January 2, 2025 • 36 mins
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- Working Age Males
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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I do want to talk more about the assassination of
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that healthcare guy in the reaction to it online, but
also in terms of how much ignorance is being displayed.
And I excuse people for this because the media never
writes about this, or very very rarely does. The unholy
horrific interaction between government and specifically Obamacare and Congress and
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private healthcare and insurance. It is an unholy relationship which
forces the private insurance companies to do things that they
would not normally do. So if you think, you know,
I got denied or whatever, and it sucks and I'm angry. Well, yeah,
you've got to look at Congress and people don't understand that.
So maybe we'll get Craig gott Wallace on to talk
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about that later this week, or talk about ourselves.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But anyway, we're going to talk to a couple of
our favorite military analysts about what's going on in the
Middle East, because the United States is involved. Absolutely, we
have troops there and did a lot of bombing yesterday
in Syria, for instance. So that'll be at least an
hour two. I hope you can catch that. An economic
thing that I find interesting. Last week I was bemoaning
the fact to that I did not buy bitcoin. Even
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even if I had bought bitcoin after the first time
I bemoined bitcoin after the election, I still would have
done well. And then it hit one hundred thousand dollars
last week and whatever. But this article on the Wall
Street Journal young men are making risky bets on crypto
and politics and raking it in right now, I thought
was an more interesting sociological story than financial story about
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the way young men feel in this country. And as
a guy who's raising a couple of young men, it
worries me a lot and did you know this if
you had a hypothetical portfolio.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Of course, nobody would have this, so it's a little unfair.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But if you had a hypothetical portfolio holding equal amounts
of bitcoin, gold, the meme stock, game stop, and the
sports betting stock draft kings, you would have returned sixty
two percent so far this year. That has tripled the
returns of a traditional portfolio that most of us have.
Sixty percent stocks, forty percent bonds, that sort of thing.
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Sixty two percent. That'd be a pretty good year if
you had those days.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, but it's mostly young men that are doing this thing,
these things, these kind of stocks. Some forty two percent
of men's ages ages eighteen to twenty nine invested in
or used crypto, versus only seventeen percent.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Of women in that age group. A Pew Research.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Center said almost eleven percent of men say they are well,
I'll skip that, I'll get to this because I don't
want to. I want to use a part time. I
want to get to the part that I think is
actually most important. Some men say they have little choice
but to roll the dice in a world they believe
is stacked against them. Their participation in the labor force
is falling while it's growing for women in their age.
Young men are is less likely to enroll in college.
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Men out earn women in the workplace and are more
likely to reach executive level positions. But some forty five
percent of young men said in twenty twenty three they
face gender discrimination. Only a third of men said that
in twenty nineteen. It's now almost half. That's how much
it's grown in just a few years, according to recent survey.
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And then it goes through how many women are in
college campuses, and are this percentage of that and that
percentage of the I think the view that younger men
have of themselves in their role in society. Wow, that's
an underappreciated problem we have in the country, and I
don't know what we.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Do to fix it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I agree completely absolutely. You combine, you know, the things
you mentioned with people are not coupling, partly because so
many women are radical leftists who won't couple with anybody
who's not a radical leftist. You got to just the
value of the nuclear family being diminished in society, and
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just all of the things that all of the like
most fundamental and primal things that drive men. I will
provide and I will protect have been taken away.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
We've talked about this for a couple of years about
how the percentage of working age may bills that are
not in the workforce is as high as it was
during the Great Depression.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's horrifying, Yeah it is and strange. Yes, it is
very strange in a society that's not, like, really focused
on what's going on. There is gonna pay price for
it at some point. No, because of the utterly moronic
whatever they say it was the second phase of feminism
or something where to be pro woman meant to be
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anti man, which is just an idiotic notion. But that
doesn't mean it wasn't really popular.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But does this surprise anybody that more women come out
of high school thinking, oh, yeah, here are the many
opportunities for me in America of ways to make a
living and make a go of it in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And it's much much less so for.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Young men to feel like, you know, college is for me,
welcoming for me, or this career path or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I have no data to prove this point, but I
suspect that it's true. I think a lot of young
men also emerge from their schooling beaten down right because
they have been systematically given the message there is something
wrong with you merely because you are male, but also
because like as a little boy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You acted like a male.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Masculinity of any sort, including boyish energy, is pathologized in
our sick, sick communist government schools, combined with an attitude
that is changing things to Mike Row and lots of people,
but an attitude of the kind of jobs that a
lot of men would like to do are belittled, and
you know, paper pushing jobs that more women would be
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more interested in are seen as fantastic. Well in just
the whole Obama era smugness about of course everything he
did had smugness about it. But the idea that college
is the only route for the respectable and those unwashed
idiot brutes who don't go to college and work their
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menial jobs building HIVAC companies and being carpenters and whatever,
that's just.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Sad, so sad. Do they even have the power of speech,
those brutes? I mean, that was the attitude.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
So if the takeaway from that article in the Wall
Street Journal was supposed to be that men feel like
they either do or just feel like they have no
route to success in America. They're going to take these
higher risk bets on crypto and some of these other stocks.
The Wall Street Journal of all publications shouldn't go with
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if you had this imaginary portfolio.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well nobody does so.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And even if you had that imaginary portfolio, you'd have
to get in at the right time and get out
at the right time to take advantage of that. So
I mean, again, the Wall Street Journal of all places
shouldn't shouldn't play that kind of game, right, right?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I uh, well, I've had more to say on that,
but that's probably enough for now.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well would you say, am I right or wrong about this?
Maybe I'm just trying to assume my hurt feelings over
the fact that I don't understand cryptocurrency. Is it just
a very small percentage of people that are actually getting
in and getting out at the right times?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Too?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean every time it goes up,
it goes down again, and those people take a bath.
But that's not very exciting to write or read about.
So it's like people who lose at Vegas. They don't
come home and tell their friends the other part of it,
And this is the part that I decided not to say,
but I'll go ahead. I lost four thousand dollars. Then
I got chlymydia. Nobody ever told me that. So I
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used to play a fair amount of poker. I play
less now. And I think it's interesting that what is
one of the big financial places has all of their
new associates take one hundred hours of poker training and
playing and all so they start to understand risk and
levels of risk and that sort of thing. And I
don't get frustrated about missing these meme stocks and stuff
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like that more than a little because and I hope
this makes sense to if you play poker, it certainly does.
