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2:07Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. The indoor water park chain, Great Wolf Lodge this week will offer a limited edition milkshake that blends vanilla ice cream and ranch dressing. And after one of those, you become the water slide. I don't know if I understood the punch line, but the setup was interesting. I believe he thinks your digestive system will be troubled for a while. I took the kids to Wendy's last night. They got a whole bunch of new products. They didn't have the last time I was at Wendy's. When did this happen? They seem unhappy about that. I know what I walked in and all of a sudden they got burritos.

3:09And wait, what? Yeah, they got Mexican food and a fish sandwich and just all kinds of stuff they've never had before. Wendy, I thought I knew you. I know. $8 for a single with cheese, by the way. $8. I see in that little red handed girl up on a stripper pole or something. Solid burritos. Very similar. Wow. Shocking stuff. It looks like Trump's had it with Christie gnome. And might be looking to get somebody else. We can talk more about that later. Yeah. Ice Barbie soon to be gone. I mean, you saw that one coming. So I guess our theme this segment is the absolutely astonishing changes in what is big media. And how quaint a lot of old media is in comparison. Now that's not to say there isn't great content. And I think how out of touch all of us over a certain age are whether we want to be or not. We just still have in our heads that certain alphabet networks and newspapers are a big deal. They aren't. They just aren't.

4:14Yeah. Now I want to make it clear that I don't think the lowest common denominator is something to be sought after unless you're just looking to make a ton of money. But if you're making, if you're looking to make a ton of money, then the market is not nearly what you think it is if you're past a certain age to wit in the last month. And yes, Jack, I am re-bringing up the question of funk music. P-H-O-N-K funk. Yes, sir. And yes, I do enjoy saying this little funk, clearing what you do. Anyway, that is it started. I think you and I can't remember one of your southern cities. But in last month, the music artist with the largest audience across all YouTube platforms. Wasn't bad bunny or Taylor Swift. It was slaughter. Spelled SLX U-G-H-T-E-R because apparently in funk, you have to change one of the letters in your name to a different letter or a number or something like every single person they mentioned does that.

5:22I wouldn't have known how to pronounce it. Well, you see it in print. Let's see, calls it Slickster, but I doubt it. The term probably doesn't sound familiar, funk. But anyone who spent any time on social media in the past few years almost certainly listened to it. Maybe it's better to say heard it because the overwhelming majority of people who consume funk don't recognize it as a genre, let alone actively choose it. But it's constantly playing in the background during YouTube shorts, TikTok or Instagram reels. It can sound like electronic dance music, also hip hop trap funk or mix of all those things like I know what those subgenres are. It can accompany dance clips, gaming montages, fan edits, workout content, sports highlights, motivational clips, and anything aiming to convey high energy vibes. Who cares? You're saying to yourself. Well, the people who crank this stuff out who are desperate for their track to become the go to on YouTube back up for the aforementioned genres of videos are making.

6:25For instance, this one guy who I've never heard of in my life and whose name I've forgotten already has gotten five million dollars already from a track he produced probably in two and a half hours in his basement. And then here's this other. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Here's a scroll past it. Somebody Henson who goes with some wacky moniker earned. He won't say how much he earned from Sahara, which was the hot track at one point, but he says I have some guys that have made over five million dollars from their music. Here's a company that represents these people. They've paid out over a hundred and forty million dollars to their creators on their roster over the past five years. Who make this background music for videos? Because everybody gets paid. That sounds like to play that again, Michael. Carol Baskin.

7:26That is her husband, the Tigers. What's happening? Carol Baskin. Yeah, it really does. It really does. So you got that going on. And then this, I think, is every bit as significant in the Wall Street Journal. Journal, the power brokers behind the two hundred and fifty billion dollar influencer economy, two hundred and fifty billion dollars. I was talking about this the other day. We were at target and we were in like shampoo section. And they had a typical kind of target ad there, just a picture on the end cap with a couple of people in shampoo shampoo. And I thought, well, it's probably just, you know, random people, good looking people holding the shampoo bottle. And my son was like, oh, my God, I can't believe DJ so and so is blah, blah, blah. Is some YouTube people that are a big enough deal to put on the end cap ad at the target to sell the shampoo.

