rape their women. But you have got a wait till they cross the border. You've got that is unprecedented in human history. It's bizarre. It's such an odd notion. It's crazy that it exists.

Much less is being enforced by a superpower out of fear of escalation, which is the theme that runs through all of these. He's worried about escalating with the houthy rebels who are affecting world shipping. He's worried about an escalation with Russia, who started this war and is continuing it and is going to win it unless something happens. David Ignatius, writing in The Washington Post today, said we might be nearing another inflection point in Ukraine as China leans harder into its partnership with a newly dominant Russia. China went from that was a red line by the way that Joe Biden had mentioned. My red line would be if China actually supplies Russia with armaments. Well they are now, it's open and clear and reported everywhere. And what red line? Nothing has happened, and yet Ukraine is not allowed to fire over the border even though it's They're now fighting Russia and China together right right, horrifying.

Meanwhile, Wall Street Editorial Board says Iran's brisk walk to nuclear bomb Biden is trying to hide that Tehran is trotting to a weapon at a pace of its choosing. Their point being Iran is making substantial progress. They're calling it a brisk walk to atomic weaponry. UN report leaked Monday suggests, and what are they going to tell us next? There's gambling at ricks in Casablanca. Yet the Biden administration wants to hide this scary truth from the world in this election year. Ah, there's never been any doubt that Iran's rushing to get a nuclear weapon. Also, there's a huge story broke the other day that, of course, was inconvenient for the left, so most of the mainstream media ignored it. But bombshell accusation with supporting documentary evidence from Republican Senators Chuck Grassley Vaio Aaron Johnson of Wisconsin quote, the records provide to our office showed that the Obama Biden administration State Department, under the leadership of John Kerry, actively and persistently interfered with FBI operations pertaining the lawful arrests of known terrorists, members of Iranian proliferation networks, and other criminals providing material support for Ron's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. In other words, John Kerry and his crew well again actively and persistently interfered with the FBI and stopped them from arresting known terrorists or interfered with their investigations so as to keep the Iran nuke deal on.

Track, right, which is one reason I'm not sure I buy the All Street journals take that Joe Biden is soft pedaling Iran, trying to get a bomb to hide it because of the election. That's his foreign policy, whether an election was coming up or not. He and Obama just had this weird if we're nice enough to Iran, they won't actually do it or something. I don't. I don't even I have never understood their policy on this.

Welly it was the great egomania of Obama and Biden that they could either persuade, through his professorial genius or Biden's backslapping, the Iranians to not pursue a nuclear weapon. If they gave him enough money, they could negotiate it out. And I disagree. I think this has a lot to do with an election year, because it's becoming more and more clear that it's just failed completely in Iran is on the verge of getting a bomb. Now Biden would blame Trump, but I don't think the world to see it that way.

I like the last paragraph from the editorial board at the WSJ. Iran's regime is richer than it was when Biden took office and stopped in forcing sanctions, more aggressive than it was when mister Biden took office. Biden has failed to respond to its terrorism and much closer. It's much closer to having a nuclear weapon. It's hard to imagine a more complete policy failure, right right. Obviously they were either behind or in support of Hamascle's attack on Israel in October seventh. Most people believe that, and and everything that Hesbola does and the Houthi rebels and all that, and just we're just gonna let them, I guess.

So a vote for Biden is a vote to continue these policies for several months and then whatever Kamala Harris thinks ought to be done about the world. I can't imagine thinking that's a great, a good alternative by God, alternative worth voting for.

My God. But we're in a bad spot. We're in a tough spotes. We are, Yes, we are. Do you see Nicki Haley signing bombs?

Yeah?

Yes I did.

What did she write on there? Something? I finished them off? Finished them off? I believe? Yeah? Yeah, not probably not a great idea? Was that a is? She? Is she angling to be Trump's VP? Still? Oh gosh, I don't. I don't know.

I've always thought that that those were two strange a bedfellows, Yeah, to end up together. But I could see her as a cabinet secretary or something. Well, if she wants the gig ambassaard of the UN, so she could be something. Yeah, oh yeah absolutely, But we haven't gotten to the lead foreign policy story, the North Korean sack of crap attack. Ah, so the other day, when was this Wednesday? It's it's like the next day in Korea. That's why they win all the sports bets.

But large white balloons carrying plastic bags of North Korean garbage and poo floated into South Korea. Well, they didn't know that at first. They just saw walloons coming. They thought it could be weapons. At the very least, it was going to be literature, which I guess they've done a few times. Yeah, where they dropped pamphlets and that sort of stuff, and all the air raid sirens went off and everything like that. And it was afterwards that they figured out what you just said, that it was garbage and well, yes, germat.

