August 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & Trump talking to Tim Cook
- New Instagram map feature
- Jelly Roll & no human at the front desk
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Arm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I just saw the headline.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We've got a clip about this new Instagram feature raises
privacy concerns.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll have to do that after clips of the week.
I want to hear about that. You know me, I'm
big on the Gram. A lot of cheesecake, a lot
of bikini shots, none of the hardcore stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I gotta get on the Gram. We got to get
on the Gram. We're on the Gram, but I don't
know how to post on it because it has way
more reach than Twitter.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh yeah, we are on the Gram. I just don't
know how to post on it. I'll share the info,
but you can start gramming away. Oh, I'll gram my
ass off. You'll be Graham Bell practically. I mean you'll
be uh I. I was trying to think of another
Graham Parsons place.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Why tweet out to dozens or hundreds when you can
gram out to.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Thousands, You'll be Grandpa. You'll be the king of the Gram. Anyway. Oh,
a lot of good stuff to squeeze into the final
hour of the week. It's gonna be a frantic race
to the finish. But first, let's pause and take a
fond look back at the week that was. It's cow
clips of the week. This here is your range fed
(01:27):
us D a prime cow clips of the week.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The grand experiment has begun.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Because it is none. How about lunch?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
No lunch?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, how about later my place? You're married her.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Michelle Obama wish her husband Brock a happy sixty fourth
birthday and said he's quote the coolest guy I know,
right back.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
At you, he said. A landmark moment for Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
For the first time in league history, there will be.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
A woman umpire for a regular season game.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They understand that we have a Tim o' hitler in
the White House right now, and that's.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Just a way of trying to divert attention to something
that's total both.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm told the Trump Putin summit is tentatively scheduled for
the end of next week.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, people here are highly skeptical that anything tangible is
really going to come out of this. The volcano Russian
signists say was dormant six hundred years erupted hours later,
an earthquake triggered tsunami. Warning Army officials say, twenty eight
year old Sergeant Cornelius Ranford opened fire at his logistics
job using his non military personal handgun.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
The man who attacked me and might have permanently damaged
me forever should.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Never have been on the streets. Ever.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Do you agree that the heir apparent to Maga is
Jade vance Well?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I think most likely Former President Bill Clinton and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are facing congressional subpoenas.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
They face a possibility of facing brobery charges, which is
a second degree felony in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We will not let power go unchecked.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
We have the opportunity to defect to de facto end
the Trump presidency.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Not only are we gonna punch back, but we about
to beat you down.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
That's why, so I'd say to the Republicans, you're fighting
fire with fire.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's okay. I want to thank Tim Cook.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
He's a great, great man, a visionary, a businessman, just
about every quality you can have other than athleticism, I
don't know about.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh look out, something just came into the floor.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
An object that look like i'd hit a player too.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Wait a second, I hadn't heard that. So when Tim
Cook shows up at the White House gives Donald Trump
a big chunk of gold, like a cheap looking trophy
or something like that in return for better terriffyrates, much
better terrorfrates.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Wait a minute, Yeah, it's a little troubling.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Then Trump had to throw in a you're a gay
dude kind of shot at the end.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Is that what that was? I don't necessarily I did.
It's funny. I didn't go there, but you're not necessarily wrong.
I guess we have a couple of clips of this.
Let's hear a little more.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
US California and Fly come gone to the morning Law.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's been great for the talk of one. They were
designed by us Maline or corporal.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
A ball that works a whole, all which is done
well about the presenter and the base.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Comes from the Upaul and his twenty four carrot cold. Wow,
it's actually gold. The base expensive headphones. And that was
hard to understand, folks. I apologize, Yeah, yeah, I barely
could either.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But so that's Tim Cook giving him an actual twenty
four carrot gold chunk of we'll chunk of gold in
return for a break.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
On the TIFFs. Is that what just happened there?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But then, so what Trump says is this next clipworth
paying because that one's really hard to understand.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, go ahead. I want to thank Tim Cook.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
He's a great, great man, a visionary, a businessman, just
about every quality he can have other than athleticism.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't know. I'm looking at him.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I'm not a hundred percent, but you're good athlete. I
bet you're pretty good. I think he's good at everything.
But I want to thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Tim. Congratulations. I'm the CEO of the most valuable company
on earth. The hell doesn't matter, seriously what I can't
paint either, In case you're curious, I'm not a very
good painter. Oh boy, we live in weird times. Man.
(06:27):
Trump's a strange dude. That is. That is.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I learned about tariffs in the last six months from
listening to podcasts. I'd never thought about a tariff in
my entire life. But one of the knocks on tariffs
by conservatives historically is that it just it just begs
for corruption and special carve outs for people that get
favors for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It grows and enriches the swamp. In short, it's like
the best thing you could do for the swamp because
there's so much money at stake. Zillions of dollars have
flown into Washington, d C. To k straight to the lobbyists.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And really only the big guys can you know, bribe
their way to better tariff rates.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The mom and pop has no shot at that, right exactly,
you know, getting their inputs for instance, that they get
from over the border exempted. Yeah, it's terrible. It's crony
capitalism at it's worst. That's one of the reasons I'm
against it. But it so discourages me that Trump doing
the crazy stuff gets in the way of doing the
good stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, we've got to isolate that the Grand Experiment has
begun for every time we talk about tariffs, because that
is true, the.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Grand Experiment has begun.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Grand How this all turns out?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I do not know, neither do you don't claim you quick.
Let's take a shot at a lefty. This is a
reporter asking Nancy Pelosi about gender affirming care number eighty. Michael,
how's your office responding to the pauses gender for me
here here in California?
Speaker 10 (08:04):
Well, that is something I'm working for at the national level,
and we have, I said, are hoping that we can
have the gender for me.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Care.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
For our trans kids.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Okay, she just didn't want to step in that story.
She's old as hell. She is old as hell. But
I think she realizes this is not a winner. This
is not a winner of a story. How do I
not anger the crazies while not also angering the vast
majority of people, including Democrats, who do not agree with
(08:43):
the crazies.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I have only a hint of it doing what we
do for a living, but the addictive quality of being
part of the national conversation slash in Nancy's case, the
power structure, very close to the center of the power
structure of the massive federal government. Obviously, people cannot give
(09:10):
that up. I'm a wealthy, seventy seven year old and
I'm running for another term the Senator. Why. I don't know.