8:26I'd never even heard of. They don't have a TV show or a movie or anything. Oh, please, they don't have that time. They wouldn't waste their time doing that. Right. A movie, please, right. I can't take the cut and pay. They would say. So this article, the big picture at the beginning of it is some attractive thirty five-ish gal sitting at a desk, but perched on a milk crate on the desk. It's just so on the nose is a bleach blonde pixie sunglass wearing vibey twenty something influencer girl. Because of course you'd be sitting on a milk crate on your agent's desk. Something I can promise you have never done in my long career. Anyway, it's Ali Burman who's the co head of United Talent Agencies Creators division with podcaster and entrepreneur Emma Chamberlain, a UTA client. They actually start the article with Kate Bartlett, a 24 year old influencer who has 1.6 million tick tock followers.

9:27And they're having a big meeting in Hollywood pitching business ideas for the year ahead, which she'd be interested in getting a teaching certificate so she could lead a course on influencing. What about landing in an editorial director position at a magazine or launching an accessories line or taking a defunct fashion TV show buying the name of it and reviving it and blah, blah, blah. But they mentioned there is practically no limit to what influencers can do and how much they can earn for it. They're starring in Netflix series launching pop careers running brands that break in nine figures a year. Folks, nine figures is a hundred million dollars or more. Those at the top of their game are now up against actors and athletes for the biggest endorsement deals. They've appeared in Super Bowl commercials, staked out lucrative investment opportunities scored ambassadorships for some of the biggest companies in the world. In 2015, influencer marketing was 1.7 billion dollars globally, 1.7. Last year, it was 32 billion.

10:28When Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research last sized up the creator of the economy as a whole in 2023, it put it at 250 billion. So what I always think about this as somebody that's in the business. How are there enough people watching? I mean, there's so many different things to look at. When you split up all the people, it's amazing to me that they still get enough views and everything like that that earn that kind of money. But I guess that's where you get to the stat of the average young person spends nine hours a day on TikTok or whatever. If you spend that much time on there, I suppose you see all this content. And they're splitting up a smaller percentage of everybody on the f-ing earth who is watching this stuff. But I mean, think about when we were young, which is, you know, might as well be at 500 years ago, is 50 years ago, in terms of 40 years ago, in terms of how much things have changed.

11:28But God, I took in on the big nights I'd taken an hour because we'd watched two 30-minute sitcoms at night. That one I was a kid. The rest of the nights may be 30 minutes. Certainly not hours and hours and hours. So people consume so much more media now. Yeah. Then anybody ever did. Right. Yeah. And again, because it's in your hand, it's everybody on f-ing earth. This gal who runs that department of the big talent agency, cutie, by the way, she's the big swing and Richard at that company now. It ain't movie stars. It's influencers on the tickety-tock on the Instagram. Partly because you can custom fit your ad campaigns to, you know, that crowd and their interests. And man, it is, it is 100%. I mean, like advertising on the Armstrong you get, he shows incredibly effective. I mean, efficient, you get more than your money's worth.

12:30And if you're not advertising with us, you're a fool. But if we did a show that was 100% about what are the coolest auto accessories these days, if you're an auto parts person or a customization person, that's where you got to advertise. So it's kind of micro-directed advertising. And the truth is, and young people are so cynical these days and should be, it would bother me knowing that, all right, the person who's gushing to me about these guitar strings, for instance, to cite one of my hobbies, they're obviously getting paid. I can't trust that they're being sincere at all. A lot of them, because I watch a lot of this sort of stuff, is they make it clear that they're not. Those seem to be the people that have the most followers. And it works out pretty well, because they say, I do not, I do not get paid by anybody. They're letting me use this guitar or motorcycle or whatever it is. I got to send it back. But they get more followers that way, because more people believe them.

13:32But then the product people have more reason to let them use the stuff, because there's so many eyeballs on the review. So it kind of works both ways. You know, you're right, but at the same time, you're a senile old fool. And here's why, I'm sorry, that was, that was unnecessarily hard. No, the young people don't have that standard from what I've read. They see Kylie Jenner saying, oh my God, look at this. It's so amazing. Oh, I love this stuff. Look how I look. And they think, bingo, gringo, I'm buying it. But like I said, they don't expect neutrality, I guess. I just, again, I can't believe there's a big enough audience for all this, but they're clearly, so I'm looking at one particular motorcycle I want to buy. I was looking at reviews, different people who review this very product on YouTube. I've gone through, I don't know, 20 different people that each have millions of followers that do this sort of thing. I mean, they're making their entire living off of doing this and there's so many of them. How could there be that many of them? I can understand how there'd be one or two, but I can't understand how there would be hundreds of people

