September 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The government shutdown & Microsoft
- Starbucks & updating your washing machine's software
- The semicolon, the economy & student drivers
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Ketty arm Strong and Jetty and
now he Armstrong and Yetty. The Americans bracing for a
government shut the deadline loom the top four congressions, Lady
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to meet with You're a liar from about the White House?
What else do you do in your personal life that
I should be disgusted by?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Lying liar? Americans are bracing for a government shutdown. Do
you know anyone who's currently bracing for a government shutdown?
I do not.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The Washington Monument is going to be knocked down, the
Navy turned into scrap iron, And oh, I had another
good one that I thought of.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I can't remember what it was. I liked your They're
going to sand down Mount Rushmore right, sand it flat
as part of the government shut down.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yep, fill in the Grand Canyon. People are not bracing
for a government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This is the most made up story that happens like
twice yearly in all of our talk radio career. The
media and oh, politicians act like it's a huge deal.
Sometimes it happens. Sometimes it does for like an hour
or two. Nobody notices, it moves on and you never
remember it. Look, look, think about the shutdowns of the past.
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There were like three last year or zero.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I remember where you were when they announced it exactly,
or when I remembered it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Remembered it the relief when it ended.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
A statue of liberty is going to be forced to
turn to prostitution as her federal funding has ended.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh, because of the government shutdown.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Wow, my wife and I are going to Yosemite today
before they wrope it off.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The good idea they're gonna shoot all the deer dead
because of the government shutdown. Nobody can enjoy the deer
cavorting through Yosemite because of the government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Americans bracing for a government shut No, they're not. God,
that is so.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Funny in a way. That chick with a straight face
said that. Play that again, Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And Americans bracing for a government shut down. That's fine, Tom,
That's no, No, that's such a I realized this is
so inside baseball.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What is going on in the heads of the people
who write that line, who read it off the teleprompter.
The cameraman videoing a woman saying those words, I mean
how do you see your job exactly?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
A wow, funny.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So I mentioned this headline that we didn't have time
for it at the end of last hour. But let's
plunge ahead. First of all, I enjoy the skill of
the headline anti Israel. Microsoft employees arrested for storming President's office.
Partner with bail fund led by murderer who bashed man's
skull with hammer. So, if you're going to run a society,
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you have incentives and disincentives right for good behavior and
bad behavior, the obvious being you know, you work hard,
you're smart, you get a salary, awards whatever, bad behavior
you get fines or you get jailed or whatever. Now,
if I'm a radical and I want to bring down society,
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and all my peeps are saying, you know what the
problem is, there are negative reinforcements for bringing down this society.
If you're like a dedicated Marxist, what do you do?
You remove those negative reinforcements. Somehow you take away all
the pain. And here's how this works. You may remember
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this happened a couple of weeks ago. It's not breaking
news exactly, but the process I think is interesting. So
that group of current and former Microsoft employees got arrested
because they stormed the office of the company's president and
spent a few and or chance and yelling and spraying
red paint and dumping buckets of fake blood and writing
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slogans and.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, they spent just a few hours in jail, even
though they're charged with all sorts of stuff, thanks to
the Northwest Community Bail Fund, a group that uses democratic
dark money to free criminals convicted of violent crimes. The
Microsoft group that called themselves no Azure for Apartheid I
think that's one of their software packages now Azure I
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don't know, has recently spearheaded a number of illegal demonstrations
targeting the company's work with the Israeli government. Seven of
its members were arrested last week this is actually two
weeks ago now, for a storming Microsoft president Bradsmith's office,
setting up barricades, clashing with police, and all the other
crap I mentioned. Twenty were arrested the week before for
establishing an encampment at the company's headquarters and defacing the
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Microsoft sign there a courtyard. You may remember that in
both cases, the group called on its followers to donate
to the the NCBF again, that's the Northwest Community Bail
Fund their Protester Liberation Fund to support those arrested, and
in both cases arrests were swiftly released from from jail
rather bailed out and somebody else paid for it, So
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they personally were only inconvenience for a couple of hours,
but were lifted up by the accolades and the praise
of their peers, so all in all they kind of
felt like heroes. I'm looking at some of the fundraising
posters now scrolling through the partnership reflects the growing role
that bail funds like the NCBF are playing in supporting
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the illegal actions of anti Israel agitators and other hardcore
leftist agitators. A similar organization, the Community Justice Exchange, provided
bail money and legal support to scores of Free Palestine
protesters who blocked major airports, highways, and bridges, and dozens
of US cities last year. According to the Washington Free Beacon,
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the NCBF itself helped free forty six anti Israel agitators
arrested for blockading traffic in the c Tac Airport, and
it's Protester Deliberation Fund explicitly goes toward quote posting bail
for protesters.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This could work. Oh it does work. It works really well.
I mean, like really work over time. If protesters for
lefty causes just absolutely know they're going to get bailed
out right away, and if any chargers ever come forward,
which they don't, but if they ever did, there'd be
lawyers there to fight for them.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, and imagine as a society, or you know, you
contemplate that as a society, we have these negative repercussions
and the people who are supposed to be feeling them
are laughing and high fiving right because they don't feel them.
So the NCBF launched in twenty sixteen, but it really
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wasn't much until the George Floyd thing in twenty twenty.
It raised nearly six million dollars that year. A year later,
it received a quarter million dollars from the Tides Center.
Maybe you've heard of a dark money network that funnels
hundreds of millions of dollars to left wing organizations each year.
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Away from its affiliation with the NAA, it is known
for releasing and in at least from one case, employing
heinous criminals. The NCBF executive director, Cyril Wallrand, described as
a quote committed anti racist community organizer and advocate for
racial and social justice, spent nearly twenty years in prison
following a murder conviction. In twenty oh seven, This Waalrond,
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guy who runs the NCBF, armed with a sheet rock hammer,
attempted to rob a Vietnamese immigrant outside of that man's home.
When the immigrant, named Dien Jun, tried to flee, Wallrand
chased him down and struck him on the head with
the hammer four or five times, killing him.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Walron's co conspirators then robbed the Vietnamese fellow, who died
two days later. Whilerond, at age seventeen, pleaded guilty at
a first degree murder, first degree assault, and first degree robbery.
Now nearly twenty years later, his organization provides bail to
arrest thees regardless of the crimes they're accused of, although
it does prioritize black, Indigenous people of color, and LGBTQIA
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plus people, particularly transgender community members.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
What do we do about this? I don't know. I'm
trying to think of I don't think there's anything legally
you can do. Politically, I don't know. They've got a
hell of track record too.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Some arrestees freed by the bail fund have gone on
to face charges for grisly murders. In twenty twenty two,
the group provided Seattle homeless man Michael Sedeo with bail
as he faced fourth degree assault in second degree robbery charge.