I think I get it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I will I will really hate it when I no
longer feel like I have any role in the national conversation,
even though our role is pretty small as it is. Yeah,
I will not like it when I don't have a
voice for that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, I know, I know. We try to be your voice. Friends,
we actually do. Yeah, for some reason, you apologize for
my slightly jiv I'm putting you onto in a voice.
It was misplaced, it was inappropriate, it was disgusting, it
was regrettable.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Okay, I'm gonna do something serious here right before the commercials.
That's the best place to put the super serious stuff.
So you can take a break in cleanse the palette
before we come back. Maybe we'll talk about the Instagram
thing when you come back. But Fox is running on
like a loop. Practically. That horrible beatdown that happened in Cincinnati,
is that where it happened. Yeah, And I had seen
(10:16):
the woman get knocked out. I hadn't seen the dude
and the finally, I hadn't seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I don't. I don't watch this stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I feel like I can fully understand the story without
but they're just running over and over again, and I
can't decide is this a good thing or a bad thing? Honestly,
is it a good thing to point out, hey, look,
this sort of thing happens when the races are reversed
and nobody covers it. Or is it a bad thing
(10:45):
that it's making me like, really feel like society is
completely breaking down. It's broken down. My kids are going
out into this world. Holy crap. How do I prepa?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I mean, so you know, make me pa? Well, I would.
It's funny because those are not like two opposing choices.
I would. You could certainly consider the racial angle of
it in the media angle of it, that's legitimate. I've
talked about it before, but you could absolutely make the
case that, look, this is the sort of thing that
happens in blue cities when you turn known criminals loose
(11:21):
again and again, with the the unspoken agreement that we
will just keep turning you loose until you kill somebody
or you heard them really bad on camera.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay, there's that angle of it, which is definitely worth reporting.
And then there's just the racial angle of it that
just the who's doing the beaten and who is getting beaten?
The Has the mainstream news covered this at all? No,
not at all, Like.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I haven't seen it. I have not seen it once.
And look, I'm not omnipresent. I may have missed it,
But speaking for myself, wouldn't it be a foracious consumer
of the news if you were omnipresent, wouldn't that be cool?
For who for me? Hell, my wife and I love
each other. She doesn't want me omnipresent. That's true.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And you know, if I'm having some sort of private moment,
I don't need you there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Sorry, that's it. It's my business partner. He's omnipresent.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, he's got you know. There's upstirs down to the
downside is he's omnipresent.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Can you excuse us for like sake? Can't No, he's
it omnipresent. No, I can't leave. I'm sorry. I'd like
to you. Oh my god, Instagram's new rules should we
be afraid?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Among other things on the way, if we got this
text on the text line my favorite place to get texts,
Let Jack bring back fry Ya. I understand some listeners
didn't like it, but it was the irony that gave
me joy every Friday. A subtle jab at those who
actually say that kind of nonsense and mean it. That's
(13:01):
the problem with me saying, hey, it's frye is that
if you took it seriously, I look like a dB.
It's kind of like my mocking the Genes commercial thing
I did on the Twitter feed in the Genes, which
I thought was obviously mockery, but people thought it was
a Some people thought it was a serious attempt to
look sexy, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
That's funny. I was just thinking the other day about
when a big national radio show at the time. They're
now defunct and unemployed, but they got a hold of
an audio of our show in which I think I
was mockingly portraying a particular attitude, and they took it seriously.
(13:44):
And we're like, these guys a ray whole bl blah
blah blah. No, you're missing the joke there, But anyway,
bring back Frye if you must. It's stupid and jiv
and childish and annoying, but ironically clever. With Instagram, let's
hear it.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
The huge update to the Instagram app, the company unveiling
a new feature that lets you share your real time
location with friends on a map. You can see it
in the direct message part of the app when someone
slides into your DMS. Some critics of the move are
raising privacy concerns about tracking, but Instagram's parent company Meta
says that sharing your location is optional and that the
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feature is off unless you opt in.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, okay, then it's fine. If it's optional. It's fine
if you want to share your location with friends. I
know people who do this, like I don't. I don't
have a social life, but back when I did, if
me and all my friends could have looked at our
phone and seen where everybody was in town at any
given time, that'd have been cool.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Especially my wife and I do it. My wife and
I do it. Our daughter shares her location with us
and a number of her friends for safety reasons. I
think it's perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, I just think of just the social stuff, like
you're out in front now, oh, look they're over They're
right across the street at that bar.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Let's walk over there. It'd be awesome. Yes, Katie, No,
it's definite. Joe's nailed it. It's a huge safety thing
as well among women.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That was an attempt to portray the feature is something nefarious.
The fact that you can opt in or out is
you know nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Zuckerberg is satan and spreading electro addiction to our children,
which will ruin their souls. But this one seems fine
to me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So I'm not really on Instagram or Facebook. I use them,
but I'm not really on there. And I noticed on
the Facebook. When I'm on there, it feeds me people
I know sometimes and whenever I click on their account,
like ninety percent of the time, they haven't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Posted in a decade.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It's so interesting to me that so many people have
just given up on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I don't know. Does it just not have the.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's the younger generation thinks it's for old people, right,
But Instagram is all the young people are on Instagram right.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And Instagram is popular and also because offers the cross
platform posting as well, so you could put a picture
on Instagram and it'll pop up Facebook.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Uh. Our last Instagram post was December tenth of last year.
I would post weekly or if not daily, if I
knew how. But I don't know how. So you know what,
I think it's a list that you not know how. Well,
that's nice. Then post yourself in the in the Tennessee
to Sato the the Inmate Outfit. No, I'll get you
(16:29):
sign on. How many followers do we have on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Millions of them? I don't Well, we can't have many
if we never post. Now that that's what makes us
so popular. What would you be following? Exactly? People? If
people don't want to see our crap. I don't even know,
oh sixty three hundred followers.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, yeah, because we got nobody. Nobody posts anything. I
need the log in information and I'll start posting, all right,
post away.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
The Grand Experiment has begot.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's right. We're gonna wear that clip out for you.
I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We got a little more news of the day for
you coming up. What's Trump gonna do about Russia?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Armstrong and Getty. Your mom was actually a big part
of the show, is right.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
The job was to watch Fox News. She was She
would watch Fox News and tell me what was going
on during the day. You know, when you're growing up,
you don't want your friends to meet your parents. Whore
always embarrassed about it. I brought friends over and they
loved her. And then there were times when I would
come home and my friends would already be there. Yes,
they'd be in the back in the backyard with my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I had that too. Yeah, my friends loved my parents, yes.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And so they dumped me for my mom. She was
a supporter of everything I did, which is like your
mom and that's like it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Greg Guttfelder's had a very popular late night show. I'm
Jimmy Fallon last night. It was fun to see those
two coming together. I get the idea they're both pretty
decent guys. God felt as mean as hell. No is
it challenge doesn't seem to be but funny. So a
couple of things.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh that's one. I had one that flitted out of
my mind. Oh that's right, Michael, play us clip number eleven.