You have a policy depending on where you are in
the game, how many chips you have, whatever. If I
have like a decent hand, I will roll the dice
and pay some to see, like in Texas, hold them
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the flop. Those are the three community cards that come
out first. But if I have a crap hand, I
have a three and a seven, for instance, I'm not
going to pay anything to see that flop because it's
just unlikely as a percentage, it's not likely enough that
it would bear out for me.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And sometimes so you fold your hand. Then sometimes the
flop is three threes.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'd have had quad threes and taken everybody's money, but
that doesn't matter. My policy is I do the math
in my head, and I don't gamble on things not
worth gambling on. So as long as you have like
a method to the madness of your investing in your
financial moves and don't beat an maybe it is. Maybe
you're young and untethered and you chase meme stocks and
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bitcoin and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Good for you, but y fun. I'm kind of jealous.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
But why does the Wall Street Journal crowd talk up
crypto like it is solid sound investment strategy. They don't
believe that. There's no way most of the people in
the Wall Street Journal believe that. No, it's almost just
purely speculation. So just it's exciting, It gets clicks, So
it's just like any other newspaper. It's just yeah, I
see those articles. I read them too, Yeah, yeah, and
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I kicked myself right in the ass.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I try not to because that that whole foma thing. Oh,
it comes on strong, doesn't it. It's like you run
into a guy who says, yeah, I bought Apple in
nineteen ninety one at four dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Shut up. Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up, you're right.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Nobody ever says I got into bitcoin late, thought I
would jump on it. I lost a bunch of money
and I got chlmydia once again.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I don't know how this guy got clividio and my
stories everybody gets chlmydia.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, it's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
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Shoe podcasts and our hot Lakes.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
One question I don't know the answer to, because we're
in this business so we are really not in touch
with the average person is how much regular people are
paying attention to this. I've heard a number of people
punditing around how normal people aren't paying attention to anything
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that's going on politically right now. They kind of hear
about it and think Trump won't actually be the candidate.
Willie or Biden's too old, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
But they aren't paying any attention at all to any
of this stuff, and this will be their first introduction
to the thing where and that might be part of
Biden's strategy.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Hey, Trump's the candidate.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Did you all realize that he's running again, that a
lot of people haven't really grasped this yet.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I don't know if that's true enough, Like I said,
because I'm in this business, it seems crazy to me.
But right, Yeah, it's difficult to put yourself in the
place of the non news junkie.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah. I look back to my earlier life though, and
I wouldn't have I wouldn't have been aware of any
of this stuff that we talk about every day, none
of it. I think vast majority of Americans don't buy
it's by v Trump. I'll it it's eighty plus anymore
on any of the issues.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I doubt it. Oh no, not really, Well, it depends
what issue.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I mean. I'm looking at an immigration story here that's
actually quite an interesting More than half of immigrants in
the US are unemployed.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So much for the whole weather boon to the economy,
they had to take jobs. Americas wop too.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I was switching around and I was on Fox this
morning and they had a live camera at the border
with a bunch of people running across, and Brian Kilmead said, hey,
look some future lifeguards.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Has anybody explained that the bizarre and inexplicable Eric Adams
quote that why do.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We have all these migrants who are so skilled that
we need lifeguards?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So as long as I brought it up, more than
half of the foreign born immigrant population in the United
States under President Joe Biden's administration is I'm unemployed. According
to a recent report Center for Immigration Studies released apport
Monday that showed just forty six percent of migrants who
arrived in the US in the last two and a
half years were employed as the beginning of twenty four.
(13:25):
Well there their activists would argue, they need permits, they're
eating something.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who's paying for the food? Taxpayers, the gunment, and the NGOs.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah. Report found that also found that since Biden took
office in January twenty one, the migrant population why are
we using the term migrant in breight part, the immigrant
population in the United States increased by roughly six point
six million over the course of thirty nine months. Six
point six million in less than four years. See, I
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ended up in the shower last night. This is what
I do for fun. This makes me a crazy person.
And the shower last night was like talking out loud
as if I were Donald Trump in the debate with
Joe Biden on how I would handle this whole thing,
I guess because I'd just taken in so much information
about it. But make some sort of speech about I
agreed to.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
All your rules. You wanted all these different rules.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You picked the moderators, you picked the place, you said,
no audience, you want the mics. Fine, nothing is going
to get you to cover up the fact that the
three main issues, according to every poll in America for
months and months and months, the economy, immigration, and inflation,
you have failed on like nobody has ever failed before.
(14:38):
Then you lay out some statistics and you just hit
that like five times. Yeah, yeah, I would love to
see that. I get the idea Trump is listening a
bit more to his advisors, a bit more disciplined than
he's been in the past. But whether he will go
in loaded for bear in that way, I do not know.
I did never know with him.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
He's got to have this stats at hand on the
immigration stuff. The numbers, percentages are the wraw numbers to
let people know, I mean, getting back to the course,
immigration is been the number one or two issue in
all the polling, So people are paying attention enough to know.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That right, I would agree. That's actually why I brought
it up.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I think people are acutely aware of that, even if
they're not terribly politically active, they're seeing it around them.
They're local towns and schools and emergency rooms and the
rest of it. My frustration with Trump is that he'll
probably come to the debate with like one statistic on immigration,
seven million immigrants, Joe, and then somebody will fact check
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it and cast a little doubt on whether seven is
an accurate number or not. And since that's all he
leans on, it'll be easy to dismiss it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
But I don't know. We'll all find out together.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
The inflation thing again, the news coverage of it yesterday.
Good news for consumers is they'll notice inflation slowing. Good
news when you go to the grocery store. Oh no,
that's not the way inflation works. You don't notice the
inflation rates slowing. That's not something you feel. People are
gonna continue to for a long time to feel shocked
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by prices when we go and buy stuff, and the
fact that the Democrats don't get that, so he needs
to have some answer for that. I don't know if
Joe Biden is going to go with the it's the
corporation sticking it to you, gouging you.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But he's got to have some answer for inflation. Yeah right, Please.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
At the very least, I'm putting my hands together in
traditional prayer.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Style praying to Donald Trump. Ooh, a cultist bibe.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
One fact to at least be ready to rebut Donald,
is if Joe Biden comes out there and once again says, hey,
when I came into office, inflation was nine percent, thanks
to you.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Because he's said that in two interviews in two weeks now,
and it's just as wrong as wrong could be. Please, Donald,
be ready to rebut that.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, they hit little KJP with that, Yes, sir in
the press room, and it was that job will cost
you a bit of your soul.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
She had to say.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What the President is seeking to emphasize is that the
American people are feeling the effects of inflation.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So she didn't go there. Huh No, she just dodged it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Of course, what's she gonna say, Well, he lied, he
made it up, or he's senile and doesn't know fact
from fiction anymore, or you repeat the easily checked lying
number again and embarrass yourself even more.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Right, so yeah, it's a tough situation to be in Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
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Speaker 3 (17:50):
Welcome to a replay of The Armstrong and Getty Show.
We are on vacation, but boy do we have some
good stuff for you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now on with the infotainment. Starbucks anounts this week.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's doubled it's paid parental leave policy for baristas, while
Duncan employees are still insisting they're not the father.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
How is that? What is that? That's some sort of
what coast thing? I don't get? Wow? What sort of
odd snobbery? The elite elite is out?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Speaking of the elite, you know, I know you wanted
to talk about something, and we will, By God, we will.