Just less than a month later, he stabbed a man
eighteen times at a local homeless encampment and killed him.
Soo convicted of second degree murder with a deadly weapon.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Remember Kamala while she was was she vice president at
the time or not she was in favor of bailing
out George Floyd protesters. Correct? Yeah, she actually raised money
for that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Here's a guy had a first degree unlawful possession of
a firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle, attempting to delude police,
and other charges. Group put up a bail to get
him out after an unlawful firearm possession a year later.
So they posted ten thousand dollars to free him once
and then a lesser amount for the firearms possession later
in the year. The next year, then, in May, he
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broke into the home of Damon Allen, a father of six,
and attempted Burglary fired several shots at him, knocking to
the ground before standing over him and shooting him at
near point blank range, essentially executing mister Allen. There are
more examples, but I think you've gotten the idea.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Wow, is there a remedy for if you have a
couple of billionaires who are Marxist left wing nut jobs
and decide to make it their mission to bail out
anybody who's on their side of politics? Is there a
way to combat that? I don't know if there is.
The NAA.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This other group that does this posted a video to
Instagram when they bailed out the Microsoft goons. Caption the
worker into fodder, remains undeterred, organized, disrupt, escalate, the people
United will never be defeated.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well that's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, if you can put aside the horror for a moment,
the question returns to what you're just considering.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What do you do about this?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
We've raised millions of dollars to make sure nobody feels
any negative repercussions from breaking the law, because you can't, like,
raise money to put them back in It doesn't work
that way, So or advocate you know, severe beatings. So okay,
you've been bailed out, but now you have a broken jaw.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I mean, that's that's horrible. Obviously, that's that's against everything
we stand for. Yeah, I think I think the only
actual remedy is to make people aware of it and
have them vote in DA elections.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, but that's a slow process though. But you can
still bail somebody out no matter the DA. Now, the
DA might be more aggressive at bringing charges and making
them stick. That would be a really good thing, and
we can do that, You're right, But a giant fund
to make sure you never feel the repercussions of breaking
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the law.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
What do we do? And it makes sense why you
see so many groups shutting down bridges or freeways or
whatever in the name of this or that, because they
know they're going to be bailed out.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm going to deface a priceless word of art or
ruin it. Okay, Well, your bail is five thousand dollars
and you're fine is twenty thousand dollars. Fine, I don't care.
A NCBF total is twenty five thousand. Yep, scratch out
a check. There you go, and I'm off to the
next art museum.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
All right. Anybody got an idea, how you combat this.
This is a troubling one. All right. That's a good story.
Terrible story, but interesting story. A lot on the ways,
stay here, arm strong and getty. Here is a woman
explaining how easy it is to be homeless on the
streets in Portland. Is it like being homeless in Portland?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a piece of cake, really. I mean, that's why
you probably got so many out here, because they feed
you three meals a day. You don't have to do
stay in your tent or party or if you'd smoke
of a lot of dope, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
What else? What else in the list? And what else?
I say, Well, I'm being interviewed.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, that's really it. It's like you wake up, you
go eat a blanche, get high, go eat a blanche
for runch, get high, go eat dinner, get high.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And that's how you.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Do all day long, every day.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm being honest. I appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Does it feel like that's really helping anybody? It's not.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yes, that's why you see all the tents.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well that's a good myth, jack, a myth that's encouraging.
If you got up and went to work today, isn't
it got to bring that clip back for tomorrow. We
got to play that like three times an hour, every
single hour. Little economic news for you about a variety
of things. Mentioned last week that Starbucks is cutting a
bunch of jobs, closing hundreds of locations. They're cutting nine
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hundred jobs in North America. Here's a number that every
story should have included, as they're going to close several
hundred stores. How many Starbucks locations are there you in
the United States? Seventeen thousand, two hundred and thirty. I
feel like that number needs to be included in the
story when you talk about closing a couple hundred. Big deal,
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there are seventeen thousand Starbucks. They saw a little fat,
they trimmed it different thing.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Uh, here's the question, how do people not get the
homeless gal what she was saying in the takeaway from that?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
How do you not get that? I'm honestly mystified. Uh,
people on the left side of politics. I figured this
out years ago, and I can't be argued off this point.
The difference between liberals and conservatives, as far as I
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can tell, is liberals assume everyone is doing their best
at all times. They're really trying. They can't imagine anybody
taking advantage of a system or stealing or you know,
not working very hard. If you get lessons justified for
some reason, everybody tries their hardest all the time to
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do the right thing. If they don't, it's because somebody
forced them to steal.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Or lie or not work hard or right. The only
bad results are because you got cheated.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah. Yeah, so you don't want to acknowledge that woman's
making a bad choice that takes advantage of society. Yeah,
enough of my musings. You were saying something consumers do
not like smart appliances. I know I don't. This is
according to a poll and the uh, this is not
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surprising to me at all. A woman talking about in
USA today seems to be somewhat surprised by it that
the average person wants to when they switch on their
washing machine. Friends, since you pour a little detergent in
the top tray and then you set it to cold
or hot and you want to spin it really faster,
kind of faster or whatever. Then you close the door
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and press a button. You just that's it. That's all
you want. And when you go to your washing machine
and try to do a load of laundry, and it
says you need to update the software. It makes you
want to smash it with a hammer, then set it
on fire and then bury it. Yes, may I I
don't need to update the software. I don't want to
act up. I don't want any software in my washing machine.
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I just want to turn it on to have a
washed clothes.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I got to call my dad and say, hey, Dad,
tell me about all the times you had to mess
with the thermostat in the house. He'd be like, what
are you talking about. We wanted it to be seventy
seven degrees. We set it on seventy seven. No, no, no,
Tell me about all the times you had to reset
it or swap out the batteries, or update the software,
or call the service company to come because your smart
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thermostat died again, and just to show up at your
damn house it costs you one hundred and thirty nine
dollars or whatever it was. Tell me about that, Dad,
and he'd say, again, what are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I don't need software in my toaster. I just want
to toast. But I didn't get the big economic story,
which we've been seeing coming for a while everybody but
the top ten percent kind of struggle in a bit.
And I've got some stats to back that up that
are pretty interesting. Armstrong and Getty, we're not spending a
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lot of time on two of the horrifying shootings, killings,
things that happened around the country over the weekend. But
I want to repeat this often enough that everybody hears
it at some point, because I think it is dead
on correct. The studies have shown that a lot of
this it's suicides. It's just it's people who want to
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commit suicide, but for whatever reason, the contagion right now
is you have to do it in a spectacular way.