Would you This is rotund country sensation Jelly Roll talking
to the Tennessee Titans before their road trip today.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
I want to talk to you all about road life. Buses, planes, trains, automobiles, walking,
you name it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We've done it.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
We've slept in vans. And I learned early that's where
the magic was. See what was happening on that road
between me and the boys started translating to the stage,
finding a partner, finding a friend, building relationship.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
That stuff with transfer to the field. That's something else
I learned.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
I started becoming a better songwriter when I started becoming
a better husband. I started becoming a better performer, when
I started becoming a better human. Think about them relationships
outside of here.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Man, that's good stuff, And take off your damn headphones.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I wonder if that was the subtext. You're not going
to be able to do that talk to each other,
you know what that As a musician, the first part
was absolutely rings true, one hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
just talking to connection you have with people you're close with.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I've talked to my sons about that, particularly, my oldest
will start working here pretty soon. About you work at
some place where there's a whole bunch of other people
your age and everything like that, you have the best
freaking time, even if the job sucks. You get to
know them and you become friends and you hang out
afterwards and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, don't close yourself off to that. Kids.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, unless they unless they'll all get whatever job. But
he's going to get and they all have EarPods in
and they never talk to each other. Like I keep
talking about going to the gym. I've been going to
the gym. I go every single day for months now.
I've never said to word to anybody. Nobody said a
word to me. Everybody has an earbut in Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
We got an email after you said that, and somebody said,
and I do the same thing too. Now anyway, but
they said, yeah, I don't, and there are other guys
who don't. We're friends. Now I may try that once
or twice. Yeah, huh interesting. Oh, part of the reason
I wanted to hear that, and that was a much
more impressive and an insightful clip than I expected. Oh no,
(20:18):
then you don't know him. His act is.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Everybody loves his motivational stuff, just love it about his
experience of being in jail and the various things he's
overcoming his life.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He's like hugely popular for that. Yeah, I thought it
would be more of a rah rah thing, But I'm impressed.
That's great stuff and I'm inspired to go look into
more of it. Part of the reason I was attracted
to that he was talking to a professional the NFL team,
the Tennessee Titans, is weasel Communist Jackass. David Muir's newscast
last night.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Weesel Communist Jackass did.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
End with a little featurette about to make a wish
kid who dreamed of being the quarterback for his beloved
Carolina Panthers and the day they had And I'm getting
choked up even talking about it and the way the Panthers,
God bless him, rolled out the red carpet and did
it right, and Custom did him a helmet, and he
(21:16):
actually ran a play during their big in front of
the stadium fans under the lights inner squad scrimmage, the
big scrimmage before the preseason begins. And it was beautiful, cool,
it was beautiful. Yeah, yeah, needs to be more of that,
not less. Anyway, moving along to suit.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
How touching that story was? You still call the host
of the show a weasel communist jackass.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, oh yeah, I stand by those words. Yes. Indeed,
if he was a twelve year old boy, I would not.
He's a grown ass man to quit being such a
c WJ. So I thought I would mention that. Do
I even want to mention this? I don't know. It's
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kind of negative ish. Rather, I'd rather build Jack build
and tear down man's triumphs, not his failures exactly. All right,
here's a story for you, and it's from the Miami
New Times, as in Miami, Florida, where you were just
vacationing recently till it was so freaking hot in summertime
(22:22):
you fled for your life. But it went viral. This
visitor who showed up to the Lakita in there at
Miami and checked in, and there wasn't a plucky youngster
or surly old ster half asleep near to well behind
the counter. There was a kiosk with some third world
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or on the video screen to check them in. Wow,
and a credit card slot and wow is that the future?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
So it makes me so angry when I try to
call a hotel and you can't get the actual place
you're going to. You can just get their one eight
hundred number and talk to somebody, you know, and wherever.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It drives me nut.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, I want to talk to somebody there, like actually
there at the hotel and ask them, uh is does
the pool work?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And what time does it close?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Or whatever my question is. So now we're gonna take
it the next step. There'll be one really busy person
in the Caribbean checking people into superheats all across.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The country, right right. A couple of good points. First
of all, the laziest sort of journalism repeating a single
online comment. Damn, that's wild, got to keep it local,
fam One user wrote, good, that's beyond ridiculous, wrote another.
But then this point, this is a pretty good one.
The reason for a desk is like having a doorman
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apartment building. It's security. I wouldn't feel safe in a
hotel with staff this lean. There's no authority. It's like
a bus stop. Never mind authority. There isn't even an observer.
I guarantee, there'd just be lots of cameras and I'll
just keep an eye on you that way, being watched
by whom I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
If something happens, then they'll go back to the camera.
But it's not going to help you in the moment.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So, speaking of labor issues, I thought this was interesting,
and we'd talked about this a couple of times, the
fact that the United Auto Workers Union is now mostly
not auto workers at all. In fact, the biggest fastest
growing group is academics, a hodgepodge of white, colored defense attorneys, librarians,
and roughly one hundred thousand people who work in higher education.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I remember we talked about this when the autoworker strike
was going on, and it was news to me, but
I don't remember. How how do you end up part
of the Auto Workers Union as a librarian?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You just a desperation. Well, the UAW is desperate to
organize any group. But so if they needed people in
their dues.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
But so if I agree with their politics and pay
their dues, I can be a member of the Auto
Workers Union.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, essentially. I mean, if you've got like a dozen
cucumber picklers working in eastern Washington with a labor gripe,
and Sean mcpain is that his name, Sean Fayin, If
he gets a word of it, he's going to say, hey,
you auta organize and come under the UAW umbrella as
a you know, cucumber pickler. And it worked for a
(25:22):
while because they're desperate for people that the smallest percentage
of Americans are in unions. That has been true in
a century or whatever it is. But but now there
is a growing chasm between the union's traditional auto workers,
who are any of you know, any auto workers or
people who might as well be auto workers. They are
(25:43):
moving quickly toward the political right. They are generally speaking,
patriotic Americans. They're realists, they value family, they like to
have a couple of beers on the weekend, they go
to hockey games. You know, you get the idea. But
the union is being taken over by a bunch of
woke twenty something academics and pushing the union hard to
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the left. In fact, recent advocacy by the UAW includes
campaign ads supporting Mamdani the Kami in New York, advocating
for the release of pro Palestinian activist macmoodkahlil Uh, and
calling for a ceasefire and an end to the siege
of Gaza. And the actual UAWUAW guys are like, what
(26:30):
the hell is this? What are you doing in my name?
