In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Eddy.
These guys actually want these people in our country. It's not even believable, working with left wing nonprofits to inundate Pennsylvania communities, changing the characters small towns and villages all over our country and changing them forever.
They will never be the same.
They will never be Do you think Springfield will never be the same.
I don't think. The fact is and I'll say it now. You have to get him the hell out. You have to get them out. I'm sorry to get them out.
Can't have it, didn't have it, They've destroyed it.
Send them back listening about time.
It's it's terrible to say, and it's a tough thing to do.
And remember there was that poll that that long ago where two thirds of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, were for deporting everyone that was here illegally, which is never going to happen. But that's where people are on that. The thing with the Springfield, Ohio thing where it gets complicated is most of those people were there legally, uh, they need workers, et cetera, et cetera. But the ultimate point really is what you brought up last hour, is that and what Trump just brought up at rally esterday, changing the nature of these towns, changing them into different towns.
People hate that. Everyone would hate that.
You would that, Hey, you policymakers who live in gated communities, in multimillion dollar Virginia neighborhoods, who are in a government, you would hate it if your gated community changed completely overnight. Also, And you know, apcially after, like a lot of these folks in smalltown Ohio have poured their entire lives into making their communities better, then all of a sudden, the insulated class in DC and New York or wherever, just with this stroke of a pen, the waving of their magic wand changes that community forever.
Exactly.
The problem is it's so easy for the left too, because I've already seen in the last eighteen hours people playing clips of the send of Max and the Mac. It's just racist, maga, people who who hate the other.
Right.
And I just I had such conflicted feelings, so many feelings to act, so many thoughts, so many emotions listening to Trump there when he goes on and off the teleprompter at those very very friendly rallies, he makes the case fine using his shorthand, but if he has to explain, you know, to non committed voters, he just falters there. And you know, if there was another debate, Kamala Harris could say, we should build bridges, not walls. By the way, Donald Trump can't putt, and Trump's answer would be, I can two putt. I led my club in putting four years in a row. I'm one of the best putters. You've god, Okay, all right, instead of obliterating her on the board. Anyway, here's the headline for you. Why would they be eating animals? They have vouchers. Springfield, Ohioans are talking about the actual crisis, and that's you know, it's half a criticism of Trump and half not. But the whole focus on are they indeed ingesting cats.
Or not is really not the key point.
A visit Springfield finds a small city where thousands of poor Haitians, aided by pro immigrant charities, have swamped social services from flooded the workplace with cheap labor.
Yeah, that's the real downside of the hole. They're eating our dogs, they're eating our cats, even though it's been tremendous in terms of memes and hilarity for the last couple of weeks since of the debate, is if he had focused on what if he'd just read the sentence you just read instead of gotten into eating cats and dogs, about swamping the social services and everything like that, which is entirely true, has no racial overtones whatsoever. Doesn't make any difference whether they're legal or illegal. If your services are being swamped, they're being swamped, and everybody can relate to.
That, right.
Indeed, now they do mention in the Free Beacon that there is an odd lack of foul in the parks, and there used to be lots of them.
Well, as rich Lower in the National Review pointed out, I don't think people are near would get near his by grabbing ducks out of the pond as dogs and cats.
Right, But again, and I've contributed to the distraction, that's probably not the main topic.
They go on to say.
None of that, despite the media mailstrom, matters much to those in Springfield. They describe a city in crisis as it struggles to absorb the thousands of Haitians granted temporary protected status by the Harris Biden administration. If ducks getting snatched out of ponds and et with Springfield's primary problems as school bus driver, they interviewed, the city wouldn't need much help. But the tabloid like attention on the alleged animal cruelty only serves to distract from a litany of crises that locals say their leaders are ignoring. Here's what we're getting down to. Rents arising faster national trends. Crime was already higher in Springfield and most similar sized cities, but residents are now dealing with a scourge of traffic violations. Social services are overwhelmed, and Springfield residents are blaming their layoffs on a flood of cheap Hatian labor uh dug.
And it goes on and on.
Some medical problems, et cetera, getting into the hospitals. So it's it's quite the problem. And the cat eaten eight to half of it.
Katie, can you go ahead, Can you bring back the Babylon b joke from last hour that we had.
On this topic that we enjoyed so much. It's the Armstrong and Getty joke of the day.
