November 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Government shutdown, MLB scandal & the BBC
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- The MLB betting scandal
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jeck Kiete and now he is Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You know, our Monday opening with that junior high band
struggling to perform in their song is a good feeling
for a Monday. It's a good kind of know what
we're supposed to do, kind of struggling.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
To get our act together.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I was gonna say the scene to me is struggling
against your own incompetence.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kind of a should I practice more over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's a good.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Tone, really.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lot propriate tone from studio C say a senior a
dimly lit room deep with them the bowels.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound and hey y'all
to kick off a brand new week we're under the
tutelagite of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Jean Shaheen compromising machine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Who's that? That's kind of a stress.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
One of the Democrats that's come around in the Senate
and said, yeah, this is stupid. Can we please end
this idiotic shutdown?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So eight Senate Democrats have said enough and the shutdown
is going to end.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So that's where we are in that, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
God, eight of them at once, all of a sudden,
in a coincidence not at all, that they all got
together and said, look, this is stupid. Yeah, our long
national nightmare is soon end, folks. I can read from
the analysis in Mark Halpern's newsletter today the cave in
by the eight Senate Democrats was a direct result of
their belief that Republicans' unified position was not going to
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crack and there would not be a better option to
offer anytime soon, which I'm sure is true. But this
is the part that I really like. The lessons should
be don't try to score policy wins by holding the
government hostage. Republicans have proven this rule several times, gotten
nothing from it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, and for some reason Democrats thought, yeah, let us
try it once.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's pretty good analysis.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It did get somehow clarified, like over the weekend, where
it became more clear to America. Wait a second, Democrats
could open this back up anytime they want to.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
All the Republicans are voting yes.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, so exactly, in spite of the best efforts of
the media.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Anyway, The funny part is listening to mainstream media or
certainly left wing media, try to spin this as some
sort of democratic win, okay, and you know it was
nothing really really rallied the nation by holding out as
long as showing their courage, their political courage. Okay, yeah,
that's a real stretch. Like every other shutdown, it ends
(02:37):
with a whimper and nothing exciting, and it's like, oh, yeah, okay,
what was that all about? And then everybody goes back
onto their life. But some Democrats are not happy, like Rocana,
congress Person of California. Senator Schumer is no longer effective
and should be replaced. If you can't lead the fight
to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing, what will you fight for.
There's a fair number of Democrats who feel that way about.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The whole thing's.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Socialist to easel talking. Yeah, although those there are two
different issues. There is Chuck Schumer still an appropriate leader
for the Senate.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'd say that.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, No, he's a bitter, cynical, old husk of a
it's an awful, awful politician, you know, time for new blood.
On the other hand, that whole we've got to have
health care for Americans. It's so phony. And then, as
we've said many times, the Republican's messaging is so bad
and not pointing out. Look, the Democrats voted to sunset
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these additional benefits. We said, okay, that's what happened here.
Now they want to change their minds and they've shut
down the government because they don't like their own law.
That was pretty clear and it was like seven and
a half seconds long anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So the headline though, is the shutdown is going to
be over. They're expecting government workers to be back to
work by Thursday. It'll take a little bit of time
for airports to get back to normal. Apparently SAT benefits
are going to go out quite soon if you or
one of those people. But you got to send the
National Guard and find those air traffic controllers where they
are at home at work on vacation. You get them
(04:08):
back to work. If it takes a cattle prod do it.
I was I'd completely forgotten about to shut down because
it had no effect on me. So yesterday my youngest
has got a boy scott camping trip this weekend, so
I thought the oldest and I might go do something just.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The two of us, which we don't do very often.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So I went to book some flights typical trip that
I take where there's usually like eighty options, and there
were two options wolf and I thought, oh, that's right,
the shutdown. I completely forgot about it, and I mean
the air travel options had dropped off a cliff because
of that. I thought, Wow, this is going to be
something this week. But then they announced the cave of
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the eight right.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know, I'm much more into policy than politics. Politics
has grubby and ugly, but I think the Republicans may
have really hit on a great strategy the slowly, day
by day ratcheting up the number of flights that were
going to be canceled in the name of safety, which
is at least a semi legitimate rationale to do that.
But I, in contrast to you, I ran into lots
(05:14):
of people over the weekend to wanted to talk about
the government shutdown for the first time, and it was
all about airports and airplanes and family members visiting and
business travel and the rest of it. People were getting pissed.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, as we knew on Friday, once the airport thing happened,
it was going to become a national story, no doubt.
There was no more ignoring it anyway. That's I think
that was probably the leverage that forced this all to happen.
And nobody will be talking about this a year from
now when you have the next election.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Freaking not nobody sunk jackass floats the idea of doing
it again, then people say no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Nobody will be talking about this next week, let alone
a year from now.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How was your weekend? Everybody good? Do you have a
good weekend? Cool?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I'm starting to feel the pressure of the holidays. It's
starting to sneak.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Up on me.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Joy you mean the joy of the hound the oh
that's right, what are we gonna do for Christmas? Or
who's traveling when?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Where? Oh? What am I supposed to buy? A starting
to come down.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
On me like a dark cloud. Yeah, have you forgotten
the reason for the season?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Having a strong fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Keep GDT up right, exactly what it is, exactly and
make your sales goals.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So we can't wait to talk about this later. The
sports scandal that started in the NBA is reached Major
League Baseball, it would seem, and who knows if this
is just a tip of the iceberg. With a few
pictures out there, Apparently we're doing things they shouldn't do
to meet certain prop bets, and the whole world of
sports and gambling might have a huge problem.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh yeah, the spot fixing or micro fixes. So just
you throw one pitch a ball because somebody bet on it. Yeah,
that sort of thing is impossible to.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Police well and just so easy to get started. I
gotta believe how many pitchers are in Major League Baseball?
But hundreds and hundreds. And you know, you got hundreds
and hundreds of people, You're gonna find somebody who either
is greedy or has a gambling problem or got themselves
into a financial pickle somehow by spending too much money
or whatever. And you're gonna think, how all I got
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it through is walk one guy in the fifth inning
of a kind of meaningless game.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And I ought to write a novel about this because
it's a good plot twist. But how about this, How
many Venezuelans are there in baseball? Pretty good handful? There
are actually a really really good hate. Where you go
earned world, there is of various sorts. See where you're going,
Trump should drone the various pictures from Venezuela. Well, that
might be later in the novel, but no here's the problem.
(07:47):
Old Maduro sends me a picture of his arm around
my mom, saying, hey, the treasury could really use, you know,
a chunk of change.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Just throw a ball, first pitch and the third inning.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All right, your.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Mom says, hey, So the dictator in the same way
that like North Korea, gets revenue every way it can,
hacking and cheating and stealing identities and every way they can.