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I'd say, yeah,
that's an unholy and unnatural marriage. And then finally, this
really and particularly and this is kind of a criticism
of Trump, I guess, but it's funny. There are some
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topics that I think Trump doesn't care about, like constitutional
limits or the institutions or traditions because he just doesn't care.
There are other times, there are other areas that I think,
you know, he gets it, but he's going to get elected,
because you got to get elected first, and he'll figure
out how to hash it out once he gets in office.
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To wit, the no tax on overtime policy, which combined
with the no tax on tips policy, is extremely complicated.
It has added layers upon layers to the already bizarre
tax code when we ought to be going in the
other direction, but he felt like he had to win
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the election, so he promised no tax on overtime, but
the laws full of fine print and potential confusion over
who's eligible for the new savings. Under the law, the
only overtime compensation that qualifies is the extra wages the
half of time and a half, for instance, required under
the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. That definition excludes overtime
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paid to airline employees, railroad workers, and other transportation workers
covered by separate overtime laws. It does not include some
payments under agreements outside the FULSA law or workers specifically
exempted from FULSA, and it excludes payments required under state
laws like California's where overtime starts after eight hours daily
instead of forty hours weekly. The upshot the break will
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cut taxes by thousands of dollars from many overtime workers,
but some might not necessarily get the tax break, and
figuring out who qualifies will be tricky and expensive because
you probably have to hire an accountant to figure it out,
or a tax attorney.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Which you might do if you're a person that regularly
gets overtime but on tips.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You're probably not a person that's hiring someone to do
your taxes, right, it probably doing ten to forty easy.
And now you've got to get an accountant to deal
with your how do I get my the whole tips thing?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well? And not to be labor the point, but want
thirty more seconds on this. The overtime paid deduction is
capped at twelve thy five hundred for individuals and for
twenty five thousand for mary cup. That could lower some
households tax bills by six thousand dollars. And it's available
whether or not tax players itemize deductions. The break starts
shrinking on income once income reaches one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for individual blah blah blah. And because it
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is an income tax deduction, workers still ow payroll taxes
for Social Security and Medicare on overtime pay I freaking
corumba flat tax now or the fair tax one or
the other. Either way, just get it done. No more
complexity to the tax code.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
We will finish strong next. Oh my gosh, I just
saw something that is shocking. It turns out that in
a lot of companies that have decided to have return
to work policies after COVID, some employees just show up
long enough to be seen and then leave. And is
(29:54):
shocking to find out. I would have never guessed that
that would occur. About to play a clip, let me
set the scene for you. There's a patient in a
doctor's office sitting on the butcher's block paper and a
doctor talking to that an unfortunate metaphor, right, and then
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the doctor talking to the person sitting there.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So, how much do you drink? I see, I'm good
for about ten or twelve, Okay, ten or twelve a week.
That's not bad, but a week, But you drink ten
or twelve beers a day? You counting beers too, So
I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
He starts counting his drinks with his fingers, like one, two.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
He said, I'd be faster to do this. They need
to buy five's five.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Test Anyway, on the heels of me talking yesterday about
how I haven't had a drink in nineteen years and
one day, Joe Rogan announced the other day on his
show that he'd quit drinking, and he hasn't had a
drink in two months, and he says he's not an alcoholic,
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but he just decided.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
What good is this doing me?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
He just said, it's stupid to continue doing this. I
feel horrible afterwards. It costs a lot of money. I
stay up later than I want to. I just decided
this is stupid, so I'm not going to do it
anymore ever. Again, he said, I don't know if you'll
stick with it or not, but I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah. Yeah, well I get it. I get even if
you're not quote unquote an alcoholic, it can become a habit.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And just the general there's I don't know if the
amount of booze consumption has has gone down or not.
I haven't seen the numbers on that, but it has definitely.
Has it gone down since the pan Is it just
since the pandemic or is it lower than it was
pre pandemic? Because I think weren't most people who drink
drinking more during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I had heard that. Yeah, but the younger generations are
drinking significantly less.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Are they smoking or pot though, or taking ventanyl or
whatever they're doing?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh maybe, I don't know. We're definitely smoking more pot
than previous generations. Why is that it's available?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
No, no, no, why are they drinking with I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
That's an excellent question. Uh, and we don't have nearly
the time to even scratch the surface. Yeah, I know
if anybody knows. Hey, kids, it's that time again with
Armstrong and Getty. I thought that was funny. Though. Oh
we're counting beers too. So it's uh commonly thought by
some of my favorite thinkers that part of it is
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the younger generations have desperate need not to lose any control.
No is that good? Maybe have not lived adventurous lives
and they're afraid I'll be darned.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
beginning with our technical director Michael hit It. Michael.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
My favorite clip of the day was Trump pointing out
to Tim Cook, very smart guy, but he's not athletic.
I just I like the trend of you invite the
Ford CEO and say he's very smart, but not good
at sit ups and probably could floss more.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's good. Wow, brown teeth. Katie Green has a final thought. Katie.
My favorite clip of the day was the Grand experiment.
I think I'm gonna start talking like that, right, you
gotta roll your arms. Though the Grand.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Speediment has begun.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Jack a final thought for us, I would say, though
I prefer people who drink or did drink, people that
have never drank.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I still don't quite get on with very often. How
interesting man. My final thought earlier in the show, I
did a big thing on the Scopes monkey trial. Grab
it via podcast. If you want one thing we didn't
have time to get to is that the eugenics that
the progressives of the time in the nineteen twenties were
so into directly influenced the Nazis in Germany, and in fact,
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some of the US progressive leaders got awards from the
Nazi universities. Before the war proper began.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Armstrong and Getdy wrapping a mother grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong getty dot com. A lot of great clicks for
you there. Hope you enjoy your Friday. We will see
you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
We have had a great time serving you.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
With stuff you need to know. We promised to return next.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Week with more of Jack Angel with the Heat in
heaven of news and sound from all across a fine country.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Thank you. Listen to the Armstrong
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Long and dead sh
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Arm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I just saw the headline.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We've got a clip about this new Instagram feature raises
privacy concerns.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll have to do that after clips of the week.