People used to just kill themselves a jump off a
bridge alone, or kill themselves in their garage or whatever.
Now you have to do it in a spectacular fashion.
It's because when they do the research, they find out
the person has been suicidal for a long time. They
just recently decided to pick pick a venue, a choice,
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a an issue, a cause to tie the suicide too,
to make it seem more I don't know important.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Well, they want their suicide to be noticed and lamented,
grieved over. They know how to buy that with other bodies.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't know what we do to stop that contagion,
but I do think that is what is going on.
Is the semi colon dying, opinion split onrelevance. That's the
front page USA Today story. The writer Kurt Vonnegut, who
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I'm a big fan of, said that the semi colon
said of the semi colon, it's showy. It's chiefly used
to show you've been to college. More than two thirds
of young Americans say they know how to use it,
about the same number tests prove actually don't. That's pretty funny.
Two thirds of people say they know how to use
a sem and going two thirds actually don't. Kurt Vonnegett says,
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you only use it to show you've been to college.
That's pretty funny. You know what. I actually use it.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Semi frequently. It to me takes the same role, has
the same role as like dot dot dot it's it's
it's well. I've heard it described as a soft period,
stronger than a comma, but not quite the full stop
of a period. I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon,
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I need to prepare tonight less cramping.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh, you're an idiot. So my dot dot which I'm
a big fan of is basically using a semi colon. Yeah, okay,
I think so that's fantastic. So I did want to
talk about this. This is actually important. So the stat
from a week or so ago really got my attention.
Consumer spending is doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there,
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because when consumer spending, oh, the economy collapses, because two
thirds of our economy is consumer spending. But right now,
half of consumer spending is just the top ten percent.
So the burden of consumer spending is being is on
a small number of people. Hm.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage that the
top ten percent actions? I, actually, they have more money.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah yeah, I actually had that, and I don't remember
what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay,
because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that
stet up because that is important to the whole thing.
But so this news out of that is not that surprising.
While the wealthy, prosper middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch.
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There's something called the Michigan Index, which I've heard before.
Whenever you get into this topic. It's a common and
well respected consumer sentiment gauge that factors in a bunch
of different things. The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was
at seventy not that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed.
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It's down to fifty five, where the number one hundred
signals neutral feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred,
you're just like, yeah, it's okay, I get's not great,
it's not bad. I don't know. Below that, you're mostly negative.
But it went from seventy, which was already somewhat negative,
to fifty five for the middle class. You cannot make
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anxiety as running particularly strong among lower and middle income consumers,
and it fell off a cliff this summer. Higher income Americans,
and for this study, they're calling anybody that makes more
than one hundred thousand a year. You make one hundred
and one thousand dollars a year in the Bay Area,
you do not consider yourself a higher income individual. Probably
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they have buoyant sentiments.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I rarely describe myself as Hey, Joe, how you doing buoyant?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should. How's
it going, boyant af I'll say. But in June, middle
class confidence gave out and the index went down a lot.
And this concern is economists. Of course, everything concerns economists,
and they disagree on everything. But that doesn't surprise me. Really,
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things are still expensive. Yeah, uh well, And as.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I've said before, doesn't everything just feel a little precarious?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you
follow the stock market at all. My life experience is
when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a
correction coming. And like my dad, who's been retired for
quite some time, says I've lost everything, I've half of
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everything I've got like three times since I retired. I mean,
it happens now and then where you get the big correction.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And the correction isn't gonna be like the gentle parenting craze.
It's gonna be more like an angry Catholic school nun
in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is gonna come down
with a resounding smack.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
God, dang it. Have y'all looked at your four to
oh one? K I rarely do. I just had to
for some form the other day. I looked at my
phone kind of like, holy crap, I suppose I shouldn't
have been surprised with the stock market constantly set in records,
and it's pretty tied into that. But eh, should.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I be a hardcore long term investor guy. If you
miss the drop by a day and the rally by
a day, you will lose out on an enormous amount
of wealth. That's why you just ride it out. On
the other hand, I look at what's going on right
now and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out,
just cash out now, cash out my gold bars or bitcoiner,
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doge coiner, game stop stock? Is that still going on?
I don't know, gold bars, Yeah, maybe that's the answer.
This is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya who
spoke on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar
and apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on
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Doha and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari
security guard while they were taking out the various humas
leaders there.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
See, everybody's fine now, Netanya, who's sitting with the president
at right as we are. I wonder if that was
that part of the deal. Trump said, you gotta call him, apologize,
tell him you're sorry. Now, tell him you're sorry and
mean it someday.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I wish they would release the Trump net Yahoo tapes
like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know if
there are tapes, but you know, like after the Katari attack, the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Word was Trump just lit him up. He yelled at him.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours
later the next day, had a very good, calm productive chat.
So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male, hot
tempered yelling at each other in a relationship. I'd love
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to hear it someday or just read the transcripts, but
I don't know if that'll ever ask.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Semi Colon, that would all be amusing, agreed.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her
car in park while yelling at agents making interest of
an illegal alien, and her car rolled into a lake
and sunk.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's disappointing, tells Fox.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It happened upon Massachusetts, a small, very blue town in
Blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and a
clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks.
Look at that, Lucy. Her car got lost. As the
woman's car drifts further into the water.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me.
I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We're driving
around on county highways in his truck as he is
coming up on getting his license, and so I took
him over to a friend's house and Saturday night, and
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his friend, who is a few months older than him,
has his license now. And I saw him pull up
and it was just like it was I'm sure you've
had this experience. Just it was so weird to see
this kid that I've known since he was in kindergarten
driving a car. It's like, what the hell? It just
seems he's sure this is all right. This is really
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times change. People grow. Hey, do you guys have a
student driver on your bumper?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
A little sign? No?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't. Can you get those? Are you supposed to
have more? I guess, I mean I don't. And then
does it carry any legal weight? Do you get any?
You get me? It doesn't care legal weight, but I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Honestly, if I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever
goes the speed limit, and somebody's going the speed limit
and I say, patients, please, student driver, I see that.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh okay, got it, got it, got it, yep.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I won't get up, not that I would like dangerously
tailgate anyway, but I get it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
So cool, you're cool. I'll just call it. I do.
I pull around in front of my brake check and
then I roll coal on them. I do. I'll do
everything you drive them from me, not rolling coal. But yeah,
that happened to me. Just the other day. I was
was that a weird four way stop situation? And I said,
what is that person doing? And Sam said they got
the student driver's sticker and I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
they're trying to figure it out. And yeah, my patients
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went way, way, way up right.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mm or
I just if I'd seen the sign, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You know, my son, I think figured out the other day.