I'll bet Maduro and his guys they've got their clutches
on a couple of venezuela and ballplayers.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That is a good plot twist. That'd be very exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's kind of you know China with the a Spanish
speaking accent.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'll tell you what I think should be the story
of the day, and I'll bet you haven't heard about
it yet.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We'll do it right after we start the show. Officially.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Monday,
November tenth.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Here's a holiday season.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I can see it there.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You're twenty twenty five. We are Armstrong and Getty, and
we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Let's begin then, officially, according FCC rules and regulations, here
we go.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The show starts at mark. Here we go. Sorry, seven,
you're right, second and seven. Let's see what happens. Well,
that's all right, crossky nurret not bad. Thanks to top
for the five yard life. That's right, that's right, good,
good runner. There we go. This is a very big play.
Don't you think I think they have to get a touchdout.
Let's put it differently. They just got a touchdout.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now you're doing my job. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
They get a touchdout.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Just forget about the play. They have to get a touchdout.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That was Donald Trump, President of the United States, doing
a little color commentary in the booth last night for
Monday for Sunday Night football. First time that that had
happened in since Carter. I don't know if that's a
good thing, long.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Overdue having a president in the broadcast booth for football.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Actually, during halftime, swore in a bunch of people who
are gonna do some stuff, good stuff for America.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So I'm surprised the Gipper didn't do it. Reagan, who
famously was a baseball announcer, including and this is such
a charming story, way back in the day, he would
get the report on a game, the written report, and
he would make up the play by play. He would
reenact what happened in the game for the radio audience.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
During the game last night, they talked about Donald Trump's
high school football career and showed a picture from way
back in the day, because Trump is old, old black
and white photo of him playing at some whatever New
York fancy academy he went to as a as a
rich kid and playing football. He was a tight end.
And he said, man, I haven't seen that picture in forever.
And they talked about that for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Little Lord Fontleroy Academy for boys.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Here's what should be the biggest story of the day,
and we'll talk more about it later. The top two
people at BBC resigned overnight. BBC, which I just started,
described as the biggest news organization in the world. I
didn't realize that in terms of their reach, in terms
of radio broadcast and television broadcast. Top two people at
BBC resigned. It's amazing. This went on for a year.
(10:40):
So the Telegraph, London Telegraph had an article a week
ago that the BBC's documentary about Donald Trump in January
sixth that they dropped the week before the election last year,
and in an attempt to have some sort of an
effect on the election as the as the number one
new organization in the world, had edited some of Trump's
(11:03):
speech that day to make it look more like he
had been the instigator and trying to get to the
crowd to go to the Capitol. They took two pieces
from the speech that were an hour apart and put
them together and made it look like it was all together.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So I haven't heard it, but anyway that I don't
have to understand how.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
This took a year, but the Telegraph did this story
a week ago hit BBC became a huge scandal, and
the two top people at BBC resigned last night. You
don't resign if you're not guilty, and the top guy
saying your error in judgment, I highly regret My actions
are error in judgment. You tried to affect the United
States presidential election by completely lying and misleading the people
(11:44):
at the biggest news organization in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
How crazy is that?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, well, it's a shocking but unsurprising.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
And have you seen a lot of coverage about this.
I no, you have not. They're basically the NPR of
Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right, No, no, no, there's a cover up, all the
lefty journalists covering for each other as they always do.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
God dang it. Everybody overreaches all the time. This is
what we all need to learn from life.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Don't overreach if you're winning an argument or you got
the facts on your side, don't make crap up because
in you then they can dismiss.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Everything you don't think.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
January sixth was a big enough black eye for Donald
Trump that you need to make stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Up, well said.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Let me come on, just came across this in the
Free Press two to BBC writing about Zoron Mumdani and
democratic socialism. This is a direct quote from the BBC.
He describes himself as a democratic socialist, which has no
clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers,
not corporations.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Essentially means, oh, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Good lord.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
They have a website, they have a platform, they will
tell you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Precisely what they're about. BBC. That is wild.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well, BBC is the NPR of the world, Really, the
NPR of the world.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hilarious.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Okay, we got Katie's headlines and a whole bunch of
stuff to get to I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Somehow.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I forgot to put on my belt this morning, but luckily, due.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
To my.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Horror eating choices I made over the weekend, my girth
is holding my pants up. Maybe I don't need a
belt anymore. I'll just keep eating the way I ate
this weekend and that will.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Do the trick.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Good Lord, when maybe just go with suspenders, Yeah, big
man suspenders. They kind of frame your belly on each side.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I made some horrible eating decisions this weekend, but I
did find myself at Denny's late at night Saturday.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I want to talk about that later. Hadn't been to
Denny's in a while.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Wow, how have you fallen on hard times? There are
better places come on late at night. There's not a lot.
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead
story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Katie all right, starting with NBC News Senator's advanced tentative
deal to end.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The government shut down.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Eight senators cave probably more than agreed with them that
didn't want their names on it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I caved is a very harsh term. I think
it's more like they said to the leadership, this is stupid.
We're not doing this anymore. They stood up.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, they're getting beaten up pretty good by a lot
of media and their colleagues.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't like those people and disagree with them fundamentally,
so I.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Will stick with my take for ABC News.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
More than fifteen hundred flights canceled in United States today
as travel disruptions continue.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I was looking to fly into Los Angeles is coming Saturday,
and the pickings were very slim. Well, and so I
suppose it's like that at a lot of big airports.
I don't know how long that will take to get
straightened out, and nobody seems to know that.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
From the Associated Press.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Ukrainian strikes disrupt power and heating to two major cities
in Russia.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just saw that Russia mobilized one hundred and fifty
thousand troops on one particular town in Ukraine that they're
trying to take over.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
From Fox News.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Starbucks apologizes after bear Reesta cup launches chaos after what
they released, this glass cup that is shaped like a bear.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Everybody lost their f ing mind. I get yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think they had a joke about that on Saturday
Night Live. It was a cute I guess it's it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Looks it looks like the old honeybear, like when you
would get honey it'd be in Yeah, it looks just
like that. And I saw one on eBay this weekend
for four hundred and seventy.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Five dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Free market at work. I'll get them und their money.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Daily Mail woman is bitten in the neck by a
lion after being dragged off her horse during a South
African safari and miraculously escapes and survives.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
She wanted to see lions up close, probably probably just
paying a good chunk of money for it.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, I wanted to have stories to.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Tell, right, you just got a story.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, win winning, And finally from the Babylon Bee Mom,
Donnie d. Thrones Gavin Newsom as u Haul's top salesman.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Aww.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
There's a great new study out about mobility of high
earners internationally and specifically how great Britain speaking of the
BBC is bleeding high earners because the tax rates were
Human beings are more mobile than they have ever been.