I want to hear about that. You know me, I'm
big on the Gram. A lot of cheesecake, a lot
of bikini shots, none of the hardcore stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I gotta get on the Gram. We got to get
on the Gram. We're on the Gram, but I don't
know how to post on it because it has way
more reach than Twitter.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh yeah, we are on the Gram. I just don't
know how to post on it. I'll share the info,
but you can start gramming away. Oh, I'll gram my
ass off. You'll be Graham Bell practically. I mean you'll
be uh I. I was trying to think of another
Graham Parsons place.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Why tweet out to dozens or hundreds when you can
gram out to.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Thousands, You'll be Grandpa. You'll be the king of the Gram. Anyway. Oh,
a lot of good stuff to squeeze into the final
hour of the week. It's gonna be a frantic race
to the finish. But first, let's pause and take a
fond look back at the week that was. It's cow
clips of the week. This here is your range fed
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us D a prime cow clips of the week.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
The grand experiment has begun.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Because it is none. How about lunch?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
No lunch?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, how about later my place? You're married her.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Michelle Obama wish her husband Brock a happy sixty fourth
birthday and said he's quote the coolest guy I know,
right back.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
At you, he said. A landmark moment for Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
For the first time in league history, there will be.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
A woman umpire for a regular season game.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They understand that we have a Tim o' hitler in
the White House right now, and that's.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Just a way of trying to divert attention to something
that's total both.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm told the Trump Putin summit is tentatively scheduled for
the end of next week.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, people here are highly skeptical that anything tangible is
really going to come out of this. The volcano Russian
signists say was dormant six hundred years erupted hours later,
an earthquake triggered tsunami. Warning Army officials say, twenty eight
year old Sergeant Cornelius Ranford opened fire at his logistics
job using his non military personal handgun.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
The man who attacked me and might have permanently damaged
me forever should.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Never have been on the streets. Ever.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Do you agree that the heir apparent to Maga is
Jade vance Well?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I think most likely Former President Bill Clinton and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are facing congressional subpoenas.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
They face a possibility of facing brobery charges, which is
a second degree felony in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We will not let power go unchecked.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
We have the opportunity to defect to de facto end
the Trump presidency.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Not only are we gonna punch back, but we about
to beat you down.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
That's why, so I'd say to the Republicans, you're fighting
fire with fire.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's okay. I want to thank Tim Cook.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
He's a great, great man, a visionary, a businessman, just
about every quality you can have other than athleticism, I
don't know about.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh look out, something just came into the floor.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
An object that look like i'd hit a player too.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Wait a second, I hadn't heard that. So when Tim
Cook shows up at the White House gives Donald Trump
a big chunk of gold, like a cheap looking trophy
or something like that in return for better terriffyrates, much
better terrorfrates.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Wait a minute, Yeah, it's a little troubling.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Then Trump had to throw in a you're a gay
dude kind of shot at the end.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Is that what that was? I don't necessarily I did.
It's funny. I didn't go there, but you're not necessarily wrong.
I guess we have a couple of clips of this.
Let's hear a little more.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
US California and Fly come gone to the morning Law.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's been great for the talk of one. They were
designed by us Maline or corporal.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
A ball that works a whole, all which is done
well about the presenter and the base.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Comes from the Upaul and his twenty four carrot cold. Wow,
it's actually gold. The base expensive headphones. And that was
hard to understand, folks. I apologize, Yeah, yeah, I barely
could either.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But so that's Tim Cook giving him an actual twenty
four carrot gold chunk of we'll chunk of gold in
return for a break.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
On the TIFFs. Is that what just happened there?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But then, so what Trump says is this next clipworth
paying because that one's really hard to understand.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, go ahead. I want to thank Tim Cook.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
He's a great, great man, a visionary, a businessman, just
about every quality he can have other than athleticism.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I don't know. I'm looking at him.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I'm not a hundred percent, but you're good athlete. I
bet you're pretty good. I think he's good at everything.
But I want to thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Tim. Congratulations. I'm the CEO of the most valuable company
on earth. The hell doesn't matter, seriously what I can't
paint either, In case you're curious, I'm not a very
good painter. Oh boy, we live in weird times. Man.
(06:27):
Trump's a strange dude. That is. That is.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I learned about tariffs in the last six months from
listening to podcasts. I'd never thought about a tariff in
my entire life. But one of the knocks on tariffs
by conservatives historically is that it just it just begs
for corruption and special carve outs for people that get
favors for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It grows and enriches the swamp. In short, it's like
the best thing you could do for the swamp because
there's so much money at stake. Zillions of dollars have
flown into Washington, d C. To k straight to the lobbyists.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And really only the big guys can you know, bribe
their way to better tariff rates.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The mom and pop has no shot at that, right exactly,
you know, getting their inputs for instance, that they get
from over the border exempted. Yeah, it's terrible. It's crony
capitalism at it's worst. That's one of the reasons I'm
against it. But it so discourages me that Trump doing
the crazy stuff gets in the way of doing the
good stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, we've got to isolate that the Grand Experiment has
begun for every time we talk about tariffs, because that
is true, the.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Grand Experiment has begun.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Grand How this all turns out?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I do not know, neither do you don't claim you quick.
Let's take a shot at a lefty. This is a
reporter asking Nancy Pelosi about gender affirming care number eighty. Michael,
how's your office responding to the pauses gender for me
here here in California?
Speaker 10 (08:04):
Well, that is something I'm working for at the national level,
and we have, I said, are hoping that we can
have the gender for me.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Care.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
For our trans kids.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Okay, she just didn't want to step in that story.
She's old as hell. She is old as hell. But
I think she realizes this is not a winner. This
is not a winner of a story. How do I
not anger the crazies while not also angering the vast
majority of people, including Democrats, who do not agree with
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the crazies.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I have only a hint of it doing what we
do for a living, but the addictive quality of being
part of the national conversation slash in Nancy's case, the
power structure, very close to the center of the power
structure of the massive federal government. Obviously, people cannot give
(09:10):
that up. I'm a wealthy, seventy seven year old and
I'm running for another term the Senator. Why. I don't know.
I think I get it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I will I will really hate it when I no
longer feel like I have any role in the national conversation,
even though our role is pretty small as it is. Yeah,
I will not like it when I don't have a
voice for that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, I know, I know. We try to be your voice. Friends,
we actually do. Yeah, for some reason, you apologize for
my slightly jiv I'm putting you onto in a voice.
