November 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The BBC resignations
- Ai disagreements
- Crack up at the Heritage Foundation
- 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 and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jetty and no he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
This is the beginning to show and fight for Americans
across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let me just say this.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
With the government open, we can focus on passing a
full bipartisan budget for twenty twenty six. Understand that not
all of my Democratic colleagues are satisfied with this agreement,
but waiting another week or another month wouldn't deliver a
better outcome.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Was our judgment after six weeks, going on seven weeks
of this shutdown, that that path wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Aralines, which have been.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The second two senators there, that's of your eight Democratic
senators that voted to open the government back up the
second two. We're being honest. At first one thought, this
is our opportunity to fight. Okay, try to spin it
that way with you. Ont You went ahead and voted
to open the government without holding out to get the
Obamacare subsidies extended, which is fine. It wasn't going to
happen so anyhow, exactly, shutting down appears to be over
(01:21):
the Supreme Court has made a couple of big announcements.
A case they will take up, a case they won't
take up. We'll get to those coming.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
What all right, I'll stay tuned. So we were talking
about the BBC earlier. They're embroiled in a scandal. Jack,
you described it pretty well that they very, very creatively
edited a Trump speech from January sixth.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This is a big deal. The top two people at
the BBC, the biggest news organization in the world, stepped
down last night. Why the London Telegraph did a story
just a week ago outing the fact that the BBC
had incredibly misrepresented Donald Trump's speech the day of January sixth.
You remember the whole insurrection thing like that. So the
(02:03):
BBC drops a documentary about January sixth, a week before
our presidential election for all those you worry about, you know,
the United States getting involved in other people's elections or whatever.
The freaking BBC decides to put out a documentary about
January sixth, the week before our election, interesting timing, in
(02:26):
which they had edited together what Trump was saying. They
took two pieces from his speech that were almost an
hour apart and put him together in a way that
made it look much more like he was calling for
the violent overthrow the government than he actually did. And
the Telegraph, I don't know how they just got wind
(02:46):
of it. Somebody must have leaked to them or something. Yes,
that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, anyway, are you sure it wasn't two related thoughts?
But he went on an hour long riff about Hannibal
Lecter in between Rosie Donald.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right, But the fact that the Telegraph put this out
a week ago, and last night the top two people
the BBC resigned and now Trump said he's going to
sue for a billion dollars, which I think partially is
to put it in the news because then people will
have to hear about the story.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Right, yeah, and well done. So I think we're having
a moment here, an international moment. And here's what I mean,
as Jack mentioned Tim Davey, the head of the BBC,
the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Deborah Turnus, the CEO of
BBC News. By the way, this gal was the president
of NBC News from twenty thirteen through twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Course, wow eyah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Here in America, they announced their resignation. Sunday series of
scandals that's rocked the BBC this year. The Telegraph report
that Jack mentioned it was reporting on a leaked dossier
compiled by journalist Michael Prescott, who had been hired to
advise the BBC on standards and guidelines, and then they
(04:03):
go into the Donald Trump thing. Prescott accused the corporation
of serious and systemic bias. He also criticized the BBC's
coverage of transgender issues as being widely biased, as well
as the network's anti Israel bias evident in the BBC
Arabic service. You may recall in February, the broadcasting regulator
OFFCOM had slammed the network for a documentary about Gaza
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that featured a child narrator who turned out to be
the son of a Hamas official. And they knew it
a law all along, but they pretended that he was
just a plucky little Palestinian boy. Interestingly, the blow up
at the BBC is a big deal. It is one
hundred and three years old. It is the oldest global broadcaster,
employing twenty one thousand people who turn out thousands of
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hours of programming in many language.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Thousands of languages.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm sorry, I'm skipping ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Thousands of hours of lefty programming in many languages. They
are the world's NPR.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, it's a drastically expanded its footprint in the US
through a partnership with PBS.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
There's a shock.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Its website attracts more than sixty million monthly visitors from
the US. And as they point out in the National Review,
it's widely viewed by American viewers as impartial and authoritative.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But the British know better.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The former political editor of the BBC admitted some years
ago this is Andrew maher quote. The BBC is not
impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded urban organization with
an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and
gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much
a party exactly, not so much a party political bias.
It's better expressed as a cultural liberal bias. And then
(05:44):
they mentioned how they frequently wandered into the twilight zone.
Just last week, the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit found that
presenter Martine Kruxel had broken its impartiality rules by explaining
on there that the phrase pregnant people referred to women.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But you don't want to cross that line.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Right right, But they roasted her for that. How dare
you say that someone who's pregnant is a woman. It
won't surprise anyone that the reaction to most of the
media of the BBC's many lapses has been to adopt
the passive admission that mistakes have been made.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yes, according to the President, it was an error in
judgment and not I tried to slip it by because
I wanted to effect the US election and not have
Donald Trump get elected. I did it on purpose. I
knew exactly what I was doing, and I got taught
a year later.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And then, of course they're now saying, like the left
wing Guardian, the BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated
attack with these resignations it has given in. So the
story isn't the BBC is wildly biased and dishonest. It's
Republicans pounds, you know, in essence.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Right, And as we have said so many times over
the years, overreaching does you so much hard, more harm
than good if you're on the winning side of an argument.
And I think you know, declaring January sixth is something
awful that Trump played a horrible role in. You're in
pretty solid ground in my mind, you don't need to
make stuff up, but we don't guild the lily. But
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if you make stuff up and you get caught, then
everybody has the permission structure in their mind to discount
everything you say in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
A bunch of lily guilders anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So John Fund is writing about this for the National Review,
and he says, almost twenty years ago, I met the
late Vladimir Bukowski, the former Soviet dissident who spent a
decade in the Gulag before being released in nineteen seventy six.
I asked him how he liked living in Britain. He
said he loved it, with the exception of the BBC.
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He tagged it for being slavishly in favor of the
European Union, worshipful of climate change extremists, and opposed to Israel.
He said that in protest, he hadn't paid his annual
license fee. You like have to pay attacks to support
the BBC and fund rights that He's talked to Charles Moore,
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the official biographer of Margaret Thatcher. I really need to
read that book, but he refuses to pay that license fee.
He told me that the proliferation of TV channels makes
up mockery of the original justification of that fee, or
NPR or PBS for that matter, that a government broadcaster
must ensure quality programming, and he points out that other
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countries have abandoned this model. Here's the part that really
convinced me that we might be having a moment. The
BBC's royal charter ends in twenty twenty seven, and its
renewal could force it to adopt new approaches such as
subscription pricing, selling advertising, or scaling back its ambitious reach.
It would be about time. Then they quote Daniel Hannan,
(08:52):
who's a member of the House of Lords. Let's drop
this pretense that the BBC somehow represents an Olympian purity
to which no other broadcaster can aspire. Let the corporation
raise its own funds, Let it pursue whatever news agenda likes.