It is, and it's a headline from the Babylon Bee, Ohio restaurant unveils new pumpkin spice cat.
You see for the fall. Yes, the Haitians apparently just spied cat delicious.
Longest spice, the flavors.
They're eating the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating, they're eating of the people that live there.
Well again, again, let's look past that, shall wait to the reality the Wall Street Journal reporting on Greeley, Colorado, which has gotten a fair amount of a tension lately as well, and the Aurora, which is not very far away at all. But JBS, the world's largest meat packing company, builds itself as the path to the American dream for immigrants who staff at slaughterhouses and meat cutting lines, and the company erected employee housing near some plants. The reality of that situation is you have immigrants packing this Rainbow motel a mile down from the plant, sleeping eight to a room on the floor of cooking meals on hot plates on the carpets. One supervisor, himself an immigrant from the African nation of Benin, set up others to stay in a five bedroom, two bathroom unit he at least in a house in town two bathrooms. Keep in mind there too, everybody slept on floors. At one point, thirty or more people were living there. They were charging sixty dollars a week in rent. Workers complained or worried if they complained they would lose their jobs. Nobody in the halls of power is going to discuss this. The fact that there are large swaths of American industry that depend on immigrant labor because they can't get anybody else to work there, and that it's in conditions like this, and meat packing is a big example of it. Agriculture is too, although there's been more pretension to pay to that in the last half century and it's gotten better for the workers. But between that and propping up our welfare programs because we're not having babies, the halls of power one hundred percent in favor of importing people by the millions, guaranteed. Look at what's happening, Well, forget what people say, look at what they do.
Let's add in the story from last week where the average person in the bottom quintile of income receives sixty eight thousand dollars a year in transfer payments of various kinds, so you don't need to go work.
At the packing plant, not necessarily. Yeah, and a lot of these people bust their ass. They work really hard and really rough conditions to provide for the families. There is a lot to admire in them. But that's not how we set emmigration policy. That's no nation on Earth sets immigration policy in that way. Well, gosh, there are hard workers, so I guess they can come in. I mean, there's more to it than that, or there ought to be a couple more headlines quickly on the same topic. More than eighty five percent of immigrants arriving at the United States Mexico border are released into the US interior. More than eighty five percent, according to a report from the House Homeland Security Committee, details the border is secure. At the same time, the report accuses the Potus and Vpotus of seeking to slash federal detention space. The report, which breaks down a Biden and Paris have welcome nearly eight million immigrants into the US since early twenty one, suggests that while DHS Secretary Alejandro waste of Skin Majorcis has mass released migrants into American communities, the agency has simultaneously cut detention space.
What was that number? Eight million?
At least eight million. Yeah, yeah, that's a conservative figure.
And again, according to The New York Times, Kamala Harris is going to go to the Mexican border on Friday to do something. The New York Times says she may give remarks about border issues during the visit. According to the people with information on her plans, they assisted on anonymity to discuss a trip that has not been made public yet. The people said, final details about where she would visit blah blah blah have not been decided. Hair's campaign's not responding, so for some reason, it's going to be kind of a secret thing.
Or I wonder if they're doing.
It on a Friday, hoping doesn't get noticed and then she can talk. She's inoculated against the you've never been to the border thing. That's it ding I stumbled upon it. She's going to the border on a Friday, not going to announce it. It won't make She was hoping it wouldn't make the news until Friday, with the idea that nobody pays attention to the news over the weekend, and now she can say she's been.
To the border.
Would you call the border secure, The border is secure.
You're confident this border secure.
We have.
A secure border, and that that is a priority for any nation, including hours in our administration.
Michael, thank you.
That's the perfect introduction to what I was about to say in response to Jack's screen about it happening on a Friday afternoon, and that is the Harris campaign is clearly schooling her for weeks, trying to get her to remember talking points, which she executed quite well during the debate, and then the.
Oprah debacle happened.
So they said, all right, all right, we've schooled her on what to say about the border for a few weeks. Now we're going to send her out on a Friday afternoon and see how it goes. If that goes okay, maybe we promote her to like Thursday evenings to make statements and we'll see if she can, you know, gain a little traction. So yeah, it's a low impact. Let's give this a try. One more headline before we break illegal immigrants flooding. Even the New York Post going with migrants. I've said it enough. Why do you say migrants because the left told you to. It's a matter with the conservative America. We lack confidence. Illegal immigrants flooding the US are contributing to what could be the highest number of homeless in the country since the data were first recorded, with cities draining their coffers to fund shelters. Reports said at least five hundred and fifty thousand people were reported homeless in January, the same month the US notch the highest number of border crossings ever. According to analysis by The Wall Street Journal, the disturbing homeless figure was at least ten percent more than January of twenty three, a year that had the highest overall annual itally since two thousand and seven, when the government started reporting its own figures.
