October 1, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of the Tuesday October 1, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- The passing of Charlie Hustle & the Longshoreman's strike...
- Your Freedom Lovin' Quote of the Day & Mailbag...
- The most liberal ticket in presidential history should be an easy take-down...
- The great change that has gone under-appreciated.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jeckie and he arms Wrong yet to live from Studio C.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
See, we got a brand new month on our hands.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Exciting as that. Here at the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, we.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Are under the tudler Jibber general manager, the great, the flawed.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He rolls to who's that greatest hitter of all time
in Major League?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
BEZ ball fan for life for betting on bzbell is past.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh he died.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, he died at the age of eighty eight, I
think for somebody eighty three eighty three, which good news
for him is he bet one thousand dollars it outlive
Chris Christofferson, so that's a good payoff.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wow, not appropriate. I just read a phrase I didn't
know it. Let's see, I like throwing around the Latin
when I can the mortuous, nil nissy bonum of the
dead say nothing but good Nah. I'm more of a
Jerry Seinfeld view of has enough of him anyway? Who
(01:39):
are you to argue with latin? You know I have
said this before and it's true. The biggest bias that
occurs in the news industry is what you cover, and
that's the one most people, I don't think get. What
you decide to cover is the biggest bias, and so
I try to bounce around on news. I try to
be I think like a regular person might be, although
(02:02):
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Many regular people do that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I think maybe most people are either I only want
to hear the democratic side of things, or I only
want to hear the conservative side of things, so they
just stick to their own news source. Anyway, if you
were watching MSNBC today, for instance, you are completely unaware
of this longshoreman strike, completely unaware it is even happening.
If you watch Fox, it is the biggest story in
(02:25):
the country. The biggest story in the country, Bigger than
Israel going in on the ground, bigger than the debate tonight,
is the longshoreman strike. What would be your guess as
to why Fox made such a big deal out of
it and MSNBC made such a small deal out of it.
You have a guess Politically, well, not shockingly, I'm going
to come at this from a conservative point of view,
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but I think it's universally agreed that this long shoreman strike,
should it stretch beyond a very short period, will cause
serious economic disruption.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So it is absolutely a legitimate news story.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I think the eagerness or hesitancy to cut it is
all about your attitude toward organized labor. On MSNBC, the
narrative of powerful union with members who make a lot
of money, he's going to screw up everyday americans lives
is not super attractive. Yeah, well, that's kind of the
way I was wondering. If that's the case, it's unless
(03:19):
there are some details I haven't heard yet. It looks
like the dock workers, the long sherman are really on
the wrong side of history on this all the way around.
Their biggest sticking issue is absolutely no automation, No automation
at all.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You're going to put it in writing. Give me our.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Jobs are going to be protected from technology forever. Give
me a freaking break. Yeah, gitting up a lot of sympathy.
Plus they're looking for something like a seventy seven percent raise. Yeah,
they were offered. They were offered a fifty percent raise
and turned it down. So I don't know how that
plays for most of America. Either, you turn down a
fifty percent raise. I'm making about twenty percent less because
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of inflation with zero rays. So right, like I say,
jeitting up sympathy for that position is going to be
well impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
But the whole no automation.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I understand why you want to fight that, because your
job's going away. I know lots of people around here
in the radio industry have lost their jobs automation.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Tons of them.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's a thing, and it's it can suck. But man,
this might be the first I don't know if it
is or not, but on the leading edge of this
getting a lot of attention because AI is going to
be this all day long, all day long, every day,
for every industry you can think of. Well, right, and unfortunately,
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the prairie dogs of Cubicle America don't have powerful unions
and can't choke off commerce for weeks at a time and
bring this country to its knees. I again, I get
if I were in if I were running the union,
I would do exactly the same thing. If I have
the ability to pret tech my members' jobs for a
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little while longer, I think I'm gonna try to do it.
But it's impossible to make the argument that that's better
for the economy, that's better for American general, that's better
for consumers, the only people. It's better for those guys
with those jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But they can. I sympathize. I would try to do
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But nobody is on your side, fellas no now trying
to hold on to an antiquated way of doing things. Sorry,
ain't gonna work. You're striking against cars as blacksmiths because
you want to keep shoeing horses. I just it just
ain't gonna happen. And we can't compete with China and
whoever else if we still got human beings unloading ships
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with their unbelievably generous time off and healthcare packages and
four oh one k and everything like that. I was
just reading that in the Wall Street Journal. Good lord,
I wish I had that deal. I should have been
a longshoreman. But we can't compete against the rest of
the world. We still got human beings unloading ships and
everybody else's got it automated, right, Yeah, yeah, of course
it could be argued that a lot of our automation
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was made in China and has spy wear and kill
switches and god knows what else. Probably small pox spewing
tanks in the board ready to do their evil bidding.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So they think it's last part was kind of made up.
Don't panic size.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
They think it's going to cost the economy about five
billion dollars a day while the strike's going on. But
as you said, it's the After a few days, it
becomes a supply chain problem super fast. If we all
remember the pandemic, whence the supply chain gets messed up,
it takes a long time to straighten it back out.
There are already ships parked out in the ocean that
we're supposed to unload, and then they'll start backing up
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and you'll start seeing things not on the shelves, and
we know how that goes if it lasts very long.
I don't think they got any leverage. Thirty six ports
are closed. I just saw up on the television. Wow,
that that is seriously a problem. Though the whole no
automation ain't going to happen. Yeesh AI is going to
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cause that for paralegals, not just doc workers, for for
for budges. You can't come up with enough names of
industries that AI is going to do this too. Sure, Yeah, yeah,
and it's going to be an uncomfortable future. I still
maintain and if this is self declownment, I will readily
(07:23):
admit it on the air. If I am no longer
on the air, I will write a personal letter to
each and every one of you. Clown I am. I
am of the mind barely because this is so not me.
I think AI will be the technology that reduces employment,
doesn't grow it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, I think so too.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Famously, the lad Heights of the world have vowed that
about every development technology throughout the ages. But it's actually
grown economies and created more opportunity than it's taken away.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But AI, I wonder.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, hum, So you think the reason it's not going
to covered on the lefty channels is because they ain't
in a winning position.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It makes organized labor look well indefensible. Oh yeah, you
can'ty objective standard if you're gonna just do the top
line demands. They turned down a fifty percent raise and
are asking for it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh f them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Most people are gonna say, yeah, so yeah, I think
so that's the way that works. They got a debate tonight.
I wonder if that topic will come up in the debate.
Be interesting to see how that plays out, how Walls reacts.
Joe Biden is refused to enact the Taft Tartly Law,
where he can jump in if there's a big giant
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national strike that's affecting commerce and safety and all kinds
of different things, he can jump in and tell him you.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Got to go back to work. But he says he's
not going to go. He's a good old union Joe,
old straightened Joe, not going to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I just hope the dock workers will remain polite and
well spoken and gentle as their reputation holds through the years.