But for heaven's sake, stop taking our money and using
it to tramp on our values.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The way that it's so similar to NPR is I mean,
it's almost exactly the same thing. I hear. I listen
to NPR every day, and I hear the promos they
run with callers I'm just so happy somebody out there
is still fighting to have the truth on the air
without any bias, like just laughable.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I know, I know, it's hilarious. See here you go.
He actually, I you know what, I edited that guy
from the House of Lords because he used the word
traduce and I wasn't sure exactly what it means. I
tr a deuce. Traduce speak badly of or tell lies
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about someone or something so as to damage its reputation. Okay, true, Yeah,
the DBC is troducing the values of good British people
introduced like that a bunch of producers introduced like a
mother for a living.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh please if.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Some of the pushback, not surprisingly from some people with
the BBC and some of the lefty politicians in Great Britain,
has been how this is the same sort of people
in Trump world that are stifling free speech in America
or trying to do it here and we won't have
it now. That's rich given the recent history in Great
Britain of locking people up who tweeted something about you know,
(10:29):
a transwoman that they didn't like, they lock you up,
that this is this is going to stifle free speech
by forcing BBC to own up the fact that they
were editing speeches to make them look worse than they were.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So there's this new movie out with uh is it
Julia Roberts. I can't remember as a professor, And I
sat on this review by Michelle Goldberg in the New
York Times for a long time.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I was going to bring into the show.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But she dismisses this movie, which is about campus cancel
culture and the DIFFI culty of stepping outside the mainstream
of far left thought on campuses, and she dismissed the
movie as like nostalgia for a different time. She says,
because we all know the real tone on college campuses right.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Now is the war on the left.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow, And that it's just really hard to be left
of center on college campuses these days because of Trump's
war on academic freedom. She stated that as fact in
the New York Times. So it does it, which is
just hilarious. And I've got millions of evidence for you
if you need it. But so, yeah, of course that's
the strategy. Yeah, it's like, you know, two years ago,
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some activist group. Oh that reminds me. I've got a
bunch of stuff that an undercover teacher sent us from
the Sacramento School District that they were handing out to
little children a couple of years ago about trans rights
and far left politics.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But anyway, sorry, I distracted myself.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's like the technique of the two years ago you
introduced gay porn into an l medary school library. Than
when I say, WHOA, you can't be given gay porn
nine year olds, you accuse me of being a right
wing censor. Look at embedding books ridiculous. Don't be bullied
by these people anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So the shutdown's over. Are going to get the airports
back up and running. I just saw a report that
I don't know how true this is. If there's one
person in America, they would report it. TSA workers have
been sleeping in their cars. Many have just tens of
dollars in their bank accounts, so they've moved out of
their place and they're sleeping in their cars because of
(12:37):
the shutdown. I guess. Anyway, we got some other news
on the way to stay here, as.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
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 two hundred.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So off air. Joe just said to me that he
asked Claude a question. Yeah, AI chatbot, and it's spinning.
I've noticed Claude takes longer to think than Grock or
chat GPT. But I wanted to bring this up. I
had a like a therapist question that I posed to
all three of my chatbots, kind of a complicated family
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dynamic thing. How to handle It's the advice from all three, Well,
one stood out is fairly different than the other two,
but was just mind blowingly thorough and intuitive and just
all kinds of good. And I have spent probably six
(13:45):
figures in my life on therapists for various family members
and this and so sort of thing, and this is
the best ever. It's just it's amazing to me. I
continue to be stunned, Like I sit there and think
that's brilliant, what a brilliant idea.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wow. But I've had a similar experience.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Although I did ask Claude about a dispute with a
neighbor and it said are you healthy enough to dig
a shallow grave?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Which is not out.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So I'd asked this complicated dynamic doll three and Claude's
answer was a bit of an outlier from the other
two on sending a like a shorter, more succinct email
than like getting into complications. And so then I presented
it to the other two. I said, hey, this is
what Claude said, and I gave Claude's answer, and chat
(14:34):
GPT said, I agree with Claude on points two and three,
but on one and four, I think that really Claude
is really off Bates. It was interesting to have them
kind of argue with each other and then you know,
flesh it out, and then I made my own decision.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
AI on AI violence.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Freaking fascinating.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wow, yeah, wow, especially given how these things work, which
you know, I won't explain to you because ay, you
probably already have an idea, and b I'd do a
poor job. But they that they would have disagreements and say, yeah,
he's partly right, but not really okay, And I know
(15:14):
our tech savvy listeners are constantly lecturing us.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
They just have an enormous database of what's the most
likely next thing to be said, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Okay, but that's coming close. Here's where I get closer
to sounding like a crazy person. But one of the
reasons I don't like my kids screwing with GROC is
because they keep track of all your conversations and it's
it's helpful in many ways. So for instance, if you're
figuring out how to handle a boss, you've got a
boss you're struggling with, how to manage up or get
it along with or whatever, and you like, on a
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daily basis or weekly basis, talk to GROC about it.
They keep all this information and when you ask them
next week, boy, this time, you know, my boss came
in and said I got to have that report by Friday,
and GROC will say, well, do you remember you had
this problem two months ago? But they backed off. Sometimes
I think they you know, they get you catch them
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in a bad mood. They demand things that they don't
really mean, or.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Stuff like that, and are you fit enough to dig
a shallow grave?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So that's one reason it's good to have like a
build up bank of a reservoir of knowledge for these chatbots,
because they get to understand your co workers and family
members and everything. It's so freaking weird.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You know, that's wow, that's really so I was impressed
when I was doing some research on buying a new
mattress set and we were talking about cooling technologies, my
wife and I, and it said, hey, that's a good
idea because in town where I live, it gets pretty
hot in the summer. So I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right,
you know where I live. But it knows all sorts
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of intimate stuff and it's useful until the government hacks
into it and you end up in a gulag.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But let's not get ahead of.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Us, or you fall in love with it and pretty
soon you're having sex with it. Whatever that looks, whatever
that means you. Okay, I didn't even get to the
news that I wanted to get to. There is some
news in the last that last hour that we've got
to talk about, and then we will if you missed
the segmentet the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
A couple of things have happened just since we've been
on the air. The Supreme Court deciding to take up
one case and not take up another one. The one
they're going to take up, a mail in ballot case
in Mississippi could end up being a fairly big deal
for the rules around mail in balloting that we probably
need to figure out, but the one that they're not
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going to take up should This is not a surprise
unless you were ideological weirdo and believed a lot of
the crap you were being told by left wing media.
The Supreme Court is not going to take up revisit
the whole gay marriage case from back in the day.
I know you were told by your friends that next
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step after Roe versus Way doing away with game marriage.