Taxing the rich quote unquote doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
A lot of news stories to catch up on from
the weekend. I hope you can stick around if you
miss a segment get the podcast Armstrong You.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Get you on into bed. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
A husband and wife from Miami, have been named the
world's oldest married couple, with a combined age of two
hundred and sixteen years, which sounds really sweet until you
realize the husband is too high.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I had a picture of a really old guy and
a sixteen year old that was a well structured joke.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's very funny. Ah boy.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Just a little follow up on this baseball scandal that
erupted late yesterday. Turns out there's some illegal gambling fixing
stuff going on in Major League Baseball in addition to
what we learned about the NBA, and I'd be surprised
if it doesn't touch every sport eventually, as gambling has
become so you biquitous, and then you combine that with
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the fact that computers can notice. Ait a second, I
did so many people bet on one pitch in a
meaningless game with this one pitcher all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And way back in the day, I knew a guy.
I knew a guy who was a bookie, and the
idea of a prop that minute I mean, it would
be way too much paperwork. Nobody could ever entertain that
sort of bet prior to the advent of the Internet
and you know ubiquitous again that were computers, and so
just the opportunity for hankiness has exploded with the web.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Focusing specifically on these two pitchers you've never heard of
from the Cleveland Indians will always be the Indians to me,
who won betters won over four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars from just a couple of pitches with these dudes,
and according to the DT indictment would just came out
the one pitcher Clase was.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Interacting with the betters during the games.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Wow, so some of the betters they got tickets and
we're in the games, and I don't know how they
were communicating with the pitcher down on the field, texting them.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I suppose it almost have to be yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And texting the picture and saying, how about the next
inning you throw a ball there or walk that guy
or whatever. And so that's wild, actually ring the games
from a guy inside the stadium.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Again, speaking of technology, can you imagine back in the day,
you know, Roger Stopback taking a call on the sideline ay, ronjo,
we need you to go three and out here.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, click, come on.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
This is gonna be so on one hand, gambling everywhere
all the time, the frailty of human nature, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's all that. But you can't.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You can't pull it off, can you, Because it's just
too easy for a computer to pick up on Wait
a second, there's no reason this many people would.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Bet on this meaningless play.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, that's that's an intriguing notion, and it's funny. It's
like getting away with murder, a bank robbery or or
something like that. Even honest people like myself kind of
enjoy trying to game it out as a mental exercise.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And I suppose what you'd have to do is develop.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
A pattern of winning three times out of five over
an extended period and then move on to a different
pattern for a different set of props. But then you'd
need more plants, more cheater. You got to make the
increment smaller. You got to throw, you know, bet upon pitches,
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rigged pitches like ten times over two months of five
thousand each, right, yeah, instead of all in one lump
someone pitch, Because that's just it's too noticeable, which probably
means the incentives aren't adequate to motivate the crime, which
is exactly what the sports leagues are trying to go for.
You just can't clear enough in a short enough span
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of time to make it worth the three co charges.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Let me read this paragraph already mentioned that shockingly, during
during the games in which he was pitching, he was
interacting with the betters. In total, of the better Is
allegedly won over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars from
these wagers. The indictment details several instances in which a
portion of the winnings were transferred to the Pictures associates
in their home country of the Dominican Republic. There you go,
(21:10):
although it remains unclear exactly how much of the winnings
ended up with the pictures what the pictures were getting
out of it, right, But as we learned with basketball,
it might be just you know, wipe and clean some
of your gambling debts.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely possible. And in a country where
there's a hell of a lot of poverty and a
lot of these guys come from very very humble beginnings,
you could absolutely see various family members hoping to get
a leg up and their beloved nephew is compliant, and
or somebody's got again a picture of their mom with
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the mobster's arm around her shoulder saying, your mom says,
I just occurred to me. And some of you folks
are probably way ahead of us. You could have a
guy sitting behind home plates on proceed if his hats off,
you throw a ball the next pitch, Sure, put glans
in the stands, there is Okay, I throw a ball.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Nobody's the wiser, right, Wow, you could go. You could
go like pitch by pitch. Huh, And then are you
gonna do you do your betting on that timeline?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That person in the stands would have to be and
communicate with somebody, say he's a guy in communication with
the mobsters. Yeah, and then those people are betting on whatever.
These various platforms are where you can bet pitch by
pitch yeah, m hm wow. Just aside from that, even
when it's on the up and up, who are you
that's betting pitch by pitch in just regular season games?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What the hell? Yeah, get counseling, you find something else
to do. Yeah, No, you're you're an addict.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, we'll keep our eye on this scandal for you.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So, speaking of scandalis Gavin Newsomo California is running for
president fully aroused. He has to wear loose trousers to
hide his his clear desire for the U office. You
he was probably more than you need it on a Monday,
But yes, he was in Texas over the weekend talking
about it was that That's exactly what I was gonna say.
He was putting the thumb, his thumb in poor Greg
Gabbott's eye, the governor of Texas and his rival.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He appeared before a throng of admiring morons.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
There where he can shape the future.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Do we have any audio of the aforementioned lunkhead conman
Gavin Newsom? We ought to get that from his speech
in Texas. Guys, if you can round that up. But
we can shape the future here all across the South
and across the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You have that power.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You do, not Donald Trump. And then he unleashed the
signature line of his little engagement.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Where is it? Come on?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I have memorized if you don't have it money, yeah,
go ahead. More or less he went with, they say
don't mess with Texas. Well, here's an you don't poke
the bear.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Any reference to the California Grizzly Bear on his state's flag.
What's little known by folks outside California is that bear
is actually on his way out of California. That's why
he's in motion. He's moving to Nevada on the state flag.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
For tax reasons. So exactly, among other things.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
During the coronavirus pandemic, he may recall the two and
traded insults over their state's lockdown policies. Mister Newsom chided
mister Rabbit for his decision to dropping mask mandate in Texas.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Keep that mind, moderate folks.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He called it absolutely reckless, and Abbott argued on social
media that his state had lower case numbers than California.
And of course we all know that the masks were
useless or nearly useless. And Gavin Newsom shut down the schools,
kept the kids out of schools, even as all the
private schools in California were open. The schools were open
across Europe, but the teachers union told him what to do,
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and he did so anyway, gave a campaigning in Texas
and then speaking of Gavvy boy, I thought this was interesting.
You two folks in the other forty nine states could
have this sort of politics, great coverage by cal Matters
our friends for a very long time. Despite facing a
twelve billion dollar deficit this year, cal Unicornia's legislature still
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managed to spend at least four hundred and fifteen million
dollars on local projects to help lawmakers win their next elections.