I believe we're working on getting some clips of some
of those genteel folks, even if we speak. I did
hear a gentleman using foul language this morning, and I
didn't improve what.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
A dock worker.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Uh, we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, October. First,
the rents do there.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's too damn high.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You know, they used to be kind of a joy,
but now it's just one hundred percent true. I saw
a political ad the other day. Uh, I don't know
if it was just for California or nationally. But it
was a whole string of regular people on the street
saying the rent is too damn high.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The rent is too damn high. I bring the rent
too damn high. That was the whole ad. And it
is it's too damn high.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I know mine is. Anyway, it's October first, twenty twenty four.
We are armstrong and getty, and we approve of this program.
All right, let's rock into October officially according to CC
rules and regulations, here we go A one two three
four mark two to.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
One bit from Shall.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Rotop four thousand, one hundred and ninety.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Two baseball's all time hit. Later, Pete Rose.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
They had a quite a discussion on NPR today about
Pete Rose, the baseball player whose heyday was in the seventies,
so you got to be a certain age to have
actually experienced it, about how he was such an American icon,
represented America, became sort of the face of America for
a lot of people sports wise.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'd never really thought of that before because of the
whole working class Charlie Hustle thangy yeah, which I thought
he also was a kid, Yeah he was. He worked
like a maniac and played harder than anybody else. He
was not a prima donna by any stretch. How come
nobody else has adopted the sprint to first when you
walk thing? Because I thought that was so cool as
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a kid.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't remember. I don't think anybody else has ever
done it. If he walked, he would sprint to first
instead of which is the way he went. Well, they
call it a walk. You could argue he was a
little nutty. In fact, it's inarguable that he was a
little nutty as part of what made him great, right,
and he enjoyed the challenge of prognosticating future baseball results.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Does that make him a bad guy?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't want to get into that again, but I
think it's weird if you're going to have a Hall
of Fame that talks about baseball records, but you don't
have the guy that's gotten the most hits and the
guy that's hitting the most home runs in there. I
don't know exactly what you're doing, but fine, well he will.
He will go in the Hall of Fame. Now I
can practice.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Now that he's dead. Well, he was banned for life. Well,
and you're so.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Your argument is he's no longer alive. Yeah, an clime
ban ends when you're no longer alive. It's right in
there in lifetime. It's right in there lifetime. Well, yes, yes,
there's no joke to be made.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It was exactly what it means. They just didn't want
to give him the satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I should violated the inviolable law gambling on your own sport.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't know if I ever met Pete Rose or not.
I should have though.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
If I didn't, I should have gone to Vegas sometime
when he was just an old fat man sitting at
a card table outside of casino and you know, paid
for a baseball, shook hands with him as Michael.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
My nephew got his autograph two months ago.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh cool, yeah, oh wow, there you go. I have
him claim it was Pete's last autograph. I got Pete's last.
He keeled over internet. He just heat finished the e
and then he was just right there on the floor.
How does mailbag look? That's fine, it's good clever. It's
on the way and our text line is four one
five two nine five KFTC. For some reason it being uh,
(12:47):
October on my watch when I looked at it today
was striking just wow. So we got three months left
in twenty four and then it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What the hell? The math checks out.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Once in a while that happens, just just like, how
how are we a quarter of a century into this
century already? I know we need to recheck the numbers
or tap on the glass to see if the machine
is working correctly.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And there's something about October. It's the final quarter of
the year. It's unquestionably the fall. Something about it feels
very transitional in a way. That's well, if you have
kids in school, I guess September holiday season is looming
because you can feel Halloween, which leads into Thanksgiving in Christmas,
and yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
That is sterness in the face.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, you're celebrating Halloween if you're a Satan worshiper. I
am not. Here's your freedom loving Court of the Day,
interrupting our series from Huxley because Jeff and hogs Nipple,
Tennessee boy hit hard by the hurricane, passed along this
from Friedrich Hayek, which I absolutely love. Teachers, journalists and
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other second hand dealers in ideas appoint themselves as representatives
of modern thought, as person superior in knowledge and moral
virtue to any who retain a high regard for traditional values.
There isn't much cachet in affirming traditional values. Challenging them
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is much sexier. That's why every teenager does, which is fine.
It's all right to passage when you got to numbskulld
Adults doing it well into their thirties, forties, sixties, et cetera.
It's pretty annoying. Mailbag Woo woo drops note mail bag
and armstrong you getty dot com loyal listen. Robert sent
along this note along with a helpful link. Is the
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title of his email, speeking people in their forties and above.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You might recognize the joke. S'mod is that you?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's me Roberts take off on a very famous piece
of the youth literature of the past. He's talking about
the sweeten year of death. There is We're going to
have a second moon for seven days on Earth.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I heard that. It is a meteor. It's a
rock the size of a school bus.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's going to kind of connect and stay in orbit
for a couple of months and then you know, cut
loocive orbit because of various astrophysical mathematical realities, and then
go on, it's merry way. They had a joke about
that on Saturday Alive. I thought was hilarious. You didn't
think it was funny, Michael. Michael picks the funny jokes
from Sorry I Live. You didn't like the moon joke.
(15:28):
It's okay, all right, Hey, you never know, one of
those NASA folks, Robert Wrights, might have been a DEEI higher.
They forgot to carry the one on a calculation. Blammo,
election day cancel because the rock the size of a
school bus slams into a swing state as Trump was saying,
something nutty.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Could happen.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Their joke was something like, the new slim moon is
going to make the old Moon really look like a
fat ass.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Wow. Wow. I didn't like it either, Michael. You're Jared
and Missouri.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
On the topic of the perils of AI, there's a
constant theme in literature of humanity destroying itself with its creations,
from Frankenstein to the Matrix and hundreds of other stories.
You're quite right, good reason to fear AI, because, as
we know it's not the AI exactly, but the inputs
to AI that make it dangerous. I'm far more concerned
about some rogue idiot inserting white males are the anime
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into the programming of Wardrones that I am about Skynet coming.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
For boy, No kidding, that's a good point. Let's see
do we have time for this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Great note from Bob n simple Jack, pork Shop and
the Gang. I was listening to the Boys Falling Behind
segment of Monday's show I'm a Dad to Two Boys
seventeen nineteen. I've seen the demoralization of boys over the years.
In the late seventies, when I was in middle school,
we had metal shop, wood shop, auto shop. In our
high school, we have none of those classes. There's no
class to stimulate and attract our young men to use
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their hands to create and build, and physical education classes
not a requirement. Seems like the goal of high school
is to offer an easy path with easy classes to graduate.
And they talked about every empowering TV commercial is about
empowering women. Yeah, never dudes, and lots of classes that
appeal to the feminine side, right, Yeah, that's rough, dang it.