But no, they're not gonna take a look at it
at all.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
And the slave's back in chains right.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
No, So if you're going to buy a slave, bad news,
apropos of nothing, I'll do this first.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I'll get to apropos nothing later. If you're I'm guessing
most of you don't pay any attention to think tanks
at all, but if you're lean conservative and you do
know anything about him, Heritage Foundation was huge and big,
and we talked a lot last week about how disappointing
it was that they became so concerned about not angering
Tucker Carlson apparently.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And attacked anybody who criticized him.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Platforming Nazis story out to kissing Vladimir Putin's ass too.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
By the way, story out today. This is in the
Wall Street Journal. The crack up at the Heritage Foundation
is a warning sign for MAGA. Employees at the Heritage
Foundation who had been working on Ukraine policy were asked
to watch Tucker Carlson's monologues, which were full of conspiracy
theories about the war and just flat out lies, to
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delete past tweets in support of Ukraine aid I guess
in case Tucker saw them, and to write papers reflecting
the new more isolationist policy at Heritage. This was to
the employees working on Ukraine policy. You need to watch
more of the Tucker Carlson monologues at Heritage. Isn't that something? Yeah,
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to which David French, who I don't always agree with
but writes for the New York Times, the rot is
so incredibly deep. It's astonishing to me that the Heritage Foundation,
of all institutions, would become an instrument of Russian propaganda.
That's what Tucker Carlson's monologues were, pure propaganda. So all right,
there you go like.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Ooing and eyeing over the grocery store in the bush.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, that was just shameless and how well you know,
Putin's standing up for Christianity and traditional values and stuff
like that. And you know, like I said earlier, I
don't quite understand how powerful Tucker is or Candice Owens
or Nick fwent D's versus other things. But Heritage apparently
was scared of them. This is Joe's been talking about
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this more than me. But this will continue to have
other shoes dropping. The immigration problem they got in Europe,
particularly in this case Great Britain. Looking at this picture
of a boat from today, fifteen hundred Channel migrants, that's
what they call people that who enter Great Britain from
France and just come across whatever it is, sixty miles
of the channel.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
They were living in the English Channel and now they're
living here.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Fifteen hundred Channel migrants have crossed illegally from France since Thursday,
for the third straight day. Hundreds more are crossing into
UK waters. Total this year now is over thirty eight
thousan five hundred, which is a tiny number by US
Joe Biden era standards, but a lot from there, well
ahead of the thirty six thousand who arrived during the
whole of twenty twenty four. So you got people showing
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up in boat loads, illegals from all around, mostly from
Middle East Africa, get into France once they get into
Europe and then crossing the channel in these boats, and
for whatever reason, the rules in Great Britain they don't
have a way to stop the vessels and turn them
around or keep them from coming on shore.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Part of that's EU and part of its although they
did the Brexit. Part of it's that they've got progressives
in charge. Worth mentioning because I just happened to check this.
The UK as a whole has about a fifth of
our population, So if you want to talk about disruptive influence.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Of immigrants from other.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Cultures, you know that's pretty big number that they were
talking about, dwarfed by the Biden ear quite so. Oh,
speaking of the immigration problem, you mind if I squeeze
this in real quick. I mentioned earlier the shameless Metropolitan
Police trying to downplay an ugly, ugly murder by an
Afghan immigrant on an old man, and how they just
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in Orwellian fashion, turned it into an incident in which
a man sadly died like you know, he'd had a
heart attack and died alone watching the TV but then
you've got this story out of its reloading, Thank you
very much. Swedish court ruled that an Eritrean migrant who
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raped a sixteen year old girl will not be deported
because the rape didn't last long enough. Oh my god,
she missed her buss was walking through a pedestrian tunnel
after finishing her shift at a McDonald's. An eighteen year
old Eritrean migrant, Yazid Mohammed Um attacked.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He raped her.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
He was sentenced to three years in prison, and the
prosecutor wanted to deport him, but the Court of Appeals
noted the man has refugee status and to deport him
would require a quote exceptionally serious offense and allowing them
to remain in Sweden would pose a serious threat to
public order in safety. But the rape was deemed not
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serious enough to justify the deportation, with the Court of
Appeal citing, among other factors, the duration of the rape
in its assessment, which is just stunning. I know, it's terrible.
This is Europe trying to figure out what the hell
to do with itself after allowing rampant immigration of people
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who in many cases hate their culture, hate the dominant
religion and stuff like that. Here's a freedom of information
report from the Center for Migration Control in the UK.
They were keeping track of crime rates among various immigrant
groups that they refused to release to the press until
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a freedom of information request. Which nationalities commit the most violent,
sexual and theft offenses. Conviction rates in England and Wales
by nationality protect ten thousand people for the years twenty
twenty one through twenty twenty three violent crimes per ten
thousand people. Sixteen UK natives get convicted of those crimes.
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It's eighty Gambians ninety one. Iraqis one hundred and two
per ten thousand, Afghanistan citizens, Somalians about one hundred and thirty,
so we're almost ten times the rate of UK citizens.
And Kunglese it's one hundred and eighty seven per ten thousand.
It's about twelve times as many as UK citizens. Sexual
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violence UK citizens six per ten thousand, Afghans it's sixty
per ten thousand Eritreans it's fifty four Namibians, fifty Chadians,
forty Moldovan's thirty eight and theft eighteen per ten thousand
Native born Britz Folks from Algeria. It's three hundred and
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twenty per ten thousand, eighteen for Brits, one hundred and
twenty for Algerians Moroccans it's two hundred and twenty six Romanians,
one hundred and thirty two Congolese, one hundred and thirty
folks from Chad one hundred and twenty. They're poor people,
many unskilled, who come to a country where they're not
supposed to be and not supposed to work. Of course
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they turned the crime, but the Brits are desperate to
keep that quiet.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Kids and I ate at a well known diner chain
over the weekend. I'll call it Lenny's. I want to
talk about that in a second. But just came across
this information. We got an asteroid headed. It's not gonna
hit Earth, but it's gonna come Asteroid Psyche sixteen is
its name. Anyway, They believe it contains because you know,
(25:47):
we send up these probes and everything like that to
these asteroids. This asteroid contains gold reserves worth seven hundred
quintillion dollars, which I don't actually know what a quintillion.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Is, but and I'd buy an new car if I
had that.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Ash sounds like a big number. Yeah, seven hundred quintillion
dollars worth of gold on it. It's enough to make
everyone on Earth billionaires. Of course, there's a economic flaw
with that argument. I'm not sure gold would continue to
hold the value it has. We each had seven pounds of.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It, and the costs of extraction from a asteroid hurling
through space have got to be considerable.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Wouldn't that be something if it hit Earth?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Trump auto annex it just in case, although everybody knows
it's ours, all of a sudden, gold's worthless because there's
so much of it. Yeah, that would be crazy. People
would be just literally, Oh that reminds me. I was
gonna say, making solid gold toilets. I've been meaning to
bring this up for a long time, for days. Anyway,
(26:54):
where is that story? You remember the banana tape to
the wall gap?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah? The artist he taped a banana to the wall
and it was what did it represent man in humanity
to man? And somebody paid something like a million dollars
for the art.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, the same artist behind the six point two million
dollar duct tape banana has created an eighteen carrot gold toilet.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
How many of how many million.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Did you say the banana was six point two?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Was more than I even remembered.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Can you believe that? S anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Uh, he sculpted a toilet out of two hundred and
twenty three pounds of gold. It's valued at about ten
million dollars just for the materials. Sothabies is betting it
can auction off the golden toilet bowl for even more.