It was detected in the night, and the emergency warnings went out around eleven thirty at night to border town residents to avoid going outdoors because of suspicious objects floating in the sky.

No idea what they might be.

All told, it was about two hundred and sixty balloons scattered across an area roughly the size of Indiana. Some journeyed one hundred and eighty miles inland, and when they finally came down and broke open, they had, uh, let's see, shreds of pink, blue and white paper, an empty laundry detergent bag, and dark clumps that looked like excrement.

It's crap, it's crap, it's crap. It's exact exactly what they dropped. North Korea is dropping crap on South Korea.

Yeah, yeah, evidently it was in vengeance for somebody in South Korea floating balloons with anti regime leaflets and thousands of USB drives containing K pop music from the likes of boy band BTS. Also, you send us r S, I'll send you rs ah no offense to K pop fans?

Uh so? Is that like a world leader version of the flaming bag of poo on the doorstep? Is that what this is? Yeah? Yeah, it was.

Uh It's It's hard to imagine given the steaks and the armaments and the hostility and the nukes.

And everything, that.

Kim Jong un would think, Oh yeah, you're gonna send us BTS thumb drives I'm gonna send you saxopoo.

How do you like that? Huh, yeah, saxapoo. That's a good idea. Yeah, your people are starving. And then he had to say to somebody, I need you to gather up a whole bunch of crap and put it in a balloon. What now on it? Great leader, I absolutely got that nail. Are you talking another poo? Well it what mean dog poo?

Because the dogs are starving or getting eaten, so yeah, I can only assume it's human pooh, the worst pooh.

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Something that I say every time I see something flying through this guy plane. What do we say when we walk in the house separately?

Maybe, how in a joking way would we say to each other that we wanted to pet someone's animal, gonna bet that down, something's going one way then the other way?

How would we describe it? He's zigging, I'm zagging. I have no idea what that was.

It sounded like the Newlywed game or something just a couple reveling in their private language with each other.

That's exactly what it is. Yeah, I'm at that dog. You mentioned the dating game, which reminded me of game shows, which reminded me of Wheel of Fortune, and which pat say, Jack ends his storied career here next week. I guess who cares. But Vana White announced she's staying on. Well, I bet they brought her a trunkload of money. I'll bet it would shock the conscience how much money she's getting paid to stay on.

I can't get inside the mind of a daily Wheel of Fortune viewers, so I have no idea if that's a good move or not.

I guess it is. Ryan Seacrest is a new host starting next week. Good because he doesn't have enough screen time. It worked, like, I don't know, a couple hours a week taping the shows make I'm sure it's eight figures at least. What's his lifestyle that he needs to take gigs like that? I don't know. He's richer than God, right, what would you spend it on? How would it make your life any You must just like the power of being everywhere all the time, I suppose, So, yeah, maybe he likes working. I don't know, because there's literally not a single thing you could buy that would have changed your life at all with his money.

Right, and you get no artistic satisfaction on a hosting wheel of fortune. No, it doesn't like raise your profile or image or ego or I just I don't get it.

Yeah. So there was this thing in the Wall Street Journal about can money buy happiness? The age old question? And I really liked what they concluded here that it can be summed up in ten words. This is after talking to a bunch of different people and going through the analysis and everything like that money buys happiness with diminishing returns and no magic number. I thought that was pretty good. That's the best version of that I've ever heard. Yeah, I would agree money does buy some happiness. The numbers different for different people, and after a certain point the amount of happiness you're getting it goes down. Right, Sure, that's intuitive, makes sense.

Yeah, I mean the freedom that having money brings you and the freedom from fear of certain financial you know, rough patches that money brings.

But yeah, beyond that, Yeah, I was talking to a young person the other day who had a battery of car problems, and they thought it was their battery and they were just gonna panic because they're, you know, broken. I remember, I remember living like that. It's it's stressful. There ain't a lot of happiness like when you're you're that stressed out about an eighty dollars repair on your car.

Right, yeah, two new tires means eating out of a dumpster for a week. That's no fun, man, fun the dumpster. I don't think I ever did that.

Armstrong and Geeddy for you're trash, you're a softie, you're washed up. That's some old timey old guy in New York insulting right there. Robert de Niro outside the courthouse yesterday for some reason, Yes, making a speech on behalf of the Biden campaign. Yeah, he was officially sent there by the Biden White House. I thought yesterday it was just him. You know, he's a New Yorker and he's a weirdo and politically active. But no, he was officially part of the Biden campaign while his opponent, Biden's opponent is in a courthouse, which is isla controversial. You send a representative on the day of closing arguments, and you send Robert de Niro as a wild.