So the biggest number ever.
Given the current trend, the governor of the counties, I'm sorry, the country is on track to surpassed that number with a dismal figure somewhere around six hundred and fifty three thousand this year.
So you're tying the border situation with the high homeless numbers.
Yeah, absolutely, we need to take break, but I can substantiate that when we come back.
That's a big deal. That is a big deal. Huh.
We're sending more troops to the Middle East. I don't know if you knew that or how you feel about it, and a bunch of other stuff on the way.
Stay here.
You were saying, the United States of America is about to surpass by many, many thousands, the highest number of homeless folks we've ever had on our streets, which is a crisis that the mainstream media is more than willing to bring you. But because they are such really dedicated liars, they're not pointing out one of the most obvious aspects of this, and I'm quoting the New York Post. Now, the hordes of homeless have swelled along with the record number of immigrants illegally crossing the border and then claiming asylum being bussed to cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver, etc. Straining public offers and bringing crime and gang violence to the streets. For instance, reports from Massachusetts revealed that immigrants accounted for almost half of the more than seven thousand families in the state's family shelters in January.
Didn't know that almost half?
Why that has spent about a billion dollars on that this year. That's a news story that should be talked about. And I always think Kevin Williamson, who wrote a really interesting piece for The Dispatch a week or so ago about the Springfield, Ohio story and all the complexities of it, which is really interesting on how the local businesses there like the Haitian migrants because they didn't have enough workers and blah blah blah, and how it's actually raised home home prices in a way that bob all kinds of pluses and minuses in so many different ways. It's complicated, But I remember him saying one time years ago, he said.
Why would we import more poor people?
We've got enough poor people, Which is a very simple way of looking at it.
Why would we let more poor people in? We've got enough poor people.
Continuing down the list, immigrants also accounted for more than seven of ten homeless people in the city of Chicago, who's counts more than tripled.
That's amazing.
Eighteen eight hundred people on the streets and shelters the month they measured. In Denver, where migrant gangs run rough shot, fresh waves of outsiders caused a staggering forty two percent increase in the city's homeless population.
That's amazing.
That should be a bigger story, much bigger story.
Yeah, Yeah.
Then they mentioned cal Unicornia, where there are more than one hundred and eighty thousand homeless people according to most the most recent counts.
I wish Laura Loomer could whisper this stuff into Trump's here instead of telling him they're eating the cats in Springfield, Ohio, explain to him how, hey, the homeless number is going to reach an all time high and in many cities the bulk of it is people who.
Came in illegally.
They're eating the cab topic, They're eating the dogs, They're eating the pets of the people that live there.
They're eating the dogs came in.
So before we take a break, yes, the biggest sportscasters most listened to sportscasters in America. Mike Francesca is questioning Travis Kelcey's dedication to football at this point and wonders if the team and the coach are and he gets into all of the things that Travis Kelcey has been doing in addition to being a Kansas City chief just like in the last month, he's about to start hosting an Amazon TV show called Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Obviously, all the stuff you see on TV traveling around the world, going to all the different concerts, going to all the different parties.
Obviously very worried about.
His close, different podcasts and that he's on and all these different sorts of things. For the season, We're only three games in, but he's got eight catches and sixty nine yards, which is a decent game. That's like a pretty good game. It's not a Hall of Fame game, but it's a good game. Eight catches and sixty nine yards over three games.
Yeah, he's clearly transitioning, and I don't mean becoming a check. He's preparing his post football life, absolutely true.
This is his last year.
Well, and he wouldn't say it out loud to anybody, I'm sure, but I'm going to make more money than I ever made in my life playing football off all this other stuff.
So whatever, I'm sure with tea Swizzle, Yes, Armstrong, and.
I assume that the President will and his remarks urge that the parties try to strive towards some kind of ceasefire in order to be able to provide for the hostage exchange, provide for a path as to what happens with Gaza and the Palestinians, What happens with humanitarian aid.
I think those arguments need.