But you know I'm a big Brett Bear fan. It's
an article in the Wall Street Journal. The incoming Secretary
of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, just bought Brett Bear's home in
DC for twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Brett Bear of Fox Yes is selling a home for
twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
That's because he bought one in Palm Springs a couple
of years ago, where he lives now. Apparently for thirty
seven million, so he owned Brett doing pretty well. So
he's been owning a thirty seven million dollar home home
while owning another thirty million dollar home least for a
little while, waiting for that to clear the market. Yeah, wow,
there are that many buyers at that level?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No, Jeck, wouldn't that. That's got to be something.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
There's got to be like five people in the entire country,
maybe not even that many, because you'd have to be
conceivably able to afford.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It and then have any interest in buying a home
at that moment.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So it might be like two people in the nation
at any given moment that could and want to buy.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
A home at that price range. I realize if you
have to ask, you can't afford it. But what the
hell are the property Texas on a house like that?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Hi karamba, yeahar bear. Thanks for that, Michael, A couple
things for you you can't overseell.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I don't think what a big deal it is. The
Wall Street Journal has this big piece on o'biden's brain
and how they've been hiding it forever. Here's an interesting thing.
Just teasing it because we're gonna talk about it. To
kick off hour two. We got to talk about it
every hour the whole show today because it's a big deal.
A couple of things that I've come across in terms
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of just teasing the story for later is Matt Welch
pointing out PolitiFact said the lie of the year is
they're eating the dogs, They're eating the cats from Donald Trump,
that's the lie of the year, and links the Wall
Street Journal story saying White House meetings were frequently canceled
because Joe Biden's brain didn't work. Yeah, yeah, the dogs
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and cats saying bigger lie than the hiding the fact
that they had to cancel meetings all the time because
the president's.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Of brain didn't act.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
And where am I seeing most of the stuff the
little snippets of the Wall Street Journal piece from James
Holman of the Washington Post, who's retweeting all the most
juicy stuff from the Wall Street Journal story, probably because
he didn't like being lied to all this time, This
initial tweet being and again, we're gonna kick off our
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two of this blockbuster reporting this morning from and he
lists all the reporters they have fifty sources detailing various
ways that Biden's inner circle was hiding his decline going
back to twenty nineteen, and that's going.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Back to the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
But that's a Washington Post guy saying that about the
Wall Street Journal article. I think that's notable. And Nate
Silver also retweeting that story and.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Saying, if you said any of this before June twenty
twenty four, you'd get accused of peddling misinformation, like there
was literally an entirely new category of misinformation invented cheap
fakes concerning videos of Biden's decline that they would accuse
you of. Now it's out in the open, and it's
interesting that all these other people are retweeting this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I find that unique.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Indeed, I will point out, at the risk of self congratulations,
if you've been listening to this show, you knew.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I mean, we didn't even I didn't take seriously the denials.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I thought they were hilarious, just idiotic. And it's all
been born out again, you know, final punchline, and then
we'll get to the story next hour in full, because
it's it's well worth hearing. There are still those within
the White House who were responding to this story and
the various accusations observations. Joe Biden seriously diminished noise. Not
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you need to keep meetings short and simple with them.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
No, you don't. He's very old men. No not.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
There's still one hundred percent denying it. So again we'll
kick off hour two with that. And there's a lot
of interesting stuff in that.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I can't believe I'm talking about government shut down, debt
ceiling stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
But there are a couple of interesting things happening. As
we've already mentioned, Trump has come out and said he
wants to fully get rid of the debt ceiling, which
we have said many times before. Trump saying today the
Democrats have said they want to get rid of it.
If they want to get rid of it, I would
lead the charge. It's a fake thing. There's no real
value in terms of debt control, and we've been saying
that for years.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It doesn't actually do anything. It just puts us in
this weird bickering back and forth, weird political handcuff situation
every once in a while, but.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So far it's never accomplished anything. Right, Yeah, it's hilarious.
You could it's in first new clothes. Ish.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You could make the argument that at least once a
year twice a year. It makes you have the conversation
about debt, and without it, we won't. I don't know,
but so far it's never it's never helped, and it
is completely made up.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's a man made thing. For what it's worth.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
A newt Gingrich just tweeted President Trump and Republicans should
not be afraid of a government shutdown. The next election
is two years away. We had two shutdowns in nineteen
ninety five and became the first re elected GOP House
majority since nineteen twenty eight. It may take shock therapy
for Schumer and Democrats to learn President Trump is serious
about training the swamp. And a number of people pointed
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out that during that time, when Bill Clinton was the president,
that was our last budget surpluses as a country.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
They had a balanced budget multiple years to.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
A ninety five. I was barely following politics at all.
I don't remember. I remember hearing stuff about Newton the shutdown.
That sad, but I didn't think about it. Ever, So
how much of the population would even be aware DC
goes nuts over this stuff. Oh, if you didn't have
the media acting like it's akin to the nationwide wild
fire or something screeching about it constantly.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
No, you'd never notice, right, And it's always the thing
of this.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Many government ployees will miss a check, yeah, and then
they'll get the rest of it like three days later.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No, no, no, no, no, no. They go with veterans.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It'll be veterans, disabled veterans, blind, disabled veterans will not
get their checks.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Oh my god. And the old, the very old, the soul.
They can't even lift their hand to feed themselves. Trying
to figure out what sort of thing I want to
talk about today. Remind the mood for various things.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Oh, by the way, you mentioned Fox News and Brett
bher how much money he makes, yeah, or not how
much money makes, But he's selling one thirty million dollar
house since he moved into a thirty five.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Million dollars roughly. Yeah, which you mean you have both
at the same time, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Fox News dominated twenty twenty four so much it beat
easily CNN and MSNBC added together for the.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
End of the year ratings.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That is something I'd like to know what News Nation
and OAN and some of the other ones are are,
what sort of traction they're getting? Yeah, so that I
don't want to bring that up. I can't I find
it interesting. Maybe I'll bring it up later. I just
can't make.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Myself talk about this. Wow, all right, it's a downer.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It's a conflicted man. We're listening to, folks, So do
you know anything about this.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Une?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The president of South Korea who's now gone because he
pulled that whole going to become emperor thing and martial
law and all that.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Luckily he suck, even suck.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Luckily they were able to get back in there and
vote him down and open the streets back up and
then impeach him.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ian Bremmer tweeted this out yesterday, and I know nothing
about this.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Ewan's presidential campaign relied heavily on ai deep fake version
of him that was much more engaging and sociable than
the real him and got him elected. The real Yun's
capability turned out to be a rude awakening to people.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
How did he? How did the world miss the story?
Did a guy get elected.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
In a major economicly powerful country? Ian is implying through
deep fake videos portraying him in a way he's not
at all wow and misled people, And then when he
became president, people are like, who are you? You're you're
a weird.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Off putting angry. Exactly did that.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Think if Kamala had the videos out of her gliding
around the room merely throwing out clever bond Mo after
bond Mo making perfect sense, not giggling like a moron. Yeah,
it could have changed things, huh much. But they don't
have Hilary now Hillary. If they'd had deep fakes of
Hillary seeming useful and likable and whatever, that could.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Have turned the tide of history.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yes, yes, yes they didn't have They don't have a
media there in South Korea where there are sources.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
That could come out and say that never happened. Look,
I was in the room that night. That is not
what happened or something.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I have no idea. This is this story's brand new
to me. That's fascinating.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I saw it late last night and I thought I
got to dig into that because if that happened, that's
a major turning point in world history. I think, sure, Yeah,
they do have to figure out the AI. Some scientists
needs to figure out what percentage of perfect faces can
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the brain handle and still think it's real or not.