It was misplaced, it was inappropriate, it was disgusting, it
was regrettable.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Okay, I'm gonna do something serious here right before the commercials.
That's the best place to put the super serious stuff.
So you can take a break in cleanse the palette
before we come back. Maybe we'll talk about the Instagram
thing when you come back. But Fox is running on
like a loop. Practically. That horrible beatdown that happened in Cincinnati,
is that where it happened. Yeah, And I had seen
(10:16):
the woman get knocked out. I hadn't seen the dude
and the finally, I hadn't seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I don't. I don't watch this stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I feel like I can fully understand the story without
but they're just running over and over again, and I
can't decide is this a good thing or a bad thing? Honestly,
is it a good thing to point out, hey, look,
this sort of thing happens when the races are reversed
and nobody covers it. Or is it a bad thing
(10:45):
that it's making me like, really feel like society is
completely breaking down. It's broken down. My kids are going
out into this world. Holy crap. How do I prepa?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I mean, so you know, make me pa? Well, I would.
It's funny because those are not like two opposing choices.
I would. You could certainly consider the racial angle of
it in the media angle of it, that's legitimate. I've
talked about it before, but you could absolutely make the
case that, look, this is the sort of thing that
happens in blue cities when you turn known criminals loose
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again and again, with the the unspoken agreement that we
will just keep turning you loose until you kill somebody
or you heard them really bad on camera.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay, there's that angle of it, which is definitely worth reporting.
And then there's just the racial angle of it that
just the who's doing the beaten and who is getting beaten?
The Has the mainstream news covered this at all? No,
not at all, Like.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I haven't seen it. I have not seen it once.
And look, I'm not omnipresent. I may have missed it,
But speaking for myself, wouldn't it be a foracious consumer
of the news if you were omnipresent, wouldn't that be cool?
For who for me? Hell, my wife and I love
each other. She doesn't want me omnipresent. That's true.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And you know, if I'm having some sort of private moment,
I don't need you there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Sorry, that's it. It's my business partner. He's omnipresent.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, he's got you know. There's upstirs down to the
downside is he's omnipresent.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Can you excuse us for like sake? Can't No, he's
it omnipresent. No, I can't leave. I'm sorry. I'd like
to you. Oh my god, Instagram's new rules should we
be afraid?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Among other things on the way, if we got this
text on the text line my favorite place to get texts,
Let Jack bring back fry Ya. I understand some listeners
didn't like it, but it was the irony that gave
me joy every Friday. A subtle jab at those who
actually say that kind of nonsense and mean it. That's
(13:01):
the problem with me saying, hey, it's frye is that
if you took it seriously, I look like a dB.
It's kind of like my mocking the Genes commercial thing
I did on the Twitter feed in the Genes, which
I thought was obviously mockery, but people thought it was
a Some people thought it was a serious attempt to
look sexy, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
That's funny. I was just thinking the other day about
when a big national radio show at the time. They're
now defunct and unemployed, but they got a hold of
an audio of our show in which I think I
was mockingly portraying a particular attitude, and they took it seriously.
(13:44):
And we're like, these guys a ray whole bl blah
blah blah. No, you're missing the joke there, But anyway,
bring back Frye if you must. It's stupid and jiv
and childish and annoying, but ironically clever. With Instagram, let's
hear it.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
The huge update to the Instagram app, the company unveiling
a new feature that lets you share your real time
location with friends on a map. You can see it
in the direct message part of the app when someone
slides into your DMS. Some critics of the move are
raising privacy concerns about tracking, but Instagram's parent company Meta
says that sharing your location is optional and that the
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feature is off unless you opt in.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, okay, then it's fine. If it's optional. It's fine
if you want to share your location with friends. I
know people who do this, like I don't. I don't
have a social life, but back when I did, if
me and all my friends could have looked at our
phone and seen where everybody was in town at any
given time, that'd have been cool.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Especially my wife and I do it. My wife and
I do it. Our daughter shares her location with us
and a number of her friends for safety reasons. I
think it's perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, I just think of just the social stuff, like
you're out in front now, oh, look they're over They're
right across the street at that bar.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Let's walk over there. It'd be awesome. Yes, Katie, No,
it's definite. Joe's nailed it. It's a huge safety thing
as well among women.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That was an attempt to portray the feature is something nefarious.
The fact that you can opt in or out is
you know nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Zuckerberg is satan and spreading electro addiction to our children,
which will ruin their souls. But this one seems fine
to me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
So I'm not really on Instagram or Facebook. I use them,
but I'm not really on there. And I noticed on
the Facebook. When I'm on there, it feeds me people
I know sometimes and whenever I click on their account,
like ninety percent of the time, they haven't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Posted in a decade.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It's so interesting to me that so many people have
just given up on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I don't know. Does it just not have the.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's the younger generation thinks it's for old people, right,
But Instagram is all the young people are on Instagram right.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And Instagram is popular and also because offers the cross
platform posting as well, so you could put a picture
on Instagram and it'll pop up Facebook.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Uh. Our last Instagram post was December tenth of last year.
I would post weekly or if not daily, if I
knew how. But I don't know how. So you know what,
I think it's a list that you not know how. Well,
that's nice. Then post yourself in the in the Tennessee
to Sato the the Inmate Outfit. No, I'll get you
(16:29):
sign on. How many followers do we have on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Millions of them? I don't Well, we can't have many
if we never post. Now that that's what makes us
so popular. What would you be following? Exactly? People? If
people don't want to see our crap. I don't even know,
oh sixty three hundred followers.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, yeah, because we got nobody. Nobody posts anything. I
need the log in information and I'll start posting, all right,
post away.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
The Grand Experiment has begot.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's right. We're gonna wear that clip out for you.
I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We got a little more news of the day for
you coming up. What's Trump gonna do about Russia?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Armstrong and Getty. Your mom was actually a big part
of the show, is right.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
The job was to watch Fox News. She was She
would watch Fox News and tell me what was going
on during the day. You know, when you're growing up,
you don't want your friends to meet your parents. Whore
always embarrassed about it. I brought friends over and they
loved her. And then there were times when I would
come home and my friends would already be there. Yes,
they'd be in the back in the backyard with my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I had that too. Yeah, my friends loved my parents, yes.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And so they dumped me for my mom. She was
a supporter of everything I did, which is like your
mom and that's like it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Greg Guttfelder's had a very popular late night show. I'm
Jimmy Fallon last night. It was fun to see those
two coming together. I get the idea they're both pretty
decent guys. God felt as mean as hell. No is
it challenge doesn't seem to be but funny. So a
couple of things.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh that's one. I had one that flitted out of
my mind. Oh that's right, Michael, play us clip number eleven.