To be made, and President Biden is the person to try to make those arguments. He's been urging a ceasefire. I think he's got to continue to do that.
I was surprised by that. I'm a big fan of Leon Panetta. He's always been my favorite Democrat. He was sec death under Obama and a bunch of different stuff. Anyway, I don't know what he's talking about there, the whole urging the ceasefire.
Either side wants it, Honey, where do you even start?
So to that point, Joe Biden speaking at the UN today, this is many people think, well, obviously his last speech to the UN and maybe one of his last major speeches ever.
It's a human the way he sounds.
Here's a little bit of it, and you'll hear the response from the polite crowd.
They no, not asked for this war. What Hamas started.
I put forward with Cutter in Egypt to cease fire and hostage due spend endorsed by the UN Security Council. Now is the time for the parties to finalize his terms.
Bring the hostages.
Home, secure security for Israel and Gaza, free of Mama's script. He's the suffering in Gaza and end this war. October seventh, reef sure, not exactly sure what he said.
He absolutely has four more years in him. This is the best version of Joe Biden.
Yet you should see him behind the scenes. They expected us to believe with a straight face two months ago.
Now the same people are telling you Kamala Harris is brilliant and she'd be president. But back to the the you and councils agreed on it.
Yeah, but you know who didn't agree to it? Israel or Hamas. I don't. I don't even know what's going on here. I'm so confused. You're asking Lah or Iran or anyone else?
Yet?
Can you tell me what is going on here? Well? What everyone is in favor of us?
He's fire except everyone involved with the situation.
Right, Okay, whatever, That's enough of that.
The tooth very must immediately begin bringing five dollars for tooths when children lose their teeth, he says, fancifully. Utterly unconnected to reality. It's a different topic.
Came across this over the weekend a couple of different things. I caught it on Elon Musk's Twitter feed, which is often very very interesting, and he was tweeting out a comment on a comment about the regular I don't know if trope's the right word or whatever, that we just need to tax the billionaires. That's the problem we got in America. That's our whole problem with the deficit. It's really our problem with everything. No matter what your problem is tooth to gay, taxing the billionaires would be the answer it. And as has been pointed out over and over again, the math on this is kind of funny. So you're talking about taxing the billionaires, how about if you confiscated all their wealth, you took every dime they have. And you've probably heard this before, but it's good every time I hear it. There are five hundred and fifty US billionaires together, all of their money adds up to two and a half trillion dollars. If you confiscated one hundred percent of their wealth, you'd have enough money to run the federal government for less than eight months. Perhaps our problem isn't how much billionaires have, but how much politicians spend. And that's what Elon tagged on too, and said, insanely bad spending of your hard earned taxes is the problem and connected this chart.
And if you know anything from making.
Charts, charts are fun and that you can emphasize a point by this, especially bar graphts and that sort of stuff. He can emphasize a point by making the increments as big or small as you want if you want. If you want to make an increase look small, you can change how far apart they are, if you want to make a tiny increase look big, and surely you understand this. My favorite way to do it is if like a number's gone from forty two to forty four percent, which is not much, you start the access at forty right, right, and it just goes from forty to fifty, so it looks enormous, and they leave out the zero to forty part, right, come on.
But anyway, this chart kind of does it.
And even doing that, it's still extraordinary. So it's a chart of how many trillions of dollars in debt the United States is. It's about thirty five trillion currently. We hit a trillion in the late eighties, I think, is when we first got it. But you look at this charge of a chart of US history. Part of this is inflation, but most of it is just how much we spend, and it looks like the empire state building in terms of a graph. It just started recently and it is skyrocketed in the last couple of administrations. And here's the numbers behind that. We had nineteen trillion dollars in debt when Trump took office, nineteen trillion.
Which was crazy.
Then we were talking about it endlessly. It's ridiculous that people aren't worried about this, that we aren't paying attention to it is. It's gonna doom America. It's gonna ruin our children, this grandchildren's future being nineteen trillion dollars in debt, blah blah blah. But we have thirty five trillion dollars today. Both men added roughly sixteen trillion, almost doubling the debt in the last eight years.
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it.
It's it's I wouldn't worry about the interest on that debt crowding out all the important things in life.
We went from nineteen trillion in debt to thirty five trillion in debt, and two presidencies to one term presidencies, with each administration adding roughly sixteen trillion dollars.