Because the perfect symmetry, I feel like I can look
at the AI created people and me, that's ai. They're
too perfect. Nobody looks like that. Nobody's perfectly symmetrical. Even
really good looking people aren't perfectly symmetrical. But the ad
people are the chicks usually because they got them everywhere,
and it just they're they're obviously fake.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
What's interesting is I know in digital recording, like music recording,
you can fix something to a grid so it's perfectly
in rhythm, and then you can instruct it to insert
fifteen percent variation. Interesting, and I I'll bet that sort
of thing's come into visual.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And you add and you would do that to what
mimic real humans.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, essentially, it's like you fix something and then you
unfix it a little bit so it sounds more human.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Interesting. So I was a club DJ briefly when I
was younger. I knowed I like that Gladys.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Huh, And it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Disco was king many decades after that.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
But so I would have to mix songs together, and
like your rap or hip hop music or whatever, they
use what they call a click track. I mean it's
a computer dram. It's perfect, and so you can mix
beats together. But any rock and roll song if you'd
try to mix it there, like you know, back in
Black ACDC or whatever, you can't because the tempo varies,
rolling stones, any of the beat varies. They get a
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little faster toward the end or slow down in the
middle or whatever, because it's human beings involved.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And I always thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Some of the most popular songs of all time, they
didn't keep a perfectly steady beat through it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Of course you wouldn't, right, right, And I kind of
regret being mostly recording during the ear of click tracks,
because when you listen to those songs and it's pointed
out to you, you think that's why the last chorus
sounds more exciting. They picked up, they sped up a little,
they got excited, or they slowed down before it, just
because they were all looking at each other. And yeah,
(29:52):
there was human emotion involved, exactly. They got excited. Now
I'm excited, everybody's excited.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That'll be the difficult thing for AI to mimic, although
they'll figure soon enough. Also, looking at some of the
Elon headlines, he is a guy who is not concerned
what other people think about him. No, I don't think
it ever crosses his mind. I mean he is. He
is the all time king of I have no e
fs to give mine ego, wealth and autism. I think
(30:20):
there's plenty of people positioned, plenty of people with ego
and wealth, but they seem to be very concerned what
other people think.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He's not one.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
And I said it yesterday you were gone somewhere that
I wonder how much of his ability. Oh, it was
the conversation we had about so Katie, you got the
name for me, some big business leader, gazillionaire also who
worked with Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk was talking about
the signal the noise.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Ratio thing that I'm kind of fascinated with, and he was.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
He was talking about how Steve Jobs was ninety percent
signal ten percent noise, as in, ninety percent of everything
he did was focused on getting something accomplished with very
little extraneous whatever, and he worked twenty hours a day.
He said, Elon is one hundred percent signal. Wow, just
the way he's like twenty hours a day.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And I wondered how much of that is his Asperger's
just his ability to stay focused without like screw this,
I'm gonna do something else. I'm gonna drink Margarita's and
flip through you know, porn or something.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I wish you could step on a scale or get
a scan or something and they can say, well, Joe,
you're twenty two percent signal.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'd be like, what, yeah, no kidding. Do you remember
who that was? Katie? Yeah, Kevin O'Leary yea also big
on Shark Tank. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh, you know it's funny on that topic. I've got
just a minor health thing on and everything's fine, but
they wanted to do an MRI of my brain to
make sure it wasn't a brain tumor.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And how do you say I got a health thing?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
It's no big deal. They did an MRI to see
if I got a brain tumor. That seems like a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I just the details of it aren't interesting, and we're
up against a break. It's it's a hearing thing, but
it's it's I think I know what it is, gonna
be fine. But anyway, I thought it was hilarious that
I got the results. I actually saw them at Getting
Ready with the show for the show today. Uh, and
it said please you share the patient and his MRI
looks normal and his brain showed nothing exceptional, and I thought, well,
(32:15):
that's pretty much confirmed by the trajectory of my life.
Exceptional the Joe Getty story. Yeah, that could be the
title of your book. We see nothing exceptional, The Joe Getty.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Story, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I dove into this article in The New York Post
by Joe Kanca, Democracy Dies in Bias blamed The Washington
Post's woes on its blatant political slant, and of course
I lapped that up like hungry dog because i hate
wildly biased progressive journalism and I'm glad the New York
or the Washington Post is getting kicked and it's heiny
and that they're changing course as well.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But I'm glad I.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Stuck with the article because this was even more interesting.
Multiple media outlets are struggling like crazy as Google, Facebook,
and to lesser extent x Twitter tweak their algorithms to
reduce the amount of news users view and their feeds
while keeping eyeballs and clicks for the tech behemoths themselves.
(33:33):
They're not sending you to news organizations they're producing the
content and trying to keep your eyeballs all day long.
Whi's just you know, one more reminder that big tech man,
anything that powerful has got to be watched really, really carefully.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But he makes the point that a steady.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Flow of traffic has come to a halt, diminishing a
critical stream of ad revenue, not only for the WAPO,
which has had a catastrophic, catastrophic loss in you know, clickers, readers,
to ad sales, all of it, but also for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Time, BuzzFeed, NPR,
and many others. Some conservative publications are seeing a big
(34:14):
drop in readership for the same reason. Breitbart, for example,
has talied to seventy six percent decrease in traffic comparing
February twenty four to February twenty twenty. Wow, and February
twenty twenty the pandemic shutdowns hadn't really geared up yet,
So it's a pretty decent Apples Taples Frike Park does
a really good job, by the way, I think, Yeah,
that is amazing. At the Blaze, the drop is sixty
(34:37):
seven percent.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, don't. I don't know if I have any point.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I just thought I had not realized that even your
really popular conservative websites, your liberal websites, just everything's down
as the voracious appetite of Zuckerberg, Pitch Eye and their
ilk just consume everything, right. And I feel like like
regular people that I talk to that aren't super news junkies,
(35:01):
they just kind of get it from the air. I mean,
it just kind of comes to them from It's not
the New York Times or CNN or Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Anise, it's their feed on social media. It just kind
of gets to them well.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
And the problem with that, obviously is from time immemorial,
independent media could support itself through ad sales, and that's
becoming harder and harder and harder. And I mean, at
the point that can you imagine Bright bar at the Blaze,
the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, you know, all of
(35:36):
the great conservatives, the National Review.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
If all that stuff goes away and it's just Marcus
Zuckerberg giving you your news, ooh boy.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
And his only interest in the news really is what
gets you to stay on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Longer or Instagram longer.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Well, and to the extent that he has a news philosophy,
it is progressive.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Man. I hate that idea.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
If I was a would be dictator of some sort,
I'd be licking my chops at that idea. Man no philosophy,
but a philosophy of clicks might be worse than a
liberal or conservative bent armstrong and
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I do want to talk more about the assassination of
(00:56):
that healthcare guy in the reaction to it online, but
also in terms of how much ignorance is being displayed.