14:36that can make their living reviewing the latest iPhone or salad dressing or whatever the hell it is. Yes, but the same way there are hundreds of successful podcasts. I think it's part of it, though, I keep getting back to how much content we all take in. It's just stunning amount, especially young people. Yeah, agreed, but that's where the, that's where the economy is. That's where the media economy is producing funk and hoping somebody likes your funky track and or being a pixie-haired 22-year-old influencer, inexplicably squatting on your agent's desk. And of course, then every kid, like both my kids, are making their run it trying to, you know, post stuff and have it catch on. How could you be a young person and not at least try that? It'd be impossible. I would have guaranteed I would have. The only constant is change, Jack. Change in people being A-holes. That seems to be a constant as well.

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17:44The U.S. military is escalating its crackdown on drug trafficking in South America. Two months after the invasion of Venezuela, officials say the U.S. now has troops on the ground in Ecuador taking part in joint operations against narco terrorist groups. In a series of raids, Ecuador targeted a group that officials say was trafficking drugs to Europe. Troops on the ground in Ecuador, I heard a story. I think it was yesterday some African country where we have troops there trying to deal with, you know, men, one of the many problems they have there with various groups trying to commit a genocide against another group that the world doesn't pay any attention to for whatever reason. I don't know why Africa is way it is. People often blame it on race. I don't think that's it. But it's amazing. You can try to commit a genocide in Africa, one country against another and one people against other. Nobody says it worked. There are a couple of them going on as we speak. Well, and will there be boots on the ground? There are boots on the ground all over the place. All over the place, including Ecuador.

18:46So just looking up at CNN, I don't know what they're specifically talking about. Britain getting pulled into this now. I'll have to Google that or chat GPT to figure out what they mean. But that attempt by Iran to hit Turkey. Luckily, the rocket was shot down before it got there. But if it hit Turkey, a NATO country, I don't know what would have happened at that point. As Joe pointed out earlier, they're hitting us and we're a NATO country. So maybe if you start the war, it doesn't count. How article five works around that whole thing. But well, I'm waiting to see our allies flock to our side, which is an excuse to bring up a great Norman Schwartzkopf quote that I was reminded of. Going into a war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. Oh, that is good. Pete Hegseth with his daily press conference thingy, which is a quote machine, is our producer, Mike Hansen puts it.

19:48Just called out the Biden administration's campaign to erase our warrior ethos. That's not officially what the Biden campaign was. That's Pete's take on it. Accurate enough. They would say it over and over and over again. What they would say is our diversity is our strength. It's the single dumbest phrase in military history. Our strength is our unity. Not diversity is our strength, which is a dumb thing. It's a dumb thing for just your society. Right. Let alone for your military. It's suicidal for a military. Everybody gets to do their own thing. That's the strength of our military. We need to check in on that social media trial that's going on. There's some more audio that came out of Zuckerberg on the stand that's kind of interesting. Britney Spears, menace to society is back on the street. She was in jail for a few hours last night having been arrested drunk driving. But she is back out. So wear a helmet or do something if you're in Ventura County.

20:48And speaking of Iran, you know those betting markets, those prediction markets that everybody's talking about. Somebody made 553K on a weird beer getting snuffed. Really? Who was it and what did they know? I would have bet on that. Plus, are the betting markets a source of intelligence for our enemies? Stay with us. That's an interesting one. That's what I'm shooting for. Cool. If you miss a segment at the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand lots on the way. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather Bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local real-time customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence.

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22:50Learn more at amu.apus.edu. Steady through every mission. That ugly red couch you've had for a decade? It's been living with you way longer than you ever thought it would. Because let's face it, great quality furniture just feels out of reach. Or it used to. Until you found home sense. The days of overpaying for good taste are done. Now, you can fill your home with the standout pieces you've coveted but couldn't afford. And you can finally kick that sad sofa straight to the curb. Welcome to home sense. The home of no compromise. So I was not on this story. I'd heard the name. This guy running down in Texas again. So Jasmine Crockett, we've played a lot of clips of Jasmine Crockett over the years. She's a Texas Democrat and kind of a nut. Least blonde, bad-built, bush-body. She's not really a nut. She is a... She's like your bomb-chuck in Instagram star fundraiser congressperson, like an AOC. Yeah, she's not a nut.