That math doesn't work.
Oh well, added together, they added sixteen trillion dollars, so each added eight trillion dollars.
That's incredible.
Yeah, it is the era of it doesn't matter right change.
I know I've told this story before, so apologize if you heard it, but it's from a story about the rock band The Who.
I was gonna say throwing a celebrity to make it more exciting in this telling, but there's already celebrities.
I was throwing a murder. The rock band The Who. You so.
Famously smash their equipment as kind of a gimmick, which when I was young I thought was cool, and now that I'm older, just seems stupid.
It was actually a really.
Interesting artistic statement I discovered not too long ago.
Okay, I want to hear it way back in their art school days. Pete Townsend, he wanted art to not exist. Then it existed, and then it was completely gone.
That the only thing that mattered was the moment, which is the sort of crazy, stoned thing an art student comes up with. But at least it explains why they start doing it.
Anyway, to you, I still don't like smashing musical instruments, but oh me, neither. But so when they first started doing it, their business manager explained to him how expensive it was, and it was putting them in debt, and they were a certain level of debt.
And then they were going around doing our thing and everything like that, and they were worried about it.
Then they had a conversation where they were so far in debt they were going to go bro and then they decided, well, then what difference does it make? And they really started smashing all their stuff. That's where I'm worried we are in the United States. It's that this is still fixable, so you care when it crosses over into Well, there's no fixing it now, So what hell difference does it make? I might as well go out and and max out my credit card. I'll never get out of this. It's a disaster either way, So let's have some fun. I feel like that's where we are as a government when you got both presidencies adding eight trillion dollars in one term and doubling the national debt in eight years.
So President Keith Moon is about to drive the Lincoln Continental of the ship of State into a swimming pool and hotel swimming.
We've all had this emotion. It's dumb, but I've had it in a variety of way. It's like, well, I've already gained so much weight, I might as well eat this pie or whatever.
I mean.
It doesn't make any sense, but it's it's a giving up, is what it is.
It's that feeling of giving up.
In short, things are doomed, So I'm giving up, and I'm just worried that that's where we are in terms of spending. It's just like, well, it's doomed anyway. There's gonna have to be such radical changes. It'll to change the nature of life in the United States forever. But that's baked in. So spend away.
So I, as president or a congressman or whatever, I might as well spend like a lunatic too and get the benefit of that. You know, because right getting back to Elon Musk's original point, the other aspect of it, blaming the rich for not paying their fair share is such a brilliant political strategy for reasons that are probably obvious to most of you. Partly because there's no constituency that wants to defend the very, very wealthy, and so it's an absolutely easy target, and it absolves the government in the government officials of the responsibility for having done the utterly irresponsible things they've done. They say, no, the problem is the rich guys. But it's worth re visiting, at least very briefly, the fact that the bottom fifty percent of tax payers fifty percent, they get ten percent of income in America and they pay two percent of the taxes. The bottom half of earners pay two percent of the taxes, roughly one fifth of their share of income in the country. The top one percent get like twenty two percent of the income of the whole. They're doing very very well, but they pay forty two percent of the taxes, almost double the share.
Of income they have.
So the idea that the problem is that the when are the rich going to pay their fair share? It's just it's an absurdity.
But it works.
It works over and over and over again, just like the arguments for price fixing work. That's disturbing economic literasy. Literacy might be what dooms us?
If, by the way, this is somewhat interesting, you're in the top five to ten percent of earners, you're paying almost precisely the share of taxes you are of income in America, so thank you for your service to the country.
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Well, just came across a great This is from the Trump war room. I guess he talked about this last night in his long rambling what they call those events rallies that he had yesterday. This is on the immigration thing we were talking about earlier in the hour. It takes centuries to build the unique character of each state and then sometimes town, but reckless migration policy can change it quickly and permanently, just like we've seen in London, Paris, and now we're going to see in Springfield, Ohio. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. It takes centuries to build a character. Are you going to deny that there's a different character in Utah than there is in New Jersey, than there is in Alabama than there is in Washington? And then the different towns that have all their unique character even within the state, of course they do, and that got built little by little over time. They have a culture. And then you're just gonna drop like a third again the population in there from people with a.
Completely different and you're fine with that. You think that's great. Why would that be great?