And I excuse people for this because the media never
writes about this, or very very rarely does. The unholy
horrific interaction between government and specifically Obamacare and Congress and
(01:18):
private healthcare and insurance. It is an unholy relationship which
forces the private insurance companies to do things that they
would not normally do. So if you think, you know,
I got denied or whatever, and it sucks and I'm angry. Well, yeah,
you've got to look at Congress and people don't understand that.
So maybe we'll get Craig gott Wallace on to talk
(01:39):
about that later this week, or talk about ourselves.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But anyway, we're going to talk to a couple of
our favorite military analysts about what's going on in the
Middle East, because the United States is involved. Absolutely, we
have troops there and did a lot of bombing yesterday
in Syria, for instance. So that'll be at least an
hour two. I hope you can catch that. An economic
thing that I find interesting. Last week I was bemoaning
the fact to that I did not buy bitcoin. Even
(02:04):
even if I had bought bitcoin after the first time
I bemoined bitcoin after the election, I still would have
done well. And then it hit one hundred thousand dollars
last week and whatever. But this article on the Wall
Street Journal young men are making risky bets on crypto
and politics and raking it in right now, I thought
was an more interesting sociological story than financial story about
(02:27):
the way young men feel in this country. And as
a guy who's raising a couple of young men, it
worries me a lot and did you know this if
you had a hypothetical portfolio.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Of course, nobody would have this, so it's a little unfair.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But if you had a hypothetical portfolio holding equal amounts
of bitcoin, gold, the meme stock, game stop, and the
sports betting stock draft kings, you would have returned sixty
two percent so far this year. That has tripled the
returns of a traditional portfolio that most of us have.
Sixty percent stocks, forty percent bonds, that sort of thing.
(03:01):
Sixty two percent. That'd be a pretty good year if
you had those days.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, but it's mostly young men that are doing this thing,
these things, these kind of stocks. Some forty two percent
of men's ages ages eighteen to twenty nine invested in
or used crypto, versus only seventeen percent.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Of women in that age group. A Pew Research.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Center said almost eleven percent of men say they are well,
I'll skip that, I'll get to this because I don't
want to. I want to use a part time. I
want to get to the part that I think is
actually most important. Some men say they have little choice
but to roll the dice in a world they believe
is stacked against them. Their participation in the labor force
is falling while it's growing for women in their age.
Young men are is less likely to enroll in college.
(03:41):
Men out earn women in the workplace and are more
likely to reach executive level positions. But some forty five
percent of young men said in twenty twenty three they
face gender discrimination. Only a third of men said that
in twenty nineteen. It's now almost half. That's how much
it's grown in just a few years, according to recent survey.
(04:02):
And then it goes through how many women are in
college campuses, and are this percentage of that and that
percentage of the I think the view that younger men
have of themselves in their role in society. Wow, that's
an underappreciated problem we have in the country, and I
don't know what we.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Do to fix it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I agree completely absolutely. You combine, you know, the things
you mentioned with people are not coupling, partly because so
many women are radical leftists who won't couple with anybody
who's not a radical leftist. You got to just the
value of the nuclear family being diminished in society, and
(04:44):
just all of the things that all of the like
most fundamental and primal things that drive men. I will
provide and I will protect have been taken away.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
We've talked about this for a couple of years about
how the percentage of working age may bills that are
not in the workforce is as high as it was
during the Great Depression.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's horrifying, Yeah it is and strange. Yes, it is
very strange in a society that's not, like, really focused
on what's going on. There is gonna pay price for
it at some point. No, because of the utterly moronic
whatever they say it was the second phase of feminism
or something where to be pro woman meant to be
(05:26):
anti man, which is just an idiotic notion. But that
doesn't mean it wasn't really popular.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But does this surprise anybody that more women come out
of high school thinking, oh, yeah, here are the many
opportunities for me in America of ways to make a
living and make a go of it in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And it's much much less so for.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Young men to feel like, you know, college is for me,
welcoming for me, or this career path or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I have no data to prove this point, but I
suspect that it's true. I think a lot of young
men also emerge from their schooling beaten down right because
they have been systematically given the message there is something
wrong with you merely because you are male, but also
because like as a little boy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You acted like a male.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Masculinity of any sort, including boyish energy, is pathologized in
our sick, sick communist government schools, combined with an attitude
that is changing things to Mike Row and lots of people,
but an attitude of the kind of jobs that a
lot of men would like to do are belittled, and
you know, paper pushing jobs that more women would be
(06:38):
more interested in are seen as fantastic. Well in just
the whole Obama era smugness about of course everything he
did had smugness about it. But the idea that college
is the only route for the respectable and those unwashed
idiot brutes who don't go to college and work their
(06:59):
menial jobs building HIVAC companies and being carpenters and whatever,
that's just.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Sad, so sad. Do they even have the power of speech,
those brutes? I mean, that was the attitude.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
So if the takeaway from that article in the Wall
Street Journal was supposed to be that men feel like
they either do or just feel like they have no
route to success in America. They're going to take these
higher risk bets on crypto and some of these other stocks.
The Wall Street Journal of all publications shouldn't go with
(07:33):
if you had this imaginary portfolio.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well nobody does so.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And even if you had that imaginary portfolio, you'd have
to get in at the right time and get out
at the right time to take advantage of that. So
I mean, again, the Wall Street Journal of all places
shouldn't shouldn't play that kind of game, right, right?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I uh, well, I've had more to say on that,
but that's probably enough for now.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Well would you say, am I right or wrong about this?
Maybe I'm just trying to assume my hurt feelings over
the fact that I don't understand cryptocurrency. Is it just
a very small percentage of people that are actually getting
in and getting out at the right times?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Too?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean every time it goes up,
it goes down again, and those people take a bath.
But that's not very exciting to write or read about.
So it's like people who lose at Vegas. They don't
come home and tell their friends the other part of it,
And this is the part that I decided not to say,
but I'll go ahead. I lost four thousand dollars. Then
I got chlymydia. Nobody ever told me that. So I
(08:35):
used to play a fair amount of poker. I play
less now. And I think it's interesting that what is
one of the big financial places has all of their
new associates take one hundred hours of poker training and
playing and all so they start to understand risk and
levels of risk and that sort of thing. And I
don't get frustrated about missing these meme stocks and stuff
(08:57):
like that more than a little because and I hope
this makes sense to if you play poker, it certainly does.