We were having a conversation about a particular group of
people that seem to struggle with driving. Oh, and I
think he came upon this realization. No, no, no, no, no,
he was. He's very aware of it. He's very aware
of the existence of this. And I won't say why,
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but I think he figured out why. And it's always
been a mystery why does this particular group of people
struggle with driving so much when they seem to excel
at other things. I won't I won't name the group,
but I've.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Got a great punchline. But it would end our careers today,
and I can't. I can't explain why. But it reminded
me of one of the many Armstrong and Getty. I
don't know, laws of social physics or whatever things that
we've come across over the years. The fact that you
can point out the strength of.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
A racial group or ethnic group or whatever, or really
any group. You can point out their strengths as divided
out from other people, but not weaknesses. And no sense
whatsoever that any group could have only positives and no negatives.
I mean, that does make sense on any face of
it whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
No, you want another layer of irony if you were
to say, because.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You wann't say that group has high homer owner owner
high home owner rates, less, crime gets divorced less. But
if there's a negative stat you can't say that out louder.
You're in trouble. Well, so here's the extra load of
irony for.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Can't try for instance, and particularly in particularly if if
you were to suggest that sort of thing, even a
positive I remember if you were to suggest that, yeah,
Indian kids, uh, you know, they worked really hard and
they value education. And you weren't even supposed to say that,
because that reduces the individual to just his group, and
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that's ugly. That's a stereo tip type. Even positive stereotypes
are a racism and wrong. And then the woke crowd
came along and took over the Left and they're like,
everybody is the stereotype of the race. All white people
are evil white supremacists, all black people are victims.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There are no individuals.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You will not be judged on your individual achievements or
efforts or character.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You will be painted with the color of your race. Period.
And that was the Left again. But the new Left. Yeah,
I wish I could talk about this more, but I
can't end our careers.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And people so weak and stupid that really they ought
to be at the end of the leash that their
dog is holding. People so damn stupid they couldn't recognize
what was going on Felford all And they're thick in
our nation's universities and schools and blue towns. Yes, indeed,
they believe every word of it. And when the new
new Left comes along and utterly contradicts that but yells
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at a little bit, they'll go along with that.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Next man man the Irish. The Irish can't drive. And
I said it out loud, well I finished strong. Next,
they deserve it during the States, during New York City,
what do they expect? They know as they crossed the line?
Some of this stuff absolutely not. Did you give some
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to Rory every time he stepped on the first tea box?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Anytime you're away at a ryder cop and you're gonna
get sharped a little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I think it comes with the territory. I really do
poop by your shirt? Why do you feel the need
to give him language? Abuse him? That's the awful. It's
a sign of respect.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Does he love them except during these couple of days?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It's too damn good. That's sucked. Was that heckle? You've
got poop on your shirt? That's correct, Jack, kind of
a heckle? Is that an odd one? Is there any
chance that golf devolves like so many things have to,
where the heckling becomes a regular part of it. Yes? Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
In short, it'll depend where you are and the rules
of the tournament. You try that at the Masters, You're out.
You are out immediately.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
But as we're always pointing out these things, at least
you know, the broadcast is as a TV show, and
the TV set showld be more interesting to me if
there was heckling.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, I've got to admit, even as a guy who
appreciates UH sportsmanship and decorum and I'm I would be
just fine with golf fans behaving like golf fans always have.
When the announcers say, boy, things are really getting tense
out there, I'd be like, oh, really.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Tell me about it. Let's let's watch the video. It's
kind of exciting in a sick way. I have a
little update to the story I brought you about Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling up the Prime Minister of Qatar
and apologize for that drone strike. They did it from
the Oval office while he's meeting with Trump. Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So that's got a bit of the now call your mother.
You're gonna sit here and you're gonna call your mother. Yes,
almost has to be.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A Have you called an apologized, No, I'm not gonna apologize.
You're gonna look, you're gonna call and apologize. No, I'm not. Yes,
you are, get him on the phone. Oh, call him
next week. Nope, right now, right there in the Oval
office with Trump sitting there, he had to call and apologize. Sorry,
sorry about that. I shouldn't have done that. Wrote out
of one paragraph apology.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I apologize for barbing your country, and I'm sorry I
hurt that security guard.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
In the end, Jack, you Clark, GISs time.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Stop Jack and Joe, if God go and if they
don't give Candale bebacks in Maro. Here's your host for
final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the day. How about Michael Angelow, our
technical director, to lead us off.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Michael final thought.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah. Earlier today we did the story about this six
out of it, everybody saying six to seven. I realized
that I'm officially not with it anymore. I can't follow
pop culture.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I'm lost. I had never even heard of it in
my ce either. My son said, it's so over, it's
embarrassing you've even brought it up. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Here today gone today could not give a pop on
a golfer's shirt. Katie Green are Steam newswoman as a
final thought.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Katie, I'm going to go purchase a student driver sticker
and put it on the back of my car as
an excuse for when I do dumb stuff on the road.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yep, you get to get more charitable results. Yep, yeah,
why not? Jackie. Final thought for US fifty eight million
pounds of corn dogs on a stick have been recalled
over wood pieces in the batter well. Aren't you precious
that you don't want to hunk of wood in your
corn dog? Carol?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
When I was a kid, when we had a meal,
we expected gum splinters.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
It's just part of the deal.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
My final thought was, though the Ryder Cup got a
little ugly and yelling obscenity zish, it was one of
the most incredible near comebacks in the history of sports.
If you had given up after two days as a
golf fan, I completely understand.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
But holy cow, was Sunday nuts? Were you watching it live?
Is it unfolded? H just behind live? Gotcha Armstrong and
Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so many
people thanks for a little time.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Go to Armstrong in getty dot com for all the
groovy clicks there, the hot links, the swag. Pick up
some swag for your favorite AG fan for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Don't wait too long. We will see you tomorrow with
all the news of the day and will be plenty.
There always is. See then, God bless America. All right,
I just got one final question not to say.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
He said, yes, yeah, you did, You absolutely did, and
it not.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
This is the fun time. L G D P, l
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Speaker 1 (36:08):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
No, thank you in Idaho, Andrew crap Buchet crap Buschettes.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Can I say his name on the air? Pretty name
that high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Ketty arm Strong and Jetty and
now he Armstrong and Yetty. The Americans bracing for a
government shut the deadline loom the top four congressions, Lady
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to meet with You're a liar from about the White House?
What else do you do in your personal life that
I should be disgusted by?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Lying liar? Americans are bracing for a government shutdown. Do
you know anyone who's currently bracing for a government shutdown?