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Come on in China, we're weak and effeminine, heartbreaking. We
have a lot of news to catch you up on
it's debate day, among other things, so stay with us,
armstrong and getty. Kamala Harris released an eighty one page
book outlining her economic policy because you know how women.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like to go on and on, and.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Just wanted to bring that up because the eighty one
page book that Kamala Harris put out explaining her economic
policy before she gave her speech had eighty three mentions
of Joe Biden in it, more mentions of Biden than
there were pages, yet didn't mention his name once in
her address that day, which most people found pretty interesting.
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I mean, that was worthy of being on every page,
but not in the speech at all, with the assumption
I think that nobody's ever going to read it. And
she and she and her her running mate Tampon Trotzky
tim are are just hammering the idea that she's the
candidate of changed. We can't have anymore. We can't take
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another four years to this garbage. We need change, Kamala.
You know. So we are five weeks from today from
the presidential election, and we have a vice presidential debate tonight.
But I had forgotten this, which to me means the
Trump people aren't doing a good enough job. The fact
that I forgot this, I was reaching reading Mark Calprin's
morning newsletter like I usually do, and and on his
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list of things for both sides was the Harris Wall's
ticket is the most liberal ticket the United States has
ever had with a major party, which is clearly true.
But I'd forgotten that, I think, and I think the
fact that I've forgotten that is it's not being hammered enough.
That should be the like, the only thing most people
know this is the most liberal ticket we've ever had
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in our nation's history, which is it's actually true.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That ought to be a never ending drum beat.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You're right, but on Trump's improv comedy tour, he just
see riffs on whatever he feels like at that moment.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
A little frustrating.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Don't hit her for being dumb or mentally deranged or whatever.
It's the most liberal ticket in US history. It's out
of the mainstream that will win you the election. It's
just undeniable. Trump is running a terrible campaign. He may
still win because he's up against a terrible candidate, but
it's a terrible campaign, awful. Jd Vance has been a
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lot more disciplined. I've been reading various bits of analysis about.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What now.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You got cat ladies, you got cat eating, that's your discipline. Wow, Wow,
the two cats as it's big called boy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So a bunch of analysis about how Jad smart. He's
a Wall Street guy who did a book tour. He
debated a moderate but a truly liberal Democrat for the
senescee blah blah, and then Wallas's debating skills.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And it'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Bring it on, see if you can land any punches.
I'll watch as long as I can stand it.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But the Wall Street Journal, in their big preview ninety minute,
I know that's enough for anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There won't be a single American watching that last half hour.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I would have you didn't know, truer words never spake, sister, Yeah,
I'd only have as the moderator, three prompts. All right,
you say something really mean about him? All right, your turn,
you say something really mean about him? All right? Well,
all right now number two? Why is your candidate a
good candidate?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
All right, now you all right, Number three, why is
the other candidate a crappy candidate? All right, We're through here,
everybody go back to your lives. Thanks for tuning in
fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Max.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
How about CBS announcing the candidates will be fact checking themselves. One,
that's what a debate is, so thanks for that. And
two isn't that an acknowledgment that that what ABC did
was a horror?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, I have not come across anybody defending ABC and
David Muhr.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
What that woman is?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't know if you have to watch many debates,
it's not the job of the moderator to jump in
and fact check people. Oh who That point they just
tried to make was not a solid one and can
be refuted on this basis.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
No, that's not what the moderator does. Oh, I hate
David Muir and that woman, but they aren't doing it tonight.
You have no name? She girl?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, anyway, let me get to my point.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So there's all this analysis of the comparative skills and
you know, the possible tactics and blah blah. But then
I get to this in the Wall Street Journal, what
might Walls be asked about his handling the Minneapolis riots
following the George Floyd thing, his management of the COVID
nine pandemic, his exit from the National Guard, and the
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leftward shift in Minnesota politics and policies, and I thought, Wow, okay,
that sounds pretty legit.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What might Advance be asked?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Vance will likely be asked about his twenty twenty one
comment that the country is run by childless cat ladies
and why he elevated a falsehood about Haitians in Ohio
eating household pats the two.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Cats doctrine Jack brought to our attention. Wow, so it's
gonna be both the cat questions.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
He also might be asked to explain why in twenty
sixteen he called Trump an idiot and compared him to Hitler,
and why his late as twenty twenty he continued to be.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Critical of him.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So very little of that is about what policy would
be when you're in office, and not a single damn
syllable of it would affect the lives of Americans. No
walls is like National Guard record or whatever. I get
that being a story like when he first landed on
the scene a month ago or whatever, but god dang it,
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I don't care about that anymore. At all mind, I.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Could see taking shots.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
At him for being a serial resume patter, but no,
I don't particularly it's it's not a pivotal issue. But
I do think it's interesting that in the Wall Street
Journals fantasy, perhaps most of the stuff about Walls is
pretty relevant because it has to do with policy and
track record, as opposed to the van stuff, none of
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which affects any Americans life in Iota unless you're I
don't know, a pet store owner in Springfield, Ohio, and
sales have gone down because people figure they'll buy the
cat and then just get eaten anyway, So what's the point.
Why why is this never a question in a debate?
What's the role of the federal government? Mister Walls? Oh wow,
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how about that? Instead of digging into you said in
twenty twenty one childless cat whatever, more Americans than ever
and on the federal government for money?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Why do you think that is? Is that a good
thing or a bad thing? Just you know, that'd be interesting.
So the New York Times is trying to lower expectations.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
They had an article yesterday about Tim Walls is so nervous,
he's chewing his fingernails. He's never been in a debate
like this before. He's new to the game of politics,
which is a bit of a made up story, as
he's been in politics for twenty years and debated a
whole bunch of times, and really good on his feet,
and I doubt he's the least bit nervous. A crock
of crap that is yea. But yeah, lowering expectations quick
(24:32):
note that I wanted to get on to my main
point in bringing all of this to your attention. My habitations,
my expectations are boredom.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah. Ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, difficult to watch, continually reminding myself you have to
pay attention, Joseph. You have to pay attention right scrolling
through your phone checking out baseball scores. I kind of
like this note from sideshow Bob. He's a speaker of truth.
It's a seer of reality. It's funny seeing all the
comments about Kamla not doing anything about the border is veep.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
As a side note, no effing fan of hers. Veeeps
never do anything.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
In fact, the last one did exactly one thing I
can remember, and y'all wanted to hang him for it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Wow, that's good, Bob, That is a good point. Yet
that happens.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Vice president's regularly run usually not let this, but they
regularly run, and then they always have to all of
a sudden act like they were consequential when they were
just hanging around waiting for an international funeral for four
years and well, and the reality of it is the
job has no duties except breaking ties in the Senate
and is famously just useless. It's a career killer. As
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often as this it is a career launcher. But Kamala
and Joe absolutely flogged the notion for the last four
years that she was the last person in the room.
She was his closest advisor. She was the border zar
or all right, the root causes zar. How's that going?