Who Yeah, yeah, So Matt Taibi was writing about this with hilarity unusual as usual and excessive length as always. But he made a couple of funny points describing the clips, and then we'll play him for you. But he points out, by twenty ten, de Niro has been playing some combination of Travis Bickle, a taxi driver, and Jimmy Kahn Conway.

That's that Jimmy Conway was a good Fellaws.

Anyway, he's been playing a combination of those two characters with since Nixon.

As he points it out, listen below is DeNiro doesn't Elvis in Vegas style medley of de Niro's hits. Almost the whole catalog is represented. Queue Up Cream Sunshine of your Love for full effect. He's got mean streets forty eight seconds in this is my neighborhood.

I feel comfortable in these streets. The Untouchables is just before the three minute mark.

Is that does not work? Echoes? The al capone part of a team baseball scene which you picked up on yesterday. Jack a Bronx tail is at the four minute mark with the you think Trump ever threw a punch himself bit lifted straight from Lorenzo's We'll see who the real tough guy is. The working man is the tough.

Guy speech from a Bronx tail, The no, they fought for you, buddy exchange with what the heckler that starts at the eight minute mark is about six to Niro flicks in one. First, he gives the guy the Jimmy Conway post Lufton's a dead stare.

Then at you or for you? For you? He gives them ace rostings, listen.

Uf and yokel finger wag from the casino firing of Don Ward. But it's a mixed with a little you've got a gift, my friend from analyze this. The only riff he didn't try was the equal amount of blueberries in each muffin routine, which is an obscure reference but an enjoyable one.

Oh boy, oh boy. So let's see. Let's start with the fifty three.

This is de Niro outside the courtroom, trying to make a fairly serious speech about Trump.

I guess I don't mean to scare you. No, no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you.

If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye. That we all take for granted and elections forget about it. That's over, that's done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will never leave. You know that he will never leave.

What does that mean? Is that the country we want to live in?

Do we want him running this country and saying I'm not leaving, I'm dictator for life.

A perfect surreal and idiotic note coming in with the car alarm. I just can't handle any more dictator for life commentary. I heard it this morning on MSNBC.

Oh my God, really, well, he's not gonna leave. Well, you know what, Robert, God's gonna make him leave soon. He's pushing eighty. So I just I'm not that worried about it. And the institutions of the country are strong enough anyway in my opinion. Yeah, the whole dictator for life. This will be our last election. That is the fever dreams of an adolescent. Please okay, back into DeNiro imitating d Niro fifty five.

They are the true heroes. These guys are the true heroes. They stood, I'd put their lives on the line for these low lives for Trump.

They lie under road, they lied on the road.

Who lied ro You're telling.

Me, excuse me, those two traders find.

You they lied under all? That's right.

What do you say.

They're traders?

Yes, you gotta I don't know.

I don't even know how to deal with you with my friend, but I know how to deal with your I'm saying they're traders.

What they lied under oath? You're saying they lied under oath? Yeah, I'm saying they lied under all.

That was such an old man moment there, It's what that was. It's like Michael said earlier, Biden wanted Gary Cooper, but he wasn't available, so he went Roberts, and they're all I mean, he may so old.

Somebody plenty of yes, sixty eight year old actors who were probably down with Biden.

He could have recruited, but no, he went with the eightys well, and he didn't really have anything crafted. I mean, so it doesn't seem like he showed up with an act of any sort. It's you gotta put that up next to ancient Clint Eastwood's chair bit in terms of old actors and politics. So the cops he was referring to the people, the true heroes. He was referring to were cops who were at the Capitol January sixth, who stood behind the crazed.

Old actor looking truly mortified at the whole thing. One more clip, Michael fifty six.

They stood there, they didn't have to, and there were other ones in there who probably were in with them a little bit too.

And they found a way to get around.

Not these guys. They stood there and fought for us, for you, for you. They weren't ready for you. No, no, they fought for you. Buddy, You're able to stand right here now.

Earlier in the speech, the crowd shanted f U and f Joe Biden and de Niro. De Niro shook his head like he'd never heard such language. Besides, Trump should be telling them not to do this. Later, he tried to dismount into a serious campaign address, only to have a car al arm go off at the wrong time. Anyone who's had intimate relations in the borough of Manhattan learns to handle this in the first week in town. But De Niro looked like an inquisition here, a pre flustered by his sparrow in church. This beep is beep, a real beep threat, he said, growing frustrated. This beep is beep a deep reality beep. Oh my god, it's all such a clown show.