They're going to start the bidding a ten million bucks.
That's just your break even never mind his labor for
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crafting a really pretty good looking solid gold toilet. I
mean it looks like a toilet in like your office. Well,
what's the name with the industrial flusher and stuff?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
What's the name or the description of the arts supposed
to symbolize that we're flushing money down the drain, or
that everything you know turns to dust and your money's
worth nothing and all your money brilliant? Well, not another
moment by As quoted by the rock group Kansas Yes Yes,
in their work of Genius. Let me first remind.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You that the fruit duct tape to the wall was
entitled Comedian the Solid Gold Toilet. Now, don't march on
this place and burn it down. The title of the
solid gold toilet is America twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well that was pretty clever. This guy's clever. Some rich
progressive will buy that because they're progressive friends. They want
to be known as the person that bought the Trump's
a Problem art.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, you know, I am going to protest this solid
gold toilet, and the nature of my protest will be
all too appropriate.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I think I have something in.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Mind, and it'll be called the person who bought this
has s for brains exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's what I will entitle my performance art.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I ain't watching that show, or at least I don't
want good seats. Neither do I. Okay, we will finish
strong next.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
New Mexico has become the first date in the country
to offer his residents.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Free childcare, which will be provided by nannies from Old Mexico. True.
So Saturday, I had to m see an event on
Saturday night because I'm the I amc it every year
because I'm the only person that knows how to hook
up the PA system. And I didn't get done kind
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of late, and I walked into the house at ten
o'clock at night and I said to my kids, who's hungry?
I'm hungry, Let's let's go somewhere to eat, which seemed
very wild and crazy for us, because I'm never out
at night at all.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, I'm certain my dad never said that it at night.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So we went to a well known chain diner, we'll
call it Lenny's. And you wouldn't describe me as an
elitist when it comes to eating, No, no, indeed, no,
I am very very man other people, regular person when
it comes eating places like this this. We had some bacon.
(30:28):
We had more fun talking about the bacon trying to
figure out if it had any flavor whatsoever. It was
completely lacking a flavor, which is all very hard to do.
Even if he eat paper, it's got kind of a flavor.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
To it nice, right, So it's just flavor of paper.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
We're just wondering what animal this must have come from,
or how cheap? What did the heck is going on there?
It's absolutely anyway. Henry, who's now thirteen, ordered the Rudolph pancakes,
in which they they put the pan cakes in such
a shape that like the bacon is the antlers and
then the blueberries a nose or something like that. And
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he wanted his redemption because he had ordered those one
time when he was four at a Denny's, and that
was the story from way back in the day. When
the cook quit, we waited for so long and we
never got it, and I finally went back to the
kitchen and I said, like, I was going to say,
what's going on here, but the waitress was in an
argument with the cook and he was arguing, ignoring her,
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and then he finally just put down his apron and
walked out of the door. So the cook had quit,
and Henry finally got his redemption. Nine years later, he
got his rough pancakes.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The last time I ate at the Lennies with Judy
and the kids, this was ages ago.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What struck me was the incredible thinness of the bacon.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was so excited, sliced.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
With laser beams. I don't know how they got it
so thin.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But what I said to the kids, and it's pretty
much true, you can't screw up really hash browns and eggs.
A couple of eggs over easy and hash browns with
toast gonna be good. Wherever you get it's gonna be
kind of the same. You can't. There's not a lot
of variants there you get into the meat, you got
some problems. But for for ten years now we've been driving.
We could drive down the highway anywhere in American and
if we see the sign up there, Henuel shake his fist.
(32:13):
I hate you Denny's because of the Rudolph pancakes. He
didn't get what he was for, and we finally.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
For my rein deer pancake, you besh.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I enjoyed talking to the waitresses there because it was
just about to change over into the late night bar
crowd and them talking about how you know, my shift
usually ends this and I try not to get the
shift that starts at eleven, because then the people start
coming in. And man, they were setting up all the
tables with the uh, you know, the paper towel rolled
up forksknives and spoons. I mean they're getting ready for
a very very busy night of people like me who
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used to be many many years ago. I would always
be at that place late at night, ready for the
floor show. That is, you know, whether you're at Denny's
or the famous Southern places named waffle House, those kind
of places when the bars closes, it's fantastic. Get a
little floors show. Get a couple of girls rolling around
on the floor pulling each other's air while you're eating
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your biscuits and gravy. That's good time.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Servers are praying they get the generous with their money
drunks and not these get to tip completely drunks or
the dining dash drunks.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, yeah, boy, you gotta gotta level good fight in
the middle of the night with the drunk people at
a diner. I don't know. It's just.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Lay some eggs over easy and a couple of gal
slapping the hell out of each other.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Good time.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
It's final, so well, comments.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And closure all the show.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I love that. Here's your host for Fine with lots
of Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
There is pressing.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
The buttons are technical director Michael Liamslong Michael final thong. Yeah,
next time I see a pro golfer hit a spectator,
I'm gonna assume they're involved in a bet.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh yeah yeah. Katie Green or steam Mwswoman has a
final thought.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Katie talked earlier during local news about the cat and
a stroller and Michael don't get any ideas. Oh it's
not happening, pushing cats in strollers.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Ah, not at all the sign of a decade in society, Jackie.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Final thought for us, The point that I actually wanted
to make is my memories of doing stuff with my dad,
or my mom and dad or family or whatever. Those
kind of things I go into the diner stick in
my mind more than you know, planned activities of great expense.
Just those kind of moments are the ones that are
so enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
We had so much fun, right, Yeah, well said, I
don't give a crap about celebrities. I might admire their
skill at their jobs, but I couldn't care less about
their quote unquote celebrity. But my favorite celebrity right now
is Jennifer Lawrence. Not only is she a cutie and
a fine actor, but she's come out and said she's
getting out of the political commentary game. First Trump administration
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was so wild? How can we let this stand? I
was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not
make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And so then what am I doing? Yeah? I saw
that she said, I regret everything I've ever said. I thought,
that's fantastic. If you've never seen an interview with her,
she's very charming. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
So many people, thanks, so little time. Go to Armstrong
and Getty dot com. Oh, the A ANDNG swag store
of the Ang superstore. All the hoodies are flying off
the shells. People love them. The f Yoliican party T
shirt's very attractive.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, a lot of good stuff in. The earlier you
get to it, the more likely you get it on time.
So you know, don't wait on this. We'll see tomorrow.