Cow Makers found close to one hundred year marks inserted
into just one of the state's budget bills for projects
and programs that had no apparent benefit to anybody outside
the districts. Here's and I'll get to the punchline a second.
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The spending included five million dollars in general fund money
for an LGBTQ plus venue in San Francisco, two and
a half million for a private day school in southern California,
and a quarter million dollars for a private farm animal
rescue on the North coast. All right, here's the punchline.
At least two hundred and fifty million dollars of the
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local project earmarks were funds taken from the ten billion
dollar proposition for climate bond that California voters foolishly approved
last year to turn.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Back climate change. So the climate change borrowed money was.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Used for an LGBTQ plus venue in a private farm
and a private day school in southern California. The climate
change money.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Just lovely?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Was it Friedman who said oppose all tax increases reflexively
automatically pose all taxes.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yes, that's right, all increases in taxes. So this time
of year, especially.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
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Speaker 3 (28:07):
We'll have to keep our eye on the stock market today,
as the Nasdaq plunged on Friday with consumer sentiment numbers
coming out at near historic lows.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I happened to spend some time with a tech professional
yesterday who said, as we were discussing the market, the
technology is way ahead of the adoption, meaning there's just
torrents of money being spent and the revenue is going
to lag well behind the benefits of that technology. If
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indeed the full AI rose ever blooms, who knows when
it'll be.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, investors are starting to get a little nervous about
all the money title.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
What about the consumer sentiment? Why is it the practically
at a record low? And we'll get into that more
details coming up, I feel jack well, yeah, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
That might be it. Like we were talking about last week.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Wait, if things get overanalyzed, how did Trump capture working
class Hispanic men?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
People thought things were gonna get cheaper because things were
too expensive, and they haven't gotten cheaper, so now they've
turned Who else can help me with the fact that
things are too expensive.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It might just be that period for every group of people.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And over the weekend, Trump was saying he wasn't getting
enough credit. There's practically no inflation, he said a little loud.
You know, he does a remarkable job of not coming
off as an ow to touch billionaire.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I mean an astonishing job at that. That was not good.
That was out of step billionaire ish.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well also, and again we gotta take a break. But uh,
he was going around saying prices we're gonna go down.
And I think people believe that prices are not gonna
go down. No, they just they just aren't.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They'll stop risings so fast, but prices aren't going to
go down. That's that's not the way inflation works. Yeah,
and we don't want deflation.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So yeah, that's the best that we could offer, a
slowing of the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Anyway, we got mailbag on the way and lots of
other stuff stick around. I just saw the headline Jimmy
Kimmel's wife reveals she's lost family connections because of there
where She has Trump people in her family and they
no longer speak.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh way to go. That's a good way to live
your life. And you're you're the reasonable one. Okay, alright, sorry,
I'm still getting organized. Eyed here mail here's your freedom
loving quote today, And if I could, I would rework
our general manager today taking a break from our John
Stuart mill serious quotes. It is the two hundred and
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fiftieth birthday of the United States Marine Corps today.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I thought that was tomorrow. It's today.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, that's the tenth I'm told Happy birthday Marines. Roy
the Marine writing and suggesting the following freedom moment quote
of the day from General le June from the Battle
of Trenton to the Argonne Marines have won foremost honors
in war and in the long eras of tranquility at home.
Generation after generations of Marines have grown gray in war,
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in both hemispheres and in every corner of the Seven Seas,
that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and
security and.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Soon to take back the beaches of Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Oh, that was an unnecessary note of something or other
in the midst of what was a lovely moment. Thanks
for ruining it, mailbag. Please don't invade Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I'm a fan of the decapitation move, just to take
old fat Maduro out and let us general scrap for
the leftover.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Drone strike on his Mercedes as he's headed somewhere. That
sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, drops note mail Bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
First of all, it's not a meme exactly, but comments
sent along by Tom. It is an article from what,
let's let's say, some big news outlet. I don't recall what,
but it is a very very big lady, and the
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headline is residents say loss of Snap benefits could threaten
serious hunger and she I mean and the headline is
only in America. Could legacy media say with a straight
face that this woman is starving?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Wow, Yeah, they're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well, you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You think somebody would have caught that. Can we not
have a five hundred pound person on our stories about hunger?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Let me let me click on the link.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Was it Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Was Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think that said? No, it is Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
The other night, Joe Biden came back and gave a speech,
and he was talking about the evil Republicans who want
people to be hungry. One out of five kids go
to bed hungry in this country. That's a disgrace. What
of five kids go to bed hungry? Not a flipping chance,
that's just fictional. Put out of five hundred, that's ah,
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I know, I know. Marxists just lie and senile old farts.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Moving along, dear cold warrior, an old fancy Jack writes
Ryan from Ustena is someone who has applied for government
benefits like Snap recently and bedden denied because I make
too much money. Then seeing Snap drivers or Snap users
driving better cars, having money for nails and hair and luxuries,
I can't even dream about. I wonder if I'm the
sucker going to work every day and working extra hours
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stocking gas station coolers when I could be living high
sucking the government teat.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Uh yeah, yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And then he asks, actually a pretty good philosophical question.
It's in the blunt language of the working man. But
how could anybody want to give this government more power
when these slackers are in power?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah? I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What do you see, friends, when you look at the
government that makes you say we should give them more power,
for they will fix everything wrong with society.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Man, you're nuts.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let's see. This is from newt got excited when I
heard about the ang pickleball paddles, but then he impugnes
their quality. He suggests, no way, no way, may they
may not be tournament quality goods.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I hope they're not cheap Chinese pickleball pedals. He uses the.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Term cheap Chinese pos which I think is highly inappropriate.
He says they're only good for the principal's office in
the seventies and the bedroom.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I guess they're moving fast. Hansen says, get them all
you can. They're flying off the shelves and they're a
little bit of time off.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yes, these pickleball pedals are not for use playing pickleball ps.