You have a policy depending on where you are in
the game, how many chips you have, whatever. If I
have like a decent hand, I will roll the dice
and pay some to see, like in Texas, hold them
(09:19):
the flop. Those are the three community cards that come
out first. But if I have a crap hand, I
have a three and a seven, for instance, I'm not
going to pay anything to see that flop because it's
just unlikely as a percentage, it's not likely enough that
it would bear out for me.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And sometimes so you fold your hand. Then sometimes the
flop is three threes.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'd have had quad threes and taken everybody's money, but
that doesn't matter. My policy is I do the math
in my head, and I don't gamble on things not
worth gambling on. So as long as you have like
a method to the madness of your investing in your
financial moves and don't beat an maybe it is. Maybe
you're young and untethered and you chase meme stocks and
(10:03):
bitcoin and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Good for you, but y fun. I'm kind of jealous.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
But why does the Wall Street Journal crowd talk up
crypto like it is solid sound investment strategy. They don't
believe that. There's no way most of the people in
the Wall Street Journal believe that. No, it's almost just
purely speculation. So just it's exciting, It gets clicks, So
it's just like any other newspaper. It's just yeah, I
see those articles. I read them too, Yeah, yeah, and
(10:29):
I kicked myself right in the ass.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I try not to because that that whole foma thing. Oh,
it comes on strong, doesn't it. It's like you run
into a guy who says, yeah, I bought Apple in
nineteen ninety one at four dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Shut up. Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up, you're right.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Nobody ever says I got into bitcoin late, thought I
would jump on it. I lost a bunch of money
and I got chlmydia once again.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I don't know how this guy got clividio and my
stories everybody gets chlmydia.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, it's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Careful the Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, or Jack your
Shoe podcasts and our hot Lakes.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
One question I don't know the answer to, because we're
in this business so we are really not in touch
with the average person is how much regular people are
paying attention to this. I've heard a number of people
punditing around how normal people aren't paying attention to anything
(11:34):
that's going on politically right now. They kind of hear
about it and think Trump won't actually be the candidate.
Willie or Biden's too old, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
But they aren't paying any attention at all to any
of this stuff, and this will be their first introduction
to the thing where and that might be part of
Biden's strategy.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Hey, Trump's the candidate.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Did you all realize that he's running again, that a
lot of people haven't really grasped this yet.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I don't know if that's true enough, Like I said,
because I'm in this business, it seems crazy to me.
But right, Yeah, it's difficult to put yourself in the
place of the non news junkie.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah. I look back to my earlier life though, and
I wouldn't have I wouldn't have been aware of any
of this stuff that we talk about every day, none
of it. I think vast majority of Americans don't buy
it's by v Trump. I'll it it's eighty plus anymore
on any of the issues.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I doubt it. Oh no, not really, Well, it depends
what issue.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I mean. I'm looking at an immigration story here that's
actually quite an interesting More than half of immigrants in
the US are unemployed.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So much for the whole weather boon to the economy,
they had to take jobs. Americas wop too.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I was switching around and I was on Fox this
morning and they had a live camera at the border
with a bunch of people running across, and Brian Kilmead said, hey,
look some future lifeguards.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Has anybody explained that the bizarre and inexplicable Eric Adams
quote that why do.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We have all these migrants who are so skilled that
we need lifeguards?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
So as long as I brought it up, more than
half of the foreign born immigrant population in the United
States under President Joe Biden's administration is I'm unemployed. According
to a recent report Center for Immigration Studies released apport
Monday that showed just forty six percent of migrants who
arrived in the US in the last two and a
half years were employed as the beginning of twenty four.
(13:25):
Well there their activists would argue, they need permits, they're
eating something.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who's paying for the food? Taxpayers, the gunment, and the NGOs.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah. Report found that also found that since Biden took
office in January twenty one, the migrant population why are
we using the term migrant in breight part, the immigrant
population in the United States increased by roughly six point
six million over the course of thirty nine months. Six
point six million in less than four years. See, I
(13:58):
ended up in the shower last night. This is what
I do for fun. This makes me a crazy person.
And the shower last night was like talking out loud
as if I were Donald Trump in the debate with
Joe Biden on how I would handle this whole thing,
I guess because I'd just taken in so much information
about it. But make some sort of speech about I
agreed to.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
All your rules. You wanted all these different rules.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You picked the moderators, you picked the place, you said,
no audience, you want the mics. Fine, nothing is going
to get you to cover up the fact that the
three main issues, according to every poll in America for
months and months and months, the economy, immigration, and inflation,
you have failed on like nobody has ever failed before.
(14:38):
Then you lay out some statistics and you just hit
that like five times. Yeah, yeah, I would love to
see that. I get the idea Trump is listening a
bit more to his advisors, a bit more disciplined than
he's been in the past. But whether he will go
in loaded for bear in that way, I do not know.
I did never know with him.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
He's got to have this stats at hand on the
immigration stuff. The numbers, percentages are the wraw numbers to
let people know, I mean, getting back to the course,
immigration is been the number one or two issue in
all the polling, So people are paying attention enough to know.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That right, I would agree. That's actually why I brought
it up.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I think people are acutely aware of that, even if
they're not terribly politically active, they're seeing it around them.
They're local towns and schools and emergency rooms and the
rest of it. My frustration with Trump is that he'll
probably come to the debate with like one statistic on immigration,
seven million immigrants, Joe, and then somebody will fact check
(15:39):
it and cast a little doubt on whether seven is
an accurate number or not. And since that's all he
leans on, it'll be easy to dismiss it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
But I don't know. We'll all find out together.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
The inflation thing again, the news coverage of it yesterday.
Good news for consumers is they'll notice inflation slowing. Good
news when you go to the grocery store. Oh no,
that's not the way inflation works. You don't notice the
inflation rates slowing. That's not something you feel. People are
gonna continue to for a long time to feel shocked
(16:09):
by prices when we go and buy stuff, and the
fact that the Democrats don't get that, so he needs
to have some answer for that. I don't know if
Joe Biden is going to go with the it's the
corporation sticking it to you, gouging you.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But he's got to have some answer for inflation. Yeah right, Please.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
At the very least, I'm putting my hands together in
traditional prayer.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Style praying to Donald Trump. Ooh, a cultist bibe.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
One fact to at least be ready to rebut Donald,
is if Joe Biden comes out there and once again says, hey,
when I came into office, inflation was nine percent, thanks
to you.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Because he's said that in two interviews in two weeks now,
and it's just as wrong as wrong could be. Please, Donald,
be ready to rebut that.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, they hit little KJP with that, Yes, sir in
the press room, and it was that job will cost
you a bit of your soul.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
She had to say.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What the President is seeking to emphasize is that the
American people are feeling the effects of inflation.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So she didn't go there. Huh No, she just dodged it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Of course, what's she gonna say, Well, he lied, he
made it up, or he's senile and doesn't know fact
from fiction anymore, or you repeat the easily checked lying
number again and embarrass yourself even more.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Right, so yeah, it's a tough situation to be in Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And Jack, Armstrong and Shoe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Welcome to a replay of The Armstrong and Getty Show.
We are on vacation, but boy do we have some
good stuff for you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now on with the infotainment. Starbucks anounts this week.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's doubled it's paid parental leave policy for baristas, while
Duncan employees are still insisting they're not the father.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
How is that? What is that? That's some sort of
what coast thing? I don't get? Wow? What sort of
odd snobbery? The elite elite is out?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Speaking of the elite, you know, I know you wanted
to talk about something, and we will, By God, we will.