God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
What this is about is controlling Winging's botty.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You know she's chunking up.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Wow, now there was so much wrong with that. At
where to begin?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I haven't noticed she's maturing Jack as a young woman.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
She's moved into her thirties.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Capitol's got a gym in the basement, so figure out
what that's on.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It is. I disassociate myself from the list.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jetty and no he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
This is the beginning to show and fight for Americans
across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let me just say this.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
With the government open, we can focus on passing a
full bipartisan budget for twenty twenty six. Understand that not
all of my Democratic colleagues are satisfied with this agreement,
but waiting another week or another month wouldn't deliver a
better outcome.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Was our judgment after six weeks, going on seven weeks
of this shutdown, that that path wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Aralines, which have been.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The second two senators there, that's of your eight Democratic
senators that voted to open the government back up the
second two. We're being honest. At first one thought, this
is our opportunity to fight. Okay, try to spin it
that way with you. Ont You went ahead and voted
to open the government without holding out to get the
Obamacare subsidies extended, which is fine. It wasn't going to
happen so anyhow, exactly, shutting down appears to be over
(01:21):
the Supreme Court has made a couple of big announcements.
A case they will take up, a case they won't
take up. We'll get to those coming.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
What all right, I'll stay tuned. So we were talking
about the BBC earlier. They're embroiled in a scandal. Jack,
you described it pretty well that they very, very creatively
edited a Trump speech from January sixth.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This is a big deal. The top two people at
the BBC, the biggest news organization in the world, stepped
down last night. Why the London Telegraph did a story
just a week ago outing the fact that the BBC
had incredibly misrepresented Donald Trump's speech the day of January sixth.
You remember the whole insurrection thing like that. So the
(02:03):
BBC drops a documentary about January sixth, a week before
our presidential election for all those you worry about, you know,
the United States getting involved in other people's elections or whatever.
The freaking BBC decides to put out a documentary about
January sixth, the week before our election, interesting timing, in
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which they had edited together what Trump was saying. They
took two pieces from his speech that were almost an
hour apart and put him together in a way that
made it look much more like he was calling for
the violent overthrow the government than he actually did. And
the Telegraph, I don't know how they just got wind
(02:46):
of it. Somebody must have leaked to them or something. Yes,
that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, anyway, are you sure it wasn't two related thoughts?
But he went on an hour long riff about Hannibal
Lecter in between Rosie Donald.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right, But the fact that the Telegraph put this out
a week ago, and last night the top two people
the BBC resigned and now Trump said he's going to
sue for a billion dollars, which I think partially is
to put it in the news because then people will
have to hear about the story.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Right, yeah, and well done. So I think we're having
a moment here, an international moment. And here's what I mean,
as Jack mentioned Tim Davey, the head of the BBC,
the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Deborah Turnus, the CEO of
BBC News. By the way, this gal was the president
of NBC News from twenty thirteen through twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Course, wow eyah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Here in America, they announced their resignation. Sunday series of
scandals that's rocked the BBC this year. The Telegraph report
that Jack mentioned it was reporting on a leaked dossier
compiled by journalist Michael Prescott, who had been hired to
advise the BBC on standards and guidelines, and then they
(04:03):
go into the Donald Trump thing. Prescott accused the corporation
of serious and systemic bias. He also criticized the BBC's
coverage of transgender issues as being widely biased, as well
as the network's anti Israel bias evident in the BBC
Arabic service. You may recall in February, the broadcasting regulator
OFFCOM had slammed the network for a documentary about Gaza
(04:26):
that featured a child narrator who turned out to be
the son of a Hamas official. And they knew it
a law all along, but they pretended that he was
just a plucky little Palestinian boy. Interestingly, the blow up
at the BBC is a big deal. It is one
hundred and three years old. It is the oldest global broadcaster,
employing twenty one thousand people who turn out thousands of
(04:49):
hours of programming in many language.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Thousands of languages.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm sorry, I'm skipping ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Thousands of hours of lefty programming in many languages. They
are the world's NPR.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, it's a drastically expanded its footprint in the US
through a partnership with PBS.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
There's a shock.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Its website attracts more than sixty million monthly visitors from
the US. And as they point out in the National Review,
it's widely viewed by American viewers as impartial and authoritative.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But the British know better.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The former political editor of the BBC admitted some years
ago this is Andrew maher quote. The BBC is not
impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded urban organization with
an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and
gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much
a party exactly, not so much a party political bias.
It's better expressed as a cultural liberal bias. And then
(05:44):
they mentioned how they frequently wandered into the twilight zone.
Just last week, the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit found that
presenter Martine Kruxel had broken its impartiality rules by explaining
on there that the phrase pregnant people referred to women.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
But you don't want to cross that line.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Right right, But they roasted her for that. How dare
you say that someone who's pregnant is a woman. It
won't surprise anyone that the reaction to most of the
media of the BBC's many lapses has been to adopt
the passive admission that mistakes have been made.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yes, according to the President, it was an error in
judgment and not I tried to slip it by because
I wanted to effect the US election and not have
Donald Trump get elected. I did it on purpose. I
knew exactly what I was doing, and I got taught
a year later.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And then, of course they're now saying, like the left
wing Guardian, the BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated
attack with these resignations it has given in. So the
story isn't the BBC is wildly biased and dishonest. It's
Republicans pounds, you know, in essence.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Right, And as we have said so many times over
the years, overreaching does you so much hard, more harm
than good if you're on the winning side of an argument.
And I think you know, declaring January sixth is something
awful that Trump played a horrible role in. You're in
pretty solid ground in my mind, you don't need to
make stuff up, but we don't guild the lily. But
(07:15):
if you make stuff up and you get caught, then
everybody has the permission structure in their mind to discount
everything you say in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
A bunch of lily guilders anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So John Fund is writing about this for the National Review,
and he says, almost twenty years ago, I met the
late Vladimir Bukowski, the former Soviet dissident who spent a
decade in the Gulag before being released in nineteen seventy six.
I asked him how he liked living in Britain. He
said he loved it, with the exception of the BBC.
(07:47):
He tagged it for being slavishly in favor of the
European Union, worshipful of climate change extremists, and opposed to Israel.
He said that in protest, he hadn't paid his annual
license fee. You like have to pay attacks to support
the BBC and fund rights that He's talked to Charles Moore,
(08:10):
the official biographer of Margaret Thatcher. I really need to
read that book, but he refuses to pay that license fee.
He told me that the proliferation of TV channels makes
up mockery of the original justification of that fee, or
NPR or PBS for that matter, that a government broadcaster
must ensure quality programming, and he points out that other
(08:31):
countries have abandoned this model. Here's the part that really
convinced me that we might be having a moment. The
BBC's royal charter ends in twenty twenty seven, and its
renewal could force it to adopt new approaches such as
subscription pricing, selling advertising, or scaling back its ambitious reach.
It would be about time. Then they quote Daniel Hannan,
(08:52):
who's a member of the House of Lords. Let's drop
this pretense that the BBC somehow represents an Olympian purity
to which no other broadcaster can aspire. Let the corporation
raise its own funds, Let it pursue whatever news agenda likes.
But for heaven's sake, stop taking our money and using
it to tramp on our values.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The way that it's so similar to NPR is I mean,
it's almost exactly the same thing. I hear. I listen
to NPR every day, and I hear the promos they
run with callers I'm just so happy somebody out there
is still fighting to have the truth on the air
without any bias, like just laughable.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I know, I know, it's hilarious. See here you go.