And now it's about face that. No, she's the candidate
(25:56):
to change, so it's all phony. But to have it
both ways is a little annoying, and you want to
stick it to them anyway. Here is my action at
my actual point, after asking about the National Guard and
cat ladies and Hitler, not a single word will be asked,
(26:17):
probably about this Wall Street Journal opinion piece a Medicare
election bribe for seniors. This story is admittedly complicated, but
it's the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, touting in
a press release that average Part D premiums will be
declining by ninety dollars next year, while benefits will improve
(26:39):
thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and other new enhancements
that actually cut funding for insurance companies who said they
would raise premiums, which would depress benefits, which would cause
the pharmaceutic companies to declare war on the pharmacies and
something something, and our entitlement programs are utterly falling apart
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and built on fraud, top to bottom. Fraud and dishonest
accounting is the part, is the point of this article.
It's actually quite interesting. It's just very difficult to explain.
Not a word on that we'll hear about child ass
cat ladies. Well, it's always been true to a certain extent,
and it's more true now than ever.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We're more into.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Like in the personality of the person than their stance
on thorny issues things that affect our lives, right, yes, yeah,
And for the record, having a cat or two does
not make one a cat lady in my world. I
thought we decided three was the over under three and
a half. Yeah, three and yeah, three and a half
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is the over under. If you have three cats, you're
definitely under cat lady suspicion. You tell me you got
three cats, I'm in your house. I'm like, that's a
that's a lot of cats. They're a fair number of cats.
But four, yeah, what the hell cat lady? Now if
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you are a child in cat Lady, or what about
cat lady whose kids are grown?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
What does JD.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Evans have to say about that? You raise your kids,
they're they're fabulous, good citizens, nice folks, honest, hard working,
patriotic Americans.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And now you have seventeen cats. I don't know you.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Does Jdvans think you should not have a say you
got that many cats? Me and my Haitian friend Harvier
are getting up the cookbook.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're
eating outs. They're eating I want to they're eating I
want to talk about live there.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
About medicare, and you two clowns with it. Never mind,
you clowns. That's gonna come up early in the debate tonight,
you know it is. And I'm gonna roll my eyes
so hard it might get kids.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Come help me. Dad's eyes are stuck again.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
The Haitian cat eating thing will come up early in
the debate, don't you think first Yeah, maybe first fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Maybe first question. It might be the two cat doctrine. Yesh, God,
oh God help us. We got a couple of wars
going on.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I hope there's some questions about that, and you see
where everybody stands. And then the dock workers strike. I
think that'd be a good thing to hear their opinions on.
I don't know how Walls would handle that, because it
seems to me that the Left is trying to ignore
this dock worker story, so maybe CBS won't even bring
it up. Anyway, we got some more other news to
(29:41):
get into. You might not know about some of those things.
We'll try to fill in the details. What did Joe
Biden say yesterday when he was asked about the strike?
What did you say yesterday when he was asking about
Israel going in on the ground in Lebanon? Both of
his answers were troubling.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Bat care all on the way.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I've noticed that with parenting, I've got a almost thirteen
year old and a going on fifteen year old. You
only think about this sort of stuff constantly, the whole
parenting thing only constantly so, and not only for my
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own kids, but just for society in general. As much
as we talk about it and it gets talked about,
I still think it's underappreciated. The great change that had
happened in the last twenty years of nobody walking around
staring at the phone to everyone walking around staring at
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the phone is underappreciated. It's so ubiquitous and there's so
little you can do about it that I guess, you know,
why even talk about it. But that is the biggest
change to humanity, maybe ever in a short amount of time.
You know, the Industrial Revolution came on much slower than that,
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or lots of other things. The I think about it,
maybe I think about it too much, Maybe I got
a problem. Maybe I should see a therapist about this.
But like, drive him by a bus stop and everybody's
staring at their phone. I think then twenty years ago,
they'd either been talking to each other or reading a
book or thinking or something, but they wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Have been staring at their phones all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All the kids coming out of the high school and
I pick up my son, everybody walks out looking at
their phone. Four people walking out of the school together,
all looking at their phone instead of talking to each other.
It's just what an amazing change leading to this. I
think this fits in this guy, Yanni Applebaum, who I
don't actually know. He writes for the Atlantic, and it
looks like his politics are not mine, but he's He's
definitely right about this. Tweeted out and then got a
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whole bunch of responses to educators. This is about the
incoming class of college freshmen all across America, and particularly
at elite universities, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere.
Teacher in Illinois told me that, Okay, I'll start with
his large numbers of students arriving at highly selective universities
are unprepared to read a book cover to cover because
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no teacher has ever asked them to do that before.
That's his article in The Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Good Lord.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And then the response is from teachers all across the
country to this, saying, yeah, basically, here's a public high
school teacher in Illinois who used to structure her classes
around books, but now focuses on skills such as how
to make good decisions and about leadership. Students read parts
of the Odyssey and supplements with music articles and ted talks,
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but do not read.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The entire book. Here's another one.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
That I like.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
During the fall twenty twenty two semester, when a first
year student came to his office during office hours to
share how challenging they had found the early assignments in
literature humanities class. It required students to read a book,
sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a
week or two. But the student told the advisor that
her public high schools she had never been required to
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read an entire book. This is somebody who got into
an elite university. She had been assigned excerpts poetry and
news articles, but not a book cover to cover, and
found it quite daunting. Here's a Melville scholar at one
of your fancy Pans universities who switched American literature on
Melville from Moby Dick. They dropped Moby Dick and now
(33:42):
read the short stories. One has to adjust to the times.