I do not.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The Washington Monument is going to be knocked down, the
Navy turned into scrap iron, And oh, I had another
good one that I thought of.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I can't remember what it was. I liked your They're
going to sand down Mount Rushmore right, sand it flat
as part of the government shut down.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yep, fill in the Grand Canyon. People are not bracing
for a government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This is the most made up story that happens like
twice yearly in all of our talk radio career. The
media and oh, politicians act like it's a huge deal.
Sometimes it happens. Sometimes it does for like an hour
or two. Nobody notices, it moves on and you never
remember it. Look, look, think about the shutdowns of the past.
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There were like three last year or zero.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I remember where you were when they announced it exactly,
or when I remembered it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Remembered it the relief when it ended.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
A statue of liberty is going to be forced to
turn to prostitution as her federal funding has ended.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh, because of the government shutdown.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Wow, my wife and I are going to Yosemite today
before they wrope it off.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The good idea they're gonna shoot all the deer dead
because of the government shutdown. Nobody can enjoy the deer
cavorting through Yosemite because of the government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Americans bracing for a government shut No, they're not. God,
that is so.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Funny in a way. That chick with a straight face
said that. Play that again, Michael.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And Americans bracing for a government shut down. That's fine, Tom,
That's no, No, that's such a I realized this is
so inside baseball.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What is going on in the heads of the people
who write that line, who read it off the teleprompter.
The cameraman videoing a woman saying those words, I mean
how do you see your job exactly?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
A wow, funny.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So I mentioned this headline that we didn't have time
for it at the end of last hour. But let's
plunge ahead. First of all, I enjoy the skill of
the headline anti Israel. Microsoft employees arrested for storming President's office.
Partner with bail fund led by murderer who bashed man's
skull with hammer. So, if you're going to run a society,
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you have incentives and disincentives right for good behavior and
bad behavior, the obvious being you know, you work hard,
you're smart, you get a salary, awards whatever, bad behavior
you get fines or you get jailed or whatever. Now,
if I'm a radical and I want to bring down society,
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and all my peeps are saying, you know what the
problem is, there are negative reinforcements for bringing down this society.
If you're like a dedicated Marxist, what do you do?
You remove those negative reinforcements. Somehow you take away all
the pain. And here's how this works. You may remember
(03:46):
this happened a couple of weeks ago. It's not breaking
news exactly, but the process I think is interesting. So
that group of current and former Microsoft employees got arrested
because they stormed the office of the company's president and
spent a few and or chance and yelling and spraying
red paint and dumping buckets of fake blood and writing
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slogans and.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, they spent just a few hours in jail, even
though they're charged with all sorts of stuff, thanks to
the Northwest Community Bail Fund, a group that uses democratic
dark money to free criminals convicted of violent crimes. The
Microsoft group that called themselves no Azure for Apartheid I
think that's one of their software packages now Azure I
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don't know, has recently spearheaded a number of illegal demonstrations
targeting the company's work with the Israeli government. Seven of
its members were arrested last week this is actually two
weeks ago now, for a storming Microsoft president Bradsmith's office,
setting up barricades, clashing with police, and all the other
crap I mentioned. Twenty were arrested the week before for
establishing an encampment at the company's headquarters and defacing the
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Microsoft sign there a courtyard. You may remember that in
both cases, the group called on its followers to donate
to the the NCBF again, that's the Northwest Community Bail
Fund their Protester Liberation Fund to support those arrested, and
in both cases arrests were swiftly released from from jail
rather bailed out and somebody else paid for it, So
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they personally were only inconvenience for a couple of hours,
but were lifted up by the accolades and the praise
of their peers, so all in all they kind of
felt like heroes. I'm looking at some of the fundraising
posters now scrolling through the partnership reflects the growing role
that bail funds like the NCBF are playing in supporting
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the illegal actions of anti Israel agitators and other hardcore
leftist agitators. A similar organization, the Community Justice Exchange, provided
bail money and legal support to scores of Free Palestine
protesters who blocked major airports, highways, and bridges, and dozens
of US cities last year. According to the Washington Free Beacon,
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the NCBF itself helped free forty six anti Israel agitators
arrested for blockading traffic in the c Tac Airport, and
it's Protester Deliberation Fund explicitly goes toward quote posting bail
for protesters.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This could work. Oh it does work. It works really well.
I mean, like really work over time. If protesters for
lefty causes just absolutely know they're going to get bailed
out right away, and if any chargers ever come forward,
which they don't, but if they ever did, there'd be
lawyers there to fight for them.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, and imagine as a society, or you know, you
contemplate that as a society, we have these negative repercussions
and the people who are supposed to be feeling them
are laughing and high fiving right because they don't feel them.
So the NCBF launched in twenty sixteen, but it really
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wasn't much until the George Floyd thing in twenty twenty.
It raised nearly six million dollars that year. A year later,
it received a quarter million dollars from the Tides Center.
Maybe you've heard of a dark money network that funnels
hundreds of millions of dollars to left wing organizations each year.
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Away from its affiliation with the NAA, it is known
for releasing and in at least from one case, employing
heinous criminals. The NCBF executive director, Cyril Wallrand, described as
a quote committed anti racist community organizer and advocate for
racial and social justice, spent nearly twenty years in prison
following a murder conviction. In twenty oh seven, This Waalrond,
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guy who runs the NCBF, armed with a sheet rock hammer,
attempted to rob a Vietnamese immigrant outside of that man's home.
When the immigrant, named Dien Jun, tried to flee, Wallrand
chased him down and struck him on the head with
the hammer four or five times, killing him.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Walron's co conspirators then robbed the Vietnamese fellow, who died
two days later. Whilerond, at age seventeen, pleaded guilty at
a first degree murder, first degree assault, and first degree robbery.
Now nearly twenty years later, his organization provides bail to
arrest thees regardless of the crimes they're accused of, although
it does prioritize black, Indigenous people of color, and LGBTQIA
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plus people, particularly transgender community members.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
What do we do about this? I don't know. I'm
trying to think of I don't think there's anything legally
you can do. Politically, I don't know. They've got a
hell of track record too.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Some arrestees freed by the bail fund have gone on
to face charges for grisly murders. In twenty twenty two,
the group provided Seattle homeless man Michael Sedeo with bail
as he faced fourth degree assault in second degree robbery charge.
Just less than a month later, he stabbed a man
eighteen times at a local homeless encampment and killed him.
Soo convicted of second degree murder with a deadly weapon.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Remember Kamala while she was was she vice president at
the time or not she was in favor of bailing
out George Floyd protesters. Correct? Yeah, she actually raised money
for that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Here's a guy had a first degree unlawful possession of
a firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle, attempting to delude police,
and other charges. Group put up a bail to get
him out after an unlawful firearm possession a year later.