But if you take it through the lens of And I didn't think about this until I read Mark Alprin's newsletter, because everybody who's running against Trump has had the frustration of he always wins the news cycle. He leads the news. No matter what you say, or what policy you put out, or what you do, he leads the news. And maybe Biden has figured out a way. You know, we're gonna do crazy stuff like this, because it was the lead of the news last night that Robert de Niro was there doing his act. And so on the day of the closing arguments of the Trump trial, Joe Biden was able to get in there with one of his guys. I don't know if that matters or not.

Well, I could see some of his younger advisors think that, and it's not a bad strategy, but seriously, it's all about the execution.

You've got an eighty year old actor. The rap against your guy is that he's ancient.

And here's your persuasive on the street celebrity appearance. The guy is eighty Okay, all right, let the clown show continue.

It's likely to get worse and crazier as we get closer and not better and more saying wouldn't you give? I don't know.

It's hard to picture more stupid than that. Of course, we've got the debate coming up in what three and a half weeks?

Four weeks? I think it's almost exactly. Yeah, yeah, wow, right, I've got May God preserve the union. Yes, I had quite a parenting moment yesterday. I'll tell you about right after this.

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So my youngest has really been struggling recently after a pretty good stretch of things going well. Didn't make it to school at all last week and everything. Something was off with his medication, so psychiatrists suggested we get a blood draw. Well, that's pretty rough with him, with all his sensory issues and everything like that. I mean I never liked blood draws and I didn't have sensory issues, but he really, really really really hates it. So It was quite the struggle to get him to the doctor, to the lab and all that sort of stuff. But finally I was there, his mom was there, and we got him in there. But he freaked out once he got in the chair. And they want to you know what they do. I'm telling you, if you're a phlebottomist, I'm telling you this, nobody wants to hear about their veins before you stick the needle in. Stop talking about it. Talk about it amongst yourselves during your smoke breaks, about the big, juicy veins. But when somebody is sitting there and about to get stuck with the needle, doesn't say, oh, you've got nice, big thick veins. Why do you do that? It drives me crazy. It seems like the worst thing you could possibly do. I just ah. Anyway, So he did that and that led to as part of the UH. They were very patient and very nice and did a really really great job. But it always happens, even when I go in now I'm off on our RNT. Even when I go in and I say, don't talk about it at all, all right, I can handle this if you just don't talk about it. Second you sit down, Oh nice, veins. What it's gonna be great sticking a needle in that thing.

It's like a sore pipe. Hell, you could navigate them the twelve foot dinghy. Wow, that's a good vein.

Yeah, it's that. I don't know.

It's that personality type that cannot see a situation from the other person's point of view.

Anyway, I shouldn't complaining even if you tell them, I shouldn't complain because word, we'll get back to them. And they handled it very nicely, and we're very helpful and a very professional. And I told that lady, what is your name? I want you next time I come in. You're so good at this anyway. From my son's standpoint, though, he freaked out when it's trying time to get the thing, and I'm so Then I sit in a chair and I've got my arms around and I'm trying to hold him on my lap in the chair. And he's a big kid now, he's twelve and one hundred pounds or whatever. I'm holding it. And what does he do. He's a clever little guy. Oh, my knee that is so sore from my motorcycle wreck. He starts pounding on my knee with his fist. Oh my god, did that hurt? Wow? He apologized for it later. He said, I was just I was out of control. I was I needed to get out of there, and I couldn't think of anything else. Points for resourcefulness. Oh my god, that hurt. Though. Oh oh, if I barely touch my knee on anything, it makes me scream. He was pounding out it with his fist. We got it done. All's well. That ends. Well.

How far are we from technology that you don't have to jab people and take their blood out of them.