The teacher said a number of professors told him for
his Atlantic article that their students see reading books as
similar to listening to vinyl records, something that a small
subculture might still enjoy.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But that's most relic of an earlier time in the
blink of an eye, as you were describing, right right, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
So kind of similar to what you were saying earlier
about AI might be the first time. I think it's
going to be the first time that the technology advancement
actually does away with a whole bunch of jobs and
doesn't replace them with new jobs. I think this is
one of these scares that is going to turn out
(34:30):
to be true. The whole We did a thing a
while back on all the things jazz was blamed for
when jazz became popular music. Jazz was leading to promiscuous
sex and economic problems and people couldn't read and blah
blah blah. Everything was blamed on jazz. So all of
the ideas to play in a jazz band, and I
certainly hoped so, but my hopes were dashed.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
But lots of different changes in society. You're blamed for
all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
This one the intention span staring at the phones, can't
read a book is not good.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
This is not going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, the intellectual stuff bothers me, but I think it
bothers me less than the connectedness stuff, the emotionals, the
mental health stuff of not being connected to your peers,
not laughing and joking and poking fun at each other
and sharing your idle thoughts with each other.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
That one really bothers me. Yeah, I don't think it's
going away. We have a lot more for you. I
hope you can stick around.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Moby Dick the Whale winds spoiler alert, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jeckie and he arms Wrong yet to live from Studio C.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
See, we got a brand new month on our hands.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Exciting as that. Here at the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, we.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Are under the tudler Jibber general manager, the great, the flawed.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He rolls to who's that greatest hitter of all time
in Major League?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
BEZ ball fan for life for betting on bzbell is past.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh he died.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, he died at the age of eighty eight, I
think for somebody eighty three eighty three, which good news
for him is he bet one thousand dollars it outlive
Chris Christofferson, so that's a good payoff.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wow, not appropriate. I just read a phrase I didn't
know it. Let's see, I like throwing around the Latin
when I can the mortuous, nil nissy bonum of the
dead say nothing but good Nah. I'm more of a
Jerry Seinfeld view of has enough of him anyway? Who
(01:39):
are you to argue with latin? You know I have
said this before and it's true. The biggest bias that
occurs in the news industry is what you cover, and
that's the one most people, I don't think get. What
you decide to cover is the biggest bias, and so
I try to bounce around on news. I try to
be I think like a regular person might be, although
(02:02):
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Many regular people do that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I think maybe most people are either I only want
to hear the democratic side of things, or I only
want to hear the conservative side of things, so they
just stick to their own news source. Anyway, if you
were watching MSNBC today, for instance, you are completely unaware
of this longshoreman strike, completely unaware it is even happening.
If you watch Fox, it is the biggest story in
(02:25):
the country. The biggest story in the country, Bigger than
Israel going in on the ground, bigger than the debate tonight,
is the longshoreman strike. What would be your guess as
to why Fox made such a big deal out of
it and MSNBC made such a small deal out of it.
You have a guess Politically, well, not shockingly, I'm going
to come at this from a conservative point of view,
(02:46):
but I think it's universally agreed that this long shoreman strike,
should it stretch beyond a very short period, will cause
serious economic disruption.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So it is absolutely a legitimate news story.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I think the eagerness or hesitancy to cut it is
all about your attitude toward organized labor. On MSNBC, the
narrative of powerful union with members who make a lot
of money, he's going to screw up everyday americans lives
is not super attractive. Yeah, well, that's kind of the
way I was wondering. If that's the case, it's unless
(03:19):
there are some details I haven't heard yet. It looks
like the dock workers, the long sherman are really on
the wrong side of history on this all the way around.
Their biggest sticking issue is absolutely no automation, No automation
at all.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You're going to put it in writing. Give me our.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Jobs are going to be protected from technology forever. Give
me a freaking break. Yeah, gitting up a lot of sympathy.
Plus they're looking for something like a seventy seven percent raise. Yeah,
they were offered. They were offered a fifty percent raise
and turned it down. So I don't know how that
plays for most of America. Either, you turn down a
fifty percent raise. I'm making about twenty percent less because
(03:59):
of inflation with zero rays. So right, like I say,
jeitting up sympathy for that position is going to be
well impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
But the whole no automation.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I understand why you want to fight that, because your
job's going away. I know lots of people around here
in the radio industry have lost their jobs automation.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Tons of them.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's a thing, and it's it can suck. But man,
this might be the first I don't know if it
is or not, but on the leading edge of this
getting a lot of attention because AI is going to
be this all day long, all day long, every day,
for every industry you can think of. Well, right, and unfortunately,
(04:40):
the prairie dogs of Cubicle America don't have powerful unions
and can't choke off commerce for weeks at a time and
bring this country to its knees. I again, I get
if I were in if I were running the union,
I would do exactly the same thing. If I have
the ability to pret tech my members' jobs for a
(05:01):
little while longer, I think I'm gonna try to do it.
But it's impossible to make the argument that that's better
for the economy, that's better for American general, that's better
for consumers, the only people. It's better for those guys
with those jobs.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But they can. I sympathize. I would try to do
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But nobody is on your side, fellas no now trying
to hold on to an antiquated way of doing things. Sorry,
ain't gonna work. You're striking against cars as blacksmiths because
you want to keep shoeing horses. I just it just
ain't gonna happen. And we can't compete with China and
whoever else if we still got human beings unloading ships
(05:42):
with their unbelievably generous time off and healthcare packages and
four oh one k and everything like that. I was
just reading that in the Wall Street Journal. Good lord,
I wish I had that deal. I should have been
a longshoreman. But we can't compete against the rest of
the world. We still got human beings unloading ships and
everybody else's got it automated, right, Yeah, yeah, of course
it could be argued that a lot of our automation
(06:03):
was made in China and has spy wear and kill
switches and god knows what else. Probably small pox spewing
tanks in the board ready to do their evil bidding.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So they think it's last part was kind of made up.
Don't panic size.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
They think it's going to cost the economy about five
billion dollars a day while the strike's going on. But
as you said, it's the After a few days, it
becomes a supply chain problem super fast. If we all
remember the pandemic, whence the supply chain gets messed up,
it takes a long time to straighten it back out.
There are already ships parked out in the ocean that
we're supposed to unload, and then they'll start backing up
(06:40):
and you'll start seeing things not on the shelves, and
we know how that goes if it lasts very long.
I don't think they got any leverage. Thirty six ports
are closed. I just saw up on the television. Wow,
that that is seriously a problem. Though the whole no
automation ain't going to happen. Yeesh AI is going to
(07:03):
cause that for paralegals, not just doc workers, for for
for budges. You can't come up with enough names of
industries that AI is going to do this too. Sure, Yeah, yeah,
and it's going to be an uncomfortable future. I still
maintain and if this is self declownment, I will readily
(07:23):
admit it on the air. If I am no longer
on the air, I will write a personal letter to
each and every one of you. Clown I am. I
am of the mind barely because this is so not me.
I think AI will be the technology that reduces employment,
doesn't grow it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, I think so too.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Famously, the lad Heights of the world have vowed that
about every development technology throughout the ages. But it's actually
grown economies and created more opportunity than it's taken away.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But AI, I wonder.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, hum, So you think the reason it's not going
to covered on the lefty channels is because they ain't
in a winning position.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It makes organized labor look well indefensible. Oh yeah, you
can'ty objective standard if you're gonna just do the top
line demands. They turned down a fifty percent raise and
are asking for it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh f them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Most people are gonna say, yeah, so yeah, I think
so that's the way that works. They got a debate tonight.
I wonder if that topic will come up in the debate.
Be interesting to see how that plays out, how Walls reacts.
Joe Biden is refused to enact the Taft Tartly Law,
where he can jump in if there's a big giant
(08:37):
national strike that's affecting commerce and safety and all kinds
of different things, he can jump in and tell him you.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Got to go back to work. But he says he's
not going to go. He's a good old union Joe,
old straightened Joe, not going to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I just hope the dock workers will remain polite and
well spoken and gentle as their reputation holds through the years.