So they posted ten thousand dollars to free him once
and then a lesser amount for the firearms possession later
in the year. The next year, then, in May, he
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broke into the home of Damon Allen, a father of six,
and attempted Burglary fired several shots at him, knocking to
the ground before standing over him and shooting him at
near point blank range, essentially executing mister Allen. There are
more examples, but I think you've gotten the idea.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Wow, is there a remedy for if you have a
couple of billionaires who are Marxist left wing nut jobs
and decide to make it their mission to bail out
anybody who's on their side of politics? Is there a
way to combat that? I don't know if there is.
The NAA.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This other group that does this posted a video to
Instagram when they bailed out the Microsoft goons. Caption the
worker into fodder, remains undeterred, organized, disrupt, escalate, the people
United will never be defeated.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well that's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, if you can put aside the horror for a moment,
the question returns to what you're just considering.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
What do you do about this?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
We've raised millions of dollars to make sure nobody feels
any negative repercussions from breaking the law, because you can't, like,
raise money to put them back in It doesn't work
that way, So or advocate you know, severe beatings. So okay,
you've been bailed out, but now you have a broken jaw.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I mean, that's that's horrible. Obviously, that's that's against everything
we stand for. Yeah, I think I think the only
actual remedy is to make people aware of it and
have them vote in DA elections.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, but that's a slow process though. But you can
still bail somebody out no matter the DA. Now, the
DA might be more aggressive at bringing charges and making
them stick. That would be a really good thing, and
we can do that, You're right, But a giant fund
to make sure you never feel the repercussions of breaking
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the law.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
What do we do? And it makes sense why you
see so many groups shutting down bridges or freeways or
whatever in the name of this or that, because they
know they're going to be bailed out.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm going to deface a priceless word of art or
ruin it. Okay, Well, your bail is five thousand dollars
and you're fine is twenty thousand dollars. Fine, I don't care.
A NCBF total is twenty five thousand. Yep, scratch out
a check. There you go, and I'm off to the
next art museum.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
All right. Anybody got an idea, how you combat this.
This is a troubling one. All right. That's a good story.
Terrible story, but interesting story. A lot on the ways,
stay here, arm strong and getty. Here is a woman
explaining how easy it is to be homeless on the
streets in Portland. Is it like being homeless in Portland?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a piece of cake, really. I mean, that's why
you probably got so many out here, because they feed
you three meals a day. You don't have to do
stay in your tent or party or if you'd smoke
of a lot of dope, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
What else? What else in the list? And what else?
I say, Well, I'm being interviewed.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, that's really it. It's like you wake up, you
go eat a blanche, get high, go eat a blanche
for runch, get high, go eat dinner, get high.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And that's how you.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Do all day long, every day.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm being honest. I appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Does it feel like that's really helping anybody? It's not.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yes, that's why you see all the tents.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well that's a good myth, jack, a myth that's encouraging.
If you got up and went to work today, isn't
it got to bring that clip back for tomorrow. We
got to play that like three times an hour, every
single hour. Little economic news for you about a variety
of things. Mentioned last week that Starbucks is cutting a
bunch of jobs, closing hundreds of locations. They're cutting nine
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hundred jobs in North America. Here's a number that every
story should have included, as they're going to close several
hundred stores. How many Starbucks locations are there you in
the United States? Seventeen thousand, two hundred and thirty. I
feel like that number needs to be included in the
story when you talk about closing a couple hundred. Big deal,
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there are seventeen thousand Starbucks. They saw a little fat,
they trimmed it different thing.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Uh, here's the question, how do people not get the
homeless gal what she was saying in the takeaway from that?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
How do you not get that? I'm honestly mystified. Uh,
people on the left side of politics. I figured this
out years ago, and I can't be argued off this point.
The difference between liberals and conservatives, as far as I
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can tell, is liberals assume everyone is doing their best
at all times. They're really trying. They can't imagine anybody
taking advantage of a system or stealing or you know,
not working very hard. If you get lessons justified for
some reason, everybody tries their hardest all the time to
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do the right thing. If they don't, it's because somebody
forced them to steal.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Or lie or not work hard or right. The only
bad results are because you got cheated.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah. Yeah, so you don't want to acknowledge that woman's
making a bad choice that takes advantage of society. Yeah,
enough of my musings. You were saying something consumers do
not like smart appliances. I know I don't. This is
according to a poll and the uh, this is not
(15:35):
surprising to me at all. A woman talking about in
USA today seems to be somewhat surprised by it that
the average person wants to when they switch on their
washing machine. Friends, since you pour a little detergent in
the top tray and then you set it to cold
or hot and you want to spin it really faster,
kind of faster or whatever. Then you close the door
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and press a button. You just that's it. That's all
you want. And when you go to your washing machine
and try to do a load of laundry, and it
says you need to update the software. It makes you
want to smash it with a hammer, then set it
on fire and then bury it. Yes, may I I
don't need to update the software. I don't want to
act up. I don't want any software in my washing machine.
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I just want to turn it on to have a
washed clothes.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I got to call my dad and say, hey, Dad,
tell me about all the times you had to mess
with the thermostat in the house. He'd be like, what
are you talking about. We wanted it to be seventy
seven degrees. We set it on seventy seven. No, no, no,
Tell me about all the times you had to reset
it or swap out the batteries, or update the software,
or call the service company to come because your smart
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thermostat died again, and just to show up at your
damn house it costs you one hundred and thirty nine
dollars or whatever it was. Tell me about that, Dad,
and he'd say, again, what are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I don't need software in my toaster. I just want
to toast. But I didn't get the big economic story,
which we've been seeing coming for a while everybody but
the top ten percent kind of struggle in a bit.
And I've got some stats to back that up that
are pretty interesting. Armstrong and Getty, we're not spending a
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lot of time on two of the horrifying shootings, killings,
things that happened around the country over the weekend. But
I want to repeat this often enough that everybody hears
it at some point, because I think it is dead
on correct. The studies have shown that a lot of
this it's suicides. It's just it's people who want to
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commit suicide, but for whatever reason, the contagion right now
is you have to do it in a spectacular way.
People used to just kill themselves a jump off a
bridge alone, or kill themselves in their garage or whatever.
Now you have to do it in a spectacular fashion.
It's because when they do the research, they find out
the person has been suicidal for a long time. They
just recently decided to pick pick a venue, a choice,
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a an issue, a cause to tie the suicide too,
to make it seem more I don't know important.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Well, they want their suicide to be noticed and lamented,
grieved over. They know how to buy that with other bodies.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't know what we do to stop that contagion,
but I do think that is what is going on.