He actually, I you know what, I edited that guy
from the House of Lords because he used the word
traduce and I wasn't sure exactly what it means. I
tr a deuce. Traduce speak badly of or tell lies
(09:49):
about someone or something so as to damage its reputation. Okay, true, Yeah,
the DBC is troducing the values of good British people
introduced like that a bunch of producers introduced like a
mother for a living.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh please if.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Some of the pushback, not surprisingly from some people with
the BBC and some of the lefty politicians in Great Britain,
has been how this is the same sort of people
in Trump world that are stifling free speech in America
or trying to do it here and we won't have
it now. That's rich given the recent history in Great
Britain of locking people up who tweeted something about you know,
(10:29):
a transwoman that they didn't like, they lock you up,
that this is this is going to stifle free speech
by forcing BBC to own up the fact that they
were editing speeches to make them look worse than they were.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So there's this new movie out with uh is it
Julia Roberts. I can't remember as a professor, And I
sat on this review by Michelle Goldberg in the New
York Times for a long time.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I was going to bring into the show.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But she dismisses this movie, which is about campus cancel
culture and the DIFFI culty of stepping outside the mainstream
of far left thought on campuses, and she dismissed the
movie as like nostalgia for a different time. She says,
because we all know the real tone on college campuses right.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Now is the war on the left.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow, And that it's just really hard to be left
of center on college campuses these days because of Trump's
war on academic freedom. She stated that as fact in
the New York Times. So it does it, which is
just hilarious. And I've got millions of evidence for you
if you need it. But so, yeah, of course that's
the strategy. Yeah, it's like, you know, two years ago,
(11:38):
some activist group. Oh that reminds me. I've got a
bunch of stuff that an undercover teacher sent us from
the Sacramento School District that they were handing out to
little children a couple of years ago about trans rights
and far left politics.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But anyway, sorry, I distracted myself.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's like the technique of the two years ago you
introduced gay porn into an l medary school library. Than
when I say, WHOA, you can't be given gay porn
nine year olds, you accuse me of being a right
wing censor. Look at embedding books ridiculous. Don't be bullied
by these people anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So the shutdown's over. Are going to get the airports
back up and running. I just saw a report that
I don't know how true this is. If there's one
person in America, they would report it. TSA workers have
been sleeping in their cars. Many have just tens of
dollars in their bank accounts, so they've moved out of
their place and they're sleeping in their cars because of
(12:37):
the shutdown. I guess. Anyway, we got some other news
on the way to stay here, as.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
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 two hundred.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So off air. Joe just said to me that he
asked Claude a question. Yeah, AI chatbot, and it's spinning.
I've noticed Claude takes longer to think than Grock or
chat GPT. But I wanted to bring this up. I
had a like a therapist question that I posed to
all three of my chatbots, kind of a complicated family
(13:24):
dynamic thing. How to handle It's the advice from all three, Well,
one stood out is fairly different than the other two,
but was just mind blowingly thorough and intuitive and just
all kinds of good. And I have spent probably six
(13:45):
figures in my life on therapists for various family members
and this and so sort of thing, and this is
the best ever. It's just it's amazing to me. I
continue to be stunned, Like I sit there and think
that's brilliant, what a brilliant idea.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wow. But I've had a similar experience.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Although I did ask Claude about a dispute with a
neighbor and it said are you healthy enough to dig
a shallow grave?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Which is not out.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So I'd asked this complicated dynamic doll three and Claude's
answer was a bit of an outlier from the other
two on sending a like a shorter, more succinct email
than like getting into complications. And so then I presented
it to the other two. I said, hey, this is
what Claude said, and I gave Claude's answer, and chat
(14:34):
GPT said, I agree with Claude on points two and three,
but on one and four, I think that really Claude
is really off Bates. It was interesting to have them
kind of argue with each other and then you know,
flesh it out, and then I made my own decision.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
AI on AI violence.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Freaking fascinating.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wow, yeah, wow, especially given how these things work, which
you know, I won't explain to you because ay, you
probably already have an idea, and b I'd do a
poor job. But they that they would have disagreements and say, yeah,
he's partly right, but not really okay, And I know
(15:14):
our tech savvy listeners are constantly lecturing us.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
They just have an enormous database of what's the most
likely next thing to be said, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Okay, but that's coming close. Here's where I get closer
to sounding like a crazy person. But one of the
reasons I don't like my kids screwing with GROC is
because they keep track of all your conversations and it's
it's helpful in many ways. So for instance, if you're
figuring out how to handle a boss, you've got a
boss you're struggling with, how to manage up or get
it along with or whatever, and you like, on a
(15:44):
daily basis or weekly basis, talk to GROC about it.
They keep all this information and when you ask them
next week, boy, this time, you know, my boss came
in and said I got to have that report by Friday,
and GROC will say, well, do you remember you had
this problem two months ago? But they backed off. Sometimes
I think they you know, they get you catch them
(16:06):
in a bad mood. They demand things that they don't
really mean, or.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Stuff like that, and are you fit enough to dig
a shallow grave?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So that's one reason it's good to have like a
build up bank of a reservoir of knowledge for these chatbots,
because they get to understand your co workers and family
members and everything. It's so freaking weird.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You know, that's wow, that's really so I was impressed
when I was doing some research on buying a new
mattress set and we were talking about cooling technologies, my
wife and I, and it said, hey, that's a good
idea because in town where I live, it gets pretty
hot in the summer. So I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right,
you know where I live. But it knows all sorts
(16:46):
of intimate stuff and it's useful until the government hacks
into it and you end up in a gulag.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But let's not get ahead of.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Us, or you fall in love with it and pretty
soon you're having sex with it. Whatever that looks, whatever
that means you. Okay, I didn't even get to the
news that I wanted to get to. There is some
news in the last that last hour that we've got
to talk about, and then we will if you missed
the segmentet the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
A couple of things have happened just since we've been
on the air. The Supreme Court deciding to take up
one case and not take up another one. The one
they're going to take up, a mail in ballot case
in Mississippi could end up being a fairly big deal
for the rules around mail in balloting that we probably
need to figure out, but the one that they're not
(17:36):
going to take up should This is not a surprise
unless you were ideological weirdo and believed a lot of
the crap you were being told by left wing media.
The Supreme Court is not going to take up revisit
the whole gay marriage case from back in the day.
I know you were told by your friends that next
(17:58):
step after Roe versus Way doing away with game marriage.