I believe we're working on getting some clips of some
of those genteel folks, even if we speak. I did
hear a gentleman using foul language this morning, and I
didn't improve what.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
A dock worker.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Uh, we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, October. First,
the rents do there.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's too damn high.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You know, they used to be kind of a joy,
but now it's just one hundred percent true. I saw
a political ad the other day. Uh, I don't know
if it was just for California or nationally. But it
was a whole string of regular people on the street
saying the rent is too damn high.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The rent is too damn high. I bring the rent
too damn high. That was the whole ad. And it
is it's too damn high.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I know mine is. Anyway, it's October first, twenty twenty four.
We are armstrong and getty, and we approve of this program.
All right, let's rock into October officially according to CC
rules and regulations, here we go A one two three
four mark two to.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
One bit from Shall.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Rotop four thousand, one hundred and ninety.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Two baseball's all time hit. Later, Pete Rose.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
They had a quite a discussion on NPR today about
Pete Rose, the baseball player whose heyday was in the seventies,
so you got to be a certain age to have
actually experienced it, about how he was such an American icon,
represented America, became sort of the face of America for
a lot of people sports wise.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'd never really thought of that before because of the
whole working class Charlie Hustle thangy yeah, which I thought
he also was a kid, Yeah he was. He worked
like a maniac and played harder than anybody else. He
was not a prima donna by any stretch. How come
nobody else has adopted the sprint to first when you
walk thing? Because I thought that was so cool as
(10:50):
a kid.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't remember. I don't think anybody else has ever
done it. If he walked, he would sprint to first
instead of which is the way he went. Well, they
call it a walk. You could argue he was a
little nutty. In fact, it's inarguable that he was a
little nutty as part of what made him great, right,
and he enjoyed the challenge of prognosticating future baseball results.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Does that make him a bad guy?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't want to get into that again, but I
think it's weird if you're going to have a Hall
of Fame that talks about baseball records, but you don't
have the guy that's gotten the most hits and the
guy that's hitting the most home runs in there. I
don't know exactly what you're doing, but fine, well he will.
He will go in the Hall of Fame. Now I
can practice.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Now that he's dead. Well, he was banned for life. Well,
and you're so.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Your argument is he's no longer alive. Yeah, an clime
ban ends when you're no longer alive. It's right in
there in lifetime. It's right in there lifetime. Well, yes, yes,
there's no joke to be made.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It was exactly what it means. They just didn't want
to give him the satisfaction.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I should violated the inviolable law gambling on your own sport.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't know if I ever met Pete Rose or not.
I should have though.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
If I didn't, I should have gone to Vegas sometime
when he was just an old fat man sitting at
a card table outside of casino and you know, paid
for a baseball, shook hands with him as Michael.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
My nephew got his autograph two months ago.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh cool, yeah, oh wow, there you go. I have
him claim it was Pete's last autograph. I got Pete's last.
He keeled over internet. He just heat finished the e
and then he was just right there on the floor.
How does mailbag look? That's fine, it's good clever. It's
on the way and our text line is four one
five two nine five KFTC. For some reason it being uh,
(12:47):
October on my watch when I looked at it today
was striking just wow. So we got three months left
in twenty four and then it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What the hell? The math checks out.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Once in a while that happens, just just like, how
how are we a quarter of a century into this
century already? I know we need to recheck the numbers
or tap on the glass to see if the machine
is working correctly.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And there's something about October. It's the final quarter of
the year. It's unquestionably the fall. Something about it feels
very transitional in a way. That's well, if you have
kids in school, I guess September holiday season is looming
because you can feel Halloween, which leads into Thanksgiving in Christmas,
and yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
That is sterness in the face.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Well, you're celebrating Halloween if you're a Satan worshiper. I
am not. Here's your freedom loving Court of the Day,
interrupting our series from Huxley because Jeff and hogs Nipple,
Tennessee boy hit hard by the hurricane, passed along this
from Friedrich Hayek, which I absolutely love. Teachers, journalists and
(13:56):
other second hand dealers in ideas appoint themselves as representatives
of modern thought, as person superior in knowledge and moral
virtue to any who retain a high regard for traditional values.
There isn't much cachet in affirming traditional values. Challenging them
(14:18):
is much sexier. That's why every teenager does, which is fine.
It's all right to passage when you got to numbskulld
Adults doing it well into their thirties, forties, sixties, et cetera.
It's pretty annoying. Mailbag Woo woo drops note mail bag
and armstrong you getty dot com loyal listen. Robert sent
along this note along with a helpful link. Is the
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title of his email, speeking people in their forties and above.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You might recognize the joke. S'mod is that you?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's me Roberts take off on a very famous piece
of the youth literature of the past. He's talking about
the sweeten year of death. There is We're going to
have a second moon for seven days on Earth.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I heard that. It is a meteor. It's a
rock the size of a school bus.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's going to kind of connect and stay in orbit
for a couple of months and then you know, cut
loocive orbit because of various astrophysical mathematical realities, and then
go on, it's merry way. They had a joke about
that on Saturday Alive. I thought was hilarious. You didn't
think it was funny, Michael. Michael picks the funny jokes
from Sorry I Live. You didn't like the moon joke.
(15:28):
It's okay, all right, Hey, you never know, one of
those NASA folks, Robert Wrights, might have been a DEEI higher.
They forgot to carry the one on a calculation. Blammo,
election day cancel because the rock the size of a
school bus slams into a swing state as Trump was saying,
something nutty.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Could happen.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Their joke was something like, the new slim moon is
going to make the old Moon really look like a
fat ass.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Wow. Wow. I didn't like it either, Michael. You're Jared
and Missouri.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
On the topic of the perils of AI, there's a
constant theme in literature of humanity destroying itself with its creations,
from Frankenstein to the Matrix and hundreds of other stories.
You're quite right, good reason to fear AI, because, as
we know it's not the AI exactly, but the inputs
to AI that make it dangerous. I'm far more concerned
about some rogue idiot inserting white males are the anime
(16:19):
into the programming of Wardrones that I am about Skynet coming.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
For boy, No kidding, that's a good point. Let's see
do we have time for this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Great note from Bob n simple Jack, pork Shop and
the Gang. I was listening to the Boys Falling Behind
segment of Monday's show I'm a Dad to Two Boys
seventeen nineteen. I've seen the demoralization of boys over the years.
In the late seventies, when I was in middle school,
we had metal shop, wood shop, auto shop. In our
high school, we have none of those classes. There's no
class to stimulate and attract our young men to use
(16:48):
their hands to create and build, and physical education classes
not a requirement. Seems like the goal of high school
is to offer an easy path with easy classes to graduate.
And they talked about every empowering TV commercial is about
empowering women. Yeah, never dudes, and lots of classes that
appeal to the feminine side, right, Yeah, that's rough, dang it.