Would you This is rotund country sensation Jelly Roll talking
to the Tennessee Titans before their road trip today.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
I want to talk to you all about road life. Buses, planes, trains, automobiles, walking,
you name it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We've done it.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
We've slept in vans. And I learned early that's where
the magic was. See what was happening on that road
between me and the boys started translating to the stage,
finding a partner, finding a friend, building relationship.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
That stuff with transfer to the field. That's something else
I learned.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
I started becoming a better songwriter when I started becoming
a better husband. I started becoming a better performer, when
I started becoming a better human. Think about them relationships
outside of here.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Man, that's good stuff, And take off your damn headphones.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I wonder if that was the subtext. You're not going
to be able to do that talk to each other,
you know what that As a musician, the first part
was absolutely rings true, one hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
just talking to connection you have with people you're close with.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I've talked to my sons about that, particularly, my oldest
will start working here pretty soon. About you work at
some place where there's a whole bunch of other people
your age and everything like that, you have the best
freaking time, even if the job sucks. You get to
know them and you become friends and you hang out
afterwards and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, don't close yourself off to that. Kids.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, unless they unless they'll all get whatever job. But
he's going to get and they all have EarPods in
and they never talk to each other. Like I keep
talking about going to the gym. I've been going to
the gym. I go every single day for months now.
I've never said to word to anybody. Nobody said a
word to me. Everybody has an earbut in Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
We got an email after you said that, and somebody said,
and I do the same thing too. Now anyway, but
they said, yeah, I don't, and there are other guys
who don't. We're friends. Now I may try that once
or twice. Yeah, huh interesting. Oh, part of the reason
I wanted to hear that, and that was a much
more impressive and an insightful clip than I expected. Oh no,
(20:18):
then you don't know him. His act is.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Everybody loves his motivational stuff, just love it about his
experience of being in jail and the various things he's
overcoming his life.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
He's like hugely popular for that. Yeah, I thought it
would be more of a rah rah thing, But I'm impressed.
That's great stuff and I'm inspired to go look into
more of it. Part of the reason I was attracted
to that he was talking to a professional the NFL team,
the Tennessee Titans, is weasel Communist Jackass. David Muir's newscast
last night.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Weesel Communist Jackass did.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
End with a little featurette about to make a wish
kid who dreamed of being the quarterback for his beloved
Carolina Panthers and the day they had And I'm getting
choked up even talking about it and the way the Panthers,
God bless him, rolled out the red carpet and did
it right, and Custom did him a helmet, and he
(21:16):
actually ran a play during their big in front of
the stadium fans under the lights inner squad scrimmage, the
big scrimmage before the preseason begins. And it was beautiful, cool,
it was beautiful. Yeah, yeah, needs to be more of that,
not less. Anyway, moving along to suit.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
How touching that story was? You still call the host
of the show a weasel communist jackass.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, oh yeah, I stand by those words. Yes. Indeed,
if he was a twelve year old boy, I would not.
He's a grown ass man to quit being such a
c WJ. So I thought I would mention that. Do
I even want to mention this? I don't know. It's
(22:01):
kind of negative ish. Rather, I'd rather build Jack build
and tear down man's triumphs, not his failures exactly. All right,
here's a story for you, and it's from the Miami
New Times, as in Miami, Florida, where you were just
vacationing recently till it was so freaking hot in summertime
(22:22):
you fled for your life. But it went viral. This
visitor who showed up to the Lakita in there at
Miami and checked in, and there wasn't a plucky youngster
or surly old ster half asleep near to well behind
the counter. There was a kiosk with some third world
(22:43):
or on the video screen to check them in. Wow,
and a credit card slot and wow is that the future?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
So it makes me so angry when I try to
call a hotel and you can't get the actual place
you're going to. You can just get their one eight
hundred number and talk to somebody, you know, and wherever.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It drives me nut.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, I want to talk to somebody there, like actually
there at the hotel and ask them, uh is does
the pool work?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And what time does it close?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Or whatever my question is. So now we're gonna take
it the next step. There'll be one really busy person
in the Caribbean checking people into superheats all across.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The country, right right. A couple of good points. First
of all, the laziest sort of journalism repeating a single
online comment. Damn, that's wild, got to keep it local,
fam One user wrote, good, that's beyond ridiculous, wrote another.
But then this point, this is a pretty good one.
The reason for a desk is like having a doorman
(23:47):
apartment building. It's security. I wouldn't feel safe in a
hotel with staff this lean. There's no authority. It's like
a bus stop. Never mind authority. There isn't even an observer.
I guarantee, there'd just be lots of cameras and I'll
just keep an eye on you that way, being watched
by whom I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
If something happens, then they'll go back to the camera.
But it's not going to help you in the moment.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So, speaking of labor issues, I thought this was interesting,
and we'd talked about this a couple of times, the
fact that the United Auto Workers Union is now mostly
not auto workers at all. In fact, the biggest fastest
growing group is academics, a hodgepodge of white, colored defense attorneys, librarians,
and roughly one hundred thousand people who work in higher education.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I remember we talked about this when the autoworker strike
was going on, and it was news to me, but
I don't remember. How how do you end up part
of the Auto Workers Union as a librarian?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You just a desperation. Well, the UAW is desperate to
organize any group. But so if they needed people in
their dues.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
But so if I agree with their politics and pay
their dues, I can be a member of the Auto
Workers Union.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, essentially. I mean, if you've got like a dozen
cucumber picklers working in eastern Washington with a labor gripe,
and Sean mcpain is that his name, Sean Fayin, If
he gets a word of it, he's going to say, hey,
you auta organize and come under the UAW umbrella as
a you know, cucumber pickler. And it worked for a
(25:22):
while because they're desperate for people that the smallest percentage
of Americans are in unions. That has been true in
a century or whatever it is. But but now there
is a growing chasm between the union's traditional auto workers,
who are any of you know, any auto workers or
people who might as well be auto workers. They are
(25:43):
moving quickly toward the political right. They are generally speaking,
patriotic Americans. They're realists, they value family, they like to
have a couple of beers on the weekend, they go
to hockey games. You know, you get the idea. But
the union is being taken over by a bunch of
woke twenty something academics and pushing the union hard to
(26:07):
the left. In fact, recent advocacy by the UAW includes
campaign ads supporting Mamdani the Kami in New York, advocating
for the release of pro Palestinian activist macmoodkahlil Uh, and
calling for a ceasefire and an end to the siege
of Gaza. And the actual UAWUAW guys are like, what
(26:30):
the hell is this? What are you doing in my name?