Is the semi colon dying, opinion split onrelevance. That's the
front page USA Today story. The writer Kurt Vonnegut, who
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I'm a big fan of, said that the semi colon
said of the semi colon, it's showy. It's chiefly used
to show you've been to college. More than two thirds
of young Americans say they know how to use it,
about the same number tests prove actually don't. That's pretty funny.
Two thirds of people say they know how to use
a sem and going two thirds actually don't. Kurt Vonnegett says,
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you only use it to show you've been to college.
That's pretty funny. You know what. I actually use it.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Semi frequently. It to me takes the same role, has
the same role as like dot dot dot it's it's
it's well. I've heard it described as a soft period,
stronger than a comma, but not quite the full stop
of a period. I have a big meeting tomorrow, semi colon,
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I need to prepare tonight less cramping.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh, you're an idiot. So my dot dot which I'm
a big fan of is basically using a semi colon. Yeah, okay,
I think so that's fantastic. So I did want to
talk about this. This is actually important. So the stat
from a week or so ago really got my attention.
Consumer spending is doing okay, pretty good, hanging in there,
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because when consumer spending, oh, the economy collapses, because two
thirds of our economy is consumer spending. But right now,
half of consumer spending is just the top ten percent.
So the burden of consumer spending is being is on
a small number of people. Hm.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I find myself wondering, what's the usual percentage that the
top ten percent actions? I, actually, they have more money.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah yeah, I actually had that, and I don't remember
what it was, but it was significantly significant change. Okay,
because I wondered that too. I'll have to look that
stet up because that is important to the whole thing.
But so this news out of that is not that surprising.
While the wealthy, prosper middle class Americans increasingly feel the pinch.
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There's something called the Michigan Index, which I've heard before.
Whenever you get into this topic. It's a common and
well respected consumer sentiment gauge that factors in a bunch
of different things. The Michigan Index, anyway, consumer sentiment was
at seventy not that long ago. In the summer, it collapsed.
(21:09):
It's down to fifty five, where the number one hundred
signals neutral feelings on the economy. When you're at one hundred,
you're just like, yeah, it's okay, I get's not great,
it's not bad. I don't know. Below that, you're mostly negative.
But it went from seventy, which was already somewhat negative,
to fifty five for the middle class. You cannot make
(21:35):
anxiety as running particularly strong among lower and middle income consumers,
and it fell off a cliff this summer. Higher income Americans,
and for this study, they're calling anybody that makes more
than one hundred thousand a year. You make one hundred
and one thousand dollars a year in the Bay Area,
you do not consider yourself a higher income individual. Probably
(22:00):
they have buoyant sentiments.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I rarely describe myself as Hey, Joe, how you doing buoyant?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I'm gonna start doing that more often. You should. How's
it going, boyant af I'll say. But in June, middle
class confidence gave out and the index went down a lot.
And this concern is economists. Of course, everything concerns economists,
and they disagree on everything. But that doesn't surprise me. Really,
(22:30):
things are still expensive. Yeah, uh well, And as.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I've said before, doesn't everything just feel a little precarious?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yes, yes, it does. Well if you're you know, you
follow the stock market at all. My life experience is
when it's setting records, like every other day, there's a
correction coming. And like my dad, who's been retired for
quite some time, says I've lost everything, I've half of
(23:00):
everything I've got like three times since I retired. I mean,
it happens now and then where you get the big correction.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And the correction isn't gonna be like the gentle parenting craze.
It's gonna be more like an angry Catholic school nun
in nineteen fifty. Okay, the ruler is gonna come down
with a resounding smack.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
God, dang it. Have y'all looked at your four to
oh one? K I rarely do. I just had to
for some form the other day. I looked at my
phone kind of like, holy crap, I suppose I shouldn't
have been surprised with the stock market constantly set in records,
and it's pretty tied into that. But eh, should.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I be a hardcore long term investor guy. If you
miss the drop by a day and the rally by
a day, you will lose out on an enormous amount
of wealth. That's why you just ride it out. On
the other hand, I look at what's going on right
now and I think, oh God, cash out, cash out,
just cash out now, cash out my gold bars or bitcoiner,
(24:08):
doge coiner, game stop stock? Is that still going on?
I don't know, gold bars, Yeah, maybe that's the answer.
This is breaking news Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya who
spoke on the phone with the Prime Minister of Qatar
and apologized for violating Qatar's sovereignty in the strike on
(24:33):
Doha and expressed regret for the killing of a Katari
security guard while they were taking out the various humas
leaders there.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
See, everybody's fine now, Netanya, who's sitting with the president
at right as we are. I wonder if that was
that part of the deal. Trump said, you gotta call him, apologize,
tell him you're sorry. Now, tell him you're sorry and
mean it someday.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I wish they would release the Trump net Yahoo tapes
like they did the Nixon tapes. I don't know if
there are tapes, but you know, like after the Katari attack, the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Word was Trump just lit him up. He yelled at him.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
But then they subsequently, whether it was a couple hours
later the next day, had a very good, calm productive chat.
So they've obviously got a couple of alpha male, hot
tempered yelling at each other in a relationship. I'd love
(25:27):
to hear it someday or just read the transcripts, but
I don't know if that'll ever ask.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Semi Colon, that would all be amusing, agreed.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
An anti ice protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her
car in park while yelling at agents making interest of
an illegal alien, and her car rolled into a lake
and sunk.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's disappointing, tells Fox.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It happened upon Massachusetts, a small, very blue town in
Blue Worcester County, forty miles west of Boston, and a
clip of voice can be heard saying, well, that sucks.
Look at that, Lucy. Her car got lost. As the
woman's car drifts further into the water.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The lesson for all of us. Oh, that reminds me.
I was practicing driving with my son yesterday. We're driving
around on county highways in his truck as he is
coming up on getting his license, and so I took
him over to a friend's house and Saturday night, and
(26:27):
his friend, who is a few months older than him,
has his license now. And I saw him pull up
and it was just like it was I'm sure you've
had this experience. Just it was so weird to see
this kid that I've known since he was in kindergarten
driving a car. It's like, what the hell? It just
seems he's sure this is all right. This is really
(26:51):
times change. People grow. Hey, do you guys have a
student driver on your bumper?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
A little sign? No?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't. Can you get those? Are you supposed to
have more? I guess, I mean I don't. And then
does it carry any legal weight? Do you get any?
You get me? It doesn't care legal weight, but I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Honestly, if I'm on a city thoroughfare where nobody ever
goes the speed limit, and somebody's going the speed limit
and I say, patients, please, student driver, I see that.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh okay, got it, got it, got it, yep.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I won't get up, not that I would like dangerously
tailgate anyway, but I get it.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
So cool, you're cool. I'll just call it. I do.