But no, they're not gonna take a look at it
at all.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
And the slave's back in chains right.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
No, So if you're going to buy a slave, bad news,
apropos of nothing, I'll do this first.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I'll get to apropos nothing later. If you're I'm guessing
most of you don't pay any attention to think tanks
at all, but if you're lean conservative and you do
know anything about him, Heritage Foundation was huge and big,
and we talked a lot last week about how disappointing
it was that they became so concerned about not angering
Tucker Carlson apparently.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And attacked anybody who criticized him.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Platforming Nazis story out to kissing Vladimir Putin's ass too.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
By the way, story out today. This is in the
Wall Street Journal. The crack up at the Heritage Foundation
is a warning sign for MAGA. Employees at the Heritage
Foundation who had been working on Ukraine policy were asked
to watch Tucker Carlson's monologues, which were full of conspiracy
theories about the war and just flat out lies, to
(19:11):
delete past tweets in support of Ukraine aid I guess
in case Tucker saw them, and to write papers reflecting
the new more isolationist policy at Heritage. This was to
the employees working on Ukraine policy. You need to watch
more of the Tucker Carlson monologues at Heritage. Isn't that something? Yeah,
(19:34):
to which David French, who I don't always agree with
but writes for the New York Times, the rot is
so incredibly deep. It's astonishing to me that the Heritage Foundation,
of all institutions, would become an instrument of Russian propaganda.
That's what Tucker Carlson's monologues were, pure propaganda. So all right,
there you go like.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Ooing and eyeing over the grocery store in the bush.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, that was just shameless and how well you know,
Putin's standing up for Christianity and traditional values and stuff
like that. And you know, like I said earlier, I
don't quite understand how powerful Tucker is or Candice Owens
or Nick fwent D's versus other things. But Heritage apparently
was scared of them. This is Joe's been talking about
(20:20):
this more than me. But this will continue to have
other shoes dropping. The immigration problem they got in Europe,
particularly in this case Great Britain. Looking at this picture
of a boat from today, fifteen hundred Channel migrants, that's
what they call people that who enter Great Britain from
France and just come across whatever it is, sixty miles
of the channel.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
They were living in the English Channel and now they're
living here.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Fifteen hundred Channel migrants have crossed illegally from France since Thursday,
for the third straight day. Hundreds more are crossing into
UK waters. Total this year now is over thirty eight
thousan five hundred, which is a tiny number by US
Joe Biden era standards, but a lot from there, well
ahead of the thirty six thousand who arrived during the
whole of twenty twenty four. So you got people showing
(21:04):
up in boat loads, illegals from all around, mostly from
Middle East Africa, get into France once they get into
Europe and then crossing the channel in these boats, and
for whatever reason, the rules in Great Britain they don't
have a way to stop the vessels and turn them
around or keep them from coming on shore.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Part of that's EU and part of its although they
did the Brexit. Part of it's that they've got progressives
in charge. Worth mentioning because I just happened to check this.
The UK as a whole has about a fifth of
our population, So if you want to talk about disruptive influence.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Of immigrants from other.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Cultures, you know that's pretty big number that they were
talking about, dwarfed by the Biden ear quite so. Oh,
speaking of the immigration problem, you mind if I squeeze
this in real quick. I mentioned earlier the shameless Metropolitan
Police trying to downplay an ugly, ugly murder by an
Afghan immigrant on an old man, and how they just
(22:04):
in Orwellian fashion, turned it into an incident in which
a man sadly died like you know, he'd had a
heart attack and died alone watching the TV but then
you've got this story out of its reloading, Thank you
very much. Swedish court ruled that an Eritrean migrant who
(22:25):
raped a sixteen year old girl will not be deported
because the rape didn't last long enough. Oh my god,
she missed her buss was walking through a pedestrian tunnel
after finishing her shift at a McDonald's. An eighteen year
old Eritrean migrant, Yazid Mohammed Um attacked.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He raped her.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
He was sentenced to three years in prison, and the
prosecutor wanted to deport him, but the Court of Appeals
noted the man has refugee status and to deport him
would require a quote exceptionally serious offense and allowing them
to remain in Sweden would pose a serious threat to
public order in safety. But the rape was deemed not
(23:06):
serious enough to justify the deportation, with the Court of
Appeal citing, among other factors, the duration of the rape
in its assessment, which is just stunning. I know, it's terrible.
This is Europe trying to figure out what the hell
to do with itself after allowing rampant immigration of people
(23:26):
who in many cases hate their culture, hate the dominant
religion and stuff like that. Here's a freedom of information
report from the Center for Migration Control in the UK.
They were keeping track of crime rates among various immigrant
groups that they refused to release to the press until
(23:49):
a freedom of information request. Which nationalities commit the most violent,
sexual and theft offenses. Conviction rates in England and Wales
by nationality protect ten thousand people for the years twenty
twenty one through twenty twenty three violent crimes per ten
thousand people. Sixteen UK natives get convicted of those crimes.
(24:12):
It's eighty Gambians ninety one. Iraqis one hundred and two
per ten thousand, Afghanistan citizens, Somalians about one hundred and thirty,
so we're almost ten times the rate of UK citizens.
And Kunglese it's one hundred and eighty seven per ten thousand.
It's about twelve times as many as UK citizens. Sexual
(24:34):
violence UK citizens six per ten thousand, Afghans it's sixty
per ten thousand Eritreans it's fifty four Namibians, fifty Chadians,
forty Moldovan's thirty eight and theft eighteen per ten thousand
Native born Britz Folks from Algeria. It's three hundred and
(24:55):
twenty per ten thousand, eighteen for Brits, one hundred and
twenty for Algerians Moroccans it's two hundred and twenty six Romanians,
one hundred and thirty two Congolese, one hundred and thirty
folks from Chad one hundred and twenty. They're poor people,
many unskilled, who come to a country where they're not
supposed to be and not supposed to work. Of course
(25:17):
they turned the crime, but the Brits are desperate to
keep that quiet.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Kids and I ate at a well known diner chain
over the weekend. I'll call it Lenny's. I want to
talk about that in a second. But just came across
this information. We got an asteroid headed. It's not gonna
hit Earth, but it's gonna come Asteroid Psyche sixteen is
its name. Anyway, They believe it contains because you know,
(25:47):
we send up these probes and everything like that to
these asteroids. This asteroid contains gold reserves worth seven hundred
quintillion dollars, which I don't actually know what a quintillion.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Is, but and I'd buy an new car if I
had that.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Ash sounds like a big number. Yeah, seven hundred quintillion
dollars worth of gold on it. It's enough to make
everyone on Earth billionaires. Of course, there's a economic flaw
with that argument. I'm not sure gold would continue to
hold the value it has. We each had seven pounds of.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It, and the costs of extraction from a asteroid hurling
through space have got to be considerable.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Wouldn't that be something if it hit Earth?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Trump auto annex it just in case, although everybody knows
it's ours, all of a sudden, gold's worthless because there's
so much of it. Yeah, that would be crazy. People
would be just literally, Oh that reminds me. I was
gonna say, making solid gold toilets. I've been meaning to
bring this up for a long time, for days. Anyway,
(26:54):
where is that story? You remember the banana tape to
the wall gap?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah? The artist he taped a banana to the wall
and it was what did it represent man in humanity
to man? And somebody paid something like a million dollars
for the art.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, the same artist behind the six point two million
dollar duct tape banana has created an eighteen carrot gold toilet.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
How many of how many million.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Did you say the banana was six point two?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Was more than I even remembered.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Can you believe that? S anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Uh, he sculpted a toilet out of two hundred and
twenty three pounds of gold. It's valued at about ten
million dollars just for the materials. Sothabies is betting it
can auction off the golden toilet bowl for even more.