23:50She just understands the current landscape and that you want to say outrageous things. And you get lots of donations and you get on instant, you know, you become a TikTok star or whatever, which is what a lot of people in government are trying to do. Okay. So she gets challenged as the way happens in modern politics by somebody in her own party. They're running for the Senate against John... The winner of John Cornyn versus Ken Paxton and that's its own story. Yeah, that's why this is important. This is an actual Senate seat. But she was going to run in a Democrat challenger and I'd heard about this guy but I didn't realize what a complete cook this guy is and he won. Yeah. He's a nice-looking white fella whose act is... I'm a Bible college student. I'm a ordain minister. I love the Lord. The Bible! Just like my fellow Texans, you love God, right? And he happens to be wildly left. And a cook, all kinds of...

24:51As I read quotes, he grew up. His dad was a minister, beat his mom all the time. Mom takes son, this is the guy that just won the election on Tuesday. And they move away from crazy dad, the wife beating preacher. And kid grows up to decide he wants to be a preacher too. With I'm sure all kinds of weird stuff going on in his head. And anyway, this is a little background on who he is and he is a nut. Let's enjoy a little of James Tallerico and his own words. It was 60, please, Michael. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. So that's just a sampling.

25:52I've got another clip of him where he refers to women. He's trying to pitch some sort of handmaidens tale crap about the Trump administration. And he refers to, quote, every one of our neighbors with a uterus. Well, I like this one. White skin gives me an every white American immunity from the virus that is being white. We spread it wherever we go through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a confedered flag to be contagious of the white virus. The only cure for the white, but he's a white guy in case you did. Self hating George Floyd woke apocalypse white guy. The only cure for the white virus is diagnosing the virus within ourselves and taking dramatic actions to contain the spread. The first small step is, step is proclaiming loudly and unequivocally that black lives matter.

26:52Yeah. Here's the reasonable moderate Democrat. Here's some more samples of Mr. Tallerico at work, fans of and students of the Bible. Cock your ear for his interesting theories, 61. But I say all this in terms of in context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. I mean, go back and read this in Luke. I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do. And she says, if it is God's will, let it be done, let it be, let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create. Creation is one of the most sacred acts that we engage in as human beings. But that has to be done with consent.

27:53It has to be done with freedom. And to me, that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus. And so that's why I, that's how I come down on that side of the issue. So why does he wins? So he's making the argument there's nothing more Christian than abortion. Right. And wait, wait, wait, wait. That passage doesn't exist in the Bible. He made it up. Now, what's his appeal, though, because he's so woke. So is that a one of those deals? The wocused candidate one? Yeah. And he's also, you know, he's bright and good on the stump. And Jasmine Crockett's a bomb chucking nut job of the sort that especially Hispanics look at and think, no, no. Because Hispanics, for all their turning away from Trump recently, still have the qualities that we've been describing for years. You know, they're hardworking, they're fairly traditional, they value family, that sort of thing. They don't need a woke bomb chucker.

28:54But this guy does a decent enough job of keeping it under wraps. So he's a self despising white guy. He makes up passages from the Bible. How does he feel on the trans issue? Before my constituents elected me to this body, I taught middle school. And my students saw the reason I'm here to make public policy that improves their lives. But instead, we're doing this, endangering the lives of some of our most vulnerable children to solve a problem that doesn't exist. When she laid out this bill in front of the Public Education Committee, the representatives once and summed up the justification for this legislation in one sentence. She said, if one girl loses a game, this bill is worth it. I guess we just have a different moral yardstick. Because I say if one trans child dies to protect someone's damn trophy, this bill is grotesque.

30:00Here he is, forcefully advocating for boys and wigs playing girl sports. Well, and he was going with that whole. If you don't let trans kids be the sex they parents told them they're supposed to be, they will kill themselves. Exactly. Or the activists talked to me, which has been debunked over and over again. That study. So it's good news for Republicans, all right? Because this guy's not going to win a Senate seat. No, no, he ought to get beaten like a drum. And the Senate's going to be really, really close. And that would be a disaster if the Republicans lost the House and the Senate and the White House in two years. So that would be a disaster. Democrats are going to take the House and there's going to be plenty of the flows out of that. They're going to impeach Trump. They're going to bring Trump a millennium up there to ask about Epstein. There's going to be all kinds of stuff happens. But if least if the Republicans control the Senate can keep a lid on things. So a couple of things. Number one, the Harvard Harris poll just came out. It's super interesting.