As to figure out what's going on? I ask, what's her name? In prison? We're just to work seconds away, just one single drop of blood? What was her name? Performed two tests? Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah, that's what That's what she claims she had. Man, I know it is. It is someday gonna be in the past, right that we have to do that, they'll be able to like wave an imaging thing over it's like Star Trek and figure all this out without shaking needles into our big juicy veins and talking about them. Please stop saying that we've got more on the way. I left out the best part of the story about the blood draw for me yesterday. So I'm holding my twelve year old who's completely flipping out. He's got fear of needles like I do. That's a weird thing when your mind, like you've got yourself calmed down about something, everything's fine, and then when like a switch flips or something and you just lose it. I've had that happen a few times in my life, and you just can't control yourself. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's like there's a pipeline deep into your animal brain. Yeah. Anyway, so he's around screaming everything. I'm trying to hold him. Then he starts pounding on my hurt motorcycle me. So he's screaming and I'm screaming, and we finally get the blood dropped. But when we walked out of the waiting room, everybody was sitting out there with their eyes really wide, like what the hell was going on in there? Looking just horrified. Wow, no kidding. It sounded like a knife fight. And of the waiting room. Good lord. Uh And yeah, a mom's sitting there with her kid, who's been saying for the last fifteen minutes, it's no big deal, honey, it doesn't hurt at all. And you hear a grown up and a child screaming at the top of their lungs. You just undid all that hard work. Oh yes, mom's put in oh yeah, oh yeah, smolks on everybody's face and including grownups by themselves, just like holy crap.

I was always told as a child that my fear of getting my blood drawn would go away, and that was a lie. Because I'm thirty five and I still just can't take it.

I just have to look the other way and think about anything else.

But I was once in the dentist waiting room when a child was shrieking in terror, and it's disconcerted.

Sure, we got this text I hate blood draws two and a guy starting an IV on me said my veins are so good he could hit one with a dark in the dark. Yeah, that's we don't none of us want that sort of talk. Just share it with the other people that you do this for a living with about how great that guy's veins were, But don't tell us.

I think they thinks that it's reassuring. This is gonna be easy and fine.

There's nothing reassuring about the word juicy veins.

Vague don want to hear the V word. Well, you're trying if you're scared of it at all, you're trying not to think about it at all. You're trying to think of something else. I'm usually trying to think of, like song lyrics, or I've tried thinking about sex, just anything that could like overpower my mind.

I'm I don't even want them talking to me though, Like I don't.

I'm not in my head.

I'm not there at that moment, Like I'm not here, you're not a doctor, you're not talking to me. And then they want to have a conversation while they're sucking.

The blood out of your arm.

Yeah, see, I don't mind that. If I don't mind that, that's the one time in my life I kind of like small talk.

So what are you doing today? Well, I might play a little golf later over there it goes, I might tell you, know, what are you doing? Let's talk about anything but anything. You want to talk about nuclear holocaust, let's talk about it.

Well, of course, then the nuclear winner would stove tens of millions, anything about the anything except the freaking needle make juicy veins.

With this sharp needle, A'm gonna stick India and then pull out a bunch of blood juice. You know, I should have apologized with those people in the waiting room. Why should have actually said something? Probably you probably should happen. I would have.

Said, I've never felt more shame than when at like thirty two years old, I'm getting my blood drawn, freaking out, telling the doctor I need a butterfly needle, I need to like just not talk to you. And I look over and there's a girl, she couldn't have been more than five, and she goes, it's gonna be okay, okay.

I should have walked out in the waiting room and said, they're sadists there. I don't know much blood come out looking like Carrie from the movie Age, just covered in it. I don't know why they hate me so much. Wow.

I'd go further down that road, but I think we're as far as we need to go, probably uh more or less out of time to discuss the shocking price increases in fast food. I've noticed that many people believe could be a powerful enough political force to counteract virtually anything that the Biden administration could say or the Biden campaign could say. If your Popeye's regular mashed potatoes and gravy is up one hundred and thirty four percent. There's no rhetoric that's going to talk you off of the position that you know things are bad now thanks to the President who gets.

Too much credit and too much blame. As we've discussed many times. We'll get into some of the particulars maybe next hour. I thought this was interesting.

According to the CDC, who keeps track of this, apparently the highest percentage of an ethnic group that eats fast food regularly at all is Black folks. It's about forty two and a half percent. It's only thirty eight percent of white folks, at thirty five and a half percent of Hispanics. And as how, you always the Asians are the best. Less than thirty one percent of Asian adults eat fast food at all.

Well, good for you, enjoy your SAT scores. I'm going to have a big back.

But I think there's a perception you can get from listening. I don't know a certain radio show slash podcast that everybody eats fast food all the time. And indeed among black folks, and that's the highest it's less than forty three percent.

What do they mean by regularly you know it's you know, it's it's half fast journalism. As always, they don't have all the particulars. I'm probably weekly, I'm certainly not daily. Well this says consume fast food period, Oh at all? I don't know. Like I said, it's a hit and run journalism. Who knows. Wow, I need a big Mac right now. Mmmm for my big juicy veins, armstrong and getdy.

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