I pull around in front of my brake check and
then I roll coal on them. I do. I'll do
everything you drive them from me, not rolling coal. But yeah,
that happened to me. Just the other day. I was
was that a weird four way stop situation? And I said,
what is that person doing? And Sam said they got
the student driver's sticker and I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
they're trying to figure it out. And yeah, my patients
(27:47):
went way, way, way up right.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I shouldn't have screamed, go you f fing mm or
I just if I'd seen the sign, I wouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You know, my son, I think figured out the other day.
We were having a conversation about a particular group of
people that seem to struggle with driving. Oh, and I
think he came upon this realization. No, no, no, no, no,
he was. He's very aware of it. He's very aware
of the existence of this. And I won't say why,
(28:16):
but I think he figured out why. And it's always
been a mystery why does this particular group of people
struggle with driving so much when they seem to excel
at other things. I won't I won't name the group,
but I've.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Got a great punchline. But it would end our careers today,
and I can't. I can't explain why. But it reminded
me of one of the many Armstrong and Getty. I
don't know, laws of social physics or whatever things that
we've come across over the years. The fact that you
can point out the strength of.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
A racial group or ethnic group or whatever, or really
any group. You can point out their strengths as divided
out from other people, but not weaknesses. And no sense
whatsoever that any group could have only positives and no negatives.
I mean, that does make sense on any face of
it whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
No, you want another layer of irony if you were
to say, because.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You wann't say that group has high homer owner owner
high home owner rates, less, crime gets divorced less. But
if there's a negative stat you can't say that out louder.
You're in trouble. Well, so here's the extra load of
irony for.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Can't try for instance, and particularly in particularly if if
you were to suggest that sort of thing, even a
positive I remember if you were to suggest that, yeah,
Indian kids, uh, you know, they worked really hard and
they value education. And you weren't even supposed to say that,
because that reduces the individual to just his group, and
(29:56):
that's ugly. That's a stereo tip type. Even positive stereotypes
are a racism and wrong. And then the woke crowd
came along and took over the Left and they're like,
everybody is the stereotype of the race. All white people
are evil white supremacists, all black people are victims.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There are no individuals.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You will not be judged on your individual achievements or
efforts or character.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You will be painted with the color of your race. Period.
And that was the Left again. But the new Left. Yeah,
I wish I could talk about this more, but I
can't end our careers.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And people so weak and stupid that really they ought
to be at the end of the leash that their
dog is holding. People so damn stupid they couldn't recognize
what was going on Felford all And they're thick in
our nation's universities and schools and blue towns. Yes, indeed,
they believe every word of it. And when the new
new Left comes along and utterly contradicts that but yells
(30:59):
at a little bit, they'll go along with that.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Next man man the Irish. The Irish can't drive. And
I said it out loud, well I finished strong. Next,
they deserve it during the States, during New York City,
what do they expect? They know as they crossed the line?
Some of this stuff absolutely not. Did you give some
(31:24):
to Rory every time he stepped on the first tea box?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Anytime you're away at a ryder cop and you're gonna
get sharped a little bit.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I think it comes with the territory. I really do
poop by your shirt? Why do you feel the need
to give him language? Abuse him? That's the awful. It's
a sign of respect.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Does he love them except during these couple of days?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It's too damn good. That's sucked. Was that heckle? You've
got poop on your shirt? That's correct, Jack, kind of
a heckle? Is that an odd one? Is there any
chance that golf devolves like so many things have to,
where the heckling becomes a regular part of it. Yes? Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
In short, it'll depend where you are and the rules
of the tournament. You try that at the Masters, You're out.
You are out immediately.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
But as we're always pointing out these things, at least
you know, the broadcast is as a TV show, and
the TV set showld be more interesting to me if
there was heckling.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, I've got to admit, even as a guy who
appreciates UH sportsmanship and decorum and I'm I would be
just fine with golf fans behaving like golf fans always have.
When the announcers say, boy, things are really getting tense
out there, I'd be like, oh, really.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Tell me about it. Let's let's watch the video. It's
kind of exciting in a sick way. I have a
little update to the story I brought you about Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling up the Prime Minister of Qatar
and apologize for that drone strike. They did it from
the Oval office while he's meeting with Trump. Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So that's got a bit of the now call your mother.
You're gonna sit here and you're gonna call your mother. Yes,
almost has to be.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A Have you called an apologized, No, I'm not gonna apologize.
You're gonna look, you're gonna call and apologize. No, I'm not. Yes,
you are, get him on the phone. Oh, call him
next week. Nope, right now, right there in the Oval
office with Trump sitting there, he had to call and apologize. Sorry,
sorry about that. I shouldn't have done that. Wrote out
of one paragraph apology.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I apologize for barbing your country, and I'm sorry I
hurt that security guard.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
In the end, Jack, you Clark, GISs time.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Stop Jack and Joe, if God go and if they
don't give Candale bebacks in Maro. Here's your host for
final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the day. How about Michael Angelow, our
technical director, to lead us off.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Michael final thought.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah. Earlier today we did the story about this six
out of it, everybody saying six to seven. I realized
that I'm officially not with it anymore. I can't follow
pop culture.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I'm lost. I had never even heard of it in
my ce either. My son said, it's so over, it's
embarrassing you've even brought it up. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Here today gone today could not give a pop on
a golfer's shirt. Katie Green are Steam newswoman as a
final thought.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Katie, I'm going to go purchase a student driver sticker
and put it on the back of my car as
an excuse for when I do dumb stuff on the road.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yep, you get to get more charitable results. Yep, yeah,
why not? Jackie. Final thought for US fifty eight million
pounds of corn dogs on a stick have been recalled
over wood pieces in the batter well. Aren't you precious
that you don't want to hunk of wood in your
corn dog? Carol?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
When I was a kid, when we had a meal,
we expected gum splinters.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
It's just part of the deal.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
My final thought was, though the Ryder Cup got a
little ugly and yelling obscenity zish, it was one of
the most incredible near comebacks in the history of sports.
If you had given up after two days as a
golf fan, I completely understand.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
But holy cow, was Sunday nuts? Were you watching it live?
Is it unfolded? H just behind live? Gotcha Armstrong and
Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so many
people thanks for a little time.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Go to Armstrong in getty dot com for all the
groovy clicks there, the hot links, the swag. Pick up
some swag for your favorite AG fan for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Don't wait too long. We will see you tomorrow with
all the news of the day and will be plenty.
There always is. See then, God bless America. All right,
I just got one final question not to say.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
He said, yes, yeah, you did, You absolutely did, and
it not.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
This is the fun time. L G D P, l
G T LBG A little too much docky doc.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
No, thank you in Idaho, Andrew crap Buchet crap Buschettes.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Can I say his name on the air? Pretty name
that high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty.
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