Please don't retire or die before I do. Will drop
us in note when you die in newt.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Can't believe we're pumping out cheap Chinese crap with our
names on it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That's not like us. It's about time.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's the free market. I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
How much time do we have, Mike? Oh God, thirty seconds?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Matt and Puolla Washington a town I had to rehearse
pronouncing over and over again with the help of my
daughter who lives in that area. A tale of woe
from Matt. It's actually kind of a funny. Note, but
we don't have enough time for about online dating and
how nutty and unsuccessful it was. Fast word. I put
an ad on Craigslist, and my wife and I just
celebrated at our thirteenth wedding anniversary.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
You never know. Wow, good for you Matt and missus.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Matt got a great way to organize your house. Are
you familiar with the ninety ninety rule? You want another
like trend slogan something or no?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I know you don't know. I'm sorry. I thought maybe
you did. Anyway, we've got a lot of stuff on
the way.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jeck Kiete and now he is Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
You know, our Monday opening with that junior high band
struggling to perform in their song is a good feeling
for a Monday. It's a good kind of know what
we're supposed to do, kind of struggling.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
To get our act together.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I was gonna say the scene to me is struggling
against your own incompetence.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kind of a should I practice more over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's a good.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Tone, really.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lot propriate tone from studio C say a senior a
dimly lit room deep with them the bowels.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound and hey y'all
to kick off a brand new week we're under the
tutelagite of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Jean Shaheen compromising machine.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Who's that? That's kind of a stress.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
One of the Democrats that's come around in the Senate
and said, yeah, this is stupid. Can we please end
this idiotic shutdown?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So eight Senate Democrats have said enough and the shutdown
is going to end.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So that's where we are in that, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
God, eight of them at once, all of a sudden,
in a coincidence not at all, that they all got
together and said, look, this is stupid. Yeah, our long
national nightmare is soon end, folks. I can read from
the analysis in Mark Halpern's newsletter today the cave in
by the eight Senate Democrats was a direct result of
their belief that Republicans' unified position was not going to
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crack and there would not be a better option to
offer anytime soon, which I'm sure is true. But this
is the part that I really like. The lessons should
be don't try to score policy wins by holding the
government hostage. Republicans have proven this rule several times, gotten
nothing from it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, and for some reason Democrats thought, yeah, let us
try it once.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's pretty good analysis.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It did get somehow clarified, like over the weekend, where
it became more clear to America. Wait a second, Democrats
could open this back up anytime they want to.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
All the Republicans are voting yes.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, so exactly, in spite of the best efforts of
the media.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Anyway, The funny part is listening to mainstream media or
certainly left wing media, try to spin this as some
sort of democratic win, okay, and you know it was
nothing really really rallied the nation by holding out as
long as showing their courage, their political courage. Okay, yeah,
that's a real stretch. Like every other shutdown, it ends
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with a whimper and nothing exciting, and it's like, oh, yeah, okay,
what was that all about? And then everybody goes back
onto their life. But some Democrats are not happy, like Rocana,
congress Person of California. Senator Schumer is no longer effective
and should be replaced. If you can't lead the fight
to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing, what will you fight for.
There's a fair number of Democrats who feel that way about.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The whole thing's.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Socialist to easel talking. Yeah, although those there are two
different issues. There is Chuck Schumer still an appropriate leader
for the Senate.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'd say that.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, No, he's a bitter, cynical, old husk of a
it's an awful, awful politician, you know, time for new blood.
On the other hand, that whole we've got to have
health care for Americans. It's so phony. And then, as
we've said many times, the Republican's messaging is so bad
and not pointing out. Look, the Democrats voted to sunset
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these additional benefits. We said, okay, that's what happened here.
Now they want to change their minds and they've shut
down the government because they don't like their own law.
That was pretty clear and it was like seven and
a half seconds long anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So the headline though, is the shutdown is going to
be over. They're expecting government workers to be back to
work by Thursday. It'll take a little bit of time
for airports to get back to normal. Apparently SAT benefits
are going to go out quite soon if you or
one of those people. But you got to send the
National Guard and find those air traffic controllers where they
are at home at work on vacation. You get them
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back to work. If it takes a cattle prod do it.
I was I'd completely forgotten about to shut down because
it had no effect on me. So yesterday my youngest
has got a boy scott camping trip this weekend, so
I thought the oldest and I might go do something just.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The two of us, which we don't do very often.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So I went to book some flights typical trip that
I take where there's usually like eighty options, and there
were two options wolf and I thought, oh, that's right,
the shutdown. I completely forgot about it, and I mean
the air travel options had dropped off a cliff because
of that. I thought, Wow, this is going to be
something this week. But then they announced the cave of
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the eight right.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know, I'm much more into policy than politics. Politics
has grubby and ugly, but I think the Republicans may
have really hit on a great strategy the slowly, day
by day ratcheting up the number of flights that were
going to be canceled in the name of safety, which
is at least a semi legitimate rationale to do that.
But I, in contrast to you, I ran into lots
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of people over the weekend to wanted to talk about
the government shutdown for the first time, and it was
all about airports and airplanes and family members visiting and
business travel and the rest of it. People were getting pissed.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, as we knew on Friday, once the airport thing happened,
it was going to become a national story, no doubt.
There was no more ignoring it anyway. That's I think
that was probably the leverage that forced this all to happen.
And nobody will be talking about this a year from
now when you have the next election.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Freaking not nobody sunk jackass floats the idea of doing
it again, then people say no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Nobody will be talking about this next week, let alone
a year from now.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How was your weekend? Everybody good? Do you have a
good weekend? Cool?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I'm starting to feel the pressure of the holidays. It's
starting to sneak.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Up on me.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Joy you mean the joy of the hound the oh
that's right, what are we gonna do for Christmas? Or
who's traveling when?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Where? Oh? What am I supposed to buy? A starting
to come down.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
On me like a dark cloud. Yeah, have you forgotten
the reason for the season?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Having a strong fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Keep GDT up right, exactly what it is, exactly and
make your sales goals.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So we can't wait to talk about this later. The
sports scandal that started in the NBA is reached Major
League Baseball, it would seem, and who knows if this
is just a tip of the iceberg. With a few
pictures out there, Apparently we're doing things they shouldn't do
to meet certain prop bets, and the whole world of
sports and gambling might have a huge problem.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh yeah, the spot fixing or micro fixes. So just
you throw one pitch a ball because somebody bet on it. Yeah,
that sort of thing is impossible to.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Police well and just so easy to get started. I
gotta believe how many pitchers are in Major League Baseball?
But hundreds and hundreds. And you know, you got hundreds
and hundreds of people, You're gonna find somebody who either
is greedy or has a gambling problem or got themselves
into a financial pickle somehow by spending too much money
or whatever. And you're gonna think, how all I got
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it through is walk one guy in the fifth inning
of a kind of meaningless game.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And I ought to write a novel about this because
it's a good plot twist. But how about this, How
many Venezuelans are there in baseball? Pretty good handful? There
are actually a really really good hate. Where you go
earned world, there is of various sorts. See where you're going,
Trump should drone the various pictures from Venezuela. Well, that
might be later in the novel, but no here's the problem.
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Old Maduro sends me a picture of his arm around
my mom, saying, hey, the treasury could really use, you know,
a chunk of change.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Just throw a ball, first pitch and the third inning.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
All right, your.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Mom says, hey, So the dictator in the same way
that like North Korea, gets revenue every way it can,
hacking and cheating and stealing identities and every way they can.