And the idea that and this is little discussed these days, the idea that you can have huge immigration and not demand anything of the newcomers, not demand that they adhere to local laws and customs, not that they adapt to the culture of the place they're coming to, not that they respect that culture and try to understand it. It's really really work hard to learn to speak English so you can participate in the school.
That is utterly unprecedented.
I mean sure, there have been periods of lots and lots of immigration to this country, primarily from Europe, but it was always so utterly, you know, powerfully assumed that nobody bothered to talk about it much that oh, you will become an American.
Interesting, Yeah, it's for poisoning ourselves. It's Tuesday, right, we're six weeks from today.
For the president. Getty said immigrants are poisoned.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
You have to have shared values or you will fall apart. Oh man, they're going to auto tune you saying that. Put music to it. The explosions coming out of your heads and your eyes will be right fish. You need me more on the way, stay here.
What you're about to hear is NFL rookies, presumably young men in their early twenties, trying to identify various physical media of yesteryear.
And it's like a DVD, VR, VR, d v R, I as little DVD put in the d CR VHS, right, CD. This is like just a real listening CD. Oh no, IBM that what it is. I would have never gotten that. Yeah, I got this one. I don't know this one used to put in the music to him and sell you that. Ye, I don't know what it's called. This is the cassette right at the times of floppy dish.
You can't show a floppy disc to a twenty two year old and expect them to know what it is.
Yeah, that was a little tough. That was the advanced class.
Yeah, boy, it is something for me to recognize that DVD's practically something you've never heard of if you're young.
Yeah, okay, I guess that's sure.
The swap between physical media and its attributes. And you can pick your favorite, whether it's vinyl albums or CDs, DVDs because that's whatever and the handiness but lack of sound quality, et cetera of streaming music. It's Sophie's choice or the Devil's bargain or sixty one a half dozen or I don't know what it is, but uh, I'm.
Not sure it's progress. It feels like a weird sort of break even, doesn't it. Yeah, I agree with that. I learned something the other day.
I wish I could talk more about about the various intelligence levels of the different positions on fl teams. Oh, from an insider. That was really interesting. That feels fraught to me. Yeah, exactly, but but but like it's just it's just so clearly true.
Yeah, I thought was interesting.
Sure.
Coming up next our foreigners in their wacky economies. Actually, some really really interesting stuff about a couple of economies and partital around the world and what they're doing with free markets and central planning and that sort of thing.
Hoping stay tuned.
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Yeah, this I found so interesting. Here's the headline for you. Mindfulness exercises can be as effective as anxiety drugs, according to a major study.
I don't doubt that a bit. Anybody who would reject that out of hand is selling you something.
Practicing mindfulness to relieve anxiety can be just effective as medication, new research shows. Reese's study, published in the Big Journals, showed that people who received eight weeks of mindfulness based interventions experienced a decrease in anxiety that match those who are prescribed a common common anti anxiety medication that's often prescribed under the brand name Lexapro UH seven point scale. You don't need to know that similar drop mindfulness practice.
Yes, I was going to say, can you define mindfulness for me?
I am about I'm going to define that biatch like you can't believe right here. Mindfulness practices such as breathing exercises have been used to treat anxiety for a long time. UH first studies showing that they can be every bit as effective breathing exercises. UH mindful movements like your your your, what's what's the Chinese movement thing that's banned in UH sall.
Here, you're an idiot, let's see.
Participants also completed exercises such as a body scan, which involves paying attention different parts of the body, and mindful movements, which includes stretching the body into different positions, noticing how each movement feels. What's interesting is they don't really go into meditation here, which surprised me somewhat.
Isn't that like the King of mindfulness?
Well yeah, yeah, but it's I found interesting. Yes, I was gonna say, which I've said many times. I started meditating a couple of years ago. It is now like indispensable part of my life. Like I can't imagine surviving without it. Luckily, you can do it anywhere anytimes. You will never have to survive without of it.
Yeah. Well that's scotch for me.
And you do have to stop by this door now and again to replenish that. This sub section headline is when anxiety becomes a habit. The reason mindfulness may help with anxiety is that it can interrupt a negative.
Feedback loop in the brain.
Anxiety is a habit driven by negative reinforcement in the brain.
Wow, that's interesting. I wonder if that's what meditation mostly does for me. It interrupts the negative feet back a loop, at least for a period of time.
And they say it gives people a sense of control. Their brain isn't running them, They're running their brain.
That's pretty good too. Yeah, I like it.
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