But you know I'm a big Brett Bear fan. It's
an article in the Wall Street Journal. The incoming Secretary
of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, just bought Brett Bear's home in
DC for twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Brett Bear of Fox Yes is selling a home for
twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
That's because he bought one in Palm Springs a couple
of years ago, where he lives now. Apparently for thirty
seven million, so he owned Brett doing pretty well. So
he's been owning a thirty seven million dollar home home
while owning another thirty million dollar home least for a
little while, waiting for that to clear the market. Yeah, wow,
there are that many buyers at that level?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No, Jeck, wouldn't that. That's got to be something.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
There's got to be like five people in the entire country,
maybe not even that many, because you'd have to be
conceivably able to afford.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It and then have any interest in buying a home
at that moment.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So it might be like two people in the nation
at any given moment that could and want to buy.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
A home at that price range. I realize if you
have to ask, you can't afford it. But what the
hell are the property Texas on a house like that?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Hi karamba, yeahar bear. Thanks for that, Michael, A couple
things for you you can't overseell.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I don't think what a big deal it is. The
Wall Street Journal has this big piece on o'biden's brain
and how they've been hiding it forever. Here's an interesting thing.
Just teasing it because we're gonna talk about it. To
kick off hour two. We got to talk about it
every hour the whole show today because it's a big deal.
A couple of things that I've come across in terms
(20:15):
of just teasing the story for later is Matt Welch
pointing out PolitiFact said the lie of the year is
they're eating the dogs, They're eating the cats from Donald Trump,
that's the lie of the year, and links the Wall
Street Journal story saying White House meetings were frequently canceled
because Joe Biden's brain didn't work. Yeah, yeah, the dogs
(20:35):
and cats saying bigger lie than the hiding the fact
that they had to cancel meetings all the time because
the president's.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Of brain didn't act.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
And where am I seeing most of the stuff the
little snippets of the Wall Street Journal piece from James
Holman of the Washington Post, who's retweeting all the most
juicy stuff from the Wall Street Journal story, probably because
he didn't like being lied to all this time, This
initial tweet being and again, we're gonna kick off our
(21:02):
two of this blockbuster reporting this morning from and he
lists all the reporters they have fifty sources detailing various
ways that Biden's inner circle was hiding his decline going
back to twenty nineteen, and that's going.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Back to the very beginning.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
But that's a Washington Post guy saying that about the
Wall Street Journal article. I think that's notable. And Nate
Silver also retweeting that story and.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Saying, if you said any of this before June twenty
twenty four, you'd get accused of peddling misinformation, like there
was literally an entirely new category of misinformation invented cheap
fakes concerning videos of Biden's decline that they would accuse
you of. Now it's out in the open, and it's
interesting that all these other people are retweeting this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I find that unique.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Indeed, I will point out, at the risk of self congratulations,
if you've been listening to this show, you knew.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I mean, we didn't even I didn't take seriously the denials.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I thought they were hilarious, just idiotic. And it's all
been born out again, you know, final punchline, and then
we'll get to the story next hour in full, because
it's it's well worth hearing. There are still those within
the White House who were responding to this story and
the various accusations observations. Joe Biden seriously diminished noise. Not
(22:26):
you need to keep meetings short and simple with them.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
No, you don't. He's very old men. No not.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
There's still one hundred percent denying it. So again we'll
kick off hour two with that. And there's a lot
of interesting stuff in that.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I can't believe I'm talking about government shut down, debt
ceiling stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
But there are a couple of interesting things happening. As
we've already mentioned, Trump has come out and said he
wants to fully get rid of the debt ceiling, which
we have said many times before. Trump saying today the
Democrats have said they want to get rid of it.
If they want to get rid of it, I would
lead the charge. It's a fake thing. There's no real
value in terms of debt control, and we've been saying
that for years.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It doesn't actually do anything. It just puts us in
this weird bickering back and forth, weird political handcuff situation
every once in a while, but.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So far it's never accomplished anything. Right, Yeah, it's hilarious.
You could it's in first new clothes. Ish.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You could make the argument that at least once a
year twice a year. It makes you have the conversation
about debt, and without it, we won't. I don't know,
but so far it's never it's never helped, and it
is completely made up.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's a man made thing. For what it's worth.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
A newt Gingrich just tweeted President Trump and Republicans should
not be afraid of a government shutdown. The next election
is two years away. We had two shutdowns in nineteen
ninety five and became the first re elected GOP House
majority since nineteen twenty eight. It may take shock therapy
for Schumer and Democrats to learn President Trump is serious
about training the swamp. And a number of people pointed
(23:58):
out that during that time, when Bill Clinton was the president,
that was our last budget surpluses as a country.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
They had a balanced budget multiple years to.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
A ninety five. I was barely following politics at all.
I don't remember. I remember hearing stuff about Newton the shutdown.
That sad, but I didn't think about it. Ever, So
how much of the population would even be aware DC
goes nuts over this stuff. Oh, if you didn't have
the media acting like it's akin to the nationwide wild
fire or something screeching about it constantly.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
No, you'd never notice, right, And it's always the thing
of this.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Many government ployees will miss a check, yeah, and then
they'll get the rest of it like three days later.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No, no, no, no, no, no. They go with veterans.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It'll be veterans, disabled veterans, blind, disabled veterans will not
get their checks.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Oh my god. And the old, the very old, the soul.
They can't even lift their hand to feed themselves. Trying
to figure out what sort of thing I want to
talk about today. Remind the mood for various things.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Oh, by the way, you mentioned Fox News and Brett
bher how much money he makes, yeah, or not how
much money makes, But he's selling one thirty million dollar
house since he moved into a thirty five.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Million dollars roughly. Yeah, which you mean you have both
at the same time, which is crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Fox News dominated twenty twenty four so much it beat
easily CNN and MSNBC added together for the.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
End of the year ratings.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That is something I'd like to know what News Nation
and OAN and some of the other ones are are,
what sort of traction they're getting? Yeah, so that I
don't want to bring that up. I can't I find
it interesting. Maybe I'll bring it up later. I just
can't make.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Myself talk about this. Wow, all right, it's a downer.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It's a conflicted man. We're listening to, folks, So do
you know anything about this.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Une?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
The president of South Korea who's now gone because he
pulled that whole going to become emperor thing and martial
law and all that.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Luckily he suck, even suck.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Luckily they were able to get back in there and
vote him down and open the streets back up and
then impeach him.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ian Bremmer tweeted this out yesterday, and I know nothing
about this.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Ewan's presidential campaign relied heavily on ai deep fake version
of him that was much more engaging and sociable than
the real him and got him elected. The real Yun's
capability turned out to be a rude awakening to people.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
How did he? How did the world miss the story?
Did a guy get elected.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
In a major economicly powerful country? Ian is implying through
deep fake videos portraying him in a way he's not
at all wow and misled people, And then when he
became president, people are like, who are you? You're you're
a weird.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Off putting angry. Exactly did that.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Think if Kamala had the videos out of her gliding
around the room merely throwing out clever bond Mo after
bond Mo making perfect sense, not giggling like a moron. Yeah,
it could have changed things, huh much. But they don't
have Hilary now Hillary. If they'd had deep fakes of
Hillary seeming useful and likable and whatever, that could.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Have turned the tide of history.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yes, yes, yes they didn't have They don't have a
media there in South Korea where there are sources.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
That could come out and say that never happened. Look,
I was in the room that night. That is not
what happened or something.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I have no idea. This is this story's brand new
to me. That's fascinating.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I saw it late last night and I thought I
got to dig into that because if that happened, that's
a major turning point in world history. I think, sure, Yeah,
they do have to figure out the AI. Some scientists
needs to figure out what percentage of perfect faces can
(27:58):
the brain handle and still think it's real or not.