(17:12):
Come on in China, we're weak and effeminine, heartbreaking. We
have a lot of news to catch you up on
it's debate day, among other things, so stay with us,
armstrong and getty. Kamala Harris released an eighty one page
book outlining her economic policy because you know how women.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like to go on and on, and.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Just wanted to bring that up because the eighty one
page book that Kamala Harris put out explaining her economic
policy before she gave her speech had eighty three mentions
of Joe Biden in it, more mentions of Biden than
there were pages, yet didn't mention his name once in
her address that day, which most people found pretty interesting.
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I mean, that was worthy of being on every page,
but not in the speech at all, with the assumption
I think that nobody's ever going to read it. And
she and she and her her running mate Tampon Trotzky
tim are are just hammering the idea that she's the
candidate of changed. We can't have anymore. We can't take
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another four years to this garbage. We need change, Kamala.
You know. So we are five weeks from today from
the presidential election, and we have a vice presidential debate tonight.
But I had forgotten this, which to me means the
Trump people aren't doing a good enough job. The fact
that I forgot this, I was reaching reading Mark Calprin's
morning newsletter like I usually do, and and on his
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list of things for both sides was the Harris Wall's
ticket is the most liberal ticket the United States has
ever had with a major party, which is clearly true.
But I'd forgotten that, I think, and I think the
fact that I've forgotten that is it's not being hammered enough.
That should be the like, the only thing most people
know this is the most liberal ticket we've ever had
(19:03):
in our nation's history, which is it's actually true.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That ought to be a never ending drum beat.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You're right, but on Trump's improv comedy tour, he just
see riffs on whatever he feels like at that moment.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
A little frustrating.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Don't hit her for being dumb or mentally deranged or whatever.
It's the most liberal ticket in US history. It's out
of the mainstream that will win you the election. It's
just undeniable. Trump is running a terrible campaign. He may
still win because he's up against a terrible candidate, but
it's a terrible campaign, awful. Jd Vance has been a
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lot more disciplined. I've been reading various bits of analysis about.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What now.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You got cat ladies, you got cat eating, that's your discipline. Wow, Wow,
the two cats as it's big called boy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So a bunch of analysis about how Jad smart. He's
a Wall Street guy who did a book tour. He
debated a moderate but a truly liberal Democrat for the
senescee blah blah, and then Wallas's debating skills.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And it'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Bring it on, see if you can land any punches.
I'll watch as long as I can stand it.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But the Wall Street Journal, in their big preview ninety minute,
I know that's enough for anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There won't be a single American watching that last half hour.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I would have you didn't know, truer words never spake, sister, Yeah,
I'd only have as the moderator, three prompts. All right,
you say something really mean about him? All right, your turn,
you say something really mean about him? All right? Well,
all right now number two? Why is your candidate a
good candidate?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
All right, now you all right, Number three, why is
the other candidate a crappy candidate? All right, We're through here,
everybody go back to your lives. Thanks for tuning in
fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Max.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
How about CBS announcing the candidates will be fact checking themselves. One,
that's what a debate is, so thanks for that. And
two isn't that an acknowledgment that that what ABC did
was a horror?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, I have not come across anybody defending ABC and
David Muhr.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
What that woman is?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't know if you have to watch many debates,
it's not the job of the moderator to jump in
and fact check people. Oh who That point they just
tried to make was not a solid one and can
be refuted on this basis.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
No, that's not what the moderator does. Oh, I hate
David Muir and that woman, but they aren't doing it tonight.
You have no name? She girl?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, anyway, let me get to my point.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So there's all this analysis of the comparative skills and
you know, the possible tactics and blah blah. But then
I get to this in the Wall Street Journal, what
might Walls be asked about his handling the Minneapolis riots
following the George Floyd thing, his management of the COVID
nine pandemic, his exit from the National Guard, and the
(22:03):
leftward shift in Minnesota politics and policies, and I thought, Wow, okay,
that sounds pretty legit.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What might Advance be asked?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Vance will likely be asked about his twenty twenty one
comment that the country is run by childless cat ladies
and why he elevated a falsehood about Haitians in Ohio
eating household pats the two.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Cats doctrine Jack brought to our attention. Wow, so it's
gonna be both the cat questions.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
He also might be asked to explain why in twenty
sixteen he called Trump an idiot and compared him to Hitler,
and why his late as twenty twenty he continued to be.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Critical of him.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So very little of that is about what policy would
be when you're in office, and not a single damn
syllable of it would affect the lives of Americans. No
walls is like National Guard record or whatever. I get
that being a story like when he first landed on
the scene a month ago or whatever, but god dang it,
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I don't care about that anymore. At all mind, I.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Could see taking shots.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
At him for being a serial resume patter, but no,
I don't particularly it's it's not a pivotal issue. But
I do think it's interesting that in the Wall Street
Journals fantasy, perhaps most of the stuff about Walls is
pretty relevant because it has to do with policy and
track record, as opposed to the van stuff, none of
(23:30):
which affects any Americans life in Iota unless you're I
don't know, a pet store owner in Springfield, Ohio, and
sales have gone down because people figure they'll buy the
cat and then just get eaten anyway, So what's the point.
Why why is this never a question in a debate?
What's the role of the federal government? Mister Walls? Oh wow,
(23:51):
how about that? Instead of digging into you said in
twenty twenty one childless cat whatever, more Americans than ever
and on the federal government for money?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Why do you think that is? Is that a good
thing or a bad thing? Just you know, that'd be interesting.
So the New York Times is trying to lower expectations.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
They had an article yesterday about Tim Walls is so nervous,
he's chewing his fingernails. He's never been in a debate
like this before. He's new to the game of politics,
which is a bit of a made up story, as
he's been in politics for twenty years and debated a
whole bunch of times, and really good on his feet,
and I doubt he's the least bit nervous. A crock
of crap that is yea. But yeah, lowering expectations quick
(24:32):
note that I wanted to get on to my main
point in bringing all of this to your attention. My habitations,
my expectations are boredom.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah. Ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, difficult to watch, continually reminding myself you have to
pay attention, Joseph. You have to pay attention right scrolling
through your phone checking out baseball scores. I kind of
like this note from sideshow Bob. He's a speaker of truth.
It's a seer of reality. It's funny seeing all the
comments about Kamla not doing anything about the border is veep.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
As a side note, no effing fan of hers. Veeeps
never do anything.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
In fact, the last one did exactly one thing I
can remember, and y'all wanted to hang him for it.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Wow, that's good, Bob, That is a good point. Yet
that happens.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Vice president's regularly run usually not let this, but they
regularly run, and then they always have to all of
a sudden act like they were consequential when they were
just hanging around waiting for an international funeral for four
years and well, and the reality of it is the
job has no duties except breaking ties in the Senate
and is famously just useless. It's a career killer. As
(25:35):
often as this it is a career launcher. But Kamala
and Joe absolutely flogged the notion for the last four
years that she was the last person in the room.
She was his closest advisor. She was the border zar
or all right, the root causes zar. How's that going?