31:00Maybe we can spend some time on that next hour or tomorrow. But one of the more intriguing results was that the generic ballot, you'd vote for a Republican or a Democrat, is 50-50 right now. Which is surprisingly weak, given the history of the president and blah, blah, blah midterms. The second thing is Trump's got an interesting decision because I referenced John Corden and Ken Paxton running against each other. Paxton is a real character. He's been indicted over and over accused of all sorts of stuff. He's a bomb chucking ultra mega like modern politics guy. Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett School of politics. And he's super, super Trumpy. But anybody with any sense knows if there's a Republican who can lose, it's that guy. John Corden, who's a little more milk toasty Reagan Republican reasonable crosses the aisle, likable. He can win hands down. He's the two-term incumbent.

32:02And so Trump said I'm about to make an endorsement and he's probably going to endorse Corden. You think? Remember in Georgia? Georgia should have had two Republican senators ended up with two Democratic senators because of Trump making such bad choices in the candidates. I think God forbid he may have learned something from that. I hope so. If he doesn't endorse Corden, we'll know he hasn't. Interesting. You mentioned a poll. I got to get to this poll that came out just yesterday on people's attitudes currently toward illegal immigration. You haven't heard this much in the media for obvious reasons once you hear it. So we'll have that coming up maybe next segment. Do we have to tell people something first? Yeah, we do. I have to tell you about SimplySafe, which I love. I love the fact that I have SimplySafe that I got to sign in my yard, which reminds me. And anybody who ever looks at my house thinks, I wonder what's in that house. I got the SimplySafe system with the cameras and the sensors and all that different sorts of stuff. And you can get that live guard protection and it ain't got to cost you much.

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34:06Not many years ago it was hard to imagine a world without smartphones or laptops. We could live in a world without prisons. He's one of those people. You don't need jails. I mean, how crazy an ideology is that? You're an idiot. You are such an idiot. You've got an IQ of like eight. And it's kind of cute that you believe that. That you could craft a world where everybody's going to be nice to each other. This all gets, you know, your kid kind of learns this from various Sesame Street type shows. And then they go to kindergarten and realize, why? This isn't anything like I was told on every single kid show I ever watched my whole life. So you're saying he has a sub-kindergarten or understanding of human nature. Yes. Yes. Try to imagine a world without prisons. We don't need jails. Are you nuts? How did he get this far? No kidding. Good question. I said he is smooth. He does a good job of presenting himself as a moderate when he needs to.

35:09He's slick. In short. You can come in and be very smooth and good looking and have a drink in your hand. Twinkle in your eye and say, we don't need prisons. And I still think you're freaking moron. Because you know what you're talking about. All right, we got more on the way, Stere. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local, real-time customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence. Download the free weather bug app from the App Store today and start getting accurate weather forecasts 24-7. Flag football is exploding and I flag is leading the way. As the Guinness World Record holder, I flag host premiere flag football tournaments nationwide

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37:12Or it used to. Until you found home sense. The days of overpaying for good taste are done. Now you can fill your home with the standout pieces you've coveted, but couldn't afford. And you can finally kick that sad sofa straight to the curb. Welcome to home sense. The home of no compromise. The recall expanding to include more trader Joe's frozen products, now including more frozen meals with fried rice. A bit concerned they may be contaminated with glass. That's bad. You don't want your fried rice to be have glass in it. How picky are you? I said the trader Joe's just because it was the closest grocery store to me. I'm not a regular for a variety of reasons because they don't have like the lame old products I like. They got a fancy stuff. Man there's a lot of hippies in there. Young college hippies and old hippies. Lots of bare feet in there. Lots of Birkenstocks. Yeah, my son's a bit of a hippie and he works at a trader Joe's. That's the place that's the place to be if you're a hippie. So why are you making that face, Katie?