I'll bet Maduro and his guys they've got their clutches
on a couple of venezuela and ballplayers.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That is a good plot twist. That'd be very exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's kind of you know China with the a Spanish
speaking accent.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'll tell you what I think should be the story
of the day, and I'll bet you haven't heard about
it yet.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We'll do it right after we start the show. Officially.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Monday,
November tenth.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Here's a holiday season.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I can see it there.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You're twenty twenty five. We are Armstrong and Getty, and
we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Let's begin then, officially, according FCC rules and regulations, here
we go.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The show starts at mark. Here we go. Sorry, seven,
you're right, second and seven. Let's see what happens. Well,
that's all right, crossky nurret not bad. Thanks to top
for the five yard life. That's right, that's right, good,
good runner. There we go. This is a very big play.
Don't you think I think they have to get a touchdout.
Let's put it differently. They just got a touchdout.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now you're doing my job. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
They get a touchdout.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Just forget about the play. They have to get a touchdout.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That was Donald Trump, President of the United States, doing
a little color commentary in the booth last night for
Monday for Sunday Night football. First time that that had
happened in since Carter. I don't know if that's a
good thing, long.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Overdue having a president in the broadcast booth for football.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Actually, during halftime, swore in a bunch of people who
are gonna do some stuff, good stuff for America.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So I'm surprised the Gipper didn't do it. Reagan, who
famously was a baseball announcer, including and this is such
a charming story, way back in the day, he would
get the report on a game, the written report, and
he would make up the play by play. He would
reenact what happened in the game for the radio audience.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
During the game last night, they talked about Donald Trump's
high school football career and showed a picture from way
back in the day, because Trump is old, old black
and white photo of him playing at some whatever New
York fancy academy he went to as a as a
rich kid and playing football. He was a tight end.
And he said, man, I haven't seen that picture in forever.
And they talked about that for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Little Lord Fontleroy Academy for boys.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Here's what should be the biggest story of the day,
and we'll talk more about it later. The top two
people at BBC resigned overnight. BBC, which I just started,
described as the biggest news organization in the world. I
didn't realize that in terms of their reach, in terms
of radio broadcast and television broadcast. Top two people at
BBC resigned. It's amazing. This went on for a year.
(10:40):
So the Telegraph, London Telegraph had an article a week
ago that the BBC's documentary about Donald Trump in January
sixth that they dropped the week before the election last year,
and in an attempt to have some sort of an
effect on the election as the as the number one
new organization in the world, had edited some of Trump's
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speech that day to make it look more like he
had been the instigator and trying to get to the
crowd to go to the Capitol. They took two pieces
from the speech that were an hour apart and put
them together and made it look like it was all together.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So I haven't heard it, but anyway that I don't
have to understand how.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
This took a year, but the Telegraph did this story
a week ago hit BBC became a huge scandal, and
the two top people at BBC resigned last night. You
don't resign if you're not guilty, and the top guy
saying your error in judgment, I highly regret My actions
are error in judgment. You tried to affect the United
States presidential election by completely lying and misleading the people
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at the biggest news organization in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
How crazy is that?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, well, it's a shocking but unsurprising.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
And have you seen a lot of coverage about this.
I no, you have not. They're basically the NPR of
Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right, No, no, no, there's a cover up, all the
lefty journalists covering for each other as they always do.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
God dang it. Everybody overreaches all the time. This is
what we all need to learn from life.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Don't overreach if you're winning an argument or you got
the facts on your side, don't make crap up because
in you then they can dismiss.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Everything you don't think.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
January sixth was a big enough black eye for Donald
Trump that you need to make stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Up, well said.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Let me come on, just came across this in the
Free Press two to BBC writing about Zoron Mumdani and
democratic socialism. This is a direct quote from the BBC.
He describes himself as a democratic socialist, which has no
clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers,
not corporations.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Essentially means, oh, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Good lord.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
They have a website, they have a platform, they will
tell you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Precisely what they're about. BBC. That is wild.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well, BBC is the NPR of the world, Really, the
NPR of the world.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hilarious.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Okay, we got Katie's headlines and a whole bunch of
stuff to get to I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Somehow.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I forgot to put on my belt this morning, but luckily, due.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
To my.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Horror eating choices I made over the weekend, my girth
is holding my pants up. Maybe I don't need a
belt anymore. I'll just keep eating the way I ate
this weekend and that will.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Do the trick.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Good Lord, when maybe just go with suspenders, Yeah, big
man suspenders. They kind of frame your belly on each side.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I made some horrible eating decisions this weekend, but I
did find myself at Denny's late at night Saturday.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I want to talk about that later. Hadn't been to
Denny's in a while.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Wow, how have you fallen on hard times? There are
better places come on late at night. There's not a lot.
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead
story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Katie all right, starting with NBC News Senator's advanced tentative
deal to end.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The government shut down.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Eight senators cave probably more than agreed with them that
didn't want their names on it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I caved is a very harsh term. I think
it's more like they said to the leadership, this is stupid.
We're not doing this anymore. They stood up.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, they're getting beaten up pretty good by a lot
of media and their colleagues.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't like those people and disagree with them fundamentally,
so I.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Will stick with my take for ABC News.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
More than fifteen hundred flights canceled in United States today
as travel disruptions continue.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I was looking to fly into Los Angeles is coming Saturday,
and the pickings were very slim. Well, and so I
suppose it's like that at a lot of big airports.
I don't know how long that will take to get
straightened out, and nobody seems to know that.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
From the Associated Press.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Ukrainian strikes disrupt power and heating to two major cities
in Russia.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just saw that Russia mobilized one hundred and fifty
thousand troops on one particular town in Ukraine that they're
trying to take over.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
From Fox News.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Starbucks apologizes after bear Reesta cup launches chaos after what
they released, this glass cup that is shaped like a bear.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Everybody lost their f ing mind. I get yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think they had a joke about that on Saturday
Night Live. It was a cute I guess it's it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Looks it looks like the old honeybear, like when you
would get honey it'd be in Yeah, it looks just
like that. And I saw one on eBay this weekend
for four hundred and seventy.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Five dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Free market at work. I'll get them und their money.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Daily Mail woman is bitten in the neck by a
lion after being dragged off her horse during a South
African safari and miraculously escapes and survives.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
She wanted to see lions up close, probably probably just
paying a good chunk of money for it.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, I wanted to have stories to.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Tell, right, you just got a story.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, win winning, And finally from the Babylon Bee Mom,
Donnie d. Thrones Gavin Newsom as u Haul's top salesman.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Aww.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
There's a great new study out about mobility of high
earners internationally and specifically how great Britain speaking of the
BBC is bleeding high earners because the tax rates were
Human beings are more mobile than they have ever been.