And now it's about face that. No, she's the candidate
(25:56):
to change, so it's all phony. But to have it
both ways is a little annoying, and you want to
stick it to them anyway. Here is my action at
my actual point, after asking about the National Guard and
cat ladies and Hitler, not a single word will be asked,
(26:17):
probably about this Wall Street Journal opinion piece a Medicare
election bribe for seniors. This story is admittedly complicated, but
it's the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, touting in
a press release that average Part D premiums will be
declining by ninety dollars next year, while benefits will improve
(26:39):
thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and other new enhancements
that actually cut funding for insurance companies who said they
would raise premiums, which would depress benefits, which would cause
the pharmaceutic companies to declare war on the pharmacies and
something something, and our entitlement programs are utterly falling apart
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and built on fraud, top to bottom. Fraud and dishonest
accounting is the part, is the point of this article.
It's actually quite interesting. It's just very difficult to explain.
Not a word on that we'll hear about child ass
cat ladies. Well, it's always been true to a certain extent,
and it's more true now than ever.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We're more into.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Like in the personality of the person than their stance
on thorny issues things that affect our lives, right, yes, yeah,
And for the record, having a cat or two does
not make one a cat lady in my world. I
thought we decided three was the over under three and
a half. Yeah, three and yeah, three and a half
(27:49):
is the over under. If you have three cats, you're
definitely under cat lady suspicion. You tell me you got
three cats, I'm in your house. I'm like, that's a
that's a lot of cats. They're a fair number of cats.
But four, yeah, what the hell cat lady? Now if
(28:11):
you are a child in cat Lady, or what about
cat lady whose kids are grown?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
What does JD.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Evans have to say about that? You raise your kids,
they're they're fabulous, good citizens, nice folks, honest, hard working,
patriotic Americans.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And now you have seventeen cats. I don't know you.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Does Jdvans think you should not have a say you
got that many cats? Me and my Haitian friend Harvier
are getting up the cookbook.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're
eating outs. They're eating I want to they're eating I
want to talk about live there.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
About medicare, and you two clowns with it. Never mind,
you clowns. That's gonna come up early in the debate tonight,
you know it is. And I'm gonna roll my eyes
so hard it might get kids.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Come help me. Dad's eyes are stuck again.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
The Haitian cat eating thing will come up early in
the debate, don't you think first Yeah, maybe first fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Maybe first question. It might be the two cat doctrine. Yesh, God,
oh God help us. We got a couple of wars
going on.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I hope there's some questions about that, and you see
where everybody stands. And then the dock workers strike. I
think that'd be a good thing to hear their opinions on.
I don't know how Walls would handle that, because it
seems to me that the Left is trying to ignore
this dock worker story, so maybe CBS won't even bring
it up. Anyway, we got some more other news to
(29:41):
get into. You might not know about some of those things.
We'll try to fill in the details. What did Joe
Biden say yesterday when he was asked about the strike?
What did you say yesterday when he was asking about
Israel going in on the ground in Lebanon? Both of
his answers were troubling.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Bat care all on the way.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I've noticed that with parenting, I've got a almost thirteen
year old and a going on fifteen year old. You
only think about this sort of stuff constantly, the whole
parenting thing only constantly so, and not only for my
(30:27):
own kids, but just for society in general. As much
as we talk about it and it gets talked about,
I still think it's underappreciated. The great change that had
happened in the last twenty years of nobody walking around
staring at the phone to everyone walking around staring at
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the phone is underappreciated. It's so ubiquitous and there's so
little you can do about it that I guess, you know,
why even talk about it. But that is the biggest
change to humanity, maybe ever in a short amount of time.
You know, the Industrial Revolution came on much slower than that,
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or lots of other things. The I think about it,
maybe I think about it too much, Maybe I got
a problem. Maybe I should see a therapist about this.
But like, drive him by a bus stop and everybody's
staring at their phone. I think then twenty years ago,
they'd either been talking to each other or reading a
book or thinking or something, but they wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Have been staring at their phones all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All the kids coming out of the high school and
I pick up my son, everybody walks out looking at
their phone. Four people walking out of the school together,
all looking at their phone instead of talking to each other.
It's just what an amazing change leading to this. I
think this fits in this guy, Yanni Applebaum, who I
don't actually know. He writes for the Atlantic, and it
looks like his politics are not mine, but he's He's
definitely right about this. Tweeted out and then got a
(31:59):
whole bunch of responses to educators. This is about the
incoming class of college freshmen all across America, and particularly
at elite universities, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere.
Teacher in Illinois told me that, Okay, I'll start with
his large numbers of students arriving at highly selective universities
are unprepared to read a book cover to cover because
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no teacher has ever asked them to do that before.
That's his article in The Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Good Lord.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And then the response is from teachers all across the
country to this, saying, yeah, basically, here's a public high
school teacher in Illinois who used to structure her classes
around books, but now focuses on skills such as how
to make good decisions and about leadership. Students read parts
of the Odyssey and supplements with music articles and ted talks,
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but do not read.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The entire book. Here's another one.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
That I like.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
During the fall twenty twenty two semester, when a first
year student came to his office during office hours to
share how challenging they had found the early assignments in
literature humanities class. It required students to read a book,
sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a
week or two. But the student told the advisor that
her public high schools she had never been required to
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read an entire book. This is somebody who got into
an elite university. She had been assigned excerpts poetry and
news articles, but not a book cover to cover, and
found it quite daunting. Here's a Melville scholar at one
of your fancy Pans universities who switched American literature on
Melville from Moby Dick. They dropped Moby Dick and now
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read the short stories. One has to adjust to the times.
The teacher said a number of professors told him for
his Atlantic article that their students see reading books as
similar to listening to vinyl records, something that a small
subculture might still enjoy.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But that's most relic of an earlier time in the
blink of an eye, as you were describing, right right, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
So kind of similar to what you were saying earlier
about AI might be the first time. I think it's
going to be the first time that the technology advancement
actually does away with a whole bunch of jobs and
doesn't replace them with new jobs. I think this is
one of these scares that is going to turn out
(34:30):
to be true. The whole We did a thing a
while back on all the things jazz was blamed for
when jazz became popular music. Jazz was leading to promiscuous
sex and economic problems and people couldn't read and blah
blah blah. Everything was blamed on jazz. So all of
the ideas to play in a jazz band, and I
certainly hoped so, but my hopes were dashed.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
But lots of different changes in society. You're blamed for
all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
This one the intention span staring at the phones, can't
read a book is not good.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
This is not going to be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, the intellectual stuff bothers me, but I think it
bothers me less than the connectedness stuff, the emotionals, the
mental health stuff of not being connected to your peers,
not laughing and joking and poking fun at each other
and sharing your idle thoughts with each other.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
That one really bothers me. Yeah, I don't think it's
going away. We have a lot more for you. I
hope you can stick around.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
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