They're going to start the bidding a ten million bucks.
That's just your break even never mind his labor for
(27:48):
crafting a really pretty good looking solid gold toilet. I
mean it looks like a toilet in like your office. Well,
what's the name with the industrial flusher and stuff?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
What's the name or the description of the arts supposed
to symbolize that we're flushing money down the drain, or
that everything you know turns to dust and your money's
worth nothing and all your money brilliant? Well, not another
moment by As quoted by the rock group Kansas Yes Yes,
in their work of Genius. Let me first remind.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You that the fruit duct tape to the wall was
entitled Comedian the Solid Gold Toilet. Now, don't march on
this place and burn it down. The title of the
solid gold toilet is America twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well that was pretty clever. This guy's clever. Some rich
progressive will buy that because they're progressive friends. They want
to be known as the person that bought the Trump's
a Problem art.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, you know, I am going to protest this solid
gold toilet, and the nature of my protest will be
all too appropriate.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I think I have something in.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Mind, and it'll be called the person who bought this
has s for brains exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's what I will entitle my performance art.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I ain't watching that show, or at least I don't
want good seats. Neither do I. Okay, we will finish
strong next.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
New Mexico has become the first date in the country
to offer his residents.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Free childcare, which will be provided by nannies from Old Mexico. True.
So Saturday, I had to m see an event on
Saturday night because I'm the I amc it every year
because I'm the only person that knows how to hook
up the PA system. And I didn't get done kind
(29:52):
of late, and I walked into the house at ten
o'clock at night and I said to my kids, who's hungry?
I'm hungry, Let's let's go somewhere to eat, which seemed
very wild and crazy for us, because I'm never out
at night at all.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, I'm certain my dad never said that it at night.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So we went to a well known chain diner, we'll
call it Lenny's. And you wouldn't describe me as an
elitist when it comes to eating, No, no, indeed, no,
I am very very man other people, regular person when
it comes eating places like this this. We had some bacon.
(30:28):
We had more fun talking about the bacon trying to
figure out if it had any flavor whatsoever. It was
completely lacking a flavor, which is all very hard to do.
Even if he eat paper, it's got kind of a flavor.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
To it nice, right, So it's just flavor of paper.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
We're just wondering what animal this must have come from,
or how cheap? What did the heck is going on there?
It's absolutely anyway. Henry, who's now thirteen, ordered the Rudolph pancakes,
in which they they put the pan cakes in such
a shape that like the bacon is the antlers and
then the blueberries a nose or something like that. And
(31:07):
he wanted his redemption because he had ordered those one
time when he was four at a Denny's, and that
was the story from way back in the day. When
the cook quit, we waited for so long and we
never got it, and I finally went back to the
kitchen and I said, like, I was going to say,
what's going on here, but the waitress was in an
argument with the cook and he was arguing, ignoring her,
(31:29):
and then he finally just put down his apron and
walked out of the door. So the cook had quit,
and Henry finally got his redemption. Nine years later, he
got his rough pancakes.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The last time I ate at the Lennies with Judy
and the kids, this was ages ago.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What struck me was the incredible thinness of the bacon.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was so excited, sliced.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
With laser beams. I don't know how they got it
so thin.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But what I said to the kids, and it's pretty
much true, you can't screw up really hash browns and eggs.
A couple of eggs over easy and hash browns with
toast gonna be good. Wherever you get it's gonna be
kind of the same. You can't. There's not a lot
of variants there you get into the meat, you got
some problems. But for for ten years now we've been driving.
We could drive down the highway anywhere in American and
if we see the sign up there, Henuel shake his fist.
(32:13):
I hate you Denny's because of the Rudolph pancakes. He
didn't get what he was for, and we finally.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
For my rein deer pancake, you besh.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I enjoyed talking to the waitresses there because it was
just about to change over into the late night bar
crowd and them talking about how you know, my shift
usually ends this and I try not to get the
shift that starts at eleven, because then the people start
coming in. And man, they were setting up all the
tables with the uh, you know, the paper towel rolled
up forksknives and spoons. I mean they're getting ready for
a very very busy night of people like me who
(32:43):
used to be many many years ago. I would always
be at that place late at night, ready for the
floor show. That is, you know, whether you're at Denny's
or the famous Southern places named waffle House, those kind
of places when the bars closes, it's fantastic. Get a
little floors show. Get a couple of girls rolling around
on the floor pulling each other's air while you're eating
(33:04):
your biscuits and gravy. That's good time.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Servers are praying they get the generous with their money
drunks and not these get to tip completely drunks or
the dining dash drunks.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, yeah, boy, you gotta gotta level good fight in
the middle of the night with the drunk people at
a diner. I don't know. It's just.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Lay some eggs over easy and a couple of gal
slapping the hell out of each other.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Good time.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
It's final, so well, comments.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
And closure all the show.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I love that. Here's your host for Fine with lots
of Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
There is pressing.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
The buttons are technical director Michael Liamslong Michael final thong. Yeah,
next time I see a pro golfer hit a spectator,
I'm gonna assume they're involved in a bet.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh yeah yeah. Katie Green or steam Mwswoman has a
final thought.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Katie talked earlier during local news about the cat and
a stroller and Michael don't get any ideas. Oh it's
not happening, pushing cats in strollers.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Ah, not at all the sign of a decade in society, Jackie.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Final thought for us, The point that I actually wanted
to make is my memories of doing stuff with my dad,
or my mom and dad or family or whatever. Those
kind of things I go into the diner stick in
my mind more than you know, planned activities of great expense.
Just those kind of moments are the ones that are
so enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
We had so much fun, right, Yeah, well said, I
don't give a crap about celebrities. I might admire their
skill at their jobs, but I couldn't care less about
their quote unquote celebrity. But my favorite celebrity right now
is Jennifer Lawrence. Not only is she a cutie and
a fine actor, but she's come out and said she's
getting out of the political commentary game. First Trump administration
(35:02):
was so wild? How can we let this stand? I
was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not
make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And so then what am I doing? Yeah? I saw
that she said, I regret everything I've ever said. I thought,
that's fantastic. If you've never seen an interview with her,
she's very charming. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
So many people, thanks, so little time. Go to Armstrong
and Getty dot com. Oh, the A ANDNG swag store
of the Ang superstore. All the hoodies are flying off
the shells. People love them. The f Yoliican party T
shirt's very attractive.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, a lot of good stuff in. The earlier you
get to it, the more likely you get it on time.
So you know, don't wait on this. We'll see tomorrow.
God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
What this is about is controlling Winging's botty.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You know she's chunking up.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Wow, now there was so much wrong with that. At
where to begin?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I haven't noticed she's maturing Jack as a young woman.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
She's moved into her thirties.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Capitol's got a gym in the basement, so figure out
what that's on.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It is. I disassociate myself from the list.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty.
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