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I'd say, yeah,
that's an unholy and unnatural marriage. And then finally, this
really and particularly and this is kind of a criticism
of Trump, I guess, but it's funny. There are some
(26:51):
topics that I think Trump doesn't care about, like constitutional
limits or the institutions or traditions because he just doesn't care.
There are other times, there are other areas that I think,
you know, he gets it, but he's going to get elected,
because you got to get elected first, and he'll figure
out how to hash it out once he gets in office.
(27:12):
To wit, the no tax on overtime policy, which combined
with the no tax on tips policy, is extremely complicated.
It has added layers upon layers to the already bizarre
tax code when we ought to be going in the
other direction, but he felt like he had to win
(27:33):
the election, so he promised no tax on overtime, but
the laws full of fine print and potential confusion over
who's eligible for the new savings. Under the law, the
only overtime compensation that qualifies is the extra wages the
half of time and a half, for instance, required under
the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. That definition excludes overtime
(27:54):
paid to airline employees, railroad workers, and other transportation workers
covered by separate overtime laws. It does not include some
payments under agreements outside the FULSA law or workers specifically
exempted from FULSA, and it excludes payments required under state
laws like California's where overtime starts after eight hours daily
instead of forty hours weekly. The upshot the break will
(28:15):
cut taxes by thousands of dollars from many overtime workers,
but some might not necessarily get the tax break, and
figuring out who qualifies will be tricky and expensive because
you probably have to hire an accountant to figure it out,
or a tax attorney.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Which you might do if you're a person that regularly
gets overtime but on tips.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You're probably not a person that's hiring someone to do
your taxes, right, it probably doing ten to forty easy.
And now you've got to get an accountant to deal
with your how do I get my the whole tips thing?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well? And not to be labor the point, but want
thirty more seconds on this. The overtime paid deduction is
capped at twelve thy five hundred for individuals and for
twenty five thousand for mary cup. That could lower some
households tax bills by six thousand dollars. And it's available
whether or not tax players itemize deductions. The break starts
shrinking on income once income reaches one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for individual blah blah blah. And because it
(29:13):
is an income tax deduction, workers still ow payroll taxes
for Social Security and Medicare on overtime pay I freaking
corumba flat tax now or the fair tax one or
the other. Either way, just get it done. No more
complexity to the tax code.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
We will finish strong next. Oh my gosh, I just
saw something that is shocking. It turns out that in
a lot of companies that have decided to have return
to work policies after COVID, some employees just show up
long enough to be seen and then leave. And is
(29:54):
shocking to find out. I would have never guessed that
that would occur. About to play a clip, let me
set the scene for you. There's a patient in a
doctor's office sitting on the butcher's block paper and a
doctor talking to that an unfortunate metaphor, right, and then
(30:19):
the doctor talking to the person sitting there.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So, how much do you drink? I see, I'm good
for about ten or twelve, Okay, ten or twelve a week.
That's not bad, but a week, But you drink ten
or twelve beers a day? You counting beers too, So
I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
He starts counting his drinks with his fingers, like one, two.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
He said, I'd be faster to do this. They need
to buy five's five.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Test Anyway, on the heels of me talking yesterday about
how I haven't had a drink in nineteen years and
one day, Joe Rogan announced the other day on his
show that he'd quit drinking, and he hasn't had a
drink in two months, and he says he's not an alcoholic,
(31:10):
but he just decided.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
What good is this doing me?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
He just said, it's stupid to continue doing this. I
feel horrible afterwards. It costs a lot of money. I
stay up later than I want to. I just decided
this is stupid, so I'm not going to do it
anymore ever. Again, he said, I don't know if you'll
stick with it or not, but I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah. Yeah, well I get it. I get even if
you're not quote unquote an alcoholic, it can become a habit.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And just the general there's I don't know if the
amount of booze consumption has has gone down or not.
I haven't seen the numbers on that, but it has definitely.
Has it gone down since the pan Is it just
since the pandemic or is it lower than it was
pre pandemic? Because I think weren't most people who drink
drinking more during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I had heard that. Yeah, but the younger generations are
drinking significantly less.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Are they smoking or pot though, or taking ventanyl or
whatever they're doing?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh maybe, I don't know. We're definitely smoking more pot
than previous generations. Why is that it's available?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
No, no, no, why are they drinking with I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
That's an excellent question. Uh, and we don't have nearly
the time to even scratch the surface. Yeah, I know
if anybody knows. Hey, kids, it's that time again with
Armstrong and Getty. I thought that was funny. Though. Oh
we're counting beers too. So it's uh commonly thought by
some of my favorite thinkers that part of it is
(32:34):
the younger generations have desperate need not to lose any control.
No is that good? Maybe have not lived adventurous lives
and they're afraid I'll be darned.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
beginning with our technical director Michael hit It. Michael.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
My favorite clip of the day was Trump pointing out
to Tim Cook, very smart guy, but he's not athletic.
I just I like the trend of you invite the
Ford CEO and say he's very smart, but not good
at sit ups and probably could floss more.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's good. Wow, brown teeth. Katie Green has a final thought. Katie.
My favorite clip of the day was the Grand experiment.
I think I'm gonna start talking like that, right, you
gotta roll your arms. Though the Grand.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Speediment has begun.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Jack a final thought for us, I would say, though
I prefer people who drink or did drink, people that
have never drank.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I still don't quite get on with very often. How
interesting man. My final thought earlier in the show, I
did a big thing on the Scopes monkey trial. Grab
it via podcast. If you want one thing we didn't
have time to get to is that the eugenics that
the progressives of the time in the nineteen twenties were
so into directly influenced the Nazis in Germany, and in fact,
(33:58):
some of the US progressive leaders got awards from the
Nazi universities. Before the war proper began.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Armstrong and Getdy wrapping a mother grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So many people, thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong getty dot com. A lot of great clicks for
you there. Hope you enjoy your Friday. We will see
you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
We have had a great time serving you.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
With stuff you need to know. We promised to return next.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
Thank you. Listen to the Armstrong
Speaker 10 (35:00):
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