Taxing the rich quote unquote doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
A lot of news stories to catch up on from
the weekend. I hope you can stick around if you
miss a segment get the podcast Armstrong You.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Get you on into bed. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
A husband and wife from Miami, have been named the
world's oldest married couple, with a combined age of two
hundred and sixteen years, which sounds really sweet until you
realize the husband is too high.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I had a picture of a really old guy and
a sixteen year old that was a well structured joke.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's very funny. Ah boy.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Just a little follow up on this baseball scandal that
erupted late yesterday. Turns out there's some illegal gambling fixing
stuff going on in Major League Baseball in addition to
what we learned about the NBA, and I'd be surprised
if it doesn't touch every sport eventually, as gambling has
become so you biquitous, and then you combine that with
(17:36):
the fact that computers can notice. Ait a second, I
did so many people bet on one pitch in a
meaningless game with this one pitcher all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And way back in the day, I knew a guy.
I knew a guy who was a bookie, and the
idea of a prop that minute I mean, it would
be way too much paperwork. Nobody could ever entertain that
sort of bet prior to the advent of the Internet
and you know ubiquitous again that were computers, and so
just the opportunity for hankiness has exploded with the web.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Focusing specifically on these two pitchers you've never heard of
from the Cleveland Indians will always be the Indians to me,
who won betters won over four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars from just a couple of pitches with these dudes,
and according to the DT indictment would just came out
the one pitcher Clase was.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Interacting with the betters during the games.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Wow, so some of the betters they got tickets and
we're in the games, and I don't know how they
were communicating with the pitcher down on the field, texting them.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I suppose it almost have to be yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And texting the picture and saying, how about the next
inning you throw a ball there or walk that guy
or whatever. And so that's wild, actually ring the games
from a guy inside the stadium.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Again, speaking of technology, can you imagine back in the day,
you know, Roger Stopback taking a call on the sideline ay, ronjo,
we need you to go three and out here.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, click, come on.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
This is gonna be so on one hand, gambling everywhere
all the time, the frailty of human nature, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's all that. But you can't.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You can't pull it off, can you, Because it's just
too easy for a computer to pick up on Wait
a second, there's no reason this many people would.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Bet on this meaningless play.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, that's that's an intriguing notion, and it's funny. It's
like getting away with murder, a bank robbery or or
something like that. Even honest people like myself kind of
enjoy trying to game it out as a mental exercise.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And I suppose what you'd have to do is develop.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
A pattern of winning three times out of five over
an extended period and then move on to a different
pattern for a different set of props. But then you'd
need more plants, more cheater. You got to make the
increment smaller. You got to throw, you know, bet upon pitches,
(20:21):
rigged pitches like ten times over two months of five
thousand each, right, yeah, instead of all in one lump
someone pitch, Because that's just it's too noticeable, which probably
means the incentives aren't adequate to motivate the crime, which
is exactly what the sports leagues are trying to go for.
You just can't clear enough in a short enough span
(20:43):
of time to make it worth the three co charges.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Let me read this paragraph already mentioned that shockingly, during
during the games in which he was pitching, he was
interacting with the betters. In total, of the better Is
allegedly won over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars from
these wagers. The indictment details several instances in which a
portion of the winnings were transferred to the Pictures associates
in their home country of the Dominican Republic. There you go,
(21:10):
although it remains unclear exactly how much of the winnings
ended up with the pictures what the pictures were getting
out of it, right, But as we learned with basketball,
it might be just you know, wipe and clean some
of your gambling debts.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely possible. And in a country where
there's a hell of a lot of poverty and a
lot of these guys come from very very humble beginnings,
you could absolutely see various family members hoping to get
a leg up and their beloved nephew is compliant, and
or somebody's got again a picture of their mom with
(21:49):
the mobster's arm around her shoulder saying, your mom says,
I just occurred to me. And some of you folks
are probably way ahead of us. You could have a
guy sitting behind home plates on proceed if his hats off,
you throw a ball the next pitch, Sure, put glans
in the stands, there is Okay, I throw a ball.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Nobody's the wiser, right, Wow, you could go. You could
go like pitch by pitch. Huh, And then are you
gonna do you do your betting on that timeline?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That person in the stands would have to be and
communicate with somebody, say he's a guy in communication with
the mobsters. Yeah, and then those people are betting on whatever.
These various platforms are where you can bet pitch by
pitch yeah, m hm wow. Just aside from that, even
when it's on the up and up, who are you
that's betting pitch by pitch in just regular season games?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What the hell? Yeah, get counseling, you find something else
to do. Yeah, No, you're you're an addict.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, we'll keep our eye on this scandal for you.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So, speaking of scandalis Gavin Newsomo California is running for
president fully aroused. He has to wear loose trousers to
hide his his clear desire for the U office. You
he was probably more than you need it on a Monday,
But yes, he was in Texas over the weekend talking
about it was that That's exactly what I was gonna say.
He was putting the thumb, his thumb in poor Greg
Gabbott's eye, the governor of Texas and his rival.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He appeared before a throng of admiring morons.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
There where he can shape the future.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Do we have any audio of the aforementioned lunkhead conman
Gavin Newsom? We ought to get that from his speech
in Texas. Guys, if you can round that up. But
we can shape the future here all across the South
and across the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You have that power.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You do, not Donald Trump. And then he unleashed the
signature line of his little engagement.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Where is it? Come on?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I have memorized if you don't have it money, yeah,
go ahead. More or less he went with, they say
don't mess with Texas. Well, here's an you don't poke
the bear.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Any reference to the California Grizzly Bear on his state's flag.
What's little known by folks outside California is that bear
is actually on his way out of California. That's why
he's in motion. He's moving to Nevada on the state flag.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
For tax reasons. So exactly, among other things.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
During the coronavirus pandemic, he may recall the two and
traded insults over their state's lockdown policies. Mister Newsom chided
mister Rabbit for his decision to dropping mask mandate in Texas.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Keep that mind, moderate folks.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He called it absolutely reckless, and Abbott argued on social
media that his state had lower case numbers than California.
And of course we all know that the masks were
useless or nearly useless. And Gavin Newsom shut down the schools,
kept the kids out of schools, even as all the
private schools in California were open. The schools were open
across Europe, but the teachers union told him what to do,
(24:59):
and he did so anyway, gave a campaigning in Texas
and then speaking of Gavvy boy, I thought this was interesting.
You two folks in the other forty nine states could
have this sort of politics, great coverage by cal Matters
our friends for a very long time. Despite facing a
twelve billion dollar deficit this year, cal Unicornia's legislature still
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managed to spend at least four hundred and fifteen million
dollars on local projects to help lawmakers win their next elections.
Cow Makers found close to one hundred year marks inserted
into just one of the state's budget bills for projects
and programs that had no apparent benefit to anybody outside
the districts. Here's and I'll get to the punchline a second.