Because the perfect symmetry, I feel like I can look
at the AI created people and me, that's ai. They're
too perfect. Nobody looks like that. Nobody's perfectly symmetrical. Even
really good looking people aren't perfectly symmetrical. But the ad
people are the chicks usually because they got them everywhere,
and it just they're they're obviously fake.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
What's interesting is I know in digital recording, like music recording,
you can fix something to a grid so it's perfectly
in rhythm, and then you can instruct it to insert
fifteen percent variation. Interesting, and I I'll bet that sort
of thing's come into visual.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And you add and you would do that to what
mimic real humans.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, essentially, it's like you fix something and then you
unfix it a little bit so it sounds more human.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Interesting. So I was a club DJ briefly when I
was younger. I knowed I like that Gladys.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Huh, And it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Disco was king many decades after that.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
But so I would have to mix songs together, and
like your rap or hip hop music or whatever, they
use what they call a click track. I mean it's
a computer dram. It's perfect, and so you can mix
beats together. But any rock and roll song if you'd
try to mix it there, like you know, back in
Black ACDC or whatever, you can't because the tempo varies,
rolling stones, any of the beat varies. They get a
(29:21):
little faster toward the end or slow down in the
middle or whatever, because it's human beings involved.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And I always thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Some of the most popular songs of all time, they
didn't keep a perfectly steady beat through it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Of course you wouldn't, right, right, And I kind of
regret being mostly recording during the ear of click tracks,
because when you listen to those songs and it's pointed
out to you, you think that's why the last chorus
sounds more exciting. They picked up, they sped up a little,
they got excited, or they slowed down before it, just
because they were all looking at each other. And yeah,
(29:52):
there was human emotion involved, exactly. They got excited. Now
I'm excited, everybody's excited.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That'll be the difficult thing for AI to mimic, although
they'll figure soon enough. Also, looking at some of the
Elon headlines, he is a guy who is not concerned
what other people think about him. No, I don't think
it ever crosses his mind. I mean he is. He
is the all time king of I have no e
fs to give mine ego, wealth and autism. I think
(30:20):
there's plenty of people positioned, plenty of people with ego
and wealth, but they seem to be very concerned what
other people think.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He's not one.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
And I said it yesterday you were gone somewhere that
I wonder how much of his ability. Oh, it was
the conversation we had about so Katie, you got the
name for me, some big business leader, gazillionaire also who
worked with Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk was talking about
the signal the noise.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Ratio thing that I'm kind of fascinated with, and he was.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
He was talking about how Steve Jobs was ninety percent
signal ten percent noise, as in, ninety percent of everything
he did was focused on getting something accomplished with very
little extraneous whatever, and he worked twenty hours a day.
He said, Elon is one hundred percent signal. Wow, just
the way he's like twenty hours a day.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And I wondered how much of that is his Asperger's
just his ability to stay focused without like screw this,
I'm gonna do something else. I'm gonna drink Margarita's and
flip through you know, porn or something.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I wish you could step on a scale or get
a scan or something and they can say, well, Joe,
you're twenty two percent signal.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I'd be like, what, yeah, no kidding. Do you remember
who that was? Katie? Yeah, Kevin O'Leary yea also big
on Shark Tank. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh, you know it's funny on that topic. I've got
just a minor health thing on and everything's fine, but
they wanted to do an MRI of my brain to
make sure it wasn't a brain tumor.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And how do you say I got a health thing?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
It's no big deal. They did an MRI to see
if I got a brain tumor. That seems like a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I just the details of it aren't interesting, and we're
up against a break. It's it's a hearing thing, but
it's it's I think I know what it is, gonna
be fine. But anyway, I thought it was hilarious that
I got the results. I actually saw them at Getting
Ready with the show for the show today. Uh, and
it said please you share the patient and his MRI
looks normal and his brain showed nothing exceptional, and I thought, well,
(32:15):
that's pretty much confirmed by the trajectory of my life.
Exceptional the Joe Getty story. Yeah, that could be the
title of your book. We see nothing exceptional, The Joe Getty.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Story, Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I dove into this article in The New York Post
by Joe Kanca, Democracy Dies in Bias blamed The Washington
Post's woes on its blatant political slant, and of course
I lapped that up like hungry dog because i hate
wildly biased progressive journalism and I'm glad the New York
or the Washington Post is getting kicked and it's heiny
and that they're changing course as well.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But I'm glad I.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Stuck with the article because this was even more interesting.
Multiple media outlets are struggling like crazy as Google, Facebook,
and to lesser extent x Twitter tweak their algorithms to
reduce the amount of news users view and their feeds
while keeping eyeballs and clicks for the tech behemoths themselves.
(33:33):
They're not sending you to news organizations they're producing the
content and trying to keep your eyeballs all day long.
Whi's just you know, one more reminder that big tech man,
anything that powerful has got to be watched really, really carefully.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But he makes the point that a steady.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Flow of traffic has come to a halt, diminishing a
critical stream of ad revenue, not only for the WAPO,
which has had a catastrophic, catastrophic loss in you know, clickers, readers,
to ad sales, all of it, but also for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Time, BuzzFeed, NPR,
and many others. Some conservative publications are seeing a big
(34:14):
drop in readership for the same reason. Breitbart, for example,
has talied to seventy six percent decrease in traffic comparing
February twenty four to February twenty twenty. Wow, and February
twenty twenty the pandemic shutdowns hadn't really geared up yet,
So it's a pretty decent Apples Taples Frike Park does
a really good job, by the way, I think, Yeah,
that is amazing. At the Blaze, the drop is sixty
(34:37):
seven percent.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, don't. I don't know if I have any point.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I just thought I had not realized that even your
really popular conservative websites, your liberal websites, just everything's down
as the voracious appetite of Zuckerberg, Pitch Eye and their
ilk just consume everything, right. And I feel like like
regular people that I talk to that aren't super news junkies,
(35:01):
they just kind of get it from the air. I mean,
it just kind of comes to them from It's not
the New York Times or CNN or Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Anise, it's their feed on social media. It just kind
of gets to them well.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
And the problem with that, obviously is from time immemorial,
independent media could support itself through ad sales, and that's
becoming harder and harder and harder. And I mean, at
the point that can you imagine Bright bar at the Blaze,
the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, you know, all of
(35:36):
the great conservatives, the National Review.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
If all that stuff goes away and it's just Marcus
Zuckerberg giving you your news, ooh boy.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
And his only interest in the news really is what
gets you to stay on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Longer or Instagram longer.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Well, and to the extent that he has a news philosophy,
it is progressive.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Man. I hate that idea.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
If I was a would be dictator of some sort,
I'd be licking my chops at that idea. Man no philosophy,
but a philosophy of clicks might be worse than a
liberal or conservative bent armstrong and
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