38:13I worked at trader Joe's for like seven years. Oh, did he? Were there hippies in there when you worked there? A couple. Which is fine, but it's just not my vibe usually. A couple, but they take care of their employees. I'll tie that. Yeah. And the plays are good. Very, very good. Yeah. It's just always so busy. Yeah, my boy tells me it's a super great place to work. I believe that. I don't doubt that. This poll came out yesterday. I don't care much about it. Latest Harvard Harris poll. People's attitudes toward illegal immigration. This is not the ice grabbing people out of their homes and all that. This is just in general. Asked respondents whether they favored or not. Trump's vow to deport all immigrants who are here illegally. That's a very straightforward question. You four are against deporting all immigrants who are here illegally.

39:1457% yes, including 35% of Democrat and 56% of independence. It's still very popular. The idea of get the illegals out of the country is still very popular. Even a third of Democrats say, yeah, you got to get the illegals out. Yeah. I would suggest Christie, no, Stephen Miller. The only way you can screw that up is if you just get too little too enthusiastic and over your skis. Just be reasonably smart about managing the deportations and you will keep the American people on your side. Yeah, that's a good point. This is an easy win. You got 60% of the country. Just don't do crazy. Right. Just eliminate that 10% of craziest ugliest stuff and you've got the people with you, including the Hispanic people. But hey, hey, hey, well, we've all seen it unfold. I found this interesting from the Harvard Harris Bowl. The right track, wrong track thing.

40:14Back in June, it was, oh, can you scroll over that? It was, oh, this is so hard to read. It was like 71% wrong track and 23% right track. Now it's 5238. I mean, it's still upside down. But as we always point out, you know, the wrong track, 52%, half of those think we're too conservative. We're think we're not conservative enough. Right. It's always a great insult. So is this for the whole country, right track, wrong talk, or the economy? A whole country, whole country, right? I've got separate economy numbers if you want them. They're actually very, very similar. I don't know how to answer that question. Here's your revealing stat. I think I've been wrong track for a long time. I mean, if I was really going to sit there and think about it. I think we're on the wrong track. I mean, I think we're, no, no, the country. I think we're on the decline. And I don't think there's anything going to be done to turn it around. So.

41:14So who says the country's on the right track? As of right now, 73% of Republicans say we are 16% of Democrats. So there's a bit of a partisan divide there. 73 to 16. The exact opposite of when Biden was in, that's just purely, am I in favor of the current president? That's that crowd. Yeah. Independence is 24% say right track. The economy, as I said, the numbers are actually fairly similar. They're almost exactly the same. 73 to 16 Republicans, the Democrats and 24% to them. Yeah. It depends on how they work. If you're looking at it through the lens of the daily politics or whatever, I'd probably be right track. I mean, I'd be, you know, I'd prefer this track to the Kamala Harris track. For instance, if you're looking at it through the lens of the White House, but I don't look at things through the lens of the White House, like everybody does with everything now. If I'm just looking at it, our schools are lack of civic engagement, the fact that people don't pay attention to real news sources and never will, I think that's all wrong track.

42:18We're indoctrinating our children or our schools to hate their own country. We got a 30. Is that their race? $35 trillion debt and then individually, more people are taking money out of their 401Ks to pay off credit cards than they ever have before. I mean, that's all wrong track stuff, unless you're on a credit card company, yeah. So would you say that your personal financial situation is improving or getting worse? I thought this was interesting. Improving currently 36%, which has been kind of inching upward for a year or so. Getting worse is 40%, which is a higher number than getting better, but it's been inching downward. Let's see, just as well off has been, as you might expect, fairly steady at 24% now. For some time, Jack, this is for you. No opinion. I can track it up till November 2021, but they removed no opinion as a response in November of 21 because anybody with no opinion is so stupid they shouldn't get pulled.

43:21Are your finances, your personal finances getting better, worse or staying the same? No opinion. No, no, no, no, dude, seriously, better or worse or the same? No opinion. No, no, no. Staying the same is one of the choices, so like it's not better and it's not worse. You get a choice. Just say it's about the same. I'm not sure. I don't know. I have no opinion. Do you have more money now or less money than last year? Oh, all right. I can't understand. Trump's approval rating is steady at 46% in the Harvard Harris poll. Can I click not applicable? Oh, yeah. Surely you have some sort of income, right? Maybe. I ain't telling you. Boy, we do another hour, good lord. If you can't stay tuned or you got to go whatever, grab it by podcast, subscribe to Armstrong

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