(25:42):
The spending included five million dollars in general fund money
for an LGBTQ plus venue in San Francisco, two and
a half million for a private day school in southern California,
and a quarter million dollars for a private farm animal
rescue on the North coast. All right, here's the punchline.
At least two hundred and fifty million dollars of the
(26:05):
local project earmarks were funds taken from the ten billion
dollar proposition for climate bond that California voters foolishly approved
last year to turn.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Back climate change. So the climate change borrowed money was.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Used for an LGBTQ plus venue in a private farm
and a private day school in southern California. The climate
change money.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Just lovely?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Was it Friedman who said oppose all tax increases reflexively
automatically pose all taxes.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yes, that's right, all increases in taxes. So this time
of year, especially.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
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Speaker 3 (28:07):
We'll have to keep our eye on the stock market today,
as the Nasdaq plunged on Friday with consumer sentiment numbers
coming out at near historic lows.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I happened to spend some time with a tech professional
yesterday who said, as we were discussing the market, the
technology is way ahead of the adoption, meaning there's just
torrents of money being spent and the revenue is going
to lag well behind the benefits of that technology. If
(28:42):
indeed the full AI rose ever blooms, who knows when
it'll be.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, investors are starting to get a little nervous about
all the money title.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
What about the consumer sentiment? Why is it the practically
at a record low? And we'll get into that more
details coming up, I feel jack well, yeah, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
That might be it. Like we were talking about last week.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Wait, if things get overanalyzed, how did Trump capture working
class Hispanic men?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
People thought things were gonna get cheaper because things were
too expensive, and they haven't gotten cheaper, so now they've
turned Who else can help me with the fact that
things are too expensive.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It might just be that period for every group of people.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And over the weekend, Trump was saying he wasn't getting
enough credit. There's practically no inflation, he said a little loud.
You know, he does a remarkable job of not coming
off as an ow to touch billionaire.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I mean an astonishing job at that. That was not good.
That was out of step billionaire ish.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well also, and again we gotta take a break. But uh,
he was going around saying prices we're gonna go down.
And I think people believe that prices are not gonna
go down. No, they just they just aren't.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
They'll stop risings so fast, but prices aren't going to
go down. That's that's not the way inflation works. Yeah,
and we don't want deflation.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So yeah, that's the best that we could offer, a
slowing of the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Anyway, we got mailbag on the way and lots of
other stuff stick around. I just saw the headline Jimmy
Kimmel's wife reveals she's lost family connections because of there
where She has Trump people in her family and they
no longer speak.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh way to go. That's a good way to live
your life. And you're you're the reasonable one. Okay, alright, sorry,
I'm still getting organized. Eyed here mail here's your freedom
loving quote today, And if I could, I would rework
our general manager today taking a break from our John
Stuart mill serious quotes. It is the two hundred and
(30:53):
fiftieth birthday of the United States Marine Corps today.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I thought that was tomorrow. It's today.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, that's the tenth I'm told Happy birthday Marines. Roy
the Marine writing and suggesting the following freedom moment quote
of the day from General le June from the Battle
of Trenton to the Argonne Marines have won foremost honors
in war and in the long eras of tranquility at home.
Generation after generations of Marines have grown gray in war,
(31:20):
in both hemispheres and in every corner of the Seven Seas,
that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and
security and.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Soon to take back the beaches of Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Oh, that was an unnecessary note of something or other
in the midst of what was a lovely moment. Thanks
for ruining it, mailbag. Please don't invade Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I'm a fan of the decapitation move, just to take
old fat Maduro out and let us general scrap for
the leftover.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Drone strike on his Mercedes as he's headed somewhere. That
sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, drops note mail Bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
First of all, it's not a meme exactly, but comments
sent along by Tom. It is an article from what,
let's let's say, some big news outlet. I don't recall what,
but it is a very very big lady, and the
(32:20):
headline is residents say loss of Snap benefits could threaten
serious hunger and she I mean and the headline is
only in America. Could legacy media say with a straight
face that this woman is starving?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Wow, Yeah, they're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well, you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You think somebody would have caught that. Can we not
have a five hundred pound person on our stories about hunger?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Let me let me click on the link.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Was it Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Was Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think that said? No, it is Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
The other night, Joe Biden came back and gave a speech,
and he was talking about the evil Republicans who want
people to be hungry. One out of five kids go
to bed hungry in this country. That's a disgrace. What
of five kids go to bed hungry? Not a flipping chance,
that's just fictional. Put out of five hundred, that's ah,
(33:15):
I know, I know. Marxists just lie and senile old farts.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Moving along, dear cold warrior, an old fancy Jack writes
Ryan from Ustena is someone who has applied for government
benefits like Snap recently and bedden denied because I make
too much money. Then seeing Snap drivers or Snap users
driving better cars, having money for nails and hair and luxuries,
I can't even dream about. I wonder if I'm the
sucker going to work every day and working extra hours
(33:42):
stocking gas station coolers when I could be living high
sucking the government teat.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Uh yeah, yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And then he asks, actually a pretty good philosophical question.
It's in the blunt language of the working man. But
how could anybody want to give this government more power
when these slackers are in power?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah? I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
What do you see, friends, when you look at the
government that makes you say we should give them more power,
for they will fix everything wrong with society.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Man, you're nuts.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let's see. This is from newt got excited when I
heard about the ang pickleball paddles, but then he impugnes
their quality. He suggests, no way, no way, may they
may not be tournament quality goods.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I hope they're not cheap Chinese pickleball pedals. He uses the.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Term cheap Chinese pos which I think is highly inappropriate.
He says they're only good for the principal's office in
the seventies and the bedroom.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I guess they're moving fast. Hansen says, get them all
you can. They're flying off the shelves and they're a
little bit of time off.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yes, these pickleball pedals are not for use playing pickleball ps.
Please don't retire or die before I do. Will drop
us in note when you die in newt.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Can't believe we're pumping out cheap Chinese crap with our
names on it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That's not like us. It's about time.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's the free market. I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
How much time do we have, Mike? Oh God, thirty seconds?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Matt and Puolla Washington a town I had to rehearse
pronouncing over and over again with the help of my
daughter who lives in that area. A tale of woe
from Matt. It's actually kind of a funny. Note, but
we don't have enough time for about online dating and
how nutty and unsuccessful it was. Fast word. I put
an ad on Craigslist, and my wife and I just
celebrated at our thirteenth wedding anniversary.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
You never know. Wow, good for you Matt and missus.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Matt got a great way to organize your house. Are
you familiar with the ninety ninety rule? You want another
like trend slogan something or no?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I know you don't know. I'm sorry. I thought maybe
you did. Anyway, we've got a lot of stuff on
the way.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
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